US11538175B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting a subject, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes the following. A current image and a previous image are obtained. A transformation matrix between the current image and the previous image is obtained in response to determining that the current image indicates the shaking state. The previous image is corrected based on the transformation matrix. The subject detection model is updated based on the corrected previous image. The subject detection is performed on the current image based on the updated subject detection model, to obtain a target subject.
US11538171B2
A method may include identifying a first image for training a deep learning network, wherein the first image includes at least one target object associated with at least one location in the first image, and wherein the first image is associated with a mask image; determining a set of deformations to create a training set of deformed images, wherein the training set is to be used to train the deep learning network; generating the training set of deformed images by applying the set of deformations to the first image; and generating a set of deformed mask images by applying the set of deformations to the mask image, wherein each deformed image of the training set of deformed images is associated with a respective mask image to identify the location of the at least one target object in each deformed image.
US11538170B2
Methods and systems are provided for optimal segmentation of an image based on multiple segmentations. In particular, multiple segmentation methods can be combined by taking into account previous segmentations. For instance, an optimal segmentation can be generated by iteratively integrating a previous segmentation (e.g., using an image segmentation method) with a current segmentation (e.g., using the same or different image segmentation method). To allow for optimal segmentation of an image based on multiple segmentations, one or more neural networks can be used. For instance, a convolutional RNN can be used to maintain information related to one or more previous segmentations when transitioning from one segmentation method to the next. The convolutional RNN can combine the previous segmentation(s) with the current segmentation without requiring any information about the image segmentation method(s) used to generate the segmentations.
US11538151B2
A method for measuring objects in a digestive tract based on an imaging system is provided. The imaging system captures a detection image in the measurement stage. The depth distance zi from a target point P′ to a board is calculated, a correction factor is obtained according to the predicted brightness g−1(zi) of a reference point P in the detection image. The depth image z(x, y) from the actual position of each pixel to the board is calibrated by the correction factor. The scale r of each pixel is calculated according to the depth image z(x, y). The actual two-dimensional coordinates Si′ of each pixel are calculated by the scale r, and the actual three-dimensional coordinates (Si′, z(x, y)) of each pixel are obtained. The distance between any two pixels in the detection image or the area within any range are calculated.
US11538140B2
Various disclosed embodiments are directed to inpainting one or more portions of a target image based on merging (or selecting) one or more portions of a warped image with (or from) one or more portions of an inpainting candidate (e.g., via a learning model). This, among other functionality described herein, resolves the inaccuracies of existing image inpainting technologies.
US11538133B1
Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method of time alignment in an AR/VR environment. In one approach, a device including a console or head wearable display (HWD) may determine a wireless transfer window corresponding to a wireless data transmission between the HWD and the console. The device may determine one or more first processes to be performed by the device to enable the wireless data transmission. The device may schedule the one or more first processes according to the wireless transfer window. The device may perform the wireless data transmission within the wireless transfer window responsive to the one or more first processes.
US11538127B1
A post-disaster conditions monitoring system. The system may include a device processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving information from one or more pre-existing networks; determining conditions in a geographic region based on the information received from the one or more pre-existing networks; and preparing a map indicating the conditions within the geographic region.
US11538125B1
Systems and methods for automated event detection of controlled-environment facility residents, such as identification of potential dangers and/or issues concerning correctional facility inmates. The system and method employs at least one biometric capture device or mechanism disposed within a controlled-environment area configured to capture biometrics of residents of the controlled-environment facility within the controlled-environment area. A controlled-environment facility administration and management system, or the like, is configured to enroll key biometric identification biometric features of residents of the controlled-environment facility and compare captured biometrics of the residents to enrolled key biometric features of residents of the controlled-environment facility to identify the resident. The system also identifies parameters that define an occurrence of an event. The system monitors the conditions within the facility to detect the occurrence of such an event.
US11538124B2
An example transaction-enabled system may include a smart contract wrapper to access a distributed ledger comprising intellectual property (IP) licensing terms corresponding to IP assets, wherein the IP licensing terms include an apportionment of royalties among owning entities in the distributed ledger. The smart contract wrapper may interpret an IP description value and an IP addition request, and, in response to the IP addition request and the IP description value, to add the apportionment of royalties corresponding to the IP description value. At least one of the plurality of IP assets comprises an instruction set and an operation on the distributed ledger provides provable access to the instruction set. A royalty apportionment wrapper apportions royalties from at least one royalty generating element to owning entities in response to the IP licensing terms.
US11538116B2
A system and method for generating a ledger is disclosed herein. A computing system receives, from one or more third party vendors, a plurality of transactions associated with a user. The computing system parses the plurality of transactions to identify one or more parameters associated with each transaction of the plurality of transactions. The computing system groups the one or more transactions into one or more clusters based on the identified one or more parameters. The computing system associates a life event to each cluster of the one or more clusters. The computing system interfaces with a client device associated with the user to confirm an associated life event. Upon receiving a confirmation from the user regarding the associated life event, the computing system generates a ledger. The ledger includes the life event and the one or more transactions associated therewith.
US11538110B1
An apparatus and method for administering and/or managing an employer sponsored retirement plan such as a 401(k) plan can include a host system that supports a graphical user interface (GUI) that is displayable to a user communicating with the host system via a user computer device. The use can manipulate one or more input devices connected to the user's computer device for facilitating the communication of data to the host system and updating of displays of the GUI. The GUI can be configured to permit employee participants to enroll and manage their retirement accounts. The GUI can also be configured for employers that sponsor a retirement plan to communicate with the host system to manage their retirement plan and oversee administration of the plan. Displays of the GUI can be generated and updated by a user computer device display based on communications with the host system.
US11538107B1
A system for generating rate and payment information for a customer receives an inquiry type from a customer relating to a loan or mortgage. The system also receives a value specific to the potential loan or mortgage. In combination with a product and policy database and a pricing/fee database, relevant financial products are determined and provided to the customer. The inquiry type can include buying a property, refinancing a mortgage, improving a property, and/or using funds from a property.
US11538106B2
A wireless end-user device is disclosed. One or more user inputs indicate that a user of the wireless end-user device authorizes the device to send a first file to a server over a network of a first network type, and that the user does not authorize the device to send a second file to the server over the network of the first type. Based on the one or more user inputs and a determination that the device is connected to the network of the first type, the device sends the first file, but not the second file, to the server over the network of the first network type. Upon detecting that the device is connected to a network of the second network type, the device sends the second file to the server over the network of the second network type.
US11538099B2
This disclosure describes techniques that facilitate the sale and exchange of plant growth systems to consumer plant growers. Particularly, a script offering system may act as an intermediary medium that allows merchants to advertise plant growth scripts to consumer plant growers via an electronic marketplace. In some examples, the script offering system may allow merchants to advertise plant growth scripts to consumer plant growers that have expressed an interest or need for a particular plant growth script. In other examples, the script offering system may allow a consumer plant grower to solicit merchant bids for the sale of plant growth script. A consumer plant grower may solicit bids for plant growth scripts that address specific needs identified via key word inputs or sensor data attributable to an existing plant growth operation that exhibits less than optimal plant growth.
US11538093B1
Systems and methods provide for integrating a wallet client with federated directory services are disclosed herein. By integrating merchant services, such as directory services with a wallet service provider, wallet clients on mobile devices can have access to all merchant listings without having to manually add each directory service. The system disclosed herein integrates Chamber of Commerce directory service listings with the wallet client, such that when a request for a merchant directory service is received from a device associated with the wallet client, the request is forwarded to a federated directory service wallet system interface operated by a Chamber of Commerce site. Supply chain data that matches the request, and location information that is included in the request, is then fetched from the federated directory service wallet system interface and forwarded to the device that sent the request.
US11538085B2
A product selecting unit extracts a candidate for recommended product on the basis of browsing information in a browsing information storing unit and unpurchased product information in an unpurchased product information storing unit. Product specifications that are information specific to each product are stored in a product information storing unit. A specification correlation calculating unit extracts a product having a product specification correlated with a product specification of the candidate for recommended product on the basis of the product specifications, and extracts the product as a recommended product.
US11538080B2
Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data.
US11538077B2
Implementations of a membership system for allowing users to access multiple unaffiliated gyms and paying the participating gyms are provided. In some implementations, for a plurality of users, selections of a plurality of gyms are received from each user. For each user, a fee for a time-period to be paid by the user based on the gyms selected is calculated and the fee is received from the user. A unique code is assigned to each user. When a user visits a gym that the user selected, the unique code of the user and an identification of the gym visited is received and stored. For each user and each gym selected by the user, a payment to each gym selected by the user is calculated and paid based on the percentage of time the user visited the gym during the time period.
US11538072B2
Dynamic and Customized web pages provided by a search engine to link to a retailer's online site are redirected to an integration platform when activated within a browser from search results of a user search. The integration platform segments the web pages into a plurality of sub links that when detected from the activation, which resulted in the browser redirection to the integration platform, cause specific retailer services to be accessed by the integration platform and customized information and services provided to the user within the browser.
US11538064B2
A computer-implemented system including a data store: a content items database, a user account database, and one or more servers configured to execute a computer program to perform one or more of the following: receiving content items from content database that are associated with a topic selected by a user for posting on a social network, wherein at least one content item is associated with an URL; estimating a post to a reaction filter for a time interval for the social network for the user, calculating a reaction profile associated with reactions to posts on the social network by aggregating reaction time of a plurality of users on the social network for one or more content items posted on the social network; determining a schedule for posting the content items on the social network as a function of the post to reaction filter and reaction profile.
US11538059B2
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having an arrangement program according to the present application thereon causes a computer to execute an acquiring process and an arranging process. The acquiring process acquires browsing mode information that indicates a mode of browsing content. The arranging process arranges, in a mode based on the browsing mode information acquired at the acquiring process, at least one element that is used to judge whether the content has actually been browsed by a user in a content area in which the content is provided.
US11538049B2
Store a subscription dataset for each tenant of a multi-tenant system, each of the subscription datasets having a common data format native to the system, the subscription datasets including billing data and not behavioral data. Determine primary features from a particular subscription dataset. Derive secondary features from the primary features. Generate a churn prediction model based on the primary features and the secondary features. Obtain a second subscription dataset, the second subscription dataset comprising billing data that is more recent than the particular subscription dataset. Identify, using the particular churn prediction model and the second subscription dataset, one or more subscribers as a churn-risk. Report the one or more subscribers identified as a churn-risk.
US11538046B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a page data acquisition method, apparatus, a server, an electronic device and a computer readable medium, and relate to the field of computer technology. The page data acquisition method includes communicating with a server, and obtaining configuration information from the server. Configuration information includes control information. The page data acquisition method includes traversing the controls in a current page, and for each of the controls, judging whether the control is one indicated by the control information in the configuration information, setting a listener for the control in response to the control being one indicated by the control information in the configuration information, and performing behavior data acquisition on the control by the listener.
US11538045B2
Commentary rating determination systems and methods determine a commentary rating for commentary about a subject media content event that has been generated by a community member. An exemplary embodiment receives video information acquired by a 360° video camera, identifies a physical object from the received video information, determines a physical attribute associated with the identified physical object, wherein the determined physical attribute describes a characteristic of the identified physical object, compares the determined physical attribute of the identified physical object with a plurality of predefined physical object attributes stored in a database, and in response to identifying one of the plurality of predefined physical object attributes that matches the determined physical attribute, associates the quality value of the identified one of the plurality of predefined physical object attributes with the identified physical object. Then, the commentary rating is determined for the commentary based on the associated quality value.
US11538041B1
An example computing device is programmed to: (a) detect an attempt to secondarily access a user account, the user account being involved in an ongoing primary financial session with a primary device; (b) raise the level of authentication required to secondarily access the user account beyond that which was required to access the account for the primary financial session; (c) when successful authentication at the raised level is achieved, permit secondary access to the user account through a secondary financial session and compare one or more user activities occurring during the secondary financial session to a plurality of fraud profiles; and (d) indicate fraud when comparison of the user activity is consistent with one or more of the plurality of fraud profiles.
US11538035B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions causing a processor to generate a menu displaying representations of a plurality of cards, the cards having associated card data; receive, from a user input device, a selection corresponding to a selected one of the cards; update the menu to display a representation of the selection; and authorize transmission of the card data associated with the selected card to complete a transaction.
US11538029B2
A system and method for implementing an online service for accelerating an online transaction includes implementing an intelligent subscriber interface; automatically creating API calls based on the plurality of distinct portions of data inputs; composing corpora of subscriber data based on a return of subscriber data by each respective API; implementing a machine learning-based classifier that: infers a first classification label for a first subset of data; and infers a second classification label for a second subset of data; computing a transaction success score that indicates a likelihood of successfully completing a prospective transaction between the subscriber and prospective transacting parties; and presenting one or more distinct product routes based on the transaction success score; creating, via a distributed ledger system, a distributed ledger record of details of the prospective transaction and cryptographic token based on a mutual engagement of the subscriber and a prospective transacting party.
US11538024B2
Automatically communicating information related to a user computing device from a central computing system to a transaction computing system prior to initiation of a transaction between the user computing device and the transaction computing system comprises a digital wallet application and a central computing system. A digital wallet application receives a beacon signal from a transaction computing system indicating the specific identification of the terminal with which the user intends to conduct a transaction. The user computing device communicates the terminal identification to the central computing system. The central computing system communicates customer data, such as loyalty information and offers, to the transaction computing system associated with the terminal. The transaction computing system communicates the customer data to the terminal. When the user taps the user computing device to initiate the transaction, the terminal provides any benefits associated with the customer data.
US11538014B1
Systems and methods for performing a transaction with a headless point-of-sale or automated teller machine (ATM) device are disclosed using a card having a second communications path to a financial services provider. A card having a display and radio frequency (RF) communications module may be authenticated with a headless point-of-sale device using a short-range RF communications link. Characteristics of the card may be set prior to the transaction. Transaction information may be provided to the display of the card from the headless point-of-sale device. A customer may confirm the transaction at the card using a touch-sensitive input area. During the processing, a communication may be made over the second communications path to authorize the transaction independently of the transaction processing path. A transaction may then be completed at the headless point-of-sale device.
US11538007B2
A device may receive customer data, and store the customer data in a secure memory device of the device. The device may implement a backup mode in which the device utilizes the customer data to authorize requests based on determining that the device lacks a network connection. The device may receive, when the device is in the backup mode, a request for currency that includes authentication information. The device, while in the backup mode, may authorize the request for currency based on comparing the authentication information and the customer data. The device may dispense currency based on a result of comparing the authentication information and the customer data. The device may store transaction data associated with dispensing of the currency to permit the transaction data to be transmitted when the network connection is restored.
US11537997B2
An intelligent task assistant program can identify tasks associated with a user over a reporting period based on an analysis of, and inferences drawn from, data associated with one or more personal information programs, such as an electronic calendar application, an electronic reminder application, an electronic collaborative application, and/or an electronic communication application. The task assistant may also prioritize the identified tasks based on content associated with the tasks. Some or all of the prioritized tasks can be provided to an output device for perception by the user.
US11537990B2
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and network communications to interface among repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities configured to access datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform configured to provide one or more computerized tools to deploy predictive data models based on in-situ auxiliary query commands implemented in a query, and configured to facilitate development and management of data projects by providing an interactive, project-centric workspace interface coupled to collaborative computing devices and user accounts. For example, a method may include activating a query engine, implementing a subset of auxiliary instructions, at least one auxiliary instruction being configured to access model data, receiving a query that causes the query engine to access the model data, receiving serialized model data, performing a function associated with the serialized model data, and generating resultant data.
US11537988B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for recommending content are presented. An electronic communication between a plurality of members of a common entity may be received. A link to web content in the electronic communication may be identified. A number of instances that the link has been electronically shared with members of the common entity may be determined. A determination may be made as to whether a content propagation threshold has been exceeded based on electronic sharing of the link amongst members of the common entity. The link may be provided for propagation upon determining that the content propagation threshold has been exceeded.
US11537984B2
An adaptive inventory management system for use in a materials handling facility storing a plurality of items that are each associated with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The management system including a global inventory database subsystem and a RFID interrogator subsystem comprising a plurality of RFID interrogators that are each configured to read the unique identifier of the RFID tag associated with each of the plurality of items that are within a defined boundary of at least one scan zone generated by the respective RFID interrogator and to communicate the unique identifier of the each scanned RFID tag identified within each scan zone of the respective RFID interrogator to the global inventory database subsystem. The management system being selectively configured to effect user desired levels of fidelity and/or resolution with respect to the generated unique identifier of the each scanned RFID tag within a defined space of the materials handling facility.
US11537981B2
Utilities (e.g., systems, methods, etc.) that deliver a streamlined process to users for making decisions that minimize cost and maximize production in the hauling of produced physical bulk assets (e.g., liquids, sand, etc.) to various destinations. The utilities can be used by producers and carriers in various manners to drive their unique interests in hauling and has representation for production operators or producers, carriers, and destinations.
US11537972B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for arranging for shipping a package without the customer needing to generate or apply a shipping label, or any other information, to the package. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a carrier server and a carrier device. The carrier server may receive and store a smart code and shipping information associated with the package, which it may link together. The carrier device may capture the smart code from the package and send a request, including the smart code, to the carrier server for related shipping information. The carrier server may receive the request from the carrier device, retrieve the shipping information based on the smart code, and send the shipping information to the carrier device. The carrier device may receive the shipping information and generate a shipping label for the package based on the shipping information.
US11537971B2
A computer-implemented method of using channel tuning data from a video asset viewing device connected to a network to measure video asset viewing at a second-by-second level during one or more user defined lead-in periods, and then correlating that with video asset viewing during a user defined target period, for the purpose of analyzing how viewing activity during the lead-in period(s) correlates with viewing activity during the target period, thus producing longitudinal viewing metrics; all while maintaining viewer anonymity. Additionally, viewing metrics can be categorized based on user defined demographic, geographic, and histogram groupings representing the percentage of video asset viewing with the result that the analyst is able to gain detailed insight into customer viewing behavior. The lead-in video asset may be any video asset or assets. The target may be any subsequent video asset. The metrics produced are useful to service providers, advertisers, and content producers.
US11537968B2
Methods of and apparatus controlling change-out inventory of an automated analyzer apparatus. The inventory control methods include receiving change-out inventory status from automated analyzer apparatus at a server, receiving an estimate of the planned workload over a specific time period at the server, analyzing with a decisioning module of the server first data of the change-out inventory status and second data of the planned workload over the specified time period, and producing a work plan itinerary as an output from the decisioning module. The work plan itinerary provides sequence instructions or commands for an operator (person and/or robotic mechanism) to follow for changing out of change-out inventory items. Inventory control apparatus configured to carry out the methods are provided, as are other aspects.
US11537967B2
Methods, devices, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing an item-picking dispatching request are provided. One of methods includes receiving a dispatching request with respect to item picking; determining a type of the dispatching request; determining, in stored picking resource status information, target picking resource status information corresponding to the type of the dispatching request according to a preset correspondence between types of dispatching requests and picking resource status information, wherein the stored picking resource status information is updated in real time; generating mirror-image information of the target picking resource status information; and generating a dispatching task for item picking based on the mirror-image information of the target picking resource status information.
US11537966B2
In various embodiments, the disclosed system may be utilized in managing supply and demand chains to optimize creation and management of inventory buffer levels via machine learning. In several embodiments, optimizing inventory buffer levels may lead to minimizing costs while maximizing the availability and timeliness of product deliveries. In multiple embodiments, the disclosed system may utilize supply chain data and performance monitoring with automated machine learning and derivation of demand signatures and profiles to provide optimized creation and management of inventory buffer levels.
US11537965B2
A method for tracking containers. The method includes manufacturing containers, including forming the containers and serializing them with machine-readable codes. The method further includes using the machine-readable codes to store data associated with the containers, and supplying the containers to a customer. The method still further comprises receiving from the customer, data obtained from customer-readings of the machine-readable codes; and receiving from one or more other locations in a distribution chain in which the containers travel, data obtained from readings of the machine-readable codes at those locations. The method still further comprises comparing the data from the customer-readings and other readings of the machine-readable codes across product brands, product distribution channels, and/or container types, and providing the data to the customer. In at least some embodiments, the method further comprises receiving from the customer a compensation for the containers, for example, a per-refill compensation.
US11537955B2
System, apparatus, device and methods relating to a telematic vehicle sharing platform ecosystem and a telematic vehicle share I/O expander to automate sharing and management of a vehicle that is shared by more than one operator.
US11537954B2
Systems and methods are provided for ride order dispatching and vehicle repositioning. A method for ride order dispatching and vehicle repositioning, comprises: obtaining information comprising a location of a vehicle, current orders, and a current time; inputting the obtained information to a trained model; and determining action information for the vehicle based on an output of the trained model, the action information comprising: re-positioning the vehicle or accepting a ride order. The model is configured with: receiving information of drivers and information of orders as inputs; obtaining a global state based on the information of drivers, the information of orders, and a global time; and querying a plurality of driver-order pairs and driver-reposition pairs based at least on the obtained global state to determine the action information as the output.
US11537938B2
A method and a system are described for context based clustering of one or more objects. The method comprises receiving, by the object clustering system, receiving, by an object clustering system, an object clustering request for one or more objects associated with a plurality of contextual parameters, where the plurality of contextual parameters comprises one or more physical attributes and one or more non-physical attributes. It further includes tagging the one or more non-physical attributes respectively to the one or more physical attributes. It further includes identifying a common context from the one or more physical attributes associated with the one or more objects based on the tagging. It further includes mapping the one or more physical attributes to the one or more objects based on the common context. It then includes clustering the one or more objects based on the mapping.
US11537931B2
On-device machine learning platform to enable sharing of machine-learned models between applications
The present disclosure provides an on-device machine learning platform that enables sharing of machine-learned models between applications on a computing device. For example, a first application which has a machine-learned model for a specific task can expose the model to other applications through a system level application programming interface (API) for the other applications to use. Communications using the API can be handled by the on-device machine learning platform. In some implementations, some exchange of resources (e.g., computing resources) can be provided so that the first application is compensated for sharing the machine-learned model (e.g., on a per model invocation basis).
US11537927B2
A method of mitigating quantum readout errors by stochastic matrix inversion includes performing a plurality of quantum measurements on a plurality of qubits having predetermined plurality of states to obtain a plurality of measurement outputs; selecting a model for a matrix linking the predetermined plurality of states to the plurality of measurement outputs, the model having a plurality of model parameters, wherein a number of the plurality of model parameters grows less than exponentially with a number of the plurality of qubits; training the model parameters to minimize a loss function that compares predictions of the model with the matrix; computing an inverse of the model based on the trained model parameters; and providing the computed inverse of the model to a noise prone quantum readout of the plurality of qubits to obtain a substantially noise free quantum readout.
US11537892B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating slimming of neural networks in machine learning environments. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes learning a first neural network associated with machine learning processes to be performed by a processor of a computing device, where learning includes analyzing a plurality of channels associated with one or more layers of the first neural network. The method may further include computing a plurality of scaling factors to be associated with the plurality of channels such that each channel is assigned a scaling factor, wherein each scaling factor to indicate relevance of a corresponding channel within the first neural network. The method may further include pruning the first neural network into a second neural network by removing one or more channels of the plurality of channels having low relevance as indicated by one or more scaling factors of the plurality of scaling factors assigned to the one or more channels.
US11537889B2
Methods and systems for training a neural network (NN)-based climate forecasting model on a pre-processed multi-model ensemble of global climate simulation data from a plurality of global climate simulation models (GCMs), are disclosed. The methods and systems perform steps of determining a common spatial scale and a common temporal scale for the multi-model ensemble of global climate simulation data; spatially re-gridding the multi-model ensemble to the common spatial scale; temporally homogenizing the multi-model ensemble to the common temporal scale; augmenting the spatially re-gridded, temporally homogenized multi-model ensemble with synthetic simulation data generated from the spatially re-gridded, temporally homogenized multi-model ensemble; and training the NN-based climate forecasting model using the spatially re-gridded, temporally homogenized, and augmented multi-model ensemble of global climate simulation data. Embodiments of the present invention enable accurate climate forecasting without the need to run new dynamical global climate simulations on supercomputers.
US11537879B2
There are provided a neural network weight discretizing method, system and device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes acquiring a weight value range and a number of discrete weight states, the weight value range referring to a range of discrete weight values consisting of a maximum weight value of a current time step and a minimum weight value of the current time step, and the number of discrete weight states referring to the quantity of discrete weight states. The method also includes acquiring a weight state of a previous time step and a weight increment of the current time step and acquiring a state transfer direction by using a directional function according to the weight increment of the current time step. The method also includes acquiring a weight state of the current time step according to the weight state of the previous time step, the weight increment of the current time step, the state transfer direction, the weight value range and the number of discrete weight states. The method ensures that the weight value is always constrained in the same discrete-state space without the need for storing an additional virtual continuous-state implicit weight. On the premise that the computation performance of the neural network is ensured, the consumption of storage space is greatly reduced, and the computation complexity is reduced.
US11537850B2
A method includes defining a first virtual being (e.g., including sensory locations for sensors, sense locations for sense properties, artificial neural networks connecting sensors to sense properties) in a virtual environment. The method also includes defining an object (e.g., including sense locations) in the virtual environment. The method also includes, in accordance with an interaction between the virtual being and the object, receiving sensory input at a first sensor at a first sensory location using a first virtual medium according to a first sense property of the object at a first sense location. The first sensor, the first virtual medium, and the first sense property have a same sensory type. According to the received sensory input, a first artificial neural network translates the received sensory input into updates to one or more configuration parameters of sensors of the first virtual being or movement of the virtual being.
US11537843B2
The application provides an information processing device, system and method. The information processing device mainly includes a storage module and a data processing module, where the storage module is configured to receive and store input data, instruction and output data, and the input data includes one or more key features; the data processing module is configured to identify the key features included in the input data and score the input data in the storage module according to a judgment result. The information processing device, system and method provided by the application automatically scores text, pictures, audio, video, and the like instead of manually scoring, which is more accurate and faster.
US11537841B2
A method for generating a model of a transistor includes: initializing hyper-parameters; training the neural network in accordance with the hyper-parameters and training data relating transistor input state values to transistor output state values to compute neural network parameters; determining whether the transistor output state values of the training data match an output of the neural network; porting the neural network to a circuit simulation code to generate a ported neural network; simulating a test circuit using the ported neural network to simulate behavior of a transistor of the test circuit to generate simulation output; determining whether a turnaround time of the generation of the simulation output is satisfactory; in response to determining that the turnaround time is unsatisfactory, re-training the neural network based on updated hyper-parameters; and in response to determining that the turnaround time is satisfactory, outputting the ported neural network as the model of the transistor.
US11537835B2
Disclosed is a smart badge device that can be included into a private LTE network established in a facility. The device includes position tracking and estimating capabilities, and operates along with a cloud-based service suite. The cloud services act as a platform between the device and a number of facility software systems. The device also operates with internal and external equipment so that an administrator can track employees and establish data flow between the badge and the facility software systems.
US11537832B2
A multiple-pattern fiducial for a heterogeneous imaging sensor system. The multiple-pattern fiducial includes a first pattern detectable by a first wavelength of electromagnetic energy, and a second pattern detectable by a second wavelength of electromagnetic energy.
US11537828B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: for each of values in a target device-independent color system, calculate values of some colors in a device-dependent color system including a spot color; change the values of some colors in the device-dependent color system so as to smooth changes in the values of some colors in the device-dependent color system in response to changes in the values in the device-independent color system; and for each of the values in the target device-independent color system, based on the values of some colors in the device-dependent color system after the change, calculate values of remaining colors in the device-dependent color system, and generate a color-conversion profile with the values in the device-independent color system as input and the values of some colors in the device-dependent color system after the change and the values of the remaining colors in the device-dependent color system as output.
US11537823B2
According to an embodiment, a processing apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to: cut out, from an input signal, a plurality of partial signals that are predetermined parts in the input signal; execute processing on the plurality of partial signals using neural networks having the same layer structure with each other to generate a plurality of intermediate signals including a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of channels; execute predetermined statistical processing on signals for each of the plurality of channels for each of the plurality of intermediate signals corresponding to the plurality of partial signals, to calculate statistics for each channel and generate a concatenated signal by concatenating the statistics of the plurality of respective intermediate signals for each channel; generate a synthetic signal by performing predetermined processing on the concatenated signal; and output an output signal in accordance with the synthetic signal.
US11537818B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure provide apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for predictive data labelling using a dual-model system. Embodiments provide various advantages in accuracy of predicted labels, for example in various contexts such as medical data analysis for difficult to diagnose diseases. An example provided apparatus is configured to generate a positive, neutral, and negative candidate identifier sets and corresponding positive, neutral, and negative candidate index sets based in part on applying a candidate selection rule set to a candidate data set; train a candidate label probabilistic model based at least in part on a candidate label training subset associated with the candidate data set associated with the positive and negative candidate identifiers; generate a candidate positive-label probability set using at least the candidate label probabilistic model; train a historical record prediction model to predict the candidate positive-label probability set; and utilize the historical record prediction model.
US11537817B2
A semi-supervised model incorporates deep feature learning and pseudo label estimation into a unified framework. The deep feature learning can include multiple convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The CNNs can be trained on available training datasets, tuned using a small amount of labeled training samples, and stored as the original models. Features are then extracted for unlabeled training samples by utilizing the original models. Multi-view clustering is used to cluster features to generate pseudo labels. Then the original models are tuned by using an updated training set that includes labeled training samples and unlabeled training samples with pseudo labels. Iterations of multi-view clustering and tuning using an updated training set can continue until the updated training set is stable.
US11537816B2
Systems, methods, and other techniques for extracting data from obituaries are provided. In some embodiments, an obituary containing a plurality of words is received. Using a machine learning model, an entity tag from a set of entity tags may be assigned to each of one or more words of the plurality of words. Each particular tag from the set of entity tags may include a relationship component and a category component. The relationship component may indicate a relationship between a particular word and the deceased individual. The category component may indicate a categorization of the particular word to a particular category from a set of categories. The extracted data may be stored in a genealogical database.
US11537813B1
During a training phase, a first machine learning system is trained using actual data, such as multimodal images of a hand, to generate synthetic image data. During training, the first system determines latent vector spaces associated with identity, appearance, and so forth. During a generation phase, latent vectors from the latent vector spaces are generated and used as input to the first machine learning system to generate candidate synthetic image data. The candidate image data is assessed to determine suitability for inclusion into a set of synthetic image data that may be used for subsequent use in training a second machine learning system to recognize an identity of a hand presented by a user. For example, the candidate synthetic image data is compared to previously generated synthetic image data to avoid duplicative synthetic identities. The second machine learning system is then trained using the approved candidate synthetic image data.
US11537799B2
A method for publishing an app in one example can include receiving audio data corresponding to a spoken statement by a user, converting the audio data into a textual representation, translating the textual representation into a meaning representation, and publishing a functional version of an application based on the meaning representation.
US11537797B2
Extracting entities from a document with a hierarchical entity graph of entities. Entity definitions and entity recognition definitions are customized by a user and provided. The configuration information is utilized to generate (905) an entity graph, which is then utilized to parse one or more documents. In some implementations, the resulting parse tree may be utilized, in conjunction with user feedback, to generate one or more training instances for a machine learning model assigned to one or more of the custom nodes as an entity recognition definition. Parsing of the resulting tree may be performed with a lazy parsing methodology, with only the portions of interest to the user being identified in the document.
US11537796B2
A system, method and program product that provides user specific text suggestions across a set of hosted applications. A disclosed method includes: initiating a session with an application hosting platform for a user using a client device, wherein the platform includes a plurality of applications; accessing a dictionary associated with the user, wherein the dictionary provides text suggestions in response to inputted keyboard data and the dictionary is applicable for the user across each of the plurality of applications; deploying a selected application from the to the user at the client device; intercepting keyboard data entered by the user within the selected application; analyzing intercepted keyboard data and generating text suggestions specific to the user using the dictionary associated with the user; and outputting text suggestions within the selected application. The text suggestions are generated independently of capabilities of deployed application and operating systems running on the client device.
US11537791B1
Techniques are disclosed for generating anomaly scores for a neuro-linguistic model of input data obtained from one or more sources. According to one embodiment, generating anomaly scores includes receiving a stream of symbols generated from an ordered stream of normalized vectors generated from input data received from one or more sensor devices during a first time period. Upon receiving the stream of symbols, generating a set of words based on an occurrence of groups of symbols from the stream of symbols, determining a number of previous occurrences of a first word of the set of words, determining a number of previous occurrences of words of a same length as the first word, and determining a first anomaly score based on the number of previous occurrences of the first word and the number of previous occurrences of words of the same length as the first word.
US11537788B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory media for training a chemical entity recognition system to extract chemical compounds from a patent document and determine a relevance of the chemical compounds to the patent document are disclosed. A method includes obtaining patent documents from patent databases, normalizing each patent document into a unified format, and generating a chemical patent corpus. The chemical patent corpus includes chemical entities, each having relevancy annotations that indicate a relevance to the patent document from which the chemical entity is extracted. The method further includes providing the chemical patent corpus to the chemical entity recognition system, which tags the one or more chemical entities in a corresponding normalized patent document, extracts additional chemical entities, assigns a confidence score to each additional chemical entity, and labels each additional chemical entity as relevant or irrelevant to an associated patent document based on information contained in the chemical patent corpus.
US11537786B2
A collaborative content management system (CMS) is disclosed herein for generating templates for received documents. The disclosed CMS recognizes that a document selected by a user for processing was previously processed by the CMS and that a user has previously added particular overlaid fillable fields to the document. When the determination is made, the system generates a recommendation to create a template of the document with the previously added overlaid fillable fields. In some embodiments, the CMS makes the recommendation to generate a template when the user creates, in a received document, identical overlaid fillable fields or field types to those created in the previously processed document.
US11537785B1
Systems and methods extract flat data units from a non-flat input, such as a spreadsheet comprising tables organized according to a hierarchy. First, the non-flat input is read (e.g., using pandas in combination with openpyxl) to create a flat dataframe comprising the content of the non-flat input. Next, individual flat data units (e.g., spreadsheet tables) are recognized and split from the dataframe based upon the appearance of blank rows and/or columns. Headers present in the flat data units are determined (e.g., based upon alphabetic cell text, bolded cell text, and/or early position of the cell in a column), and then connections between the flat data units are identified. Based upon the connections, individual flat data units are merged together. The resulting merged flat data units are subsequently available for consumption, for example user reports of content, and/or conversion to a new non-flat format (e.g., relational database schema).
US11537782B1
A document management system sends a distinct copy of a set of documents to each of a plurality of recipients in a bulk sending process, producing a batch of document sets. The document management system can facilitate the performance of a bulk action on the batch of document sets by a sending entity. Examples include a bulk corrective action, a bulk void action, a bulk re-send action, and a bulk download action. In addition, the document management system can identify document sets sent separately that are likely parts of a batch of document sets using one or more similarity criteria. The document management system can recommend that a sending entity combine the identified document sets into a batch of document sets, enabling the sending entity to perform bulk actions on the document sets.
US11537776B2
A computer-implemented method of performing voltage rule check in an electronic design automation (EDA) platform is provided in the present invention, including steps of inserting pseudo device with safe operating area (SOA) model setting in a netlist generated by the EDA platform or in a schematic of process design kit (PDK), wherein parameters of the pseudo device and the model are set so that the pseudo device would not affect original circuits in the netlist and the schematic, performing SOA check in the netlist or the schematic through the EDA platform, and examining the warning messages triggered by the pseudo device and the model violating the SOA setting in the SOA check to find out layout sections violating the SOA setting.
US11537775B1
A system and method for providing timing and placement co-optimization for engineering change order (ECO) cells is described. According to one embodiment, an ECO for a current design of an integrated circuit is accessed. The ECO includes inserting an ECO cell among placed and routed current cells of the current design. A target region in the current design is identified for placement of the ECO cell, but the target region has insufficient open space to place the ECO cell. At least one current cell will have to be moved in order to place the ECO cell in the target region. Timing slacks for current cells in a neighborhood of the target region are determined. Based on the timing slacks of the current cells, at least one of the current cells is moved to a different location to create sufficient open space to place the ECO cell within the target region.
US11537774B2
An optimized reconfiguration algorithm based on dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is provided, which mainly has the following contributions. The optimized reconfiguration algorithm based on DVFS proposes a DVFS-based reconfiguration method, which schedules user tasks according to a degree of parallelism (DOP) of the user tasks so as to reconfigure more parallel user tasks, thereby achieving higher reliability. The optimized reconfiguration algorithm based on DVFS proposes a K-means-based heuristic approximation algorithm, which minimizes the delay of the DVFS-based reconfiguration scheduling algorithm. The optimized reconfiguration algorithm based on DVFS proposes a K-means-based method, which reduces memory overhead caused by DVFS-based reconfiguration scheduling. The optimized reconfiguration algorithm based on DVFS improves the reliability of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) system and minimizes the area overhead of a hardware circuit.
US11537771B2
A system and method are provided to enable non-quantum experts to schematically represent, simulate and quantify the performance of physically realistic photonic quantum circuits. The framework offers the flexibility for users—not necessarily familiar with the fundamentals of quantum mechanics—to create circuits and work with simple inputs and outputs, while the complexities of manipulating high dimensionality quantum Hilbert spaces supporting photonic and physical quantum object states are handled with the use of purpose-built tools. The tools include a user-friendly method for defining classical photonic circuits which may be coupled to physical objects such as qubits, quantum input states, as well as classical and quantum measurement devices. The tools feature classical-to-quantum S-matrix conversion, quantum S-matrix extraction, as well as capabilities for defining and extracting quantum error parameters. The framework also supports extraction of post-measurement quantum states for use in subsequent circuits or simulators.
US11537766B2
Disclosed are a collision check data processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring generated collision check data, and acquiring an ID number of a collision part according to the collision check data; then acquiring ID numbers corresponding to selected designated parts from a preset database; and determining a target part under collision according to the ID numbers corresponding to the designated parts and the ID number of the collision part. According to the disclosure, a target part under collision can be determined among large amounts of collision check data according to an ID number corresponding to a designated part and an ID number of a collision part. That is, according to the disclosure, a single item among the collision check data can be checked according to a user requirement, thereby improving the check efficiency effectively.
US11537763B2
A system for loss prevention and loss recovery of portable electronic devices. The system includes a server administered by an administrator, a software application executable on a portable electronic device in communication with the server, a unique registration identifier associated with the portable electronic device, and a distance tracking device. The association between the portable electronic device and the unique registration identifier is stored on the server. The software application is configured to connect to the distance tracking device. The distance tracking device is configured to provide a notification when the distance tracking device is further than a predetermined boundary from the portable electronic device. When the unique registration identifier is entered at a website associated with the server, return delivery information is provided.
US11537761B2
An apparatus to facilitate transparent network access controls for spatial accelerator device multi-tenancy is disclosed. The apparatus includes a secure device manager (SDM) to: establish a network-on-chip (NoC) communication path in the apparatus, the NoC communication path comprising a plurality of NoC nodes for ingress and egress of communications on the NoC communication path; for each NoC node of the NoC communication path, configure a programmable register of the NoC node to indicate a node group that the NoC node is assigned, the node group corresponding to a persona configured on the apparatus; determine whether a prefix of received data at the NoC node matches the node group indicated by the programmable register of the NoC; and responsive to determining that the prefix does not match the node group, discard the data from the NoC node.
US11537749B2
A mobile robot is configured for operation in a commercial or industrial setting, such as an office building or retail store. The mobile robot may include cameras for capturing images and videos and include microphones for capturing audio of its surroundings. To improve privacy by preventing confidential information from being transmitted, the mobile robot may detect text in images and modify the images to make the text illegible before transmitting the images. The mobile robot may also detect human voice in audio and modify audio to make the human voice unintelligible before transmitting the audio.
US11537747B1
Technologies related to generating and continuously maintaining a record of data processing activities are described herein, where the processing record is generated on behalf of an enterprise that operates an enterprise computing system. The processing record includes numerous fields related to the processing of data by the enterprise computing system, and such fields are automatically generated based upon information pertaining to the enterprise computing system that is acquired from several different sources.
US11537742B2
Some embodiments are directed to a data sampling device for obtaining a sample of records from a remote dataset satisfying a private criterion using multi-party computation. One or more sample providing devices store respective subdatasets of the remote dataset. The data sampling device determine a candidate size for a sample providing device; requests the sample providing device to determine a candidate sample of the candidate size from the subdataset of the sample providing device; perform a multi-party computation with the sample providing device to obtain a set of indices of records from the candidate sample satisfying the private criterion; sample a subset of the set of indices; and obtains from the sample providing device records of the candidate sample corresponding to the subset of the set of indices.
US11537740B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for enhanced data security using versioned encryption. The present invention is configured to electronically receive, from a computing device of a user, a confidential data entry at a first server; encrypt the confidential data entry using a public key at the first server to generate an encrypted confidential data entry; transmit the encrypted confidential data entry to a second server, wherein the encrypted confidential data entry comprises a hash value, wherein the hash value indicates a numbered version of the public key used to encrypt the confidential data entry; and store the encrypted confidential data entry in a database associated with the second server.
US11537731B2
The system may include a method comprising requesting, by a computer, a receiver identifier associated with a receiver; receiving, by the computer, the receiver identifier in association with content; constructing, by the computer, a URL link comprising access to DICOM viewer code, DICOM data for the selected images, a sender identifier and the receiver identifier; generating, by the computer, a notification to the receiver, wherein the notification includes the URL link; and transmitting, by the computer, the notification to a receiver based on the receiver identifier.
US11537720B1
Security configuration optimizer system and methods create optimized access control policies. The systems and methods analyze constraints on the secured system and produce a plurality of proposals for an updated security configuration. The proposals are analyzed and filtered. A resulting set of proposals are graded or ranked according to a variety of desirable outcomes. A proposal is selected according to criteria based on the balance of security and complexity. The security configuration is updated according to the selected proposal.
US11537708B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, processes, and machine learning paradigms to implement a password semantic analysis pipeline. A password semantic analysis pipeline model is trained according to one or more machine learning techniques to at least (a) determine, based on given characteristics data of a given network environment, whether each of several tokens that are chunked portions of a data structure input as a password in an application is a known syntax type or a recognized entity, (b) generate, using the password semantic analysis pipeline model, a password strength score that is a combination of a confidence score determined for each of the plurality of tokens and a weight factor assigned to the known syntax type or the recognized entity, (c) apply the password strength score to the data structure input as the password in the application, and (d) provide an output to the application indicating whether the data structure input as the password is acceptable or unacceptable for continued access to the application.
US11537705B2
A device access control system includes a first computing system that is coupled to a second computing system via a network, and that includes a device access controller subsystem coupled to devices, a central processing subsystem, and a device access control manager subsystem. The device access control manager subsystem identifies first application(s) configured for provisioning by the central processing subsystem and second application(s) configured for provisioning by the second computing system, configures the device access controller subsystem to provide the central processing subsystem access to a first subset of the devices to allow the central processing subsystem to provide the first application(s), and configures the device access controller subsystem to provide the second computing system access via the device access control manager subsystem to a second subset of the devices to allow the second computing device to provide the second application(s) using the second subset of the devices.
US11537696B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for turning on a screen, a mobile terminal and a storage medium. The method comprises that: when a change in a moving state of a mobile terminal meets a preset unlocking condition, a structured light image sensor is activated for imaging; a depth map obtained by the imaging of the structured light image sensor is acquired; a face depth model is constructed according to the depth map; a position of pupils is identified from the face depth model; and when the position of the pupils is within a specified region of eyes, the screen of the mobile terminal is controlled to turn on.
US11537695B2
Provided is to prevent a false determination due to an attachment condition of an apparatus that transmits and receives an acoustic signal, and perform accurate personal authentication. A personal authentication device includes: a personal authentication means that authenticates an individual by using first information at least including an acoustic characteristic calculated from an acoustic signal propagating through the head of the user, which is detected by an apparatus being attached on a head of a user for transmitting and receiving the acoustic signal, and a feature amount extracted from the acoustic characteristic; an attachment trouble rule storage means that stores an attachment trouble rule for detecting an attachment trouble with the apparatus; and an attachment trouble detection means that detects a trouble with an attachment state of the apparatus when the first information satisfies the attachment trouble rule.
US11537694B2
Described are techniques for differentiating humans from bots. The techniques including a computer-implemented method comprising presenting a motion-based challenge-response instruction to a user via a user interface of a first device of a plurality of devices associated with the user and communicatively coupled to one another by a network, where the motion-based challenge-response instruction describes at least one motion that is performable by the user and detectable by at least one of the plurality of devices, and where the motion-based challenge-response instruction is configured to differentiate humans from bots. The method further comprises determining that device data from one or more of the plurality of devices matches the at least one motion. The method further comprises authenticating the first device in response to determining that the device data matches the at least one motion, where authenticating the first device indicates that the user is a human.
US11537686B2
A method of deriving a correlation between observed values from e.g. a process, where initial values are derived from ingredients or process parameters and a second value from a resulting product. A number of candidate mathematical functions are generated in a grid-type flow structure in which tokens flow through nodes, each node determining a mathematical function, so that a token defines a number of mathematical functions and an order thereof. Tokens may be combined so that the functions include multiple variables. A best, resulting mathematical function may be determined and the grid structure amended to favour this function and the method may be repeated.
US11537682B1
A processor may launch a common layer including a browser and a shell. The processor may identify a request for data required by the software platform. The processor may determine a context in which the request was generated by detecting, by the shell, whether the software platform is an on-premise solution or a cloud solution; examining, by the shell, the request to determine whether it requires local resources or cloud-based resources; and designating, by the shell, the context as a cloud-based context or an on-premise context based on the detecting and the examining. In response to the determining, the processor may perform processing related to a request generated in the on-premise context using at least one local resource stored in a local data store; and communicate, by the browser, with at least one cloud-based resource to perform processing related to a request generated in the cloud-based context.
US11537680B2
A system may determine information in relation to a link in an interlinked set of information content items. A memory may store a set of machine-readable instructions operable, when executed by a processor, to receive a link context associated with a link in an information content item of the interlinked set. The link context may include information from the information content item providing context for the link. Instructions may also be operable to identify one or more additional links present in the link context and determine a link density as the proportion of the link context which includes the or each additional link relative to the size of the link context, and/or determine a text density as the proportion of the link context which does not include the or each additional link relative to the size of the link context and/or count the or each additional link.
US11537679B2
The described technology is directed towards data-driven navigation, in which a next navigation location depends on variable data associated with an interactive user interface element (rather than a fixed link). The data may be in a hierarchy of data models. A menu contains interactive navigation elements, each bound to a data model. A selected interactive navigation element results in locating a data model associated with the selected element. The data model is used to determine the next navigation location. Also described is hierarchical navigation to one item of a level as well as lateral and peer navigation.
US11537670B2
Systems and methods for content management that allow external events or data to drive the generation of content are disclosed. Specifically, disclosed embodiments allow events generated from external sources (or data determined from those events, or otherwise determined) to drive the generation of content (or metadata associated with that content) in a content management system.
US11537661B2
A system comprising: an input configured to receive input speech data originating from a user; an output configured to output speech or text information; and a processor configured to: provide first input data to a character sequence determination module to determine a character sequence from the first input data, wherein determining a character sequence comprises: obtaining a first list of one or more candidate character sequences from the first input data; selecting a first candidate character sequence from the first list; generating a first confirm request to confirm the selected first candidate character sequence, wherein the first confirm request is outputted by way of the output; if second input data indicating that the first candidate character sequence is not confirmed is received, selecting a second candidate character sequence and generating a second confirm request to confirm the selected second candidate if the second candidate character sequence is different from the first candidate character sequence, wherein the second confirm request is outputted by way of the output; and if second input data indicating that the first candidate character sequence is confirmed is received, the one or more processors are further configured to: provide third input data to a dialogue module, wherein the dialogue module is configured to: determine, based on the third input data, a dialogue act that specifies speech or text information; and output, by way of the output, the speech or text information specified by the determined dialogue act.
US11537660B2
Techniques for targeted partial re-enrichment include determining that at least one natural language processing (NLP) request is associated with at least one surface form, the NLP request being for a corpus, a database comprising preexisting annotations associated with the corpus. An index query related to the at least one surface form is performed to generate index query results, the index query results including identification of portions of the corpus affected by the NLP request. A scope of the NLP request related to the database is determined based on the index query results, the scope including identification of impacted candidate annotations of the preexisting annotations affected by the NLP request. An NLP service is performed on the corpus according to the scope and the portions, thereby resulting in updates. The updates are committed to the database associated with the corpus.
US11537658B2
Methods, systems, and media for determining and presenting information related to embedded sound recordings are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying, at a video sharing service, a first video content item that includes an embedded sound recording; identifying a composition associated with the embedded sound recording, wherein the embedded sound recording is a particular version of the composition; identifying one or more artists associated with the composition based on a group of metadata associated with the composition, wherein each item of metadata is provided by a content owner that has provided a sound recording associated with the composition to the video sharing service; identifying a second video content item associated with the embedder sound recording based at least in part on the identified one or more artists; receiving, from a user device, a request to present the first video content item on the user device; and, in response to receiving the request, causing the user device to present a user interface for presenting the first video content item in a first portion of the user interface and information related to the embedded sound recording in a second portion of the user interface, wherein the information related to the embedded sound recording includes indications of the one or more artists and a link to the second video content item.
US11537655B2
A metadata extraction machine accesses an image that depicts an item. The item depicted in the image may have an attribute that describes a characteristic of the item and an attribute descriptor that corresponds to the attribute of the item and specifies a value of the attribute. The metadata extraction machine performs an analysis of the image. The analysis may include identifying the attribute descriptor corresponding to the attribute based on image segmentation of the image. The metadata extraction machine transmits a communication to a device of a user based on the identifying of the attribute descriptor corresponding to the attribute of the item depicted in the image.
US11537650B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a description of a target skill set using domain specific language, a computer program product, and a system. Embodiments may comprise, on a processor, ingesting a data set related to the target skill from a data store, semantically analyzing the data set to generate a skill ontology, generating a hyperplane to separate one or more priority skills from among the plurality of related skills, generating a description for the target skill from the one or more priority skills, and presenting the generated description to a user. The skill ontology may include relationships between the target skill and a plurality of related skills.
US11537641B2
An irrigation subsystem for locating a decoder unit in an irrigation system includes an irrigation controller controlling a plurality of irrigation units installed around branches of one or more water pipes in a field. Each irrigation unit includes a decoder unit placed in a box partially sunk in a ground and a solenoid. The subsystem further includes a memory, a memory control controlling data loading and retrieval into the memory, and an NFC interface having an NFC plate arranged in the box ensuring communication and energy supply with a mobile phone of an installer or searcher when being positioned close to the NFC plate. The communication includes downloading location coordinates of the decoder unit into the memory. The irrigation controller includes a memory for storing location data obtained from the decoder units in the form of a location database.
US11537637B2
A method may include obtaining a first matrix that represents data in a data set and obtaining a number of clusters into which the data is to be grouped. The method may further include constructing a second matrix using the first matrix and the number of clusters. The second matrix may represent a formulation of a first optimization problem in a framework of a second optimization problem. The method may further include solving the second optimization problem using the second matrix to generate a solution of the second optimization problem and mapping the solution of the second optimization problem into a first solution matrix that represents a solution of the first optimization problem. The method may further include grouping the data into multiple data clusters using the first solution matrix. A number of the multiple data clusters may be equal to the number of clusters.
US11537636B2
There is provided a method for searching a plurality of information sources using a multimedia element, the method may include receiving at least one multimedia element; generating, by a signature generator, for the at least one multimedia element at least one signature that is unidirectional, and yields compression; generating at least one textual search query using the at least one signature; wherein the generating of the textual search query comprises: (a) searching for at least one matching stored signature that matches one or more of the at least one signature; and (b) using a mapping between stored signatures and textual search queries, selecting at least one textual search query mapped to at least one matching stored signature; searching the plurality of information sources using the at least one textual search query; and causing a display of search results retrieved from the plurality of information sources.
US11537634B2
Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that provide more efficient hierarchical propagation in tree structures are disclosed. With this technology, a first delta record for a first interior node is created optionally in an atomic transaction along with updating a first tally record for a leaf node based on a first value. The transaction is in response to an action associated with the leaf node and the first interior node is a parent of the leaf node in a hierarchical tree. A timer associated with the first delta record is then set. A second value is updated in a second tally record for the first interior node based on the first value, when the timer has expired. Accordingly, this technology advantageously maintains recursive properties or values throughout a hierarchical tree continually, with reduced cost, even in a distributed network and in hierarchical trees with large numbers of nodes.
US11537631B2
A communication device (e.g., a data system on a module (DSoM)/a Data System in a Package (DSiP)) for communicatively coupling a computing device with a cloud-based service to synchronize one or more data modifications, on an asynchronous basis with respect to one another is provided. The communication device may be configured to be communicatively coupled to the computing device and may include a wireless cellular transceiver. The communication device may be configured to one or more of transmit at least one data object from the computing device to the cloud-based service and receive at least one data object from the cloud-based service. Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a distributed replicated spatiotemporal database packaged on a communication device and integrated with an internet-based secure communication hub.
US11537629B2
A context-driven multi-user system may include distributed computing resource(s) that replicate proper subset(s) of user-relevant context data to computing device(s). A replication server may receive an update record corresponding to stored context data and determine propagation records based at least in part thereon. Each propagation record may correspond to a respective, different proper subset of the context data. The replication server may transmit the propagation records to respective replication clients. A replication client may receive a propagation record and modify local context data in response. The replication client may receive a data record and determine an update record in response and using the local context data. The computing device may transmit the determined update record. A server may receive a query specification referencing a data source and transmit the query specification to a replication client of the multi-user system, the client corresponding to the data source.
US11537628B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for interacting with a content object from an on-demand database service. The content object can be stored in an external content management data source. Access can be established with the external content object using information data identifying the content object, where the information data identifying the content object can be stored in a persistent object in a database of the on-demand database service. An indication of an event requesting interaction with the content object can be received. The persistent object can be updated to reflect the interaction with the content object.
US11537622B2
K-NN spatial queries may be performed, and the results of one K-NN query are re-used to perform a plurality of K-NN queries on a set of query points. More specifically, a K-NN query is performed on a pre-defined location, for example, an object point, to find the nearest K data objects for this pre-defined location, the results of this K-NN query being used to perform further K-NN queries on the query points near the pre-defined location. In doing so, the efficiency of large scale K-NN spatial queries is improved by limiting the spatial search range of the K-NN queries to be performed and re-using pre-computed K-NN data.
US11537621B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, by a content transfer service of a content management system and from a source system, a first content file comprising first content and first content metadata, the first content metadata being stored in a first format, processing the first content file using a set of metadata retrieval definitions to extract file-type-specific metadata from the first content metadata and map at least a portion of the file-type-specific metadata to a first uniform content metadata file having a second format that is different from the first format, each metadata retrieval definition comprising a computer-executable, declarative procedure, and transferring, by the content transfer service, the first content file and the first uniform content metadata file to a target system, the target system consuming the content at least partially based on the first uniform content metadata file.
US11537618B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for managing data conflation. During operation, the system generates matches between a first set of entities in a first dataset from a first data provider and a second set of entities in a second dataset from a second data provider based on comparisons of fields in the first and second datasets. Next, the system modifies a join query for joining the first and second datasets to include operators representing compliance rules for the first or second datasets. The system executes the modified join query to produce a joined dataset that adheres to the compliance rules and stores data related to the joined dataset within a platform that logically isolates the data from additional datasets. During processing of queries of the data, the system modifies the queries to include additional operators that enforce access control policies for the data.
US11537616B1
Performance measures are predicted for queries to prioritize query performance at a database system. A trained machine learning model for the database system may be applied to a query to determine a predicted performance measure for the query. The predicted performance measure may be compared with other predicted performance measures for other waiting queries to determine a priority for executing the query.
US11537614B2
Implementing multidimensional two-sided interval joins using sampling-based input-domain demarcation
In an embodiment, a data platform receives a query that includes a two-sided N dimensional interval join of first and second input relations. The data platform samples, with respect to each of one or more of the N dimensions, one or both of the first input relation and the second input relation with respect to an interval size of an interval determined from the input relation. The data platform demarcates the N dimensional input domain into non-overlapping N dimensional input-domain cells based on the sampling. The data platform implements the interval join using a query-execution plan that includes an equality join that is keyed on input-domain-cell identifiers of input-domain cells that at least partially overlap bounding polygons of the intervals determined from the first and second input relations. The equality join is followed in the query-execution plan by a filter that applies the interval-join predicate. The data platform obtains results of the query by executing the query-execution plan.
US11537613B1
The subject technology receives a query plan corresponding to a query. The subject technology executes the query based at least in part on the query plan, the executing including: filtering a first set of files that are to be modified by a merge statement, performing a split operation to send information related to a second set of files to a scan set builder operation in a first portion of the query plan and scan back operation in a second portion of the query plan, performing the scan set builder operation to remove the second set of files from the first set of files, performing a table scan operation based on a third set of files, and performing a first union all operation to combine the first set of data with a second set of data as a first set of combined data.
US11537611B2
A system filters a data set for the efficient execution of queries by removing at least some irrelevant records to generate a reduced data set. The records are determined to be irrelevant based on the values of the records for the particular attribute(s) corresponding to the filtering operation. The system filters out records within a data set that do not include any of the values defined for the particular attribute by a set of queries that are to be executed on the filtered set of records.
US11537589B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for enabling a sensor device to receive and transmit updates effectively via one or more rules applied to a plurality of event records for transmission by an event management server. In one exemplary embodiment, the event management server manages the plurality of event records (such as records of deletions or updates to a user's profile or goals), via an event suppression application. The event suppression application ensures that event records are not redundantly provided to the sensor device and/or irrelevant records (such as those which no longer contain the most up-to-date information) are not provided to the sensor device. Hence, only the most relevant event records are provided and that those which are not relevant are ignored (not transmitted). In this manner, the sensor device may operate more efficiently to receive only the most relevant transmissions.
US11537585B2
Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data is stored as discrete events time stamps. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time stamp, a keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search.
US11537583B2
A system and method for implementing bloom filters in large scale applications is disclosed. The system and method include at least one processor configured to create a plurality of sharded bloom filters based on signatures stored in the memory, perform at least one lookup using the plurality of sharded bloom filters; and output a lookup result in real time.
US11537573B2
A deduplication service can be provided to a storage domain from a services framework that expands and contracts to both meet service demand and to conform to resource management of a compute domain. The deduplication service maintains a fingerprint database and reference count data in compute domain resources, but persists these into the storage domain for use in the case of a failure or interruption of the deduplication service in the compute domain. The deduplication service responds to service requests from the storage domain with indications of paths in a user namespace and whether or not a piece of data had a fingerprint match in the fingerprint database. The indication of a match guides the storage domain to either store the piece of data into the storage backend or to reference another piece of data. The deduplication service uses the fingerprints to define paths for corresponding pieces of data.
US11537567B2
A database management system for controlling prioritized transactions, comprising: a processor adapted to: receive from a client module a request to write into a database item as part of a high-priority transaction; check a lock status and an injection status of the database item; when the lock status of the database item includes a lock owned by a low-priority transaction and the injection status is not-injected status: change the injection status of the database item to injected status; copy current content of the database item to an undo buffer of the low-priority transaction; and write into a storage engine of the database item.
US11537560B2
A method for performing hash code calculations may include calculating, during a write operation for a data block, a hash code for an occupied portion of the data block, inserting, during the write operation, a marker into the data block, calculating, during a read operation for the data block, a hash code for the occupied portion of the data block, searching, during the read operation, for the marker in the data block, and terminating the hash code calculation in response to finding the marker. A system may include a first interface configured to receive data blocks, a second interface configured to transmit data blocks, and hash logic coupled between the first and second interfaces, wherein the hash logic is configured to calculate a hash code for the occupied portion of a data block received through the first interface, and insert a marker in an unoccupied portion of the data block.
US11537551B2
Systems and methods for distributed file processing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for distributed file processing in a distributed network may include: (1) receiving, at a first distributed host in a network of a plurality of distributed hosts, an archive command; (2) the first distributed host identifying a plurality of files in a shared file system to archive in response to the archive command; (3) the first distributed host splitting at least one of the plurality of files that is above a predetermined size into a plurality of file chunks; (4) the first distributed host instructing a second distributed host to archive one of the plurality of files or plurality of file chunks to a store; and (5) the first distributed host and the second distributed host archiving the plurality of files and the plurality of file chunks to the store.
US11537531B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a computer system with a cache memory that supports tagless addressing. During operation, the system receives a request to perform a memory access, wherein the request includes a virtual address. In response to the request, the system performs an address-translation operation, which translates the virtual address into both a physical address and a cache address. Next, the system uses the physical address to access one or more levels of physically addressed cache memory, wherein accessing a given level of physically addressed cache memory involves performing a tag-checking operation based on the physical address. If the access to the one or more levels of physically addressed cache memory fails to hit on a cache line for the memory access, the system uses the cache address to directly index a cache memory, wherein directly indexing the cache memory does not involve performing a tag-checking operation and eliminates the tag storage overhead.
US11537529B1
This disclosure provides techniques hierarchical address virtualization within a memory controller and configurable block device allocation. By performing address translation only at select hierarchical levels, a memory controller can be designed to have predictable I/O latency, with brief or otherwise negligible logical-to-physical address translation time. In one embodiment, address transition may be implemented entirely with logical gates and look-up tables of a memory controller integrated circuit, without requiring processor cycles. The disclosed virtualization scheme also provides for flexibility in customizing the configuration of virtual storage devices, to present nearly any desired configuration to a host or client.
US11537528B1
This disclosure provides techniques hierarchical address virtualization within a memory controller and configurable block device allocation. By performing address translation only at select hierarchical levels, a memory controller can be designed to have predictable I/O latency, with brief or otherwise negligible logical-to-physical address translation time. In one embodiment, address transition may be implemented entirely with logical gates and look-up tables of a memory controller integrated circuit, without requiring processor cycles. The disclosed virtualization scheme also provides for flexibility in customizing the configuration of virtual storage devices, to present nearly any desired configuration to a host or client.
US11537527B2
Methods, systems, and devices for dynamic logical page sizes for memory devices are described. A memory device may use an initial set of logical pages each having a same size and one or more logical-to-physical (L2P) tables to map logical addresses of the logical pages to the physical addresses of corresponding physical pages. As commands are received from a host device, the memory device may dynamically split a logical page to introduce smaller logic pages if the host device accesses data in chunk sizes smaller than the size of the logical page that is split. The memory device may maintain one or more additional L2P tables for each smaller logical page size that is introduced, along with one or more pointer tables to map between L2P tables and entries for larger logical page sizes and L2P tables and entries associated with smaller logical page sizes.
US11537523B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide systems and methods for receiving, by a processing device, a request for an application image. A sequence of commands associated with the application image and a value of a parameter associated with the sequence of commands is received. Responsive to determining that the sequence of commands has been previously executed with the value of the parameter, the processing device retrieves, from a cache, a result of executing the sequence with the value of the parameter. The application image is built using the first result of executing the sequence.
US11537521B2
Provided are a non-volatile dual inline memory module (NVDIMM) supporting a DRAM cache mode and an operation method of the NVDIMM. The NVDIMM includes a DRAM chip, an NVM chip, and a controller that controls the DRAM chip to operate as a cache memory of the NVM chip. The controller sends a read command to the DRAM chip with reference to a cache address of data requested to be written from a host to the NVM chip, and sends a write command to the NVM chip with reference to an address of the data requested to be written at a time point when a read latency (RL) of the DRAM chip and a write latency (WL) of the NVM chip coincide with each other.
US11537518B2
Constraining memory use for overlapping virtual memory operations is described. The memory use is constrained to prevent memory from exceeding an operational threshold, e.g., in relation to operations for modifying content. These operations are implemented according to algorithms having a plurality of instructions. Before the instructions are performed in relation to the content, virtual memory is allocated to the content data, which is then loaded into the virtual memory and is also partitioned into data portions. In the context of the described techniques, at least one of the instructions affects multiple portions of the content data loaded in virtual memory. When this occurs, the instruction is carried out, in part, by transferring the multiple portions of content data between the virtual memory and a memory such that a number of portions of the content data in the memory is constrained to the memory that is reserved for the operation.
US11537517B2
A memory device comprises: a page buffer including a first and second latch, a control circuit configured to perform reading data of a word line and storing the data in the first latch, perform discharging the word line, perform moving the data of the first latch to the second latch, and perform outputting the data of the second latch to an exterior, and a control logic configured to control the control circuit such that an execution section of the discharge and moving for a first word line at least partially overlap each other when a second or third cache read command is inputted in a section in which the storage or discharge for the first word line is performed in response to a first cache read command for the first word line.
US11537514B2
A controller for controlling a nonvolatile memory device comprising: a read count table including a plurality of read count data, wherein each of the read count data includes a read count value for one data storage region; a read count address table including a read count address indicating an address of a memory region where the read count data is stored; a flash translation layer (FTL) configured to control an operation of the nonvolatile memory device, and manage the read count table and the read count address table; and a flash interface layer (FIL) configured to control data communication between the FTL and the nonvolatile memory device, and update the read count value based on the read count address when read operation is performed on the data storage region.
US11537512B2
An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to maintain a logical-to-physical (L2P) table, wherein a region of the L2P table is cached in a volatile memory; maintain a write count reflecting a number of bytes written to the memory device; maintain a cache miss count reflecting a number of cache misses with respect to a cache of the L2P table; responsive to determining that a value of a predetermined function of the write count and the cache miss count exceeds a threshold value, copy the region of the L2P table to a non-volatile memory.
US11537511B2
Systems, methods, and devices dynamically configure non-volatile memories. Devices include non-volatile memories comprising a plurality of memory regions, each of the plurality of memory regions having a configurable bit density. Devices also include control circuitry configured to retrieve user partition configuration data identifying a plurality of bit densities for the plurality of memory regions, convert a received user address to a plurality of physical addresses based, at least in part, on the plurality of bit densities, compare the user address with the user partition configuration data, and select one of the plurality of physical addresses based, at least in part, on the comparison.
US11537508B1
Test cases written to test a software application can be dynamically distributed among different sets of test cases that can be executed simultaneously in different parallel threads, thereby speeding up testing relative to executing the test cases sequentially in a single thread. To avoid database conflicts that may occur when different test cases in different parallel threads attempt to access the same database simultaneously, testing of the software application can be performed in association with a record-locking database that locks database records individually instead of locking entire database tables or locking data structures that are larger than individual records. Locking individual database records can reduce and/or eliminate the chances that a test case in one parallel thread will be unable to access a record in the database because another test case in another parallel thread is simultaneously accessing the same database.
US11537503B2
A system for conducting user interface (UI) software component testing has been developed. The test of the UI software component is initiated and a display of the test results are shown to a user in a browser used in the testing. A code editor used for debugging by the user receives the test results from the browser and presents the test results to the user for debugging. The browser webview and the code editor are simultaneously displayed to the user in a dual screencast window during the UI software testing.
US11537502B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to active detection and mitigation of anomalies in program code construction interfaces. The system provides a proactive plug-in with a dynamic machine learning (ML) anomaly detection model cloud component structured to dynamically detect architectural flaws in program code in real-time in a user coding interface. In particular, the system activates a machine learning (ML) anomaly detection plug-in for dynamically analyzing the first technology program code being constructed in the user coding interface. Moreover, the system modifies, via the ML anomaly detection plug-in, the user coding interface to embed interface elements associated with the one or more flaws in the first technology program code detected by the ML anomaly detection model cloud component.
US11537485B2
A configuration generating method for devices is applied to connecting ports and external devices connected to the connecting ports. The method includes the following steps: determining communication protocol types of the connecting ports respectively; generating a sequence list according to a plurality of device data, wherein each of the device data is corresponding to a communication protocol, the device data with ccTalk protocol are categorized in a first priority group, the device data with MDB protocol are categorized in a third sequence group, the device data other than those of the first priority group and the third priority group are categorized in a second priority group; and, testing the external devices sequentially and generating communication results according to the sequence list and the device data corresponding to the communication protocol types, and then generating a connecting ports configuration data of connecting ports according to the communication results.
US11537474B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for backing up and recovering a software-defined data center (“SDDC”). In one example, entities of the SDDC, such as virtual machines, hosts, and clusters, can coexist with corresponding entity stores. The entity stores can store current state information for each SDDC entity. For example, an identifier or name of a virtual machine can be stored in that virtual machine's corresponding entity store. When recovery of a controller is needed, the controller can rebuild state information that has changed after the controller was backed up, by retrieving state information from entity stores of the various SDDC entities.
US11537473B2
The invention discloses a method for controlling other systems based on a single-point execution contract, comprising the following steps: A, when a contract developer writes a single-point execution contract code, integrating a command needing transparent transmission into the code; B, executing, by a virtual machine, the code, calling a transparent-transmission channel command input interface while executing to a row with the command, and transmitting the command to a blockchain node; and C, not processing the command by the blockchain node, and calling a secondary development service package interface through the transparent-transmission command to transmit downwards. In the method, a command transparent-transmission channel and a transparent-transmission command secondary development package service are designed, so that a blockchain user can operate their specific software/hardware equipment through a user-defined command. The verification of the contract execution results is not influenced, and a situation where contract execution passed but verification failed can be avoided.
US11537464B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to host-based error correction are described. Error correction operations can be performed on a host computing system as opposed to on a memory system. For instance, data containing erroneous bits can be transferred from a memory system to a host computing system and error correction operations can be performed using circuitry resident on the host computing system. In an example, a method can include receiving, by a host computing system, data that comprises a plurality of uncorrected bits from a memory system coupleable to the host computing system, determining an acceptable error range for the data based at least in part on an application associated with the data, and performing, using error correction logic resident on the host computing system, an initial error correction operation on the data based at least in part on the acceptable error range.
US11537463B1
The technology disclosed herein pertains to a system for data integrity verification that is optimized at unit level. One or more implementations of such system include a method including identifying a first unit boundary in data block received from a client at an application layer, the unit boundary indicating end of a first unit of data, generating an intermediate checksum for the first unit of data at the application layer, receiving a second unit of data of the data block at the application layer, and generating a final checksum with an intermediate checksum as a basis and the second unit of data.
US11537450B2
Semantic feature values of notification messages in different applications are obtained, and notification messages that are in different applications and whose semantic feature values match are associated. This associates notification messages that are of associated events of a mobile terminal and that are from different channels (for example, different applications). A user can view notification messages that are of associated events and that are from different channels.
US11537445B2
A computer-implemented method for deploying an application between an on-premise server and an off-premise server includes identifying a plurality of nodes in a flow of an application deployed on the on-premise server. The computer-implemented method further includes splitting the flow at the plurality of nodes to form a plurality of sub-flows of the application. The computer-implemented method further includes routing a flow execution workload of the application to the plurality of sub-flows of the application.
US11537437B2
A specialized in-memory database health check process is utilized to resolve dependencies in a resource indicating requirements for an instance of an in-memory database. Specifically, when an instance of an in-memory database is created in response to a request, a list of one or more component handlers are obtained. These component handlers are modular functions, separate from each other but potentially dependent on one or more other component handlers, and act to validate various requirements listed in a resource for the request. Each of the component handlers are executed individually during execution of a Reconcile function. To the extent that the execution of any component handlers in the list is unsuccessful, the Reconcile function is rerun for another iteration. These iterations continue until all component handlers report back as successful. Instance creation is then considered successful and the instance of the in-memory database can be utilized by users.
US11537432B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to dynamic shadow operations configured to dynamically shadow data-plane resources in a network device. In some embodiments, the dynamic resource shadow operations are used to locally maintain a shadow copy of data plane resources to avoid having to read them through a bus interconnect. In other embodiments, the dynamic shadow framework is used to provide memory protection for hardware resources against SEU failures. The dynamic shadow framework may operate in conjunction with adaptive memory scrubbing operations. In other embodiments, the dynamic shadow infrastructure is used to facilitate fast boot-up and fast upgrade operations.
US11537430B1
A wait optimizer circuit can be coupled to a processor to monitor an entry of a virtual CPU (vCPU) into a wait mode to acquire a ticket lock. The wait optimizer can introduce an amount of delay, while the vCPU is in the wait mode, with an assumption that the spinlock may be resolved before sending a wake up signal to the processor for rescheduling. The wait optimizer can also record a time stamp only for a first entry of the vCPU from a plurality of entries into the wait mode within a window of time. The time stamps for vCPUs contending for the same ticket lock can be used by a hypervisor executing on the processor for rescheduling the vCPUs.
US11537423B2
In some examples, a system associates, with a plurality of virtual resources deployed in a cloud environment, properties representative of characteristics of the virtual resources, the properties comprising a performance level of a virtual resource. The system receives a request to create a virtual resource in the cloud environment, and, in response to determining that properties of the virtual resource to be created for the request satisfy a criterion with respect to properties of a given virtual resource of the plurality of virtual resources, selects the given virtual resource as a candidate virtual resource for the request.
US11537412B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support utilizing security device plugins for external device control and monitoring in a secured environment. A plugin that implements one or more functionalities to communicate with and to control operations of an external device is provided to a network security device/appliance. The plugin is then loaded to the network security appliance and integrated with a software running on the network security device, wherein the software obtains the functionalities offered by the plugin. A communication link is established between the plugin of the network security device and the external device following a communication protocol. The network security device is then configured to issue/receive one or more commands to/from the external device following the communication protocol to monitor and collect information from and/or control or be controlled by the external device remotely.
US11537407B2
An image forming apparatus as electronic equipment includes an AI processor provided with a memory, a storage unit capable of storing a binary, which is a program for the AI processor, and an AI processor operation unit that operates the AI processor. The AI processor operation unit deploys, in the memory, the binary stored in the storage unit. The AI processor executes a function of the binary by loading the binary deployed in the memory. The binary is not included in firmware of the image forming apparatus.
US11537400B1
Techniques are described for enabling a software modernization system to automatically map binary executable files and other runtime artifacts (e.g., application binaries, Java ARchive (JAR) files, .NET Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files, process identifiers, etc.) to source code associated with the binary executable files, e.g., as part of modernization processes aimed at migrating users' applications to a cloud service provider's infrastructure. A software modernization service of a cloud provider network provides discovery agents and other tools that are capable of creating an inventory of users' software applications and collecting profile data about the software applications. Various techniques are described for automatically identifying the source code associated with software applications identified by a discovery agent in a user's computing environment, thereby improving the efficiency of various software modernization analyses and other modernization processes.
US11537394B2
Systems and methods for estimating a random distribution for an overall metric for a composite node, the composite node comprising a plurality of nodes. For each data atom of a plurality of data atoms being input to the composite node, and for each node of the plurality of nodes, at least one value may be generated for a per-node metric with respect to the data atom. A value for the overall metric with respect to the data atom may be generated based on the per-node metric values of the plurality of nodes. At least one parameter of the random distribution for the overall metric for the composite node may be estimated based on the overall metric values with respect to the plurality of data atoms.
US11537385B2
A notification device, configured to notify an accommodation area that can accommodate a moving body, in which the performance of the moving body that can be accommodated in the accommodation area is predetermined; includes: a first determination unit configured to determine a first accommodation area that can accommodate the moving body with the current performance, based on the current performance of the moving body; a second determination unit configured to determine a second accommodation area that can accommodate the moving body with the performance after rewriting, based on the performance after the rewriting the software of the moving body; and a notification unit configured to separately notify the first accommodation area and the second accommodation area.
US11537380B2
Systems and methods are described for embodiments of a mobile virtualization platform (MVP) that may be embedded in an end user mobile device or comprise part of the firmware loaded on the device. The MVP may implement a thin layer of software embedded on the device to decouple applications and data from the underlying hardware, thus enabling the device to concurrently run multiple operating systems. Furthermore, the MVP may enable applications to run concurrently per each base band.
US11537379B2
A server includes a communicator, a memory, and a processor. The communicator is configured to connect to a plurality of electronic apparatuses. The memory is configured to store information on a plurality of applications for each user context. The processor is configured to, based on an installation information of a first application from among a plurality of applications being received from a first electronic apparatus from among the plurality of electronic apparatuses, identify a context corresponding to the first application, based on the information on the plurality of applications, identify a second application corresponding to the context from among the plurality of applications, and control the communicator to transmit an installation command of the second application, to a second electronic apparatus capable of installing the second application from among the plurality of electronic apparatuses.
US11537377B2
Disclosed are techniques for deploying an application. An application system may host one or more software applications, each software application having a plurality of application deployments. A first application deployment is customized based on a first set of user interactions with the application and a second application deployment is different to the first deployment due to being customized based on a second set of user interactions with the application. The second set of user interactions is different to the first set of user interactions. Usage information about a user is received, the usage information indicating a third set of user interactions with an application of the one or more software applications. A user profile of the user is determined from the usage information. The first application deployment is determined based on the user profile. The first application is deployed for the user based on the first application deployment.
US11537376B2
None of the existing quantum programming languages provide specialized support for programming patterns such as conditional-adjoint or adjoint-via-conjugation. As a result, compilers of these languages fail to exploit the optimization opportunities mentioned in this disclosure. Further, none of the available quantum programming languages provide support for automatic translation of circuits using clean qubits to circuits that use idle qubits. Thus, the resulting circuits oftentimes use more qubits than would be required. Embodiments of the disclosed technology, thus allow one to run said circuits on smaller quantum devices. Previous multiplication circuits make use of (expensive) controlled additions. Embodiments of the disclosed technology employ multipliers that work using conditional-adjoint additions, which are cheaper to implement on both near-term and large-scale quantum hardware. The savings lie between 1.5 and 2× in circuit depth for large number of qubits.
US11537367B1
In some implementations, a device may receive source code associated with an application program interface (API) configured to execute on a dedicated runtime infrastructure. The device may generate an executable policy document including machine-readable text based on one or more code sections in the source code that implement one or more function calls associated with one or more function call types. The device may invoke a validation utility to cross-check the executable policy document against a design document associated with the API. The device may deploy the executable policy document in a common runtime environment that includes a shared runtime infrastructure to support multiple executable policy documents based on the validation utility indicating that the executable policy document satisfies functional requirements described in the design document associated with the API.
US11537366B1
A computing device create a user interface application. A user interface (UI) tag is read in a UI application. The UI tag is executed to identify a UI template tag. The identified UI template tag is executed to define a top-level container initializer for the UI application and to define a plurality of widget initializers for inclusion in a top-level container rendered using the top-level container initializer. The top-level container is rendered in a display using the top-level container initializer. Each widget of a plurality of widgets in the rendered top-level container is rendered using the defined plurality of widget initializers to create a UI.
US11537362B2
A system and method of generating a one-way function and thereby producing a random-value stream. Steps include: providing a plurality of memory cells addressed according to a domain value wherein any given domain value maps to all possible range values; generating a random domain value associated with one of the memory cells; reading a data value associated with the generated random domain value; generating dynamically enhanced data by providing an additional quantity of data; removing suspected non-random portions thereby creating source data; validating the source data according to a minimum randomness requirement, thereby creating a validated source data; and integrating the validated source data with the memory cell locations using a random edit process that is a masking, a displacement-in-time, a chaos engine, an XOR, an overwrite, an expand, a remove, a control plane, or an address plane module. The expand module inserts a noise chunk.
US11537357B2
Methods, systems, and/or devices for media context switching among electronic devices are described herein. In one aspect, a method is performed at a first electronic device. A first media item is played. While playing the first media item, a near-field-communication (NFC) channel is established with a second electronic device while the second electronic device is playing a second media item. First contextual data of the first electronic device is transferred via the NFC channel to the second electronic device, wherein the first contextual data corresponds to the first media item. A playback command for the second media item is received. In response to receiving the playback command for the second media item, the first electronic device plays the second media item.
US11537355B1
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes storing first client information identifying a first client device, identifying a location of the first client device, and identifying a first remote access session that provides the first client device access to resources of the remote access system. The method further includes receiving access information identifying an access device and a user account associated with the first client information. The access information indicates that the user account has been successfully authenticated by the access device. The method further includes, in response to the receipt of the access information, causing the first client device to connect to the first remote access session with the remote access system as a background process of the client device while a user interface of the client device remains locked.
US11537352B1
A phone display, shows an internet map. The map allows a user to search for, and operate, multiuser public devices, such as, a hydrogen car fuelling station. The user finds the device, by viewing the device's location, and the phone's location on the map. For example, the phone searches for, and finds elevators, which are shown on the map. The user finds an elevator, by using the map. The user touches the elevator's displayed menu, to receive the elevator's menu's control panel. The received control panel, is displayed on the phone. The user requests the elevator move to the 4 floor, by touch activating a floor 4 icon, on the phone elevator panel. The phone, and elevator computer communicate, over the internet wirelessly, or wirelessly. The user avoids bacteria, that may be on a store's self serve check out machine's physical touch screen, by operating it with the phone.
US11537338B1
A processing device includes an interface, a memory, and a processor. The interface facilitates communication with a server and other processing devices. The memory stores first model information indicating a first model of the processing device. The processor receives setting information from the server where the setting information includes a first ID for identifying a first setting content, applies the first setting content, transmits first ID information including the first model information and the first ID to the other processing devices, receives second ID information from the other processing devices, acquires second model information from the second ID information, determines whether a second setting content of a second ID included in the second ID information is already applied to the processing device in response to the second model information matching the first model information, and transmits a notification to the server indicating that the second setting content is not applied.
US11537336B2
A resource service system is one of a plurality of resource service systems each capable of communicating with a reception service system that receives data from a plurality of clients. The resource service system acquires data from a first queue that receives and stores data transmitted from the reception service system, and processes the acquired data. In a case where it is determined a number of pieces of data of a predetermined client transmitted from the reception service system per unit time exceeds a first predetermined number, the resource service system sets a first setting for preventing the reception service system from transmitting the data of the predetermined client to the first queue.
US11537335B2
Disclosed is a method to enable printing on legacy devices. The method includes discovering a legacy device that does not have a universal record that enables the legacy device to provide services to a mobile device through a network, appending the universal record for the legacy device, transmitting the universal record for the legacy device to a controller, receiving, at the controller and from the mobile device, a request for services which can be provided by the legacy device, transmitting, from the controller and based on the universal record for the legacy device, data associated with the legacy device to the mobile device to yield transmitted data and transmitting, based on an acceptance of the transmitted data by the mobile device, a service request from the mobile device to the legacy device for providing a service to the mobile device.
US11537330B2
Presented herein are methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and devices for selectively limiting the amount of data in a file system, which include: determining a reparity bit value for a write disk block range, wherein the reparity bit is configured to track a number of writes in progress to a stripe range; determining the reparity bit value; updating a threshold written disk block number as a highest disk block number of the reparity bit value; and initiating a RAID operation until it reaches the threshold written disk block number, wherein the threshold written disk block number comprises a maximum written disk block number representing the last disk block number written.
US11537321B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to media type selection are described. Memory systems can include multiple types of memory media (e.g., volatile and/or non-volatile) and can write data to the memory media types. Data inputs can be written (e.g., stored) in a particular type of memory media based on characteristics (e.g., source, attributes, and/or information etc. included in the data). For instance, selection of a portion of data can be based on the quality of the data received. In an example, a method can include receiving, by a memory system of a mobile device that comprises a plurality of memory media types, data from the assigned image sensor of a plurality of image sensors of the mobile device; and selecting a portion of data from the received data based on one or more characteristics of the data that indicate a quality of an image or images represented by the portion of data.
US11537319B2
A processing system includes a content addressable memory (CAM) in an input/output path to selectively modify register writes on a per-pipeline basis. The CAM compares an address of a register write to an address field of each entry of the CAM. If a match is found, the CAM modifies the register write data as defined by a function for the matching entry of the CAM. In some embodiments, each entry of the CAM includes a data mask defining subfields of the register write data, wherein each subfield includes subfield data including one or more bits.
US11537314B1
Systems and methods are provided for bringing a volume of a consistency group (CG) into an in-synchronization (InSync) state while other volumes of the CG remain in the InSync state. According to an example, in order to support recovery from disruptive events in a manner that ensures a zero recovery point objective (RPO) guarantee and insulates an application making use of the CG from adverse impacts, responsive to a triggering event, a Fast Resync process may first be attempted to promptly bring an affected volume back into an in-synchronization (InSync) state from an out of synchronization (OOS) state while allowing other members of the CG to remain in the InSync state. Should the Fast resync process be unsuccessful in bringing the volume back into the InSync state within a predetermined or configurable time threshold, then a second type of resynchronization process may be employed at the CG level.
US11537311B1
Various examples herein described are directed to methods, apparatuses and computer program products configured for dynamically replicating and/or converting source data objects in one or more external-access-limited source data object repositories to replica data objects in one or more external-service-accessible replica data object repositories in a network service cloud. For example, a network service server of the network service cloud may generate a plurality of bootstrap task objects and at least one change data capture (CDC) task object, and may generate the replica data objects based on the task objects.
US11537308B2
An information processing device, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: generate second data by adding, to first data including a machine language, first machine language data that may be destroyed at a time of transfer of the first data and second machine language data that is not destroyed at the time of the transfer, and transmit the second data.
US11537304B2
A method including determining a to-be-verified data block among a plurality of data blocks corresponding to a predetermined file in a distributed storage system, wherein a storage node where the to-be-verified data block is located comprises a storage node that meets a load balancing strategy in the distributed storage system; and verifying the to-be-verified data block. The present disclosure solves the technical problem in the conventional technologies in which the read/write performance at a user front end is affected during a data verification process.
US11537303B1
The present disclosure generally relates to creating new zones in a data storage device in a manner that ensures substantially even workload of the memory device storage locations. The data storage device can guide a host device to select a particular zone to open in zone namespace (ZNS) systems where the host device selects which zone to open. The data storage device tracks the workload of the various storage locations and create zones. The data storage device then provides selected zones having the least used storage locations with the idea of guiding the host device to select the zone having the least used storage locations. Thus, rather than utilizing a randomly selected unopened zone, the host will select, based upon guidance from the data storage device, zones that contain the least utilized storage location. In so doing, generally even workload of the memory device storage locations is achieved.
US11537302B2
A printer includes a first flash memory of a NOR type, a second flash memory of a NAND type, and a processor configured to control execution of a printing operation using information stored in the first and second flash memories. The processor is further configured to, at startup, read first information stored in the first flash memory and perform an initialization process using the first information.
US11537298B2
Examples of systems and method described herein provide for accessing memory devices and, concurrently, generating access codes using an authenticated stream cipher at a memory controller. For example, a memory controller may use a memory access request to, concurrently, perform translation logic and/or error correction on data associated with the memory access request; while also utilizing the memory address as an initialization vector for an authenticated stream cipher to generate an access code. The error correction may be performed subsequent to address translation for a write operation (or prior to address translation for a read operation) to improve processing speed of memory access requests at a memory controller; while the memory controller also generates the encrypted access code.
US11537297B1
The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for deleting snapshot pages using sequence numbers and page lookups. A monotonically-increasing sequence number (SN) can be assigned to each created page of a first snapshot of a storage volume. A first snapshot sequence number (snapSN) can be assigned to the first snapshot responsive to a creation of a second snapshot, wherein the first snapSN is equal to a largest SN of the first snapshot. An SN can be assigned to each created page of the second snapshot, wherein a first page of the second snapshot is assigned an SN monotonically increased from the first snapSN. A second snapSN can be assigned to the second snapshot responsive to a creation of a third snapshot, wherein the second snapSN is equal to a largest SN of the second snapshot. An SN can be assigned to each created page of the third snapshot, wherein a first page of the third snapshot is assigned an SN monotonically increased from the second snapSN. A deletion process can be performed in response to receiving a request to delete the second snapshot that includes deleting a particular page of the second snapshot responsive to determining that the particular page is not shared between the second snapshot and the first snapshot or between the second snapshot and the third snapshot.
US11537296B2
A storage device may include a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device may include a plurality of data blocks, a plurality of replacement blocks to replace bad blocks, and a system block configured to store default system information. The memory controller may store, based on a result of comparing a lifetime of the memory device with a reference value, update system information corresponding to an update of the default system information, in a selected replacement block among the plurality of replacement blocks. The memory controller may control the memory device to set the selected replacement block as a target system block. The default system information may include one or more parameters corresponding to at least one operation among a read operation, a program operation, and an erase operation of the memory device.
US11537277B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system for generating semantically accurate synthetic images. During operation, the system generates a first synthetic image using a first artificial intelligence (AI) model and presents the first synthetic image in a user interface. The user interface allows a user to identify image units of the first synthetic image that are semantically irregular. The system then obtains semantic information for the semantically irregular image units from the user via the user interface and generates a second synthetic image using a second AI model based on the semantic information. The second synthetic image can be an improved image compared to the first synthetic image.
US11537276B2
The method receives a visual specification, which specifies a data source, visual variables, and data fields from the data source. Each visual variable is associated with data fields and each data field is a dimension or a measure. The method forms dimension tuples comprising distinct ordered combinations of data values for the dimensions D. For each measure, the method: forms a set S of the dimensions D plus dimensions from a primary key corresponding to the measure; retrieves intermediate tuples containing the fields in S and the measure, without aggregation; and aggregates the intermediate tuples according to the dimensions D. For each dimension tuple, the method forms an extended tuple by appending the aggregated data values corresponding to each measure field. The method then builds and displays a data visualization according to the extended tuples and the visual variables to which the data fields are associated.
US11537275B2
A display system is disclosed. The display system comprises a remote control device and a display device. The remote control device receives identification information about an external device from the external device, recognizes the angle of communication with the external device, and transmits the identification information and information about the angle to the display device. The display device identifies the external device on the basis of the information about the angle, and registers the identified external device as an operable external device when the remote control device is determined to have received the identification information while oriented toward the external device.
US11537270B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems and, more particularly, certain exemplary embodiments relate to jukebox systems that incorporate digital downloading jukebox features along with karaoke jukebox and/or photobooth features. A combined karaoke/photobooth/jukebox may enable more integrated performance-like experiences in an in-home or out-of-home location or venue. By leveraging vast audio media libraries, trusted rights-respecting network infrastructure, and on-site image/video capturing from integrated recorders and/or remote portable devices, a more sociable experience may be created for karaoke jukebox patrons, e.g., where custom content can be generated and shared in a safe and legally appropriate manner.
US11537269B2
Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for aggregating information adapted for output to a graphical user interface. The methods can include providing a first menu command for a first menu of one or more user-selectable menu items to be displayed on a menu portion of an Aggregated User Interface (AUI) display and providing a content command for content to be displayed on the menu portion of the AUI display in response to the user's selection. The methods can further aggregate information relating to the one or more user-selectable menu items from the first menu and adapt them to be displayed on a content portion of the AUI display. By aggregating new information and displaying it on a graphical user interface, users can quickly and efficiently view and manipulate content in a more organized fashion.
US11537262B1
A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data representing one or more user-selected item attributes. The data includes one of at least four selectable interest levels for each of the one or more user-selected item attributes. Operations also include identifying one or more items representative of the selected interest level for each of the one or more user-selected item attributes, and initiating delivery of data representing the identified one or more items for user selection.
US11537260B1
In one aspect, a headset may include at least one processor, a display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to identify user input regarding a particular object and, based on the user input, present an icon on the display. The icon may indicate whether the particular object is a real-world object or virtual object. Subsequent to presentation of the icon, the instructions may then be executable to execute a command related to selection of the particular object.
US11537255B2
A touch substrate, a method for manufacturing a touch substrate, and a touch display device are provided. The touch substrate includes: a base substrate having a first surface; a first over coat layer on the first surface; a first touch electrode on the first over coat layer; and a second over coat layer on the first touch electrode, wherein the first touch electrode is located between the first over coat layer and the second over coat layer, and the second over coat layer covers at least the first touch electrode, and wherein an area of at least one of the first over coat layer and the second over coat layer is less than an area of the first surface in the touch area.
US11537252B2
An input sensing device includes an input sensing panel including driving electrodes and sensing electrodes, a driving signal generator that provides driving signals to the driving electrodes, respectively, and a sensing unit that receives sensing signals according to the driving signals from the sensing electrodes, and determines whether a touch is performed based on the sensing signals. Each of the driving signals includes a sinusoidal wave, and frequencies of at least some of the driving signals are different from each other.
US11537251B2
A display device is provided and includes first substrate comprising first base member, first terminal and pixel electrodes; second substrate comprising second base member comprising first surface opposing and spaced apart from first terminal and second surface on an opposite side to first surface, second terminal located on side of second surface, and first hole which penetrates from first surface to second surface and second terminal; organic insulating layer provided between first terminal and second base member and adjacent to display area, organic insulating layer having second hole beneath first hole; and connecting material provided on first and second hole to electrically connect first terminal and second terminal, wherein organic insulating layer includes sealant attaches first substrate and second substrate, diameter of second hole is greater than diameter of first hole, and at least one of first terminal and second terminal including oxide electrode in contact with connecting material.
US11537248B2
A touch sensor panel according to the present invention includes: a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, in which a touch window area includes a first number of consecutive first electrodes in a first direction among the plurality of first electrodes and a second number of consecutive second electrodes in a second direction with respect to at least one of the first number of first electrodes to correspond to each other, and a value acquired by multiplying the number of unit cells constituting at least one first electrode connected to a first trace among the first electrodes included in the touch window area and the number of unit cells constituting at least one second electrode connected to a second trace among the second electrodes included in the touch window area is less than a predetermined value.
US11537247B2
Provided herein is a display device including a base layer having a non-sensing area and a sensing area configured to surround the non-sensing area, a touch sensor disposed on the sensing area of the base layer, an optical structure disposed on the base layer, and a polarization layer disposed on the touch sensor so as to overlap the sensing area. The touch sensor and the optical structure include a first through hole located in the non-sensing area, and the non-sensing area includes a first area corresponding to the first through hole and a second area configured to surround the first area. The optical structure is disposed in the second area, and includes an optical pattern including a plurality of openings.
US11537243B2
A touch sensor module includes a touch sensor layer including a visual area, a bending area and a pad area, a flexible circuit board electrically connected to the touch sensor layer on the pad area of the touch sensor layer, a supporting structure partially covering the flexible circuit board and the touch sensor layer, an optical layer disposed on the visual area of the touch sensor layer, the optical layer being spaced apart from the supporting structure in a horizontal direction such that a gap is formed between the optical layer and the supporting structure, a filling layer at least partially filling the gap, and an adhesive layer formed on a bottom surface of a portion of the touch sensor layer in the visual area.
US11537232B2
An electronic device includes: a display panel having an active area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed and a peripheral area disposed around the active area; a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed in the active area; and a first sensing line connected to one of the plurality of sensing electrodes and including a first portion disposed in the peripheral area, a second portion extending from the first portion and disposed in the active area, and a third portion extending from the second portion and disposed in the peripheral area.
US11537222B2
A touchpad device includes a substrate, a touch panel, and a light-curing adhesive film. The substrate includes a top surface, the touch panel is disposed above the top surface of the substrate, and the touch panel includes a touchpad and a circuit board stacked with each other. The light-curing adhesive film is bonded between the touch board and the circuit board, and the light-curing adhesive film is in a cured state.
US11537221B2
In one embodiment, a stylus includes one or more electrodes included in a tip, and a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium embodying logic that is configured when executed to receive, by the one or more electrodes and an analog front end, signals transmitted from a touch sensor coupled to a touch-sensor controller, and convert the signals into sequences of digital signals. The logic is further configured when executed to feed the sequences of digital signals received in different periods into a memory; correlate each of the sequences of digital signals with a digital data defined by a wide-band code to generate multiple correlations; and transmit a transmission signal to the touch-sensor controller according to a synchronization timing determined based at least in part on one or more of the multiple correlations.
US11537215B2
The invention provides an ambient light sensing device which receives at least one visible light image sensed by an image sensor. The ambient light sensing device includes an image sampling unit and an analyzing unit. The image sampling unit divides the visible light image into plural image blocks, extracts at least one sample data in each image block, and generates a comparison data according to a difference between the sample data extracted at different time points. The analyzing unit analyzes the comparison data and generates an output analysis signal accordingly.
US11537207B2
A tactile stimulus presentation device includes a stage, a contact member, a drive mechanism, an information setting part, and a control part. The stage includes an opening and an arrangement surface, the arrangement surface on which a body part of a subject is arranged thereon so as to close the opening. The contact member is for giving a tactile stimulus to the subject by being in contact with the body part of the subject arranged on the arrangement surface of the stage through the opening. The drive mechanism is a mechanism for holding the contact member and moving the contact member in a direction substantially parallel to the arrangement surface and in a direction substantially perpendicular to the arrangement surface. The information setting part is configured to set information to be presented by gibing tactile stimulation to the subject by tactile stimulation. The control part is configured to control the drive mechanism to present the information set by the information setting part by giving tactile stimulation to the body part of the subject arranged in abutment on the arrangement surface.
US11537201B1
Technologies are described herein for an eye tracking that may be employed by devices and systems such as head mount display (HMD) devices. Light that is reflected from a user's eye may be specular or scattered. The specular light has an intensity or magnitude that may saturate the electronics. The presently disclosed techniques mitigate saturation by generating detected signals from an optical detector, evaluating the signal levels for the detected signal, and selectively gating the detected signals that have saturated. The remaining scattered signals can be combined to achieve a combined signal that can be converted into a digital signal without saturating the electronics, which can then be processed to form an image of the eye for identification purposes, for tracking eye movement, and for other uses. The described technologies provide a clear image without ambient light reflections or specular light interfering with the image.
US11537197B2
A vehicle system for providing access to removable vehicle components may include one or more vehicles having customizable configurations and configured for selective connection with a plurality of removable components, an electronic device associated with a user, and/or a computer server configured to communicate with the electronic device. The electronic device may be configured to facilitate user selection of one or more removable components of the plurality of removable components for the one or more vehicles.
US11537196B2
The technology disclosed can provide capabilities such as using motion sensors and/or other types of sensors coupled to a motion-capture system to monitor motions within a real environment. A virtual object can be projected to a user of a portable device integrated into an augmented rendering of a real environment about the user. Motion information of a user body portion is determined based at least in part upon sensory information received from imaging or acoustic sensory devices. Control information is communicated to a system based in part on a combination of the motion of the portable device and the detected motion of the user. The virtual device experience can be augmented in some implementations by the addition of haptic, audio and/or other sensory information projectors.
US11537193B2
Systems and methods, according to the present disclosure, determines a duration of the current queue of commands in the controller, executes all full commands capable of being executed prior to the beginning of a low power cycle. Commands that are not executed may be re-fetched when the device enters a power mode. In an alternate embodiment, a portion of a command that is executable prior to the beginning of a low power cycle is executed, with the un-executed portion of the command being stored on the device, in an “always on” or AON memory. This un-executed portion is fetched and executed when the device enters the power mode.
US11537191B2
Technologies for providing advanced management of power usage limits in a disaggregated architecture
Technologies for providing advanced management of power usage limits in a disaggregated architecture include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry configured to execute operations associated with a workload in a disaggregated system. The circuitry is also configured to determine whether a present power usage of the compute device is within a predefined range of a power usage limit assigned to the compute device. Additionally, the circuitry is configured to send, to a device in the disaggregated system and in response to a determination that the present power usage of the present compute device is not within the predefined range of the power usage limit assigned to the present compute device, offer data indicative of an offer to reduce the power usage limit assigned to the present compute device to enable a second power utilization limit of another compute device in the disaggregated system to be increased.
US11537187B2
Examples relate to communicating synchronization information from a satellite to a power supply device to enable time synchronization between the satellite and the power supply device. The power supply device includes a port to receive, from a modulator, a modulated current corresponding to a power consumption across a dummy load, where a level pattern of the modulated current indicates the synchronization information received from the satellite. The power supply device includes a power consumption analyzer configured to receive a modulated voltage, across a shunt resistor, corresponding to the modulated current and recover, from the modulated voltage, the synchronization information.
US11537186B2
Methods and systems for managing a premises are disclosed. The premises may comprise a premises management device. The premises management device may be in communication with a security system. The premises management device may manage consumption by maintaining or disabling components associated with the premise management device.
US11537172B2
Particular examples described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer or laptop, which includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which includes any type of hardware elements, circuitry etc.). The electronic device may also include a connector assembly that is positioned within at least a portion of a recess of the electronic device, where the connector assembly includes: a first assembly that is to receive a connector; and a second assembly that is to receive an identification module that is to provide an association between a user and the electronic device.
US11537168B2
A display apparatus includes a first display and a second display. The first display includes a first display body having a first side, a positioning recess located at the first side, and an engagement recess located in the positioning recess. The second display is detachably mounted at one side of the first display body, includes a second display body, a positioning protrusion, and a pendulum hook, and has a second side. The positioning protrusion is connected to the second side and has a cavity configured to accommodate the pendulum hook pivotally connected to the positioning protrusion and including an engagement protrusion. The positioning protrusion is inserted into the positioning recess. The second side contacts the first side. The engagement protrusion is configured to move out of the cavity and be engaged with the engagement recess or move away from the engagement recess and move back to the cavity.
US11537164B2
An electronic device is provided, including first and second bodies, a processing module, a touch display panel, and at least one sensing unit. The second body is rotatably connected to the first body. The processing module is disposed in the first body or the second body. The touch display panel is disposed on the second body, is coupled to the processing module, and has a main display part, and first and second display parts. The sensing unit is disposed in the first body or the second body and coupled to the processing module. When the sensing unit detects the first and second bodies are folded relative to each other, the processing module is switched to a first mode. In the first mode, the first and second display parts are adapted to synchronously display or individually display a first message, a second message, or a third message.
US11537163B2
An information display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first display unit configured to display information, a placement part including a noncontact charging unit configured to charge the placed portable terminal apparatus, an orientation determination unit configured to determine an orientation of the placed portable terminal apparatus, a first display control unit, and a charging control unit. The charging control unit controls the noncontact charging unit so as to perform a process for charging the portable terminal apparatus when the portable terminal apparatus is placed on the placement part. The first display control unit displays information to be displayed in the first display unit while changing the information according to whether the orientation of the portable terminal apparatus determined by the orientation determination unit is a first orientation or a second orientation different from the first orientation.
US11537162B2
Embodiments provide a wearable article for a performance capture system. In some embodiments, a wearable article includes one or more regions, where the one or more regions are configured to be worn on at least a portion of a body of a user, where the one or more regions have a first pliability and a second pliability, where the first pliability and the second pliability are different pliabilities, and where at least one of the one or more regions are configured to hold devices in predetermined positions while maintaining shape and respective pliability. In some embodiments, the wearable article also includes a plurality of mounting mechanisms coupled to the one or more regions for mounting one or more reference markers to be used for position determination.
US11537144B2
A display control device includes an image receiving unit that receives an image captured by an imaging device included in a work machine and a display control unit that processes the image based on a movement amount of the work machine in receipt delay time of the image, and generates a display signal.
US11537140B2
A device includes an external sensor to scan an environment so as to periodically output scan data, a storage to store an environmental map, and a location estimation device to match the sensor data against the environmental map read from the storage so as to estimate a location and an attitude of the vehicle. The location estimation device determines predicted values of a current location and a current estimation of the vehicle in accordance with a history of estimated locations and estimated attitudes of the vehicle, and performs the matching by using the predicted values.
US11537136B2
A refuse vehicle includes a chassis supporting a plurality of wheels and a vehicle body. The vehicle body defines a receptacle for storing refuse. A lifting system is movable between a first position and a second position vertically offset from the first position. A processing unit is in communication with a sensor. An imaging device is in communication with the processing unit and is positioned on the refuse vehicle to have a field of view extending outwardly away from the refuse vehicle. The processing unit controls the imaging device to capture an image upon receiving an indication, from the sensor, that an indicator is present within the field of view. In some embodiments, the indicator is the presence of a positive object, like a waste container. In other embodiments, the indicator is the omission of an object (e.g., no container is detected) within the field of view.
US11537131B2
The present disclosure relates to a control device, and a control method, a program, and a mobile body that enable efficient search for surrounding information when it is in an own position indefinite state. When it is in an own position indefinite state, on the basis of an own position, obstacle position information around oneself, and information of a surface sensing possible range of a surface sensing unit including a stereo camera for determining the own position, information of a surface-sensed area of an obstacle is recorded, and a search route is planned on the basis of the information of the surface-sensed area of the obstacle. The present technology can be applied to a multi-legged robot, a flying body, and an in-vehicle system that autonomously move according to a mounted computer.
US11537130B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing robot plan online adjustment. A method includes receiving an initial plan for performing a particular task with a robot having a sensor. The initial plan defines an initial path having a plurality of waypoints. Each waypoint is associated with a target position and a target velocity. The method includes generating an alternative path from the initial path. Generating an alternative path includes generating a plurality of alternative paths including performing respective modifications to one or more waypoints in the initial plan, evaluating each alternative path according to a simulated total time duration required for the robot to traverse the alternative path, and selecting an alternative path having a total time duration that is less than a total time duration of the initial plan.
US11537126B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation of in-situ perception in an autonomous driving vehicle. A plurality of types of sensor data are acquired continuously via a plurality of types of sensors deployed on the vehicle, where the plurality of types of sensor data provide information about surrounding of the vehicle. One or more items surrounding the vehicle are tracked, based on some models, from a first of the plurality of types of sensor data from a first type of the plurality of types of sensors. A second of the plurality of types of sensor data are obtained from a second type of the plurality of sensors and are used to generate validation base data. Some of the one or more items are labeled, automatically, via validation base data to generate labeled at least some item, which is to be used to generate model updated information for updating the at least one model.
US11537122B2
A method for controlling a motor vehicle remotely. The method includes: receiving safety condition signals, which represent at least one safety condition that must be satisfied, so that the motor vehicle may be controlled remotely; checking if the at least one safety condition is satisfied; generating remote control signals for controlling the motor vehicle remotely, based on a result of the check as to whether the at least one safety condition is satisfied; and outputting the remote control signals generated. A device, a computer program and a machine-readable storage medium, are also described.
US11537118B1
The design of a novel digital controller for a motor driven aircraft arrestment system of the type used on aircraft carriers is described. The unique control and feedback design of the described controller has many advanced features, which provide many advantages over existing designs for controlling advanced arresting gear systems. Gain scheduling in engage/arrest controllers can be done based on estimated parameters such as speed, effective skew angle, and faults to allow optimized engage/arrest controllers, where the gain scheduling can be defined, discretely, for each “bin” as defined for a range of threshold values, or it can be defined, continuously, using interpolation and/or functions of speed and effective skew. Particularly, controller design gain values Kci and Kfi are picked to shape control loop transfer functions and dampen resonances in the aircraft arrestment system.
US11537112B2
A Multi-Purpose Dynamic Simulation and run-time Control platform includes a virtual process environment coupled to a physical process environment, where components/nodes of the virtual and physical process environments cooperate to dynamically perform run-time process control of an industrial process plant and/or simulations thereof. Virtual components may include virtual run-time nodes and/or simulated nodes. The MPDSC includes an I/O Switch which delivers I/O data between virtual and/or physical nodes, e.g., by using publish/subscribe mechanisms, thereby virtualizing physical I/O process data delivery. Nodes serviced by the I/O Switch may include respective component behavior modules that are unaware as to whether or not they are being utilized on a virtual or physical node. Simulations may be performed in real-time and even in conjunction with run-time operations of the plant, and/or simulations may be manipulated as desired (speed, values, administration, etc.). The platform simultaneously supports simulation and run-time operations and interactions/intersections therebetween.
US11537084B2
A timepiece movement includes a photovoltaic cell which is attached to the upper surface of a support plate, preferably by adhesive bonding. On the other side of the cell, on its lower surface, the support plate is provided with a plurality of nuts. An electrical module including a flat surface is attached to the support plate with the nuts. The module is provided with several openings whose position and dimensions correspond to those of the nuts, so that the nuts pass through the openings, allowing the flat surface of the module to be placed in contact with the support plate. The module is secured to the support plate by screws, screwed into the nuts. The connection via the nuts secures the photovoltaic cell to the electrical module and ensures shock resistance, without requiring a lateral support.
US11537081B2
A component of external parts for a timepiece, the component including a first silicon-based part and a second metal-based part, where one surface of the first part is welded using laser-type electromagnetic radiation onto a surface of the second part in order to secure the parts to each other. A method for fabrication of a component of external parts for a timepiece, by forming a first silicon-based part and a second metal-based part, mounting a surface of the first part on a surface of the second part, and welding, using laser-type electromagnetic radiation, the surface of the first part mounted on the surface of the second part, in order to secure the parts to each other.
US11537074B2
A fixing device includes a rotating body, an endless belt, a base material of the endless belt being made of a heat-resistant resin having a glass transition temperature of 140° C. or more, a heater configured to heat at least one of the rotating body and the endless belt, a sliding sheet contacting an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt, a base material of the sliding sheet being made of a heat-resistant resin having a glass transition temperature of 140° C. or more, a pressure pad, the endless belt and the sliding sheet being interposed between the pressure pad and the rotating body, and grease provided between the endless belt and the sliding sheet. The grease includes a base oil made of a fluorine oil and a thickener made of a solid lubricant containing fluorine. The consistency of the grease is 330 to 385 at 25° C.
US11537066B2
An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.
US11537065B2
A developing unit includes a conveying member which rotates to convey the developer to the developer bearing member. The conveying member includes a sheet portion with one end fixed to a rotation shaft and a free end which enters the developing chamber through an opening when the conveying member rotates around a rotation center, wherein relations C>A and B>A are satisfied, where A is a distance from the rotation center to an upstream end of the opening in a rotational direction, B is a distance from the rotation center to a downstream end of the opening in the rotational direction, and C is a length from the rotation center to the free end of the sheet portion in an unbent state. The upstream end of the opening is lower in a direction of gravitational force than the downstream end at an orientation in use.
US11537063B2
An example image forming apparatus includes a printing engine to perform a printing work by using toner filled in a toner cartridge, a communication device to communicate with a circuit board attached to a toner refill apparatus that refills toner in the toner cartridge by using a plurality of terminals, and a processor to identify a connection state of the toner refill apparatus based on a voltage value of at least one of the plurality of terminals.
US11537057B2
A toner is provided. The toner comprises a maleic-acid-modified polyolefin having a polypropylene block in a main chain and having a weight average molecular weight of 60,000 or more.
US11537055B2
A method to reduce sensitivity of a level sensor, arranged to measure a height of a substrate, to variations of a property of an optical component in the level sensor includes directing a beam of radiation toward a diffractive element and directing the beam, via an optical system, to a first reflective element at a first angle of incidence. The beam has a first polarization and a second polarization that is perpendicular to the first polarization. The first reflective element reflects the beam toward a second reflective element at a second angle of incidence causing the beam to impinge on the substrate. The first and second angles of incidence are selected to reduce variations of a ratio of intensities of the first polarization to the second polarization of the beam imparted by a property of a layer of at least one of the first and second reflective elements.
US11537054B1
An apparatus for reducing hydrogen permeation of a mask is provided when generating extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. The apparatus includes a mask stage configured to hold the mask, a hydrogen dispensing nozzle configured to eject hydrogen below the mask, and a trajectory correcting assembly. The trajectory correcting assembly includes a correcting nozzle and a gas flow detector. The correcting nozzle is configured to dispense at least one flow adjusting gas to adjust a trajectory of the hydrogen away from the mask to reduce hydrogen permeation at an edge of the mask. The gas flow detector is configured to measure a variation of an airflow of the hydrogen adjusted by the at least one flow adjusting gas.
US11537051B2
A control method for a spatial light modulator for an exposure apparatus having a projection optical system having an optical elements a state of each of which is allowed to be changed, the method sets states of optical elements located in a first area to a first distribution in which a first optical element in a first state and a second optical element in a second state are distributed in a first distribution pattern so that one portion of a light from the optical elements located in the first area enters the projection optical system and setting states of optical elements located in a second area to a second distribution in which the first optical element and the second optical element are distributed in a second distribution pattern to reduce a deterioration of the pattern image caused by a light that enters the projection optical system from the first area.
US11537048B2
Organometallic precursors are described for the formation of high resolution lithography patterning coatings based on metal oxide hydroxide chemistry. The precursor compositions generally comprise ligands readily hydrolysable by water vapor or other OH source composition under modest conditions. The organometallic precursors generally comprise a radiation sensitive organo ligand to tin that can result in a coating that can be effective for high resolution patterning at relatively low radiation doses and is particularly useful for EUV patterning. The precursors compositions are readily processable under commercially suitable conditions. Solution phase processing with in situ hydrolysis or vapor based deposition can be used to form the coatings.
US11537044B2
An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern made of an imprint material on each of a plurality of shot regions of a substrate, includes a user interface configured to allow a user to perform editing for assigning each of the plurality of shot regions to any one of a plurality of groups such that each of the plurality of groups is formed by at least one shot region onto which the imprint material is continuously supplied from a dispenser.
US11537043B2
Metrology methods and targets are provided for reducing or eliminating a difference between a device pattern position and a target pattern position while maintaining target printability, process compatibility and optical contrast—in both imaging and scatterometry metrology. Pattern placement discrepancies may be reduced by using sub-resolved assist features in the mask design which have a same periodicity (fine pitch) as the periodic structure and/or by calibrating the measurement results using PPE (pattern placement error) correction factors derived by applying learning procedures to specific calibration terms, in measurements and/or simulations. Metrology targets are disclosed with multiple periodic structures at the same layer (in addition to regular target structures), e.g., in one or two layers, which are used to calibrate and remove PPE, especially when related to asymmetric effects such as scanner aberrations, off-axis illumination and other error sources.
US11537040B2
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer comprising a tantalum-containing material; and a hard mask layer on the absorber layer, the hard mask layer comprising a hard mask material selected from the group consisting of CrO, CrON, TaNi, TaRu and TaCu.
US11537038B2
Embodiments of a drain in a lithographic projection apparatus are described that have, for example, a feature which reduces inflow of gas into the drain during a period when no liquid is present in the drain. In one example, a passive liquid removal mechanism is provided such that the pressure of gas in the drain is equal to the ambient gas pressure and in another embodiment a flap is provided to close off a chamber during times when no liquid needs removing.
US11537025B2
Embodiments relate to a photonic component having a metasurface. The metasurface includes a substrate with a thin-layer of meta-atoms disposed thereon. The photonic component includes a waveguide having a top surface, wherein the metasurface is disposed on at least a portion of the top surface such that the meta-atoms form an array on the top surface. The photonic component includes a sandwich nano-bar antenna formed in or on the metasurface.
US11537020B2
The present invention provides an electrochromic polyamic acid material, a preparation method thereof and a display device, wherein the molecular structure of the electrochromic polyamic acid material includes oligoaniline and carbazolyl triphenylamine. The oligoaniline serves as an electrochemically sensitive group, and the carbazolyl triphenylamine serves as a fluorescence emitting group. The electrochromic polyamic acid material is an electrically controlled fluorescent polymer. Fluorescence intensity of the electrochromic polyamic acid material undergoes reversible fluorescence conversion with a change of an applied voltage, due to a redox reaction of the oligoaniline at different voltages, resulting in an interchange between a benzene ring and an anthracene ring in a molecular structure, and an electron/energy transfer path with the fluorescence emitting group are generated or eliminated, thereby realizing the electrically controlled fluorescent properties of the electrochromic polyamic acid material.
US11537009B2
An array base plate and a fabricating method thereof, a display panel and a displaying device. The array base plate includes a substrate, the substrate is divided into a displaying region and a non-displaying region that surrounds the displaying region, and the non-displaying region includes a chip binding region; the array base plate further includes a target film layer provided on the substrate, and the target film layer extends to the non-displaying region; and the target film layer has a depression structure on a side that faces the chip binding region, and a position of the depression structure corresponds to a position of the chip binding region, whereby an orthographic projection of an alignment film in the array base plate on the substrate does not have a coinciding area with the chip binding region.
US11537007B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a display panel; and a color conversion layer positioned on the display panel, wherein the color conversion layer includes a scattering layer including a color conversion media layer and scatterers.
US11536997B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a first substrate, a frame positioned in the rear of the first substrate, a second substrate opposite the first substrate and positioned between the first substrate and the frame, the second substrate having an area less than an area of the first substrate, and a member layer electrically connected to the first substrate and extended toward the frame.
US11536996B2
A display device is provided. The display device has a display side and includes: a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is closer to the display side than the second surface. The second substrate is disposed opposite the first substrate. The second surface is located between the first surface and the second substrate, and the area of the first substrate is greater than the area of the second substrate in a top view direction. The first substrate has a side surface, and the side surface includes a chamfered structure.
US11536984B2
An optical unit with shake-correction function is provided and includes: a movable body, a rotational support structure, a gimbal mechanism, and a fixed body. The rotational support structure rotatably supports the movable body having a camera module around an optical axis. The rotational support structure is rotatably supported by the gimbal mechanism around a first axis and a second axis. The rotational support structure includes a first annular groove in the movable body, a plate roller having a second annular groove, multiple spherical objects to roll between the first annular groove and the second annular groove, and a pressurization structure configured to apply a force for bringing the first annular groove and the second annular groove close to each other in the direction of the optical axis.
US11536979B2
An optical arrangement converts an input laser beam into a line-like output beam, which propagates along a propagation direction and which has, in a working plane, a line-like beam cross section extending along a line direction. The optical system includes: a reshaping optical unit having an input aperture, through which the input laser beam is radiated, and an elongate output aperture, elongatedly extending along an aperture longitudinal direction, the reshaping optical unit converting the input laser beam radiated through the input aperture into a beam packet exiting through the output aperture; and a homogenization optical unit which converts the beam packet into the line-like output beam, different beam segments of the beam packet being intermixed and superimposed along the line direction. The aperture longitudinal direction extends in a manner rotated about the propagation direction by a non-vanishing angle of rotation with respect to the line direction.
US11536974B2
A flexible display device including a first display area including first data lines arranged in a first direction, first scan lines arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a second display area including second data lines arranged in the first direction, second scan lines arranged in the second direction, a first circuit unit adjacent to a side of the first display area, a second circuit unit adjacent to a side of the second display area, and a third circuit unit between the first display area and the second display area.
US11536972B2
An eyepiece waveguide for an augmented reality display system includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface and a diffractive input coupling element formed on or in the first surface or the second surface of the substrate. The diffractive input coupling element is configured to receive an input beam of light and to couple the input beam into the substrate as a guided beam. The eyepiece waveguide also includes a diffractive combined pupil expander-extractor (CPE) element formed on or in the first surface or the second surface of the substrate. The diffractive CPE element includes a first portion and a second portion divided by an axis. A first set of diffractive optical elements is disposed in the first portion and oriented at a positive angle with respect to the axis and a second set of diffractive optical elements is disposed in the second portion and oriented at a negative angle with respect to the axis.
US11536960B2
A head up display (HUD) system includes: one or more light sources and one or more phase modulators configured to generate and output a hologram; and a replicator configured to receive the hologram, to generate N replications of the hologram from the hologram, and to output the N replications of the hologram, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
US11536956B2
A multi-beam laser processing system comprising a plurality of laser beams and a plurality of pairs of selectively rotatable mirrors for laser beam steering where each laser beam is independently steered by one pair of selectively rotatable mirrors. The plurality of pairs of mirrors are positioned adjacent to one another within a single main body. The main body is positioned directly opposing the beams, the mirrors directing each laser beam simultaneously to a selected location on a substrate. The main body comprises a plurality of vents; a plurality of passages; a plurality of openings; and a plurality of galvos nested densely within the main body. The galvos direct multiple laser beams to a substrate wherein the fields of view overlap and the laser beam focal point remains small and precise.
US11536947B2
Systems and methods provide technology for a tunable vehicle window system to adjust a view for a window. The technology includes a window assembly comprising a tunable optical metamaterial deployed on a surface of a window, the tunable optical metamaterial including a transparent electroactive substrate having disposed thereon an optically active particle array, the optically active particle array including resonators having elongated members arranged in two or more orientations. The technology includes a controller to receive a signal from a photosensor indicative of a condition of incoming light to the vehicle, determine a change in a view for the window assembly based on the received photosensor signal, and control a voltage applied to the substrate to selectively expand or contract the substrate within a plane substantially parallel to the window surface and in a manner to adjust the view for the window assembly according to the determined view change.
US11536945B2
A binocular device that is wearable on the head of the user or wearer and does not require any hands to hold in place. The device has a pair of telescope sections that transmit an image to an eyepiece viewable by a wearer. Each eyepiece can be adjusted laterally to conform to the wearer's interpupillary distance; vertically, preferably vertically in an arc to provide a desired viewing angle; and longitudinally in relation to the wearer's eyes to a desired eye relief; the adjustments providing a custom-fit device.
US11536944B2
Provided are a prism apparatus applied to a periscope lens module and a periscope lens module. The prism apparatus includes a bearing frame, a supporting member, a prism installed, shape memory alloy wires connected between the supporting member and the bearing frame and configured to drive the supporting member to rotate with respect to the bearing frame, and a restoring device connected between the supporting member and the bearing frame and configured to restore the supporting member. In the present invention, the shape memory alloy wires are used to drive the supporting member and the prism, such that the prism can automatically correct the angle, thereby improving the imaging quality. Moreover, the original electromagnetic drive is replaced with the shape memory alloy wires, which reduces a manufacturing cost of the prism apparatus applied to the periscope lens module, thereby achieving a mass production of the periscope lens module.
US11536940B2
A three-dimensional (3D) microscope includes various insertable components that facilitate multiple imaging and measurement capabilities. These capabilities include Nomarski imaging, polarized light imaging, quantitative differential interference contrast (q-DIC) imaging, motorized polarized light imaging, phase-shifting interferometry (PSI), and vertical-scanning interferometry (VSI).
US11536930B2
An imaging apparatus comprises two actuators, such as an autofocus actuator and optical image stabilizer. The actuators are nested, wherein the outer actuator is suspended from the device body and the inner actuator is suspended from the outer actuator. A suspension element may be a flexure bearing, allowing a flat actuator design.
US11536929B2
Provided is a driver assembly for driving a moving component. The driver assembly includes: a motor; a transmission portion; and an execution portion; and a shape memory alloy wire connecting the moving component with the execution portion. The moving component is slidably connected to the transmission portion and spaced apart from the execution portion. The motor can drive the transmission portion to lead the execution portion to move along a first direction, in such a manner that the moving component is driven by the shape memory alloy wire to move along the first direction. The shape memory alloy wire is configured to drive the moving component to move along the first direction relative to the execution portion under an external electrical signal. When being applied in the camera module, the driver assembly can drive the movable lens assembly to move along an optical axis, facilitating the zooming and autofocus.
US11536917B2
An electrical connector includes a heat dissipation module with a first end and a second end opposed to the first end and two receptacle connectors located at the second end. The first and second ends define a transceiver-mating direction such that, when a transceiver is inserted into the first end of the heat dissipation module in the transceiver-mating direction, the transceiver mates with one of the two receptacle connectors, and in the heat dissipation module, air flows parallel to the transceiver-mating direction between the first and second ends and flows between the two receptacle connectors.
US11536910B2
A cable assembly for optical monitoring is assembled by laying optical fibers into an adhesive layer on a substrate to form an optical circuit. First ends of the fibers are arranged in various groups and second ends of the fibers are arranged in various groups. Groups at a first end of the circuit are spliced to coupler input fibers and coupler output fibers. Groups at the second end of the circuit are terminated at one or more input connectors, one or more output connectors, and one or more monitoring connectors. Some cable assemblies monitor signals received at the input connectors. Other cable assemblies monitor signals received at both the input connectors and the output connectors.
US11536908B2
A multilayer waveguide coupler comprising a first grating and a second grating is provided. Each first copropagating waveguide of the first grating has a first periodically modulated width. Each second copropagating waveguide of the second grating has a second periodically modulated width. The second grating is positioned so that a phase offset is present between the first periodically modulated width of the first copropagating waveguides and the second periodically modulated width of the second copropagating waveguides. The grating spaced distance and phase offset are selected so that light diffracted out of the first copropagating waveguides and the second copropagating waveguides in the first direction interferes constructively to form the first light beam and light diffracted out of the first copropagating waveguides and the second copropagating waveguides in the second direction interferes destructively.
US11536901B2
The present invention provides an optical coupler comprising: a first optical prong; a second optical prong; an optical waveguide with which the first optical prong and the second optical prong merge; wherein: a distance from an axially outer tip edge of the first optical prong to an axially outer tip edge of the first optical prong is greater than a planar width of the optical waveguide; and the first optical prong and the second optical prong are each tapered from the optical waveguide.
US11536899B2
Absolute temperature measurements of integrated photonic devices can be accomplished with integrated bandgap temperature sensors located adjacent the photonic devices. In various embodiments, the temperature of the active region within a diode structure of a photonic device is measured with an integrated bandgap temperature sensor that includes one or more diode junctions either in the semiconductor device layer beneath the active region or laterally adjacent to the photonic device, or in a diode structure formed above the semiconductor device layer and adjacent the diode structure of the photonic device.
US11536895B2
A polarization-independent orbital angular momentum modulator based on a chiral fiber grating, a method for manufacturing the same, and an orbital angular momentum beam generator. The orbital angular momentum modulator includes an optical fiber body having a spiral fiber structure, and the spiral fiber structure has a long-period optical fiber grating effect. The optical fiber body has a periodic spiral refractive index modulation in an axial direction. A period of the spiral refractive index modulation has a magnitude of hundreds of microns, and the spiral refractive index modulation is distributed in an axial direction, a radial direction, and an angular direction of the optical fiber body, and configured to excite a spiral phase to generate an orbital angular momentum beam.
US11536888B2
Embodiments of a light diffusing device with a color conversion layer are disclosed. Specifically the color conversion layer includes a luminophore that converts light from a higher wavelength to a lower wavelength.
US11536884B2
An optical device includes an optical member having a plurality of first optical layers and a plurality of second optical layers having a refractive index different from that of the first optical layer in which the first optical layers and the second optical layers are laminated, and a layer thickness changing electrode that changes a thickness of the first optical layer in a lamination direction of the first optical layers and the second optical layers, in which the optical member is provided in a pair, and the pair of optical members is disposed to face each other through a gap, and a gap changing driver that changes a dimension of the gap.
US11536879B2
The disclosure describes various aspects of techniques for elliptical beam design using cylindrical optics that may be used in different applications, including in quantum information processing (QIP) systems. In an aspect, the disclosure describes an optical system having a first optical component having a first focal length, a second optical component having a second focal length and aligned with a first direction, and a third optical component having a third focal length and aligned with a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The optical system is configured to receive one or more optical beams (e.g., circular or elliptical) and apply different magnifications in the first direction and the second direction to the one or more optical beams to image one or more elliptical Gaussian optical beams. A method for generating elliptical optical beams using a system as the one described above is also disclosed.
US11536878B2
A direct projection light field display comprising an array of projectors for direct projection of a light field. The overall design and incorporation of additional optics achieve the optimal light distribution and small pixel size to produce a high definition, 3D display. The architecture of the direct projection light field display has low a brightness requirement for each projector, resulting in an increased projector density, decreased system, and a decreased power requirement, while producing a high-definition light field.
US11536869B2
Systems and methods are described for extended foreign object detection (FOD) signal processing. In aspects, an oscillator reset is implemented in a FOD system to mitigate the effects of intermodulation products. In addition, dynamic frequency allocation is implemented to avoid high noise desensitizing the FOD system. Also, a slow sampling mode is implemented to increase a tolerance to transient foreign objects. Reference tracking and auto-recovery is implemented to bridge power outages. Additionally, the FOD system is configured to support position finding for determining an alignment between the vehicle pad and the base pad using a passive beacon transponder circuit and to perform beacon response cancellation as needed in concurrent FOD operation.
US11536863B2
A method includes acquiring seismic data of a region that utilizes multiple seismic energy sources and seismic energy receivers where the seismic data include blended seismic data for a number of emissions from a corresponding number of the multiple seismic energy sources; determining spatially distributed coherent noise properties for the region using the blended seismic data; via the spatially distributed coherent noise properties, modeling coherent noise as at least two coherent noise models for at least two of the emissions from a corresponding at least two of the multiple seismic energy sources; via the coherent noise models, attenuating coherent noise in a portion of the blended seismic data to generate coherent noise attenuated blended seismic data; deblending the coherent noise attenuated blended seismic data to generate deblended seismic data; and rendering an image of at least a portion of the region to a display using the deblended seismic data.
US11536858B2
Provided is a radiation monitor and the like capable of appropriately measuring radiation. A radiation monitor (100) includes: radiation detection units (11, 12); optical fibers (13p, 13q) that transmit light generated by a plurality of radiation detection elements (11a, 12a) to merge; a light detection unit (14) that converts the light after merging guided to the light detection unit into an electric pulse; a measurement device (15) that calculates a dose rate of radiation based on a count rate of the electric pulses; and an analysis/display device (16). Housings (11b, 12b) include a housing (11b) made of a first material and another housing (12b) made of a second material.
US11536853B2
Embeddings of spherical triangles onto a planar surface permit locations on a sphere to be represented as cells on the planar surface. Embeddings can define paths based on one or more sets of great circles on the sphere which can in turn be based on rotations of an icosahedron about various axes. Distances between locations as well as locations themselves can be determined as integer values unlike conventional latitude/longitude based systems that require floating point arithmetic. Some locations correspond to cells on different paths defined by one or more sets of great circles. Distance between two locations can be estimated as a minimum of distances associated with the cell locations on the different paths. Methods for processing data defined with respect to an origin point in three-dimensional space include establishing a set of concentric spherical shells with the origin point as their origin and establishing a discrete global grid on each of the concentric spherical shells. Target locations are assigned in the three-dimensional space using a corresponding index on a spherical shell.
US11536852B2
A GNSS receiver having test signal based failure detection, comprises: a signal generator configured to generate a test signal, the test signal having characteristics of a GNSS signal; one of more amplifiers configured to amplify the test signal; a signal chain configured to receive the amplified test signal at an input node of the signal chain and process the received test signal; and a signal processor configured to: monitor the test signal by: obtaining one or more output signals of the device at one or more output node; recovering the test signal from the one or more output signals, and determining whether one or more errors occurred based on parameters of the recovered test signal based on parameters of the recovered test signal; identify a device failure based on the determined one or more errors; and generate notifications relating to the device failure.
US11536851B2
The disclosed technology for preparing digital samples for synthesis of RF to simulate channels and GNSS satellites using GPUs includes receiving simulated position and velocity of an antenna, dividing the cycle into points to be converted into the synthesized signal, and computing the points. A first LUT includes pseudo random sequences combinable to produce a code that varies over time for encoding the channel, and a second LUT specifies linear combinations of the pseudo random sequences in the first LUT that produce channel codes to produce the digital sample points. Also included is using GPUs to generate the channel code for a point by mapping the channel code and time position, combining the code with data to be encoded, repeatedly applying the using and combining to produce points, using multiple GPU cores to encode sample points concurrently in the cycle, and sending an ordered sequence of points to a converter.
US11536840B2
A method for recognizing an object located in an object space includes emitting a distance measuring pulse into the object space by a signal time-of-flight based distance measuring unit. The object is provided with a marker which, in response to the influence of the distance measuring pulse, emits electromagnetic marker radiation in which object information for the object recognition is stored. The method further includes recording the marker radiation by an electrical radiation detector and the object information for object recognition being assigned to the object.
US11536833B2
An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtain target information that indicates at least one of a distance to a target object or a position of the target object. The processing circuitry generate, based on the target information, map information of a space including a plurality of areas, the map information indicating presence or absence of the target object in a first area included in the plurality of areas, and a detailed position of the target object in the first area.
US11536832B2
This system is directed to a batteryless, self-powered sensor comprising: a microprocessor; a first and second solar panel in electronic communications with the microprocessor; a transceiver in communication with the microprocessor; and a set of computer readable instructions included in the microprocessor adapted for creating motion data including a direction and a speed of movement of object within a first sensing area and a second sensing area, transmitted the motion data to a remote location if sufficient power is provided by the first solar panel to actuate the transceiver and a number of data points in the motion data exceeds a pre-determined number of minimal data points, associating a reduction in power delivered from the first solar panel to the microprocessor with movement and associating an increase in power delivered from the first solar panel to the microprocessor with movement.
US11536820B2
A transducer system comprises a first frequency steered transducer array element and a second frequency steered transducer array element that is spaced apart from the first frequency steered transducer array element. The system additionally includes a processing element in communication with the first and second frequency steered transducer array elements. The processing element is configured to receive a first receive electronic signal from the first frequency steered sonar array element, receive a second receive electronic signal from the second frequency steered array sonar element, compare a difference in amplitude between the first receive electronic signal and the second receive electronic signal to determine a cross-track position of an underwater target, and control a display to present an indication of the cross-track position of the underwater target.
US11536819B2
Power supplies for electronic devices (e.g. medical imaging devices) are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a switched mode power supply is minimized in size and weight while maintaining efficiency and an artifact-free image using power supply design techniques tailored to increasing the power conversion frequency to be above the desired receive band of an ultrasound imaging system. In another embodiment, a switched mode power supply is minimized in size and weight while maintaining efficiency and an artifact-free image using power supply design techniques tailored to increasing the power conversion frequency to be just below the desired receive band of an ultrasound imaging system causing the third harmonic and possibly the second harmonic to fall just above the desired receive band.
US11536815B2
An optoelectronic module including a light emitter to generate light to be emitted from the module, a plurality of spatially distributed light sensitive elements arranged to detect light from the emitter that is reflected by an object outside the module, and one or more dedicated spurious-reflection detection pixels.
US11536813B1
A LiDAR system includes an optical subsystem with an optical axis. The optical subsystem includes an optical source to emit an optical beam, a first optical lens to transmit the optical beam, an optical window to reflect a first portion of the optical beam to generate a LO signal, an optical scanner to transmit a second portion of the optical beam to a target to scan the target to generate a target return signal, a second optical lens to transmit the LO signal and the target return signal to a PD, and the PD to mix the target return signal with the LO signal to extract range and velocity information. The LO signal is disposed to be decentered from the optical axis on the second optical lens to increase a percentage of an overlap of the LO signal and the target return signal on a detection plane of the PD.
US11536811B2
A distance measuring device includes a pulsed laser source, a light receiving unit and a computing module. The pulsed laser source emits a laser pulse to a target in accordance with a predetermined period. The light receiving unit has a photon receiving type of light receiving element that receives incident light and outputs a binary pulse, and the binary pulse is used to indicate whether a photon receiving event occurs. The computing module is configured to receive the binary pulse and determine whether an inter-period coincidence event occurs, and the inter-period coincidence event is defined by detecting a plurality of photon receiving events exceeding a predetermined count, on relative positions in a predetermined period number of the predetermined periods. If the calculation module determines that the inter-period coincidence event occurs, a distance of the target is calculated according to time information related to the inter-period coincidence event.
US11536805B2
An optical system has a LIDAR chip that includes a switch configured to direct an outgoing LIDAR signal to one of multiple different alternate waveguides. The system also includes a redirection component configured to receive the outgoing LIDAR signal from any one of the alternate waveguides. The redirection component is also configured to redirect the received outgoing LIDAR signal such that a direction that the outgoing LIDAR signal travels away from the redirection component changes in response to changes in the alternate waveguide to which the optical switch directs the outgoing LIDAR signal.
US11536794B1
Systems and methods for measurement and management are disclosed that provide complex measurements cost-effectively at very high accuracy. These methods and systems in some cases achieve measurement accuracy exceeding the accuracy of the reference standards they rely on, and eliminate expensive and disadvantageous recalibration procedures. The accurate measurements are integrated with management functions, applying the measurement data to meet objectives of the integrated system and workflow goals of its user. The disclosed systems and methods comprise an explicit or expressly represented model both of themselves and of candidate external systems to be measured and managed. The models may be configured and reconfigured by the owner-user through either local or remote means. The system intelligently reconfigures itself to adapt dynamically to the conditions of measurement and the user's and system's goals at each moment. In an embodiment, the system includes high-accuracy and reconfigurable components including a meter or control head adapted for user precision assembly and maintenance that computes and displays or communicates the measurements, displaying measurements in desired units, grouping functions according to ergonomic and cognitive principles based on the activity and workflow of a user in relation to the internal model. The use of models permits the system to compute and provide complex and inferred measurements of ultimate interest to the user, including quantities that cannot be directed measured and only can be determined through reasoning or computation by applying models to raw measurement data. The precision-assembly modular electromechanical design further permits an owner-user to precisely assemble, maintain, modify the apparatus and calibrate the equipment for accuracy.
US11536786B2
Systems and methods for data transmission may be provided. The system may at least include a data transmission module. The system may obtain MR signals from one or more RF coils. The system may generate, via a first portion of the data transmitting module, first data based on the MR signals. The system may generate, via a second portion of the data transmitting module, second data based on the first data. The second portion of the data transmitting module may connect to the first portion of the data transmitting module wirelessly. The system may further store the second data in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
US11536781B2
The present disclosure relates to a magnetic-sensor device comprising a circuit board made of an electrically insulating material and having conductor tracks, and comprising a permanent magnet surface-mounted on the circuit board, and a magnetic-field sensor connected to the conductor tracks of the circuit board. An SMD component for populating a circuit board is also proposed, which SMD component comprises a permanent magnet and a magnetic-field sensor.
US11536780B2
A radio-frequency (RF) to direct current (DC) converter is provided. When a DC electrical current is applied via a DC input port of the converter, the DC electrical current is shunted to ground through a Josephson junction (JJ) of the converter and substantially no DC electrical current flows through a resistor of the converter, and when an RF electrical current is applied via an RF input port of the converter, output trains of SFQ current pulses from a DC to SFQ converter of the RF-to-DC converter with pulse-to-pulse spacing inversely proportional to the RF electrical current frequency cause the JJ to switch at a rate commensurate with an RF frequency of the RF electrical current to generate a steady state voltage across the JJ linearly dependent on the RF frequency.
US11536773B2
An electronic device includes an ADC, a multiplexer, a voltage reference circuit, an analog circuit, and a digital circuit. The ADC has a signal input, a reference input, and an output. The multiplexer has signal inputs and a signal output coupled to the signal input of the ADC. The voltage reference circuit has an output coupled to the reference input of the ADC, a first strain sensor coupled to a first signal input of the multiplexer, a second strain sensor coupled to a second signal input of the multiplexer, and a temperature sensor. The analog circuit has an input coupled to a battery, and an output coupled to a fourth signal input of the multiplexer. The digital circuit is coupled to the output of the ADC and stores correction parameters for correcting a converted battery voltage value from the ADC.
US11536771B2
The current sensor includes a battery terminal part that has electrical conductivity and is fastened to a battery post constituting a negative electrode of a battery, and a shunt resistor that is conductively connected to the battery terminal part via a joint part, the shunt resistor including a first detection terminal and a second detection terminal for detecting an electric current. The battery terminal part includes a third detection terminal for detecting a voltage of the battery between the joint part and the battery post. As a result, the current sensor can properly detect a voltage of the battery together with an electric current.
US11536767B2
The present disclosure relates to self-test circuitry for a system that includes one or more current control subsystems, each current control subsystem having a load terminal for coupling the current control subsystem to a load. The self-test circuitry comprises: a signal path associated with each current control subsystem, each signal path configured to selectively couple a measurement node to the load terminal of the current control subsystem, wherein the measurement node is common to all of the signal paths; voltage detection circuitry; and test voltage source circuitry configured to provide a test voltage to the measurement node. The voltage detection circuitry is operable to output a signal indicative of a fault condition if a voltage detected at the measurement node differs from the test voltage when the measurement node is coupled to the load terminal.
US11536766B2
A test board includes a board substrate, a connector at a side of the board substrate, a plurality of device-under-test (DUT) boards which are connected to the board substrate and on which semiconductor devices are mounted as DUTs, and a plurality of DC-DC converters connected to the plurality of DUT boards. The plurality of DC-DC converters convert an input voltage supplied thereto via the connector into operating voltages, and provide the operating voltages to the semiconductor devices on the plurality of DUT boards corresponding thereto. The operating voltages are substantially the same.
US11536759B2
Present teachings relate to a method for proximity detection on an electronic device, the method comprising the steps of: performing a first measurement using a first sensor; calculating, using a processing unit, a first distance value from the first measurement; the first distance value being indicative of the distance between a user and the electronic device; in response to the first distance value, through the processing unit, adapting an energy level on the electronic device, said energy level being related to the Specific Absorption Rate (“SAR”), such that predefined SAR requirements due to exposure of emitted energy from the electronic device are met. The present teaching further relate to an electronic device comprising a measurement system configured to control an energy level on the electronic device, said energy level being related to the Specific Absorption Rate (“SAR”). The present teachings also relate to a computer software product for implementing any method steps disclosed herein.
US11536757B2
A sensor assembly including a capacitive sensor, like a microelectromechanical (MEMS) microphone, and an electrical circuit therefor are disclosed. The electrical circuit includes a first transistor having an input gate connectable to the capacitive sensor, a second transistor having an input gate coupled to an output of the first transistor, a feedforward circuit interconnecting a back-gate of the second transistor and the output of the first transistor, and a filter circuit interconnecting the output of the first transistor and the input gate of the second transistor.
US11536739B2
Example automated diagnostic analyzers and methods for using the same are disclosed herein. An example apparatus described herein includes a first carousel rotatably coupled to a base and having a first axis of rotation. The example apparatus includes a second carousel rotatably coupled to the base and vertically spaced over the first carousel such that at least a portion of the second carousel is disposed over the first carousel. In the example apparatus, the second carousel has a second axis of rotation and a plurality of vessels. The example apparatus also includes a pipetting mechanism offset from the second axis of rotation. The example pipetting mechanism is to access the first carousel and the second carousel.
US11536735B2
A sample processing apparatus includes a pipette configured to dispense a sample or a reagent and an arm supporting the pipette. A camera is configured to capture an image of a tip end of the pipette and a container to which the sample or the reagent is dispensed. A controller is programmed to determine, based on the image, an adjustment value for the arm such that the pipette is inserted into the container without collision.
US11536726B2
A method for determining in a sample, by mass spectrometry, the amount of one or more analytes selected from the group consisting of 12,13-DiHOME, 3-hydroxybutyrate (BHBA), 3-hydroxyoctanoate, 3-methylglutarylcarnitine, 3-ureidopropionate, 7-alpha-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one (7-Hoca), citrate, fucose, fumarate, gamma-tocopherol, glutamate, glutarate, glycerol, glycochenodeoxycholate, glycocholate, hypoxanthine, maleate, malonate, mannose, orotate, 2,3-pyrdinedicarboxylate, ribose, serine, taurine, taurochenodeoxycholate, taurocholate, palmitoleate, linolenate, xanthine, xylitol, and combinations thereof is described. The method comprises subjecting the sample to an ionization source under conditions suitable to produce one or more ions detectable by mass spectrometry from each of the one or more analytes; measuring, by mass spectrometry, the amount of the one or more ions from each of the one or more analytes; and using the measured amount to determine the amount of each of the one or more analytes in the sample.
US11536719B2
A molecular nanotag is disclosed that includes a core nanoparticle with a diameter of less than about 100 nm, with an optional shell surrounding the core, and an armor bound to the surface of the core nanoparticle, or if present, to the surface of the shell. The molecular nanotag also includes a functionalized end with a fixed number of binding sites that can selectively bind to a molecular targeting ligand. Any one of, or any combination of, the core, the shell and the armor contribute to fluorescence, light scattering and/or ligand binding properties of the molecular tag that are detectable by microscopy or in a devices that measures intensity or power of fluorescence and light scattering. The light scattering intensity or power of the assembled structure is detectable above the specific level of the reference noise of a device detecting the light scattering intensity or power, its fluorescence intensity or power has sufficient brightness for detection above the limit of detection for the instrument, and ligand specificity is conferred by the ligand binding component. Methods of biomarker and biosignature detection using the molecular tags are also disclosed.
US11536714B2
Compositions, devices and methods are described for improving adhesion, attachment, and/or differentiation of cells in a microfluidic device or chip. In one embodiment, one or more ECM proteins are covalently coupled to the surface of a microchannel of a microfluidic device. The microfluidic devices can be stored or used immediately for culture and/or support of living cells such as mammalian cells, and/or for simulating a function of a tissue, e.g., a liver tissue, muscle tissue, etc. Extended adhesion and viability with sustained function over time is observed.
US11536709B2
Platelet cell data may be obtained from analysis of a blood sample by a hematology analyzer or like device. Systems and apparatus may process the platelet cell data in accordance with platelet parameter thresholds selected by a user. The platelet cell data may then be categorized and displayed in one or more useful forms for medical diagnostic and/or research purposes. The platelet cell data may be categorized and displayed in, e.g., tabular and/or graphical form based on the user-selected platelet parameter thresholds. Methods of processing platelet cell data for categorizing and displaying the platelet cell data in one or more useful forms are also provided, as are other aspects.
US11536705B2
A method for controlling charge accumulation on a mobile platform in a tank containing a non-conductive, energetic substance includes configuring the mobile platform to include at least an electrical power supply and a charge accumulation control system. The power supplied from the electrical power supply to one or more electrical power consumers associated with the mobile platform adds an electrical charge to the mobile platform. The charge accumulation control system controls an accumulation of the electrical charge on the mobile platform by one of: (i) reducing the supplied power and preventing an increase in the supplied power later while the mobile platform is inside the tank, and (ii) disengaging the electrical power consumer(s) from the supplied power and preventing a reengagement of the supplied power with the electrical power consumer(s) later while the mobile platform is inside the tank.
US11536701B2
A system and method for analyzing structural heath data includes a structural body, structural health sensors, and first and second computer systems. The structural health sensors are configured to sense data regarding structures of the structural body. The first computer system is configured to collect the sensed data as the structural health data. The second computer system that includes a user interface and display, and is configured to receive the structural health data and provide interactive transformational analysis of the structural health data. The interactive transformational analysis provides, on the display of the second computer system, a visual representation of the structural health data over time.
US11536692B2
An apparatus and method for the non-destructive determination of the content of the magnetizable and/or non-magnetizable portion of a sample, in which the sample is provided in an air gap of a magnetically conductive yoke, an alternating magnetic field is generated by an alternating magnetic field strength of an excitation coil in the yoke, and first measurement data relating to the sample are collected using a measuring device which is inductively coupled to the yoke, and comparing the first measurement data to second measurement data relating to a reference sample, wherein the same alternating magnetic field strength or the same alternating magnetic field is applied to both the reference sample and the sample and the difference between the two collected sets of measurement data is included as a measure in the determination of the content for the magnetizable and/or non-magnetizable content portion of the sample.
US11536680B2
Electrochemical sensors include a housing within which an electrolyte is provided over the electrodes. The housing includes an active region, which is the area around the electrodes in which the electrolyte must be positioned to ensure correct operation of the device. The inner walls, base and ceiling of the housing are coated in either hydrophobic or hydrophilic materials, or both, so as to encourage the electrolyte to take a position over the active region, which is defined by the position of the electrodes. In some electrochemical sensors, a combination of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials is used and the materials can be arranged in a pattern, which encourages the electrolyte to take a position over the active region.
US11536676B2
A multi-frequency signal may be used to induce voltage difference across a portion of a pipe. The voltage difference may be induced to take multi-frequency measurement of impedance characteristics of fluid inside the pipe. The multi-frequency measurement of the impedance characteristic of the fluid inside the pipe may be used to determine a characteristic of the fluid inside the pipe. This may be achieved by active integration of experimental data with high-resolution multi-frequency electrical impedance tomography (MFEIT) modeling.
US11536671B2
An additive manufacturing system comprises an apparatus arranged to distribute layer of metallic powder across a build plane and a power source arranged to emit a beam of energy at the build plane and fuse the metallic powder into a portion of a part. The system includes a processor configured to steer the beam of energy across the build plane and receive data generated by one or more sensors that detect electromagnetic energy emitted from the build plane when the beam of energy fuses the metallic powder. The received data is converted into one or more parameters that indicate one or more conditions at the build plane while the beam of energy fuses the metallic powder. The one or more parameters are used as input into a machine learning algorithm to detect one or more defects in the fused metallic powder.
US11536669B2
A system for detecting machining errors for a laser machining system for machining a workpiece includes: a detection unit for detecting image data and height data of a machined workpiece surface; and a computing unit. The computing unit is designed to generate an input tensor based on the detected image data and height data and to determine an output tensor on the basis of the input tensor using a transfer function. The output tensor contains information on a machining error.
US11536665B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel absorbance-based colorimetric device system, and to methods of using the novel absorbance-based colorimetric device system.
US11536663B2
A portable apparatus for analyzing a plant specimen. A housing assembly defines a sensing volume and controls entry of ambient light into the sensing volume when the housing is closed. A specimen support positions a plant specimen within the sensing volume whereby light emitted from at least one light emitter is incident upon the plant specimen. An image sensor senses light from the at least one light emitter that has been incident on the plant specimen. A processor analyzes data obtained from the light sensor to assess one or more properties of the plant specimen. There may be more than one light emitter, e.g., a halogen lamp and LED array, and the apparatus may acquire images under more than one lighting condition. The apparatus may include a mechanism for moving the plant specimen relative to the optical path to take images at multiple regions of interest on the specimen.
US11536657B2
The present invention relates to a method for production of an improved sensor surface for an SPR instrument, comprising forming a self assembled monolayer (SAM) on a surface and attaching ligands and protein resistant groups, preferably polyethylene glycol (PEG), directly to functional groups on said surface. The invention also relates to a sensor surface produced by these methods use thereof in SPR (surface plasmon resonance) assays or interactions.
US11536656B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device capable of obtaining an index effective for a measurement target as an index related to light incident on the measurement target, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing device can obtain an index effective for a measurement target as an index regarding light incident on the measurement target by calculating an effective index representing the degree of light effectively utilized for the measurement target in incident light as an index regarding the light incident on the measurement target, on the basis of a measured value regarding the measurement target which is obtained by sensing performed by a sensor. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an apparatus calculating an index of plants.
US11536653B2
A photoplethysmographic (PPG) device is disclosed. The PPG device can include one or more light emitters and one or more light sensors to generate the multiple light paths for measuring a PPG signal and perfusion indices of a user. The multiple light paths between each pair of light emitters and light detectors can include different separation distances to generate both an accurate PPG signal and a perfusion index value to accommodate a variety of users and usage conditions. In some examples, the multiple light paths can include the same separation distances for noise cancellation due to artifacts resulting from, for example, tilt and/or pull of the device, a user's hair, a user's skin pigmentation, and/or motion. The PPG device can further include one or more lenses and/or reflectors to increase the signal strength and/or and to obscure the optical components and associated wiring from being visible to a user's eye.
US11536646B2
An electronic apparatus includes a wiring board. The wiring board also includes a first wiring pattern that is provided on the wiring board and includes a first wiring portion extending in a first direction. The wiring board further includes a second wiring pattern that includes a second wiring portion extending in the first direction. The wiring also includes a first via provided on the first wiring portion, and a second via provided on the second wiring portion. A power supply circuit applies a first voltage to the first wiring portion at periodic time intervals. A detection circuit outputs an alert signal when a current flows through the second wiring pattern.
US11536637B2
Provided is an abrasion test apparatus for measuring an abrasion state of a workpiece, including: a workpiece holding mechanism holding the workpiece; a contact tool repeatedly making contact and non-contact with the workpiece; a rotating mechanism holding the contact tool to be freely rotatable; and a heating mechanism intermittently heating an end portion of the contact tool.
US11536635B2
A biological material measuring instrument is described. The biological material measuring instrument includes a rotating body and a main body. The rotating body includes one or more cartridge holders having cuvettes in which a reagent and an analyte in a sample react. The main body includes a pair of light-emitting parts and light-receiving parts to optically measure the analyte in the sample. The rotating body further includes a light-emitting optical waveguide for guiding the light of the light-emitting parts to the cuvette and a light-receiving optical waveguide for guiding.
US11536633B2
A system is capable of detecting substrates and can differentiate between zero, one, or multiple transparent or semi-transparent substrates in a stack. The system can include an optical sensor, an optically anti-reflective element, and a detector. The optical sensor outputs light towards the optically anti-reflective element. The light detector is positioned to detect light from the light source that is reflected by substrates, if any, positioned within a detection zone between the optically anti-reflective element and the detector.
US11536631B2
The invention relates to a fluid analysis module that comprises for blood analysis: a module housing with a fluid inlet port; at least one fluid sensor that is integrated within the module housing and comprises a sensor surface that is able to make a fluidic connection with the fluid inlet port; a chamber integrated within the module housing. The chamber can be brought into a fluidic connection with the sensor surface of the at least one fluid sensor. At least one first liquid reservoir attached within the chamber which is able to be brought into a fluidic connection with the sensor surface of the at least one fluid sensor; and at least one module housing surface, on which an elastic, fluid-tight separating wall that is embodied in membrane-like fashion is attached At least in portions, under a separating wall at least one fluidic functional configured as a flow valve and at least one fluidic functional element configured as a delivery pump is attached so that the fluidic functional elements are operable by local mechanical deformation of the separating wall: a) only deliver fluid from the fluid inlet port into the chamber via the sensor surface and b) only deliver a liquid housed in the liquid reservoir from the liquid reservoir into the chamber via the sensor surface.
US11536629B2
A mechanical gauge includes a stock panel with a first measurement scale, and a slide movably arranged relative to the stock panel. The first measurement scale has a series of marks spaced apart at regular intervals within a region of interest. The slide includes a second measurement scale adapted to selectively overlie the first measurement scale within the region of interest. The second measurement scale has a second series of marks spaced apart at regular intervals corresponding to the first series of marks of the first measurement scale. An elongated measurement probe is affixed to the slide and adapted for selectively extending into a groove formed in the tread of the vehicle tire.
US11536627B2
To provide an abnormality monitoring device capable of reducing the size of a mounted device, enabling high-speed response, and achieving high accuracy in detecting abnormality. The abnormality monitoring device includes: at least one filter that extracts state information pertaining to drive of a mechanism of an industrial machine using a motor, as a signal of at least one frequency band; an integrator that integrates an output of the filter in each frequency band; and an abnormality detection unit that detects abnormality based on an integrated value integrated by the integrator. The state information may be control information of the controller that controls the motor or detection information from at least one detector attached to the mechanism.
US11536613B2
A temperature sensing circuit adapted for a memory device and including an oscillator, a count circuit, a control circuit, a sense circuit and a select circuit is provided. The oscillator provides an oscillation signal. The count circuit counts the oscillation signal to generate a first count signal, and generates a second count signal. The count circuit performs a logic operation on the second count signal to generate an enable signal and a sensing adjustment signal. The sense circuit generates a reference temperature voltage by dividing a reference voltage according to the sensing adjustment signal, and compares the reference temperature voltage and a monitor voltage according to the enable signal to generate a determination signal. The select circuit dynamically selects one of the oscillation signal and the first count signal according to the determination signal, and generates a pulse of a refresh request signal according to the dynamically selected one of the oscillation signal and the first count signal.
US11536608B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for a systems and methods for intra-shot dynamic LIDAR detector gain. One example method my include receiving first image data associated with a first image of an object illuminated at a first wavelength and captured by a camera at the first wavelength, the first image data including first pixel data for a first pixel of the first image and second pixel data for a second pixel of the first image. The example method may also include calculating a first reflectance value for the first pixel using the first pixel data. The example method may also include calculating a second reflectance value for the second pixel using the second pixel data. The example method may also include generating, using first reflectance value and the second reflectance value, a first reflectance distribution of the object.
US11536595B2
A dual sensor is provided having a first circuit configured for autonomous operation of the sensor and a second circuit configured for non-autonomous operation of the sensor. The dual sensor can be supplied with energy from an external power supply. The first circuit and second circuit can vary in clock frequency, measurement accuracy, and power consumption.
US11536592B2
A controller for use with a position encoder includes one or more motion inputs suitable to couple to motion outputs of the position encoder and a limit input suitable to couple to a limit output of the position encoder. The controller also includes an actuator interface, a command interface, and circuitry coupled to the one or more motion inputs, the limit input, the actuator interface, and the command interface. The circuitry is configured to receive a command through the command interface to move a structural member coupled to the position encoder to a new position and control an actuator through the actuator interface to move the structural member toward the new position. A limit indication is received from the position encoder through the limit input and the controller stops or reverses the movement of the structural member by controlling the actuator in response to receiving the limit indication.
US11536591B2
A magnetic encoder comprising an encoder element having at least two tracks of encoder regions, each region comprising a magnetic pole, the poles along each track being arranged as an alternating pattern of North and South poles, and one or more sensors, each sensor comprising one or more sensing elements associated with a respective track and generating an output that is indicative of the magnetic field associated with that track in the vicinity of the sensor, in which at least one track has a differing number of poles to at least one of the other tracks, and in which the properties of the poles of a first one of the tracks differ along the track such that there is a periodic variation along the first track of the magnetic field emitted by the first track that is detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track which at least partially cancels out a corresponding periodic variation in field from the other tracks that is also detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track.
US11536587B2
A position sensor device includes position sensor elements for generating analog sense signals. A digitization circuit is provided for a digital signal representative of the input phase based on the analog sense signals and a digital processing unit. An output signal is indicative of the position based on the first output of the processing unit. The processing unit comprises an error signal generator for computing an error signal indicative of a phase difference between the digital signal and a feedback signal. A digital filter filters the error signal to generate the first output. A feedback path provides the feedback signal based on the first output and a filter selector to select a filter to be applied from different filters. At least one input on which a common filter circuit operates is scaled differently for each of the different filters to select different filter bandwidths.
US11536580B2
A processor-implemented method includes storing, for each of multiple road sections, section-specific road-nonlinearity values relating to road-nonlinearity characteristics of the respective road section. The method includes receiving, from a user, user-desired route-specific road-nonlinearity values relating to the road-nonlinearity characteristics. The method further includes calculating, from the stored section-specific road-nonlinearity values, for a candidate route, one or one route-specific road-nonlinearity values relating to the road-nonlinearity characteristics. The candidate route's route-specific road-nonlinearity values are compared to the user-desired route-specific road-nonlinearity values. Based on results of the comparison, the candidate route is select to be a recommended route. The recommended route is communicated to the user.
US11536571B2
Vehicle position is determined using magnetic field measurements within an indoor environment. Magnetic field measurements and sensor information are obtained from the vehicle and magnetic map information is obtained for the indoor environment. Parameters of vehicle motion are derived from the sensor information. The magnetic field measurements are processed to mitigate vehicular interference and then compensated for a magnetometer bias induced at least in part by the vehicle. Vehicle position is determined based at least in part on the compensated magnetic field magnetic measurements, the magnetic map information and the parameters of vehicle motion.
US11536568B2
A surveying system comprises a laser scanner for scanning a distance measuring light and for acquiring point cloud data and a target instrument having a target for reflecting the distance measuring light, wherein the target is a sphere having a known diameter, the laser scanner comprises a distance measuring module for projecting the distance measuring light, for receiving a reflected distance measuring light and for performing a distance measurement, an optical axis deflector which enables to two-dimensionally deflect the distance measuring light, and an arithmetic control module for controlling the optical axis deflector, and wherein the arithmetic control module is configured to perform a circular scan on a surface of the target by the optical axis deflector, to obtain a center of the target based on the point cloud data acquired by the circular scan and the diameter, and to measure a distance of the center of the target.
US11536567B2
A surveying instrument comprises a light projecting optical system for projecting a distance measuring light to a predetermined measuring point, a light receiving optical system for receiving a reflected distance measuring light and an infrared light from the measuring point, and an arithmetic control module for controlling a distance measurement and a temperature measurement based on light receiving results of the reflected distance measuring light and the infrared light, and the arithmetic control module measures a distance to the measuring point based on light receiving results of the reflected distance measuring light received by a photodetector of the light receiving optical system, and measures a temperature of the measuring point based on light receiving results of the infrared light received by a temperature sensor of the light receiving optical system.
US11536566B2
A leveling tool configured to be releasably attached to a pipe includes a level carried by a main body and a pair of first and second articulating arms extending from the main body. One or more magnets are carried by the arms. Each of the first and second arms is configured articulate so as wrap at least part way around a pipe. The first and second magnets are configured to releasably attach the first and second arms to the pipe.
US11536565B2
A rotorcraft is described and includes an inertial measurement unit (“IMU”) sensor mounted to the rotorcraft, the IMU sensor oriented relative to the rotorcraft such that a roll attitude of the rotorcraft occurs about a Z-axis and has a range of ±90 degrees, a pitch attitude of the rotorcraft occurs about an X-axis and has a range of ±180 degrees, and a yaw attitude of the rotorcraft occurs about a Y-axis and has a range of ±180 degrees.
US11536564B2
Pressure-based estimation of a mobile device altitude or calibration of a pressure sensor involves machines that determine if a reference-level pressure value based on one or more measurements of pressure from a network of weather stations should or should not be used to calibrate a pressure sensor of a mobile device or to estimate an altitude of the mobile device. If reference-level pressure value should be used, the reference-level pressure value is used to calibrate a pressure sensor of a mobile device or to estimate an altitude of the mobile device. If the reference-level pressure value should not be used, a trend in pressure is determined, an estimated reference-level pressure value based on the trend is determined, and the estimated reference-level pressure value is used to calibrate a pressure sensor of a mobile device or to estimate an altitude of the mobile device.
US11536558B2
A linear displacement measuring apparatus for determining an absolute position includes a linear rail composed of individual rail segments arranged after one another in the direction of a longitudinal axis. Each of the rail segments has a material measure which comprises at least one incremental track which extends along the longitudinal axis and has equidistantly arranged position markings. In addition to the incremental track, the material measure of one of the rail segments has an absolute track with position markings for coding a plurality of absolute positions. A scanning device can be moved along the rail segments and comprises a sensor arrangement for scanning the material measures with a first sensor, a second sensor and a third sensor. The first sensor and the second sensor are offset relative to one another in the direction of the longitudinal axis and are used to detect the position markings of the incremental track.
US11536542B2
Systems and devices for temporarily disabling an assailant or other target using disabling flashes of light from a light-emitting device. A tactical lighting system also includes protective eyewear that is paired with the light-emitting device and configured to shutter in synchronization with the pattern of disabling light flashes to protect the wearer's eyes while disabling an assailant or other target.
US11536541B2
An apparatus for monitoring and controlling a haze and/or particulate level in the air is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a detecting unit (sensor) and a controller. The detecting unit is configured to detect the haze and/or particulate level in real time. The controller in communication with the detecting unit is configured to receive data related to a haze level from the detecting unit. The apparatus further comprises a display and a control switch. The display in communication with the controller is configured to display data related to the haze level monitored by one or more sensors. The sensors are laser based particulate sensors. The control switch in communication with the controller is configured to send a signal to control a haze generator, thereby monitoring the haze level in real time and controlling the haze generator at predetermined time periods using the control switch for attaining and maintaining a desired haze level.
US11536539B2
A mount for a firearm allows a user to selectively mount a handgrip to a barrel end of the firearm. Preferred embodiments mount to a Picatinny rail of the firearm. The mount includes a rotatable lug body that is carried within an internal cavity of the body of the mount. Differing lugs corresponding to differing handgrip types are disposed on the lug body. The user simply rotates the lug body within the mount to select a desired lug corresponding to a desired handgrip. The handgrip may then be secured to the selected lug. When the user wants to secure a different handgrip, the first handgrip may be removed, the lug body rotated, and another handgrip is secured to the another lug.
US11536536B1
The Tri Sight System, as the name suggests, utilizes three (3) target sights in a tri-pattern at the end of a barrel of a firearm to improve the shooter's target acquisition and accuracy.
US11536526B2
An automatic weapon system including a gas evacuation opening formed in a bore of a barrel, a gas evacuation chamber, a barrel immobilizing device, a slide, a weapon frame with guides for guiding slide movement, a return spring mechanism of the slide and the breech. The gas evacuation chamber is disposed at a near-bore space located at the barrel bore outlet, a front wall of the chamber located at the barrel bore outlet is attached at the barrel outlet and having a lower part resting on a weapon frame. A rear wall of the chamber is formed by at least one bridge assembly having one end attached to the slide and another end sliding along the barrel, the bridge assembly is formed by a substantially flat plate having a groove extending from the barrel to the frame and sliding along the barrel, at least one sealing gasket. The frame of the weapon serves as the lower part of the evacuation chamber, the slide serves as upper and side walls of the chamber, a downwardly directed ledge provided at the front of the slide.
US11536524B2
A modular bolt action rifle is provided, having an upper receiver configured to receive a bolt action bolt housing and bolt and a first universal fitting at a front of the upper receiver configured to receive one of a plurality of commonly sourced rifle barrels, and a lower receiver integral to or coupled to the upper receiver. The lower receiver is configured to receive commonly sourced fire control group components and a commonly sourced bolt action trigger mechanism. The lower receiver includes a second universal fitting at a rear of the lower receiver configured to receive one of a plurality of commonly sourced butt stocks.
US11536519B2
A heat exchanger, comprising: a tube bundle having at least one tube for receiving a fluid medium, wherein the at least one tube is wound about a core tube which extends along a longitudinal axis, and a first tube section of the at least one tube rests against at least one web which extends along the tube core and at least one first bracket element for securing the first tube section to the at least one web, the at least one first bracket element having a lower face which faces the first tube section and rests against the first tube section. The invention additionally relates to a securing system and to a method.
US11536513B2
An apparatus for drying materials is disclosed. The apparatus has a chamber which is heated to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the water in the material into steam. The dryer is configured to utilize the steam produced from the material to condition the material. The dryer has two exhaust stacks positioned at opposing ends of the dryer. The removal of exhaust steam at the two opposing ends of the dryer facilitates the migration of moisture within the chamber along a length of the dryer between the two ends. The exhaust stacks can be controlled and adjusted based on feedback from a plurality of pressure differential transmitters installed within the chamber. Methods for drying materials are also disclosed.
US11536509B2
A shelf assembly, in particular for a domestic cooling device, includes a receiving plate having a front plate edge, a rear plate edge and two lateral plate edges, and a holding strut on at least one of the lateral plate edges for supporting the receiving plate. The holding strut has in the region of a rear strut end at least one hook structure for fitting the holding strut into a mounting opening of a carrying structure. At a distance beneath the hook structure, the holding strut forms a first support structure for support on a front side, facing the strut, of the carrying structure. The holding strut, in the region of the rear strut end, at a distance above the first support structure, provides a resiliently deflectable second support structure for support on the front side, facing the strut, of the carrying structure.
US11536508B2
A refrigerator includes a storage compartment and a mullion assembly pivotally coupled to one of a first door and a second door. The mullion assembly includes a cavity with an insulating member disposed therein. One or more sensor assemblies are coupled to the mullion assembly and configured to collect data sufficient to calculate a dew point temperature of the mullion assembly and an actual temperature of the mullion assembly. A heating element is coupled to the mullion assembly and is selectively activated by a controller based on information provided from the one or more sensor assemblies. The heating element is powered using a modulated power level that is inversely proportionate to the difference in temperature between the mullion assembly and the calculated dew point.
US11536503B2
This disclosure relates to cold-chain transportation, and more particularly to a refrigerated container refrigeration system capable of preventing freezing of container door, including compressors, oil separators, gas coolers, regenerators, electronic expansion valves, gas-liquid separators, an evaporator, suction pressure regulating valves, oil-level solenoid valves, gas cooler pressure regulating valves, differential pressure regulating valves, an evaporation pressure regulating valve, solenoid valves, check valves, flow meters, pressure sensors, temperature sensors, a door anti-freezing area, a refrigerated container shell, refrigerated container doors, a refrigeration unit, an anti-freezing pipeline and fastening components. Carbon dioxide is selected as refrigerant. A flow two-stage cycle compression refrigeration system with switchable operation pipeline is adopted, and the outlet pipeline of a high-pressure compressor is extended for preventing freezing of container door.
US11536498B2
A refrigeration system includes an evaporator configured to receive a flow of refrigerant and transfer heat into the refrigerant within the evaporator to provide cooling for a temperature-controlled space, an expansion valve operable to modulate the flow of refrigerant into the evaporator, a liquid level sensor configured to measure a level of liquid accumulated within a component of the refrigeration system, and a controller configured to operate the expansion valve to increase the flow of refrigerant into the evaporator or decrease the flow of refrigerant into the evaporator based on the level of liquid measured by the liquid level sensor.
US11536495B2
An oil return control method for a multi-split air conditioner and a system accomplishing the same includes: calculating an average exhaust pressure within an oil return period Pd_AVG; determining whether the average exhaust pressure Pd_AVG≥the set threshold Pdthreshold; if Pd_AVG≥Pdthreshold, maintaining the multi-split air conditioner working in heating mode to ensure an acceptable oil return performance without affecting the air conditioning effect of indoor unit in heating mode; if Pd_AVG
US11536488B2
Thermal energy storage systems are disclosed in this application. Systems of the inventive subject matter are designed to reduce maintenance requirements by sequestering, for example, corrosive fluids that might otherwise damage difficult-to-fix internal components are kept out of those components by introducing a non-corrosive heat transfer fluid to facilitate heat transfer between a thermal energy storage medium (e.g., molten sulfur) and a potentially corrosive working fluid. Thus, the potentially corrosive fluid is kept out of a thermal energy storage tank containing the thermal energy storage medium, which, by design, is difficult to repair when internal components corrode or otherwise require maintenance.
US11536484B2
An ECM including a motor body and a motor controller. The motor body includes a stator assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator winding. The motor controller includes a control circuit board, and the control circuit board includes a power source, a microprocessor, an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) inverter circuit, and a plurality of universal interface modules. The motor controller is configured to be connected to a main control board of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, to receive a command from the HVAC system, and to control the operation of the motor body based on the command. The power source is configured to supply power to each electric circuit of the motor controller. The IGBT inverter circuit includes an output terminal; the stator winding includes a coil winding; and the output terminal is connected to the coil winding.
US11536481B2
Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a supply stream temperature set-point for a particular distribution channel element associated with a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. In one example, a method includes identifying a hierarchical position of the particular distribution channel element; identifying potential set point configuration actions associated with the particular distribution channel element, wherein each potential set point configuration action is expected to cause transition of the particular distribution channel element from a current state to a future state; determining an overall cost measure for each potential set point configuration action based at least in part on the hierarchical position of the particular distribution channel element, and generating the supply stream temperature set-point based on each overall cost measure associated with a potential set point configuration action.
US11536463B2
A cooking appliance includes a body and a cooktop disposed on the body. A plurality of gas burner assemblies is operably coupled to the cooktop. A first frame member is coupled to a first side of the cooktop and defines at least a portion of a sump defined by the cooktop. A second frame member is coupled to a second side of the cooktop and defines at least a portion of the sump defined by the cooktop. A bracket is coupled to the first and second frame members. The bracket extends along a portion of a perimeter of the cooktop between the first and second frame members. The bracket defines at least a portion of the sump defined by the cooktop.
US11536440B2
A beam shading device capable of accurately positioning includes a substrate, a plurality of shading blades mounted on the substrate, and driving mechanisms for driving the shading blades to move. The substrate is provided with a first light-passing hole through which beams pass, the plurality of shading blades are arranged around the periphery of the first light-passing hole, and the driving mechanisms drive the shading blades to move back and forth between blocking and opening the first light-passing hole. Each shading blade is configured with at least two driving mechanisms, and each driving mechanism includes a driving gear and a driving plate. The driving plate is hinged with the shading blade, and the driving plate is provided with a rack that meshes with the driving gear.
US11536432B2
A projection lens has a first lens body including a first incidence section disposed at a side facing a first light source and an emitting section disposed at a side opposite to the first incidence section, and a second lens body including a second incidence section disposed at a side facing a second light source, a structure in which the first lens body and the second lens body abut against each other in between first boundary surfaces, which are provided between the emitting section and the second incidence section, and second boundary surfaces, which are provided between the first incidence section and the second incidence section from a boundary line with respect to the first boundary surfaces is provided, and the first boundary surfaces and the second boundary surfaces are disposed at an acute angle including the boundary line therebetween.
US11536426B2
Light fixture installation adapters and methods thereof are disclosed. According to an aspect, a light fixture installation adapter includes a first bracket configured to be attached to a light fixture. The adapter also includes a second bracket configured to be attached to an electrical junction box. Further, the adapter includes a mounting assembly that has a first component and a second component attached to the first bracket and the second bracket, respectively. The first component is configured to engage with and to attach to the second component when the first component is oriented in a predetermined position with respect to the second component and when the first component is moved in one or more predetermined directions with respect to the second component for attaching the first bracket to the second bracket via the mounting assembly.
US11536425B1
The present invention provides a lamp and a lamp mounting structure, wherein the lamp includes a lamp panel as a light source; two lateral supports arranged opposite to each other, wherein the lamp panel in use is fixed to a lamp supporting structure through the two lateral supports; and a locking mechanism for securing the lamp panel between the two lateral supports. The lamp disclosed herein has a better versatility.
US11536423B2
The downlight apparatus includes a surface rim, a rotation bracket, a bowl housing and a light source. The surface rim has an rim edge and a lateral wall. The rotation bracket includes a bracket body and two arms. Each arm has an arm bottom and a arm top. The rotation bracket is attached to the lateral wall. The bowl housing has a bowl edge. The bowl edge defines a light opening. The arm tops of the two arms are attached to the bowl edge. The bowl housing is rotatable with a tilt angle with respect to the arm tops. The light source is mounted inside the bowl housing for emitting a light from the light opening.
US11536418B2
A telescopic bracket has a retracted state and an extended state. The telescopic bracket comprises a fixed assembly, a moving member, and a spring. The moving member is movably coupled to the fixed assembly to move along an axial direction of the fixed assembly, causing the telescopic bracket to switch between the retracted state and the extended state. The spring is disposed between the fixed assembly and the moving member to provide an elastic restoring force to the moving member, and the cross section of the spring could be a trapezoidal shape, a rectangular shape, a square shape, a parallelogram shape, or an unequal quadrilateral shape. An open-up device using the telescopic bracket is also provided.
US11536403B2
A device for transferring a pressurized fluid from a stationary source into a rotating spindle shaft includes a stationary housing including an internal socket having a socket wall and a rotatable shaft extending into the socket. The shaft includes an outer surface and a shaft bore having inlet and outlet ends. The device includes a washer positioned over the shaft and including a first flat side surface and a second side surface having at least a portion angled with respect to the first flat side surface in operative contact with the socket wall. The device includes a bushing positioned over the shaft and including a bore having an inner surface spaced apart from the outer surface of the shaft by a gap. The bushing includes a first end surface proximate the inlet end and a second end surface in operative contact with the first flat side surface of the washer.
US11536397B2
Kinking of tubing can be prevented by use of a device comprising a first clamp, a second clamp, a first rod and a second rod. The first clamp and the second clamp carry the first rod and the second rod to form a frame, and the flexible tubing is secured to the first clamp and the second clamp. The device can be easily moved and adjusted by a user. The device can be attached to any location along the tubing and allow the tubing to bend past 90 degrees without kinking. Multiple devices can be used in series to route tubing in desired route without it kinking.
US11536392B2
A shaft-bearing bush assembly for a valve arrangement for an air-conditioning system is disclosed. The shaft-bearing bush assembly includes a shaft drive-connectable to a valve of the valve arrangement and a bearing bush, in which the shaft is rotatably received relative to the bearing bush between a first rotary position and a second rotary position about an axis of rotation extending along the axial direction. A bush projection is non-rotatably arranged on the bearing bush relative to the bearing bush and a shaft projection is non-rotatably arranged on the shaft relative to the shaft. The bush projection and the shaft projection are matched to one another such that the bush projection provides a rotary stop for the shaft projection for limiting the rotary movement of the shaft between the first rotary position and the second rotary position.
US11536389B2
An electromagnetic valve has a valve housing; a valve body disposed inside the valve housing and movable in a reciprocating manner; an urging member configured to urge the valve body in one direction; and a drive device which is connected to the valve housing and applies a drive force to the valve body. A drive rod of the drive device includes a guide portion which faces an inner peripheral surface of a fixed iron core such that a movement of the drive rod is guided in an axial direction and a groove portion which is recessed in an inward radial direction from the guide portion and the groove portion is continuously formed from an inside of the valve housing to an inside of a movable iron core.
US11536365B2
A malfunction part sensing device for an automatic transmission for a vehicle which is arranged to attain a plurality of shift stages by selectively engaging a plurality of frictional engagement elements, the malfunction part sensing device includes: a shift stage monitoring section configured to monitor the shift stages before and after the shift of the automatic transmission; a malfunction sensing section configured to sense the malfunction mode from a behavior of the vehicle which is generated in accordance with the malfunction; and a malfunction part limiting section configured to limit the one of the frictional engagement elements in which the malfunction is generated, based on the malfunction mode and a shift manner by a combination of the shift stages before and after the shift.
US11536358B2
A gear device includes an internal gear, a flexible external gear, and a wave generator. The wave generator includes an elliptical cam and a bearing. Grease is applied to the inner circumferential surface of the external gear. A groove is provided along a rotation axis on at least one of the inner circumferential surface of the external gear and an outer circumferential surface of the bearing.
US11536338B2
A self-adjusting automatic slack adjuster for reducing slack in the brake of a vehicle includes an adjuster link having a resilient portion. When a brake application force being applied to the slack adjuster exceeds a level that could result in brake application linkage damage as a result of the slack adjuster's slack adjustment mechanism having reached a travel limit, the resilient portion of the adjuster link permits the axial length of the adjuster link to change to accommodate the high brake application force in order to minimize or preclude damage to the brake application linkage.
US11536336B2
The invention relates to an axle-mounted brake disk for a rail vehicle, comprising two friction rings which are arranged in parallel and at a distance from each other and are interconnected by a plurality of ribs extending in the direction of the rotational axis of the friction rings, where at least some of the ribs are embodied with different cross-sections from each other, where the cross-sections of a first subset of the ribs, embodied as supporting elements transmitting pressure forces, do not fall below a minimum cross-section, defined by the stability required in relation to the mechanical load during a brake process, and the cross-section of a second subset of the ribs, used to radiate thermal energy, falls below the minimum cross-section.
US11536324B2
A lubricated rotational connection system provided with a free-wheel having a driving part and a driven part as well as at least one rotational link member arranged in a linking space, the linking space being located radially between a driving linking section and a driven linking section. A lubrication device comprises a fluid circulation device constrained to rotate with a driven pumping section of the driven part. The fluid circulation device is set in rotation with respect to a driving pumping section when the driving speed of rotation of the driving pumping section is lower than the driven speed of rotation of the driven pumping section about the axis of rotation in order to generate a forced circulation of the lubricating fluid within the linking space.
US11536314B2
A slew bearing includes a stationary bearing ring to be fixed to a base, and a moveable bearing ring to be fixed to a moveable object, wherein the stationary bearing ring and the moveable bearing ring are configured to enable rotation of the moveable bearing ring relative to the stationary bearing ring about a rotation axis. A main axial bearing and an auxiliary bearing are provided between the stationary bearing ring and the moveable bearing ring, wherein the moveable bearing ring includes one or more main portions and one or more auxiliary portions, which one or more main portions are moveable relative to the one or more auxiliary portions between an operational position, in which the main axial bearing transfers the axial loads between moveable bearing ring and stationary bearing ring, and a raised maintenance position, in which the auxiliary axial bearing transfers the axial loads between moveable bearing ring and stationary bearing ring and the main bearing is allowed to be inspected and/or maintained so that the slew bearing during inspection and/or maintenance is still operational.
US11536313B2
A wheel bearing assembly includes a wheel hub, at least one inner ring, an outer ring, and one or more rolling elements. An accommodation space may be formed inward of a vehicle-body-side end portion of the wheel hub to accommodate a constant velocity joint, and a plurality of recesses for accommodating rotating elements of the constant velocity joint are formed on an inner peripheral surface of the accommodation space to be spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction. A first heat-treated hardened portion may be formed on the inner peripheral surface of the accommodation space, and may be formed to have portions with which the rotating elements of the constant velocity joint is brought into contact. A second heat-treated hardened portion may formed on an outer peripheral surface of the wheel hub. The first and second heat-treated hardened portions may not overlap each other.
US11536310B2
A precision adjustment fastener mechanism comprises a base, a platform, and a locking push-pull fastener assembly. The base has a first aperture and the platform has a second aperture. The fastener assembly is disposed within the second aperture. The fastener assembly comprises a clamping fastener having a portion positioned in the first aperture, a sleeve having a third aperture extending along an axis of the sleeve. The clamping fastener is positioned within the third aperture. The sleeve comprises a first portion moveable relative to a second portion along the axis. The first portion and the second portion each comprise outer threads. An axial displacement portion separates the first and second portions and transmits a torque between the first and second portions. The axial displacement portion facilitates movement of the first and second portions to bind threads of the first and second portions with the threads of the platform.
US11536307B2
A set including a first panel, a second panel and a mechanical locking device for locking the first panel to the second panel, the mechanical locking device includes an insertion groove at the second edge surface, a flexible tongue positioned in the insertion groove and an edge tongue including a tongue groove, the flexible tongue includes a first locking surface and a second locking surface, the first locking surface is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for locking of the first panel to the second panel in a first direction when the flexible tongue is positioned in the insertion groove in a first orientation, the second locking surface of the flexible tongue is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for a locking of the first panel to the second panel in a first direction when the flexible tongue is positioned in the insertion groove in a second orientation.
US11536306B2
A landing gear system includes a composite tube. The composite tube comprises at least one of (i) a filament wound composite tube, (ii) a filament braided tube, and (iii) a composite tube of laid up filament. The landing gear system further comprises a first lug cluster mounted to the composite tube and a second lug cluster mounted to the composite tube. The first lug cluster and the second lug cluster are oriented at an angle to one another.
US11536298B2
A system for damping mass-induced vibrations in a machine having a long boom or elongate member, the movement of which causes mass-induced vibration in such boom or elongate member. The system comprises at least one motion sensor operable to measure movement of such boom or elongate member resulting from mass-induced vibration, and a processing unit operable to control a first control valve spool in a pressure control mode and a second control valve spool in a flow control mode in order to adjust the hydraulic fluid flow to the load holding chamber of an actuator attached to the boom or elongate member to dampen the mass-induced vibration. The system further comprises a control manifold fluidically interposed between the actuator and control valve spools that causes the first and second control valve spools to operate, respectively, in pressure and flow control modes.
US11536294B1
The invention is about a foldable portable fan, which relates to the technical field of a fan, including an entity; the bottom of the entity is fixedly arranged with a connecting part, the connecting part is connected with a rotating part, one side of the rotating part is connected with a bolt, one end of the bolt is connected with a bolt column; the fan can conveniently connect the entity and the base together by setting a connecting part, a rotating part, a bolt and a bolt column, avoiding the use of screws, and the connection is very convenient; in addition, the entity can be folded between the base, which can save packaging materials, occupy less transportation space and save costs in logistics packaging; and the entity can be matched with different bases, thus providing higher selectivity and more flexible sale.
US11536290B2
The present disclosure provides a fan coil unit and an air conditioning system. The fan coil unit includes: a housing, which defines an airflow inlet, an airflow outlet, and an airflow path from the airflow inlet to the airflow outlet; a cross-flow fan, which is located at the airflow inlet to introduce an airflow into the housing; and a heat exchange unit located downstream of the cross-low fan on the airflow path.
US11536289B1
A pumping unit operable to pump water has a longitudinal pumping unit axis. A pump shaft engages shaft bearings in a pump shaft housing. A drain conduit includes a drain conduit inlet segment, a drain conduit ascending segment, and a drain conduit terminal segment. The drain conduit inlet segment has a longitudinal drain conduit axis disposed at an obtuse angle to the longitudinal pumping unit axis. The drain conduit ascending segment is disposed at an obtuse angle to the drain conduit inlet segment. The drain conduit terminal segment is disposed at an obtuse angle with respect to the drain conduit ascending segment and is disposed at a level above the shaft bearing. Accordingly, backflow water flowing through the drain conduit terminal segment, the drain conduit ascending segment and the drain conduit inlet segment, respectively, flows into the pump shaft housing to contact and cool the shaft bearing.
US11536288B2
A propeller fan includes a hub that has a side surface around a central axis, and blades that are provided on the side surface, wherein a blade of the blades includes an inner peripheral portion located on a side of a base, and an outer peripheral portion located on a side of an outer edge, the outer peripheral portion is formed as one blade, the inner peripheral portion includes blade elements arranged at a predetermined interval, a ratio r/R of a radius r which is a distance from the central axis to the outer peripheral portion and a radius R which is a distance from the central axis to the outer edge is 0.4 or less, and when a wind speed at the outer peripheral portion is V1 and a wind speed at the inner peripheral portion is V2, a relational formula of V1≤V2×2.0 is established.
US11536277B2
Centrifugal compressors can incorporate a side stream flow of intermediate pressure vapor between stages of that compressor. The side stream flow can be controlled by a side stream injection port controlled by a throttle ring disposed between stages of the compressor. The throttle ring can allow or obstruct flow through the side stream injection port. The throttle ring can extend and retract in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of flow from the first stage impeller to the second stage impeller. A method of operating a centrifugal compressor can include actuating a throttle ring by rotating a drive ring to adjust a flow of interstage fluid into the second stage impeller.
US11536264B2
A communication control system for a number of gas compressors where one gas compressor is set as a master gas compressor that controls communication with N slave gas compressors. A cycle of communication with the N slave compressors in N communication sets is defined as a total compressor number communication cycle. In first to Nth communication sets, a first response request is transmitted to each of the first to Nth gas compressors. When a response is received from one of the gas compressors, the system determines that connection with the one gas compressor has succeeded. When no response is received, the system determines that connection has failed. In following communication cycles, a second response request is transmitted to the slave compressors with which communication has succeeded. The first response request is then transmitted to the slave compressors with which the communication connection has failed using a different timing sequence.
US11536260B2
A MEMS pump includes a first substrate, a first oxide layer, a second substrate, a second oxide layer, a third substrate and a piezoelectric element sequentially stacked to form the entire structure of the MEMS pump. The first substrate has a first thickness and at least one inlet aperture. The first oxide layer has at least one fluid inlet channel and a convergence chamber, wherein the fluid inlet channel communicates with the convergence chamber and the inlet aperture. The second substrate has a second thickness and a through hole, and the through hole is misaligned with the inlet aperture and communicates with the convergence chamber. The second oxide layer has a first chamber with a concave central portion. The third substrate has a third thickness and a plurality of gas flow channels, wherein the gas flow channels are misaligned with the through hole.
US11536233B2
A fuel system includes a low-pressure fuel delivery unit and a high-pressure fuel delivery unit which has a low-pressure region and a high-pressure region such that the low-pressure region supplies fuel to the high-pressure region which supplies the fuel to a plurality of high-pressure fuel injectors. A low-pressure fuel rail supplies fuel to low-pressure fuel injectors. A low-pressure fuel injector line is connected at a first end directly to the high-pressure fuel delivery unit and receives fuel from the low-pressure region and is connected at a second end directly to the low-pressure fuel rail, thereby providing fluid communication from the low-pressure region to the low-pressure fuel rail. A device is located between the low-pressure region and the low-pressure fuel rail and reduces fuel pressure pulsations.
US11536228B2
Fuel reform apparatus includes: internal combustion engine including injector and configured so that compression-ignition combustion is carried out in combustion chamber; reform unit interposed in fuel supply path from fuel tank to injector and including reformer reforming fuel stored in fuel tank by oxidation reaction; and controller including CPU and memory. Controller performs: estimating progress level of oxidation reaction in reformer; and controlling operation of reform unit based on progress level of oxidation reaction estimated.
US11536221B2
A piston crown for a combustion system is disclosed. The piston crown includes a piston bowl having a circumferential recess and a plurality of first recesses arranged spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction. The circumferential recess is disposed proximate to a circumference of the piston crown. Each recess of the plurality of the first recesses extends between a center of the piston crown and the circumferential recess, and a width and a depth of each recess of the plurality of first recesses are extended along a radial direction for an entire length of each recess of the plurality of first recesses.
US11536212B2
A controller executes a first suspending process or a second suspending process when a vehicle satisfies a predetermined first condition or a predetermined second condition. The controller executes an integration process that, during execution of the first suspending process or the second suspending process, obtains an integrated value of an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine from when the first suspending process or the second suspending process that is being executed was started. When the integrated value is greater than or equal to a threshold, the controller stops the first suspending process or the second suspending process that is being executed. When the amount of particular matter deposited in a filter is the same, a first threshold, which is the threshold for the first suspending process, is greater than a second threshold, which is the threshold for the second suspending process.
US11536210B2
An internal combustion engine (1) operating in cycles, having: a plurality of piston-cylinder units (2), wherein each piston-cylinder unit (2) of the plurality of piston-cylinder units (2) is assigned an ignition device (3) which can be controlled regarding activation and selection of an ignition timing by an engine control (4), wherein a piston-cylinder unit (2), when the ignition device (3) is activated, produces a power by combustion of a gas-air mixture, which can be transmitted as a torque to a crankshaft (5) of the internal combustion engine (1) an intake stroke (6) and an exhaust stroke (7), each coupled to the plurality of piston-cylinder units (2) a supply device (8) for supplying a gas-air mixture under a boost pressure to the intake stroke (6) a signal detection device (9) for acquiring at least one signal which represents a power demand on the internal combustion engine (1) or from which a power demand on the internal combustion engine (1) can be calculated an engine control (4) for actuating actuators of the internal combustion engine (1), wherein the at least one signal can be fed to the engine control (4), and the engine control (4) is configured in a first operating mode to leave as many ignition devices (8) deactivated per cycle of the internal combustion engine in dependence on the currently present power demand, that the power of those piston-cylinder units (2), the ignition devices (8) of which are activated, results in a torque of the crankshaft (5) of the internal combustion engine (1) adapted to the currently present power demand wherein the engine control (4) is configured to, in a second operating mode, for reducing a risk of deflagration due to unburned gas-air mixture present in the exhaust stroke (7) after a first number (N1) of cycles of the internal combustion engine (1), for a second number (N2) of cycles of the internal combustion engine (1), to have more piston-cylinder units (2) produce power per cycle by activating the assigned ignition devices (8) than would be required for the currently present power demand after the second number (N2) of cycles of the internal combustion engine (1), for a third number (N3) of cycles of the internal combustion engine (1), in dependence on a currently present power demand per cycle of the internal combustion engine (1), to have so many piston-cylinder units (2) produce power by activation of the assigned ignition devices (8) that this results in a torque of the crankshaft (5) adapted to the currently present power demand.
US11536207B2
An apparatus of controlling a vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The operating region of an engine is operated with theoretical air-fuel ratio. The apparatus includes a supercharger that supplies compressed air to a the combustion chamber of the engine and a spark plug that ignites mixed air supplied to the combustion chamber. An intake valve selectively opens and closes the combustion chamber for inflowing the mixed air therein. A variable valve apparatus adjusts an opening timing and closing timing of the intake valve and a controller adjusts an ignition timing of the spark plug and the closing timing of the intake valve through the variable valve apparatus based on the operating region of the engine.
US11536197B2
A valve opening degree determination device includes an object operating state acquisition unit configured to acquire an object operating state which is an operating state of a gas turbine before control, and a valve opening degree calculation unit configured to calculate the valve opening degree such that a disk cavity temperature after control is equal to or lower than a target temperature, based on the object operating state. The valve opening degree calculation unit is configured to determine an input value of the valve opening degree such that a prediction value of the disk cavity temperature is equal to or lower than the target temperature as the valve opening degree, based on a prediction model generated based on a plurality of previous data in which the operating state, the disk cavity temperature, and an actual opening degree of the cooling-air adjustment valve previously acquired are associated with each other.
US11536190B2
A split cycle internal combustion engine apparatus includes a combustion cylinder accommodating a combustion piston and a compression cylinder accommodating a compression piston. The apparatus is arranged to provide compressed fluid to the combustion cylinder. The compression cylinder is coupled to a first liquid coolant reservoir and a second liquid coolant reservoir. A controller is arranged to receive an indication of at least one parameter associated with the engine, and control delivery of at least one of the first liquid coolant from the first liquid coolant reservoir and the second liquid coolant from the second liquid coolant reservoir to the compression cylinder based on the indication of the at least one parameter such that the at least one liquid coolant vaporises into a gaseous phase during a compression stroke.
US11536185B2
A catalyst degradation determining device for a straddled vehicle that includes an engine, a catalyst for cleaning an exhaust gas from the engine, and a throttle valve that is controllable by cruise control of the straddled vehicle to keep a traveling speed of the straddled vehicle constant. The catalyst degradation determining device includes a determiner that determines whether the cruise control is being executed, and an execution controller. The execution controller is configured to determine a degradation state of the catalyst while controlling an air-fuel mixture supplied through the throttle valve to the engine, in a case where the determiner determines that the cruise control is not being executed, and at least one running state of the straddled vehicle satisfies at least one predetermined allowable condition, and not to determine the degradation state of the catalyst in a case where the determiner determines that the cruise control is being executed.
US11536182B2
A method (200) for ascertaining a catalytic converter state is proposed, wherein an exhaust-gas catalytic converter (130) is monitored on the basis of a catalytic converter model. Here, the catalytic converter model is adapted (250) in a manner dependent on measured values detected by means of one or more sensors (145, 147), wherein a frequency and/or a degree of the adaptation of the catalytic converter model is detected (260). The catalytic converter state is ascertained (270) as non-critical if the frequency and/or the degree of the adaptation do not exceed a predeterminable threshold value or is ascertained (270) as critical if the frequency and/or the degree of the adaptation exceed the predeterminable threshold value.
US11536175B2
An engine device including an exhaust gas purification device above cylinder head through a support pedestal. The support pedestal has a flat portion on which the exhaust gas purification device is mounted, and a plurality of legs which protrude downward from the flat portion and are fixed to the cylinder head. The flat portion and the leg portions are formed integrally. Portions between the legs are each formed in an arch-shape.
US11536174B2
An acoustic damper includes a low porosity layer section and a housing. The low porosity layer section is formed in a liner of a gas turbine combustor and has an arrangement of elongated generally S-shaped slots formed therein. The housing has a plurality of feed apertures. The housing is coupled to the low porosity layer section thereby defining a cavity such that air outside the housing is configured to flow through the apertures and through the elongated generally S-shaped slots in the low porosity layer section, thereby transforming acoustic energy into thermal energy and aiding in providing an acoustic dampening effect for the gas turbine combustor during operation thereof.
US11536172B2
An oil measurement apparatus for an oil-lubricated internal combustion engine has an oil dipstick and a guide for guiding the oil dipstick in an oil pan of the internal combustion engine. A fill level of motor oil in the oil pan can be recorded by the oil measurement apparatus. The oil dipstick has an operating element in a first end region for inserting and removing the oil dipstick in the guide and, in a second end region, has a measurement region for recording the fill level. The fill level can be recorded by the oil dipstick in a first state of the oil measurement apparatus and, in a second state of the oil measurement apparatus, the measurement region is completely drawn into the guide. The oil dipstick has a dipstick stop element between the operating element and the measurement region, and has a dipstick cover, which is movable between the measurement region and the dipstick stop element and is designed to at least temporarily cover the measurement region. In the second state of the oil measurement apparatus, the measurement region is covered by the dipstick cover at least in sections.
US11536167B2
At a diameter-decreasing operation during manufacture of a poppet valve, an intermediate stem portion at which a valve head portion and an intermediate stem portion are made integral by way of a neck portion may be inserted between/among diameter-decreasing tools. Application of compressive forces from compressing surfaces of the diameter-decreasing tools may cause a part of the intermediate stem portion to be decreased in diameter and may cause a main body portion of a first stem portion to be formed and may cause formation of a stepped portion which is continuous with the main body portion, and formation, by an absence of decrease in diameter, of a second stem portion which is broader in girth than the main body portion and which is continuous with the neck portion and which is also continuous with the main body portion by way of the stepped portion.
US11536162B2
An exhaust chamber of a steam turbine according to an embodiment includes an outer casing which includes an end wall part in an axial direction and an extension part extending upward in the axial direction from the end wall part, a first flow guide formed into an annular shape, the first flow guide forming an upstream region of a diffuser surface in a hub-side flow guide and being fixed to an upstream end portion of the extension part on a radially inner side of the diffuser surface, and a second flow guide formed into an annular shape, the second flow guide forming a downstream region of the diffuser surface at a position downstream of the first flow guide and on a radially outer side of the extension part, and being fixed to the extension part.
US11536156B2
A device cleans a core engine of a jet engine. The device has: a nozzle installation configured to introduce a cleaning medium into the core engine; a connector configured to connect the device in a rotationally fixed manner to a shaft of a fan of the jet engine; and a line connection configured to supply the cleaning medium, the line connection being connected to the nozzle installation by a rotary coupling. The nozzle installation has first contact faces configured to bear axially on fan blades of the fan, the first contact faces being configured for defined positioning of the nozzle installation relative to the jet engine.
US11536144B2
A rotor blade assembly includes a first rotor blade and a second rotor blade positioned adjacent to one another. The first rotor blade and the second rotor blade each include a platform and an airfoil extending radially outward from a root coupled to the platform to a tip. The airfoil includes a part-span shroud. The part-span shroud extends from the airfoil and is disposed between the root and the tip. The part-span shroud includes a pressure side portion extending from the pressure side surface and a suction side portion extending from the suction side surface. A damper is in contact with both the part span shroud of the first rotor blade and the part span shroud of the second rotor blade at an interference joint. The damper is movable relative to the part span shroud of both the first rotor blade and the second rotor blade.
US11536140B2
A gas turbine engine rotor assembly comprises a torque tube, turbine stage and stiffening mass. The torque tube comprises a shaft extending from a forward location to an aft end, and a shaft fastening flange disposed at the aft end. The turbine stage comprises a disc, a disc adapter extending forward from the disc, and a disc fastening flange extending from the disc adapter and couplable to the shaft fastening flange at an interface. The stiffening mass is positioned proximate the interface to reduce operational stress in the torque tube. A method of reducing operational stress in a rotor assembly comprises de-stacking a rotor stack, separating a first stage rotor disc adapter from a torque tube, attaching a stiffening mass to an inner diameter of one or both of the disc adapter and the torque tube, attaching the disc adapter to the torque tube, and re-stacking the rotor stack.
US11536137B2
The various disclosed embodiments provide a split set type composite rockbolt which has a slot extending from a chamfered tip of a tubular body portion of the rockbolt and through a neck portion partway to a collar portion. The rockbolt is made of a composite material which has a resin medium with longitudinal and circumferential fibres.
US11536129B2
One or more images of a tubular being run into a well are captured. The one or more images can be captured by an image sensor. The tubular includes a first tubular section and a second tubular section connected together by a connection. An onsite edge gateway local to the image sensor is configured to perform various operations. Based on the captured one or more images, an elevation of the connection relative to a reference elevation of the well is determined. Based on the determined elevation, an operating condition is determined. It is determined whether the operating condition is included in an automation rule. In response to determining that the automation rule includes the operating condition, a signal is transmitted to drive a controllable device.
US11536121B1
A method for producing a well includes receiving production information associated with wells within a field; deriving a field specific model from the production information; receiving production information associated with the well; projecting production changes associated with installing artificial lift at the well at a projected date, the projecting using a production analysis engine applied to the field specific model, the projecting including determining a set of artificial lift parameters; and installing the artificial lift at the well in accordance with the artificial lift parameters.
US11536118B2
A method of avoiding a frac hit in a hydrocarbon producing field. The method comprises locating a parent wellbore in the hydrocarbon producing field, and then locating a child wellbore in the hydrocarbon producing field. The method also includes running a perforating gun assembly into the child wellbore, wherein the perforating gun assembly comprises a first perforating gun and a second perforating gun, with each defining a gun barrel housing having a first end and an opposing second end. The assembly also includes a tandem sub, with the tandem sub having first and second opposing ends defining a threaded connector, and each end having a side port configured to receive an alignment screw. The method also comprises linearly aligning charges of each of the first and second perforating guns, wherein all charges are aligned in a single direction by rotating one or both of the respective perforating guns relative to the tandem sub. The charges are aligned to fire shots into the formation at a horizontal angle and in a direction away from the parent wellbore.
US11536115B2
A flow control system includes a nozzle for controlling the flow of fluids into production tubing from a hydrocarbon containing reservoir. The nozzle comprises a passage extending between an inlet and an outlet, wherein the passage comprises converging and diverging sections separated by a corner. The nozzle serves to effectively choke the flow of steam and thereby allows preferential production of hydrocarbons.
US11536108B2
A wellhead assembly includes a wellhead housing; a tubing hanger, plug, back pressure valve, two-way check valve, BOP test plug, temporary abandonment plug, or other device; and a torque ring. The wellhead housing includes an inner bore. The wellhead housing has one or more mating grooves formed on an inner wall of the wellhead housing. The tubing hanger, plug, back pressure valve, two-way check valve, BOP test plug, temporary abandonment plug, or other device is positioned within the inner bore of the wellhead housing. The torque ring is positioned within a slot formed in the tubing hanger or other device. The torque ring includes a protrusion extending beyond the tubing hanger and into the mating groove.
US11536101B2
Drilling-fluid monitoring technology for a drilling rig's drilling-fluid circulation system. Pairs of vertically separated pressure sensors are installed at various points in the circulation system, including at the bell nipple or flow line, to provide drilling-fluid density information at different points in the circulation system. The bell nipple/flow line sensors provide information about the height of the fluid in the bell nipple and the density of the drilling fluid before the cuttings are removed from the fluid. Changes in the bell-nipple drilling-fluid density or height may indicate potentially dangerous borehole conditions. Similarly, comparisons between bell-nipple drilling-fluid density with the density at other points in the circulation system provide information about the status of the circulation system. This information may be used to operate the drilling rig more safely and efficiently during the drilling process.
US11536096B2
A downhole cable includes a central core. The central core includes a metal tube having a plurality of optical fibers therein or a copper wire. The downhole cable further includes an extruded aluminum tube surrounding the central core.
US11536095B2
A stop collar for mounting to a downhole tubular includes: a cylindrical housing having a threaded inner surface and a tapered inner surface; a compressible slip ring having teeth formed in an inner surface thereof and a pair of tapered outer surfaces; a solid cam ring having a tapered inner surface; and a cylindrical bolt having a threaded outer surface. A natural outer diameter of each ring is greater than a minor diameter of the threaded surfaces. Screwing the threaded surfaces of the housing and the bolt is operable to drive the tapered surfaces together, thereby compressing the slip ring such that the teeth engage a periphery of the tubular.
US11536094B2
A retention system for attaching a collar to a pipe. The collar has an internally-disposed groove configured for placement of a ring. The ring is sized such that in one orientation, it can enter the collar between torque-transmitting features into the internally-disposed groove. Once in the groove, the ring may be adjusted such that its aperture is generally aligned with the axis of the collar. In this orientation, the features retain the ring within the groove. A bolt and a pipe may then be placed within the collar from opposite sides. The bolt is attached to the pipe through the ring. Once joined, the collar is joined to the pipe, forming its box end. Such a retention system may be used to join a series of inner pipe members of a dual-member pipe assembly, as in horizontal directional drilling.
US11536084B2
The invention relates to a rolling door comprising a door leaf which can be moved between an open position, in which it at least partially releases a wall opening and forms a multi-layer winding above the wall opening, and a closed position, in which it at least partially closes the wall opening, as well as comprising joint assemblies arranged in the region of the lateral edges of the door leaf, at least sections of which are running in the direction of gravity in the closed position, and secured to the door leaf, for guiding the door leaf movement, each of which includes a plurality of joint elements articulately connected relative to joining shafts running perpendicular to the lateral edges and approximately parallel to the door leaf plane, wherein at least sections of the door leaf are made of a bendable material, such as a plastic film, which is stabilised by two, three or more stabilising devices running perpendicular to the lateral edges and in the door leaf plane, wherein the door leaf is only connected to the joint assemblies via the stabilising devices.
US11536083B2
The invention provides automated spacer processing systems and methods. The systems and methods involve at least one robot arm that is configured to process spacers for multiple-pane insulating glazing units. In some embodiments, the systems also include an insulating glazing unit assembly line and a spacer conveyor system. Additionally or alternatively, the systems may include a sealant applicator.
US11536066B2
An appliance includes a cabinet and an inner door. The inner door is configured such that an outer door panel is mountable on the inner door. An adjustable hinge rotatably couples the inner door to the cabinet. The adjustable hinge includes a movable door balance adjuster. A visual scale graphic is positioned proximate the adjustable hinge. The visual scale graphic includes a plurality of outer door panel weight indicia and a plurality of door balance adjuster position indicia. Each of the plurality of door balance adjuster position indicia corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of outer door panel weight indicia.
US11536061B2
A motor vehicle door lock, particularly a motor vehicle bonnet lock, includes a ratchet mechanism which substantially consists of a rotary latch and a pawl. The ratchet mechanism interacts with a lock retainer pin on a vehicle bonnet. A retention element is additionally provided which holds the pawl in a retention position, raised from the rotary latch, during unlocking of the bonnet. The lock retainer pin continues to engage in the rotary latch when in said retention position. During a first opening process which proceeds from the retention position, the lock retainer pin transfers the retention element into a release position that releases the pawl. During a subsequent bonnet closing process, the pawl can thus engage in the rotary latch, which can be pivoted without exertion of force by the lock retainer pin at least into the hold position.
US11536056B2
A locking device for a motor vehicle comprising an actuator, a lock with a locking mechanism, comprising a rotary latch and at least one pawl, the actuator and the lock can be interconnected by a Bowden cable and the Bowden cable has provision for actively blocking a force transmitted by the Bowden cable.
US11536054B2
An electric strike lock is disclosed. The electric strike lock cooperates with a lock when in use. The lock has a lock tongue. The electric strike lock includes a base. The base has an opening for accommodating the lock tongue. The base has a pair of grooves corresponding to two opposite sides of the opening. Two sliding members are slidably disposed in the respective grooves. The sliding members are connected with at least one driving unit for the sliding members to slide closer to each other so that the lock tongue is engaged in the opening, or for the sliding members to gradually slide away from each other so that the lock tongue is disengaged from the opening, thereby performing locking and unlocking operations on a door in a sliding manner.
US11536052B2
An electronic storage cabinet lock includes a lock housing, a lock core, a circuit board, a motor assembly, a clutch mechanism and a battery assembly that are installed in an outer shell. A button assembly and a handle are mounted on the outer side of the outer shell. A cam is mounted on the motor assembly. One end of the lock core is secured in a shaft hole of the handle. When a password is correctly inputted, the button assembly transmits information to the circuit board to control the motor assembly to operate. The cam is driven to rotate to control the open state or closed state of the clutch mechanism. The handle can rotate to drive the lock core to rotate, thereby rotating a lock tongue to open the lock.
US11536045B2
Method for installing a hollow concrete tower comprising the following steps: a) arranging a platform on a site; b) arranging on said platform at least one partial full-segment mould in a position such that the segment axis of the segment being cast in said mould is substantially vertical; c) pouring concrete inside said arranged partial mould(s); d) allowing the poured concrete to set to working strength, generating corresponding segment(s); e) removing the arranged mould(s) with concrete set to working strength, to leave the corresponding segment(s) exposed; f) assembling said corresponding exposed segment(s); and g) optionally, repeating steps b)-f) at least once.
US11536038B2
A method for levelling an anchoring system for a dropped ceiling, a floating floor, a pipe or a cable tray, having at least one support bracket for the pipe or a section bar of a support frame of a dropped ceiling, a floating floor or a cable tray, and an adjustment screw to adjust the distance of the section bar from a reference surface, wherein a laser receiver is placed in contact with the section bar or the support bracket, has an optical window to receive a laser beam emitted by a laser level, assumes two height states indicating the receiving position of the laser beam relative to a reference position, and transmits, in a wireless manner, two control signals corresponding to the two height states, and wherein an electric screwdriver receives, in a wireless manner, the control signals and switches the rotation of the adjustment screw between one direction and the opposite direction based on the control signal received.
US11536033B2
An interlocking panel system for covering a base surface with interlocking panels to prevent water ingress. A first panel is secured to the base surface. A second panel interlocks with the first panel via a hook portion on the second panel entering a receptacle of the first panel. The hook portion expands after entering a retaining portion of the receptacle, thereby preventing the hook portion of the second panel from being withdrawn from the first panel.
US11536031B2
A reinforcing mesh element for embedding in a cement matrix of a building structure, preferably in a corner region or in a curved region. The reinforcing mesh element has a grid-shaped arrangement of fiber bundles that are embedded in a plastic matrix. The reinforcing mesh element has at least one rigid zone and at least one flexible zone. In the at least one flexible zone the plastic matrix consists of an elastomer plastic. The plastic matrix comprises in the at least one rigid zone a thermoset plastic. The flexible or rigid form of the reinforcing mesh element is thus obtained, due to the set-up of the plastic matrix. Additional stiffening bodies or stiffening elements that are connected with the grid-shaped arrangement can be omitted. The reinforcing mesh element can be adapted to the respective situation and simplifies handling when manufacturing a building structure.
US11536029B2
A mounting assembly is provided for quick and easy attachment to engineered joists. The mounting assembly includes a brace assembly and a mounting bracket. The mounting assembly may also include an electrical box. The brace assembly is an adjustable member that extends between flanges of engineered ceiling joists. The brace assembly has two low profile end caps that can engage the flanges of engineered ceiling joists and apply a force against the flanges when tightened. The mounting bracket is connected to a hanger body of the brace assembly by a snap fit and the electrical box is attached to the mounting bracket.
US11536021B2
A weldment support for holding a weldment plate in a precast concrete form is provided. The weldment support holds the weldment plate at a predetermined position so that the weldment plate is exposed on one side of the finished precast concrete panel. Weldment plates have one or more studs extending into the form to anchor the plate in the precast concrete panel. The weldment support has multiple adjustment features to secure the weldment support to different sizes of studs and to set the weldment plate at different positions within the form. In some embodiments, one adjustment feature is a plurality of deflectable fingers that engage the stud of the weldment plate, and another adjustment feature is a plurality of segments that can be broken off of the support to set the position of the weldment plate in the form.
US11536020B2
A connector assembly, having an upper connector, a pin coupling the upper connector to a lower connector and a gusset plate sandwiched between the upper and lower connectors. Also, disclosed is a hoistable connector assembly, a lifting frame assembly, a coupling system for modular frame units, a method for assembling a module unit using the connector assembly, and a modular frame unit and building having the connector assembly.
US11536012B2
A system for treating the hair, to be connected to a water inlet, that includes at least one source of a cosmetic product, a water-dispensing device to convey the water to the hair, an adjustment device making it possible to inject, into the water, the product originating from the at least one source of product and to vary the content of product originating from this source in the water conveyed to the hair by the dispensing device and/or the amount of product conveyed to the hair by the dispensing device, this adjustment being able to assume at least one intermediate value between minimum and maximum content and/or amount values, a pressure booster to increase the pressure of the water at the inlet of the dispensing device beyond the pressure of the water at the inlet of the system.
US11536011B2
A reduced profile faucet handle assembly illustratively includes a mounting shank receiving a valve assembly, and an escutcheon operably coupled to the mounting shank. A mounting ring is positioned intermediate the mounting shank and the escutcheon, and a retainer couples the escutcheon to the mounting ring.
US11536008B2
A first processor determines a loaded state of a bucket, makes a determination that a traveling apparatus has performed an operation for shifting from a rearward movement state to a state (forward movement or stop) other than the rearward movement state in the loaded state, and calculates a load weight of the bucket from a detection value of a work implement sensor (first hydraulic pressure detectors and a first angle detector) based on the determination.
US11536006B2
A controller controls the steering device so as to cause a vehicle body to turn toward the left when a left steering lever is operated without a right steering lever being operated. The controller controls the steering device so as to cause the vehicle body to turn toward the right when the right steering lever is operated without the left steering lever being operated. The controller reduces the rotation speed of the engine when both the left steering lever and the right steering lever are operated and both the operation amount of the left steering lever and the operation amount of the right steering lever are equal to or greater than a first threshold.
US11536000B2
A capping assembly (10) for mounting on a covering (12) is disclosed. The capping assembly (10) comprises a cap (14) which can be disposed on the covering (12), a securing arrangement (18) to enable the capping assembly (10) to be secured on the covering (12). The capping assembly (10) further includes an insertion member (16) for insertion through the covering (12). The cap (14) can be attached to the insertion member (16). The securing arrangement (18) comprises a securing device (20) and a holding formation (44) to hold the securing device (20), the holding formation (44) being provided on the insertion member (16).
US11535997B2
A modular building block apparatus for the construction of a coastal or river bank erosion defence or protection structure includes a plurality of blocks arranged in stacked rows, the blocks in each row having cooperating formations whereby the blocks in each row are interconnected with one another. Apertures formed in each block extend perpendicular to the rows, and a plurality of connector members extend through aligned apertures in adjacent rows of the blocks to interlock the rows to one another.
US11535994B2
A cargo carrier for portable nimble strips that is mountable to a vehicle has a support surface that is configured to support multiple portable rumble strips. The support surface also is configured to move between a deployment position having a first width and a transit position having a second width that is less than the first width. The cargo carrier includes a frame that defines the support surface. In the illustrated embodiment, the support surface is divided along a major width dimension into at least three planar segments that are movable relative to one another to alter the overall width of the support surface, including a center portion and lateral portions extending from opposing sides of the center portion. The lateral portions are pivotably movable between extended positions aligned with the center portion in a horizontal orientation and retracted positions inclined relative to the center portion.
US11535992B2
A method of producing a preformed pavement marking prior to application to paving on the ground comprises: providing a first sheet (10a) of thermoplastic pavement marking material; providing a second sheet (10b) of thermoplastic pavement marking material; positioning the first and second sheets (10a, 10b) next to each other; transferring energy to an energization zone (28) along an edge of at least one of said first and second sheets (10a; 10b), to locally liquefy a portion of the thermoplastic material of said at least one of the first and second thermoplastic pavement marking material sheets (10a, 10b) in the energization zone (28); and solidifying the liquefied thermoplastic of the energization zone (28) to form a bond between the first and second sheets (10a, 10b).
US11535989B2
A vertiport for an aircraft. The vertiport includes a landing platform that includes a landing surface and a plurality of primary through-openings, wherein the landing platform at least partially defines a primary chamber subjacent to the landing platform, the primary chambering having a primary chamber volume, and wherein the plurality of primary through-openings are in fluid communication with the primary chamber. The disclosed vertiport further includes an air moving unit positioned to withdraw air from the primary chamber.
US11535987B2
A support structure for a float pan for floating a concrete surface provides an interface between the float pan and a rotating machine. The support structure is characterized by a hub configured for concentric attachment to a rotor, and by trusses that extend radially from the hub, each providing a float pan contact surface and means for attachment to the float pan. Perimetric bracing links the trusses about the perimeter of the support structure. A machine similar to a walk-behind or ride-on trowel but without rotor blades, may incorporate the support structure and operate as a dedicated power flotation machine. Under weight of the machine, the contact surfaces of the trusses conform the float pan to a desired shape or radius of curvature for optimizing a flotation process.
US11535986B2
A vehicle mounted spreader for spreading materials such as sand, salt, or other granular chemicals onto snow and ice covered paved surfaces comprises a material container for containing the material to be spread, a liquid container for containing liquid with which to pre-wet the material, a spinner for spreading the pre-wet material, an auger for conveying the material to the spinner, a liquid applicator for applying liquid to the material to pre-wet the material, and a paddle mixer mounted to an end of the auger adjacent the liquid applicator for mixing the liquid and the material.
US11535977B2
An autonomously actuated washing and drying device includes a rigid frame configured to pivot about a pivot shaft, a combined washing and drying tub and drum assembly suspended within the frame, and a controller in operable communication with a pivot motor for rotating the pivot shaft and a drive motor for spinning the drum. The pivot shaft is configured to rotate the frame from an upright orientation to an inverted orientation. The controller is configured to instruct the pivot motor to rotate the frame to the upright orientation for receiving at least one deformable article into an opening of the drum, and rotate the frame to a wash orientation between the upright orientation and inverted orientation. The controller is configured to execute a washing and drying routine based on parameters including instructing the drive motor to spin the drum about a drive axis at the wash orientation.
US11535976B2
A laundry treating apparatus has a cabinet including an inlet on a front surface, a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet to open and close the inlet, a first chamber in the cabinet to accommodate a clothing item therein, a supply portion communicating with the first chamber to supply at least one of air or moisture into the accommodation space, and a holding portion in at least one of the first chamber or the door. The holding holds or secures the clothing item in the accommodation space. The holding portion includes a fixing portion coupled to an inner surface of the first chamber or the door for securing the clothing item, and a pressing portion rotatably coupled to the inner surface for pressing the clothing item secured to the fixing unit. The pressing portion rotates in a height direction of the door to press the clothing item.
US11535971B2
A laundry washing machine having a cabinet supporting a washing drum adapted to receive laundry, and a washing tub external to the washing drum, and a treating agents dispenser with one or more compartments adapted to be receive treating agents. A first one of the compartments has a predefined zone configured to receive a unit dose package having a pre-measured amount of treating agent incorporated into a water-soluble pouch. The machine has a valve configured to connect to a source of pressurized water, and a water conveying line fluidly connected to the valve and having one or more outlets. The entirety of the water conveying line is water tight except for the outlets. The outlets are configured to direct a respective pressurized flow of water therethrough. At least one outlet is configured to direct a first pressurized flow of water into the first compartment towards the predefined zone.
US11535970B2
A washing machine appliance may include a tub, a basket, an impeller base, an extended post, and a connector bar. The basket may be rotatably positioned within the tub. The impeller base may include a mounting face disposed radially inward from one or more impeller fins. The mounting face may include a mounting bracket defining one or more attachment slots. The extended post may be removably attached to the impeller base and include a base body, an auger fin, and a mating face. The base body may define an interior cavity. The auger fin may extend radially from the base body. The mating face may include a mating collar defining one or more attachment rails corresponding to the one or more attachment slots. The connector bar may be selectively received within the interior cavity.
US11535952B2
A wafer carrier includes a pocket sized and shaped to accommodate a wafer, the pocket having a base and a substantially circular perimeter, and a removable orientation marker, the removable orientation marker comprising an outer surface and an inner surface, the outer surface having an arcuate form sized and shaped to mate with the substantially circular perimeter of the pocket, and the inner surface comprising a flat face, wherein the removable orientation marker further comprises a notch at a first end of the flat face.
US11535950B2
A method of plating a metal layer on a work piece includes exposing a surface of the work piece to a plating solution, and supplying a first voltage at a negative end of a power supply source to an edge portion of the work piece. A second voltage is supplied to an inner portion of the work piece, wherein the inner portion is closer to a center of the work piece than the edge portion. A positive end of the power supply source is connected to a metal plate, wherein the metal plate and the work piece are spaced apart from each other by, and are in contact with, the plating solution.
US11535942B2
When forming valve seat coats at opening portions (16a1 to 16a8) of intake ports (16) provided at a cylinder block mounting surface (12a) of a semimanufactured cylinder head (3), the nozzle of a cold spray apparatus moves along a nozzle movement path for air intake (Inp1) that is set between any two of the plurality of opening portions (16a1 to 16a8), while continuing to spray a raw material powder. When forming valve seat coats at opening portions (17a1 to 17a8) of exhaust ports (17), the nozzle moves along a nozzle movement path for air exhaust (Enp1) that is set between any two of the plurality of opening portions (17a1 to 17a8), while continuing to spray the raw material powder.
US11535941B2
A problem to be solved by the present invention is that there is no method for forming a dense structure on a porous structure at low cost. In addition, another object is to provide a high quality and inexpensive structure of a brittle material and a laminate thereof as an intermediate layer for facilitating formation of a dense structure on a porous structure. A structure is provided having a brittle particle assembly having a plurality of brittle particles, wherein the brittle particle assemblies are arranged adjacently to each other, and the brittle particles having a brittle material region in the periphery are crosslinked (connected) by the brittle material region to bond the brittle particles to each other, and thereby form a brittle material crosslinked structure region preventing the mobility of the brittle particles.
US11535940B2
The invention relates to use of an adhesion promoting organic compound comprising at least one tertiary amine group, bonded via a bridge-constituting divalent radical, with the carbonyl carbon atom of an amide group, wherein the bridge-constituting divalent radical comprises two carbon atoms as bridge atoms, for anticorrosion pretreatment of metallic materials before painting and to aqueous compositions containing the adhesion promoting organic compound which generate conversion layers based on the elements Zr, Ti and/or Si. The present invention further comprises a process for anticorrosion coating of components at least partly manufactured from metallic materials comprising a pretreatment using acidic aqueous compositions according to the invention and subsequent painting. In a further aspect, the invention relates to a metallic substrate having a mixed organic/inorganic coating consisting of oxides, hydroxides and/or oxyfluorides of the elements Zr, Ti and/or Si and of the adhesion promoting organic compounds.
US11535936B2
A showerhead utilized within a process chamber includes a first inlet for receiving a first gas from a first source at a center region of an inner plenum defined therein. A plurality of second inlets is defined along a peripheral region of the showerhead for receiving a second gas from a second source. A plurality of conduits couples the edge plenum to an outer edge of the inner plenum so as to supply the second gas to the inner plenum. The first gas creates an inner flow that flows radially outward from the center region to an outer edge of the inner plenum and the second gas supplied by the edge plenum creates a perimeter flow that flows inward from the outer edge of the inner plenum toward the center region. A stagnation point defining an adjustable radius is formed at an interface of the first gas and the second gas. A plurality of outlets are defined across a lower surface of the showerhead and extends a diameter of the inner plenum such that the first gas from the inner flow exits the plurality of outlets from the center region up to the stagnation point and the second gas from the perimeter flow exits the plurality of outlets from the stagnation point to the outer edge.
US11535934B2
A vaporizer includes a tank in which liquid material is heated to generate gas, a cabinet which houses the tank, and a conduit which supplies the gas to the outside of the cabinet. The vaporizer also includes a flow rate measuring means which measures a flow rate of the gas flowing through said conduit, and a heater plate which heats the conduit. The cabinet comprises a detachable panel that is a panel which can be removed. A first support member is fixed directly or indirectly to said cabinet at a position other than said detachable panel, the flow rate measuring means is supported by said first support member, and the heater plate is supported between said flow rate measuring means and said detachable panel by said first support member.
US11535932B2
A film forming method includes forming a film by sequentially performing operations for each of a plurality of kinds of reaction gases, the operations being of storing the reaction gas in a storage part to raise a pressure in the storage part to a first pressure and then discharging the reaction gas into the process vessel, while continuously supplying the counter gas, and purging by repeating multiple times operations of storing a purge gas in the storage part provided in the reaction gas supply passage to raise the pressure in the storage part to a second pressure higher than the first pressure, and discharging the purge gas into the process vessel. A flow rate of the counter gas supplied into the process vessel in the purging is smaller than a flow rate of the counter gas supplied into the process vessel in the forming the film.
US11535931B2
There is provided a technique that includes executing a process recipe for processing a substrate; and executing a correction recipe for checking a characteristic value of a supply valve installed at a process gas supply line, wherein the act of executing the correction recipe comprises: supplying an inert gas into the process gas supply line for a certain period of time in a state where an adjusting valve that is installed at an exhaust portion of a process furnace and adjusts an internal pressure of the process furnace is fully opened; detecting a pressure value in a supply pipe provided with the supply valve while supplying the inert gas into the process gas supply line in the state where the adjusting valve is fully opened; and calculating the characteristic value of the supply valve based on the detected pressure value.
US11535930B2
A sputtering apparatus including a chamber, a gas supply configured to supply the chamber with a first gas and a second inert gas, the first inert gas and the second inert gas having a first evaporation point and second evaporation point, respectively, a plurality of sputter guns in an upper portion of the chamber, a chuck in a lower portion of the chamber and facing the sputter guns, the chuck configured to accommodate a substrate thereon, and a cooling unit connected to a lower portion of the chuck, the cooling unit configured to cool the chuck to a temperature less than the first evaporation point and greater than the second evaporation point, and a method of fabricating a magnetic memory device may be provided.
US11535927B2
Provided is a chamber system for solid free form fabrication, the chamber system having a deposition chamber, a service chamber and one or more loading/unloading chambers. The chamber system allows for a more efficient and cost effective process to service the deposition apparatus, load holding substrates, and unload workpieces without requiring having to adjust the atmosphere in the deposition chamber.
US11535920B2
Disclosed is a method of producing a copper alloy sheet material, wherein the copper alloy sheet material contains nickel (Ni) 0.5 to 1.5% by weight; cobalt (Co) 0.3 to 1.5% by weight; silicon (Si) 0.35 to 0.8% by weight; chromium (Cr) 0.05 to 0.5% by weight; a balance amount of copper (Cu); and inevitable impurities. Further, disclosed is a copper alloy sheet material produced using the method.
US11535914B2
A duplex stainless steel has reduced precipitation risks of Al nitride and Cr nitride which are undesirable precipitates, and has superior low temperature toughness. The duplex stainless steel has in mass %, indicated as “%”, C: 0.001 to 0.030%, Si: 0.05 to 0.5%, S: not more than 0.002%, Ni: 6 to 7.5%, Cr: 23 to 26%, Mo: 2 to 4.0%, N: 0.20 to 0.40%, Al: 0.005 to 0.03%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.3%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050% and Fe, and the remainder being inevitable impurities. The duplex stainless steel has an impact value of not less than 87.5 J/cm2 at −46±2° C. as defined in Japanese Industrial Standards Z2242.
US11535913B2
A multi-material component joined by a high entropy alloy is provided, as well as methods of making a multi-material component by joining dissimilar materials with high entropy alloys.
US11535897B2
Composite epigenetic biomarkers for accurate screening, diagnosis and prognosis of colorectal cancer
The present disclosure concerns particular biomarkers for screening, diagnosing and/or prognosticating colorectal cancer, in particular in an accurate manner. The methods and compositions concern analysis of methylation patterns of one or more of 176 methylatable genomic DNA regions identified as described herein. In particular embodiments there are methods of detecting methylatable regions in genomic sequences.
US11535890B2
An example of a sequencing kit includes a flow cell, an encapsulation matrix precursor composition, and a radical initiator. The flow cell includes a plurality of chambers and primers attached within each of the plurality of chambers. The encapsulation matrix precursor composition consists of a fluid, a monomer or polymer including a radical generating and chain elongating functional group, a radical source, and a crosslinker. The radical initiator is part of the encapsulation matrix precursor composition or is a separate component.
US11535887B2
Provided herein are methods for spatial analysis using targeted RNA depletion.
US11535885B2
Disclosed is a probe for use in biological assays. The probe includes a fluorescent dye bound to a quencher compound through an oligonucleotide linker. Also disclosed are methods of using the probe, such as for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR), such as in a quantitative PCR reaction (qPCR), as well as kits including the probe.
US11535880B2
Described herein are engineered organelles comprising multi-component proteins from different species incorporated into a membrane structure with interior and exterior aspects. In one embodiment the artificial organelle incorporates one or more protein complexes that absorb optical energy and catalyze electron transfer in biochemical reactions that can be used to reduce NAD+ to NADH or analogues thereof.
US11535877B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of industrial biotechnology and particularly to an improved hydrolysis method for increasing sugar production from a high solids concentration of lignocellulosic biomass, especially one derived from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) by enzymatic hydrolysis of a lignocellulosic biomass to obtain a slurry, wherein the hydrolysis comprises aliquot additions of enzyme and lignocellulosic biomass; and removal of sugars from the slurry and washing of the residual lignocellulosic biomass.
US11535871B2
Described herein are methods and compositions for genomic editing. Endonucleases for genomic editing involve inducing breaks in double stranded DNA, for which knock-ins are notoriously inefficient for relying on random integration of homologous DNA sequences into the break site by repair proteins. To address these issues, described herein are novel recombinant fusion proteins that actively recruit linear DNA inserts in closer proximity to the genomic cleavage site, increasing integration efficiency of large DNA fragments into the genome. Such improvements to genomic editing technology allow one to use lower linear DNA concentrations without sacrificing efficiency and can be further combined with other features, such as fluorescent protein reporting systems.
US11535869B2
Disclosed herein are antibodies or antigen binding fragments thereof that specifically bind human CD8. Also disclosed are fusion proteins comprising a Henipavirus glycoprotein G and CD8 antibodies for targeting and transducing cells expressing CD8. Viral vectors and other compositions containing the fusion proteins, as well as methods of using the fusion proteins, are also disclosed.
US11535868B2
Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, cells, vectors, and pharmaceutical compositions relating to miniaturized dystrophin. Methods of production and methods of therapeutic use of the miniaturized dystrophin are also disclosed.
US11535867B2
Provided herein are methods related to co-packaging of multiple rAAV particles, e.g., by introducing multiple nucleic acid vectors encoding proteins or polypeptides or RNAs of interest into a single cell preparation.
US11535840B2
The invention provides methods and systems by which enzymes can be modified to improve solubility, catalytic activity, recoverability, and recyclability. The enzyme may be modified with a thermosensitive copolymer to form an enzyme-polymer conjugate that exhibits upper critical solution temperature (UCST) and/or lower critical solution temperature (LCST)-type behavior in an organic solvent, ionic liquid, or other solvent. Methods and systems of the invention facilitate the use of enzymes as biocatalysts in solvents.
US11535834B2
A recombinant ribonuclease is disclosed. The recombinant ribonuclease is produced by introducing a recombinant DNA sequence into a host; activating expression of the recombinant DNA sequence within the host to produce the recombinant ribonuclease; and isolating the recombinant ribonuclease from the host. Additionally, a method of analyzing an RNA sequence includes digesting the RNA with a first recombinant ribonuclease to give digestion products comprising nucleotides of the RNA sequence; and analyzing the digestion products using an analytical method to provide the identity of at least some of the nucleotides. The recombinant ribonuclease includes at least one of a uridine-specific recombinant RNase MC1 and a cytidine-specific recombinant RNase Cusativin.
US11535833B2
The present disclosure provides engineered carboxyesterase enzymes that have the ability to catalyze amide bond formation. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the carboxyesterase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered carboxyesterase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered carboxyesterase enzymes to make commercially valuable amides. Also provided are amides that are made using the engineered carboxyesterase enzymes.
US11535830B2
A method for the bio-production of threonine including genetically modified yeasts and a method in which they are used to produce threonine, as compared to the parent yeasts.
US11535829B2
Disclosed are genetically engineered organisms, such as yeast and bacteria, that have the ability to metabolize atypical phosphorus or sulfur sources. Fermentation methods using the genetically engineered organisms are also described. The fermentation methods are robust processes for the industrial bioproduction of a variety of compounds, including commodities, fine chemicals, an pharmaceuticals.
US11535827B2
The present invention provides a product comprising plated human hepatocytes on a surface and at least some of the plated hepatocytes are in one or more hepatocyte clusters on feeder cells, which are attached to the surface. A method of preparing plated human hepatocytes is also provided. The preparation method comprises applying human hepatocytes to a surface in the presence of feeder cells, co-culturing the applied hepatocytes with the feeder cells, and forming one or more hepatocyte clusters by the co-cultured hepatocytes on the feeder cells, which are attached to the surface. The plated hepatocytes may be used for various purposes, including the preparation of a hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected hepatocyte culture model and drug testing.
US11535821B2
A culture system for co-culturing a first cell group consisting of one or more kinds of cells and a cell layer or tissue formed of a second cell group consisting of one or more kinds of cells different from the former cells comprising: a first culture tank for co-culturing under anaerobic conditions the first cell group consisting of one or more kinds of cells and the cell layer or tissue formed of the second cell group consisting of one or more kinds of cells; a second culture tank for pooling a liquid culture medium of aerobic conditions; one or more substance-exchange structures that are disposed so as to connect the first culture tank to the second culture tank; and the aforesaid cell layer or tissue that is disposed so as to cover the surface on the first culture tank side of the substance-exchange structure(s).
US11535809B2
The present invention relates to a lubricating composition, intended for a refrigerant system comprising a gas compression circuit, comprising: at least one first polyalkylene glycol exhibiting a hydroxyl number strictly of greater than 50 mg KOH/g and a kinematic viscosity, measured at 100° C. according to the standard ASTM D445, ranging from 5 to 10 mm2/s, and at least one second polyalkylene glycol with a kinematic viscosity, measured at 100° C., ranging from 100 to 500 mm2/s, said polyalkylene glycols A and B being present in a PAG(s) A/PAG(s) B ratio by weight of between 60/40 and 99/1. It also relates to the employment of such a lubricating composition in a refrigerant system comprising a gas compression circuit, in particular for an automobile air conditioning system, in combination with a coolant based on hydrocarbon compounds, such as R134a and/or HFO-1234yf.
US11535805B2
A biofuel product having constituents selected from the group including fat, oil and/or grease components. A container is formed of a biodegradable material having a multiplicity of openings of a size and shape adapted for allowing the fat, oil and/or grease components to pass through the openings to an interior area of the container. An absorbent capture material is positioned in the container and holds a quantity of the fat, oil and/or grease. The container, capture material and fat, oil and/or grease collectively comprise the biofuel product.
US11535804B2
A biofuel product having constituents selected from the group including fat, oil and/or grease components. A container is formed of a biodegradable material having a multiplicity of openings of a size and shape adapted for allowing the fat, oil and/or grease components to pass through the openings to an interior area of the container. An absorbent capture material is positioned in the container and holds a quantity of the fat, oil and/or grease. The container, capture material and fat, oil and/or grease collectively include the biofuel product.
US11535793B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to surfactant compositions for treatment of subterranean formations and produced oil. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation including placing in the subterranean formation a surfactant composition. The surfactant composition includes an alkanolamide surfactant and an alkoxylated alcohol surfactant. The surfactant composition also includes an ionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, or a combination thereof.
US11535786B2
A wellbore fluid may include an oleaginous fluid forming a continuous phase; a non-oleaginous fluid forming a discontinuous phase; at least one emulsifier stabilizing an emulsion of the non-oleaginous continuous phase within the oleaginous continuous phase; and at least one viscosifier dispersed into the oleaginous continuous phase in a concentration of at least 4 ppb; wherein upon subjecting the wellbore fluid to shear rate of at least 10,000 s−1, the emulsion is disrupted and the non-oleaginous fluid contacts the at least one viscosifier, thereby solidifying the wellbore fluid.
US11535784B2
Methods and combinations of mattress support surfaces comprising one or more flexible polyurethane foam layers containing highly thermally-conductive solids, such as diamond or silicon carbide, and said layer combination is capable of transferring heat from a warm surface, such as a person sleeping on a bed, to a cooler region at a faster rate throughout the mattress than the thermal dissipation rate obtained from flexible polyurethane foam without highly thermally-conductive solids.
US11535781B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus (1) is capable of performing a refrigeration cycle using a small-GWP refrigerant. The refrigeration cycle apparatus (1) includes a refrigerant circuit (10) and a refrigerant enclosed in the refrigerant circuit (10). The refrigerant circuit includes a compressor (21), a condenser (23), a decompressing section (24), and an evaporator (31). The refrigerant contains at least 1,2-difluoroethylene.
US11535780B2
A deicing formulation, comprising a chemically degraded extract derived from biowaste; and a salt is provided. Methods for preventing ice formation or removing ice from a surface by applying the deicing formula made of chemically degraded extract derived from biowaste and a salt to the surface are also provided.
US11535778B2
The invention relates to an adhesive film which comprises a layer of an adhesive that comprises one or more polymers and at least one peroxide, characterized in that the adhesive comprises at last 50% by weight of thermoplastic polymers that do not have C═C multiple bonds, in that at least one peroxide has the general structural formula R—O—O—R′, wherein R and R′ each represent organyl groups or together represent a cyclic organyl group, and in that the peroxide in solution has a 1-minute half-life temperature of less than 200° C. In a preferred embodiment, the thermoplastic polymer is a polyurethane and the peroxide is a dicumyl peroxide.
US11535771B2
Surface coating materials, films, stacked structures, display devices, articles, and coating methods
A surface coating material includes a plurality of fluorine-containing silicon compounds and an additive. The fluorine-containing silicon compounds include a fluorine-containing (poly)ether moiety, a hydrolytic silane moiety, and a linking group between the fluorine-containing (poly)ether moiety and the hydrolytic silane moiety. The linking group is configured to form a non-covalence interaction between adjacent molecules.
US11535769B1
Disclosed is a heat curable solvent free plastisol composition that exhibits very low volatile organic compound amounts while maintaining high performance characteristics. The present plastisol compositions have solvent substitutes used at amounts up to 15% by weight based on the total composition weight. The solvent substitutes have very low vapor pressures, stable viscosity effects, and are fusible with the plastisol polymers. These solvent substitutes can be used to replace the typical solvents without requiring extensive re-formulation of the plastisol composition. The final plastisol compositions according to the present invention exhibit low VOC measures of less than 0.03 pounds per gallon when measured according to EPA Method 24.
US11535760B2
Provided herein is a composition for treating aluminum containing surfaces, wherein the composition includes a reaction product of at least one amine-functionalized organosilane and/or oligomer and/or polymer thereof and at least one fatty acid, wherein the molar ratio of the amino group/s of the at least one amine-functionalized organosilane and/or oligomer and/or polymer thereof and of the at least one fatty acid is 1.2:1 to 1:2, and wherein the at least one amine-functionalized organosilane and/or oligomer and/or polymer thereof is linked to the at least one fatty acid by at least one carboxylic acid/amine salt bond and/or at least one amide bond.
US11535759B2
The present invention provides an anti-corrosion composition comprising an inorganic ion-exchanger and a waterborne resin, wherein a substrate exposed to a halide-containing environment and having the anti-corrosion composition applied thereto has a reduced level of corrosion compared to the substrate exposed to the halide-containing environment without the anti-corrosion composition being applied. The inventive waterborne anti-corrosion composition may find use on substrates such as automotive vehicles, bridges, cranes, superstructures, offshore oil & gas rigs, pipes, tanks, ships, barges, boats, aircraft, concrete, and masonry that are exposed to halide-containing environments.
US11535756B2
A method for producing a silica composite particle including a silica particle and at least one compound in which an aluminum atom bonds to an organic group through oxygen. The method includes: (i) providing a silica particle dispersion liquid having a silica particle content of about 20 mass % or more; (ii) mixing and reacting a compound represented by formula (S1) and the silica particle dispersion liquid to obtain a slurry; (iii) providing the at least one compound; and (iv) then mixing and reacting the slurry with the at least one compound to form the silica composite particle.
US11535753B2
A natural binder for binding biomasses and industrial waste and/or recycled materials, using processes employed for petroleum-derived binders, includes a mixture of a protein flour, a plant hydrolyzate, and a magnesium oxide.
US11535751B2
An asymmetrically substituted polyorganosiloxane comprising at least one or more siloxane blocks and different reactive groups at each end of the siloxane chain, e.g. an alkoxysilyl, alkenyl, epoxy, hydroxyaromatic or an ionic substituent. Each polyorganosiloxane block has substantially a monomodal chain length distribution and is suitable for the use as a surface modifying agent for organic or inorganic particles, as a surface active material, and/or as a compatibilizer in compositions having more two or more non-miscible phases.
US11535748B2
A polycarbonate article is described that is formed from a thermoplastic composition comprised of a polycarbonate or polycarbonate copolymer; and at least 1% by weight of a polysilsesquioxane (PSQ) solid particles that have a decomposition temperature of at least 350° C. and an acicular filler, which desirably has an aspect ratio of 2 to 50. The PSQ particles are desirably spherical. The article is formed by heating the composition and shaping the heated composition, wherein the article and the filler and PSQ particles are dispersed therein, wherein the PSQ particles desirably maintain their spherical morphology.
US11535738B2
A resin sheet of the present invention is a checker glass-like resin sheet made of a transparent thermoplastic resin, and includes a plurality of sectional arch-shaped elongated protrusions extending in one direction are regularly arranged in rows on, one surface of the resin sheet; and a plurality of sectional arch-shaped elongated protrusions extending in a direction perpendicular to the protrusions arranged on the one surface are regularly arranged in rows, on another surface of the resin sheet, in which an arithmetic average waviness (Wa) at a vertex of the protrusion in a direction in which the protrusion extends is 20 μm or less on both surfaces of the resin sheet. Accordingly, there is provided a resin sheet that can be used as an alternative to checker glass and has a certain degree of visibility from a short distance while having a shielding property from a long distance.
US11535736B2
A method of combining rubbers and plastics when injection molding, and compositions usable in injection molding, are shown and described. Comminuted rubber from waste tires and waste plastics including any of high density polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, and polypropylene are combined and heated to melt at least the plastics. In one optional approach, both are melted. Plastics comprise from twenty to eighty percent by weight of the mixture, with rubber accounting for the balance. The mixture may be fortified with bonding, compatibilizing, and strengthening agents. The compositions may be cooled and pelletized for immediate use in injection operations.
US11535733B2
Color-stable rheology controlled polyolefin compositions and methods of making are described. A color-stable rheology controlled polyolefin composition can include a controlled rheology grade thermoplastic polyolefin, and an effective amount of a trisamide-based compound that imparts color-stability to the composition. The color-stable solid-state thermoplastic polyolefin composition can have a Hunter b value color change (Δb) rate of ≤0.03/day when stored at 93° C. for 50 days.
US11535730B2
According to the invention, a high strength heat resistant rubber composition having both excellent strength and heat resistance, comprising: 80 to 85 parts by mass of a rubber base material; 5 to 11 parts by mass of attapulgite; 40 to 50 parts by mass of a linear low-density polyethylene; 4 to 6 parts by mass of a ceramic powder; 2 to 6 parts by mass of a cross-linking agent; 5 to 9 parts by mass of a filler; 5 to 9 parts by mass of a cross-linking aid; 8 to 13 parts by mass of rosin; 12 to 16 parts by mass of bismaleimide; and 7 to 12 parts by mass of yttrium oxide and a process for producing a high strength heat resistant rubber product using the composition are provided.
US11535725B1
A polymeric composition includes a diene elastomer; an azodicarboxy compound; and a reinforcing filler comprising silica. The composition is not foamed. A method for preparing a polymeric composition includes mixing in one or more steps: a diene elastomer; an azodicarboxy compound; and a reinforcing filler. The mixing temperature is less than 160° C. in mixing steps in which the azodicarboxy compound is present. In an embodiment, the mixing temperature is kept below the decomposition temperature of the azodicarboxy compound.
US11535724B2
An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition, including: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A); acetic acid and/or a salt thereof (B); an aliphatic carboxylic acid (C) other than acetic acid; and an aliphatic carboxylic acid metal salt (D), wherein a metal species of the salt (D) is at least one selected from long Periodic Table 4th-period d-block elements, and wherein respective contents of the acetic acid and/or the salt thereof (B), the acid (C), and the salt (D) satisfy the following formulae (1) and (2) on a weight basis is provided. The resin composition is excellent in impact resistance and adhesive strength even without being blended with any other resin: 0.001≤(content of (D) in terms of metal ion/content of (B) in terms of acetic acid ion)≤1.30 (1) 0.11≤(content of (D) in terms of metal ion/content of (C) in terms of carboxylic acid ion)≤100 (2).
US11535717B2
There is provided a novel ionic composite material that can be molded into various shapes using lignin sulfonic acid as one of raw materials thereof, and having flexibility and elasticity, to significantly improve the strength and toughness and impart complete biodegradability thereto. It was found that a combination of ε-polylysine (ε-PL) which is a cationic polymer that is produced by microorganisms and lignin sulfonic acid exhibits excellent strength and toughness. In addition, ε-PL used in this technology is a biodegradable polymer that is completely degraded by microorganisms and the like in the environment. Since lignin sulfonic acid is also a biodegradable polymer, it is thought that a complex in which ε-PL and lignin sulfonic acid are mixed in this technology will exhibit complete biodegradability, and more applications thereof can be expected when utilizing the strength, durability, and biodegradability thereof in addition to the improved strength and toughness.
US11535714B2
Provided is a polymerizable liquid (or “resin”) for producing three-dimensional objects by additive manufacturing, which may include one or more of: (a) a polyvinyl siloxane; (b) a polythiol crosslinker; (c) a photoinitiator (e.g., a free radical photoinitiator); (d) optionally, a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer; (e) optionally, a reactive diluent; (f) optionally, but in some embodiments preferably, a pigment or dye; (g) optionally, but in some embodiments preferably, a reactive or non-reactive filler; and (h) optionally, an odor scavenger.
US11535713B2
The present invention relates to covalent adaptable networks (CANs) having exchangeable crosslinks that are able to undergo repeated covalent bond reshuffling through photo-activation at ambient temperatures. The invention provides covalent adaptable network forming compositions as well as methods of forming, remolding and recycling the CANs of the invention.
US11535707B1
The present invention is directed to a process for preparing light curable energetic polymeric binders. The process for preparing such binder comprises the steps of mixing a pre-polymer such as PGN or GAP having a terminal hydroxyl group with a solvent and adding reactants wherein the reactant has a light curable moiety and a pre-polymer reactive moiety. Catalysts such as carbodiimide and DMAP may be further added to the mixture.
US11535703B2
The present disclosure relates to synthesis of porous polymer networks and applications of such materials. The present disclosure relates to a method of fabricating of a porous polymer network comprising: (a) providing: (i) a first reactant comprising a plurality of compounds comprising at least one acetyl group, said plurality of compounds comprising at least one compound type, and (ii) a second reactant comprising an alkylsulfonic acid, and (b) creating a solution of said reactants, (c) casting said solution in a form, and (d) treating said solution under such conditions so as to produce a porous polymer network. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a porous polymer network which has a basic structure selected from the group consisting of
US11535689B2
To provide a disposable diaper enabling reduction in re-wet amount and having an excellent speed of incorporating liquid regardless of concentration and configuration of a water-absorbing agent in an absorbent material. A water-absorbing agent having excellent Gel Capillary Absorption (GCA) and Free Gel Bed Permeability (FGBP) is obtained by crushing a crosslinked hydrogel polymer obtained in a polymerization step to have a specific weight average particle diameter while fluid retention capacity and a surface tension of a water-absorbing agent are adjusted in a specific range, drying the crushed crosslinked hydrogel polymer, and then adding a liquid permeability enhancer thereto during surface crosslinking or after surface crosslinking.
US11535676B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods including Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) receptor binding peptides. The AMH receptor binding peptides can be used, for example, to modify the activity of the AMH receptor. For example, the AMH receptor binding peptides can activate the AMH receptor, such as the AMH receptor 2, thereby mimicking the function of AMH. In other examples, the AMH receptor binding peptides function as AMH receptor antagonists, thereby interfering with the function of endogenous AMH. By modifying the activity of the AMH receptor, the peptides have multiple applications, including for example modification of treatment of precocious puberty in females, delay of natural menopause, preservation of ovarian follicular reserve, contraception, fertility preservation after ovarian cortex transplant, treatment of endometriosis, treatment of cancer and/or cancer prevention, and treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
US11535672B2
The invention relates to an anti-CD16A antigen binding protein for use in NK cell-based immunotherapy, wherein the anti-CD16A antigen binding protein is to be administered intermittently and in combination with a cytokine. In certain embodiments the antigen binding protein is a tetravalent and bispecific CD30/CD16A tandem diabody.
US11535671B2
The present invention provides therapeutic and diagnostic methods and compositions for cancer, for example, bladder cancer. The invention provides methods of treating bladder cancer, methods of determining whether a patient suffering from bladder cancer is likely to respond to treatment comprising a PD-L1 axis binding antagonist, methods of predicting responsiveness of a patient suffering from bladder cancer to treatment comprising a PD-L1 axis binding antagonist, and methods of selecting a therapy for a patient suffering from bladder cancer, based on expression levels of a biomarker of the invention (e.g., PD-L1 expression levels in tumor-infiltrating immune cells in a tumor sample obtained from the patient) and/or based on the determination of a tumor sample subtype.
US11535654B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a fusion protein or conjugated protein having excellent cell membrane permeability, containing a partial peptide derived from human, and suitable for intracellular delivery; an intracellular delivery carrier comprising such a fusion protein or conjugated protein; a partial peptide; a cell membrane permeation enhancer comprising the partial peptide; DNA; and a vector. The fusion protein or conjugated protein has a partial peptide comprising at least seven consecutive amino acid residues of an amino acid sequence encoded by a predetermined DNA, and a ligand directly or indirectly bound to the partial peptide and having the capability of binding to cell surfaces. The ligand is preferably an antibody. The intracellular delivery carrier comprises the fusion protein or conjugated protein. The cell membrane permeation enhancer comprises the partial peptide.
US11535643B2
Provided herein are macrolide compounds of Formula (I) and (I-N) for the treatment of infectious diseases and inflammatory conditions. The 14-membered ketolides and 14-, 15-, and 16-membered azaketolides described herein comprise modified sugars which are desosamine or mycaminose analogs. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating infection diseases and inflammatory conditions using the inventive macrolides are also provided. This disclosure additionally provides methods of preparing the macrolides by the coupling of an eastern and western half.
US11535633B2
This application discloses a new class of fused tricyclic heterocycles of formula (I), preparation methods thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, or prodrugs thereof, and their uses for the treatment of diseases in which modulation of STING is beneficial, for example, cancers, pre-cancerous disorders, and viral infections.
US11535629B2
Disclosed are novel dioxoisoquinolinone derivative compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, optical isomers, hydrates, and solvates thereof as well as uses thereof. More specifically, the novel dioxoisoquinolinone derivative compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, optical isomers, hydrates, solvates show inhibition activity of EZH1 (Enhancer of zeste homolog 1) and/or EZH2 (Enhancer of zeste homolog 2) activity. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the compound is also disclosed.
US11535624B2
The present disclosure relates to processes for preparing (3S,4R)-3-ethyl-4-(3Himidazo[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), kits, methods of synthesis, and products-by-process.
US11535610B2
The present invention relates to a pidolate salt and malate salt of a compound represented by a formula 1 with an excellent liquid-phase stability, solid-phase stability, water solubility, precipitation stability and hygroscopicity all together as a compound for preventing and treating diseases mediated by an acid pump antagonistic activity, as well as a method for preparing the same.
US11535603B1
The invention provides deuterium-enriched piperidinonyl-oxoisoindolinyl acetamide compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using such compounds and pharmaceutical compositions to treat cancer, angiogenesis disorders, immune disorders, and other medical disorders.
US11535602B1
The present application relates to the technical field of organic materials, and provides a nitrogen-containing compound, an electronic element and an electronic apparatus. The structure of the nitrogen-containing compound is shown as Chemical formula 1. The nitrogen-containing compound can improve the performance of the electronic element. Ar is II, and X is selected from O or S; L1 is III, and in L1, “#” represents a connection point between the phenylene of L1 and N, and “##” represents a connection point between the phenylene of L1 and IV; L2 is V, and in L2, “#” represents a connection point between the phenylene of L2 and N, and “##” represents a connection point between the phenylene of L2 and R4.
US11535600B2
The present invention relates to prodrugs of 4-((1R,3S)-6-chloro-3-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-1,2,2-trimethylpiperazine in the form of 1a and 1b; and 4-((1R,3S)-6-chloro-3-(phenyl-d5)-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-2,2-dimethyl-1-(methyl-d3)piperazine in the form of 2a and 2b, wherein X—is a counter ion, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising prodrugs, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, of the invention.
US11535590B2
The present invention provides a sulfonium salt photoinitiator, a preparation method therefor, a photocurable composition comprising sulfonium salt photoinitiator, and use thereof. The sulfonium salt photoinitiator has a structure represented by formula (I). By modifying the structure of an existing sulfonium salt photoinitiator, a sulfonium salt photoinitiator having a new structure is obtained, which can exhibits a higher photosensitivity and an excellent as well as characteristics of low odor and low toxicity, when being used in a photocurable composition. This is significantly superior to existing similar photoinitiators.
US11535579B2
A hydrofluoroolefin ether represented by the general Formula (I), compositions that include such compounds, and apparatuses and methods for use that include such compositions and compounds, wherein Formula (I) is represented by: Rf—O—CH2CH═CHCH2—O—Rf (I) wherein each Rf group is independently a linear, branched, and/or cyclic perfluoroalkyl group having 2 to 9 carbon atoms and optionally further including 1 to 3 nitrogen and/or oxygen catenary heteroatoms. Rf—O—CH2CH═CHCH2—O—Rf (I)
US11535577B2
The present disclosure relates to a process and a production unit that are used to catalytically manufacture olefin trimers from olefin monomers, and wherein olefin dimers are recycled after dimerization reaction, and reacted with olefin monomers in an addition reaction.
US11535570B2
Asphalt packets and methods of making and using asphalt packets are provided. For example, an asphalt packet can be provided that include asphalt that comprises an inner volume and a polymer film outer coating that encapsulates the inner volume of the asphalt. The polymer film outer coating can be non-tacky at ambient temperatures to permit stacking of a plurality of asphalt packets under weight without causing the packets to agglomerate.
US11535566B2
A paramagnetic garnet-type transparent ceramic is a sintered body of complex oxide represented by the following formula (1), comprising SiO2 as a sintering aid in an amount of more than 0% by weight to 0.1% by weight or less, and has a linear transmittance of 83.5% or more at the wavelength of 1,064 nm for an optical path length of 25 mm: (Tb1-x-yYxScy)3(Al1-zScz)5O12 (1) wherein 0.05≤x<0.45, 0
US11535560B2
Hexavalent chromium-free slurry formulations which are suitable in the production of ceramic overlay coating systems are described. The formulations provide superior hot corrosion and heat oxidation protection for superalloy substrates. A basecoat slurry and topcoat slurry are provided. The basecoat slurry includes an aluminum phosphate based aqueous solution having a molar ratio of Al:PO4 higher than about 1:3 with the incorporation of metal oxide particles. The topcoat slurry includes an aluminum phosphate based aqueous solution having a molar ratio of Al:PO4 higher than about 1:3. Both of the basecoat slurry and the topcoat slurry are hexavalent chromium-free.
US11535558B2
Gypsum panels and methods for their manufacture are provided herein. The gypsum panels include a gypsum core having a first surface and a second opposed surface and a first fiberglass mat associated with the first surface of the gypsum core, such that gypsum from the gypsum core penetrates at least a portion of the first fiberglass mat.
US11535556B2
A phosphogypsum non-sintered ceramsite light aggregate composed of water and a mixture composed of phosphogypsum, mineral powder and cement. Raw materials of the mixture have weight percentages of phosphogypsum 80-90%, mineral powder 3.3-10%, cement 6.5-10%; the water has a weight of 17% of the total weight of the mixture. A method of preparing the phosphogypsum non-sintered ceramsite light aggregate. The phosphogypsum non-sintered ceramsite light aggregate is prepared by modification, granulation, curing, crushing, sieving and other processes by using phosphogypsum as a main material, cement as an alkaline activator, mineral powder as an active material.
