US11569977B1
A receiving device includes a first sampling circuit extracting first binary data from a first signal based on a first edge timing of a first clock signal. The receiving device includes a second sampling circuit extracting second binary data from the first signal based on the first edge timing, and further extracting third binary data from the first signal based on a second edge timing of a second clock signal having a phase delayed from a phase of the first clock signal. The receiving device includes a circuit outputting a second signal indicating a phase shift direction of a third clock signal. The receiving device includes a circuit outputting waveform data based on the first binary data and the second binary data or the third binary data. The second sampling circuit selects either the second binary data or the third binary data based on the second signal.
US11569967B2
A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from at least one base station (BS) of a group of (N) BSs, channel state information (CSI) configuration information including a number of uplink control information (UCI) parts for a CSI reporting; identifying the number of UCI parts for the CSI reporting; determining a CSI report based on the identified number of UCI parts; identifying one or more BSs in the group of (N) BSs to transmit the determined CSI report; and transmitting, to the one or more identified BSs, via an uplink channel, a UCI including the determined CSI report, wherein the UCI includes the identified number of UCI parts each of which includes a part of the determined CSI report.
US11569963B2
A method for receiving a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention can comprise a step for determining REGs, which are to be assumed that the same precoding is used, among REGs comprised in a control resource set on the basis of information relating to precoder granularity, and thus monitoring a control channel candidate. Particularly, if a part of resource blocks overlaps another resource region and particular resource blocks in the resource blocks are no longer contiguous due to the overlapping, the terminal can comprise an assumption that the same precoding is used with respect to the REGs comprised in the particular resource blocks even if the information relating to the precoder granularity corresponds to first configuration.
US11569948B2
A first radio base station informs a second radio base station about the configuration information of a second carrier, such as NBC or EC, not having an individual first identifier, as the configuration information of the second carrier is correlated with a first carrier, such as BC, having the individual first identifier. The radio station has a function of performing communication with a radio terminal using simultaneously a plurality of carriers included in the carrier set.
US11569946B2
A radio communication terminal that increases the ACK/NACK resource utilization efficiency while preventing ACK/NACK collision, and that causes no unnecessary reduction of the PUSCH band in a system that transmits E-PDCCH control information. The radio communication terminal adopts a configuration including a receiving section that receives a control signal including an ACK/NACK index via an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) transmitted using one configuration from among one or a plurality of configuration candidates, a control section that selects a resource to be used for an ACK/NACK signal of downlink data from among specified resources specified beforehand based on E-PDCCH configuration information used for transmission or reception of the E-PDCCH and the ACK/NACK index, and a transmitting section that transmits the ACK/NACK signal using the selected specified resource.
US11569945B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus and systems for reliable information transmission for Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) in both (Long Term Evolution) LTE-Advanced and New Radio (NR) systems. In some embodiments, a method includes detecting a downlink transmission on a set of downlink resources, and transmitting a set of signals on a set of uplink resources, which are associated with the set of downlink resources, and where portions of a first and second of the set of signals are identical. In other embodiments, a method includes determining, based on a transmission time, that one or more of a plurality of time units comprises a reference signal, identifying a reference pattern for transmission based on the determining, and transmitting a set of signals comprising the reference pattern during the plurality of time units.
US11569931B2
Methods and apparatus for enhancing data rates in a small-cell wireless communication network. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus utilize “quasi-licensed” CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) wireless spectrum in conjunction with 3GPP wireless communication network (e.g. 4G LTE or 5GNR) for the delivery of services to a number of enhanced fixed wireless apparatus (CPEe/FWAe) at user or subscriber premises. The various CPEe/FWAe report Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) data to their respective serving base stations, and each base station maps the CQI value to a prescribed configuration (e.g., to the Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS)) adaptively for the transmission of the data to the CPEe/FWAe. In one implementation, the base stations update the CQI to MCS values adaptively according to ACK/NACK requests received from the CPEe/FWAe.
US11569923B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for sending and receiving a multiframe, a communication device, and a communication network system. The method includes: determining a multiframe identifier used for identifying a multiframe number according to a number of timeslots of a physical layer, where the multiframe number is the number of frames constituting one multiframe; and sending the multiframe to a receiving end, where the multiframe carries the multiframe identifier. Further provided is a computer storage medium.
US11569918B2
A quantum device comprising a transmission structure, wherein based on quantum collapse, interference and selective absorption the transmission structure is designed such that quantum waves emitted by at least two bodies, for example, by thermal excitation, are passed preferentially to a subset of these bodies.
US11569917B2
The present invention is directed to communication method and techniques. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a receiver that interleaves data signal n-ways for n slices. Each of the n slices includes feedforward equalizer and decision feedback equalizers that are coupled to other slices. Each of the n slices also includes an analog-to-digital converter section that includes data and error slicers. There are other embodiments as well.
US11569914B2
An optical data communication system includes a plurality of resonator structures and a laser array that includes a plurality of lasers optically connected to the plurality of resonator structures. Each resonator structure has a respective free spectral wavelength range and a respective resonance wavelength. A maximum difference in resonance wavelength between any two resonator structures in the plurality of resonator structures is less than a minimum free spectral wavelength range of any resonator structure in the plurality of resonator structures. Each laser in the plurality of lasers is configured to generate continuous wave light having a respective wavelength. The laser array has a central wavelength. A variability of the central wavelength is greater than a minimum difference in resonance wavelength between any two spectrally neighboring resonator structures in the plurality of resonator structures.
US11569913B2
An interconnect transceiver for transmitting and receiving optical signals, comprising an electronics module with a transceiver engine, and a photonics module with a laser source, a modulator, a photodetector to monitor the laser, one to receive an external optical signal, and a controller to operate the laser source and the laser source modulator, an electronic switch having two states is proposed. The first state is to allow monitoring of the modulated laser source by the transceiver engine, so as to acquire a reference set of operating parameters, and the second state is where a signal from the modulated laser source is directed to the controller, such as to allow real-time control of the source of the transmitting laser and modulator by the controller.
US11569903B2
Various arrangements for a satellite-based forward link overlay are presented herein. In some embodiments, broadband data is modulated at a particular frequency, phase, and/or timing to create a broadband data signal. The frequency, phase, and/or timing are used to modulate a low-bandwidth data signal. The low-bandwidth data signal can then be combined with the broadband data signal and transmitted via satellite to a geographic region. A low-bandwidth receiver unit may determine the frequency, phase, and/or timing from the embedded broadband signal and use such information to demodulate and despread the low-bandwidth data signal.
US11569901B2
A cellular type communications system for cellular telephone networks to operate, control and communicate with unmanned aerial vehicles and remote piloted vehicles, the system including a first near-ground region to communicate with devices near the ground, as well as one or more layers covering roughly the same areal extent as the ground region but which are separated from each other and also elevated above ground substantially, and within which an aerial vehicle may rely on communications using the cell-based communications network.
US11569899B2
Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.
US11569891B2
There is provided mechanisms for transmit time adjustment. A method is performed by a second network node. The method comprises obtaining an indication of a need for transmit time adjustment with a first network node during ongoing communication with the first network node. The method comprises providing a first notification to at least one third network node to adjust its receive timing for receiving a signal from the second network node as part of ongoing communication with the second network node. The method comprises adjusting transmit timing for transmitting a first signal to the first network node as part of the ongoing communication with the first network node and for transmitting at least one second signal to the at last one third network node as part of the ongoing communication with the at least one third network node.
US11569887B2
In one aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting a first message indicating a precoding matrix identifier configured to identify a particular precoding matrix for precoding by another wireless communication device for at least one future transmission; and receiving a second message indicating information about whether the particular precoding matrix was or will be used for the at least one future transmission. In another aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a first message indicating a precoding matrix identifier configured to identify a particular precoding matrix for precoding by the wireless communication device for at least one future transmission; and transmitting a second message indicating information about whether the particular precoding matrix was or will be used for precoding for the at least one future transmission. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11569884B2
Out-of-link channel sounding using an out-of-band channel sounding link for multi-link devices (MLDs) in a wireless network may be provided. An Access Point (AP) may establish a first Wireless Communication Link (WCL) with a Multi-link Device (MLD). The AP may also establish a second WCL with the MLD. After establishing the first WCL, the AP may transmit a sounding trigger to the MLD on the first WCL. After transmission of the sounding trigger to the MLD on the first WCL, AP may transmit a Channel State Information (CSI) inquiry to the MLD on the second WCL. AP may receive a channel state quantification from the MLD on the second WCL in response to the CSI inquiry.
US11569881B2
A method and an apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. A signal is received over a channel. The channel is decomposed into a plurality of virtual channels. Symbol detection is performed on each of the plurality of virtual channels. Values are obtained for the channel. Decoding is performed using the values to output a decoded symbol value of the received signal.
US11569878B2
Precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback for Type II channel state information (CSI) feedback in new radio (NR) multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) operations is discussed. According to various aspects, a user equipment (UE) determines a plurality of CSI feedback components and identifies a set of discarded ones of these components based on a particular component value of a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) component. The UE may then generate an adjusted CSI report by adjusting how the discarded feedback components are treated. The resulting adjusted CSI report may then be transmitted to a serving base station.
US11569872B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally pertains a system and method for wireless inter-networking between a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and a local area network (WLAN) employing one or more extended range wireless inter-networking devices. Aspects of the present disclosure more specifically are directed toward a high powered wireless interconnect device that includes high efficiency circuitry to make it possible to implement in a portable or in-vehicle form factor, which may provide reasonable battery life, size, weight, and thermal dissipation. an extended range wireless inter-networking device, according to another embodiment of the disclosure. Aspects of the present disclosure further include a portable wireless access point configured for extended range communications, which may include a high power user equipment (“HPUE”) as disclosed herein.
US11569865B1
Wireless signal processing may be improved by using a configurable baseband filter (BBF) in the receive path of a transceiver. A configurable BBF may accommodate processing of different wireless signals in a single integrated circuit (IC) chip. For example, a single IC may support processing of 5G mmWave RF signals and 5G sub-7 GHz RF signals by reconfiguring the BBF with settings appropriate for the different wireless signals. The reconfiguring of the BBF may include adjusting a bandwidth of the BBF and/or adjusting a filter order of the BBF. The reconfiguring of the BBF may be performed in response to detection of jammer signals to improve rejection of the jammer signals.
US11569864B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a set of antenna elements and switching nodes. Each switching node has physical interconnects to a sub-set of the antenna elements for transferring communication signals and the switching nodes have physical interconnects to other switching nodes forming a network of switching nodes for transferring communication signals between switching nodes. The apparatus also includes a controller for controlling operation of switching nodes to control use of the physical interconnects between switching nodes and control creation of different patterns of antenna elements operationally interconnected via multiple operationally interconnected switching nodes.
US11569852B2
A method for calibrating a receiver of an isolator product includes adjusting a peaking frequency of a receiver signal path of a first integrated circuit die of the isolator product and a gain of the receiver signal path based on a predetermined peaking frequency, a predetermined gain, a first level of a diagnostic signal during a first interval, and a second level of the diagnostic signal during a second interval. The first interval and the second interval are non-overlapping intervals. The method may include receiving a calibration signal on a differential pair of nodes of the receiver signal path of the first integrated circuit die. The method may include generating a diagnostic signal corresponding to an average amplitude of a received version of the calibration signal.
US11569851B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of multiple frequency bands transmission with a recurrent neural network that compensates for the self-interference noise generated by power amplifiers at harmonic frequencies of a respective wireless receiver. The recurrent neural network may be coupled to antennas of a wireless device and configured to generate the adjusted signals that compensate self-interference. The recurrent neural network may include a network of processing elements configured to combine transmission signals into sets of intermediate results. Each set of intermediate results may be summed in the recurrent neural network to generate a corresponding adjusted signal. The adjusted signal is receivable by a corresponding wireless receiver to compensate for the self-interference noise generated by a wireless transmitter transmitting on the same or different frequency band as the wireless receiver is receiving.
US11569846B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder for encoding service data, a mapper for mapping the encoded service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver for frequency interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, a modulator for modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the different interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shifting value and wherein an interleaving seed is variable based on an FFT size of the modulating.
US11569844B2
A method and apparatus for determining the sector size and concomitant host metadata size to determine the difference between total size of the data block to be stored, and using the difference for parity data. This allows an increase in parity bits available for smaller sector sizes and/or data with smaller host metadata sizes. Because the amount of space available for additional parity bits is known, data with lower numbers of parity bits may be assigned to higher quality portions a memory array written with longer programming trim times, and/or written to memory dies with good redundant columns, further increasing performance and reliability.
US11569842B1
Disclosed is a processor chip that includes on-chip and off-chip software. The chip is optimized for hyperdimensional, fixed-point vector algebra to efficiently store, process, and retrieve information. A specialized on-chip data-embedding algorithm uses algebraic logic gates to convert off-chip normal data, such as images and spreadsheets, into discrete, abstract vector space where information is processed with off-chip software and on-chip accelerated computation via a desaturation method. Information is retrieved using an on-chip optimized decoding algorithm. Additional software provides an interface between a CPU and the processor chip to manage information processing instructions for efficient data transfer on- and off-chip in addition to providing intelligent processing that associates input information to allow for suggestive outputs.
US11569839B1
Described herein is a method and apparatus for enhancing the dynamic range of a digital-to-analog conversion circuit. Dynamic range enhancement (DRE) is accomplished by modifying the gain of components of the circuit so that the gain of components generating noise is effectively reduced. In a circuit utilizing a plurality of 1-bit DACs, analog signal gain is decreased when the full nominal gain of the analog portion of the circuit is not needed to obtain a desired peak output amplitude. The reduction is accomplished by effectively “disconnecting” some of the plurality of 1-bit DACs. Some or all of the 1-bit DACs are configured to have a third or “tri-state” in which there is no connection to the normal two reference levels thus providing no output. If some portion of the 1-bit DACs is placed in the tri-state, both the signal and noise gain will be reduced.
US11569832B1
An apparatus is disclosed for analog-to-digital conversion. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC includes a reference-crossing detector having an input and an output. The ADC also includes a ramp generator coupled between the output of the reference-crossing detector and the input of the reference-crossing detector. The ADC further includes a voltage shifter coupled between the output of the reference-crossing detector and the input of the reference-crossing detector.
US11569831B1
A digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) may include a time-to-digital converter (TDC) to provide a phase error signal, a frequency-divider to perform frequency division on an output signal to generate a frequency-divided output signal, a delta-sigma-modulator (DSM) to provide a test signal that represents a quantization error of the DSM, and a digital-to-time converter (DTC) to at least partially remove the quantization error from the frequency-divided output signal based on the test signal to generate the feedback signal. The DPLL may include a circuit to cause the DTC to provide a percentage of the quantization error such that the percentage of the quantization error is in the phase error signal, and a TDC calibration component to calibrate the TDC by applying a gain adjustment factor to the TDC. The gain adjustment factor may be based on the test signal and the phase error signal including the percentage of the quantization error.
US11569830B1
A system includes a digital-to-analog converter comprising a plurality of unit elements, and a dynamic element matching encoder coupled to the digital-to-analog converter. The dynamic element matching encoder includes a circuit configured to determine a number of unit elements of a digital-to-analog converter to be transitioned (Ntm), determine a first number of unit elements to be turned on, and determine a second number of unit elements to be turned off. The circuit may further generate a first signal identifying individual unit elements of one or more unit elements of the digital-to-analog converter in the off state to be turned on, and a second signal identifying the individual unit elements of one or more unit elements of the digital-to-analog converter in the on state to be turned off.
US11569823B2
A DLL circuit that has a programmable output frequency is provided. The DLL circuit uses a single delay line to produce the multiple frequencies. In various embodiments, the delay line is configured to receive an input clock defining an input clock period. The delay line comprises delay stages, each configured to generate a corresponding output clock having a phase relative to the input clock based on a delay of the delay line. In those embodiments, a control circuit is configured to change the delay of the delay line so as to cause a phase difference between the input clock and a sensed output clock to be substantially equal to the input clock period. An edge combiner is configured to generate a DLL output clock based on the output clocks of the delay stages and presents an equal schematic load for each of the output clocks of the delay stages.
US11569813B2
The present invention discloses a USB signal output circuit having reverse current prevention mechanism. A switch circuit turns on when a switch control terminal receives a first high level voltage to output a signal from a signal input terminal to a signal output terminal. A first voltage pull-low circuit includes a passive-component high-pass filter circuit and a discharging circuit. The passive-component high-pass filter circuit couples an output terminal voltage of the signal output terminal to a pull-low control terminal. The discharging circuit turns on when a voltage of the pull-low control terminal is larger than a predetermined voltage level to discharge the switch control terminal to pull the switch control terminal to a second high level voltage. A second voltage pull-low circuit pulls the switch control terminal to a low level voltage when the output terminal voltage is larger than a reference voltage and does not have a glitch.
US11569809B2
A predriver circuit that controls driver elements includes a slope control circuit that separately controls inclination of slope of current from the driver elements, and inclination of slope of voltage from a driver circuit. A controller outputs, to the predriver circuit, a current control signal selected from a plurality of current control signals and a voltage control signal selected from a plurality of voltage control signals, to control the slope of current from the driver elements and the slope of voltage from the driver circuit.
US11569808B2
An apparatus includes a differential input pair, a first resistor, a second resistor, and a comparator. The differential input pair having first and second differential inputs. The first differential input is adapted to be coupled to an output of a controller and the second differential input is adapted to be coupled to a signal ground of the controller. The first resistor is adapted to be coupled to a third resistor via the first differential input to form a first voltage divider. The second resistor is adapted to be coupled to a fourth resistor via the second differential input to form a second voltage divider. The comparator having first and second comparator inputs. The first comparator input is coupled between the first resistor and the first differential input. The second comparator input is coupled between the second resistor and the second differential input.
US11569807B2
The present disclosure provides a voltage comparator circuit, a power management circuit and an electronic device. The voltage comparator circuit compares a voltage difference between a positive electrode input terminal and a negative electrode input terminal with a threshold voltage. An amplifier circuit includes a first input node and a second input node, and amplifies a voltage difference between the first input node and the second input node. The input switch circuit, in a first phase, applies a predetermined voltage of one of the positive electrode input terminal and the negative electrode input terminal to the first input node and the second input node of the amplifier circuit; and in a second phase, applies a voltage of the positive electrode input terminal to the first input node of the amplifier circuit, and applies a voltage of the negative electrode input terminal to the second input node.
US11569806B2
Duty cycle adjustment circuitry includes a first stage, a second stage, and decoder circuitry. The first stage includes a first strength tuning circuit having first inverter branches, and a first fine tuning circuit having second inverter branches. The first strength tuning circuit and the first fine tuning circuit are coupled in parallel. The second stage includes a second strength tuning circuit having third inverter branches, and a second fine tuning circuit having fourth inverter branches. The second strength tuning circuit and the second fine tuning circuit are coupled in parallel. Further, the second stage is electrically coupled to the first stage. The decoder circuitry is electrically coupled to the first stage and the second stage. The decoder circuitry controls the first strength tuning circuit independently from the first fine tuning circuit to adjust the duty cycle of an input signal received by the duty cycle adjustment circuitry.
US11569801B2
A D-type flip-flop (DFF) includes an input circuit having a plurality of transistors configured to receive a clock signal and a data signal, a first inverter (INV1) having a pair of transistors, the first inverter configured to receive an input voltage (x) from the input circuit at a first inverter input, the first inverter configured to provide an output voltage (y) to a first inverter output, a second inverter (INV2) coupled to the first inverter (INV1), the second inverter having a second inverter input and a second inverter output, the second inverter input coupled to the first inverter output, a third inverter (INV3) coupled to the second inverter (INV2), the third inverter having a third inverter input and a third inverter output, and a current device coupled to the first inverter output, the current device configured to provide a current at the first inverter output.
US11569784B2
A power amplifier includes a transistor, a temperature sensor and a filter. The transistor is used to receive a bias signal and amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal. The temperature sensor is arranged in proximity to the transistor, and is used to detect a temperature of the transistor to provide a voltage signal at a control node accordingly. The filter is coupled to the temperature sensor and is used to filter the voltage signal to generate a filtered voltage. The bias signal is adjusted according to the filtered voltage.
US11569783B2
A symbol power tracking amplification system including: a modem to generate data and symbol tracking signals; a symbol tracking modulator including a control circuit, first and second voltage supply circuits and a switch circuit, the control circuit generates first and second voltage level control signals in response to the symbol tracking signal, the first voltage supply circuit generates a first output voltage in response to the first voltage level control signal, the second voltage supply circuit generates a second output voltage in response to the second voltage level control signal and the switch circuit outputs the first or second output voltages as a supply voltage in response to a switch control signal; an RF block to generate an RF signal based on the data signal from the modem; and a power amplifier to adjust a power level of the RF signal based on the supply voltage.
US11569779B2
Surface mount assemblies for mounting to a solar panel frame to an installation surface are disclosed. In some embodiments, a base is coupled to a height-adjustable rail mount to slidably couple a track with a fastener assembly that includes of a fastener, spacer, and nut. In some embodiments, a base is coupled to a rail mount and positioned on a base plate to slidably couple to a surface track with a fastener assembly that includes a first fastener slidably coupled to a groove formed by the track, spacer, and second fastener. In some embodiments, a base is coupled to a rail mount for slidably coupling the rail to a height-adjustable base with a fastener. In some embodiments, a two-configuration, track-mounted, rectangular base is designed with a rectangular base having a pair of short-sided legs, a pair of long-sided legs, and a fastener for engaging outer surfaces of a track.
US11569776B2
In response to a measured value of temperature of a stator by a thermometer exceeding a first temperature threshold, an overheat signal may be output to a rotor of a rotary connector via a communication device. In response to the measured value of the temperature exceeding a second temperature threshold higher than the first temperature threshold, power supply to a transmission coil that transmits power to a receiving coil of the rotor in a non-contact manner is stopped. In response to the overheat signal being received or a measured value of temperature of the rotor by a thermometer exceeding a third temperature threshold, a limit signal for limiting current flowing through a load circuit is output. In response to the measured value of the temperature by the thermometer exceeding a fourth temperature threshold higher than the third temperature threshold, output of power received from the stator is stopped.
US11569771B2
According to one embodiment, a control apparatus for controlling a sensor that operates on power supplied by a power generator via an electric circuit including a rectifying and smoothing circuit converting AC power output from the power generator into DC power and a converter transforming an output voltage of the rectifying and smoothing circuit includes a first and a second signal generator and a controller. The first signal generator generates a first signal based on the output voltage of the rectifying and smoothing circuit. The second signal generator generates a second signal based on an output voltage of the converter. The controller switches an operation mode of the sensor between a sleep mode and an active mode based on the first and second signals.
US11569769B2
System and method for controlling drivetrain damping during multiple low-voltage ride through events
A method for operating a power generation system having a drivetrain connected to an electrical grid during one or more grid transient events includes receiving an indication of the one or more grid transient events occurring in the electrical grid. The method also includes selecting between a first set of drivetrain damping control settings or a different, set second set of drivetrain damping control settings based on the indication. The first set of drivetrain damping control settings is for handling a single, first grid transient event, whereas the second set of drivetrain damping control settings is for handling additional, subsequent grid transient events following the first transient event. The method also includes controlling the power generation system based on the selected first or second sets of the drivetrain damping control settings such that the power generation system can remain connected to the electrical grid during the grid transient event(s).
US11569760B2
A triboelectric energy generator (1) comprises a first generating element (8) and a second generating element (10). The first generating element comprises a first triboelectric material (9) and the second generating element comprises a second triboelectric material (13). Movement of the second generation element relative to the first generation element results in an output voltage, as a consequence of the triboelectric effect. A stopper (7) is configured to restrict rotation of the second generating element, so that the second generating element may only rotate through a desired angle.
US11569750B2
An alternating-current (AC) voltage regulator including an input, an isolated power supply, a control circuit, an amplifier, and an output. The input is configured to receive an input voltage. The isolated power supply is configured to receive the input voltage and output a direct-current (DC) signal isolated from the input voltage. The control circuit is configured to receive a portion of the input voltage, adjust the portion of the input voltage, and output the adjusted voltage. The amplifier is configured to receive the isolated DC signal, the adjusted voltage, and a feedback loop, and output a differential signal. The output is configured to add the differential signal to the input voltage resulting in a regulated voltage, and output the regulated voltage.
US11569748B2
An interleaved power converter includes a control circuit and multiple phase-shifted subconverters each having at least one power switch. The control circuit is coupled to the subconverters for controlling the power switches to balance currents in the subconverters over multiple periods. The control circuit includes a current compensator configured to determine a first duty cycle multiple times over the multiple periods, generate a PWM control signal having a present value of the first duty cycle for controlling the power switch of one of the subconverters during a period, determine a second duty cycle based on the present value of the first duty cycle and a previous value of the first duty cycle, and generate another PWM control signal having the second duty cycle for controlling the power switch of another one of the subconverters during the period. Other example power converters and control circuits are also disclosed.
US11569747B2
A method and apparatus for adding and shedding phases in a multi-phase power converter is disclosed. A power converter includes a plurality of voltage regulators including a given voltage regulator configured to generate, when active, a particular output voltage on a regulated power supply node. The power converter further includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured determine an amount of output current being supplied to the regulated power supply node by active ones of the plurality of voltage regulator circuits. The control circuit is further configured to adjust a number of voltage regulator circuits that are active based on the output current and one or more environmental parameters associated with the plurality of voltage regulator circuits.
US11569743B2
A DC-DC converter control circuit includes an error amplifier, a voltage-to-current conversion circuit, an oscillator circuit, and a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) control circuit. The error amplifier is configured to generate a difference voltage as a difference of an output voltage of the DC-DC converter circuit and a reference voltage. The voltage-to-current conversion circuit configured to convert the difference voltage to a difference current. The oscillator circuit is configured to generate a clock signal at a predetermined frequency for pulse width modulation. The PFM control circuit is configured to disable the oscillator circuit, based on the difference current, for PFM operation.
US11569736B2
A soft-start circuit includes an error amplifier, a reference voltage ramp circuit, and a minimum current clamp circuit. The error amplifier is configured to generate a difference voltage representing a difference of a feedback voltage and a reference voltage ramp. The reference voltage ramp circuit is configured to generate the reference voltage ramp. The minimum current clamp circuit is configured to clamp an output of the error amplifier to a predetermined minimum voltage.
US11569730B2
A power supply device includes a pulse frequency modulation controller circuitry and a cycle controller circuitry. The pulse frequency modulation controller circuitry is configured to adjust a transiting speed of a first signal according to at least one control bit, and to compare the first signal with a first reference voltage to generate a second signal, and to generate a driving signal to a power converter circuit according to an output voltage, a second reference voltage, and the second signal, in which the power converter circuit is configured to generate the output voltage according to the driving signal. The cycle controller circuitry is configured to detect a frequency of the driving signal according to a clock signal having a predetermined frequency, in which the predetermined frequency is set based on a frequency range capable of being heard by humans.
US11569729B2
Provided is a resonant power conversion apparatus including a gate control circuit that controls a first switch to enter an On state and a second switch to enter an Off state at a first stage and controls the first switch to enter the Off state and the second switch to enter the On state at a second stage, a first current transformer that applies current to the first switch at the first stage and applies current to the second switch at the second stage, a load connected to the first current transformer in series, a second current transformer connected to the second switch, and a microcontroller unit (MCU) that determines whether to be zero voltage switching or non-zero voltage switching based on a current flowing in the first current transformer and the second current transformer in a process of transitioning from the first stage to the second stage.
US11569728B1
A circuit for controlling a switch of a power converter includes a first clock signal generator configured to generate a first clock signal and a switching signal generator configured to generate a switching signal to control the switch of the power converter based on the first clock signal. The circuit further includes error detection circuitry configured to output an error indication and a second clock signal generator configured to generate, in response to the error indication, a second clock signal that comprises an edge of a clock cycle of the second clock signal that corresponds to when the switching signal deactivates the switch of the power converter plus a time delay. The switching signal generator is configured to generate the switching signal to control the switch of the power converter further based on the second clock signal in response to the error indication being output by the error detection circuitry.
US11569726B2
A hybrid gate driver circuit includes a field effect transistor (FET) drive terminal, a switching node terminal, a transistor, and a capacitor. The transistor includes a first terminal coupled to the FET drive terminal, and a second terminal coupled to ground. The capacitor includes a first terminal coupled to the switching node terminal, and a second terminal coupled to a third terminal of the transistor.
US11569725B2
A torque transmission mechanism transmits a torque produced by a rotation of a driving shaft to an output shaft. A clutch mechanism is provided between a motor and the torque transmission mechanism. The torque transmission mechanism includes a magnet coupling including a driving magnet member coupled to the driving shaft side and a driven magnet member coupled to the output shaft side. The driving magnet member and the driven magnet member are arranged such that magnetic surfaces on each of which S-pole magnets and N-pole magnets are alternately arranged face other. The clutch mechanism transmits the torque produced by the rotation of the driving shaft to the driving magnet member but does not transmit a torque the driving magnet member receives from the driven magnet member to the driving shaft.
US11569722B2
A sound vibration actuator includes: a casing having an internal space formed by an underside casing part, a side periphery casing part, and a top casing part; a coil part coupled to the top casing part in such a manner as to receive power from the outside; a magnet part disposed in the internal space of the casing and having a magnet and a weight; an elastic member whose one surface coupled to the magnet part; and a weight part coupled to the coil part. The sound vibration actuator can be varied in coupling ways of the components thereof to generate vibrations in a high frequency band as well as a low frequency band.
US11569721B2
A haptic actuator may include a housing having opposing first and second ends and first and second coils carried by the housing adjacent respective first and second ends thereof. Each coil may have a respective passageway therethrough. The actuator may include a field member including first and second masses adjacent respective first and second ends of the housing, and a permanent magnet having first and second ends coupled to respective ones of the first and second masses. The actuator may also include first and second flexures mounting respective first and second masses to the respective first and second ends of the housing so that the field member is reciprocally movable within the passageways of the coils responsive to powering the coils and so that the ends of the permanent magnet are within respective passageways of the coils when the coils are unpowered.
US11569717B2
An axial flux rotary electric machine including at least one stator and at least one rotor that are arranged along an axis of rotation of the machine, the rotor including a rotor mass and housings created in the rotor mass, the housings defining magnetic poles of the rotor, each of the housings being able to contain or not contain at least one permanent magnet.
US11569715B2
The integrated dual-motor controller includes a controller housing, a bus magnetic ring component, an all-in-one module, a control plate, an isolation plate and a drive plate. The bus magnetic ring component, the all-in-one module, the control plate, the isolation plate and the drive plate are all integrated in the controller housing. The integrated dual-motor controller is designed to achieve a high level of integration, and a modular design is used inside to facilitate mounting and reduce the size.
US11569704B2
The present invention relates to an in-wheel motor. The in-wheel motor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a circular rim to which a tire is coupled by being wrapped around an outer ring thereof and a shaft is connected by passing through a center thereof; a motor assembly which is disposed in an inner portion of the rim and includes a stator connected to the shaft and a rotor disposed to be wrapped around the stator and configured to rotate; a cover coupled to cover one open side surface of the rim and configured to seal the inner portion of the rim; and a lead-out wire entry/exit portion waterproof structure configured to seal an entry/exit portion for a lead-out wire connected to supply power from outside of the in-wheel motor to the inner portion of the rim via a hollow portion of the shaft, wherein the lead-out wire entry/exit portion waterproof structure includes an elastic stopper, to which the lead-out wire is connected to pass through a center thereof and which is configured to be elastically contracted after being inserted into the hollow portion of the shaft in an axial direction and seal between the hollow portion of the shaft and the lead-out wire, and a stopper fixing body fastened to the shaft and configured to press the elastic stopper in the axial direction so that the elastic stopper is inserted and fixed inside the hollow portion of the shaft.
US11569701B2
An insulating composition having a polymer resin, a nanoclay, and one or more nanofillers. The insulating composition has a thermal conductivity of greater than about 0.8 W/mK, a dielectric constant of less than about 5, a dissipation factor of less than about 3%, and a breakdown strength of greater than about 1,000V/mil. The insulating composition has an endurance life of at least 400 hours at 310 volts per mil.
US11569682B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for a fast power network simulator. A system configured per this disclosure can use identify a power network, the power network comprising generators, transmission lines, and loads, and receive a model of the power network. The model of the power network can include: models of the generators modeled as differential equations, and models of the transmission lines and the loads modeled as algebraic equations. The system can convert, via a processor, the algebraic equations of the models of the transmission lines and the loads to additional differential equations, then combine, via the processor, the differential equations and the additional differential equations, to yield combined differential equations. The system can then iteratively solve linear equations, via the processor, associated with the combined differential equations, to yield solutions, and output the solutions as part of a power simulation of the power network.
US11569679B2
An intelligent energy harvesting device, a voltage signal application system, and an energy management module thereof are disclosed. The intelligent energy harvesting device is used to transfer a signal to an application device. The intelligent energy harvesting device includes a power generation module, a battery and an energy management module. The power generation module generates a first voltage signal. The battery generates a second voltage signal. The energy management module is electrically connected to the power generation module and the battery for enabling the first voltage signal output from the power generation module to be used as a power signal to provide the application device, or enabling the first voltage signal output from the power generation module and the second voltage signal output from the battery collectively serves as the power signal to provide the application device.
US11569677B2
A charging system has: a number of connections for connecting at least one electric energy store to be charged; a number n of at least three inverter bridges, each of which has a center tap; a number n of electric filters, wherein the input of each filter of the number n of filters is electrically connected to a respective corresponding center tap of an inverter bridge of the number of inverter bridges; a controllable assigning unit which is inserted between a respective output of a filter of the number n of filters and the number of connections and which is designed to electrically assign the output of each filter of the number n of filters to a respective corresponding connection of the number of connections depending on at least one actuation signal; and a control unit which is designed to generate the at least one actuation signal depending on a desired charge mode of the charging system.
US11569671B2
A power bank with automatic detection for charging capability includes a battery unit, a control unit connected to the battery unit, an input unit, at least one output unit, a starting unit and a detecting unit. The input unit is connected to the control unit. The input unit is used for being connected with an external power source. The at least one output unit is connected to the control unit. The starting unit is connected to the control unit and the at least one output unit. The starting unit is in a grounded state to form a current loop. The detecting unit is connected to the control unit and the at least one output unit. The detecting unit is used for sensing whether a signal is transmitted from the at least one output unit.
US11569668B2
A system for dynamically balancing power in a battery pack during charging and discharging includes a battery pack, a control unit, and a load unit. The battery pack includes one or more modules. Each module includes one or more bricks. Each brick includes one or more blocks connected either in a series configuration or in a parallel configuration. Each block includes one or more cells. The control unit is connected with the battery pack across each of the blocks for processing power from each of the blocks irrespective of a power mismatch between the blocks. The control unit dynamically balances the power in the battery pack by controlling a differential current from a block with higher state of charge (SOC) to a block of lower SOC, using one or more converters and thereby maximizing available energy of the battery pack during charging and discharging.
US11569666B2
A quick charging method, a power adapter and a mobile terminal are provided. The method is applied to the power adapter, the power adapter is coupled to the mobile terminal through a USB interface, a power line in the USB interface is used by the power adapter to charge the mobile terminal, a data line in the USB interface is used by the power source adapter to conduct a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal, and the power adapter supports a common charging mode and a quick charging mode, charging current of the quick charging mode is greater than that of the common charging mode. The method includes: conducting a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode; and adjusting charging current to charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode to charge the mobile terminal.
US11569663B1
A system and method provide integrated carbon-negative, geothermal-based, energy generation and storage. The embodiments produce dispatchable electricity at grid-scale by storing excess energy from the grid and generating its own energy. The excess energy may be taken from solar and wind sources. In one aspect, the subject technology is energy storage, energy generation, carbon utilization and sequestration, all in one. The technology has very high round-trip efficiency of storing energy and is carbon-negative which makes it far more sustainable than any competing energy storage technology.
US11569662B1
A method for delivering power to a grid. The method may include receiving a prediction of power generation for a renewable energy source (RES), receiving length of power delivery requirements of the grid, determining a stretch mode limit based on the prediction of power generation and the length of power delivery requirements such that a period of time during which the RES and an ESS can deliver power to the grid is extended to satisfy the length of power delivery requirements, wherein the stretch mode limit comprises a limit on power delivered to the grid, and delivering power to the grid according to the stretch mode limit from the RES and an energy storage system (ESS) electrically coupled to the RES, wherein the combined output of the RES and the ESS is limited by the stretch mode limit.
US11569650B2
An electrical receptacle contains a plug outlet that has a pair of contacts for electrical connection to respective hot and neutral power lines. A controlled switch, such as a TRIAC, is connected in series relationship between the outlet contact and the hot power line. Sensors in the receptacle outputs signals to a processor having an output coupled to the control terminal of the controlled switch. The processor outputs an activation signal or a deactivation signal to the controlled switch in response to received sensor signals that are indicative of conditions relative to the first and second contacts.
US11569636B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a laminated structure provided to the substrate, and including a plurality of columnar parts, and an electrode disposed at an opposite side to the substrate of the laminated structure, wherein the columnar parts have a light emitting layer, the columnar parts are disposed between the electrode and the substrate, light generated in the light emitting layer propagates through the plurality of columnar parts to cause laser oscillation, and the electrode is provided with a hole.
US11569626B2
A wire stripping die is configured to be coupled to a crimping tool. The stripping die includes a die body, a first ridge, and a second ridge. The die body includes a first side, a second side, and a groove extending at least partially between the first side and the second side. The groove extends along an axis. The first ridge protrudes from a surface of the groove toward the axis by a first distance. The first ridge extends along at least a portion of the perimeter of the groove and extends at least partially around the axis. The second ridge protrudes from the surface of the groove toward the axis, and the second ridge extends parallel to the axis along at least a portion of the groove.
US11569624B2
A method and apparatus for quick, safe, and easy installation of electrical fixtures in the building construction field, including connecting the fixture to a mounting mechanism for structural support and electrical service. A coupling mechanism is attached to or incorporated into the fixture. The coupling mechanism has built-in electrical leads that are designed to connect with the electrical leads on a fixture-facing interface of the mounting mechanism. Electrical leads on the coupling mechanism are connected via wire or other electrically conductive material to the electrical components in the fixture.
US11569622B2
An electrical plug connector having a housing and a contact carrier held inside the housing. It comprises an electrically insulating base part and at least one pair of first electrical contacts for transmitting energy and multiple pairs of second electrical contacts for transmitting data. The contacts are held in the base part and arranged so as to be distributed in a plane extending essentially perpendicular relative to the longitudinal axis of the contact elements and the contact carrier. First distance lines between the contacts of the pairs of first contacts are free of overlaps with second distance lines between the contacts of the pairs of second contacts.
US11569618B2
A socket having a housing, a plurality of contacts, a plurality of insulating members and a plurality of conductive resin members is described. The housing is in a box shape with an opening and is provided with a matrix of penetration holes at a bottom portion. The plurality of contacts include contacts for ground and respective pairs of contacts for high-speed differential transmission. The plurality of insulating members support the plurality of contacts and are pressed into the housing so that the contacts are exposed on an opposite side of the opening from the penetration holes of the housing. The plurality of conductive resin members are fitted at positions of the plurality of insulating members in contact with the contacts for ground.
US11569611B2
A configuration ensuring a connector to be fixed to a connector housing with high water-tightness, free of damaging or breaking due to external force, and achieving high shielding performance and reliability is provided. The connector includes a terminal that is conductive, an intermediate insulating member that contains the terminal, and an outer conductor that is conductive and contains the intermediate insulating member. The connector housing includes an outer conductor holding part provided with an outer conductor insertion hole through which the outer conductor is inserted and a front outer conductor containing cavity that is formed on a front side of the outer conductor holding part and has a larger cross-sectional area than the outer conductor insertion hole. The connector is fixed to the connector housing with a tab welded to a front surface of the outer conductor holding part, the tab being integrally formed with the outer conductor, and with a potting material filled in a portion in the front outer conductor containing cavity close to the front surface of the outer conductor holding part.
US11569604B2
A connector is provided with a terminal member including a conductive terminal body in the form of a wide flat plate and a terminal protecting portion mounted on the terminal body, and a housing provided separately from the terminal member and including a terminal holding portion for holding the terminal member. The terminal protecting portion includes a pair of side edge covering portions for partially covering parts of both side surfaces in a front-back direction of the terminal body. The terminal holding portion is provided with a terminal insertion recess through which the terminal member is to be fit. The side edge covering portions are so fit in the terminal insertion recess as to be able to contact the terminal holding portion with the terminal member fit in the terminal insertion recess and assembled with the terminal holding portion.
US11569593B2
A connector includes: (i) an inner conductor engager comprising at least one tab being flexible to define an opening engager, (ii) a driver configured to drive the inner conductor engager to a desired position along the inner conductor, and (iii) a housing coupled to the inner conductor engager. The opening is configured to receive an inner conductor of a coaxial cable and extends through the entire inner conductor engager thus allowing the inner conductor to electrically connect to an interface port.
US11569583B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a node using at least one lens antenna for efficient, effective, and simultaneous multiple beam routing. The node may include a switch matrix communicatively coupling the first antenna with the second antenna. The first antenna may receive and/or transmit one or more directional beams. The second antenna may transmit and/or receive other one or more directional beams. The node may further include a controller configured to control the switch matrix for the coupling. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11569582B2
In a system or device for identifying or tracking tools, the device comprising: a metallic wall delimiting an area wherein a first tool including an RFID tag can be placed, an antenna for communicating with the RFID tag whenever the first tool is in the first area, wherein the antenna is a slot antenna cut out in the metallic wall.
US11569578B2
A patch antenna device configured to receive a radio communication signal includes a circuit board, a patch antenna, and a parasitic element. The circuit board has a signal processing circuit placed thereon. The patch antenna is stacked on the circuit board and has a quadrangular radiation element. The parasitic element is disposed above the patch antenna so as to improve antenna gain characteristics of the patch antenna and configured such that the length of the upper side of the parasitic element is shorter than the width in a plan view of the radiation element of the patch antenna and that the length between the upper and lower sides of the parasitic element is longer than the length between the upper and lower sides of the radiation element of the patch antenna.
US11569576B2
An apparatus and method for wavelength conversion of a signal, for example, a dual-polarization signal, is disclosed. The apparatus implements a single-loop counter-propagating wavelength conversion scheme which provides both up-conversion and down-conversion of the signal within the same loop. Nonlinear wavelength conversion devices in the loop provide both up-conversion and down-conversion of the polarization components of the signal within the loop depending on whether the polarization component travels through the nonlinear conversion device in a clockwise or a counter-clockwise direction. The wavelength-converted signal is available to be extracted from the wavelength-conversion loop. An all-optical wavelength-division multiplexing transponder based on the wavelength-conversion scheme is also disclosed.
US11569571B2
An antenna for a mobile device includes a ground element, a substrate disposed over the ground element, a first radiating element having a feedpoint, a second radiating element coupled to the ground element and adjacent the first radiating element, and a connection metal element disposed on the substrate, and a coaxial cable, having central conductor coupled to the feedpoint, a shielding conductor, and an insulating outer layer, wherein the shielding conductor has a bare region, spaced from the feedpoint, that exposes a portion of the shielding conductor, and the portion of the shielding conductor is coupled through the connection metal element to the second radiating element.
US11569566B2
A telecommunications antenna comprising a plurality of unit cells each including at least one radiator which transmits RF energy within a bandwidth range which is a multiple of another radiator. The radiators are proximal to each other such that a resonant condition may be induced into the at least one radiator upon activation of the other radiator. At least one of the radiators is segmented into capacitively-connected radiator elements to suppress a resonance response therein upon activation of the other of the radiator.
US11569553B2
A battery system includes a battery module, a housing, a gas conveyor, and a gas sensor. The battery module is interconnected between a first system terminal and a second system terminal by a plurality of high current connectors, and the housing includes: a plurality of exterior walls enclosing the battery module and the plurality of high current connectors; and a partition wall within the housing. The gas conveyor is configured to circulate a gas flow through a flow channel loop formed within the housing by the partition wall and the exterior walls, and the gas sensor is arranged in the flow channel loop and is configured to detect an excess concentration of a gas species in the gas flow.
US11569552B2
A flat-shaped winding electrode body in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are wound with a separator interposed therebetween includes a positive electrode tab portion and a negative electrode tab portion at one end in a direction in which a winding axis of the winding electrode body extends. Two pieces of the flat-shaped winding electrode body are housed in a prismatic outer body so that the winding axis of each piece is disposed in a direction perpendicular to a sealing plate, and the positive electrode tab portion and the negative electrode tab portion are located on one end of the winding electrode body closer to the sealing plate than the other end.
US11569551B2
A busbar module includes a case to be attached to a battery assembly, busbars and electric wires having a connection end to be connected to the busbars. The case includes busbar accommodation portions to accommodate the busbars and an electric wire routing groove portion to accommodate the electric wires. The electric wire routing groove portion includes a connection end accommodation portion to accommodate the connection end, an accommodation portion cover and an electric wire lead-out portion configured such that the electric wires are drawn out from the connection end accommodation portion toward a direction. An outer surface of the accommodation portion cover is to form a bottom surface of a routing path configured such that the electric wires drawn out from the connection end accommodation portion extend in the routing path.
US11569516B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a fuel gas supply path, an injector, an ejector, a circulation path, an outlet port pressure detection unit, and a control device. The control device stops driving the injector when an ejector outlet port pressure is equal to or more than a required upper limit value with the injector driven, and drives the injector when the ejector outlet port pressure is equal to or less than a required lower limit value with the injector stopped. The control device reduces the required upper limit value stepwise and reduces the required lower limit value stepwise in a range defined by a first target upper limit value and a second target upper limit value when a required load is varied from a first required load to a second required load and a load reduction amount is more than a first predetermined load.
US11569513B1
A nonaqueous electrolyte composition for use in a redox flow battery system, comprising: a nonaqueous supporting electrolyte; and a metal ligand complex of formula II: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R6 are each independently H, halogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy, aryloxy, substituted aryloxy, heteroaryloxy, substituted heteroaryloxy, or a polyether, wherein R5 is H, alkyl, or substituted alkyl; and M is a transition metal or zinc.
US11569510B2
This disclosure relates to the field of electrochemistry, and in particular, to a positive electrode material. The positive electrode material of this disclosure includes a substrate, with a formula of the substrate being LixNiyCozMkMepOrAm, where 0.95≤x≤1.05, 0.50≤y≤0.95, 0≤z≤0.2, 0≤k≤0.4, 0≤p≤0.05, 1≤r≤2, 0≤m≤2, m+r≤2; a coating layer is disposed on the subs hate, where the coating layer includes a coating element; and absorbance of nickel leachate per unit mass of the positive electrode material w≤0.7.
US11569504B2
Positive electrode active material for lithium ion secondary batteries and method for producing same
The production method is a method for producing a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery which contains at least nickel and lithium, the method including: a firing process in which a mixture of a nickel compound powder and a lithium compound powder is fired; and a water washing process in which a lithium-nickel composite oxide powder obtained in the firing process is washed with water, wherein the firing process is performed under conditions such that a value obtained by dividing a ratio of an amount-of-substance of lithium to a total amount-of-substance of transition metals other than lithium in the lithium-nickel composite oxide powder after the washing with water by a ratio of an amount-of-substance of lithium to a total amount-of-substance of transition metals other than lithium in the lithium-nickel composite oxide powder before the washing with water exceeds 0.95.
US11569503B2
A nickel-based active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method of preparing the nickel-based active material, and a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode including the nickel-based active material, the nickel-based active material comprising a secondary particle having an outer portion with a radially arranged structure and an inner portion with an irregular porous structure, wherein the inner portion of the secondary particle has a larger pore size than the outer portion of the secondary particle.
US11569500B2
A porous silicon composite including: a porous silicon composite cluster comprising a porous silicon composite secondary particle and a second carbon flake on at least one surface of the porous silicon composite secondary particle; and a carbonaceous layer on the porous silicon composite cluster, the carbonaceous layer comprising amorphous carbon, wherein the porous silicon composite secondary particle comprises an aggregate of two or more silicon primary particles, the two or more silicon primary particles comprise silicon, a silicon suboxide of the formula SiOx, wherein 0
US11569493B2
A positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector, an intermediate layer disposed on the positive electrode current collector and including a conductive agent and inorganic particles, and a positive electrode mixture layer disposed on the intermediate layer and including a positive electrode active material and a hydrogen phosphate salt represented by the general formula MaHbPO4 (wherein a satisfies 1≤a≤2, b satisfies 1≤b≤2, and M includes at least one element selected from alkali metals and alkaline earth metals), the positive electrode satisfying 0.5≤X≤3.0, 1.0≤Y≤7.0, and 0.07≤X/Y≤3.0 wherein X is the mass ratio (mass %) of the hydrogen phosphate salt relative to the total mass of the positive electrode active material and Y is the mass ratio (mass %) of the conductive agent relative to the total mass of the intermediate layer.
US11569482B2
Disclosed are a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate and sub-pixels thereon. At least one sub-pixel includes: a light emitting element including a first electrode, a luminous functional layer and a second electrode sequentially stacked, the first electrode being closer to the base substrate than the second electrode; a metal reflective layer, between the base substrate and the first electrode; a silicon nitride layer, between the first electrode and the metal reflective layer, and including a first via hole through which the first electrode is connected with the metal reflective layer; a driving circuit including a driving transistor and a storage capacitor between the base substrate and the metal reflective layer, the driving transistor including a gate electrode connected with the storage capacitor, and source and drain electrodes, one of which is connected with the metal reflective layer.
US11569480B2
Provided are compounds, formulations comprising compounds, and devices that utilize compounds, where the devices include a substrate, a first electrode, an organic emissive layer comprising an organic emissive material disposed over the first electrode. The device includes an enhancement layer, comprising a plasmonic material exhibiting surface plasmon resonance that non-radiatively couples to the organic emissive material and transfers excited state energy from the organic emissive material to the non-radiative mode of surface plasmon polaritons. The enhancement layer is provided no more than a threshold distance away from the organic emissive layer, where the organic emissive material has a total non-radiative decay rate constant and a total radiative decay rate constant due to the presence of the enhancement layer. At least one of the organic emissive material and the organic emissive layer has a vertical dipole ratio (VDR) value of equal or greater than 0.33.
US11569467B2
A quantum dot composition of an embodiment includes: a quantum dot; a ligand combined with a surface of the quantum dot; and a ligand scavenger having a nucleophilic reaction group.
US11569466B2
A novel light-emitting element is provided. A light-emitting element with a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting element with high emission efficiency is provided. In the light-emitting element, an EL layer includes a hole-injection layer, a first hole-transport layer, a second hole-transport layer, a third hole-transport layer, a light-emitting layer, a first electron-transport layer, and a second electron-transport layer in this order; the hole-injection layer includes an organic acceptor; the LUMO level of the host material is higher than that of the first electron-transport layer; the LUMO level of the second electron-transport layer is higher than that of the first electron-transport layer; the host material is a substance including a condensed aromatic ring skeleton; and the first and second electron-transport layers each include a substance having a heteroaromatic ring skeleton.
US11569459B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer. The emission layer includes at least one organometallic compound of Formula 1, and at least one selected from a second compound and a third compound, where the organometallic compound, the second compound, and the third compound are different from each other. When the emission layer comprises both the second compound and the third compound, the second compound and the third compound form an exciplex, and the organometallic compound and the second compound and/or the third compound do not form an exciplex: M(L1)n1(L2)n2, Formula 1 wherein in Formula 1, L1 is represented by Formula 2-1:
US11569457B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which at least one of the organic layers includes a polycyclic compound including a plurality of electron donors and an electron acceptor connecting the electron donors, at least one of the electron donors is a condensed ring including a borepine core, and the electron acceptor includes a phenyl group including, as a substituent, at least one cyano group or a heterocycle including at least one nitrogen atom, or a heteroaryl group including an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom for forming a ring, thereby achieving improved emission efficiency.
US11569451B2
A compound of Chemical Formula 1, and a photoelectric device, an image sensor, and an electronic device including the same are disclosed: In Chemical Formula 1, each substituent is the same as defined in the detailed description.
US11569449B2
An organic electroluminescence device comprising: a cathode, an anode, and at least one organic layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein at least one layer of the at least one organic layer comprises a compound represented by the following formulas (1-1) and (1-3) or a compound represented by the following formulas (1-2) and (1-3).
US11569442B2
A method of manufacturing a magnetic random access memory device includes depositing a liner on an intermediate device including an opening in a sacrificial dielectric layer, depositing a conductive metal over the liner and in the opening, removing a portion of the conductive metal while preserving the liner and a thickness of the sacrificial dielectric layer, removing a first portion of the liner by etching, wherein the liner is recessed into the opening, depositing a plurality of metallic tunnel junction layers, forming a hardmask on the plurality of metallic tunnel junction layers, and patterning the metallic tunnel junction layers to form a metallic tunnel junction stack and simultaneously clear a second portion of the liner and a portion the sacrificial dielectric layer.
US11569439B2
A memory device that includes a first magnetic insulating tunnel barrier reference layer present on a first non-magnetic metal electrode, and a free magnetic metal layer present on the first magnetic insulating tunnel barrier reference layer. A second magnetic insulating tunnel barrier reference layer may be present on the free magnetic metal layer, and a second non-magnetic metal electrode may be present on the second magnetic insulating tunnel barrier. The first and second magnetic insulating tunnel barrier reference layers are arranged so that their magnetizations are aligned to be anti-parallel.
US11569438B2
A method of manufacturing a magnetic tunnel junction device is provided. The method includes forming an MTJ stack including a reference layer, a tunnel barrier layer formed on the reference layer, a free layer formed on the barrier layer, and a cap layer formed on the free layer. The method also includes performing ion beam etching (IBE) through each layer of the MTJ stack to form at least one MTJ pillar. The method also includes forming an isolation layer on sidewalls of at least the tunnel barrier layer, the isolation layer comprising a same material as that of the tunnel barrier layer. A combined width of the isolation layer and the tunnel barrier layer is equal to or greater than a width of at least one of the reference layer and the free layer.
US11569428B2
One superconducting qubit device package disclosed herein includes a die having a first face and an opposing second face, and a package substrate having a first face and an opposing second face. The die includes a quantum device including a plurality of superconducting qubits and a plurality of resonators on the first face of the die, and a plurality of conductive pathways coupled between conductive contacts at the first face of the die and associated ones of the plurality of superconducting qubits or of the plurality of resonators. The second face of the package substrate also includes conductive contacts. The device package further includes first level interconnects disposed between the first face of the die and the second face of the package substrate, coupling the conductive contacts at the first face of the die with associated conductive contacts at the second face of the package substrate.
US11569424B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first electrode provided on a semiconductor multilayer structure; a second electrode provided on a substrate; and a bonding metal layer which bonds the first electrode and the second electrode together. The bonding metal layer includes a gap inside.
US11569422B2
A semiconductor package is provided in the present disclosure. The semiconductor package comprises: a substrate, an electronic device disposed on the substrate, a lid disposed on the substrate and surrounding the electronic device an encapsulant formed over the substrate, encapsulating the electronic device and the lid; and a plurality of fillers in the encapsulant, configured to diffuse light interacting with the electronic device. In this way, through the use of the encapsulant including the fillers distributed therein, additional optical filters and diffusers are not needed. Also, through the use of the lid, undesired stray light can be prevented from being interacting with the electronic device.
US11569417B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device, the method including forming a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer on a substrate; forming an active layer on the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer; forming a mask layer having an opening on the active layer; growing a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer through the opening; removing the mask layer; removing a portion of the active layer and a portion of the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer that do not overlap the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer; and removing a portion of the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer to expose the substrate.
US11569416B2
An embodiment includes a semiconductor device including a semiconductor structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first insulation layer disposed on the semiconductor structure; a first electrode disposed on the first conductive semiconductor layer; a second electrode disposed on the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first cover electrode disposed on the first electrode; a second cover electrode disposed on the second electrode; and a second insulation layer extending from an upper surface of the first cover electrode to an upper surface of the second cover electrode. The semiconductor structure includes a first surface extending from an upper surface of the first conductive semiconductor layer where the first electrode is disposed to a side surface of the active layer and an upper surface of the second conductive semiconductor where the second electrode is disposed. The first insulation layer is disposed on the first surface to be spaced apart from the first electrode. The first insulation layer is disposed on the first surface to overlap with the first cover electrode in a first direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the first conductive semiconductor layer.
US11569406B2
A PIN device includes: a first doped layer, a second doped layer, and an intrinsic layer between the first doped layer and the second doped layer, where the second doped layer includes a body portion and an electric field isolating portion at least partially enclosing the body portion; and the electric field isolating portion is doped differently from the body portion.
US11569402B2
An optical element is provided which comprises a plurality of fluorophores disposed in a medium. The fluorophores have a quantum yield greater than 50% and an absorption spectrum with a maximum intensity at wavelengths less than 400 nm, and emit a spectrum of light having a maximum intensity at wavelengths within the range of 400 nm to 1200 nm. The optical element is at least partially transparent over the visible region of the spectrum. The optical element is especially useful as a window or other optical component of a greenhouse structure.
US11569399B2
Transdermal microneedles continuous monitoring system is provided. The continuous system monitoring includes a substrate, a microneedle unit, a signal processing unit and a power supply unit. The microneedle unit at least comprises a first microneedle set used as a working electrode and a second microneedle set used as a reference electrode, the first and second microneedle sets arranging on the substrate. Each microneedle set comprises at least a microneedle. The first microneedle set comprises at least a sheet having a through hole on which a barbule forms at the edge. One of the sheets provides the through hole from which the barbules at the edge of the other sheets go through, and the barbules are disposed separately.
US11569396B2
An optical sensor package includes an IC die including a light sensor element, an output node, and bond pads including a bond pad coupled to the output node. A leadframe includes a plurality of leads or lead terminals, wherein at least some of the plurality of leads or lead terminals are coupled to the bond pads including to the bond pad coupled to the output node. A mold compound provides encapsulation for the optical sensor package including for the light sensor element. The mold compound includes a polymer-base material having filler particles including at least one of infrared or terahertz transparent particle composition provided in a sufficient concentration so that the mold compound is optically transparent for providing an optical transparency of at least 50% for a minimum mold thickness of 500 μm in a portion of at least one of an infrared frequency range and a terahertz frequency range.
US11569389B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin-type pattern on a substrate, the fin-type pattern extending in a first direction and protruding from the substrate in a third direction, a first wire pattern on the fin-type pattern, the first wire pattern being spaced apart from the fin-type pattern in the third direction, and a gate electrode extending in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first and third directions, and surrounding the first wire pattern, the gate electrode including a first portion that overlaps with the fin-type pattern in the second direction and a second portion corresponding to a remainder of the gate electrode except for the first portion.
US11569365B2
A semiconductor device and a method for forming a semiconductor are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a gate structure. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer, a work function metal layer over the gate dielectric layer, and a plurality of barrier granules between the gate dielectric layer and the work function metal layer. At least two adjacent barrier granules of the plurality of barrier granules are separated from each other by a portion of the work function metal layer.
US11569360B2
A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a ladder-shaped trench recessed a specific depth from a surface of the semiconductor layer into the semiconductor layer and including a pair of lines having a first depth and a plurality of connectors connected between the pair of lines and having a second depth shallower than the first depth, a well region defined in the semiconductor layer between the pair of lines and between the plurality of connectors of the trench, a floating region defined in the semiconductor layer outside the pair of lines of the trench, a gate insulating layer disposed on an inner wall of the trench, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the gate insulating layer to fill the trench and including a first portion in which the pair of lines is filled and a second portion in which the plurality of connectors is filled. A depth of the second portion of the gate electrode layer is shallower than a depth of the first portion of the gate electrode layer.
US11569358B2
A semiconductor device includes a barrier layer, a dielectric layer, a first spacer, a second spacer, and a gate. The dielectric layer is disposed on the barrier layer and defines a first recess. The first spacer is disposed on the barrier layer and within the first recess. The second spacer is disposed on the barrier layer and within the first recess. The first and second spacers are spaced apart from each other by a top surface of a portion of the barrier layer. The top surface of the portion of the barrier layer is recessed. The gate is disposed on the barrier layer, the dielectric layer, and the first and second spacers, in which the gate has a bottom portion located between the first and second spacers and making contact with the top surface of the portion of the barrier layer.
US11569352B2
A transistor, integrated semiconductor device and methods of making are provided. The transistor includes a dielectric layer having a plurality of dielectric protrusions, a channel layer conformally covering the protrusions of the dielectric layer to form a plurality of trenches between two adjacent dielectric protrusion, a gate layer disposed on the channel layer. The gate layer 106 has a plurality of gate protrusions fitted into the trenches. The transistor also includes active regions aside the gate layer. The active regions are electrically connected to the channel layer.
US11569349B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second active patterns, a field insulating film between the first and second active patterns, a first gate structure intersecting the first active pattern and including a first gate electrode and a first gate spacer, a second gate structure intersecting the second active pattern and including a second gate electrode and a second gate spacer, a gate separation structure on the field insulating film between the first and second gate structures, the gate separation structure including a gate separation filling film on a gate separation liner, and a connecting spacer between the gate separation structure and the field insulating film, the connecting spacer protruding from a top surface of the field insulating film, and the gate separation liner contacting the connecting spacer and extending along a top surface and sidewalls of the connecting spacer and along the top surface of the field insulating film.
US11569348B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to forming a nanosheet multi-channel device with an additional spacing layer and a hard mask layer. The additional spacing layer provides a space for an inner spacer above the topmost channel. The hard mask layer functions as an etch stop during metal gate etch back, providing improve gate height control.
US11569347B2
A semiconductor device and method for forming the same. The device comprises at least a dielectric layer, a two-dimensional (2D) material layer, a gate structure, and source/drain contacts. The 2D material layer contacts the dielectric layer. The gate structure contacts the 2D material layer. The source/drain contacts are disposed above the 2D material layer and contact the gate structure. The method includes forming a structure including at least a handle wafer, a 2D material layer, a gate structure in contact with the 2D material layer, an insulating layer, and a sacrificial layer. A portion of the sacrificial layer is etched. An inter-layer dielectric is formed in contact with the insulating layer and sidewalls of the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer and a portion of the insulating layer are removed. Source and drain contacts are formed in contact with the portion of the 2D material layer.
US11569333B2
A display apparatus including: a first thin-film transistor and a second thin-film transistor on a substrate, wherein the first thin-film transistor includes a first electrode layer, and the second thin-film transistor includes a second electrode layer; an insulating layer having a first contact hole and a second contact hole respectively exposing the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; a first pixel electrode connected to the first thin-film transistor through the first contact hole; and a second pixel electrode connected to the second thin-film transistor through the second contact hole. A top surface of the first pixel electrode overlapping the first electrode layer in the first contact hole has a first step facing a first direction, and a top surface of the second pixel electrode overlapping the second electrode layer in the second contact hole has a second step facing a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US11569332B2
A display substrate and a display device are provided in the present invention. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and a positive power supply line, a negative power supply line and a first dam which are on the base substrate. The base substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region arranged around the display region. The positive power supply line, the negative power supply line and the first dam are in the peripheral region, and the first dam is arranged around the display region. At least in a corresponding region between the positive power supply line and the negative power supply line, a protruding structure is on a side of the first dam proximal to the display region.
US11569331B2
A display device includes a pixel array disposed in a display area, a connection pad disposed in a pad area, and a transfer wiring electrically connected to the connection pad to transfer a signal to the pixel array. The pixel array includes a light-emitting element including a first electrode including a multi-layered structure including a metal layer and a metal oxide layer, an organic light-emitting layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the organic light-emitting layer. The connection pad includes an upper pad conductive layer having a single-layered structure including a metal oxide.
US11569328B2
A display device includes a substrate, a corrosion prevention layer on the substrate and including an inorganic material, a first conductive layer on the corrosion prevention layer and including aluminum or an aluminum alloy, a first insulating film on the first conductive layer, a semiconductor layer on the first insulating film and including a channel region of a transistor, a second insulating film on the semiconductor layer, and a second conductive layer on the second insulating film and including a barrier layer, which includes titanium, and a main conductive layer, which includes aluminum or an aluminum alloy, wherein the semiconductor layer includes an oxide semiconductor, and the barrier layer is between the semiconductor layer and the main conductive layer and overlaps the channel region of the transistor.
US11569325B2
There is provided a display device including: a light emitting element; and a drive transistor (DRTr) that includes a coupling section (W1) and a plurality of channel sections (CH) coupled in series through the coupling section (W1), wherein the drive transistor (DRTr) is configured to supply a drive current to the light emitting element.
US11569324B2
An active matrix substrate includes a first TFT and a second TFT, in which the first TFT includes a first oxide semiconductor layer and a first gate electrode arranged on a part of the first oxide semiconductor layer with a first gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, the first gate insulating layer has a layered structure including a first insulating film and a second insulating film arranged on the first insulating film, the second TFT includes a second oxide semiconductor layer having a higher mobility than the first oxide semiconductor layer and a second gate electrode arranged on a part of the second oxide semiconductor layer with a second gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, and the second gate insulating layer includes the second insulating film and does not include the first insulating film, and the second TFT further includes a lower insulating layer including the first insulating film arranged between the second oxide semiconductor layer and a substrate.
US11569323B2
A display panel includes: a substrate including a front display area, and a corner display area at a corner of the display panel; and a display element at the corner display area. The corner display area includes: a first extension area extending in a direction away from the front display area; and a first auxiliary area connected to the first extension area, and extending in a direction away from the front display area. The substrate includes a base layer, and a barrier layer on the base layer, the base layer overlapping with the first extension area and the first auxiliary area, and the barrier layer overlapping with the first extension area and spaced from the first auxiliary area.
US11569322B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a transmission area; a blocking layer disposed in the display area of the substrate and including a first blocking layer and a second blocking layer that is disposed on the first blocking layer; an insulating layer disposed on the blocking layer; a transistor disposed on the insulating layer; and a light emitting element connected to the transistor, wherein a first reflectivity of the first blocking layer is smaller than a second reflectivity of the second blocking layer, and a first absorption coefficient of the first blocking layer is smaller than a second absorption coefficient of the second blocking layer.
US11569320B2
A display panel includes: a substrate including an opening area, a display area, and a non-display area, the display area surrounding the opening area, and the non-display area being between the opening area and the display area; a plurality of display elements at the display area of the substrate, each of the display elements including a pixel electrode, an emission layer on the pixel electrode, and an opposite electrode on the emission layer; a thin-film encapsulation layer covering the plurality of display elements; a dam at the non-display area, and protruding from a top surface of a first insulating layer; and a recess between the opening area and the dam, and recessed in a depth direction of the first insulating layer. A lateral wall of the dam meets a first lateral wall from among lateral walls of the recess, the first lateral wall being adjacent to the display area.
US11569311B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes sub-pixel units, and each sub-pixel unit includes a light emitting region and a non-light emitting region; each sub-pixel unit includes a light emitting element, the light emitting element includes a light emitting layer and a first electrode, and at least a part of the first electrode is in the light emitting region. A plurality of first wires are configured to supply a power signal to the light emitting element and include a first sub-wire; the first sub-wire includes a plurality of portions, adjacent two of the plurality of portions are spaced apart from each other by an opening in the light emitting region; at least a part of an orthographic projection of the opening on the array substrate does not overlap with an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the array substrate.
US11569308B2
A color-converting substrate includes a color-converting part including a wavelength-converting particle configured to change a wavelength of an incident light to emit a light having a color different from the incident light, a color filter pattern filtering the light emitted from the color-converting part, and a light-reflective layer disposed between the color-converting part and the color filter pattern to selectively reflect a light having a wavelength same as the wavelength of the incident light.
US11569299B2
A display device includes a display panel having first and second regions with the second region having a higher resolution than the first region and an electronic module under the first region. The display panel includes first and second emission layers in a first sub-region of the first region with the second emission layer being spaced apart from the first emission layer. The first emission layer has a first light-emitting portion and a second light-emitting portion adjacent to the first light-emitting portion in a first direction, and the second emission layer has a third light-emitting portion and a fourth light-emitting portion adjacent to the third light-emitting portion in the first direction. The first light-emitting portion is inclined from the second light-emitting portion toward a lower surface of the display panel, and the fourth light-emitting portion is inclined from the third light-emitting portion toward an upper surface of the display panel.
US11569290B2
A sensing device includes a light-transmissible substrate, a light-transmissible electrode unit connected thereto, including multiple electrically independent electrode lines, and a light sensing unit connected to the light-transmissible substrate and the light-transmissible electrode unit. The light sensing unit includes a plurality of light sensors for sensing a light transmitted from the light-transmissible substrate. The light sensors are confined within the light-transmissible electrode unit and are electrically connectable to an outer component through the light-transmissible electrode unit.
US11569285B2
A solid-state imaging device having a first area and a second area surrounding the first area is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a substrate having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The solid-state imaging device also includes a color filter layer disposed on the substrate. The color filter layer includes a plurality of color filter segments corresponding to the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The solid-state imaging device further includes an optical waveguide layer over the color filter layer. The optical waveguide layer includes a waveguide partition grid, a waveguide material in spaces of the waveguide partition grid, and an anti-reflection film on the waveguide partition grid and the waveguide material. The width of the top of the waveguide partition grid is larger than the width of the bottom of the waveguide partition grid.
US11569281B2
The present technique relates to a solid-state imaging device and an imaging apparatus that enable provision of a solid-state imaging device having superior color separation and high sensitivity. The solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor layer in which a surface side becomes a circuit formation surface, photoelectric conversion units PD1 and PD2 of two layers or more that are stacked and formed in the semiconductor layer, and a longitudinal transistor Trl in which a gate electrode is formed to be embedded in the semiconductor layer from a surface of the semiconductor layer. The photoelectric conversion unit PD1 of one layer in the photoelectric conversion units of the two layers or more is formed over a portion of the gate electrode of the longitudinal transistor Trl embedded in the semiconductor substrate and is connected to a channel formed by the longitudinal transistor Trl.
US11569279B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device that includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer gate, a floating diffusion unit, and a transistor. The photoelectric conversion unit produces a charge according to incident light. The transfer gate has a columnar shape having an opening that is continuous in a vertical direction, and transfers the charge from the photoelectric conversion unit. The floating diffusion unit is formed extending to a region surrounded by the opening of the transfer gate, and converts the transferred charge into a voltage signal. The transistor is electrically connected to the floating diffusion unit via a diffusion layer.
US11569275B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a method for preparing the same, and a display device. The method includes: forming a metal layer on a base substrate; coating a photoresist on the metal layer; exposing the photoresist by a mask plate in such a manner that an amount of light acting on a first photoresist portion is less than that of light acting on a second photoresist portion to form a first photoresist reserved portion located and a second photoresist reserved portion located; after etching off the metal portion, stripping the first photoresist reserved portion and the second photoresist reserved portion, to obtain the first metal pattern located in the fan-out area and the second metal pattern located in the display area, in which a period size of the first metal pattern being smaller than a period size of the second metal pattern.
US11569273B2
A pixel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a circuit element on a base layer, a protective layer on the circuit element, a first electrode and a second electrode opposite each other on the protective layer, a first insulating layer on the first electrode and the second electrode, a light-emitting element on the first insulating layer at an area between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first contact electrode on a first end of the light-emitting element to connect the first end of the light-emitting element to the first electrode, a second contact electrode on a second end of the light-emitting element to connect the second end of the light-emitting element to the second electrode, and a cavity in the protective layer and the first insulating layer below the light-emitting element corresponding to the area between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11569271B2
A display panel and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device is provided. The display panel includes a display area including a plurality of gate lines arranged spaced apart in a first direction and a non-display area including a first and a second non-display area. At least one of the first or the second non-display area includes: a gate driving area including a plurality of gate driving units arranged spaced apart in the first direction and connected to the gate lines, a length of at least one gate driving unit being smaller than a length of a pixel in the first direction; a dummy gate driving area including a plurality of dummy gate driving units arranged spaced apart in the first direction; and a first trace area including a plurality of first traces connected to the dummy gate driving units and an external circuit.
US11569267B2
A method for forming an integrated circuit includes following operations. A substrate having a first region, a second region and an isolation structure is received. A portion of the substrate is removed such that the second region is recessed. A portion of the isolation structure is removed to obtain a first top surface, a second top surface lower than the first top surface, and a boundary between the first top surface and the second top surface. A first device is formed in the first region, a second device is formed in the second region, and a dummy structure is formed over the first top surface, the second top surface and the boundary. A dielectric structure is formed over the substrate. A top surface of the first device, a top surface of the second device and a top surface of the dummy structure are aligned with each other.
US11569262B2
A semiconductor device includes a first stacked structure and a second stacked structure spaced apart from each other on a substrate, and a plurality of separation structures and a plurality of vertical memory structures alternately arranged between the first stacked structure and the second stacked structure in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. Each of the first and second stacked structures includes a plurality of interlayer insulating layers and a plurality of gate layers alternately repeatedly stacked on the lower structure. Each of the vertical memory structures includes a first data storage structure facing the first stacked structure and a second data storage structure facing the second stacked structure. Side surfaces of the first and second stacked structures facing the vertical memory structures are concave in a plan view.
US11569254B2
An embodiment of a method of integration of a non-volatile memory device into a logic MOS flow is described. Generally, the method includes: forming a pad dielectric layer of a MOS device above a first region of a substrate; forming a channel of the memory device from a thin film of semiconducting material overlying a surface above a second region of the substrate, the channel connecting a source and drain of the memory device; forming a patterned dielectric stack overlying the channel above the second region, the patterned dielectric stack comprising a tunnel layer, a charge-trapping layer, and a sacrificial top layer; simultaneously removing the sacrificial top layer from the second region of the substrate, and the pad dielectric layer from the first region of the substrate; and simultaneously forming a gate dielectric layer above the first region of the substrate and a blocking dielectric layer above the charge-trapping layer.
US11569249B2
A method of manufacturing an anti-fuse device includes forming an anti-fuse structure on a substrate, forming a first transistor at a first position away from the anti-fuse device in a first direction, and forming a second transistor at a second position away from the anti-fuse device in a second direction opposite the first direction. Forming the anti-fuse structure includes forming first and second S/D structures in an active area, the first transistor includes the first S/D structure, and the second transistor includes the second S/D structure. The method includes constructing a first electrical connection between gate structures of the first and second transistors and a second electrical connection between a third S/D structure of the first transistor and a fourth S/D structure of the second transistor.
US11569247B2
Semiconductor structures are provided. A semiconductor structure includes a memory cell and a logic cell. The memory cell includes a latch circuit formed by two cross-coupled inverters, and a pass-gate transistor coupling an output of the latch circuit to a bit line. A first source/drain region of the pass-gate transistor is electrically connected to the bit line through a first contact over the first source/drain region and a first via over the first contact. A second source/drain region of a transistor of the logic cell is electrically connected to a local interconnect line through a second contact over the second source/drain region and a second via over the second contact. Height of the second via is greater than height of the first via. The local interconnect line and the bit line are formed in the same metal layer. The bit line is thicker than the local interconnect line.
US11569242B2
Disclosed are DRAM devices and methods of forming DRAM devices. One method may include forming a plurality of trenches and angled structures, each angled structure including a first sidewall opposite a second sidewall, wherein the second sidewall extends over an adjacent trench. The method may include forming a spacer along a bottom surface of the trench, along the second sidewall, and along the first sidewall, wherein the spacer has an opening at a bottom portion of the first sidewall. The method may include forming a drain in each of the angled structures by performing an ion implant, which impacts the first sidewall through the opening at the bottom portion of the first sidewall. The method may include removing the spacer from the first sidewall, forming a bitline over the spacer along the bottom surface of each of the trenches, and forming a series of wordlines along the angled structures.
US11569230B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device comprises receiving a structure having a substrate, an isolation structure over the substrate, and a fin over the substrate and adjacent to the isolation structure. The method further includes etching a portion of the fin, resulting in a trench, forming a doped material layer over bottom and sidewalls of the trench, and growing at least one epitaxial layer over the doped material layer in the trench. The method further includes recessing the isolation structure and the doped material layer, leaving a first portion of the at least one epitaxial layer surrounded by the doped material layer and performing an annealing process, thereby driving dopants from the doped material layer into the first portion.
US11569226B2
A method includes forming a transistor having source and drain regions. The following are formed on the source/drain region: a first via, a first metal layer extending along a first direction on the first via, a second via overlapping the first via on the first metal layer, and a second metal extending along a second direction different from the first direction on the second via; and the following are formed on the drain/source region: a third via, a third metal layer on the third via, a fourth via overlapping the third via over the third metal layer, and a controlled device at a same height level as the second metal layer on the third metal layer.
US11569224B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate, a seed layer, a buffer layer, a channel layer, a barrier layer, a gate structure, a first source/drain structure, a second source/drain structure, and a contact is provided. The seed layer is disposed on the substrate. The buffer layer is disposed on the seed layer. The channel layer is disposed on the buffer layer. The barrier layer is disposed on the channel layer. The gate structure is disposed on the barrier layer. The first and second source/drain structures are disposed on opposite sides of the gate structure. The contact contacts the first source/drain structure. The distance between the gate structure and the contact is between 0.5 micrometers and 30 micrometers.
US11569219B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit includes a memory macro unit, and one or more through silicon vias (TSVs) at least partially coupled through the memory macro unit. According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: receiving a user input corresponding to dimensions of respective pitches of one or more through silicon vias (TSVs); determining whether dimensions of a memory macro unit is greater than a size threshold, wherein the size threshold corresponds to the received user input; and determining one or more through silicon via (TSV) positionings based on the determined dimensions of the memory macro unit.
US11569208B2
An integrated circuit package comprising one or more electronic component(s); and one or more substrate(s), including a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein said first substrate including a first cavity on a first surface of said first substrate and a second cavity on a second surface of said first substrate, said second substrate includes a third cavity on a first surface of said second substrate and a fourth cavity on a second surface of said second substrate, said first substrate and said second substrate are stacked and coupled, and said one or more electronic component(s) is/are disposed inside said first cavity of first substrate and said fourth cavity of second substrate.
US11569204B2
A three-dimensional integrated circuit has a plurality of layers disposed in a stacked relationship. Logic circuitry is embodied in a first layer of the three-dimensional integrated circuit. An input output circuit is electrically coupled to the logic circuitry and has a plurality of transistors embodied in at least two layers of the three-dimensional integrated circuit. The input output circuit has first and second input output circuitry, wherein the first input output circuitry operates faster than the second input output circuitry.
US11569202B2
A semiconductor device, a circuit board structure and a manufacturing forming thereof are provided. A circuit board structure includes a core layer, a first build-up layer and a second build-up layer. The first build-up layer and the second build-up layer are disposed on opposite sides of the core layer. The circuit board structure has a plurality of stress releasing trenches extending into the first build-up layer and the second build-up layer.
US11569197B2
An ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes an ultrasonic bonding machine having an ultrasonic tool for applying an ultrasonic wave to a bonding target member mounted on a fixed object fixed to a jig, while pressing a bonding member against the bonding target member; and a bonding inspection apparatus for inspecting a bonding quality of the bonding target member and the bonding member. The bonding inspection apparatus includes: a bonded-state measuring device for detecting a vibration in the jig or a housing of the ultrasonic bonding machine equipped with the jig, to thereby output a detection signal; and a bonded-state determination device for determining, in a bonding process for the bonding target member and the bonding member, a bonded state between the bonding target member and the bonding member on the basis of the detection signal outputted by the bonded-state measuring device.
US11569185B2
A method for forming a multilayer conductive structure includes forming a first conductive portion; forming a second conductive portion containing ruthenium (Ru) therein on the first conductive portion; forming a third conductive portion on the second conductive portion; and performing a silicidation process on the second conductive portion.
US11569181B2
Moisture-driven degradation of a crack stop in a semiconductor die is mitigated by forming a groove in an upper surface of the die between an edge of the die and the crack stop; entirely filling the groove with a moisture barrier material; preventing moisture penetration of the semiconductor die by presence of the moisture barrier material; and dissipating mechanical stress in the moisture barrier material without presenting a stress riser in the bulk portion of the die. The moisture barrier material is at least one of moisture-absorbing, moisture adsorbing, and hydrophobic.
US11569179B2
A semiconductor package structure and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor package structure are provided. The package structure includes an outer lead portion, an inner lead portion, an encapsulant, and a first conductive layer. The outer lead portion has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The inner lead portion is connected to the outer lead portion. The inner lead portion has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The encapsulant covers the first surface of the outer lead portion and the first surface of the inner lead portion. The second surface of the outer lead portion and the second surface of the inner lead portion are substantially coplanar and are recessed from a surface of the encapsulant. The first conductive layer is disposed on the second surface of the outer lead portion.
US11569174B2
A power module includes a power substrate, a number of power semiconductor die, and a number of connector pins. The power substrate includes a number of conductive traces. The power semiconductor die are mounted on the power substrate and electrically coupled to the conductive traces. The connector pins are each electrically coupled to a different one of the conductive traces and configured to be interconnected such that the power semiconductor die provide an active front-end and a switching power converter. By providing the power semiconductor die such that they can be interconnected to form an active front-end and a switching power converter in the same power module, the power module may provide a significantly more compact power converter system using both an active front-end and switching power converter.
US11569170B2
A semiconductor device is provided, the semiconductor device comprising a substrate having merged cavities in the substrate. An active region is over the merged cavities in the substrate. A thermally conductive layer is in the merged cavities in the substrate, whereby the thermally conductive layer at least partially fills up the merged cavities in the substrate. A first contact pillar connects the thermally conductive layer in the merged cavities in the substrate with a metallization layer above the active region.
US11569168B2
An integrated circuit includes a first power rail, a second power rail, a signal line and a first active region of a first set of transistors. The first power rail is on a back-side of a substrate, and extends in a first direction. The second power rail is on the back-side of the substrate, extends in the first direction, and is separated from the first power rail in a second direction different from the first direction. The signal line is on the back-side of the substrate, and extends in the first direction, and is between the first power rail and the second power rail. The first active region of the first set of transistors extends in the first direction, and is on a first level of a front-side of the substrate opposite from the back-side.
US11569149B1
The present application provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method includes: providing a stacked structure, the stacked structure includes a first chip and a second chip; forming a through silicon via (TSV) in the stacked structure, the TSV includes a first part and a second part communicating with the first part, a sidewall of the first part is a vertical sidewall, and a sidewall of the second part is an inclined sidewall; forming an insulating layer on the sidewall of the first part; and forming a conductive layer in the TSV.
US11569147B2
A method of forming a semiconductor package is provided. The method includes forming a metallization stack over a semiconductor die. Polymer particles are mounted over the metallization stack. Each of the polymer particles is coated with a first bonding layer. A heat spreader lid is bonded with the semiconductor die by reflowing the first bonding layer. A composite thermal interface material (TIM) structure is formed between the heat spreader lid and the semiconductor die during the bonding. The composite TIM structure includes the first bonding layer and the polymer particles embedded in the first bonding layer.
US11569142B2
This semiconductor device is provided with a device substrate in which a semiconductor circuit including two high frequency amplifiers; a cap substrate and a sealing frame of a conductor which forms and air-tightly seals space surrounding an area, in which the semiconductor circuit is formed, between the device substrate and the cap substrate, wherein the sealing frame is configured as a line of a 90-degree hybrid circuit or a line of a rat-race circuit.
US11569113B2
A unit cell alignment apparatus that includes a base member, on the upper surface of which unit cells constituting an electrode assembly are stacked parallel thereto, a first guide member located at one side of the base member, the first guide member being disposed so as to be perpendicular to the upper surface of the base member, a second guide member located at the base member, the second guide member being disposed so as to be perpendicular to the upper surface of the base member while being at right angles to the first guide member, and an inclination adjustment member configured to adjust the inclination of the base member.
US11569112B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a substrate processing part including a load port configured to place thereon a substrate accommodating vessel in which at least one substrate is accommodated, and configured to take out the at least one substrate from the substrate accommodating vessel and to perform a series of processes on the at least one substrate; and a controller configured to control an opening and closing of a lid of the substrate accommodating vessel, wherein the controller performs control to open the lid after the substrate accommodating vessel is placed on the load port, and the controller performs control to close the lid when an abnormality occurs in the substrate processing part and when none of the at least one substrate removed from the substrate accommodating vessel can be recovered to the substrate accommodating vessel after a predetermined period of time from the occurrence of the abnormality.
US11569108B2
An illustrative device disclosed herein includes a plate and a reticle pod receiving structure on the front surface of the plate that at least partially bounds a reticle pod receiving area on the front surface. In this example, the back surface of the plate has a pin engagement structure that is adapted to engage a plurality of pins and a fluid flow channel that is adapted to allow fluid communication with an interior region of a reticle pod when the reticle pod is positioned in the reticle pod receiving area.
US11569103B2
Provided are a substrate transporting apparatus capable of preventing an increase in temperature of a transporting robot by installing a cooling plate around the transporting robot, and a substrate treating system including the same. The substrate transporting apparatus includes a transporting unit for transporting a substrate; and a cooling plate for controlling a temperature of the transporting unit, wherein the cooling plate is spaced apart from a side surface of the transporting unit and installed as a side wall, or is installed in close contact with the side surface of the transporting unit.
US11569101B2
A fluid supply device and a fluid supply method capable of stably supplying a supercritical fluid includes a fluid supply device for supplying a fluid in a liquid state before being changed to a supercritical fluid toward a processing chamber. The fluid supply device comprises a condenser that condenses and liquefies a fluid in a gas state, a tank that stores the fluid condensed and liquefied by the condenser, a pump that pressure-feeds the liquefied fluid stored in the tank toward the processing chamber, and a heating means provided to a flow path communicating with a discharge side of the pump and for partially changing the liquid in the flow path to a supercritical fluid.
US11569097B2
A resin molding apparatus including a release film feeder configured to feed a release film is provided. The release film feeder including a feeding roller around which the release film is wound, a gripper configured to grip an end portion of the release film fed from the feeding roller, a support table configured to support the release film fed by a horizontal movement of the gripper in an X direction, the support table configured to horizontally move at least one of in the X direction or in a Y direction perpendicular to the X direction, the X and Y directions defining a surface parallel to a surface of the support table, and a position detecting sensor on the support table and configured to detect position information of the release film may be provided.
US11569093B2
A method for making a MOSFET includes forming a gate oxide layer on a substrate; depositing and forming a polysilicon layer on the gate oxide layer; removing the polysilicon layer and the gate oxide layer in a target area by means of dry etching. The remaining gate oxide layer forms a gate oxide of the MOSFET. The remaining polysilicon layer forms a gate of the MOSFET. The method further includes performing LDD implantation on the substrate at both sides of the gate, to form a first LDD area and a second LDD area respectively; and performing SD implantation to form a source and a drain in the substrate at both sides of the gate respectively. Before one of the steps after the depositing and forming a polysilicon layer on the gate oxide layer, fluorine ion implantation is performed.
US11569092B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a first region formed on a front surface side of a semiconductor substrate; a drift region formed closer to a rear surface of the semiconductor substrate than the first region is; a buffer region that: is formed closer to the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate than the drift region is; and has one or more peaks of an impurity concentration that are higher than an impurity concentration of the drift region; and a lifetime killer that: is arranged on a rear surface side of the semiconductor substrate; and shortens a carrier lifetime, wherein a peak of a concentration of the lifetime killer is arranged between: a peak that is closest to a front surface of the semiconductor substrate among the peaks of the impurity concentration in the buffer region; and the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US11569078B2
A method for the identification and localization of small molecule species in a histologic thin tissue section comprises the steps of: a) acquiring a mass/mobility image of the tissue section and generating a mass/mobility map of the small molecule species of interest for each pixel of the image; b) providing a second sample of the same tissue and extracting the small molecules of interest, separating them, and acquiring mass and ion mobility spectra from the separated small molecules; c) identifying the small molecules of interest using corresponding reference databases; and d) assigning identified small molecules to entries in the mass/mobility maps of the first tissue section by comparison of ion masses and mobilities of the identified species to those of the second thin tissue section.
US11569075B2
A sputtering target containing molybdenum and at least one metal from the group tantalum and niobium. The average content of tantalum and/or niobium is from 5 to 15 at % and the molybdenum content is greater than or equal to 80 at %. The sputtering target has at least a matrix with an average molybdenum content of greater than or equal to 92 at % and particles which are composed of a solid solution containing at least one metal from the group of tantalum and niobium, and molybdenum, with an average molybdenum content of greater than or equal to 15 at % and are embedded in the matrix. There is also described a method of producing a sputtering target.
US11569072B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to substrate supports for process chambers and RF grounding configurations for use therewith. Methods of grounding RF current are also described. A chamber body at least partially defines a process volume therein. A first electrode is disposed in the process volume. A pedestal is disposed opposite the first electrode. A second electrode is disposed in the pedestal. An RF filter is coupled to the second electrode through a conductive rod. The RF filter includes a first capacitor coupled to the conductive rod and to ground. The RF filter also includes a first inductor coupled to a feedthrough box. The feedthrough box includes a second capacitor and a second inductor coupled in series. A direct current (DC) power supply for the second electrode is coupled between the second capacitor and the second inductor.
US11569066B2
Embodiments provided herein generally include apparatus, e.g., plasma processing systems, and methods for the plasma processing of a substrate in a processing chamber. Some embodiments are directed to a waveform generator. The waveform generator generally includes a first voltage stage having: a first voltage source; a first switch; and a second switch, where a first terminal of the first voltage source is coupled to a first terminal of the first switch, and where a second terminal of the first voltage source is coupled to a first terminal of the second switch. The waveform generator also includes a current stage coupled to a common node between second terminals of the first switch and the second switch, the current stage having a current source and a third switch coupled to the current source.
US11569053B2
A fuse resistor includes a substrate, an insulation layer, a fuse element, a protection layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The insulation layer covers a surface of the substrate. The fuse element is disposed on a portion of the insulation layer. The fuse element includes a first electrode portion, a melting portion, and a second electrode portion, in which the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion are respectively connected to two opposite ends of the melting portion. The protection layer covers the fuse element and the insulation layer, in which the protection layer has a cavity located on the melting portion. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first electrode portion. The second electrode is electrically connected to the second electrode portion.
US11569051B2
A remote control device may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may include a control unit and a base that may be configured to be mounted over a paddle actuator of an installed mechanical switch. The base may include a frame, a biasing member, and/or a ribbon portion. The frame may be configured to secure the remote control device thereto. The frame may define a rear surface that is configured to abut a bezel of the mechanical switch. The biasing member may be configured to engage a rear surface of a faceplate of the mechanical switch. The ribbon portion may be configured to attach the biasing member to the frame. The ribbon portion may be configured to extend through a gap between the bezel and the faceplate.
US11569042B2
A capacitor and a method for manufacturing the capacitor are provided. The capacitor comprises (1) a capacitor main body including an outer package case, an opening sealing member attached to an inside of an open portion of the outer package case and a terminal lead penetrating through the opening sealing member; (2) a base attached to an outside of the open portion of the outer package case, the base including an insertion through hole through which the terminal lead passes to be disposed on an outer side of the base; and (3) a resin layer between the base and the opening sealing member.
US11569039B2
An electronic component includes a body including a plurality of stacked dielectric layers and internal electrodes disposed with a corresponding dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to corresponding internal electrodes. One of the internal electrodes includes a particle including Ni and Sn and a graphene layer disposed at a boundary of the particle. A ratio of an Sn content to a total content of Ni and Sn is Sn/(Ni+Sn), Sn/(Ni+Sn) of a first region located inside the particle at a first distance from a boundary between the particle and the graphene layer is A1, Sn/(Ni+Sn) of a second region located inside the particle at a second distance from a boundary between the particle and the graphene layer is A2, the second distance is smaller than the first distance, and A1 is smaller than A2.
US11569038B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes first and second multilayer ceramic electronic component bodies facing each other in a length direction that connects first and second end surfaces. A first metal terminal is connected to a first outer electrode. A second metal terminal is connected to a fourth outer electrode. An outer casing covers the first and second multilayer ceramic electronic component bodies, and at least a portion of each of the first and second metal terminals. A third metal terminal is exposed from the outer casing.
US11569034B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including first and second internal electrodes disposed to face each other and a dielectric layer interposed therebetween. When an average thickness of the dielectric layer is denoted as ‘td,’ an average thickness of the first and second internal electrodes is denoted as ‘te,’ and a standard deviation of thicknesses of an internal electrode, measured at a plurality of points in a predetermined region of the internal electrode, is denoted as ‘σte,’ a ratio of the standard deviation of thicknesses of the internal electrode to the average thickness of the dielectric layer, which is denoted as ‘σte/td,’ satisfies 0.12≤σte/td≤0.21.
US11569031B2
A method for planar transformer with an odd turn ratio includes: determining a turn ratio and winding parameters of a transformer to be manufactured; if the turn ratio is odd, determining that there is respectively one winding turn on a first middle layer and a second middle layer and two winding turns on a top layer and a bottom layer; determining widths of winding wires on marginal layers as well as widths of winding wires on middle layers; winding and parallelly connecting an inner winding wire on the top layer to an inner winding wire on the bottom layer, and then serially connecting the parallel-connected inner winding wires to an outer winding wire to form a primary winding; and parallelly connecting the winding wire on the first middle layer to the winding wire on the second middle layer to form a secondary winding, so as to obtain the transformer.
US11569029B2
The present disclosure relates to a field device, comprising: a first inductive interface, at least for transmitting and receiving data, especially for transmitting a value dependent on the measured condition; at least one second interface at least for receiving energy; and a first coupling body comprising the first, inductive interface and the second interface.
US11569019B2
An electronic component includes: a first substrate having a first surface; a second substrate having a second surface facing the first surface across an air gap; a first coil pattern that is located on the first surface so as to face the second surface across the air gap; a second coil pattern that is located in a second region on the second surface and faces the first surface across the air gap, at least a part of the second region overlapping with a first region in plan view, the first region being formed of a region in which the first coil pattern is located and a region surrounded by the first coil pattern; and a connection terminal connecting the first coil pattern and the second coil pattern.
US11569012B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a method for improving the performance of sintered NdFeB magnet. A method of preparing a sintered NdFeB magnet therefore comprises the steps of: a) preparing alloy flakes from a raw material of the NdFeB magnet by a strip casting process; and b) preparing a coarse alloy powder from the alloy flakes by a hydrogen decrepitation process, the hydrogen decrepitation process including treatment of the alloy flakes under a hydrogen pressure of 0.10 MPa to 0.25 MPa for a duration of 1 to 3.5 hours, then degassing the hydrogen at a predetermined temperature between 300° C. to 400° C. for a duration time of 0.5 to 5 hours, and then mixing the resulting coarse alloy powder with a lubricant.
US11569010B2
The device, system and process of the present invention greatly reduces the time and space necessary to assemble a wire harness enables efficient manufacture of wire harnesses. The present invention comprises at least a wire viewer module, a machine vision and optical character recognition module, a cassette tray platform, designed to receive and hold in place a cassette tray, having one or more receptacles designed to receive and hold in place a wire harness connector, having multiple pin-hole cavities illuminated from below or behind by a light source mounted on a two-axis translation stage or gantry to identify a cavity for wire insertion. Moreover, the present invention may further comprise a portable, computer-implemented system capable of executing a series of automated process steps designed to identify wire markings and guide the error-free insertion of identified wires into wire harness connector pin-hole receptacles for assembly of a wire harness.
US11569007B2
Provided is a composite cable pair with which it is possible to reduce the difference in durability between a right-wheel composite cable and a left-wheel composite cable. A composite cable pair includes a right-wheel composite cable and a left-wheel composite cable. One end of the composite cable is fixed to a cable fixing portion on the vehicle body side or the chassis side of an automobile, and the other end thereof is fixed to a cable fixing portion on the right wheel side. One end of the composite cable is fixed to a cable fixing portion on the vehicle body side or the chassis side of the automobile, and the other end thereof is fixed to a cable fixing portion on the left wheel side. Wires of the respective wire bundles of the composite cable and the composite cable are twisted in twisting directions that are opposite to each other so that the twisting is tightened, without loosening, by an operation of the handle.
US11569002B2
The present disclosure relates to a transfer cask for transferring spent nuclear fuel. The transfer cask transfers a canister storing the spent nuclear fuel and includes a transfer container having a space for accommodating the canister; a neutron shielding body arranged on an outer periphery of the transfer container to shield neutrons; and an opening/closing portion that is coupled to a lower portion of the transfer container and opens and closes the lower portion of the transfer container, wherein the opening and closing portion, a support portion supporting the transfer container and having a first through hole in communication with the transfer container; a lid assembly having a first lid portion and a second lid portion that open and close the first through hole; and a base plate on which the support portion is seated and a second through hole through which the canister is drawn out is formed.
US11568997B2
A mechanism is provided for implementing a dynamic context-based collaborative medical concept interpreter for automatically generating and presenting summarized explanations of medical concepts. The dynamic context-based collaborative medical concept interpreter performs natural language processing on a real-time patient-provider communication to identify one or more medical concepts referred to in the communication. The dynamic context-based collaborative medical concept interpreter adjusts one or more previous explanations for the one or more medical concepts referred to in the communication using a set of contextual factors. The dynamic context-based collaborative medical concept interpreter generates an abstractive summary that summarizes ranked explanations of the one or more medical concepts based on an original language used in the one or more previous explanations. The dynamic context-based collaborative medical concept interpreter presents, in real time, the abstractive summaries of the one or more medical concepts to the patient and the provider in real-time patient-provider communication.
US11568994B2
Improved toilet apparatus and accessories are provided. The smart toilet system comprises components to enhance the functionality and use of existing toilets or new toilets. The smart toilet system comprises components designed to be fit in, on, above, or under a toilet seat, or to replace a toilet seat, bidet components, health monitoring components, ventilation or hygiene components, and communications and/or control components.
US11568993B2
A method of predicting a healthcare event includes: receiving via an input device, classifying personal information for each of a plurality of persons; collecting measurements of at least one health indicator during a predefined learning period; creating a personal physiological pattern profile, based on the collected data; associating each of the plurality of persons to a physiological cluster based on each person's personal physiological pattern profile and based on the classifying personal information of each of the plurality of persons; creating, for each physiological cluster, a health indicator deviation pattern for the healthcare event; continuously monitoring values of the health indicator of the person; and determining an occurrence probability of the healthcare event when the monitored indicators deviate from the personal physiological pattern profile. A system for predicting a healthcare event is also disclosed.
US11568991B1
A diagnostic tool includes a sensor for capturing at least one biosignal produced by a patient's heart and a computer device that implements a neural network iteratively trained via machine learning to generate a prediction about a heart condition of the patient. After the neural network is trained, the computer device can convert the at least one biosignal to a multi-dimensional input matrix for the deep neural network generated from a number (N) of biosignals captured by the sensor. The computer device then processes the multi-dimensional input matrix through the deep neural network, which subsequently outputs the prediction about the heart condition of the patient.
US11568984B2
An inventory management system includes a wearable cardiac device comprising an associated plurality of separate wearable cardiac device components stored as inventory at a first inventory location; a plurality of communication interface circuits associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of separate wearable cardiac device components and configured to facilitate transmission of inventory information through a network; at least one server device disposed at a central location and comprising a processor; and a memory comprising instructions that cause the processor to receive the inventory information from the plurality of communication interface circuits; receive a prescription for a patient; retrieve one or more prescription parameters based on the prescription; locate, in the inventory information, the wearable cardiac device based on the prescription parameters; determine a deployment status of the wearable cardiac device; and select the wearable cardiac device for the patient.
US11568978B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system of controlling a dental laser system. The system can include a dental laser and a control system for controlling certain functions of the dental laser. A graphical user interface can be used to provide input to the control system. The graphical user interface can include a first display and an second display with selectable segments, and a menu navigation portion located adjacent the second display. Treatment categories, procedures or laser control options can be selected using the interface, and the interface can be updated based on data from the station.
US11568977B2
An athletic parameter measurement device worn by an athlete during an athletic activity session includes a housing which attaches to the athlete, a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device detects, using the sensor, a vertical jump height of the athlete, and displays, during the performance of the athletic activity session, a representation of the vertical jump height on the display.
US11568976B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wound management and treatment. This includes determining characteristics of a wound for a patient based on an image of the wound, including detecting the characteristics based on analyzing the image using a first ML model trained to detect wound characteristics from a captured image. The techniques further include identifying patient medical data including characteristics relating to a medical history for the patient, and predicting a first care plan for the patient based on providing the characteristics of the wound and the patient medical data to a second ML model. The second ML model is trained to predict the first care plan using prior wound care outcome data including a prior wound care outcomes relating to prior patients. The first care plan is configured to be used to treat the wound for the patient.
US11568970B2
A medical picture archive integration system includes a de-identification system that includes a first memory designated for protected health information (PHI), operable to perform a de-identification function is on a DICOM image, received from a medical picture archive system, to identify at least one patient identifier and generate a de-identified medical scan that does not include the at least one patient identifier. The medical picture archive integration system further includes a de-identified image storage system that stores the de-identified medical scan in a second memory that is separate from the first memory, and an annotating system, operable to utilize model parameters received from a central server to perform an inference function on the de-identified medical scan, retrieved from the second memory to generate annotation data for transmission to the medical picture archive system as an annotated DICOM file.
US11568964B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for generating a patient profile. One method includes generating a patient profile corresponding to a patient that comprises profile data items and profile data parameters. Generating a synthesized context-aware rendition of a patient summary from the profile data items and the profile data parameters. Mapping doctor specialties and data workflows in relation to the synthesized context-aware rendition of the patient summary.
US11568959B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods for determining whether or a subject is likely to respond to certain adoptive cell therapies (e.g., chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, etc.). In some embodiments, the methods comprise the steps of identifying a subject as having a tumor microenvironment (TME) type based upon a molecular-functional (MF) expression signature of the subject, and determining whether or not the subject is likely to respond to a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy based upon the TME type. In some embodiments, the methods comprise determining the lymphoma microenvironment (LME) type of a lymphoma (e.g., Diffuse Large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL)) subject and identifying the subject's prognosis based upon the LME type determination.
US11568956B2
Methods for identifying compounds that are inhibitors or are likely to be inhibitors of amyloid protein aggregation, as well as three-dimensional, non-crystallographic models (i.e. “pseudo-crystal structures”) of amyloid aggregation utilized in the methods, are described. Means for creating the three-dimensional, non-crystallographic models (i.e. “pseudo-crystal structures”) of amyloid aggregation are also described.
US11568945B2
A method of verifying the programming of a plurality of memory cells in a data storage system includes performing a setup operation including settling of bit lines associated with the subset of memory cells; performing a sensing operation including subjecting the settled bit lines to a verify voltage signal; and performing first and second latching operations identifying memory cells of the subset of memory cells having threshold voltages that meet first and second verify reference voltages, where the first and second latching operations are part of the same program verify operation with no setup time between them.
US11568943B2
A memory apparatus and method of operation is provided. The apparatus includes a block of memory cells. Each of the memory cells is connected to one of a plurality of word lines and are also arranged in strings and configured to retain a threshold voltage within a common range of threshold voltages. A control circuit coupled to the plurality of word lines and the strings is configured to determine an erase upper tail voltage of a distribution of the threshold voltage of the memory cells following an erase operation. The erase upper tail voltage corresponds to a cycling condition of the memory cells. The control circuit is also configured to calculate a program voltage to apply to each of selected ones of the plurality of word lines associated with the memory cells to program the memory cells during a program operation based on the erase upper tail voltage.
US11568933B1
A method includes identifying a target plane in respective planes of a memory die in a non-volatile memory array and identifying, from blocks of non-volatile memory cells coupled to a common bit line in the target plane, at least one target block in the target plane. The method further includes performing an operation to disable at least one gate associated with the at least one target block to prevent access to the blocks of non-volatile memory cells coupled to the common bit line in the target plane.
US11568931B2
A read-out circuit and a read-out method for a three-dimensional memory, comprises a read reference circuit and a sensitive amplifier, the read reference circuit produces read reference current capable of quickly distinguishing reading low-resistance state unit current and reading high-resistance state unit current. The read reference circuit comprises a reference unit, a bit line matching module, a word line matching module and a transmission gate parasitic parameter matching module. With respect to the parasitic effect and electric leakage of the three-dimensional memory in the plane and vertical directions, the present invention introduces the matching of bit line parasite parameters, leakage current and transmission gate parasitic parameters into the read reference current, and introduces the matching of parasitic parameters of current mirror into the read current, thereby eliminating the phenomenon of pseudo reading and reducing the read-out time.
US11568926B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit having first latch circuitry with multiple first latches that latch multiple input data signals. The integrated circuit may include second latch circuitry having a single second latch that receives the latched multiple input data signals from the multiple first latches and outputs a single latched data signal based on the latched multiple input data signals. The integrated circuit may include intermediate logic circuitry that is coupled between the first latch circuitry and the second latch circuitry. The intermediate logic circuitry may receive and combine the multiple input data signals from the first latch circuitry into a single data signal that is provided to the single second latch of the second latch circuitry for output as the single latched data signal.
US11568919B2
The embodiments described herein describe technologies for using the memory modules in different modes of operation, such as in a standard multi-drop mode or as in a dynamic point-to-point (DPP) mode (also referred to herein as an enhanced mode). The memory modules can also be inserted in the sockets of the memory system in different configurations.
US11568918B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, and methods for analog row access rate determination. Accesses to different row addresses may be tracked by storing one or more received addresses in a slice of stack. Each slice includes an accumulator circuit which provides a voltage based on charge on a capacitor. When a row address is received, it may be compared to the row addresses stored in the stack, and if there is a match, the charge on the capacitor in the associated accumulator circuit is increased. Each slice may also include a voltage to time (VtoT) circuit which may be used to identify the highest of the voltages provided by the accumulator circuits. The row address stored in the slide with the highest voltage may be refreshed.
US11568916B2
A multi-phase clock generator includes first and second variable delay lines, a first phase splitter configured to phase-split a first phase-delayed clock, output from a clock tree, to output a first divided clock and a third divided clock, a second phase splitter configured to phase-split a second phase-delayed clock, output from the clock tree, to output a second divided clock and a fourth divided clock, a first duty cycle detector configured to detect a first duty error between the first divided clock and the third divided clock, and a second duty cycle detector configured to detect a second duty error between the second divided clock and the fourth divided clock. The first variable delay line is controlled according to the first duty error, and the second variable delay line is controlled according to the second duty error.
US11568910B2
According to one embodiment, a shift register memory includes blocks and a control circuit. The blocks each includes data storing shift strings. Each of the data storing shift strings includes layers. The control circuit performs storing and reading data by shifting one layer of the layers, in a direction along each of the data storing shift strings. The reading includes reading data from a first layer of the layers. The storing includes storing data to a second layer of the layers. The control circuit reads first data stored in one or more third layers of the layers, the one or more third layers being successive from the first layer, determines a shift parameter in accordance with the reading of the first data, and performs the reading using the determined shift parameter.
US11568897B1
A sequence of media items may be presents. Based on selection of media items for potential inclusion into the sequence of media items, the selected media items may be presented apart from the sequence of media items. One or more of the selected media items may be inserted into a location in the sequence of media items.
US11568889B2
A magnetic processing unit (“MPU”) includes a magnetic element with one or more input channels and one or more output channels. The magnetic element can acquire magnetic arrangement configured to perform a predetermined operation on the received input signal and provide a resulting output signal.
US11568882B2
This application discloses an IPD parameter encoding method, including: obtaining a reference parameter used to determine an IPD parameter encoding scheme of a current frame of a multi-channel signal; determining the IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame based on the reference parameter, where the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame is one of at least two preset IPD parameter encoding schemes; and processing an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame. The technical solutions provided in this application can improve encoding quality of the multi-channel signal.
US11568875B2
Disclosed is an artificial intelligence apparatus for recognizing a plurality of wake-up words, including a microphone, a memory configured to store a first wake-up word recognition engine, a communication interface configured to communicate with a server storing a second wake-up word recognition engine, and a processor configured to acquire an audio signal through the microphone, generate a pre-processed audio signal from the acquired audio signal, extract a voice interval from the generated pre-processed audio signal, set a wake-up word recognition interval comprising the extracted voice interval and a buffer interval corresponding to the extracted voice interval in the generated pre-processed audio signal, wherein the wake-up word recognition interval is an interval used for recognizing wake-up words, and transmit the set wake-up recognition interval in the generated pre-processed audio signal to the first wake-up word recognition engine and the second wake-up word recognition engine.
US11568858B2
A computer-implemented method of building a multilingual acoustic model for automatic speech recognition in a low resource setting includes training a multilingual network on a set of training languages with an original transcribed training data to create a baseline multilingual acoustic model. Transliteration of transcribed training data is performed by processing through the multilingual network a plurality of multilingual data types from the set of languages, and outputting a pool of transliterated data. A filtering metric is applied to the pool of transliterated data output to select one or more portions of the transliterated data for retraining of the acoustic model. Data augmentation is performed by adding one or more selected portions of the output transliterated data back to the original transcribed training data to update training data. The training of a new multilingual acoustic model through the multilingual network is performed using the updated training data.
US11568857B2
A machine learning method for training a learning model includes: transforming a first audio type of audio data into a first image type of image data, wherein a first audio component and a second audio component are mixed in the first audio type of audio data, and the first image type of image data corresponds to the first audio type of audio data; transforming a second audio type of audio data into a second image type of image data, wherein the second audio type of audio data includes the first audio component without mixture of the second audio component, and the second image type of image data corresponds to the second audio type of audio data; and performing machine learning on the learning model with training data including sets of the first image type of image data and the second image type of image data.
US11568845B1
A method of designing an acoustic liner includes identifying acoustic path lengths that will attenuate a frequency within a frequency range of interest, and selecting a liner configuration with a combination of acoustic paths that addresses the frequency range of interest. The selection may be made after a comparison of the response of different liner configurations.
US11568838B2
A stringed instrument bridge comprising: a bridge body; a receiving surface that is generally flat and horizontal; a first angled member abutting a first side of the receiving surface, the first angled member having a first angled surface with a first threaded hole; a second angled member abutting a second side of the receiving surface, the second side on an opposite side from the first side, the second angled member having a second angled surface with a second threaded hole; a step block attachable to the receiving surface; the step block comprising a plurality of steps; a plurality of saddles, each saddle configured to sit on one of the steps; a first wedge lock, the first wedge lock having a first slotted screw hole, the first wedge lock configured to attach to the bridge body at the first angled member via a first screw configured to engage the first slotted screw hole and the first threaded hole; a second wedge lock, the second wedge lock having a second slotted screw hole, the second wedge lock configured to attach to the bridge body at the second angled member via a second screw configured to engage the second slotted screw hole and the second threaded hole; wherein when the first and second wedge locks are loosely attached to the first and second angle members, the saddles may be adjusted into an adjusted position with respect to the step block; and wherein when first screw is tightened and the second screw is tightened, the first and second wedge locks fixedly hold the saddles in the adjusted position. A stringed instrument bridge comprising: a bridge body; a receiving surface that comprises a plurality of steps; a bottom surface opposite the receiving, the bottom surface having a concave curve configured to allow the bridge body to attach to the top surface of a stringed instrument, where the top surface is curved; a first angled member abutting a first side of the receiving surface, the first angled member having a first angled surface with a first non-threaded hole; a second angled member abutting a second side of the receiving surface, the second side on an opposite side from the first side, the second angled member having a second angled surface with a second non-threaded hole; a first integral spacer extending from the bottom surface, the first integral spacer having an opening that is coincident with the first non-threaded hole; a second integral spacer extending from the bottom surface, the second integral spacer having an opening that is coincident with the second non-threaded hole; a plurality of saddles, each saddle configured to sit on one of the steps; a first wedge lock, the first wedge lock having a first slotted screw hole, the first wedge lock configured to attach to the bridge body at the first angled member via a first screw configured to engage the first slotted screw hole and the first non-threaded hole; a second wedge lock, the second wedge lock having a second slotted screw hole, the second wedge lock configured to attach to the bridge body at the second angled member via a second screw configured to engage the second slotted screw hole and the second non-threaded hole; at least one non-threaded slotted hole located in the bridge body and configured to align with at least one hole spacing on a stringed instrument; wherein when the first and second wedge locks are loosely attached to the first and second angle members, the saddles may be adjusted into an adjusted position with respect to the receiving surface; and wherein when first screw is tightened and the second screw is tightened, the first and second wedge locks fixedly hold the saddles in the adjusted position. A stringed instrument bridge comprising: a bridge body; a receiving surface that comprises a plurality of steps; a first angled member abutting a first side of the receiving surface, the first angled member having a first angled surface with a first threaded hole; a second angled member abutting a second side of the receiving surface, the second side on an opposite side from the first side, the second angled member having a second angled surface with a second threaded hole; a plurality of saddles, each saddle configured to sit on one of the steps; a first wedge lock, the first wedge lock having a first slotted screw hole, the first wedge lock configured to attach to the bridge body at the first angled member via a first screw configured to engage the first slotted screw hole and the first threaded hole; a second wedge lock, the second wedge lock having a second slotted screw hole, the second wedge lock configured to attach to the bridge body at the second angled member via a second screw configured to engage the second slotted screw hole and the second threaded hole; an integral tailpiece attached to one side of the bridge body, the tailpiece having a plurality of string holes configured to hold the end of a string above each of the plurality of steps; wherein when the first and second wedge locks are loosely attached to the first and second angle members, the saddles may be adjusted into an adjusted position with respect to the receiving surface; and wherein when first screw is tightened and the second screw is tightened, the first and second wedge locks fixedly hold the saddles in the adjusted position; and wherein the bridge body is configured to mount flat to the top of a stringed instrument.
US11568825B2
Provided are a driving method for a display panel, display driving device and electronic apparatus. The display panel includes a shift register. A drive signal of the shift register includes a trigger signal and a clock signal. The driving method includes: a current FPS in a current display mode is acquired; a current trigger signal and a current clock signal of the shift register is determined according to the current FPS; the shift register is provided with the current trigger signal and the current clock signal. A refresh frequency of the current trigger signal is the same as the current FPS. The current clock signal is the same as a reference clock signal in a reference display mode at least within an effective action duration of the current trigger signal. The current FPS is less than or equal to the reference FPS in the reference display mode.
US11568823B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides driving methods of a display panel and a display device.
US11568822B2
An embodiment of a display apparatus includes a scan driver, a pixel, a first scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, a second scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, and a third scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, wherein in operation: the pixel receives first, second, and third scan signals from the scan driver by way of the first, second, and third scan lines, respectively; the first and second scan signals produce a display period of a frame period in the pixel; and the third scan signal produces a black insertion period of the frame period in the pixel.
US11568812B2
A display device includes: a luminance converter which converts input gradation value into a corresponding target luminance value; a luminance correction calculator which calculates output gradation value from the target luminance value and calculates a corrected luminance value from the output gradation value, using an efficiency residual ratio which is an index representing the light-emitting element deterioration degree; a current stress calculator which converts current stress amount on the light-emitting element calculated from the corrected luminance value into current stress amount when reference current flows through the light-emitting element, and calculates the accumulated current stress amount; a temperature stress calculator which converts temperature stress amount on the light-emitting element under environmental temperature into temperature stress amount on the light-emitting element under reference temperature, and calculates the accumulated current stress amount; and an efficiency residual ratio calculator which updates the efficiency residual ratio, using the accumulated current and temperature stress amounts.
US11568805B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region, a plurality of a light-emitting units arranged at the display region; a touch circuit connected to the display panel, and configured to detect touch information when the display panel is touched; a control circuit connected to the touch circuit and the display panel, and configured to control a corresponding light-emitting unit to emit a predetermined light beam in response to the touch information; a photosensing circuit connected to the display panel and the control circuit, and configured to sense the predetermined light beam and convert it into an electric signal; and a data processor connected to the control circuit and the display panel, and configured to process the electric signal acquired by the photosensing circuit through conversion to acquire monitoring data, and display the monitoring data on the display panel.
US11568802B2
A backplane suitable to pulse width modulate an array of emissive pixels with a current that is substantially constant over a wide range of temperatures. A current control circuit provides means to provide a constant current to an array of current mirror pixel drive elements. The current control circuit comprises a thermally stable bias resistor and a thermally stable band-gap voltage source to provide thermally stable controls and a large L p-channel reference current FET with an associated large L n-channel bias FET configured to provide a reference current at a required voltage to the gate of a large L p-channel current source FET. The current control circuit and the current mirror pixel drive elements are similar circuits with one current control circuit able to control a substantial number of pixel drive elements.
US11568793B2
A scan-type display apparatus includes an LED array, a display module, a control module and a driver module. The LED array has a common anode configuration. The control module generates a synchronization control (SC) signal. Based on the SC signal, the driver module outputs an input voltage to scan lines of the LED array sequentially without overlapping in time so as to drive LEDs of the LED array to emit light in a line scan manner, and generates an image refresh signal that is related to the output of the input voltage to one of the scan lines which corresponds to a last line of the line scan in each line scan cycle and that is further related to refreshing of images on a display constituted by the LED array and the display module.
US11568783B1
A display apparatus including display, display driver, and processor configured to send input signal to display driver, first part and second part of input signal comprise first pixel data pertaining to portion of first image frame and second pixel data pertaining to second image frame, respectively, first part of input signal further comprises extra pixel data pertaining to second image frame. Display driver is configured to: re-scale pixels of first pixel data based on display resolution; update pixels of second pixel data based on extra pixel data; generate control signal based on re-scaled pixels and updated pixels; drive display using control signal to present visual scene, wherein re-scaled pixels surround updated pixels when displayed on display area.
US11568780B2
An image dividing circuit includes an input interface circuit that receives input image data configured by a total number of horizontal pixels HT, an image data dividing circuit that divides the input image data into first to n-th output image data, and an output interface circuit that includes output circuits for first to n-th channels that output the first to n-th output image data. The parameter n is an integer greater than or equal to 3, and the parameter HT is not an integer multiple of the parameter n. An output circuit for an i-th channel outputs i-th output image data in which at least one of the total number of horizontal pixels and the total number of vertical lines in the i-th channel has been variably adjusted. The parameter i is an integer greater than or equal to 1 but smaller than or equal to n.
US11568777B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The shift register unit includes: a first shift register, a second shift register and a switch control circuit, signal input terminals of the first and second shift registers are coupled to a cascade signal input terminal through the switch control circuit, the switch control circuit is configured to allow a current between the signal input terminal of the first shift register and the cascade signal input terminal or not, and allow a current between the signal input terminal of the second shift register and the cascade signal input terminal or not; the first shift register and the second shift register are configured such that at least one of them operates upon receiving a cascade signal provided by the cascade signal input terminal.
US11568776B2
A gate driver includes a plurality of active stages and a plurality of dummy stages. The active stage is configured to output a plurality of gate signals to a display region. The dummy stage is c connected to respective active stages and configured to output a plurality of dummy carry signals to the respective active stages. The active stage is configured to output the plurality of gate signals and a plurality of active carry signals. The plurality of dummy stages are configured to output the plurality of dummy carry signals, respectively, and not to output any gate signal.
US11568774B2
There is provided a method of displaying an image on a display device, the method including moving an image displayed at an image display region of the display device, and reducing a first region and enlarging a second region, the first and second regions included in the image, wherein the image has a smaller size than the image display region.
US11568769B2
A display device may include a first pixel, a second pixel, a first data line electrically connected to the first pixel, a second data line electrically connected to the second pixel and electrically insulated from the first data line, a first signal wire electrically connected to the first data line, a second signal wire electrically connected to the second data line, and a connecting wire electrically connecting the second data line to the second signal wire. The connecting wire may include a first section and a second section. The second section may be directly connected to the first section, may overlap the first pixel, may overlap the first data line, and may be oblique relative to each of the first data line and the second data line in a plan view of the display device.
US11568763B2
A patient simulator system includes a fetal patient simulator including a simulated torso and a simulated head attached to the simulated torso and being moveable in relation to the simulated torso between a neutral position and a raised position. An actuator is configured to raise the simulated head from the neutral position to the raised position. The actuator may be disposed within the simulated head of the fetal patient simulator. The patient simulator system may further include a maternal patient simulator in which the fetal patient simulator is adapted to be disposed to simulate a birthing scenario. The actuator may raise the simulated head from the neutral position to the raised position during the birthing scenario to simulate the rise of a natural fetus's head during birth. The actuator may comprise an inflatable bag or other member positioned outside of the fetal patient simulator and within the maternal patient simulator.
US11568756B2
An augmented reality system, includes a head-mounted see-through optic adapted to present digital content viewable by a user and having a transparency that allows the user to see though to the surrounding environment, a non-visual tracking system adapted to identify and track objects in a surrounding environment that cannot be seen visually, a training simulation system adapted to present a virtual training object on a display on the non-visual tracking system and a virtual content presentation system adapted to present digital content in the optic when the distance between the optic and the virtual training object indicates the object is in visual range.
US11568746B2
Disclosed is a vehicular environment estimation device capable of accurately estimating a travel environment around own vehicle on the basis of a predicted route of a mobile object or the like, which is moving in a blind area. A vehicular environment estimation device that is mounted in the own vehicle detects a behavior of another vehicle in the vicinity of the own vehicle, and estimates a travel environment, which affects the traveling of another vehicle, on the basis of the behavior of another vehicle. For example, the presence of another vehicle, which is traveling in a blind area, is estimated on the basis of the behavior of another vehicle. Therefore, it is possible to estimate a vehicle travel environment that cannot be recognized by the own vehicle but can be recognized by another vehicle in the vicinity of the own vehicle.
US11568732B2
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for systemic resource utilization analysis and management, such as employing a single-point sensor to detect or identify resource leakage at one or more other locations in a structure.
US11568729B2
An information handling system includes a host device and multiple monitor devices. One of the monitor devices is configured as a parent monitor device, and the remaining monitor devices are configured as child monitor devices. The parent monitor device receives a user presence detect (UPD) status signal, and queries all of the child monitor devices for a current UPD status. In response to the queries, the parent monitor consolidates the current UPD status from each of the child monitor devices and the current UPD status of the parent monitor device. Based on the consolidated current UPD status and based on a UPD policy, the parent monitor device sets a current user status as a user absence or presence. In response to the processor being in a low power state and the current user status being the user presence, the patent monitor device provides a wake notification to the host device.
US11568725B2
A system for providing and/or collecting information relating to at least one object is provided. The system comprises a radio-frequency identification, RFID, tag that is provided proximate to the at least one object, the RFID tag being configured to enable detection of a position and/or a movement of the at least one object; a server device configured to receive position and/or movement data about the at least one object; and a mobile device configured to: identify the at least one object; send a request to the server device for object information about the identified at least one object; wherein: the server device is further configured to, in response to the request, provide to the mobile device targeted object information about the identified at least one object, the targeted object information being at least partially based on the position and/or movement data; and the mobile device is further configured to display the targeted object information.
US11568723B2
An object recognition enabled, for example facial recognition enabled, video surveillance system for capturing video of a scene and allowing recognition of objects within that scene. The system comprises at least one camera apparatus connected via a communication channel to a central server with the camera apparatus arranged for capturing visual representation data of a scene. The visual representation data comprises video of the scene and the camera apparatus comprises a camera for capturing said video and a video encoder for sending corresponding video data via the communication channel to the central server. The camera apparatus is further arranged for generating object recognition data based on said visual representation data, and the video encoder is arranged to send said object recognition data along with the video data via the communication channel.
US11568696B2
A depository operates to accept and make available deposit items to authorized users responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The depository (10) includes a body (12) that bounds and interior area (14). The depository includes a door (18) that is controlled by a lock (24) so that only authorized users can access the interior area. The depository includes at least one input device (20) operative to receive data usable to identify users authorized to access the depository. At least one reading device (26) is operative to read indicia included on depository items so that depository items placed in or removed from the interior area can be tracked. The depository is in operative connection with a network (50) that enables the transport and tracking of deposit items.
US11568695B1
An information-based access control system for facilities. The control system includes a mobile app and securely connected central server, which is cloud-based. The app collects and transmits multiple biometric and other authentication factors and the facility enabling the server to verify identity and check to ensure the person is authorized to obtain access. If so, the server issues a limited duration approved biometric, which can be displayed to the facility guards, compared with a on-site image taken with a biometric sensor at the location, and used to control signal lights and electronic gates to obtain access quickly, conveniently, inexpensively, and securely. Also, a vehicle on the move can acquire access without having to slow down or stop if the biometric sensor can obtain an image inside the vehicle.
US11568694B2
An assignable realestate system includes a processor, a storage medium, a wireless device including a digital key, a lock assembly for access to realestate, a data file, and a blockchain application. The data file is stored in the medium, and includes a plurality of linked blocks. Each block includes a respective asset transaction data of a plurality of asset transaction data with each data being time stamped. The blockchain application is stored in the medium and executed by the processor. The blockchain application is configured to apply the data file to determine a current asset transaction data of the plurality of asset transaction data and output an authorization signal to the lock assembly associated with the device for access to the realestate.
US11568693B2
Systems, devices, and methods for controlling access to a secure space are disclosed. The system includes a locking device fastenable to an access point of the secure space, a server, and a network for communication between the locking device and server. The server includes a storage unit to store authorization data for the locking device and the user computing device, and a processing unit for receiving a request from the user computing device to access the locking device; authenticating the user computing device; generating authorization data; and providing at least part of the authorization data to each of the locking device and the user computing device. The locking device includes an actuator, a memory, and a processing unit for receiving a security command from the user computing device; determining whether the security command includes requesting data that corresponds to the authorization data; and generating a control signal for the actuator to move the locking device based on the security command.
US11568690B2
It is provided a method for determining when access control of an electronic lock, controlling access to a restricted physical space, should be performed. The method is performed in an intent determiner and comprising the steps of: obtaining movement data from a first sensor of a portable key device, the movement data indicating movement of the portable key device; obtaining a distance indicator from a second sensor, the distance indicator being indicative of distance between the electronic lock and the user; determining when there is user intent to open based on both the movement data and the distance indicator; and triggering access control to be performed only when user intent has been determined.
US11568687B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for evaluating vibrational characteristics of a vehicle such as an autonomous vehicle and vibrational characteristics of a road surface in conjunction with one another to identify anomalous vehicle vibrational characteristics that may be indicative of potential damage to the structure of a vehicle. A baseline vibrational signature may be generated for a road segment based on sensor data received from multiple vehicles traversing the road segment. A vibrational signature may also be generated for a particular vehicle being evaluated based on real-time sensor data. If the vibrational signature for the vehicle deviates from the baseline vibrational signature for the road segment by more than a threshold amount, the vehicle may be deemed to be exhibiting anomalous vibrational characteristics indicative of potential vehicular damage. One or more actions in response thereto may then be taken such as automatically halting the vehicle.
US11568683B2
Facial biometric systems and methods employ digital fingerprints that represent facial characteristics. These systems and methods may perform various digital fingerprint related processes including induction (acquiring of the facial data, generation of a digital fingerprint and storing in a database) and authentication (a process of using the digital fingerprint of the face to perform biometrics). The facial biometric system and method combines these processes with a particular set of hardware to perform the facial biometrics process that is novel and provides benefits and capabilities not achievable by other biometric systems and methods.
US11568665B2
A method for recognizing an identification (ID) card of a user terminal using deep learning includes extracting an outline region of the ID card included in an input image using a first neural network model, modifying the ID card image of the image to a reference form using at least a partial value of the extracted outline region, and determining whether the modified ID card image is valid and recognizing text information in the valid ID card image. A recognition rate of the ID card may be increased by modifying an ID card image into a reference form using a trained neural network model.
US11568655B2
Autonomous driving system methods and devices which trigger vehicular actions based on the monitoring of one or more occupants of a vehicle are presented. The methods, and corresponding devices, may include identifying a plurality of features in a plurality of subsets of image data detailing the one or more occupants; tracking changes over time of the plurality of features over the plurality of subsets of image data; determining a state, from a plurality of states, of the one or more occupants based on the tracked changes; and triggering the vehicular action based on the determined state.
US11568650B2
A method includes accessing a training sample including an image of a scene, depth measurements of the scene, and a predetermined 3D position of an object in the scene. The method includes training a 3D-detection model for detecting 3D positions of objects based the depth measurements and the predetermined 3D position, and training a 2D-detection model for detecting 2D positions of objects within images. Training the 2D-detection model includes generating an estimated 2D position of the object by processing the image using the 2D-detection model, determining a subset of the depth measurements that correspond to the object based on the estimated 2D position and a viewpoint from which the image is captured, generating an estimated 3D position of the object based on the subset of the depth measurements, and updating the 2D-detection model based on a comparison between the estimated 3D position and the predetermined 3D position.
US11568648B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for the real-time monitoring of construction objects. The apparatus for the real-time monitoring of construction objects includes: a communication unit configured to receive image data acquired by photographing a construction site, and to transmit safety information to an external device; and a monitoring unit provided with a prediction model pre-trained using binary image sequences of construction objects at the construction site as training data, and configured to detect a plurality of construction objects from image frames included in image data received via the communication unit and convert the detected construction objects into binary images, to generate future frames by inputting the resulting binary images to the prediction model, and to derive proximity between the construction objects by comparing the generated future frames with the resulting binary images and generate the safety information.
US11568631B2
A method for extracting and providing a text color and background color in an image, includes detecting a first area that includes a text in a given image; extracting, from the first area, a representative text color that represents the text and a representative background color that represents a background of the first area; and overlaying a second area that includes a translation result of the text on the given image and applying the representative text color and the representative background color to a text color and a background color of the second area.
US11568630B2
A processor-in-memory device includes a memory array, a sense amplifier, and a processing unit that has an accumulator. The processing unit is configured to receive a set of data. The processing unit then uses the sense amplifier and the accumulator to generate a first histogram of the set of data.
US11568626B2
A method includes receiving selection of a target within an image captured by an image sensor of a payload and displayed on a user interface of the payload, detecting a deviation of the target from an expected target state within the image, generating, based at least partly on the deviation, a payload control signal including a first angular velocity for rotating the payload about an axis of the carrier to reduce the deviation about the axis in a subsequent image, and generating a base support control signal including a second angular velocity for rotating the payload with respect to the axis. When the first and second angular velocities are received, the carrier is controlled to rotate the payload at a third angular velocity about the axis. The third angular velocity is the first angular velocity, the second angular velocity, or a combination of both.
US11568620B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for augmented reality-assisted assessment of three-dimensional (3D) fit of physical objects within a physical environment in different positions. According to an embodiment, an augmented reality (AR) device obtains 3D dimensions of a virtual object representative of a real-world physical object and displays a 3D representation of the virtual object in an AR space depicted by a user interface of the AR device that is representative of a real-world physical environment in a field of view of the AR device. The 3D representation of the virtual object is proportionally dimensioned relative to the physical environment based on the obtained 3D dimensions of the virtual object and the virtual object is repositionable in the AR space responsive to input received by the AR device to allow assessment of 3D fit of the virtual object within the physical environment in different positions.
US11568619B2
A three-dimensional shape data editing device including a processor configured to, with regard to an object represented by a first three-dimensional shape configured using multiple forming surfaces of at least one of flat surfaces and curved surfaces, a second three-dimensional shape in which the object is configured using multiple three-dimensional elements, and a third three-dimensional shape that is converted from the second three-dimensional shape such that the object is represented by the multiple forming surfaces, specify edge forming surfaces that correspond to edges of the object extracted from the first three-dimensional shape, with respect to the third three-dimensional shape, and configure the edge forming surfaces in the third three-dimensional shape such that shapes of the edges of the object represented by the first three-dimensional shape are reproduced.
US11568614B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for adaptive augmented reality for dynamic processing of spatial component parameters based on detecting accommodation factors in real time. The system is further configured for dynamic capture, analysis and modification of spatial component parameters in a virtual reality (VR) space and real-time transformation to composite plan files. Moreover, the system comprises one or more composite credential sensor devices, comprising one or more VR spatial sensor devices configured for capture and imaging of VR spatial movement and position credentials. The system is also configured to dynamically transform and adapt a first immersive virtual simulation structure associated with the first physical location sector, in real-time, based on detecting and analyzing mobility assist devices associated with users.
US11568609B1
In one example, an apparatus comprises: a first sensor layer, including an array of pixel cells configured to generate pixel data; and one or more semiconductor layers located beneath the first sensor layer with the one or more semiconductor layers being electrically connected to the first sensor layer via interconnects. The one or more semiconductor layers comprises on-chip compute circuits configured to receive the pixel data via the interconnects and process the pixel data, the on-chip compute circuits comprising: a machine learning (ML) model accelerator configured to implement a convolutional neural network (CNN) model to process the pixel data; a first memory to store coefficients of the CNN model and instruction codes; a second memory to store the pixel data of a frame; and a controller configured to execute the codes to control operations of the ML model accelerator, the first memory, and the second memory.
US11568605B2
A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently and accurately access previously stored maps and render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. The cross reality system may include a cloud-based localization service that responds to requests from devices to localize with respect to a stored map. The request may include one or more sets of feature descriptors extracted from an image of the physical world around the device. Those features may be posed relative to a coordinate frame used by the local device. The localization service may identify one or more stored maps with a matching set of features. Based on a transformation required to align the features from the device with the matching set of features, the localization service may compute and return to the device a transformation to relate its local coordinate frame to a coordinate frame of the stored map.
US11568586B2
A system and method for tracing polygons in a drawing source file. The method includes extracting vector imagery from the source file, creating a planar representation of the vector imagery as a plurality of lines, filtering the plurality of lines to create simplified line art, morphologically dilating the simplified line art to generate a polygonal approximation, calculating geometric difference between the source file canvas bounds and the polygonal approximation to identify contracted polygons, morphologically dilating the contracted polygons to create visual polygons, and filtering the visual polygons according to one or more geometric parameters to identify salient polygons.
US11568584B2
A system for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is provided. The system may obtain at least one training sample each of which includes full MRI data. The system may also obtain a preliminary subsampling model and a preliminary MRI reconstruction model. The system may further generate a subsampling model corresponding to an MRI reconstruction model by jointly training the preliminary subsampling model and the preliminary MRI reconstruction model using the at least one training sample. The subsampling model may be the trained preliminary subsampling model, and the MRI reconstruction model may be at least a portion of the trained preliminary MRI reconstruction model.
US11568581B2
The disclosure relates to PET imaging systems and methods. The systems may obtain a plurality of PET images of a subject and a CT image acquired by performing a spiral CT scan on the subject. Each gated PET image may include a plurality of sub-gated PET images. The CT image may include a plurality of sub-CT images each of which corresponds to one of the plurality of sub-gated PET images. The systems may determine a target motion vector field between a target physiological phase and a physiological phase of the CT image based on the plurality of sub-gated PET images and the plurality of sub-CT images. The systems may reconstruct an attenuation corrected PET image corresponding to the target physiological phase based on the target motion vector field, the CT image, and PET data used for the plurality of gated PET images reconstruction.
US11568563B2
Embodiments describe a method for positioning a hinged vehicle including a primary part and a secondary part coupled to the primary part at a project site. The method includes receiving, from an image capturing device, digital image data representing one or more features of the secondary part; performing image analysis on the digital image data to identify positions of the one or more features of the secondary part; identifying an angle of at least a portion of the secondary part; calculating a current position of the secondary part based on the angle; calculating a positional difference between a correct position at the project site for the secondary part and a current position of the secondary part at the project site; and initiating a change in a position of the primary part to compensate for the positional difference and to position the secondary part on the correct position.
US11568562B1
The disclosed system may include a housing dimensioned to secure various components including at least one physical processor and various sensors. The system may also include a camera mounted to the housing, as well as physical memory with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the physical processor, cause the physical processor to: acquire images of a surrounding environment using the camera mounted to the housing, identify features of the surrounding environment from the acquired images, generate a map using the features identified from the acquired images, access sensor data generated by the sensors, and determine a current pose of the system in the surrounding environment based on the features in the generated map and the accessed sensor data. Various other methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11568560B2
There is provided mechanisms for calibration of an eye tracking system. An eye tracking system comprises a pupil centre corneal reflection (PCCR) based eye tracker and a non-PCCR based eye tracker. A method comprises obtaining at least one first eye position of a subject by applying the PCCR based eye tracker on an image set depicting the subject. The method comprises calibrating a head model of the non-PCCR based eye tracker, as applied on the image set, for the subject using the obtained at least one first eye position from the PCCR based eye tracker as ground truth. The head model comprises facial features that include at least one second eye position. The calibrating involves positioning the head model in order for its at least one second eye position to be consistent with the at least one first eye position given by the PCCR based eye tracker.
US11568556B2
A method and system for determining flight height of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a determining device that includes a camera at bottom of the UAV carried on a three-axis self-stabilizing tripod head; and a carrier phase difference satellite positioning system (CPDSPS), a graphics processing computer (GPC) and a power supply system provided on top of the UAV The GPC is connected with the CPDSPS, the power supply system and the camera, respectively. An attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) is provided at the bottom of the three-axis self-stabilizing tripod head and connected with the GPC The GPC is configured to determine relative height of the UAV from a canopy of farmland surface crops according to position information acquired by the CPDSPS, attitude information acquired by the AHRS and ground orthographic image acquired by the camera, and determine flight height of the UAV according to the relative height.
US11568554B2
A system includes a sensor and a client. The client receives a set of frames of top-view depth images generated by the sensor. The client identifies a frame of the received frames in which a first contour associated with a first object is merged with a second contour associated with a second object. The client determines, at a first depth in the identified frame, a merged-contour region which is associated with the merged contours. The client detects a third contour at a second depth that is less than the first depth and determines a first region associated with the third contour. The client detects a fourth contour at the second depth and determines a second region associated with the fourth contour. If criteria are satisfied, the client associates the first region with a position of the first object and associates the second region with a position of the second object.
US11568550B2
A method, a processing device, and a system for object tracking are proposed. The method includes the following steps. Imaging capturing is performed on an actual scene by using a primary camera and at least one secondary camera to respectively generate a primary image and at least one secondary image. Image stacking is performed on the primary image and the at least one secondary image to generate a stacked image. Position information and depth information of each object in the stacked image are computed. Whether there exist same objects among the objects in the stacked images is determined based on the position information and the depth information of each of the objects.
US11568546B2
Determining occupants' interactions in a space by applying a computer vision algorithm to track an occupant in a set of images of a space to obtain locations in the space of the occupant over time, where a history log of the occupant includes the locations of the occupant in the space over time is created and history logs of a plurality of occupants are compared to extract interaction points between the plurality of occupants.
US11568540B2
A method, system, and computer-readable medium, for detecting whether an eye blink or non-blink is captured in the image. The method includes filtering, from the image, one or more objects that are predicted to be unsuitable for determining whether an eye blink or no-blink is captured in the image, to provide a filtered image. The method also includes correlating the filtered image with a reference image, and determining, based on the correlating, whether the eye blink or non-blink is captured in the image. The eye blink is a full eye blink or a partial eye blink, and the images may be sequentially captured IR SLO images, in one example embodiment herein. Images determined to include an eye blink can be omitted from inclusion in a final (e.g., OCT) image.
US11568534B2
Systems and methods of valve quantification are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of mitral valve quantification is provided. The method includes generating a 3-D heart model, defining a 3-D mitral valve annulus, fitting a plane through the 3-D mitral valve annulus, measuring the distance between at least two papillary muscle heads, defining an average diameter of at least one cross section around the micro valve annulus, and determining a size of an implant to be implanted.
US11568532B2
Method and system for determining sealing integrity and/or contamination of the sealing region by the filling material of a heat-sealed container, including imaging at least a part of a sealing region of the container using an imaging camera; wherein the imaging is performed during movement and/or transport of the container at a predetermined speed; and wherein the imaging is performed while moving the field of view of the camera in a same direction as the container, wherein the moving of the field of view is configured to reduce the velocity of the container relative to the imaging camera sufficiently to reduce smearing of images obtained.
US11568528B2
A method of producing information from at least one camera image of an object, including: A) recording raw image data of the at least one camera image, B) evaluating the raw image data by a mathematical linkage to produce combination image data, C) deriving the information from the combination image data, D) outputting the information, E) determining an actual measure for a data quality of the raw image data prior to or after evaluation steps in step B), F) determining a deviation between the actual measure for the data quality and a target measure for the data quality of the raw image data of at least one camera image, and G) again recording all raw image data of those camera images, for which the deviation determined in step F) is greater than a predetermined threshold value and repeating at least one evaluation step from step B) and steps C) to F) either until the deviation determined in step F) for the raw image data of all camera images from the plurality of camera images is less than the threshold value or until a predetermined termination condition is fulfilled.
US11568502B2
The present disclosure provides a description of systems and methods for managing routes and travel planning. A computing device of an entity receives, from a charter flight transportation provider and via an application programming interface associated with the entity, charter flight information for a plurality of charter flights. The computing device receives, from a commercial transportation provider and via an application programming interface associated with a different entity, commercial flight information for a plurality of commercial flights. The computing device stores records for the charter flight information and the commercial flight information. The computing device provides, to a user computing device, data for the user computing device to generate a single user interface including charter flight information, commercial flight information, and fields to enter search criteria. The computing device receives, from the user computing device, user-input search criteria including user starting location, user ending location, and date of travel.
US11568493B2
A computing device includes a first program configured to display a menu on a screen and display a summary on the screen that can be reached directly from the menu, and a second program. The summary displays patient account information of a plurality of patient accounts for a selected one of a plurality of available clients. The displayed patient account information includes a plurality of displayed entries, where each entry includes a first field indicating an account number of one of the patient accounts, a second field indicating a status associated with the account number, and a third field indicating a due date. The second program causes the third field to display a due date for submitting a claim associated with the account number to insurance, and dynamically updates the third field to display a due date for appealing denial of the claim.
US11568490B2
Systems involving a hub platform, communication network, and memory configured for processing data involving time-stamped/time-sensitive aspects and other features are disclosed. In one example, an illustrative system may comprise a hub computer platform and associated computing components configured to generate a plurality of portals including at least first and second portals, including aspects such as automatically updating information displayed therein on a real-time basis between portals, automatically attaching and/or processing timestamps and identifier information that are attached to orders upon receipt and acceptance thereof, generating and/or processing information of an order file, generating, updating and/or interactively displaying various tabular and/or graphical information such as order and/or price discovery information that is automatically processed based on timestamps and/or other information, and/or generating other GUI features that, for example, may graphically display and continually update level-of-involvement information.
US11568480B2
Systems and methods for an autonomous marketplace system include a server that extracts borrower data including financial, operational and business data, and lender data from prospective lenders including financial data and a target profile for each prospective lender. It then generates, using artificial intelligence, an autonomous ranked match of prospective lenders. The artificial intelligence identifies relationships between the borrower data and the prospective lender data to generate the autonomous ranked match based on a preference of the borrower and a correlation between the identified relationships. Upon the borrower entering an internet based chat room, the identities of the prospective lenders are revealed. The borrower selects one or more prospective lenders to receive a finance request, and after selection by the borrower, the selected prospective lenders are first notified and informed of an existence of the finance request of the borrower.
US11568477B2
Using a Radio Access Network (RAN) capacity exchange (or RANxChange), mobile operators can advertise slices/partitions of available unused base station capacity, and auction and lease it. A member-operator can advertise their unused base station capacity availability or lease capacity from another member-operator for a specific time period. The bidding operators can bid for the full auctioned capacity or portion of the auctioned capacity. The users start attaching the leased slice transparently without any configuration changes on their mobile devices.
US11568468B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer program for automatically providing similar product recommendations for sold-out products promoted on non-merchant publisher sites, wherein the similar product recommendations are filtered for publisher preferences. A computer system with a product database provides a platform that enables non-merchant publishers to search products in the database, create call-to-actions on publisher sites for products in the database, and automatically receive similar product recommendations when end users of the publisher sites attempt to purchase promoted products that are now sold out. Once a publisher creates a call-to-action for a product that subsequently becomes sold out, similar product recommendations are provided without requiring any action on the publisher's part to change the publisher's site. Similar product recommendations are tailored to each publisher to account for publisher preferences. Publisher preferences may be learned by the system based on publisher behavior or inputted by each publisher.
US11568467B2
An example computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of agricultural data records including yield properties of products grown in fields and raw field features of the fields. The method also includes transforming the raw field features into distinct feature classes that characterize key features affecting yield of the one or more products, and generating, using data from the plurality of agricultural data records and the distinct feature classes, genomic-by-environmental relationships between one or more products, yield properties of the one or more products, and field features associated with the one or more products. Further, the method includes generating, based at least in part on the genomic-by-environmental relationships, predicted yield performance for a set of products associated with one or more target environments, generating product recommendations for the one or more target environments based on the predicted yield performance for the set of products, and providing one or more instructions configured to cause display of the product recommendations.
US11568454B2
An information technology platform for personalizing an experience of a visitor at a non-profit venue comprising: a network; a server in communication with the network; a mobile computing device to be carried by a visitor to a non-profit venue, wherein the platform determines personalized information about the visitor and a recommendation engine outputs a suggestion for a personalized experience to the visitor to encourage philanthropic activity related to an ongoing philanthropic campaign; and a machine learning system for learning on a training set of photographic data or video data, the learning to train the machine learning system to predict a sentiment towards the ongoing philanthropic campaign of the visitor based, at least in part, on photographic images or video images that are taken by the visitor, that are shared to the visitor, that are shared by the visitor or that include the visitor as a subject.
US11568446B1
The media preview system receives media content from one or more client devices, generates a preview of the media content, associates a coded image with the preview within a database associated with the media preview system, detects scans of the coded image from client devices, and causes display of the preview at the client devices in response to detecting the scan.
US11568445B2
A method for providing an advertising content using a robot is provided. The method includes the steps of: determining, with reference to first situation information on a customer in a serving place and second situation information on at least one robot for providing a service in the serving place, an advertising content to be provided for at least one of the customer and the serving place and presentation property information of the advertising content; and providing the advertising content by the at least one robot with reference to the presentation property information.
US11568442B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to identify editorial content that is compatible with a promotion. The method includes receiving a selection of a promotion structure. The method further includes identifying editorial content that is compatible with the selected promotion structure. The promotion structure may optionally be selected from a list of promotion structures relating to a deal context. The method further includes transmitting the compatible editorial content to a user. Optionally, the method may include receiving a selection from the compatible editorial content, and transmitting a claim confirmation to a promotion and marketing service. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US11568440B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for integrated sales management. A sales resource may use the system to track and modify promotion proposals for providers. Data defining the proposed promotion may include information relating to the provider, capacity, the promotion structure, return on investment, and/or an auto-approval status. Some data defining the proposed promotion may be automatically generated by the promotional system and/or modified by the provider. The proposal may be auto-approved or approved manually by a sales resource. Upon approval, the promotion may be made available for sale.
US11568424B2
Methods and systems for product authentication include the storage of product authenticity data in integrated circuit (IC) chips of verification objects for physical association with authentic products. The IC chips are operable to determine verification data using the stored product authenticity data, and may include private key encryption, private algorithm and/or count processing functionality for verification data determination. A verification server(s) is utilized to receive an inbound message(s) from an electronic device(s) that includes test data obtained by the electronic device(s) from an integrated circuit chip at a product of interest, and in response thereto, to send an outbound message to the electronic device(s) indicative of verification or non-verification of authenticity of the product of interest, based upon identification or non-identification of an association between the test data and product authenticity data. Each outbound message is dependent upon determining the presence of an association utilizing stored data and optional algorithmic and count processing functionality. The electronic device(s) may be a smart phone(s) having a mobile product authentication application downloaded thereto for use in obtaining the test data that may or may not correspond to verification data determinable by a verification object.
US11568423B2
Disclosed here are methods of analyzing product-related datasets using a computer system including a product data collection; receiving a product-related data submission; identifying system-identified terms in the submission; generating a query dataset comprising search elements, such as lexical vector(s), semantic vector(s), or both; querying the product data collection and identifying datasets that sufficiently match aspect(s) of the query dataset; comparing the content of the submission and matching datasets to provide an output such as a determination of an error or omission in the submission, identifying a relationship between the submission product and a product associated with an identified dataset; or assessing one or more product status characteristics; and optionally performing additional applications, such as generating a regulatory authority submission based on the determination that the submission product is subject a regulatory requirements based on the comparison of the submission with the identified datasets.
US11568412B2
Systems and methods for verifying users in connection with transactions are disclosed. One exemplary method includes, in response to a payment device being inserted at a terminal, initiating, by a security chip of the payment device, a timer and capturing, by a biometric sensor of the payment device, a fingerprint while the timer is unexpired. The method also includes verifying, by the security chip, the captured fingerprint against reference fingerprint data stored in memory in the payment device and, in response to the captured fingerprint being verified, while the timer is unexpired, initiating, by the security chip, with the terminal, a transaction to an account using an account number specific to a biometric application of the payment device. An issuer can recognize verification of a user associated with the fingerprint based on the account number in an authorization request, instead of a different account number for the account.
US11568399B2
A distributed ledger management system 10 includes: an orderer node 100 that generates a block containing transactions issued by a client 300, verifies the validity of the transactions contained in the block, distributes the block and verification results to a peer node 200, adds the block to a blockchain 125 in its storage device, and stores the verification results in its storage device; and the peer node 200 that receives the block and verification results from the orderer node 100, adds information on predetermined events indicated by the transactions to state information 225 in a storage device of the peer node, and discards the block and verification results.
US11568391B1
A computer-implemented includes: authenticating a user; generating an interface configured to be displayed by a mobile device of the user; receiving a captured image from the mobile device of the user based on an activation by the user of an image capture function element displayed on the interface and a subsequent capturing of the image by the mobile device, the captured image comprising a code; determining a merchant associated with the code; receiving a selection of a product and a product purchase option associated with the determined merchant from the interface; in response to determining the merchant and receiving the product purchase option, transferring a payment for the product to the merchant from an account held by the user based on information associated with the merchant and the product purchase option; and sending, to the interface, a purchase confirmation comprising order details including the product and the product purchase option.
US11568386B2
A method and computer system for detecting, utilizing at least one sensor associated with the computer system, an attempt to establish short-range communications between a device and a short-range communications module coupled to the computer system. The method and computer system further configured for determining that no short-range communication was received by the computer system via the short-range communications module and providing a signal to the device to enable a short-range communications transceiver at the device.
US11568382B1
A system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The non-transitory computer readable medium includes code, that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive input from a user of a user device to generate an optimal payment location on an application display, generate a first boundary of the optimal payment location on the application display of the user device based upon a first motion of a payment enabled card in a first direction and generate a second boundary of the optimal payment location on the application display of the user device based upon a second motion of the payment enabled card in a second direction. The first boundary and the second boundary combine to form defining edges of the optimal payment location.
US11568380B2
Systems and methods are provided for use in distributing payment transaction notifications. One exemplary method includes identifying, by a computing device, transaction data for a transaction associated with a child token to a group payment account and identifying, by the computing device, in a data structure, a parent token with which the child token is associated. The parent token is enrolled to receive a notification for the transaction associated with the child token. As such, the method further includes transmitting, by the computing device, a notification to a communication device of a group member associated with the parent token in response to the transaction involving the child token, where the notification includes transaction data associated with the transaction such that the transaction is thereby identified to the group member along with the associated transaction data.
US11568378B2
A transaction is identified for a partial rescan security check based at least in part on basket items of the transaction. A total number of rescan items from the basket items is identified for rescan; the total number of rescan items selected for rescan is less than a total number of the basket items in the transaction. Based on the basket items and transaction features for the transaction, item categories or item departments are identified from which the total number of rescan items are to be selected from the basket items for the rescan security check. The total number of rescan items and the item categories for selection are provided to an attendant terminal for the rescan security check. The rescan security check is processed to determine whether the transaction was associated with theft or not associated with theft.
US11568377B1
A method performed by a processor of a provider computing system includes allowing an account holder at the provider to initiate a transaction with the provider remotely (e.g., via smartphone, online banking, etc.), by submitting a request for a specified transaction to be picked up in a lockbox at a provider's lockbox location. The pickup and completion of the account holder's requested transaction occurs at a lockbox location that has a plurality of lockboxes. The lockbox allows the account holder to access the facility at the account holder's leisure, both in time and location. The lockbox pickup service alleviates the uncertainty, fluctuating time cost, and inconvenient operating hours by allowing the account holder to request transactions with an easy to use interface resulting in a lockbox to be accordingly prepped so that the account holder can provide the proper authentication information and access the lockbox.
US11568371B2
Embodiments provide electronic methods and systems for performing recurring payments to the merchants. The method performed by an aggregator server includes receiving a standing instruction (SI) request including a plurality of unique data fields from an acquirer server. The unique data fields represent setting up of a recurring payment transaction from a payment instrument of a user to a merchant account of the merchant. The method includes generating and storing a unique identifier corresponding to the SI request. The method includes transmitting the SI request along with the unique identifier to an issuer server associated with the payment instrument to authorize the SI request for processing the recurring payment. The method further includes receiving an authorization response message in response to successful authorization of SI request by issuer server. Further, method includes transmitting authorization response message along with unique identifier to acquirer server for setup of SI for recurring payment.
US11568363B2
A system and method for managing inventory in a dispensing cabinet includes a mobile terminal, and an association station configured to associate the mobile terminal with an item type stored in the dispensing cabinet. The association station receives, from the mobile terminal, an indication of a respective item unit of the first item type being moved, determines an access status of one or more containers of the dispensing cabinet when the indication is received, determines a container location for the item unit based on the access status of the containers and receiving the indication of the respective item being moved from the first mobile terminal, and causes, responsive to determining the container location, a supply record associated with the item type and a first container of the dispensing cabinet to be updated to reflect a change to a first amount of the first item type stored in the first container.
US11568360B2
According to the invention, there is provided a product registration apparatus including an information acquisition unit that determines a placement position of a product having a placing table surface side to which product information is attached and acquires the product information attached to the product, and an output unit that outputs information indicating at least one of the placement position of the product from which the product information can be acquired and the placement position of the product from which the product information cannot be acquired.
US11568352B2
A packaging system and method includes an immersive reality system that renders a 3D representation of an item to be shipped and the shipping box in which the item is to be shipped. A server includes a database of items and item data and shipping box data, which is used to produce a 3D representation of the item and the shipping box. A GUI exhibits the items such that a user may selectively view, select, and/or manipulate the items. A computer enables a user to query the server to ship a selected item. A network node transmits selected item data and shipping box data to the immersive reality system. The 3D representations include position and orientation data enabling manipulation of the 3D representation of the selected item relative to the 3D representation of the shipping box into a desired position. The system ships the selected item in the desired position.
US11568351B2
A system for arranging and executing transport of alimentary components. Data is received by at least a server based off one or more diagnostic outputs of biological extractions, performed by a diagnostic engine, and a transport request based on the diagnostic outputs and other data pertaining to the user is transmitted to a client device associated with one or more physical performance entities. Based on the geographic location of the user and the transport request, one or more physical performance entities configured to transmit alimentary components aligning with the transport request are identified, and the transport request is transmitted to the client device based on a determination by the at least a server that the one or more physical performance entities include an ability to execute the transport request.
US11568348B1
A method for providing pre-data breach monitoring provides information to businesses that is useful to predict portions of the company data that may not be secured well enough and other risks associated with data breaches, such as employees that may not be trustworthy.
US11568329B2
A computer-implemented information processing method includes: obtaining a plan including at least locations to which moving object is expected to travel and stay at; setting, on the basis of the locations included in the plan, a candidate charging location at which the battery of the moving object is chargeable; obtaining the reservation status of a charging station associated with the candidate charging location; and arranging reservation details according to the reservation status of the charging station.
US11568319B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for dynamically integrating ML functionality into computing systems, such as a content services platform (CSP), for instance. Many embodiments include ML integrated into a CSP and using production content as corpora (e.g., training and/or evaluation data). Some embodiments are particularly directed to generating and updating data for training and evaluating machine learning (ML) models, then making identified ML models available in various target environments. For example, embodiments may provide automatic, or semi-automatic, updating and deploying of ML models for making inferences, such as inferring labels for data in a content repository of a CSP.
US11568314B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing scoring requests. During operation, the system matches an identifier for an entity in a scoring request to a cache entry in a score cache. Next, the system retrieves, from the cache entry, a previous value of a score generated by a machine learning model from previous values of features for the entity and a first encoded representation of the previous values of a subset of the features with greater than a threshold effect on the score. The system then compares the first encoded representation with a second encoded representation of the most recent values of the subset of the features for the entity. When the comparison indicates that the most recent values match the previous values, the system outputs the previous value of the score for the entity in a response to the scoring request.
US11568311B2
The present system and method for analysing sentiment is a response to the growing availability of informal, opinionated texts like blog posts and product review websites, a field of Sentiment Analysis has sprung up in the past decade to address the interrogation about how people feel about certain topics. Sentiment Analysis expands the traditional fact-based text analysis to enable opinion-oriented information systems. The present system and method for analysing sentiment presents a novel learning system and method for classifying text as positive, negative, or objective. It is mainly based on fuzzy set theory and clustering.
US11568304B1
A method may include ingesting a plurality of sources files from a plurality of infrastructure assets; inputting the plurality of source files into a cognitive computing engine (CCE); receiving an output from the CCE, the output indicating a plurality of relationships between the infrastructure assets; and updating a data store based on the plurality of relationships.
US11568299B1
Superconducting tunnel junctions for use in, for instance, quantum processors. In one example, a quantum processor can have at least one qubit structure. The at least one qubit structure includes a first aluminum layer, a second aluminum layer, and a crystalline dielectric layer disposed between the first aluminum layer and the second aluminum layer. The crystalline dielectric layer includes a spinel crystal structure.
US11568295B2
In some embodiments, one or more unitary-valued functions are generated by a classical computer generating using projectors with a predetermined number of significant bits. A quantum computing device is then configured to implement the one or more unitary-valued functions. In further embodiments, a quantum circuit description for implementing quantum signal processing that decomposes complex-valued periodic functions is generated by a classical computer, wherein the generating further includes representing approximate polynomials in a Fourier series with rational coefficients. A quantum computing device is then configured to implement a quantum circuit defined by the quantum circuit description.
US11568286B2
Computer-implemented machines, systems and methods for providing insights about a machine learning model, the machine learning model trained, during a training phase, to learn patterns to correctly classify input data associated with risk analysis. Analyzing one or more features of the machine learning model, the one or more features being defined based on one or more constraints associated with one or more values and relationships and whether said one or more values and relationships satisfy at least one of the one or more constraints. Displaying one or more visual indicators based on an analysis of the one or more features and training data used to train the machine learning model, the one or more visual indicators providing a summary of the machine learning model's performance or efficacy.
US11568279B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a record including a set of attributes, each attribute having an attribute value, the record representing automatic execution of an IT process within a managed system, retrieving a model representing historical executions of the IT process and including a set of distribution parameters associated with a first type of attribute and a set of probability distributions associated with a second type of attribute, determining, for a first attribute, a first score based on distribution parameters and a value, determining, for a second attribute, a second score based on a probability distribution and a value, the second attribute being of the second type of attribute, and selectively indicating that the IT process is anomalous based on an outlier score.
US11568268B2
A deep learning heterogeneous computing method based on layer-wide memory allocation, at least comprises steps of: traversing a neural network model so as to acquire a training operational sequence and a number of layers L thereof; calculating a memory room R1 required by data involved in operation at the ith layer of the neural network model under a double-buffer configuration, where 1≤i≤L; altering a layer structure of the ith layer and updating the training operational sequence; distributing all the data across a memory room of the CPU and the memory room of the GPU according to a data placement method; performing iterative computation at each said layer successively based on the training operational sequence so as to complete neural network training.
US11568263B2
Embodiments include techniques to determine a set of credit risk assessment data samples, generate local credit risk assessment attributions for the set of credit risk assessment samples, and normalize each local credit risk assessment attribution of the local credit risk assessment attributions. Further, embodiments techniques to compare each pair of normalized local credit risk assessment attributions and assign a rank distance thereto proportional to a degree of ranking differences between the pair of normalized local credit risk assessment attributions. The techniques also include applying a K-medoids clustering algorithm to generate clusters of the local risk assessment attributions, generating global attributions, and determining insights for the neural network based on the global attributions.
US11568261B2
A system for generating an adversarial example in respect of a neural network, the adversarial example generated to improve a margin defined as a distance from a data example to a neural network decision boundary. The system includes a data receiver configured to receive one or more data sets including at least one data set representing a benign training example (x); an adversarial generator engine configured to: generate, using the neural network, a first adversarial example (Adv1) having a perturbation length epsilon1 against x; conduct a search in a direction (Adv1-x) using the neural network; and to generate, using the neural network, a second adversarial example (Adv2) having a perturbation length epsilon2 based at least on an output of a search in the direction (Adv1-x).
US11568252B2
A neural network, trained on a plurality of random size data samples, can receive a plurality of inference data samples including samples of different sizes. The neural network can generate feature maps of the plurality of inference data samples. Pooling can be utilized to generate feature maps having a fixed size. The fixed size feature maps can be utilized to generate an indication of a class for each of the plurality of inference data samples.
US11568245B2
The present invention provides artificial intelligence technology which has machine-learning-based information understanding capability, including metric learning providing improved classification performance, classification of an object considering a semantic relationship, understanding of the meaning of a scene based on the metric learning and the classification, and the like. An electronic device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a memory in which at least one instruction is stored, and a processor for executing the stored instruction. Here, the processor extracts feature data from training data of a first class, obtains a feature point by mapping the extracted feature data to an embedding space, and makes an artificial neural network learn in a direction for reducing a distance between the obtained feature point and an anchor point.
US11568239B2
In an artificial intelligence server for providing information to a user, the artificial intelligence server includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of artificial intelligence apparatuses deployed in a service area and a processor configured to receive at least one of speech data of the user or terminal usage information of the user from at least one of the plurality of artificial intelligence apparatuses, generate intention information of the user based on at least one of the received speech data or the received terminal usage information, generate status information of the user using the plurality of artificial intelligence apparatuses, determine an information providing device among the plurality of artificial intelligence apparatuses based on the generated status information of the user, generate output information to be outputted from the determined information providing device, and transmit a control signal for outputting the generated output information to the determined information providing device.
US11568238B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a neural network model that includes a tensor operation, and dividing the tensor operation into sub-operations. The sub-operations includes at least two sub-operations that have no data dependency between the two sub-operations. The computer-implemented method further includes assigning a first sub-operation in the two sub-operations to a first computing engine, assigning a second sub-operation in the two sub-operations to a second computing engine, and generating instructions for performing, in parallel, the first sub-operation by the first computing engine and the second sub-operation by the second computing engine. An inference is then made based on a result of the first sub-operation, a result of the second sub-operation, or both. The first computing engine and the second computing engine are in a same integrated circuit device or in two different integrated circuit devices.
US11568234B2
A method trains a neural network to identify an event based on discrepancies in answers to factoid questions at different times. One or more processors identify answers to a series of factoid questions. The processor(s) compare the answers from the series of factoid questions in order to determine discrepancies in the answers at different times, and then train a neural network to identify an event based on the discrepancies in the answers at the different times.
US11568232B2
Systems and methods for programming field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices are provided. A trained model for a deep learning process is obtained and converted to design abstraction (DA) code defining logic block circuits for programming an FPGA device. Each of these logic block circuits represents one of a plurality of modules that executes a processing step between different layers of the deep learning process.
US11568230B2
The present disclosure provides a method, a device and a computer readable storage medium for food risk traceability information classification. The method includes: building a deep learning neural networks model by a self-learning ability of an artificial intelligence model, initializing weights and a bias of the built model, and obtaining an original deep learning neural networks model; obtaining samples of food risk traceability information, dividing the samples, and obtaining factors of the food risk traceability information, converting the factors into vectors of the food risk traceability information; inputting the vectors into the original deep learning neural networks model, and obtaining original classification vectors of current food risk traceability information; and inputting the original classification vectors into a loss function, obtaining a loss rate of the original classification vectors, and determining the original classification vectors as a target classification result in response to the loss rate being within a preset range.
US11568222B2
A computing device includes one or more processors, random access memory (RAM), and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The computing device receives first data and classifies the first data using a neural network that includes at least one quantized layer. The classifying includes reading values from the random access memory for a set of weights of the at least one quantized layer of the neural network using first read parameters corresponding to a first error rate.
US11568220B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a deep neural network in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). In response to receiving a network model describing a deep neural network, a plurality of layers associated with the deep neural network may be determined. With respect to a layer in the plurality of layers, a parallelism factor for processing operations associated with the layer simultaneously by processing elements in an FPGA may be determined based on a workload associated with the layer and a configuration of the FPGA.
US11568219B2
Technologies are described for multiple accelerators for a neural network, and methods thereof. In an example implementation, a neural network can be mapped to a system comprising a control unit and multiple accelerators, where the controller unit controls each accelerator's behavior, sends data to and receives data from each accelerator through the interconnections. Sub-networks may be created by grouping several network layers or dividing a network layer into multiple sub-layers depending on data to be processed and memory capacity of each accelerator. Accelerators have internal storage, thus, do not require external memory.
US11568216B2
A method and an apparatus for adapting feature data in a convolutional neural network. The method includes selecting a plurality of consecutive layers; determining an expected number of subdata blocks and a layout position, width and height of each subdata block in an output feature data of a last layer; determining, for each current layer, a layout position, width, and height of each subdata block of an input feature data for the current layer according to the layout position, width, and height of each subdata block of the output feature data for the current layer; determining an actual position of each subdata block of the input feature data for a first layer in the input feature data for the first layer; and obtaining the expected number of subdata blocks of the input feature data for the first layer according to the actual position, width and height of each subdata block of the input feature data for the first layer.
US11568214B2
Methods and apparatus for training a Neural Network to recover a codeword of a Forward Error Correction (FEC) code are provided. Trainable parameters of the Neural Network are optimised to minimise a loss function. The loss function is calculated by representing an estimated value of the message bit output from the Neural Network as a probability of the value of the bit in a predetermined real number domain and multiplying the representation of the estimated value of the message bit by a representation of a target value of the message bit. Training a neural network may be implemented via a loss function.
US11568211B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for the selective introduction of low-level pseudo-random noise into at least a portion of the weights used in a neural network model to increase the robustness of the neural network and provide a stochastic transformation defense against perturbation type attacks. Random number generation circuitry provides a plurality of pseudo-random values. Combiner circuitry combines the pseudo-random values with a defined number of least significant bits/digits in at least some of the weights used to provide a neural network model implemented by neural network circuitry. In some instances, selection circuitry selects pseudo-random values for combination with the network weights based on a defined pseudo-random value probability distribution.
US11568209B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for using deep learning models to obfuscate and optimize communications. A request can be received in a first language, from a user device, and at a first computing device storing a first neural network. The request can be translated using the first neural network into a modified request in a custom language. The modified request can be sent to a second computing device hosting an application. The first computing device can receive a modified response that is in the custom language, where the modified response can be created at the second computing device using the second neural network and based on a response from the application. The modified response can be translated into a response in the first language and sent to the user device.
US11568198B2
Implementations described herein generally relate to a method for detecting anomalies in time-series traces received from sensors of manufacturing tools. A server feeds a set of training time-series traces to a neural network configured to derive a model of the training time-series traces that minimizes reconstruction error of the training time-series traces. The server extracts a set of input time-series traces from one or more sensors associated with one or more manufacturing tools configured to produce a silicon substrate. The server feeds the set of input time-series traces to the trained neural network to produce a set of output time series traces reconstructed based on the model. The server calculates a mean square error between a first input time series trace of the set of input time series traces and a corresponding first output time series trace of the set of output time-series traces. The server declares the sensor corresponding to the first input time-series trace as having an anomaly when the mean square error exceeds a pre-determined value.
US11568187B2
Computer-implemented machines, systems and methods for managing missing values in a dataset for a machine learning model. The method may comprise importing a dataset with missing values; computing data statistics and identifying the missing values; verifying the missing values; updating the missing values; imputing missing values; encoding reasons for why values are missing; combining imputed missing values and the encoded reasons; and recommending models and hyperparameters to handle special or missing values.
US11568186B2
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a people distinguishing system (1) for in an image distinguishing human beings in a crowd. The people distinguishing system identifies (1001) one or more detected objects classified as human beings (2) in an image (3) derived from a thermal camera (10) adapted to capture a scene in an essentially forward-looking angle. The people distinguishing system further identifies at least a first grouping (4) of adjoining pixels in the image, not comprised in the one or more detected human beings, having an intensity within a predeterminable intensity range. Moreover, the people distinguishing system determines (1003) a grouping pixel area (40) of the at least first grouping in the image. Furthermore, the people distinguishing system determines (1004) for at least a first vertical position (yexpected) in the image, based on head size reference data (5), an expected pixel area (xexpected) of a human head at the at least first vertical position. The people distinguishing system further compares (1005) at least a portion of the grouping pixel area with the expected head pixel area for the at least first vertical position. Moreover, the people distinguishing system determines (1006) that the at least first grouping comprises at least a first overlapping human being (6), when at least a first comparison resulting from the comparing exceeds a predeterminable conformity threshold. The disclosure also relates to a people distinguishing system in accordance with the foregoing, a thermal camera comprising such people distinguishing system, and a respective corresponding computer program product and non-volatile computer readable storage medium.
US11568185B2
Centroids are used for improving machine learning classification and information retrieval. A plurality of files are classified as malicious or not malicious based on a function dividing a coordinate space into at least a first portion and a second portion such that the first portion includes a first subset of the plurality of files classified as malicious. One or more first centroids are defined in the first portion that classify files from the first subset as not malicious. A file is determined to be malicious based on whether the file is located within the one or more first centroids.
US11568170B2
A computer system is provided that is programmed to select feature sets from a large number of features. Features for a set are selected based on metagradient information returned from a machine learning process that has been performed on an earlier selected feature set. The process can iterate until a selected feature set converges or otherwise meets or exceeds a given threshold.
US11568165B1
An optical code reader classifies a code depicted in input imagery, so that appropriate decoding actions can be invoked. This classification may identify, e.g., (a) whether the code is of a continuous tone or sparse mark variety, (b) which one of different reference signals it includes, and (c) which one of different protocols is used in expressing reference and payload signal components of the code. A great variety of other features and technologies are detailed as well.
US11568161B2
An improved system and method for reading an upconversion response from nanoparticle inks is provided. A is adapted to direct a near-infrared excitation wavelength at a readable indicia, resulting in a near-infrared emission wavelength created by the upconverting nanoparticle inks. A short pass filter may filter the near-infrared excitation wavelength. A camera is in operable communication with the short pass filter and receives the near-infrared emission wavelength of the readable indicia. The system may further include an integrated circuit adapted to receive the near-infrared emission wavelength from the camera and generate a corresponding signal. A readable application may be in operable communication with the integrated circuit. The readable application receives the corresponding signal, manipulates the signal, decodes the signal into an output, and displays and/or stores the output.
US11568160B2
Examples described herein generally relate to a system for monitoring tags in a retail environment. The system includes an exit system including one or more sensors that read a tag to obtain exit system measurements associated with a tag detection event. The system includes a memory and a processor configured to execute instructions to receive a selection of a base configuration, the base configuration including weighting values for a plurality of exit system measurements. The processor may classify a tag detection event into a first tag status for the tag detection event based on application of the weighting values to exit system measurements associated with the tag detection event. The processor may determine a second tag status of the tag after the tag detection event. The processor may update the weighting values using a machine-learning algorithm based on at least the first tag status and the second tag status.
US11568159B2
A system and method is provided for delivering electric energy to an electric vehicle via electric charging stations or kiosks where an energy delivery point is configured to provide energy to the electric vehicle via a connector or a wireless energy source. The method involves charging an electric vehicle by detecting, using a RFID tag reader associated with an electric vehicle, signals emanating from a marker positioned on the ground, where the marker includes one or more RFID tags, and where the RFID tag reader is able to recognize the signals despite weather conditions where the ground is covered by snow.
US11568157B2
There is provided a scanner that scans a plurality of pieces of furniture on which products are arranged. The scanner includes a reading unit configured to read information from a tag attached to the product, an estimation unit configured to perform estimation processing of estimating which furniture the tagged products read by the reading unit belongs to, and a display control unit configured to display furniture for which the estimation processing is completed and furniture for which the estimation processing is not completed so as to be distinguished from each other.
US11568150B2
Methods and apparatus for automated processing of natural language text is described. The text can be preprocessed to produce language-space data that includes descriptive data elements for words. Source code that includes linguistic expressions, and that may be written in a programming language that is user-friendly to linguists, can be compiled to produce finite-state transducers and bi-machine transducers that may be applied directly to the language-space data by a language-processing virtual machine. The language-processing virtual machine can select and execute code segments identified in the finite-state and/or bi-machine transducers to disambiguate meanings of words in the text.
US11568147B2
A system and method for classifying digital images of transaction evidences. The method includes extracting a plurality of descriptive data items and a plurality of numeric values of a transaction evidence from a digital image; determining an association between at least one of the plurality of numeric values and at least one of the plurality of descriptive data items; determining, based on at least one expense type classification rule, at least a primary expense type of the transaction evidence, wherein the at least one expense type classification rule is applied to the plurality of descriptive data items and the plurality of numeric values; and classifying the digital image based on the determined at least one primary expense type.
US11568142B2
A system and method of creating an entity relationship map includes receiving a stream of lexical matter associated with one or more categories (302) and identifying one or more tokens from the received lexical matter based on the one or more categories (304). A frequency of one or more of unique lexical token and recurring lexical token are determined (306) and one or more outliers based on a standard deviation range associated with the at least one category is eliminated (308). Sentences with the one or more recurring lexical tokens are selected (310) to find one or more lexical neighbors and the entity relationship map is created based on an association between the unique lexical tokens and the at least one lexical neighbor (312).
US11568137B2
Provided are systems and methods for mapping customer feedback to one or more processes. In one example, the method may include receiving text content that includes feedback, mapping, via execution of a mapping algorithm, the text content to a plurality of processes based on a synonym graph, generating mapping values for the plurality of processes, where a mapping value for a process is generated based on distance within the synonym graph of a mapping between a word in the text content and a word identifying the process, and determining a process among the plurality of processes that is most correlated to the feedback based on the generated mapping values.
US11568136B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a lexicon construction operation. The lexicon construction operation includes: identifying a corpus, the corpus comprising a plurality of training events, each of the plurality of training events comprising a term; grouping terms from the plurality of training events into topic clusters; analyzing the plurality of topic clusters, the analyzing providing a plurality of classified clusters; and, deriving a plurality of learned lexicons from the plurality of classified clusters.
US11568134B2
Disclosed is a solution for diagnosing problems from logs used in an application development environment. A random sample of log statements is collected. The log statements can be completely unstructured and/or do not conform to any natural language. The log statements are tagged with predefined classifications. A natural language processing (NLP) classifier model is trained utilizing the log statements tagged with the predefined classification. New log statements can be classified into the plurality of predefined classifications utilizing the trained NLP classifier model. From the log statements thus classified, statements having a problem classification can be identified and presented through a dashboard running in a browser. Outputs from the trained NLP classifier model can be provided as input to another trained model for automatically and quickly identifying a type of problem associated with the statements, eliminating a need to manually sift through tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of logs.
US11568133B2
A system and method for detecting anomalies in mission-critical environments. The method includes: parsing at least one received data set into a text structure; isolating a protocol language of the at least one received data set, wherein the protocol language is a standardized pattern for communication over at least one protocol; generating at least one document from the contents of the received at least one data set, wherein the at least one document includes at least one parsed text structure referencing a unique identifier, and wherein the at least one parsed text structure is organized within the at least one document according to a natural language scheme; detecting insights in the generated documents; extracting rules from the detected insights; and detecting anomalies by applying the extracted rules.
US11568130B1
Disclosed herein are computer-implemented method, system, and computer-program product (computer-readable storage medium) embodiments for discovering contextualized placeholder variables in template code. Some embodiments include invoking a render call to a template engine to render an input template and then receiving a message identifying a placeholder variable within the input template in response to invoking the render call. These embodiments may further include generating multiple rendered templates by rendering the input template based at least in part on a unique value and a modified unique value for the placeholder variable. Further still, these embodiments may also include storing the placeholder variable in a security vulnerability data structure in response to detecting a change in context associated with the placeholder variable between the multiple rendered templates.
US11568129B2
The present disclosure includes a computing device, a system, and method for performing a spreadsheet recalculation algorithm. In one embodiment, the computing device includes an electronic processor, and a memory coupled to the electronic processor. The memory includes Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) data having a plurality of nodes, each node of the plurality of nodes having at least one of a constant value or one or more inputs, and program instructions. The program instructions, when executed by the electronic processor, cause the electronic processor to change the plurality of nodes, and update one or more affected nodes of the plurality of nodes based on the change to the plurality of nodes, the one or more affected nodes being less than all of the plurality of nodes.
US11568127B2
A system performs mask rule checks (MRC) for curvilinear shapes. The width of a curvilinear shape is different along different parts of the shape. A medial axis for a curvilinear shape is determined. The medial axis is trimmed to exclude portions that are within a threshold distance from corners or too far from edges. The trimmed medial axis is used to perform width checks for mask rules. The system generates medial axis between geometric shapes and uses it to determine whether two geometric shapes are at least a threshold distance apart. The system performs acute angle checks for sharp corners. The system determines angles using lines drawn from vertices to end points on the boundary of the shape that are at a threshold distance. These angles are used for checking acute angle mask rule violations.
US11568121B2
A method of designing a circuit is provided. The method includes: providing a circuit; selecting a first NMOS fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) in the circuit; and replacing the first NMOS FinFET having a first fin number with a second NMOS FinFET having a second fin number and a third NMOS FinFET having a third fin number, wherein the sum of the second fin number and the third fin number is equal to the first fin number.
US11568116B2
A true random metastable flip-flop (TRMFF) compiler generates an electrical architecture for a TRMFF chain. The compiler selects components for the TRMFF chain from a library of standard cells and logically connects these components in accordance with a primitive polynomial to generate the electrical architecture. The TRMFF chain provides a sequence of random numbers from one or more physical processes in accordance with the primitive polynomial. During operation, one or more microscopic phenomena inside and/or outside of the TRMFF chain can cause one or more low-level, statistically random entropy noise signals to be present within the TRMFF chain. The TRMFF chain advantageously utilizes the one or more low-level, statistically random entropy noise signals to provide the sequence of random numbers.
US11568109B2
A computer-implemented method of machine-learning is described that includes obtaining a dataset of virtual scenes. The dataset of virtual scenes belongs to a first domain. The method further includes obtaining a test dataset of real scenes. The test dataset belongs to a second domain. The method further includes determining a third domain. The third domain is closer to the second domain than the first domain in terms of data distributions. The method further includes learning a domain-adaptive neural network based on the third domain. The domain-adaptive neural network is a neural network configured for inference of spatially reconfigurable objects in a real scene. Such a method constitutes an improved method of machine learning with a dataset of scenes including spatially reconfigurable objects.
US11568107B2
A virtual reality system for designing brassiere includes a wearable device, a head-mounted device, a cloud server, an intelligent terminal, an application program, and a designer, which makes it possible for a user to experience the effects of tightened or loosened brassiere, uplifting, compression, enlargement of the breast, and breast massage in a virtual reality environment with physical interaction with objects in real world. Afterwards, relevant data will be transferred to the cloud server via a built-in transducer, and an expected brassiere will be designed accordingly.
US11568105B2
The technology disclosed relates to simplifying updating of a predictive model using clustering observed points. In particular, it relates to observing a set of points in 3D sensory space, determining surface normal directions from the points, clustering the points by their surface normal directions and adjacency, accessing a predictive model of a hand, refining positions of segments of the predictive model, matching the clusters of the points to the segments, and using the matched clusters to refine the positions of the matched segments. It also relates to distinguishing between alternative motions between two observed locations of a control object in a 3D sensory space by accessing first and second positions of a segment of a predictive model of a control object such that motion between the first position and the second position was at least partially occluded from observation in a 3D sensory space.
US11568104B2
A system for solving an event-dependent multicriteria optimization problem of at least one cyber-physical system, comprising a control device for controlling the at least one cyber-physical system, the control device controlling the cyber-physical system in dependence on a list of prioritized objectives by solving at least one event-dependent suboptimization problem is characterized in that each objective from the list of prioritized objectives is captured as an objective function, each objective function consisting of at least two parts, a first part of which relates to directly capturing the objective and a second part of which describes a condition under which each result of one of the preceding objectives of each of the preceding suboptimization problems is substantially not negatively affected.
US11568100B2
A vehicle can capture data that can be converted into a synthetic scenario for use in a simulator. Objects can be identified in the data and attributes associated with the objects can be determined. The data can be used to generate a synthetic scenario of a simulated environment. The scenarios can include simulated objects that traverse the simulated environment and perform actions based on the attributes associated with the objects, the captured data, and/or interactions within the simulated environment. In some instances, the simulated objects can be filtered from the scenario based on attributes associated with the simulated objects and can be instantiated and/or destroyed based on triggers within the simulated environment. The scenarios can be used for testing and validating interactions and responses of a vehicle controller within the simulated environment.
US11568095B2
Embodiments are described for a pattern-based control system that learns and applies device usage patterns for identifying and disabling devices exhibiting abnormal usage patterns. The system can learn a user's normal usage pattern or can learn abnormal usage patterns, such as a typical usage pattern for a stolen device. This learning can include human or algorithmic identification of particular sets of usage conditions (e.g., locations, changes in settings, personal data access events, application events, IMU data, etc.) or training a machine learning model to identify usage condition combinations or sequences. Constraints (e.g., particular times or locations) can specify circumstances where abnormal pattern matching is enabled or disabled. Upon identifying an abnormal usage pattern, the system can disable the device, e.g., by permanently destroying a physical component, semi-permanently disabling a component, or through a software lock or data encryption.
US11568091B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for attesting component certificates to particular devices. An enterprise hosted integrity protected distributed ledger, such as a block chain, is provided to publish component certificates. Component vendors are provided authorization tokens to publish their component certificates. Manifests are generated by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that includes vendor component identifiers. End users discover the distributed ledger through a verification mechanism, and the component certificates are retrieved from the distributed ledger.
US11568084B2
The disclosure relates to a method and a system for sequencing asset segments of privacy policy using optimization techniques. The asset segments are sequenced based on several constraints associated with preferences of a source entity and a target entity. Further the disclosure also determines a target entity violation factor that represents a conflict between the preferences associated with the source entity and the target entity. In an embodiment the disclosed method and system optimally sequences the plurality of asset segments using several optimization techniques that include a basic sequence generation technique, a source entity sequence optimizing technique and a target entity sequence optimizing technique considering constraints. Hence the disclosure bridges a communication gap between several stakeholders by optimally displaying the most relevant privacy policy (mapped to the asset segments) considering the constraints or preferences associated with both the source entity and the target entity.
US11568082B2
A method for securing sensitive information, includes storing patient information in a secured form in an external device that is carried by a patient. A user terminal obtains a first signature generated using a first secret key inside a first identification medium, where the first secret key is associated with a first healthcare person. Moreover, the user terminal communicates a write request that includes at least the first signature to the external device. The external device receives the write request from the user terminal when the user terminal is within a proximal communication range of the external device. Furthermore, the external device verifies at least the first signature received in the write request. The user terminal writes first information to the external device, based on verification of at least the first signature. A system for securing sensitive information is also provided.
US11568074B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system is connectable to a host including a first volatile memory and includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller may use a first area of the first volatile memory as a temporary storage memory of data stored in the non-volatile memory and controls the non-volatile memory. The controller generates a first parity by using first data stored in the non-volatile memory and a key value to store the first data and the generated first parity in the first area. In the case of reading the first data stored in the first area, the controller reads the first data and the first parity to verify the read first data using the read first parity and the key value.
US11568070B2
A process of linking a key to a component is disclosed herein. In various aspects, the key may be a password, hash, key, encryption key, decryption key, seed value, unlock code, or other alphanumeric identifier, and the component includes a computer in networked communication, and may further include a specific user of the computer. The process may include the step of identifying a component using environmental variables associated with the component, and the process step of forming a representation of the key unique to the component. The representation is tested to determine that the identified component is the source of the representation, in various aspects. Accordingly, the process may include the step of testing the representation against previous representations thereby determining the representation is not statistically duplicative of previous representations, and the process may include the step of testing the representation against possible representations from the component where the possible representations are unique to the component.
US11568067B2
A computer system including in-memory cache storage may be used to store collections of metadata that provide a semantic layer for a query of a data source. The computer system may provide multiple users access to the metadata collection, using different security policies for the users, without duplicating the metadata collection in the in-memory storage. For instance, the computer system may retrieve the metadata collection and provide the first user access to the metadata collection based on a first security policy of the first user. The computer system may then provide a second user access to the metadata collection based on a second security policy of the second user, without the metadata collection being duplicated in the in-memory cache storage.
US11568064B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to virtual distributed ledger networks provisioning using distributed ledger technology. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed, comprising a hardware processor and a memory device storing instructions executable by the hardware processor to perform operations. The operations comprise creating one or more virtual machines, and executing a plurality of microservices via the one or more virtual machines. At least two of the plurality of microservices are associated with different distributed ledger technology networks. The plurality of microservices include an event routing manager microservice configured to receive a smart contract microservice request and to route events between microservices, a smart contract execution microservice configured to execute a smart contract associated with the smart contract microservice request, and a transaction resource manager microservice configured to commit an outcome of the smart contract execution microservice to a distributed ledger associated with one of the different distributed ledger technology networks.
US11568058B2
The present disclosure describes devices and methods monitoring a technology environment. In particular, a computing device including a processor with computer readable instructions to access a plurality of indicators (e.g., variables) that have corresponding stored historical information. The indicators are then used to calculate a summed weights table of relative risk for each time period in the past. The summed weights table is then correlated to a target variable (e.g., a variable that documents major issues, incidents, or disruptions that occurred in the technology environment in the past). The correlation coefficient between the summed weights table and the target variable is then used to implement a machine learning algorithm in order to better determine current risk levels (e.g., relative values that predict issues, incidents, or disruption).
US11568057B2
Systems and methods are provided for the classification of identified security vulnerabilities in software applications, and their automated triage based on machine learning. The disclosed system may generate a report listing detected potential vulnerability issues, and extract features from the report for each potential vulnerability issue. The system may receive policy data and business rules, and compare the extracted features relative to such data and rules. The system may determine a token based on the source code of a potential vulnerability issue, and a vector based on the extracted features of a potential vulnerability issue and based on the token. The system may select a machine learning modelling method and/or an automated triaging method based on the vector, and determine a vulnerability accuracy score based on the vector using the selected method.
US11568056B2
Method, apparatus and computer program product for detecting vulnerability and predicting maintenance in an industrial control system are described herein.
US11568046B2
An exemplary method for generating a test vector to activate a Trojan triggering condition includes the operations of obtaining a design graph representation of an electronic circuit; constructing a satisfiability graph from the design graph representation, wherein the satisfiability graph includes a set of vertices representing rare signals of the electronic circuit and satisfiability connections between the vertices; finding a plurality of maximal satisfiable cliques in the satisfiability graph, wherein a maximal satisfiable clique corresponds to a triggering condition for a payload of the electronic circuit; generating a test vector for each of the maximal satisfiable cliques; and performing a test for the presence of a hardware Trojan circuit in the electronic circuit using the generated test vectors as input signals.
US11568037B2
A computer-implemented method for authentication is provided. The method includes displaying, on a display device and while in a locked state, a set of color wheels, each color wheel having a plurality of segments with each segment being a different color. User input is received via an input device on the set of color wheels. The user input is converted to a string. The string is communicated to an authentication server. In response to communicating the string, a response is received from the authentication server and the response is processed.
US11568026B1
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for implementing asymmetric cryptography for digital rights licensing during system disruptions. In particular embodiments, the disclosed systems transmit, to a licensing device that issues digital licenses, a digital communication indicating a system outage of an identity server that verifies digital licenses of client devices. Based on the digital communication, the disclosed systems call a monitoring device using a licensing device identifier. In response to the call, one or more embodiments of the disclosed systems use the monitoring device to encrypt and transmit a verification token back to the licensing device. In certain implementations, the disclosed systems then verify the system outage by decrypting the encrypted verification token and validating a corresponding digital signature. Upon validation, the disclosed systems can trigger a failover mechanism for issuing a grace digital license to one or more client devices during the system outage.
US11568024B2
A device control method includes monitoring location of a first user device of a first user and receiving an indication of a location of a second user device. The method further includes monitoring use of the second user device and determining a first time of use on the second user device. The first time of use on the second user device is allocated to a use time of a second user based on the location of the first user device relative to the location of the second user device, and a functional component of a third user device of the second user is disabled based at least on the use time of the second user.
US11568019B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for identifying one or more interactions with one or more portions of a website structure of a specific website; and associating the one or more interactions with the one or more portions of the website structure with one or more functions of the specific website to define a specific function description model corresponding to the specific website.
US11568018B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that utilize machine learning models to generate identifier embeddings from digital content identifiers and then leverage these identifier embeddings to determine digital connections between digital content items. In particular, the disclosed systems can utilize an embedding machine-learning model that comprises a character-level embedding machine-learning model and a word-level embedding machine-learning model. For example, the disclosed systems can combine a character embedding from the character-level embedding machine-learning model and a token embedding from the word-level embedding machine-learning model. The disclosed systems can determine digital connections between the plurality of digital content items by processing these identifier embeddings for a plurality of digital content items utilizing a content management model. Based on the digital connections, the disclosed systems can surface one or more digital content suggestions to a user interface of a client device.
US11568015B2
The present application discloses to a control method and system of an applet, a server, a terminal device, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which relate to artificial intelligence technology, voice technology, cloud technology, automatic driving technology, and information flow technology. The method includes: parsing audio information sent by a terminal device to obtain attribute information of the applet, where the audio information is used to instruct to open the applet; sending a request for acquiring page data to an applet server based on the attribute information; receiving the page data fed back by the applet server, generating a target page according to the page data and the attribute information, and sending the target page to the terminal device.
US11568013B2
A system for providing a search service application is disclosed and includes an application builder component that provides a search model for a first object of a plurality of objects. The search model is based at least on an end-user input field corresponding to a first attribute of the first object and a search result output field corresponding to a second attribute of the first object. The search model is also associated with a backend data store that supports a storage structure that stores information relating to the first object. The system also includes a deployment engine that automatically configures a search engine system associated with the backend data store to place a portion of indexed data into a first partition and to place another portion of indexed data into at least another partition based on the search model.
US11568011B2
A system for database access comprising a plurality of databases, each database having a plurality of defined data fields and a mapping system coupled to the plurality of databases, the mapping system configured to create an algorithmic relationship between a plurality of first fields of a plurality of first databases, and a corresponding field of a plurality of second fields of a plurality of second databases.
US11568006B1
A matching computer system for electronically generating, matching, and providing online user profiles, and determining a sharing score between the online user profiles is provided. The matching computer system may be configured to generate online user profiles associated with users of the systems. The matching computer system may be also configured to calculate a base score based upon the generated online user profile. Each base score represents a level of trustworthiness of each respective user. The matching computer system may be further configured to determine a sharing score between users based upon the base scores. Each sharing score represents a level of matching between the online user profiles.
US11568005B1
One aspect of the subject matter described herein comprises a database management system. The database management system comprises a communication circuit, an interface, and a processor. The communication circuit receives information from databases via a communication network. The interface allows user operation and interaction via the communication network and the database management system. The processor provides data to and receives data from the interface, including a plurality of alphanumeric records comprising at least one unique identifier, obtains database records from other databases for each unique identifier, identifies a number of alphanumeric records in the plurality having events in their histories, determines a percentage of alphanumeric records in the plurality having negative events in their histories, generates a report including the determined percentages, and conveys the report to the user.
US11567998B2
A system for dataflow graph processing comprises a communication interface and a processor. The communication interface is configured receive an indication to generate a dataflow graph, wherein the indication includes a set of queries and/or commands. The processor is coupled to the communication interface and configured to: determine dependencies of each query in the set of queries on another query; determine a DAG of nodes based at least in part on the dependencies; determine the dataflow graph by determining in-line expressions for tables of the dataflow graph aggregating calculations associated with a subset of dataflow graph nodes designated as view nodes; and provide the dataflow graph.
US11567995B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing queries of a graph database storing a graph, wherein the graph comprises a set of edges defined by a first linkage, a second linkage, and a third linkage. During operation, the system maintains the base version of an index of the graph database. Upon branching a version of the graph database from a first offset representing a virtual time in the base version of the graph database, the system creates a branched version of the index from a second offset corresponding to the virtual time in the base version of the index. The system then processes queries of the graph database based on the offsets and references from the branched version of the index to the base version of the index.
US11567993B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing and executing queries in a data intake and query system. The data intake and query system receives a query identifying a set of data to be processed and a manner of processing the set of data. The data intake and query system identifies buckets that are to be searched and stores a copy of buckets in memory associated with one or more search nodes. A search node performs a search on buckets residing in its memory.
US11567982B2
The present disclosure generally relates to processing and organizing electronic content. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises receiving source data from at least one content server, the source data being associated with electronic content. The method also includes generating local data based on at least one of an analysis of the received source data or an extraction from the received source data. Additionally, the method includes classifying the electronic content as being associated with one or more content stacks. Further, the method includes generating representations of the electronic content based on the local data and generating instructions to display at least one content stack on a user interface, each displayed contact stack being operable to display one or more of the representations of the electronic content associated with the content stack based on the classification.
US11567981B2
Techniques and systems are described for performing semantic text searches. A semantic text-searching solution uses a machine learning system (such as a deep learning system) to determine associations between the semantic meanings of words. These associations are not limited by the spelling, syntax, grammar, or even definition of words. Instead, the associations can be based on the context in which characters, words, and/or phrases are used in relation to one another. In response to detecting a request to locate text within an electronic document associated with a keyword, the semantic text-searching solution can return strings within the document that have matching and/or related semantic meanings or contexts, in addition to exact matches (e.g., string matches) within the document. The semantic text-searching solution can then output an indication of the matching strings.
US11567975B1
A system and a method for contextual categorization of data comprises a server having a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in electronic communication with the processor and comprising program instructions executable by the processor to access an initial inventory of data set and metadata associated with the initial inventory of data set. The system is then configured to classify the initial inventory of data set by using the metadata into (a) reduced set of data comprising high level sensitivity classification and (b) a remainder data set. The system and method can be further configured for contextual categorization of data that involves receiving an initial data set to be categorized; establishing a library of contextual classifiers, the library comprising (1) a set of predetermined high level sensitivity classifications and (2) a set of user-generated business-specific sensitivity classifications subordinated below the high level sensitivity classifications; identifying and removing redundant, outdated, trivial or abandoned (ROTA) data from the initial data set to create a reduced data set and a remainder data set of ROTA data; applying the user-generated business-specific sensitivity classifications to the reduced data set to create a first set of classified data and a second set of unclassified data; and iteratively applying additional user-generated business-specific sensitivity classifications to the both the first set of classified data and the second set of unclassified data until all data in the reduced data set has been classified in exactly one use-generated business-specific sensitivity classification.
US11567967B2
An electronic device has one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. The device receives a request directed to a data source. The request includes one or more intent types and one or more predefined attributes associated with the intent types. Each of the predefined attributes limits a respective data analysis operation of a respective intent type. In response to the request, for each of the intent types, the device formulates a respective intent specification according to the request. The device also applies one or more respective rules corresponding to the respective intent type to determine whether the respective intent type is ambiguous and/or underspecified. When the respective intent type is ambiguous and/or underspecified, the device infers information to resolve the ambiguous and/or underspecified intent.
US11567965B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for enhanced preparation and integration of data sets. In some implementations, data indicating user input that identifies a first data set that includes streaming data and a second data set that includes non-streaming data is received. The first data set and the second data set are integrated to generate a hybrid data set. The data processing system provides access to the hybrid data set through a (i) non-streaming access channel that provides a periodically-refreshed summary of both the streaming data and the non-streaming data and (ii) a streaming access channel that provides a data stream based on combined data of the first data set and the second data set. One or more application programing interfaces are provided. The one or more application programming interfaces allow at least one client device to access the non-streaming access channel and the streaming access channel.
US11567961B2
A method may include updating database posting logic to obtain an updated database posting logic that, during a posting process to a database, adds a data field to a new line item being posted via the posting process. The method may further include receiving information from a data provider. The method may further include posting, using the updated database posting logic, the information to the database as a line item including various fields including the data field. The method may further include receiving a request to generate a transactional report. The method may further include using the data field to identify the line item. The method may further include generating the transactional report using the line item.
US11567960B2
Systems and methods are described to determine relationships between one or more components of an isolated execution environment system based on data obtained from a data intake and query system. Based on the determined relationships, an interactive visualization is generated that indicates the hierarchical relationship of the components. In some cases, to illustrate the relationship between components of the isolated execution environment system, the visualization can include one or more display objects displayed in a subordinate or superior relationship to other display objects. In certain cases, based on an interaction with a display object, the system can generate a query and/or display additional information and/or visualizations based on the results of the query.
US11567959B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating one or more files to visualize query results. The systems and methods can include parsing one or more files that include one or more queries and computer-executable instructions for displaying results of the one or more queries. The one or more queries can identify a set of data to be processed and a manner of processing the set of data. The systems and methods can further include generating one or more files that include the results of the queries and computer-executable instructions for displaying one or more visualizations of the results.
US11567954B2
Seed patterns are derived from a sequence database. Execution costs for types of seed patterns are computed. Each seed pattern is iteratively distributed to distributed nodes along with that seed pattern's assigned execution cost. The distributed nodes processing in parallel to mine the sequence database for super patterns found in the sequence database. When a distributed node exhausts its execution budget, any remaining mining needed for the seed pattern being mined is reallocated to another distributed node having remaining execution budget.
US11567953B2
Systems and methods of returning location and/or event results using information mined from non-textual information are provided. Non-textual information is captured using a hardware component of a user device. Text-based social media content input on the user device is then retrieved. A location of the user device is determined using a global positioning system module in the user device. The non-textual information is converted to a machine-analyzable format, and the converted non-textual information is compared to a database of converted non-textual information samples to analyze and classify the converted non-textual information. The classification is sent to a server for storage in a database in a manner that ties the classification to the geographical location of the user device.
US11567929B2
This disclosure involves stitching event data using identity mappings. An event analytics system generates and stores an event dataset including first event data for a first set of events associated with a user. The first event data includes timestamps and a device identifier. The system identifies second event data for a second event associated with the user. The second event data includes a timestamp, the device identifier, and a user identifier. The system appends the second event data to the event dataset. Based on the second event data, the system generates and stores an identity mapping that maps the device identifier to the user identifier. Asynchronously to generating and storing the event dataset, based on the identity mapping and a predetermined look-back window, the system updates the first event data to include the user identifier.
US11567927B2
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium is provided for creating first and second blockchain instances, each comprising representative blocks corresponding to steps in first and second multistep processes, respectively; performing a linking operation to link a block in the first blockchain instance to a block in the second blockchain instance; receiving change evidence data pertaining to steps in one of the first and second multi-step processes; and performing an update operation comprising updating one of the first and second blockchain instances based on said change evidence data.
US11567924B2
Technology for logging application usage based on monitoring of read or change operations on database elements and then using the information from log data to determine application usage states (for example, active, inactive) in time.
US11567923B2
Techniques for handling data access conflicts are disclosed. In some embodiments, a conflict handling system detects a set of one or more objects that are currently being accessed by an application. The conflict handling system queries a database to determine whether the set of one or more objects have changes pending. Responsive to determining that an object has a change pending, the conflict handling system identifies and loads, at runtime of the application, a set of one or more application-specific rules that are defined for handling data conflicts. The conflict handling system executes the rules to generate a conflict resolution result for the object. The application may then perform an application-specific function based on the conflict resolution result.
US11567907B2
This invention discloses a novel system and method for comparing electronic documents that are created on different software platforms or that are in different data formats by traversing the two hierarchical representations of the documents in a manner so as to selectively ignore nodes in the hierarchy and attempt to resynchronize the sequence of traversing when nodes have no matching content.
US11567903B2
A versioned file system comprising network accessible storage is provided. Aspects of the system include globally locking files or groups of files so as to better control the stored files in the file system and to avoid problems associated with simultaneous remote access or conflicting multiple access requests for the same files. A method for operating, creating and using the global locks is also disclosed. A multiprotocol global lock can be provided for filing nodes that have multiple network protocols for generating local lock requests.
US11567900B1
The interface is to receive an indication to execute an optimize command. The processor is to receive a file name; determine whether adding a file of the file name to a current bin causes the current bin to exceed a threshold; associate the file with the current bin in response to determining that adding the file does not cause the current bin to exceed the bin threshold; in response to determining that adding the file to the current bin causes the current bin to exceed the bin threshold: associate the file with a next bin, indicate that the current bin is closed, and add the current bin to a batch of bins; determine whether a measure of the batch of bins exceeds a batch threshold; and in response to determining that the measure exceeds the batch threshold, provide the batch of bins for processing.
US11567899B2
Example distributed storage systems, delete managers, and methods provide for managing dependent delete operations among data stores. Dependent data operation entries and corresponding dependency sets may be identified in an operations log. Dependent data operations may be identified in each shard and data operation entries. A delete process for the data objects in the dependency set may be delayed until the delete process for the dependent data object completes.
US11567898B2
A cloud tethering subsystem is configured to ship snapshots of an application production storage group to a cloud repository. Dynamic storage group resizing operations are allowed on the application production storage group after creation of a snapshot and before transmission of the snapshot to the cloud, or while the snapshot is accessing data of the application production storage group in connection with shipping the snapshot to the cloud. Example dynamic storage group resizing operations include adding one or more volumes to the application production storage group, removing one or more volumes from the application production storage group, and resizing one or more of the volumes of the application production storage group. The cloud tethering subsystem maintains information about the size of the snapshot at the time of creation and uses the snapshot size to prevent dynamic storage group resizing operations from interfering with cloud snapshot shipping operations.
US11567895B2
In an embodiment, a host controller includes a clock control circuit to cause the host controller to communicate a clock signal on a clock line of an interconnect, the clock control circuit to receive an indication that a first device is to send information to the host controller and to dynamically release control of the clock line of the interconnect to enable the first device to drive a second clock signal onto the clock line of the interconnect for communication with the information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11567891B2
One embodiment is directed to a multi-rack rack controller for an automated infrastructure management (AIM) system comprising a plurality of independent patching equipment bus interfaces. Another embodiment is directed to a rack controller comprising at least one rack controller interface configured to connect the rack controller to another rack controller. Each rack controller interface comprises a respective termination circuit. The rack controller is configured to determine whether each rack controller interface is connected to another rack controller as a function of a respective sense signal developed by the termination circuit associated with said rack controller interface. Another embodiment is directed to a rack controller comprising a base unit having a locate button disposed on the front of the base unit. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11567876B2
Cache slots on a storage system may be shared between entities processing write operations for logical storage unit (LSU) tracks and entities performing remote replication for write operations for the LSU tracks. If a new write operation is received on a first storage system (S1) for a track of an LSU (R1) when the cache slot mapped to the R1 track is locked by a process currently transmitting data of the cache slot to a second storage system (S2), a new cache slot may be allocated to the R1 track, the data of the original cache slot copied to the new cache slot, and the new write operation for the R1 track initiated on S1 using the new cache slot; while the data of the original cache slot is independently, and perhaps concurrently, transmitted to S2 to be replicated in R2, the LSU on S2 that is paired with R1.
US11567875B2
An integrated circuit (IC) is provided. The IC includes a cache memory divided into a plurality of groups and an address decoder. The groups are assigned in rotation for a plurality of time periods. Each group is assigned in a corresponding single one of the time periods. The address decoder is configured to obtain a set address according to an access address and provide a physical address according to the set address. When the access address corresponds to a first group, the physical address is different from the set address. When the access address corresponds to the groups other than the first group, the physical address is the same as the set address. The sets of the first group that is assigned in a first time period are not overlapping with the sets of other first groups assigned in the time periods other than the first time period.
US11567864B2
An operation method a storage device including a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory is provided. The operation method includes erasing memory cells of the nonvolatile memory using the memory controller and prohibiting an erase of the erased memory cells for a critical time using the memory controller.
US11567857B1
A service testing system is disclosed to enable consistent replay of stateful requests on a service whose output depends on the service's execution state prior to the requests. In embodiments, the service implements a compute engine that executes service requests and a storage subsystem that maintains execution states during the execution of stateful requests. When a stateful request is received during testing, the storage subsystem creates an in-memory test copy of the execution state to support execution of the request, and provides the test copy to the compute engine. In embodiments, the storage subsystem will create a separate instance of execution state for each individual test run. The disclosed techniques enable mock execution states to be easily created for testing of stateful requests, in a manner that is transparent to the compute engine and does not impact production execution data maintained by the service.
US11567855B1
An automated fault injection testing and analysis approach drives fault injection into a processor driven instruction sequence to quantify and define susceptibility to external fault injections for manipulating instruction execution and control flow of a set of computer instructions. A fault injection such as a voltage or electromagnetic pulse directed at predetermined locations on a processor (Central Processing Unit, or CPU) alters a result of a processor instruction to change values or execution paths. One or more quantified injections define an injection chain that causes a predictable or repeatable deviant result from an expected execution path through the code executed by the processor. Based on accumulation of fault injections and results, a repeatable injection chain and probability identifies an external action taken on a processing device to cause unexpected results that differ from an expected execution of a program or set of computer instructions.
US11567854B2
Exposing a memory cell value during trace replay prior to an execution time at which the memory cell value was recorded into a trace. A computer system identifies a trace fragment that records an uninterrupted consecutive execution of executable instructions. Based on performing an intra-fragment analysis of the trace fragment, the computer system determines that a memory cell value recorded into the trace fragment is compatible with memory access(es) to the memory cell that occurred during recording, prior to an event that caused the memory cell value to be recorded. The computer system determines that the memory cell value can be exposed, during trace replay, at a first execution time that is prior to a second execution time corresponding to the event that caused the value to be recorded, and generates output data indicating that the memory cell value can be exposed at the first execution time during trace replay.
US11567846B2
A system and methods for contact center fault diagnostics, comprising a diagnostic engine and datastore of test cases used for testing components and services in a contact center, designed to operate on a contact center with a specified test campaign, allowing a contact center's various services and systems to be tested either internally or externally in an automated fashion with specified testcases being used to specify the format and expectations of a specific test, with reports of failures and points of failure being made available to system administrators.
US11567839B2
Embodiments described herein detect data corruption in a distributed data set system. For example, a system comprises node(s) for processing queries with respect to a distributed data set comprising a plurality of storage segments. A write transaction resulting from a query with respect to a particular storage segment is logged in a log record that describes a modification to the storage segment. A log service provides the log record to a data server managing a portion of the distributed data set in which the storage segment is included, which performs the write transaction with respect to the storage segment. For redundancy purposes, the data server has replica(s) that manage respective replicas of the portion of the distributed data set managed thereby. For backup purposes, snapshots of the replica(s) are periodically generated. To determine a data corruption, a snapshot of one replica is cross-validated with a snapshot of another replica.
US11567833B2
Methods and apparatus to assign indices and relocate object fragments in distributed storage systems
Methods and apparatus to dynamically assign and relocate object fragments in distributed storage systems are disclosed. In some examples, an apparatus to compile fragments of an object includes a fragment compiler to: compile an object from fragments stored in storage nodes, respective ones of the fragments corresponding to (a) a node index of storage identifiers representative of the storage nodes and (b) a fragment index of fragment identifiers associated with the respective ones of the fragments of the object, respective ones of the fragment identifiers being representative of a sequential order of the fragments of the object, the respective ones of the fragment identifiers to be associated with the respective ones of the storage identifiers to enable verification of storage locations of the respective ones of the fragments of the object relative to respective storage nodes; request a first one of the fragments from a first one of the respective storage nodes; determine if a first fragment index assigned to the first one of the fragments matches a first node index assigned to the first one of the fragments; when the first fragment index matches the first node index, compile the first one of the fragments into the object based on the first node index; and when the first fragment index does not match the first node index, compile the first one of the fragments into the object based on the first fragment index.
US11567825B2
First and second data are identified, such that the second data is based on a modification operation performed on the first data. First error-checking data comprising a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) value of the first data is identified. Incremental error-checking data is generated based on a difference between the first data and the second data. Updated first error-checking data is generated based on a combination of the first error-checking data and the incremental error-checking data. The updated first error-checking data is compared to second error-checking data generated from a CRC value of the second data to determine whether the second data contains an error.
US11567823B2
Provided is a method and system for identifying and evaluating common cause failures of system components, wherein at least one analytical artifact and machine readable system related to at least one of spatial, topological data and machine readable system related lifecycle data are processed to analyze automatically a susceptibility of system components to common cause failure based on common cause failure influencing factors.
US11567822B2
A method of monitoring a closed system, an apparatus thereof and a monitoring device are provided. The method of monitoring the closed system includes: performing a page capturing on a web page of the closed system; searching from a captured page, according to configuration information of data to be monitored of the closed system, a text content corresponding to the data to be monitored; and converting the text content corresponding to the data to be monitored into monitored data which a system monitoring platform is capable of recognizing, and storing the monitored data.
US11567820B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a first circuit configured to measure a first time period from a first active edge of one of plurality of internal signals to a second active edge of one of the plurality of internal signals, and a second circuit configured to compare the first time period with a second time period to generate an alert signal.
US11567816B2
Described is a system for detection of network activities using transitive tensor analysis. The system divides a tensor into multiple subtensors, where the tensor represents communications on a communications network of streaming network data. Each subtensor is decomposed, separately and independently, into subtensor mode factors. Using transitive mode factor matching, orderings of the subtensor mode factors are determined. A set of subtensor factor coefficients is determined for the subtensor mode factors, and the subtensor factor coefficients are used to determine the relative weighting of the subtensor mode factors, and activity patterns represented by the subtensor mode factors are detected. Based on the detection, an alert of an anomaly is generated, indicating a in the communications network and a time of occurrence.
US11567814B2
Embodiments provide a batching system that conforms message batches to publication constraints and also to message ordering requirements. An output array of messages is formed from messages received from a plurality of input streams, in which the messages are ordered. The output array preserves the ordering of the messages found in the source input streams. Messages are added from a head of the output array to a batch until addition of a next message to the batch would violate a particular batch processing constraint imposed on the batch. According to embodiments, one or more additional messages are included in the current batch when addition of the one or more additional messages to the batch (a) does not violate the particular batch processing constraint, and (b) continues to preserve the ordering of the messages, in the batch, with respect to the respective ordering of each of the plurality of input streams.
US11567813B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. Event information associated with a plurality of events may be identified. The plurality of events may be associated with first entities corresponding to a first entity type and second entities associated with a second entity type. A first network profile associated with the first entities and the second entities may be generated based upon the event information. An iterative process may be performed to identify a coalition network associated with fraudulent activity. The iterative process may include analyzing the first network profile to identify a first set of entities, of the first entities, that are related to an entity of the second entities, and/or analyzing the first network profile to identify a second set of entities, of the second entities, that are related to the first set of entities. Multiple iterations may be performed to identify the coalition network.
US11567809B2
Methods and systems for deploying images to computing systems include predicting an environment for a plurality of processing nodes. Image deployment to the plurality of processing nodes is simulated to determine a subset of the plurality of processing nodes for deployment. One or more images is pre-loaded to the subset of the plurality of processing nodes in advance of a deployment time.
US11567808B2
Systems and methods include reception of an indication of a first data object to transmit from a first database tenant to a second database tenant, the first data object comprising user configuration settings metadata of a database application and associated with a first data object type, determination of whether a dependent data object may be associated with a data object of the first data object type, determination, if it is determined that a dependent data object may be associated with a data object of the first data object type, of whether a dependent object is dependent on the first data object, and automatic determination, if it is determined that a dependent object is dependent on the first data object, to transmit the dependent object from the first database tenant to the second database tenant.
US11567807B2
Techniques are provided for allocation of shared computing resources using source code feature extraction and machine learning techniques. An exemplary method comprises obtaining source code for execution in a shared computing environment; extracting a plurality of discriminative features from the source code; obtaining a trained machine learning model; and generating a prediction of an allocation of one or more resources of the shared computing environment needed to satisfy one or more service level agreement requirements for the source code. The generated prediction is optionally adjusted using a statistical analysis of an error curve, based on one or more error boundaries obtained by the trained machine learning model. The trained machine learning model can be trained using a set of discriminative features extracted from training source code and corresponding measurements of metrics of the service level agreement requirements obtained by executing the training source code on a plurality of the resources of the shared computing environment.
US11567802B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for monitoring long-standing computing resources. An apparatus may operate by receiving a cloud monitoring notification, where the cloud monitoring notification may indicate an occurrence of a monitored condition. The apparatus may then operate by scanning a cluster computing system for resource having a client assigned resource identifier and a computing resource attribute based on a resource identifier scan parameter and a resource attribute scan parameter. The apparatus may further operate by generating a resource notification request based on the scanning of the cluster computing system and transmitting the resource notification request to a communications system to notify a user that the resource has a computing resource attribute that match the resource attribute scan parameter.
US11567783B2
A data pipeline configuration system allows industrial data pipelines to be configured using an intuitive visual interface. The pipeline configuration system allows graphical pipeline components representing data sources, data processing, analytic or machine learning models, and emitters to be selectively added to an industrial data pipeline application by selecting these components from a library. The pipeline configuration application is created by arranging and linking these selected pipeline components within a pipeline builder section of the configuration system's visual design interface. The design interface also allows analytic or machine learning models to be easily integrated into the pipeline application and mapped to incoming data items, such that the model is applied and scored against incoming data during pipeline operation. The configuration system also allows the user to configure destinations or data sinks for the pipeline data, including both the incoming industrial data and model scoring results.
US11567780B2
The present application relates generally to a parallel processing device. The parallel processing device can include a plurality of processing elements, a memory subsystem, and an interconnect system. The memory subsystem can include a plurality of memory slices, at least one of which is associated with one of the plurality of processing elements and comprises a plurality of random access memory (RAM) tiles, each tile having individual read and write ports. The interconnect system is configured to couple the plurality of processing elements and the memory subsystem. The interconnect system includes a local interconnect and a global interconnect.
US11567774B2
Systems and methods for managing optimized branching in executable instructions are disclosed. In one implementation, a processing device may identify, in a sequence of executable instructions, a branching instruction associated with a safe static key, the branching instruction specifying a first target location. The processing device may determine whether a value of the safe static key is initialized. Responsive to determining that the value of the safe static key is initialized, the processing device may further replace the branching instruction with an unconditional branching instruction specifying the first target location. Responsive to determining that the value of the safe static key is uninitialized, the processing device may replace the branching instruction with a conditional branching instruction specifying the first target location.
US11567755B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for integration of containers with external elements. In some implementations, a server environment is provided using one or more containers. The one or more containers include a first container that is an instance of a software image for an application or service. The first container is run such that the first container performs various operations. For example, access to one or more external elements that reside outside of the software image is initiated. Based on the one or more external elements, a configuration of the first container is changed from what is provided by the software image.
US11567753B1
Systems and methods are provided to recommend software patches based on task operation mapping. In embodiments, a method includes abstracting test cases for a software patch into a sequence of task operations and parameters associated with each task operation; encoding the task operations and the parameters associated with each task operation based on predetermined rules, thereby generating encoded task operations with unique identifiers assigned thereto and associated encoded parameters with numeric values assigned thereto; generating, using machine learning, a list of frequent operation items, based on the encoded task operations and the associated encoded parameters; generating, using clustering, clusters of parameters for each frequent operation item in the list of frequent operation items; and sending a software patch package including the list of frequent operation items, the clusters of parameters and the software patch to a remote server for distribution to one or more user devices.
US11567750B2
Provided are computer-implemented methods and systems for dynamically deploying a web component in an application. An example method for dynamically deploying a web component in an application may include deploying a client-side application to a web browser associated with a client device. The method may continue with receiving a request to deploy a web component in the client-side application. The method may further include dynamically loading the web component in the client-side application. With this method, web components can be dynamically added to a current operating version of a web application. Further, a user can use a web application as if it is operating locally on the web browser of the client device, even though it is not actually stored locally on the client device.
US11567747B2
An information handling system include a serial peripheral interface (SPI) flash memory device with a BIOS firmware of a platform, and a processor that may build a hand-off block for platform specific override data for the platform, and patch the BIOS base firmware image with the platform specific override data to modify the BIOS base firmware image according to the platform. The processor may also update the BIOS firmware in the SPI flash memory device with the BIOS base firmware image.
US11567736B2
A method and system may be provided for recording discussions about computer code in an integrated development environment (“IDE”). In some aspects, a communication channel is integrated with an IDE. Communications and discussions may be tracked and linked with specific code sections.
US11567728B2
The disclosure is directed to a process that can predict and prevent an audio artifact from occurring. The process can monitor the systems, processes, and execution threads on a larger system/device, such as a mobile or in-vehicle device. Using a learning algorithm, such as deep neural network (DNN), the information collected can generate a prediction of whether an audio artifact is likely to occur. The process can use a second learning algorithm, which also can be a DNN, to generate recommended system adjustments that can attempt to prevent the audio glitch from occurring. The recommendations can be for various systems and components on the device, such as changing the processing system frequency, the memory frequency, and the audio buffer size. After the audio artifact has been prevented, the system adjustments can be reversed fully or in steps to return the system to its state prior to the system adjustments.
US11567711B2
A printing apparatus that receives user's instructions for a plurality of print settings and controls printing, includes a reception section that receives the user's instructions, and a control section that sets the print settings based on the instructions received by the reception section and controls the printing according to the set print settings, in which the control section solves a prohibition relationship between the print settings according to different solutions depending on a state of the printing apparatus.
US11567709B2
A print management device includes: an estimation unit that estimates a completion prediction time of a print process that is planned in advance according to a processing capability of a printing device, the estimation unit estimating, in response to occurrence of an abnormality in the printing device, the completion prediction time based on actual performance information on the processing capability from a start of printing by the printing device to the occurrence of the abnormality and a recovery time determined in advance, the recovery time being a time needed for dealing with the abnormality; and a notification unit that notifies the completion prediction time estimated by the estimation unit.
US11567708B2
An image forming apparatus includes a housing having a first section and a second section opposite to the first section in a particular direction, a print engine, a user interface disposed at the first section, a memory interface having a plurality of ports including a first port disposed at the first section and a second port disposed at the second section, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a storage printing process, prior to the storage printing process, set one of the plurality of ports as a dedicated port used in the storage printing process, when the second port is set as the dedicated port, determine whether the second port is in a notified status, and when determining that the second port is in the notified status, cause the user interface to display a notification screen.
US11567707B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to responsive printing. An example device includes a processor, a memory device, and a printer for physical printing of a content section of an output object following a user setting and an instruction for the output object to be printed. In an example, the device may also include a microphone to detect an audio input and a camera to detect an image input. Further, in the example, the audio input detected by the microphone and the image input detected by the camera are both used by the processor executing instructions from the memory device in providing a content section of the output object, providing the user setting, and providing instructions to the printer for the content section of the output object to be printed.
US11567704B2
A method for storing data, comprising receiving, by a file system (FS) client executing on an offload component, a first request from a translation module, wherein the translation module translated a second request that was to be performed on an emulated block device into the first request, wherein the first request is specified using file semantics, wherein the first request is associated with data, wherein the offload component is located in a hardware layer of a client application node, and wherein the translation module is located on the offload component, and processing the first request by the FS client and a memory hypervisor module, wherein the FS client and the memory hypervisor module are executing in a modified client FS container on the offload component, wherein processing the first request results in at least a portion of the data being stored in a location in a storage pool.
US11567701B2
A controller includes memory and a microcontroller coupled to the memory. The memory is configured to store a list of entries of data in Flash memory coupled to the controller. The microcontroller is configured to periodically update the list of entries based on data programmed into the Flash memory, and check the list of entries upon reading data from the Flash memory.
US11567691B2
Systems, methods, and devices include counters configured to implement count operations. Systems include non-volatile memory devices which include a first counter configured to store a first plurality of data values representing a plurality of count operations, and a second counter configured to store a second plurality of data values representing a number of erase operations applied to the first counter. Systems further include control circuitry configured to implement read, write, and erase operations for the first counter and the second counter, determine a partial count value based, at least in part, on a current value of the second counter and at least one physical parameter of the first counter, and generate a count value by adding the partial count value with a current value of the first counter. Such counters and control circuitry are immune data loss due to power loss events.
US11567689B2
A memory component includes multiple fuses, a memory array having a multiple blocks, and control logic operatively coupled with the memory array and the plurality of fuses. The control logic is to perform operations including detecting a failure to completely erase a block of the plurality of blocks in response to an attempted erasure of the block; receiving a blow fuse command in response to the failure to completely erase the block; and blowing a fuse, of the plurality of fuses, coupled with the block, to make the block electrically inaccessible to the control logic in response to receipt of the blow fuse command.
US11567669B1
An apparatus comprises a host device that includes a multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver configured to control delivery of input-output (IO) operations from the host device to first and second storage systems over a plurality of paths through a network. The MPIO driver determines latency values for the paths to the first and second storage systems, retrieves additional information corresponding to the paths and first and second storage systems, generates a first message comprising at least portions of the latency values and additional information, and sends the first message to a multi-pathing management appliance. A second message is received from the multi-pathing management appliance, the second message being generated based on at least a portion of the first message. The MPIO driver selects one or more paths for delivery of given ones of the IO operations based at least in part on at least a portion of the second message.
US11567668B1
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for data flow management in a heterogeneous memory device. A media controller redirects traffic from first non-volatile memory (NVM) to second NVM, in response to an instantaneous temperature of the first NVM reaches a first predetermined temperature at which redirecting the traffic is started. The media controller throttles to reduce the traffic to the second NVM, in response to determining that the instantaneous temperature is higher than a second predetermined temperature at which throttling is started. The media controller redirects the traffic back to the first NVM, in response to determining that the instantaneous temperature is not higher than the second predetermined temperature and lower than a third predetermined temperature at which throttling is ended. The first NVM is thermally sensitive, while the second NVM is thermally tolerant.
US11567659B2
A method of controlling a display device including a touch screen is provided. The method includes setting an application execution space having one or more sub spaces in which windows executing applications are arranged, arranging windows corresponding to one or more applications which are being executed in the sub spaces of the set application execution space, displaying a first sub space corresponding to one of the one or more sub spaces on the touch screen, receiving a data sharing command for sharing data included in a first window arranged in the first sub space, and sharing the data to be shared by a second window arranged in a second sub space corresponding to one of the one or more sub spaces based on the data sharing command.
US11567658B2
An electronic device detects an input via an input device. In response to detecting the input, the device monitors the input using a gesture recognition tree having a plurality of nodes. Each respective node of the gesture recognition tree corresponds to a respective gesture recognizer or a respective component gesture recognizer, and one or more nodes include one or more parameters that describe the input. Monitoring the input using the gesture recognition tree includes: processing the input using a first node of the plurality of nodes, including determining a value of a first parameter of the one or more parameters; conveying the first parameter from the first node to a second node of the plurality of nodes; and processing the input using the second node, including determining, based on the first parameter, whether the input satisfies a gesture recognition requirement defined by the second node.
US11567655B2
Methods and systems for acquiring a freehand or cursive signature on a secondary device with a touch receiving surface for use on a primary device without a touch receiving surface are provided. The primary device sends a message to the secondary device requesting a signature. The user responds by signing her name, using a finger or stylus, on a touch receiving surface. As the user signs her name, the signature is displayed on the secondary device and transmitted to the primary device. The signature may then be stored, displayed, analyzed, or validated by the primary device.
US11567653B2
A computer implemented method and system for recording media data such as audio data in one or more communication modes based on gestures on a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic device is provided. A gesture based media recording application (GBMRA) provided on the electronic device defines multiple interface regions on the GUI. The GBMRA detects a gesture on an interface region and performs a first action associated with recording of the media data in a communication mode. The GBMRA detects another gesture on the same interface region or another interface region and performs a second action. The first action and the second action include at least one of triggering recording of the media data, switching from one communication mode to another for recording the media data, canceling recording of the media data, generating and displaying multiple options for performing an operation associated with the recorded media data, etc.
US11567650B1
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing exposure notifications. In some embodiments, after enabling exposure notifications, an exposure notification is received; upon interacting with the notification: if an associated application is installed, a user interface of that application is displayed; if the associated application is not installed, a user interface object associated with a process to install the application is displayed. In some embodiments, an exposure notification management interface is displayed that includes a plurality of entities that have been authorized to provide notifications, along with a user interface object to disable transmission of data to those entities and to disable notifications from those entities.
US11567646B1
A logon screen and a user interface (UI) element used in connection with a remote desktop are resized, by presenting the logon screen and UI element in a connection/viewing window having a size that has been reduced to be smaller than the topology of a display screen of a user device. After the logon process is completed, a window of the remote desktop and/or a window of an application installed on the remote desktop can be sized/resized to a larger size for use by the user.
US11567641B2
A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user is provided. For example, information specific to a recognized user may be stored and optionally may include a recognized user avatar representative of the recognized user. The user avatar may be an image, video, and/or animation, which may be displayed on and/or played through the jukebox. The user avatar may be associated with transactions associated with the user. For example, an avatar may be displayed when a playlist of the recognized user is played, when a message is sent, etc. In other examples, the avatar may introduce instances of media by playing an audio and/or video message, and the avatar may sing, dance, etc. while an instance of media is playing.
US11567638B2
Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing a reputation badge for a video chat. The method includes providing a video chat with another user selected through real-time matching based on a request from a user of the computer apparatus; and using a plurality of reputation badges representing different reputation information in the video chat.
US11567628B2
Systems and methods for cognitive composition of multi-dimensional icons and interactions are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: generating, by a computing device, interaction logs based on user context data received; identifying, by the computing device, one or more target applications and associated scripts; automatically generating, by the computing device, a multi-dimensional icon for the one or more target applications based on the interaction logs, wherein the multi-dimensional icon comprises a geometric structure including content cells; allocating, by the computing device, the scripts to respective content cells of the multi-dimensional icon.
US11567613B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal processing system, a chip and an active stylus. The signal processing system includes: a pre-amplifier circuit, configured to pre-amplify a received DSSS signal and output a pre-amplified DSSS signal; a low-pass filter circuit, configured to filter the pre-amplified DSSS signal and output a filtered DSSS signal; an analog-to-digital converter circuit, configured to sample the filtered DSSS signal and output a sampled DSSS signal; a noise detecting and filtering-out circuit, configured to filter out a noise in the sampled DSSS signal and output a noise-filtered DSSS signal; and a digital demodulation circuit, configured to demodulate the noise-filtered DSSS signal to output a demodulated signal. The signal processing system can have strong anti-interference ability and high sensitivity through the noise detecting and filtering-out circuit and automatically controlling a gain of the pre-amplifier circuit.
US11567612B2
A display module includes: a display panel; and an input sensing circuit disposed thereon, the input sensing circuit including: a first sensor group including a plurality of first sensors arranged in a first direction; a plurality of first connection portions electrically connecting two adjacent first sensors of the plurality of first sensors, respectively; a second sensor group including a plurality of second sensors arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of second connection portions electrically connecting two adjacent second sensors of the plurality of second sensors, respectively; a first signal line electrically connected to one first sensor of the plurality of first sensors; a first measuring line electrically connected to the one first sensor among the plurality of first sensors and spaced apart from the first signal line; and a second measuring line electrically connected to another first sensor among the plurality of first sensors.
US11567606B1
A method for touch detection includes, at a touch-sensitive device having a plurality of touch-sensing electrodes, driving a first subset of the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes with a drive signal having a first phase. A second subset of the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes are driven with a drive signal having a second phase, different from the first phase. Output signals for each of the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes are measured. For each touch-sensing electrode of the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes, a complex gradient is determined between the measured output signal for the touch-sensing electrode and the measured output signal for a neighboring touch-sensing electrode, the neighboring touch-sensing electrode driven with a different phase of a drive signal from the touch-sensing electrode. A location of a touch input is identified based at least in part on magnitudes of the determined complex gradients.
US11567602B2
A device with integrated functions related to health, safety, and security is provided. The device may include a memory, a battery, a cellular radio, a global positioning sensor (GPS), and an accelerometer. The device may further include a touch screen for displaying at least health, safety, and security related information and for detecting touch events, where the touch screen is configurable to be in a locked state and an unlocked state. Instructions, stored in the memory, may cause the device to detect, using at least the accelerometer, whether a wearer of the device has fallen and communicate information concerning detection of the fall to instructions, stored in the memory, where the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the device to determine whether the fall is an emergency event, and perform other functions. The device may be implemented as a smart phone or a smart watch.
US11567597B2
A display device can include a display panel having a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of subpixels are arrayed; a data driver configured to supply a video data signal including a first signal segment and a second signal segment maintaining a predetermined voltage difference to each of the plurality of data lines, and output readout data in response to signal sensing through each of the plurality of data lines to which the video data signal is supplied; and a touch controller configured to detect a touch based on the readout data, wherein each of the plurality of subpixels includes: an emitting device; a driving transistor; a first transistor; and a storage capacitor connected between a first node and a second node, and including a first plate and a second plate.
US11567589B2
An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit and an association unit. The acquisition unit acquires first information, generated by processing a detection result which is output from a first sensor provided outside an electronic writing instrument, which includes a trajectory traced by the electronic writing instrument in writing of an object on a display image and second information, generated by processing a detection result which is output from a second sensor provided in the electronic writing instrument to detect a movement of the electronic writing instrument, which includes a trajectory traced by the electronic writing instrument in writing of the object on the display image. The association unit associates the object with the electronic writing instrument using the first information and the second information.
US11567585B2
An input detection system includes a plurality of electrodes aligned in a detection region, a drive signal supply circuit configured to supply a drive signal to the electrodes, a detection circuit configured to detect signals from the electrodes, an input support device including an LC circuit and a first electrode and a second electrode coupled to the LC circuit and arranged so as to overlap with the electrodes, a first calculation circuit configured to detect the input support device based on an output signal output from the detection circuit, and a second calculation circuit configured to detect a detection target different from the input support device based on the output signal.
US11567582B2
The present disclosure describes a method for conserving power on a portable electronic device and a portable electronic device configured for the same. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method for conserving power comprising: switching a portable electronic device to a low power mode in response to a trigger condition; and switching the portable electronic device from the low power mode to a full power mode on the portable electronic device in response to detection of a designated wake-up gesture on a touch-sensitive overlay of the portable electronic device.
US11567578B2
During control of a user interface via free-space motions of a hand or other suitable control object, switching between control modes can be facilitated by tracking the control object's movements relative to, and its contact with a “virtual touch plane or surface” (i.e., a plane, portion of a plane, and/or surface computationally defined in space, or corresponding to any physical surface).
US11567571B2
A technique for controlling a target device via a virtual interface, the method including receiving a control input from a virtual interface, determining a control signal based on the control input for an operation to be performed by a first device that is configured to be controlled wirelessly, and transmitting the control signal to the first device to cause the first device to perform the operation.
US11567566B2
A gaze monitoring system comprising: an eye tracker comprising; a camera having an optical axis; a first IR source configured to illuminate a user's eyes; the first IR source located relatively near the optical axis of the camera; and at least one second IR source configured to illuminate the user's eyes, the at least one second IR source located relatively far from the camera's optical axis, in a position such that when the gaze angle is too large to get corneal reflection images of the first IR source, the image reflection of the at least one second IR source is visible by the camera, as a corneal reflection.
US11567564B2
A virtual reality (VR) system comprising a head-mounted display (HMD) and handheld controller set is enhanced to provide a more realistic end user VR experience, e.g., for boxing or other interactive training. In this approach, and in lieu of simply establishing a boundary area for the VR experience, the user also maps a position of a real-world object into a reference frame of the VR environment. This mapping is facilitated using the handheld controller itself, e.g., as positioned in a backwards-facing manner on the user's forearm. The real-world object is then simulated in the 3D VR environment as rendered by the VR HMD, and the user interacts with the real-world object (or its simulation) to provide a more enjoyable and useful interactive experience.
US11567559B2
Power supply efficiency may be provided. First, a total power supply capacity may be determined comprising a sum of a plurality of supply capacities respectively corresponding to a plurality of power supplies serving a plurality of components. Next, a load value corresponding to the plurality of components may be determined. A number of the plurality of power supplies may then be powered down. The number of power supplies powered down may comprise a value that may cause a remaining number of the plurality of power supplies serving the plurality of components to operate within an efficiency range.
US11567536B1
A wearable medical tracking wristband has a main body with a QR code, at least one indicator light, a location tracker, and a processor. The indicator light provides a first visual indication, such as a red light, of when the user has been exposed to a condition and a second visual indication, such as a green light, of when the user is cleared from the condition.
US11567534B2
The disclosed embodiments include wearable devices and methods for performing courier services. In one implementation, the device includes a depth camera for detecting object depths in a field of view, a scanner for decoding visual codes, a speaker for producing audible sounds in response to an electrical signal, memory, and a processor. The processor may execute instructions to detect a scanning event based on a first signal received from the depth camera, determine a scan region associated with the scanning event, provide a second signal to the scanner causing the scanner to decode a visual code located within the scan region, generate scan data based on a third signal received from the scanner, and provide a fourth signal to the speaker causing the speaker to emit a notification sound. The wearable device may also capture signatures, dimension objects, and disable device functions based on time and place restrictions.
US11567533B2
An electronic device is disclosed, including a housing including a first surface forming a front surface of the electronic device, a second surface facing away from the first surface, and a side surface surrounding an interior space defined between the first surface and the second surface, a key structure forming part of the side surface and extending into the interior space, the key structure including an electrode member partially exposed to an exterior environment, wherein the electrode member partially extends into the interior space, a display disposed in the housing so as to be visible through the first surface from the exterior environment, an internal structure disposed between the display and the second surface, wherein the internal structure includes a printed circuit board, and a conductive structure protruding from the internal structure, wherein the conductive structure is electrically connected with the electrode member of the key structure.
US11567526B2
An output signal generation circuit includes a first pulse generation circuit configured to receive first information and generate a first pulse signal including the first information, the first pulse signal having a first pulse width that is a minimum pulse width of the first pulse signal, a second pulse generation circuit configured to receive second information and the first pulse signal, and generate a second pulse signal in which the second information is superimposed on the first pulse signal, the second pulse signal having a second pulse width smaller than the first pulse width, and an output circuit configured to output the second pulse signal.
US11567522B2
Disclosed is a voltage reference buffer circuit including a first, second, third, and fourth bias generators and a first, second, third, and fourth driving components. The first, second, third, and fourth bias generators generate bias voltages to control the first, second, third, and fourth driving components respectively. The first, second, third, and fourth driving components are coupled in sequence, wherein the first and second driving components are different types of transistors and jointly output a first reference voltage, the third and fourth driving components are different types of transistors and jointly output a second reference voltage, and the group of the first and second driving components is separated from the group of the third and fourth driving components by a resistance load.
US11567518B2
The invention relates to a circuit comprising a voltage reference (R) and a low-pass filter (F) electrically connected to the voltage reference (R). The filter (F) comprises a stage formed by a stage resistance (Re) electrically connected at a midpoint (M) to a stage capacitor (Ce), the stage resistance (Re) and the stage capacitor (Ce) at least partially defining a time constant of the filter and the midpoint (M) carrying the filtered reference voltage (V′ref). The circuit also comprises a transistor (T) and a control circuit (Cde) of the gate of the transistor (T) configured to bias the transistor (T) in conduction when the circuit (1) is turned on, the on-state resistance of the transistor (T) combining with the stage capacitor (Ce) to raise the filtered reference voltage (V′ref) with a settling time constant lower than the filter time constant.
US11567514B2
A processor coupled to memory is configured to receive an identification of a geographical location associated with a target specified by a user remote from a vehicle. A machine learning model is utilized to generate a representation of at least a portion of an environment surrounding the vehicle using sensor data from one or more sensors of the vehicle. At least a portion of a path to a target location corresponding to the received geographical location is calculated using the generated representation of the at least portion of the environment surrounding the vehicle. At least one command is provided to automatically navigate the vehicle based on the determined path and updated sensor data from at least a portion of the one or more sensors of the vehicle.
US11567506B2
A method, apparatus, and system for planning a deceleration trajectory based on a natural deceleration profile for an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) is disclosed. In one embodiment, in response to a request for driving in a natural deceleration mode, a current speed of the ADV is determined. A speed guideline is generated based on a predetermined natural deceleration profile associated with the ADV in view of the current speed of the ADV. A speed planning operation is performed by optimizing a total cost function based on the speed guideline to determine speeds of a plurality of trajectory points along a trajectory planned to drive the ADV. A number of control commands are generated based on the speed planning operation to control the ADV with the planned speeds along the trajectory, such that the ADV naturally slows down according to the predetermined natural deceleration profile.
US11567496B2
A method and an apparatus optimizes scan data obtained by sensors on vehicle, and corrects trajectory for a vehicle/robot based on the optimized scan data. The method for optimizing the scan data obtained by scanning environment elements, includes: step of obtaining the scan data, including obtaining at least two frames of scan data respectively corresponding to different timings; step of cluster processing, based on the characteristic of the data points, including classifying the plurality of data points in each frame of the scan data into one or more clusters; step of establishing correspondence, among the at least two frames of scan data, including searching and obtaining at least one set of clusters having correspondence; step of optimizing clusters, among the at least two frames of scan data, including conducting calculation to each set of the at least one set of clusters having correspondence, to obtain optimized clusters respectively corresponding to each set of the at least one set of clusters having correspondence; and step of optimizing the scan data, including accumulating all optimized clusters to obtain an optimized scan date for the at least two frames of scan data.
US11567493B2
The present invention relates to a method for 1 for controlling transmission of data in a data communication network, the transmission of data being a transmission of data between a mining and/or construction machine and a network node of said data communication network, said transmission of data being carried out at least partly over a wireless communication link. The method comprises: —estimating a measure of the communication capacity of said wireless link, the estimation being based at least partly on a round-trip time of a transmission over said wireless communication link, and —adapting the data transmission load of said mining and/or construction machine on the wireless communication link on the basis of said measure. The invention also relates to a system and a mining and/or construction machine.
US11567490B2
A building management system includes connected equipment configured to measure a plurality of monitored variables and a predictive diagnostics system configured to receive the monitored variables from the connected equipment; generate a probability distribution of the plurality of monitored variables; determine a boundary for the probability distribution using a supervised machine learning technique to separate normal conditions from faulty conditions indicated by the plurality of monitored variables; separate the faulty conditions into sub-patterns using an unsupervised machine learning technique to generate a fault prediction model, each sub-pattern corresponding with a fault, and each fault associated with a fault diagnosis; receive a current set of the monitored variables from the connected equipment; determine whether the current set of monitored variables correspond with one of the sub-patterns of the fault prediction model to facilitate predicting whether a corresponding fault will occur; and determining the fault diagnosis associated with the predicted fault.
US11567481B2
There are provided methods and systems for making or repairing a specified part. For example, there is provided a method for creating a manufacturing process to make or repair the specified part. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of sources, the data including as-designed, as-manufactured, as-simulated, as-operated, as-inspected, and as-tested data relative to one or more parts similar to the specified part. The method includes updating, in real time, a surrogate model corresponding with a physics-based model of the specified part, wherein the surrogate model forms a digital twin of the specified part. The method includes generating a multi-variant distribution including component performance and manufacturing variance, the manufacturing variance being associated with at least one of an additive manufacturing process step and a reductive manufacturing process step. The method includes comparing a performance from the multi-variant distribution with an expected performance of the new part based on the surrogate model. The method includes executing, based on the digital twin, the optimized process to either repair or make the specified part.
US11567476B2
A gas delivery apparatus is provided, comprising a system controller configured to collect valve position information and sensor information from at least a plurality of the sensors and valves, store the valve position information and sensor information into the monitored gas delivery process data, and execute the discriminative classifier including a first artificial intelligence (AI) model configured to extract features in a first input image of the monitored gas delivery process; a second AI model configured to extract features in a second input image of a golden gas delivery process; and a contrastive loss function configured to calculate a similarity between the first input image and the second input image based on outputs of the first AI model and the second AI model, and output a repeatability confidence value based on a similarity index between the first input image and the second input image.
US11567472B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus's for improving orthodontic treatments. In an embodiment, an orthodontic tracking template is provided for assisting in determining whether a patient's teeth are in an appropriate tooth arrangement for transitioning between a wire and bracket orthodontic treatment to a patient-removable orthodontic appliance treatment. The tracking template may include a shell portion defining a plurality of tooth-receiving cavities arranged to fit over at least a portion of the patient's teeth in an intermediate tooth arrangement without applying a tooth-moving force to the teeth or to any brackets attached to the teeth.
US11567471B2
A resolver decoder circuit includes: a first filter circuit configured to calculate a first weighted sum of a first digital signal over a pre-determined period of time, where the first digital signal includes first digital samples of a first analog signal from a sine winding of a resolver; a second filter circuit configured to calculate a second weighted sum of a second digital signal over the pre-determined period of time, where the second digital signal includes second digital samples of a second analog signal from a cosine winding of the resolver, where the first and the second analog signals are configured to be induced by a sine signal applied to an input winding of the resolver; and a rectifier configured to generate a first output and a second output by adjusting a first sign of the first weighted sum and adjusting a second sign of the second weighted sum, respectively.
US11567466B1
Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.
US11567464B2
A method for operating a control system of a technical installation, wherein an operator station server transfers visualization information to an operator station client, and the operator station client generates a graphical presentation for an operator via the visualization information, where the method includes adjusting the graphical presentation via the operator station client in response to an instruction of the operator to the operator station client, transmitting the information regarding the adjustment of the graphical presentation to the operator station server via the operator station client, recording the information received from the operator station client regarding the adjustment of the graphical presentation in a memory of the operator station server, transmitting the information regarding the adjustment of the graphical presentation to the engineering station server via the operator station server, and presenting the information regarding the adjustment of the graphical presentation to a project engineer of the technical installation.
US11567463B2
A smartphone or other mobile computer device, general purpose or specialized, wherein the smartphone device is configured to actively control the configuration of one or more bladders, compartments, chambers or internal sipes and one or more sensors located in either one or both of a sole or a removable inner sole insert of the footwear of the user and/or located in an apparatus worn or carried by the user, glued unto the user, or implanted in the user. The one or more bladders, compartments, chambers, or sipes, and one or more sensors are configured for computer control. A sole and/or a removable inner sole insert for footwear, including one or more bladders, compartments, chambers, internal sipes and sensors in the sole and/or in a removable insert; or on an insole; all being configured for control by a smartphone or other mobile computer device, general purpose or specialized.
US11567451B2
A holographic display apparatus capable of providing an expanded viewing window and a display method are provided. The holographic display apparatus includes an image processor configured to provide computer generated hologram (CGH) data to a spatial light modulator, wherein the image processor is further configured to generate a hologram data array comprising information of the holographic image to be reproduced at the first resolution or a resolution less than the first resolution, perform an off-axis phase computation on the hologram data array at the second resolution, and then, generate the CHG data at the first resolution.
US11567450B2
A quantum simulator includes a pseudo speckle pattern generator, a main vacuum chamber, an atomic gas supply unit, a light beam generator, a photodetector, and an atom number detector. The pseudo speckle pattern generator generates a pseudo speckle pattern in the inside of the main vacuum chamber by light allowed to enter the inside of the main vacuum chamber through the second window. The pseudo speckle pattern generator includes a controller, a light source, a beam expander, a spatial light modulator, and a lens. The controller sets a modulation distribution of the spatial light modulator based on a two-dimensional pseudo random number pattern.
US11567447B2
A process cartridge includes a first unit including an image bearing member configured to carry an electrostatic latent image, and a second unit including a developer bearing member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image carried on the image bearing member into a toner image, the second unit being capable of being mounted on the first unit in a mounting direction. The first unit includes a moving member that moves the second unit mounted on the first unit at a mounting position to a detachment position. The second unit includes a storage unit that stores information about the second unit. The moving member is disposed on a first side of the process cartridge in a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member. An electrode of the storage unit is disposed on a second side of the process cartridge in the longitudinal direction.
US11567444B2
A developing treatment apparatus for performing a developing treatment on a treatment object substrate. The developing treatment apparatus includes: a rotating and holding part that holds and rotates the treatment object substrate; a discharger that discharges a predetermined solution relating to the developing treatment to the treatment object substrate held on the rotating and holding part; and a destaticizer that supplies ions ionized by an X-ray to the predetermined solution discharged to the treatment object substrate held on the rotating and holding part, to destaticize the predetermined solution.
US11567425B2
The developing device includes a development container, a developer carrier, and a cover member. The development container has an opening. The developer carrier has a development area. The cover member, including a front face portion, an upper face portion, a lower face portion, a side face portion, and reinforcing ribs, is removably fitted to the development container such that the developer carrier is covered with at least the front face portion and the upper face portion. With the cover member fitted to the development container, a gap is formed between each reinforcing rib and the development container.
US11567422B2
An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance roller to convey a sheet, a light source to illuminate an image on the sheet while being moved in a predetermined direction above the conveyed sheet, a reading sensor to read the image on the sheet while being moved in the predetermined direction above the conveyed sheet, and a controller. The controller controls the reading sensor to read a first image for generating a color profile on a first sheet after the light source emits light for a duration of a first time. The controller controls the reading sensor to read a second image for detecting density unevenness in a main scanning direction of the image forming apparatus on a second sheet after the light source emits light for a duration of a second time shorter than the first time.
US11567420B2
There is provided a reading apparatus that includes a conveyance roller, a light source, a light transmission member, a line sensor having a plurality of pixels and configured to receive reflected light from a sheet via the light transmission member while the sheet is conveyed by the conveyance roller, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform acquiring an output value of a first pixel, an output value of a second pixel, and an output value of a third pixel, determine a first value based on the output value of the second pixel and a first coefficient, determine a second value based on the output value of the third pixel and a second coefficient, and determine read data based on the output value of the first pixel, the first value, and the second value. The first coefficient is larger than the second coefficient.
US11567412B2
According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided an apparatus and method for driving a laser imaging module (LIM) that includes an adjustment current to have all laser diodes emitting the same amount of output so that the diodes can be connected in series on a single high current power source. Fine tuning can be done by a dedicated low current controllable power source connected directly to each laser diode. A series connected LIM uses only two heavy gauge wires so total power loss and heat stress on the LIM and module drawer connectors will be significantly reduced. Additional fine tuning can include an electronic gate so that individual diodes could be quickly turned off independently from each other.
US11567406B2
A positive resist composition comprising a base polymer comprising recurring units (a) having the structure of an ammonium salt of an iodized or brominated phenol, and recurring units (b1) having an acid labile group-substituted carboxyl group and/or recurring units (b2) having an acid labile group-substituted phenolic hydroxyl group exhibits a high sensitivity, high resolution, low edge roughness and dimensional uniformity, and forms a pattern of good profile after exposure and development.
US11567387B2
A peeping prevention structure, a display device and a display method are provided. The peeping prevention structure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode opposite to each other; a plurality of transparent columnar cavities between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein a plurality of opening regions are defined between the plurality of transparent columnar cavities, and each of the plurality of transparent columnar cavities is filled with charged light-absorbing particles; wherein, the charged light-absorbing particles are configured to, under a control of an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode, be uniformly diffused in the transparent columnar cavity or be concentrated at an end of the transparent columnar cavity.
US11567385B2
Disclosed are curved electrochromic devices comprising an electrochromic apparatus disposed between first and second curved layers of transparent material, and the first and second curved layers have exterior and inner surfaces, wherein the inner surfaces face the electrochromic apparatus. Also disclosed are processes for manufacturing the disclosed bubble visors.
US11567383B2
A heat treated electrochromic device comprising an anodic complementary counter electrode layer comprised of a mixed tungsten-nickel oxide and lithium, which provides a high transmission in the fully intercalated state and which is capable of long term stability, is disclosed. Methods of making an electrochromic device comprising an anodic complementary counter electrode comprised of a mixed tungsten-nickel oxide are also disclosed.
US11567382B2
A terminal is provided, and the terminal includes a housing, a front screen, a circuit board, and a power supply. The front screen is disposed on the housing, both the circuit board and the power supply are disposed inside the housing, and the power supply is connected to the circuit board. The front screen includes a toughened glass, a color changing layer, and a display screen that are sequentially stacked. The color changing layer is connected to the circuit board, and can change a color when receiving power supply. The color changing layer is disposed in the front screen, and may change a color when receiving the power supply from the circuit board. The color changing layer is configured to change only a color and cannot display a complex image, and power consumption of the color changing layer is far less than that of the display screen.
US11567369B2
A liquid crystal panel is provided and includes first and second substrates with liquid crystal layer therebetween; and first electrode in display region; second electrode disposed between first electrode and first substrate; and alignment film having alignment direction, wherein first electrode has: pair of electrode branches; slit between pair of electrode branches; first and second connections connecting pair of electrode branches; wherein first electrode has areas including first and second bent portions, main portion disposed between first and second bent portions, wherein first bent portion is adjacent to contact hole of first electrode, wherein first and second bent portions are bent relative to main portion, and wherein direction of first bent portion is substantially parallel to direction of second bent portion.
US11567368B2
Provided is an optical apparatus that is capable of switching between a state in which the optical apparatus can reflect light and a state in which the optical apparatus can output light and suppressing deterioration of display quality of a light reflection image. The optical apparatus includes: a light emitting device having a light emitting surface; an absorption type polarizing plate disposed opposite to the light emitting surface of the light emitting device; a liquid crystal optical element disposed between the light emitting device and the absorption type polarizing plate; a reflection type polarizing plate disposed between the light emitting device and the liquid crystal optical element; and an adhesive layer disposed on a surface of the reflection type polarizing plate that faces the light emitting device.
US11567361B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a display module and a display device. The display module includes a first display sub-panel, where the first display sub-panel includes: a first display sub-panel including a plurality of first pixel units; and a second display sub-panel arranged at a light-entering side of the first display sub-panel and including a plurality of second pixel units. Each second pixel unit corresponds to at least one first pixel unit, an orthogonal projection of each second pixel unit onto the first display sub-panel coincides with the corresponding first pixel unit, and the second display sub-panel is a vertical-electric-field-type liquid crystal display panel.
US11567356B2
A switchable light modulator device (201, 202, 203, 204, 205) comprises a first substrate (101, 102, 103) and a second substrate (141, 142, 143, 144) with opposite major surfaces spaced apart by one or more polymer structures that each comprise two or more parts and define wall features (21b, 22b, 23b) for a plurality of cavities (111, 112, 113, 114), the cavities sealing a fluid (71, 72, 73, 74) or gel in discrete volumes. Each of the one or more polymer structures comprises a mould part (21, 22, 23) bonded to the first substrate and defining a recess (31, 32, 33), and a cast part (81, 82, 83, 84) filling the recess and bonded to the second substrate and a surface of the recess, the cast part being defined by the surface of the recess and the second substrate replicating the surfaces of both.
US11567353B2
An optical device including a waveguide and an electrode is described. The waveguide includes at least one optical material having an electro-optic effect. The electrode includes a channel region and extensions protruding from the channel region. The extensions are closer to a portion of the waveguide than the channel region is.
US11567351B2
An apparatus for generating a set of spectral correlation coefficients of an input signal includes: a master laser configured to generate an optical frequency comb signal; a first optical modulator configured to modulate the optical frequency comb signal with an input signal to generate a plurality of spectral copies of the input signal; a dispersive element configured to delay the plurality of spectral copies of the input signal by a wavelength-dependent time delay; a second optical modulator configured to modulate the delayed plurality of spectral copies with a conjugate of the input signal; and an optical comb filter configured to integrate the conjugate modulated plurality of spectral copies of the input signal to generate a set of cyclic autocorrelation coefficients.
US11567342B2
Optical devices based on novel components for selective video/television display, digital processing and/or unique image analysis to modify the image that a user sees and significantly improve the perception of that user are disclosed. What the user sees is responsive to specific perceptual and informational needs of the user in real time. Devices from the previous (parent) patents are herein made both more useful in practical day-to-day use and more widely applicable to improving the ability of a user to perceive visual stimuli.
US11567333B2
A head-mounted display comprises: a wearing body; a display; a communication module configured to perform communication connection with a mobile information terminal; a field of view (FOV) sensor configured to output status data used for determining whether the mobile information terminal is included in a user's FOV through the wearing body; and a controller connected to each of the display, the communication module, and the FOV detection sensor. The controller determines whether the mobile information terminal is included in the user's FOV based on the status data, and performs display control with respect to the display so as to display an application screen of the mobile information terminal on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is not included in the FOV, and not to display the application screen on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is included in the FOV.
US11567319B1
Disclosed are a method and system for implementing a platform for providing offline information to smart glass. A computer device for implementing an information platform may include an information manager configured to manage service information to be exposed on smart glass based on service configuration information to be broadcasted through an information broadcasting device (IBD) registered by an information owner, and a content manager configured to distribute content, generated based on the managed service information, in a format configured in the smart glass.
