US11588198B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to a battery pack assembly. The battery pack assembly includes a housing and a plurality of battery cells. The housing includes a pair of sidewalls and a pair of end walls that define a cavity, and a pair of lids. Each lid of the pair of lids has an interior surface and each lid of the pair of lids moves between an open position and a closed position. A plurality of terminal connectors are positioned on each inner surface of each of the pair of lids. The plurality of battery cells are positioned within the cavity. Each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells has a pair of terminals. When each lid is in the closed position, each of the plurality of terminal connectors are communicatively coupled to a corresponding terminal of the pair of terminals of each battery cell.
US11588197B2
A cell contacting system for an electrochemical device is provided, which includes a plurality of cell groups having one or more electrochemical cells, each having a first and a second cell terminal. The first cell terminals follow each other along the longitudinal direction in a first cell terminal region of the electrochemical device and the second cell terminals follow each other along the longitudinal direction in a second cell terminal region of the electrochemical device. The cell contacting system includes at least one cell connector extending obliquely to the longitudinal direction and configured for electrically conductively connecting cell terminals of a first cell group in the first cell terminal region to cell terminals of a second cell group in the second cell terminal region, which cell contacting system reliably enables a relative movement between the cell terminals to be electrically connected to each other.
US11588179B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery which uses a non-aqueous electrolyte solution in which a main component of a non-aqueous solvent is a fluorinated solvent, and by which it is possible to suitably prevent a decrease in battery capacity. A method for producing the non-aqueous electrolyte solution disclosed here includes a fluorinated solvent provision step for preparing the fluorinated solvent, a highly polar solvent provision step for preparing a highly polar solvent having a relative dielectric constant of 40 or more, a LiBOB dissolution step for preparing a highly concentrated LiBOB solution by dissolving LiBOB in the highly polar solvent at a concentration that exceeds the saturation concentration in the fluorinated solvent, and a mixing step for mixing the fluorinated solvent with the highly concentrated LiBOB solution.
US11588176B2
Electrolyte-infiltrated composite electrode includes an electrolyte component consisting of a polymer matrix with ceramic nanoparticles embedded in the matrix to form a networking structure of electrolyte. Suitable ceramic nanoparticles have the basic formula Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) and its derivatives such as AlxLi7-xLa3Zr2-y-zTayNbzO12 where x ranges from 0 to 0.85, y ranges from 0 to 0.50 and z ranges from 0 to 0.75, wherein at least one of x, y and z is not equal to 0. The networking structure of the electrolyte establishes an effective lithium-ion transport pathway in the electrode and strengthens the contact between electrode layer and solid-state electrolyte resulting in higher lithium-ion electrochemical cell's cycling stability and longer battery life. Sold-state electrolytes incorporating the ceramic particles demonstrate improved performance. Large dimensional electrolyte-infiltrated composite electrode sheets can be used in all solid-state lithium electrochemical pouch cells which can be assembled into battery packs.
US11588171B2
A miniature electrochemical cell having a total volume that is less than 0.5 cc is described. The cell casing is formed by joining two ceramic casing halves together. One or both casing halves are machined from ceramic to provide a recess that is sized and shaped to contain the electrode assembly. The opposite polarity terminals are electrically conductive feedthroughs or pathways, such as of gold, and are formed by brazing gold into tapered via holes machined into one or both ceramic casing halves. The two ceramic casing halves are separated from each other by a metal interlayer, such as of gold, bonded to a thin film metallization layer, such as of titanium, that contacts an edge periphery of each ceramic casing half. A solid electrolyte of LiPON (LixPOyNz) is used to activate the electrode assembly.
US11588167B2
A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly of a flat plate shape including an electrolyte membrane and an electrode catalyst layer, the membrane electrode assembly having a first side intersecting a flow pathway of a reactive gas on a surface of the fuel cell and a second side differing from the first side; a frame member of a flat plate shape including an opening part for arrangement of the membrane electrode assembly, the opening part having a first frame side corresponding to the first side and a second frame side corresponding to the second side; and an adhesive member for bonding between an outer periphery of the membrane electrode assembly and an inner periphery of the frame member. The thickness of the adhesive member in an area from an inner peripheral edge at the second frame side toward a center of the frame member may be greater than the thickness of the adhesive member in an area from an inner peripheral edge at the first frame side toward the center of the frame member.
US11588161B2
A fuel cell device may include a fuel cell module; a condensate water recovery flow path which may recover water contained in an exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell module as condensate water; a condensate water recovery device which may store the condensate water; and a reforming water supply flow path which may supply the condensate water to a reformer. The condensate water recovery device of the fuel cell device may include a first ion exchange container which may contain an ion exchange resin; and a first storage container which may store the condensate water. The first ion exchange container may be disposed inside the first storage container with a space from the first storage container, and may be attachable to and detachable from the first storage container.
US11588156B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a copper foil which comprises a copper layer and an anticorrosive film placed on the copper layer, and has a Young's modulus of 3800 to 4600 kgf/mm2 and a modulus bias factor (MBF) less than 0.12, wherein the modulus bias factor (MBF) is obtained by formula 1 below. MBF=(maximum Young's modulus−minimum Young's modulus)/(average Young's modulus) [Formula 1]
US11588154B2
The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material having improved electrical characteristics by adjusting an aspect ratio gradient of primary particles included in a secondary particle, a positive electrode including the positive electrode active material, and a lithium secondary battery using the positive electrode.
US11588151B2
A multilayer anode includes an anode collector, and a plurality of anode mixture layers sequentially stacked on at least one surface of the anode collector, and including natural graphite as an anode active material. A weight ratio of the natural graphite in innermost and outermost anode mixture layers is greater than a weight ratio of the natural graphite in an anode mixture layer located between the innermost and outermost anode mixture layers, in a stacking direction of the plurality of anode mixture layers. Performance of a cell may be improved and calendering-calender contamination occurring in a calendering process and an electrode stripping phenomenon may be prevented.
US11588150B2
An electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery and method of forming the same, the electrode material including composite particles, each composite particle including: a primary particle including an electrochemically active material; and an envelope disposed on the surface of the primary particle. The envelope includes turbostratic carbon having a Raman spectrum having: a D band having a peak intensity (ID) at wave number between 1330 cm−1 and 1360 cm−1; a G band having a peak intensity (IG) at wave number between 1530 cm−1 and 1580 cm−1; and a 2D band having a peak intensity (I2D) at wave number between 2650 cm−1 and 2750 cm−1. In one embodiment, a ratio of ID/IG ranges from greater than zero to about 1.1, and a ratio of I2D/IG ranges from about 0.4 to about 2.
US11588141B2
In a method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method includes: preparing a support substrate; forming a metal oxide layer on a surface of the support substrate, the metal oxide layer comprising first charges; forming a debonding layer on a surface of the metal oxide layer, the debonding layer comprising second charges opposite to the first charges; forming a flexible substrate on a surface of the debonding layer; forming a display element and a thin film encapsulation layer on a surface of the flexible substrate, the display element comprising a thin film transistor and an organic light-emitting diode; and isolating the flexible substrate from the support substrate.
US11588140B2
Devices for deposition of material via organic vapor jet printing (OVJP) and similar techniques are provided. The depositor includes delivery channels ending in delivery apertures, where the delivery channels are flared as they approach the delivery apertures, and/or have a trapezoidal shape. The depositors are suitable for fabricating OLEDs and OLED components and similar devices.
US11588135B2
A microcavity pixel design and structure allowing for tuning the optical cavity length of the microcavity of a microcavity pixel structure. This is achieved by including an intermediate electrode in the device which has an overhang region to form a connecting area to a bottom electrode, alleviating design restrictions in material type and dimensions throughout the optical microcavity tuning process. A method for the fabrication of a multi-colored microcavity pixel array facilitating the use of blanket deposition methods for select layers within a microcavity pixel structure.
US11588133B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a pixel electrode, an intermediate layer on the pixel electrode and including an emission layer, an opposite electrode on the pixel electrode such that the intermediate layer is therebetween, an inorganic encapsulation layer on the opposite electrode, an organic encapsulation layer on the inorganic encapsulation layer, and a protection layer on the organic encapsulation layer and including a first protection layer including silicon nitride and a second protection layer including silicon oxynitride.
US11588130B2
Disclosed is an array substrate including a base substrate, and a first electrode, a pixel define layer, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode which are sequentially disposed on the base substrate. The pixel define layer has a plurality of openings each having two opposite surfaces. The two opposite surfaces include a first surface proximal to the base substrate and a second surface distal from the base substrate. The second surface is coplanar with a surface of the pixel define layer distal from the base substrate. An orthographic projection of the second surface on the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of the first surface on the base substrate. The pixel define layer includes a pixel define body and an electrode repairing material layer. The electrode repairing material layer is disposed on a side of the pixel define body, and repairs the second electrode.
US11588128B2
The disclosure relates to an electrode exhaust structure, an electrode, a display panel and a fabrication method thereof, a display device. The electrode exhaust structure includes first exhaust holes arrayed in a matrix and arranged on an electrode, and second exhaust holes arrayed in a matrix and arranged on the electrode. A column of the second exhaust holes are arranged between adjacent columns of the first exhaust holes, and a row of the second exhaust holes are arranged between adjacent rows of the first exhaust holes; the length of the second exhaust hole in the row direction is greater than or equal to the distance between the adjacent columns of the first exhaust holes; and the length of the second exhaust hole in the column direction is greater than or equal to the distance between the adjacent rows of the first exhaust holes.
US11588126B2
A QLED light-emitting device is provided, including a first electrode layer, an electron injection layer, an electron transport layer, a light-emitting layer, a hole transport layer, a hole injection layer, and a second electrode layer. Wherein, the light-emitting layer includes a plurality of quantum dot layers disposed in a stack, and insulating layers are disposed among the quantum dot layers adjacent to one side of the electron injection layer. Through disposing the insulating layers among the quantum dot layers adjacent to the one side of the electron injection layer, an electron transmission rate is reduced, thereby balancing the electron transmission rate and a hole transmission rate and improving luminous efficiency of QLEDs.
US11588125B2
A reliable light-emitting element with low driving voltage is provided. The light-emitting element includes an electron-injection layer between a cathode and a light-emitting layer. The electron-injection layer is a mixed film of a transition metal and an organic compound having an unshared electron pair. An atom of the transition metal and the organic compound form SOMO.
US11588109B2
The present disclosure provides an organic electroluminescent device including: an anode; a cathode; and one or more organic material layers interposed between the anode and cathode and selected from the group consisting of a hole injection layer, a hole transporting layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transporting layer, and an electron injection layer, and further including a lifetime enhancement layer (LEL) between the light emitting layer and the electron transporting layer.
US11588103B2
A vertical resistive memory array is presented. The array includes a pillar electrode and a switching liner around the side perimeter of the pillar electrode. The array includes two or more vertically stacked single cell (SC) electrodes connected to a first side of the switching liner. The juxtaposition of the switching liner, the pillar electrode, and each SC electrode forms respective resistance switching cells (e.g., OxRRAM cell). A vertical group or bank of these cells may be connected in parallel and each share the same pillar electrode. The cells in the vertical cell bank may written to or read from as a group to limit the effects of inconsistent CF formation of any one or more individual cells within the group.
US11588097B2
A transducer is disclosed which includes lead zirconate titanate (PZT) particles mixed with graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) in a flexible substrate aligned in a first direction, forming a transducer subsystem, a first conductive protective electrode having a width and a length providing an electrical connectivity to an external circuit, a second conductive protective electrode having the width and the length providing an electrical connectivity to the external circuit, wherein the transducer subsystem is sandwiched between the first and second conductive protective electrodes.
US11588094B2
A method of reducing junction resistance variation for junctions in quantum information processing devices fabricated using two-step deposition processes. In one aspect, a method includes providing a dielectric substrate (208), forming a first resist layer (210) on the dielectric substrate, forming a second resist layer (212) on the first resist layer, and forming a third resist layer (214) on the second resist layer. The first resist layer includes a first opening (216) extending through a thickness of the first resist layer, the second resist layer includes a second opening (218) aligned over the first opening and extending through a thickness of the second resist layer, and the third resist layer includes a third opening (220) aligned over the second opening and extending through a thickness of the third resist layer.
US11588091B2
A nanophononic metamaterial-based thermoelectric energy conversion device and processes for fabricating a nanophononic metamaterial-based thermoelectric energy conversion device is provided. In one implementation, for example, a nanophononic metamaterial-based thermoelectric energy conversion device includes a first conductive pad, a second conductive pad, and a plurality of strip units. In one implementation, the first conductive pad is coupled to a first connection of the thermoelectric energy conversion device, and the second conductive pad is coupled to a second connection of the thermoelectric energy conversion device. The plurality of strip units are connected in series between the first and second conductive pads and provide a parallel heat transfer pathway. The strip units include a nanostructure design comprising a nanophononic metamaterial.
US11588088B2
An optoelectronic component includes a radiation side, a contact side opposite the radiation side having at least two electrically conductive contact elements, and a semiconductor layer sequence having an active layer that emits or absorbs the electromagnetic radiation, wherein the at least two electrically conductive contact elements have different polarities, are spaced apart from each other and are completely or partially exposed at the contact side in an unmounted state of the optoelectronic component, a region of the contact side is partially or completely covered with an electrically insulating, contiguously formed cooling element, the cooling element is in direct contact with the contact side and has a thermal conductivity of at least 30 W/(m·K), and in a plan view of the contact side, the cooling element partially covers one or both of the at least two electrically conductive contact elements.
US11588086B2
A micro-LED display includes a casing, a light-transmitting cover, a micro-LED array substrate, a circuit board, and at least one functional component. The light-transmitting cover is disposed on the casing and has a display area, a non-display area, and a plurality of first vias. The first vias are located in the display area. The micro-LED array substrate is disposed between the light-transmitting cover and the casing. The micro-LED array substrate has a plurality of second vias overlapped with the first vias in an orthogonal projection direction. The circuit board is disposed between the micro-LED array substrate and the casing, and the circuit board has a functional component disposing area overlapped with the display area in the orthogonal projection direction. The functional component is disposed in the functional component disposing area. The functional component is overlapped with the second vias in the orthogonal projection direction.
US11588076B2
A radiation-emitting optoelectronic component may include a semiconductor chip or a semiconductor laser which, in operation of the component, emits a primary radiation in the UV region or in the blue region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The optoelectronic component may further include a conversion element comprising a first phosphor configured to convert the primary radiation at least partly to a first secondary radiation having a peak wavelength in the green region of the electromagnetic spectrum between 475 nm and 500 nm inclusive. The first phosphor may be or include BaSi4Al3N9, SrSiAl2O3N2, BaSi2N2O2, ALi3XO4, M*(1−x*−y*−z*) Z*z*[A*a*B*b*C*c*D*d*E*e*N4-n*On*], and combinations thereof.
US11588074B2
A light source device includes a substrate, a light emitting unit, a frame, a light permeable member, and a metal shield. An upper electrode layer and a lower electrode layer of the substrate are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the substrate, and are electrically coupled to each other. The light emitting unit is disposed on the upper electrode layer. The frame is disposed on the substrate and is arranged around the light emitting unit. The light permeable member is disposed on the frame and covers the light emitting unit. The metal shield is fixed to an inner side of the frame and is connected to the ground pad of the upper electrode layer. The metal shield is arranged around the outer side of the light emitting unit.
US11588071B2
The present disclosure provides a method for rapidly treating a heterojunction solar cell fabricated using a crystalline silicon wafer doped exclusively with n-type dopants to improve surface passivation and carrier transport properties using the following steps: providing a heterojunction solar cell; the solar cell having an n-type silicon substrate exclusively doped with n-type dopants with a concentration higher than 1×1014 cm−3 and a plurality of metallic contacts; illuminating a surface portion of the solar cell for a period of less than 5 minutes and at a temperature between 200° C. and 300° C. with light having an intensity of at least 2 kW/m2 and a wavelength such that the light is absorbed by the surface portion and generates electron-hole pairs in the solar cell. The step of illuminating a surface portion of the solar cell is such that less than 0.5 kWh/m2 of energy is transferred to the surface portion and a temperature of the surface portion increases at a rate of at least 10° C./s for a period of time during illumination.
US11588062B2
Structures for a photodetector and methods of fabricating a structure for a photodetector. A photodetector includes a photodetector pad coupled to a waveguide core and a light-absorbing layer coupled to the photodetector pad. The light-absorbing layer has a body, a first taper that projects laterally from the body toward the waveguide core, and a second taper that projects laterally from the body toward the waveguide core. The photodetector pad includes a tapered section that is laterally positioned between the first taper and the second taper of the light-absorbing layer.
US11588058B2
Provided are a transistor which has electrical characteristics requisite for its purpose and uses an oxide semiconductor layer and a semiconductor device including the transistor. In the bottom-gate transistor in which at least a gate electrode layer, a gate insulating film, and the semiconductor layer are stacked in this order, an oxide semiconductor stacked layer including at least two oxide semiconductor layers whose energy gaps are different from each other is used as the semiconductor layer. Oxygen and/or a dopant may be added to the oxide semiconductor stacked layer.
US11588051B2
Semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a fin on the substrate. The fin includes channel layers stacked along a normal direction of a substrate surface. The channel layers includes a first channel layer and a second channel layer under the first channel layer, and the second channel layer has recessed sidewalls with respect to corresponding sidewalls of the first channel layer. The semiconductor device further includes a gate structure, disposed around each of the first channel layer and the second channel layer; and a doped source/drain layer in the fin on two sides of the gate structure. The doped source/drain layer is respectively connected to the second channel layer and the first channel layer.
US11588048B2
In an example, a semiconductor device includes an insulated gate transistor cell, a first region (e.g., a drain region and/or a drift region), a cathode region, a second region (e.g., an anode region and/or a separation region), and a source electrode. The insulated gate transistor cell includes a source region and a gate electrode. The source region and the cathode region are in a silicon carbide body. The gate electrode and the cathode region are electrically connected. The cathode region, the source region, and the first region have a first conductivity type. The second region has a second conductivity type and is between the cathode region and the first region. The source electrode and the source region are electrically connected. The source electrode and the second region are in contact with each other. A rectifying junction is electrically coupled between the source electrode and the cathode region.
US11588037B2
Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include planar III-N transistors with wrap-around gates and/or one or more wrap-around source/drain (S/D) contacts. An example IC structure includes a support structure (e.g., a substrate) and a planar III-N transistor. The transistor includes a channel stack of a III-N semiconductor material and a polarization material, provided over the support structure, a pair of S/D regions provided in the channel stack, and a gate stack of a gate dielectric material and a gate electrode material provided over a portion of the channel stack between the S/D regions, where the gate stack at least partially wraps around an upper portion of the channel stack.
US11588033B2
Transistors having nonplanar electron channels in the channel width plane have one or more features that cause the different parts of the nonplanar electron channel to turn on at substantially the same threshold voltage. Advantageously, such transistors have substantially uniform threshold voltage across the nonplanar electron channel. Devices, image sensors, and pixels incorporating such transistors are also provided, in addition to methods of manufacturing the same.
US11588029B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure having a vertical fin with an oxidized sidewall. The method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure includes the steps of providing a substrate having a bottom source/drain and a bottom cathode/anode; forming a channel fin on the bottom source/drain of the substrate and a vertical fin on the cathode/anode of the substrate; forming a top source/drain on the channel fin and a top cathode/anode on the vertical fin; forming a gate structure on the channel fin; and forming an oxidized sidewall on the vertical fin.
US11588023B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a silicon carbide layer; a metal layer; and a conductive layer positioned between the silicon carbide layer and the metal layer, the conductive layer containing a silicide of one metal element (M) selected from the group consisting of nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), and platinum (Pt), and the conductive layer having a carbon concentration of 1×1017 cm−3 or less.
US11588020B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a pair of source/drain regions on the semiconductor substrate, and a gate structure on the semiconductor substrate and between the pair of source/drain regions. The gate structure includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer in contact with the first metal layer. A sidewall of the first metal layer and a top surface of the semiconductor substrate form a first included angle, a sidewall of the second metal layer and the top surface of the semiconductor substrate form a second included angle. The second included angle is different from the first included angle.
US11588019B2
A semiconductor device includes a bipolar junction transistor having a collector, a base, and an emitter. The collector includes a current collection region, a constriction region laterally adjacent to the current collection region, and a contact region laterally adjacent to the constriction region, located opposite from the current collection region. The current collection region, the constriction region laterally, and the contact region all have the same conductivity type. The base includes a current transmission region contacting the current collection region and a constricting well laterally adjacent to, and contacting, the current transmission region and contacting the constriction region. The current transmission region and the constricting well have an opposite conductivity type than the current collection region, the constriction region laterally, and the contact region.
US11588014B2
An epitaxial structure includes a substrate, a nucleation layer on the substrate, a buffer layer on the nucleation layer, and a nitride layer on the buffer layer. The nucleation layer consists of regions in a thickness direction, wherein a chemical composition of the regions is Al(1−x)InxN, where 0≤x≤1. A maximum value of the x value in the regions decreases along the thickness direction, and the x value in the chemical composition of each two regions consists of a fixed region and a gradient region, wherein a gradient slope of the gradient regions is −0.1%/nm to −50%/nm, and a stepwise slope of the fixed regions is −0.1%/loop to −50%/loop. A thickness of the nucleation layer is less than that of the buffer layer. A surface roughness of the nucleation layer in contact with the buffer layer is greater than that of the buffer layer in contact with the nitride layer.
US11588009B2
A method for forming a packaged electronic device includes providing a substrate having a first major surface and an opposing second major surface. The method includes attaching an electronic device to the first major surface of the substrate and providing a first conductive structure coupled to at least a first portion of the substrate. The method includes forming a dielectric layer overlying at least part of the first conductive structure. The method includes forming a conductive layer overlying the dielectric layer and connected to a second portion of the substrate. The first conductive structure, the dielectric layer, and conductive layer are configured as a capacitor structure and further configured as one or more of an enclosure structure or a stiffener structure for the packaged electronic device.
US11587998B2
A display device includes a substrate in which a plurality of sub-pixels are defined, each of the plurality of sub-pixels including an emission area and a circuit area; a driving transistor disposed in the circuit area and including a first gate electrode and a first source electrode disposed on the same layer; a storage capacitor disposed in the circuit area and including a first capacitor electrode electrically connected to the first gate electrode and disposed below the first gate electrode; an insulating layer planarizing upper portions of the driving transistor and the storage capacitor; and a light emitting element disposed on the insulating layer.
US11587991B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a see-through area for camera in which a camera module is disposed, a routing area disposed around the see-through area for camera and overlapped by at least one data line and scan line, and a pixel area which includes the see-through area for camera and the routing area and includes a plurality of sub-pixels including an organic light emitting element and a cathode is disposed therein.
US11587984B2
A display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The display substrate includes at least one first sub-pixel and at least one second sub-pixel, the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel have different display directions, the first sub-pixel includes a first light-emitting element, the second sub-pixel includes a second light-emitting element, each of the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element has a light-emitting structure, the light-emitting structure includes a first reflective layer, a light emitting layer and a second reflective layer which are sequentially stacked, the second reflective layer is located on a light emergent side of the display substrate, and an area of the first reflective layer is larger than an area of the second reflective layer.
US11587978B2
A method is presented for reducing element segregation of a phase change material (PCM). The method includes forming a bottom electrode, constructing a layered stack over the bottom electrode, the layered stack including the PCM separated by one or more electrically conductive and chemically stable materials, and forming a top electrode over the layered stack. The PCM is Ge—Sb—Te (germanium-antimony-tellurium or GST) and the one or more electrically conductive and chemically stable materials are titanium nitride (TiN) segments.
US11587977B2
A method of manufacturing a memory device includes sequentially forming and then etching a preliminary selection device layer, a preliminary middle electrode layer, and a preliminary variable resistance layer on a substrate, thereby forming a selection device, a middle electrode, and a variable resistance layer. At least one of a side portion of the selection device or a side portion of the variable resistance layer is removed so that a first width of the middle electrode in a first direction parallel to a top of the substrate is greater than a second width of the variable resistance layer in the first direction or a third width of the selection device in the first direction. A capping layer is formed on at least one of a side wall of the etched side portion of the selection device or a side wall of the etched side portion of the variable resistance layer.
US11587971B2
A direct bonding method for infrared focal plane arrays, includes steps of depositing a thin adhesion layer on infrared radiation detecting material, removing a portion of the thin adhesion layer with a chemical-mechanical polishing process, forming a bonding layer at a bonding interface, and bonding the infrared radiation detecting material to a silicon wafer with the thin adhesion layer as a bonding layer. The thin adhesion layer may include SiOx, where x ranges between 1.0 and 2.0. The thickness of the thin adhesion layer to form the bonding layer is 500 angstrom or less.
US11587970B2
There is provided semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same, including: a first substrate; and a second substrate adjacent to the first substrate, where a side wall of the second substrate includes one or more diced portions that can include a blade diced portion and a stealth diced portion; and also imaging devices and methods of forming the same, including: a first substrate; a transparent layer; an adhesive layer between the first substrate and the transparent layer; a second substrate, where the first substrate is disposed between the adhesive layer and the second substrate; and a groove extending from the adhesive layer to the second substrate, where the groove is filled with the adhesive layer.
US11587968B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of suppressing deterioration in dark characteristics, and an electronic apparatus. The device includes a photoelectric conversion section; a trench between the photoelectric conversion sections in adjacent pixels; and a PN junction region on a sidewall of the trench and including a P-type region and an N-type region, the P-type region having a protruding region. The device can include an inorganic photoelectric conversion section having a pn junction and an organic photoelectric conversion section having an organic photoelectric conversion film that are stacked in a depth direction within a same pixel; and a PN junction region on a sidewall of the inorganic photoelectric conversion section. The PN junction region can further include a first P-type region and an N-type region; and a second P-type region. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor.
US11587967B1
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based imager blade includes a number of PIC imager units stacked on top of one another. Each PIC imager unit includes a PIC coupled, at a first end and a second end, to a first set of lenslets and a second set of lenslets, respectively. An electronic integrated circuit (EIC) is coupled to the PIC. Pairs of lenslets of the first and second set of lenslets are optically coupled to respective waveguides embedded in the PIC. The PIC imager units have different lengths, and longer PIC imager units include larger lenslets.
US11587965B2
A color filter (CF) substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, a display device and an operation method thereof are provided. The CF substrate includes: a base substrate, a CF pixel array and image sensors. The CF pixel array is provided on the base substrate and includes CF pixel units in an array. The image sensors are provided on the CF pixel array, correspond to the CF pixel units, and are configured to receive light travelling through the CF pixel units for imaging.
US11587964B2
A method of manufacturing a package unit, comprising: preparing a circuit board having a first region, a second region surrounding the first region, and a third region between the first and the second region; preparing a mold having a frame-shaped protruding portion surrounding a first cavity, the frame-shaped protruding portion partitioning the first cavity and a second cavity surrounding the first cavity; arranging the circuit board and the mold such that the first region of the circuit board faces the first cavity, the second region of the circuit board faces the second cavity, and a gap which communicates the first cavity and the second cavity with each other is formed between the frame-shaped protruding portion and the third region of the circuit board; and forming a frame-shaped resin member on top of the second region of the circuit board by pouring a resin into the second cavity.
US11587951B2
Provided are a semiconductor device having small characteristic variations with time and high reliability and an in-vehicle control device using the same, the semiconductor device including a plurality of transistor elements constituting a current mirror circuit or a differential amplifier circuit that requires high relative accuracy. A semiconductor device includes a first metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor, a second MOS transistor paired with the first MOS transistor, and insulation separation walls which insulate and separate elements from each other, wherein relative characteristics of the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor are in a predetermined range, the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor are relatively arranged in a gate width direction or a gate length direction, and distances between gate oxide films of the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor and the insulation separation walls facing the gate oxide films are the same as each other in a direction perpendicular to the gate width direction or the gate length direction.
US11587948B2
Some embodiments include a NAND memory array having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The conductive levels include control gate regions and second regions proximate to the control gate regions. High-k dielectric material wraps around ends of the control gate regions, and is not along the second regions. Charge-blocking material is adjacent to the high-k dielectric material. Charge-storage material is adjacent to the charge-blocking material. The charge-storage material is configured as segments which are vertically stacked one atop another, and which are vertically spaced from one another by gaps. Gate-dielectric material is adjacent to the charge-storage material. Channel material extends vertically along the stack and is adjacent to the gate-dielectric material. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies, and methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11587930B2
Memory devices incorporating bridged word lines are described. The memory devices include a plurality of active regions spaced along a first direction, a second direction and a third direction. A plurality of conductive layers is arranged so that at least one conductive layer is adjacent to at least one side of each of the active regions along the third direction. A conductive bridge extends along the second direction to connect each of the conductive layers to one or more adjacent conductive layer. Some embodiments include an integrated etch stop layer. Methods of forming stacked memory devices are also described.
US11587924B2
Disclosed herein are integrated circuit structures, packages, and devices that include resistors and/or capacitors which may be provided on the same substrate/die/chip as III-N devices, e.g., III-N transistors. An integrated circuit structure, comprising a base structure comprising a III-N material, the base structure having a conductive region of a doped III-N material. The IC structure further comprises a first contact element, including a first conductive element, a dielectric element, and a second conductive element, wherein the dielectric element is between the first conductive element and the second conductive element, and wherein the first conductive element is between the conductive region and the dielectric element. The IC structure further comprises a second contact element electrically coupled to the first contact element via the conductive region.
US11587919B2
A microelectronic device comprises a first die comprising a memory array region comprising a stack structure comprising vertically alternating conductive structures and insulative structures, and vertically extending strings of memory cells within the stack structure. The first die further comprises first control logic region comprising a first control logic devices including at least a word line driver. The microelectronic device further comprise a second die attached to the first die, the second die comprising a second control logic region comprising second control logic devices including at least one page buffer device configured to effectuate a portion of control operations of the vertically extending string of memory cells. Related microelectronic devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US11587913B2
A light emitting diode package structure is provided. The light emitting diode package structure includes first and second chips. A value of an intensity of a peak wavelength of a first shoulder wave of the first chip divided by an intensity of a peak wavelength of a first main wave of the first chip is defined as a first intensity ratio. A value of an intensity of a peak wavelength of a second shoulder wave of the second chip divided by an intensity of a peak wavelength of a second main wave of the second chip is defined as a second intensity ratio. The first and second chips satisfy “a difference between the intensities of the peak wavelengths of the first and second main waves being less than or equal to 2.5 nanometers” and “a difference between the first and second intensity ratios being greater than 0.1”.
US11587909B2
Package structure with folded die arrangements and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a package structure includes a first die and vertical interposer side-by-side. A second die is face down on an electrically connected with the vertical interposer, and a local interposer electrically connects the first die with the vertical interposer.
US11587895B2
Semiconductor devices having interconnect structures with vertically offset bonding surfaces, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate at least partially covered by a first dielectric material having an upper surface, and an interconnect structure extending therefrom. The interconnect structure can include a plurality of conductive elements, and a continuous region of a first insulating material at least partially between the plurality of conductive elements. The plurality of conductive elements and the continuous region can have coplanar end surfaces. The interconnect structure can further include a perimeter structure at least partially surrounding the plurality of conductive elements and the continuous region. The perimeter structure can have an uppermost surface that can be vertically offset from the upper surface of the first dielectric material and/or the coplanar end surfaces.
US11587892B2
An electronic package in which at least one magnetically permeable member is disposed between a carrier and an electronic component, where the electronic component has a first conductive layer, and the carrier has a second conductive layer, such that the magnetically permeable element is located between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. Moreover, a plurality of conductive bumps that electrically connect the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are arranged between the electronic component and the carrier to surround the magnetically permeable member for generating magnetic flux.
US11587889B2
A semiconductor device wafer includes a plurality of device patterns formed in or over a semiconductor substrate, and a scribe area from which the device patterns are excluded. A plurality of dummy features are located in at least one material level in the scribe area, including over laser scribe dots formed in the semiconductor substrate.
US11587888B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a moisture seal for photonic devices and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a first trench in at least one substrate material; a guard ring structure with an opening and which at least partially surrounds the first trench; and a second trench at a dicing edge of the substrate, the second trench being lined on sidewalls with barrier material and spacer material over the barrier material.
US11587886B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an electronic component, a ring structure and an adhesive layer. The substrate has a first surface. The electronic component is over the first surface of the substrate. The ring structure is over the first surface of the substrate, wherein the ring structure includes a first part having a first height, and a second part recessed from the bottom surface and having a second height lower than the first height. The adhesive layer is interposed between the first part of the ring structure and the substrate, and between the second part of the ring structure and the substrate.
US11587878B2
A substrate having an electronic component embedded therein includes a core structure including a first insulating body and core wiring layers and having a cavity penetrating through a portion of the first insulating body, an electronic component disposed in the cavity, an insulating material covering at least a portion of each of the core structure and the electronic component and disposed in at least a portion of the cavity, a wiring layer disposed on the insulating material, and a build-up structure disposed on the insulating material and including a second insulating body and a build-up wiring layer. A material of the first insulating body has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) less than a CTE of the second insulating body, and the insulating material has a CTE less than a CTE of a material of the second insulating body.
US11587875B2
A connecting structure includes a substrate, a first conductive feature, a second conductive feature, a third conductive feature over the first conductive feature and a fourth conductive feature over the second conductive feature. The substrate includes a first region and a second region. The first conductive feature is disposed in the first region and has a first width. The second conductive feature is disposed in the second region and has a second width greater than the first width of the first conductive feature. The third conductive feature includes a first anchor portion surrounded by the first conductive feature. The fourth conductive feature includes a second anchor portion surrounded by the second conductive feature. A depth difference ratio between a depth of the first anchor portion and a depth of the second anchor portion is less than approximately 10%.
US11587874B2
Apparatus, systems, or methods for a memory array having a plurality of word lines. A word line includes at least one word line plate, and the word line plate comprises a first material with a first resistivity. An edge of the word line plate is recessed and filled with a second material having a second resistivity that is lower than the first resistivity. As a result, the total resistance of the word line may be reduced compared to a word line using only the first material with the first resistivity. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US11587872B2
Configurations of metal layers of interconnect structures are disclosed herein that can improve memory performance, such as static random-access memory (SRAM) memory performance, and/or logic performance. For example, embodiments herein place bit lines in a metal one (M1) layer, which is a lowest metallization level of an interconnect structure of a memory cell, to minimize bit line capacitance, and configure bit lines as the widest metal lines of the metal one layer to minimize bit line resistance. In some embodiments, the interconnect structure has a double word line structure to reduce word line resistance. In some embodiments, the interconnect structure has a double voltage line structure to reduce voltage line resistance. In some embodiments, jogs are added to a word line and/or a voltage line to reduce its respective resistance. In some embodiments, via shapes of the interconnect structure are configured to reduce resistance of the interconnect structure.
US11587865B2
A semiconductor device includes a capacitor and a resistor. The capacitor includes a first plate, a capacitor dielectric layer disposed over the first plate, and a second plate disposed over the capacitor dielectric layer. The resistor includes a thin film. The thin film of the resistor and the first plate of the capacitor, formed of a same conductive material, are defined in a single patterning process.
US11587857B2
A first semiconductor device includes: a first wiring layer including a first interlayer insulating film, a first electrode pad, and a first dummy electrode, the first electrode pad being embedded in the first interlayer insulating film and having one surface located on same plane as one surface of the first interlayer insulating film, and the first dummy electrode being embedded in the first interlayer insulating film, having one surface located on same plane as the one surface of the first interlayer insulating film, and being disposed around the first electrode pad; and a second wiring layer including a second interlayer insulating film, a second electrode pad, and a second dummy electrode, the second electrode pad being embedded in the second interlayer insulating film, having one surface located on same surface as one surface of the second interlayer insulating film, and being bonded to the first electrode pad, and the second dummy electrode having one surface located on same plane as the surface located closer to the first interlayer insulating film of the second interlayer insulating film, being disposed around the second electrode pad, and being bonded to the first dummy electrode. A second semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor section including a first electrode, the first electrode being formed on a surface located closer to a bonding interface and extending in a first direction; and a second semiconductor section including a second electrode and disposed to be bonded to the first semiconductor section at the bonding interface, the second electrode being bonded to the first electrode and extending in a second direction that intersects with the first direction.
US11587855B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: preparing a power semiconductor chip, a lead frame having a die pad part and a terminal part integrally connected to the die pad part, and an insulating sheet in a semi-cured state; disposing the power semiconductor chip on a front surface of the die pad part and performing wiring; encapsulating the lead frame and the power semiconductor chip with an encapsulation raw material in a semi-cured state, to thereby form a semi-cured unit, the terminal part projecting from the semi-cured unit, and a rear surface of the die pad part being exposed from a rear surface of the semi-cured unit; pressure-bonding a front surface of the insulating sheet to the rear surface of the semi-cured unit to cover the rear surface of the die pad part; and curing the semi-cured unit and the insulating sheet by heating.
US11587853B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of functional blocks, each being configured to provide at least one predetermined function. The functional blocks at least include a first functional block and a second functional block. The first functional block and the second functional block are coupled in serial with a predetermined current flowing therethrough.
US11587840B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including: a substrate; an electrode layer provided on the substrate; a semiconductor chip being provided on the electrode layer, including a first side surface portion having a first angle with respect to a substrate surface of the substrate, and including a second side surface portion being provided below the first side surface portion and having a second angle smaller than the first angle with respect to the substrate surface; and a resin being provided around the electrode layer and the semiconductor chip and being in contact with the first side surface portion and the second side surface portion.
US11587835B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of providing a substrate having a first region and a second region, forming a first fin-shaped structure on the first region and a second fin-shaped structure on the second region, and forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) around the first fin-shaped structure and the second fin-shaped structure. Preferably, the first fin-shaped structure and the second fin-shaped structure comprise different radius of curvature and a center of curvature of the first fin-shaped structure is lower than a top surface of the STI and a center of curvature of the second fin-shaped structure is higher than the top surface of the STI.
US11587832B2
A wafer processing method includes a polyolefin sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyolefin sheet on a back side or a front side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyolefin sheet as applying a pressure to the polyolefin sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyolefin sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of applying a laser beam to the wafer to form shield tunnels in the wafer, thereby dividing the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of cooling the polyolefin sheet, pushing up each device chip through the polyolefin sheet, and picking up each device chip from the polyolefin sheet.
US11587827B2
Conformal hermetic dielectric films suitable as dielectric diffusion barriers over 3D topography. In embodiments, the dielectric diffusion barrier includes a dielectric layer, such as a metal oxide, which can be deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques with a conformality and density greater than can be achieved in a conventional silicon dioxide-based film deposited by a PECVD process for a thinner contiguous hermetic diffusion barrier. In further embodiments, the diffusion barrier is a multi-layered film including a high-k dielectric layer and a low-k or intermediate-k dielectric layer (e.g., a bi-layer) to reduce the dielectric constant of the diffusion barrier. In other embodiments a silicate of a high-k dielectric layer (e.g., a metal silicate) is formed to lower the k-value of the diffusion barrier by adjusting the silicon content of the silicate while maintaining high film conformality and density.
US11587819B2
A pin lifting device is disclosed and configured for moving and positioning a substrate to be processed in an atmosphere region provided by a vacuum process chamber. The pin lifting device includes a coupling part having a coupling adapted to receive a support pin adapted to contact and support the substrate, and a drive part having a drive unit adapted to cooperate with the coupling by means of an adjusting member such that the coupling is controllably adjustable from a lowered normal position to an extended support position and back. The pin lifting device also has an insulating component located between the drive part and the coupling part and providing complete galvanic isolation between the drive part and the coupling part.
US11587818B2
An apparatus for securing a wafer includes a chuck, at least one O-ring disposed on the chuck, a vacuum system connected to the chuck, such that the vacuum system comprises a plurality of vacuum holes through the chuck connected to one or more vacuum pumps, and a controller configured to control the height of the at least one O-ring relative to the top surface of the chuck. The controller is connected to pressure sensors capable of detecting a vacuum. The at least one O-ring may include a plurality of O-rings.
US11587816B2
The present invention relates to apparatuses and methods to store and transfer objects, and more particularly to workpiece stocker configurations such as stacker for semiconductor wafers, reticles or carrier boxes.
US11587810B2
Wafer cushions for use in wafer carriers include spring beams that include a first arm extending from the frame of the wafer cushion in a first direction and a second arm extending from the first arm in a second direction, and a wafer contact at the end of the second arm opposite where the second arm is joined to the first arm. The wafer cushion may contact a substrate within the wafer carrier only at the wafer contacts during normal conditions. The substrate may also contact secondary contact points on the second arm when a shock event occurs. The wafer contact can be v-groove style wafer contact. The wafer contact may include a contact surface having a convex surface where it is configured to contact the wafer.
US11587798B2
A base plate for cooling a power electronics device is provided, the base plate comprising cooling fins, the base plate configured to receive the power electronics device directly above the cooling fins, the cooling fins integral to the base plate, the base plate configured to conduct a liquid coolant past the cooling fins.
US11587794B2
A semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof are provided. The fabrication method include: providing a to-be-etched material layer; forming a plurality of discrete sacrificial layers on the to-be-etched material layer; forming first initial spacers on sidewalls of each of the discrete sacrificial layers. Each first initial spacer includes a first bottom region and a first top region on the first bottom region; removing the discrete sacrificial layers. The method further includes: removing the first top region of each first initial spacer to form a first spacer from each first bottom region; forming second spacers on sidewalls of each of the first spacers. Each second spacer includes a second bottom region and a second top region on the second bottom region; removing the first spacers; The method further includes: removing the second top regions by etching; and etching the to-be-etched material layer by using the second spacers as a mask.
US11587792B2
A method for manufacturing an ingot block in which an ingot of a silicon single crystal pulled up by a Czochralski process is cut and subjected to outer periphery grinding to manufacture an ingot block of the silicon single crystal, the method including: a step of measuring a radial center position of the ingot at one or more locations along a longitudinal direction of the ingot, a step of setting a reference position at which an offset amount of the measured radial center position of the ingot is equal to or less than a predetermined eccentricity amount, a step of cutting the ingot into the ingot blocks based on the set reference position, and a step of performing outer periphery grinding on each of the cut ingot blocks.
US11587791B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit structure includes forming a gate dielectric on a wafer, forming a work function layer over the gate dielectric, depositing a capping layer over the work function layer, soaking the capping layer in a silicon-containing gas to form a silicon-containing layer, forming a blocking layer after the silicon-containing layer is formed, and forming a metal-filling region over the blocking layer.
US11587778B2
Provided herein are approaches for performing electrodynamic mass analysis with a radio frequency (RF) biased ion source to reduce ion beam energy spread. In some embodiments, a system may include an ion source including a power supply, the ion source operable to generate a plasma within a chamber housing, and an extraction power assembly including a first power supply and a second power supply electrically coupled with the chamber housing of the ion source, wherein the first power supply and the second power supply are operable to bias the chamber housing of the ion source with a time modulated voltage to extract an ion beam from the ion source. The system may further include an electrodynamic mass analysis (EDMA) assembly operable to receive the ion beam and perform mass analysis on the ion beam.
US11587771B2
A chamber component comprises a body and a plasma sprayed ceramic coating on the body. The plasma sprayed ceramic coating is applied using a method that includes feeding powder comprising a yttrium oxide containing solid solution into a plasma spraying system, wherein the powder comprises a majority of donut-shaped particles, each of the donut-shaped particles having a spherical body with indentations on opposite sides of the spherical body. The method further includes plasma spray coating the body to apply a ceramic coating onto the body, wherein the ceramic coating comprises the yttrium oxide containing solid solution, wherein the donut-shaped particles cause the ceramic coating to have an improved morphology and a decreased porosity as compared to powder particles of other shapes, wherein the improved surface morphology comprises a reduced amount of surface nodules.
US11587769B2
A device includes a microwave generator configured to generate a microwave having a bandwidth, an output unit, a directional coupler and a measurer. The microwave generator generates a microwave a power of which is pulse-modulated to be a High level and a Low level. A set carrier pitch is set to satisfy a preset condition. The preset condition includes a condition that a value obtained by dividing a set pulse frequency by the set carrier pitch or a value obtained by dividing the set carrier pitch by the set pulse frequency is not an integer and a condition that an ON-time of the High level is equal to or larger than 50%. The microwave generator averages a first High measurement value and a first Low measurement value in a preset moving average time longer than a sum of the ON-time of the High level at a preset sampling interval.
US11587764B2
Embodiments described herein relate to magnetic and electromagnetic systems and a method for controlling the density profile of plasma generated in a process volume of a PECVD chamber to affect deposition profile of a film. In one embodiment, a plurality of retaining brackets is disposed in a rotational magnetic housing of the magnetic housing systems. Each retaining bracket of the plurality of retaining brackets is disposed in the rotational magnetic housing with a distance d between each retaining bracket. The plurality of retaining brackets has a plurality of magnets removably disposed therein. The plurality of magnets is configured to travel in a circular path when the rotational magnetic housing is rotated around the round central opening.
US11587763B2
A substrate processing system includes a substrate processing apparatus and a switching timing creation support device, wherein the switching timing creation support device includes: an acquisition part configured to acquire, for each of a plurality of properties of particles contained in a gas in the substrate processing apparatus during a processing for a substrate, a measured value of an amount of the particles from a measuring device; a selection part configured to select properties of a predetermined number of the particles in descending order of temporal variations in the amount of the particles; a determination part configured to determine an operation expression and a switching condition for determining a switching timing based on a temporal change in the amount of the particles for each of the selected properties of the particles; and an output part configured to output the operation expression and the switching condition to the substrate processing apparatus.
US11587761B2
A GUI (graphical user interface) image includes an input portion and a reference image. The reference image includes a plan diagram and numerical value information. The plan diagram includes a figure indicating an electron penetration range, a figure indicating a characteristic X-ray generation range, and a figure indicating a back-scattered electron generation range. The numerical value information includes numerical values indicating sizes of these ranges.
US11587759B2
The invention relates to a method for electron microscopy. The method comprises providing an electron microscope, generating an electron beam and an image beam, adjusting one of the beam and of the beam and the image beam to reduce off-axial aberrations and correcting a diffraction pattern of the resulting modified beam. The invention also relates to a method for reducing throughput time in a sample image acquisition session in transmission electron microscopy. The method comprises providing an electron microscope, generating a beam and an image beam, adjusting one of the two to reduce off-axial aberrations and filtering the resulting modified image beam. The invention further relates to an electron microscope and to a non-transient computer-readable medium with a computer program for carrying out the methods.
US11587744B2
A keyboard device with a display panel including a base, a scissors feet assembly movably disposed on the base, an elastic member disposed on the base, a display panel supported by the scissors feet assembly and the elastic member, and multiple light transmittance keycaps disposed on the display panel is provided. The display panel has multiple display surfaces, multiple hollow portions, and multiple elastic portions. Each of the display surfaces is surrounded by the hollow portions, and is suspended between the hollow portions by the elastic portions. The light transmittance keycaps respectively and correspondingly cover the display surfaces.
US11587742B1
This disclosure relates to ingress-tolerant input devices. Aspects of the disclosure relate to an ingress-tolerant switch assembly for operating an electronic device in an ingress-protected manner. The switch assembly includes a button configured to be coupled to an outer surface of an enclosure of the electronic device. The switch assembly also includes a spring operably coupled to the button and a magnet coupled to the spring. A pressing force applied by a user to the button overcomes a spring force of the spring to move the magnet into proximity of the magnetic sensor to cause the magnetic sensor to generate a sensor signal for performing a function of the electronic device.
US11587741B2
An energy storage device can include a cathode, an anode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode, where the anode and/or electrode includes an electrode film having a super-fibrillized binder material and carbon. The electrode film can have a reduced quantity of the binder material while maintaining desired mechanical and/or electrical properties. A process for fabricating the electrode film may include a fibrillization process using reduced speed and/or increased process pressure such that fibrillization of the binder material can be increased. The electrode film may include an electrical conductivity promoting additive to facilitate decreased equivalent series resistance performance. Increasing fibrillization of the binder material may facilitate formation of thinner electrode films, such as dry electrode films.
US11587732B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including a dielectric layer, a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body, and a first side margin portion and a second side margin portion respectively arranged on end portions of the internal electrodes exposed from first and second surfaces. The first and second side margin portions respectively include a first region adjacent to an outer side surface of each of the side margin portions, and a second region adjacent to the internal electrodes exposed from the first and second surfaces. The number of pores per unit area in the second region is less than the number of pores per unit area in the first region.
US11587722B2
A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface opposing each other in one direction, and a plurality of walls each connecting the one surface to the other surface; a coil portion buried in the body, and having both ends exposing to one of the plurality of walls of the body; first and second external electrodes respectively including first and second terminal electrodes disposed on one surface of the body and spaced apart from each other, and first and second connection electrodes respectively connecting the first and second terminal electrodes to both ends of the coil portion; a first external insulating layer disposed on the other surface of the body; and a first shielding layer disposed on the external insulating layer.
US11587713B2
An inductor component includes a core including a substantially column-shaped shaft and a pair of supports provided at both ends of the shaft; terminal electrodes provided on the supports; a wire wound around the shaft and including end portions connected to the terminal electrodes; and a bottom cover member that covers a boundary portion between the shaft and one of the supports at a bottom of the shaft. The wire is exposed at a side of the shaft.
US11587712B2
Terminal electrodes are disposed on mounting surfaces of flanges of a substantially drum-shaped core that are directed to a mounting substrate. A rounded surface is formed on the mounting surface. An end portion of the wire extends along the rounded surface from a side on which the inner end surface is present toward a side on which the outer end surface is present.
US11587708B2
In one aspect, the disclosed technology relates to a magnetic device, which may be a magnetic memory and/or logic device. The magnetic device can comprise a seed layer; a first free magnetic layer provided on the seed layer; an interlayer provided on the first free magnetic layer; a second free magnetic layer provided on the interlayer; a tunnel barrier provided on the second free magnetic layer; and a fixed magnetic layer. The first free magnetic layer and the second free magnetic layer can be ferromagnetically coupled across the interlayer through exchange interaction.
US11587705B2
Provided is an electromagnetic-wave absorber composition and an electromagnetic-wave absorber that can favorably absorb a plurality of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies in a high frequency band in or above the millimeter-wave band. The electromagnetic-wave absorber composition includes a magnetic iron oxide that magnetically resonates at a high frequency in or above the millimeter-wave band and a resin binder. The electromagnetic-wave absorber composition has two or more extrema separated from each other on a differential curve obtained by differentiating a magnetic property hysteresis loop at an applied magnetic field intensity of from 16 kOe to −16 kOe. The electromagnetic-wave absorber includes an electromagnetic-wave absorbing layer formed of the above-described electromagnetic-wave absorber composition.
US11587703B2
An electronic isolator device arranged for receiving field wiring from a field element includes a connector configured to receive a surge element for providing surge functionality to the electronic isolator device, and to provide surge protection to the connectivity by way of the field wiring. The connector is configured to connect the surge element to the electronic isolator device and to the field wiring. The connector is arranged for parallel connection of the surge element with respect to the field wiring such that the surge element can be connected and disconnected with the isolator device without disrupting the connection of the isolator device with the field elements.
US11587700B2
A new dielectric material for a communication cable has a dielectric base with strength members embedded therein. By a new process, vacuum voids are formed in the dielectric base and at least partially contain or abut the strength members. The material is particularly well suited for a first dielectric tape, where the cable includes a first insulated conductor, the first dielectric tape and a second insulated conductor, with the first insulated conductor being twisted with the second insulated conductor with the first dielectric tape residing between the first insulated conductor and the second insulated conductor. The material is also suitable for a separator of the cable serving to separate twisted pairs from each other within the cable, as well as other components of the cable, such as an insulation layer of one or more of the insulated conductors of the twisted pairs.
US11587676B2
A computer system manages a health condition based on conditions of an environment. Health information of a user is analyzed to determine a health condition affected by environmental conditions. One or more events for the user are obtained based on personal information. The environmental conditions for one or more event locations are determined. One or more preventive items are indicated for the user to attend the one or more events in order for the health condition to tolerate the environmental conditions of the one or more event locations. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for managing a health condition based on conditions of an environment in substantially the same manner described above.
US11587669B2
Various techniques for facilitating communication with and across a clinical environment and a cloud environment are described. For example, a method for authenticating a network device residing in the clinical environment using a token is described. An authentication proxy in the cloud environment can receive a request from a connectivity adapter in the clinical environment and retrieve a security token from an authentication system in the cloud. The connectivity adapter can use the security token to send signed requests to the authentication system.
US11587665B2
A system for estimating maximum heart rate and maximal oxygen uptake from submaximal exercise intensities can include an exercise intensity monitor, a cardiopulmonary monitor, and one or more computers. The computers can be configured, by virtue of appropriate programming, to receive submaximal exercise intensity data from the exercise intensity monitor and submaximal cardiopulmonary data from the cardiopulmonary monitor while a user, who coupled to the exercise intensity monitor and the cardiopulmonary monitor, is performing an exercise at a submaximal exercise intensity. The one or more computers then determine a heuristic estimate of a maximal cardiopulmonary state of the user based on the submaximal exercise intensity data and the submaximal cardiopulmonary data.
US11587664B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing a configuration code for customizing a glucose level control system for at least an initial period. The configuration code can be based on one or more dosing parameters from a tracked medicament therapy administered to a subject over a tracking period by the glucose level control system. The configuration code includes encoded dosing parameters including a correction dosing parameter based on at least some of the correction boluses of medicament administered during the tracking period, a food intake dosing parameter comprising an indication of a food intake bolus size of medicament based on one or more food intake boluses provided during the tracking period, and a basal dosing parameter based on at least some of the basal doses of medicament administered during the tracking period.
US11587659B2
Pill pack packaging that monitors and reports on pill compliance is disclosed. The pill pack packaging includes a circuit disposed on the cover of pill receptacles. A processor monitors the changes in electrical signals from the circuit. When the electrical signals change, the processor records the time and date. The processor may also report the time and date of pill receptacle opening to a mobile device via wireless transmission. The device may also be capable of providing alerts regarding lack of compliance or loss of the pill pack.
US11587657B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for parsing a message received from a requesting computer to identify an indication of a transaction, an entity identifier, and an identifier of a first evaluation system. The entity identifier is evaluated based on historical data and/or eligibility data to determine an alternative evaluation procedure. The alternative evaluation procedure is preformed to obtain response information regarding the transaction, that may differ from response information otherwise obtained via the first evaluation system. A response to the message is constructed that includes the response information and is transmitted to the requesting computer.
US11587653B2
A system for generating an interface that tracks information over the course of patient care is provided. The system includes an interface component configured to generate an interface that facilitates tracking a course of care of a patient, wherein the interface comprises a plurality of input compartments defined by a first axis comprising columns corresponding to sequential points in time over the course of the care and a second axis comprising rows respectively corresponding to patient care events or patient conditions associated with the course of the care. The system further includes a reception component configured to receive input regarding a patient care event or condition that occurred over the course of the care, and a logging component configured to fill one or more input compartments respectively corresponding to a point or period of time associated with occurrence of the patient care event or patient condition.
US11587650B2
Prior to connecting to a gateway associated with an electronic health record system, a user device can check in with a server. The server can send configuration information useable by the user device for connecting to the gateway for downloading medical record data. The configuration information may include an update value that is useable by the user device to determine a time frame for contacting the gateway. In some examples, the user device determines when to contact the gateway without using the update value.
US11587648B1
A computer system for analyzing biometric data of a user collected from a plurality of user devices and used to generate an insurance policy for the user includes a processor and a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: (i) receiving, from a wearable electronic user device, biometric data associated with a user; (ii) analyzing, based upon a plurality of rules, the biometric data; (iii) determining a health score associated with the user, based in part upon the analysis of the biometric data, wherein the health score represents a likelihood that the user will maintain a level of health for a predefined period of time; (iv) retrieving terms and conditions for an insurance policy from a database based upon the health score; and (v) generating, based upon the determining, an insurance policy for the user based upon the terms and conditions.
US11587646B2
A variational autoencoder (VAE) has been developed to learn a continuous numerical, or latent, representation of molecular structure to expand reference libraries for small molecule identification. The VAE has been extended to include a chemical property decoder, trained as a multitask network, to shape the latent representation such that it assembles according to desired chemical properties. The approach is unique in its application to metabolomics and small molecule identification, focused on properties that are obtained from experimental measurements (m/z, CCS) paired with its training paradigm, which involves a cascade of transfer learning iterations. First, molecular representation is learned from a large dataset of structures with m/z labels. Next, in silico property values are used to continue training. Finally, the network is further refined by being trained with the experimental data. The trained network is used to predict chemical properties directly from structure and generate candidate structures with desired chemical properties. The network is extensible to other training data and molecular representations, and for use with other analytical platforms, for both chemical property and feature prediction as well as molecular structure generation.
US11587635B2
An example apparatus can include a memory array and control circuitry. The memory array can include a first portion including a first plurality of memory cells. The memory array can further include a second portion including a second plurality of memory cells. The control circuitry can be configured to designate the first portion as active responsive to a determination that the first portion passed a performance test. The control circuitry can be configured to designate the second portion as inactive responsive to a determination that the second portion failed the performance test.
US11587634B2
An integrated circuit test apparatus includes: a first test unit configured to output a current for a built-in self test (BIST) progress state for each internal circuit of an integrated circuit in a BIST test mode and to determine whether each internal circuit operates normally in a wake-up mode of the integrated circuit; and a first determination module configured to determine whether each internal circuit is in a stuck state based on a change detected by the first test unit.
US11587633B2
Methods, systems, and devices for direct testing of in-package memory are described. A memory subsystem package may include non-volatile memory, volatile memory that may be configured as a cache, and a controller. The memory subsystem may support direct access to the non-volatile memory for testing the non-volatile memory in the package using a host interface of the memory subsystem rather than using dedicated contacts on the package. To ensure deterministic behavior during testing operations, the memory subsystem may, when operating with a test mode enabled, forward commands received from a host device (such as automated test equipment) to a memory interface of the non-volatile memory and bypass the cache-related circuitry. The memory subsystem may include a separate conductive path that bypasses the cache for forwarding commands and addresses to the memory interface during testing.
US11587628B2
One or more write operations are performed on a memory component. First data stored at the memory component is read. A determination is made as to whether an error rate associated with the first data stored at the memory component exceeds an error rate threshold. If the error rate exceeds the error rate threshold, a threshold value is adjusted. A determination is made as to whether a number of the plurality of write operations performed on the memory component since performance of a refresh operation on the memory component exceeds the threshold value. In response to determining that the number of write operations performed on the memory component exceeds the threshold value, a memory cell of the memory component is identified based on the plurality of write operations. Second data stored at memory cells of the memory component that are proximate to the identified memory cell is refreshed.
US11587625B1
A sensitive amplifier and a storage device are provided, and the sensitive amplifier includes: a voltage clamp circuit which provides a stable reading voltage for the storage unit; a power switch circuit which cuts off power supply for the voltage clamp circuit when the voltage clamp circuit is not operating; a discharge circuit which discharges the voltage clamp circuit before the voltage clamp circuit operates; a pre-charge circuit which pre-charges the voltage clamp circuit when the voltage clamp circuit starts operating; and a current comparison circuit which is connected to an output of the voltage clamp circuit, compares the reading current with a reference current, and outputs a comparison result.
US11587619B2
A memory device is provided in which blocks of memory cells are divided into separate portions or sub-blocks with respective sets of word line switching transistors. The sub-blocks can be arranged on a substrate on opposite sides of a dividing line, where a separate set of bit lines is provided on each side of the dividing line. Each block has a row decoder which provides a common word line voltage signal to each sub-block of the block. However, each sub-block can have an independent set of word line switching transistors so that the common word line voltage signal can be passed or blocked independently for each sub-block. The blocks of memory cells can be provided on a first die which is inverted and bonded to a second die which includes the sets of word line switching transistors.
US11587616B2
An apparatus for performing in-memory processing includes a memory cell array of memory cells configured to output a current sum of a column current flowing in respective column lines of the memory cell array based on an input signal applied to row lines of the memory cells, a sampling circuit, comprising a capacitor connected to each of the column lines, configured to be charged by a sampling voltage of a corresponding current sum of the column lines, and a processing circuit configured to compare a reference voltage and a currently charged voltage in the capacitor in response to a trigger pulse generated at a timing corresponding to a quantization level, among quantization levels, time-sectioned based on a charge time of the capacitor, and determine the quantization level corresponding to the sampling voltage by performing time-digital conversion when the currently charged voltage reaches the reference voltage.
US11587611B2
A memory device for data searching and a data searching method thereof are provided. The data searching method includes the following steps. A searching word is received and then divided into a plurality of sections. The sections are encoded as a plurality of encoded sections, so that the encoded sections may correspond to a plurality of memory blocks in a memory array. The encoded sections are directed into the memory blocks to perform data comparisons and obtaining a respective result of data comparison. Thereafter, addresses of bit lines which match the searching word are obtained according to respective result of data comparison for each of memory block.
US11587607B2
Methods, systems, and devices for driving word lines using sub word line drivers are described. A memory array may include a plurality of sub-arrays arranged with gaps in between. Word lines may be arranged across multiple sub-arrays and drive access transistors that are used to selectively access rows (e.g., rows of memory cells) within the sub-arrays. In some examples, signals applied to selection devices driving the word lines may be over-driven for a duration at or near the desired transitions of the word line, and some signals may be driven to a relatively high level for a duration around the high and low transitions of a global row line. Whether a signal is over driven or driven to a relatively high level may depend on the type or types of transistors used in each word line driver.
US11587606B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a decoding architecture for memory devices are described. Word line plates of a memory array may each include a sheet of conductive material that includes a first portion extending in a first direction within a plane along with multiple fingers extending in a second direction within the plane. Two word line plates in a same plane may be activated via a shared electrode. Memory cells coupled with the two word line plates sharing the electrode, or a subset thereof, may represent a logical page for accessing memory cells. A memory cell may be accessed via a first voltage applied to a word line plate coupled with the memory cell and a second voltage applied to a pillar electrode coupled with the memory cell. Parallel or simultaneous access operations may be performed for two or more memory cells within a same page of memory cells.
US11587600B2
One or more memory systems, architectural structures, and/or methods of storing information in memory devices is disclosed to improve the data bandwidth and or to reduce the load on the communication links. The system may include one or more memory devices, one or more memory control circuits and one or more data buffer circuits. The memory system, architectural structure and/or method improves the ability of the communications links to transfer data downstream to the data buffer circuits. The memory control circuit receives a store command and a store data tag (Host tag) from a Host and sends the store data command and the store data tag to the data buffer circuits. No store data tag or control signal is sent over the communication links between the Host and the data buffer circuits, only data is sent over the communication links between the Host and the data buffer circuits.
US11587596B2
A hard disk drive includes a base deck and a cover. The cover is coupled to the base deck to create an enclosure. The hard disk drive also includes tape that covers at least a portion of the cover and the base deck. The tape includes an adhesive layer, which includes an adhesive material and a moisture-absorbent material.
US11587594B2
Provided is a heat-dissipating, shock-absorbing structure which is applicable to an electronic module with a hard disk drive. The heat-dissipating, shock-absorbing structure includes a heat-dissipating frame, an elastomer, and a plurality of heat conduction layers. The heat-dissipating frame has a fixing segment and two extending segments. The extending segments connect with two ends of the fixing segment. The fixing segment connects with one side of the hard disk drive. The distance between the extending segments is greater than the thickness of the hard disk drive. At least a portion of the elastomer is disposed at the extending segments. The heat conduction layers cover the elastomer.
US11587593B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for displaying music points, and an electronic device and a medium. One specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring audio material; analyzing initial music points in the audio material, wherein the initial music points include beat points and/or note starting points in the audio material; and on an operation interface of video clipping, displaying, according to the position of the audio material on a clip timeline and the positions of target music points in the audio material, identifiers of the target music points on the clip timeline, wherein the target music points are some of or all of the initial music points. According to the embodiment, the time for a user to process audio material and to make music points is reduced, and the flexibility of tools is also guaranteed.
US11587585B2
A magnetic-disk substrate has an average value of squares of inclinations that is 0.0025 or less, and a frequency at which squares of inclinations are 0.004 or more is 15% or less, in a case where samples of inclinations on a main surface are obtained at intervals of 10 nm. The main surface is configured to receive at least a magnetic recording layer thereon. The magnetic-disk substrate includes an outer circumferential end portion and an inner circumferential end portion, and the outer circumferential end portion and the inner circumferential end portion have chamfered portions.
US11587579B2
Methods and apparatuses for detecting user speech are described. In one example, a method for detecting user speech includes receiving a microphone output signal corresponding to sound received at a microphone and identifying a spoken vowel sound in the microphone signal. The method further includes outputting an indication of user speech detection responsive to identifying the spoken vowel sound.
US11587572B2
A stereo signal encoding method includes obtaining indication information of an encoding mode of a residual signal of a current frame, where the indication information includes at least one of an encoding status of a residual signal of a previous frame, a value of an updating manner flag for a long-term smooth parameter of the current frame, or a value of a status change parameter of the current frame relative to a stereo signal of the previous frame, and determining the encoding mode of the residual signal of the current frame based on the indication information of the encoding mode of the residual signal of the current frame, where the encoding mode indicates whether to encode the residual signal of the current frame.
US11587567B2
Embodiments may determine user intent in conversations with dialogue systems so as to improve the quality of such conversations and to reduce the number of failed conversations. For example, a method may comprise receiving, at a dialogue system, a first text utterance from a user, generating a plurality of second text utterances at the dialogue system in response to the received text utterance, generating a third text utterance based on each generated second text utterance using a trained deep neural network model, generating a score indicating a quality of each conversation, wherein each conversation includes the first text utterance, one of the second text utterances, and the third text utterance based on the one of the second text utterances, and outputting to the user the second text utterance included in the conversation having the highest quality score.
US11587564B2
Systems and methods detecting a spoken sentence in a speech recognition system are disclosed herein. Speech data is buffered based on an audio signal captured at a computing device operating in an active mode. The speech data is buffered irrespective of whether the speech data comprises a signature word. The buffered speech data is processed to detect a presence of the sentence comprising at least one command and a query for the computing device. Processing the buffered speech data includes detecting the signature word in the buffered speech data, and in response to detecting the signature word in the speech data, initiating detection of the sentence in the buffered speech data.
US11587562B2
A user directed verbal interactive method and system for requesting a evaluation and obtaining a customized verbal therapy routine based on the evaluation obtained. The method and system allow users to interact with an artificial intelligence agent by answering a series of system directed questions that guides the users through evaluation and treatment of physical pain using a customized verbal interaction and delivery regimen. Users verbally engage with the artificial intelligence agent to create respective profiles. The system develops therapies based on their current physiological state and profile. The users are then delivered verbal therapy prompts through the system to implement the developed therapy routines.
US11587552B2
A system and a method are disclosed for alerting a manager device to an occurrence of an event an agent device during a conversation between the agent device and an external party. N an embodiment, a processor receives transcript data during a conversation between the agent device and the external party. The processor normalizing the transcript data, and inputs the normalized transcript data into a machine learning model, the machine learning model trained to identify an inflection point in the conversation. The processor receives, as output from the machine learning model, a measure of notability of the normalized transcript data. The processor determines whether the measure of notability corresponds to an inflection point, and, responsive to determining that the measure of notability corresponds to an inflection point, alerts the manager device.
US11587548B2
Presented herein are novel approaches to synthesize video of the speech from text. In a training phase, embodiments build a phoneme-pose dictionary and train a generative neural network model using a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate video from interpolated phoneme poses. In deployment, the trained generative neural network in conjunction with the phoneme-pose dictionary convert an input text into a video of a person speaking the words of the input text. Compared to audio-driven video generation approaches, the embodiments herein have a number of advantages: 1) they only need a fraction of the training data used by an audio-driven approach; 2) they are more flexible and not subject to vulnerability due to speaker variation; and 3) they significantly reduce the preprocessing, training, and inference times.
US11587546B2
The invention provides apparatus and methods for interference based wave synthesis. The invention comprises (i) receiving information defining output wave characteristics, said output wave characteristics comprising at least an output wave frequency B, and an output signal amplitude M, (ii) determining a constant value A and (iii) driving a first input wave generator to generate a first input wave and (iv) driving a second input wave generator to generate a second input wave, such that the interfered wave synthesized by interference of the first input wave and the second input wave has output wave characteristics defined by the received information.
US11587544B2
An active road noise control system method for a vehicle includes picking up noise at a multiplicity of positions in or on the vehicle and generating a multiplicity of noise sense signals representative of road noise originating from a road noise source in or at the vehicle, and processing, according to a beamforming scheme, the multiplicity of noise sense signals to generate a reference signal and to provide a sensitivity characteristic for picking up the noise that comprises one main lobe directed to the road noise source. The system and method further includes iteratively and adaptively processing the reference signal to provide a noise reducing signal, and generating at one or more positions in an interior of the vehicle, from the noise reducing signal, noise reducing sound at a listening position in the interior of the vehicle.
US11587530B2
This application discloses a method for adjusting image luminance performed at an electronic device. The method includes: determining a target pixel with original luminance lower than a luminance threshold in an original image, the luminance threshold being determined according to luminance of pixels in the original image; obtaining a luminance distribution intensity of pixels adjacent to the target pixel; determining a difference between the luminance threshold and the luminance distribution intensity of the adjacent pixels; and adjusting the target pixel to corresponding target luminance according to the difference and the original luminance of the target pixel. According to this application, a changing characteristic of relative luminance between the target pixel and the adjacent pixel is reserved. The luminance adjustment is more consistent with the luminance propagation of the original image, thereby achieving a technical effect of improving an adjustment effect of luminance adjustment on an image.
US11587525B2
The present disclosure relates to a tuning method and apparatus for a color gamut mapping device, in which a tuning time is shortened by automatically setting and changing parameters of a register when tuning the color gamut mapping device. A tuning method of a color gamut mapping device according to an aspect includes an initial setting operation of setting, by a test device, initial parameters in a register of a color gamut mapping device, a measuring operation of measuring, by a measuring device, chromaticity for each of a plurality of color images which are supplied from the test device and displayed on a panel of a display device through the color gamut mapping device, an automatic tuning operation of changing, by the test device, saturation parameters and hue parameters of a plurality of hue axes of the color gamut mapping device by using a result measured from the measuring device.
US11587524B2
A display apparatus transmits a picture acquisition request for getting picture information to an external image apparatus connected through a predetermined interface to the display apparatus from the external image apparatus at predetermined intervals and gets a plurality of pieces of picture information from the external image apparatus to be displayed. The plurality of pictures may be switched at predetermined intervals, for example, to be displayed, so that the plurality of pictures may be displayed in a so-called slide show manner. A plurality of pictures for thumbnail may be produced from the plurality of pieces of picture information and be arranged together to be displayed in one picture screen of a display device.
US11587522B2
A display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, two electrodes in the liquid crystal display panel, a switching element having a source and a drain one of which is coupled to one of the two electrodes, a scan line coupled to a gate of the switching element, a signal line coupled to the other of the drain and the source, an inversion driver, and a scan circuit configured to provide, to the scan line, any of a first potential, a second potential, and a third potential lower than the second potential. The scan circuit switches a potential of the scan line from the second potential to the third potential at a timing at which the potential of the other of the two electrodes is made lower than that of the one of the two electrodes in a period in which the source and the drain are electrically disconnected.
US11587516B2
A display device may include a display panel, a backlight unit including a plurality of blocks for providing light to the display panel, each of the plurality of blocks comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and a controller configured to obtain backlight control information and to activate a duty ratio control function for controlling a duty ratio and current flowing in a block during a cycle of one frame, when a low current condition is satisfied based on the obtained backlight control information.
US11587513B2
An emission driver includes a plurality of stages. A stage of the plurality of stages receives a start signal, a first clock signal, a second clock signal, a protection signal, a first gate power voltage and a second gate power voltage and outputs an emission signal. The stage of the plurality of stages includes a pull-up switching element connected between a first gate power voltage terminal which receives the first gate power voltage and an emission signal output terminal which outputs the emission signal, a pull-down switching element connected between a second gate power voltage terminal which receives the second gate power voltage and the emission signal output terminal and a protection switching element which applies the first gate power voltage to a control electrode of the pull-down switching element in response to the protection signal.
US11587512B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes rows of pixels and a gate driver circuit; where a pixel among the plurality of rows of pixels includes a pixel circuit and the pixel circuit includes a light emission control terminal and a first scan drive terminal; the gate driver circuit includes stages of light emission drive devices, where each of the plurality of stages of light emission drive devices is disposed in correspondence to at least one row of pixel circuits and configured to provide a light emission control signal to the light emission control terminal of the pixel circuit; and the gate driver circuit further includes at least one stage of first scan drive device, where an input terminal of the first scan drive device is connected to an output terminal of the light emission drive device.
US11587503B2
A method of and a display control device for emulating OLED degradation for an OLED display panel are proposed, where the OLED display panel includes pixels, and each of the pixels includes subpixels. The method includes the following steps. A current image signal is received. A driving signal level for each of the subpixels is determined based on the current image signal. An actual surface temperature of each of the subpixels is estimated based on the corresponding driving signal level. An accumulated stress of each of the subpixels is computed based on the corresponding driving signal level, the corresponding actual surface temperature, and at least one previous image signal prior to the current image signal. A degradation map that emulates OLED degradation of the OLED display panel is generated based on the accumulated stress of each of the subpixels.
US11587497B2
An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display and a power supply configured to supply driving voltage to the display, wherein the power supply includes a converter to convert input AC voltage into DC voltage and a controller to control the converter, the converter includes a first leg including a first switching device and a second switching device connected to each other in series and a second leg including a first diode and a second diode connected to each other in series, the first diode and the second diode connected to the first leg in parallel, and the controller controls on time of the first switching device to gradually increase from a first level to a second level for a first period for which the input AC voltage rises after a zero crossing point.
US11587494B2
The disclosure relates to a method for controlling a display direction of an electronic device. A method operating the electronic device includes displaying content on a screen of the electronic device, determining a display direction of content on the basis of a user profile upon detecting a tilt change of the electronic device by using a sensor, and displaying the content on the screen depending on the determined display direction.
US11587491B1
The present invention includes systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
US11587487B2
A display driving circuit includes a clock signal generator which generates a clock signal at a frequency in response to a frequency control signal, a frequency variation determiner which adaptively changes a frequency variation of the clock signal, based on a magnitude of a deviation between the frequency of the clock signal and a target frequency calculated based on a reference clock signal supplied from the outside, and a frequency controller which generates the frequency control signal which updates the frequency of the clock signal, based on the frequency variation, and provides the frequency control signal to the clock signal generator.
US11587486B2
A display device includes a control circuit and a driving circuit driving a display panel to display an image. In response to determining that the driving circuit is to be switched from a running state to a standby state, the control circuit stops supplying power to the driving circuit. In response to determining that the driving circuit is to be switched from the standby state to the running state, the control circuit resumes the power supply to the driving circuit, and transmits a target reset signal to the driving circuit. The target reset signal is the same as a reset signal sent by a host computer to the driving circuit in response to a coupling being established between the driving circuit and the host computer.
US11587484B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: receiving an activity type of a user; receiving sensor data; determining at least one measurement value based on the sensor data; detecting at least one first activity type specific change in the at least one measurement value; and activating a display in response to detecting the at least one first activity type specific change in the at least one measurement value.
US11587479B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a border region, an optical component region, and a main display region. The border region is provided with multiple load compensation units. At least one first data line is electrically connected to M load compensation units, so as to compensate for a load of the first data line, making the compensated load on the first data line and a load on the second data line are basically the same or tend to be the same. In this way, any display difference across different regions of the display panel due to a difference of the load on the first data line and the load on the second data line may be avoided, which in turn improves the display uniformity of the display panel and improves the display effect of the display panel.
US11587475B2
A display device includes a substantially rigid display panel, a printed circuit board spaced apart from the display panel in a first direction and having at least one angled portion, a flexible member having a first portion connected to the display panel and a second portion spaced from the first portion, the second portion being connected to a first portion of the printed circuit board, and a support attached to the display panel and the printed circuit board to support the printed circuit board.
US11587473B2
A flexible display module and a flexible display device are disclosed. The flexible display module includes a flexible display panel, a circuit board, and a display panel protective structure. The flexible display panel includes an effective display portion and a bonding portion. The display panel protective structure is located one a rear of the effective display portion. An indentation is defined in a side of the display panel protective structure away from the effective display portion. The bonding portion is disposed in the indentation and is electrically connected to the effective display portion, and the circuit board is disposed in the indentation and is electrically connected to the bonding portion.
US11587471B2
In accordance with the present application, there is provided a release liner and method of preparing a liner for a label assembly. The release liner includes paper having a first side that does not have a machine finish or gloss finish or a coating; and a silicone treatment applied to the first side of the paper. The method of preparing a liner for a label assembly includes applying a coat of silicone to a paper at a side of the paper that does not have a machine finish or gloss finish and is otherwise uncoated; and curing the silicone. The release liner includes paper having a silicone coat weight of 0.5 lb/ream or less.
US11587469B2
An indicator is provided that can couple, without a fastener, to a housing of an industrial device.
US11587464B2
A system and method for providing a medical simulation device that utilizes open software platforms and provides functionality in both software and hardware modules is disclosed. The medical simulation system facilitates plug and play operation with installed hardware and software modules that are automatically recognized by the system for compatibility and the system configures itself according to identification information of the hardware module.
US11587462B2
An example weld training system includes: an orientation device; a mobile device; and a mount configured to attach the mobile device to a welding accessory, wherein the mobile device comprises: one or more sensors including at least a camera; a processor; and a machine readable storage device storing machine readable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: recognize identifiers on the orientation device based on images captured via the camera; determine at least one of position information or orientation information for a welding torch with respect to the orientation device based on the recognized identifiers; and display, via a display of the mobile device, a welding operation based on the at least the position information or the orientation information.
US11587446B2
A method and system for developing a flight plan for taking images from an area of interest is disclosed. A series of trajectories is determined. Each trajectory is determined based on a logarithmic spiral curve derived from a range of predetermined basis angles and selecting a constant tangent angle between a radial line from the location of an image sensor to a target location, and a tangent line to the logarithmic spiral curve at the location of the image sensor. A set of trajectories from the series of trajectories is selected. The selected trajectories are scaled to cover the area of interest. The selected trajectories are transformed to coordinates corresponding to the area of interest. The set of scaled and transformed trajectories are stored as the flight plan for taking images of the area of interest.
US11587444B2
A scheduling server is programmed to register terminals for autonomous vehicle use by allocating both capabilities and available times of the terminals to the server; identify a service to perform to an autonomous vehicle using data received from the vehicle; and send a waypoint to the vehicle directing the vehicle to arrive at an identified one of the terminals having capability to perform the service during the available times of the identified terminal.
US11587441B1
A system for location risk determination and ranking based on vehicle events and/or an accident database includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive accident data and/or event data. The processor is configured to determine a set of incident groups, wherein an incident group of the set of incident groups is associated with a set of accidents of the accident data and/or a set of events of the event data that are grouped by location proximity. The processor is further configured to determine a set of traffic estimations, wherein a traffic estimation of the set of traffic estimations is associated with the incident group of the set of incident groups; and determine a ranking of the set of incident groups based at least in part on the set of accidents, the set of events, and the set of traffic estimations.
US11587435B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for guiding a path of an electronic device and an electronic device. The method for guiding a path according to the present disclosure includes: acquiring a top-view image; extracting guiding information in a lane from lane information extracted from the top-view image; and guiding a path of a vehicle using the extracted lane information and the guiding information in the lane. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to promote safe driving by guiding a possible traveling direction on the path to a driver in real time through image analysis of a traveling road. In addition, it is possible to provide more detailed path guidance by providing the path guidance reflecting the necessity of lane change by recognizing the lane of the driving path.
US11587433B2
An approach is provided for providing probe anomaly detection. The approach, for example, involves determining an expected vehicle volume for a geographic region over a time epoch. The expected vehicle volume is calculated from historical vehicle volume data. The approach also involves determining an actual vehicle volume for the geographic region over the time epoch. The actual vehicle volume is based on current vehicle volume data collected from a plurality of vehicles traveling in the geographic region. The approach further involves computing a vehicle volume change based on the expected vehicle volume and the actual vehicle volume. The approach then involves providing the vehicle volume change as an indicator of a probe anomaly in the geographic region.
US11587428B2
Systems and methods for responding to incidents in a building are provided. One method includes performing operations including retrieving data relating to one or more on-premises building devices of the building, determining the incident relating to the one or more on-premises building devices, and determining a plurality of potential responses to the incident. The operations further include analyzing the plurality of potential responses and determining relative risks of the potential responses to the incident and transmitting, to a first on-premises building device of the on-premises building devices, data indicating the incident and at least one of the plurality of potential responses based on the relative risks of the potential responses.
US11587427B2
The disclosure relates to method and system for performing real-time monitoring of a container containing a non-gaseous fluid substance. The method includes receiving, from a sensing device installed in the container and by a monitoring device, a dataset corresponding to the container and to a non-gaseous fluid substance in the container. The dataset may be acquired and transmitted by the sensing device at a preconfigured time-interval and may include level data corresponding to a level of the non-gaseous fluid substance in the container, temperature data corresponding to a temperature inside the container, and movement data corresponding to movement of the container or a lid of the container. The method further includes performing, by the monitoring device, a time-series analysis on the dataset for determining an anomaly; and generating, by the monitoring device, a graded alert based on the anomaly.
US11587420B2
A system of identifying and tracking occupants of a building is provided. The system includes multiple detector devices that each receive an identification signal from an identification device and multiple image capture devices that each output an image signal depicting a respective monitored location of the building. The system further includes a processing circuit that receives the identification signal from one of the detector devices, associates the detector device with a detector location, retrieves a user attribute, and receives the image signal from one of the image capture devices depicting a monitored location corresponding to the detector location. The processing circuit further generates an annotated video signal including the user attribute overlaid on the video signal, and displays the annotated video signal on a display device.
US11587416B1
At least one detected natural language phrase in audio describes at least one expected future object activity in a definable physical or geographic region. For each of one or more potential video analytic rules that are derivable from the at least one natural language phrase, whether compatibility with corresponding workflow requirements of an entity exists may be determined, such that one, some or all of the one or more potential video analytic rules are confirmed as one or more workflow-compatible video analytic rules. The one or more workflow-compatible video analytic rules are implemented within a video security system for respective one or more periods of time. For each of the implemented video analytic rules, a notification may be generated: when a rule violation of the respective video analytic rule triggers an event; or following expiry of the respective period of time of the one or more periods of time.
US11587415B2
Provided is a data stream allocation system capable of suppressing inequality in processing loads on a plurality of servers and delays in analysis processing at the servers when the servers analyze the objects of analysis using data streams obtained from a plurality of camera systems. The allocation determination unit 4 allocates data streams obtained from a plurality of camera systems to a plurality of servers according to the unevenness in the number of objects in the surveillance region. Then, the distribution unit 5, in accordance with the results of the allocation of the data streams to the plurality of servers, distributes each of the data streams obtained from the camera systems to the server to which the data stream has been allocated.
US11587413B2
In an electronic shift operation apparatus, an operation of a haptic actuator is controlled depending on a kind of shifting stage signal (P.R.N.D) generated at the time of an operation of a shift button to generate a different type of haptic signal, and an operation of the haptic actuator is controlled depending on a distance to a rear object positioned behind a vehicle at the time of an operation of an R-stage button to additionally generate a haptic signal.
US11587412B1
Techniques described herein are directed to, among other things, utilizing a self-centering user interface to receive information associated with a transaction. For instance, a computing device may receive a first input at a first location of a display. The computing device may then determine a positioning for the user interface, where the user interface may be substantially centered about the first location. In some instances, the computing device may display the user interface using the positioning. The computing device may then receive a second input corresponding to swipe from the first location of the display to a second location of the display. The computing device may then determine a symbol included in the user interface based at least in part on the second input. In some instances, the user interface includes a keypad for entering a personal identification number associated with a payment instrument.
US11587401B2
A plurality of placement objects including first objects representing game events of a first type and a second object representing a game event of a second type are placed in a placement order in a game space, in the game event of the second type permitted to be executed, if a first giving condition is satisfied, a first reward is given to a user, and if a second giving condition is satisfied, a second reward is given to the user, and if the first reward is given to the user, a placement order of the first objects only is not changed, and placement of the second object representing the game event of the second type in which the first reward is given to the user is changed to a position before the first one of the first objects or after the last one of the first objects.
US11587387B2
In one exemplary embodiment in accordance with the disclosure, an image processing system is configured to use a distance authentication template to execute a detection procedure that detects at least one non-linear distortion in a subject image. The distance authentication template can be generated by mapping a set of spatial coordinates of three features in a distortion-free image to a set of pixel coordinates of the three features in the distortion-free image. Addressing a non-linear distortion in the subject image can include performing remedial actions to remedy the non-linear distortion, or taking into consideration the non-linear distortion when using the distance authentication template to identify one or more features in the subject image.
US11587385B2
A security revolving door assembly including a revolving door, a controlling unit and a LIDAR sensor. The LIDAR sensor is appropriately disposed in the top or canopy of the revolving door and advantageously directed downwardly into the passage space of the revolving door. In particular, a first LIDAR sensor is centrally disposed in a first quadrant of the canopy, and a second LIDAR sensor is centrally disposed in a third quadrant of the canopy.
US11587380B1
A system may include a first security component configured to emanate a signal with an authorizing code, and may have a magnetic field generating device configured to generate a signaling magnetic field including the signal with the authoring code. The system may also include a second security component configured to wirelessly receive the signal with the authorizing code when the second security component is proximate to the signaling magnetic field of the first security component. The second security component may include a magnetic field sensor configured to sense the signal emanating from the magnetic field generating device, and the sensor may be changed between first and second states by a change in the signaling magnetic field.
US11587372B2
In an abnormality detection method for detecting an abnormality in vehicle behaviors based on an abnormality degree indicating a degree of difference between first driving information representing a vehicle behavior undergoing abnormality detection and second driving information obtained when no abnormality is found in a travel environment, an abnormality threshold is estimated using an abnormality degree distribution generated from a set of preaccumulated abnormality degrees. The abnormality threshold is an abnormality degree allowing a probability of erroneous determination as to presence or absence of an abnormality to be a predefined probability. Further, in the abnormality detection method, it is detected whether an abnormality is found in the vehicle behavior by comparing the abnormality degree for the first driving information and the estimated abnormality threshold.
US11587371B2
This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles. The system may detect vehicle events based on the information conveyed by the output signals. The system includes a remote computing server configured to present a user interface to a user. Through the user interface, the user may query information from one or more vehicles in the fleet. The distributed query is transmitted to individual vehicles, and results are locally processed in accordance with response constraints and subsequently transmitted back to the remote computing server for presentation to the user.
US11587370B2
A system and related methods for management, planning and control of a connected fleet of vehicles. A unique, single integrated platform may be provided for management, planning and control of a connected fleet of vehicles, including fleet planning, in-fleeting operations, vehicle acquisition and provisioning, vehicle assignment, vehicle transfers, vehicle use operations, vehicle servicing, vehicle maintenance and repairs, and de-fleeting operations. Fleet communications can be by cellular, wireless, or low earth orbit satellite communications. Fleet vehicles include a programmable TCU installed in the vehicle and connected, directly or indirectly, to the CAN bus or similar vehicle network, and carries out various operations, including controlling vehicle access. The systems combines self-reporting and self-management of a connected fleet vehicle (with on-board and installed sensors configured to identify actual or potential issues or problems in the vehicle, and report, request, and obtain/dispatch servicing via its cloud or network communications interfaces), and predictive failure algorithms (based on historical and current connected fleet vehicle data), with multiple probabilistic distributions for the distributed fleet to dynamically, in real time, determine and dispatch service with greater efficiency and lower costs for fleet operations.
US11587363B2
The invention relates to a sensor system for checking a vein pattern. The sensor system comprises a first light source that is configured to emit during operation across the entire surface electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the near infrared range, which are absorbed by hemoglobin. Furthermore, the sensor system comprises a second light source that is configured to emit during operation across the entire surface electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the range of visible light. Furthermore, the sensor system comprises a camera with a first camera chip that is configured to record reflected electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the near infrared range and to convert them into a corresponding infrared image, and with a second camera chip that is configured to record reflected electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the range of visible light and to convert them into a corresponding photographic image. Finally, the sensor system comprises a first processor unit which is connected to the first camera chip and the second camera chip and which is configured to compare the photographic image with the infrared image, to determine the degree of matching between the photographic image and the infrared image and to classify the vein pattern as real if the degree of matching is less than a predetermined degree of matching, and to classify the vein pattern as not real if the degree of matching is greater than or equal to the predetermined degree of matching.
US11587362B2
In one aspect, a device may include a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the processor to receive at least one image that indicates a first gesture being made by a person using a hand-based sign language, with at least part of the first gesture extending out of the image frame of the image. The instructions may then be executable to provide the image to a gesture classifier and to receive plural candidate first text words for the first gesture from the gesture classifier. The instructions may then be executable to use at least a second text word correlated to a second gesture to select one of the candidate first text words, combine the second text word with the selected first text word to establish a text string, and provide the text string to an apparatus different from the device.
US11587359B1
Embodiments are disclosed for using an apparatus to perform pupil identification. An example method includes toggling circuitry configured to determine, based on a measured ambient infrared light level, whether to perform pupil identification using one of either the dark pupil identification process or the bright pupil identification process; and pupil identification circuitry configured to perform pupil identification on a user using the bright identification process upon the determination that the measured ambient infrared light level falls within a first range and to perform dark pupil identification process upon the determination that the measured ambient infrared light level falls within a second range. Corresponding apparatuses and non-transitory computer readable storage media are also provided.
US11587355B2
A tracking control method includes obtaining a tracking parameter of a target object. The tracking control method also includes determining a characteristic part of the target object based on the tracking parameter. The tracking control method further includes tracking the target object based on the characteristic part.
US11587350B2
A method and a device for the characterization of living specimens from a distance are disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring an image of a living specimen and segmenting the image, providing a segmented image; measuring a distance to several parts of said image, providing several distance measurements, and selecting a subset of those contained in the segmented image. The method also processes the segmented image and the distance measurements referred to different positions contained within the segmented image by characterizing the shape and the depth of the living specimen and by comparing a shape analysis map and a depth profile analysis map. If a result of the comparison is comprised inside a given range, parameters of the living specimen are further determined including posture parameters, location or correction of anatomical reference points and/or body size parameters, and/or a body map of the living specimen is represented.
US11587344B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for image rendering. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving a plurality of observations characterizing a particular scene, each observation comprising an image of the particular scene and data identifying a location of a camera that captured the image. In another aspect, the method comprises receiving a plurality of observations characterizing a particular video, each observation comprising a video frame from the particular video and data identifying a time stamp of the video frame in the particular video. In yet another aspect, the method comprises receiving a plurality of observations characterizing a particular image, each observation comprising a crop of the particular image and data characterizing the crop of the particular image. The method processes each of the plurality of observations using an observation neural network to determine a numeric representation as output.
US11587342B2
A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The system also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data representing an image, the image being represented in the data by a collection of visual elements. Operations also include determining whether to select the image for presentation by one or more entities using a machine learning system, the machine learning system being trained using data representing a plurality of training images and data representing one or more attributes regarding image presentation by the one or more entities.
US11587338B2
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional (3D) object detection method, a 3D object detection apparatus, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium, belonging to a field of computer vision technologies. Two-dimensional (2D) image parameters and initial 3D image parameters are determined for a target object. Candidate 3D image parameters are determined for the target object based on a disturbance range of 3D parameters and the initial 3D image parameters determined for the target object. Target 3D image parameters are selected for the target object from the candidate 3D image parameters determined for the target object based on the 2D image parameters. A 3D detection result of the target object is determined based on the target 3D image parameters.
US11587337B2
A medical device monitoring system and method extract information from screen images from medical device controllers, with a single OCR process invocation per screen image, despite critical information appearing in different screen locations, depending on which medical device controller's screen image is processed. For example, different software versions of the medical device controllers might display the same type of information in different screen locations. Copies of the critical screen information, one copy from each different screen location, are made in a mosaic image, and then the mosaic image is OCR processed to produce text results. Text is selectively extracted from the OCR text results, depending on contents of a selector field on the screen image, such as a software version number or a heart pump model identifier.
US11587333B2
A system includes a plurality of sensors arranged in a vehicle to monitor an item in a storage area of a vehicle. The system comprises a data processing module configured to process data from the sensors, determine whether the item in the storage area of the vehicle is likely to move within the storage area or is likely to fall from the vehicle during travel, and generate a first indication that the item is likely to move within the storage area or is likely to fall from the vehicle during travel. The data processing module is configured to determine whether the item has moved within the storage area or has fallen from the vehicle during travel and generate a second indication that the item has moved within the storage area or has fallen from the vehicle during travel.
US11587331B2
A system for a lane keeping feature of a vehicle is provided. The lane keeping feature has a predefined safety requirement criterion for keeping the vehicle within bounds while the lane keeping feature is active. The system comprises a road estimation module and a trajectory planning module. The road estimation module is configured to receive sensor data comprising information about a surrounding environment of the vehicle, and to determine a drivable area based on the sensor data. The drivable area comprises a left boundary and a right boundary extending along a direction of travel of the vehicle, wherein each boundary comprises a plurality of points distributed along each boundary, each point being associated with a confidence level. The trajectory planning module is configured to receive the determined drivable area, and to determine a nominal trajectory for the vehicle based on the received drivable area.
US11587325B2
A method for detecting people entering and leaving a field is provided in an embodiment of the disclosure. The method includes the following. An event detection area corresponding to an entrance is set, and the event detection area includes an upper boundary, a lower boundary, and an internal area, and the lower boundary includes a left boundary, a right boundary, and a bottom boundary; a person image corresponding to a person in an image stream is detected and tracked; and whether the person passes through or does not pass through the entrance is determined according to a first detection result and a second detection result.
US11587317B2
A video processing method and a terminal device are provided. The video processing method includes acquiring video data, acquiring a plurality of video segments from the video data according to flight parameter information of an unmanned aerial vehicle or motion parameter information of a capturing device, and obtaining a target video by processing the plurality of video segments according to a preset parameter.
US11587316B2
An embodiment for creating a template for user experience by segmenting a visual surrounding is provided. The embodiment may include receiving real-time and historical data relating to one or more content interactions of a user wearing an augmented reality (AR) device. The embodiment may also include analyzing one or more contextual situations of the one or more content interactions. The embodiment may further include identifying one or more objects of interest in a visual surrounding environment of the user. The embodiment may also include in response to determining the identification of the object type is confident, predicting a contextual need for each object of interest. The embodiment may further include creating one or more information display templates. The embodiment may also include populating the one or more information display templates with information and displaying the one or more populated information display templates to the user.
US11587306B1
Disclosed herein is digital object generator that makes uses a one-way function to generate unique digital objects based on the user specific input. Features of the input are first extracted via a few-shot convolutional neural network model, then evaluated weight and integrated fit. The resulting digital object includes a user decipherable output such as a visual representation, an audio representation, or a multimedia representation that includes recognizable elements from the user specific input.
US11587305B2
A computer-implemented method of learning sensory media association includes receiving a first type of nontext input and a second type of nontext input; encoding and decoding the first type of nontext input using a first autoencoder having a first convolutional neural network, and the second type of nontext input using a second autoencoder having a second convolutional neural network; bridging first autoencoder representations and second autoencoder representations by a deep neural network that learns mappings between the first autoencoder representations associated with a first modality and the second autoencoder representations associated with a second modality; and based on the encoding, decoding, and the bridging, generating a first type of nontext output and a second type of nontext output based on the first type of nontext input or the second type of nontext input in either the first modality or the second modality.
US11587295B2
A system comprising: a user device, comprising: sensors configured to sense data related to a physical environment of the user device, displays; hardware processors; and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the hardware processors to: place a virtual object in a 3D scene displayed by the second user device, determine a pose of the user device with respect to the physical location in the physical environment of the user device, and generate an image of virtual content based on the pose of the user device with respect to the placed virtual object, wherein the image of the virtual content is projected by the one or more displays of the user device in a predetermined location relative to the physical location in the physical environment of the user device.
US11587275B2
One variation of a method includes: accessing a handwriting sample comprising a set of user glyphs handwritten by a user; for each character in a set of characters, identifying a subset of user glyphs corresponding to the character in the handwriting sample, characterizing variability of a set of spatial features across the subset of user glyphs, and storing variability of the set of spatial features across the subset of user glyphs in a character container corresponding to the character; and compiling the set of character containers into a handwriting model for the user. The method further includes: accessing a text string comprising a combination of characters in the set of characters; for each instance of each character in the text string, inserting a set of variability parameters into the handwriting model to generate a synthetic glyph representing the character; and assembling the set of synthetic glyphs into a print file.
US11587270B2
Disclosed is a method for reconstruction of a Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) contrast image. The method includes: generating training samples for a deep neural network; training the deep neural network with the training samples to obtain a trained deep neural network; and reconstructing a CEST contrast image by using the trained deep neural network and PROPELLER undersampled CEST images. The method for reconstruction of a CEST contrast image can effectively shorten the experimental time of a CEST contrast imaging and can obtain a smoother and more accurate CEST contrast image. Further disclosed is a system for reconstruction of a CEST contrast image to implement the method for reconstruction.
US11587264B2
An electronic device and method for generating an augmented image. The device includes an image sensor and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive an image, retrieve a set of keywords, and identify a first set of features within the image corresponding to at least one keyword from the set of keywords, producing first metadata. The electronic processor is configured to compress the image, identify a second set of features within the compressed image, producing second metadata, and determine missing metadata between the first metadata and the second metadata. The electronic processor is configured to generate an augmented image by associating the missing metadata to the compressed image and perform at least one selected from the group consisting of transmitting the augmented image to another device and decompressing the augmented image to create a decompressed image and presenting the decompressed image including the missing metadata.
US11587263B2
A method and apparatus for decoding a video stream encoded using video point cloud coding, the decoding including obtaining a geometry-reconstructed point cloud based on one or more patches; identifying a first boundary of a patch including a plurality of first boundary points; identifying a second boundary including a plurality of second boundary points inside the first boundary; performing smoothing on the first boundary points and the second boundary points; obtaining a smoothed geometry-reconstructed point cloud based on the smoothed first boundary points and the smoothed second boundary points; and reconstructing a dynamic point cloud using the smoothed geometry-reconstructed point cloud.
US11587256B2
The autonomous driving device including a communication circuit configured to communicate with an unmanned aerial vehicle, a plurality of sensors disposed in the autonomous vehicle to monitor all directions of the autonomous vehicle, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: control the unmanned aerial vehicle to hover at each of a plurality of waypoints of a designated flight path by controlling a relative position of the unmanned aerial vehicle through the communication circuit, change a posture angle of the unmanned aerial vehicle to a plurality of posture angles corresponding to the waypoints of the flight path, generate a plurality of images including the checkerboard and corresponding to the plurality of waypoints and the plurality of posture angles through the plurality of sensors, and calibrate the plurality of sensors on the basis of a relationship between matching points of the plurality of images.
US11587255B1
Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two eyewear devices by using alignment between respective 6DOF trajectories, also referred to herein as ego motion alignment. An eyewear device of user A and an eyewear device of user B track the eyewear device of the other user, or an object of the other user, such as on the user's face, to provide the collaborative AR experience. This enables sharing common three-dimensional content between multiple eyewear users without using or aligning the eyewear devices to common image content such as a marker, which is a more lightweight solution with reduced computational burden on a processor. An inertial measurement unit may also be used to align the eyewear devices.
US11587253B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product utilize digital signatures to efficiently identify objects of interest within images and cause graphical presentation data to be accurately displayed for the objects of interest. The method receives one or more images generated by an image capture device. The method determines one or more digital signatures associated with one or more objects within the one or more images. Based on the one or more digital signatures, the method also determines graphical data placement information comprising one or more graphical data placement regions for the one or more objects. The method also receives graphical presentation data comprising one or more graphical assets. The method also causes display of the graphical presentation data that includes overlaying at least one graphical asset of the one or more graphical assets on the at least one graphical data placement region.
US11587252B2
A positioning device combining mark point positioning and intelligent reverse positioning and method thereof, comprising a binocular camera, a third camera, and a laser; the laser is used for emitting laser projection, the binocular camera is used for acquiring images with laser lines and reflective mark points on the surface of the scanned object, and the third camera is used for acquiring images with coding points and mark points in the peripheral environment; the method comprises the following steps of: S1. calibrating parameters of each camera under different scanning modes, and enabling the parameters of each camera to synchronously and correspondingly transform when the scanning modes are switched; S2. judging and switching the scanning mode into a mark point mode or an intelligent reverse tracking mode through the scanning scene. The two positioning modes are flexibly switched, and the use of a user is facilitated.
US11587250B2
The present invention provides a method for quantitatively identifying the defects of large-size composite material based on infrared image sequence, firstly obtaining the overlap area of an infrared splicing image, and dividing the infrared splicing image into three parts according to overlap area: overlap area, reference image area and registration image area, then extracting the defect areas from the infrared splicing image to obtain P defect areas, then obtaining the conversion coordinates of pixels of defect areas according to the three parts of the infrared splicing image, and further obtaining the transient thermal response curves of centroid coordinate and edge point coordinates, finding out the thermal diffusion points from the edge points of defect areas according to a created weight sequence and dynamic distance threshold εttr×dp_max, finally, based on the thermal diffusion points, the accurate identification of quantitative size of defects are completed.
US11587238B2
A method of barrier detection in an imaging controller includes: obtaining an image of a support structure configured to support a plurality of items on a support surface extending between a shelf edge and a shelf back; extracting frequency components representing pixels of the image; based on the extracted frequency components, identifying a barrier region of the image, the barrier region containing a barrier adjacent to the shelf edge; and detecting at least one empty sub-region within the barrier region, wherein the empty sub-region is free of items between the barrier and the shelf back.
US11587232B1
A method for preventing wrong-patient errors includes receiving a selection of a current imaging subject. The current imaging subject is selected for a current image acquisition session comprising capturing one or more current images of the current imaging subject utilizing at least a first image sensor system of a first imaging modality. The method includes accessing one or more previous images of a previous imaging subject. The one or more previous images depict the previous imaging subject according to at least a second imaging modality that is different from the first imaging modality. The method includes presenting the one or more previous images on a display system and, in response to determining that the previous imaging subject matches the current imaging subject based upon the one or more previous images, performing the current image acquisition session.
US11587221B2
The present invention relates to the determination of damage to portions of a vehicle. More particularly, the present invention relates to determining whether each part of a vehicle should be classified as damaged or undamaged and optionally the severity of the damage to each part of the damaged vehicle including preserving the quality of the input images of the damage to the vehicle. Aspects and/or embodiments seek to provide a computer-implemented method for determining damage states of each part of a damaged vehicle, indicating whether each part of the vehicle is damaged or undamaged and optionally the severity of the damage to each part of the damaged vehicle, using images of the damage to the vehicle and trained models to assess the damage indicated in the images of the damaged vehicle, including preserving the quality and/or resolution of the images of the damaged vehicle.
US11587212B2
A submersible vehicle comprising: an image sensor; a first illuminator; at least one hardware processor operatively coupled with said image sensor and first illuminator, and the at least one hardware processor being configured to: acquire a first image of a scene inside a medium, when there is no object along the line-of-sight (LOS), under illumination from a first location or orientation, acquire a second image of the scene inside the medium, when there is no object along the LOS, under illumination from a second, different location or orientation, and compute attenuation coefficients, one per color channel, based on backscatter in the first and second images.
US11587209B2
Embodiments relate to axial chromatic aberration (ACA) reduction of raw image data generated by image sensors. A chromatic aberration reduction circuit performs chromatic aberration reduction on the raw image data to correct the ACA in the full color images through sharpening that has been clamped to reduce sharpening overshoot.
US11587203B2
A method for optimizing a hardware structure of a convolutional neural network including: searching an initial feature value group by which a final convolution layer located at a final stage among a plurality of convolution layers, setting an initial fusing network by analyzing a feature value group having a size corresponding to the initial feature value group; computing an operation time for each layer by allocating the number of operators corresponding to the size of the feature value group to each of the plurality of convolution layers, and dividing the size of the feature value group by determining a layer having a minimum operation time; resetting the fusing network by changing the size of the feature value group, determining the size of the feature value group having the smallest number of operators, determining the number of operators to be included in each of the plurality of convolution layers.
US11587199B2
In an example method and system, image data to an image processing module. Image data is read from memory into a down-scaler, which down-scales the image data to a first resolution, which is stored in a first buffer. A region of image data which the image processing module will request is predicted, and image data corresponding to at least part of the predicted region of image data is stored in a first buffer, in a second resolution, higher than the first. When a request for image data is received, it is then determined whether image data corresponding to the requested image data is in the second buffer, and if so, then image data is provided to the image processing module from the second buffer. If not, then image data from the first buffer is up-scaled, and the up-scaled image data is provided to the image processing module.
US11587195B2
Imagery captured by an autonomous robot is analyzed to discern digital watermark patterns. In some embodiments, identical but geometrically-inconsistent digital watermark patterns are discerned in an image frame, to aid in distinguishing multiple depicted instances of a particular item. In other embodiments, actions of the robot are controlled or altered in accordance with image processing performed by the robot on a digital watermark pattern. The technology is particularly described in the context of retail stores in which the watermark patterns are encoded, e.g., on product packaging, shelving, and shelf labels. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US11587192B2
A method includes receiving, from a user computing device, a transportation request including a proposed arrival time for a package to arrive at a destination and determining a pickup time to pick up the package based on the proposed arrival time and based on one or more factors affecting ability for the package to arrive at the destination at the proposed arrival time. The method further includes receiving, before the package is picked up, changes to the one or more factors and determining a new pickup time based on the proposed arrival time and the changes to the one or more factors. The method further includes transmitting, to a driver computing device associated with a driver based on the new pickup time, navigational data to direct the driver to pick up the package and providing, to the user computing device, status of a driver location of the driver computing device.
US11587185B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing accounting platform functionalities. In various embodiments, a computing system might access a data file(s) associated with a first entity from a first accounting software system among a plurality of accounting software systems, each operating based on corresponding one of two or more commercial accounting software that are different from and/or incompatible with each other. The computing system might autonomously extract transaction data corresponding to a transaction entry for each individual transaction. The computing system might autonomously generate a transaction-based trial balance based on the extracted transaction data, the generated transaction-based trial balance serving as a living trial balance that is continually updated based on updated or new transaction data that is accessed from the first accounting software system. The computing system might autonomously generate one of a tax trial balance or an adjusted trial balance, based on the generated transaction-based trial balance.
US11587183B2
System and method for using object recognition to facilitate the collection of insurance information
A computer-implemented method includes providing a user an electronic form with a field associated with a query for which an accurate response depends upon a type of an object, processing an image of the object that the user submitted via a user-interactive control of the form to identify physical features of the object, using the identified physical features to determine the object type, providing to the user a request for confirmation of the determined object type, and, in response to receiving confirmation of the determined object type from the user, causing the client device to automatically populate the field of the electronic form within the web browser in accordance with the determined type.
US11587176B2
The present disclosure proposes systems and methods to create an integrated centralized database that aggregates repair material and labor cost data by geographic area in real time and provides a repair cost estimating platform based on data collected from various data sources including directly from roofing contractors who have recently performed repairs.
US11587168B2
Certain embodiments provide systems and methods to perform in-line translation of message content according to FIX protocol variants in a trading system. An example method includes receiving, at a computing device, a message formatted according to a FIX protocol, the message including message content and a message wrapper, the message wrapper providing session and delivery information for the message to a target. The example method includes performing in-line translation of the message content of the received message to adjust the message content according to a predefined set of rules without affecting the message wrapper (with the possible exception of the message size) and message routing session. The example method includes facilitating routing of the message to the target based on the message wrapper.
US11587167B2
A trade order may be submitted to an electronic exchange and updated, according to pay-up parameter values, in an attempt to receive a complete fill within a period of time. The trade order may comprise an order price and an order quantity when submitted to the electronic exchange. The pay-up parameters may include a pay-up interval, a pay-up amount, a pay-up counter, or a combination thereof. The price of the trade order may continue to be updated after the expiration of pay-up interval in an attempt to receive a complete fill of the trade order. The price of the trade order may be increased or decreased by the pay-up amount. The trade order may continue to be updated until a complete fill is received, the pay-up counter expires, and/or an ending time expires for which the pay-up parameters may be implemented.
US11587166B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for communicating a first information node between a seller and a buyer of a production share of verifiable physical goods over a central service layer. A second information node is recorded in the data store covering the verifiable physical goods, wherein the second information node is made by a guarantor in communication with the central service layer. An identifier of the second information node is associated with the first information node over the central service layer. Market information regarding the production share is translated from the first information node and the second information node accessed from the data store using the identifier and integrating the market information regarding the production share into adjusted market information, and the market information regarding the production share and the adjusted market information is transmitted to devices connected over the central service layer.
US11587162B2
Systems and methods are provided for minting payment loan tokens to conduct digital loan transactions within a blockchain-based digital loan payment network. The payment loan tokens are pegged to fiat currency or digital currency. The computing system is a node in the blockchain-based digital loan payment network. A number of payment loan tokens to be provided to a borrower can be determined based on a digital loan transaction. The borrower is a network participant associated with the blockchain-based digital loan payment network. The number of payment loan tokens can be provided for deposit in a digital wallet associated with the borrower based on the digital loan transaction. Payees that receive payment loan tokens from the borrower can redeem the payment loan tokens as fiat or digital currency. A data record that represents the digital loan transaction can be generated. The data record is posted to a blockchain associated with the blockchain-based digital loan payment network.
US11587154B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to allow sellers of products to establish individual products in a multilevel marketing (MLM) commission system, where the product is offered and sold to a first purchaser—who then actively by requesting a code, or passively, through the purchase of the product, becomes a user of the commission system. This user is provided a code such that the code may be passed onto followers of the registered user, either directly or via a referral hyperlink. The registered user will be allowed to advertise the product to a second purchaser and the second purchaser will be allowed to purchase the product and provide advertisements to other purchasers. Commissions paid to respective downline purchasers for a single product may be limited by a preset number of defined levels. After a product is purchased, commissions are paid out to each respective purchaser according to the defined commission levels. Purchase of the product may be facilitated by an online store controlled by the system. Products may be automatically added to the online store. The referral hyperlink may be directed to the online store or to the default landing page provided by the third party vendor of the product.
US11587153B2
Systems and methods are provided and include a server configured to receive a copy of paint product catalog information associated with a coating manufacturer, store a paint product ordering application, receive a measured color of a flooring product from a dealer computer terminal located at a flooring store, determine paint colors that coordinate with the flooring product based on a measured color of the flooring product and the copy of the paint product catalog information, communicate the paint colors to the dealer computer terminal, run the paint product ordering application, receive an order for a paint product from the dealer computer terminal, and communicate the order for the paint product to a computer system located at a coating manufacturer facility, the computer system being configured to receive transmission of the order for the paint product from the server for order fulfillment at the coating manufacturer facility.
US11587152B2
A listing and locating application is shown and described. The listing and locating application will allow for products to be listed within a listing function. The application will be able to share lists among allowed users. The application will have a GPS system that will allow for the application to display localized maps. The localized maps will display the exact locations of products on the list. The products on the list will be correlated with coupons form the merchant shop. The application further will be enabled to display a direction to locate a specific area or the most direct route through a localized area.
US11587150B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a requestor, a request for an on-demand product. The method further includes determining an eligibility token format applicable to the request, wherein the eligibility token format comprises a plurality of partial segments of identifying information. The method also includes prompting the requestor to provide a plurality of partial-segment values corresponding to the plurality of partial segments. In addition, the method includes receiving the plurality of partial-segment values in response to the prompting. Moreover, the method includes generating an eligibility token from the plurality of partial-segment values. The method also includes determining the requestor's eligibility for the on-demand product based, at least in part, on a lookup of the eligibility token in an eligibility token repository. The eligibility token repository includes a plurality of eligibility tokens of the eligibility token format.
US11587146B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using wireless beacons to manage shopping lists. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user, a selection of one or more items available for purchase at a physical store location of a store. A user device receives a signal from a wireless beacon installed in a particular section of the physical store location, wherein the signal emitted by the wireless beacon identifies the particular section of the store. If one or more items in the shopping list are located in the particular section, the one or more identified items that are located in the particular section are presented on a display device of the user device such that they appear above one or more items in the shopping list data that are not located in the particular section.
US11587142B1
Techniques and arrangements for performing data analysis in order to generate connections between merchants. For instance, a payment service may determine, based at least in part on transaction information, that a first customer conducted a first transaction at a first merchant followed a subsequent transaction at a second merchant. The payment service may further determine that a second customer conducted a second transaction at the first merchant followed by a subsequent transaction at a third merchant, Based on transaction information associated with the first transaction and the second transaction, the payment service may create a buyer profile including the first customer and second customer. Upon the payment service receiving a request to process a third transaction between the first merchant and the second customer, the payment service can generate a recommendation that the second customer conduct a subsequent transaction to the third transaction at the second merchant rather than the third merchant. The payment service can then send a electronic communication that includes the recommendation to the first merchant or the second customer.
US11587140B2
Systems and methods for improving food-related personalization for a user including generating a recipe database including a set of recipe data structures; deriving a recipe vector representation of the recipe data structures; determining a set of user food preferences; extracting a set of recipe vector constraints from the set of user food preferences; determining a personalized food plan for the user, including automatically selecting a subset of the set of recipe data structures associated with recipe vector representations that satisfy the set of recipe vector constraints; determining fulfillment parameters for grocery items associated with the personalized food plan; and automatically facilitating fulfillment of grocery items associated with the personalized food plan based on the fulfillment parameters.
US11587139B2
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform receiving from an item catalog database a respective item description and respective attribute values for each item of a set of items; generating text embeddings using a text embedding model to represent the respective item description and the respective attribute values; generating a graph of the set of items from the item catalog database connected by a set of edges; training the text embedding model and a machine learning model using a neural loss function based on the graph; and automatically determining, based on the machine learning model, as trained, a gender label for each first item in which the gender classification is unlabeled and in which a respective quantity of respective attribute values for the each first item is at least a predetermined threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11587135B2
Systems and methods for supporting regulatory requirements for the distribution of controlled and non-controlled items such as, for example, non-controlled prescriptions (Rx), medical devices, and controlled substances in countries such as the United States and Canada, are provided. The systems and methods incorporate a license verification module that is configured to perform license validation for a particular order placed for a controlled and/or non-controlled item. In certain embodiments, the license verification module compares order data to historically sorted data and if one or more discrepancies exist, validation is unsuccessful. The license verification module may further query a third party database for updated license information upon validation failure. The systems and methods further incorporate a suspicious order monitoring module that is configured to perform a plurality of checks on the order to identify the order as an “order of interest” that may be further investigated and deemed to be suspicious.
US11587131B2
A system for determining customer interest in goods includes one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. The processors are configured to receive customer location data from a smart device associated with a customer indicating the customer is within a retail venue of a retailer and to monitor, based on the customer location data, a current location of the customer within the retail venue. The processors are further configured to receive goods location data indicating locations of goods for sale within the retail venue and determine that the customer is interested in a particular good for sale within the retail venue based on the current customer location remaining in proximity to the location of the particular good for a predetermined period of time. The processors also conduct a search of pricing of the particular good at one or more other retailers and send a price comparison to the customer.
US11587127B2
A digital brand asset system is provided enabling a brand owner to create, distribute, maintain, manage, merchandise and analyze smart brand assets. The system enables distribution and sharing of smart brand assets across the websites. The websites can host webpages containing codes representing the smart brand assets. When a user device retrieves a webpage from one of the websites and renders the webpage, it executes the codes and requests the content of the smart brand assets from a brand asset server. Through the brand asset server, a brand owner can control the content and the presentation of the smart brand asset hosted by the websites. The system further enables the brand partners to adjust the content of the smart brand assets based on their needs.
US11587125B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that include combining an offer with media content to generate a notice within a portion of the media content, providing the notice in the designated portions of the media content with the notice during a media content presentation at equipment of a user, receiving an indication of interest in the portion, retrieving marketing information for the portion of the media content based on the user profile including location based information, time based information, and activity information, monitoring an activity of the mobile communication device to determine when the mobile communication device information satisfies a location, time, and activity information that matches the marketing information and determining a communication for the user based on the marketing information and the monitoring of the activity of the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11587121B2
The object of the present invention is to enable presentation of information on a target object (vehicle) located on a road to a pedestrian at an appropriate time and such that the information includes appropriate information for the pedestrian's statues. A pedestrian device transmits position data of a pedestrian to an in-vehicle device, which determines whether or not the pedestrian approaches a vehicle based on the position data. When determining that the pedestrian approaches the vehicle, the in-vehicle device transmits guidance direction information to the pedestrian device. The pedestrian device performs control based on the guidance direction information so as to guide the pedestrian to look toward the vehicle, and the pedestrian device acquires sight status information of the pedestrian from a wearable terminal and transmits the sight status information to the in-vehicle terminal. Then, the in-vehicle terminal determines whether or not the pedestrian sees the vehicle. When determining that the pedestrian does not see the vehicle, the in-vehicle terminal transmit alert information to the pedestrian terminal, and the pedestrian terminal performs control based on the alert information so as to provide an alert to the pedestrian.
US11587116B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for a predictive recommendation system based on an analysis of previous consumer behavior. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data representing a user, the data including user identification and historical data; receiving a set of promotions recommended for the user; assigning the user to a consumer lifecycle model state based in part on the historical data and the user identification; selecting a ranking algorithm associated with the consumer lifecycle model state; and ranking the received set of promotions based on a predicted promotion relevance value associated with each promotion, the predicted promotion value being calculated using the ranking algorithm.
US11587112B2
A media management system that generates a plurality of values associated with a promotion impact measure for each of the promotional campaigns based on historical data that is acquired and an expected audience. Inventory unit needs are determined for each of the promotional campaigns that corresponds to a promotion inventory utilization of a plurality of inventory utilization types, based on at least the generated plurality of values. The determined inventory units for each of the promotional campaigns are utilized to dynamically allocate inventory from a defined amount of inventory units among each inventory utilization types to meet a plurality of defined parameters for the defined amount of inventory units for one or more specified durations until an end of the upcoming time-frame.
US11587095B2
A system for detecting service issues within multi-sourced service data. The system includes a memory and one or more electronic processors coupled to the memory. The electronic processors are configured to receive one or more data sets in near real time, and to enrich the dataset with one or more metadata parameters, pre-clean the data within the dataset, and determine one or more data points within the dataset that are semantically similar to each other. The electronic processors are also configured to generate a similarity score for each of the semantically similar data points, and determine one or more significant clusters within the dataset within a predefined lookback window. The electronic processors are also configured to analyze the determined significant clusters to determine the existence of one or more service issues, and generate a service alert based on the analysis determining that one or more service issues are present.
US11587085B2
A vending machine comprises a shelf for holding goods; an automatic payment terminal connected to the shelf for receiving payment of selling the goods; and at least one biometric reader that is connected to the automatic payment terminal for performing electronic bill payment of the goods. A method of selling goods automatically comprises step of providing goods on a shelf of a vending machine; reading biometric data of a user in order to identify the user; processing payment of the user according to the biometric data; and releasing the goods after receiving the payment.
US11587080B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to determining a risk score for domains associated with a transaction. In some embodiments, a transaction computer system receives transaction details for a transaction between a consumer and a merchant, where the transaction details are received from the merchant real-time with the transaction and include a set of transaction URLs for subsequent use in the transaction. The computer system may receive, from a browser of the consumer that is used to initiate the transaction, URL referrer information real-time with the transaction, where the URL referrer information indicates a referring web page to the transaction computer system. The computer system may determine, using the set of transaction URLs and the URL referrer information, a set of domains for the transaction and then determine a risk score for the set of domains. The computer system may determine, based on the risk score, whether to allow the transaction.
US11587079B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for a single degree tiered bracket matrix for secure digital resource distribution across a digital resource distribution network. In this way, the invention interrupts a digital resource distribution network and displays a tiered bracket matrix for a user to select from on the digital resource distribution network application. The tiered bracket matrix is determined by matching database points with an overlayed, timestamped, resource distribution network distributions for prepopulating of the matrix. Upon matching a user device contact hash value, the system may interrupt a resource distribution network application and splice in recommended users for resource distribution via the resource distribution network application in a tiered matrix display.
US11587078B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method for predicting payment transactions using a machine learning technique that includes receiving transaction data, generating a categorical transaction model based on the transaction data, determining a plurality of prediction scores including determining, for one or more users, a prediction score in each merchant category of a plurality of merchant categories for each predetermined time segment of a plurality of predetermined time segments, where a respective prediction score includes a prediction of whether a user will conduct a payment transaction in a merchant category at a time associated with a predetermined time segment associated with the respective prediction score, determining a recommended merchant category and a recommended predetermined time segment of at least one offer, generating the at least one offer, and communicating the at least one offer to the one or more users. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11587076B2
Described herein are systems and methods for securely obtaining payment information from a recipient on a payer's mobile device within an application on the payer's mobile device. The securely obtained information can be decrypted in the application, and the recipient information can be extracted. The extracted recipient information can be validated and used by the application to initiate a fund transfer to the recipient's account from the payer's account. The application can include a user interface that can allow the payer to anonymize the payment, securing the privacy of the payer.
US11587075B2
A method, system, and computer program product for dynamically ensuring SDK integrity load, at a merchant system, a software development kit (SDK) wrapper from a payment gateway system via a merchant webpage associated with the merchant system; execute the SDK wrapper, the SDK wrapper loading an SDK core when executed; determine an integrity of the SDK core; in response to determining the integrity of the SDK core, perform a handshake between the SDK wrapper and the SDK core and overload a real function exported by the SDK wrapper; and provide, from the merchant system via the SDK core, a secure payment container request to a payment gateway system.
US11587072B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for secure resource transfer integration. The present invention is configured to electronically receive an access request to access a cold storage wallet associated with the user; initiate an authentication protocol to determine whether the user is authorized to access the cold storage wallet; provide access to the cold storage wallet to the user based on at least determining that the user is authorized to access the cold storage wallet; electronically receive a user request to transfer at least a portion of resources from the cold storage wallet to a resource distribution account associated with the user; execute the transfer of at least the portion of resources from the cold storage wallet to the resource distribution account; and display a notification indicating the execution of the transfer of at least the portion of resources.
US11587069B2
Digital or “smart” contracts execute in a blockchain environment. Any entity (whether public or private) may specify a digital contract via a contract identifier in a blockchain. Because there may be many digital contracts offered as virtual services, the contract identifier uniquely identifies a particular digital contract offered by a virtual machine, vendor or supplier. The blockchain is thus not burdened with the programming code that is required to execute the digital contract. The blockchain need only include or specify the contract identifier (and perhaps one or more contractual parameters), thus greatly simplifying the blockchain and reducing its size (in bytes) and processing requirements.
US11587055B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for facilitating contactless and socially distant payments. The methods further correspond to receiving, in real-time, image data representative of at least a portion of a user body, the user body tracked by a contactless human to device interface system. The methods further include causing to display, by the contactless human to device interface system, a graphical user interface that permits the user to generate a new control event to map to the image data based, at least in part on a determination that the image data is not associated with a control event, generating an updated user expression map that identifies a mapping of the image data to the new control event, and storing the updated user expression map for access by the contactless human to device interface system.
US11587054B2
A transaction request is received. The transaction request includes a merchant identifier. The merchant identifier is for identifying a merchant. The merchant's banking details are appended to the transaction request. The transaction request, with the appended banking details, is transmitted to a user's bank. Confirmation is received that a transaction has been performed in accordance with the transaction request. A confirmation is transmitted to the merchant to indicate that the transaction has been performed.
US11587051B2
In some embodiments, a method to generate a user interface for a subscription management system may include receiving first order data relating to a first subscription offering, receiving second order data related to a second subscription offering, combining the first and second order data into a subscription data structure that, calculating a combined one-time payment amount for both the first and second subscription offerings based on the quantity data, calculating a combined periodic monthly subscription payment amount for both the first and the second subscription offerings based on the quantity and period data, and/or causing presentation of both the combined one-time payment amount and the combined monthly subscription payment amount in the user interface for the subscription management system.
US11587049B2
The described technology is generally directed towards combining user identity information, corresponding to user profile data, with vehicle information, such as for use by a traffic zone management system that charges a fee for vehicle usage in a traffic zone. A user device, such as a mobile communications device, can be coupled to vehicle information such as via a transponder that is detected by roadside units, or by uploading the combined information to a wireless communications system. Based on the combination of information, different billing rates or the like can be applied to different users and vehicle types. The technology can work with various communication systems, including roadside units and wireless communication networks.
US11587047B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for transaction methods for mobile wallet operations in a casino. Various embodiments are directed to applying funds to a user's mobile wallet by transactions at a kiosk, cage, Peripheral System, or other system of the casino. Embodiments are also directed to applying credit to an electronic gaming machine of the casino. Embodiments are also directed to returning or redeeming credit from an electronic gaming machine of the casino to the user. Embodiments are also directed to transferring credit from a mobile wallet to external funds.
US11587044B2
Technologies are described herein for a user interface uniting two primary components, a list view and a reading pane, within a message reading application. Technologies are also described for synchronizing status and parameters between the two primary user interface components. In particular, a user interface for reading messages can represent all components of a conversation with both a list view for presenting a message map, and a reading pane for presenting a content view. The list view can present a list of messages grouped by conversation. The reading pane window can contain smaller windows or frames. Each of the smaller windows or frames can contain a message within a given conversation. Synchronization provided between the list view and a reading pane can allow message selection in one of the user interface components to cause display and selection of the corresponding message in the other user interface component.
US11587042B2
Improved automated techniques are described that more efficiently match candidates to job opportunities. These techniques include a reactive matching process that uses improved pattern-matching algorithms to determine exactly how well a particular individual matches an employer's requirements. In at least one embodiment, results are displayed in real time using user-friendly visual indicators on job displays and/or on a dashboard.
US11587032B2
Systems and methods of the invention relate to managing an inventory of items within a storage container. A storage container can house one or more items for distribution among one or more users such as, for instance, employees. The storage container discussed herein provides authentication of a user, tracking of the inventory each user removes or returns, video/image capture of user during access of the storage container, wireless tracking of items housed within the storage container, among others. The storage container can provide flame retardant protection and/or electrical isolation to one or more items located within the storage container.
US11587029B2
A method for product compliance includes receiving, at data processing hardware, a planogram defining a representative placement of a product on a display shelf and receiving at least one image from an imaging device having a field of view arranged to capture a top surface of the display shelf. The method also includes determining whether the product is disposed on the display shelf based on the at least one image. When the product is disposed on the display shelf, the method includes determining an actual placement of the product on the display shelf and comparing the actual placement of the product to the representative placement of the product defined by the planogram. The method further includes determining a planogram compliance based on the comparison of the actual placement of the product to the representative placement of the product and communicating the planogram compliance to a network.
US11587028B2
A computing system comprises a database of garments in a retailers inventory, a database of users, a database of garments not in inventory, and a database of mappings, wherein a mapping maps one or more users of the database of users to one or more garments of the database of garments and wherein each mapping includes a weight for its corresponding user-garment pair.
US11587022B2
The present application generally relates to methods and systems for facilitating the return and exchange processes of unwanted retail products, and it more specifically relates to coordinating the pickup, drop-off, and delivery of unwanted products from the customer to the retailer. The methods and systems of the present application being designed to facilitate the product return and exchange processes without the need for the customer's credit card or other payment information. The methods and systems of the present application being designed to facilitate earlier confirmation to the retailer that the product has been picked up from the customer.
US11587015B2
A system for delivering articles (34) from a start point (54) to a destination point (56), having at least one drone (20), which a) has a flight control unit (22) configured for autonomous flying, b) has at least one flight motor realized as an electric motor (24), c) has a battery (28) that supplies the flight motor with voltage, d) has a programmable control (30) unit, and e) on its underside has a coupling (34) for electrical, and preferably also mechanical, connection, having a control center (50), which is wirelessly connected to the control unit (30) of the drone (20), having a mobility network consisting of a fleet of vehicles (44), in particular road vehicles, each vehicle having a drone carrier (40), which has a mating coupling (38) that acts in combination with the coupling (36), and having a digital mobility platform (46), which is wirelessly connected to the fleet of vehicles (44) and which is informed about their travel schedules, drone carriers (40) and current locations of the vehicles (44), and is connected to the control center (50).
US11587007B2
A system and method for determining a candidate workflow from a cluster of similar workflows is presented. The process uses the differences classified as insertions of operators, deletions of operators, transpositions of operators and operator shifting in a parallel workflow to determine similarities in the workflow cluster and extract a candidate similar to the workflow in the comparison query. The extracted candidate workflow can then be used to suggest modifications to the workflow in the comparison query.
US11587005B2
According to one embodiment, an inspection support system includes a terminal device, a memory device, and a processing device. The terminal device is auxiliary to a worker inspecting an equipment, and is configured to input and output information. The memory device stores a main scenario of inspection work. The main scenario includes a plurality of block scenarios. The plurality of block scenarios each includes preparation procedure content, inspection item content, and restoration procedure content. The processing device refers to the memory device and transmits instruction information to the terminal device. The instruction information corresponds to at least one of the preparation procedure content, the inspection item content, or the restoration procedure content. The terminal device outputs the instruction information transmitted from the processing device and transmits response information to the processing device. The processing device transmits other instruction information to the terminal device.
US11587002B1
In response to a request for currency transportation services for a retail location (e.g., providing currency to the retail location or picking-up currency from the retail location), one or more currency transportation requirements are identified and provided as input to a currency transportation model to identify and/or assign a carrier and/or a financial institution location to serve as a final destination or an origin for the currency transportation services. The output of the currency transportation model is utilized to initiate the currency transportation services by transmitting a notification to a carrier-operated computing entity to schedule the requested currency transportation services.
US11586998B2
Gaming systems and apparatus may be implemented to promote more efficient use of resources by players by monitoring their use of said resources in a competitive gaming system. Some implementations include determining and promoting goals for resource consumption and tracking/monitoring the progression of one or more players in reaching said goals. The competitive gaming system may include tracking different players' progress and providing updates of said progress in a points system where the players are competing to get ahead.
US11586995B2
A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments further include receiving a multi-period matrix formulation of a least a portion of an LP supply chain master planning problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network and having a planning horizon divided into time buckets separated by time-bucket boundaries, mapping constraints of the LP supply chain master planning problem and variables of the LP supply chain master planning problem to the time buckets, calculating a quantity of cross-over variables for the constraints and the time buckets, selecting one or more decomposition boundaries from the time-bucket boundaries, and formulating at least two time-based decomposed subproblems by decomposing the LP supply chain master planning problem at the one or more decomposition boundaries.
US11586991B2
A secure on-demand transportation service provides transportation to a passenger at a specified pick-up location. To this end, a transportation request is received from a passenger application running on a passenger's mobile computing device. A vehicle is assigned to provide the requested transportation, and an encrypted data package is generated which includes encrypted information that is unique to the current transportation request. The encrypted data package is provided to a vehicle application and displayed on an externally visible display associated with the vehicle at the pick-up location. The displayed encrypted data package is scanned by the passenger and the passenger application compares the scanned data to previously received data to determine if there is a match. If so, the passenger is informed and a match message is sent. The match message confirms that the vehicle has arrived at the pick-up location and that the passenger has found the vehicle.
US11586977B2
An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The control method of the electronic apparatus includes receiving, from a first external electronic apparatus and a second external electronic apparatus, a first artificial intelligence model and a second artificial intelligence model used by the first and second external electronic apparatuses, respectively, and a plurality of learning data stored in the first and second external electronic apparatuses, identifying first learning data, which corresponds to second learning data received from the second external electronic apparatus, among learning data received from the first external electronic apparatus, training the second artificial intelligence model used by the second external electronic apparatus based on the first learning data, and transmitting the trained second artificial intelligence model to the second external electronic apparatus.
US11586966B2
Techniques regarding the development and/or analysis of one or more quantum computing programs are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a circuit component, operatively coupled to the processor, that can create a quantum computing program over a period of time. The computer executable components can also comprise a visualization component, operatively coupled to the processor, that can generates a quantum state visualization that depicts a characterization of the quantum computing program over the period of time.
US11586964B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for device component management using deep learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining telemetry data from one or more enterprise devices; determining, for each of the one or more enterprise devices, values for multiple device attributes by processing the obtained telemetry data; generating, for each of the one or more enterprise devices, at least one prediction related to lifecycle information of at least one device component by processing the determined attribute values using one or more deep learning techniques; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on the at least one generated prediction.
US11586958B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, methods for performing operations associated with machine learning. Machine learning operations may include processing a data set, training a machine learning algorithm, and applying a trained algorithm to a data set. Some of the machine learning operations, such as pattern matching operations, may be performed within a memory device.
US11586945B2
Methods and systems are provided for modifying an application provided by a cloud-based computing system. The application is used by end users of an organization that is part of the cloud-based computing system. A clickstream monitoring module monitors a clickstream generated by each end user as that end user interacts with the application to generate a set of clickstream data for that particular end user. Each set of clickstream data indicates a path of interaction with features of the application by a particular end user. The sets of clickstream data can then be processed at an analytics engine to extract usage patterns that indicate how end users interact with different features of the application during usage of the application. The extracted usage patterns indicate which features the end users interact with and in what order. An artificial intelligence engine can then generate, based on the extracted usage patterns, at least one recommendation for modifying one or more features of the application to tailor the application for use by the end users in view of the extracted usage patterns.
US11586938B2
A building management system for a building system includes a building system interface configured to receive building system data; a knowledge base configured to receive the building system data, the knowledge base providing a model of the building system, the model including semantic descriptions of the building system data, the semantic descriptions of the building system data being arranged in an ontology; and a user interface configured to access the knowledge base.
US11586936B2
Systems and methods for both technical and non-technical users to create content for interactive synthetic characters are provided. In some embodiments, a conversation editor may be configured to create a traversable script for an interactive synthetic character by receiving a set of conversation rules from a user. These rules can be used to match certain words or phrases that a user speaks or types, or to monitor for a physical movement of the user or synthetic character. Each conversation rule can include responses to be performed by the interactive synthetic character. The responses can include, for example, producing audible or textual speech for the synthetic character, performing one or more animations, playing one or more sound effects, retrieving data from one or more data sources, and the like. A traversable script can be generated from the set of conversation rules that when executed by the synthetic character allows for the dynamic interactions. In some embodiments, the traversable script can be navigated by a state engine using one or more navigational directives associated with the conversation rules.
US11586913B2
A method includes steps: 1) obtaining monitoring information of different monitoring points in normal state of power equipment; 2) setting faults and obtaining monitoring information of different fault types, positions, monitoring points of the equipment; 3) taking the monitoring information obtained in steps 1) to 2) as training dataset, taking the fault types and positions as labels, inputting the training dataset and the labels to deep CNN for training; 4) collecting monitoring data, performing verification and classification using step 3), obtaining probability values corresponding to each of the labels; 5) taking classification results of different labels as basic probability assignment values, with respect to a monitoring system composed of multiple sensors, taking different sensors as different evidences for decision fusion, performing fusion processing using the DS evidence theory to obtain fault diagnosis result. The invention can intelligently realize fault detection, fault type determination, and fault positioning of the power equipment.
US11586912B2
Methods, systems, and circuits for training a neural network include applying noise to a set of training data across wordlines using a respective noise switch on each wordline. A neural network is trained using the noise-applied training data to generate a classifier that is robust against adversarial training.
US11586906B2
A computing device receives first data on which to train an artificial neural network (ANN). Using magnetic random access memory (MRAM), the computing device trains the ANN by performing a first set of training iterations on the first data. Each of the first set of iterations includes writing values for a set of weights of the ANN to the MRAM using first write parameters corresponding to a first write error rate. After performing the first set of iterations, the computing device performs a second set of training iterations on the first data. Each of the second set of iterations includes writing values for the set of weights of the ANN to the MRAM using second write parameters corresponding to a second write error rate. The second write error rate is lower than the first write error rate. The computing device stores values for the trained ANN.
US11586904B2
Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that perform adaptive optimization with improved convergence properties. The adaptive optimization techniques described herein are useful in various optimization scenarios, including, for example, training a machine-learned model such as, for example, a neural network. In particular, according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system implementing the adaptive optimization technique can, over a plurality of iterations, employ an adaptive learning rate while also ensuring that the learning rate is non-increasing.
US11586903B2
A method of controlling computing operations in a deep neural network (DNN) is provided. A network structure of the DNN including a plurality of layers is analyzed. A hyper parameter is set based on the network structure and real-time context information of a system configured to drive the DNN. The hyper parameter is used for performing an early-stop function. Depth-wise jobs are assigned to resources included in the system based on the hyper parameter to execute the depth-wise jobs. Each of the depth-wise jobs includes at least a part of the computing operations. When an early-stop event for a first layer among the layers is generated while the plurality of depth-wise jobs are executed, a subset computing operations included in at least one second layer are performed and a remainder of the computing operations are stopped. The at least one second layer is arranged prior to the first layer.
US11586899B2
A method of fabricating a neuromorphic device includes forming a variable-resistance layer between a first terminal and a second terminal, the variable-resistance layer varies in resistance based on an oxygen concentration in the variable-resistance layer. The method further includes forming an electrolyte layer over the variable-resistance layer that is stable at room temperature and that conducts oxygen ions in accordance with an applied voltage. The method further includes forming a gate layer over the electrolyte layer to apply a voltage on the electrolyte layer and the variable-resistance layer, the gate layer formed using an oxygen scavenging material.
US11586892B1
An apparatus includes a preprocessing network and a quantized neural network. The preprocessing network may be configured to (a) receive an input, (b) perform a transform operation on the input, and (c) generate an intermediate result in response to the transform operation. The quantized neural network may be configured to (a) receive the intermediate result, (b) perform a plurality of weighted operations on the intermediate result, and (c) generate an output in response to the weighted operations. The quantized neural network is generally adapted to a hardware constraint of an edge device. The weighted operations generally have a quantization loss corresponding to the hardware constraint. The transform operation performed by the preprocessing network is generally configured to provide compensation for the quantization loss.
US11586886B2
A processor-implemented neural network processing method includes: obtaining a kernel bit-serial block corresponding to first data of a weight kernel of a layer in a neural network; generating a feature map bit-serial block based on second data of one or more input feature maps of the layer; and generating at least a portion of an output feature map by performing a convolution operation of the layer using a bitwise operation between the kernel bit-serial block and the feature map bit-serial block.
US11586885B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a memory device including a first memory element and a second memory element. The memory device includes a substrate and a bottom electrode disposed over the substrate. The first memory element is disposed between the bottom electrode and a top electrode, such that the first memory element has a first area. A second memory element is disposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The second memory element is laterally separated from the first memory element by a non-zero distance. The second memory element has a second area different than the first area.
US11586879B2
Systems and methods for classifying radio frequency signal modulations include receiving, at a consolidated neural network, a complex quadrature vector of interest representative of a baseband signal derived from a radio frequency signal, generating multiple data representations of the vector of interest, providing each data representation to one of multiple parallel neural networks in the consolidated neural network, and receiving, from the consolidated neural network, a classification result for the baseband signal. The consolidated neural network may be trained to classify baseband signals with respect to known modulation types by receiving complex quadrature training vectors, each including samples of a baseband signal derived from a radio frequency signal of known modulation type, comparing a classification result for the training vector to the known modulation type to determine modulation classification performance, and modifying a configuration parameter of the consolidated neural network dependent on the determined modulation classification performance.
US11586862B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to collect a plurality of data sets, each data set from a respective sensor in a plurality of sensors, and each data set including a range, an azimuth angle, and a range rate for a detection point of the respective one of the sensors on an object to determine, for each detection point, a radial component of a ground speed of the detection point based on the data set associated with the detection point and a speed of a vehicle, and to generate a plurality of clusters, each cluster including selected detection points within a distance threshold from each other and having respective radial components of ground speeds that are (1) above a first threshold and (2) within a second threshold of each other.
US11586858B2
An exemplary method includes obtaining a group of classification labels and corresponding confidence values for at least one object identified within an image using a computer-based object recognition technique; generating a conversation, to resolve ambiguity among the classification labels, the generating including iteratively performing the following when (i) each of the confidence values is below a threshold value or (ii) two or more of the confidence values are above the threshold value: using a wordweb to identify properties that distinguish between a first one and a second one of the labels, ranking the properties; selecting the property having the highest rank to generate a question, and filtering at least one of the first and second label based on user input received in response to the question; and when only one of the confidence values exceeds the threshold value, classifying the object using the label corresponding to the one confidence value.
US11586856B2
An object recognition device 80 includes a scene determination unit 81, a learning-model selection unit 82, and an object recognition unit 83. The scene determination unit 81 determines, based on information obtained during driving of a vehicle, a scene of the vehicle. The learning-model selection unit 82 selects, in accordance with the determined scene, a learning model to be used for object recognition from two or more learning models. The object recognition unit 83 recognizes, using the selected learning model, an object in an image to be photographed during driving of the vehicle.
US11586841B2
A method and system for generating user driven adaptive object visualizations using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) models is disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating a first set of object vectors for an object based on at least one input received from a user. The first set of vectors corresponds to a first set of visualizations for the object The method further includes capturing at least one tacit reaction type of the user in response to user interaction with each of the first set of visualizations, computing a score for each portion of each of the first set of visualizations, identifying a plurality of portions from at least one of the first set of object visualizations, generating a second set of object vectors, and processing the second set of object vectors sequentially through a plurality of GAN models to generate a final object visualization of the object.
US11586836B2
A method for estimating channel parameters includes: sending a paging signal for identifying the tag device; sending training sequence information, receiving first training sequence feedback information during a non-working period of the tag device, receiving, during a working period of the tag device, second training sequence feedback information modulated by the tag device, and estimating the channel parameters of the tag device according to the training sequence feedback information and the second training sequence feedback information. The tag device having at least one antenna of the present disclosure can modulate carrier signals to transmit information, has advantages such as a fast transmission rate, a large amount of transmission data and a strong anti-interference capability, and can adapt to different application scenarios.
US11586835B2
An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for generating and displaying a dynamic language translation overlay that include accessing a frame buffer of the GPU, analyzing, in the frame buffer of the GPU, a frame representing a section of a stream of displayed data that is being displayed by a display device, based on the analyzed frame, identifying a reference patch that includes an instruction to identify an object comprising original text, based on the instruction included in the reference patch, recognizing the original text, generating translated text, generating an overlay comprising an augmentation layer, the augmentation layer including the translated text, and overlaying the overlay, onto the displayed data such that the translated text is viewable while the original text is obscured from view.
US11586831B2
Provided are a speech translation method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a source speech corresponding to a to-be-translated language; acquiring a specified target language; inputting the source speech and indication information matched with the target language into a pre-trained speech translation model, where the speech translation model is configured to translate a language in a first language set into a language in a second language set, the first language set includes a plurality of languages, the first language set includes the to-be-translated language, the second language set includes a plurality of languages, and the second language set includes the target language; and acquiring a translated speech corresponding to the target language and output by the speech translation model; where the to-be-translated language is different from the target language.
US11586826B2
Provided are processes of balancing between exploration and optimization with knowledge discovery processes applied to unstructured data with tight interrogation budgets. Natural language texts may be processed, such as into respective vectors, by a natural language processing model. An output vector of (or intermediate vector within) an example NLP model may include over 500 dimensions, and in many cases 700-800 dimensions. A process may manage and measure semantic coverage by defining geometric characteristics, such as size or a relative distance matrix, of a sematic space corresponding to an evaluation during which the natural language texts are obtained based on the vectors of the natural language texts. A system executing the process may generate a visualization of the semantic space, which may be reduced to or is a latent embedding space, by reducing the dimensionality of vectors while preserving their relative distances between the high and reduced dimensionality forms.
US11586824B2
A system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and method are provided. The system comprises at least one processor and memory storing instructions which when executed by the at least one processor configure the at least one processor to perform the method. The non-transitory computer-readable medium has instructions thereon, which when executed by a processor, perform the method. The method comprises determining a similarity score between a first webpage and a second webpage, determining a popularity score of a link between the first webpage and the second webpage, determining a difference between the similarity score and the popularity score, and determining that the link between the first webpage and the second webpage may be improved if the difference is greater than a threshold value.
US11586822B2
Method and apparatus for adapting regular expressions for different contexts. Embodiments include identifying a regular expression in an initial form provided by a user. Embodiments include retrieving, from a repository, an adapted form of the regular expression based on the initial form. Embodiments include transforming the regular expression based on the adapted form to generate an adapted regular expression. Embodiments include evaluating the adapted regular expression to produce an output.
US11586818B2
An in-context cognitive information assistant is provided by: obtaining a context for a user, wherein the context comprises a calendar activity with one or more other users; supplementing the context by obtaining one or more conversations with the user related to the context; extracting cognitive data for the context and the conversations; and finding relevant materials in a corpus using the cognitive data. The relevant materials are used to prepare the user for interactions with other users.
US11586815B2
An artificial document generation method generating a larger set of artificial documents which mimics a smaller set of source documents. The method may include deriving metadata parameters from source documents, each parameter characterizing the source documents and having more than one possible value. The deriving may include: determining which ratio of the source documents has each of the values, defining metadata ratios characteristic of the source documents; training a model, on the source documents, to output artificial documents; and running the model as trained thereby to output artificial documents and overriding at least some words generated by the model in the draft artificial documents. Overriding is configured to ensure that at least some of the ratios characteristic of the smaller set of source documents are retained in the larger set.
US11586792B2
Embodiments are provided to simulate a quantum circuit. A system receives a quantum circuit (or its representation), generates a graph, and adds edges for each n-qubit of fusion to be applied. Costs are estimated or calculated for various paths of gate fusion between endpoints in the graph. One or more paths are selected, for example, the lowest cost path based on a Dijkstra algorithm evaluation. A unitary matrix for each gate fusion is then generated for simulating the quantum circuit. A simulation is performed locally or remotely based on the gate fusions along the selected one or more paths, and thus, improving the memory and processor performance of the simulation.
US11586784B2
A method for augmented reality content production based on attribute information application according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, as a method for augmented reality content production based on attribute information application by a production application executed by at least one or more processors of a computing device, comprises providing a virtual object authoring space which is a virtual space for authoring a virtual object and includes at least one or more reference objects; providing a virtual object authoring interface for the virtual object authoring space; generating augmentation relationship attribute information based on a virtual object generated based on the provided virtual object authoring interface and at least one reference object of the virtual object authoring space; storing the virtual object by including the generated augmentation relationship attribute information; and displaying the stored virtual object on a reference object in a different space other than the virtual object authoring space based on the augmentation relationship attribute information.
US11586780B2
A PUF-film includes a circuit structure having a plurality of circuit elements, wherein the circuit structure is evaluable with respect to a plurality of electric capacitance values being arranged between the plurality of circuit elements, and is evaluable with respect to a plurality of electric resistance values of the plurality of circuit components.
US11586775B2
In some examples, securing data on a computing device includes one or more cryptographic operations on at least a portion of data stored in a memory module of the computing device in response to a change of operational state of the system from a first operational state to a second operational state.
US11586771B2
An integrated third-party API data visualization process (ITPDVP) provides the ability to gather information from multiple different sources into a single view without a user of the device having to navigate to each source from which information is gathered. ITPDVP is a process that allows a user to visualize data from one or more third party API sources from within a context view client.
US11586769B2
An automatically predetermined credential system for a remote administrative operating system (OS) authorization and policy control is disclosed. Administrative activities are packaged in single-use downloaded software program. When executed, the administrative access to the OS is activated before completing the administrative activities. The single-use downloaded software program has policies that performs checks on a user computer executing the software program. The policies include checking firewall settings, confirming virus checking, interrogating software to confirm patches or updates have been performed, checking for key loggers or other surveillance software or devices The single-use downloaded software is protected with a passcode to prevent activation in an unauthorized way.
US11586767B2
A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a secret recording button on touch screens of a user's and contact's mobile devices, recording a video or a photo by the user's mobile device, applying on the recorded video or photo a re-watch mode by using the secret recording button, displaying in the message box of the user and the contact the recorded video or photo. The re-watch mode causes the mobile device to transmit the recorded video or photo to be saved in the server, displaying on the touch screens of the mobile devices a re-watch button, sending to the server a re-watch command by using the re-watch button in both mobile devices, receiving from the server the recorded video or photo to the mobile devices, and posting it in the message box of the user and the contact.
US11586766B1
An exemplary apparatus includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to store, using a computing device, on an immutable sequential listing, a plurality of user identifiers, wherein each user identifier of the plurality of user identifiers is associated with the same user, each user identifier of the plurality of user identifiers is associated with a plurality of action data, and each of the plurality of user identifiers is associated with a user role of the user, receive, using a computing device, information relating to an element of posting data associated with a posting generator, classify, as a function of the received information, the information to a user identifier of the plurality of user identifiers as a function of the plurality of action data associated with the user identifier and reveal the user identifier to the posting generator.
US11586745B2
An integrated one-chip security module for a smart energy security threat response included in an intelligent smart meter constituting a smart energy system includes: a first core unit collecting measured data generated in an operation process of the smart energy system and stores the measured data in a security memory; and a second core unit encrypting the measured data stored in the security memory and transmitting the encrypted data to an external device.
US11586710B2
Methods for protecting software licensing information via a trusted platform module (TPM) are performed by systems and devices. When a licensing server is unreachable, a license is generated for a software application by a licensing manager. The license is generated via a secure register of the TPM using an asymmetric key, specific to the software application and policy-tied to the secure register, to generate a signature of a hashed license file for the software application. The asymmetric key is stored, mapped to the license file, and used for subsequent license validation. A licensing manager validation command is provided to validate the license using the key, as applied to the hash, to verify the signature and checking validity of the time stamp. Time stamp expiration or alteration of the license are determined to provoke invalidation indications for the validating application.
US11586702B2
Embodiments described herein are generally related to a method and a system for performing a computation using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system, and, more specifically, to providing an approximate solution to an optimization problem using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system that includes a group of trapped ions. A hybrid quantum-classical computing system that is able to provide a solution to a combinatorial optimization problem may include a classical computer, a system controller, and a quantum processor. The methods and systems described herein include an efficient and noise resilient method for constructing trial states in the quantum processor in solving a problem in a hybrid quantum-classical computing system, which provides improvement over the conventional method for computation in a hybrid quantum-classical computing system.
US11586698B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for surfacing collected web content are presented. A collection of web content may be maintained, wherein the collection of web content is divided into a plurality of sections, each of the plurality of sections comprising a subset of web content from a different webpage. An indication to export the collection of web content to a productivity application may be received. A plurality of attributes that each of the plurality of sections have a value for may be identified. A productivity application document may be populated with the plurality of attributes and the corresponding values from each of the sections.
US11586693B2
Displaying multi-source content based on interaction data, including: identifying user interaction data associated with computer-implemented applications, the user interaction data including interaction data of a particular user; identifying social interaction data associated with the computer-implemented applications, the social interaction data including interaction data of one or more social contacts of the particular user; identifying regional interaction data associated with the computer-implemented applications, the regional interaction data including interaction data of users of a particular region; aggregating content associated with the computer-implemented applications based on the user interaction data, the filtered social interaction data, and the filtered regional interaction data; scoring the aggregated content based on weight components; applying, based on the content scores, interface adjustments to interface elements of a graphical timeline, the graphical timeline depicting the interface elements associated with the computer-implemented applications; and rendering the graphical timeline for display on a display device.
US11586692B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing streaming data. The data can come from various sources. Worker nodes can be configured to process the streaming data, without delays that may be caused by indexing the data. The data can be filtered and/or transformed as it is processed. In some cases, data can be stored in a data store without transformation. The data in the data store can be accessed and processed at a later time.
US11586691B2
An online system receives a content item including an image from a content-providing user and/or receives an interaction with the content item from a viewing user. The online system accesses a machine-learning model that is trained based on a set of images of items associated with an entity and attributes of each image. The online system applies the model to predict a probability that the content item includes an image of an item associated with the entity based on attributes of the image included in the content item. Based on the predicted probability, the online system updates a profile of the user (i.e., the content-providing user and/or the viewing user) to include an affinity for the item. Upon determining an opportunity to present content to the user, the online system selects content for presentation to the user based on the profile and sends the content for presentation to the user.
US11586685B2
A computing device may include a memory and a processor configured to cooperate with the memory to receive data from browsers of client devices configured to remotely access different Web applications through the browsers, with the data being indicative of user actions performed within the different Web applications. The processor may also be configured to cooperate with the memory to generate a data structure separately from the different Web applications based upon the received data, determine an action to perform based upon the data structure, and perform the determined action.
US11586681B2
A system for adversarial targeting mitigation is provided, the system generally comprising identifying, using an artificial intelligence and machine learning model engine, a user targeting pattern employed by an entity based on interaction data between the entity and one or more users, based on the identified pattern of targeting, training the machine learning model to identify specific user profile data correlated with specific responses from the entity, identifying, using the machine learning model, a subset of one or more favorable responses from the specific responses, and triggering the one or more favorable responses by altering the user profile data for the one or more users prior to interaction with the specific entity.
US11586674B2
This invention relates to methods and systems for searching. It is particularly applicable to methods of searching which enable efficient identification of compatible portfolios. Embodiments of the invention propose methods of searching which address the huge search space issue associated with identifying compatible portfolios. In particular, embodiments of the invention start their search operations simultaneously from both sides by both trying to form valid portfolios from candidate products until a valid solution is found and trying to find conflicts from the defined compatibility rules until a conflict is found which leads to the conclusion that no valid solution exists. A conclusion from either process will stop the whole searching process which can significantly reduce blind and unnecessary searching in the whole search space. In embodiments of the invention, the two sides of the search process are also connected in a way which permits two-way communications between the processes to share information about invalid search branches during the execution of the search. The shared information is then used to direct the current and later stage of search execution. Such exchange of information can also significantly reduce the search space and create more efficient searching systems and methods, particularly by stopping search agents from carrying out invalid future searches in branches that another agent has already identified as invalid.
US11586669B2
A process for the automatic selection of digital photographs from an archive includes the step of providing software programmed to perform at least the following steps and to perform them through such software: accessing an archive of digital photographs containing a plurality of digital photographs; setting a reference geolocation, referred to below as the “home” position; including in an identifiable selection the photographs that comply with at least the following conditions: they were taken at a spatial distance from the “home” position greater than or “greater than or equal to” a predetermined distance; and they were taken in a time sequence between each other during a timeframe where photographs taken at a distance that is less than or “less than or equal to” the predetermined distance from the “home” position are absent; preferably ordering the printing and/or archiving of the selection.
US11586654B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for providing search term suggestions in a search system are disclosed. Embodiments as disclosed may utilize the sound of an original search term to locate candidate terms based on the sound of the candidate terms and the frequency of appearance of the candidate terms in the corpus of documents being searched. A set of search term suggestions can then be determined from the candidate terms and returned to the user as search term suggestions for the original search term.
US11586650B2
The present invention provides methods, systems and computer program products that enable the optimized synchronization of data between mobile client devices assigned to field operators in an industrial plant and a centralized repository for plant data. The invention optimizes synchronization of data between mobile client devices assigned to field operators in an industrial plant and a centralized repository for plant data by selecting a reduced set of data records associated with a field operator, for data synchronization based on one or more of a set of data record selection parameters, and a set of version synchronization rules to ensure that only data records that are relevant to a field operator's foreseeable activities in a shift are downloaded to the field operator's mobile client device.
US11586642B2
Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
US11586635B2
A server system receives a plurality of comments on a post in an online service, receives feedback on respective comments of the plurality of comments from users of the online service and retrieves feedback weights for the users. The server system ranks the plurality of comments using the feedback and feedback weights and provides the plurality of comments, ordered in accordance with the ranking, for display.
US11586631B2
An embodiment includes deriving usage data associated with records of a database by monitoring requests to perform read operations on the records of the database. The embodiment generates record correlation data representative of correlations between respective groups of records of the database by parsing the usage data associated with the records of the database. The embodiment stores a plurality of records received as respective write requests during a first time interval in an intermediate storage medium. The embodiment identifies a correlation in the record correlation data between a first record of the plurality of records and a second record of the plurality of records. The embodiment selects, responsive to identifying the correlation, a first location in the database for writing the first record and a second location in the database for writing the second record based on a proximity of the first location to the second location.
US11586617B2
In an embodiment, a method for generating a search query for a graph database includes displaying a list of vertex properties on a user interface; receiving, via the user interface, a selection of one or more of the displayed vertex properties; forming a graph database query based on selection; and displaying a report containing a result of the query.
US11586614B2
Distributed ledgered data is stored within a distributed persistent storage system comprising multiple persistent storage systems as distributed ledgered participants. In various embodiments, the distributed ledgered data is maintained using the native capabilities of a persistent storage system. The distributed ledgered data is replicated as persistent data objects in a “ledgered repository of objects” that are replicated at each of the persistent storage systems. Changes at one persistent storage system are recorded within a block in a distributed blockchain that is distributed across each of the other distributed ledgered participants. The other distributed ledgered participants read the changes from the blockchain and apply the changes to the respective replicas at each of the other distributed ledgered participants. Hence, this approach is referred to as blockchain apply. Blockchain apply may be used to replicate the repository objects of various forms of PSSs. In a DBMS, a repository of objects is a table, where each record or row is an object in the repository. In a file system, a repository of objects is a directory, where each directory and file therein is an object in the repository. In a document storage system (DOCS), a repository of objects is a collection of documents, where each document is an object in the repository.
US11586613B2
Various embodiments provide methods, systems, apparatus, computer program products, and/or the like for managing, ingesting, monitoring, updating, and/or extracting/retrieving information/data associated with an electronic record (ER) stored in an ER data store and/or accessing information/data from the ER data store, wherein the ERs are generated, updated/modified, and/or accessed via a graph-based domain ontology.
US11586612B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method for enabling creating and managing structured tables on a blockchain thereby facilitating retrieval of data records with standard database operational commands and in a structured manner. Creating structured tables as per a defined schema provides for data storage in a manner which enables easy integration with existing business applications. Further, the system and method provides for storing unstructured data records in a structured manner in the blockchain.
US11586609B2
An embodiment for contextualizing abnormal events which employ location-based social networks, LBSN, data to determine events that may be linked to the abnormal events is provided. The embodiment may include detecting an occurrence of an abnormal event within a geographic region, wherein the abnormal event occurs at an occurrence time. The embodiment may also include obtaining location-based social networks, LBSN, data relating to the geographic region for a time period including the occurrence time. The embodiment may further include analyzing the obtained LBSN data, wherein the analyzation determines a linked event within the geographic region for the time period. The embodiment may also include associating the linked event with the abnormal event.
US11586605B2
The invention discloses a processing method for process changing time-series database table structure, wherein comprising following steps: an application side generates a data table containing a table name ID, a schema version, and a column ID; when a data column is increased, the application side modifies a schema of the data table, increases the schema version, assigns a new column ID number to a newly increased column incrementally, and assigns a default value to the newly increased column; according to a data insertion request of the application side, a data node receives data of a schema version carrying a data table from the application side and writes the received data, wherein writing the received data comprises: storing the schema version of the data table carried by data from the application side by the data node, and writing the received data, and writing the received data; when the data node receives new data from the application side, comparing the schema version of the data table carried by the new data with a stored schema version of the same data table; and the data node writes data according to the comparison result. According to the method, the operation of changing the structure of a table can be completed instantly, the historical data does not need to be changed, new and old table structure definitions can be used in parallel, and the flexibility can be improved.
US11586602B1
An apparatus includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including receiving a request for object identifiers, the request associated with a unique session, sending an object identifier, the object identifier associated with an object from a list of objects each having a corresponding object identifier, receiving a request for data, the request referencing the object identifier and a data value associated with the object, performing an in-memory retrieval for the data value associated with the object identifier, and transmitting the data value.
US11586596B2
Data cataloging has become a necessity for empowering organizations with analytical ability. Conventional cataloging systems may fail to provide proper visualization of data to the different stakeholders of an organization. The present disclosure provides a hierarchical dynamic cataloging system so that visualization of data at different levels would be possible for different stake holders. In the present disclosure, a hierarchical structure of algorithms and multiple stake holders along with relevant metadata is generated. Further, a catalog is generated by performing a mapping across components comprised in the hierarchical structure and identifying relationship across the components based on mapping. The catalog gets dynamically updated and provides a dynamic view of the algorithms and associated metadata to the multiple stakeholders of an organization. Further, the disclosure supports reuse of already developed algorithms across multiple applications and domains resulting in optimization of resources and time.
US11586586B2
The described technology is generally directed towards improving indexes and queries for files by indexing file directories. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory and a processor that can execute the components stored in the memory. The components can comprise a data interface to couple to a database system comprising a database storing metadata describing a file system, wherein the database comprises records that correspond to ones of directories of the file system, and wherein the records comprise a field that corresponds to files logically stored in the directories of the file system. The system can further comprise an indexing component that creates an index for the records based on an index key and an analysis of the ones of the files and the directories to which the records correspond, wherein the index comprises links between instances of the index key and ones of the directories. Further, the system can comprise a query component that queries the database for a file of the file system by employing a search key and the index.
US11586581B2
A method for a data capturing and structuring includes determining at least one data capture mode for processing a non-electronic data record into an electronic data record and selecting a record owner having a plurality of existing data records to be associated with the electronic data record. The method also includes capturing the non-electronic data record into the electronic data record and collecting metadata from data associated with the record owner and the electronic data record and data generated during the capturing. Further, the method includes creating structured data records by combining the electronic data record and the metadata and exporting the structured data records.
US11586571B2
Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. A representative system includes an interconnection network; a processor; and a plurality of configurable circuit clusters. Each configurable circuit cluster includes a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array; a synchronous network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array; and an asynchronous packet network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array. A representative configurable circuit includes a configurable computation circuit and a configuration memory having a first, instruction memory storing a plurality of data path configuration instructions to configure a data path of the configurable computation circuit; and a second, instruction and instruction index memory storing a plurality of spoke instructions and data path configuration instruction indices for selection of a master synchronous input, a current data path configuration instruction, and a next data path configuration instruction for a next configurable computation circuit.
US11586564B2
A method of a buffer memory device, a storage system, and a buffer memory device are provided. The method of the buffer memory device, the buffer memory device having a lower tier memory and a higher tier memory, may include receiving a new entry request, determining that the new entry request includes an HOL entry, selecting an entry on the higher tier memory to be tiered down to the lower tier memory in response to determining that the new entry request includes an HOL entry, removing the selected entry from the higher tier memory, storing the HOL entry in the higher tier memory of the buffer memory device, and outputting the HOL entry to an arbiter.
US11586561B2
A computer device reads an indicator from a configuration file that identifies a granularity of units of data at which to track validity. The granularity is one of a plurality of granularities ranging from one unit of data to many units of data. The computer device generates a machine-readable file configured to cause a processing device of a memory system to track validity at the identified granularity using a plurality of data validity counters with each data validity counter in the plurality of data validity counters tracking validity of a group of units of data at the identified granularity. The computer device transfers the machine-readable file to a memory of the memory system.
US11586547B2
Methods, systems, and devices for an enhanced instruction caching scheme are described. A memory controller may include a first closely-coupled memory component that is associated with storing data and control information and a second closely-coupled memory component that is associated with storing control information. The memory controller may be configured to retrieve data from the first memory closely-coupled component and control information from a second closely-coupled memory component. Control information may be stored in the first closely-coupled memory component, and a memory controller may access the control information stored in the first closely-coupled memory component by transferring, from the first closely-coupled memory component, the control information into the second closely-coupled memory component. After transferring the control information into the second closely-coupled memory component, the memory controller may access the control information from the second closely-coupled memory component.
US11586546B2
A method and apparatus for cache management and eviction polices using unsupervised reinforcement learning schemes is disclosed.
US11586545B2
Memory pages of a local application program are prefetched from a memory of a remote host. A method of prefetching the memory pages from the remote memory includes detecting that a cache-line access made by a processor executing the local application program is an access to a cache line containing page table data of the local application program, identifying data pages that are referenced by the page table data, and fetching the identified data pages from the remote memory and storing the fetched data pages in a local memory.
US11586541B2
One embodiment can provide a node controller in a multiprocessor system. The node controller can include a processor interface to interface with a processor, a memory interface to interface with a fabric-attached memory, a node-controller interface to interface with a remote node controller, and a cache-coherence logic to operate in a first mode or a second mode. The cache-coherence logic manages cache coherence for a local memory of the processor coupled to the processor interface when operating in the first mode, and the cache-coherence logic manages cache coherence for the fabric-attached memory coupled to the memory interface when operating in the second mode.
US11586537B2
A data processing system includes a store datapath configured to perform tag checking in a store operation to a store address associated with a cache line in a memory. The store datapath includes a cache lookup circuit configured to pre-load a store cache line that is to be updated in the store operation, wherein the store cache line comprises the cache line in the memory to be updated in the store operation. The store datapath also includes a tag check circuit configured to compare a store address tag associated with the store address to a store operation tag associated with the store operation. The data processing system may include a load datapath configured to perform tag checking in a load operation from a load cache line in the memory by comparing a load address tag associated with the load address to a load operation tag associated with the load operation.
US11586534B2
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for identifying flaky tests. Historical running data of a test case may be obtained. Statistical analysis may be performed based on the historical running data. It may be determined whether the test case is a flaky test based on the statistical analysis.
US11586532B2
Certain example embodiments relate to software test with automated configurable harness capabilities. Certain example embodiments automatically generate harnesses and properly encoded seed inputs by recording the input operations of a system under test (SUT), identifying the processes to be fuzz tested, generating seed inputs and a manifest describing the SUT's input vectors, and generating the harness to effectively feed derived (and potentially “malformed”) input to the SUT. The techniques described herein may be used to test a computer system, e.g., to probe for potential vulnerabilities.
US11586531B2
Generating test input values for functional components based on test coverage analysis is disclosed herein. In one example, a processor device of a computing device performs a test coverage analysis of a plurality of programming instructions of a functional component that takes a plurality of input parameters. Based on the test coverage analysis, the processor device identifies a subset of the programming instructions for which testing has not been performed. The processor device then identifies a data type for each of the functional component's input parameters, and generates test input values based on the data types and the test coverage analysis, including a test input value that causes executable instructions corresponding to the subset of programming instructions to be executed during subsequent testing. The test input values may be used during subsequent unit testing to ensure full test coverage of the functional component.
US11586513B2
The disclosed technology provides techniques, systems, and apparatus for containing and recovering from uncorrectable memory errors in distributed computing environment through migration of virtual machines and associated memory to a target host machine. An aspect of the disclosed technology includes a hypervisor or virtual machine manager that receives signaling of an uncorrectable memory error detected by a host machine. The virtual machine manager then uses information received via the signaling to identify virtual memory addresses or memory pages associated with the corrupted memory element so as to allow for containment and recovery from the error, and for live migration of the virtual machine.
US11586509B2
An example computing device includes a connector to establish a connection with an electronic device. The computing device also includes a storage device storing a firmware. The firmware is to, in response to detecting a recovery trigger to repair an operating system of the electronic device, establish a communication channel between the computing device and the electronic device. The firmware is to map a virtual network interface of the computing device to a transceiver of the electronic device and retrieve recovery data from a repository via the virtual network interface.
US11586506B2
A backup manager for providing backup services includes persistent storage and a backup orchestrator. The persistent storage includes protection policies. The backup orchestrator generates a backup for a client based on the protection policies; identifies a portion of the backup that includes an allocation scheme; extracts system metadata from the backup using the allocation scheme; generates an index for the backup using the system metadata; and stores the backup and the index in backup storage.
US11586498B2
Devices and techniques to recover data from a memory device using a custom Read Retry feature are disclosed herein. A memory device can receive a first read request, read data from the memory array corresponding to the read request, and determine if the read data corresponding to the first read request includes a detectable error. In response to a detected error in the received data corresponding to the first read request, the memory device can recover data corresponding to the first read request using one of a set of read retry features, and load the one of the set of read retry features used to recover data corresponding to the first read request as a custom read retry feature in the memory device for a second read request subsequent to the first read request.
US11586496B2
An electronic circuit comprising an SRAM memory, a control unit, an error detection and correction module and a scrubbing module. The electronic circuit further comprises an integrated SEU monitor of the SRAM memory. The SEU monitor does not use standalone or specialized SRAM memories or particle detectors. Rather, the same SRAM memory that is used for the main operation as a storage element of the electronic circuit serves simultaneously as detector for the SEU monitor. The proposed SEU monitor enables real-time monitoring of the SEU rate in order to detect early the high radiation levels and apply appropriate hardening measures. Furthermore, a method for monitoring an SEU rate and determining permanent faults in an electronic circuit is suggested.
US11586495B2
Fuse logic is configured to selectively enable certain group of fuses of a fuse array to support one of column (or row) redundancy in one application or error correction code (ECC) operations in another application. For example, the fuse logic may decode the group of fuses to enable a replacement column (or row) of memory cells in one mode or application, and decodes a subset of the group of fuses to retrieve ECC data corresponding to a second group of fuses are encoded to enable a different replacement column or row of memory cells in a second mode or application. The fuse logic includes an ECC decode logic circuit that is selectively enabled to detect and correct errors in data encoded in the second group of fuses based on the ECC data encoded in the subset of fuses of the first group of fuses.
US11586490B2
Example implementations relate to method and system for implementation of a software agent in a computing system, to identify the most effective self-healing action to build a Q-table by applying a reinforcement learning technique. In particular, the method includes determining an induced state of the computing system based on an error in one or more components of the computing system and selecting a corrective action corresponding to the induced state based on a plurality of Q-values stored in the Q-table. The method further includes executing the corrective action in the computing system and evaluating one or more parameters of the computing system to determine a current state of the computing system. Further, the method includes updating a Q-value of the plurality of Q-values corresponding to the corrective action, in response to evaluation of the current state of the computing system, to build the Q-table.
US11586486B2
The current document is directed to methods and systems that efficiently cache log/event messages in log/event-message systems incorporated within distributed computer facilities. The log/event-message systems provide the data-collection, data-storage, and data-querying functionalities that provide a basis for distributed log-analytics systems which, in turn, provide a basis for automated and semi-automated system-administration-and-management systems. Efficient caching significantly extends the period of time that networking failures and log/event-message processing delays can be tolerated by log/event-message systems without significant loss of information. Rather than caching individual log/event messages, message collectors that employ the currently disclosed technologies cache information regarding log/event-message types, leading to efficient compression of the cached information. As a result, message collectors can cache log/event messages without significant loss of information for time periods of several orders of magnitude greater than those achieved by caching individual log/event messages.
US11586481B2
Event data for an application execution is accessed from a table of logged events, the event data comprising a sequence, a hierarchy, and a start time and duration for each event. Dependency data for each event is also accessed to determine whether the start time for an event is dependent on the prior completion of at least one other event. A waterfall representation is then generated, the representation including an entry for each event in the sequence, with a start time and duration represented for each event. Based on the dependencies and hierarchy, it is determined, for each event with a start time that is later than the start time of an event which precedes it in the sequence, whether the event's start time is dependent on the prior completion of at least one preceding event. The start time for each event may then be advanced based on the determination.
US11586479B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for balancing user sessions using load pattern forecasting are provided here. A device can determine a pattern of load distribution for a session prior to establishment of the session on a server of a computing environment. The pattern can be indicative of load on a server to run the session for a range of time. The device can determine an amount of usage of the plurality of servers on a per server basis. The usage can be indicative of sessions to be run on individual servers for the range of time. The device can select one of the plurality of servers on which to run the session based on a comparison of the pattern of load distribution for the session and the determined amounts of usage of the plurality servers. The device can assign the session to the selected server of the computing environment to balance resource usage across the computing environment.
US11586466B2
Techniques for providing a framework for handling execution of HA flows in an active-active storage node configuration. The techniques include receiving notifications of functional statuses of processes and/or equipment associated with storage nodes in the active-active configuration, making determinations regarding how to address HA events occurring on the processes and/or equipment associated with the storage nodes based on the received notifications, and, in response to a request to execute an HA flow for a respective HA event, determining whether to refuse the request to execute the HA flow, service the request to execute the HA flow, abort one or more HA flows in execution, and/or postpone execution of the HA flow to a later time based on one or more dependencies defining conditions for the HA flow. In this way, mutual interference of HA flows or other process threads in the active-active configuration can be reduced or eliminated.
US11586461B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for service creation and management. A processor can detect an event relating to a service, and access a service creation database to identify a recipe associated with the service. The recipe can define a resource to be used to provide the service. The processor can access an inventory to determine if the resource is available, identify a service control to control the service, instruct an infrastructure control to allocate virtual machines to host components of the service, and issue instructions to the service control. The instructions can instruct the service control to load service functions to the virtual machines.
US11586453B2
There is provided a system for automating processes, the system comprising at least one computer configured to provide at least one virtual user which interacts with applications and/or documents to run at least one automated process. There is also provided a method of running automated processes, the method comprising the steps of providing at least one computer and providing at least one virtual user on the at least one computer which interacts with applications and/or documents to execute at least one automated process.
US11586452B2
A session can be predicted and created on a user's computing device to thereby allow the user to immediately resume productivity upon logging in. When a user accesses a set of applications from multiple computing devices and/or at different times or locations, telemetry information can be captured and processed to generate session predictions for the user. The session predictions can then be employed to automatically create sessions on the user's computing devices based on the user's location and the time of day.
US11586451B2
A method and apparatus of a device for resource management by using a hierarchy of resource management techniques with dynamic resource policies is described. The device terminates several misbehaving application programs when available memory on the device is running low. Each of those misbehaving application programs consumes more memory space than a memory consumption limit assigned to the application program. If available memory on the device is still low after terminating those misbehaving application programs, the device further sends memory pressure notifications to all application programs. If available memory on the device is still running low after sending the memory pressure notifications, the device further terminates background, idle, and suspended application programs. The device further terminates foreground application programs when available memory on the device is still low after terminating the background, idle, and suspended application programs.
US11586448B2
Techniques regarding resetting highly excited qubits are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a reset component that can de-excite a qubit system to a target state by transitioning a population of a first excited state of the qubit system to a ground state and by applying a signal to the qubit system that transitions a population of a second excited state to the first excited state.
US11586447B2
A method, computer system and computer program product for processing configuration after a cluster migration are provided. In this method, a network booting program is received at a computing node from a management node for a cluster. The cluster includes at least one computing node. An operating system is booted in a memory of the computing node with the received network booting program. Configuration changes are received from the management node, and the configurations in a local storage of the computing node are updated according to the received configuration changes.
US11586446B1
A new approach is proposed to support hardware-based PCIe link up based on post silicon characterization of an electronic device. A non-volatile storage medium of a bootup unit on the electronic device maintains an initialization sequence for the physical layer of a PCIe link, and a non-volatile storage medium allows flexible programming. During operation, the bootup unit reads from the non-volatile storage medium instructions to program/override one or more PCIe physical layer settings and controller registers for the PCIe link based on the post silicon characterization of the electronic device. The bootup unit is limited to access and override only to the one or more physical layer settings and controller registers of the PCIe link. The entire process of reading the initialization sequence and programming the one or more PCIe physical layer settings and the controller registers happens within time limit constraints of the PCIe specification for latency reduction.
US11586444B2
A pipeline processing unit includes a fetch unit that fetches the instruction for the thread having an execution right, a decoding unit that decodes the instruction fetched by the fetch unit, and a computation execution unit that executes the instruction decoded by the decoding unit. When the WAIT instruction for the thread having the execution right is executed, an instruction holding unit holds instruction fetch information on a processing target instruction to be processed immediately after the WAIT instruction. An execution target thread selection unit selects a thread to be executed based on a wait command and, in response to a wait state started from the execution of the WAIT instruction being canceled, processes the processing target instruction from decoding thereof based on the instruction fetch information on the processing target instruction held in the instruction holding unit.
US11586436B1
A system for version control is presented. The system includes a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to receive a package build, wherein the package build a package build manifest, identify a package syntax element from the package build perform a manifest search as a function of the package syntax element, produce a universal version element as a function of the manifest search, verify the universal version element as a function of a version authenticator, and install the package build as a function of the verification.
US11586435B2
A distributed system for software verification includes a plurality of processors, each of which actively executes a verified software to perform a verifying operation of a corresponding target object under no external instruction, wherein the plurality of processors independently perform verifying operations of different target objects; a switch including a plurality of first connection ports electrically coupled to the plurality of processors, respectively, and a second connection port electrically coupled to each of the plurality of first connection ports; and a data collector electrically coupled to the second connection port. An information report is generated and sent to the data collector via the corresponding first connection port and the second connection port in response to the verifying operation.
US11586433B2
A pipeline (e.g., a DevOps or DevSecOps pipeline) may include utilities corresponding to stages within the pipeline. A device may execute the pipeline on a version of a codebase, where the version of the codebase is associated with an immutable identifier of a version control management system. The device may generate metadata for one or more of the utilities of the pipeline based executing the pipeline on the version of the codebase. The device may store the metadata at a database, where the immutable identifier is designated as a primary key for the stored metadata. The device may verify the metadata at one or more gates of the pipeline based on a comparison of the stored metadata to a set of policy information associated with the one or more gates.
US11586429B1
Provided is a strategy based feature disablement that includes determining a device/browser combination based on an indication that a user device is attempting to access a resource. The device/browser combination is compared to a database of device/browser combinations. Access to the resource is allowed based on a determination that the device/browser combination is not included in the database of device/browser combinations. Alternatively, the resource is reconfigured based on a determination that the device/browser combination is included in the database of device/browser combinations.
US11586424B2
Embodiments of systems and methods disclosed herein provide an application development platform in an enterprise computing environment. More specifically, in certain embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed that enable an application development platform to reuse, extend, and/or customize entity-based applications in an enterprise computing environment. The application development platform can extend an entity to include user configured settings including zero or at least one of a property, a permission, an action, a behavior, or a resource to the entity to generate user customized versions of the entity. The applications may be customized by an end user, while allowing the underlying application to be updated without losing any user customizations.
US11586423B2
Some embodiments of the teachings herein include a computer-implemented method for automatic derivation of attributes of software engineering artifacts arising from technical boundary condition of product or service development segments comprise: deducing technical requirements using an automated software-based process based on classifications of the technical boundary conditions; mapping the deduced technical requirements of the artifacts to engineering disciplines and concerns using an automated software-based process; mapping the calculated engineering artifacts to responsibilities; adapting the classification of the technical boundary conditions based on the evaluation results in iterations; and processing an executable performing a distribution calculation of the classification space, wherein the distribution calculation of the classification space is at least based on a distribution and quartiles. The process of the executable comprises: calculating combination vectors at system start; reading mapping data and calculation probabilistic distribution and quartiles; and publishing new distribution to engineering goal calculation.
US11586421B2
A method for electro-depositing a radioactive material onto a metal substrate is disclosed. This is particularly well-suited for true random number generators. The method includes (a) at least partially masking the metal substrate to expose a metallic surface on the metal substrate; (b) connecting the metal substrate to a cathode of a current source; (c) submersing the exposed metallic surface into a solution containing radioactive metal ions, wherein the solution is connected to an anode of the current source; (d) removing the exposed metallic surface from the solution; (e) removing the solution from the exposed metallic surface; (f) measuring the amount of radioactivity emitted from the exposed metallic surface; and (g) repeating steps (c) through (f) until the amount of radioactivity measured in step (f) is stabilized relative to a previous measurement.
US11586412B2
A sound source playback apparatus includes a mounting unit, to which a sound source device may be attached and detached, and a control unit that recognizes tag information of the sound source device and performs authentication when the sound source is attached to the mounting unit, requests sound source data from the sound sources server according to a result of the tag information is authenticated, and playback the received sound source data. Accordingly, the sound source playback apparatus and the sound source playback method using the same allows permanently keep the high quality album and images of a favorite artist on a single purchase and playback a high quality sound source.
US11586408B2
An information handling system includes adjacent displays connected by a hinge. A processor renders a first image on the first display, renders a second image on the second display, and receives data representing a misalignment between the first display and the second display. The data is implemented to compensate for the misalignment between the first display and the second display.
US11586405B2
A printing control apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain plural pieces of data posted in a group in a messaging service, and perform control in such a way as to print a certain one of the plural pieces of data according to a certain member of the group.
US11586403B2
An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus that obtains a state of a job input to a printing apparatus, generates, based on the state of the obtained job, notification information including instruction information used to control the job, and transmits the generated notification information to a network. A mobile terminal apparatus receives the notification information from the network, and notifies, based on the received notification information, the instruction information used to control the job. The information processing apparatus also estimates an execution result of a job which has been input to the printing apparatus but is in an execution standby state, obtains, as a state of the job, the estimated execution result, and in a case in which the estimated execution result indicates abnormal completion, generates the notification information including the instruction information used to control the job.
US11586397B2
A printing system includes an information processing apparatus including first circuitry and an image forming apparatus. The first circuitry is configured to receive designation of superimposing an image of a particular color on a print target image, associate the image of the particular color with the print target image in response to a reception of the designation of superimposing, and transmit print data including the print target image and the image of the particular color to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes second circuitry configured to receive the print data and interpret the print data, and a printer engine configured to superimpose the image of the particular color on the print target image in printing, according to interpretation of the print data.
US11586396B1
Provided is a production printing system for production printing capable of variable printing for specifying printing, post-processing, and an output destination. The production printing system process variable data for production printing. The variable document creation unit creates a variable document in which condition is set for each record. The job ticket creation unit creates a job ticket that specifies prepress, printing, post-processing, and output destination according to the condition set for each the record of the variable document created by the variable document creation unit. The variable processing unit performs processing by using the job ticket created by the job ticket creation unit.
US11586389B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for processing in memory. An example apparatus comprises a host and a processing in memory (PIM) capable device coupled to the host via an interface comprising a sideband channel. The PIM capable device comprises an array of memory cells coupled to sensing circuitry and is configured to perform bit vector operations on data stored in the array, and the host comprises a PIM control component to perform virtual address resolution for PIM operations prior to providing a number of corresponding bit vector operations to the PIM capable device via the sideband channel.
US11586384B2
The disclosure provides data storage devices, methods, and apparatuses including, among other things, a NAND feature through which software may define logical die groups. Moreover, these logical die groups are indexed and operated with indexed single commands, which is selective-multi-casting to specific dies. In one implementation, a data storage device includes a NAND memory and a controller. The NAND memory including a plurality of dies. The controller is coupled to the NAND memory and configured to generate an index by assigning each die of the plurality of dies to one logical group of a plurality of logical groups, and create the plurality of logical groups in the NAND memory by sending one or more command sequences to the NAND memory that groups the plurality of dies into the plurality of logical groups based on the index that is generated.
US11586378B2
A device includes a section signal generation circuit configured to generate a section signal including bits activated during an operation section of each of internal operations included in a mode operation, and a mode command generation circuit configured to generate a mode command for performing the internal operations included in the mode operation from an oscillating signal, based on the section signal.
US11586376B2
A stretched volume may be configured from N volumes of N data storage systems configured as a cluster. N may be an integer greater than two. Each of the N volumes may be included in a different one of the N data storage systems. The N volumes may be exposed to a host as a logical volume having a unique identifier over a plurality of paths from the N data storage systems. The N volumes may be configured for multidirectional synchronous replication. At a first system of the cluster, a write operation may be received that writes to a target logical address of the stretched volume. Servicing the first write may include synchronously replicating the first write to every other one of the N data storage systems of the cluster. Also described are techniques for handling lock contention and avoiding deadlock in connection with processing writes to the stretched volume.
US11586373B2
Content is captured and archived at an archive center (AC) and, depending upon records management (RM) policy, is managed by the AC or under RM control by a content server (CS). Both the AC and CS may be part of an enterprise content management system. The AC provides a user-friendly interface through which retention zones may be defined, and functionality for applying RM policy. The functionality can be triggered via a specific content property or through a retention zone under RM control. The RM control can be turned on or off from within the AC using the user-friendly interface. Archived content is not moved or duplicated. Rather, metadata and a link to the storage location are sent to the CS which, in turn, creates a content server document that is linked to the archived content. Only a portion of archived content is exposed to the CS through the AC.
US11586369B2
Examples herein describe an accelerator device that shares the same coherent domain as hardware elements in a host computing device. The embodiments herein describe a mix of hardware and software coherency which reduces the overhead of managing data when large chunks of data are moved from the host into the accelerator device. In one embodiment, an accelerator application executing on the host identifies a data set it wishes to transfer to the accelerator device to be processed. The accelerator application transfers ownership from a home agent in the host to the accelerator device. A slave agent can then take ownership of the data. As a result, any memory operation requests received from a requesting agent in the accelerator device can gain access to the data set in local memory via the slave agent without the slave agent obtaining permission from the home agent in the host.
US11586366B2
A method is used in managing deduplication characteristics in a storage system. Deduplication entries stored in a deduplication cache are categorized into a set of deduplication groups based on a data deduplication probability associated with the deduplication entries. A machine learning system is used to dynamically adjust deduplication characteristics associated with the set of deduplication groups based on an I/O workload associated with the storage system.
US11586360B2
In an approach a request to write data to memory is received, wherein the memory includes: a first set of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) accessible via a first memory channel, and a first set of storage class (SCM) memory accessible via a second memory channel. The data is written to the first set of DRAM via the first memory channel. The data is mirrored to the first set of SCM via the second memory channel.
US11586357B2
The present disclosure includes memory blocks erasable in a single level cell mode. A number of embodiments include a memory comprising a plurality of mixed mode blocks and a controller. The controller may be configured to identify a particular mixed mode block for an erase operation and, responsive to a determined intent to subsequently write the particular mixed mode block in a single level cell (SLC) mode, perform the erase operation in the SLC mode.
US11586355B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a selectively operable memory device are described. An example method corresponding to a selectively operable memory device can include receiving, by a resistance variable memory device, a command to operate the resistance variable memory device in a first mode or a second mode and operating the resistance variable memory device in the first mode or the second mode based, at least in part, on the received command to perform, in the first mode, a read operation or a write operation, or both, or, in the second mode, a compute operation. The method can further include performing, using a processing unit resident on the resistance variable memory device, the compute operation, the testing operation, or both based, at least in part, on a determination that the resistance variable memory device is operating in the second mode.
US11586354B2
The role of a node component of a distributed application may be changed without the need to terminate a current OS process implementing the node component. A first component on a first node of a distributed file server may be designated as a control path master and configured to execute a first group of services defined for the control path master as part of a first OS process. One or more other components on one or more other nodes of the distributed file server may be designated as a control path agent and configured to execute a second group of services defined for the control path agent as part of a respective second OS process. The control path master may be changed to a control path agent, and a control path agent may be changed to a control path master, without having to reboot the control path component in question.
US11586353B2
Techniques for storage management involve: in accordance with a determination that an input/output (I/O) request of a storage system is received, determining a target storage device to which the I/O request is directed. The techniques further involve: in accordance with a determination that the target storage device is a storage device of a first type, processing the I/O request by accessing a memory of the storage system. The techniques further involve: in accordance with a determination that the target storage device is a storage device of a second type different from the first type, processing the I/O request without accessing the memory, the storage device of the second type having an access speed higher than that of the storage device of the first type. Accordingly, such techniques can improve performance of a storage system.
US11586347B2
An apparatus comprises, a user interface surface, sensor circuitry, and logic circuitry. The sensor circuitry to detect a palm-based touch event caused by a user's hand relative to the user interface surface to indicate a degree of coarseness for a graphics change, and detect a digit-based touch event caused by a digit of the user's hand relative to the user interface surface. The logic circuitry to, in response to the touch events indicating the palm is in a fixed position and a position of the digit, provide data associated with the graphics change.
US11586339B2
An electronic device having a flexible display screen and a processing method thereof, where bending the electronic device may cause the electronic device to switch between a smartphone mode and a wearable mode. In the wearable mode, the electronic device displays content on a part of the flexible display screen.
US11586331B2
An electronic device includes a first sensing electrode, a second sensing electrode, a first conductive pattern disposed between the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode and including a plurality of first repeating units electrically connected to each other, and a second conductive pattern disposed between the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode and including a plurality of second repeating units electrically connected to each other. The first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern are electrically insulated from each other, and each of the plurality of first repeating units and the plurality of second repeating units includes at least two mesh lines crossing each other.
US11586329B2
A flexible touch panel including a flexible substrate bent in a first direction, and a touch sensor unit disposed on the flexible substrate, the touch sensor unit including a bridge extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11586328B1
A circuit board includes multiple of first touch sensing electrodes, multiple of second touch sensing electrodes, and multiple of dummy patterns. The first touch sensing electrodes extend along a first direction. The second touch sensing electrodes extend along a second direction. The first touch sensing electrodes are electrically insulated from the second touch sensing electrodes. The first direction is not parallel to the second direction. The dummy patterns are positioned on the areas between the first touch sensing electrodes and the second touch sensing electrodes. The first touch sensing electrodes, the second touch sensing electrodes, and the dummy electrodes are non-transparent.
US11586324B2
The present disclosure relates to a technology for assigning group labels during touch sensing, and more particularly to a technology for preventing two adjacent objects from receiving a same group label by searching for a valley when group labels are assigned and this allows labeling without performing any object separation process.
US11586317B2
An interactive assembly including at least one interactive surface element, at least a first region of the at least one interactive surface element having first user sensible functionality and at least a second region of the at least one interactive surface element having second functionality, different from the first user sensible functionality, input sensor functionality, including at least one input sensor located in propinquity to at least one of the at least one interactive surface element, operative to sense impingement of an electromagnetic radiation spot on at least one of the at least one first region and the at least one second region of the at least one interactive surface element and utilization functionality for employing outputs of the input sensor functionality in respect of impingement on either or both of the at least one first region and the at least one second region.
US11586308B2
A touch display and an anti-interference method thereof are provided. The touch display has a display panel, a touch panel, a touch chip, and a compensation circuit. A compensation signal line is led out from a common electrode layer of the display panel. A sensing signal line is led out from a touch layer of the touch panel. An input terminal of the compensation circuit is connected to the compensation signal line and the sensing signal line, and a compensated sensing signal is output to the touch chip from the output terminal. An ability of the touch screen to resist noise interference is improved.
US11586306B2
Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.
US11586299B2
A multi-functional human interface device includes a control unit and a first multi-functional input button. The first multi-functional input button includes a cover unit configured to receive a touch input of a user's finger, an electrode unit including a transmitter and a receiver to form an electric field, an elastic unit configured to move from a first height to a second height when a first pressure is applied from the cover unit and configured to move back to the first height when the first pressure from the cover unit is released, and a switch unit configured to generate an electric signal representing an input of a predetermined letter.
US11586298B2
A display apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel; at least one sensor configured to detect a distance to an external object; a driver configured to rotate the display panel while a front surface of the display panel maintains a facing direction; and a processor configured to: based on an event for rotating the display panel occurring, control the driver to rotate the display panel, and based on detecting, via the at least one sensor, the object within a predetermined distance in a rotating direction of the display panel while the display panel rotates, control the driver to stop rotating the display panel, wherein the predetermined distance has different values according to a rotating angle by which the display panel has rotated from a position of the display panel before the event occurred.
US11586296B2
An information handling system keyboard extends plural feet from a bottom surface to reduce contaminants at the bottom surface that might scratch a touchscreen display and retracts the plural feet when resting on the touchscreen display to place a non-scratch and contaminant free surface against the touchscreen display. In one embodiment, the plural feet automatically retract when in proximity to a display surface, such as in response to a magnetic sensor integrated in the keyboard that senses a magnet integrated in the display or in response to a command from an information handling system having an integrated display on which the keyboard rests. In one embodiment, the keyboard integrates accelerometers to automatically extend the plural feet during accelerations and retract the plural feet when the keyboard rests on a display after accelerations.
US11586294B2
A video display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a video display unit configured to display a video image in a field of view of a user in a state in which the user is wearing the video display apparatus, an image pickup unit configured to take a video image of an outside state, a switching unit configured to selectively perform switching as to whether to display a video image of a certain content or a video image taken by the image pickup unit, and a switching control unit configured to control the switching unit. The switching control unit switches the video image displayed on the video display unit when an object with a predetermined identification pattern is included in the video image taken by the image pickup unit and the switching control unit has detected that a user's hand has made a predetermined gesture.
US11586292B2
The technology disclosed relates to relates to providing command input to a machine under control. It further relates to gesturally interacting with the machine. The technology disclosed also relates to providing monitoring information about a process under control. The technology disclosed further relates to providing biometric information about an individual. The technology disclosed yet further relates to providing abstract features information (pose, grab strength, pinch strength, confidence, and so forth) about an individual.
US11586291B2
A device for motion sickness reduction. The device operates by providing haptic feedback using transducers that convert electrical signals to a tactile sensation such as pressure, vibration, electrical stimulation, temperature, or airflow. The transducers are located at different locations on the body of a user, and actively change their operation to indicate a direction of motion or rotation to the user through haptic (tactile) feedback. This tactile feedback can be used to reduce motion sickness. In an embodiment, the feedback is improved by deducting motion associated with the user's visual frame of reference from motion associated with the user's vestibular frame of reference.
US11586277B2
A ride system includes at least one ride vehicle. The at least one ride vehicle is configured to receive a ride passenger. The ride system includes electronic goggles configured to be worn by the ride passenger. The electronic goggles include a camera and a display. The ride system includes a computer graphics generation system communicatively coupled to the electronic goggles, and configured to generate streaming media of a real world environment based on image data captured via the camera of the electronic goggles, generate one or more virtual augmentations superimposed on the streaming media of the real world environment, and to transmit the streaming media of the real world environment along with the one or more superimposed virtual augmentations to be displayed on the display of the electronic goggles.
US11586274B2
Techniques are disclosed regulating an amount of power consumed by a server from a set of power supplies in which at least one power supply of the set is inactive. The power to a server, upon detecting that at least one power supply is inactive, is restricted based on a degree to which a power threshold value for the remaining power supplies is exceeded. The applied power reduction may be based on a proportion of a measurement interval during which an alert signal is received. The longer the alert signal is received by the system, the more server power consumption is reduced.
US11586271B1
A receptacle includes a plurality of universal serial bus (USB) ports including a USB Type C PD port and a USB Type C port couplable to respective devices for charging, a controller coupled to the USB ports and including a dynamic power sharing logic, the controller structured to: determine whether one or more USB ports are coupled to the respective devices and manage first power negotiation and dynamic power sharing if both USB ports are coupled to respective devices or manage second power negotiation if only one USB port is coupled to respective device; an AC/DC converter including a gallium nitride (GaN) MOSFET on at least one of the primary side or the secondary side of the AC/DC converter, the AC/DC converter structured to provide high power to the USB Type C PD port; and a DC/DC converter structured to provide low power to the USB Type C port.
US11586263B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor that can take plural power control modes different in rated power from one another, a fan that rotates to dissipate heat generated by the processor, and a power control unit that controls the power consumption of the processor. The plural power control modes include two or more stages of dynamic control modes different in rated power from one another and a unified communication mode. The power control unit selects any one of the dynamic control modes based on an event in which a power consumption state of the processor continues for a predetermined duration or more, and when the unified communication works, the power control unit preferentially selects the unified communication mode.
US11586257B2
A mother substrate and a display panel including the mother substrate are disclosed. The mother substrate includes: an input pad located on an edge of the mother substrate; and a sub-substrate. A switch array and one or more signal lines connected to the switch array are arranged in a display area of the sub-substrate. One end of the signal line lead out a first test portion, and another end of the signal line is connected to the input pad and lead out a second test portion. The first test portion and the second test portion are located on different conductive layers and are insulated from each other. Partial orthographic overlapping of the first test portion is overlapped with partial orthographic overlapping of the second test portion in the non-display area.
US11586253B2
An information handling system display removably couples to a housing with a sliding structure of the display that engages a coupling structure disposed at opposing sides of the housing. For example, the sliding structure is a member that aligns under a lip formed in the coupling structure. In one embodiment, the sliding structure comprises plural pins extending from opposing sides of the display to enter channels at the side of the housing that direct the pins under a lip at the base of the channel.
US11586251B2
An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.
US11586247B2
A flexible display is disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible display includes a window layer including a bending area and a non-bending area and a flexible display panel formed over a surface of the window layer and configured to display images. The bending area includes a plurality of cut portions which are configured to be at least partially separated along a plurality of cut lines formed therebetween.
US11586245B2
An electronic device including an EM sensor module and a method for controlling the electronic device. An electronic device includes an electromagnetic (EM) sensor module, an antenna module electrically connected to the EM sensor module, a memory operationally connected to the EM sensor module, and a processor operationally connected to the EM sensor module, The EM sensor module is configured to detect an electromagnetic signal around the electronic device using the antenna module, determine whether the electromagnetic signal is a valid signal from at least one external electronic device, and send electromagnetic detection data related to all or at least part of the electromagnetic signal to the processor based on the electromagnetic signal being a valid signal.
US11586239B2
Electronic devices are disclosed. In some implementations, an electronic device includes a device interface to provide an interface to a host and detect link information associated with a bandwidth provided by the device interface in communicating with the host, a processor coupled to the device interface to be in communication with the host, and structured to be operable to control operations of the electronic device in response to a request received from the host through the device interface, and a clock generator coupled to provide the device interface and the processor with clock signals to be used to operate the device interface and the processor. The processor is configured to adjust frequencies of the clock signals based on the link information.
US11586237B1
A railcar safety lock incorporates a rectangular channel having an open top face and a pair of opposing open ends. An “L”-shaped bracket is pivotally secured within the channel. A pad lock aperture is secured within the channel adjacent a second open end opposite a first open end. The safety is configured to lockingly engage the bracket over a single lever railcar hand brake, thereby preventing the hand brake lever from being released.
US11586229B2
A resistance weld shielding control system includes a computer that is executed to control a fixture to receive and hold at least one part to be welded. The computer also controls one or more electrodes to apply electrical energy to the part for welding the at least one part, and controls a gas delivery system to direct an inert gas onto the part for shielding the part from the ambient atmosphere via a nozzle. The nozzle is configured in the fixture such that the fixture holds the nozzle in a fixed physical relationship to the part.
US11586226B2
A flight vehicle control and stabilization process detects and measures an orientation of a non-fixed portion relative to a fixed frame or portion of a flight vehicle, following a perturbation in the non-fixed portion from one or both of tilt and rotation thereof. A pilot or rider tilts or rotates the non-fixed portion, or both, to intentionally adjust the orientation and effect a change in the flight vehicle's direction. The flight vehicle control and stabilization process calculates a directional adjustment of the rest of the flight vehicle from this perturbation and induces the fixed portion to re-orient itself with the non-fixed portion to effect control and stability of the flight vehicle. The flight vehicle control and stabilization process also detects changes in speed and altitude, and includes stabilization components to adjust flight vehicle operation from unintentional payload movement on the non-fixed portion.
US11586221B2
A travel control device includes: a controller configured to control traveling of a plurality of mobile objects on a basis of a travel schedule of the mobile objects; a planner configured to generate a plurality of tentative travel schedules by changing part of the travel schedule; an evaluation value calculator configured to calculate evaluation values of the tentative travel schedules based on state features of the mobile objects in the tentative travel schedules; and a model including the state features of the mobile objects and evaluation values associated with them. The evaluation value calculator calculates the evaluation values based on the model and the state features of the mobile objects in the tentative travel schedules. The planner performs search calculation of repeating to select one tentative travel schedule from the tentative travel schedules based on the evaluation values, and to update the travel schedule with the one tentative travel schedule.
US11586220B2
An electronic control system is configured to control operation of a platoon including a plurality of vehicles. The electronic control system may be configured one or more of operate each of the vehicles to provide operation emulating the lowest non-platooning vehicle performance capability among the plurality of vehicles of the platoon, operate an individualized predictive cruise control (IPCC) process for each of the vehicles and a corresponding supervisory safety process for the platoon, and operate a cooperative predictive cruise control (CPCC) process for each of the vehicles and a corresponding supervisory safety process for the platoon.
US11586216B2
A component of an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) system, the component having at least one processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to decode data encoded in a signal, wherein the data identifies a pattern of protrusions embedded in a driving surface, the signal being received from at least one vehicle sensor resulting from a vehicle driving over the pattern of protrusions in the driving surface.
US11586214B2
A system for deterministic trajectory selection based on uncertainty estimation includes a set of one or more computing systems. A method for deterministic trajectory selection includes receiving a set of inputs; determining a set of outputs; determining uncertainty parameters associated with any or all of the set of inputs and/or any or all of the set of outputs; and evaluating the uncertainty parameters and optionally triggering a process and/or action in response.
US11586209B2
In one embodiment, method performed by an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) that determines, within a driving space, a plurality of routes from a current location of the ADV to a desired location. The method determines, for each route of the plurality of routes, an objective function to control the ADV autonomously along the route and, for each of the objective functions, performs Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) optimization in view of a set of constraints to produce a path trajectory. The method determines whether at least one of the path trajectories satisfies each constraint and, in response to a path trajectory satisfying each of the constraints, selects the path trajectory for navigating the ADV from the current location to the desired location.
US11586201B2
The present disclosure proposes a method and an apparatus for recognizing a stuck status as well as a computer storage medium, with the method comprising: building an environmental map within a preset extent by taking the current position of the mobile robot as center; real-time monitoring the march information of the mobile robot and predicting whether the mobile robot is stuck or not; acquiring data from multiple sensors of the mobile robot, if the mobile robot is stuck; and recognizing the current stuck status of the mobile robot based on the data from multiple sensors.
US11586195B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that estimates a remaining useful life (RUL) for a fan. During operation, the system receives telemetry data associated with the fan during operation of the critical asset, wherein the telemetry data includes a fan-speed signal. Next, the system uses the telemetry data to construct a historical fan-speed profile, which indicates a cumulative time that the fan has operated in specific ranges of fan speeds. The system then computes an RUL for the fan based on the historical fan-speed profile and empirical time-to-failure (TTF) data, which indicates a TTF for the same type of fan as a function of fan speed. Finally, when the RUL falls below a threshold, the system generates a notification indicating that the fan needs to be replaced.
US11586189B2
A plant monitoring device (20) is provided with: a detection value acquisition unit (211) that acquires a bundle of detection values; a first Mahalanobis distance calculation unit (212) that calculates a first Mahalanobis distance; a plant state determination unit (213) that determines whether the operation state of a plant is normal or abnormal; a cause detection value estimation unit (214) that estimates a cause detection value which represents a cause of the abnormality of the plant; a second Mahalanobis distance calculation unit (215) that calculates a second Mahalanobis distance by increasing or decreasing the detection value estimated as the cause detection value; and an identification unit (216) that identifies whether the abnormality can be relieved by increasing or decreasing the detection value estimated as the cause detection value.
US11586173B2
A method for CNC manufacturing is provided. The method includes computer-reading a digital model of a 3D part within a first topological space. An offset surface for the digital model in the first topological space is computer-generated. The offset surface in the first topological space is computer-transformed to a transformed offset surface in a second topological space embedded in the first topological space. A plurality of contours are computer-identified, at which a corresponding plurality of embedded parallel planes intersect the transformed offset surface in the second topological space. The plurality of contours in the second topological space are computer-transformed into a corresponding plurality of transformed contours in the first topological space. A CNC toolpath is computer-generated that traces each of the plurality of transformed contours in the first topological space, the CNC toolpath useable by a CNC machine to manufacture the 3D part.
US11586171B2
A method includes defining a plurality of variables to modify in a control loop; collecting first data using a first variable of the plurality of variables while executing the control loop, generating a first result based on the collecting first data step, substituting a second variable of the plurality of variables for the first variable, collecting second data using the second variable while executing the control loop, generating a second result based on the collecting second data step, comparing the first result and the second result; and taking an action based on the comparing step.
US11586165B2
Disclosed is a field device electronics for a field device of automation engineering, comprising: first and second terminals for connecting the field device electronics to a cable for an electrical input current to the field device electronics; a series regulator to set the input current; a shunt regulator following the series regulator; a first capacitance connected in parallel with the shunt regulator for energy storage; a supply circuit connected in parallel with the shunt regulator and the first capacitance for providing an operating voltage; and connected after the supply circuit and supplied by the operating voltage, a control unit adapted to register a buffer voltage lying across the first capacitance, based on the registered buffer voltage, to make a decision concerning at least one part of the field device electronics.
US11586163B2
A control mechanism scheduler for a water resource infrastructure receives operating data and disturbance data, the operating data describing infrastructure components of the water resource infrastructure, the disturbance data comprising a disturbance signal describing a disturbance expected to disturb the water resource infrastructure. The control mechanism scheduler generates classes for disturbance signals, generates simulations of the water resource infrastructure, and generates schedules of setpoints for control mechanisms actuable to control the infrastructure components of the water resource infrastructure in accordance with approaching a predetermined objective.
US11586155B2
An aspect of the disclosure is to determine a watch face image, and an operation method of an electronic device according to various embodiments may include: acquiring an image using a camera of the electronic device; displaying a watch face preview matching the acquired image on a display of the electronic device; determining a watch face image from the watch face preview; controlling a transceiver of the electronic device to transmit the watch face image to a smart watch; and applying the watch face image to the smart watch.
US11586153B1
Watch bands described herein include electrochromic features that provide adjustable color control based on an applied voltage to offer a variety of colors and color combinations to be displayed by a single band. The user or a control system can control, select, and/or adjust one or more colors of the watch band for visual display. Accordingly, a variety of colors can be displayed at different times without requiring different watch bands for each color or color combination. The color changing features can be used as a visual output of information from the watch to the user.
US11586149B2
A horological display mechanism including a cam arranged to be driven by a time base, at least a first drive device of a first display of a first quantity, the drive device including a drive rack pivoting about an axis A and being arranged to cooperate, directly or indirectly, with a drive wheel of the first display, the drive rack including a first rigid part having a toothed sector and second elastically deformable part, the first rigid part and second elastically deformable part being separated by a slot receiving an eccentric arranged to cooperate with the elastically deformable part and separate the latter from the first rigid part.
US11586147B2
A regulating device including an oscillator and capable of blocking this oscillator carried by the carriage of a tourbillon or karussel, and including a stop wheel, coaxial to the carriage wheel and limited in angular mobility by a stop pin limited by a slot of the carriage, and including a toothing engaging with an external control member for the rotation thereof, the carriage carries a resilient element arranged so as to bear against a wheel set of the oscillator to stop the latter when the control member is in an active position, and to remain remote from the carriage and from any wheel set of the oscillator when the control member is in a rest position, wherein the stop wheel is in another angular position relative to the carriage wheel.
US11586138B1
An image forming device includes an image forming unit, a roller unit, a static elimination brush, a moving unit, and a control unit. The static elimination brush eliminates static electricity of the printing medium. The moving unit moves the static elimination brush between a first position that does not intersect a first conveyance path on a downstream side of the roller unit in the conveyance path and a second position that intersects the first conveyance path. The control unit controls the moving unit during the conveyance of the printing medium, positions the static elimination brush at a position different from the second position until a front end of the printing medium passes an intersection position at which the static elimination brush and the first conveyance path intersect if the static elimination brush is positioned at the second position, and moves the static elimination brush to the second position after the front end of the printing medium passes the intersection position until a rear end of the printing medium passes the intersection position.
US11586133B2
Disclosed is a layer transfer device which transfers a layer of a multilayer film onto a surface of a sheet. The layer transfer device includes a heating member including a first portion and a second portion, a first heater, a second heater, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the first heater with an input power set at a predetermined input power, control the second heater with an input power set at a first input power if both of the multilayer film and the sheet pass over a surface of the second portion, and control the second heater with an input power set at a second input power that is smaller than the first input power if at least one of the multilayer film and the sheet does not pass over the surface of the second portion.
US11586131B2
An image forming apparatus includes an endless image bearing belt, a first roller, a second roller, a rotatable member, a holding member, a feeding unit, and a guiding member. The guiding member is provided on a side downstream of the feeding unit and upstream of a transfer nip with respect to a recording material feeding direction at a position opposing a stretching portion stretched by the first roller and the second roller of the image bearing belt and guides a recording material, to the transfer nip, fed by the feeding unit. The guiding member is fixed to the holding member.
US11586130B2
An image forming apparatus includes an endless image bearing belt, a first roller, a second roller, a rotatable member, a feeding unit, a first guiding member, and a second material guiding member. The second guiding member is fixed to the first guiding member so as to form a feeding path of a recording material with an interval between the second guiding member and the first guiding member.
US11586107B2
A phase shift mask suitable for forming a via pattern on a transferred object is provided. The phase shift mask has a first pattern region and a second pattern region. The phase shift mask includes a substrate and a phase shift pattern layer. The phase shift pattern layer is located on the substrate and is disposed corresponding to one of the first pattern region and the second pattern region. An optical phase difference corresponding to the first pattern region and the second pattern region is basically 180 degrees. The first pattern region has a via region away from the second pattern region. The second pattern region includes a plurality of strip patterns surrounding the via region.
US11586102B2
A light source device, includes an excitation light source for generating excitation light, a light condensing device, and a fluorescent cavity. The fluorescent cavity includes a chamber and a fluorescent layer, the chamber having a light window for allowing light to enter and exit and a bottom wall opposite to the light window. The fluorescent layer is provided on the surface of the bottom wall. The excitation light is concentrated by the light condensing device, and then is incident from the light window to the surface of the fluorescent layer to form a light spot and excite the fluorescent layer to generate a laser. The area of the light window is smaller than the area of the light spot, and the laser can be emitted from the light window.
US11586100B2
An information handling system peripheral camera is built by inserting a subassembly into a cylindrical housing and enclosing the subassembly with a bezel at the front and cover at the rear. The cylindrical housing is extruded with aluminum to have seams formed along the length of the interior. The seams provide alignment of the subassembly and are machined at the front and rear to form threads that accept screws to couple the bezel and rear cover to the cylindrical housing. To hide the screws, a back plate couples over the rear cover and an opaque treatment is applied to a circumference of a cover glass placed over the bezel.
US11586098B2
Provided are a camera system, an interchangeable lens, a camera, and a power supply method of a camera system capable of simplifying a configuration. In a camera system (1) comprising a camera (10) and an interchangeable lens (100), a plurality of pieces of lens-drive power (VL1 to VL3) having different voltages are supplied from the camera (10) to the interchangeable lens (100). The interchangeable lens (100) drives a plurality of optical member drive units such as a focus drive unit and a stop drive unit using the plurality of supplied pieces of lens-drive power (VL1 to VL3). Further, system power for operating a lens microcomputer (114) is generated using the lens-drive power (VL1) having the lowest voltage among the plurality of supplied pieces of lens-drive power (VL1 to VL3).
US11586090B1
A head-mounted display (HMD) presented herein comprises an electronic display and an optical assembly. The electronic display is configured to emit image light. The optical assembly is configured to direct the image light to an eye-box of the HMD corresponding to a location of a user's eye. The optical assembly includes a multifocal optical element, e.g., a bifocal optical element. A first portion of the multifocal optical element has a first optical power that is associated with a first image plane. The second portion of the multifocal optical element has a second optical power different than the first optical power, the second portion associated with a second image plane.
US11586084B2
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a predetermined size, containing a wiring film formed of a metal, an insulating film containing an inorganic substance and a substrate formed of a non-alkali glass, in which the metal has the product of a Young's modulus (E) and a thermal expansion coefficient (α) at room temperature falling within a predetermined range, α of the inorganic substance is smaller than that of the non-alkali glass, the non-alkali glass has E of from 70 GPa to 95 GPa and α of from 32×10−7 to 45×10−7 (1/° C.) in which E and α satisfies a predetermined formula, and has a predetermined composition.
US11586079B2
A film type package includes: a base film having first and second sides; a driver integrated circuit mounted on the base film; first connection pads disposed on a first area of the base film that is adjacent to the first side of the base film, and configured to be connected to a first external circuit; second connection pads disposed on a second area of the base film that is adjacent to the second side of the base film, and configured to be connected to a second external circuit; first signal lines disposed on the base film, and connecting the driver integrated circuit and the first connection pads; second signal lines disposed on the base film, and connecting the driver integrated circuit and the second connection pads; and a plurality of test lines extending from the driver integrated circuit to the first side of the base film.
US11586072B2
A display structure having a laser light wavelength conversion layer includes a display in addition to the laser light wavelength conversion layer. The display has a backlight module and a display panel provided on the light output side of the backlight module. The display panel has a color filter and a light-permeable protective layer formed on the light output side of the color filter. The color filter has a plurality of color sub-pixels. The laser light wavelength conversion layer is formed between the color sub-pixels or on or in the light-permeable protective layer. The display, therefore, can function as a fabric-based projection screen by allowing a laser pointer to generate a visible light point on the images displayed by the display during a presentation.
US11586071B2
A drive backboard includes: a first conductive layer including bonding pins and first connecting lines, an insulating layer including first via holes and second via holes, a second conductive layer including connecting electrodes and second connecting lines and a conductive protective layer including first protective structures and second protective structures. The first via hole exposes the bonding pin, one end of a first connecting line electrically connects a bonding pin, and the other end reaches the second via hole. One end of a second connecting line electrically connects a connecting electrode, and the other end electrically connects the first connecting line through the second via hole. The first protective structure covers the bonding pin, and the second protective structure covers the second connecting line formed at the position of the second via hole. The pattern of the conductive protective layer is complementary to the pattern of the insulating layer.
US11586055B2
The present invention is a neutral cylinder refractor, which is a refractor that uses spherical power in combination with cylinder lenses to render them spherically neutral. Every cylinder lens in the refractor, excluding the Jackson Cross Cylinder, has corresponding spherical power added to it to neutralize the spherical equivalent of the cylindrical lenses. The invention can be used to measure the refractive error of a patient's eye, and specifically the cylinder aspect can be measured more easily due to a lack of interference from spherical equivalent.
US11586054B2
Information is stored in an optical element in the form of a glass or plastic body embodied as spectacles lens, spectacles lens blank or spectacles lens semi-finished product. The information in the form of data is stored on or in the glass or plastic body by creating at least one marking with a marking system. The marking can be read by a reading apparatus. The marking system has an interface for reading information individualizing the optical element. The marking is created permanently by the marking system on or in the optical element at a definition point of a local body-specific coordinate system set by two points on or in the optical element. In this body coordinate system, the manufacturer specifies the position of the lens horizontal and/or the far and/or the near and/or the prism reference point.
US11586046B2
An optical display, including a first waveguide having a first set of surfaces, an input grating, a fold grating, and an output grating; an image input image node assembly; and a prismatic relay optics is provided. The prismatic relay optics may be configured to be optomechanically connected to the waveguide and the input image node assembly. The optical display is may also be configured to operate alone or as integrated with a headpiece to be used as a HUD. The HUD may have a first and a second configuration wherein the waveguide is decoupled or coupled.
US11586045B2
The present disclosure discloses a near-eye display apparatus including: a first display screen and a second display screen; and a first collimating lens, a second collimating lens, a first polarization converter which converts emitted light of the first display screen into first circularly polarized light, a second polarization converter which converts emitted light of the second display screen into second circularly polarized light, a waveguide plate configured to conduct the first circularly polarized light and the second circularly polarized light, and a super lens which is located in a light emitting region of the waveguide plate.
US11586042B2
An optical device includes: a lens including a first reflector; a display device at a first side surface of the lens and including a plurality of subpixels; and a lens array between the lens and the display device and including a plurality of lenses configured to condense light from the subpixels onto the first reflector.
US11586037B2
An optical element includes a plate portion including a reflecting surface on an upper surface in a direction of a vertically extending central axis, a shaft that extends in a direction of a first axis intersecting with the central axis and is fixed to a lower surface of the plate portion, a magnet below the shaft in the direction of the central axis, and a holder below the plate portion to hold the magnet, the holder including a magnet accommodating portion in which the magnet is accommodated, the magnet accommodating portion including a magnet pressing portion that covers at least a portion of a lower surface of the accommodated magnet.
US11586036B2
A depth camera assembly (DCA) for depth sensing of a local area includes a structured light generator, an imaging device, and a controller. The structured light generator illuminates the local area with a structured light pattern. The structured light generator includes a programmable diffractive optical element (PDOE) that generates diffracted scanning beams using optical beams. The PDOE functions as a dynamic diffraction grating that dynamically adjusts diffraction of the optical beams to generate the diffracted scanning beams of different patterns. The diffracted scanning beams are projected as the structured light pattern into the local area, wherein the structured light pattern is dynamically adjustable based on the PDOE. The imaging device captures image(s) of at least a portion of the structured light pattern reflected from object(s) in the local area. The controller determines depth information for the object(s) based on the captured image(s).
US11586032B2
A laser apparatus may include: a mirror configured to reflect a laser beam; an actuator configured to operate the mirror; and a controller configured to transmit a movement instruction to the actuator, wherein the controller predicts a movement completion time of the actuator, and transmits a polling signal so that the actuator receives the polling signal after expiration of the predicted movement completion time.
US11586031B2
An optical imager system and method of operating the optical imager system, can include one or more imager modules including a laser light source, a collimator, an illumination optical system, a grating light valve, a spatial light modulator and a projection optical system. A group of imager modules can include the one or more imager modules. The group of imager modules is operable in a stacked arrangement to produce an image from in-line stitching of individual images generated by the one or more imager modules. The illumination optical system can homogenize, shape, and direct a beam from the laser light source onto the grating light valve, and homogenization can occur in a cross-process direction.
US11586025B2
A method for the microscopy scanning of a specimen. An immersion medium is used between a slide and a microscope objective, said immersion medium wetting a surface of the slide, and the microscope objective being relatively displaced over the surface of the slide for imaging. The surface is provided with a coating which repels the immersion medium.
US11586015B2
The optical lens assembly may include a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a refractive power, a fifth lens having a refractive power, a sixth lens having a negative refractive power, and a stop disposed at an object side of the first lens.
US11586009B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens having an object-side surface that is convex; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power; a fifth lens having a refractive power and an object-side surface that is concave; and a sixth lens having a refractive power and an object-side surface that is concave, wherein the first lens through the sixth lens are sequentially disposed in numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane, and the optical imaging system satisfies the conditional expressions 0.7
US11586008B2
The present invention relates to an objective for photographic applications, comprising, in a sequence from an object side end to an image side end, a first lens group having a positive refractivity with at least one lens, a second lens group having a negative refractivity with a single lens, a third lens group having a negative refractivity with a single lens and a fourth lens group having a positive refractivity with at least one lens, wherein the lenses of the second and third lens groups each have a concave surface which face one another and define an air lens, wherein f1 is the overall focal length of the lenses of the second and third lens groups and f2 is the focal length of the air lens, and wherein the relationship 5.0≤f1/f2≤9.0 is true.
US11586006B2
A reflective element driving module includes a first reflective element, a second reflective element, and a driving assembly. The first reflective element has a first reflective surface, disposed to correspond to the incident light, wherein the light has an optical axis. The second reflective element has a second reflective surface, disposed to correspond to the light reflected by the first reflective element, and is movable relative to the first reflective element. The driving assembly is configured to drive the second reflective element to move relative to the first reflective element, wherein the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface face different directions.
US11586005B2
A lens module includes a carrier having an internal space; a lens unit including a plurality of lens groups, and installed in the carrier to move at least one of the lens groups in a length direction of the carrier; a lens guide unit including a plurality of guide members arranged on first and second surfaces of the plurality of lens groups, to guide movement of at least two lens groups of the plurality of lens groups; and a plurality of driving wires connected to each of the plurality of guide members. The carrier includes an auxiliary guide member having an auxiliary guide hole, and disposed on at least one of the first and second surfaces of the plurality of lens group, the auxiliary guide hole being disposed parallel to a movement direction of the at least two lens groups to guide movement of the at least two lens groups.
US11586000B2
A fiber optic assembly is provided including a support substrate having a substantially flat surface and a signal-fiber array supported on the support substrate. The signal-fiber array includes a plurality of optical fibers. At least some of the optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers includes a first datum contact disposed between the optical fiber and an adjacent optical fiber and each of the optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers includes a second datum contact disposed between each of the optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers and the support substrate. A first datum surface is disposed at a top surface of each of the plurality of optical fibers opposite the support surface.
US11585997B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a frame and a fiber optic module including a rack mount portion, a center portion, and a main housing portion. The rack mount portion is stationarily coupled to the frame, the center portion is slidably coupled to the rack mount portion along a sliding direction, and the main housing portion is slidably coupled to the center portion along the sliding direction. The main housing portion of the fiber optic module includes fiber optic connection locations for connecting cables to be routed through the frame. The center portion of the fiber optic module includes a radius limiter for guiding cables between the main housing portion and the frame, the center portion also including a latch for unlatching the center portion for slidable movement. Slidable movement of the center portion with respect to the rack mount portion moves the main housing portion with respect to the frame along the sliding direction.
US11585995B2
The present disclosure provides a matrix material for a rollable optical fibre ribbon. The rollable optical fibre ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibres and the matrix material. In addition, each of the plurality of optical fibres is placed parallel to other optical fibres of the plurality of optical fibres. Further, the matrix material joins the plurality of optical fibres. Furthermore, the matrix material has different glass transition temperature at different pressures.
US11585994B2
The present disclosure describes active optical cable assemblies. A cable assembly includes a fixed active optical connector having a transceiver, a ruggedized optical fiber cable integrated with the fixed active optical connector, a main cable assembly comprising one or more optical fiber cables, wherein the ruggedized cable is spliced to the main cable assembly; and a removable shroud configured to surround at least a portion of the fixed active optical connector plugged into a remote radio unit and to be secured to a remote radio unit. Active optical cable and remote radio unit systems are also described.
US11585975B2
An optical combiner lens includes a lightguide having an input zone at which light enters the lightguide, an output zone from which light exits the lightguide, and a propagation zone between the input zone and the output zone that provides a propagation path for light from the input zone to the output zone. A lens is stacked over the lightguide. A seal engages the lightguide and the lens. The seal is positioned relative to the lightguide such that a portion of the seal is stacked over a portion of the propagation zone. A reflective optical coating is interposed between the portion of the propagation zone and the portion of the seal.
US11585973B2
A backlight unit and a display device in which the amount of light emitted to the top surface of the backlight unit is increased, are provided. The backlight unit includes light sources disposed on a printed circuit substrate, a reflective layer disposed on at least a partial area of an area in which the plurality of light sources are not disposed on the printed circuit substrate, a color conversion light guide layer disposed on the light sources, a non-color conversion light guide layer disposed on a surface of the color conversion light guide layer, a transparent film disposed on the color conversion light guide layer and the non-color conversion light guide layer and spaced apart from the light sources and the reflective layer, and light diffusion patterns disposed on a surface of the transparent film and corresponding to each light source.
US11585971B2
Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses with spectrally complementary filters disposed thereon. The filters curved surface lenses are configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. Complementary images are projected for viewing through projection filters having passbands that pre-shift to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts. At least one filter may have more than 3 primary passbands. For example, two filters include a first filter having passbands of low blue, high blue, low green, high green, and red, and a second filter having passbands of blue, green, and red. The additional passbands may be utilized to more closely match a color space and white point of a projector in which the filters are used. The shaped glasses and projection filters together may be utilized as a system for projecting and viewing 3D images.
US11585967B2
A grating coupler may be fabricated by exposing a photopolymer layer to grating forming light for forming periodic refractive index variations in the photopolymer layer. The photopolymer layer may be exposed to apodization light for reducing an amplitude of the periodic refractive index variations in a spatially-selective manner. The apodization may also be achieved or facilitated by subjecting outer surface(s) of the photopolymer layer to a chemically reactive agent that causes the refractive index contrast to be reduced near the surface(s) of application. The apodized refractive index profile of the gratings facilitates the reduction of optical crosstalk between different gratings of the grating coupler.
US11585965B2
Described herein is a system and method for tuning light scatter in an optically functional porous layer of an LED. The layer comprises a non-light absorbing material structure having a plurality of sub-micron pores and a polymer matrix. The non-light absorbing material forms either a plurality of micron-sized porous particles dispersed throughout the layer or a mesh slab, wherein a plurality of sub-micron pores is located within each micron-sized porous particle or forms an interconnected network of sub-micron pores within the mesh slab, respectively. A polymer matrix, such as a high refractive index silicone fills the plurality of sub-micron pores creating an interface between the materials. Refractive index differences between the materials allow for light scatter to occur at the interface of the materials. Light scatter can also be decreased as a function of temperature, creating a system for tuning light scatter in both an off state and on state of an LED.
US11585959B2
An optical sensor includes a substrate, a light emitting element, a light receiving element, and an electronic circuit element. Light from the light emitting element is blocked by a detection object to detect the detection object. The light emitting element, the electronic circuit element and the light receiving element are mounted on the same surface of the substrate. The electronic circuit element is disposed between the light emitting element and the light receiving element on a mounting surface of the substrate.
US11585950B2
A method for identifying a static phase of a vehicle involves a first step of detecting the static phase without using measurements of a satellite geolocation unit, this first detection step involving checking that a first set of one or more conditions is satisfied, checking, repeatedly, that a second set of one or more conditions is satisfied, then so long as the second set of conditions is satisfied, executing a second step of detecting the static phase from the measurements of the satellite geolocation unit, so long as the second set of conditions is not satisfied, executing the first detection step and inhibiting the execution of the second detection step.
US11585939B2
Techniques for transmitting global navigation satellite system (GNSS) correction data to a rover. GNSS signals are wirelessly received by a base station from one or more GNSS satellites. GNSS correction data is generated by the base station based on the GNSS signals. A beacon frame is formed by the base station to include a frame header, a frame body, and a frame check sequence (FCS). The frame body is formed to include the GNSS correction data. The beacon frame is wirelessly transmitted by the base station for receipt by the rover. The rover wirelessly receives the beacon frame. The GNSS correction data is extracted by the rover from the beacon frame. A geospatial position of the rover is calculated based on the GNSS correction data.
US11585935B2
An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes a vehicle computing system configured to receive map data of a geographic location, obtain position estimate data of the autonomous vehicle and determine a route of the autonomous vehicle including a plurality of roadways in the plurality of submaps. The autonomous vehicle determines a route including a plurality of roadways, determines a first roadway in the plurality of roadways closest to the position estimate and a second roadway outside the plurality of roadways closest to the position estimate of the autonomous vehicle, and determines a pose relative to the first roadway or the second roadway based on a distance between the position estimate of the autonomous vehicle and a roadway associated with a prior pose of the autonomous vehicle to control travel of the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle pose.
US11585933B2
The present disclosure relates to a mapping system adapted for detecting objects in an environmental scene, by scanning an environmental scene with propagating energy, and receiving reflected energy back from objects present in the environmental scene, in a prioritized manner, for later use. The system may comprise an imaging subsystem which includes a detection and ranging subsystem for initially identifying primitive objects in the environmental scene. The imaging subsystem may also include an identification and mapping subsystem for prioritizing the primitive objects for further scanning and analysis, to ultimately identify one or more of the primitive objects as one or more abstract objects. An environmental model, updated in real time, is used to maintain a map of the primitive objects and the known abstract objects within the environmental scene, as new primitive objects and new abstract objects are obtained with repeated scans of the environmental scene.
US11585927B2
A LIDAR-type device for a remote spectroscopy of a matter includes an optical emission channel that includes a laser source and an optical waves frequency generator to generate a first comb, a second comb, and a local comb. Each comb includes at least one stripe. A transmit telescope emits an emission signal. A reception channel includes a receive telescope that receives a signal reflected by the matter traversed by the emission signal and a detection system that detects a first beat signal of the at least one stripe of the local comb with the corresponding first stripe of the first reflected comb, a second beat signal of the at least one stripe of the local comb with the corresponding second stripe of the second reflected comb, and a third beat signal of the at least one first beat signal with the at least one second beat signal.
US11585922B2
A transducer probe includes a transducer array with rows of transducer elements that each extend in an elevation direction and is transverse to an azimuth direction, a matching layer disposed adjacent to the transducer array, and a focusing layer disposed adjacent to the matching layer. The focusing layer includes a first material with a first refractive index and a second material with a second refractive index, and the first refractive index is less than the second refractive index. The first and second materials are distributed in an alternating pattern with the first material at edges of the rows. First widths of the first material decrease from the edges towards a center of the rows, and second widths of the second material increase from the edges towards the center.
US11585916B2
Some embodiments enable secure time of flight (SToF) measurements for wireless communication packets that include secure ranging packets with zero padded random sequence waveforms, including at higher frequency bands (e.g., 60 GHz) and in non-line of sight (NLOS) scenarios. Some embodiments provide a flexible protocol to allow negotiation of one or more security parameters and/or SToF operation parameters. For example, some embodiments employ: phase tracking and signaling to support devices with phase noise constraints to mitigate phase noise at higher frequencies; determining a number of random sequences (RSs) used for SToF to support consistency checks and channel verification; additional rules supporting sub-phases of the SToF operation; and/or determining First Path (FP), Sub-Optimal, and/or Hybrid path AWV modes and the pre-conditioning usage of these modes.
US11585912B2
A system for virtual aperture array radar tracking includes a transmitter that transmits first and second probe signals; a receiver array including a first plurality of radar elements positioned along a first radar axis; and a signal processor that calculates a target range from first and second reflected probe signals, corresponds signal instances of the first reflected probe signal to physical receiver elements of the radar array, corresponds signal instances of the second reflected probe signal to virtual elements of the radar array, calculates a first target angle between a first reference vector and a first projected target vector from the first reflected probe signal, and calculates a position of the tracking target relative to the radar array from the target range and first target angle.
US11585904B2
A distance measurement device according to the present disclosure includes: a laser irradiation unit that irradiates a measurement target with laser light; and a laser light receiving unit including a light receiving element that receives the laser light reflected by the measurement target on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Furthermore, the pitch of the unit pixels of the light receiving element varies with location in a light receiving pixel area. A mobile apparatus according to the present disclosure is equipped with a distance measurement device having the above configuration.
US11585900B2
In measurement with a surveying device having a surveying function and a laser scanner function, three-dimensional coordinates of a reflecting prism acquired with the surveying function and three-dimensional coordinates of a vertex of a polyhedron generated by processing point group data acquired with the laser scanner function are made to coincide with each other. The reflecting prism is used together with the surveying device having the surveying function and the laser scanner function, is provided to a measurement target object, and is disposed in such a position that the vertex position of the measurement target object coincides with or is considered to coincide with the optical center position of the prism.
US11585898B2
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device that enables detection of the distance between an imaging device and a subject using an imaging device with high versatility, a signal processing method, and a program. A determination part classifies pixels to a plurality of pixel groups, and determines a pair of a first pixel group and a second pixel group using for detection of distance between the imaging device and the subject from a plurality of pixel groups on the basis of a charge accumulation period for each pixel group of the imaging device in which charge accumulation period is controlled, and a light projection period of pulse light projected toward the subject of the imaging device, for each pixel group. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a distance detection device or the like.
US11585897B2
An optoelectronic measuring device having scanning functionality having a pulsed radiation source for generating a measuring beam from light pulses at a light pulse emission rate, an optoelectronic detector for detecting light pulses reflected from a target object, a control and analysis unit designed for measuring a distance value from a respective scanning point of the target object according to the time-of-flight principle, based on a number n>=1 of light pulses, wherein the control and analysis unit is designed to automatically set the number (n) depending on a target-object-related measured value determined by the measuring device in real time.
US11585893B2
A multi-target dynamic simulation test system for vehicle-mounted millimeter-wave (MMW) radar. The test system includes an antenna turntable, a radar pan-and-tilt head (PTH), a radar echo simulation module, a control module, a signal acquisition module and a display. A test radar is driven by the radar PTH to pan or tilt. The radar PTH and the test radar are both placed in a darkroom module. An antenna is driven by the antenna turntable to pan. The control module sends expected states of the test radar and the antennas to the radar PTH and the antenna turntable, respectively, and sends relative states between host vehicle and virtual targets to the test radar after processing by the radar echo simulation module. The signal acquisition module acquires and stores a detection signal of the test radar, and transmits the detection signal of the test radar to the display for real-time display.
US11585891B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving radar signals with a millimeter-wave radar; generating range data based on the received radar signals; detecting a target based on the range data; performing ellipse fitting on in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals associated with the detected target to generate compensated I and Q signals associated with the detected target; classifying the compensated I and Q signals; when the classification of the compensated I and Q signals correspond to a first class, determining a displacement signal based on the compensated I and Q signals, and determining a vital sign based on the displacement signal; and when the classification of the compensated I and Q signals correspond to a second class, discarding the compensated I and Q signals.
US11585890B2
A system comprises a first phased array radar assembly configured to be attached to a vehicle. The first phased array radar assembly includes a first plurality of antennas arranged in an array and attached to a circuit board. The system also includes one or more circuits attached to the circuit board. Each of the one or more circuits includes transmitter circuitry communicatively coupled to a subset of the first plurality of antennas and receiver circuitry communicatively coupled to the subset of the first plurality of antennas.
US11585885B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry estimates a first AoA of an arrival wave corresponding to a received signal from a receiving element array. The processing circuitry determines whether the estimated first AoA is an outlier or not. The processing circuitry outputs the first AoA as a second AoA, when the first AoA is not to be an outlier. The processing circuitry acquires one or more main-lobe angles assuming that the first AoA is a side-lobe angle of the receiving element array, when the first AoA is to be an outlier. The processing circuitry determines whether the main-lobe angle is an outlier or not. The processing circuitry outputs the main-lobe angle as the second AoA, when the main-lobe angle is not to be an outlier.
US11585883B2
A method and system for optimizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols to improve MRI value are described herein. An example method includes selecting an imaging sequence, selecting at least one objective function from a plurality of objective functions, simulating a relationship between controllable acquisition variables and the objective functions, trade-offing the influence of the controllable acquisition variables for MRI value in whole k-space acquisition to determine optimal acquisition condition, acquiring at least one MR image using the optimal acquisition condition, receiving or estimating outcomes related to the at least one MR image, and evaluating an MR image value for the MR image based on the outcomes.
US11585882B2
Superparamagnetic nanoparticle-based analytical method comprising providing a sample having analytes in a sample matrix, providing a point of care chip having analytical regions, each of which is a stationary phase having at least one or more sections, labeling each of the analytes with a superparamagnetic nanoparticle and immobilizing the labeled analytes in the stationary phase, providing an analytical device having a means for exciting the superparamagnetic nanoparticles in vitro and a means for sensing, receiving, and transmitting response of the excited superparamagnetic nanoparticles, placing the chip in the analytical device and exciting the superparamagnetic nanoparticles in vitro, sensing, receiving, and transmitting the response of the superparamagnetic nanoparticles, and analyzing the response and determining characteristic of the analytes, wherein the response of the superparamagnetic nanoparticles comprises harmonics. The present invention also provides the hybrid point of care chip and analyzer to be used in the analytical method.
US11585879B2
A radio frequency amplifying device according to an embodiment includes load impedance calculating circuitry and controlling circuitry. The load impedance calculating circuitry is configured to calculate a load impedance on the basis of information about a voltage standing wave rate and a phase on an output side of radio frequency amplifying circuitry. The controlling circuitry is configured to adjust a gain and a phase of a signal to be input to the radio frequency amplifying circuitry, in accordance with the load impedance calculated by the load impedance calculating circuitry.
US11585876B2
A system is provided for MRI coil sensitivity estimation and reconstruction At least two cascades of regularization networks are serially connected such that the output of a cascade is used as input of a following cascade, at least two deepsets coil sensitivity map networks are serially connected such that the output of a deepsets coil sensitivity map network is used as input of a following deepsets coil sensitivity map network (CR), and wherein the outputs of the deepsets coil sensitivity map networks are also used as inputs for the cascades.
US11585875B2
A magnetic field measurement device measures a magnetic flux density vector or a magnetic field vector generated from each of segments obtained by segmenting a measurement target surface of a vehicle. A magnetic field evaluation device includes a propagation intensity calculation unit and a display control unit. The propagation intensity calculation unit calculates propagation intensity that is the intensity of a magnetic field or the magnitude of magnetic flux density that propagates from each of the segments to an evaluation point that is separated from the measurement target surface with use of the magnetic flux density vector or the magnetic field vector in each of the segments and a separation distance between the segments and the evaluation point. A display control unit displays on a display unit a propagation intensity distribution image indicating the position of the evaluation point and distribution of the propagation intensity in each of the segments.
US11585873B2
Magnetoresistive effect element containing two non-magnetic layers with different crystal structures
A magnetoresistive effect element includes: a first ferromagnetic layer; a second ferromagnetic layer; and a non-magnetic layer provided between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, wherein the non-magnetic layer includes a first layer and a second layer, and wherein a lattice constant α of the first layer and a lattice constant β of the second layer satisfy a relationship of β−0.04×α≤2×α≤β+0.04×α.
US11585872B2
A magnetic sensor includes a first resistor having a first resistance and a first correction resistor having a second resistance. The first resistor and the first correction resistor are connected in series. The first resistor is configured so that the first resistance changes periodically as strength of a magnetic field component changes periodically. The first correction resistor is configured so that a change in a sum of the first resistance and the second resistance due to a noise magnetic field is smaller than a change in the first resistance due to the noise magnetic field.
US11585863B2
A system for ground fault detection includes an alternating current (AC) excitation source configured to provide an AC test signal to a circuit under test; a current transformer configured to detect a current of the AC test signal; a capacitive pickup configured to detect a voltage of the AC test signal; and a receiver which includes a display; and a processor configured to receive the voltage from the capacitive pickup; receive the current from the current transformer; and display on the display one or more components of the current.
US11585859B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to the modification of State of Charge (SoC) calculations within electric vehicles (EVs). A database of data points may be generated based on characteristics of a battery cell at various measured SoCs within a controlled environment. Subsequently, during the operation of an EV, a battery management system (BMS) within the EV may collect various operating data points. The collected operating data points may be utilized to reference similar data points stored in the database in order to determine an SoC value. The SoC value may be utilized to modify or alter the SoC calculations by the BMS for an EV in operation.
US11585852B2
In some examples, an integrated circuit comprises: a TDI input, a TDO output, a TCK input and a TMS input; a TAP state machine (TSM) having an input coupled to the TCK input, an input coupled to the TMS input, an instruction register control output, a TSM data register control (DRC) output, and a TSM state output; an instruction register having an input coupled to the TDI input, an output coupled to the TDO output, and a control input coupled to the instruction register control output of the TAP state machine; router circuitry including a TSM DRC input coupled to the TSM DRC output, a control DRC input coupled to the TSM state output, and a router DRC output; and a data register having an input coupled to the TDI input, an output coupled to the TDO output, and a data register DRC input coupled to the router DRC output.
US11585851B2
The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for improving interposers that connected stacked die assemblies to system substrates. The improvement includes the addition of IEEE 1149.1 circuitry within interposers to allow simplifying interconnect testing of digital and analog signal connections between the interposer and system substrate it is attached too. The improvement also includes the additional 1149.1 controlled circuitry that allows real time monitoring of voltage supply and ground buses in the interposer. The improvement also includes the additional of 1149.1 controlled circuitry that allows real time monitoring of functional digital and analog input and output signals in the interposer. The improvement also provides the ability to selectively serially link the 1149.1 circuitry in the interposer with 1149.1 circuitry in the die of the stack.
US11585845B2
The invention discloses a wafer testing device of flip chip VCSEL for testing a wafer having a plurality of light emitting units. The wafer testing device of flip chip VCSEL comprises a wafer testing carrier and a flexible conductive layer. The wafer testing carrier has a first surface. A plurality of testing portions are disposed on the first surface. The flexible conductive layer, detachably disposed on the first surface, are conductive in vertical direction and insulated in horizontal direction. Wherein the wafer is disposed on the flexible conductive layer, and each light emitting unit is electrically connected with one of the testing portions in vertical direction through the flexible conductive layer while testing the wafer.
US11585844B1
A system to detect gate-open failures in a MOS based insulated gate transistor can include a detection circuit, including a first circuit configured to measure a drain-source voltage across the MOS based insulated gate transistor, a first comparator circuit can be configured to compare the measured drain-source voltage to a threshold drain-source conduction voltage indicating a conduction state of a channel of the MOS based insulated gate transistor, a second circuit can be configured to measure a gate voltage applied at a gate of the MOS-based insulated gate transistor, a second comparator circuit can be configured to compare the gate voltage applied at the gate to a threshold gate voltage for the MOS based insulated gate transistor to provide an indication of whether the gate voltage applied at the gate is sufficient to activate conduction in the channel and a logic circuit can be configured to detect a gate-open failure of the MOS based insulated gate transistor based on the conduction state of the channel and the indication of whether the gate voltage applied at the gate is sufficient to activate conduction in the channel when the MOS based insulated gate transistor is in an on state or an off state.
US11585839B2
A resistance measuring device includes: a first jig; a plurality of first contacts; a second jig; a plurality of second contacts; a resistance measuring unit that supplies a current between a first contact and a second contact, which correspond to each other, detects a voltage between a first contact and a second contact, and calculates a resistance value of an object to be measured based on a relationship between a value of the supplied current and a value of the detected voltage; first wirings connecting the resistance measuring unit and each of the first contacts, for the first contacts, respectively; and second wirings connecting the resistance measuring unit and each of the second contacts while passing from the resistance measuring unit through the first jig, for the second contacts, respectively.
US11585832B2
A probe card and a probe module thereof are provided. The probe card includes a first strengthening board, a fixed frame, a probe module, and a slidable frame. The first strengthening board includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a mounting hole. An inner wall of the mounting hole is formed with an inner flange. The fixed frame is disposed on the top surface of the first strengthening board and surrounds the mounting hole. The probe module is disposed in the mounting hole and includes an outer flange including a physical region and multiple gap regions. The physical region abuts against the inner flange of the first strengthening board. The slidable frame is disposed on an inner wall of the fixed frame and is slidable between a released position and a fixed position. Multiple pressing portions are disposed on an inner wall of the slidable frame.
US11585828B2
A sensor system includes a sensor that is provided in a structure and detects an acceleration, a storage unit that stores installation information indicating a relationship between a direction of a gravitational acceleration and a direction of a detection axis of the sensor, and a drop determination unit that determines whether or not the sensor is dropped based on a representative value of accelerations in the direction of the detection axis detected by the sensor and a gravitational acceleration value in the direction of the detection axis specified based on the installation information.
US11585822B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of information transmission in a system comprising at least one liquid handling device and at least one external device, the method comprising: in one or more of said at least one liquid handling device, producing a machine-readable code that contains information that is derived from a status or properties of the respective liquid handling device or information that has been stored in the respective liquid handling device; in said one or more of said at least one liquid handling device, displaying the respective code on a display that is integrated to a structure of the respective liquid handling device; reading the displayed code or one or more of the displayed codes by an external device.
US11585821B2
A method and system for analyzing a sample potentially comprising a target, comprising: (i) activating one or more components of the sample analysis system in preparation for a sample, wherein the sample analysis system comprises a heating element, a centrifuge, a thermocycler, an imager, a user interface, and a processor; (ii) obtaining a sample potentially comprising a target; (iii) adding the obtained sample to a sample preparation receptacle, the sample preparation receptacle comprising one or more reagents configured to maximize success of the sample analysis; (iv) heating the sample preparation receptacle, with the added sample, in the heating element of the sample analysis system at a first temperature for a first heating period of time; (v) centrifuging the sample preparation receptacle, after heating, for a first period of time using the centrifuge of the sample analysis system; (vi) transferring at least a portion of the sample, after centrifugation, from the sample preparation receptacle to a sample analysis receptacle, the sample analysis receptacle comprising one or more reagents configured for a qPCR reaction specific to a selected target; (vii) obtaining, via the thermocycler and imager of the sample analysis system, a fluorescence curve during a qPCR reaction; (viii) analyzing, by the process of the sample analysis system, the obtained fluorescence curve to determine a presence or absence of the selected target in the sample; and (ix) reporting, to a user by the user interface of the sample analysis system, the presence or absence of the selected target in the sample; wherein one or more steps of the method are guided by interactive instructions provided by the sample analysis system.
US11585813B2
A method for evaluating a biological material for unassociated virus-size particles having a particular epitope uses a fluorescent antibody stain specific for binding with the epitope and a fluid sample with the virus-size particles and fluorescent antibody stain is subjected to flow cytometry with identification of fluorescent emission detection events indicative of passage through a flow cell of a flow cytometer of unassociated labeled particles of virus size including such a virus-size particle and fluorescent antibody stain.
US11585803B2
An analysis method using a microchip which is provided with a capillary flow path, and a sample reservoir connected to the capillary flow path, in which the capillary flow path is filled with a first liquid for electrophoresis, and a second liquid containing a sample is stored in the sample reservoir, and including a pressurization process in which the first liquid is pressurized into the capillary flow path from a side of the capillary flow path that is opposite from the side connected to the sample reservoir, and a separation process in which a voltage is applied between the sample reservoir storing the second liquid and the capillary flow path filled with the first liquid, such that components in the sample contained in the second liquid move in the capillary flow path and the components are separated in the capillary flow path.
US11585802B1
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for predicting a disturbance response to an injection of carbon dioxide into a multi-scale rock mass. The method includes: predicting a disturbance response to an injection of supercritical carbon dioxide into a multi-scale rock matrix; predicting a disturbance response to an injection of supercritical carbon dioxide into a multi-scale rock mass structure; and predicting a disturbance response to an injection of supercritical carbon dioxide into a multi-scale rock matrix-rock mass structure system. The method in the present disclosure can accurately analyze a cross-scale spatio-temporal evolution process of the multi-scale rock mass and seepage mechanics under disturbance of the injection of supercritical carbon dioxide.
US11585801B2
Method, systems, and techniques for determining the age of an underground space are provided. In some embodiments, determining the age of an underground space comprises taking soil samples from a plurality of surface locations within a second underground space, analyzing the soil samples from the plurality of surface locations to determine an amount of a chemical compound for each soil sample, and determining an age of the second underground space using one or more relationships based on amounts of the chemical compound measured in a plurality of soil samples taken over a period of time in a first underground space and a baseline amount of the chemical compound at one or more locations remote from both the first underground space and the second underground space.
US11585783B2
A gas sensor 10 has a measuring channel 11 with a gas inlet 12 and with a gas outlet 13, at least one receptor layer 20, a reference electrode 30 and a voltage-controlled analysis unit 50. The reference electrode 30 is capacitively coupled with the receptor layer 20. The reference electrode 30 is connected to the analysis unit 50 in an electrically conductive manner. The receptor layer 20 is formed in measuring channel 11. The measuring channel 11 forms a dielectric layer between the receptor layer 20 and the reference electrode 30. The receptor layer 20 has a support 21 and an analyte-binding layer 22. The present invention provides for the analyte-binding layer 22 to be a self-assembling monolayer (SAM).
US11585780B2
The present disclosure relates to a potentiometric probe for measuring a measured variable that represents an ion concentration in a measuring medium, including a probe base including a sensor circuit, and two electrochemical half-cells arranged such that one of the half-cells surrounds at least one portion of the other half-cell, wherein at least one of the half-cells is configured as a module which is connected to the probe base via a mechanical and electrical interface. In another embodiment, one of the half-cells is a measuring half-cell including an ion-selective membrane and a terminal lead which electrically contacts the ion-selective membrane. The other half-cell is a reference half-cell, wherein the measuring half-cell and/or the reference half-cell are each configured as a module which is connected to the probe base via a mechanical and electrical interface.
