US11612523B2
The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article comprising a liquid management system (LMS) and an absorbent core disposed at least partially intermediate a topsheet and a backsheet. The LMS defines one or more channels therein. The one or more channels of the LMS may at least partially overlap or not overlap with channels defined in the absorbent core.
US11612515B2
Disclosed herein is a method to enable a user to use a hypothermia system to cool a body part involved in cancer therapy or in brain trauma. The method enables the user to operate the hypothermia system by her- or himself and still be mobile. The hypothermia system comprises a conformal cap system, a thermally conductive liquid located between the body part to be cooled and the cap system, thermal transfer fluids, phase change materials, thermally insulated cooler, physical measuring devices, mechanical and electrical components, a ‘smart’ user interface device, a battery, and an uninterruptible power controller. The method allows a user to control the rate of and temperature of cooling down the body part, exhibits parameters associated with the process of cooling the body part, provides alerts if necessary, is portable and entirely self-managed. The hypothermia device is in communication with and can be controlled by an application installed on a smart device, such as a phone. The method of using the hypothermia system can help to eliminate hair loss caused by the side effects of certain chemotherapy treatments or to reduce the metabolic rate of ischemic tissue to prevent or minimize the severity of swelling.
US11612514B2
The invention presents methods and devices for controlling and modifying the core body temperature of a human or other mammal. The apparatus contains an element to be placed in contact with an individual's skin, such as the palm of a hand or sole of a foot; the element emits radiation, preferably within the red to infrared range of 550 nm to 950 nm, inducing vasodilation and increased blood flow in the region beneath the contacting area. A heat exchange element is concurrently in contact with the skin, capable of transferring heat into or removing heat from the circulatory vasculature, through the skin surface. The circulatory system carries the increase or decrease in thermal energy to the body's core organs. As such the method and devices are capable of increasing or decreasing the core body temperature, or maintaining current core body temperature in the presence of external thermal elements.
US11612513B2
An apparatus for providing breathing assistance includes a body with a recess for receiving teeth of a user to thereby position the body within an oral cavity of the user. A first opening extends beyond lips of a user to allow air from outside the oral cavity to be drawn in through the opening. A second opening is provided in the oral cavity to allow air to be directed into a posterior region of the oral cavity. A channel connects the first and second openings and through at least part of a buccal sulcus of the user.
US11612491B2
An interbody fusion cage having upper and lower canals for receiving the heads of bone screws that have been pre-installed in opposing vertebral body endplates. The proximal wall of the cage preferably has a vertical slot that communicates with each canal and is adapted to allow access by a screwdriver and tightening of the screws.
US11612490B2
System, including apparatus and methods, for ankle fusion using a device for separating a first bone and a second bone of an ankle region. In some embodiments, the device may comprise an expandable spacer including first and second bone-contacting surface regions facing away from one another and configured to be abutted with the first and second bones, respectively. A distance between the first and second bone-contacting surface regions may be adjustable to change the separation of the first and second bones. The first bone-contacting surface region may correspond to a portion of a sphere and may be configured to be disposed at least partially in a concavity formed surgically in the first bone. The expandable spacer offers improved control over the length of the lower limb and the orientation of the foot during ankle fusion surgery.
US11612488B2
An orthopaedic surgical system for use in implanting a total knee prosthesis includes an adjustable tibial trial component that is movable in the anterior/posterior direction and rotatable when installed on the resected surface of a patient's tibia. A method of using such a system is also disclosed.
US11612487B2
A knee prosthesis comprises a femoral component for securement to a femur, the femoral component defining medial and lateral J-shaped condyles and an intercondylar groove; and a fixed bearing tibial component for securement to a tibia, the tibial component having respective bearing surfaces which are fixed with respect to both a tibial engaging component and a stabilising peg for securing the tibial component to a tibia, the respective bearing surfaces being shaped to engage with said condyles both when the knee, in use, is extended and also over a range of flexion.
US11612486B2
A prosthesis for at least a portion of a bone, in particular a bone or portion thereof to which, in the natural condition, a tendon of a muscle is attached, wherein the prosthesis is manufactured of a metal or an alloy thereof and is provided with at least one area situated in the surface of the prosthesis that faces outward once the prosthesis has been placed in the body, the area being formed by a layer provided with open spaces that are connected to each other, wherein the open spaces are dimensioned for allowing the growth of bone tissue therein.
US11612469B2
The invention relates to a device for measuring dental parameters, more specifically for measuring alignment, bite pressure and dental occlusion in a subject, the device being formed from a main body containing a light source and at least one image-recording element linked with an image processor disposed in a control unit. The device includes a cartridge that is inserted automatically into the main body, the cartridge including a support for a plate of soft material for imprinting the bite of a subject. The main body also contains traction elements for the plate support and, optionally, for the at least one image-recording element, as well as a display screen disposed on the outside of said main body.
US11612467B1
The Alternate Eliminator Tooth Brush uses a very different unique method in which to clean teeth. This unique operation is achieved with a new tooth brush design that has two revolving tooth brush heads, one directly behind the other on two separate axels as each revolves in opposite directions giving a more effective method producing a more thorough scouring of the teeth, tongue, and gums with a double whisking cleaning action along with the reciprocation of the front tooth brush head helping to remove mucus that causes plaque build up. The steady vigorous whisking action of dual heads provides a constant action over the entire surface of the teeth while preventing the redistribution of food particles in and between the teeth. A common occurrence with the conventional hand held, and the electric tooth brushes, but something thats avoided with the three speed motor of the Alternate Eliminator Tooth Brush.
US11612465B2
A dental flossing pick includes a body, a lever, and at least one torsion spring. The body may include a first arm and a first jaw, and the lever may include a second arm and a second jaw. The lever may be rotatably coupled to the body, and the at least one torsion spring may be coupled to the body and the lever. The first arm and the second arm may be rotatable toward one another, against a resistance force of the at least one torsion spring, from an open state to a closed state to form a handle. In the closed state, the first jaw and the second jaw may be clamped to one another to form a fork distal to the handle. The fork may include a first prong and a second prong defining therebetween a gap in which a length of dental floss material may be secured.
US11612462B2
In order to improve the reliability of a dental restoration, a method of implanting the dental restoration is provided. The method includes virtually disposing a virtual implant selected from a digital library on the basis of a CT image to correspond to an implantation information, and a virtual implanting guide sleeve, which is virtually and concentrically disposed to be spaced upward from an upper end portion of the virtual implant by an offset distance, and a scanning image overlap and are integrally stored; and generating design information of a surgical guide, wherein a virtual coupling hole corresponding to an outer circumference of the virtual implanting guide sleeve is formed in the design information.
US11612458B1
Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and method for preconditioning lingual tissue for lingual orthodontic treatment, including the application of lingual braces. Protuberances may be affixed to the lingual surfaces of one or more of a patient's teeth prior to the introduction of an orthodontic appliance to allow time for the tongue to adapt to the presence of foreign structures. The protuberances may promote keratinization of the lingual tissue. The protuberances may be removed prior to the application of the orthopedic appliance. The protuberances can be pre-fabricated or fabricated in situ on the surfaces of the teeth. The protuberances may be any suitable material, including metal, polymer, or ceramic.
US11612457B2
An orthodontic bracket with an adjustable hook designed to facilitate bending. The orthodontic bracket includes a bracket body mountable to a tooth and an adjustable hook extending from the bracket body, the adjustable hook comprising a stem base structure a bend region extending from the stem base structure, a neck region extending from the bend region, and a head extending from the neck region. In some embodiments, the adjustable hook has a length, L1, measured from a bottom portion of the stem base structure to the head, and a length, L2, measured from a bottom portion of the neck region of the hook stem to a free end of the head, wherein L2 is greater than or equal to 60% of L1.
US11612452B2
The present disclosure is directed to endoscope cleaning systems and methods. The endoscope cleaning system can include a pump housing that houses a peristaltic pump, an endoscope sheath fluidly connected to the pump housing, and a pump control communicatively coupled to the peristaltic pump. Upon activation of the pump control, the peristaltic pump can supply fluid to the endoscope sheath for cleaning an endoscope. Upon deactivation of the pump control, the peristaltic pump can remove residual fluid from the endoscope.
US11612450B2
Systems and methods for camera control within surgical robotic systems are provided. One system includes a computing device, multiple robot assemblies, and a surgeon console. Each robot assembly among the multiple robot assemblies includes a robotic arm. A robotic arm of a first robot assembly is coupled to an image capture device. Robotic arms of at least a subset of robot assemblies, different from the first robot assembly, are coupled to surgical instruments. The surgeon console includes multiple handles, each communicatively coupled to a robot assembly coupled to a surgical instrument. The surgeon console is configured to transmit to the computing device one or more packets that include data related to a movement of at least one handle. The computing device configured to calculate a new position of the image capture device and transmit instructions to the first robot assembly to move the image capture device to the new position.
US11612443B2
Systems and methods are described herein to generate a 3D surface scan of a surface profile of a patient's anatomy. The 3D surface scan may be generated by reflections of structured light off the surface profile of the anatomy. The 3D surface scan may be used during intra-operative surgical navigation by a localization system. Optionally, a pre-operative medical image may also be registered to the localization system or used to enhance the 3D surface scan.
US11612439B2
An end effector for a surgical robotic system, comprising a main body, one or members, and an adjustment mechanism. The main body has an interior sidewall and an opening extending through the main body. The one or more members are located within the main body and extend into and retract from the opening to vary a diameter of the opening through which a tool may be inserted. The adjustment mechanism coupled to the one or more members for varying the diameter of the opening, and comprises a collar coupled to the one or more members such that rotation of the collar in a first direction causes the one or more members to move away from the interior sidewall to reduce the diameter of the opening, and rotation in a second direction causes the one or more members to move towards the interior sidewall to increase the diameter of the opening.
US11612431B2
Systems and methods for treating tissue are disclosed. The target tissue is ablated. A real-time image of the target tissue is generated during the ablation. The real-time blood perfusion level of the target tissue is determined from the real-time image and compared to an initial blood perfusion level of the target tissue. The comparison provides a metric for the progress of the ablation, and ablation is halted when the real-time blood perfusion drops below a threshold level relative to the initial blood perfusion level.
US11612428B2
A bipolar forceps includes a mechanical forceps including first and second shafts each having a jaw member extending from a distal end thereof and a handle disposed at a proximal end thereof for effecting movement of the jaw members relative to one another about a pivot. A disposable is housing is configured to be releasably coupled to at least one of the shafts and an electrode assembly is configured to be releasably coupled to the disposable housing. The electrode assembly includes electrodes releasably coupled to the jaw members. At least one of the electrodes includes a knife channel configured to receive a knife blade therethrough to cut tissue grasped between the jaw members. A tissue stop has a knife slot that aligns with the knife channel to receive the knife blade. An actuation mechanism advances the knife blade through the knife channel to cut tissue.
US11612427B2
Provided herein are methods and devices for inductively heating a tissue to effect a biological response in the tissue or in a biomolecule comprising the same. The methods and devices comprise means for applying a high frequency alternating magnetic field via an inductive coil comprising an applicator to the tissue and means for monitoring feedback from the alternating magnetic field to control and/or adjust heat, for example, in the tissue, which further includes a means for cooling the tissue. Particularly, the device may be a hand held piece that incorporates or has at least an applicator, including a radiofrequency energy generator and output, an inductive coil, an impedance matching system, a cooling system, including a thermally conductive surface and a coolant housing containing a coolant that circulates through the thermally conductive surface, and a feedback monitor. Optionally, the device may comprise a tissue-shaper.
US11612422B2
Devices, systems, and methods of bone stabilization. The bone stabilization system includes a bone plate having an upper surface and a lower surface configured to be in contact with bone, the bone plate having an opening extending from the upper surface to the lower surface. The opening is configured to receive a fastener, which may be either a locking fastener or a compression fastener. The locking fastener has a threaded head portion configured to engage and lock to the bone plate, and the compression fastener is configured to dynamically compress the bone.
US11612421B1
A knee gap tensioning apparatus includes: a tensioner-balancer, including: a baseplate; a top plate; and a linkage operable to move the top plate relative to the bottom plate between retracted and extended positions in response to application of an actuating force, the linkage including: a first toggle linkage, including: a lower link having a first end pivotally connected to the baseplate; an upper link having a first end pivotally connected to the top plate, wherein second ends of the first and second links are pivotally connected to each other; a second toggle linkage, including: a lower link having a first end pivotally connected to the baseplate; an upper link having a first end pivotally connected to the top plate, wherein second ends of the first and second links are pivotally connected to each other; and a connector linkage interconnecting the first and second toggle linkages.
US11612415B2
A locking fixation device for treating extra-articular fractures includes a connector assembly connected to two end plates. Rotation of the connector assembly about an axis extending therethrough converts rotational motion to linear motion, and advances the end plates in a linear direction away from (lengthening) or toward (compression) each other.
US11612404B2
In one embodiment, a jig apparatus for bending a malleable tool includes a block having an upper surface and containing, a conical recess extending into the block through the upper surface of the block, defined by an elliptical directrix on the upper surface, an apex within the block, and generatrixes disposed about a central axis of the conical recess extending from the apex to the directrix, and an elongated cylindrical hole, which is sized to fit the malleable tool therein and has a longitudinal axis extending from the conical recess into the block at an oblique angle relative to the central axis of the conical recess, and angular markings disposed on the upper surface and around a circumference of the elliptical directrix.
US11612399B2
A nerve guidance conduit includes one or more guidance channels formed as porous polymeric structures. The guidance channels are within an outer tubular structure that includes randomly-oriented nanofibers. The guidance channels may have electrospun nanofibers on their inner and outer surfaces in a parallel alignment with the guidance channels. Such aligned nanofibers may also be present on the inner surface of the outer tubular structure. The outer surfaces of the guidance channels and the inner surface of the tubular structure define additional guidance channels. Such a nerve guidance conduit provides augmented surface areas for providing directional guidance and enhancing peripheral nerve regeneration. The structure also has the mechanical and nutrient transport requirements required over long regeneration periods.
US11612392B2
An elastic suture needle for passing through a smaller cannula used in minimally invasive surgery includes an elongated body having a proximal end, a distal end, a length extending from the proximal end to the distal end, a top surface extending along the length of the elongated body, and a bottom surface extending along the length of the elongated body. The elongated body has dimensions that are calculated using the equation T/LN<(4*σ)/(πE), where T is the thickness of the elongated body, LN is the length of the neutral axis of the elongated body, σ is the yield strength of the elongated body, and E is the Young's modulus of the elongated body. The elongated body is made of stainless steels such as martensitic stainless steels, austenitic stainless steels, martensitic-aged (mar-aged) stainless steels, and stainless steels sold under the registered trademark ETHALLOY® Needle Alloy.
US11612388B2
A suture securing device having a plurality of zones includes a first zone, a second zone and a third zone. The device includes a lower layer extending across each of the first zone, the second zone and the third zone, an upper layer disposed in the first zone and the second zone, and an insert having at least one eyelet disposed in the first zone, the insert being sandwiched between the upper layer and the lower layer.
US11612385B2
Systems and methods for delivering a device for regulating blood pressure between a patient's left atrium and right atrium are provided. The delivery apparatus may include a first catheter, a hub having one or more engagers disposed thereon configured to releasably engage with a first expandable end of the shunt in a contracted delivery state within a lumen of a sheath, and a second catheter extending through a center lumen of the first catheter and the hub, wherein the first catheter, the hub, and the second catheter are independently moveable relative to the sheath. The inventive devices may reduce left atrial pressure and left ventricular end diastolic pressure, and may increase cardiac output, increase ejection fraction, relieve pulmonary congestion, and lower pulmonary artery pressure, among other benefits. The inventive devices may be used, for example, to treat subjects having heart failure, pulmonary congestion, or myocardial infarction, among other pathologies.
US11612384B2
A method for displaying guidance information using a graphical user interface during an medical procedure comprises displaying, in a first mode of the graphical user interface, first image data from a perspective corresponding to a distal end of an elongate device. The first image data includes a virtual roadmap. The method also comprises transitioning from the first mode of the graphical user interface to a second mode of the graphical user interface. The transition is based on an occurrence of a triggering condition. The method also comprises displaying, in the second mode of the graphical user interface, second image data from a perspective corresponding to the distal end of the elongate device. The second image data includes a target indicator corresponding to a target location and an alignment indicator corresponding to an expected location of the medical procedure at the target location.
US11612379B2
An ultrasound imaging scan head includes a fluid chamber including a gearless voice-coil motor therein. The voice-coil motor mechanism includes a rigid mechanical assembly, capable of moving with the fluid chamber, having one or more transducer elements and motor windings. Within the fluid chamber are motor magnets physically separated from the rigid mechanical assembly. The ultrasound imaging scan head further includes an inductive position sensor and internal bladder wherein the one or more transducer elements are capable of moving within the fluid chamber when a current is passed through the motor windings in a presence of a magnetic field generated by the one or more motor magnets.
US11612358B2
A method for providing a thermal feedback, includes executing a virtual reality application providing a virtual space that includes a virtual area to which an area temperature attribute is assigned, and a virtual object to which an object temperature attributed is assigned. An area event that reflects that a player character enters the virtual area is detected. A feedback device is controlled to output thermal feedback associated to the area temperature attribute when the area event is detected, the feedback device outputting the thermal feedback using a thermoelectric element performing a thermoelectric operation. An object event reflecting the player character is influenced by the virtual object is detected. The feedback device is controlled to override the thermal feedback associated to the area temperature attribute and output thermal feedback associated to the object temperature when the object is detected while the player character is in the virtual area.
US11612354B2
The invention relates to a detection system of an endo-urethral device for an artificial urinary sphincter implantable in the body of a patient, said sphincter comprising an occlusive cuff (2) adapted to compress the urethra, the bladder neck or the prostate of said patient, an activation device (5) of said cuff (2) and a control unit (6) adapted to control the activation device. Said system comprises at least one compression sensor (13) of the urethra and a posture sensor (9), and a processing unit (30) configured to determine: (i) if the compression parameter of the urethra exceeds a predetermined threshold during a predetermined period, (ii) if the patient is in a recumbent position. If the conditions (i) and (ii) are fulfilled, the processing unit sends to the activation device (5) an immediate reduction order of the compression exerted by the cuff (2).
US11612353B2
Examples described herein may predict therapy efficacy and/or therapeutic parameters using a comparison of individual patient status data and brain network response maps for the therapy. For example, VNS parameters may be predicted using a comparison of patient EEG data and brain network response maps of VNS therapy at various parameters.
US11612351B2
Systems and methods for locating, assessing, diagnosing, treating and monitoring of musculoskeletal disorders, soft tissue injuries, pain and other areas of dysfunctional tissue in patients, are provided. In the systems and methods, such assessments and treatments are performed using a combination of electrical stimulation and imaging tools.
US11612331B2
A diagnostic method for monitoring changes in a fluid medium in a patient's head. The method includes positioning a transmitter at a first location on or near the patient's head, the transmitter generates and transmits a time-varying magnetic field into a fluid medium in the patient's head responsive to a first signal; positioning a receiver at a second location on or near the patient's head offset from the transmitter, the receiver generates a second signal responsive to a received magnetic field at the receiver; transmitting a time-varying magnetic field into the fluid medium in the patient's head in response to the first signal; receiving the transmitted magnetic field; generating the second signal responsive to the received magnetic field; and determining, a phase shift between the transmitted magnetic field and the received magnetic field for a plurality of frequencies of the transmitted time-varying magnetic field.
US11612324B2
Disclosed are methods and digital tools for deriving tooth condition information for a patient's teeth, for populating a digital dental chart with derived tooth condition information, and for generating an electronic data record containing such information.
US11612322B2
An automated system and method is provided for biotype extraction and biomarker discovery from task-based fMRI imaging data. The system and method may include automatically mapping a localizome, such as a task-condition/contrast/population-specific brain functional localizome, based on fMRI data and automatically selecting and sorting brain regions or brain nodes to produce a subset of functional brain regions or brain nodes. A report may then be generated indicating that the subject has a particular brain circuit pattern of activity and connectivity associated with one or more symptoms of the given mental disorder, treatments, or associated with normal brain functions, based upon the extracted biosignatures by searching for the optimal multivariate classifier with least dimensionality in the brain functional localizome. These biosignatures and biomarkers that reveal hidden, implicit, and latent brain circuit patterns provoked by fMRI tasks, can also provide for the development of non-invasive diagnostics and targeted therapeutics in neuropsychiatric diseases.
US11612321B2
Transbody communication systems employing communication channels are provided. Various aspects include, for example, an in vivo transmitter to transmit an encoded signal; a transbody functionality module to facilitate communication of the encoded signal; and a receiver to receive the encoded signal. Methods and apparatus are also provided.
US11612317B2
A system and method for ophthalmic surgery in which a light field camera is used to capture a digital image of the surgical field including the eye. The digital image is used to create image information and directional information, which is then used to from a three dimensional (3D) image with motion parallax.
US11612315B2
A device for visualizing an irido-corneal angle of an eye through a window of a patient interface configured to be placed on the eye includes and optics structure and at least one imaging apparatus. The optics structure is configured to engage with the patient interface to provide a line of sight through the window in the direction of the irido-corneal angle, and to subsequently disengage from the patient interface. The imaging apparatus is associated with the optics structure and aligned with the line of sight to enable capturing an image of the eye including the irido-corneal angle.
US11612310B2
An electronic endoscope system includes an image processing unit that uses a numerical value to evaluate an appearance feature appearing in a biological tissue by using an images captured by an electronic endoscope. The image processing unit calculates a first pixel evaluation value indicating a degree of a first feature, which is featured by a first color component or a first shape appearing in an attention area in the biological tissue, and which relates to the first color component or the first shape, for each pixel from the image, and calculates a first representative evaluation value relating to the first feature by integrating the first pixel evaluation value. Furthermore, the image processing unit evaluates a degree of a second feature that shares the first color component or the first shape with the first feature.
US11612309B2
Hyperspectral videostroboscopy imaging is described. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a controller configured to cause the emitter to emit the pulses of electromagnetic radiation at a strobing frequency determined based on a vibration frequency of vocal cords of a user. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 513 nm to about 545 nm, from about 565 nm to about 585 nm, or from about 900 nm to about 1000 nm.
US11612307B2
Systems and methods for capturing and rendering light fields for head-mounted displays are disclosed. A mediated-reality visualization system includes a head-mounted display assembly comprising a frame configured to be mounted to a user's head and a display device coupled to the frame. An imaging assembly separate and spaced apart :from the head-mounted display assembly is configured to capture light-field data. A computing device in communication with the imaging assembly and the display device is configured to receive light-field data from the imaging assembly and render one or more virtual cameras. Images from the one or more virtual cameras are presented to a user via the display device.
US11612306B2
[Problem] To prevent sight of an observation target from being lost from a visual field of a monitor. [Solution] A surgical arm system includes: an articulated arm in which a plurality of joints is rotatably connected by a plurality of links and which is capable of supporting an oblique-viewing endoscope at a tip; and a control system which controls the articulated arm to change a position and a posture of the oblique-viewing endoscope. The control system controls at least one of a rotation speed and a movement speed of the oblique-viewing endoscope in a visual field imaged through the oblique-viewing endoscope based on a position of the observation target in the visual field.
US11612289B2
A cleaner is disclosed. The cleaner includes: a housing having an introduction opening through which air is introduced; a filtering unit configured to be mounted in an inner space of the housing, and defining a dust collection space between the filtering unit and an inner surface of the housing; and a cleaning unit configured to surround the filtering unit, and configured to be raised and lowered inside the dust collection space along with a manipulation unit, wherein, when the cleaning unit is in an initial position, at least a portion of the cleaning unit is connected to an air introduction path extending from the introduction opening to form a guide flow path to guide a flow of introduced air.
US11612279B2
A power management system for a dispenser that includes a passive infrared radiation sensor arranged along the dispenser and configured to detect infrared radiation emitted by one or more users within a prescribed detection range, area, or zone of the dispenser. When the passive infrared radiation sensor does not capture infrared radiation within the prescribed detection range, area, or zone, the dispenser is placed in a low power state with the passive infrared sensor remaining connected to a power source and a controller, a dispensing mechanism, and/or the proximity sensor being disconnected from the power source. Other aspects also are described.
US11612277B2
An exemplary touch-free soap, sanitizer or lotion dispenser includes a housing, a movable cover, a processor, memory, a refill receptacle for receiving a refill container of fluid, and a variable output control card receptacle. The variable output control card receptacle is located proximate the refill receptacle such that when a refill unit is inserted in the refill receptacle, a variable output control card cannot be inserted or removed from the variable output control card receptacle. The dispenser further includes a reader for placing the processor in circuit communication with a variable output control card and in circuit communication with a refill unit data tag. In addition, the dispenser includes a sensor for sensing an object, a variable output control card and a removable and replaceable refill unit. The data tag is secured to the refill unit and the VOC card includes data on the variable output control card for setting the dispenser output volume.
US11612273B2
The invention relates to a monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a processing status of a food item under processing in a food processor, the monitoring apparatus comprising a sensor operable to determine characteristic information related to the food item in the food processor, a controller configured to provide a control signal to the food processor to control an operation of the food processor when the determined characteristic 5 information or a rate of change of the determined characteristic information meets a predetermined criteria.
US11612269B2
A system for mixing and dispensing a beverage is provided including a disposable pod containing a solute therein, inflow puncturing cap defining a plurality of spikes extending therefrom, an outflow puncturing cap defining a plurality of puncturing spikes extending therefrom and a translation mechanism for receiving the pod, translating the inflow puncturing cap towards the pod to puncture the pod upper surface and seat the pod proximate the outflow cap spikes. Heated, pressurized solvent fluid is injected into the pod, wherein the solvent and solute mix, causing the pod lower surface to expand against, and be punctured by the outflow puncturing cap spikes. The pod material, and pod thickness may be selected to allow puncture of the pod lower surface after a preferred brewing period has occurred.
US11612267B2
A sous vide device (100) including an outer housing (104) within which there is located a heated tube (448) surrounding inner tubular wall (311), with the inner tubular wall (311) providing a first duct (461), and a second duct (462) being provided between the inner tubular wall and outer tubular wall with the first duct (461) and second duct (462) co-operating to provide a fluid flow path extending from an inlet (107) to an outlet (106), with vanes (450) being attached to the inner tubular wall (311) so as to be rotatably driven thereby to cause the liquid to pass along the fluid flow path.
US11612261B2
According to one embodiment, a system includes a cabinet, a cabinet housing, a mirrored door, and an accessory. The mirrored door includes a first mirror having a reflective surface forming an outer surface of the mirrored door, a second mirror having a reflective surface forming an inner surface of the mirrored door, and a first ferromagnetic element embedded within the mirrored door and located between the first and second mirrors. The accessory, which includes a second ferromagnetic element, is sized and shaped to be stored within the storage compartment of the cabinet. The accessory can be mounted to the mirrored door by magnetic attraction between the first and second ferromagnetic elements.
US11612249B2
A chair chassis includes: a base, provided with an accommodation chamber; a backrest support; a memory stopper, disposed on the backrest support, wherein the memory stopper is provided with a first arc surface facing the base; a locking slider, slidably disposed in the accommodation chamber of the base, wherein the locking slider is provided with a second arc surface disposed opposite to the first arc surface, and a side of the locking slider is provided with a first rack; a first elastic member; and an elastic slider, slidably disposed in the accommodation chamber of the base, wherein one end of the elastic slider is provided with a second rack, wherein the second rack is meshable with the first rack. Accordingly, the chair chassis according to the embodiments of the present disclosure achieves reclination memory adjustment of a backrest of the chair.
US11612243B2
The present invention relates to an assembly station for assembling modules used in a modular storage system for barrels. The modular storage system includes a base rick module, an aisle rick module, and an end rick module, whereby a plurality of each module type may be assembled to construct a rickhouse. The assembly station can include a vertical post assembly station, transfer rollers, a main module assembly area, dunnage supports, and a dunnage feeder conveyor system.
US11612241B2
A portable and stackable combination umbrella stand and table system comprised of a stand housing interoperable with a first lid portion to cover an opening in an umbrella securing body and a second lid portion to serve as a table top. The stand housing may be configured to form a concave area for receiving sand or other ballast to securely anchor the system in an upright position. As the concave area of the stand housing is filled with sand or other ballast, the first lid portion may serve as a cap by covering the upper portion of the umbrella securing body and prevents the ingress of sand or other ballast material from entering the channel (through which the umbrella pole may thereby be more easily inserted). The first lid may be removed to receive an umbrella within the umbrella securing body, and the second lid portion, which may be configured to be installed with the stand so as to form a table surface, may thereby facilitate snacking once ballast has been received. The housing is shaped so as to facilitate stacking of multiple systems. A variety of other features may be provided, including hooks and other retaining and storage features formed within or attached to the system, as well as a carrying handle and latches to secure the table top lid, any or all of which are designed for both personal and commercial use.
US11612234B2
A caddy for carrying window cleaning accessories such as squeegees. The caddy can hang from the waistbelt of a user. The caddy can include a lower reservoir portion hingedly connected to an upper sleeve portion by a hinge. The sleeve loosely engages the oversized brim of the reservoir to form a peripheral drainage gap between the outer surface of the sleeve and the reservoir brim to trap liquids dripping over the outer surface of the sleeve. A releasable lock allows the reservoir to disengage from the sleeve, swing about the hinge and drain the liquid contents of the reservoir.
US11612227B2
An apparatus that attaches an aesthetic or a functional object, serves bounding means, and is securable to flexible strand(s) is disclosed; such is significant, for example, when styling hair or adding a hook to a piece of yarn.
US11612221B2
A slider for a slide fastener in which the slider is attached to fastener chains is provided. The slider includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes an upper blade, a lower blade, a guide post connected between the upper blade and the lower blade, and a connecting post protruding from the upper blade. The second member includes a first arm and a second arm separated from each other, is attached to the first member by the first arm and the second arm, and is configured to rotate along an upper-lower direction relative to the first member and around a fulcrum provided on the upper blade or the lower blade. The first member or the second member is provided with a flange. Three or more fit sections are formed between the first member and the second member.
US11612220B2
A belt comprises a strap (10) extending between a first end portion (10a) and a second end portion (10b) along a respective principal direction of extension and comprising a plurality of through locking holes (11) arranged one after another and at least one through fastening opening (15). The belt also comprises a buckle (2), which can be removably coupled with the strap (10), comprising a main body (3) and at least one tongue (4) connected to an outer face (3a) of the main body (3) and projecting from it to form a free end (4b) which can engage in at least one of the through locking holes (11) in the strap (10) The buckle (2) also comprises a fastening element (5) protruding from the outer face (3a) of the main body (3) and configured for removably coupling the buckle (2) and the strap (10).
US11612209B2
The invention relates to articles of footwear having traction elements, and systems and methods for manufacturing same. An example shoe includes an upper and a sole plate, the sole plate including a lower surface adapted for ground contact having a first sole portion including first traction elements, the first traction elements having a distal end and a side wall with extensions extending from a central core, and a second sole portion including second traction elements, the second traction elements having at least one geometrical feature differing in one or more aspects from a corresponding geometrical feature of the first traction elements.
US11612205B2
The disclosed technology includes methods, systems, and apparatus related to utilizing high strength magnets to adhere accessories, decorative units, and other features to a helmet without compromising the safety features of the helmet. The magnets may be attached in magnet-based mounting systems to the helmet or integrated into the helmet. The mounting systems may include rare-earth magnets and high strength adhesives to adhere to a helmet surface and maintain attachment during high speed or contact, such as during sports activities. In some embodiments, accessories, decorative units, and other features include electronics for lighting, music, video, GPS, or other features.
US11612200B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for producing and putting on gloves capable of producing gloves that fit an individual hand shape and also putting the glove on the hands, and a method for producing and putting on gloves. The apparatus for producing and putting on gloves comprises welding and cutting means which welds and cuts a first elastic film and a second elastic film at a position on the outer side of a contour of a user's hand in a state in which the user's hand is sandwiched between the first elastic film and the second elastic film.
US11612193B2
A garment may be summarized as including: at least one non-toxic elastomeric sheet, at least one non-toxic textile sheet, and stitches that physically couple the non-toxic elastomeric sheet(s) with the non-toxic textile sheet(s). The garment may exclude all metals and toxic materials. The garment may be a foundation garment, for example a brassiere. In a brassiere the non-toxic elastomeric sheet(s) and the non-toxic textile sheet(s) form a front bust portion and a band, the front bust portion which includes at least one panel sized and dimensioned to retain a pair of breasts when the brassiere is worn, and the band which physically couples opposed laterally spaced apart ends of the front bust portion together when the brassiere is worn. The brassiere can have distinct cups, or may not have distinct cups, for instance a sports bra style. The garment can hold, or include, a prosthetic.
US11612191B1
The embarrassment of passing gas in public is ubiquitous. One solution is to wear a filter underwear that is generally constructed with a single ply of underwear side panels that are separated by an activated carbon center panel. The activated carbon center panel is attached to an elastic waistband at the underwear back and where the activated carbon center panel traverses between two leg openings to the waistband at the underwear front. The center panel is constructed with a five-ply activated carbon fabric that is sandwiched between cotton fabric, which is sandwiched between bamboo fabric. The five-ply center panel is greater than 1 mm thick to provide filtering capabilities to sufficiently reduce the odor of flatulence to an acceptable level that is not readily detected by a person close by.
US11612189B2
An assembly of the present invention is designed specifically for filling vaporizer cartridges, pods, and other personal vaporizer systems with high viscosity extracts (oils). The assembly includes three main components such as the syringe station, the control box, and foot pedal. The control box includes the software to operate the assembly. The control box has controls for temperature and air pressure (for purging the vessel). The foot pedal operates the syringe for filling cartridges. The syringe station consists of a heated vessel, and a heated pneumatically operated syringe. The syringe system can be used in this configuration and can also be used as part of a larger, fully automated filling machine without limiting the scope of the present invention. The syringe system works well with viscous liquids.
US11612187B2
The present disclosure discloses an atomizing device of an electronic cigarette. The atomizing device includes a base including a juice storage cavity and an installation cavity, and an atomizing core component including a first part, a second part, and a juice guide hole that connects with an inner part of the atomizing core component. The atomizing core component is configured to be pre-installed on a first position on the base, and when the first part is inserted into the installation cavity, the second part protrudes outside of the base, and the juice guide hole can be covered by the base. The atomizing core component is configured to move to a second position on the base and the juice guide hole connects with the juice storage cavity when the second part of the atomizing core component is squeezed by an external force.
US11612186B2
A method for supplying a liquid to an inhaler cartridge includes a housing body including an accommodation space capable of accommodating a liquid, a first opening communicating with the accommodation space and opened in a first direction, and a second opening communicating with the accommodation space and opened in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a cap configured to be formed separately from the housing body and close the first opening. The method includes closing the first opening with the cap, and after the first opening is closed, supplying the liquid to the accommodation space through the second opening.
US11612185B2
Disclosed is an article for use with apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The article includes a foam. The foam includes smokable material, such as tobacco. Also disclosed is a system, comprising an article and apparatus. The article includes a foam including smokable material. The apparatus is for heating the smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The apparatus includes a heating zone for receiving at least a portion of the article.
US11612180B2
A semi-continuous deodorizer providing a first main vessel, and a second vessel, wherein the second vessel is connected to the first main vessel by a duct for the transport of gases and vapors, the second vessel being connected to a vacuum system, wherein both the first main vessel and the second vessel are made of stainless steel and built hermetically.
US11612171B2
A food composition and pharmaceutical composition with strains of lactic acid bacteria for modulating blood glucose are provided, comprising an isolated lactic acid bacteria strain. The isolated lactic acid bacteria strain is at least one selected from a group including a GL-104 strain of Lactobacillus reuteri (CCTCC NO: M209138), an AP-32 strain of Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salicinius (CCTCC NO: M2011127), a TYCA06 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus (CGMCC No: 15210), and an MH-68 strain of Lactobacillus johnsonii (CCTCC NO: M2011128), or a combination thereof.
US11612166B2
A system and a method for separating a fore end of a half pig carcass by making a first cut between ribs three and four up to the shoulder blade followed by a second cut through the rest of the carcass. The first cut is made using a regular knife blade, the second cut is made using a scissor blade.
US11612162B2
The present invention relates to methods of cryopreservation and compositions for use in such methods where the methods utilise non-Newtonian fluid properties of the cryopreservation medium to modulate the viscosity of that medium to deliver an improved cryopreservation process.
US11612158B2
A water movement system and method configured to eradicate and/or control mosquito or insect populations that lay eggs in treated, stagnant water environments. The system is comprised of a water pump configured to function in cooperation with an underwater insect attractant device. The insect attractant device is suitably constructed to generate carbon dioxide for attracting insects to a water extermination zone or trap. In one embodiment, the underwater insect attractant device contains organisms such as mycelia for generating the carbon dioxide. Insects are attracted by the carbon dioxide generation device to reproduce in the water extermination zone, using the treated water to lay eggs, and grow larvae and pupae for the subject insects. A solar-powered water pump device is configured to direct the flow of water from the water extermination zone toward filters of the water pump device to trap and kill insect progeny including eggs, larvae, and pupae.
US11612152B1
A multi-mesh and hook apparatus and method with a first mesh enclosure forming a tube with a length and a first end and a second end where the first mesh enclosure includes mesh openings of a first size. A second mesh enclosure forming a tube with a length and a first end and a second end where the second mesh enclosure includes mesh openings of a second size and where the second size is a different size than the first size and where the second mesh enclosure is inside the first mesh enclosure. A hook with a shank, where the hook is removably connected with the first ends of both the first mesh enclosure and the second mesh enclosure and extends outside of the first mesh enclosure and the second mesh enclosure and the shank is secured at the first ends such that the first ends are sealed against the shank and a removably connectable constriction device connected with the second ends of the first mesh enclosure and the second mesh enclosure such that the second ends of both the first mesh enclosure and the second mesh enclosure are closed.
US11612145B1
There is provided a computer implemented method of training a machine learning model, comprising: computing at least one in-colony feature indicative of an internal state of a sample honeybee colony positioned for pollination of at least one crop in a geographical area, from output of at least one internal sensor monitoring the honeybee colony, computing at least one out-colony feature indicative of an external environment of the sample honeybee colony, from output of at least one external sensor monitoring the environment of the honeybee colony, creating a multi-record training dataset, wherein a record comprises: a combination of at least one in-colony feature and at least one out-colony feature, and a ground truth label indicating pollination effectiveness of the sample honeybee colony, and training a machine learning model on the multi-record training dataset.
US11612140B2
A chew resistant, adjustable animal collar having a semi-rigid but flexible insert affixed therein to increase durability thereof. The chew resistant, adjustable animal collar including a first metal wire affixed to a first peripheral edge of and spanning substantially an entire length of a longitudinal axis of the insert. The chew resistant, adjustable animal collar further including a second metal wire affixed to a second peripheral edge of the insert on an opposing side thereof relative to the first peripheral edge of the insert with the second metal wire also spanning substantially the entire length of the longitudinal axis of the insert.
US11612138B1
A protective garment for an animal includes a torso portion and an elongated groin strip extending rearwardly from a rear of the torso portion. The torso portion has a bottom, a first side and a second side, and a torso closure configured to wrap around an animal's torso when the garment is placed on the animal, and is configured to secure the first and second sides to each other at the animal's back. The elongated groin strip has an end portion and a length sufficient for the groin strip to wrap around a rear end of the animal and to be secured to the torso forward of the tail. The groin strip has a transition portion with an opening positioned and sized to permit the animal's tail to pass there through and to allow the animal to freely defecate while the garment is worn.
US11612135B1
A laboratory animal restraint includes a glove and a claw detachably connected to the glove. The claw includes a first retaining member and a second retaining member. The first retaining member includes a first upper bar, a first lower bar and a plurality of first arcuate ribs connecting and extending between the first upper bar and the first lower bar. Similarly, the second retaining member includes a second upper bar, a second lower bar and a plurality of second arcuate ribs connecting and extending between the second upper bar and the second lower bar. A flexible flap is fixedly secured to the first lower bar and is adapted to be releasably secured to the second lower bar. The first upper bar and the second upper bar are pivotally secured to one another.
US11612127B1
A novel maize variety designated X05R365 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05R365 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05R365 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X05R365, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05R365 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05R365 and methods of using maize variety X05R365 are disclosed.
US11612123B1
A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP070 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid impatiens seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP070 with another impatiens variety.
US11612105B2
The present invention discloses a kelp harvester. The kelp harvester includes a ship body and a U-shaped tripping piece, where two working chain racks are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the ship body; each working chain rack is provided with a chain and a chain driving device used to drive the chain to operate; multiple rope clamping devices are fixedly arranged on each chain; the rope clamping devices can clamp main ropes, so that when the chains operate, the rope clamping devices can drive the ship body to move along with the operation of the chains; the U-shaped tripping piece is rotatablely connected to the ship body through a hinge; and the ship body is further fixedly provided with a limiting baffle, and the limiting baffle limits the U-shaped tripping piece to stopping rotation when the U-shaped tripping piece is in a vertical state.
US11612104B2
A wheeled trailer to be moved across a lawn having integral structural frame and wheels for carrying said frame, a screen removeably affixed to an interior of the frame, a retractable deck with a plurality of tines extending from an underside of the deck, the tines configured to engage a ground surface, a lift assembly affixed to the frame to raise and lower/dynamically move the plurality of tines extending from an underside of the deck therethrough the screen, and a power system mounted on the frame with control to power the lift assembly, and, thus, functions to provide for automated collection and removal of yard debris such as leaves, pine straw, and other decomposing debris collected on the tines while raking and dethatching especially if the debris contains pine needles and depositing the debris where the operator chooses.
US11612103B2
A method for executing an agricultural work process on a field by means of a group of agricultural work machines. The work machines each have work assemblies which are adjustable with machine parameters for adapting to the respective agricultural conditions. The work machines of the group communicate with one another via a wireless network. The work machines of the group are configured as self-optimizing work machines which each have a driver assistance system for generating and adjusting machine parameters in an automated manner. These machine parameters are optimized with respect to the agricultural conditions. The work machines of the group cooperate collectively in the manner of a virtual work machine.
US11612096B2
An agricultural toolbar has a center section and opposite wings which are horizontally foldable between transport and field positions. The toolbar has a hydraulic system which is very adaptable to many different hydraulically controlled features and options, without sacrificing the primary purpose of the system, which is accurately controlling the operating height of the toolbar, to achieve optimal planting depth of modern precision seed and fertilizer application systems.
US11612094B2
The present describes a work vehicle where an operator can, on the work vehicle side, confirm which working machine is engaged and set which working machine to engage. A tractor, to which a working machine can be mounted, is provided with: a liquid crystal panel selectably displaying an engageable working machine mounted and displaying the currently engaged working machine so as to be identifiable; an operation unit (encoder dial, enter button, and command buttons) for carrying out selection and determination operations for the working machine displayed on the liquid crystal panel; and a control device that, when a determination operation is carried out by the operation unit for a desired working machine, disengages the currently engaged working machine, and configures the working machine for which the determination operation has been carried out to be engaged.
US11617290B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer; and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, wherein the electron transport region includes a first compound, at least one selected from the hole transport region and the electron transport region includes a second compound, the first compound is represented by one selected from Formulae 1A to 1D, and the second compound is represented by Formula 2A or Formula 2B:
US11617288B2
The feeder management device is a device that manages selection of a tape feeder to be set at each set position defined for each component in a component feeding unit of a component-mounting device. The feeder management device includes a memory unit and a feeder selection management unit. The memory unit stores list information indicating, for each component, whether or not to use a tape feeder of a special type among a plurality of tape feeders different in method of supplying the component storage tape, the tape feeder of the special type supplying the component storage tape easily. The feeder selection management unit refers to the list information stored in the memory unit, and manages selection of the tape feeder for each component, the selection corresponding to each set position in the component feeding unit of the component-mounting device.
US11617278B2
A household appliance includes a housing having an accommodating cavity. The accommodating cavity has an installation opening. An electrical appliance is adapted to enter the accommodating cavity through the installation opening. A cover is configured to seal the accommodating cavity. The housing has a disassembling hole adapted to receive an insertion of a tool configured to disassemble the cover from the housing. The disassembling hole is in communication with the accommodating cavity and an entrance of the disassembling hole is located outside the installation opening.
US11617276B2
A display device is configured to be mounted in an indoor space of a vehicle and to change a display area. The display device includes a first frame having a first end configured to be coupled to an interior member of the vehicle, a second frame having a first end coupled to a second end of the first frame, and a flexible display disposed at a first surface of the first frame and a first surface of the second frame. The second frame is configured to rotate about the second end of the first frame, and the flexible display is configured to fold to allow the first surface of the first frame to face the first surface of the second frame.
US11617270B2
A method for manufacturing a double-sided, single conductor laminate includes providing a laminated substrate that includes a conductive layer, an adhesive layer and a support layer; dry milling a trace pattern in the laminated substrate by removing selected areas of the conductive layer and the adhesive layer; and attaching a first cover layer using a first adhesive layer to the conductive layer. The first cover layer includes one or more precut access holes that align with one or more traces of the trace pattern.
US11617269B2
Current measurement devices for printed circuit board mounting are disclosed herein. The current measurement devices include a hollow and flexible core to improve response to a primary signal and decrease weight. The current measurement device includes a housing with guides to maintain alignment of the core. An electromagnetic shield may be placed between the circumference of the core and the housing. The housing may include apertures to facilitate washing. The current measurement device may include a primary conductor external to the housing.
US11617268B2
Electrical components may have plastic packages. Contacts may be formed on exterior surfaces of the plastic packages. A plastic package for an electrical component may have an elongated shape that extends along a longitudinal axis. A first groove may run parallel to the longitudinal axis on a lower surface of the plastic package. A second groove may run perpendicular to the first groove on an opposing upper surface of the plastic package. The electrical components may be coupled to fibers in a fabric such as a woven fabric. A first solder connection may be formed between the first groove and a first fiber such as a weft fiber. A second solder connection may be formed between the second groove and a second fiber such as a warp fiber.
US11617267B2
An electronic element mounting substrate includes a first substrate that has a first main surface, has a rectangular shape, and has a mounting portion for an electronic element on the first main surface, and a second substrate that is located on a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, is made of a carbon material, has a rectangular shape, has a third main surface facing the second main surface and a fourth main surface opposite to the third main surface, in which the third main surface or the fourth main surface has heat conduction in a longitudinal direction greater than heat conduction in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and that has a recessed portion on the fourth main surface.
US11617265B1
A width of each of a first signal terminal and a reference potential terminal formed in a first connection region of a core insulating layer constituting a flexible substrate is larger than a width of each of a first backside signal terminal and a backside reference potential terminal formed in a second connection region of the core insulating layer. In addition, a first separation distance between the first signal terminal and the reference potential terminal arranged adjacent to the first signal terminal is smaller than a second separation distance between the first backside signal terminal and the backside reference potential terminal arranged adjacent to the first backside signal terminal. An insulating film formed on a first surface of the core insulating layer at a position overlapping each of the first connection region and the second connection region covers the first connection region such that the second connection region is exposed.
US11617258B2
A welding quality processing method and device, and a circuit board. The method includes: obtaining warpage data of each circuit board layer in a multi-layer circuit board under a preset welding temperature change curve; performing simulation according to a stacked state of the multi-layer circuit board and the warpage data to generate a warpage level of each region in the multi-layer circuit board in the stacked state; and processing the multi-layer circuit board according to the warpage level.
US11617255B2
A droplet generator for an extreme ultraviolet imaging tool includes a reservoir for a molten metal, and a nozzle having a first end connected to the reservoir and a second opposing end where molten metal droplets emerge from the nozzle. A gas inlet is connected to the nozzle, and an isolation valve is at the second end of the nozzle configured to seal the nozzle droplet generator from the ambient.
US11617252B2
A multimode switch includes a line voltage switch, coupled to a line voltage and a device; a switch controller that directs the line voltage switch to provide line voltage to, and subsequently remove line voltage from, the device, and that receives first identifying information for the device, and that controls the device according to the first identifying information; and a ground leakage power supply, coupled to an AC hot line and to an earth ground, that generates a regulated voltage to power the switch controller without requiring connection to an AC neutral line, while limiting ground leakage current to the earth ground to a prescribed leakage value.
US11617251B2
A load control system may comprise load control devices for controlling respective electrical loads, and a system controller operable to transmit digital messages including different commands to the load control devices in response to a selection of a preset. The different commands may include a preset command configured to identify preset data in a device database stored at the load control device and/or a multi-output command configured to define the preset data for being stored in the device database. The system controller may decide which of the commands to transmit to the load control devices in response to the selection of the preset.
US11617245B2
The systems and methods disclosed herein include a LED driver, including a current output module configured to generate a constant current output split between a plurality of output channels, each output channel connected to one or more LEDs having an associated CCT value, at least one switch encoding a plurality of lumen settings and a plurality of CCT settings, and at least one circuit coupled to the current output module and the switch, the at least one circuit configured to determine a first lumen setting from the plurality of lumen settings encoded by the at least one switch, adjust the constant current output of the current output module based on the first lumen setting, determine a first CCT setting from the plurality of CCT settings encoded by the at least one switch, and adjust the plurality of output channels of the current output module based on the first CCT setting.
US11617238B2
An induction heating system includes interchangeable secondary induction heating assemblies and/or secondary induction heating coil flux concentrators that are specifically configured for the particular type of weld being created and/or the particular weld joint where the weld is created. For example, the secondary induction heating assemblies and/or secondary induction heating coil flux concentrators may have specific physical configurations (e.g., shapes, contours, etc.) and/or include specific materials (e.g., ferrites) that are well suited for the particular type of weld being created and/or the particular weld joint where the weld is created. In certain embodiments, a robotic positioning system may be configured to move the secondary induction heating coil to an induction heating coil changing station to, for example, detach the secondary induction heating coil, and attach another secondary induction heating coil, thereby facilitating different secondary induction heating coils to be used for induction heating of different types of welds, for example. In addition, in certain embodiments, the robotic positioning system may be configured to move the secondary induction heating coil to the induction heating coil changing station to, for example, detach the secondary induction heating coil flux concentrator, and attach another secondary induction heating coil flux concentrator.
US11617228B2
The cartridge includes a storage compartment configured to contain a liquid, the storage compartment having a first portion and a second portion connected to one another by a liquid channel. The cartridge includes an airflow passage passing between the first portion and the second portion of the storage compartment, and an aerosol-generating element that is fluid permeable and is positioned between the first portion and the second portion of the storage compartment, the aerosol-generating element having a first side and a second side that oppose each other, the first side of the aerosol-generating element forming part of the airflow passage and the second side of the aerosol-generating element being in contact with the liquid from the second portion of the storage compartment.
US11617227B2
Technologies for providing hardware resources as a service with direct resource addressability are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a device receives a request to access a destination accelerator device in an edge network, the request specifying a destination address assigned to the destination accelerator device. The device determines, as a function of the destination address, a location of the destination accelerator device and sends the request to the destination accelerator device.
US11617225B2
The system (1) of the invention is configured to receive information relating to relay devices (11,17-19) present in a certain spatial area and determine relay configuration information for the relay devices from the information. The relay configuration information instructs the relay devices when to receive and/or relay data units and when not to receive and/or relay data units. The system is further configured to transmit the relay configuration information to the relay devices. The relay device of the invention is configured receive a data unit from a further device (21) or not in dependence on the received relay configuration information and/or relay a received data unit to the cellular communication network (31) or not in dependence on the received relay configuration information.
US11617222B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for indicating a packet data unit session as unavailable. One apparatus includes a processor that determines that at least one packet data unit session is unavailable. The apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits information indicating that the at least one packet data unit session is to be released.
US11617218B2
Cellular communications, such as 5G cellular, may be a primary link between cell phones and a base station. Such cellular communications may be desirable, due to a high link rate. When the cellular communications are denied, a tactical waveform may be used to bridge communications between the cell phones and the base station. The tactical waveform may be transmitted between tactical radios coupled with the cell phones. The tactical radios may include an application layer coupled with an application layer of the cell phone, such that an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of the cell phone may remain unchanged.
US11617209B2
A method according to one embodiment is used in a user equipment configured to perform early data transmission in which uplink data is transmitted during random access procedure. The method comprises starting a timer that determines a holding time of parameters used for cell reselection operation; receiving an Early Data Complete message used to confirm successful completion of the early data transmission, after the random access procedure has started; stopping the timer in response to receiving the Early Data Complete message; and starting the timer in response to the Early Data Complete message including the parameters used for cell reselection operation.
US11617206B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for channel access switching in a wireless communication system, with or without Listen-Before-Talk (LBT), and/or with different types of efficiently operated LBT. A device, including a User Equipment (UE) or a base station, can determine whether and/or how to perform LBT for a transmission based on a property of the transmission. The property could be a resource allocation for the transmission. The property could be a way to allocate resources for the transmission. The property could be a length or size of resource allocated for the transmission. The property could be an amount of resources allocated for the transmission. The resource allocation could be a time domain resource allocation and/or a frequency domain resource allocation.
US11617203B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for sounding reference signals (SRSs) triggered by random access channel (RACH) message 2 for RACH message 4 physical downlink shared channel quasi co-location (QCL) are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station via a transmit beam over a random access channel, a random access preamble and receive a random access response based on the random access preamble. The UE may transmit, to the base station via a plurality of transmit sub-beams, a plurality of SRS transmissions triggered by the random access response. The UE can receive, from the base station, a downlink control signal that includes an SRS resource indicator (SRI) that indicates a selected transmit sub-beam for a corresponding SRS transmission. The UE can use the SRI as QCL information for improved reception of downlink signaling with a refined receive sub-beam corresponding to the selected transmit sub-beam.
US11617183B2
To provide demapping at a receiving side, a trained model for a demapper is used to output log-likelihood ratios of received signals representing data in a multi-user transmission. Inputs for the trained model for the demapper comprise a resource grid of equalized received signals.
US11617180B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting information. The method includes: determining whether the UE supports a preset adjustment function, where the preset adjustment function instructs a base station to dynamically adjust resource configuration information for the HPUE based on SAR capability information of the UE; if the UE supports the preset adjustment function, determining target resource configuration information corresponding to a preset high power mode; and transmitting information according to the target resource configuration information in the preset high power mode.
US11617178B2
A base station may determine one or more parameters of a PDSCH group including multiple PDSCHs for each beam in a plurality of beams, configure a plurality of resources for communication via the PDSCH group based on the determined one or more parameters of the PDSCH group, and transmit, to a UE, an indication of at least one parameter of the one or more parameters of the PDSCH group via the plurality of resources. The base station may also transmit, via the plurality of resources, one or more PDSCHs based on the at least one parameter of the one or more parameters of the PDSCH group. The UE may receive the indication of at least one parameter of the PDSCH group including multiple PDSCHs for each beam in a plurality of beams, and receive, from the base station, one or more PDSCHs based on the indication.
US11617173B2
Provided is a method Methods and devices for indicating a resource location include a first-type node sending resource location information to a second-type node. The resource location information at least indicates a frequency-domain location of a second resource according to a frequency domain offset from the second resource to a boundary location of a first resource in a frequency domain, and a bandwidth of the second resource. The first resource can include a synchronization signal (SS) block and the second resource can include a common control resource set. A frequency-domain location of the first resource can be indicated by the boundary location of the first resource in a frequency domain and a bandwidth of the first resource.
US11617165B2
A method for handling data, dangling in a new radio (NR) leg of a split bearer, by a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method comprises predicting occurrence of NR uplink (UL) leg switch; sending a buffer status report (BSR) pertaining to protocol data units (PDUs) in radio link control (RLC) layer and media access control (MAC) layer in the NR leg based on predicting the occurrence of NR UL leg switch; and initiating recovery of dangling PDUs in the NR leg after the occurrence of the NR UL leg switch, wherein the recovery includes sending the dangling PDUs to a long term evolution (LTE) leg of the split bearer.
US11617164B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a bandwidth part comprising resource block (RB) sets, wherein control channel elements (CCEs) are across the RB sets and a subset of the CCEs, within each RB set of the RB sets, are indexed from a same initial value. Control information is received via one or more CCEs of a first subset, of the CCEs, within an RB set of the RB sets. The wireless device transmits a signal via an uplink resource based on an index of a CCE of the one or more CCEs.
US11617163B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) of a data transmission that rate matches the data transmission around one or more resource elements that are to be used for a cell-specific reference signal pattern. The UE may receive an SPS communication based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11617145B2
A timing control method, performed by a first DU including a processor and a modem in a base station supporting function-splitting, includes obtaining, by the processor, first time information from a CU included in the base station; obtaining, by the processor, synchronization information with a first system based on the first time information; identifying, by the processor, a change time point of an SFN based on the synchronization information; generating, by the processor, a first timing control signal including a signal indicating a changed SFN and a first tick signal having a same periodicity as a change periodicity of the SFN when the SFN is changed; and providing, by the processor, the first timing control signal to the modem.
US11617136B2
A configuration to enable a UE to utilize uplink power control parameters for when HARQ retransmission or HARQ feedback is enabled or disabled. The apparatus may receive DCI from a base station. The DCI may indicate a HARQ process number and at least one of a first set of power control parameters for a first power control mode or a second set of power control parameters for a second power control mode. The apparatus may determine whether the first or the second power control mode is to be used. The apparatus may transmit information on a PUSCH based on the first set of power control parameters or the second set of power control parameters based on the determination whether the first or second power control mode is to be used.
US11617135B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications between a first device and a second device using a sidelink network are described. The second device may generate a wake-up signal (WUS) including a destination identifier indicating a destination node of the sidelink channel configured to receive the WUS. The first device may receive, from the second device, the WUS including the destination identifier. The first device may identify that the destination identifier indicated by the WUS is associated with the first device based on receiving the WUS. The first device may monitor resources of the sidelink channel based on identifying that the destination identifier is associated with the first device. The destination identifier may be indicated by an information element. Additionally or alternatively, the second device may generate the destination identifier using a gold sequence or a low peak-to-average-power ratio sequence.
US11617124B2
Systems and methods for detecting and preventing user terminal displacement are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a method for managing access to a data network includes determining a baseline timing parameter based on at least one first communication signal transmitted between a gateway and a terminal, determining a current timing parameter based on at least one second communication signal transmitted between the gateway and the terminal, calculating the difference between the baseline timing parameter and the current timing parameter, and restricting access of the terminal to the data network when the difference between the baseline timing parameter and the current timing parameter exceeds a delay threshold.
US11617118B2
An apparatus, a system, a computer-readable media, and a method. The method is to be performed at an apparatus of a gNB configured to host a management service (MnS) producer of provisioning function and a mobility robustness optimization (MRO) function in a distributed self-organizing network (D-SON). The method includes: decoding one or more requests from a MRO management function sent on a service-based layer of the D-SON, the one or more requests indicating attributes to be set by the gNB, the attributes including MRO targets, ranges of handover parameters, and a control parameter to enable or disable the MRO function; based on the one or more requests, setting the targets and the ranges of handover parameters for the MRO function, and enabling the MRO function; and in response to a determination that a MRO performance does not meet the targets, performing updates on the attributes to optimize the MRO performance.
US11617117B2
An Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node that communicates over a radio interface is provided. The IAB node includes: processing circuity configured to perform cell selection or cell reselection based on whether a corresponding cell is associated with an IAB donor or the IAB node. A hop number is defined for each of the IAB donor and the IAB node, where the hop number of the IAB donor is “0”.
US11617114B2
A method of cell reselection in a non-public network (NPN) for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first cell via a first System Information Block 1 (SIB1), a first network identity associated with a first indication, receiving, from a second cell via a second SIB1, a second network identity associated with a second indication, selecting one of the first network identity and the second network identity, determining whether the first indication is present and whether the first network identity is selected by the UE, determining the first cell as barred for the cell reselection when the first indication is present, but the first network identity is not selected by the UE, and determining the first cell as a candidate cell for the cell reselection when the first indication is present and the first network identity is selected by the UE.
US11617111B2
A method and apparatus are provided for overheat protection of UE. The method includes: determining a second signaling based on a first signaling when the UE is handed over to a target base station, wherein the first signaling is an original handover preparation signaling; and sending the second signaling to the target base station, wherein the second signaling carries overheat-related information of the UE.
US11617103B2
A user equipment (UE) may be configured with one or more queues at which packets are accumulated before being transferred between at least one higher layer and at least one lower layer. The UE may release packets from the one or more queues based on at least one set of parameters. The UE may determine one or more radio conditions associated with at least one traffic flow between the UE and a network. The UE may configure a set of parameters associated with transfer of packets for the at least one traffic flow between a lower layer of the UE and a higher layer of the UE based on the one or more radio conditions. The UE may communicate a first set of packets with the network for the at least one traffic flow based on the set of parameters.
US11617091B1
A distributed antenna system comprises: a plurality of ports configured to receive downstream signals or transmit upstream signals; a plurality of first antennas configured to transmit the downstream signals or receive the upstream signals; a power regulating unit coupled between the plurality of ports and the plurality of first antennas and configured to transfer and regulate the downstream signals or the upstream signals, wherein the power regulating unit comprises: a plurality of first links respectively corresponding to different frequency bands, and a first power regulating section configured to regulate power of link signals transferred over each first link, such that link signals of different frequency bands transferred over the plurality of first links have substantially the same power. The solution of the present disclosure can support input of signals at multiple frequency bands, achieve power balance and improve system performance and wireless coverage effects.
US11617083B2
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE). A method for operating a management device in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining measurement results of a plurality of cells respectively, identifying an aggressor cell and a victim cell by atmospheric interference among the plurality of the cells, based on the measurement results, and performing interference control on at least one of the aggressor cell or the victim cell, wherein the measurement results include interference information related to a downlink signal of at least one other cell measured in an uplink resource duration of a measurement cell and cell information of the at least one other cell.
US11617078B2
A P25 radio can be configured to implement a key management facility to thereby manage keysets for and provision the keysets on other P25 radios in a communications system. The P25 radio, as a radio, can directly communicate with the other P25 radios to provision keysets in accordance with the OTAR protocol. The P25 radio may also be configured to function as a key fill device to thereby provision keysets manually on any of the other P25 radios to which it may be physically or wirelessly connected. The P25 radio may also be configured to use the keysets to communicate securely with any of the other P25 radios.
US11617075B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for transmitting terminal information and a related product. The method includes: receiving, by a first network element included in a network device, first information from a terminal.
US11617074B2
Systems and methods are provided for secure vehicular communications, including determining a size of a file to be transferred to or from a vehicle; determining the data transfer speed at which the file may be transferred; based on the file size and transfer speed, determining a travel distance of the vehicle needed to complete transfer of the file; assigning a secure data transfer zone in which to perform the transfer based on the determined travel distance and based on a size of the secure data transfer zone.
US11617071B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a first communication interface, a second communication interface, and a processor configured to control the first communication interface to connect to a Bluetooth™ low energy (BLE) network, and based on receiving a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) signal from an access point (AP) apparatus through the second communication interface, identify a strength of the received Wi-Fi signal, transmit information on the strength of the received Wi-Fi signal to the AP apparatus through the second communication interface, and based on receiving response information corresponding to the information transmitted from the AP apparatus through the second communication interface, identify whether the electronic apparatus is a main apparatus among a plurality of electronic apparatuses connected to the BLE network based on the received response information, and maintain Wi-Fi communication through the second communication interface or release the Wi-Fi communication based on the identification result.
US11617070B2
A communication control apparatus includes a communication parameter acquisition unit that acquires at least one second communication parameter that is a candidate for a first communication parameter indicating a communication parameter to be assigned to a communication apparatus and indicates a communication parameter suitable for regional characteristics indicating a communication environment in a region where the communication apparatus is installed, a setting file storage unit that stores a setting file corresponding to each second communication parameter, a setting file acquisition control unit that acquires the setting file and stores the acquired setting file in the setting file storage unit, and a communication parameter assignment unit that determines the first communication parameter from among the second communication parameters acquired by the communication parameter acquisition unit and assigns the determined first communication parameter to the communication apparatus.
US11617065B2
A system and method for remote profile provisioning. The method comprises activating, via an eUICC [202], a machine-to-machine (M2M) polling unit [204] based on a limited connectivity for HTTP service enabled via a mobile network operator (MNO) [104], wherein the limited connectivity for HTTP service is enabled based on an activation of a bootstrap profile. Thereafter the method encompasses establishing, via the M2M polling unit [204], an HTTP channel between the eUICC [202] and a subscription manager-secure routing (SM-SR) [106]. The method further comprises receiving, at the eUICC [202] via a transceiver unit [206] from the SM-SR [106], an operational profile over the established HTTP channel. Thereafter the method encompasses retrieving, at the eUICC [202], the operational profile with at least a new MSISDN. Further, the method comprises enabling, at the eUICC [202], the retrieved operational profile for remote SIM profile provisioning management.
US11617060B2
An integrated intelligent building management system includes: a positioning device, recording and uploading a movement information and a device-assigned ID of a target person; an intelligent building kit, computing a tracking information of the target person in a monitoring range based on multiple location coordinates in multiple time periods, and transforming multiple device-assigned IDs to the same kit-assigned ID when multiple device-assigned IDs are determined to be corresponding to the same target person based on the tracking information, and uploading the kit-assigned ID and the movement information; and an intelligent building system, computing the tracking information of the target person in a monitoring range based on the location coordinates in multiple time periods, and establishing an information connection of multiple kit-assigned IDs when the multiple kit-assigned IDs are determined to be corresponding to the same target person based on the tracking information.
US11617058B2
A system for facilitating communication in regard to a user in labor may include a first electronic device associated with the user, a set of second electronic devices associated with emergency contacts, and a server. The server may be configured to retrieve coordinates of a predetermined location, a current position of the user, and vehicle information corresponding to a vehicle in which the user is traveling to the predetermined location. The server may transmit a command to activate an electronic sign associated with the vehicle to indicate the labor status. The server may transmit a first notification including the vehicle information and an estimated time of arrival to the one or more second electronic devices. The server may determine whether the user is in an emergency state and output a second notification including information related to the emergency state to the one or more second electronic devices.
US11617054B2
A method is provided for determining a position of a mobile participant of a wireless communication network, wherein the method comprises: determining (102) a first distance between the mobile participant and a stationary participant of the wireless communication network depending on a location signal transmitted by the stationary participant or the mobile participant; determining (104) a second distance between a stationary replicator unit and the mobile participant depending on a replicated signal which is transmitted by means of the stationary replicator unit depending on the location signal, and depending on a further distance between the replicator unit and the stationary participant; and determining (106) a position of the mobile participant depending on the first distance and depending on the second distance.
US11617047B2
A hearing system is disclosed comprising a support unit, and at least one abutment unit, wherein the support unit supports the at least one abutment unit. The at least one abutment unit has a contact surface. The support unit is configured to be placed at a user's head such that the contact surface of the at least one abutment unit contacts the user's head in an area surrounding one of the user's ears, in particular, in an area of one of the user's mastoid bones. The at least one abutment unit comprises a contact element, the contact element being configured to transmit vibrations generated by a vibration generating unit towards the contact surface. The contact element is made of a fiber-reinforced plastic material.
US11617037B2
A method performed by a first hearing device comprising microphone(s) configured to generate a first input signal, a communication unit configured to receive a second input signal from a second hearing device, an output unit, and a processor, the method comprising: generating a first intermediate signal including or based on a first weighted combination of the first input signal and the second input signal, wherein the first weighted combination is based on a first gain value and/or a second gain value; and generating an output signal for the output unit based on the first intermediate signal; wherein one or both of the first gain value and the second gain value are determined in accordance with an objective of making a power of the first input signal and a power of the second input signal differ by a preset power level difference greater than 2 dB in the weighted combination.
US11617027B2
A wireless sensor network at a monitored location can be configured to generate sensor channel(s) of data to assess operational conditions at the monitored location. Inputs based on the sensor channel(s) of data are provided to a host system for analysis of a demand to one or more resources at the monitored location. Response messages can be generated based on the demand analysis and transmitted to actuator(s) at the monitored location to effect an adjustment to the operational conditions.
US11617025B2
A CMOS image sensor with an imaging array of pixels containing selected pixels wherein illumination is blocked and light scattered from an adjacent pixel is collected. The signal from the selected pixels is resilient against saturation and thereby contributes to increased dynamic range of the imaging signal. The image sensor may be incorporated within a digital camera.
US11617024B2
A method of determining a region of interest may include with a first image capturing device, determining a region of interest within a field of view common between the first image capturing device and a second image capturing device, the first image capturing device capturing an image at a lower resolution than the second image capturing device; determining a corner defining the region of interest; and upscaling the determined corner to match a corner within a field of view of an image captured by the second image capturing device.
US11617012B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for improved accessibility scoring for content items. A predicted accessibility score may be based on a plurality of multimodal features present within a content item. The plurality of multimodal features may include video features (e.g., based on video/image analysis), audio features (e.g., based on audio analysis), text-based features (e.g., based on closed-captioning analysis), features indicated by metadata (e.g., duration, genre, etc.), a combination thereof, and/or the like. A predicted accessibility score for a content item may indicate how accessible the content item may be for persons who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, cognitively impaired, etc., as well as for persons who desire to view content that requires less visual attention and/or audio attention as the case may be.
US11617009B2
A computing system compares various reference fingerprints each representing a reference media stream broadcast on a different respective known channel, and the computing system determines that a plurality of the reference fingerprints match each other, thus defining a multi-match group of the matching reference fingerprints. In response, the computing system identifies a fingerprint feature that could define a distinction between the reference fingerprints, and the computing system resolves the multi-match based on the identified feature, thereby determining the channel carrying the media stream being rendered by the media presentation device. And the computing system could then take channel-specific action based on the determined channel.
US11617002B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include initiating a translucent layer, that includes a user interface element, for displaying over a content layer on a computing device, and receiving, from a content source, video content for the content layer. The method may also include receiving input via the user interface element and sending the input to the content source to direct the content source to modify the video content. The method may further include receiving modified video content from the content source and displaying the modified video content on the content layer. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11617001B2
In one aspect, a method includes identifying an upcoming content-modification opportunity on a channel, where the upcoming content-modification opportunity relates to a modifiable content-segment transmitted by a content-distribution system on the channel, and where the modifiable content-segment includes an overlay content portion and a non-overlay content portion. The method also includes responsive to identifying the upcoming content-modification opportunity on the channel, identifying a content-presentation device tuned to the channel. The method also includes determining location data associated with the overlay content portion. The method also includes transmitting, to the identified content-presentation device, the determined location data to facilitate the content-presentation device performing a content-modification operation in connection with the identified upcoming content-modification opportunity on the channel, where performing the content-modification operation involves replacing only the non-overlay content portion with supplemental content.
US11616995B2
A data communication system including a least one encoder and one decoder. The encoder encodes a received input signal into encoded output data. The data communication system includes a data communication network coupled to at least one encoder, wherein the data communication network communicates the encoded output data from the encoder to the decoder. The decoder decodes the encoded output data to generate a rendition of the input signal. The system is characterized in that the data communication network is configured to function according to joint source channel coding (JSCC). Moreover, the encoder and the decoder are configured to employ an hierarchical data structure for representing data to be communicated from the encoder to the decoder.
US11616991B1
In some embodiments, a system is provided, and computer-executable instructions cause the system to: obtain, at an edge server of a content delivery network, a request for a content item from a client device; determine that the there are multiple versions of the first content item that require varying amount of resources to serve including a first version, and a second version requiring more resources to serve than the first version; select the second version; send the second version; determine that the client device is not properly rendering the second version of the content item; and in response to determining that that the client device is not properly rendering the second version, send the first version.
US11616982B2
An idea used herein is to use the same function for the dependency of the context and the dependency of the symbolization parameter on previously coded/decoded transform coefficients. Using the same function—with varying function parameter—may even be used with respect to different transform block sizes and/or frequency portions of the transform blocks in case of the transform coefficients being spatially arranged in transform blocks. A further variant of this idea is to use the same function for the dependency of a symbolization parameter on previously coded/decoded transform coefficients for different sizes of the current transform coefficient's transform block, different information component types of the current transform coefficient's transform block and/or different frequency portions the current transform coefficient is located within the transform block.
US11616968B2
Techniques related to motion estimation with neighbor block pattern for video coding.
US11616967B2
A coding tool setting method and a video decoding apparatus using the same are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for setting whether or not to use a coding tool, and provides a coding tool setting method comprising the steps of: decoding, from a bitstream, a profile syntax element indicating a target profile among available profiles and a coding tool syntax element for configurable coding tools, the coding tool syntax element indicating whether or not to apply the coding tool; and setting, on the basis of the coding tool syntax element, target coding tools that are coding tools included in the target profile to be on or off.
US11616963B2
Provided is an image decoding method including determining a plurality of coding units in a chroma image by hierarchically splitting the chroma image, based on a split shape mode of blocks in the chroma image of a current image, and decoding the current image, based on the plurality of coding units in the chroma image. In this regard, the determining of the plurality of coding units in the chroma image may include, when a size or an area of a chroma block from among a plurality of chroma blocks to be generated by splitting a current chroma block in the chroma image is equal to or smaller than a preset size or a preset area, not allowing splitting of the current chroma block based on a split shape mode of the current chroma block, and determining at least one coding unit included in the current chroma block.
US11616962B2
An apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to decode coding information of a current block from a coded video bitstream. The coding information can indicate that a first prediction mode of the current block is one of a plurality screen content coding (SCC) tools. The processing circuitry can determine whether at least one loop filter associated with the current block is disabled based on at least one of the first prediction mode of the current block and a first quantization parameter (QP) of the current block. In response to the at least one loop filter being determined as disabled, the processing circuitry can reconstruct the current block without the at least one loop filter.
US11616961B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of first level tiles. A subset of the first level tiles is partitioned into a plurality of second level tiles. The first level tiles and the second level tiles are encoded into a bitstream. A split indication is encoded into the bitstream. The split indication indicates that at least one of the first level tiles is split into the second level tiles. The bitstream is stored for communication toward a decoder.
US11616946B2
An image decoding method is disclosed in the present specification. An image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise deriving a candidate list for inter-prediction of a current block, deriving motion information of the current block by using the candidate list, deriving a cumulative coding information candidate by using the motion information of the current block, inserting the derived cumulative coding information candidate into a cumulative coding information candidate list and updating the candidate list by using the cumulative coding information candidate list, wherein the updated candidate list is used for inter-prediction of a block to be decoded after the current block.
US11616945B2
A video coding or decoding method includes using history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) for conversion between multiple video blocks including a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the multiple video blocks such that for a uni-predicted block that for which a single reference picture is used for motion compensation, refraining from updating a look-up table for HMVP candidates for the uni-predicted block. The video coding or decoding method further includes performing the conversion using look-up tables for the multiple video blocks.
US11616942B2
Systems and methods described herein provide for rendering and quality monitoring of rendering of a 360-degree video, where the video has a plurality of representations with different levels of quality in different regions. In an exemplary method, a client device tracks a position of a viewport with respect to the 360-degree video and renders to the viewport a selected set of the representations. The client adaptively adds and removes representations from the selected set based on the viewport position. The client also measures and reports a viewport switching latency. In some embodiments, the latency for a viewport switch is a comparable-quality viewport switch latency that represents the time it takes after a viewport switch to return to a quality comparable to the pre-switch viewport quality.
US11616941B2
In one embodiment, an electronic display assembly includes a sensor array located on one side of a circuit board and an electronic display array located on an opposite side of the circuit board from the sensor array. The sensor array includes a plurality of sensor pixel units. Each sensor pixel unit includes a plurality of sensor pixels. The electronic display array includes a plurality of display pixel units. Each display pixel unit includes a plurality of display pixels. Each particular one of the plurality of sensor pixel units is mapped to a corresponding one of the plurality of display pixel units such that display pixels of each particular one of the plurality of display pixel units display light corresponding to light captured by sensor pixels of its mapped sensor pixel unit.
US11616937B2
When a producer processing unit, such as a video decoder, of a media processing system is producing a data output for use by a consumer processing unit, such as a display processor, the producer processing unit also generates metadata for the data output that it is producing and provides that metadata for use by the consumer processing unit. The consumer processing unit then uses the metadata provided by the producer processing unit when processing the data output to which the metadata relates.
US11616916B2
A processing circuitry is configured to generate a first analysis result based on a size of a partial area of a target area when the partial area is captured by only one of a first sensor or a second sensor, based on first image data for the target area captured by the first sensor and second image data for the target area captured by the second sensor, and generate first final image data or second final image data by using the first image data and the second image data, based on the first analysis result. A difference between the first final image data and the second final image data is based on a difference between a first characteristic of the first sensor and a second characteristic of the second sensor.
US11616905B2
A recording reproduction apparatus includes: a captured data acquisition unit configured to acquire first captured data captured by a first camera that captures an image of an outside of a moving body and second captured data captured by a second camera that captures an image in a direction opposed to a display surface of a display unit; an event detection unit configured to detect an event on the moving body; a recording controller configured to store, when an event has been detected, the first captured data as event recording data; a face detection unit configured to detect a human face from the second captured data; a reproduction controller configured to reproduce the event recording data when a human face has been detected within a period after storage of the event recording data; and a display controller configured to cause the display unit to display the reproduced event recording data.
US11616900B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor configured to obtain a plurality of first images as per a first frame rate using the camera based on a signal related to image recording and control the camera to perform focusing of a lens included in the camera on at least one of one or more objects in the plurality of first images while obtaining the plurality of first images, provide a first portion of the plurality of first images as a preview through the display, control the camera to lock the focusing on the at least one object, identify a designated event for slow motion recording while obtaining the plurality of first images, based at least in part on the designated event, obtain a plurality of second images as per a second frame rate higher than the first frame rate using the camera focusing-locked on the at least one object, and provide a video related to the at least one object using a second portion of the plurality of first images and at least one of the plurality of second images.
US11616892B2
For a plurality of types of print media, a pre-trained model is prepared, the pre-trained model being generated by machine learning based on spectroscopic information of an unprinted area on the print medium and an identifier indicating the type of the print medium and using the identifier as a trainer. The spectroscopic information of the unprinted area on the print medium to print on is acquired. The acquired spectroscopic information is applied to the pre-trained model. Using a result thereof, auxiliary information about the type of the print medium is outputted. A specification of the type of the print medium using the outputted auxiliary information is accepted. When the type of the print medium is thus specified, printing is performed using a print condition suitable for the print medium.
US11616869B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a sensor circuit, a display, a processor operationally connected to the sensor circuit and the display, and a memory operationally connected to the processor, wherein the processor may detect, via the sensor circuit, whether the electronic device is unfolded at a predetermined angle, detect a placement state of the electronic device via the sensor circuit when the electronic device is unfolded at the predetermined angle, when the detected placement state of the electronic device is a first state, control the electronic device to operate in a first operation mode corresponding to the first state, and when the detected placement state of the electronic device is a second state, control the electronic device to operate in a second operation mode corresponding to the second state.
US11616867B2
The invention relates to a panorama shooting may be performed in the process of switching from the open state to the folded state of the mobile phone, the panorama shooting can be started by pressing a predetermined button or by a voice command on the menu screen in the folded state, and the ending of the panorama shooting is performed through any one of pressing end button, uttering voice command, or detecting the state in which the mobile phone is completely opened.
US11616856B2
Disclosed are systems and methods to provide a platform for standardizing application programming interfaces (APIs) for a plurality of different dealership management software (DMS) systems. A computer server includes one or more processors of an automotive commerce exchange platform. The one or more processors are configured to execute a plurality of different software interfaces with a plurality of different DMS systems and provide a standardized software interface. The standardized software interface is configured to enable communication between the one or more processors of the automotive commerce exchange platform and a plurality of different devices of entities involved with an automotive market. The standardized software interface is also configured to enable the plurality of different devices access to each of the plurality of different DMS systems independent of local software interfaces of the plurality of different devices with each of the different DMS systems.
US11616851B2
An M2M Service Layer is expanded to access the services of third parties and exchange data with these third parties. The M2M Service Layer is then able to act as a proxy between M2M Devices and the third party services. The M2M Service Layer is able to present a single/consistent interface, or API, to the M2M Device and hide the details of the third party service provider from the M2M Device.
US11616841B2
A digital sensor network is overlaid on an integrated circuit for identifying and mapping hotspots in the integrated circuit. The digital sensor network may include a plurality of digital sensors distributed within an area of an integrated circuit component of an integrated circuit. Each of the plurality of digital sensors may include a ring oscillator and may be configured to output a counter value of a ring oscillator counted over a designated period. A sensor network control unit may be provided that is communicatively connected to the plurality of digital sensors via a communication circuit. The sensor network control unit may be configured to receive a plurality of counter values including the counter value from each of the plurality of digital sensors and identify a hotspot within the area of the integrated circuit.
US11616836B2
Systems and methods for multiplexing of a dedicated communication channel for multiple entities, including initiating, at a first entity, a request to share data with a second entity; sharing a portion of an aggregate record for the with the second entity including creating an entity-specific copy; initiating, at the first entity, a request to share data with a third entity; and sharing a portion of the aggregate record with the third entity including creating an entity-specific copy. The portions shared with the second and third entities are dependent on data sharing rules defining shared data, linked data, and entity-specific data that is i) nonsynchronous and ii) provided for display only at the entity associated with the data.
US11616833B2
An information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts, based on attribute information of an object necessary for using a service provided by a service system and information related to a user of the service system, a candidate for the user to be invited to the service, out of users who are yet to use the service.
US11616832B2
System and methods for enforcing service level agreements (SLAs) between computing platforms engaged in (e.g., Internet-of-Things) data exchange via peer-to-peer (P2P) connections are described. In accordance with various embodiments, data traffic via the P2P connections is monitored, and if an SLA violation is detected, data streams are rerouted to cure the violation.
US11616831B1
Systems and methods directing requests to a particular node in a multi-tiered middleware environment are provided. In one embodiment, traffic requests can be dynamically routed to a desired server, and not be load balanced, based on an identification of the client generating the traffic requests.
US11616822B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable mediums for receiving media data of a session. One apparatus includes processing circuitry that receives a media presentation description (MPD) file and one or more session-based description (SBD) files. The MPD file includes one or more essential property descriptors for session-based dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH). Each of the one or more essential property descriptors for session-based DASH is associated with a different SBD file in the one or more SBD files. The processing circuitry determines, for a period in the MPD file, whether the period has a supplemental property descriptor for session-based DASH. The processing circuitry applies all of the one or more SBD files to the period in response to the period not having any supplemental property descriptor for session-based DASH.
US11616820B2
The presently described subject matter allows the user to interactively browse a collection of electronic files, such as a digital photo collection, remotely using a mobile telephone. Files from the collection of electronic files can be directed from the mobile telephone to be sent to a remote display device, where the file can be displayed. Also, a user can record voice and text annotations from the mobile phone to preserve with an electronic file, and which is transported along with the file when it is displayed on a remote display device.
US11616810B2
Ransomware detection and/or isolation and/or remediation of a ransomware-encryption device is performed in a Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) system environment. The RMM system is operatively associated with monitoring and managing a plurality of devices and, according to an exemplary embodiment, the RMM system includes a RMM agent module locally installed on each device, a cloud-based RMM platform operatively communicating with each device RMM agent module, and a Ransomware Detection (RD)/Isolation module locally installed on each device. The RD/Isolation module locally detects a potential ransomware-encryption in one or more files received by the device and the RMM system isolates a ransomware affected device using a locally executed script provided by the cloud-based RMM platform.
US11616809B1
Disclosed is an approach that applies a fuzzy logic model that may involve fuzzy-matching a plurality of address fields to determine a common physical address, and determining a number of communiques directed to that address with reference to a threshold that may determine an excessive number of communiques. The plurality of address fields may also be fuzzy-matched to information in a fraud-risk database which may comprise a fraud-risk address. One or more matches may be presented to a user who may adjust the views of the various matches, track various trends within the data, and harmonize the various address fields relating to a physical address.
US11616797B2
A method including receiving a feature vector of an unknown sample, computing a MinHash of the unknown sample based on Jaccard-compatible features, querying a Locality Sensitive Hashing forest of known samples with the MinHash of the unknown sample to identify a first subset of known samples that are similar to the unknown sample, receiving for each individual known sample in the first subset, a feature vector including non-Jaccard distance-compatible features, computing a first sub-distance and a second sub-distance between the unknown sample and the known samples in the first subset, calculating a total distance for each known sample in the first subset by combining the first and the second sub-distances, identifying, based on the calculated total distances, a second subset of known samples that are most similar to the unknown sample, and classifying the unknown sample based on the second subset.
US11616793B2
A system includes local area network (LAN) devices in communication with network devices external to the LAN. An agent in the LAN examines traffic between LAN devices and external devices. The agent executes scans of the LAN devices, generates fingerprint and telemetry data for the LAN devices, and sends the telemetry data and the fingerprint data to a cloud server external to the LAN. The cloud server receives telemetry data and fingerprint data and updates a device attribute database with fingerprints and/or device profiles for the LAN devices to identify anomalous behavior of the LAN devices.
US11616791B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of method and system for network access control. The method may involve traffic monitoring and vulnerability detection using process information. The system may analyze the vulnerability as a process malfunctioning where preventive action focuses on process blocking as opposed to host blocking, which can lead to improved performance and productivity of a network. Techniques may use process related information, connection information, and network packet information for network control. The information may be matched against a plurality of signatures to identify and detect a known vulnerability in network activities. On the basis of a match, a verification report may be established. Techniques may further check whether a verification report is applicable to a process associated with a network packet and allow or block the process running on the host based in the report.
US11616786B2
Various computers will communicate messages back and forth over a communication network. These communications may exchange various information. In one aspect, an apparatus for communicating data over a communication network may comprise a computer processor, a receiver, and a memory. The computer processor may generate a request for transmission to a first server via the communication network. The request may include a data inquiry for data about an authorized user of a communication device. The computer processor may also generate a communication message for transmission to the authorized user with a prompt to provide user data via the communication device. The receiver may receive a response from the first server and user data from the communication device. The computer processor may further format the user data and generate a dynamic value based on the formatted response for display.
US11616773B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for securing configuration information for cloud-based services. Some embodiments include a system comprising a data store and data sets including plant process information and configuration information. A memory device stores computer-executable instructions executable by a processor coupled to the cloud service. When executed, the instructions receive configuration information, store it in a data file, apply a generated certificate to the file, and deploy the resulting protected configuration data file to the cloud-based service. In addition, the protected configuration data file is made available by obtaining the file from the cloud-based service.
US11616772B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for launching a connection to a resource link from a client device. A device can authenticate the client device for access to a plurality of resource links accessible via one or more servers. The device can provide a list of the plurality of resource links responsive to the authentication, and receive a request from the client device, identifying a first resource link to access. The device can cause first authenticated credentials for the first resource link to be stored on the client device responsive to the request. The first authenticated credentials can correspond to the client device and provide access the first resource link. The client device can be configured to launch a connection to the first resource link from the client device using the first authenticated credentials stored on the client device.
US11616763B2
Methods and apparatus for supporting secure anonymous communications are described. A first communications device, e.g., a virtual desktop device, in a communications network, e.g., a private ISP network, serves on behalf of a first user device as an endpoint for a communications session with a second device. The first communications device includes a fabricated set of device attribute information which is different from an actual set of device attribute information corresponding to the first user device. The communications network includes a set of onion routers and onion routing is used within the network.
US11616760B1
According to examples, a system for automatically optimizing thresholds of content processing models that select content for presentation to users may include a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor, when executing the instructions, may cause the system to select a subset of the content processing models for a content policy grouping. The subset of content processing models comprises models selected from a plurality of content processing models based on content rejection rates and models that are selected based on corresponding model probabilities. The system may further obtain an optimized threshold for each model of the subset of content processing models based on an iterative global optimization technique. The system may thereby facilitate automatic selection or rejection of the content pieces for presentation to users on an online system based on the policies associated with corresponding content policy grouping by employing the subset of content processing models with the optimized thresholds.
US11616757B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards components in different server clusters, e.g., comprising software components such as components of a distributed computing system. Components are available for use by distributed computing system applications, yet managed by the distributed computing system runtime such that only a single instance can be activated and exist within communicating (non-partitioned) clusters. Also described is recovery from a situation in which no longer partitioned clusters each have created the same component.
US11616753B2
Methods and apparatuses for acquisition of an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)/IPv6 neighbour cache at a user plane function (UPF) entity without performing deep packet inspection for every packet that traverses a network. The ARP broadcast/Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) neighbour solicitation multicast from any Ethernet client (a user equipment (UE) or clients behind the UE or clients in a data network (DN)) is responded to by the UPF entity itself, by looking up the ARP/IPv6 Neighbour cache built in the UPF entity, irrespective of whether the UPF entity acts as the core Ethernet switch or whether the core Ethernet switch is in the DN. The solution is simplified to always intercept ARP at the UPF entity and respond to it based on a local ARP/IPv6 Neighbour cache.
US11616752B1
A first request to create a content resource from a client device associated with a client account of the SaaS platform is received via a first application programming interface (API) call. The first request specifies message content for messages to be sent via multiple communication channels, identifies the message content in a first format, and format is translatable to multiple second formats that each correspond to one of the communication channels. The content resource received via the first API call is stored, at the SaaS platform. An identifier of the content resource is provided to the client device associated with the client account via a first API response.
US11616744B2
Systems and methods for parsing and publishing messages corresponding to changes in a database are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first plurality of messages from the database, parsing the messages in the first plurality of messages into at least a first group and a second group of messages, each message in a group sharing a common identifier, and forwarding the first group of messages and the second group of messages to an event streaming platform.
US11616737B2
A method of communicating messages between modules in a system on a vehicle, each module configured as a publisher node and/or subscriber node, the publisher nodes and the subscriber nodes collectively forming a plurality of nodes that communicate in the operation of the vehicle. One method includes communicating, by a subscriber node, with a registry for information to determine if a new message associated with a first topic is available for reading, determining, by each subscriber node, if a new message associated with the first topic is available for reading, in response to determining a new message associated with the first topic is available for reading, reading from the registry location information indicating where the first message is stored in a first message buffer, and reading, by each subscriber node the first message from the first message buffer using the location information.
US11616736B2
A communication system in which DRA control is aided by RL. An example embodiment may control one or more buffer queues populated by downstream and/or upstream data streams. The egress rates of the buffer queues can be dynamically controlled using an RL technique, according to which a learning agent can adaptively change the state-to-action mapping function of the DRA controller while circumventing the RL exploration phase and relying on extrapolation of the already taken actions instead. This feature may result in at least two benefits: (i) cancellation of a performance penalty typically associated with RL exploration; and (ii) faster learning of the environment, as the learning agent can determine the performance metrics of many actions per state in a single occurrence of the state. In an example embodiment, the communication system may be a DSL system, a PON system, or a wireless communication system.
US11616732B2
Examples described herein relate to method, resource management system, and non-transitory machine-readable medium for redeploying a computing resource. Data related to a performance parameter corresponding to a plurality of computing resources deployed on a plurality of host-computing nodes may be received. The performance parameter is associated with one or both of: communication between computing resources of the plurality of computing resources, or communication of the plurality of computing resources with a network device. Further, for a computing resource of the plurality of computing resources, a candidate host-computing node is determined from the plurality of host-computing nodes based on the data related to the performance parameter and the computing resource may be redeployed on the candidate host-computing node.
US11616726B2
In this disclosure, in a network comprising a plurality of network devices, a network device includes processing circuitry configured to: receive packet data corresponding to a network flow originating at a first device, the packet data destined to a second device; generate an entropy label to add to a label stack of the packet data, wherein the entropy label is generated from one or more attributes corresponding to the network flow that originated at the first device and is destined to the second device; generate a flow record including the entropy label, wherein the entropy label identifies the network flow amongst a plurality of network flows in the network; and send, to a controller of the network, the flow record, wherein the controller identifies the flow record based on the entropy label corresponding to the network flow originating at the first device and is destined to the second device.
US11616721B2
Various embodiments are directed to receiving, at a receiving device, a packet from a node in a first network. determining a version identifier for the packet, encoding the version identifier into the packet, and transmitting the packet containing the encoded version identifier to a load balancing device in a second network. The version identifier may be encoded into a destination port field of the packet. The receiving device may be a perimeter network address translation device. The packet is received at the load balancing device, where the version identifier is extracted and a hash of source address information is performed. The version and hash are used to select a back-end device in the second network. The packet is transmitted to the selected back-end device.
US11616720B2
The application disclose a packet processing method that includes: receiving, by a service distribution node, service routing information sent by a controller, where the service routing information includes a flow identifier, a service identifier, and a next-hop address, the flow identifier is used to identify a packet flow, the service identifier is used to identify a sequence of a service node instance that processes the packet flow, and the next-hop address is used to identify the service node instance that processes the packet flow; receiving a first packet; acquiring a first flow identifier according to the first packet, and searching the service routing information according to the first flow identifier to acquire a matched service identifier and a matched next-hop address; and sending a second packet to a first service node instance that has the matched next-hop address, which implements service processing on a packet flow.
US11616716B1
A system uses gossip messages that are transmitted via multicast to other host server computers to share when new sockets associated with a communication session are established. The gossip message can be used to create an association between a host identifier and an identifier of the communication session. When a network packet arrives, a host server computer can check which host server computer is associated with the communication session. If the communication session is associated with a different host server computer, it encapsulates the packet and transmits the packet to the appropriate host using the pre-computed header template. On the receiving end of this encapsulated packet, a kernel space removes then encapsulation and allows the network packet to be processed by the proper destination host server computer. The result is to ensure all network packets land on the host server computer associated with the communication session.
US11616710B2
A method includes monitoring a media stream that is streamed over a network at a given media bit-rate in a sequence of traffic bursts. Respective data volumes of one or more traffic bursts of the sequence are estimated, and the given media bit-rate is derived from the estimated data volumes.
US11616697B2
Virtual machine server clusters are managed using self-healing and dynamic optimization to achieve closed-loop automation. The technique uses adaptive thresholding to develop actionable quality metrics for benchmarking and anomaly detection. Real-time analytics are used to determine the root cause of KPI violations and to locate impact areas. Self-healing and dynamic optimization rules are able to automatically correct common issues via no-touch automation in which finger-pointing between operations staff is prevalent, resulting in consolidation, flexibility and reduced deployment time.
US11616694B2
The disclosure provides a method for determining a configuration mismatch between a first device and a second device. During operation, a first device receives a plurality of Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD) protocol messages from a second device. The first device is configured with a first interval configuration value corresponding to a frequency which the first device sends the UDLD protocol messages to the second device. The first device determines a second interval configuration value of the second device, which corresponds to a frequency which the second device sends the UDLD protocol messages to the first device. The first device determines that there is a configuration mismatch between the first device and the second device, and creates a log entry for the configuration mismatch, the log entry including the first and second interval configuration values.
US11616693B1
Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for memory efficient network use modeling.
US11616690B2
A discovery application on a computing system is provided. The discovery application receives a user input, which is for discovery of resources associated with a cloud operating system of a cloud computing system. The user input includes an authentication credential and account information associated with the cloud operating system. Based on the received input, the discovery application executes a discovery pattern comprising operations for the discovery of resources. The cloud operating system includes a group of services to access such resources. At least one of the operations corresponds to an API call to an API endpoint associated with a service of the group of services. The discovery application receives a response to the API call from the cloud operating system. The response includes a payload of information associated with the resources. The discovery application updates, based on the received response, one or more configuration items in a configuration management database.
US11616675B2
A method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication systems that support broadcast signals. The UE receives a first radio signal on a first time-frequency resource. The first radio signal comprises a first RS sequence, RSs in the first RS sequence are mapped from lower frequency to higher frequency in frequency domain, the first time-frequency resource belongs to a first frequency domain resource. The first frequency domain resource comprises K frequency domain sub-resource(s). (A) Position(s) of the K frequency domain sub-resource(s) in the first frequency domain resource is(are) unfixed, RSs of the first RS sequence in a given frequency domain sub-resource are not related to a position of the given frequency domain sub-resource in the first frequency domain resource. Therefore, the UE is able to correctly receive RSs even without knowing the position of frequency domain resources in the system bandwidth.
US11616672B2
A method for calculating cyclic shifts for sequences used in Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) transmissions is provided. The cyclic shift may be based on a PSFCH resource index, an initial cyclic shift, and the number of cyclic shift pairs which are available.
US11616668B1
With rapid increases in the number and spatial density of wireless messages as 5G and 6G are rolled out, it is essential that improved methods for fault-tolerant demodulation and error mitigation be developed. Disclosed herein are methods for receiving a message concatenated with a demodulation reference, determining the predetermined modulation levels of a modulation scheme, and demodulating the message by measuring the amplitude mad/or phase modulation values of each message element. The measured modulation values are then compared with the predetermined modulation levels of the modulation scheme to demodulate the message. Importantly, the message can be demodulated by determining an amplitude and phase of the raw signal for each message element, or by separating the raw signal into two orthogonal “branches” and determining the amplitudes of the two branches. By demodulating the message both ways, message faults may be identified and mitigated, according to some embodiments.
US11616665B2
This application discloses a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a first device, a phase tracking reference signal PTRS pattern, where the PTRS pattern includes one or more PTRS chunks, and each PTRS chunk includes one or more PTRS samples; and mapping, by the first device, a PTRS to one or more symbols, and sending the one or more symbols to a second device.
US11616664B2
Various strategies and devices for same are disclosed to correct for/mitigate frequency offset (such as due to differing accuracies between an oscillator of a transmitting device and an oscillator of a receiving device) and Doppler shift (such as due to a changing relative position between a receiving device and a transmitting device). These strategies may be employed in a MIMO setting, such as, e.g. a stationary base station and a plurality of terminal devices (e.g. user devices, mobile stations, etc.), in which the transmissions for each terminal device may be associated with a different frequency offset and a different Doppler shift.
US11616663B2
Methods and apparatuses in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a base station (BS) includes receiving information of uplink transmissions; storing the received information; performing, based on the received information, channel parameter tracking operations to generate channel parameters, wherein the channel parameter tracking operations are configured with different configuration parameters; and performing, based on the channel parameters, a channel coefficient prediction operation to generate channel state information (CSI).
US11616661B2
A transfer device for coupling a priority signal and a standard signal and transferring the signal includes a reception unit that receives a plurality of signals transmitted from a device connected to an opposite side of a transfer route, a separation unit that separates the signal into the priority signal and the standard signal, a signal defragmentation unit that defragments the plurality of standard signals, a multiplexing unit that multiplexes each of the priority signal and the standard signal, a priority control unit that determines a transfer order of the signals, a header information copy unit that copy header information of the standard signal, a transmission unit that transmits the signal to a device connected to the transfer route, an interrupt transfer processing unit that perform an interruption process when the priority signal arrives during the transfer of the standard signal, a signal fragmentation unit that fragments the standard signal, a header information assignment unit that assigns the header information to the standard signal, and a transmission delaying unit that delays the transfer of the standard signal until the priority signal has been transferred.
US11616654B2
Methods and systems for configuring a security device, such as an electronic lock, are disclosed. In particular, the present disclosure describes methods and systems for provisioning a lock with a certificate such that any change to the lock, or changes to lock-server communication characteristics, can be detected and (optionally) prevented. As such, security of such devices is improved.
US11616650B1
Provided is a process including: generating a non-fungible token according to a non-fungible token standard; associating a virtual display of a physical object with the non-fungible token; associating object content associated with the physical object with the non-fungible token; and storing the non-fungible token at a first blockchain address of a first blockchain.
US11616646B2
A method for replacing an existing key derivation key in a utility meter arranged in a meter communication infrastructure in a secure way. The method provide a secure mechanism for exchange of symmetric keys without the need for transferring keys across the meter communication infrastructure. From the head-end system to the utility meter is transmitted a command data message comprising a request for replacing the existing key derivation key with the new key derivation key, the key-generation information and a activation key or an authentication code calculated based on the activation key. The utility meter receiving the command data message is arranged to derive the new key derivation key based on a copy of a disaster recovery key stored in the utility meter and on the key-generation information comprised in the received command data message. Further, the utility meter is arranged for deriving a activation key from the new key derivation key. The activation key is used for verifying the command data message. If the command data message is verified the existing key derivation key is replaced by a new key derivation key.
US11616631B2
An integrated circuit includes a first through fourth devices positioned over a substrate, the first device including first through third transceivers, the second device including a fourth transceiver, the third device including a fifth transceiver, and the fourth device including a sixth transceiver. A first radio frequency interconnect (RFI) includes the first transceiver coupled to the fourth transceiver through a first guided transmission medium, a second RFI includes the second transceiver coupled to the fifth transceiver through a second guided transmission medium, and a third RFI includes the third transceiver coupled to the sixth transceiver by the second guided transmission medium.
US11616629B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for providing a V2X service in a next generation radio access technology (new RAT). The present embodiments relate to a method for a terminal to control a sidelink HARQ feedback operation, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a transmitting terminal, group cast sidelink data through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); determining, on the basis of positional information of the transmitting terminal, whether to transmit HARQ feedback information of the group cast sidelink data; and, when it is determined to transmit the HARQ feedback information, transmitting the HARQ feedback information.
US11616626B2
Methods, systems, and devices for sidelink wireless communications are described in which a transmitting device may determine a transport block size (TBS) for a sidelink data channel transmission and provide an indication in in sidelink control information (SCI) to allow a receiving device to determine the TBS to be used for decoding the sidelink communication. The indication provided in the SCI may be an explicit indication in an information element that indicates whether feedback channel resources are included or excluded when determining a number of symbols for use in a TBS determination. The indication provided in the SCI may also be an implicit indication based on one or more values of one or more parameters provided in the SCI. The sidelink communications devices may determine a same TBS across multiple instances of a sidelink data channel transmission that may be transmitted using slots having different slot formats.
US11616623B2
A communication technique for convergence between a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system and a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), and a system thereof, are provided. The communication technique and system may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, etc.) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. A method and apparatus for determining a channel access procedure in a wireless communication system are provided.
US11616612B2
Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting data. The method comprises: a transmitting terminal determines in N basic parameter sets a first target basic parameter set of a first beam for transmitting first data, different basic parameter sets of the N basic parameter comprising different frequency-domain base parameter sets and/or different time-domain basic parameter sets, and N being an integer greater than or equal to 2; and the transmitting terminal transmits the first beam on a time-domain resource, a spatial-domain resource, and a frequency-domain resource based on the first target basic parameter set; this can be adapted to requirements of diverse data in a network.
US11616608B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for supporting network transmissions using unicast sidelink communications. A base station (BS) may transmit a set of encoded packets to a number of user equipment (UEs) and receive feedback messages from the UEs that indicate sets of decoded packets. Based on the feedback messages, the BS may transmit an updated set of encoded packets based on a difference between the set of encoded packets and the union of decoded packets. The BS may transmit an instruction to a first UE to transmit a broadcast sidelink communication that includes a set of missed packets that includes one or more decoded packets that were decoded by the first UE but were not decoded by the second UE. The first UE may transmit the broadcast sidelink communication to the second UE.
US11616603B2
A device may receive a first telemetry data entry associated with an attribute and store a record associated with the first telemetry data entry, wherein the record identifies a first context value associated with the attribute. The device may log a first timestamp of the first telemetry data entry in a lookup table, wherein the lookup table includes a mapping of the attribute to the first context value and to the first timestamp. The device may receive a second telemetry data entry associated with the attribute and may determine, from the mapping, that the second telemetry data entry is associated with a second context value that is different from the first context value. The device may determine whether a second timestamp, of the second telemetry data entry, is before the first timestamp. The device may perform an action based on whether the second timestamp is before the first timestamp.
US11616595B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may perform rate matching of coded bits of each transport block, of a plurality of transport blocks, on a per-channel basis among a plurality of channels in a wideband channel of an unlicensed spectrum. The rate matching is performed on the per-channel basis in a first set of slots and such that coded bits of each transport block are mapped to a respective one of the plurality of channels. The wireless communication device may receive, after a transmission of the plurality of transport blocks on the plurality of channels, per-channel acknowledgment information. The wireless communication device may selectively adjust a plurality of contention windows, each associated with a listen before talk procedure to be performed on a respective one of the plurality of channels. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11616590B2
A system (100) comprising: a first unit (104) and one or more second units (104). The first unit (102) comprises: a timing reference (114) configured to provide a master-timing-reference-signal; a master time block configured to provide a master-time-signal (117) for the first unit (102) based on the master-timing-reference-signal; and a first interface (122) configured to: receive timestamped-processed-second-RF-signals from the one or more second units (104); and provide a first-unit-timing-signal (262) to the one or more second units (104) based on the master-time-signal. The one or more second units (104) each comprise: a slave time block (141) configured to: determine a slave-time-signal (142) for the second unit (104) based on the master-timing-reference-signal; determine one or more second-timing-values based on the slave-time-signal; determine an adjustment-time based on the first-unit-timing-signal received from the first unit (102) and the second-timing-values; and adjust the slave-time-signal based on the adjustment-time.
US11616568B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic cell-specific delay for timing scaling in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). For example, certain embodiments may utilize a cell-common delay composed of FL and part of SL (until a cell-specific reference surface). A network node (e.g., a gNB) may calculate the cell-common delay as a function of time (T_c(t)) and may provide this function to the UEs (the satellite path may beis deterministic). The function of time may be a combination of two functions representing the FL and SL. The function can may be broadcasted in a system information block (SIB) or transmitted directly to the UE through radio resource control (RRC) signaling when it becomes active, is handed over, and/or regularly updated.
US11616557B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect a beam failure associated with a cell of a plurality of cells. The UE may selectively transmit a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) communication for the cell based at least in part on a determination of whether a threshold time period has elapsed since a previous BFRQ communication was transmitted for the cell or another cell of the plurality of cells. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11616555B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for facilitating spatial misalignment tracking for OAM beams in millimeter wave and higher frequency bands. An example method for wireless communication at a first communication device includes receiving, from a second communication device, a first misalignment tracking RS and a second misalignment tracking RS for an OAM transmission. The example method also includes determining a misalignment based on the first misalignment tracking RS, the second misalignment tracking RS, and using a subset of antenna elements of an antenna array of the first communication device. Additionally, the example method includes adjusting reception of a subsequent OAM transmission from the second communication device at the antenna array of the first communication device.
US11616553B1
Technologies directed to channel state information (CSI) sending in the 2.4 GHz band are described. A method includes receiving first CSI data representing channel properties of a wireless channel used by first and wireless devices that operates in the 2.4 GHz band. The method generates CSI samples at a first sampling rate. If the method determines that a first value, representing quality of the CSI samples, satisfies a threshold criterion, the method generates second CIS samples at a second higher sampling rate while alternating between each of multiple wireless channels in the specified amount of time. The method determines a score for each channel subcarrier index of a set of channel subcarrier indexes using the second CSI samples and identifies a subset based on the score. Using the second CSI samples corresponding to the subset, the method determines a motion condition or a no-motion condition within a geographical region.
US11616552B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines that the UE possesses T processing units for calculation of channel state information (CSI) reports. The UE transmits, to a base station, an indication indicating the T processing units. The UE receives, from the base station, a trigger for updating or providing M CSI reports. The UE determines that P processing units of the T processing units are available for calculation of CSI reports. The UE updates or provides N CSI reports. N is an integer smaller than or equal to M and allows processing units assigned for calculation of the N CSI reports to be smaller than or equal to the P processing units.
US11616549B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for reporting channel state information (CSI) by a user equipment in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, the user equipment may receive configuration information related with the CSI from a base station and measure the CSI based on the configuration information. Thereafter, the user equipment includes reporting the CSI to the base station and the CSI includes a rank indicator (RI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), and an indicator indicating the number of amplitude coefficients other than 0 and the second part includes a precoding matrix indicator (PMI).
US11616544B2
An apparatus may operate in a dual connectivity mode in which the apparatus is simultaneously connected to carriers of different radio access technologies. The apparatus may operate via a first antenna set of a plurality of antenna sets, the first antenna set including a first communication path. The apparatus may determine to operate via a second antenna set of the plurality of antenna sets based on whether one or more criteria is satisfied. The apparatus may select at least one second communication path for the second antenna set based on the one or more criteria. The apparatus may operate via the second antenna set over the at least one second communication path when the criteria is satisfied.
US11616535B2
Provided are a radio communication terminal apparatus and a radio transmission method by which intersymbol interference of DM-RS of a CoMP terminal and a Non-CoMP terminal can be reduced. A CoMP set setting unit (102) sets the cell IDs of all cells in the CoMP set in a cell selection unit (104), and a serving cell setting unit (103) sets the cell ID of the serving cell in the cell selection unit (104). The cell selection unit (104) selects the cell ID having a number closest to the cell ID of the serving cell from the cells in the CoMP set. A sequence information calculation unit (106) derives a sequence group number from the selected cell ID, and the sequence information calculation unit (106) calculates a sequence number from the derived sequence group number and a transmission bandwidth of the DM-RS.
US11616532B2
One example discloses a first near-field device, including: a controller configured to establish a near-field communications link with a second near-field device; wherein the controller is configured to monitor a characteristic of the near-field communications link; wherein the controller is configured to define a near-field transmission window based on the monitored characteristic; and wherein the controller is configured to delay transmission of a set of near-field signals to the second near-field device if a current time is not within the near-field transmission window.
US11616527B2
A transmitter/receiver (1) up-converts, using an LO signal as a local oscillation signal, an IF signal having a predetermined frequency band, thereby generating a transmission signal RFTX. Moreover, the transmitter/receiver (1) generates a (LO+IF)2 signal and a (LO−IF)2 signal based on the IF signal and the LO signal. Using the LO signal obtained by adding-up of the (LO+IF)2 signal and the (LO−IF)2 signal, a reception signal RFRX is down-converted. Thus, a local oscillation signal generation unit of a receiving unit is not necessary.
US11616520B2
A device includes, in part, an antenna adapted to receive an RF signal that includes modulated data, a splitter/coupler adapted to split the received RF signal, a receiver adapted to demodulate the data from a first portion of the RF signal, and a power recovery unit adapted to convert to a DC power a second portion of the RF signal. The splitter/coupler is optionally adjustable to split the RF signal in accordance with a value that may be representative of a number of factors, such as the target data rate, the DC power requirement of the device, and the like. The device optionally includes a switch and/or a power combiner adapted to deliver all the received RF power to the receiver depending on any number of operation conditions of the device or the device's distance from an RF transmitting device.
US11616518B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device and, more particularly, to an electronic device and a method for transmitting and receiving signals. To this end, the electronic device according to the present invention may comprise: a transceiving unit comprising a first group of power amplifiers (PAs) including at least one PA and a second group of PAs including at least one PA; an antenna unit comprising a first antenna selectively coupled to a PA supporting a first frequency range or a second frequency range of the first group of PAs and the second group of the PAs, and a second antenna selectively coupled to a PA supporting the second frequency range or a third frequency range of the first group of PAs and the second group of the PAs; a power supply unit comprising a first power supply modulator connected to the first group of PAs and a second power supply modulator connected to the second group of PAs; and a communication processor for changing an output voltage at least in part on the basis of transmit power of the PA coupled to at least one of the first power supply modulator and the second power supply modulator, wherein at least one of the first group of PAs and at least one of the second group of PAs are capable of transmitting signals simultaneously.
US11616515B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for fast decoding a linear code based on soft decision. The method may comprise sorting received signals in a magnitude order to obtain sorted signals; obtaining hard decision signals by performing hard decision on the sorted signals; obtaining upper signals corresponding to MRBs from the hard decision signals; obtaining a permuted and corrected codeword candidate using the upper signals and an error vector according to a current order; calculating a cost for the current order using a cost function; determining the permuted and corrected codeword candidate as a permuted and corrected codeword according to a result of comparing the calculated cost with a minimum cost; and determining a predefined speeding condition.
US11616511B2
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is described. This ADC includes a conversion circuit with multiple bit-conversion circuits. During operation, the ADC may receive an input signal. Then, the conversion circuit may asynchronously perform successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital conversion of the input signal using the bit-conversion circuits, where the bit-conversion circuits to provide a quantized representation of the input signal. For example, the bit-conversion circuits may asynchronously and sequentially perform the SAR analog-to-digital conversion to determine different bits in the quantized representation of the input signal. Moreover, the ADC may selectively perform self-calibration of a global delay of the bit-conversions circuits. Note that the timing self-calibration may be iterative and subject to a constraint that a maximum conversion time is less than a target conversion time.
US11616508B2
The disclosure provides a delay estimation device and a delay estimation method. The delay estimation device includes a pulse generator, a digitally controlled delay line (DCDL), a time-to-digital converter (TDC), and a control circuit. The pulse generator receives a reference clock signal, outputs a first clock signal in response to a first rising edge of the reference clock signal, and outputs a second clock signal in response to a second rising edge of the reference clock signal. The DCDL receives the first clock signal from the pulse generator and converts the first clock signal into phase signals based on a combination of delay line codes. The TDC samples the phase signals to generate a timing code based on the second clock signal. The control circuit estimates a specific delay between the first clock signal and the second clock signal based on the timing code.
US11616503B2
There is provided an optical encoder including a phase shifter circuit, two multiplexers, two digital circuits and four comparators. The phase shifter circuit receives signals from an amplifier and outputs multiple phase shifted signals. Each of the two multiplexers receives a half of the multiple phase shifted signals and outputs two pairs of phase shifted signals, each pair having 180 degrees phase difference, respectively to two comparators connected thereto. Each of the two digital circuits controls the corresponding multiplexer to select the two pairs of phase shifted signals from the half of the multiple phase shifted signals.
US11616502B2
A phase interpolator capable of preventing a glitch from being generated during a clock signal switching operation and a clock signal selector thereof are provided. The clock signal selector includes a selector and a selection signal generator. The selector receives multiple clock signals with different phases. The selector selects one of the clock signals according to a selection signal to generate a selected clock signal. The selection signal generator is coupled to the selector and generates the selection signal. When the selector switches from selecting a first clock signal to selecting a second clock signal as the selected clock signal, the selection signal generator generates a set time point according to a transition point of one of the first clock signal and the second clock signal whose phase lags behind a phase of the other, and generates the selection signal according to the set time point.
US11616499B2
A bi-directional buffer for applications using in an I2C or SMBUS or other bus systems. The bi-directional buffer has an input terminal to receive an input voltage signal and an output terminal for providing an output voltage signal, and the output voltage signal follows the input voltage signal. The output voltage signal is regulated to have a first bias voltage greater than the input voltage signal by a first operational amplifier, or to have a second bias voltage greater than the input voltage signal by a second operational amplifier, the second bias voltage is smaller than the first bias voltage.
US11616495B2
Inter-integrated circuit input circuitry includes a pull-up current circuit and an input circuit. The input circuit includes an output inverter, an input inverter, and a pull-up circuit. The pull-up circuit is coupled to an input of the input inverter, and includes a pull-up transistor and a cascode transistor. The pull-up transistor is coupled to the input of the input inverter. The cascode transistor is coupled to the pull-up current circuit and the pull-up transistor, and configured to isolate the pull-up transistor from capacitance of a conductor coupled to the pull-up current circuit and the input circuit.
US11616489B2
A bulk acoustic wave filter includes: a first bulk acoustic wave resonator including, in an order from bottom to top, a first cavity, a first bottom electrode, a first segment of a piezoelectric layer, and a first top electrode; a second bulk acoustic wave resonator disposed adjacent to the first bulk acoustic wave resonator, and including, in the order from bottom to top, a second cavity, a second bottom electrode, a second segment of the piezoelectric layer, and a second top electrode; a boundary structure surrounding the first cavity and the second cavity, the boundary structure including a boundary portion extending between and separating the first cavity and the second cavity, and the boundary portion being disconnected at a disconnection region; and a first release hole formed in the piezoelectric layer, and overlapping the disconnection region.
US11616485B2
A front-end module may include an acoustic wave filter with a first and second interdigital transducer electrode. The first interdigital transducer electrode may be single-ended with a first input bus bar that receives an input signal and a second input bus bar connected to ground. The second interdigital transducer electrode may be differential with a first output bus bar connected to a first output terminal and a second output bus bar connected to a second output terminal. The front-end module may include a low noise amplifier (LNA) that outputs a differential signal via a differential output and has a differential input connected to the acoustic wave filter. The LNA may include a first input transistor that receives a first signal from the first output terminal of the acoustic wave filter and a second input transistor that receives a second signal from the second output terminal of the acoustic wave filter.
US11616484B2
A band antenna EMP filter apparatus having HEMP protection capability is disclosed. The apparatus includes a discharging part, a band pass filtering part, and a residual current eliminating part. The discharging part primarily discharges a transient voltage due to a high altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) when the HEMP is inputted through an input part receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal of an antenna. The band pass filtering part secondarily blocks a residual current primarily discharged by the discharging part and passes only a signal of a preset frequency band to output it through an output part. The residual current eliminating part limits a transient voltage of the HEMP by eliminating a residual current passing through the band pass filtering part.
US11616481B2
Systems and apparatuses are disclosed that include an RF generator configured to generate RF signals having a wavelength. Amplifiers are configured to receive and amplify the RF signals from the RF generator and are separated from each other by a separation distance in a range between about 0.2 times the wavelength and about 10.0 times the wavelength. A power management system is configured to control one or more of the amplifiers based on information received that is associated with the RF signals.
US11616478B2
An uplink multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) transmitter apparatus includes a transmitter chain that includes a sigma-delta circuit that creates a summed (sigma) signal and a difference (delta) signal from two original signals to be transmitted. These new sigma and delta signals are amplified by power amplifiers to a desired output level before having two signals reconstructed from the amplified sigma and amplified delta signals by a second circuit. These reconstructed signals match the two original signals in content but are at a desired amplified level relative to the two original signals. The reconstructed signals are then transmitted through respective antennas as uplink signals. By employing this uplink MIMO transmitter apparatus, it is possible to use smaller power amplifiers, which may reduce footprint, power consumption, and costs of the uplink MIMO transmitter apparatus.
US11616471B2
Various embodiments for a connection topology reconfiguration technique for photovoltaic (PV) arrays to maximize power output under partial shading and fault conditions using neural networks are disclosed herein.
US11616469B2
A method and washer head assembly for washing a surface of a solar panel, includes lowering a washer head frame onto a solar panel. The washer head frame includes a washer frame cross member having a swivel mounted thereon. The swivel is mounted below a center of gravity. The frame includes a top frame rail and a bottom frame rail. A plurality of lath brushes together extend, generally, the length of the washer head frame. The lath brushes are made up to include a plurality of bristles being of sufficient number to support the washer head frame against the surface of the solar panel without damage to the solar panel. The lightness of the frame and the resilience of the brush bristles assure that the washer head frame will not come into damaging contact with the solar panel.
US11616464B2
A power feed control system includes: a first drive unit configured to include a first electrically driven device, a first inverter, a first fuel battery system, and a first voltage converter; a second drive unit configured to include a second electrically driven device, a second inverter, a second fuel battery system, and a second voltage converter; a common battery; and a control unit configured to perform control of the first inverter or/and the first voltage converter such that each current value of the first inverter and the first fuel battery system achieves a target value of a first current value that is determined on the basis of the first current value flowing between the first drive unit and the battery and a second current value flowing between the second drive unit and the battery and perform control of the second inverter or/and the second voltage converter such that each current value of the second inverter and the second fuel battery system achieves a target value of the second current value that is determined on the basis of the first current value flowing between the first drive unit and the battery and the second current value flowing between the second drive unit and the battery.
US11616463B2
In order to ensure particularly good protection of individuals in an electromagnetic transport system, a safety area is provided in a transport area. Furthermore, a safety function is provided which, in accordance with a predetermined safety requirement level, ensures that the transport unit reaches the safety area at a speed less than or equal to a safety speed and/or with a transport unit force less than or equal to a safety force and/or a transport unit energy less than or equal to a safety energy, or prevents the transport unit from reaching the safety area.
US11616455B2
An actuator is configured to include a first substrate that has a first conductive surface, which may be or include a first conductive electrode layer. The actuator also includes a second substrate that has a second conductive surface, which may be or include a second conductive electrode layer. The first and second conductive surfaces face toward each other across a compression space between the first and second substrates. A group of elastic support nodules span the compression space and separate the first and second conductive surfaces. The compression space is less than fully filled with solid elastic material and is configured to be compressed by relative movement of the first and second conductive surfaces toward each other in response to a voltage difference between the first and second conductive surfaces.
US11616454B2
In this power conversion device, a phase deviation of an output voltage due to a phase shift control is eliminated. The power conversion device according to the present invention converts DC voltage to AC voltage by phase-shift controlling the switching elements of a full bridge inverter. In place of a conventional method in which only one of the first and second legs of the full bridge inverter is phase-shifted, both legs are phase-shifted in opposite directions to each other to control an overlap angle at which the switching elements of the first and second legs of the full bridge are simultaneously brought into an on-state. The variation of the center phase of the overlap angle is suppressed by phase-shifting the first and second legs in the opposite directions to each other.
US11616451B2
A pre-chargeable DCDC conversion circuit includes a high-voltage side conversion module connected to a primary winding of a main transformer T1, a low-voltage side conversion module connected to a secondary winding of the main transformer, and a controller used for controlling the high-voltage side conversion module and the low-voltage side conversion module. A pre-charging module is connected in series in a direct-current bus of the low-voltage side conversion module, and the pre-charging module is used for pre-charging a capacitor of electric equipment connected to a direct-current bus of the high-voltage side conversion module when the complete machine is powered on. The pre-charging module and a forward DCDC share most of power devices and power loops, and only a small number of devices are added, such that the volume and cost are reduced compared with an independent pre-charging branch, and the control mode is simple.
US11616446B1
An apparatus includes a switching circuit, a resonant circuit coupled to an output of the switching circuit, a rectification circuit coupled between the resonant circuit and an output of the apparatus, and a controller coupled to the switching circuit. The controller, during a soft start-up operation of the power supply, is configured to switch a plurality of switches with a variable limited maximum duty cycle at a minimum frequency and after the variable limited maximum duty cycle reaches the limited maximum duty cycle at the minimum frequency, simultaneously switch the frequency to a maximum frequency and switch the duty cycle to a minimum duty cycle at the maximum frequency for a same on-time as the limited maximum duty cycle at the minimum frequency.
US11616443B2
A buck-boost converter including an inductor, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a voltage detection circuit, and a voltage control circuit is provided. The first transistor is coupled to a first terminal of the inductor and receives a first control signal. The second transistor is coupled to the first terminal of the inductor and receives a second control signal. The third transistor is coupled to a second terminal of the inductor and receives a third control signal. The fourth transistor is coupled to the second terminal of the inductor and receives a fourth control signal voltage. The detection circuit detects the third control signal to selectively provide a voltage drop indication signal. When a voltage conversion mode is a buck mode, the voltage control circuit switches a conduction state of the third control signal in response to the voltage drop indication signal.
US11616442B2
A switching power converter circuit comprises a single inductive circuit element; a common control loop circuit coupled to a circuit input and the inductive circuit element and including switching circuit elements to charge the inductive circuit element using energy provided at the circuit input; at least one current sensing circuit configured to sense inductor current of the inductive circuit element; one or more output control loop circuits that each include switching circuit elements activated to generate an output voltage; and one or more pulse width modulation (PWM) circuits configured to generate a PWM control signal to activate the switching circuit elements of the output control loop circuits and to change a peak voltage of the PWM control signal of the one or more PWM circuits according to the inductor current.
US11616436B2
A system includes: an input voltage source; a power stage coupled to the input voltage source; a load coupled to an output of the power stage; and an error amplifier circuit coupled to the power stage. The error amplifier circuit includes an error amplifier; a transconductance stage coupled to an output of the error amplifier; an internal compensation switch; an external compensation switch; and control logic coupled to the internal compensation switch and the external compensation switch. The control logic is configured to selectively operate the internal compensation switch and the external compensation switch in one of an internal compensation mode and an external compensation mode.
US11616431B2
A control circuit of a power converter includes a sensing circuit, a ramp signal generation circuit and a PWM circuit. The sensing circuit, coupled to an output circuit, provides a current sensing signal. The ramp signal generation circuit includes a transient circuit and a signal generation circuit. The transient circuit receives the current sensing signal and generates a variable reference voltage. The signal generation circuit provides a ramp signal according to the variable reference voltage. The PWM circuit provides a PWM signal to the output circuit according to the ramp signal. When current sourcing occurs, it continues for a first default time. A transient state during current sourcing continues for a second default time less than first default time. The variable reference voltage is changed from a default value to an adjusted value during the second default time and restored to the default value after the second default time.
US11616415B2
A system for providing dynamic force comprises a solar cell, an engine, a transmission module, two motors, two one-way fly wheels, and an electrical energy storage device. The solar cell is configured to drive the two motors. The transmission module comprises an input terminal and two output terminals. The input terminal of the transmission module is driven by the engine, and the output terminals of the transmission module are configured to drive the two motors respectively. The electrical energy storage device is configured to store electrical energy generated by the solar cell and drive the two motors. The two one-way fly wheels are driven by the two motors respectively.
US11616405B2
An object detection apparatus includes a sensor module including a sensor, and a controller that controls the sensor and generates output information, based on a signal that the sensor outputs; and a detector that determines presence or absence of the object, based on the output information. The detector executes a reference object detection process of detecting a reference object existing at a predetermined position within the detection range, by comparing the output information and predetermined reference information, and, when the reference object is detected, executes a correction process of correcting at least one of the output information or a parameter for the sensor, based on the reference information and reference object information that is information indicative of the reference object in the output information.
US11616387B2
A system of controlling backup power of a lithium iron phosphate battery for a vehicle contains: the lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery module, a boost module, and a supercapacitor module which are parallelly connected with an electric control device of the vehicle. A first switch electrically is connected with a negative electrode of the electric control device and a negative electrode of the supercapacitor module of the vehicle, a second switch is electrically connected with a negative input electrode and a negative output electrode of the boost module, and a third switch is electrically connected with a positive electrode of the LiFePO4 battery module and a positive input electrode of the boost module. The system further contains a backup control module including a microprocessor configured to direct, control, order, and manage a detection unit, a controlling unit, and a Bluetooth module.
US11616386B2
An automatic transfer switch includes a first conduction bar selectively coupled with a first power source and a load conduction bar; a second conduction bar selectively coupled with a second power source and the load conduction bar; a first blade assembly electrically coupled to the first conduction bar; and a second blade assembly electrically coupled to the second conduction bar. The first blade assembly is electrically coupled to a first source conduction bar in a closed position, and a first electromagnetic force induced by a first current flowing through the first blade assembly and the first conduction bar repulses the first blade assembly. The second blade assembly is electrically coupled to a second source conduction bar in a closed position, and a second electromagnetic force induced by a second current flowing through the second blade assembly and the second conduction bar repulses the second blade assembly.
US11616380B2
A charging system for a battery-operated machine is disclosed. The charging system includes a charging receptacle having a power connection and a signal connection, with the charging receptacle configured to receive electrical current via the power connection from a power supply plug. The charging system further includes a heat rejection element thermally coupled to the charging receptacle, a temperature sensor, and a charging controller operatively coupled to the temperature sensor and the charging receptacle. The charging controller is configured to receive a temperature signal from the temperature sensor, the temperature signal being indicative of a charging-receptacle temperature. The charging controller is further configured to transmit, via the signal connection to the connected plug, a control signal to adjust (e.g., raise or lower) the electrical current supplied to the power connection.
US11616378B2
A power transfer system includes a series of energy storage modules (ESMs) or energy storage devices (ESDs) that are coupled together to be able to transfer power between one another, as well as receive power from a power source, such as an onshore power generator. The energy storage modules may be hybrid energy storage modules, each including an electrical-machine-inertial energy store and an electro-chemical energy store. The energy storage modules are configured to receive constant-current DC or AC input from the power source, and are able to provide constant-current and constant-voltage output, either sequentially or simultaneously. The power transfer system allows the modules to operate independently or in conjunction with one another, should some of the connections of the system be broken. The energy storage modules may be used to provide power to underwater systems, for example sonar systems, weapons systems, or underwater vehicles.
US11616377B2
A smart cell, comprising: a positive terminal; a negative terminal; a switching circuit which is arranged to select between a first switching state in which an energy storage device is connected between the positive terminal and the negative terminal and a second switching state which bypasses said energy storage device; an inductor provided between the positive terminal and the output of the switching network; and a controller arranged to monitor the voltage across the inductor and arranged to control a duty cycle of the switching circuit based on the magnitudes of voltage changes detected across the inductor. By monitoring and analysing the magnitude of voltage changes across the inductor, the controller determines the states of charge of other series connected smart cells without any communication between cells. None of the smart cells need to transmit information on their states of charge to other smart cells in the string as each cell can sense information about the other cells from the voltage changes on the inductor. By analysing the voltage across the local sense inductor, the average state of charge of a series string of smart cells can be obtained and compared to the state of charge of the local smart cell to determine how the duty cycle of the local smart cell should be modified to synchronize its state of charge with the series string. The magnitude of the voltage change across the inductor is related to the state of charge of the cell that just switched in or out of the string.
US11616375B2
Rechargeable battery systems and rechargeable battery system operational methods are described. According to one aspect, a rechargeable battery system includes a plurality of rechargeable battery cells coupled between a plurality of terminals and charge shuttling circuitry configured to couple with and shuttle electrical energy between individual ones of the rechargeable battery cells, and wherein the charge shuttling circuitry is configured to receive the electrical energy from one of the rechargeable battery cells at a first voltage and to provide the electrical energy to another of the rechargeable battery cells at a second voltage greater than the first voltage.
US11616374B2
A battery control unit includes a plurality of battery units, a charger configured to charge a battery, a controller, and a charging controller. Each of the plurality of battery units includes a switching unit. The switching unit is configured to switch between a connected state where the battery configured to be located in the same battery unit as that of the switching unit is connected in series with the battery configured to be located in an adjacent battery unit, and a non-connected state where the battery in the same battery unit as that of the switching unit is disconnected from the series connection with the battery in the adjacent battery unit.
US11616372B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a charging method and related devices. An example charging method includes: sending a charging start request for a packet data unit (PDU) session to a charging function apparatus, where the charging start request carries an indication receiving address; receiving an indication message that is sent by the charging function apparatus based on the indication receiving address, where the indication message carries an indication type; and performing charging processing based on the indication type.
US11616362B2
A current-sharing control circuit, a power supply system and a current-sharing control method are disclosed. One embodiment of the power supply system comprises: multiple CV/CC power supplies connected in parallel to a load, whose nominal output voltages are the same and CV mode to CC mode switching points are adjustable; a current-sharing control circuit including an average load current sensor which senses a total current supplied to the load and outputs a first level linearly related to an average load current equal to the total current divided by the number of the working power supplies, and an output current sensor which senses an output current of each power supply and outputs a second level linearly related to the output current. The control circuit provides feedback signals related to the first level and the respective second levels to the power supplies to adjust their switching points to the average load current.
US11616355B2
A tensioning device for a wired energy or data transmission path includes a winding drum, a cable guide wire stored on the winding drum, and a spring accumulator. The winding drum is rotatable by an electrical drive for winding and unwinding the cable guide wire. The spring accumulator is operably exerting a resilient tensile force on a wire portion unreeled from the winding drum.
US11616353B2
The present disclosure provides a busbar (100), comprising: an insulating body (110); and a busbar conductor (120, 130, 140) comprising a conductor body partially encapsulated by the insulating body and a connection terminal (121, 131, 141) extending from the conductor body and configured for connecting an electrical device, and a portion of the connection terminal is surrounded by an insulating structure (10). The present disclosure further provides a power module (200) comprising the busbar and a method of manufacturing a busbar.
US11616344B2
The invention relates to a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method comprises fabricating a photonic crystal structure of a first material, in particular a first semiconductor material and selectively removing the first material within a predefined part of the photonic crystal structure. The method further comprises replacing the first material within the predefined part of the photonic crystal structure with one or more second materials by selective epitaxy. The one or more second materials may be in particular semiconductor materials. The invention further relates to devices obtainable by such a method.
US11616329B2
A circular power connector that can accommodate plugs of varying diameters includes a plurality of electrical terminals that include a contact beam extending from and monolithic with base, where the contact beam includes a contact portion, and a mounting portion that extends from and monolithic with a base for mounting the terminal to a substrate. The terminals are cylindrically arranged to receive a plug. Alternatively, each electrical terminal includes a frame portion, a first contact beam extending from the frame in a first direction, and a second contact beam extending from the frame in a second direction. Multiple electrical terminals are oriented so that the first and second contact beams for one terminal extend at an angle, preferably perpendicular, to the first and second contact beams of another electrical terminal, in a still further embodiment, an electrical terminal having two halves is provided.
US11616328B2
A mating module includes a conductive terminal, a cable, a first metal shield member and a second metal shield member. The cable includes a core electrically connected to the conductive terminal, an insulating layer wrapped on the core, and a shielding layer wrapped on the insulating layer. The first metal shield member includes a first mounting piece. The second metal shield member includes a second mounting piece. The cable further includes a protruding piece connected to the shielding layer. The protruding piece is directly or indirectly clamped by the first mounting piece and the second mounting piece. As a result, the shielding effect of the mating module is improved. The present disclosure also relates to a cable connector having the mating module.
US11616320B2
Connector comprising a substantially cylindrical base and a plug connectable to the base in a detachable manner, in which connector a plurality of contacts are mounted in a contact block. The block comprises a flexible membrane through which the contacts extend, the compression of the membrane allowing the sealing at the interface between said membrane and the contacts to be ensured.
US11616312B2
Example implementations relate to an electrical socket for an electronic packaging assembly, which accepts a modular integrated circuit (IC) on one side and a circuit board on another side. In some examples, the electrical socket has a first body mountable on a first surface of the circuit board and a second body mountable on a second surface of the circuit board. The first body includes a plurality of conductors (wire-terminated contacts), where each first conductor includes a first end to protrude beyond the first surface of the circuit board and a second end to protrude beyond the second surface of the circuit board. The second body includes a plurality of receptacles, where each receptacle is coupled to the second end of a respective first conductor.
US11616310B2
A core wire connecting body to be connected to a core wire in an electric wire includes: a bottom, a pair of cantilevered side walls that are disposed facing each other with a space therebetween; and a plurality of pairs of press contact bodies that are disposed facing each other with a space between the pair of side walls, and that cut the coating of the electric wire inserted from an opening, and make press contact with the strands. For the pairs of press contact bodies, compared to a distance between the press contact bodies that is a pair at the farthest section that is farthest from an end part of the electric wire, a distance between the press contact bodies that is a pair closer to the end part of the electric wire than the pair at the farthest section are, is smaller.
US11616306B2
This document describes a single-layer air waveguide antenna integrated on a circuit board. The waveguide guides electromagnetic energy through channels filled with air. It is formed from a single layer of material, such as a sheet of metal, metal-coated plastic, or other material with conductive surfaces that is attached to a circuit board. A portion of a surface of the circuit board is configured as a floor of the channels filled with air. This floor is an electrical interface between the circuit board and the channels filled with air. The single layer of material is positioned atop this electrical interface to define walls and a ceiling of the channels filled with air. The single layer of material can be secured to the circuit board in various ways. The cost of integrating an air waveguide antenna on to a circuit board this way may be less expensive than other waveguide-manufacturing techniques.
US11616301B2
An antenna structure is provided, including a substrate, an impedance control line, a first impedance control area, and a metal element. The impedance control line is located on the first side of the substrate. The first impedance control area is arranged on the substrate, located on one side of the impedance control line, close to the second end of the impedance control line, and separated from the impedance control line by a first hollow part. The metal element is arranged on the substrate and connected to the first end and the second end of the impedance control line, and the first impedance control area. As such, the present invention controls the impedance in the high frequency range between 5.85 and 7.25 GHz through the impedance control line and the first impedance control area, provides a complete current flow area, and improves the impedance control effect, efficiency, and gain.
US11616296B2
A phase shifter assembly includes first and second phase shifters that respectively include a wiper printed circuit board and a rotatable wiper support, where the wiper printed circuit board and the wiper support are coupled in motion. The phase shifter assembly further comprises: a U-shaped bracket having first and second arms, where the first phase shifter is held on the first arm, and the second phase shifter is held on the second arm; and a rack that is linearly movably supported and is drivable to move linearly; wherein the slide holders has a tooth portion respectively, and the tooth portions are engaged with the common rack. By means of linear movement of the rack, the slide holders can be rotated respectively, and thus the slides are movable within a predetermined range respectively so as to implement phase shifts.
US11616293B2
Sheet comprising a flexible support and a coating at least partially covering at least one face of the support, the support being made of a support material exhibiting dielectric properties, the coating being made of a coating material different from the support material and exhibiting magneto-dielectric properties or dielectric properties.
US11616284B2
An electromagnetic tool using slotted dipole antennas is presented. The dipoles may be placed in slots on a drill collar. A receiver or transmitter antenna consists of one or more slots. A dipole consists of a ferrite rod with electric wires placed above and below the ferrite. Wires may be connected such that wire current forms a loop around the ferrite rod. When a group of slots are used for an antenna, wire holes are constructed between slots. Effectively a single wire may be used to go above all ferrite rods in the group and then turn to go below all the rods. Two wire segments are in a wire hole connecting two adjacent slots. Currents in the two segments are the same in magnitudes and flow in opposite directions. There is no net current in wires in a wire hole.
US11616279B2
A receiver or transmitter designed for a broad range of frequencies requires a pre-select filter for incoming signals or a post-select filter for outgoing signals to minimize spurious signal responses. In conventional receivers, several discrete RF filters are used and a switched filter bank is created utilizing a large amount of space. A filter bank comprising a plurality of stacked shielded filters would enable different filter technologies and topologies to be used together, as other passive and active circuits may be combined into the one surface mountable component in order to save on PCB space.
US11616270B2
A battery includes a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell including a core, a source of thermal control fluid in fluid communication with the core, and a first pressure sensitive valve positioned between the core and the source of thermal control fluid, the first pressure sensitive valve adapted to open when pressure within the core exceeds a first pre-determined value.
US11616264B2
A method and system for creating low corrosion passivation layer on an anode in a metal-air cell comprise asserting high negative potential and low drawn current density on the cell after its operational parameters have stabilized after the cell has been powered-on. As a result the H2 evolution rate momentarily raises and then drops sharply, thereby causing the creation of a passivation layer on the face of the anode.
US11616261B2
A power supply device includes battery cells each having a rectangular external shape, a separator disposed between the battery cells, a pair of end plates that are disposed on respective ends of a battery assembly in which the separator and the battery cells are stacked, and a bind bar that binds the pair of end plates. The separator has insulating rib parts that protrude from both surfaces of the separator, and the insulating rib parts of the separator stacked on each surface of the battery cell are stacked on each other on a bottom surface of the battery cell. The insulating rib parts are stacked on each other on the bottom surface of the battery cell by inserting an insertion rib provided in one of the stacked insulating rib parts into an insertion groove provided in the other of the stacked insulating rib parts.
US11616252B2
A lithium ion secondary battery includes: an anode including an anode current collector and an anode coating layer coating a region of the anode current collector; a cathode including a cathode current collector, a cathode coating layer coating a region of the cathode current collector, and an inactive coating layer disposed on a surface of a region of the cathode current collector on which the cathode coating layer is not disposed, the inactive coating layer extending from one or more of both end portions of the cathode coating layer toward an end portion of the anode; and a separation membrane arranged between the cathode and the anode.
US11616240B2
A fuel cell has a tunnel protruding from a passage bead seal toward a passage to thereby allow an internal space of the passage bead seal to communicate with the passage, and an extending portion located on a side of the tunnel so as to extend from the passage bead seal toward the passage, the extending portion being lower in height than the tunnel.
US11616232B2
Disclosed is a doped lithium manganese iron phosphate-based particulate for a cathode of a lithium-ion battery. The particulate includes a composition represented by a formula of Mm-LixMn1-y-zFeyM′z(PO4)n/C, wherein M, M′, x, y, z, m, and n are as defined herein. Also disclosed is a powdery material including the particulate, and a method for preparing the powdery material.
US11616224B2
Disclosed is a process for producing graphene-semiconductor nanowire hybrid material, comprising: (A) preparing a catalyst metal-coated mixture mass, which includes mixing graphene sheets with micron or sub-micron scaled semiconductor particles to form a mixture and depositing a nano-scaled catalytic metal onto surfaces of the graphene sheets and/or semiconductor particles; and (B) exposing the catalyst metal-coated mixture mass to a high temperature environment (preferably from 100° C. to 2,500° C.) for a period of time sufficient to enable a catalytic metal-catalyzed growth of multiple semiconductor nanowires using the semiconductor particles as a feed material to form the graphene-semiconductor nanowire hybrid material composition. An optional etching or separating procedure may be conducted to remove catalytic metal or graphene from the semiconductor nanowires.
US11616222B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery wherein interface resistance between a current collector and an active material layer is low. In the present disclosure, the above object is achieved by providing an all solid state battery comprising: an electrode including a current collector, an electron conductive layer, and an active material layer, in this order, and a solid electrolyte layer formed on the active material layer side of the electrode, and the electron conductive layer is an agglutinate of metal particles or a metal foil, and electron conductivity of the electron conductive layer is 1×103 S/cm or more at 25° C.
US11616218B2
A method of manufacturing a free-standing electrode film includes preparing a mixture including an electrode active material, a conductive material, and a binder, heating the mixture to 70° C. or higher, subjecting the mixture to a shear force, and, after the mixture has been subjected to the shear force, pressing the mixture into a free-standing film. The method may further include adding a solvent to the mixture. A resulting free-standing electrode film may include an amount of binder less than 4% by weight.
US11616217B2
A method of manufacturing a display panel includes forming a unit panel which includes a display unit provided on a substrate. The substrate of the unit panel is cut out in a form of a closed loop having a straight line portion and a curve portion that are connected to each other. The cutting out of the substrate of the unit panel includes cutting the straight line portion by a first cutting process using a first tool and cutting the curve portion by a second cutting process using a second tool that is different from the first tool.
US11616208B2
A quantum dot composition includes quantum dots and a leveling agent, wherein the leveling agent includes a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1 and a second repeating unit represented by Formula 2: A light-emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same are also provided.
US11616206B2
The yield of a separation process is improved. The mass productivity of a display device which is formed through a separation process is improved. A layer is formed over a substrate with use of a material including a resin or a resin precursor. Next, a resin layer is formed by performing heat treatment on the layer. Next, a layer to be separated is formed over the resin layer. Then, the layer to be separated and the substrate are separated from each other. The heat treatment is performed in an atmosphere containing oxygen or while supplying a gas containing oxygen.
US11616202B2
A compound represented by a combination of Chemical Formula 1 and Chemical Formula 2 bonded together, a composition including the compound, an organic optoelectronic device, and a display device are disclosed. In Chemical Formula 1 and Chemical Formula 2, each substituent is the same as described in the specification.
US11616201B2
The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen or Ra, with proviso that a pair of two substituents selected from R1 and R2, R2 and R3, and R3 and R4 is linked to one another and forms a group of formula (II); a material for an organic electroluminescence device comprising at least one compound of formula (I); an organic electroluminescence device which comprises an organic thin film layer be-tween an anode and a cathode, wherein the organic thin film layer comprises one or more layers and comprises a light emitting layer, and at least one layer of the organic thin film layer comprises at least one compound of formula (I); and an electronic equipment comprising the inventive organic electroluminescence device.
US11616190B2
A hydrophone may include a first piezoelectric cable including alternating sections of positive polarity and negative polarity, and a second piezoelectric cable including alternating sections of negative polarity and positive polarity. At least a portion of each section of positive polarity of the first piezoelectric cable may be bonded or adhered to at least a portion of a section of negative polarity of the second piezoelectric cable. A method of manufacturing a hydrophone may include winding or coiling a first piezoelectric cable and a second piezoelectric cable at the same time to create a series of wound sections including cables, the wound sections alternating with a series of not wound sections including the cables.
US11616189B2
A laminated piezoelectric element 10 includes: a laminated body 11 in rectangle shape formed by alternately laminating a plurality of piezoelectric layers 15 and one or more internal electrode(s) 13; a connection electrode 14 connected to one end portion 13a of the internal electrode(s) 13; and an electric field relaxation region 16c or 16d formed discontinuously with regard to the internal electrode(s) 13 in at least one of two corner portions 13c and 13d of the other end portion 13b opposite to the one end portion 13a of the internal electrode(s) 13.
US11616187B2
Test structures and methods for superconducting bump bond electrical characterization are used to verify the superconductivity of bump bonds that electrically connect two superconducting integrated circuit chips fabricated using a flip-chip process, and can also ascertain the self-inductance of bump bond(s) between chips. The structures and methods leverage a behavioral property of superconducting DC SQUIDs to modulate a critical current upon injection of magnetic flux in the SQUID loop, which behavior is not present when the SQUID is not superconducting, by including bump bond(s) within the loop, which loop is split among chips. The sensitivity of the bump bond superconductivity verification is therefore effectively perfect, independent of any multi-milliohm noise floor that may exist in measurement equipment.
US11616184B2
The present disclosure is directed to materials, devices, and methods for resonant ambient thermal energy harvesting. Thermal energy can be harvested using thermoelectric resonators that capture and store ambient thermal fluctuations and convert the fluctuations to energy. The resonators can include non-linear heat transfer elements, such as thermal diodes, to enhance their performance. Incorporation of thermal diodes can allow for a dynamic rectification of temperature fluctuations into a single polarity temperature difference across a heat engine for power extraction, as compared to the dual polarity nature of the output voltage of linear thermal resonators, which typically necessitates electrical rectification to be routed to an entity for energy storage. In some embodiments, the thermal diode can be applied to transient energy harvesting to construct thermal diode bridges. Methods for constructing such devices, and using such devices, are also provided.
US11616163B2
Disclosed is a firing furnace for firing an electrode of a solar cell element, which is provided with: a transfer member, which transfers a substrate having a conductive paste applied thereto; a heating section, which heats the substrate and fires the conductive paste; and a cooling section, which cools the heated substrate. The furnace is also provided with a heating means for heating the transfer member. Specifically, at the time of firing the electrode paste using the wire-type firing furnace, since a wire is fired at a temperature substantially equivalent to the ambient temperature of the heating section, deterioration of yield due to having the electrode damaged by a deposited material of the metal component of the conductive paste is suppressed, said deposited material being deposited on the wire, and the wire-type firing furnace can be continuously used.
US11616159B2
A method of fabricating a solar cell is disclosed. The method can include forming a dielectric region on a surface of a solar cell structure and forming a metal layer on the dielectric layer. The method can also include configuring a laser beam with a particular shape and directing the laser beam with the particular shape on the metal layer, where the particular shape allows a contact to be formed between the metal layer and the solar cell structure.
US11616141B2
In an example, an integrated circuit includes a junction-gate field effect transistor (JFET), a current generator, a dynamic filter, and an output transistor. The JFET has a JFET gate, a JFET source, and a JFET drain, the JFET drain adapted to be coupled to a power supply. The current generator has a current generator input and current generator outputs, the current generator input coupled to the JFET source and a first of the current generator outputs coupled to the JFET gate. The dynamic filter has a dynamic filter input and a dynamic filter output, the dynamic filter input coupled to a second of the current generator outputs. The output transistor has an output transistor gate coupled to the dynamic filter output.
US11616139B2
An LDMOS includes a semiconductor substrate. A well is disposed within the semiconductor substrate. A body region is disposed within the well. A first gate electrode is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. A source electrode is disposed at one side of the first gate electrode. The source electrode includes a source contact area and numerous vias. The vias connect to the source contact area. The vias extend into the semiconductor substrate. A first drain electrode is disposed at another side of the first gate electrode and is opposed to the source electrode.
US11616133B2
A method includes forming a doped region on a top portion of a substrate, forming a first epitaxial layer over the substrate, forming a recess in the first epitaxial layer, the recess being aligned to the doped region, performing a surface clean treatment in the recess, the surface clean treatment includes: oxidizing surfaces of the recess to form an oxide layer in the recess, and removing the oxide layer from the surfaces of the recess, and forming a second epitaxial layer in the recess.
US11616129B2
Patterning methods for forming patterned device substrates are provided. Also provided are devices made using the methods. The methods utilize photoresist features have re-entrant profiles to form a secondary metal hard mask that can be used to pattern an underlying device substrate.
US11616128B2
A transistor structure includes a gate, a spacer, a channel region, a first concave, and a first conductive region. The gate is above a silicon surface. The spacer is above the silicon surface and at least covers a sidewall of the gate. The channel region is under the silicon surface. The first conductive region is at least partially formed in the first concave, wherein a conductive region of a neighborhood transistor structure next to the transistor structure is at least partially formed in the first concave.
US11616116B2
A display device includes a display panel that has a display area displaying an image and a non-display area around the display area. The display panel includes: a substrate; a plurality of connection lines on the substrate in the non-display area and including a first connection line and a second connection line adjacent to each other; a first dummy line overlapping and disposed on the first connection line; and a second dummy line overlapping the second connection line and disposed between the substrate and the second connection line.
US11616110B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate, a plurality of pixels on the substrate, a first inorganic insulating layer that covers the plurality of pixels, a conductive layer on the first inorganic insulating layer, and a second inorganic insulating layer that on the conductive layer, the conductive layer being between the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer, wherein the first inorganic insulating layer includes an area that is in direct contact with the second inorganic insulating layer, and all of the conductive layer is covered with the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer.
US11616104B2
The purpose of the invention is to manufacture the flexible display device having resin substrate with high yield. The structure is as follows. A manufacturing method of a display device comprising: forming a first layer of a semiconductor on a glass substrate, forming a second layer of a first metal on the first layer, forming a third layer of a first insulating material on the second layer, forming a fourth layer of a second metal or a metal oxide on the third layer, coating precursor of polyimide on the fourth layer, making a polyimide substrate by baking the precursor of polyimide to make a polyimide substrate, forming pixels on the polyimide substrate, separating the polyimide substrate and the glass substrate by making peel off between the second layer and the third layer with irradiation of a laser beam on the first layer.
US11616092B2
An image sensor may include a first photo-sensing device on a semiconductor substrate and configured to sense light of a first wavelength spectrum, and second and third photo-sensing devices integrated in the semiconductor substrate and configured to sense light of a second and third wavelength spectrum, respectively. The first photo-sensing device may overlap each of the second and third photo-sensing devices in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. The second and third photo-sensing devices do not overlap in the thickness direction and each have an upper surface, a lower surface, and a doped region therebetween. The third photo-sensing device includes an upper surface deeper further from the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate than the upper surface of the second photo-sensing device and a doped region thicker than the doped region of the second photo-sensing device. The image sensor may omit the first photo-sensing device.
US11616090B2
The height of a solid-state imaging element is further reduced as compared to the related art. A solid-state imaging element that is a wafer-level chip size package, including: an optical sensor chip; a protective layer that is stacked on a light receiving surface of the optical sensor chip; and a rewiring layer that is stacked on a surface opposite to the light receiving surface of the optical sensor chip, in which a connection terminal of the rewiring layer is a copper flat pad without a solder ball, an alloy layer of tin and copper is not formed on a front surface of the flat pad, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the protective layer is substantially balanced with a thermal expansion coefficient of the rewiring layer.
US11616086B2
A thin film transistor panel according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate; a first transistor disposed on the substrate and including a first semiconductor layer including a low temperature polysilicon and a first control electrode overlapping the first semiconductor layer; a second transistor disposed on the substrate and including a second semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor and a second control electrode overlapping the second semiconductor layer; a first gate insulation layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the first control electrode of the first transistor and including a first insulation layer and a second insulation layer; and a second gate insulation layer disposed between the second semiconductor layer and the second control electrode of the second transistor and including the second insulation layer, wherein the density of the first insulation layer may be higher than the density of the second insulation layer, the first semiconductor layer of the first transistor may be in contact with the first insulation layer, and the second semiconductor layer of the second transistor may be in contact with the second insulation layer.
US11616084B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a substrate, a common electrode, and a plurality of pixels. The common electrode is disposed on the substrate. The pixels are disposed on the substrate, and at least one of the pixels includes a thin film transistor, a first electrode, a second electrode, and an auxiliary electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected to the thin film transistor. The auxiliary electrode is electrically connected to the common electrode and electrically isolated from the first electrode, and the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode have a minimum distance less than a minimum distance between the first electrode and the common electrode.
US11616079B2
Some embodiments include a pillar which contains semiconductor material, and which extends primarily along a first direction. A cross-section through the pillar along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is through the semiconductor material and includes a lateral periphery of the pillar configured as three-sided shape. Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a vertical stack of alternating first and second levels. The first levels include conductive structures and the second levels are insulative. Channel-material-pillars extend through the vertical stack. Each of the channel-material-pillars has a top-down cross-section which includes a lateral periphery configured as three-sided shape of an equilateral triangle with rounded vertices.
US11616075B2
A method that is part of a method of forming an elevationally-extending string of memory cells comprises forming an intervening structure that is elevationally between upper and lower stacks that respectively comprise alternating tiers comprising different composition materials. The intervening structure is formed to comprise an elevationally-extending-dopant-diffusion barrier and laterally-central material that is laterally inward of the dopant-diffusion barrier and has dopant therein. Some of the dopant is thermally diffused from the laterally-central material into upper-stack-channel material. The dopant-diffusion barrier during the thermally diffusing is used to cause more thermal diffusion of said dopant into the upper-stack-channel material than diffusion of said dopant, if any, into lower-stack-channel material. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11616071B2
An electrically erasable programmable nonvolatile memory cell includes a semiconductor substrate having a first substrate region and a trench region apart from the first substrate region in a lateral direction, a channel region between the first substrate region and the bottom portion of the trench region, an electrically conductive control gate insulated from and disposed over the first channel portion, an electrically conductive floating gate insulated from the bottom and sidewall portions of the trench region, an insulation region disposed over the second channel portion between the control gate and the second floating gate portion, an electrically conductive source line insulated from the floating gate and electrically connected to the trench region of the substrate, and an electrically conductive erase gate insulated from and disposed over a tip of the floating gate.
US11616065B2
Semiconductor memory devices are provided. A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cell transistors vertically stacked on the substrate. The semiconductor memory device includes a first conductive line connected to a source region of at least one of the plurality of memory cell transistors. The semiconductor memory device includes a second conductive line connected to a plurality of gate electrodes of the plurality of memory cell transistors. Moreover, the semiconductor memory device includes a data storage element connected to a drain region of the at least one of the plurality of memory cell transistors.
US11616062B2
Self-aligned gate cutting techniques are disclosed herein that provide dielectric gate isolation fins for isolating gates of multigate devices from one another. An exemplary device includes a first multigate device having first source/drain features and a first metal gate that surrounds a first channel layer and a second multigate device having second source/drain features and a second metal gate that surrounds a second channel layer. A dielectric gate isolation fin separates the first metal gate from the second metal gate. The dielectric gate isolation fin includes a first dielectric layer having a first dielectric constant and a second dielectric layer having a second dielectric constant disposed over the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric constant is greater than the first dielectric constant. The first metal gate and the second metal gate physically contact the first channel layer and the second channel layer, respectively, and the dielectric gate isolation fin.
US11616061B2
A method includes providing a structure having a substrate, semiconductor fins, and an isolation structure between adjacent semiconductor fins; forming a first gate structure engaging the semiconductor fins; depositing an inter-layer dielectric layer over the semiconductor fins and the first gate structure; removing the first gate structure, resulting in a first trench; depositing a second gate structure into the first trench, wherein the second gate structure includes a dielectric layer and a conductive layer; forming one or more mask layers over the second gate structure; patterning the one or more mask layers to have an opening exposing a portion of the second gate structure between two adjacent semiconductor fins; and etching the second gate structure through the opening to produce a second trench having tapered sidewalls, wherein the second trench is wider at top than at bottom.
US11616060B2
A stacked transistor architecture has a fin structure that includes lower and upper portions separated by an isolation region built into the fin structure. Upper and lower gate structures on respective upper and lower fin structure portions may be different from one another (e.g., with respect to work function metal and/or gate dielectric thickness). One example methodology includes depositing lower gate structure materials on the lower and upper channel regions, recessing those materials to re-expose the upper channel region, and then re-depositing upper gate structure materials on the upper channel region. Another example methodology includes depositing a sacrificial protective layer on the upper channel region. The lower gate structure materials are then deposited on both the exposed lower channel region and sacrificial protective layer. The lower gate structure materials and sacrificial protective layer are then recessed to re-expose upper channel region so that upper gate structure materials can be deposited.
US11616056B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a first semiconductor fin extending horizontally in a length direction and including a bottom portion and a top portion above the bottom portion, a bottom transistor associated with the bottom portion of the first semiconductor fin, a top transistor above the bottom transistor and associated with the top portion of the first semiconductor fin, and a first vertical diode. The first vertical diode includes: a bottom region associated with at least the bottom portion of the first semiconductor fin, the bottom region including one of n-type and p-type dopant; a top region associated with at least the top portion of the first semiconductor fin, the top region including the other of n-type and p-type dopant; a bottom terminal electrically connected to the bottom region; and a top terminal electrically connected to the top region at the top portion of the first semiconductor fin.
US11616055B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit includes generating a first and second standard cell layout design, and manufacturing the integrated circuit based on at least the first or second standard cell layout design. The first standard cell layout design has a first height. The second standard cell layout design has a second height different from the first height. The second standard cell layout design is adjacent to the first standard cell layout design. Generating the first standard cell layout design includes generating a first set of pin layout patterns extending in a first direction, being on a first layout level, and having a first width. Generating the second standard cell layout design includes generating a second set of pin layout patterns extending in the first direction, being on the first layout level, and having a second width different from the first width.
US11616054B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed, including a first gate and a second gate aligned with the first gate, a first gate via, a second gate via, multiple conductive segments, and a first conductive line. The first gate via is disposed on the first gate and the second gate via is disposed on the second gate. The first and second gates are configured to be a terminal of a first logic circuit, which is coupled to a terminal of a second logic circuit. The first conductive line is coupled to the first gate through a first connection via and the first gate via and is electrically coupled to the second gate through a second connection via and the second gate via.
US11616053B2
A semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a surface, the surface being planar; a first logic gate provided on the substrate and comprising a first field effect transistor (FET) having a first channel, and a first pair of source-drain regions; a second logic gate stacked over the first logic gate along a vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, the second logic gate comprising a second FET having a second channel, and a second pair of source-drain regions; and a contact electrically connecting a source-drain region of the first FET to a source-drain region of the second FET such that at least a portion of current flowing between the first and second logic gate will flow along said vertical direction.
US11616046B2
A multi-chip package comprising an interconnection substrate; a first semiconductor IC chip over the interconnection substrate, wherein the first semiconductor IC chip comprises a first silicon substrate, a plurality of first metal vias passing through the first silicon substrate, a plurality of first transistors on a top surface of the first silicon substrate and a first interconnection scheme over the first silicon substrate, wherein the first interconnection scheme comprises a first interconnection metal layer over the first silicon substrate, a second interconnection metal layer over the first interconnection layer and the first silicon substrate and a first insulating dielectric layer over the first silicon substrate and between the first and second interconnection metal layers; a second semiconductor IC chip over and bonded to the first semiconductor IC chip; and a plurality of second metal vias over and coupling to the interconnection substrate, wherein the plurality of second metal vias are in a space extending from a sidewall of the first semiconductor IC chip.
US11616032B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface over which a plurality of die pads and at least one alignment pad for optical process control for semiconductor wafer probing are arranged. The alignment pad has a hardness smaller than a hardness of the plurality of die pads.
US11616028B2
Semiconductor devices having metallization structures including crack-inhibiting structures, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a metallization structure formed over a semiconductor substrate. The metallization structure can include a bond pad electrically coupled to the semiconductor substrate via one or more layers of conductive material, and an insulating material—such as a low-κ dielectric material—at least partially around the conductive material. The metallization structure can further include a crack-inhibiting structure positioned beneath the bond pad between the bond pad and the semiconductor substrate. The crack-inhibiting structure can include (a) a metal lattice extending laterally between the bond pad and the semiconductor substrate and (b) barrier members extending vertically between the metal lattice and the bond pad.
US11616027B2
An integrated circuit package can contain a semiconductor die and provide electrical connections between the semiconductor die and additional electronic components. The integrated circuit package can reduce stress placed on the semiconductor die due to movement of the integrated circuit package due to, for example, temperature changes and/or moisture levels. The integrated circuit package can at least partially mechanically isolate the semiconductor die from the integrated circuit package.
US11616026B2
A device includes an interconnect device attached to a redistribution structure, wherein the interconnect device includes conductive routing connected to conductive connectors disposed on a first side of the interconnect device, a molding material at least laterally surrounding the interconnect device, a metallization pattern over the molding material and the first side of the interconnect device, wherein the metallization pattern is electrically connected to the conductive connectors, first external connectors connected to the metallization pattern, and semiconductor devices connected to the first external connectors.
US11616008B2
A method for forming a through-substrate via structure includes providing a substrate and providing a conductive via structure adjacent to a first surface of the substrate. The method includes providing a recessed region on an opposite surface of the substrate towards the conductive via structure. The method includes providing an insulator in the recessed region and providing a conductive region extending along a first sidewall surface of the recessed region in the cross-sectional view. In some examples, the first conductive region is provided to be coupled to the conductive via structure and to be further along at least a portion of the opposite surface of the substrate outside of the recessed region. The method includes providing a protective structure within the recessed region over a first portion of the first conductive region but not over a second portion of the first conductive region that is outside of the recessed region. The method includes attaching a conductive bump to the second portion of the first conductive region.
US11616003B2
Stackable fully molded semiconductor structure with through silicon via (TSV) vertical interconnects
A semiconductor device may include an embedded device comprising through silicon vias (TSVs) extending from a first surface to a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the embedded device comprises an active device, a semiconductor die comprising an active surface formed at the first surface, an integrated passive device (IPD), or a passive device. Encapsulant may be disposed over at least five sides of the embedded device. A first electrical interconnect structure may be coupled to a first end of the TSV at the first surface of the embedded device, and a second electrical interconnect structure may be coupled to a second end of the TSV at the second surface of the embedded device. A semiconductor die (e.g. a system on chip (SoC), memory device, microprocessor, graphics processor, or analog device), may be mounted over the first electrical interconnect of the TSV.
US11615994B2
A module includes an electronic component, an enclosure at least partially enclosing the electronic component and defining a module interface at which the module is configured to be mounted on a mounting base, and a gas flow-inhibiting sealing at the module interface and configured to inhibit gas from propagating from an exterior of the module towards the electronic component. An electronic device that includes the module and a method of manufacturing the module are also described.
US11615993B2
A care area is determined in an image of a semiconductor wafer. The care area is divided into sub-care areas based on the shapes of polygons in a design file associated with the care area. A noise scan of a histogram for the sub-care areas is then performed. The sub-care areas are clustered into groups based on the noise scan of the histogram.
US11615990B2
A method includes forming a p-type field effect transistor region and an n-type field effect transistor region into a semiconductor substrate. The method implements a process flow to fabricate highly doped top source/drains with minimal lithography and etching processes. The method permits the formation of VFETs with increased functionality and reduced scaling.
US11615977B2
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first single crystal layer with first transistors; overlaid by a first metal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer and being overlaid by a third metal layer; a logic gates including at least the first metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; second transistors disposed atop the third metal layer; third transistors disposed atop the second transistors; a top metal layer disposed atop the third transistors; and a memory array including word-lines, and at least four memory mini arrays, where each of the memory mini arrays includes at least four rows by four columns of memory cells, where each of the memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors or third transistors, sense amplifier circuit(s) for each of the memory mini arrays, the second metal layer provides a greater current carrying capacity than the third metal layer.
US11615975B2
A storage system includes an overhead stocker having a first overhead track, a rack including a plurality of storages arranged vertically, and a crane that travels along the first overhead track and delivers and receives an article to and from the storages; and an overhead transport vehicle system having a second overhead track provided below a lower end of the overhead stocker, and an overhead transport vehicle that travels along the second overhead track and delivers and receives an article to and from a predetermined transfer destination, wherein the first overhead track has an elevating track capable of supporting and lowering the crane that is stopped traveling at a portion deviated from the second overhead track in planar view.
US11615955B2
A method for forming a material having a Perovskite single crystal structure includes alternately growing, on a substrate, each of a plurality of first layers and each of a plurality of second layers having compositions different from the plurality of first layers and forming a material having a Perovskite single crystal structure by annealing the plurality of first layers and the plurality of second layers.
US11615952B2
A method for forming a foreign oxide or foreign nitride layer (6) on a substrate (1) of a semiconductor comprises providing a semiconductor substrate (1) having an oxidized or nitridized surface layer (3), supplying a foreign element (5) on the oxidized or nitridized surface layer; and keeping the oxidized or nitridized surface layer (3) at an elevated temperature so as to oxidize or nitridize at least partially the foreign element by the oxygen or nitrogen, respectively, initially present in the oxidized or nitridized surface layer (3).
US11615950B2
A nozzle for an ionisation source comprises: a light passage having an inlet end and an outlet end; and a gas flow passage in fluid communication with the light passage, wherein the gas flow passage is configured to convey, in use, a flow of gas into the light passage such that the flow of gas travels substantially towards the outlet end of the light passage.
US11615945B2
An apparatus may include a main chamber, a substrate holder, disposed in a lower region of the main chamber, and defining a substrate region, as well as an RF applicator, disposed adjacent an upper region of the main chamber, to generate an upper plasma within the upper region. The apparatus may further include a central chamber structure, disposed in a central portion of the main chamber, where the central chamber structure is disposed to shield at least a portion of the substrate position from the upper plasma. The apparatus may include a bias source, electrically coupled between the central chamber structure and the substrate holder, to generate a glow discharge plasma in the central portion of the main chamber, wherein the substrate region faces the glow discharge region.
US11615944B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a process chamber for conformal oxidation of high aspect ratio structures. The process chamber includes a liner assembly located in a first side of a chamber body and two pumping ports located in a substrate support portion adjacent a second side of the chamber body opposite the first side. The liner assembly includes a flow divider to direct fluid flow away from a center of a substrate disposed in a processing region of the process chamber. The liner assembly may be fabricated from quartz minimize interaction with process gases, such as radicals. The liner assembly is designed to reduce flow constriction of the radicals, leading to increased radical concentration and flux. The two pumping ports can be individually controlled to tune the flow of the radicals through the processing region of the process chamber.
US11615941B2
Systems and methods for plasma processing are disclosed. An exemplary system may include a plasma processing chamber including a source to produce a plasma in the processing chamber and at least two bias electrodes arranged within the plasma processing chamber to control plasma sheaths proximate to the bias electrodes. A chuck is disposed to support a substrate, and a source generator is coupled to the plasma electrode. At least one bias supply is coupled to the at least two bias electrodes, and a controller is included to control the at least one bias supply to control the plasma sheath(s) proximate to the bias electrodes.
US11615938B2
A thermal field emitter, an apparatus, and a method for generating multiple beams for an e-beam tool are provided. The thermal field emitter includes an electron emitting portion configured to emit an electron beam and a nano-aperture array (NAA) having a plurality of openings. The NAA is positioned in a path of the electron beam. The NAA is configured to form multiple beams. The multiple beams include electrons from the electron beam that pass through the plurality of openings.
US11615936B2
One example embodiment includes one or more current-controlled electrodes exposed to a fluid and configured to generate ions in the fluid within an electric field, one or more current-controlling elements having one or more current-limiting elements configured to limit an amount of current permitted in the one or more current-controlled electrodes, and one or more current-changing elements configured to change a limit on the amount of current permitted in the one or more current-controlled electrodes, and an amount of ions generated in the fluid is based on the amount of current permitted in the one or more current-controlled electrodes as regulated by the one or more current-limiting elements and the one or more current-changing elements.
US11615935B2
Flat surfaces out of two flat surfaces of each of flat electrical connection bodies of a relay bus bar and a bus bar of an electronic component are mating surfaces brought into contact with each other by a fixing structure. At least one of the flat electrical connection bodies of the relay bus bar and the bus bar applies a reaction force accompanying the elastic deformation to the other flat electrical connection body, to which the one flat electrical connection body is to be connected, in a state in which the flat electrical connection body of the bus bar at an accommodation completion position in a housing has not been connected to the relay bus bar. The housing includes a receiving portion receiving a force applied to the flat electrical connection body of the bus bar from the flat electrical connection body of the relay bus bar.
US11615930B2
A current cut-off device includes a plate-shaped terminal piece having a contact, a movable piece including an elastic portion formed in a plate shape so as to be elastically deformed and a movable contact arranged at one end portion of the elastic portion and having the movable contact so as to be pressed against and in contact with the contact, and a thermally actuated element which biases the movable piece by deforming in accordance with a temperature change and causes a state of the movable piece to be shifted from a conductive state in which the movable contact is in contact with the contact to a cut-off state in which the movable contact is separated from the contact. When the state of the movable piece is shifted from the conductive state to the cut-off state, as the movable contact moves, it gets over the contact.
US11615928B2
The shell is provided with an axial opening at the top and a guide track structure inside. The movable terminal is provided inside the shell and forms an arm spring. The actuating lever is threaded through the axial opening, with a flat slope on one side and a positioning slope on the other. The actuating lever is provided with a guiding structure, and the positioning slope is provided with a positioning structure. Moving upwards along the circumference, the actuating lever has a position 1 and a position 2. When the actuating lever is at position 1 or position 2, the guiding structure joins the guide track structure. When the actuating lever is at position 1, the arm spring comes into contact with the flat slope and slips. When the actuating lever is at position 2, the arm spring comes into contact with the positioning slope and slips.
US11615924B2
A MEMS switch includes: a housing, a switching assembly; a first actuation electrode, a first contact, a second contact, and a second actuation electrode. The switching device has a stress gradient along the thickness direction, such that in response to applying no voltage between the first actuation electrode and the second actuation electrode, the switching assembly contacts with the first contact. In response to applying a first voltage between the third actuation electrode and the fourth actuation electrode, the switching assembly is driven to deflect such that the switching assembly is spaced apart from both the first contact and the second contact. In response to applying a second voltage between the third actuation electrode and the fourth actuation electrode, the switching assembly is driven to deflect such that the switching assembly contacts with the second contact. The first voltage is smaller than the third voltage.
US11615913B2
Provided is a coil molded article including: a coil having a winding portion; and an integration resin portion that coats at least an inner peripheral face of the winding portion, wherein the coil molded article further includes a gap portion that is integrated into the inner peripheral face and divides an internal space of the winding portion into two portions in an axial direction of the winding portion. Further provided is a reactor including: the above-described coil molded article; and a magnetic core including an inner core portion that is arranged inside the winding portion included in the coil molded article, and an outer core portion that is arranged outside the winding portion.
US11615912B2
A transformer without matching sleeve for wire winding operation comprises a transformer wire frame, an iron core, a first winding unit and a second winding unit. The transformer wire frame comprises a winding part, a first wire outlet part and a second wire outlet part. The winding part comprises a first baffle, the second wire outlet part comprises a first inclined surface, a first partition plate, and a first block, the first partition plate divides the second wire outlet part into a first winding area and a second winding area, the first partition plate is only arranged corresponding to the first winding area. The first block is positioned in the first winding area to divide the first winding area into an initial winding area and a series winding area. Therefore, when the second winding is wound, the isolation requirement can be met without matching a sleeve.
US11615904B2
An electropermanent magnet array is provided. The electropermanent magnet array includes one or more of a plurality of electropermanent magnets, arranged in a parallel fashion, a plurality of switching circuits, each switching circuit coupled to a different electropermanent magnet of the plurality of electropermanent magnets, and a control circuit, coupled to the plurality of switching circuits. The control circuit is configured to receive commands to control the plurality of switching circuits to demagnetize the plurality of electropermanent magnets, magnetize the plurality of electropermanent magnets to produce a first magnetic field with a strength and an attraction distance and magnetize the plurality of electropermanent magnets to produce a second magnetic field with a lower strength and greater attraction distance than the first magnetic field.
US11615903B2
A coil component includes a body that is made of a composite material containing a resin material and metal powder, a coil conductor which is provided in the body and an end portion of which is exposed on an end face of the body, and a metal film that is provided on an outer surface of the body and that is electrically connected to the coil conductor on the end face in the outer surface. The outer surface of the body has a contact area that is in contact with the metal film. Multiple particles of the metal powder escape from the resin material and are in contact with each other in the contact area of the body.
US11615892B2
The present disclosure provides a delirium risk predicting method which includes receiving at least one of blood data, severity evaluation data, mental state evaluation data, and bio signal data, medication data, and medical treatment data, for an subject, predicting a delirium risk for the subject, using a delirium risk prediction model configured to predict a delirium risk, based on at least one data, the medication data, and the medical treatment data, and providing the delirium risk predicted for the subject. The at least one data, the medication data, and the medical treatment data are defined as initial data which is evaluated or measured only once for the subject and a delirium risk predicting device using the same.
US11615891B2
This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods to determine an alert state for each of a plurality of patients using received physiologic information, determine an event rate for the plurality of patients for a specific alert state, and adjust a composite HF risk determination for the plurality of patients using the determined event rate.
US11615871B2
Systems for use with a medical device for controlling an infusion device are provided. In one aspect, a system includes an infusion device that is configurable with operating limit parameters for providing medication to a patient, and a limiting system. The limiting system receives laboratory information associated with a patient, compares current operating parameters of the infusion device with the operating limit parameters in view of the laboratory information for the patient before and during administration of the medication to the patient by the infusion device, determines that administration of the medication by the infusion device should be prevented based on comparing the operating parameters with the operating limit parameters in view of the laboratory information and, responsive to determining that the operation should be prevented, prevents the administration of the medication by the infusion device, and generates a notification indicating that the operating limit parameters require modification.
US11615870B2
A system for format-agnostic document ingestion including a document ingestion server and a database is disclosed. The server is configured to receive an image of a document comprising text in an unknown format, convert the image, using OCR, into a plurality of text elements a content, a size, and an absolute position. The server is also configured to retrieve data detectors from the database, each associated with a data type anticipated to be in the document, and comprising at least one identifier and direction, and at least one validation criteria. The server is also configured to identify a potential descriptor by comparing the content of each text element with the at least one identifier, and then determine if the text element pointed to by the data detector meets the validation criteria. Finally, the server is configured to associate the validated text element with the data detector, and store the content.
US11615868B2
A system for automated edit check generation is disclosed. The system may write a template edit check based on a custom edit check, add a parameter set for the template edit check, add a value for each parameter of the parameter set, and generate an edit check based on the template edit check, the parameter set, and the value.
US11615867B2
Computer-based methods that permit two or more users to perform simultaneous edits on a digitally encoded molecular structure. The methods use properties of conflict-free replicated data types (CRDT's) and causal trees to provide a distributed system which can manage the life-cycle of virtual molecular structures; including simultaneous editing, versioning, and provenance. Applications of the technology include, but are not limited to: simultaneous computer aided design of molecules in 2D or 3D in which users may be distributed across multiple computers and in which the need for computer time synchronization (offline or online editing) is obviated; version control and provenance tracking of a virtual molecule; and other types of data used in computer aided molecular design activities.
US11615866B2
A meter value that reflects the amount of genetic material stored in a reserve is stored in a database for each reserve in a bank. Meter values allow a user to track the amount of genetic material in the reserves of a bank without needing to physically measure or disturb the reserves unnecessarily. As users withdraw and deposit genetic material from and into a reserve, the meter value is changed to reflect the change in the amount of genetic material in the reserve. In certain embodiments, the use of meter values enables accurate and instant accounting of a large number of reserves of genetic material for a large number of individuals. Users and/or individuals may be notified when a meter value falls below a threshold. Notifications may prompt a user to generate additional genetic material from biological sample or an individual to provide additional biological sample.
US11615862B2
Methods, systems, and devices for link evaluation for a memory device are described. A memory device may receive signaling over a channel and may identify logic values encoded into the signaling based on sampling the signaling against a reference voltage. The sampling may occur at a reference time within a sampling period. To evaluate a quality (e.g., margin of error) of the channel, the memory device may adjust the reference voltage, the reference time, or both, and either the memory device or the host device may determine whether the memory device is still able to correctly identify logic values encoded into signaling over the channel. In some cases, the channel quality may be evaluated during a refresh cycle or at another opportunistic time for the memory device.
US11615859B2
An OTP with ultra-low power read can be programmed with a minimum and a maximum program voltage. When programming within the range, the post-program OTP to pre-program resistance ratio can be larger than N, where N>50, so that more sensing techniques, such as single-end sensing, can be used to reduce read current. At least one of the OTP cells can be coupled to a common bitline, which can be further coupled to a first supply voltage lines via a plurality of datalines. The resistance in the at least one OTP cell can be evaluated by strobing at least one comparator output of the discharging bitline/dataline.
US11615857B2
A semiconductor well of a non-volatile memory houses memory cells. The memory cells each have a floating gate and a control gate. Erasing of the memory cells includes biasing the semiconductor well with a first erase voltage having an absolute value greater than a breakdown voltage level of bipolar junctions of a control gate switching circuit of the memory. An absolute value of the first erase voltage is based on a comparison of a value of an indication of wear of the memory cells to a wear threshold value.
US11615856B2
A memory device having an improved operation speed may include a memory block including memory cells, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation of increasing each of threshold voltages of the memory cells, and a control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to perform the program operation. The program operation may include a plurality of program loops, each of the plurality of program loops may include a program voltage apply operation and a verify operation, and the control logic may control the peripheral circuit to perform verification on a highest program state during a verify operation included in a next program loop of any one program loop, when verification of a next higher program state among the plurality of program states is passed during a verify operation included in the any one program loop among the plurality of program loops.
US11615851B2
According to one embodiment, the semiconductor memory medium includes a first memory cell, a first word line coupled to the first memory cell, and a row decoder coupled to the first word line. A write operation is executed multiple times on the first memory cell within a first period from after an execution of an erase operation to an execution of a next erase operation. The write operation includes at least one of program loops each including a program operation and a verify operation. In the verify operation, the row decoder applies a verify voltage to the first word line. The verify voltage is set in accordance with a number of executed write operations on the first memory cell within the first period.
US11615847B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cell strings, a peripheral circuit, and control logic. The plurality of memory cell strings are connected between a bit line and a common source line. The peripheral circuit is configured to perform a channel precharge operation and a program operation for the plurality of memory cell strings. The control logic is configured to control the peripheral circuit to apply a pass voltage to a selected word line among a plurality of word lines connected to the plurality of memory cell strings and to apply a turn-on voltage to a source select line connected to the plurality of memory cell strings, during a portion of a period in which the pass voltage is applied to the selected word line, in the program operation.
US11615843B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system, a voltage resistance controlling apparatus, and a method that comprises at least two electrodes on proximal endpoints; a first layer disposed on the at least two electrodes, wherein the first layer is a made of a metal-oxide; a second layer disposed on the second layer, wherein the second first layer is made of an electrically conductive metal-oxide; a forming contact disposed on the second layer, wherein a combination of the forming contact disposed on the first layer disposed on the second layer operatively connects the at least two electrodes; and a computer system operatively connected to the forming contact, wherein the computer system is configured to apply a predetermined voltage to the first layer and the second layer respectively and display an overall resistance increase using a user interface.
US11615834B2
A semiconductor storage device has a plurality of memory cells that are arranged in a first direction and store first data, a plurality of first wiring pairs that are provided corresponding to the plurality of memory cells arranged in the first direction, and supply second data multiplied with the first data, a second wiring pair that is provided corresponding to two memory cells adjacent to each other in the first direction, and outputs multiplication data obtained by multiplying the first data stored in the two memory cells with the corresponding second data on the first wiring pair, and a third wiring pair in which potentials are changed depending on an addition result only when the addition result obtained by adding two multiplication data output to the second wiring pair to each other is not zero.
US11615829B1
A memory device includes a memory cell array, a random bit generator, a comparator and a refresh controller. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells coupled to a plurality of word-lines. The random bit generator generates a random binary code having a predetermined number of bits. The comparator compares the random binary code and a reference binary code to output a matching signal based on a result of the comparison. The refresh controller refreshes target memory cells from among the plurality of memory cells based on addresses accessed by a memory controller during a sampling period randomly determined based on the matching signal and a refresh command from the memory controller.
US11615826B1
A memory system includes a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled with the memory device. The processing device perform operations comprising: responsive to receiving a memory access command, determining that the memory access command is a dual-address command comprising a source address and a destination address; generating a first content addressable memory (CAM) entry associated with a read command of the dual-address command, wherein the first CAM entry references the source address; generating a second CAM entry associated with a write command of the dual-address command, wherein the second CAM entry references the destination address; inserting the first CAM entry and the second CAM entry into a CAM; and issuing, to the memory device, the read command associated with the first CAM entry.
US11615815B2
Systems and techniques for modifying a subsection of uploaded media are presented. An instruction component receives a media file and a media enhancement instruction that includes enhancement data and media interval data for a first segment of the media file. A processing component modifies the first segment of the media file associated with the media interval data based on the enhancement data to generate an edited first segment of the media file. A finalization component generates an edited version of the media file that includes the edited first segment of the media file and at least a second segment of the media file that is not modified based on the enhancement data.
US11615810B1
A hard disk drive enclosure base includes a non-uniform disk shroud surface extending from a top to a floor, the shroud surface including a first portion having a first radius and clearance along the circumference of the shroud surface and a second portion having a lesser second radius and clearance. The second portion of the shroud surface may be positioned at multiple locations where the drive form factor is especially constraining and in view of the need for a sufficient seal land surface for applying a gasket seal around the perimeter of the inner cavity of the base part. Widening the disk shroud clearance where possible can reduce the shear stress exerted at the disk edges thereby reducing the windage drag and associated disk spindle motor power consumption, especially in the context of helium-filled drives in which disk flutter is less of an issue.
US11615807B1
The present disclosure is generally related to a tape head assembly narrower than the width of a tape, wherein the tape head assembly comprises one or more heads, wherein each of the one or more heads comprise a curved surface comprising a first beveled wing, a second beveled wing, and a flat-lapped surface disposed between the first beveled wing and the second beveled wing. The first beveled wing and the second beveled wing each comprise outer corners recessed from a top surface of the flat-lapped surface such that there is no interaction between the outer corners of the beveled wings and the tape.
US11615801B1
A personal listening system and a method of using the personal listening system to enhance speech intelligibility of audio playback, are described. The method includes determining a speech intelligibility metric, such as a speech reception threshold, of a user. Based on the speech intelligibility metric, a tuning parameter is applied to an audio input signal. The speech reception threshold is compared to an environmental signal-to-noise ratio to determine whether enhancement of the audio input signal is warranted. Application of the tuning parameter to the audio input signal generates an audio output signal having reduced noise, making playback of the audio output signal more intelligible to the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11615799B2
A transcription of audio speech included in electronic content associated with a meeting is created by an ASR model trained on speech-to-text data. The transcription is post-processed by modifying text included in the transcription, for example, by modifying punctuation, grammar, or formatting introduced by the ASR model and by changing or omitting one or more words that were included in both the audio speech and the transcription. After the transcription is post-processed, output based on the post-processed transcription is generated in the form of a meeting summary and/or template.
US11615793B1
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for providing a voice assistant for to leverage information from sensing devices. In some implementations, one or more computers receive measurement data generated by a sensing device associated with a user. The one or more computers store the measurement data in association with an identifier for the user. The one or more computers obtain text of an utterance of the user detected by a client device associated with the user through a voice interface provided by the client device. The one or more computers access the measurement data associated with the user, and in response to obtaining the text of the utterance, generate a response to the utterance based on the text of the utterance and the stored measurement data. The one or more computers provide response data indicating the generated response.
US11615779B2
A method includes obtaining a plurality of training data sets each associated with a respective native language and includes a plurality of respective training data samples. For each respective training data sample of each training data set in the respective native language, the method includes transliterating the corresponding transcription in the respective native script into corresponding transliterated text representing the respective native language of the corresponding audio in a target script and associating the corresponding transliterated text in the target script with the corresponding audio in the respective native language to generate a respective normalized training data sample. The method also includes training, using the normalized training data samples, a multilingual end-to-end speech recognition model to predict speech recognition results in the target script for corresponding speech utterances spoken in any of the different native languages associated with the plurality of training data sets.
US11615776B2
A sound signal processing method includes: receiving a line-inputted sound signal; controlling a volume of the line-inputted sound signal; and generating an early reflected sound control signal using the line-inputted sound signal having the controlled volume.
US11615775B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, devices, and apparatuses for synchronized mode transitions are presented. A first device configured to be worn at an ear includes a processor configured to, in a first contextual mode, produce an audio signal based on audio data. The processor is also configured to, in the first contextual mode, exchange a time indication of a first time with a second device. The processor is further configured to, at the first time, transition from the first contextual mode to a second contextual mode based on the time indication.
US11615760B2
An artificial intelligence-based control method is disclosed. In an artificial intelligence-based control method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, when a user approaches within a set sensing range of a device, the device may capture a user image and predict whether the user has an intent to use the device by using motion features included in the captured image. An AI control method of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligent module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a 5G service-related device, etc.
US11615756B2
A semiconductor device includes a display device and a source driver. Each of a plurality of pixels included in the display device is supplied with a first data potential and a second data potential included in a range of a first potential or higher to a second potential or lower. The first data potential makes the pixel display an image with a first gray level. The pixel performs calculation with the first data potential and the second data potential to generate a third data potential. The third data potential makes the pixel display an image with a second gray level. A reference potential of the first data potential is an intermediate potential between the first potential and the second potential, and the gray level width that can be displayed by the second data potential is larger than the gray level width that can be displayed by the first data potential.
US11615752B2
A backlight device includes LED elements divided into dimming groups; a panel driver configured to output a reference current for driving the LED elements; and pixel circuits, each of which is connected to the panel driver through a common line and is respectively configured to drive first LED elements comprised in a corresponding dimming group. Each of the pixel circuits is configured to: in a first period of a frame period, obtain a reference voltage based on the reference current and store the reference voltage, in a second period of the frame period, obtain luminance data of an image displayed by the corresponding dimming group, and in a third period of the frame period, drive the first LED elements during a light emitting time corresponding to the luminance data obtained in the second period using the reference voltage stored in the first period.
US11615746B2
A display may have an array of pixels each of which has a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. A drive transistor and an emission transistor may be coupled in series with the light-emitting diode of each pixel between a positive power supply and a ground power supply. The pixels may include first and second switching transistors. A data storage capacitor may be coupled between a gate and source of the drive transistor in each pixel. Signal lines may be provided in columns of pixels to route signals such as data signals, sensed drive currents from the drive transistors, and predetermined voltages between display driver circuitry and the pixels. The switching transistors, emission transistors, and drive transistors may include semiconducting-oxide transistors and silicon transistors and may be n-channel transistors or p-channel transistors.
US11615741B2
A method and apparatus of driving a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a transparent display area and a non-transparent display area and a plurality of pixels formed on the display panel. In one or more embodiments, the method includes: determining a first type of picture data to be displayed in the non-transparent display area and a second type of picture data to be displayed in the transparent display area in picture data of a frame of picture; performing a sub-pixel rendering operation on the first type of picture data to obtain first rendered picture data; driving the non-transparent display area according to the first rendered picture data; and driving the transparent display area according to the second type of picture data.
US11615739B1
A method of compensating for change in pixel and a display device incorporating such method are presented. The method includes dividing pixels into groups including a previous group L−1, a current group L and a next group L+1; determining Aconverged[L] and Bconverged[L] for each pixel in the current group L; for each pixel in the current group L, determining a first moving average Amean[L] and a second moving average Bmean[L] as follows: A mean [ L ] = A mean [ L - 1 ] ( K - 1 ) + A [ L ] K , B mean [ L ] = B mean [ L - 1 ] ( K - 1 ) + B [ L ] K , wherein Amean[L−1] is a first moving average of a pixel in the corresponding column in the previous group L−1, Bmean[L−1] is a second moving average of a pixel in the corresponding column in the previous group L−1, and K is a moving average window; and for the next group L+1, setting a first initial value A0[L+1] and a second initial value A0[L+1] of each pixel to Amean[L] and Bmean[L].
US11615734B2
A method for processing data for display on a screen involves encoding, using a first colour space, a first portion of image data intended to be displayed on a first area of the screen and encoding, using a second colour space, a second portion of image data intended to be displayed on a second area of the screen. The encoded first and second portions of the image data are compressed, and transmitted over a link for display on the screen. By using different colour spaces to encode image data that is displayed in different parts of a screen, differences in a users vision and/or aberrations caused by display equipment may be accounted for and so provide an improved user experience. Using different colour spaces for different screen areas may also reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted, for example by encoding image data more effectively and/or allowing more efficient compression of data.
US11615731B2
A display, system and method of providing a display are described. The display includes sets of microLEDs. Each set of microLEDs corresponds to one of a plurality of pixels of the display and produces a combination of light that forms a color of the corresponding one of the pixels. Lenses control an emission angle and emission profile of the light emitted by the sets of microLEDs. Each set of microLEDs has a red microLED that emits red light, a green microLED that emits green light, a blue microLED that emits blue light, and another microLED that emits light along a red-green locus. The red-green locus light is selected to enhance efficiency at a white point to compensate for reduced emission from the red microLED dependent on a size of the red microLED.
US11615729B2
Provided are a display panel and display device. The display panel includes a driver circuit, where the driver circuit includes an N-stage cascaded shift register which includes a first control unit, a second control unit, a third control unit, and a fourth control unit. The first control unit is configured to receive an input signal and control a signal of a first node in response to a first clock signal. The second control unit is configured to control a signal of a second node. The third control unit is configured to receive the first voltage signal and generate an output signal in response to a signal of a third node, or receive the second voltage signal and generate an output signal in response to the signal of the second node. The fourth control unit comprises a third transistor.
US11615726B2
A gate driving circuit and a display device are provided. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of gate driving units, each of the gate driving units Each of the stage of the gate driving unit comprises two driving signal output units and a cascading signal output unit. The two driving signal output units can in turn output a constant high voltage signal and a wave signal such that a gate driving circuit could output two driving signals at the same time. In contrast to the conventional art, which needs two gate driving circuits to output two driving signals, this embodiment of the present invention could reduce the number of the clock line and the number of the TFTs such that the display device could have a narrow side frame.
US11615724B2
A head-up display and a method for operating a head-up display for a motor vehicle. Virtual objects may be assigned to parts of the environment of the motor vehicle, where a virtual reference feature is obtained, the orientation of which is defined on the basis of a roadway that is or can be used by a vehicle. An orientation of the motor vehicle may be determined in relation to the virtual reference feature. A virtual object may be displayed when the part of the environment to which it is assigned lies within a field of view for the head-up display, wherein a horizontal position of the object that is displayed is defined in the field of view on the basis of the relative orientation to the virtual reference feature.
US11615716B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes a lightweight cryptographic engine (LCE), the LCE is optimized and has an associated throughput greater than or equal to a target throughput.
US11615715B2
This disclosure presents systems and methods to improve user brushing behavior. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate presentation of audio content via an audio output device, the audio content being characterized by an audio profile; obtain output signals from one or more sensors coupled to a user device, the output signals conveying user input information, the user input information defining user input by a user via the user device; determine, based on the user input information, a user profile, the user profile including one or more user values of the one or more audio attribute; compare the user profile with the audio profile to determine, for individual audio attributes, one or more differences; determine one or more scores reflecting the one or more differences; and/or perform other operations.
US11615706B2
Various aspects of a system and method for driving assistance along a path are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, a unique identifier is received from a communication device at an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle. The unique identifier is received when the first vehicle has reached a first location along a first portion of the path. A communication channel is established between the first vehicle and the communication device based on the received unique identifier. Data associated with a second portion of the path is received by the ECU from the communication device based on the established communication channel. Alert information associated with the second portion of the path is generated by the ECU based on the received data.
US11615705B2
A vehicle control apparatus determines a travelling region in which the vehicle is travelling among a plurality of regions into which an area is divided by a predetermined boundary line. When an obtained position which is determined based on a positioning signal from a positioning satellite is not included in a boundary zone, the apparatus determines that the travelling region is a region in which the obtained position is included. The boundary zone is a belt-like zone including the boundary line. Meanwhile, when the obtained position is not included in the boundary zone, the apparatus determines the travelling region based on a piece of information included in an image of an area in front of the vehicle. Each piece of the information is associated with one of the regions having a part overlapping the boundary zone.
US11615694B2
Discloses is a workstation monitoring system. The system can include a camera configured to capture images and/or video of a workstation. The system can include a monitoring module configured to: receive images and/or video from the camera; identify a surface and a state for the surface, the state including any one or combination of occupied, vacant, clean, dirty, contaminated, attended to, or not attended to; track behavior of an individual, movement of an object, and/or an occurrence for the surface that causes a change in the surface's state; and generate a trigger event signal based on the change in the surface's state.
US11615691B2
Techniques for environmental contaminant monitoring are disclosed. In some embodiments, a contaminant detection system electronically instigates a test circuit that shares an environment with another circuit to induce an electrical anomaly in the test circuit when environmental contamination is present. While electronically instigating the first circuit, the contaminant detection system monitors for an electrical anomaly indicative of the environmental contamination. Responsive to detecting an electrical anomaly in the test circuit that is indicative of environmental contamination, the contaminant detection system generates an alert that indicates that the second circuit has likely been exposed to the environmental contamination. The contaminant detection system may provide early warning of potentially caustic environments before creep corrosion or similar phenomena manifest in expensive hardware resources. Thus, hardware outages may be mitigated or avoided.
US11615680B2
A voice alarm notification device of a fire alarm system, comprising: a network port for receiving an alarm notification signal; an audio file library in which the audio files include audio voice message files; a speaker; a processor unit connected to the network port for processing an alarm notification signal and for selecting one of the audio files from the library to be played through the speaker; and a Bluetooth module for establishing a Bluetooth communication link to the voice alarm notification device, via which link an audio voice file can be received. The device is arranged to add the audio voice file received via the Bluetooth communication link to the library so as to be available for selection by the processor unit when it receives an alarm notification signal.
US11615679B2
Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.
US11615676B2
A computer implemented game involving analytics and real time data analysis. The game can allow players to predict and wager on the types of plays that have yet to occur, for example, in a football game. The game may utilize an algorithm that compares situational data in a game to stored data regarding similar situations in past games. The game can then provide a likelihood that a certain type of play can be performed, which may be interpreted as odds of a certain type of play. Users can then utilize this information to predict and wager on the upcoming play. Depending on the results of the play, users may win or lose their wager.
US11615675B2
A system and method for importing and visualizing numerical data relating to sporting events, wherein numerical data related to sporting events may be imported from any number of internet-based statistics compilers and rendered as a graphical representations allowing for convenient analysis of the data by the user. The graphical representations are primarily pie charts, wherein each slice of the pie chart corresponds to, for example, a position group, a specific player, or a type of points-scoring play. Users may make selections from one or more dropdown menus to generate pie charts and these selections may produce any number of comparisons, visualizations, or analyses. For example, a user may compare various numerical and statistical data for a single professional sports team, and further, to sort and compare those data by position group, by player, by season, or by game. Further, a user may make selections to directly compare the data relating to a first professional athlete to the data relating to a second professional athlete. Further still, a user may make selections to compare a professional sports team's performance across the duration of a previously played season against the performance of all other teams in the professional league across the duration of the previously played season, and further, to examine the performance of a particular player on the professional sports team across the duration of a previously played season. These analyses, among others, are graphically represented as pie charts and may be augmented by various additional functionalities, for example, mouse-over functionalities, clickable features, pop-ups, animations, three-dimensional renderings, video replays, among other functionalities. These analyses are generated from real-world professional sports data but may be compiled for purposes related to various online fantasy sports leagues.
US11615674B2
A gaming machine and method include a monetary input device, a user interface configured to: enable a player to select a wager for a game of chance having a skill-based activity, to interact with the game of chance using a gaming input device. A processor is programmed to enable the player to win a prize based at least in part on input from the gaming input device, and to set at least one parameter of the skill-based activity or the gaming input device to a first difficulty for winning the prize during a first game of a gaming session including a plurality of games, and to adjust the parameter to modify the difficulty to a second difficulty for winning the prize during a subsequent game of the gaming session to maintain a predetermined percentage or percentage range of money or credits returned to the player (RTP) during the gaming session.
US11615672B2
The present disclosure is related to an inspection system capable of inspecting a plurality of gaming chips. A game chip of the plurality of game chips includes a wireless tag storing first chip information and to which the optically readable second chip information is on a side of the game chip. The inspection system includes an inspection device configured to inspect one or more game chips. The inspection device includes a wireless tag reader configured to read the wireless tag of the game chip and acquire the first chip information. The inspection device includes a camera configured to reading the side surface of the game chip to obtain the second chip information. The inspection device includes a unit configured to determine whether the game chip passes one or more rules based on the first chip information and the second chip information.
US11615669B2
Embodiments provide systems, apparatus, and methods for rendering supplemental information on an electronic gaming machine, where the supplemental information does not relate to game play on the machine. The supplemental information can include safety warnings, maintenance information, or other information. The electronic gaming device can detect user interactions with the electronic gaming machine, such as using sensors or a player interface that includes a touchscreen. The user interactions can be compared with a condition associated with the supplemental information. Feedback, such as visual, audio, or haptic feedback, or a combination thereof, can be provided to indicate to the user whether the condition is satisfied. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.
US11615665B1
Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for remotely monitoring cash reserves within a plurality of cash handling devices, and for automatically initiating change orders to maintain optimal levels of cash reserves within those cash handling devices. Certain embodiments remotely monitor closing transaction data received from those cash handling devices. Based at least in part on portions of data reflected within the closing transaction data, retrieve historical usage data relating to a forecast period; generate a usage forecast for the forecast period, and based on the generated usage forecast and the closing transaction data, generate message data for transmission to external systems to facilitate the maintenance of optimal cash reserves within those cash handling devices.
US11615660B2
A controller may obtain data associated with operation of an engine of a machine that comprises a first engine bank associated with a first set of turbochargers and a second engine bank associated with a second set of turbochargers, and may determine, based on the data, that the engine is in an operating state that requires the first and second sets of turbochargers to be operative. The controller may determine, based on the data, a difference in operation of the first engine bank and the second engine bank and identify, based on the data, a turbocharger failure condition associated with a particular set of turbochargers, of the first and second sets of turbochargers. The controller may identify, based on the data, a particular turbocharger, of the particular set of turbochargers, as a failed turbocharger, and may perform one or more actions based on identifying the particular turbocharger.
US11615658B2
Vehicle fuel tank modeling systems and methods are provided herein. An example method includes introducing known volumes of fuel into the fuel tank, determining correlations of fuel level percentage values relative to the known volumes of fuel placed into the fuel tank, offsetting the correlations to compensate for unusable fuel volume of the fuel tank, selecting a non-linear fuel tank model that fits the offset correlations, and applying the non-linear fuel tank model to a target vehicle having a fuel tank with a fuel tank part number.
US11615644B2
Methods for face detection to address privacy in publishing image datasets is described. A method may include face classification in an online marketplace. A server system may receive, from a seller user device, a listing including an image for the online marketplace. The server system may classify, by at least one processor that implement a distribution-balance trained machine learning model, each human face candidate within the image as being one of a private human face or a non-private human face. The server system may receive, from a buyer user device, a search query that is mapped to the listing in the online marketplace. The server system may transmit, to the buyer user device, a query response including the listing that includes the image determined to not include any private human faces or obscures any private human faces within the image based on the classifying.
US11615634B2
A system, method, and computer program product provides a way to separate connected or adhered adjacent characters of a digital image for license plate recognition. As a threshold processing, the method performs a recognition of character adhesion by obtaining character parameters using an image processor. The parameters include a horizontal max crossing and a ratio of width and height. A first rule-based module is used responsive to the character parameters to distinguish the adhered characters (character adhesions) that are easy to judge, leaving the uncertain part to a character adhesion classifier model for discrimination. Character adhesion data is obtained by data augmentation including the adding of a random distance between two single characters to create class like adhered characters. Then the character adhesion classifier model of single character and character adhesion data is trained. Any uncertain part can be distinguished by the trained character adhesion classifier model.
US11615628B2
An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and a generation unit. The first acquisition unit acquires peripheral information regarding a periphery of a first mobile object. The second acquisition unit acquires, from an apparatus different from the first mobile object, attribute information regarding an attribute of a second mobile object present in the periphery of the first mobile object. The generation unit generates learning data for extracting an attribute of a target mobile object, on the basis of the acquired peripheral information and the acquired attribute information.
US11615626B2
Methods and systems for crowd level estimation are provided. The system for crowd level estimation includes an input module and a crowd level estimation module. The input module receives an input image of a crowd and the crowd level estimation module estimates a crowd level of the crowd in the input image in response to a crowd density level.
US11615622B2
Systems, methods, and devices relating to determining an introduction portion in a video program are described herein. A method may determine first and second hard-matching pairs of video segments in first and second video content such that video fingerprints of the first hard-matching pair match and video fingerprints of the second hard-matching pair also match. The method may classify a third pair of video segments in the first and second video content, sequentially between the first and second hard-matching pairs, as a soft-matching pair of video segments of an introduction portion. The method may use the classification of the third pair of video segments as a soft-matching pair to determine a model configured to determine that a pair of video segments in two video content items are a soft-matching pair of video segments of an introduction portion.
US11615620B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable mediums directed to identifying persons monitored on video frames of a video feed, determining if the number of people on a monitored video frame is above a prescribed group threshold, and if so, calculating distances between each respective person in the monitored video frame. The calculated distances between each respective person are then compared to a prescribed distance threshold and alerts are generated in response to any calculated distance not satisfying the prescribed threshold. Identification of persons in a monitored video frame may be performed by, for example, facial recognition software. Calculation of distance between persons in a monitored video frame may be performed, for example, by using bounding boxes, machine learning, or other classification techniques.
US11615616B2
A user-guidance system that utilizes augmented-reality (AR) components and human-posture-detection techniques is presented. The user-guidance system can help users to use smart devices to conduct 3D body scans more efficiently and accurately. AR components are computer generated for the on-screen guidance to guide a camera operator to position the camera in a particular location in relation to a target object with a particular tilt orientation in relation to the target object to capture an image that includes a region of the target object for 3D reconstruction of the target object. Human-posture-detection techniques are used to detect a human user's real-time posture and provide real-time on-screen guidance feedback and instructions to the human user to adopt an intended best posture for 3D reconstruction of the human user.
US11615609B2
A learning apparatus that can realize efficient machine learning is provided. A learning apparatus that learns a set value in a machine learning model based on predetermined image data for learning includes an inverting unit that inverts data of at least a part of respective channels in the image data for learning, an input unit that inputs the inverted data to the machine learning model, an output unit that can compare data obtained by inverting data output from the machine learning model with training data, and/or data output from the machine learning model with data obtained by inverting training data, and a learning process executing unit that learns the set value according to a result of the comparison.
US11615608B2
An image obtaining method comprises: by a projecting device, separately projecting an image acquisition light and a reference light onto a target object, wherein the light intensity of the image acquisition light is higher than the light intensity of the reference light; by an image obtaining device, obtaining a first image and a second image, both the first image and the second image comprising the image of the target object, with the target object of the first image being illuminated by the image acquisition light, and the target object of the second image being illuminated by the reference light, wherein the first image has a first area including a part of the target object, and the second image has a second area including the part of the target object; and by a computing device, performing a difference evaluation procedure to obtain a required light intensity based on a required amount.
US11615604B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for measuring an endolymphatic hydrops ratio of inner ear organs using an artificial neural network. The method of measuring an endolymphatic hydrops ratio includes obtaining a plurality of frame images obtained by capturing inner ear organs, obtaining a plurality of pieces of mask data corresponding to each of the plurality of frame images by inputting the plurality of frame images into a neural network, clustering the plurality of pieces of mask data according to the inner ear organs and obtaining representative images according to the inner ear organs according to certain conditions, and overlapping a target image synthesized by using the plurality of frame images and the representative images according to the inner ear organs so as to measure an endolymphatic hydrops ratio.
US11615602B2
Appearance driven automatic three-dimensional (3D) modeling enables optimization of a 3D model comprising the shape and appearance of a particular 3D scene or object. Triangle meshes and shading models may be jointly optimized to match the appearance of a reference 3D model based on reference images of the reference 3D model. Compared with the reference 3D model, the optimized 3D model is a lower resolution 3D model that can be rendered in less time. More specifically, the optimized 3D model may include fewer geometric primitives compared with the reference 3D model. In contrast with the conventional inverse rendering or analysis-by-synthesis modeling tools, the shape and appearance representations of the 3D model are automatically generated that, when rendered, match the reference images. Appearance driven automatic 3D modeling has a number of uses, including appearance-preserving simplification of extremely complex assets, conversion between rendering systems, and even conversion between geometric scene representations.
US11615601B2
An automated cage-to-cage fitting technique is used to fit arbitrary three-dimensional (3D) geometry to arbitrary target 3D geometry for 3D avatars in a 3D environment, such as an online game. Each graphical representation of items of clothing is provided with an inner cage and with an outer cage. The inner cage of a clothing item (a current layer) is mapped to the outer cage of another clothing item (a previous/underlying layer) that has already been fitted on the 3D avatar. This mapping enables the current layer to conform to the shape of the previous layer. The technique allows any body geometry to be fitted with any clothing geometry, including enabling layers of clothing to be fitted over underlying layer(s) of clothing, thereby providing customization.
US11615600B1
A modular computer-implemented XR health platform is adapted for diagnostic, therapeutic, and care delivery to patient. The platform incorporates one or more modules including a clinical platform module, XR platform module, configuration module, web portal and companion application module, integration module, light module, anatomy module, movement module, neurological module, mental health module, pain module, procedural and digital anesthetic module, hardware module, and billing module. A combined extended reality display and computing device are adapted for implementing one or more of the plurality of modules.
US11615599B2
The invention can be used to compensate shaking in relation to augmented reality systems on a vehicle projection display. The apparatus comprises the recognition front facing camera, gyro sensor and accelerometer, and vehicle sensors, connected with a prediction module, the gyro sensor, accelerometer and vehicle sensors are also connected with the positioning module, the gyro sensor and accelerometer are also connected with the shaking compensation module, the prediction module, positioning module, shaking compensation module, and vehicle sensors are connected with the data rendering module, connected with the projection display. The invention provides shaking compensation for automotive augmented reality systems.
US11615595B2
A first electronic device with one or more processors, memory, one or more cameras, and a display generation component captures, with the one or more cameras, an image of a second electronic device that includes position information displayed via a display generation component of the second electronic device. The position information indicates a location of the second electronic device within an augmented reality environment that includes a physical environment in which the first electronic device and the second electronic device are located. The first electronic device, after capturing the image of the second electronic device that includes the position information, displays, via the display generation component of the first electronic device, one or more virtual objects within the augmented reality (AR) environment using the position information captured from the second electronic device.
US11615592B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving a video that depicts a person; tracking three-dimensional (3D) movement of the person within the video using a 3D reference point; computing a 3D position for placement of an augmented reality item relative to the 3D reference point; causing to be displayed the augmented reality item within the video at the 3D position; and updating the 3D position of the augmented reality item in the video as the 3D reference point changes based on the 3D movement of the person.
US11615591B2
Methods are disclosed for the generation and editing of layer delineations within three-dimensional tomography scans. Cross sections of a subject are generated and presented to an operator, who has the ability to edit layer delineations within the cross section, or determine parameters used to generate new cross sections. By guiding an operator through a set of displayed cross sections, the methods can allow for a more rapid, efficient, and error-free segmentation of the subject. The cross sections can be nonplanar in shape or planar and non-axis-aligned. The cross sections can be restricted to exclude one or more user-defined regions of the subject, or to include only one or more user-defined regions of the subject. The cross sections can be localized to a point-of-interest. Iterative implementations of the methods can be used to arrive at a segmentation deemed satisfactory by the user.
US11615590B2
A method of producing surface data from electronic polygonal data is disclosed. The method includes accessing the polygonal data with a computer, the polygonal data defining a mesh of polygonal data points and including a plurality of vertices, and where the polygonal data describes an object. The method also includes generating a plurality of bounded areas, each including one or more vertices of the polygonal data, expanding a plurality of the bounded areas by adding a plurality of vertices thereto, generating a surface for each of the expanded bounded areas based on the vertices of the expanded bounded areas, generating the surface data based at least in part on the surfaces, and storing the surface data in a computer readable data storage.
US11615589B2
A graphics processing unit and method for processing fragments in a graphics processing system which includes: (i) hidden surface removal logic configured to perform hidden surface removal on fragments, and (ii) processing logic configured to execute shader programs for fragments. Initial processing of fragments is performed at the hidden surface removal logic. Some of the fragments have a shader-dependent property. A shader program for a particular fragment having the shader-dependent property is split into two stages. The initial processing comprises performing a depth test on the particular fragment. In response to the particular fragment passing the depth test of the initial processing in the hidden surface removal logic, a first stage, but not a second stage, of the shader program is executed for the particular fragment at the processing logic. The first stage of the shader program has instructions for determining the property of the particular fragment.
US11615584B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a processor performs a coarse depth test on pixel data, and performs a final depth test on the pixel data. Coarse depth data is stored in a coarse depth cache, and per pixel depth data is stored in a per pixel depth cache. If a result of the coarse depth test is ambiguous, the processor is to read the per pixel depth data from the per pixel depth cache, and to update the coarse depth data with the per pixel depth data if the per pixel depth data has a smaller depth range than the coarse depth data.
US11615580B2
A method of generating a path of an object through a virtual environment is provided, the method comprising: receiving image data, at a first instance of time, from a plurality of image capture devices arranged in a physical environment; receiving image data, at an at least one second instance of time after the first instance of time, from a plurality of image capture devices arranged in the physical environment; detecting a location of a plurality of points associated with an object within the image data from each image capture device at the first instance of time and the at least one second instance of time; projecting the location of the plurality of points associated with the object within the image data from each image capture device at the first instance of time and the at least one second instance of time into a virtual environment to generate a location of the plurality of points associated with the object in the virtual environment at each instance of time; and generating a path of the object through the virtual environment using the location of the plurality of points associated with the object in the virtual environment, the path being indicative of the position and orientation of the object through the virtual environment.
US11615570B2
The present disclosure discloses a display method and apparatus for a virtual object, an electronic device, and a storage medium, and is related to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of animation frames corresponding to each of a plurality of virtual objects and a weight of each animation frame; blending a plurality of animation frames corresponding to the plurality of virtual objects in parallel through an image processor according to the weight of each animation frame, to obtain target position and pose data of each bone in bone models of the plurality of virtual objects; and displaying the plurality of virtual objects in a graphical user interface according to the target position and pose data of each bone in the bone models of the plurality of virtual objects.
US11615551B2
A system uses a fleet of AVs to assess visibility of target objects. Each AV has a camera for capturing images of target objects. AVs provide the captured images, or visibility data derived from the captured images, to a remote system, which aggregates visibility data describing images captured across the fleet of AVs. The AVs also provide condition data describing conditions under which the images were captured, and the remote system aggregates the condition data. The remote system processes the aggregated visibility data and condition data to determine conditions under which a target object does not meet a visibility threshold.
US11615545B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for detecting an inter-person conflict. The method includes receiving at least one image from an image data resource, where the at least one image is captured by at least one camera. The method further includes detecting human objects from the at least one image. The method additionally includes determining a distance between two of the detected human objects. The method additionally includes determining whether there is a conflict between the two of the detected human objects based on the determined distance.
US11615541B2
The prediction control part 204 predicts a three-dimensional position and a three-dimensional velocity of the world coordinate system of the flying ball at a specific time after the initial time as a predicted position and a predicted velocity based on initial position and initial velocity of flying ball, and an equation indicating a parabolic shape of the flying ball. The conversion control part 205 converts the predicted position into a two-dimensional position of a camera coordinate system as a temporary position. The acquisition control part 206 specifies a flying ball image and acquires a two-dimensional position of the camera coordinate system of the flying ball image as an observation position. The correction control part 207 corrects the predicted position and the predicted velocity as a corrected position and a corrected velocity based on the predicted position and the predicted velocity, the observation position, and a Kalman filter.
US11615533B2
In one embodiment, an X-ray inspection system may access a first set of X-ray images of one or more first samples that are labeled as being non-conforming. The system may adjust a classification algorithm based on the first set of X-ray images. The classification algorithm may classify samples into conforming or non-conforming categories based on an analysis of corresponding X-ray images. The system may analyze a second set of X-ray images of a number of second samples using the adjusted classification algorithm. The second samples may be previously inspected samples that have been classified as conforming by the classification algorithm during a previous analysis before the classification algorithm is adjusted. The system may identify one or more of the second samples from the second set of X-ray images. Each identified second sample may be classified as non-conforming by the adjusted classification algorithm.
US11615527B2
A system for automatically analyzing a video recording of a colonoscopy includes a processor and memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive the video recording of the colonoscopy performed on the colon and detect informative frames in the video recording. A frame is informative if the clarity of the frame is above a threshold or if the frame includes clinically relevant information about the colon. The instructions cause the processor to generate scores indicating severity levels of a disease for a plurality of the informative frames, estimate locations of the plurality of the informative frames in the colon, and generate an output indicating a distribution of the scores over one or more segments of the colon by combining the scores generated for the plurality of the informative frames and the estimated locations of the plurality of the informative frames in the colon.
US11615519B2
A method and apparatus for identifying a concrete crack includes: obtaining a crack video, and manually annotating a video image frame by using a label; predicting a future frame and label for the annotated frame by using a spatial displacement convolutional block, propagating the future frame and label, to obtain a synthetic sample, and preprocessing the synthetic sample, to form a crack database; modifying input and output ports of data of a deep learning model for video semantic image segmentation and a parameter, to enable the deep learning model to accept video input, and establishing a concrete crack detection model based on the video output; using a convolutional layer in a trained deep learning model as an initial weight of the concrete crack detection model for migration; inputting the crack database into a migrated concrete crack detection model, and training the concrete crack detection model for crack data.
US11615515B2
Techniques are described for merging super pixels of an image. The image may include two superpixel, for which a similarity value is calculated. The similarity value is determined based on the link and cut values of the superpixels, the similarity value representing pixel-based similarity of the superpixels. The link value is determined based on the similarity between color values of the pixels in the superpixels, while the cut value is determined based on the edge pixels of the superpixels. Based on the calculated similarity value, the system determines whether to merge the superpixels and if so, merges the superpixels thereby generating another superpixel.
US11615499B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request from a requesting device to initiate a transport to perform a transport event at a target location, identifying the transport to perform the transport event, identifying a target device associated with the transport event is located at the target location, receiving location updates of the transport and the target device at a server, determining the transport has initiated the transport event based on the location updates of the transport, determining the target device and the transport are proximate to one another based on the location updates, and monitoring the location updates to identify whether the transport has deviated from a target travel path area.
US11615497B2
A method, system and/or computer usable program product for managing optimization of a transportation network system including identifying a set of items for transportation between a set of origins and a set of destinations during a set of time periods, prioritizing each of the set of items, utilizing a set of network constraints and costs, utilizing a set of loading constraints for a set of transportation units, the loading constraints limiting the quantity and placement of items for each transportation unit, optimizing a quantity of the set of transportation units for transporting the set of items between the set of origins and the set of destinations during the set of time periods based on the prioritization of each of the set of items, the network constraints and costs, and the loading constraints for each transportation unit, and adjusting the optimized quantity of transportation units to a discrete quantity based on the prioritization of each of the set of items and the network constraints and costs.
US11615486B2
A farming machine is configured to identify and treat plants in a field. The farming machine includes one or more light sensors for measuring a characteristic of light. The one or more light sensors are coupled to the farming machine and are directed a substantially upwards orientation away from the plants. A control system adjusts settings of an image acquisition system based on a characteristic of light measured by the one or more light sensors. The image acquisition system captures an image of a plant using one or more image sensors coupled to the farming machine, the one or more image sensors directed in a substantially downwards orientation towards the plants. The control system identifies a plant in the image and actuates a treatment mechanism to treat the identified plant.
US11615468B2
A graphical interface and method are provided for displaying market information corresponding to a tradeable object. One graphical interface includes a chart region for displaying historical market data in relation to a first value axis, and a market grid region in alignment with the chart region. The market grid region comprises a plurality of areas for receiving commands from a user input device to send trade orders, and the areas are displayed in relation to a second value axis. A plurality of values displayed along the second value axis is a subset of values displayed in relation to the first value axis, and can be modified to a new plurality of values that corresponds to a new subset of values on the first value axis.
US11615466B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that provide users of a network-based financial account management system with a contextual user interface element, which when activated presents dynamic graphical user interfaces that provide financial account information as well as suggested financial performance improvement actions. Whether or not the contextual user interface is displayed may be based upon one or more of: a context of the user, financial account information of the user, and account rules. Additionally, the suggested financial performance improvement actions may also be determined based upon one or more of: a context of the user, financial account information of the user, and account rules.
US11615461B2
A shop interface is presented to users in conjunction with presentation of views of an online game, wherein the shop interface is configured to facilitate presentations to users of offers to sell virtual items usable within the game in exchange for consideration. In response to detecting that the online game is systematically unavailable to users, an alternative virtual shop interface is presented to users that is accessed over the Internet separately from the online game, and offers to sell the virtual times usable within the game are presented to users in exchange for less consideration than the offers to sell the virtual items through the shop interface presented in conjunction with the online game.
US11615455B2
Methods and systems for generating recommendations are disclosed. In some examples, from a set of positive reviews associated with a merchant offering, at least one attribute is identified and associated with the set of positive reviews, based on reviewer profiles associated with each respective positive review. The attribute is associated with the merchant offering. A match is determined between a customer attribute in a first customer profile and the at least one attribute. A set of recommendations is generated to be presented, via a customer electronic device, to a customer associated with the first customer profile, the set of recommendations including the merchant offering associated with at least one attribute.
US11615453B2
Some aspects of the present disclosure are directed to computerized methods for extracting attributes from product titles. The method may include: retrieving a title associated with a product listing and historical product title data; refining the title; determining at least one tag associated with an attribute; generating, based on the at least one extracted tag and the historical title data, a first combination of one or more attributes; determining whether the title includes at least one plurality of product options, and if so: determining, for each product option hi the plurality of product options, a second combination of one or more attributes by removing attributes associated with alternative product options from the first combination; and generating a product identifier based on the second combination; and if the title does not include at least one plurality of product options, generating, the product identifier based on the first combination.
US11615442B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for programmatic digital advertisements that are personalized and uniquely targeted to individually-identified consumers via non-personal, but individually accessed devices. The consumer accessing a non-personal device is identified and data cookie pertaining to the user is created and sent to third-party programmatic advertising exchanges for the use in real time bidding, private marketplace deals, or programmatic guaranteed sales. This allows for personalized digital advertisements to be delivered to a specific user accessing a non-personal device.
US11615441B2
A system that analyzes a user's communications to select a promotion that is presented to the user. The analysis may occur in two stages: a first stage analyzes a single communication from a user to determine whether the user is a potential target for a promotion; for potential targets, a second stage analyzes a history of communications from the user to generate a user profile. The system may then select a promotion based on the profile. The profile may include a set of profile tags that are considerably more detailed and granular than traditional demographic data; tags may for example indicate user affiliations with groups or ideas (such as religions or political parties), or user life cycle stages. Using these rich, detailed user profile tags, the system may achieve promotion response rates far above those from traditional advertising, which relies on cookies or simple demographic categories.
US11615438B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for self-service design, scheduling, and delivery of user-defined reports regarding promotions. The method includes receiving, from a user device, a report type and report delivery information. Based on the report type, relevant data regarding the one or more promotions is collected, using which a report is generated. The method then outputs the generated report based on the report delivery information. Optionally, analytical insights, such as trends within the data, sample size, suitability of control data, and indications of statistical significance, are generated and included in the report. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US11615434B2
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.
US11615427B2
A system and method that uses geo-location and a rules engine to facilitate compliance to federal, state, and local regulations as well as company policies across different jurisdictions that may have different compliance regulations. A mobile workforce may use the techniques herein to manage work assignments, report activities, and to manage and track time. This technology may be used, e.g., in the transportation industry, but is not limited to this industry.
US11615422B2
A user may respond to a request of another user by entering text, such as a customer service representative responding to a customer. As the user enters text, a suggested completion of the text may be suggested to the user so that the user may select the suggested completion instead of continuing to enter text. Previous messages between the two users and other information may be used to determine an appropriate suggested completion to the entered text. A neural network language model and a search graph may be used to select a suggested completion from a search graph of possible suggested completions.
US11615420B1
Embodiments provide an alert management and real-time remediation system. The system receives an electronic file that includes an overdraft allowance information data structure comprising overdraft allowance information and automatically parses the overdraft allowance information into overdraft allowance events for the associated customers. The system sends overdraft allowance notification messages to the associated customers. The message includes a link to an authentication interface of an institution associated with the customer. After the customer is authenticated, the system provides a user interface that displays overdraft allowance information for each overdraft allowance event associated with the customer and a display element for a payment option. Responsive to the customer selecting the payment option, the system sends a payment message that causes a transfer of a payment to the institution.
US11615407B2
A system to process virtual credit card (VCC) payments automatically is provided. Electronic delivery of VCC payment information may be transferred as electronic data representing a VCC payment to the seller (e.g., an email). Data exchange methods for VCC payments include application programming interfaces (APIs), email, files, etc. Secure processing is provided via an environment that meets rigorous security standards (e.g., Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards). Credentials of the sending entity establish the context that allows the system to associate the data received with the correct buyer and seller. Authentication may be provided within the context of the data transferred. Authentication may also use the sender's email address to validate the sender using a digital signature of the email contents. The system may combine digital signature validation of an email with a validation of a sending entity using the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) email authentication protocol.
US11615400B2
In some implementations, a transaction card may receive transaction data from a transaction terminal based on initiation of a transaction with the transaction terminal; generate a tokenized primary account number, for use with the transaction, based on the transaction data and an actual primary account number of the transaction card; and transmit the tokenized primary account number to the transaction terminal for processing the transaction.
US11615397B2
A method, performed at a mobile device, for accessing a service, comprises: determining, from payment card information stored on or obtained at the mobile device, a list of services that are available in relation to the payment card; receiving a selection of one of the services; determining at least one corresponding communication channel by which the selected service is accessible; and opening the at least one corresponding communication channel to thereby access the service.
US11615394B2
Sequential selections are presented by receiving an input on an active portion of a display of the computing device. While the input is received, a plurality of selections are sequentially displayed on the display. An indication is received that the input on the active portion of the display of the computing device has changed. In response to receiving the indication that the input has changed, the computing device stops presenting the plurality of selections and determines which selection of the plurality of selections was presented on the display when the input changed. The determined selection is then displayed.
US11615393B2
A method for utilizing smartglasses-enabled, autonomous, transfer technology, to execute a transferor to recipient transfer is provided. The method may include receiving, via hand gestures at the smartglasses, a mobile phone number of a target recipient. The method may also include transmitting the mobile phone number from the smartglasses to an entity associated with the transferor. The method may then determine a recipient identification number associated with the mobile phone number at the entity associated with the transferor, and, preferably then, communicating with a transfer gateway to initiate a payment between a transferor account number associated and the recipient identification number. The method may also include processing the transfer via the transfer gateway and transmitting a completion notification to a mobile device associated with the mobile number and to the smartglasses.
US11615391B2
Sever-based order persistence and/or fulfillment is described herein. In an example, server(s) associated with a payment processing service may receive, from a point-of-sale (POS) device associated with a merchant, an order associated with at least one item available for purchase from a physical location of the merchant. The server(s) may store the order in a storage data structure. In an example, the server(s) may determine an occurrence of a trigger event and may update a status of the order based at least in part on the trigger event. In some examples, the trigger event may correspond to an interruption in a connection with the POS device, fulfillment of the order, etc. The status of the order can indicate whether the order is to be sent to the POS device, removed from the storage data structure, etc.
US11615387B2
Described in example embodiments herein are techniques for implementing an automated banking machine such as an ATM. An example embodiments, tracks the flow of a note through an ATM. Another embodiment corrects errors detected during a note flow. Some embodiments are in the form of security protocols for communications or other communication protocols, or techniques for monitoring devices operating in the ATM. Yet another example embodiment is directed to security of a currency cassette. Still yet another embodiment is directed to detecting tampering of the ATM's gate and/or shuttle. Yet still another embodiment determines if notes in a shuttle were delivered.
US11615384B1
Provided is a system that receives tracking data associated with a user and including at least one information chosen from a group comprising purchase information of a product, usage information of this product, and cumulative sharing information related to this product or to a domain having any relation with this product. The system controls a distributed ledger technology network to execute a smart contract on the received tracking data by applying at least one rule on these received tracking data. The system assigns a status level chosen from at least two predefined status levels to the user based on the executed smart contract, at least one predefined status level corresponding to at least one privilege associated with a management of the distributed ledger technology network and/or the product. The system controls allocation of a first amount of electronic currency to the user based on his assigned status level.
US11615380B2
A method and an electronic device are provided that include receiving at the electronic device a start and an end of an out-of-office period and an out-of-office preference for responding to new invitations to events occurring during the out-of-office period received at the electronic device, receiving at the electronic device a new invitation to an event occurring during the out-of-office period, and automatically transmitting at the electronic device a response to the new invitation based on the out-of-office preference.
US11615367B2
A flexible sensor label including a reservoir chamber configured to store an activation medium. The flexible sensor label includes an irreversible chamber configured to store a first indicator medium. The first indicator medium is altered in response to the activation medium being released and the flexible sensor label being exposed to a first condition associated with the first indicator medium. The flexible sensor label includes a reversible chamber configured to store a second indicator medium. The second indicator medium is altered in response to the activation medium being released and the flexible sensor label being exposed to a second condition associated with the second indicator medium.
US11615350B2
A hardware system enables computer network interaction between network identity services and account-based service applications. In some examples, the network identity service biometrically identifies people. The network identity services and/or account-based service applications interact to exchange data in order to monitor, track, initiate, and/or cooperatively and/or individually perform various functions while protecting data that should not be shared and minimizing communication network usage and hardware and software resources. This interaction enables both to accomplish more and different tasks than they could individually while improving operational efficiency of hardware and software components of both.
US11615336B2
A quantum circuit called a “qumon” is provided to cancel unwanted ZZ interaction in a superconducting qubit architecture. The qumon qubit has a high coherence, and a positive anharmonicity that may be tuned to cancel the negative anharmonicity in a coupled qubit, such as a transmon qubit. The qumon has three parallel branches, in which are a shunt capacitor; a Josephson junction having weighted energy level and capacitance; and several Josephson junctions in series. The weight is chosen to provide the desired anharmonicity, and the transverse flux noise and transverse charge noise each decrease in proportion to the number of the Josephson junctions in series. Because unwanted ZZ interactions are canceled, qumon qubits and transmon qubits may be capacitively coupled in an alternating pattern to provide a surface code in which these interactions are canceled in an extensible way.
US11615332B2
Techniques are described relating to automatically classifying telephone calls into a particular category using machine learning and artificial intelligence technology. As one example, calls to a customer service phone number can be classified as related to prohibited activity, or as legitimate. In particular, a number of different telephony variables as well as additional variables can be used to make such a classification, after training an appropriate machine learning model. The training process may use an externally provided call classification score that is provide by an outside entity as an input, and can be calibrated so that the output score of the trained classifier provides a score that corresponds to a real-world percentage chance of an unclassified call falling into a particular category. Thus, a classifier score of “95” can indicate that a call is in fact believed to be 95% likely to correspond to prohibited activity, for example.
US11615329B2
A hybrid quantum-classical (HQC) computer takes advantage of the available quantum coherence to maximally enhance the power of sampling on noisy quantum devices, reducing measurement number and runtime compared to VQE. The HQC computer derives inspiration from quantum metrology, phase estimation, and the more recent “alpha-VQE” proposal, arriving at a general formulation that is robust to error and does not require ancilla qubits. The HQC computer uses the “engineered likelihood function” (ELF) to carry out Bayesian inference. The ELF formalism enhances the quantum advantage in sampling as the physical hardware transitions from the regime of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers into that of quantum error corrected ones. This technique speeds up a central component of many quantum algorithms, with applications including chemistry, materials, finance, and beyond.
US11615324B2
A system and method for de novo drug discovery using machine learning algorithms. In a preferred embodiment, de novo drug discovery is performed via data enrichment and interpolation/perturbation of molecule models within the latent space, wherein molecules with certain characteristics can be generated and tested in relation to one or more targeted receptors. Filtering methods may be used to determine active novel molecules by filtering out non-active molecules and contain activity predictors to better navigate the molecule-receptor domain. The system may comprise neural networks trained to reconstruct known ligand-receptors pairs and from the reconstruction model interpolate and perturb the model such that novel and unique molecules are discovered. A second preferred embodiment trains a variational autoencoder coupled with a bioactivity model to predict molecules exhibiting a range of desired properties.
US11615319B2
Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for performing a convolution on data of a current layer of a neural network, including a plurality of channels arranged in a first order and partitioned into a plurality of first partitions according to the first order. Each first partition includes a result of a convolution on a corresponding partition of channels in data of a previous layer of the neural network. The device shifts the plurality of channels arranged in the first order to a second order, partition the shifted plurality of channels into a plurality of second partitions, according to the second order. For each of the plurality of second partitions, the device performs a convolution on channels of the shifted plurality of channels that are in the corresponding second partition.
US11615317B2
A system and method for operating a neural network. In some embodiments, the neural network includes a variational autoencoder, and the training of the neural network includes training the variational autoencoder with a plurality of samples of a first random variable; and a plurality of samples of a second random variable, the plurality of samples of the first random variable and the plurality of samples of the second random variable being unpaired, the training of the neural network including updating weights in the neural network based on a first loss function, the first loss function being based on a measure of deviation from consistency between: a conditional generation path from the first random variable to the second random variable, and a conditional generation path from the second random variable to the first random variable.
US11615298B2
A circuit implementing a spiking neural network that includes a learning component that can learn from temporal correlations in the spikes regardless of correlations in the rates. In some embodiments, the learning component comprises a rate-discounting component. In some embodiments, the learning rule computes a rate-normalized covariance (normcov) matrix, detects clusters in this matrix, and sets the synaptic weights according to these clusters. In some embodiments, a synapse with a long-term plasticity rule has an efficacy that is composed by a weight and a fatiguing component. In some embodiments, A Hebbian plasticity component modifies the weight component and a short-term fatigue plasticity component modifies the fatiguing component. The fatigue component increases with increases in the presynaptic spike rate. In some embodiments, the fatigue component increases are implemented in a spike-based manner. In some embodiments, the Hebbian plasticity is a spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), resulting in a fatiguing STDP (FSTDP) synapse.
US11615296B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for testing a depth learning chip, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: testing a plurality of logic units in the depth learning chip. The plurality of logic units are configured to perform at least one of an inference operation and a training operation for depth learning. The method further include: obtaining one or more error units that do not pass the testing from the plurality of logic units. In addition, the method further includes: in response to a ratio of a number of the one or more error units to a total number of the plurality of logic units being lower than or equal to a predetermined ratio, determining the depth learning chip as a qualified chip.
US11615295B2
A data processing system includes a central processing unit (CPU) and accelerator cards coupled to the CPU over a bus, each of the accelerator cards having a plurality of data processing (DP) accelerators to receive DP tasks from the CPU and to perform the received DP tasks. At least two of the accelerator cards are coupled to each other via an inter-card connection, and at least two of the DP accelerators are coupled to each other via an inter-chip connection. Each of the inter-card connection and the inter-chip connection is capable of being dynamically activated or deactivated, such that in response to a request received from the CPU, any one of the accelerator cards or any one of the DP accelerators within any one of the accelerator cards can be enabled or disabled to process any one of the DP tasks received from the CPU.
US11615280B2
A secure indicator includes a substrate, a barcode symbol that has a plurality of barcode modules provided on the substrate, and a security material positioned proximate the barcode symbol on the substrate. The security material is configured to be activated by irradiation at one or more predetermined activation wavelengths. Additionally, the barcode symbol is configured to be read (i) before the security material is activated and (ii) while the security material is activated.
US11615276B2
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plant image from a user device and applying a first digital model to first regions within the image for classifying each of the first regions into a class of a first set of classes corresponding to a first plurality of plant diseases, a healthy condition, or a combination of a second plurality of plant diseases. The method also includes applying a second digital model to one or more second regions within the image for classifying each of the one or more second regions into a class of a second set of classes corresponding to the second plurality of plant diseases. The method then includes transmitting classification data related to the classes of the first set of classes and the classes of the second set of classes to the user device into which the regions are classified.
US11615269B2
The disclosure relates to a processing method for generating learning data, which may include: specifying requirement information for generating learning data, based on request information for making a request for learning; and transmitting the requirement information to a device that generates the learning data. The disclosure also relates to a system and a program that realize the method, and a storage medium that stores the program.
US11615268B2
A system for optimizing the performance of at least one downstream task includes one or more processors and a memory having one or more modules. The one or more modules cause the one or more processors to generate visual semantic segmentation data of a scene by a visual semantic segmentation model, generate labeled point cloud data of the scene by a vision model based on raw point cloud data of the scene and the visual semantic segmentation data, generate one or more clusters of the scene by a cluster generator model based on the labeled point cloud data, determine a clustering loss error between the one or more clusters generated by the cluster generator and one or more ground truth clusters and adjust, based on the clustering loss error, one or more model weights the visual semantic segmentation model and/or the vision model.
US11615263B2
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for predicting content based on vector data structures generated from image pixels. A content-prediction application accesses a color palette having two or more color-palette categories and selects a first color of the color palette. The content-prediction application generates a first vector based on a set of pixel values that represent the first color of the color palette. The content-prediction application determines a distance metric between the first vector and a second vector, in which the second vector is identified by applying a convolutional neural network model on an image depicting an item that includes a second color. In response to determining that the distance metric is less than a predetermined threshold, the content-prediction application selects the content item corresponding to the second vector.
US11615262B2
Disclosed examples include image processing methods and systems to process image data, including computing a plurality of scaled images according to input image data for a current image frame, computing feature vectors for locations of the individual scaled images, classifying the feature vectors to determine sets of detection windows, and grouping detection windows to identify objects in the current frame, where the grouping includes determining first clusters of the detection windows using non-maxima suppression grouping processing, determining positions and scores of second clusters using mean shift clustering according to the first clusters, and determining final clusters representing identified objects in the current image frame using non-maxima suppression grouping of the second clusters. Disclosed examples also include methods and systems to track identified objects from one frame to another using feature vectors and overlap of identified objects between frames to minimize computation intensive operations involving feature vectors.
US11615261B2
The disclosed systems and methods include pre-calculation, per object, of object feature bin values, for identifying close matches between objects, such as text documents, that have numerous weighted features, such as specific-length word sequences. Predetermined feature weights get scaled with two or more selected adjacent scaling factors, and randomly rounded. The expanded set of weighted features of an object gets min-hashed into a predetermined number of feature bins. For each feature that qualifies to be inserted by min-hashing into a particular feature bin, and across successive feature bins, the expanded set of weighted features get min-hashed and circularly smeared into the predetermined number of feature bins. Completed pre-calculated sets of feature bin values for each scaling of the object, together with the scaling factor, are stored for use in comparing sampled features of the object with sampled features of other objects by calculating an estimated Jaccard similarity index.
US11615252B2
A dispatcher virtual assistant (DVA) that can augment the capability of emergency dispatchers while reducing human errors. Major functions of the DVA include updating an emergency incident's status in real time, recommending or reminding the dispatcher to take proper actions at the right timing, answering the dispatcher's inquiries for task-related information, and fulfilling the dispatcher's request for an incident report. The DVA system includes a dispatcher language model based on machine-learning and deep-learning algorithms, for extracting the status of a live incident from incoming incident logs, and for processing and answering inquiries or requests from the dispatcher. It is customizable for different types of emergencies and for different local communities. The DVA can be used in tandem with an existing CAD system.
US11615249B2
Approaches for multitask learning as question answering include an input layer for encoding a context and a question, a self-attention based transformer including an encoder and a decoder, a first bi-directional long-term short-term memory (biLSTM) for further encoding an output of the encoder, a long-term short-term memory (LSTM) for generating a context-adjusted hidden state from the output of the decoder and a hidden state, an attention network for generating first attention weights based on an output of the first biLSTM and an output of the LSTM, a vocabulary layer for generating a distribution over a vocabulary, a context layer for generating a distribution over the context, and a switch for generating a weighting between the distributions over the vocabulary and the context, generating a composite distribution based on the weighting, and selecting a word of an answer using the composite distribution.
US11615246B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for extracting structured content, as graphs, from text documents. Graph vertices and edges correspond to document tokens and pairwise relationships between tokens. Undirected peer relationships and directed relationships (e.g. key-value or composition) are supported. Vertices can be identified with predefined fields, and thence mapped to database columns for automated storage of document content in a database. A trained neural network classifier determines relationship classifications for all pairwise combinations of input tokens. The relationship classification can differentiate multiple relationship types. A multi-level classifier extracts multi-level graph structure from a document. Disclosed embodiments support arbitrary graph structures with hierarchical and planar relationships. Relationships are not restricted by spatial proximity or document layout. Composite tokens can be identified interspersed with other content. A single token can belong to multiple higher level structures according to its various relationships. Examples and variations are disclosed.
US11615216B2
An apparatus for a deployable screen protections structure includes a body and a strap of a wearable device, where a display screen is positioned on a top surface of the body. The body also include a protection structure integrated into the strap of the wearable device, wherein the protection structure is deployable over the top surface of the body.
US11615212B2
A computer system and method for managing a data request interface. The system includes a memory associated with the data request interface and coupled to a processor. The memory includes processor-executable instructions of the method for managing the data request interface. The method includes: receiving, from a first client device, a first signal including a primary authorization credential associated with a data record and a second signal including a request to generate an alternate authorization credential for use by a software module. The alternate authorization credential is associated with data retrieval constraints. The method includes generating the alternate authorization credential and configuring the data request interface to impose the data retrieval constraints for constraining data operations on the data record upon receipt of the alternate authorization credential. The method further includes sending, to the first client device or a second client device, a third signal including the alternate authorization credential.
US11615206B2
Described herein is a data security system for enabling tokenized access to sensitive data, including a token provider configured to initiate a secure connection with a remote client computing device of a first data subject, and receive, from the remote client computing device, a request for an access token to provide a service provider with access to sensitive data associated with the first data subject. The request includes a data definition and authorization parameters. The token provider is also configured to generate the access token that enables access to the sensitive data, store the access token in a token database, and transmit, to the remote client computing device, a response including the access token and instructions that enable the remote computing device to display the access token to the first data subject or transmit the access token to the service provider.
US11615205B2
A system for dynamically masking items containing sensitive information on a display screen of a user device is disclosed. A distance of each viewer from the display screen is determined. Each viewer is identified using a facial recognition algorithm. Each viewer's authority level to view certain information is determined. For each item containing sensitive information, a dynamic proximity threshold for the item is determined based on a size of the display screen and a size of the item. The dynamic proximity threshold for the item is a distance from the display screen from which the item is identifiable. The system is configured to determine whether each viewer is authorized to view the item based on the authority level of each viewer. The item is masked if at least one viewer is at a distance that is within the dynamic proximity threshold and is not authorized to view the item.
US11615202B2
The present invention relates generally to a system and method of querying an anonymized database. More particularly, the invention provides a method and system for querying an anonymized database without the need to decrypt queried data while it's processed. Even more specifically, the invention provides a method and system of anonymizing a database such that it may be queried efficiently in near real time while still retaining the ability to not decrypt requested data while it's being processed.
US11615201B2
Methods, systems, and programs are presented for securing user-address information. A first memory is configured according to a first table that does not include information about user identifiers. Each entry in the first table includes a physical location identifier and information about a physical location. A second memory is configured according to a second table, where each entry in the second table includes the physical location identifier and an account identifier of a user for accessing a service. The first and second tables are configured to separate profile information from the address information of the user. Additionally, a firewall is configured to control access to the second memory. The firewall defines an authentication zone including the second memory but not the first memory, where access to the second memory by internal services is allowed and direct access by the user to the second memory is denied.
US11615199B1
In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification may be embodied in methods that may include designating specific information within a digital identification as secure user information and designating other specific information as non-secure user information, and provisioning user-specific authentication techniques to restrict unauthorized access to the secure user information. For instance, the secure user information may be prevented from being displayed on the digital identification without the submission of an access credential such as a user-specified code or a user biometric identifier.
US11615198B2
A method and apparatus encrypting data for use by an application includes receiving a first clear data in a security application running concurrently with the application. The security application encrypts the first clear data to generate a first encrypted package and distributes the encrypted package for use by the application or by other applications running concurrently with the application. The security application also receives and decrypts encrypted packages from the application or one of the other applications to provide clear data for use by the application. The security application may be implemented as a data entry utility that can be accessed directly by the application.
US11615194B2
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems including one or more servers and one or more storage devices, coupled with each other, to provide virtual storage service to store a file and meta data of the file for a client computing device. The file and the meta data of the file may be encrypted by the client computing device before providing to the virtual storage service. The file may be encrypted with a secret key of the client computing device, and the meta data of the file may be encrypted with a shared session key between the client computing device and the virtual storage service. The encrypted file may be stored in the one or more storage devices, and the encrypted meta data of the file may be stored in one or more secured areas of the one or more servers. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US11615193B2
Data may be stored by receiving the data to be stored, determining whether the data is regulated in a jurisdiction, and, responsive to the determination, selecting between a regulated storage scheme, requiring that the data be stored and/or processed in the jurisdiction in accordance with one or more laws pertaining to the jurisdiction, and an unregulated storage scheme, in which the data is not required to be stored in the jurisdiction and/or is not required to be stored in accordance with the one or more laws. Further, the regulated storage scheme may be followed by initiating storage of the data in the jurisdiction in accordance with the one or more laws.
US11615191B2
Providing a risk analysis report for an undesired event may include identifying an attack type resulting in the undesired event and at least one requirement for a successful attack. Providing the report may further include obtaining protection data associated with protection measures that affect the requirements for a successful attack, performing each simulation in a plurality of Monte Carlo simulations for the attack type a number N of times based on the undesired event, the attack type, and the protection data, and in response to determining that the N performances of a simulation indicate at least one wildcard, performing it an additional N times. Providing the report may also include identifying a vulnerability of the protection measures to the attack type based on the performances of the plurality of Monte Carlo simulations and generating the risk analysis report for the undesired event based on the attack type and the vulnerability.
US11615173B2
Systems and methods for managing requests to implement account related actions based on biometric data are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a system includes a first computing device comprising a user account manager configured to manage an account of a user. The user account manager is also configured to receive a request to implement an action associated with the account. Further, the user account manager is configured to receive, from a second computing device of the user, biometric data associated with the user. The user account manager is also configured to manage the request to implement the action based on the received biometric data.
US11615170B1
A system includes a database configured to store a plurality of datasets and a monitoring system communicatively coupled to the database. The monitoring system is configured to perform operations that include receiving information, which has user information associated with a user and determining whether the received information is indicative of an update to a data access right associated with the user, in which the update to the data access right comprises a change in accessibility of a dataset of the plurality of datasets. The monitoring system is also configured to perform operations that include outputting a notification indicative of reviewing the user information associated with the user in response to determining the received information is indicative of an update to the data access right associated with the user.
US11615168B2
A method for verifying licenses is performed by a legacy management controller (LMC) and a non-legacy management controller (NLMC). The method includes obtaining, by the LMC, a first license installation request and a license, wherein the license comprises license data and a plurality of signatures; in response to the first license installation request: making a first determination, by the LMC, that a first signature of the plurality of signatures is valid; in response to the first determination: installing, by the LMC, the license on the LMC; obtaining, by the NLMC, a second license installation request and the license; in response to the second license installation request: making a second determination, by the NLMC, that a second signature of the plurality of signatures is valid; and in response to the second determination: installing, by the NLMC, the license on the NLMC.
US11615152B2
Systems, devices, computer-implemented methods, and/or computer program products that facilitate event schema induction from unstructured or semi-structured data. In one example, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a schema component and a retrieval component. The schema component can derive an event schema for a document corpus using parsing results obtained from the document corpus. The retrieval component can populate a response to a query with a document of the document corpus using events extracted from the query and the document using the event schema.
US11615151B2
Methods and systems for querying application metadata objects are provided. The method may comprise receiving a query identifying an application; executing the query against a metadata model for the application to obtain a result, the result identifying a first metadata object satisfying the query, wherein the metadata model identifies a plurality of metadata objects and hierarchical relationships between the plurality of metadata objects, and wherein the metadata model comprises information about structure and semantics of data used by the application; determining, from the plurality of metadata objects, a second metadata object referenced by the first metadata object; determining, from the plurality of metadata objects, a third metadata object that is a parent object of the first metadata object; building a directed graph including the first metadata object, the second metadata object, and the third metadata object; and providing a response including the directed graph to the query.
US11615148B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a predictive system that obtains and processes data describing terms for different medical concepts to generate commands from a user query. An entity module of the system determines whether a term describes a medical entity associated with a healthcare condition affecting an individual. When the term describes the medical entity an encoding module links the medical entity with a specified category based on an encoding scheme. The system receives the user query. A parsing engine of the system uses the received query to generate a machine-readable command by parsing the query against terms that describe the medical entity and based on the encoding scheme for linking the medical entity to the specified category. The system uses the command to query different databases to obtain data for generating a response to the received query.
US11615144B2
A computer method, system, and device of training an empathy model for detecting a type of query, the method including defining an intent for detecting closed ended queries, providing a plurality of queries that are closed ended queries to a machine learning model generator, said plurality of queries comprising training data, providing a plurality of corresponding labels identifying the plurality of queries as closed ended queries, and generating a model that classifies closed ended queries as a function of the training data.
US11615139B2
Systems and methods for searching, identifying, scoring, and providing access to companion media assets for a primary media asset are disclosed. In response to a request for companion content, metadata within a predefined time period of a play position when the request was made, is downloaded. A dynamic search template that contains search parameters based on the downloaded metadata is generated. In response to the search conducted using the search template, a plurality of companion media assets are identified and then verified. A trust score for the companion media asset is accessed. The trust score may be analyzed and modified based on its contextual relationship to the play position of the primary media asset. If the trust score is within a rating range, then a link to access the companion media asset, or a specific segment or play position within the companion media asset, is provided.
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Various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a distributed computing system crowdsourcing engine are provided. Initially, a source asset is received from a distributed synthetic data as a service (SDaaS) crowdsource interface. A crowdsource tag is received for the source asset via the distributed SDaaS crowdsource interface. Based in part on the crowdsource tag, the source asset is ingested. Ingesting the source asset comprises automatically computing values for asset-variation parameters of the source asset. The asset-variation parameters are programmable for machine-learning. A crowdsourced synthetic data asset comprising the values for asset-variation parameters is generated.
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A system and method of identifying objects is provided. In one aspect, the system and method includes a hand-held device with a display, camera and processor. As the camera captures images and displays them on the display, the processor compares the information retrieved in connection with one image with information retrieved in connection with subsequent images. The processor uses the result of such comparison to determine the object that is likely to be of greatest interest to the user. The display simultaneously displays the images the images as they are captured, the location of the object in an image, and information retrieved for the object.
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In a database, product image data is accumulated. A search portion acquires product image data having the image characteristics information that is the same as or similar to the image characteristics information that indicates the characteristics of the image of input image data from the database for the input image data. A search server outputs information on another product that is different from the product corresponding to the product image data together with the product image data acquired by the search portion.
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Systems and methods for generating targeted media content capture an image from an image capture device. The system may analyze the image to recognize a visual identifier for each entity in the image, each of which may have one or more group identifiers. The system may aggregate the group identifiers to identify the number of each group in the audience area and select media content to display to the audience based on the aggregate numbers of each group identified in the audience area. The system may also derive time restrictions for groups identified in the audience area to help optimize how groups traverse through one or more areas.
