US11623109B2
A support harness with shock reducing elements includes a saddle with a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. A pair of bridge connectors is attached to and extends outwardly from the saddle. The first and second lateral edges each has one of the bridge connectors positioned adjacent thereto. The bridge connectors each include a first strap section secured to the saddle adjacent to an upper edge thereof, a second strap section secured to the saddle adjacent to a lower edge thereof, and a central strap section extending between the first and second strap sections. The first strap section includes a plurality folds therein. A break-away fastener extends through the folds and breaks to release the plurality of folds when a predetermined amount of force is placed on the first strap.
US11623103B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that can apply low level light (LLL) to facilitate platelet biogenesis or extend platelet lifespan. While not wishing to be bound by theory, it is believed that LLL can enhance the ATP synthesis by the mitochondria within platelets and/or platelet precursor cells, which, thereby, helps to enhance platelet biogenesis and extend the platelet lifespan. In some instances, LLL can facilitate in vitro and/or in vivo platelet biogenesis. In other instances, LLL can extend platelet lifespan in circulation. In still other instances, LLL can be employed to prolong the shelf-life of stored platelets.
US11623102B2
In some examples, an apparatus configured to be worn by a patient for cardiac defibrillation comprises sensing electrodes configured to sense a cardiac signal of the patient, defibrillation electrodes, therapy delivery circuitry configured to deliver defibrillation therapy to the patient via the defibrillation electrodes, communication circuitry configured to receive data of at least one physiological signal of the patient from at least one sensing device separate from the apparatus, a memory configured to store the data, the cardiac signal, and a machine learning algorithm, and processing circuitry configured to apply the machine learning algorithm to the data and the cardiac signal to probabilistically-determine at least one state of the patient and determine whether to control delivery of the defibrillation therapy based on the at least one probabilistically-determined patient state.
US11623101B2
An implant system includes an implant device configured to generate a stimulation signal for a user using a power manager according to an operation mode based on biometric information of the user, and a wake-up device configured to switch the operation mode based on either one or both of an energy supply received through an external energy source different from the power manager and a result of counting a timer.
US11623099B2
In some examples, a system may be used for delivering cardiac therapy or cardiac sensing. The system may include an in implantable medical device including a housing configured to be implanted on or within a heart of a patient, a fixation element configured to attach the housing to the heart; and a sensor configured to produce a signal that indicates motion of the implantable medical device. Processing circuitry may be configured to identify one or more impingements between the housing and another structure, such as a tissue of the heart, based on the signal from the sensor and provide an indication of the one or more impingements to a user.
US11623067B2
In some examples, a catheter comprises an inner liner, an outer jacket, and a structural support member positioned between at least a portion of the inner liner and the outer jacket. The inner liner, the outer jacket, and the structural support member define a catheter body that comprises a proximal portion having a first outer diameter, a distal portion having a second outer diameter less than the first outer diameter, the distal portion including a distal end of the catheter body, and a medial portion positioned between the proximal portion and the distal portion, the medial portion tapering from the first outer diameter to the second outer diameter.
US11623066B2
A method and apparatus for stimulating neural activity in the brain of a user of an apparatus with a display screen by causing at least one portion of the display screen to flicker in a controlled manner and utilizing the apparatus to measure an effect on a user exposed to the flicker for a time.
US11623065B2
A vehicle may include: a feedback device; a bio-signal sensor configured to measure a bio-signal of a user; and a controller operatively coupled to the feedback device and the bio-signal sensor, the controller including a memory configured to store at least one program instruction and processor configured to execute the at least one program instruction. The controller may be configured to: determine information characterizing a current emotional state of the user based on the bio-signal; calculate, based on a difference value between the current emotional state and a target emotional state, an operation ratio between a first mode for controlling operation of the feedback device to decrease a degree of excitability of the user and a second mode for controlling the operation of the feedback device to increase a degree of positivity of the user; and control the operation of the feedback device for a predetermined time based on the operation ratio.
US11623060B2
A patient interface assembly includes a cushion assembly, and air delivery tube, and a connector assembly. The cushion assembly includes a flexible cushion including a base and a pair of nasal pillows that extend from the base and a frame that is more rigid than the flexible cushion. The connector assembly connects the air delivery tube to the cushion assembly and includes and elbow with a second end with a part spherical ball shape and a gas washout vent with a plurality of vent openings. The connector assembly also includes an elbow connector positioned in the frame. The elbow connector forms a part spherical socket shape that engages the part spherical ball shape of the elbow. The elbow connector includes an anchoring flange, which is configured to secure the flexible cushion to the elbow connector by way of the anchoring flange being inserted into the flexible cushion through a central opening in the flexible cushion.
US11623052B2
A pulmonary drug delivery system is disclosed, including a breath-powered, dry powder inhaler, with or without a cartridge for delivering a dry powder formulation. The inhaler and cartridge can be provided with a drug delivery formulation comprising, for example, a diketopiperazine and an active ingredient, including, small organic molecules, peptides and proteins, including, hormones such as insulin and glucagon-like peptide 1 for the treatment of disease and disorders, for example, diseases and disorders, including endocrine disease such as diabetes and/or obesity.
US11623034B2
A method is provided for removing red blood cells from a suspension comprising red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma using a spinning membrane separator. The method comprises: a) flowing whole blood into the gap of the spinning membrane separator; b) collecting red blood cells and white blood cells in the gap and passing plasma and platelets through the membrane; c) introducing a first quantity of lysing buffer into the gap; d) incubating the red blood cells, white blood cells and lysing buffer in the gap for a period of time to cause a lysis reaction with the red blood cells; e) introducing a second quantity of lysing buffer into the gap to displace the first quantity of lysing buffer and a first quantity of red blood cell debris out of the gap; f) introducing a first quantity of wash buffer into the gap to quench the lysis reaction and displace the second quantity of lysing buffer and a second quantity of red blood cell debris out of the gap; and g) introducing a second quantity of wash buffer into the gap to flow washed white blood cells out of the housing.
US11623029B2
Biologically acceptable surgical barrier materials are comprised of a polyelectrolytic complex of chitosan and sodium alginate. The chitosan is deacetylated in an amount between about 40 to about 60% and has a molecular weight (Mw) between 50,000 and 375,000 g/mol. The barrier materials may be formed by mixing a two-component material system whereby one component comprises the chitosan and a second component comprises the sodium alginate and directing such a mixture (e.g., via air-assisted spray nozzle) toward a surgical site in need of the material. A polyelectrolytic complex of the chitosan and sodium alginate will thereby form in situ. Suitable ionic cross-linkers may be provided in the individual components, e.g., calcium chloride with the chitosan component and sodium tripolyphosphate with the sodium alginate component.
US11623026B2
A lubricating coating including at least one polymer A, a cross-linker and at least one lubricating agent, and wherein a portion of the at least two reactive groups of the cross-linker are covalently linked to the polymer A to form a three-dimensional network in which the lubricant is incorporated, and wherein at the same time another portion of the reactive groups of the cross-linker are covalently linked to the surface of the device or to the optional adhesion layer on the surface of the device.
US11623025B2
Provided subject matter relates to tissue engineering. More specifically provided are kits, devices and methods for in situ repair and regeneration of guided and functional growth of cells and cell components by providing into the injury site biomaterial solution including the cell(s), magnetic particles and solidifying the biomaterial while applying the magnetic field.
US11623016B2
A fragrance diffuser has a diffuser element connecting a first reservoir to a second reservoir. As a fragrant oil flows between the reservoirs, the diffuser element becomes saturated with oil and diffuses the fragrance or scent. The diffuser is self-contained, easy to interact with, without creating a mess. The diffuser is relaxing and pleasant to watch as it flows through from one end and drips to the other, releasing one small bubble at a time. It is refillable, transportable, and the intensity of the scent release can be controlled easily by saturating the wood more or less often.
US11623000B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating a foot pain disease, including botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid, and a foot pain disease treatment method using the same. More specifically, the composition according to the present invention can exhibit a synergistic action of increasing both anti-inflammatory and anti-pain activity through an inflammation-inhibiting effect on a foot pain disease such as pain arising from plantar fasciitis, foot fasciitis, Achilles tendon damage, flat feet, diabetes, and gout. Thus, the composition according to the present invention is expected to be able to be usefully used subcutaneously in the foot as a liquid injection agent that exhibits an effect of treating or alleviating a foot pain disease.
US11622995B2
Treatment of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia comprises administration of an effective amount of a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor antagonist (GLP1RA) alone or in combination with an amylinomimetic agent or any anti-gastric emptying agent. Patients suffering from hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia after bariatric surgery experience particular benefit, as there is no current method effective for their treatment. Prevention or reduction of acute adverse effects of postprandial hypoglycemia, such as palpitations, tremor, weakness, sweating, confusion, fatigue, blurred vision, seizures, or loss of consciousness, and prevention of chronic adverse effects of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, such as cognitive impairment, can be achieved by treatment with GLP1RA.
US11622992B2
In some aspects, the disclosure relates to GDF/BMP antagonists and methods of using GDF/BMP antagonists to treat, prevent, or reduce the progression rate and/or severity of pulmonary hypertension (PH), particularly treating, preventing or reducing the progression rate and/or severity of one or more PH-associated complications. The disclosure also provides methods of using a GDF/BMP antagonist to treat, prevent, or reduce the progression rate and/or severity of a variety of conditions including, but not limited to, pulmonary vascular remodeling, pulmonary fibrosis, and right ventricular hypertrophy. The disclosure further provides methods of using a GDF/BMP antagonist to reduce right ventricular systolic pressure in a subject in need thereof.
US11622991B2
By employing a pharmacodynamic dosing regimen, the effectiveness of a protocol for treatment of a proteinuric kidney disease with voclosporin can be maximized while minimizing undesirable side effects.
US11622987B2
The preparation of an aqueous extract resulting from an aqueous extraction process of Cinnamomum aromaticum, Arctium lappa, Viticis fructus, Lonicera japonica, Acanthopanax gracilistylis, Raphanus sativus, Astragalus membranaceus and Hordeum vulgare and the chemical composition comprising said extract or fraction thereof, and the use of said composition or fraction thereof for treating or preventing cancers and inflammation related diseases, hair loss, stimulating hair growth, increasing energy production, and boosting immunity.
US11622984B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising Aster sphathulifolius Maxim extract for preventing, improving, or treating muscular diseases and for improving muscular functions. The Aster sphathulifolius Maxim extract according to the present invention exhibits effects of inhibiting the expression of muscle protein breakdown-related factors and increasing the expression of muscle protein synthesis-related factors, as well as alleviating the reduction of muscle tissue weight and cross-sectional area of muscle fibers, and thus can be useful for preventing, improving, or treating muscular diseases and improving muscular functions.
US11622983B2
The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating neurodegenerative diseases, the pharmaceutical composition including a fermented steam-dried ginseng berry as an active ingredient. Specifically, the fermented steam-dried ginseng berry may have a high total ginsenoside and polyphenol content, exhibit antioxidant activity, inhibit acetylcholinesterase, improve cognitive function and spatial perception in animal model of dementias, recover acetylcholine expression and inhibit accumulation of amyloid-beta in brain tissue of the animal model of dementias, inhibit brain damage in animal model of dementias, and promote expression of genes related to brain damage in neuronal cell lines, and accordingly, the fermented steam-dried ginseng berry may be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases, improve cognitive function, and protect brain cells.
US11622981B2
Provided is a composition comprising an isolated Lactobacillus paracasei D3.5 strain or cellular components thereof. In some embodiments, the composition is provided in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, which may be a food product, tablet or capsule suitable for enteral administration, etc. Also provided is a composition comprising lipoteichoic acid isolated from Lactobacillus paracasei D3.5 strain, which may be provided in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US11622977B2
Materials and methods for producing genome-edited cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) construct on the cell surface, and materials and methods for genome editing to modulate the expression, function, or activity of one or more immuno-oncology related genes in a cell, and materials and methods for treating a patient using the genome-edited engineered cells.
US11622976B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a highly effective method for treatment/remission of cancer, and prevention of recurrence/metastasis of cancer at low cost and with few side effects. A composition containing a urinary alkalinization agent, for use in treatment or remission of cancer, or prevention of recurrence or metastasis of cancer.
US11622974B2
Disclosed herein is an ingestible composition comprising a sphingan and its use as a prebiotic.
US11622959B2
The invention features dosing regimens and pharmaceutical formulations for oral administration of palovarotene. The dosing regimens can reduce heterotopic ossification, reduce the number of flare-ups, and/or reduce the severity of flare-ups in subjects suffering from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
US11622957B2
The present disclosure provides for pharmaceutical compositions useful for treating autism spectrum disorder. The pharmaceutical compositions comprise particular THC:CBD ratios and terpene profiles, which have been demonstrated effective at treating cluster symptoms associated with autism spectrum disorder.
US11622945B2
The present invention relates to topical pharmaceutical emulsion compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of 3,5-Dihydroxy-4-isopropyl-trans-stilbene or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, an oil phase, a water phase, a surfactant, and an antioxidant, and wherein the emulsion composition is homogeneous and/or the active is solubilized in the oil phase. The invention also relates to methods of treating a dermatological condition or disorder in a patient by administering the present compositions to the skin of the patient.
US11622943B2
A method of immunological evaluation includes cleaning a skin surface area of a patient. A controlled amount of heat is then applied to the skin surface area. The controlled amount of heat is removed after the skin surface area reaches a predetermined temperature. An amount of antigen is deposited onto the skin surface area and incubated for a predetermined amount of time on the skin surface area. The antigen is removed from the skin surface area and an immunological response at the skin surface area is evaluated. Apparatus for administering heat and memorializing the evaluation are also disclosed.
US11622941B2
The invention provides an oral solid formulation comprising (a) a controlled release component comprising a core comprising levodopa, wherein the core is coated with a layer of a muco-adhesive polymer and externally coated with a layer of an enteric polymer; and (b) an immediate release component comprising carbidopa and levodopa.
US11622935B2
The present invention relates to the treatment of ocular diseases in a human subject In particular, the invention relates to an intracameral administration of a sustained release biodegradable intracameral implant.
US11622931B2
A topical mixture that produces nitric oxide and a method for using the topical mixture to increase the vasodilation of a bloodstream via transdermal absorption of the nitric oxide. The nitric oxide can then affect subcutaneous tissues. The systemic vasodilation of a mammal may be increased via a topical application of an appropriate nitric oxide producing substance.
US11622926B2
Oral care compositions comprising a neutral amino acid and stannous ion source are provided for promoting Gum Health of a user.
US11622916B2
[Problem] To provide a photocurable composition having a high curing depth. [Solution] To provide a photocurable composition of the present disclosure comprises (A) polymerizable monomer, (B) photosensitizer, (C) photoacid generator, and (D) photopolymerization accelerator, wherein, the photocurable composition comprises (D-1) amine compound represented by formula (1) as the (D) photopolymerization accelerator. (In the formula (1), R1 is a substituent represented by formula (2), and R2 and R3 are substituents represented by formula (2) or substituents selected from —OH group, —O— group, —S— group, —NH—C(O)—NH— group, —C(O)—O— group, —OC(O)— group, —OC(O)—NH— group, —NH—C(O)—O— group, halogen, an organic group which may have an alkoxysilyl group, an aromatic ring which may have a substituent and an alicyclic heterocycle which may have a substituent. Further, R2 and R3 may be H when at least one or more R4s of the formula (2) are an aromatic ring, and R3 may be H when R2 is a substituent represented by the formula (2)).
US11622914B2
There is provided an apparatus for dispensing one or more drugs in pellet form. The apparatus includes a cartridge assembly configured to store drugs in pellet form, and dispense the drugs upon actuation of one or more dispensing mechanisms located within the cartridge assembly. The apparatus further includes a control unit configured to actuate the one or more dispensing mechanisms located within the cartridge assembly, as well as a cover including a collection region configured to receive and store drugs dispensed from the one or more dispensing mechanisms. The cover is movable between a first position in which the collection region of the cover forms an enclosed cavity, and a second position in which the collection region is exposed such that a user can access drugs contained therein.
US11622913B2
A compounder system having a vial puck configured for attachment to a vial containing a drug is provided. The vial puck includes features for facilitating uniform control of vials of various sizes in an automatic compounder system. The vial puck features may include a vial recess for receiving a vial of a particular size and securing the vial within the vial recess. The features may also include a cylindrical central portion, perpendicular extensions that extend from a top of the cylindrical central portion, a gear extending from the cylindrical central portion, and a sealing member disposed in the cylindrical central portion. The vial puck may include a cylindrical protrusion configured to press against a septum of the vial to form a seal between the vial puck and the vial. The sealing member may be configured to receive a needle of the compounder system therethrough to allow access to the vial.
US11622911B2
A modular smart packaging case comprising reversibly attachable electronics and detection modules is disclosed. The detection module includes a sensor array for monitoring the state of a blister pack containing a plurality of product units. The electronics module contains the high-value electronics required to read the sensors of the array, process the sensor output, and enable communications to and from the case. The electronics module and detection module are operatively coupled via a universal interface that enables the same electronics module to operate with a plurality of detection modules of different configurations. In some embodiments, the electronics module operatively couples with multiple detection modules.
US11622910B2
A ball roller assembly may include an inner sphere that is constructed from a thermal-sensitive material. The ball roller assembly may also include an outer sphere that is constructed from a thermal-conductive material. The inner sphere may be disposed within the outer sphere and thermal transfer may occur between the inner sphere, the outer sphere, and a user of the ball roller assembly. The ball roller assembly may further include a housing constructed from a thermal-insulative material, and the outer sphere and the inner sphere may be disposed within the housing. The inner sphere may be selectively removable from the outer sphere and the outer sphere may be selectively removable from the housing.
US11622906B2
An ankle-less walking assistant apparatus includes: a body supporting the back of a wearer; left and right hip joint-drivers extending from both sides of the body; left and right thigh links having first ends connected to the left and right hip joint-drivers, respectively; left and right knee-drivers connected to second ends of the left and right thigh links, respectively; left and right calf links having first ends connected to the left and right knee-drivers, respectively; and ground-contact feet fixed to second ends of the left and right calf links, respectively.
US11622880B2
A packaged condom applicator apparatus is provided with a condom supplied therein. The apparatus has the following: a condom holder where the base of the condom can be inserted and secured in place while protecting the condom body as packaging; an apparatus clip or unhinged clip that presses down on the condom tip to create a reservoir and an airtight seal during condom application. This helps avoid the creation of air bubbles. Using the condom holder, the user simply slides the condom along the erected penis to apply the condom on and removes the condom holder, opening the condom tip clip automatically, and ejecting the whole apparatus after the condom is applied onto the penis. Using this self-applicable apparatus, the user can quickly use the condom with less effort, distraction, and manual intervention.
US11622874B2
A guide cap and a loading system for loading an implant into a delivery system are disclosed which are capable of simplifying operations required in interventional surgery using the implant. The guide cap has a lumen passing therethrough and includes: a conical section; a straight or conical tube in communication with a small open end of the conical section; and a flange, wherein a large open end of the conical section flares outward and thereby forms the flange. The loading system includes a guider and the guide cap. During the process of loading the implant into the delivery system, the guide cap enables the valve prosthesis to be coupled to the connector of the delivery system and allows the valve prosthesis to be compressed so as to be entirely capsuled in the delivery system with relatively easy and quick operations, thereby reducing surgery time during its clinical use.
US11622873B2
A luminal endoprosthesis assembly (1) at least partially delimits a prosthesis lumen (2), for implantation in an anatomical structure (3) that at least partially defines at least one cavity (4) and includes at least one pathological portion (13). The luminal endoprosthesis (1) has two or more layers (5, 6, 7). At least one layer (5, 6, 7) includes a threadlike element (8) forming an armor (9). The luminal endoprosthesis (1) includes an anchoring portion (10) for anchoring to an anatomical portion (11) of the walls of the cavity (4) of the anatomical structure (3), and a working portion (12) for facing the pathological portion (13) of the anatomical structure (3). The two or more layers (5, 6, 7) are separated from each other in the working portion (12) of the luminal endoprosthesis (1), avoiding connecting elements between one layer (5, 6, 7) and at least one adjacent layer.
US11622872B2
A stent (scaffold) or other luminal prosthesis comprising circumferential structural elements which provide high strength after deployment and allows for scaffold to uncage, and/or allow for scaffold or luminal expansion thereafter. The circumferential scaffold is typically formed from non-degradable material and will be modified to expand and/or uncage after deployment.
US11622864B2
An expandable intervertebral implant includes a superior plate having a proximal end, an opposing distal end, and a threaded first hole. An inferior plate has a proximal end, an opposing distal end, and a first bore, the inferior plate at least partially bounding an elongated channel that communicates with the first bore. A first lift screw includes a gear wheel rotatably received within the first bore of the inferior plate and a threaded stem projecting from the gear wheel and being threaded into the first hole of the superior plate. A drive screw is rotatably disposed within the channel of the inferior plate, the drive screw having a worm that engages with the gear wheel such that rotation of the drive screw facilitates rotation of the first lift screw which in turn facilitates movement of the superior plate relative to the inferior plate.
US11622860B2
A device for percutaneous venous valve repair generally including a catheter and a retractable and extendable member for deploying an object that affixes a portion of a venous valve leaflet to an adjacent vein wall. A related method for percutaneous venous valve repair is revealed to include percutaneously inserting a device as described herein into a peripheral vasculature of a living subject so as to affix at least a portion of a leaflet of a venous valve to an adjacent vein wall.
US11622854B2
Methods of delivering a prosthetic aortic heart valve are disclosed. The disclosed methods include loading a prosthetic aortic valve in a collapsed configuration into a delivery sheath so that a selected point on the prosthetic valve is rotationally aligned relative to a long axis of the delivery sheath with a selected radiopaque marker on the delivery sheath, while under fluoroscopic imaging, rotating the delivery sheath about its long axis to align a selected radiopaque marker on the delivery sheath with the selected point on the native aortic valve in a fluoroscopic imaging plane, thereby establishing a desired orientation of the prosthetic aortic valve with respect to the native aortic valve in which the prosthetic valve commissures are rotationally aligned with commissures of the native aortic valve, further advancing the delivery sheath along its long axis until the prosthetic aortic valve is disposed inside the native aortic valve, and deploying the prosthetic aortic valve into an implanted state inside the native aortic valve with the prosthetic aortic valve aligned in the desired orientation with respect to the native aortic valve.
US11622849B2
A lens including a posterior surface, an anterior surface, and at least one identification marking on the lens. The at least one identification marking exhibits a first degree of visibility in an ambient lighting condition and a second degree of visibility greater than the first degree of visibility in a lighting condition different than the ambient lighting condition.
US11622843B2
A computer-implemented method of processing a digital dental impression includes determining one or more first digital surface regions visible from a first side of the digital dental impression along an occlusion axis and one or more second digital surface regions visible from a second side of the digital dental impression along the occlusion axis, segmenting the digital dental impression into one or more digital segments and determining the one or more digital segments as a first digital segment or a second digital segment based on the majority of digital surface regions in the one or more digital segments.
US11622840B2
To provide a liquid material which can only adjust transparency by applying on a part of a zirconia crown having high transparency, without coloring. The present disclosure provides an opaque imparting liquid used for a prosthesis device cut and machined from a dental zirconia for cutting and machining, comprising; (a) 10 to 39 wt. % of a water-soluble aluminum compound and/or a water-soluble lanthanum compound, (b) 60 to 89 wt. % of water, and (c) 1 to 20 wt. % of an organic solvent.
US11622839B2
A dental implant and final prosthetic placement system for small-diameter implants (and method for using the system) in which a final prosthetic is digitally designed and created, and is itself used as the drill guide to place the implants. The final prosthetic is held in the predetermined proper drilling position by a stent, such as an occlusal guard. The combination of final prosthetic (with holes through which the small-diameter implants are drilled to secure it) and the stent encasing the final prosthetic, is itself the drill guide.
US11622831B2
A lighting device for attachment to a handheld electrosurgical instrument is disclosed, which includes an elongated housing having opposed proximal and distal end portions and defining an interior chamber containing a battery powered light assembly for illuminating a surgical site, the housing having at least one smoke evacuation passage that extends from an inlet located adjacent to or near the distal end portion of the housing to an outlet located adjacent to or near the proximal end portion of the housing for removing smoke generated at the surgical site.
US11622818B2
A surgical navigation system includes a source of a patient anatomy data, wherein the patient anatomy data comprises a three-dimensional reconstruction of a segmented model comprising at least two sections representing parts of the anatomy. A surgical navigation image generator is configured to generate a surgical navigation image comprising the patient anatomy. A 3D display system is configured to show the surgical navigation image wherein the display of the patient anatomy is selectively configurable such that at least one section of the anatomy is displayed and at least one other section of the anatomy is not displayed.
US11622806B2
A control handle for a steerable catheter body for navigation of the catheter body through a biological lumen and manipulation at a treatment site. The control handle includes a housing assembly that houses a piston assembly and a resistance adjusting assembly. The resistance adjusting assembly can be adjusted to provide the desired frictional characteristics of the user for control of the resistance between the piston assembly and the housing assembly. In one embodiment, the piston assembly is configured to provide a frictional resistance that varies dynamically to substantially match the restorative force across the range of catheter tip deflection. Other embodiments include a vibrating member that provides tactile feedback to the operator to indicate conditions at the distal end of the catheter, such as contact force.
US11622805B2
A surgical instrument includes a shaft and a probe that extends distally from a distal end of the shaft. The probe includes a distal tip configured to puncture a tissue surface to enter a nerve canal of a patient, and an ablation element operable to ablate a nerve located within the nerve canal. The surgical instrument further includes a stop element arranged proximally of the distal tip. The stop element is configured to abut the tissue surface punctured by the distal tip. In some examples, the ablation element may be in the form of an RF electrode operable to ablate the nerve with RF energy. The surgical instrument may further include a navigation sensor operable to generate a signal corresponding to a location of the probe within the patient.
US11622804B2
A forceps includes first and second shafts each having a jaw disposed at a distal end thereof configured to rotate about a pivot to move the jaws between open and closed positions, the shafts defining a longitudinal axis therebetween. A knife deployment mechanism including a rack and pinion mechanism or a series of links is disposed within the first shaft and includes a trigger moveable along the longitudinal axis to deploy a knife between the jaws. A knife lockout is configured to move upon approximation of the first and second shafts between an engaged position preventing deployment of the knife and a disengaged position allowing deployment of the knife. A knife kickout mechanism is disposed within the first shaft in opposition to the second shaft and is configured to force the knife forward upon movement of the first and second shafts from an approximated position to a more open position.
US11622796B2
An implant and method for fixation of long bones. The implant provides rotational, longitudinal, and bending stability. The implant comprises one or more elongated members that span the intramedullary cavity of a long bone, a distal tip that expands radially relative to the long axis of the implant, and a locking mechanism at the proximal end of the implant.
US11622790B2
An obturator includes a unitary body having an elongate portion, a handle portion formed on a proximal portion of the elongate portion, and a piercing tip formed on a distal portion of the elongate portion. The obturator further includes a section of heat shrink tubing received about the handle portion of the unitary body. A method of assembling an obturator includes selecting an obturator body having a unitary structure and having a handle portion, placing a section of heat shrink tubing about the handle portion of the obturator body, heating the section of heat shrink tubing to shrink the tubing about the handle portion, and trimming the section of heat shrink tubing.
US11622783B2
Surgical tools that can be used in single port laparoscopic procedures can include a low-profile handle assembly to minimize tool interference adjacent the incision site. For example, a handle assembly for a surgical instrument can have a generally in-line configuration extending linearly along a central longitudinal axis of an elongate shaft of the instrument. A linkage mechanism including a trigger, an actuation link, and an actuation shaft can be positioned within the in-line handle. The linkage mechanism can be pivoted between an open position in which end effectors of the instrument are open and a toggle position in which the end effectors are locked closed. A locking mechanism such as a ratchet mechanism can also be used to lock the end effectors. A surgical dissector can include gripping jaws having a curved profile or an angled elongate shaft to minimize tool interference and maximize visibility within a procedure site.
US11622780B2
The invention provides a device for generating shock waves. The device may comprise an elongated tube and a conductive sheath circumferentially mounted around the elongated tube. The device may further comprise first and second insulated wires extending along the outer surface of the elongated tube. A portion of the first insulated wire is removed to form a first inner electrode, which is adjacent to a first side edge of the conductive sheath. A portion of the second insulated wire is removed to form a second inner electrode, which is adjacent to a second side edge of the conductive sheath. Responsive to a high voltage being applied across the first inner electrode and the second inner electrode, a first shock wave is created across the first side edge and the first inner electrode, and a second shock wave is created across the second side edge and the second inner electrode.
US11622777B2
A cartilage repair technique employs a cutter-tissue trap combination device to harvest cartilage tissue from a low-weight-bearing site of a subject. Cut tissue is aspirated though a lumen of a tissue cutter. The lumen includes an outer shaft having a first distal window and an inner shaft having a second distal window. Edges of the first distal window and the second distal window cooperate to provide a cutting action there-between upon rotation of the inner shaft within the outer shaft. A tissue trap coupled to the tissue cutter is configured to collect tissue shavings of a desired size to efficiently deliver the collected shavings to a repair site during surgery. The tissue trap includes a filter in a housing configured between a removable inflow chamber and a removable outflow chamber.
US11622776B2
The present jig for guiding placement of femoral component of the implant in a knee replacement surgery (J) is a pre-assembled Jig (J) which ensures precision fit femoral implant for knee replacement based on difference of cuts in millimeters instead of the usual angle measurement in degrees. It avoids intrusion of the intramedullary canal substantially decreasing the risks of embolism. It enables the surgeon to use precise values of depth of cuts obtained from a system for obtaining optimum fit implant as described in patent application number 3896/MUM2015. This enables the surgeon to control precisely the placement of the implant in terms of flexion or extension, varus or valgus, internal or external rotation It also enables precise placement of the fourin-one cutting block simultaneously with the distal femur cut; ensuring precise placement of knee femoral component of the knee implant. This reduces efforts and time taken during the surgery.
US11622774B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for an attachment mechanism for attaching a strap around a body extremity. The attachment mechanism includes a hook, a first channel, and a second channel. The hook includes a first longitudinal axis and coupled to the strap at a first region of the hook. The first channel allowing the attachment mechanism to receive the strap. The second channel extending from the first channel and having an opening allowing the attachment mechanism to secure the strap, the opening extending along a second longitudinal axis, the second longitudinal axis forming an angle of less than ninety degrees with the first longitudinal axis. The strap is coupled to a harness. The strap includes a first portion, an attachment portion attached to the first portion, a main portion attached to the attachment portion; and an elastic portion attached to the main portion.
US11622761B2
The present disclosure provides a heart valve repair method, comprising: advancing a distal end of a suture implanting apparatus from an outside of a body through a transapical approach into a left ventricle or a right ventricle of a heart; holding each leaflet of a heart valve with the distal end of the suture implanting apparatus; implanting at least one suture into the leaflet; withdrawing the suture implanting apparatus from the body; advancing a distal end of a suture locking apparatus from the outside of a body through a transapical approach into the corresponding left ventricle or the corresponding right ventricle; using the suture locking apparatus to lock the plurality of sutures; and withdrawing the suture locking apparatus from the body. The heart valve repair method has a simple surgical procedure, a low degree of patient trauma, and a high success rate of surgery.
US11622756B2
A medical device including a handle portion connected to an operative portion at a proximal end thereof, the handle portion having a hollow cross-section and an open distal end, an illumination assembly comprising at least one light source, a switch assembly for energizing the light source, and at least one battery for powering the light source, an end cap assembly configured to attach to the open distal end of the handle portion, the end cap assembly accommodating the switch assembly and being configured to hold the at least one battery within the handle and to partially enclose the at least one battery, and a smoke evacuation channel in communication with the hollow cross-section of the handle, wherein a portion of the switch assembly extends through an opening in the end cap assembly and the at least one battery is held by the end cap assembly to overlap with the switch assembly and to overlap with the opening in the end cap assembly, and wherein the end cap assembly includes a vacuum port configured to couple to a vacuum source and to provide suction to the smoke evacuation channel through the handle.
US11622755B2
A first responder device for treating blood flow from a deep wound or a bodily cavity having an inflatable balloon, a first chamber accommodating a liquid arranged for inflating the balloon, a second chamber accommodating a cooling agent capable of dissolving in the liquid when coming in contact therewith, thereby lowering the temperature, a rupturable seal between the first and second chambers, and a structure for forcing the liquid out of the first chamber into the inflatable balloon, and for rupturing the rupturable seal.
US11622752B2
Disclosed here are kits comprising pre-packed stabilizing solutions for stabilizing combinations of biomarkers demonstrating sufficient accuracy and specificity for identifying kidney injuries. Such kits can be better adapted for sample collection at a subject's dwelling, thus easing the burdensome requirement of continuous monitoring for kidney injury.
US11622747B2
An object of the invention is to provide an ultrasonic CT device in which a reflected signal or the like from an object disposed close to transducers is received, and a reception signal thereof can be received by a receiver while transceivers whose number is smaller than the number of the transducers are used. The ultrasonic CT device includes: a transducer array in which a plurality of transducers are arranged; transceivers whose number is smaller than the number of the transducers; and a transmission transducer selector and a reception transducer selector disposed for each of the transceivers. While a transmitter included in the transceiver is selectively connected to any of the transducers in the transducer array by the transmission transducer selector, a receiver included in the transceiver is selectively connected to any of the transducers in the transducer array by the reception transducer selector.
US11622738B2
The present disclosure relates to an insert system for performing positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. The insert system can be reversibly installed to an existing system, such that PET functionality can be introduced into the existing system without the need to significantly modify the existing system. The present disclosure also relates to a multi-modality imaging system capable for conducting both PET imaging and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The PET and MRI imaging can be performed simultaneously or sequentially, while the performance of neither imaging modality is compromised for the operation of the other imaging modality.
US11622735B1
Described herein are systems and methods for performing plural-plane narrow-beam computed tomography.
US11622733B2
A monitor configuration system which communicates with a physiological sensor, the monitor configuration system including one or more processors and an instrument manager module running on the one or more processors. At least one of the one or more processors communicates with the sensor and calculates at least one physiological parameters responsive to the sensor. The instrument manager controls the calculation, display and/or alarms based upon the physiological parameters. A configuration indicator identifies the configuration profile. In one aspect of the invention, the physiological sensor is a optical sensor that includes at least one light emitting diode and at least one detector.
US11622730B2
Disclosed are methods for determining physiological parameters of an individual including blood pressure, arterial compliance, flow velocity, and pressure wave velocity. A noninvasive method for determining the blood pressure of a patient is based on measurements of flow velocity, pulse wave velocity and arterial compliance. A noninvasive method for determining the arterial compliance of a patient is based on measurements of blood pressure, flow velocity, and pulse wave velocity.
US11622704B2
A pressure compensating non-invasive blood-component measuring device has electrically insulated parallel electrodes mounted on a dielectric membrane (106). A main circuit board (201) provides electrical connections to the electrodes and has an orifice (402) to allow flexing. A housing supports the main circuit board, with a second orifice to facilitate the application of a finger onto the insulated electrodes. A bottom circuit board (401) supports a force sensor (408) and fixing elements (313, 314) secure the bottom circuit board to the top circuit board, such that the bottom circuit board does not contact the housing directly. An intermediate board (316) is guided but not restrained by the fixing elements, and is arranged to apply force onto said force sensor.
US11622702B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to objectively identify sub-second behavioral modules in the three-dimensional (3D) video data that represents the motion of a subject. Defining behavioral modules based upon structure in the 3D video data itself—rather than using a priori definitions for what should constitute a measurable unit of action—identifies a previously-unexplored sub-second regularity that defines a timescale upon which behavior is organized, yields important information about the components and structure of behavior, offers insight into the nature of behavioral change in the subject, and enables objective discovery of subtle alterations in patterned action. The systems and methods of the invention can be applied to drug or gene therapy classification, drug or gene therapy screening, disease study including early detection of the onset of a disease, toxicology research, side-effect study, learning and memory process study, anxiety study, and analysis in consumer behavior.
US11622700B2
An energy harvesting device includes a housing (2), a moveable device (12) disposed within the housing and including a first surface including a first material (15) and a second surface including a second material (17), wherein the moveable device is operable to move to bring the first and second surfaces together and apart to cause contact and separation between the first and second materials, a first strap (4) attached to the housing, a second strap (6) coupled to the moveable device, wherein movement of the second strap causes operation of the moveable device, and electronic circuitry (20) structured to harvest energy from the electrical charge generated by the contact between the first and second materials.
US11622697B2
A hearing prosthesis, comprising: a microphone; a sound processor; an external transmitter unit including a coil; an internal receiver unit including a coil; a stimulator unit, wherein the stimulator unit includes a control circuit, a voltage measurement component, a resistor and a signal generator, wherein the measurement circuit is configured to output a signal indicative of the voltage across the resistor; and a stimulating lead assembly array, wherein at least a portion of the hearing prosthesis is configured to apply an electrical signal to tissue inside a cochlea of a recipient, and at least a portion of the hearing prosthesis is configured to sense an electrical property inside of the cochlea that results from the applied electrical signal and the interaction of the applied electrical signal to the tissue.
US11622685B2
A device, system, and methods are provided for remotely monitoring pump equipment. A monitoring device is mechanically mounted to a pump. The monitoring device includes internal vibration, temperature, and location sensors to periodically monitor a pump and upload data samples via cellular connection to a provider network. The monitoring device additionally includes connections to external sensors that can be sampled and uploaded with the other data samples, when the monitoring device is connected to external power. Authenticated users access the pump data though a user device that connects to the provider network.
US11622684B2
Disclosed is a physiologic monitoring system comprising a central hub in communication with a management portal for communicating physiologic measurements taken from a plurality of peripheral devices on a patient. At least one non-invasive peripheral device may measure physiologic data from a patient and be in communication with said central hub. A system including an invasive peripheral device may be associated with said patient and be in communication with said central hub. The central hub may be scalable to collect and communicate measurements from the non-invasive peripheral device and the invasive peripheral device. The at least one non-invasive peripheral device may include a blood pressure cuff, an oxygen sensor, a weight scale, and an ECG monitor. The invasive peripheral device may include a wireless sensor reader that may be adapted to measure physiologic data from a sensor implant placed within the cardiovascular system of said patient.
US11622683B2
Pupillometry systems for measuring pupillary characteristics of a patient are shown and described. The pupillometry systems include at least one camera, and a computer system in data communication with the at least one camera, the computer system having a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium includes computer-readable instructions for collecting and time stamping the image data, processing the raw image data in such a way as to bring the images into conformance with standardized image parameters, identifying and measuring the one or more pupils in the image data, processing the image data to produce measurement data of change in the one or more pupillary characteristics, calculating a standardized output of measurement data for the one or more pupillary characteristics, and providing a mechanism to share or store this information with other users via a computer network.
US11622680B1
Systems and methods for allowing a user with no prior training to receive automated vision measurements without assistance of another individual by using subjective inputs from a user, which may be supplemented by a predictive method. The predictive method comprising artificial intelligence, patient data, user inputs, automated inputs from cameras and the like. The system may make use of a specific algorithm, decision tree, set of instructions, programming instructions, and the like, in order to provide vision measurements. The system combines programming instructions executed by a processor, output devices, input controls, and a plurality of corrective lenses to find a patient or user's vision measurements.
US11622676B2
A method of examining digestive tract images is provided. The method of examining digestive tract images include: obtaining a basic image taken by a photographing apparatus; obtaining a set H of pixels with Hue in the range of D1 in the basic image; obtaining a set S of pixels with Saturation in the range of D2 in the basic image; obtaining a set of pixels with Value in the range of D3 in the basic image, and recording it as an effective pixel range; selecting all pixel sets of the set H and the set S in the effective pixel range to form a detection graph block; examining whether the basic image is an unclean image according to the detection graph block. The present invention further provides a method of examining the cleanliness of the digestive tract, a computer device, a computer-readable storage medium thereof.
US11622672B2
Systems and methods for endoscopic operations are described. For example, the disclosure provides mechanisms for sensing and controlling a field of view of an endoscope by determining a pose of the field of view using a first location and a second location, and controlling the pose of the field of view by moving at least one of: the first portion and the second portion. The first location is of a first portion of the endoscope and the second location is of a second portion of the endoscope. The endoscope comprises a flexible portion disposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first and second locations are defined by a configuration, relative to the endoscope, of an endoscope support and a cannula. The endoscope support configured to support the endoscope. A shaft of the endoscope is configured to extend through the cannula.
US11622668B2
A kit for cleaning an object such as the soles of shoes having debris accumulated during use. The kit includes a carrying case that accommodates a cleaning tool. A hand-held means for generating rotational movement is adapted to spin a shaft about a driving axis. At a distal end of the shaft there is an assembly of bristles that are adapted to rotate with the shaft. The bristles engage the sole of a shoe. The bristles preferably include Nylon® or a polyester. They are flexible and tend to sweep away debris from between for example golf shoe cleats, rather than scratch or abrade the soles of the golf shoes.
US11622667B2
A dishwasher includes a tub with an access opening to a treating chamber, a sump, at least one sprayer emitting liquid into the treating chamber, a pump, a conduit fluidly coupling the sump to the pump and the pump to the at least one sprayer, thereby defining a recirculation circuit through which the liquid sprayed into the treating chamber collects in the sump and is pumped back to the at least one sprayer. The dishwasher also includes a filter assembly in the sump for filtering the liquid in the recirculation circuit including a cleaning element and a dome shaped displacement body positioned adjacent the filter wall for raising a liquid level within the filter and configured to fill more than 50% of a percentage of a volume of the filter.
US11622664B2
Fibrous structures, for example pre-moistened fibrous structures, having a novel contact surface (micro protrusion surface) and methods for using the fibrous structures and making the fibrous structures are provided.
US11622656B2
A fluid dispenser having a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of an external surface presented by a user's hand, and a pump mechanism that is configured to dispense fluid onto the user's hand when the pump mechanism is activated. It is determined whether the fluid has been dispensed onto the user's hand based, at least in part, on the temperature of the external surface presented by the user's hand.
US11622654B2
Disclosed is a rotatable shower chair that couples to the side wall of a bathtub. The platform for the rotatable shower chair cannot be moved until the platform is uncoupled from the bathtub sidewall. The seat is rotatable, allowing an individual to control rotation by movement of individual's body. A grab rail is placed along one side of the seat platform to facilitate repositioning by the bather.
US11622643B1
A reconfigurable lighted post (e.g., mailbox), including a post, and first and second dual channel members attached to the post. The dual channel members include dual channels, where the first channel of each houses a strip of LEDs, and the second channel defines a channel into which an insert to be back or trans-illuminated can be inserted. Both dual channel members are attached to the post so that the first channels housing the strips of LEDs are positioned towards the post, while the second channels are positioned away from the post. The insert to be illuminated is receivable between the second channels (i.e., that face one another). The insert may include a house address number, or other characters cut-out or otherwise formed into the insert, so that light from the LED strips back or trans-illuminates the insert when received between the facing second channels. Deck rail lighting is also disclosed.
US11622635B2
Mattress assemblies that provide user comfort and increased airflow generally include a viscoelastic thermally conductive infused polyurethane foam top layer; a composite comprising a bottom layer, a molded viscoelastic middle foam layer, and a perforated top viscoelastic foam layer, wherein the molded viscoelastic middle foam layer comprises a plurality of interconnected substantially parallelpipedal bodies, wherein each parallelpipedal body includes an opening extending from a bottom surface to a top surface and is separated from an adjacent parallelpipedal body by a V-shaped notch, and wherein the perforated top viscoelastic foam layer comprises a plurality of perforations extending from a bottom surface to a top surface thereof, wherein at least a portion of the perforations overlies the opening in the parallelpipedal bodies; and a base core layer, wherein the composite overlies the base core layer.
US11622634B2
An air-conditioned mattress includes a mat device, a cover device, and an air-conditioning device. The mat device includes a first mat configured as a three-dimensional structure made from a plurality of elastic thermoplastic filaments that are randomly tangled with each other. The thermoplastic filaments are fixedly connected at contact portions of the thermoplastic filaments in a way that through holes are formed at non-contact portions of the thermoplastic filaments. The cover device covers the mat device and contacts the top surface of the first mat, and the first mat is more air-permeable than the cover device. The air-conditioning device is disposed inside or outside the mat device and provides heated air flow or cooled air flow into the first mat.
US11622632B2
A combination step stool and high chair includes at least a base with one or more steps and a chair that can be selectively attached to and detached from the base.
US11622628B2
A wall hanging system by which a wall décor item such as a ledge, a frame, a mantel, or the like may be mounted to and hung from a wall. The wall hanging system may include the wall décor item having a rear surface and first and second mounting channels in the rear surface. The wall hanging system may also include first and second mounting brackets that are configured to be mounted to the wall. At least one of the first and second mounting brackets may have an elongated aperture through which a fastener extends for mounting that mounting bracket to the wall. As such, the mounting bracket with the elongated aperture is able to slide side-to-side along the wall while being mounted to the wall in order to properly align the first and second mounting brackets with the first and second mounting channels of the wall décor item.
US11622625B2
Provided is an angle bar for shelf assembly, the angle bar including a vertical frame in which a plurality of fastening grooves is formed and a horizontal frame on which a fastening protrusion is formed, wherein the plurality of fastening grooves, each including upper and lower grooves, are formed, the lower groove has a narrower width than the upper groove, and is connected to the upper groove with an inclination portion in between, wherein the fastening protrusion includes a convex portion having an inclination surface and first and second wing portions that are formed on lateral surfaces, respectively, of the convex portion, and wherein a distance between respective end portions of the first and second wing portions is smaller than a width of the upper groove and is larger than a width of the lower groove, and the convex portion has a wider width than the lower groove.
US11622618B2
An oral care implement having a head with a plurality of cleaning elements coupled thereto and extending therefrom. In the exemplified embodiment, the cleaning elements have a plurality of bristle tufts each including a plurality of bristle filaments. In one aspect, the oral care implement may include a first bristle tuft having inner and outer filaments with the outer filaments being taller than the inner filaments and a second bristle tuft having inner and outer filaments with the outer filaments being shorter than the inner filaments. In another aspect, the oral care implement may include a bristle tuft having inner and outer filaments with the inner filaments being either taller or shorter than the outer filaments, and whereby distal ends of the inner and outer filaments are angled relative to an axis of the bristle tuft.
US11622615B2
A bag includes a main compartment configured to accommodate equipment, and a foldable chair compartment disposed adjacent to the main compartment. The foldable chair compartment is configured to accommodate a foldable chair in a folded configuration.
US11622603B2
An article of footwear has a sole structure that includes a bladder having stacked polymeric sheet secured to one another at a peripheral bond and defining a first sealed chamber between the first and second polymeric sheets, a second sealed chamber between the second and third polymeric sheets, and a third sealed chamber between the third and fourth polymeric sheets, each of the first, second, and third sealed chambers retaining fluid in isolation from one another. Different patterns of bonds secure adjacent ones of the polymeric sheets to one another, resulting in different geometries of the sealed chambers. The sealed chambers are configured (e.g., by pressure, shape, position, and/or size) to elastically deform to provide a desirable cushioning experience.
US11622602B2
An article of footwear having a sole structure and an upper, the sole structure includes an outsole with a ground-engaging surface, a first cushioning member disposed between the outsole and the upper in a heel region of the sole structure, a second cushioning member disposed between the outsole and the upper in a forefoot region of the sole structure, and a sole plate having a rear portion and a curved portion that includes an anterior curved portion and a posterior curved portion. Additionally, the anterior curved portion is disposed proximate the second cushioning member, a portion of the posterior curved portion spans between the first cushioning member and the second cushioning member, and the rear portion is disposed between the first cushioning member and the upper. Further, the ground-engaging surface is not continuous along a midfoot region of the article of footwear.
US11622598B2
A shoe including a sole and a shoe upper, the shoe upper including a shoe opening for entering the shoe, the shoe opening defined by a rear part, a medial part, a lateral part, and a front part, the rear part including a top portion, reinforced by a firm material, an optional bottom portion reinforced by a firm material, a center portion, located between the top portion and the bottom portion, the center portion made of a flexible material, and a spring element. The top part of the spring element being attached to the top portion of the rear part, and the bottom part of the spring element being attached to either the bottom portion of the rear part, or to the sole.
US11622592B2
An eye protector includes a lens configured to protect the wearer from projectiles, and an optically clear stack attached to the lens. The stack can have one or more removable layers. The eye protector also includes an optically clear dry mount adhesive layer attaching the stack to the lens. The dry mount adhesive may be self-wetting to attach the stack to the lens so that air between the stack and the lens can be removed after the stack is attached and/or adhered to the lens, for example, by applying pressure across the surface of the stack. The refractive indices of the lens, the dry mount adhesive, and each removable layer are matched to within about 0.2.
US11622591B2
A head protection apparatus for covering a primary head protection device worn on the head of a sports player includes a base having a rim defining an open bottom for wear on the head of the player. A framework extends upwardly from points along the rim. The head protection apparatus includes a face shield coupled to upper ends of the framework and is pivotally movable between a closed configuration in which a lower edge bears against the rim thus blocking access to an interior area and an open configuration pivoted about an axis defined by the rear bar and which allows access to the interior area. The face shield includes a top wall having a crowned configuration so as to redirect otherwise direct impact forces. The head protection apparatus is worn by a sports player and for blocking impact to a primary player protection device worn by the player.
US11622589B2
The disclosure includes embodiments of a semi-permanent hair extension apparatus and a method or installing the same. The semi-permanent hair extension apparatus can include a plurality of microbeads and a plurality of hair extension wefts. The plurality of microbeads can each include an opening for receiving a plurality of strands of human hair longitudinally therethrough, and a receiving component positioned thereon so as to releasably connect the microbead to a hair extension weft. Each of the plurality of hair extension wefts can include a plurality of strands of hair connected thereto and one or more fastening components positioned thereon and being complementary to each of the one or more receiving components so as to facilitate a removable connection therebetween. The method can include securing a plurality of microbeads to one or more strands of human hair at predetermined intervals and connecting extension wefts to each of the plurality of microbeads.
US11622577B2
An aerosol generation device includes a case into which a cigarette is to be inserted; a protrusion pipe of a hollow shape protruding from one end portion of the case and having an opening; a heater installed in the case such that an end portion thereof is positioned inside the protrusion pipe, and configured to generate heat when an electric signal is applied thereto; and a heater fixing portion installed inside the protrusion pipe to support the heater and comprising a round surface that extends from an inner side surface of the protrusion pipe.
US11622576B2
An electronic cigarette, comprising a housing and a suction nozzle, the housing provided with a support. The electronic cigarette further comprises a top cover capable of covering an opening of the housing, the suction nozzle is disposed at the top of the top cover, one end of the top cover is connected to the support through a rotating shaft, a clamping rib is disposed at the bottom of the top cover, and a locking mechanism connected to the clamping rib by locking and an elastic mechanism for opening the top cover when the locking mechanism is separated from the clamping rib are also disposed in the housing; the locking mechanism comprises a key handle, a transmission and a first spring, and one end of the key handle is connected to the transmission.
US11622569B2
Disclosed are methods of administering one or more Bacillus subtilis strains to swine. The Bacillus subtilis strains that are administered include 747 (NRRL B-67257), 1104 (NRRL B-67258), 1541 (NRRL B-67260), 1781 (NRRL B-67259), 2018 (NRRL B-67261), and BS1999 (NRRL B-67318). The Bacillus strains improve bacterial homeostasis in the gastrointestinal tract by inhibiting bacterial pathogens such as E. coli, Clostridium, Salmonella, and Streptococcus. Administering the Bacillus strains also improves performance such as weight gain and feed conversion. Useful combinations of Bacillus strains and methods of using one or more Bacillus strains are also provided.
US11622561B2
A method for producing a fermentate including the steps of obtaining a fruit or vegetable extract, treating the extract with a hydrolytic enzyme, mixing the extract with a fermenting microorganism, water, and a growth media to produce a liquid composition; and incubating the liquid composition at a controlled temperature and a controlled pH to produce a fermentate. A method for killing or inhibiting the growth of a contaminating microorganism on or within a food product, and a food product including a fermentate having a cellular mass component from a fermenting microorganism, a fermented fruit or vegetable extract and a hydrolytic enzyme are disclosed. A fermentate produced by any one of the methods described is contemplated. The fermentate may be a concentrated liquid or a dry powder and has the ability to inhibit the growth of a contaminating microorganism by 100% when diluted to less than 5% (w/v).
US11622555B2
Optical remote sensing systems for quantifying aerial or aquatic fauna with respect to number of living organisms, such as animals, such as insects, birds, bats or aquatic organisms, and to biological specificity.
US11622552B2
A flying insect deterrence system and device is provided. The flying insect deterrence device may include a rotary element, a vertical column, a cordage, a cordage element, and a motor. The flying insect deterrence system may include a base and an insect deterrence device. The insect deterrence device may include a vertical column, a rotary element, a motor, a cordage, and a cordage element. The rotary device is located on top of the vertical column and is powered by the motor that spins a cordage attached to the rotary device to deter flying insects from flying or landing in the area.
US11622551B2
A fish bucket assembly for containing fish caught while fishing includes a bucket that has a plurality of apertures each extending into an interior of the bucket to pass water into the bucket for sustaining a fish in the bucket. A toroid is positioned around the bucket and the toroid is comprised of a buoyant material to facilitate the bucket to float in water for keeping the fish alive in the bucket. A lid is removably attachable to the bucket for closing the bucket. The lid has a hole extending through the lid to facilitate the fish to pass through the hole to deposit the fish in the bucket. A chute is coupled to the lid to direct the fish into the bucket.
US11622543B2
An injector, injection systems and methods for injecting a substance into an egg, where the injector includes a shaft, a sheath extending from the shaft in a longitudinal direction; a trocar positioned at least partly inside the sheath; and a needle at least partly inside the trocar. The injector can further include a locking mechanism configured to lock the trocar with the shaft in the longitudinal direction in a first position of the trocar relative to the sheath, the locking mechanism being further configured to unlock the trocar from the shaft in the longitudinal direction in a second position of the trocar relative to the sheath. The needle is fully inside the trocar in the first longitudinal position and at least partly extends from the trocar in the second longitudinal position.
US11622540B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for automated behavioral and physiological testing of untethered testing animals. An automated behavioral testing system communicates with electronic devices attached to testing animals to provide automated physiological measurements and perturbations. The electronic devices are wirelessly charged to eliminate the need to remove the electronic devices during the course of the study. The automated behavioral testing system includes a filtering chamber positioned between a housing chamber and a behavioral testing chamber. The filtering chamber provides a passageway between the housing chamber and the behavioral testing chamber used to manage access to the behavioral testing chamber. For example, a gate component implemented between the filtering chamber and the behavioral testing chamber can be configured into either a closed configuration to restrict access between the filtering chamber and the behavioral testing chamber, or an open configuration to permit between the filtering chamber and the behavioral testing chamber.
US11622537B2
Exemplary embodiments herein describe accessory equipment for equestrian applications, and in particular a flexible protective wrap or boot for supporting and protecting the upper and lower leg of a horse, including the fetlock joint. When wrapped or fastened to a horse limb, the exemplary wrap can impact strength, friction surfaces, elongation, porosity, compression, breathability, water and moisture evaporation, elasticity, absorbency and cushioning. The wrapping structure may include improved limb support, general limb protection, and treatment for swollen legs, fetlock and pastern. Embodiments described herein may include limb protection in general and particularly during trailering and long transit in motor vehicles and trailers, cellulitis treatment, and providing compression that does not disrupt lymphatic flow and blood circulation when wrapping is applied.
US11622535B2
Features are described for a pellet dispenser. The pellet dispenser be implemented as a complex molded unit to fit within the home cage of laboratory animals (e.g., hanging from a wall of the cage or inside a food hopper of the cage). The pellet dispenser may be contained within the cage or otherwise attached to the cage so as not to take up additional floor space in the cage which should be allocated for the small laboratory animal. The pellets may be gravity or screw drive fed towards an ejector port. At prescribed times during the day, a prescribed number of pellets may be ejected into the animal cage. Additional components of the pellet dispenser include an ejector (e.g., a linear actuator) and pellet hopper.
US11622520B1
A novel maize variety designated 1PSQR19 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PSQR19 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PSQR19 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PSQR19 or a locus conversion of 1PSQR19 with another maize variety.
US11622516B2
A method for generating new varieties of Cannabis plants with modified growth and cannabinoid phytochemical profiles includes subjecting plant parts of one or more Cannabis plants to pectinase digestion to release plant cells, centrifuging the released plant cells to obtain pelleted cells, and providing the pelleted cells on culture media. The pelleted cells are plated on a first culture media, which is a Murashige and Skoog or Gamborg B5 callus culture media.
US11622513B2
A system with sensor equipment including one or more sensors and watering equipment disposed on a parcel of land and configured to selectively apply water to the parcel, and a gateway configured to provide for communication with the sensor equipment and the watering equipment. The watering equipment comprises a watering pump, wherein the watering pump is operably coupled to a water source and a water line to alternately couple the water source to and isolate the water source from the water line. The watering pump further includes a pump sensor assembly configured to direct the watering pump based on detected environmental and operational parameters.
US11622511B2
Disclosed is a smart farm system comprising: a Rankine cycle in which a first fluid passes through a pump, an evaporator, a turbine, and a condenser along a first circulation line; a heating unit configured to exchange heat with the evaporator; a valve unit which is provided between the turbine and the condenser, and configured to run the first fluid to the condenser when the temperature of the first fluid at the outlet of the turbine is a first temperature, and to bypass the first fluid to a bypass line when the temperature of the first fluid at the outlet of the turbine is a second temperature higher than the first temperature; and a smart farm configured to exchange heat with the first fluid and the heating unit via the condenser or the bypass line.
US11622509B2
A plant cultivation light source includes at least two light sources selected from first, second, and third light sources that emit first, second, and third lights, respectively. The first light has a first peak at a wavelength from about 400 nanometers to about 500 nanometers, the second light has a second peak appearing at a wavelength, which is longer than the first peak, from about 400 nanometers to about 500 nanometers, and the third light has a third peak appearing at a wavelength, which is shorter than the first peak, from about 400 nanometers to about 500 nanometers. The first light is a white light and has a first sub-peak having an intensity lower than an intensity of the first peak at a wavelength from about 500 nanometers to about 700 nanometers. The first sub-peak has a full-width at half-maximum greater than a full-width at half-maximum of the first peak.
US11622505B2
A header for an agricultural vehicle includes: a header frame; a flexible cutter supported by the header frame and including a plurality of cutting edges; a reel including a plurality of reel sections movably supported by the header frame, each of the reel sections including a plurality of tines and being independently movable from the other reel sections; and at least one rigid link connecting the flexible cutter to one of the reel sections, the at least one rigid link being configured to transmit flexing forces acting on the flexible cutter to the connected one reel section such that a substantially constant separation is maintained between the flexible cutter and the connected one reel section.
US11627675B2
An extensible display screen apparatus includes a power supply device and a screen display device. The screen display device includes at least one screen unit and a screen support assembly, wherein the at least one screen unit is disposed on the screen support assembly and the screen support assembly is arranged to support the at least one screen unit, whereas the at least one screen support assembly can electrically connect with the screen display device through the power supply device. The power supply device is configured to provide a working power to the at least one screen unit for a mobile electronic device to communicate with the at least one screen unit, wherein the said screen unit provides additional information of the mobile electronic device while being electrically connected with the screen display device.
US11627667B2
A method for circuit fabrication includes defining a solder bump, including a specified solder material and having a specified bump volume, to be formed at a target location on an acceptor substrate. A transparent donor substrate, having a donor film including the specified solder material, is positioned such that the donor film is in proximity to the target location on the acceptor substrate. A sequence of pulses of laser radiation is directed to pass through the first surface of the donor substrate and impinge on the donor film so as to induce ejection from the donor film onto the target location on the acceptor substrate of a number of molten droplets of the solder material such that the droplets deposited at the target location cumulatively reach the specified bump volume. The target location is heated so the deposited droplets melt and reflow to form the solder bump.
US11627661B2
A method for producing a wired circuit board, the method including the steps of: a first step of providing an insulating layer having an opening penetrating in the thickness direction at one side surface in the thickness direction of the metal plate, a second step of providing a first barrier layer at one side surface in the thickness direction of the metal plate exposed from the opening by plating, a third step of providing a second barrier layer continuously at one side in the thickness direction of the first barrier layer and an inner surface of the insulating layer facing the opening, a fourth step of providing a conductor layer so as to contact the second barrier layer, and a fifth step of removing the metal plate by etching.
US11627660B2
A display apparatus, includes: a flexible circuit board including a first board pad and a second board pad, which are spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a main circuit board coupled to the flexible circuit board; and a display panel coupled to the flexible circuit board, the display panel including a first display pad overlapped with the first board pad and a second display pad overlapped with the second board pad, wherein the first board pad includes a first, second, and third portions, and the second board pad includes a first, second, and third portions.
US11627654B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a circuit board; an electrical element disposed on an upper surface of the circuit board; a shield can surrounding at least a portion of the electrical element and having a first opening provided through a portion of the shield can facing the electrical element; a shielding sheet including a shielding layer disposed on at least a portion of the shield can and a support layer disposed on an upper surface of the shielding layer and including a second opening corresponding to the first opening; and a first heat transfer member comprising a heat dissipating material having at least a portion disposed inside the second opening and at least one surface in contact with the shielding layer.
US11627652B1
Power circuitry for cold plasma generation; optionally plasma for therapeutic use. Cold plasma generation occurs at the distal end of a catheter-like device which is flexible, narrow (e.g., less than 5 mm in diameter), and longitudinally extended to reach, e.g., 50-100 cm into body cavities. A cable used for power transmission is a part of the power generating circuit, its intrinsic impedance being a major contributor to and constraint on the time constant of an entraining RC circuit whose resonant frequency entrains the frequency of power generation. In some embodiments, inductive transformer coupling to the entraining/transmission line circuit is used to generate voltage gain. In some embodiments, transformer coupling is divided into a plurality of stages. This potentially enables practically achieving high transmission frequencies with higher gain, lowered sensitivity to variability in distal portions of the entraining RC circuit, and/or longer transmission lines compared to a single-stage transformer configuration.
US11627649B2
A light emitting diode (LED) driving device for driving an LED array including one or more LEDs includes a rectifier configured to provide a rectified voltage obtained from an alternating current (AC) voltage to the LED array, an LED driver configured to sequentially drain an LED driving current from the LED array via a plurality of first nodes, and a first switch circuit connected to the LED array via a plurality of second nodes. The first switch circuit includes a plurality of first switches commonly connected to a first common node which is one of the plurality of first nodes, and respectively connected to the plurality of second nodes, and a first controller configured to control the plurality of first switches to be sequentially turned on and sequentially turned off.
US11627648B2
A lighting apparatus includes an AC-DC converter, multiple LED modules, a mixing unit, a controller and a power supply. The AC-DC converter converts an AC power source to a DC output. The multiple LED modules have different light parameters. The mixing unit is coupled to the multiple LED modules for mixing a mixed light parameter according to a control signal by supplying driving currents to the multiple LED modules corresponding to the mixed light parameter. The mixing unit receives the DC output to generate the driving currents. The controller generates the control signal. The power supply receives the DC output to generate a working power to the controller. When the AC-DC converter is turned off, a releasing power of the mixing unit is moved to the power supply to align turn-off timings of the power supply and the mixing unit.
US11627645B2
A microwave heating device includes at least two radiating portions that are adapted to radiate microwaves to the heating chamber and can be operated according to a plurality of operational configurations that differ in frequency and/or in phase shift(s) between the radiated microwaves. Data of energy efficiency, as a function of operational configurations, can be obtained for a product in the heating chamber. For example, energy efficiency data are obtained through a learning procedure. The obtained data can be processed to select one or more operational configurations ranking high in energy efficiency and a heating procedure for the product inside the heating chamber can be executed by operating the at least two radiating portions according to the selected one or more operational configurations.
US11627640B2
A terrestrial data communication gateway device for satellite communication comprising: at least one processor; memory accessible to the at least one processor; a LPWAN wireless communication subsystem for communication with multiple remote devices; a satellite communication subsystem for communication with at least one low earth orbit satellite. The memory stores program code executable by the processor to cause the processor to: perform server functions in relation to the multiple remote devices, and configure an edge computing module to perform data processing operations on signals received by the LPWAN communication subsystem. The data processing operations comprise compression of data received by the LPWAN communication subsystem to generate a compressed payload for transmission by the satellite communication subsystem. The memory comprises a backhaul scheduling module to schedule communication of a transmission by the satellite communication subsystem to the low earth orbit satellite.
US11627634B2
When RRC connection release in a radio resource control layer reaches UE (200A), gNB-DU (110) transmits UE CONTEXT RELEASE COMPLETE of the UE (200A) to gNB-CU (120). The gNB-CU (120) releases a context allocated to the UE (200A) based on the UE CONTEXT RELEASE COMPLETE.
US11627629B2
A method for IP [=Internet Protocol] communication between a mobile terminal and its correspondent node in a mobile radio network. The method comprises establishing an IP connection between the mobile terminal and its correspondent node. After detecting a period of inactivity in the IP connection, keep-alive messages are sent via the IP connection at predetermined intervals, which are varied. The method comprises monitoring the lengths of several periods of inactivity at which the mobile radio network disconnects the IP connection.
US11627612B2
A system includes a processor configured to send data, for transmission to a remote computer, to a local wireless device in communication with a vehicle computer including the processor, the sending responsive to a determination that a remote cellular connection cannot be established via a vehicle modem, and the data including an instruction for the device to transmit the data to the remote computer.
US11627611B2
A wireless communication method and device are disclosed. The method includes performing channel detection for a carrier in an unlicensed frequency band; and sending a preamble signal on the carrier from a first time-point, in response to the channel detection succeeding, the preamble signal being configured for indicating that the carrier has an ability to transmit a downlink signal.
US11627603B2
A first node in a TSCH network may receive a message-initiation packet from a second node on the TSCH network. Based on information in the message-initiation packet, the first node may determine a transmission time for a message content packet that is associated with the message-initiation packet. The first node may generate or modify a node-specific transmission delay that indicates a backoff associated with the second node. The node-specific transmission delay may indicate a quantity of backoff time slots during which the first node delays initiating a transmission with the second node. If the first node receives, during the node-specific transmission delay, an additional packet intended for the second node, the first node may queue the additional packet until after the node-specific transmission delay is completed.
US11627602B2
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit controls transmission of an inducement frame for causing another communication device to transmit a transmission suppression period reduction frame for reducing a transmission suppression period. In addition, the control unit controls transmission of the transmission suppression period reduction frame on the basis of the inducement frame in a case where the control unit receives the inducement frame. Transmission suppression periods set in other information processing apparatuses are equally reduced to eliminate inequality in using wireless resources.
US11627599B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for signal transmission and a terminal. The method includes determining the sending mode of multiple uplink channels by a user equipment (UE) in a case where overlapped symbols of the uplink channels exist in time domain; and sending uplink signals carried by the uplink channels according to the determined sending mode.
US11627588B2
A base station includes: a communication circuit configured to communicate with a mobile station; a prediction circuit configured to predict a period during which communication with the mobile station is blocked; and a controller configured to control the communication circuit in such a way that communication data to be transmitted to the mobile station in the period during which communication is blocked are transmitted in a period before the period during which communication is blocked.
US11627586B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first field containing information to identify a plurality of wireless communication terminals, and configured to multiplex and transmit a plurality of second fields in each of which a first frame containing an address of any of the wireless communication terminals is set; and a controller configured to determine, for the first frames, values pertaining to lengths of durations to suppress access to a wireless medium to the wireless communication terminal having an address different from the address contained in each of the first frames. The transmitter is configured to set the values in the first frames, the second fields, or the first field. The controller is configured to determine the values so that the durations have an end at an identical time.
US11627574B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to downlink (DL) transmissions using various powers and assigning frequency resources based on the powers. An example base station may transmit, to a first user equipment (UE), an indication of a first transmit (Tx) power for a first DL transmission on a first downlink (DL) resource on a carrier, the first DL resource being at a first frequency. The first DL resource may be at a first frequency. The first Tx power may have a power level configured based on a difference between the first frequency for the first DL resource and an uplink (UL) frequency region of the carrier. Then, the base station may transmit the first DL transmission using the first frequency and the first Tx power. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11627573B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting reconfiguration of wireless resources. Specifically, the method comprises a step of monitoring wireless resource reconfiguration control information on a number of sub-frames within a set monitoring cycle in order to reconfigure wireless resources, wherein a first uplink-downlink setting in accordance with wireless resource reconfiguration control information is valid only if equally detected on a number of sub-frames, and wherein a number of sub-frames are sub-frames set to monitor wireless resource reconfiguration control information of a terminal.
US11627565B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program for controlling allocation of control message fields in uplink transmission in a cellular telecommunication system are presented. Uplink control message fields are allocated to the resources of a physical uplink shared traffic channel according to an uplink transmission scheme selected for a user terminal. The control message fields are allocated so that transmission performance of the control messages is optimized for the selected uplink transmission scheme.
US11627558B2
Supporting multi-signal source communications in a distributed communications system (DCS) is disclosed. The DCS includes a routing circuit configured to route downlink and uplink communications signals between multiple signal sources and a number of remote units. In examples disclosed herein, the routing circuit and each of the remote units are functionally divided based on an open radio access network (O-RAN) Split 7.2 configuration. To support downlink communications from multiple signal sources, the routing circuit generates a downlink frequency-domain communications signal, which includes one or more selected logical channels associated with one or more of the multiple signal sources, for each of the remote units in the DCS. Accordingly, each remote unit converts the downlink frequency-domain communications signal into a downlink time-domain communications signal for transmission in a downlink radio frequency (RF) communications signal. As such, it may be possible to improve scalability while reducing cost and space of the DCS.
US11627554B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method performed by a broadcast/multicast server for a communication network. The method comprises: receiving, from an application server, a request to establish a broadcast/multicast bearer in the communication network; allocating resources associated with the broadcast/multicast bearer in the communication network; and sending, to the application server, a response message comprising an indication of whether the allocation of the resources associated with the broadcast/multicast bearer is ongoing or not. Corresponding apparatus and methods and apparatus in the application server, are also provided.
US11627547B1
Data-driven systems and methods are described in regard to managing an encampment of at-risk individuals. In some variants a client/mobile device is configured according to one or more special-purpose protocols by which a task pertaining to the encampment is associated with a first resource, wherein the first task includes obtaining a first informational component. Recommendation data pertaining to the encampment is provided that is correlated with one or more features of the encampment and includes a task or referral pertaining to a second resource.
US11627542B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a satellite of a non-terrestrial network (NTN) may establish communications on a beam of the satellite. The UE may receive, on a first carrier of a first set of carriers associated with a first beam, a configuration for the first set of carriers associated with the first beam and a second set of carriers associated with a second beam. The first carrier may be used to send a first set of synchronization signals, and a second carrier of the second set of carriers may be used to send a second set of synchronization signals. The UE may identify some system information associated with the second set of carriers based on the configuration and reselect to the second beam based on the configuration.
US11627541B2
A user equipment may be configured to perform predictive methods for SSB beam measurements. In some aspects, the user equipment may receive, from at least a base station, a first set of one or more synchronization signal block beam identifiers corresponding to a first set of one or more SSB beams belonging to a SSB burst, and receive, from at least the base station, the SSB burst including the first set of one or more SSB beams. Further, the user equipment may transmit, to at least the base station, one or more of: reporting information for a second set of one or more SSB beams or indications corresponding to the second set of one or more SSB beams, the second set of one or more SSB beams determined based on a prediction model and the first set of one or more SSB beams.
US11627536B2
Transmission power control of sounding reference signals in wireless communication system and device
An operating method of a wireless communication device configured to perform wireless communication with a cell. The method involves identifying, from a downlink signal received from the cell, an electromagnetic field state associated with an antenna of the wireless communication device. A power compensation mode for compensating transmission power of a sounding reference signal is selected based on the identified electromagnetic field state. The transmission power of the sounding reference signal is compensated based on the selected power compensation mode. The sounding reference signal is transmitted with the compensated transmission power through the antenna to the cell.
US11627527B2
A data processing method includes obtaining a first network wakeup parameter, where the first network wakeup parameter is used to wake up an application program. The data processing method further includes performing reconfiguration processing on the first network wakeup parameter based on a preset first configuration condition to obtain a second network wakeup parameter, and configuring a driver of the terminal based on the second network wakeup parameter. The second network wakeup parameter is written into Wi-Fi firmware so that the Wi-Fi firmware directly performs processing without waking up the application program when the first network wakeup parameter is received next time.
US11627526B2
Various aspects of the techniques, methods and devices described in this disclosure relate generally to achieving coexistence between WLAN and P2P networks, and specifically, to coordinated D2D communications. Some aspects particularly involve extending the capabilities of TWT elements transmitted by APs to support periodic reserved access windows during which D2D-enabled wireless devices are permitted to transmit direct wireless communications. Some other aspects relate to sharing time and frequency resources via CAP TDMA or CAP OFDMA techniques, and specifically, to allocating at least some of the time and frequency resources specifically for D2D communications. Some other aspects relate to periodic coordinated access windows during which APs are scheduled to contend but during which D2D devices are not permitted to contend, and specifically, to scheduling a reserved access window within a periodic coordinated access window during which D2D devices may transmit direct communications to other D2D devices despite the permissions associated with the periodic coordinated access windows.
US11627522B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for NSSAI configuration. One method includes determining a configured network slice selection assistance information for a public land mobile network for a remote unit in response to a trigger from an access and mobility management function. The access and mobility management function, a network slice selection function, or a combination thereof determines the configured network slice selection assistance information. The method includes providing the configured network slice selection assistance information to the remote unit via the access and mobility management function.
US11627518B2
When moving within an area covered by an Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network, a mobile IAB node may come into proximity with another stationary or mobile IAB node that may have a same physical cell identifier (PCI) as the mobile IAB node. PCI collision issue may occur. Aspects presented herein address the possible PCI collisions. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be an IAB node configured to determine a configuration associated with PCI management of a PCI of the IAB node. The apparatus may be further configured to change the PCI of the IAB node based on the determined configuration.
US11627511B2
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate data stream routing and entitlement for Internet of Things (IoT) data streams. In one example, a method is provided that may include causing an IoT device to connect to a plurality of access networks based on a data stream policy; directing, based on the data stream policy, an IoT gateway to transmit a plurality of output data streams to a plurality of destinations in which the plurality of output data streams are based on a source data stream obtained by the IoT gateway from the IoT device via one or more of the plurality of access networks. The method may further include determining a degradation for at least one access network and, upon determining the degradation, causing a remediation action to be performed by at least one of the IoT device and the IoT gateway based on the data stream policy.
US11627508B2
Provided are session processing method, device, and computer storage medium. The method includes performing at least one of a first type transmission, a first type handover process on the PDU session, or the data stream in the PDU session. The first type of transmission includes at least one of the network side and the terminal side perform data copy type transmission on the data packet through multiple paths, or perform the first priority transmission on the data packet. The first priority transmission refers to that the transmitted data stream corresponds to a set of specific QoS parameters. The first type of handover process includes before the air interface data radio bearer is handover from the first base station to the second base station. The second core network element completes the establishment of a first path with the first base station and the establishment of a second path with the second base station. The first type of handover process also includes after the air interface data radio bearer is handover from the first base station to the second base station, the second core network element releases the first path with the first base station.
US11627499B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for managing resource reservations in sidelink communications. A method that may be performed by a first user equipment (UE) includes determining a plurality of resource reservations allocated for sidelink communications with at least one second UE and transmitting, to the at least one second UE, control information having an indication of the resource reservations. The method also includes communicating with the at least one second UE during at least one of the resource reservations and determining that a remaining set of the resource reservations is enabled to be reclaimed by one or more UEs. The method further includes taking one or more actions based on the determination that the remaining set of the resource reservations is enabled to be reclaimed by the one or more UEs.
US11627497B2
One embodiment is directed to a method of using variable-resolution quantization to front-haul at least some data over a front-haul network in a system configured to provide wireless service to user equipment. The method comprises, for each symbol position, determining a respective number of required resource blocks having respective actual user-equipment (UE) signal data to front-haul for each carrier and determining the number of high-resolution resource blocks that can be quantized at a higher resolution as a function of a difference between a nominal per-symbol-position front-haul link capacity and a link capacity needed to front-haul the required resource blocks for all of the carriers if quantized using a lower resolution. The method further comprises, for each symbol position, allocating the high-resolution resource blocks to each carrier and determining, for each carrier, which of the required resource blocks to quantize at the higher resolution. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11627496B2
The present specification proposes a method for configuring a trigger frame that can be applied to a next-generation Wireless LAN (WLAN) system and an apparatus using the method. As an example, the trigger frame of the present specification may set a bandwidth for a trigger-based (TB) PPDU of up to 320 MHz. As another example, the trigger frame of the present specification may set the format of the TB PPDU transmitted through a primary bandwidth. As another example, the trigger frame of the present specification may trigger an aggregated PPDU (A-PPDU).
US11627491B2
A dictionary configuration method, a buffer control method, a network side device and a UE are provided. The buffer control method for the network side device includes: receiving, by the network side device, first check information transmitted by the UE; determining, by the network side device, whether content in a compression buffer of the UE is identical to content in a decompression buffer of the network side device; and when the content in the compression buffer is different from the content in the decompression buffer, transmitting, by the network side device, buffer resetting information to the UE.
US11627490B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may associate, at a first protocol layer, a first sequence number to a data packet to perform integrity protection on at least a portion of the data packet. The transmitting device may associate, at the first protocol layer, a second sequence number to the data packet for wireless transmission to a receiving device. The transmitting device may indicate an offset between the first sequence number and the second sequence number in the data packet. The transmitting device may transmit the data packet to a second protocol layer for wireless transmission to the receiving device, the second protocol layer being a lower layer than the first protocol layer.
US11627479B2
A method for sending configuration parameters includes: classifying a configuration parameter set into an information element structure, wherein the information element structure includes at least one information element used to carry configuration parameters in the configuration parameter set; adding the information element structure to a radio resource control RRC message; when UE establishes a low-latency and high-reliability service request, sending, to the UE, the RRC message including the information element structure.
US11627470B1
Techniques for asymmetric dynamic spectrum sharing are discussed herein. A first portion of spectrum can share spectrum between Long Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) radio access technologies (RATs). A second portion of spectrum can be allocated to a particular RAT without sharing. Thus, control signals associated with both RATs can be associated with the shared portion. However, for the portion not shared, control signals for the particular RAT (e.g., NR) can be used without the control signals from the other RAT (e.g., LTE), thereby increasing capacity in the portion not shared.
US11627452B2
In one implementation, a wireless security system premises gateway component includes a first local area wireless communication component adapted to communicate wirelessly with plural wireless security system sensors distributed at a premises; a second local area wireless communication component adapted to communicate wirelessly with a general purpose mobile communications device; a communications interface component adapted to communicate with a wide area communications network that is located remotely of the premises; a security system controller component adapted to communicate with the general purpose mobile communications device to provide state information regarding the security system and to provide control inputs to the security system; and a single gateway housing configured and sized to house the first local area wireless communication component, the second local area wireless communication component, the communications interface component, and the security system controller.
US11627451B2
A system for interoperating and communicating data from a device having a communications gateway and at least one tactical device connected to an electrified rail providing electrical power. The system includes at least one processor, and at least one non-transitory computer-readable data storage device storing data instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to receive an event from the device, determine whether the event triggers a workflow, and execute an action on the device in response to the workflow being triggered.
US11627450B2
Among other things, a vehicle is caused to drive autonomously through a road network toward a defined goal position, and, if no potential stopping place that is in the vicinity of the goal position and is acceptable and feasible can be identified, a human operator not onboard the vehicle is enabled to drive the vehicle to a stopping place.
US11627448B2
A system and method for initializing an electronic subscriber identity module (SIM) are provided. The method includes activating a device using a first bootstrap profile, wherein the first bootstrap profile is set with a first range of international mobile subscriber identifiers (IMSIs); attempting to connect to a first cellular network through an IMSI in the range of IMSIs; establishing a connection with a central server when the device is connected to the first cellular network; storing a last successful location information (LOCI) of the established connection; and upon receiving at least an IMSI switch request, executing at least an IMSI profile switch, wherein execution of the IMSI profile switch includes replacement of a current IMSI value with a selected IMSI value based on the stored LOCI.
US11627447B2
Techniques for determining an alternative communication mode for vehicle-to-vehicle communication at a host vehicle can include monitoring the primary mode of RF communication to ensure it is effectively communicating and, if not, intelligently selecting a backup communication mode comprising one or more other sensors and/or systems of the vehicle. The selection of the backup communication mode may take into account various factors that can affect the various modes of communication from which the backup communication mode is selected.
US11627446B2
An inter-vehicle communication system includes: multiple vehicle communication devices for multiple vehicles; and a wireless base station. Each of the multiple vehicle communication devices includes a wide area communication portion that communicates with a different device, a wide area communication control portion that executes a wide area periodic transmission process of multicasting a vehicle information packet towards a different vehicle, a narrow area communication portion, and a narrow area communication control portion that executes a narrow area periodic transmission process of multicasting the vehicle information packet towards the different vehicle. The wide area communication control portion transmits a vehicle status report to the wireless base station. The wide area communication control portion pauses the wide area periodic transmission process. The wireless base station includes an in-cell vehicle management portion that manages position information of a vehicle existing in a charge cell, an encounter determination portion that determines whether a transmission source vehicle has a possibility of encountering the different vehicle, and a device control portion that instructs a transmission source device to pause the wide area periodic transmission process.
US11627440B1
A method and device for improved audio intelligibility in a converged land mobile radio (LMR)/broadband (BB) communications system is provided. A converged portable radio operating as part of a talkgroup in the LMR/BB system checks for predetermined triggers during standby that could cause receive radios of the talkgroup to receive degraded audio. If such a trigger is detected then the converged portable radio switches from the LMR system to the BB system and transmits a notification including a change system message to the other converged portable radios of the talkgroup. The notification is transmitted prior to any push-to-talk audio being transmitted from the originating radio. The converged portable radio can transmit, via a push-to-talk switch, narrowband (NB) audio and wideband (WB) audio in parallel over the BB system to the talkgroup subsequent to the detection of triggers and the sending of the notification.
US11627430B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for storing, organizing, and maintaining acoustic data for mixed reality systems. A system may include one or more sensors of a head-wearable device, a speaker of the head-wearable device, and one or more processors configured to execute a method. A method for execution by the one or more processors may include receiving a request to present an audio signal. An environment may be identified via the one or more sensors of the head-wearable device. One or more audio model components associated with the environment may be retrieved. A first audio model may be generated based on the audio model components. A second audio model may be generated based on the first audio model. A modified audio signal may be determined based on the second audio model and based on the request to present an audio signal. The modified audio signal may be presented via the speaker of the head-wearable device.
US11627429B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product for: providing spatial audio signals for output for a first user via a first audio device and a second audio device, receiving an indication of deactivation of the second audio device, receiving an indication that the second audio device is re-activated by a second user, and performing, in response to receiving the indication that the second audio device is re-activated by the second user, a modification of the spatial audio signals.
US11627428B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for presenting audio content in mixed reality environments. A method may include receiving a first input from an application program; in response to receiving the first input, receiving, via a first service, an encoded audio stream; generating, via the first service, a decoded audio stream based on the encoded audio stream; receiving, via a second service, the decoded audio stream; receiving a second input from one or more sensors of a wearable head device; receiving, via the second service, a third input from the application program, wherein the third input corresponds to a position of one or more virtual speakers; generating, via the second service, a spatialized audio stream based on the decoded audio stream, the second input, and the third input; presenting, via one or more speakers of the wearable head device, the spatialized audio stream.
US11627415B2
The invention relates to various rotational action audio transducer embodiments having a diaphragm structure including a single or multiple diaphragms. A diaphragm suspension rotatably mounts the diaphragm structure to a base structure. In some embodiments, the diaphragm suspension may be made from soft and/or damped materials. In some embodiments, the location of an axis of rotation of the diaphragm is determined based on a node axis of the diaphragm. A transducing mechanism of the audio transducer cooperates with the moving diaphragm to transduce sound. The mechanism may comprise a moving magnet design in some embodiments, or a moving coil design in others.
US11627411B2
AMENDMENT TO THE ABSTRACT The invention relates to an enclosure for diffusing sound by reverberation comprising:—a loudspeaker comprising a fixed frame, a cylindrical support and a membrane connected to an upper bearing surface of the frame; and—a wave guide mounted on the upper bearing surface, the wave guide being substantially in the form of a truncated pyramid with a long wall forming a front face, a short wall and lateral uprights; the wave guide comprising at least one acoustic wall fastened to the lateral uprights, the acoustic wall extending tangentially relative to the generatrix line of the cylindrical support closest to the front face.
US11627394B2
A loudspeaker assembly for a vehicle includes a loudspeaker mounted in the vehicle, the loudspeaker having a first side facing an interior of the vehicle and an opposed second side. The loudspeaker is configured to generate an acoustical signal having a front wave directed into the interior of the vehicle and a rear wave directed away from the interior of the vehicle. An acoustic coupler is disposed on the second side of the loudspeaker and extending toward an exterior of the vehicle, the acoustic coupler arranged to transmit the rear wave to the exterior of the vehicle such that the acoustical signal is audible in the interior of the vehicle and at the exterior of the vehicle.
US11627389B2
A vehicular vision system includes a camera having a field of view interior of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system, a plurality of infrared light emitters operable to illuminate a region at least partially within the field of view of the camera, and an electronic control unit having an image processor that processes image data captured by the camera. The camera captures frames of image data at a first rate, and infrared light emitters of the plurality of infrared light emitters are pulsed at a second rate. The first rate is different than the second rate. For a driving assist function of the vehicle, capture of frames of image data by the camera at the first rate is synchronized with pulsing of the infrared light emitters of the plurality of infrared light emitters at the second rate.
US11627387B2
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to control acquisition of images in a defined area, including obtaining and using data from one or more hardware sensors on a mobile device that is acquiring the images, analyzing the sensor data (e.g., in a real-time manner) to determine the geometric orientation of the mobile device in three-dimensional (3D) space, and using that determined orientation to control the acquisition of further images by the mobile device. In some situations, the determined orientation information may be used in part to automatically generate and display a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface) that is overlaid on and augments displayed images of the environment surrounding the mobile device during the image acquisition process, so as to control the mobile device's geometric orientation in 3D space.
US11627383B2
Provided are an electronic device and an operation method thereof. The electronic device includes a memory that stores one or more instructions, and a processor that executes the one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the one or more instructions to: divide original image data into a plurality of image sequences; determine a predetermined number of image sequences among the plurality of image sequences as an input image group, select one of the image sequences included in the input image group and add the selected image sequence to the highlight image group based on one or more image sequences pre-classified as a highlight image group, by using a trained model trained using an artificial intelligence algorithm; and generate summary image data extracted from the original image data, by using the image sequence included in the highlight image group.
US11627374B2
The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring usage of at least one application executed within an operating system of an electronic device. The method includes at least one iteration of, while a processing condition is not satisfied, determining a video event associated with a current application and storing the video event in a data structure, delivering a set of video events. The method further includes, once the processing condition is satisfied, determining a past time slot, calling an usage statistics API provided on the operating system, delivering a set of application events representative of whether an application has been put in system foreground or system background, retrieving application events that have occurred during the past time slot, retrieving video events that have occurred during the past time slot, and chronologically ordering the retrieved application and video events, delivering a consolidated set of ordered events.
US11627372B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems to help disambiguate channel identification in a scenario where fingerprint data of media content matches multiple reference fingerprints corresponding respectively with multiple different channels. Upon detecting such a multi-match, a server or other entity will perform disambiguation based on a determination that a segment of the fingerprint data matches a reference fingerprint corresponding with just a single channel, such as a reference fingerprint representing commercial or news programming content specific to just the single channel. The server or other entity will thereby determine the channel on which the media content being rendered by the media presentation device is arriving, so as to facilitate taking channel-specific action.
US11627367B2
The present invention enables a receiving side to easily recognize a high-quality format corresponding to encoded image data included in an extended video stream. Two video streams including a basic video stream including encoded image data of basic format image data, and an extended video stream including encoded image data of high-quality format image data of one type selected from a plurality of types are generated. A container of a predetermined format including the basic video stream and the extended video stream is transmitted. Information indicating a high-quality format corresponding to the encoded image data included in the extended video stream is inserted into the extended video stream and/or the container.
US11627365B2
The invention provides a method for providing a synchronization in a computer network for synchronized playback of audio an/or video by a plurality of separate devices. Each separate device generates a virtual clock in response to a timing of the audio codec of a received audio stream. Especially, segmented time is used as reference time. Either the virtual clock is generated directly in response to the tick counter of the audio codec, or by a periodic measurement of the timing of the audio codec extrapolated by a monotonic clock. A sample rate converter may be used to slightly adjust the frequency of the virtual clock.
US11627362B2
A video item is provided for playback at a media player executing at a user device. The media player is logically divided into multiple sections. An indication of a touch gesture made by a user with respect to a touchscreen of the user device is received. Whether the touch gesture with respect to the touchscreen of the user device qualifies as a first predetermined touch gesture is determined. The first predetermined touch gesture is within a portion of a user interface (UI) that is includes in a first section of the media player. Responsive to determining the touch gesture with respect to the touchscreen of the user device qualifies as the first predetermined gesture, the playback of the video item is moved from a first point in time to a second point in time by a predetermined amount of time.
US11627361B2
A communication system detects a state of a connected television. The communication system receives a request to establish a communication session with a local communication device via a network. The communication system outputs a reference audio signal to a locally connected audio output device. The communication system captures an ambient audio signal from a local microphone and compares the reference audio signal and the ambient audio signal to determine if the reference audio signal and the ambient audio signal match by meeting a similarity threshold. initiates an action with respect to the communication session based on the comparison.
US11627350B2
Enhanced trick-play modes for video content that is being streamed to a client from a server are described. In an embodiment, the enhanced trick-play modes are provided with relatively low latency and high quality using trick-play optimization techniques for a streaming environment, avoiding the need to stream the entire contents of the portions through which the viewer is fast forwarding. By employing sophisticated selection criteria of which parts of the content to download at what time, the quality of the playback experience is improved versus that which would conventionally be possible when using a simple sequential frame data download. The streaming client maintains a cache of nearby significant frames, such as nearby key frames, in forward and/or reverse directions of the current playback position, without having to download the entire portions of the video stream in which the significant frames reside. The trick-play modes utilize these frames.
US11627349B2
Disclosed is an electronic device that receives a packet of a content image including a plurality of frames from an external device, transmits a signal indicating whether a packet is received, including a request for a bit rate of an image in a transmitted signal, receives a packet with a changed bit rate of the image based on the request, and displays the image on the display based on the received packet.
US11627346B2
Methods and apparatus for identifying media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, computer readable instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to identify intervals in a media signal; generate interval sums for respective ones of the intervals, a first interval sum of the interval sums based on a sum of magnitudes of first peaks of the media signal that occur between zero crossings of a first interval of the intervals of the media signal; identify second peaks based on the interval sums; and generate a signature representative of the media signal based on the second peaks.
US11627338B2
Methods of encoding and decoding for video data are describe in which significance maps are encoded and decoded using non-spatially-uniform partitioning of the map into parts, wherein the bit positions within each part are associated with a given context. Example partition sets and processes for selecting from amongst predetermined partition sets and communicating the selection to the decoder are described.
US11627331B2
According to the present invention, there is provided A method of encoding a three-dimensional (3D) image, the method comprising: determining a prediction mode for a current block as an inter prediction mode; determining whether a reference block corresponding to the current block in a reference picture has motion information; when the reference block has the motion information, deriving motion information on the current block for each sub prediction block in the current block; and deriving a prediction sample for the current block based on the motion information on the current block.
US11627328B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines an area with sample values available in a reference sample memory for use in a reconstruction of a current block. Further, the processing circuitry updates a history based list for storing locations of previously reconstructed samples of a single value string mode. The locations are limited within the area. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs, based on the history based list, a string of the single value string mode within the current block.
US11627326B2
A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving and decoding MPM index information for indicating an MPM candidate which is to be used as an intra prediction mode of a current block; generating an MPM candidate list containing a plurality of MPM candidates for the current block; determining the MPM candidate indicated by the decoded MPM index information as the intra prediction mode of the current block, among the plurality of the MPM candidates which constitute the MPM candidate list; and generating a prediction block corresponding to the current block by performing intra prediction for the current block based on the determined intra prediction mode.
US11627323B2
An image decoding method comprises the steps of: determining whether or not an application condition of decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) for applying motion vector refinement for a current block is satisfied; deriving a minimum sum of absolute differences (SAD) on the basis of L0 and L1 motion vectors of the current block if the application condition of the DMVR is satisfied; deriving refined L0 and L1 motion vectors of the current block based on the minimum SAD; deriving prediction samples of the current block based on the refined L0 and L1 motion vectors; and generating reconstructed samples of the current block based on the prediction samples. With respect to whether or not the application condition of the DMVR is satisfied, the application condition of the DMVR is determined to be satisfied if a prediction mode, in which inter-prediction and intra-prediction are combined, is not applied to the current block.
US11627319B2
Provided is a video decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, which includes: obtaining split information for a target block from a bitstream; splitting the target block into a first sub-block and a second sub-block based on a split boundary indicated by the split information; deriving a first motion information candidate list for the first sub-block and a second motion information candidate list for the second sub-block based on the split information for the target block; performing inter prediction of the first sub-block based on the first motion information candidate list; and performing inter prediction of the second sub-block based on the second motion information candidate list, in which the first sub-block and the second sub-block are non-rectangular blocks, and the first motion information candidate list for the first sub-block is different from the second motion information candidate list for the second sub-block.
US11627316B2
Disclosed according to one exemplary embodiment includes not limited to: a filtering unit configured to generate filtering information by filtering a residual image corresponding to a difference between an original image and a prediction image; an inverse filtering unit configured to generate inverse filtering information by inversely filtering the filtering information; an estimator configured to generate the prediction image based on the original image and reconstruction information; a CNN-based in-loop filter configured to receive the inverse filtering information and the prediction image and to output the reconstruction information; and an encoder configured to perform encoding based on the filtering information and information of the prediction image, and wherein the CNN-based in-loop filter is trained for each of the plurality of artefact sections according to an artefact value or for each of the plurality of quantization parameter sections according to a quantization parameter.
US11627315B2
A method of partitioning a video coding block for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT) structure that can have a quadtree branching from the root node and binary trees branching from each of the quadtree's leaf nodes using asymmetric binary partitioning to split a coding unit represented by a quadtree leaf node into two child nodes of unequal size, representing the two child nodes as leaf nodes in a binary tree branching from the quadtree leaf node and coding the child nodes represented by leaf nodes of the binary tree with JVET, wherein weighted angular coding unit prediction is employed and wherein post-coding unit prediction filtering can be avoided or unbiased to increase coding times.
US11627304B2
A transparent display device includes an image display bar in which a plurality of light-emitting elements are arranged, and a bar driving unit which moves the image display bar along a predetermined path and provides transparent display using afterimages resulting from the movement of the light-emitting elements, wherein the transparency of the transparent display using afterimages is determined by the equation, transparency (%)=((A−B)/A)*100, where A denotes the entire display area of the transparent display, and B denotes the area of the image display bar.
US11627299B1
This patent provides a novel stereoscopic imaging system. In the preferred embodiment, the improved stereoscopic imaging system would be incorporated onto a smart phone, which is called the stereoscopic smart phone (SSP). The SSP would work in conjunction with one or more stereoscopic head display units (SHDUs). Once this system is operational, it will allow significant improvements to obtaining stereoscopic imagery. One novel aspect of this patent comprises wherein the stereoscopic cameras on the SSP can move in position to alter stereo separation distance and change the convergence to optimally image a scene.
US11627296B2
Methods and systems are described for condition mitigation. A computing device may display content. The computing device may determine that displaying and/or outputting the content may impact a person with a condition. The computing device may take an action to reduce an impact of the content on the person.
US11627293B2
A method of controlling a projector includes detecting whether a human is present or absent between a projection surface and the projector, emitting a first sound when it is detected that the human is present, determining whether or not detecting that the human is present continues during a first period having a first time length, projecting, by the projector, a first projection image including a first image on the projection surface when it is determined that the detecting that the human is present continues, and projecting, by the projector, a second projection image not including the first image on the projection surface when it is determined that the detecting that the human is present does not continue.
US11627292B2
Provided is an electro-optical device including an electro-optical panel that includes a display region, a holder that holds the electro-optical panel, a first temperature detecting element that is disposed on the electro-optical panel and detects the temperature of the electro-optical panel, and a second temperature detecting element that is disposed on the holder and detects the temperature of the holder. When four quadrants are defined by an X axis line passing through a center of the display region and a Y axis line passing through the center of the display region and orthogonal to the X axis line, the first temperature detecting element and the second temperature detecting element are disposed in the same quadrant.
US11627291B2
A scanning projector display includes a light engine comprising N emitters coupled to a collimator for providing a fan of N light beams of variable optical power levels, where N>1. The N emitters are spaced apart from each other such that pixels of the image simultaneously energized by neighboring ones of the N emitters are non-adjacent. A scanner receives and angularly scans the fan of N light beams about first and second non-parallel axes to provide an image in angular domain. A controller coupled to the scanner and the light engine causes the scanner to simultaneously scan the fan of N light beams about the first and second axes, and cause the light engine to vary the optical power levels of the N emitters with time delays such that adjacent pixels of the image are energized by different ones of the N emitters.
US11627286B2
A vehicular sensing system includes a data processor disposed at a vehicle, a camera disposed at an in-cabin side of the vehicle windshield, and a range sensor disposed at the vehicle and having a field of sensing that overlaps a portion of the field of view of the camera. During a driving maneuver of the vehicle, the system detects another vehicle that is located within the radar sensors field of sensing and outside of the camera's field of view and determines movement of the range sensor-detected other vehicle relative to the vehicle. When the range sensor-detected other vehicle enters the field of view of the camera, the system, at least in part via processing at the data processor of image data captured by the camera, determines that the range sensor-detected other vehicle is an object of interest. A system output is provided for use by a driving assist system.
US11627285B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for determining real-time resource capacity of entity devices based on performing predictive analysis. In particular, the system may be configured to identify one or more users at a location of an entity device waiting to perform one or more interactions via the entity device, establish a communication link with the entity device, determine identity of the one or more users based on communicating with the entity device, calculate an estimated interaction amount associated with the one or more interactions of the one or more users, determine capacity of the entity device in real-time, identify that the capacity of the entity device does not meet the calculated estimated interaction amount, and transmit a notification to at least one user of the one or more users via the entity application present on a user device of the at least one user.
US11627283B2
One variation of a method for enabling autopilot functionality during a video call includes, during an operating period: receiving a sequence of frames from a camera in a first device; detecting a face, of a first user, in the sequence of frames; generating a sequence of facial landmark containers representing facial actions of the face of the first user; transmitting the sequence of facial landmark containers to a second device for combination with a look model to generate a first synthetic image feed depicting facial actions of the first user; and detecting a trigger event. The method also includes, during an autopilot operating period, entering autopilot mode; retrieving a prerecorded autopilot sequence of facial landmark containers from a memory; and transmitting the prerecorded autopilot sequence of facial landmark containers to the second device for combination with the look model to generate a second synthetic image feed depicting predefined facial actions.
US11627278B2
A video format detector receives a video signal in a one of a plurality of possible video formats and produces a detected format. A cumulative distribution function generator generates a cumulative distribution function curve from a component of the video signal and a feature detector generates one or more feature vectors from the cumulative distribution function curve. A video classifier accepts the one or more feature vectors from the feature detector and generates a prediction of the video format in which the video signal was produced based, at least in part, on the received feature vectors.
US11627260B2
The present disclosure provides an anti-flashlight circuit assembly and an image sensor. The anti-flashlight circuit assembly includes a plurality of flashlight detection units. Each flashlight detection unit includes: a first photoelectric detection module configured to monitor an optical signal in real time and output a corresponding electric signal; a first triggering generation module configured to generate a first triggering generation signal when the electric signal exceeds a predetermined threshold, and output the first triggering generation signal to a first interface logic module; and the first interface logic module configured to output a triggering state signal upon the receipt of the first triggering generation signal.
US11627258B2
An imaging device includes a plurality of imaging units, a control unit configured to control a zoom magnification of each of the imaging units, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire the zoom magnification of each of the imaging units. When the zoom magnification of one imaging unit among the plurality of imaging units is changed, the control unit changes the zoom magnification by interlocking the imaging unit whose zoom magnification is changed with at least one imaging unit other than the imaging unit whose zoom magnification is changed, and changes the two of the imaging units to have the same zoom magnification.
US11627251B2
An image processing apparatus comprises an image obtaining unit that obtains a plurality of images based on image capturing performed by a plurality of image capture apparatuses that perform image capturing of an imaging region from directions that are different to each other, and a panoramic image generating unit that generates a panoramic image with a specific position in the imaging region being a reference, based on a plurality of images obtained by the image obtaining unit.
US11627238B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device, the at least one processing device being configured to receive an encapsulation of two or more types of content associated with a camera system, the two or more types of content comprising one or more video signals and one or more data signals. The at least one processing device is also configured to separate the encapsulation into the two or more types of content to obtain the one or more video signals and the one or more data signals, to output at least a given one of the one or more video signals to a first display unit, and to provide at least a given one of the one or more data signals to at least one of (i) a controller associated with the first display unit and (ii) a second display unit.
US11627235B2
An image forming apparatus includes an acquirer, a storage, and a controller. The acquirer acquires supplies-specific information uniquely attached to supplies used or consumed in image formation. The storage stores apparatus-specific information. The controller generates a one-time code as authentication information and also generates application code information for applying for apparatus use permission using the one-time code, the supplies-specific information, and the apparatus-specific information.
US11627226B2
This disclosure provides an image processing apparatus that is connected to a printing apparatus, sequentially receives a plurality of recording media on which printing was performed by the printing apparatus, and inspects a quality of images formed on the recording media, wherein the image processing apparatus receives a reference image, acquires a plurality of scanned images by sequentially scanning the recording media output from the printing apparatus and having the images to be inspected recorded thereon, receives phase information of an image bearing member of the printing apparatus, detects, for each of the scanned images, a defect on the scanned image by comparing a pixel value of the reference image and a pixel value of the scanned image, and determines whether a defect has reproducibility based on positions of defects on the recording media calculated from the phase information.
US11627222B2
A computer-implemented method of processing an emergency incident can include routing a first emergency call and a second emergency call; verifying that the first emergency call and the second emergency call relate to the same emergency incident; establishing a conference bridge between communication terminals of first and second agents who were assigned the first and second calls so the agents are able to communicate via the conference bridge and to merge the first emergency call and the second emergency call that relate to the same emergency incident. If the first and second emergency calls are merged, a message can be sent to a services provider device (e.g. police station device, fire station device, etc.) for handling the emergency incident. A communication apparatus can be provided to implement embodiments of the method as well.
US11627206B2
A computing device may include a memory and a processor cooperating with the memory to communicate with a plurality of client devices, and determine a problem with a Web application based upon received data from the client devices. The processor may further cause at least one of the plurality of client devices to display a graphical overlay over a Web application, with the graphical overlay including content related to the determined problem.
US11627204B2
An information providing method includes: generating first information indicating that a user who is interested in first content is relaxing, when (i) a current behavior of the user includes a predefined behavior and (ii) the first content included in information on communication content and second content included in information indicating a shopping history are the same content; obtaining, from a second information processing apparatus connected to a first information processing apparatus, information indicating first request content over a network; and when content of the first information is included in the first request content, outputting, to the second information processing apparatus, second information including information for identifying the user or a space, using the generated first information.
US11627200B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for performing response based cache redirection to a cache proxy. A device intermediary to a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers and in communication with a plurality of cache proxies, receives a request for content from a client. The request is for content from a server of the plurality of servers. The device forwards the request to the server. The device identifies a cache redirection policy that specifies an amount of bytes of a response to buffer to calculate a signature of the content of the response. The device computes the signature of the content of the response based on the amount of bytes of the response received from the server and buffered by the device. The device selects a cache proxy based on the computed signature and forwards the request of the client to the selected cache proxy.
US11627195B2
In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method and system for issuing alerts are disclosed. The method includes receiving device information for one or more mobile devices; sorting the received device information based on pre-determined criteria; evaluating the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies a specified condition; and issuing alert based on the determination. The system for issuing alerts includes a storage database, wherein the storage database receives device information for one or more mobile devices; an analytics engine, wherein the analytics engine sorts the received device information based on pre-determined criteria; a rules engine, wherein the rules engine evaluates the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies a specified condition and issues alerts based on the determination.
US11627191B1
Virtual private network (VPN) service provider infrastructure (SPI) receives a request to access a VPN from a client device. The VPN SPI selects an Internet Protocol (IP) address for access to the VPN by the client device from a pool of IP addresses. The VPN SPI provides access to the VPN for the client device via the IP address. The VPN SPI receives one or more handshake notifications from the client device. The VPN SPI determines that a threshold time period has passed since a latest-in-time handshake notification of the one or more handshake notifications. The VPN SPI disconnects the client device from the VPN in response to determining that the threshold time period has passed. The VPN SPI adds the IP address to the pool of IP addresses in response to disconnecting the client device from the VPN.
US11627187B2
A vehicle network comprising a processor; a network switch having a plurality of physical ports, from which two or more of the physical ports are configured as access ports and at least one of the physical ports is configured as a trunk port; a plurality of sensors connected to respective access ports of the network switch, wherein the sensors have preconfigured network addresses; and at least two virtual networks, wherein each virtual network corresponds to a group of access ports, and the sensors connected thereto are addressable within the virtual network by their preconfigured network addresses, wherein each network switch is connected via the trunk port to the processor, and the trunk port is configured to accept communications from the processor directed to the sensors connected to the access ports of the network switch.
US11627185B1
Systems and methods for a wireless data protocol are disclosed. For example, a packet fragmentation scheme is determined and utilized to fragment high bit rate packets. A packet spacing scheme and a number of parity slots to utilize is determined, and then packet fragment representations are generated utilizing the packet spacing scheme and the number of parity slots. The packet fragment representations are appended to their corresponding packet fragments and sent to a receiving device. The receiving device may then utilize the packet fragment representations to reconstruct packets that are lost during transmission.
US11627181B2
Systems and methods for monitoring utilization rates of a plurality of network-connected databases; receiving a first data read request from a first user device for a data element stored in the plurality of network-connected databases; selecting a first target database among the plurality of network-connected databases based on the utilization rates and a load sharing ratios; generating a first data query for a copy of the data element stored in the first target database; and forwarding the copy of the data element from the first target database to the first user device in response to the first data read request.
US11627163B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor operably connected to the communication module and the memory, wherein the at least one processor is, by executing the instructions, configured to receive a request for execution of an application programming interface (API) from an application while driving the application, identify a policy for the execution-requested API based on data received from a decentralized network through the communication module, and determine whether to execute the execution-requested API, based on the identified policy for the API.
US11627149B2
Various embodiments of the present invention set forth techniques for security monitoring of a network connection, including analyzing network traffic data for a network connection associated with a computing device, identifying one or more network traffic metrics for the network connection based on the network traffic data, determining that the network connection corresponds to at least one network connection profile based on the one or more network traffic metrics, detecting a potential security threat for the network connection based on the one or more network traffic metrics and the at least one network connection profile, and initiating a mitigation action with respect to the network connection in response to detecting the potential security threat. Advantageously, the techniques allow detecting potential security threats based on network traffic metrics and categorizations, without requiring monitoring of the content or the total volume of all traffic exchanged via the connection.
US11627146B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for partitioning an OS or hypervisor utilized on a computing device from the process of proxy control. For example, a proxy may be installed on a separation kernel or firmware on a computing device that routes all data traffic received via a network connection to a cloud which performs various services such as IP reputation management, URL reputation detection and validation, malicious file filtering through potential malware detection.
US11627141B2
A system includes a communication module that receives a request to post content to an event gallery associated with an event. The request in turn includes geo-location data for a device sending the content, and identification data identifying the device or a user of the device. The system further has an event gallery module to perform a first authorization operation that includes determining that the geo-location data corresponds to a geo-location fence associated with an event. The event gallery module also performs a second authorization operation that includes using the identification data to verify an attribute of the user. Finally, based on the first and second authorization operations, the event gallery module may selectively authorize the device to post the content to the event gallery.
US11627137B2
This disclosure describes techniques for facilitating a primary account holder (PAH) of a client account to control access privileges of service features that are accessible by secondary account holders (SAH), via the client account. More specifically, an Access Privilege Control (APC) system is described that enables the PAH to generate access privilege rules that control the use of service features by a SAH, that are accessible via the client device(s) associated with the client account. The APC system may associate a set of updated access privilege rules with virtual profile data for clients associated with the client account. The virtual profile data may be transmitted to client devices, or subset thereof, associated with the client account. Further, the APC system may monitor an operation of client devices associated with the client account and provide one or more recommendations to update access privilege rules based on monitored service feature usage.
US11627136B1
A system can determine a set of users to access an asset of a computing device. User data for a user in the set of users is obtained. The user data can specify organizational information for the user. The system can determine a value usable to regulate access to the asset. The value can be based on the organizational information for the user, and the value can be further based on other user data attributed to another user in the set of users. Based on the determined value, the system can regulate access to the asset.
US11627135B2
A computer-implemented method for delivering restricted-access resources hosted on an origin server using a CDN comprising a plurality of CDN servers is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a CDN server from a client, a request for a restricted-access resource hosted on the origin server, wherein the request comprises a resource identifier of the restricted-access resource and an authentication token; and performing a delivery step comprising: creating, by the CDN server, a composite cache key comprising the resource identifier and at least part of the authentication token; comparing, by the CDN server, the composite cache key with one or more composite cache keys previously stored at the CDN server; if a match between the composite cache key and one of the previously stored composite cache keys is found, delivering, by the CDN server, a response associated to the composite cache key to the client; if no match between the composite cache key and one of the previously stored composite cache keys is found, performing a retrieval step comprising: forwarding, by the CDN server, the request to the origin server; checking, by the origin server, whether the authentication token allows access to the restricted-access resource; if the access is allowed: retrieving, by the origin server, the restricted-access resource; sending, by the origin server, a response comprising the restricted-access resource to the CDN server; if the access is not allowed: sending, by the origin server, a response comprising a refusal of the request to the CDN server; storing, by the CDN server, the response in association to the composite cache key; delivering, by the CDN server, the response to the client.
US11627128B2
The technology disclosed herein enables network consensus management using trusted execution environments. An example method can include: determining, by a communication component of a first trusted execution environment (TEE) for a first node of a network in a distributed computing system, that the first node is a leader for a first set of networking transactions processed by the network in the distributed computing system; determining, by the communication component, that the first set of networking transactions satisfies a transaction threshold; selecting, by the communication component, a second node from one or more additional nodes of the network in the distributed computing system; determining, by the communication component, whether the second node comprises a second TEE that satisfies an authentication threshold; and responsive to determining that the second node comprises a second TEE that satisfies the authentication threshold, setting, by the communication component, the second node as the leader for a second set of networking transactions processed by the network in the distributed computing system.
US11627126B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to simplified and expedited processing of access requests to network resources. Authorized individuals can set rules for accessing network resources. The rules can be implemented as a series of macro steps assigned to various access rights and can be consolidated in a single button or widget for a particular user group. In response to a user's one-click selection of the button or widget, all applicable access rights can be requested sequentially from appropriate services or individuals without requiring complex instructions or myriad user actions. User interfaces and API(s) are provided to enable users to request access and managers to setup access requirements and button configurations. Novel logical systems, architectures, platforms, graphical user interfaces, and methods are disclosed.
US11627122B2
A method includes: determining presence or absence of duplication processing by a node 1000, the node constituting each of a plurality of distributed ledger systems and managing identification information of call processing from a program on another distributed ledger system 1; and executing the call processing after deduplication of the call processing is executed based on a specific policy.
US11627119B2
The present invention provides methods, apparatuses, and systems for delivering protected streaming content to a receiving device. In an aspect of the present invention, a broadcaster provides streaming content. To ensure viewers are properly authorized, the streaming content is encrypted with a traffic key. The traffic key is provided to the users via a key stream message, which is encrypted with a service key. The user obtains at least one rights object from a rights issuers and the at least one rights object includes the service key so that the streaming content may be used. The at least one rights object also contains information regarding usage rights that may be configured by the rights issuer so that, depending on the user and/or the receiving device, different rights may be available. The key stream message may include a program category variable value that indicates the type of content and in conjunction with the rights object, determines what usage rights exist for the streaming content.
US11627091B2
Virtual application and desktop delivery may be optimized by supplying application metadata and user intent to the device between a client and a server hosting resources for the delivery. The data packets used to deliver the virtual application or desktop may be also tagged with references to the application. By supplying the metadata and tagging packets with the metadata, an intermediary network device may provide streams of data packets at the target QoS. In addition, the device may apply network resource allocation rules (e.g., firewalls and QoS configuration) for redirected content retrieved by the client out of band relative to a virtual channel such as the Internet. The network resource allocation rules may differ for different types of resources accessed. The device may also control a delivery agent on the server to modify communication sessions established through the virtual channels based on network conditions.
US11627090B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows. The method may include receiving, at a service controller of a federated controller, a request to deploy a workflow in a device ecosystem; decomposing, by the service controller, the workflow into a plurality of workflow portions; performing, by the service controller, a search in a capabilities and constraints data construct to identify a domain in which to perform a workflow portion of the plurality of workflow portions; providing the workflow portion and workflow constraints to a platform controller in the domain; performing, by the platform controller, a subgraph similarity check to determine that a previously executed workflow portion was successfully executed on a subgraph in the domain; provisioning, by the platform controller, a set of devices in the domain based on the subgraph; and executing the workflow portion in the domain.
US11627089B2
Determined is a topology of a communication network composed of a plurality of nodes connected or not respectively to at least one item of equipment, one of the nodes, referred to as the root node, being connected to an external network. A service class is determined for each node, from each node, information is obtained representing the quality of the link between the node and other nodes, for each link, parameters representing the quality of the link are calculated, the nodes are classified according to the service class thereof and according to the number of links making up the path that separates them from the root node, for each node and according to the classification, the possible paths connecting the node to the root node are determined, a score is calculated for each path determined, the path is selected for the node having the best score.
US11627063B1
A user device may measure unidirectional latency of applications over asymmetric links. The user device may accurately measure application level unidirectional latency over cellular networks, without synchronizing system clocks. The user device may accurately measure the unidirectional latency in both an uplink direction and a downlink direction, without using a high-precision system clock and without synchronizing clocks between the user device and an application server.
US11627061B1
Techniques are disclosed for capturing network traffic in a computing environment comprising a plurality of computing devices. A data capture definition defines a network element of interest and data traffic that is to be captured for the network element. The network element to selectively identifies the data packets to be captured. The identified packets are encapsulated within a VXLAN session and sent to a storage service.
US11627050B2
A network apparatus detects connection requests and extracts related data. The data is analyzed to determine whether the host is in an active state, whether the host matches a domain referrer and an amount of time from a last connection request. If it is detected that the host is not in an active state, the host is not matching the domain referrer and the amount of time from the last connection request exceeds a predetermined new session threshold, then a connection request is classified as a main request. If the amount of time from the last connection request is below a predetermined continuous session threshold, then any connection requests following the main request are classified as sub-requests. If the domain of host in the active state does not match current host for a sub-request, the sub-request is classified as a third-party request.
US11627046B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, from a first source of information, a first bandwidth prediction, wherein the first bandwidth prediction is based upon historical bandwidth data that had been provided by a plurality of devices; obtaining, from a second source of information, a second bandwidth prediction, wherein the second bandwidth prediction is based upon network measurements, and wherein the network measurements are other than the historical bandwidth data that had been provided by the plurality of devices; selecting as a source of a future bandwidth prediction one of the first source of information and the second source of information, wherein the selecting is based upon a comparison of each of the first bandwidth prediction and the second bandwidth prediction to an actually obtained bandwidth of the device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11627045B2
Techniques for grouping and labeling Internet of Things (IoT) devices are disclosed. A set of raw events associated with a first IoT device is identified. A context of the first IoT device is identified, and used to enrich at least some of the raw events. At least some of the raw events are aggregated. A context-based IoT device grouping model is generated based at least in part on the aggregated events and events associated with a second IoT device in operation. The model is applied to determine that a third IoT device belongs to a particular group. A deviation by the third IoT device from group behavior is detected and an alert is generated in response.
US11627044B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing service diagnostics and provisioning via a service action guidance engine (“SAGE”). In various embodiments, SAGE may autonomously analyze data to identify any issues with provisioning one or more first services, among a plurality of services, to a first customer of a service provider. SAGE may autonomously identify one or more first automation actions from a plurality of automation actions to address at least one first issue identified based on the analysis, and may autonomously send one or more first instructions to one or more first automation bots, among a plurality of automation bots, to perform the identified one or more first automation actions. SAGE may also generate and present one or more guidance messages to call center users to guide interaction between customers and the call center users, based on analysis data associated with provisioning of services to the customers.
US11627042B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for managing and exchanging configuration information between two nodes in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method implemented on a first node is disclosed. The method comprises: generating a first message that comprises first configuration information associated with the first node; and transmitting the first message to a second node for exchanging configuration information with the second node, wherein the first node and the second node cooperate to serve at least one cell in a wireless network as a base station.
US11627027B2
A technique for wireless communication of a punctured null data packet with a long training field sequence is disclosed. The long training field (LTF) sequence is generated for the null data packet (NDP) for transmission over a channel having a bandwidth that is an integer multiple of 80 MHz. The LTF sequence is modulated onto a plurality of tones of the channel excluding tones within a punctured subchannel of a plurality of subchannels of the channel. The modulation may be based on a size and location of the punctured subchannel and a symbol duration associated with transmitting the LTF sequence. The NDP is transmitted including the LTF sequence to a second wireless communication device via the channel. A partial bandwidth feedback may be received in response to the LTF in the punctured NDP.
US11627026B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically, to a method and a device for the method which comprises the steps of: receiving resource allocation information for transmitting uplink data; generating a data demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence; and transmitting the data and the DMRS sequence on a frequency band indicated by the resource allocation information, wherein the frequency band comprises frequency resource units, and the DMRS sequence is generated for each frequency resource unit.
US11627025B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Autonomous transmissions between a user equipment (UE) and a base station may be configured that include at least one of a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) or resources for the transmissions. In some cases, a trigger may be detected that changes the MCS or resources to be used for the autonomous transmissions. The trigger may include the presence or absence of retransmissions or the value of a channel measurement falling below or exceeding a threshold value. Accordingly, the base station and UE may adjust the MCS or resources to be used for the autonomous transmissions based on detecting the trigger and then communicate using the adjusted MCS or resources. In some cases, the configuration for the autonomous transmissions may be signaled via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE).
US11627024B2
Methods and apparatus for implementing passive wideband phase shifters are described. The phase shifters exhibit good linearity over a wide range of frequencies. Furthermore at least some features are directed to allowing the phase shifters to be implemented in some embodiments in a relatively compact manner making such embodiments well suited for supporting arrays and/or other implementations where a large number of phase shifters are to be implemented in a relatively small chip area.
US11627021B2
Provided are a memory device and a memory system including the same. The memory device may include a data bus inversion (DBI) mode selector configured to select a first multi-bit DBI signal from among a plurality of multi-bit DBI signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of DBI modes according to multi-bit data; a multi-mode DBI encoder configured to generate encoded multi-bit data by DBI encoding the multi-bit data according to the first multi-bit DBI signal; and a transceiver configured to transmit a data symbol corresponding to the encoded multi-bit data through a data channel and transmit a DBI symbol corresponding to the first multi-bit DBI signal through a DBI channel.
US11627016B2
In one embodiment, a segment routing and tunnel exchange provides packet forwarding efficiencies in a network, including providing an exchange between a segment routing domain and a packet tunnel domain. One application includes the segment routing and tunnel exchange interfacing segment routing packet forwarding (e.g., in a Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and/or 5-G user plane) and packet tunnel forwarding in access networks (e.g., replacing a portion of a tunnel between an access node and a user plane function for accessing a corresponding data network). In one embodiment, a network provides mobility services using a segment routing data plane that spans segment routing and tunnel exchange(s) and segment routing-enabled user plane functions. One embodiment uses the segment routing data plane without any modification to a (radio) access network (R)AN (e.g., Evolved NodeB, Next Generation NodeB) nor to user equipment (e.g., any end user device).
US11627014B2
A distributed air data module system includes several air data systems and a control module communicatively connected to each air data system via a data channel. Each of the air data systems includes a sensor that is configured to sense an air data parameter and to provide a sensor output signal that is indicative of the sensed air data parameter, and a sensor analog-to-digital converter that produces a digital air data parameter signal that is representative of the sensor output signal. Each air data system has an associated air data system address code. The control module is configured to generate a selected air data system address code corresponding to a selected air data systems, receive the digital air data parameter signal associated with the selected air data system via the data channel, and transmit the digital air data parameter signal via an aircraft data bus.
US11627011B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method implemented by a computing device executing an artificial intelligence electronic assistant application. In some examples, the method includes searching a local area network for smart home devices to determine an identifier associated with a smart home device, provisioning the smart home device to an ecosystem of devices that is managed by the computing device, and automatically arbitrating communication of the smart home device based on the provisioning.
US11626998B2
A request to sign a provided payload is received, wherein the payload includes an automation script specified to execute on one or more management service instances. The automation script is validated, including by modifying the payload to add metadata data associated with the validation. An encrypted version of a digital signature private key that was received is sent to a credential system. An unencrypted version is received and used to sign the modified payload. The signed modified payload is provided in response to the request to sign the provided payload. The signed modified payload is configured to, in response to a request to execute the automation script on the one or more of the management service instances, be verified using a public key corresponding to the digital signature private key and allow a validation of the automation script at least in part by using the included added metadata.
US11626995B2
A cryptographic accelerator may include an input buffer to store an additional authenticated data (AAD) portion of a message and a plain text portion of the message. The cryptographic accelerator may include a cryptographic engine to generate cipher text using the plain text portion of the message, generate a message authentication code (MAC) using the AAD portion and either the plain text portion or the cipher text, determine a configuration for creating an assembled message in an output buffer of the cryptographic accelerator, and provide at least the cipher text to the output buffer to create the assembled message in the output buffer according to the configuration. The cryptographic accelerator may include the output buffer to provide the assembled message.
US11626990B1
Described are platforms, systems, and methods for providing a cryptographic record of an energy contract persisted as a confirm to a distributed ledger. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving confirm data comprising a plurality of obligations arising from an energy contract entered into by at least two parties, wherein the obligations comprise physical obligations for an amount of energy and financial obligations for the amount of energy; generating at least one token based on the obligations, wherein each token comprises a token state and a range for a unit for measuring the amount of energy; persisting a confirm to a distributed ledger, the confirm generated based on the confirm data and the at least one token; and providing a cryptographic record of the energy contract to each of the parties according to the confirm and the at least one token state.
US11626988B2
A method for executing hyper-personalized interactions across enterprises using interactions added to blockchains as transactions according to one embodiment includes determining, by a first enterprise system, an intent from a first interaction added to a blockchain via a blockchain transaction, determining, by the first enterprise system, a correlation between the intent and a set of subsequent related interactions with one or more enterprise systems different from the first enterprise system, and generating, by the first enterprise system, a second interaction with a second enterprise system of the one or more enterprise systems different from the first enterprise system, wherein the second interaction is within the set of subsequent related interactions.
US11626985B1
A computer-implemented method for reencrypting data. A key management service receives a web service application programming interface or other request to reencrypt data from a first key to a second key, where the first key and the second key are managed by the key management service on behalf of a user of the service. The key management service response to the request by performing the associated operations and providing a response with the reencrypted data.
US11626980B2
A client may transmit an authentication request to a server. The server may initiate a key agreement process using a short-lived private key generated at the server and a public key of the device, generate a shared secret, and derive a symmetric key. The symmetric key may be used to encrypt a random challenge. Further, the server initiates a key agreement process for the client using the partial private key that was generated for the client and the short-lived public key generated at the server. A partial key agreement result and the encrypted random challenge may be transmitted to the client. The client may complete the key agreement process using the partial key agreement result and a respective portion of the private key. The client may derive the encryption key and decrypt the random challenge. An indication of the random challenge may be transmitted to the server, which authenticates the client.
US11626979B2
A server can record a device static public key (Sd) and a server static private key (ss). The server can receive a message with (i) a device ephemeral public key (Ed) and (ii) a ciphertext encrypted with key K1. The server can (i) conduct an EC point addition operation on Sd and Ed and (ii) send the resulting point/secret X0 to a key server. The key server can (i) perform a first elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange using X0 and a network static private key to derive a point/secret X1, and (ii) send X1 to the server. The server can conduct a second ECDH key exchange using the server static private key and point X0 to derive point X2. The server can conduct an EC point addition on X1 and X2 to derive X3. The server can derive K1 using X3 and decrypt the ciphertext.
US11626976B2
An information processing system capable of processing the encrypted data efficiently is provided. The information processing system of the present invention includes: a key management unit configured to manage a system key; a storage unit configured to store an encryption data encrypted by the system key; and a processing execution unit configured to temporarily construct a virtual execution environment protected from a standard execution environment and decrypt the encryption data in the virtual execution environment based on the system key acquired from the key management unit.
US11626967B2
A radio frequency (RF) module including a module substrate; a filter with a passband including communication band for TDD; a switch connected to the filter; a power amplifier that is arranged on a first surface of the module substrate and connected to the filter via the switch; a low-noise amplifier that is arranged on a second surface of the module substrate and connected to the filter via the switch; a filter with a passband including communication band; a low-noise amplifier that is arranged on the second surface and connected to the filter; and a conductive member arranged between the low-noise amplifiers on the second surface.
US11626965B2
The present invention is designed to improve the throughput of radio communication by using partial frequency bands for DL/UL communication. A user terminal has a receiving section that receives downlink control information by using a first partial frequency band (BWP) among a plurality of BWPs configured in a carrier, and a control section that identifies, via a resource allocation field (RA field) having a size that is configured based on a given BWP among the plurality of BWPs, a resource of a second BWP, which is different from the first BWP, in the downlink control information.
US11626964B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: A network device sends resource indication information to a terminal device, so that the terminal device determines, based on the resource indication information, a resource allocated by the network device. The resource indication information is used to indicate location information of a resource in at least one BWP in a system bandwidth and bandwidth information of the at least one BWP. Further, the network device receives, on a resource corresponding to the resource indication information, uplink data sent by the terminal device. It can be learned that, in the embodiments, the network device may indicate a system bandwidth of any size and/or a resource in any BWP in the system bandwidth to the terminal device, so that the terminal device can perform data transmission on the indicated resource.
US11626960B2
Aspects relate to mechanisms for wireless communication device to transmit indications of channel qualities for uplink and downlink transmission involving multi-subscriber identification module (MSIM) devices. A user equipment (UE) having a first subscription and a second subscription is provided. The UE identifies one or more base-band resource outage periods associated with the first subscription based on a utilization of at least partially shared base-band resources by the second subscription. The UE also transmits one or more medium access control (MAC) control elements (MAC-CEs) to a base station requesting a modification of one or more data transmission timing parameters of one or more data elements associated with the first subscription based on the one or more base-band resource outage periods associated with the first subscription.
US11626956B2
There are provided a user equipment, a base station, and a communication thereof. The UE operative for sidelink transmission based on base station scheduling, comprising: a receiver, operative to receive first control information from a base station; determination circuitry, operative to determine whether a shortened time interval is used for a signaling interaction of the user equipment and the base station for sidelink transmission according to the received first control information; and a transmitter, operative to transmit second control information to the base station during the signaling interaction using the shortened time interval after the determination circuitry determines that the shortened time interval is used for the signaling interaction for sidelink transmission; wherein a length of the shortened time interval is less than a length of a standard time interval.
US11626945B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for wireless communication in a user equipment and a base station. The user equipment receives a first information, and transmits a first wireless signal in a first time domain resource of a first sub-band. The first information is used to indicate a first parameter; the first parameter is associated with one of L spatial parameter sets; the L spatial parameter sets are respectively in one-to-one corresponding to L time domain resources; the first time domain resource is one of the L time domain resources. The L time domain resources belong to a first time window; the first information is used to determine the first time domain resource from the L time domain resources; the first parameter is used to determine a transmitting antenna port group of the first wireless signal.
US11626940B2
A radio reception apparatus and the like capable of eliminating a pseudo reception error while minimizing a change in a frame format are provided. A radio reception apparatus 30 according to the present disclosure includes: a receiving unit 301 configured to receive a frame from a radio transmission apparatus 20; a determination unit 302 configured to determine, using the frame received from the radio transmission apparatus 20, whether or not transmission of a preceding frame that has been received from the radio transmission apparatus 20 before receiving of the frame has been interrupted; and an error processing unit 306 configured to eliminate a reception error regarding the preceding frame in accordance with a determination that the transmission of the preceding frame has been interrupted.
US11626929B2
Described herein are optical phased array receivers. In various embodiments, an optical phased array receiver includes a set of antennas, each antenna configured to receive an optical signal; a local oscillator configured to generate one or more optical carrier signals; one or more optical signal combiners coupled to the set of antennas and the local oscillator, the one or more optical signal combiners configured to combine (i) the optical signals received by the antennas and (ii) the optical carrier signal; and one or more photodetectors configured to extract information carried by one or more of the received optical signals into an electrical signal, wherein the extracted information is indicative of a phase and an amplitude of the one or more of the received optical signals.
US11626919B2
Systems and methods described herein are provided for beamforming and uplink control and data transmission techniques. Such techniques enable a UE to maintain at least one beam process for operation with multiple beams and/or points. A beam process may be indicated for transmission or reception over a downlink or uplink physical channel. Power, timing, and channel state information may be specific to a beam process. A beam process may be established as part of a random access procedure in which resources may be provisioned in random access response messages. Techniques are provided to handle beam process failures, to use beam processes for mobility, and to select beams using open-loop and closed-loop selection procedures.
US11626915B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic beam pattern management of one or more antenna elements of an antenna array at a cell site. The methods can include receiving information associated with one or more user devices, where the information includes elevation information, and determining whether the user devices are positioned at an increased elevation, a decreased elevation, or an equal elevation relative to a threshold elevation value. The methods can also include shifting between broadcast footprints, where the broadcast footprints are different in at least a vertical plane or in at least an azimuthal plane.
US11626909B2
A method for enhancing receiving signal power at a receiver is provided. The method includes estimating a channel gain by transmitting a pilot signal to the receiver through each antenna from a plurality of antennas of a transmitter and an IRS, determining an antenna selection metric based on the channel gain in transmitting the pilot signal to the receiver through each antenna of the transmitter and the IRS, identifying an antenna from the plurality of antennas that causes to provide the largest antenna selection metric, determining a reflection coefficient for each reflector of the IRS based on the identified antenna, configuring the reflectors of the IRS with the reflection coefficient, and transmitting the signal to the receiver through the identified antenna and the configured reflectors.
US11626903B2
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include a wireless power transmission system and a wireless power receiver system. The wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna configured to couple with a receiver antenna to transmit alternating current (AC) wireless signals to the receiver antenna. Antenna coupling may be inductive and may operate in conformance to a wireless power and data transfer protocol. A transmission controller drives the transmitter antenna at an operating frequency, and either the wireless power transmission system or the wireless power receiver system may damp the wireless power transmission to create a data signal containing a serial asynchronous data signal.
US11626900B2
A radio communication apparatus includes: a first radio frequency subunit, configured to modulate a third analog baseband signal into a third carrier signal, and send the third carrier signal to a first switch; a second radio frequency subunit, configured to modulate a fourth analog baseband signal into a fourth carrier signal, and send the fourth carrier signal to a second switch; the first switch; the second switch; and the first duplexer shared by a first switch and a second switch, configured to receive the third carrier signal from the first switch, receive the fourth carrier signal from the second switch, filter the third carrier signal and the fourth carrier signal to combine the third carrier signal and the fourth carrier signal to obtain a second carrier aggregation signal, and input the second carrier aggregation signal to a first antenna.
US11626899B2
Radio-frequency signal sending/receiving circuit and radio-frequency signal sending/receiving device
A radio-frequency signal sending/receiving circuit includes a low-noise amplifier electrically connected to a first terminal, a first switch electrically connected to the input terminal of the low-noise amplifier, a band pass filter electrically connected at one end to the other end of the first switch and at the other end to a first antenna via a fourth terminal, a power amplifier electrically connected to a second terminal, a second switch electrically connected at one end to the output terminal of the power amplifier and at the other end to the band pass filter, a third switch electrically connected at one end to the output terminal of the power amplifier and at the other end to a fifth terminal, and a fourth switch electrically connected at one end to a third terminal and at the other end to the fifth terminal.
US11626895B2
Example methods and apparatus to measure exposure to broadcast signals having embedded data are disclosed. Example meters disclosed herein are to decode a watermark from a first audio signal to obtain an identifier of a broadcast station, and query a data structure based on (i) the identifier of the broadcast station obtained from the watermark and (ii) a location, the query to obtain a transmission frequency of a broadcast signal corresponding to the audio signal. Disclosed example meters are also to tune a radio to the transmission frequency of the broadcast signal, and compare the first audio signal with a second audio signal from the radio to verify an identity of the broadcast station.
US11626893B2
Reducing harmonics in a radio transmitter can involve using an electronically tunable harmonic filter (ETHF) in a transmit path at the output of an RF power amplifier stage to reduce harmonic signal components in the RF transmit signal. At least one filter characteristic of the ETHF is selectively controlled using one or more RF switch. The one or more RF switches that are used to control the ETHF can include a CMOS-SOI and/or a MEMs type of switch. Various filter characteristics of the ETHF can be controlled including a bandwidth and/or a center frequency of the ETHF.
US11626890B2
Example apparatus and methods control whether and when hybrid rateless Reed Solomon (RS) error correcting codes (ECC) for a message are produced, stored, and distributed. The control may be based on a property (e.g., reliability, error state, speed) of a message recipient. Example apparatus and methods may also control whether and when fountain codes for the message are produced, stored, and distributed. Once again, the control may be based on a property of a message or ECC recipient. Both the hybrid rateless RS ECC and the fountain codes may be produced from data stored in a modified RS matrix. The modified RS matrix may store row-centric error detection codes (EDC) instead of conventional cyclic redundancy check (CRC) characters. The modified RS matrix may store column-centric ECC that may be produced serially. Different types or numbers of ECC may be produced, stored, and provided for different messages stored at different recipients.
US11626888B2
Provided is a design method and apparatus for quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoding. The method includes: performing LDPC encoding on a K-bit information sequence to be encoded according to a parity check matrix of a quasi-cyclic LDPC code to obtain an N-bit LDPC encoded sequence, where the parity check matrix is determined according to a basic matrix and a lifting size Z, and the basic matrix is determined according to the lifting size Z and a coefficient matrix, where K is a positive integer, N is an integer greater than K, and Z is a positive integer.
US11626877B2
A high-side driving circuit drives a high-side transistor configured as an N-channel or NPN transistor, according to an input signal. A level shift circuit level shifts the input signal. A latch stabilization circuit selects one node that corresponds to an output of the level shift circuit, from among a first node and a second node configured as complementary nodes provided to a latch circuit, and sinks a current from the node thus selected.
US11626876B2
Push-pull integrated circuit output drivers may interfere with communication by other entities on a bus when an integrated circuit is powered down. When there is no power and/or when the bonding pad is externally driven above the internal supply voltage, the substrate/body/well of the p-channel field effect transistor (PFET) of the output driver is biased to prevent its drain diode from becoming forward biased thereby preventing interference with communication on the bus. Also, when there is no power, driver is powered down or pull up is disabled, the gate of the driver PFET is driven to a voltage that ensures the driver PFET remains off when the bonding pad is externally driven above the internal supply voltage.
US11626875B2
A circuit includes a first transistor having first and second current terminals and a first control input, and a second transistor having third and fourth current terminals and a second control input. The third current terminal is connected to the second current terminal at an intermediate node and the fourth current terminal connected to a ground or supply node. In some cases, a third transistor is connected to the intermediate node to bias the intermediate rather than letting the intermediate node float. In other cases, a capacitor is connected to the intermediate node to reduce a negative voltage that might otherwise be present on the intermediate node.
US11626874B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for conveying and receiving information as electrical signals in a computing system are disclosed. A computing system includes multiple transmitters sending singled-ended data signals to multiple receivers. A termination voltage is generated and sent to the multiple receivers. The termination voltage is coupled to each of signal termination circuitry and signal sampling circuitry within each of the multiple receivers. Any change in the termination voltage affects the termination circuitry and affects comparisons performed by the sampling circuitry. Received signals are reconstructed at the receivers using the received signals, the signal termination circuitry and the signal sampling circuitry.
US11626872B2
A circuit includes first to third transistors. The first transistor includes a first terminal coupled to a first voltage, and a second terminal coupled to a connection. The second transistor includes a gate terminal coupled to the gate terminal of the first transistor, a first terminal coupled to a second voltage, and a second terminal coupled to the connection. The third transistor includes a first terminal coupled to the connection, a second terminal coupled to a node between the second terminals of the first and second transistors. The third transistor is controlled to be turned ON at a beginning of a first edge of a driving signal on the connection to pull a voltage of the driving signal on the first edge toward a threshold voltage, and be turned OFF in response to and after the voltage of the driving signal on the first edge reaching the threshold voltage.
US11626866B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate transitioning a device from a first state to a second state. A switch described herein allows for the use of an electronic circuit to perform the toggle and persistence functions while simultaneously giving more flexibility to the industrial design and physical switch implementation. The switch allows this preserving of the state using only a toggle on a voltage and thus allowing for a hardware only solution. The switch described herein allows for the use of smaller and less complicated mechanical switches allowing for more compact industrial designs. The switch uses a programmable voltage reference as a 1 bit non-volatile memory cell that is programmed by means of a logic pulse to the device. This allows a software independent setting of the state of the privacy switch. This state will remain through power cycles.
US11626863B1
The present disclosure relates to a high speed, differential input, single phase clock circuit. The circuit may include a cross-coupled PMOS connected with a cross-coupled NMOS via a pass gate. The circuit may further include a single-phase clock in communication with the cross-coupled PMOS and the cross-coupled NMOS. The circuit may also include a master and a slave each having an output node that charges and discharges to VDD or ground respectively, wherein there is no direct feedback from an output of the circuit to an input the circuit and there is no precharged state in the circuit.
US11626855B2
A front-end module may include an acoustic wave filter with a first and second interdigital transducer electrode, and a low noise amplifier (LNA) that converts a differential input to a single-ended output with respect to ground. The first interdigital transducer electrode may be single-ended with a first input bus bar configured to receive 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 LNA may have a differential input connected to the acoustic wave filter, 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.
US11626853B2
A power supply circuit includes a switchable match, including a high voltage bus connectable to a load, a low voltage bus connectable to the load such that the load is in series between the high voltage bus and the low voltage bus, at least two capacitors having a fixed value of capacitance selectively connectable between the high voltage bus and the low voltage bus and a plurality of solid state switches equal in number to the number of capacitors having a fixed value of capacitance connectable between the high voltage bus and the low voltage bus, each switch configured and arranged to selectively connect or disconnect one of the capacitors having a fixed value of capacitance selectively connectable between the high voltage bus and the low voltage bus into electrical communication between the high voltage bus and the low voltage bus, and a variable frequency power supply including a high voltage output connection, the high voltage connection connected to the high voltage bus.
US11626847B2
Various examples are directed to amplifier circuits and methods for operating amplifier circuits. The amplifier circuit may comprise a first amplifier stage. The first amplifier stage comprises a first amplifier, a first feedback resistance, a second amplifier, a second feedback resistance, and a gain resistance. A first current source may be electrically coupled to provide a first current across the gain resistance in a first direction. A second current source may be electrically coupled to provide a second current across the gain resistance in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US11626834B2
A converter and a power backfeed control method applied to a photovoltaic power generation system are provided. The power backfeed control method includes: controlling, according to a backfeed instruction, the converter to enter a backfeed mode, where in the backfeed mode, the converter can transmit energy of the power grid to a selected photovoltaic string with a corresponding number; determining a backfeed control voltage according to the backfeed instruction, and determining a voltage limit in a process of determining the backfeed control voltage; determining an actual backfeed voltage based on the backfeed control voltage and the voltage limit, where the actual backfeed voltage is a smaller one of the backfeed control voltage and the voltage limit; and controlling the converter to output the actual backfeed voltage to the selected photovoltaic string, to enable the selected photovoltaic string to generate an electroluminescent effect.
US11626832B2
Solar trackers that may be advantageously employed on sloped and/or variable terrain to rotate solar panels to track motion of the sun across the sky include bearing assemblies and other mechanical features configured to address mechanical challenges posed by the sloped and/or variable terrain that might otherwise prevent or complicate use of solar trackers on such terrain.
US11626830B2
The present disclosure is directed to an energy management system that allows leveraging DC energy at user premises. The system allows for use of local or remote DC energy generated by photovoltaic modules or a battery pack. The system comprises a premises electricity network interface arranged to deliver and draw energy to and from a premises electricity network; a premises energy measurement module arranged to measure the amount of energy required by the premises electricity network; a DC energy input arranged to receive energy from one or more DC energy sources; and an energy analytics module arranged to receive data from the energy measurement module and, based on the received data, calculate an amount of energy to be delivered to the premises electricity network via the premises electricity network interface.
US11626823B2
A power supply system includes a power source, a relay, a switch, and a controller. The relay is interposed between the power source and a load. The switch is configured to be coupled to the load in a state where the switch allows or disallows for power supply from the power source to the load when the relay is in a closed state. The controller is configured to control an operation of the switch. The controller is configured to execute forced driving control at a time of a closing operation of the relay. The forced driving control causes the switch to operate independently of a request for driving the load and thereby causes power to be supplied from the power source to the load.
US11626816B2
An integrated self-sustainable power supply includes a piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) beam, a power management unit (PMU) circuit located on the PEH beam, a rechargeable battery located on the PEH beam, and a positive regulated power supply output and a negative regulated power supply output. The PMU circuit includes electrical inputs/outputs. The rechargeable battery includes a negative access pad and a positive access pad, which are in electrical communication with the electrical inputs/outputs of the PMU circuit. The positive regulated power supply output and the negative regulated power supply output are also in electrical communication with the electrical inputs/outputs of the PMU circuit.
US11626815B2
A novel high-precision rigid-flexible coupling rotating platform includes a foundation, a rigid bearing, a bearing sleeve, a core rotating platform, a rotating driver and a coder; the bearing sleeve is fixed on the foundation; the rigid bearing is in rotatable drive connection with the core rotating platform, and connected with the foundation through the bearing sleeve; an upper surface of the core rotating platform is provided with a plurality of groups of flexible hinges; when the rotating driver applies a driving force to rotate the core rotating platform, the driving force elastically deforms the flexible hinge rings. The flexible hinges are used and disposed on the upper surface of the core rotating platform; without disassembling the whole rotating platform, a corresponding group of flexible hinges can be changed but an assembling relationship between other groups of flexible hinges cannot be broken.
US11626803B2
A switching power converter is provided that adaptively changes the on-time period for an auxiliary switch transistor to locate a boundary between sufficient and insufficient energy.
US11626793B2
An LED driver is described, the LED driver comprising: a back end module BE comprising a switch mode power converter SMPS configured to operate in a self-oscillating current control mode, the back end module BE further comprising: an input terminal configured to receive a DC bus voltage; an output terminal configured to output a supply current for powering an LED fixture; a control unit configured to control the back end module to operate the SMPS in a voltage control mode by: determining a switching frequency of the SMPS when operating in the self-oscillating current control mode; determining a minimal switching frequency of the SMPS and receiving an input signal representative of the supply current for powering the LED fixture; wherein the control unit is further configured to control the switch of the SMPS in the voltage control mode by: operating the switch of the SMPS at a substantially constant frequency based on the determined minimal switching frequency and modulating a duty cycle of the switch to maintain the supply current at a desired current.
US11626790B2
A power conversion device includes a circuit board on which wirings are formed and plural semiconductor switching elements are mounted; and a driver circuit which is mounted on the circuit board, and operates at least two of the plural semiconductor switching elements together; wherein the plural semiconductor switching elements are provided as packages having a same shape, and placed in such a positional relationship in which an inter-control-terminal distance that is a distance between their respective control terminals is shorter than a length of a terminal side that is a side of each of the packages at which the control terminal is placed.
US11626786B2
A vibration generator includes a housing; a vibrator; an elastic member that connects the housing and the vibrator; and a driver that causes the vibrator to vibrate. The elastic member includes a housing connection portion that is connected to the housing, a vibrator support portion that supports the vibrator, and a spring portion that connects the housing connection portion and the vibrator support portion. The housing connection portion and the vibrator support portion are in the same plane. The spring portion is formed so as to be approximately perpendicular to the housing connection portion and the vibrator support portion.
US11626755B2
A multi-power-mode ultra-low-power address detector for Radio Frequency (RF) wakeup receivers is provided herein. The address detector is implemented when combined charging and wake-up of a device is required. The method includes a set of components to process a complex address waveform. This address includes a preamble composed of a pulse with a specific width, followed by a digital Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) modulated bit pattern.
US11626745B2
A transportable power supply unit has at least one rechargeable electrical store for storing electric power and having a housing. At least one inverter converts a DC voltage of the rechargeable electrical store into a first AC voltage, such as a first grid voltage and/or first three-phase current, and/or into a second AC voltage. At least one connection unit, such as at least one socket and a plug, is provided for the first AC voltage and/or for the grid voltage. The connection unit is in the form of an AC voltage output of the inverter for the first AC voltage. At least one detachably connectable connecting unit is provided for the rechargeable electrical store. The connecting unit comprises at least one electrical contact apparatus for making detachably connectable contact with the rechargeable electrical store and at least one detachably connectable retaining apparatus for detachably connectably retaining the rechargeable electrical store in the housing.
US11626739B2
The invention relates to a hybrid power plant for producing power to the electrical grid, the hybrid power plant comprising a plurality of energy assets; a first renewable power generating unit, such as wind turbine generators, and an energy storage unit, preferably a battery energy storage system. The hybrid power plant has a power plant controller arranged to communicate with the plurality of energy assets, and, when an under-frequency event occurs, the energy storage unit provides frequency support during the under-frequency event by providing additional power as a function of a state of charge of the energy storage unit at the time when the under-frequency event occurs. Thus, during an under-frequency event, it is possible to obtain a more stable power output from the hybrid power plant.
US11626738B2
This application relates to the field of power technologies, and provides a photovoltaic system, which can increase a working voltage of a photovoltaic string. The photovoltaic system includes an adapter circuit, a first photovoltaic string, a second photovoltaic string, and a controller. The controller includes an inverter or a combiner box. The first photovoltaic string and the second photovoltaic string are configured to provide electric energy for the controller. The adapter circuit is configured to be connected to the first photovoltaic string in series, and further configured to connect the second photovoltaic string to the first photovoltaic string in series when a voltage of the first photovoltaic string is lower than a preset threshold.
US11626737B2
A method of controlling a renewable energy power plant is provided. The method includes retrieving output power measurement values for each inverter of a total number of inverters from a plurality of sensors provided at a location proximal to each inverter and retrieving a point of interconnection (POI) output measurement value for the renewable energy power plant based on a plurality of ON inverters of the total number of inverters. The method also includes calculating a POI measured setpoint for the renewable energy power plant based on a difference between a power reference value for the renewable energy power plant and the retrieved POI output measurement value for the renewable energy power plant, assigning a setpoint to each of the ON inverters and classifying each ON inverter as either a TRACKING ON inverter or a NON-TRACKING ON inverter based on whether each ON inverter is tracking at the setpoint.
US11626720B1
A multiphase ground fault circuit interrupter includes a first phase power line input, a second phase power line input, a third phase power line input, a neutral line input, a controller circuit having a relay control output, a first phase latching relay having a first phase switch input coupled to the first phase power line input and a first phase relay control input coupled to the relay control output of the controller circuit, a sensor having a core and a sensor pickup coupled to the controller circuit, and a first phase load wire coupled to a first phase switch output of the first phase latching relay and passed through the core.
US11626717B2
A cable support for securing wires and cables to an underlying structure without the use of tools and allows the cable support to be opened or closed to add or remove cables and wires. The cable support may further include padding material or impediments for protecting and securing the wires and cables in place.
US11626711B2
The present disclosure provides an electrical power supply structure comprising a plurality of insulated pipes, each insulated pipe extending longitudinally and configured to carry high amperage electrical power, a barrier support plate comprising one or more openings for receiving the plurality of insulated pipes, the barrier support plate configured for mounting over a hole through a floor of a building, a first support structure extending longitudinally upward from an upper side of the barrier support plate, and a second support structure extending longitudinally downward from a lower side of the barrier support plate through the hole. Each of the first and second support structures comprises a longitudinally extending enclosure having a plurality of transversely extending conductor support members for supporting the plurality of insulated pipes, and the plurality of insulated pipes are grouped by phase.
US11626710B2
Disclosed is a current-injection organic semiconductor laser diode comprising a pair of electrodes, an optical resonator structure, and one or more organic layers including a light amplification layer composed of an organic semiconductor, which has a sufficient overlap between the distribution of excitor density and the electric field intensity distribution of the resonant optical mode during current injection to emit laser light.
US11626708B1
A gallium- and nitrogen-containing laser device including an etched facet with surface treatment to improve an optical beam is disclosed.
US11626706B2
An optical member includes: a main body having transparency or heat dissipation properties; an optical film disposed on an upper face of the main body; a metal film disposed on the upper face of the main body in a region other than a region where the optical film is disposed; a surrounding part joined via the metal film; and a wavelength conversion part surrounded by the surrounding part. The wavelength conversion part is positioned inward of a periphery of the optical film in a top view. The wavelength conversion part is not directly bonded to the optical film and the main body.
US11626704B2
A radiation source arrangement causes interaction between pump radiation (340) and a gaseous medium (406) to generate EUV or soft x-ray radiation by higher harmonic generation (HHG). The operating condition of the radiation source arrangement is monitored by detecting (420/430) third radiation (422) resulting from an interaction between condition sensing radiation and the medium. The condition sensing radiation (740) may be the same as the first radiation or it may be separately applied. The third radiation may be for example a portion of the condition sensing radiation that is reflected or scattered by a vacuum-gas boundary, or it may be lower harmonics of the HHG process, or fluorescence, or scattered. The sensor may include one or more image detectors so that spatial distribution of intensity and/or the angular distribution of the third radiation may be analyzed. Feedback control based on the determined operating condition stabilizes operation of the HHG source.
US11626703B2
A device for stripping a cable is provided. The device includes an extraction chamber and a pusher mounted with an ability to move in the extraction chamber between a rest position and a deployed position. A distal end of the extraction chamber is closed by a flange including a slot. The pusher pushes on the cable in order to press the cable against the slot in the flange.
US11626698B2
An electronic power connector including a contact configured to electrically connect a power supply to a load. The electronic power connector further including a contact core configured to receive the contact, the contact core including a transformer winding wrapped around the contact core, the transformer winding configured to sense a current.
US11626695B2
A contact assembly includes signal contact modules and ground contact modules arranged in a contact module stack. Each ground contact module includes a ground leadframe having a ground plate and a dielectric body holding the ground plate. The ground plate includes skewer pockets and spring fingers extending into the corresponding skewer pocket. The contact assembly includes ground skewers extending across the contact module stack. The ground skewers are received in corresponding skewer pockets. The spring fingers engage the ground skewers to electrically connect the ground plate to the ground skewers. Each ground plate is coupled to each of the ground skewers. The ground skewers electrically common each of the ground plates together.
US11626691B2
A connector assembly comprises a first connector including a first connector body, and a shaft connected to the first connector body. A lever is rotatably connected to the shaft and is selectively fixable to the first connector body in a caught state. A second connector of the assembly includes a second connector body insertable into the first connector body, a releasing element defined on the second connector body for releasing the lever from the caught state, and a biasing element defined on the second connector body for rotating the lever after being released from the caught state.
US11626687B2
A connector housing for an electrical plug connector includes a cable duct and an oscillation suppressor pivotable about a pivot axis into the cable duct. The cable duct receives an electrical cable of a predefined outer diameter along a plug-in direction. The cable duct in a cross section perpendicular to the plug-in direction has a clear dimension in a pivoted state of the oscillation suppressor in the cable duct equal to or less than the predefined outer diameter of the electrical cable.
US11626683B2
It is aimed to provide a connector capable of properly exhibiting functions of a detection piece. A connector is provided with a housing (10) including a cavity (16), a terminal fitting (40) to be inserted into the cavity (16) from behind and including a tubular box portion (41) having open front and rear surfaces, a tab (31) of a mating terminal fitting (30) being inserted into the box portion (41) from front, and a retainer (60) to be mounted into the housing (10) and including a detection piece (64) capable of coming into contact with a rear end of the box portion (41). The detection piece (64) includes a recess (73) for avoiding interference with the tab (31) passed through the box portion (41).
US11626681B2
A hybrid edge connector includes an insulative housing with a slot lined with signal terminals, in a signal portion, and power terminals in a power portion. The power terminals may be made with multiple layers, with each layer formed into one or more fingers. Each finger may be configured to make contact with an edge of a card inserted in the slot such that each terminal has multiple contact points to the card and can carry a large current. To support a large current, the card may be a hybrid card, with a signal portion formed using a conventional PCB manufacturing techniques and a power portion formed with one or more blades mechanically coupled to the signal portion. The slot in the connector housing may have different widths in the signal and power portions and the center lines of those portions may be offset with respect to each other.
US11626677B2
A method includes disposing a terminal pin on an electronic substrate with a base region of the terminal pin in contact with a circuit trace on an electronic substrate, and ultrasonically coupling the base region of the terminal pin to the circuit trace.
US11626674B2
A terminal to be connected to a front end part of a flexible board including an insulating base film and a conductive path is provided with a terminal body including a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the flexible board and a tubular shell to be disposed outside sandwiching portion. The sandwiching portion includes a conductive contact portion for contacting the conductive path of the flexible board. The shell includes a pressurizing portion for pressing the sandwiching portion toward the flexible board, the pressurizing portion projecting inwardly of the shell. The shell includes a wide portion not formed with the pressurizing portion and a narrow portion narrower inside than the wide portion by being formed with the pressurizing portion. The narrow portion is located outside the sandwiching portion, whereby the conductive contact portion of the sandwiching portion contacts the conductive path.
US11626672B2
A battery clamp having a first inner metal battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion, a second inner metal battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion, a first outer insulating battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion connected to the first inner metal battery clamp, and a second outer insulating battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion connected to the second inner metal battery clamp. The first inner metal battery clamp member and/or the second inner metal battery clamp member having a battery cable connector configured to allow a user to access the battery cable connector with the user's fingers or a tool while avoiding interference with the handle portions of the battery clamp.
US11626668B2
This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems directed to a waveguide end array antenna to reduce grating lobes and cross-polarization. Referred to simply as the waveguide, for short, utilizes a core made of a dielectric material to guide electromagnetic energy from a waveguide input to one or more radiating slots. The dielectric core includes a main channel and one or more forks. Each fork connects the main channel to one or more tine sections, and each tine section is terminated by a closed end and a radiating slot. These radiating slots are separated from each other by a distance to enable at least a portion of the electromagnetic energy to dissipate in phase through the radiating slots. The dielectric core of the waveguide reduces grating lobes and cross-polarization associated with the electromagnetic energy. An automobile can rely on the waveguide to detect objects with increased accuracy.
US11626667B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a polarization shifter including a lower substrate having disposed thereon first and second transmission lines for coupling to a feed network, an upper substrate having disposed thereon third and fourth transmission lines for respective communicative coupling to orthogonally-polarized elements of a radiating element, and a dielectric layer residing between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, the upper substrate being configured to mechanically couple to the radiating element, the dielectric layer coupling the first transmission line with the third transmission line and coupling the second transmission line with the fourth transmission line, the upper substrate being rotatable relative to the lower substrate to effect polarization adjusting for the radiating element to facilitate avoidance of interference or passive intermodulation (PIM). Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11626666B2
An integral waveguide device herein includes a polarizer component comprising a waveguide and a dielectric slab, the dielectric slab configured to change a polarization of a signal passing through the waveguide. The integral waveguide device also includes a feed horn for conveying signals between the waveguide and a parabolic antenna. The waveguide of the polarizer and the feed horn are manufactured as an integral component with the feed horn disposed at a first end of the waveguide.
US11626664B2
Antenna has a split ring resonator. Moreover, the antenna is provided with a first conductor and a second conductor which form, at least in part, an open stub or a short stub which has a predetermined electrical length. With this structure, the antenna can have a plurality of operating frequencies.
US11626657B2
The present disclosure provides an antenna packaging module and the making method. The antenna packaging module comprises a redistribution layer, an antenna structure, a semiconductor chip, a third packaging layer, and a packaging antenna connector to an external circuit board. The antenna structure includes a connector opening and at least a first antenna structure and a second antenna structure stacked on one surface of the redistribution layer. The packaging antenna connector is designed in the connector opening and is electrically connected to the redistribution layer. Electrical terminals are provided through the packaging antenna connector disposed in the connector opening, thus reducing the antenna signal loss. The antenna packaging module requires neither any metal wire ends electrically connected to redistribution layer, nor a flip-chip process.
US11626656B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a system of integrated roofing accessories on a plurality of roofs, where at least one integrated roofing accessory on each roof may include: i) at least one transceiver configured to produce electromagnetic communication signals using electromagnetic communication protocols, ii) at least one dielectric antenna in electrical communication with the at least one transceiver for emitting the electromagnetic communication signals according to the at least one electromagnetic communication protocol, iii) an edge computing device having at least one processor and at least one non-transitory storage with software to operate the edge computing device in communication with the at least one transceiver, and iv) at least one power supply. The software is configured to cause, when executed, the integrated roofing accessories to form an electromagnetic communication network using the electromagnetic communication signals which communicates with at least one computing device.
US11626655B2
A universal mounting apparatus suitable for use with a cellular communication system is disclosed here. The mounting apparatus can be used to mount a transceiver radio unit to an antenna structure. The mounting apparatus includes a first mounting plate compatible with the antenna structure, a second mounting plate couplable to the first mounting plate and slidably adjustable relative to the first mounting plate. Openings in the second mounting plate are arranged in a pattern compatible with different possible mounting fastener locations for transceiver radio units. At least one adjustment fastener couples the mounting plates together. When the at least one adjustment fastener is loosened, position of the second mounting plate is adjustable relative to the first mounting plate. When the at least one adjustment fastener is tightened, position of the second mounting plate is locked relative to the first mounting plate.
US11626646B2
The disclosed technology relates to a battery utilizing a dampening layer to prevent a failure of the battery. The battery includes an enclosure, a set of electrodes enclosed within the enclosure, and a dampening layer disposed within the set of electrodes. The dampening layer partitions the set of electrodes into a first subset of electrodes and a second subset of electrodes. The dampening layer is configured to absorb a mechanical impact on the enclosure to prevent a failure of at least one of the first subset of electrodes and the second subset of electrodes. The dampening layer may be formed at least one of a polymer, metal, and ceramic.
US11626643B2
A battery wherein a first housing element (2) forms a first temperature-control structure (101) on a side averted from the interior space (5), wherein a second housing element (3) forms a second temperature-control structure (102) on a side averted from the interior space (5), and a cover element (100) is connected to the second housing element (3) such that the cover element (100) delimits a temperature-control fluid receptacle (112), which can be flowed through by temperature-control fluid, and the second temperature-control structure (102) is formed such that it can be flowed around by the temperature-control fluid, wherein the cover element (100) is formed in a planar configuration from a metal or has a deformed portion for accommodating a second element (9) of the battery controller.
US11626642B2
A battery assembly including a battery pack having a battery pack housing, an upper modular housing portion coupled to the battery pack housing positioned at a first end of the battery pack housing, a lower modular housing portion coupled to the battery pack housing positioned at a second end of the battery pack housing, and a handle formed as part of the upper modular housing portion. The battery assembly further includes multiple battery cells disposed within the battery pack housing, a mating feature including multiple ports electrically connected to the multiple battery cells and structured to supply power from the multiple battery cells through the ports and is structured to selectively connect the battery assembly with a receptacle of at least one of a piece of power equipment and a charging station. The mating feature is located on the first modular housing portion.
US11626637B2
In the case where a film, which has lower strength than a metal can, is used as an exterior body of a secondary battery, a current collector provided in a region surrounded by the exterior body, an active material layer provided on a surface of the current collector, or the like might be damaged when force is externally applied to the secondary battery. A secondary battery which is resistant to external force is obtained. An opening is provided in a central portion of the secondary battery; and a terminal is formed in the opening. An outer edge of the secondary battery is fixed by thermocompression bonding. In addition, the central portion of the secondary battery is fixed by thermocompression bonding, so that the amount of bending is limited even when the outer edge portion of the secondary battery is bent.
US11626631B2
Provided is a power supply device in which the reliability of a voltage output is improved, and also provided is a system comprising the power supply device and an electric tool. The power supply device (1) is provided with: a secondary battery cell (2a); an output unit connected to an electric tool and supplying the power of the secondary battery cell (2a) to the electric tool; and switching elements (Q1), (Q2) capable of interrupting a current path from the secondary battery cell (2a) to the electric tool. The switching element (Q1) switches whether or not to interrupt the current path not by being controlled by a control circuit (12) but in accordance with whether the electric tool connected to the output unit has a shorting bar (59) or not.
US11626621B2
The invention relates to a deformable accumulator comprising: a. a first and a second substrate (1,1′), b. at least one first current collector (2a, 2b, . . . ) deposited on the first substrate, along a curved line, c. at least one second current collector (2a′, 2b′, . . . ) deposited on the second substrate, along a second curved line, d. an anode consisting of a first set of columns (4) deposited on the first current collector (2a′, 2b′, . . . ), e. a cathode consisting of a second set of columns (4′) deposited on the second current collector (2a′, 2b′, . . . ), f. an electrolyte allowing the transfer of the ionic species, the faces of the first and the second substrate facing each other and defining a space (5) occupied by the electrolyte in which the columns of the anode (4) and the cathode (4′) are submerged.
US11626617B2
Provided herein are a variety of electrolytes, electrolyte systems, and separator systems, as well as batteries comprising the same and precursors thereof. In specific embodiments are semi-solid or gel electrolytes, particularly those prepared using (i) a cross-linkable polysilsesquioxane with high ionic conductivity and (ii) a liquid electrolyte (e.g., ionic liquid).
US11626609B2
A contacting arrangement of solid oxide cells is disclosed, each solid oxide cell having at least two flow field plates to arrange gas flows in the cell, and an active electrode structure, which has an anode side, a cathode side, and an electrolyte element between the anode side and the cathode side. The contacting arrangement includes a gasket structure to perform sealing functions in the solid oxide cell and a contact structure located between the flow field plates and the active electrode structure, the contact structure being at least partly a gas permeable structure configured and adapted according to structures of the flow field plates and according to the active electrode structure.
US11626607B2
A method for determining an average oxidation state (AOS) of a redox flow battery system includes measuring a charge capacity for a low potential charging period starting from a discharged state of the redox flow battery system to a turning point of a charge voltage; and determining the AOS using the measured charge capacity and volumes of anolyte and catholyte of the redox flow battery system. Other methods can be used to determine the AOS for a redox flow battery system or use discharge voltage instead of charging voltage.
US11626589B2
This application discloses a secondary battery and a device containing the secondary battery. A positive active material of the secondary battery includes one or more of lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide, lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide, and a modified material thereof. A negative active material of the secondary battery includes a silicon-oxygen compound and graphite. A separator of the secondary battery includes a substrate and a coating layer. The secondary battery satisfies: 7.5 ≤ 3460 ED - ( D 50 - D C 50 × 0.75 - T 18 ) ≤ 11.5 , where ED≥270 Wh/Kg, 11 μm≤D50≤18.5 μm, 11 μm≤DC50≤20 μm. The secondary battery according to this application achieves relatively high cycle performance while achieving a relatively high energy density concurrently.
US11626573B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting diode display panel includes: providing a substrate, and a flexible film layer is formed on the substrate; forming an anode layer on the flexible film layer, and a via hole region is disposed on the anode layer, a camera is disposed at a side of the substrate facing away from the via hole region, and an orthographic projection region of the camera on the substrate is located in the via hole region; forming a first bank and a second bank at intervals in the via hole region, and the first bank and the second bank are both located in the orthographic projection region of the via hole region; depositing a light emitting layer and a cathode layer sequentially, and the light emitting layer and the cathode layer are configured to form a light emitting unit; and packaging the display panel.
US11626569B1
Embodiments described herein relate to sub-pixel circuits and methods of forming sub-pixel circuits that may be utilized in a display such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The sub-pixel circuit includes a plurality of contact overhangs. The plurality of contact overhangs are disposed between adjacent sub-pixels of a sub-pixel circuit to be formed. The contact overhangs are formed over a metal grid exposed through a PDL structure. A cathode is deposited via evaporation deposition to be in contact with the contact overhang. The metal grid is perpendicular to a plurality of metal layers disposed on the substrate.
US11626567B2
A display device includes: a display panel in which a first panel region, a bending region, and a second panel region are arranged along a first direction; a support layer below the first panel region of the display panel, wherein the bending region of the display panel is bent toward a lower portion of the support layer; a portion of the support layer is between the first panel region and the second panel region; a first alignment mark in the first panel region; and a first alignment opening overlapping the first alignment mark in the support layer, wherein in a thickness direction of the display panel, the first alignment opening is spaced apart from the second panel region, the first alignment opening is spaced apart from an edge of the support layer, and the first alignment opening is completely surrounded by the support layer.
US11626566B2
An organic light-emitting device includes a mixed layer, an emission layer, and a buffer layer and satisfies one of Equation 1 or Equation 2 and Equation 3: T1(D)≥T1(Mix)+0.3 eV Equation 1 T1(H)≥T1(Mix)+0.3 eV Equation 2 T1(Mix)
US11626562B2
The present invention relates to the field of display technologies, and particularly to a fused polycyclic compound, and a preparation method and use thereof. The fused polycyclic compound provided in the present invention has a structure of General Formula IV. The structure of the compound has ambipolarity, and the HOMO level and the LUMO level of the host material are respectively located on different electron donating group and electron withdrawing group, such that the transport of charges and holes in the host material becomes more balanced, thereby expanding the area where holes and electrons are recombined in the light emitting layer, reducing the exciton concentration, preventing the triplet-triplet annihilation of the device, and improving the efficiency of the device.
US11626559B2
Embodiments of the present invention include multiple independent terminals for a plurality of devices in a stack configuration within a semiconductor. In one embodiment, a multi terminal fabrication process comprises: performing an initial pillar layer formation process to create layers of a multi terminal stack; forming a first device in the layers of the multi terminal stack; forming a second device in the layers of the multi terminal stack; and constructing a set of terminals comprising: a first terminal coupled to the first device, a second terminal coupled to the second device; and a third terminal coupled to the first device; wherein at least two terminals in the set of terminals are independent. The third terminal can be coupled to the second device.
US11626558B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof, and a memory. The semiconductor structure may at least include: a plurality of transistors arranged in a staggered manner, wherein the transistors share one source plate, a channel of the transistor is located on the source plate, and a channel length direction of the transistor is perpendicular to a surface of the source plate, and a material of the channel includes an oxide semiconductor; a plurality of drain contact members, electrically connected to drains of the transistors, wherein an odd number of transistors share one drain contact member, and the transistors sharing the same drain contact member are driven by a same word line; and a plurality of magnetic tunnel junctions, located on the drain contact members, wherein the magnetic tunnel junctions are electrically connected to the drain contact members in a one-to-one corresponding manner.
US11626533B2
There is provided a light emitting device including: a substrate; a laminated structure provided on the substrate and having a plurality of first columnar portions and a plurality of second columnar portions; and a first electrode and a second electrode, in which the first columnar portion includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer having a conductivity type different from the first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, light generated in the light emitting layer propagates through the plurality of first columnar portions and the plurality of second columnar portions, a height of the second columnar portion is equal to or larger than a sum of a thickness of the first semiconductor layer and a thickness of the light emitting layer, and is lower than a height of the first columnar portion, the first semiconductor layer is provided between the substrate and the light emitting layer, the first electrode is electrically coupled to the first semiconductor layer, the second electrode is electrically coupled to the second semiconductor layer, and the second columnar portion is not electrically coupled to the second electrode.
US11626529B2
A light detecting device includes a light absorbing layer configured to absorb light in a wavelength range from visible light to short-wave infrared (SWIR); a first semiconductor layer provided on a first surface of the light absorbing layer; an anti-reflective layer provided on the first semiconductor layer and comprising a material having etch selectivity with respect to the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer provided on a second surface of the light absorbing layer. The first semiconductor layer has a thickness less than 500 nm so as to be configured to allow light to transmit therethrough in the wavelength range from visible light to SWIR.
US11626524B2
A photoexcitable material includes: a solid solution of MN (where M is at least one of gallium, aluminum and indium) and ZnO, wherein the photoexcitable material includes 30 to 70 mol % ZnO and has a band gap energy of 2.20 eV or less.
US11626516B2
Provided is an integrated circuit implemented by a plurality of vertical field effect transistors (VFETs) in one or more semiconductor cells, wherein a distance between a pair of second vertical channel structures of a first cell and an adjacent pair of first vertical channel structures in a second cell, all facing a cell boundary between the first and second cells, is the same as a distance between the pair of the first vertical channel structures and a pair of second vertical channel structures arranged next to the pair of the first vertical channel structures in the first cell.
US11626509B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first dielectric fin, a semiconductor fin, a metal gate structure, an epitaxy structure, and a contact etch stop layer. The first dielectric fin is disposed over the substrate. The semiconductor fin is disposed over the substrate, in which along a lengthwise direction of the first dielectric fin and the semiconductor fin, the first dielectric fin is in contact with a first sidewall of the semiconductor fin. The metal gate structure crosses the first dielectric fin and the semiconductor fin. The epitaxy structure is over and in contact with the semiconductor fin. The contact etch stop layer is over and in contact with first dielectric fin.
US11626501B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure on the substrate, and a gate contact in the gate structure. The gate structure includes a gate electrode extending in a first direction and a gate capping pattern on the gate electrode. The gate contact is connected to the gate electrode. The gate electrode includes a protrusion extending along a boundary between the gate contact and the gate capping pattern.
US11626500B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first gate oxide layer, and a first source/drain doped region. The first gate oxide layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and the first gate oxide layer includes a main portion and an edge portion having a sloping sidewall. The first source/drain doped region is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and located adjacent to the edge portion of the first gate oxide layer. The first source/drain doped region includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is disposed under the edge portion of the first gate oxide layer in a vertical direction, and the second portion is connected with the first portion.
US11626495B2
Protective liner for source/drain contact to prevent electrical bridging while minimizing resistance
One or more active region structures each protrude vertically out of a substrate in a vertical direction and each extend horizontally in a first horizontal direction. A source/drain component is disposed over the one or more active region structures in the vertical direction. A source/drain contact is disposed over the source/drain component in the vertical direction. The source/drain contact includes a bottom portion and a top portion. A protective liner is disposed on side surfaces of the top portion of the source/drain contact but not on side surfaces of the bottom portion of the source/drain contact.
US11626494B2
A semiconductor device structure according to the present disclosure includes a source feature and a drain feature, at least one channel structure extending between the source feature and the drain feature, a gate structure wrapped around each of the at least one channel structure, a semiconductor layer over the gate structure, a dielectric layer over the semiconductor layer, a doped semiconductor feature extending through the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer to be in contact with the source feature, a metal contact plug over the doped semiconductor feature, and a buried power rail disposed over the metal contact plug.
US11626493B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over the substrate. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer, a first metal-containing layer, a silicon-containing layer, a second metal-containing layer, and a gate electrode layer sequentially stacked over the substrate. The silicon-containing layer is between the first metal-containing layer and the second metal-containing layer, and the silicon-containing layer is thinner than the second metal-containing layer.
US11626492B2
Provided is a method of producing a semiconductor epitaxial wafer having enhanced gettering ability. The method of producing a semiconductor epitaxial wafer includes: a first step of irradiating a surface of a semiconductor wafer with cluster ions containing carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen as constituent elements to form a modified layer that is located in a surface portion of the semiconductor wafer and contains the constituent elements of the cluster ions as a solid solution; and a second step of forming an epitaxial layer on the modified layer of the semiconductor wafer.
US11626491B2
An InN nanorod epitaxial wafer grown on an aluminum foil substrate (1) sequentially comprises the aluminum foil substrate (1), an amorphous aluminum oxide layer (2), an AlN layer (3) and an InN nanorod layer, (4) from bottom to top. The wafer can be prepared by pretreating the aluminum foil substrate with an oxidized surface and carrying out an in-situ annealing treatment; then, in a molecular beam epitaxial growth process, forming AlN nucleation sites on the annealed aluminum foil substrate, nucleating on the AlN and growing InN nanorods on the AlN, where the substrate temperature is 400-700° C., the pressure of a reaction chamber is 4.0-10.0×10−5 Torr and the beam ratio of V/III is 20-40.
US11626486B2
A back-gate carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNFETs) provides: (1) reduced parasitic capacitance, which decreases the energy-delay product (EDP) thus improving the energy efficiency of digital systems (e.g., very-large-scale integrated circuits) and (2) scaling of transistors to smaller technology nodes (e.g., sub-3 nm nodes). An exemplary back-gate CNFET includes a channel. A source and a drain are disposed on a first side of the channel. A gate is disposed on a second side of the channel opposite to the first side. In this manner, the contacted gate pitch (CGP) of the back-gate CNFET may be scaled down without scaling the physical gate length (LG) or contact length (LC). The gate may also overlap with the source and/or the drain in this architecture. In one example, an exemplary CNFET was demonstrated to have a CGP less than 30 nm and 1.6× improvement to EDP compared to top-gate CNFETs.
US11626479B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor base substrate including a semiconductor layer; a first main electrode; a second main electrode; a plurality of peripheral trenches formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer and having bottom portions covered by the semiconductor layer in a peripheral region; and a plurality of in-trench electrodes each embedded in each of the plurality of peripheral trenches byway of an insulation layer formed on an inner surface of the each peripheral trench, wherein the semiconductor base substrate further includes, in the peripheral region, a plurality of second conductive type floating regions disposed in the semiconductor layer at a depth position deeper than the bottom portions of the peripheral trenches in a spaced apart manner from the peripheral trenches and having a potential in a floating state.
US11626460B2
A display device includes a first inorganic layer disposed on a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the first inorganic layer and including a metal oxide semiconductor, a gate electrode overlapping the metal oxide semiconductor, a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected with the metal oxide semiconductor; a storage capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode electrically insulated from and overlapped with the first electrode, and the first electrode is electrically connected with the gate electrode and the second electrode is electrically connected with the source electrode; a first organic layer disposed on the thin film transistor and including a contact via; a blue organic light emitting diode including an anode, a cathode and a blue organic light emitting layer disposed therebetween, and electrically connected with the cathode and the anode which is electrically connected with the source electrode through the contact via.
US11626459B2
A displaying base plate includes an opening region, an adjacent region surrounding the opening region, and a displaying region surrounding the adjacent region, and the displaying base plate located within the adjacent region includes: a substrate base plate; a flat layer and a passivation layer that are provided on one side of the substrate base plate, wherein the passivation layer is provided on one side of the flat layer that is further away from the substrate base plate, a surface of the one side of the flat layer that is further away from the substrate base plate includes at least an inclined plane adjacent to one side of the opening region, and the flat layer includes a first protrusion provided on the inclined plane; and a first isolating groove that at least partially overlaps with the first protrusion and extends throughout the passivation layer and extends into the first protrusion.
US11626456B2
A display device is discussed, which has improved transmittance and relieves a visual difference in a camera region, even though a camera is provided in an active region, by changing the configuration of a substrate in a region corresponding to the camera.
US11626449B2
In a display device, an inorganic insulating layer, a metal layer, a flattering film, a first electrode, an edge cover, a function layer, and a second electrode are formed, in that order, on a base substrate. The edge cover covers an edge of the first electrode and includes a first opening exposing the first electrode. The function layer is formed covering the first opening and an edge of the edge cover. The flattening film includes a first planar portion and a second planar portion having a film thickness smaller than that of the first planar portion, is configured to electrically connect the first electrode and the metal layer via a contact hole formed in the first planar portion, and overlaps the first opening of the edge cover at at least a portion of the second planar portion.
US11626448B2
Methods of manufacture are described. A method includes forming a first cavity in a substrate and placing a backplane in the first cavity. At least one layer of dielectric material is formed over the substrate and the backplane. A second cavity is formed in the at least one layer of the dielectric material to expose at least a portion of a surface of the backplane. A heat conductive material is placed in the second cavity and in contact with the at least the portion of the surface of the backplane.
US11626440B2
An imaging device may include a plurality of single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixels. The SPAD pixels may be overlapped by microlenses to direct light incident on the pixels onto photosensitive regions of the pixels and a containment grid with openings that surround each of the microlenses. During formation of the microlenses, the containment grid may prevent microlens material for adjacent SPAD pixels from merging. To ensure separation between the microlenses, the containment grid may be formed from material phobic to microlens material, or phobic material may be added over the containment grid material. Additionally, the containment grid may be formed from material that can absorb stray or off-angle light so that it does not reach the associated SPAD pixel, thereby reducing crosstalk during operation of the SPAD pixels.
US11626429B2
A display device and method of fabricating the same are provided. The display device includes a substrate and a thin-film transistor formed on the substrate. The thin-film transistor includes a lower gate conductive layer disposed on the substrate, and a lower gate insulating film disposed on the lower gate conductive layer The lower gate insulating film includes an upper surface and sidewalls. The thin-film transistor includes an active layer disposed on the upper surface of the lower gate insulating film, the active layer including sidewalls. At least one of the sidewalls of the lower gate insulating film and at least one of the sidewalls of the active layer are aligned with each other.
US11626423B2
In some embodiments, a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprise laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Operative channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. Insulative pillars are laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. The pillars comprise vertically-spaced and radially-projecting insulative rings in the conductive tiers as compared to the insulative tiers. Other embodiments, including methods, are disclosed.
US11626419B2
A semiconductor memory device, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device, includes a gate stack including interlayer insulating layers and word lines alternately stacked in a first direction, channel pillars passing through the gate stack and tapering toward the first direction, source select lines surrounding the channel pillars and extending to overlap the gate stack, and a source isolation insulating layer overlapping the gate stack between the source select lines and tapering toward a direction opposite to the first direction.
US11626414B2
Disclosed are semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. A semiconductor memory device includes a stack structure that includes a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers that are alternately stacked on a substrate, a vertical channel structure that penetrates the stack structure, and a conductive pad on the vertical channel structure. The vertical channel structure includes a semiconductor pattern and a vertical dielectric layer between the semiconductor pattern and the electrodes. An upper portion of the semiconductor pattern includes an impurity region that includes a halogen element. The upper portion of the semiconductor pattern is adjacent to the conductive pad.
US11626411B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The device may include a first substrate comprising a cell array region, a first interlayer insulating layer covering the first substrate, a second substrate disposed on the first interlayer insulating layer, the second substrate including a core region electrically connected to the cell array region, a first adhesive insulating layer interposed between the first interlayer insulating layer and the second substrate, and contact plugs penetrating the second substrate, the first adhesive insulating layer, and the first interlayer insulating layer and electrically connecting the cell array region with the core region.
US11626400B2
A semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric layer, a first source/drain feature in contact with the dielectric layer, wherein the first source/drain feature comprises a first sidewall, and a second source/drain feature in contact with the dielectric layer and adjacent to the first source/drain feature, wherein the second source/drain feature comprises a second sidewall. The structure also includes an insulating layer disposed over the dielectric layer and between the first sidewall and the second sidewall, wherein the insulating layer comprises a first surface facing the first sidewall, a second surface facing the second sidewall, a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, and a fourth surface opposite the third surface. The structure includes a sealing material disposed between the first sidewall and the first surface, wherein the sealing material, the first sidewall, the first surface, and the dielectric layer are exposed to an air gap.
US11626396B2
Provided is an integrated circuit (IC) device including a logic cell having an area defined by a cell boundary. The logic cell includes a first device region, a device isolation region, and a second device region. The first device region and the second device region are arranged apart from each other in a first direction that is perpendicular to a second direction. The device isolation region is between the first device region and the second device region. A first maximum length of the first device region in the second direction is less than a width of the cell boundary in the second direction, and a second maximum length of the second device region is substantially equal to the width of the cell boundary in the second direction.
US11626395B2
An electronic device and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the electronic device includes a plurality of dies, a logic die coupled to the plurality of dies, and a dummy die thereon. In selected examples, the dummy die is located between the logic die and the plurality of silicon dies. In selected examples, the dummy die is attached to the logic die.
US11626392B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate with a circuit layer, forming a range compensating layer over the semiconductor substrate, the range compensating layer having a plurality of different thicknesses, each of the plurality of different thicknesses being inversely proportional to a stopping power of structures disposed under the respective thickness of the range compensating layer, implanting ions into the semiconductor substrate, the ions traveling through the range compensating layer and the circuit layer to define a cleave plane in the semiconductor substrate, removing the range compensating layer, and cleaving the semiconductor substrate at the cleave plane. The range compensating layer can be used to compensate for variations in ion penetration depth.
US11626386B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes first and second semiconductor chips stacked one on top of the other. First power supply lines in the first semiconductor chip are connected with second power supply lines in the second semiconductor chip through a plurality of first vias. The directions in which the first power supply lines and the second power supply lines extend are orthogonal to each other.
US11626377B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a chip region and an edge region around the chip region, a lower insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate, a chip pad on the lower insulating layer on the chip region, an upper insulating layer provided on the lower insulating layer to cover the chip pad, the upper and different insulating layers including different materials, and a redistribution chip pad on the chip region and connected to the chip pad. The upper insulating layer includes a first portion on the chip region having a first thickness, a second portion on the edge region having a second thickness, and a third portion on the edge region, the third portion extending from the second portion, spaced from the first portion, and having a decreasing thickness away from the second portion. The second thickness is smaller than the first thickness.
US11626376B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a first chip having a memory cell array, and a second chip having a control circuit. The first chip includes a substrate, a pad, a first structural body, and a second structural body. The substrate is arranged on the side opposite to a joined face of the first chip joined to the second chip, and includes a first face, a second face, and an opening extending from the second face to the first face in a first region. The memory cell array is provided between the first face and the opposed joined face. The pad is provided in the opening. The first structural body is provided between the first face and the joined face, and is electrically connected to the pad. The second structural body is provided between the first face and the joined face in the first region.
US11626375B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a stack above a peripheral circuit on a first substrate, in which first conductive layers and first insulation layers are alternately stacked in a first direction each; a first pillar through the stack, in which a semiconductor layer and each first conductive layer form a memory cell at their intersection; a second substrate including a first region above the stack and the first pillar, being connected to a semiconductor layer, and a second region juxtaposed with the first region in a second direction; a second insulation layer through the second substrate, insulating the regions from each other; and a second conductive layer including a first portion through the second substrate, and a second portion extending in the second direction above the second substrate and including a part defining a bonding pad. The second portion overlaps with the second insulation layer in the first direction.
US11626366B2
An integrated circuit includes a capacitor with a bottom conductive plate and a top conductive plate. A passivation layer is disposed above the top conductive plate. An intermetal dielectric layer is disposed between the bottom conductive plate and the top conductive plate and is formed of a first dielectric material. Shield layers are disposed between the top conductive plate and above the intermetal dielectric layer and extend horizontally to at least past guard rings. The shield layers include a dielectric layer formed of dielectric material having a dielectric constant greater than the material of the intermetal dielectric layer. The shield layers include horizontally offset trenches to stop horizontal flow of current in the shield layers. The offset ensures there is no vertical path from the passivation layer to lower/ground potentials through the shield layers.
US11626351B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die, an encapsulant body of electrically insulating material that encapsulates the semiconductor die, a thermal conduction plate comprising an outer surface that is exposed from the encapsulant body, a region of thermal interface material interposed between the thermal conduction plate and the semiconductor die, the region of thermal interface material being a liquid or semi-liquid, and a barrier that is configured to prevent the thermal interface material of the region from flowing laterally across the barrier.
US11626340B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package with an embedded heat spreader in a redistribution layer (RDL) is provided. IC packaging facilitates a high density package for ICs, including monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs). However, IC packaging may result in reduced heat removal from an IC, decreasing radio frequency (RF) circuit performance. In an exemplary aspect, an IC package is provided which incorporates an embedded heat spreader within a dielectric layer of an RDL coupled to an IC die. The embedded heat spreader provides efficient heat transfer, robust RF performance, and operation through millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies, all in a miniature low-cost, low-profile surface mountable (SM) package.
US11626335B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an IC packaging structure and an IC packaging method, relating to the chip packaging field. The IC packaging structure includes: a substrate, a stress buffer sheet mounted on the substrate; a packaged chip mounted on the stress buffer sheet, and a plastic package body coated outside the packaged chip, wherein the packaged chip is electrically connected to the substrate, and the stress buffer sheet is used for buffering stress acting on the packaged chip. Compared with the prior art, in the IC packaging structure provided in the present disclosure, the stress buffer sheet is mounted on the substrate through silver glue, the packaged chip is mounted on the stress buffer sheet through silver glue.
US11626326B2
A semiconductor device includes a first source/drain structure coupled to an end of a first conduction channel that extends along a first direction. The semiconductor device includes a second source/drain structure coupled to an end of a second conduction channel that extends along the first direction. The semiconductor device includes a first interconnect structure extending through an interlayer dielectric and electrically coupled to the first source/drain structure. The semiconductor device includes a second interconnect structure extending through the interlayer dielectric and electrically coupled to the second source/drain structure. The semiconductor device includes a first isolation structure disposed between the first and second source/drain structures and extending into the interlayer dielectric.
US11626322B2
Integrated chips and methods of forming conductive lines thereon include forming parallel lines from alternating first and second dummy materials. Portions of the parallel lines are etched, using respective selective etches for the first and second dummy materials, to form gaps. The gaps are filled with a dielectric material. The first and second dummy materials are etched away to form trenches. The trenches are filled with conductive material.
US11626320B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a source region, a drain region, and a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode covering a channel region between the source region and the drain region, forming an insulating layer over the source region, the drain region, and the gate electrode, forming first to third vias penetrating the insulating layer and exposing portions of the source region, the drain region, and the gate electrode, respectively, forming a source contact in the first via to electrically connect to the source region, forming a drain contact in the second via to electrically connect to the drain region, and forming a gate contact in the third via to electrically connect to the gate electrode. One or more of the first to third vias is formed by ion bombarding by a focused ion beam and followed by a thermal annealing process.
US11626319B2
A semiconductor-on-insulator substrate for use in RF applications, such as a silicon-on-insulator substrate, comprises a semiconductor top layer, a buried oxide layer and a passivation layer over a support substrate. In addition, a penetration layer is provided between the passivation layer and the silicon support substrate to ensure sufficient high resistivity below RF features and avoid increased migration of dislocations in the support substrate. RF devices may be fabricated on and/or in such a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate.
US11626311B2
The present teachings disclose various embodiments of a printing system for printing substrate, in which the printing system can be housed in a gas enclosure, where the environment within the enclosure can be maintained as a controlled printing environment. A controlled environment of the present teachings can include control of the type of gas environment within the gas enclosure, the size and level particulate matter within the enclosure, control of the temperature within the enclosure and control of lighting. Various embodiments of a printing system of the present teachings can include a Y-axis motion system and a Z-axis moving plate that are configured to substantially decrease excess thermal load within the enclosure by, for example, eliminating or substantially minimizing the use of conventional electric motors.
US11626308B2
A laser alignment fixture for a reactor system may be used to align components of the reactor system to allow for a uniform deposition of a thin film onto a substrate. The laser alignment fixture may include: a lid assembly; and a plurality of laser and sensor assemblies. The laser alignment fixture may align at least: a flow control ring, a susceptor, and a side wall of the reactor system.
US11626294B2
A substrate processing method includes etching a substrate having a first film and a second film at a first etching rate; changing an etching rate from the first etching rate to a second etching rate; and etching the substrate at the second etching rate.
US11626290B2
A method of etching silicon oxide on a surface of a substrate is provided. The method comprises alternately repeating heating the substrate to a heating temperature of 60° C. or higher, supplying hydrogen fluoride gas and ammonia gas onto the substrate to react with the silicon oxide, and modifying the silicon oxide to obtain a reaction product, and removing at least a portion of the reaction product from the substrate while stopping the supply of the above gases and continuing to heat the substrate at the heating temperature; and when a process gas that is at least one of the hydrogen fluoride gas and the ammonia gas is supplied, while continuing to supply the process gas from an upstream side of a flow path, closing a valve disposed in the flow path to pressurize the process gas in the flow path, and then opening the valve.
US11626283B2
A method for manufacturing a compound semiconductor substrate that can achieve thinning of SiC film, wherein the method includes forming a SiC film on one principal surface side of a Si substrate and forming a recessed part in which a bottom surface is Si in a central part of another principal surface of the Si substrate.
US11626282B2
Provided are a graphene structure and a method of forming the graphene structure. The graphene structure includes a substrate and graphene on a surface of the substrate. Here, a bonding region in which a material of the substrate and carbon of the graphene are covalently bonded is formed between the surface of the substrate and the graphene.
US11626280B2
There is provided a technique that includes: (a) forming a film formation suppression layer on a surface of a first material of a concave portion of the substrate, by supplying a precursor to the substrate provided with the concave portion on a surface of the substrate to adsorb at least a portion of a molecular structure of molecules constituting the precursor on the surface of the first material of the concave portion, the concave portion having a top surface and a side surface composed of the first material containing a first element and a bottom surface composed of a second material containing a second element; and (b) growing a film on a surface of the second material of the concave portion by supplying a film-forming material to the substrate having the film formation suppression layer formed on the surface of the first material.
US11626278B2
Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include providing a boron-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be disposed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include providing a carbon-containing precursor to the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The carbon-containing precursor may be characterized by a carbon-carbon double bond or a carbon-carbon triple bond. The methods may include thermally reacting the boron-containing precursor and the carbon-containing precursor at a temperature below about 650° C. The methods may include forming a boron-and-carbon-containing layer on the substrate.
US11626277B2
A substrate aligning method includes receiving a substrate by moving a substrate support from an outside of an outer periphery toward a central portion of the substrate along the substrate; and aligning the substrate such that the substrate support moves from a position different from a position partially upwardly warped along an outer peripheral edge of the substrate and a position partially downwardly warped along the outer peripheral edge of the substrate toward the central portion of the substrate so as to receive the substrate.
US11626271B2
Embodiments are disclosed for reducing substrate breaks which result from inadequate de-chucking. Contaminants are removed from the surface of a chuck by exposing the chuck to a plasma process that comprises a hydrogen (H)-containing plasma. The chuck is subjected to the hydrogen-based plasma when no substrate is on the chuck. In one embodiment, the plasma is a hydrocarbon-based plasma. Hydrogen in the hydrocarbon plasma may react with and remove the contaminants. The process may further include an additional plasma step for removal of any newly formed materials that may result from the hydrocarbon plasma. The removal step may be, for example, a subsequent plasma ash step. In one embodiment, the chuck is an electrostatic chuck and the contaminants comprise fluorine. By removing contaminants from the chuck surface, improved substrate de-chucking occurs. This improvement correspondingly leads to less substrate breakage when removing substrates from the chuck.
US11626270B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a balun having a first unbalanced terminal, a second unbalanced terminal, a first balanced terminal, and a second balanced terminal, a grounded vacuum container, a first electrode electrically connected to the first balanced terminal, and a second electrode electrically connected to the second balanced terminal. When Rp represents a resistance component between the first balanced terminal and the second balanced terminal when viewing a side of the first electrode and the second electrode from a side of the first balanced terminal and the second balanced terminal, and X represents an inductance between the first unbalanced terminal and the first balanced terminal, 1.5≤X/Rp≤5000 is satisfied.
US11626269B2
Processes for surface treatment of a workpiece are provided. In one example implementation, a method can include conducting a pre-treatment process on a processing chamber to generate a hydrogen radical affecting layer on a surface of the processing chamber prior to performing a hydrogen radical based surface treatment process on a workpiece in the processing chamber. In this manner, a pretreatment process can be conducted to condition a processing chamber to increase uniformity of hydrogen radical exposure to a workpiece.
US11626260B2
A circuit interrupter includes a first set of contacts connected in series with a second set of contacts, with both sets of contacts configured to open and close simultaneously. First and second arc extinguishers are associated with the first and second sets of contacts, respectively. A moveable permanent magnet moves as the sets of contacts simultaneously open and close, the moveable magnet generating a moveable magnetic field, a first stationary permanent magnet associated with the first arc extinguisher, the first stationary magnet generating a first stationary magnetic field, where the first stationary magnetic field and the moveable magnetic field are additive, and a second stationary permanent magnet associated with the second arc extinguisher, the second stationary magnet generating a second stationary magnetic field, where the second stationary magnetic field and the moveable magnetic field are also additive.
US11626257B2
When manufacturing an electrode for an electrolytic capacitor, in a first hydration step (ST1), an aluminum electrode is immersed in a first hydration processing solution having a temperature of at least 70° C. and comprising pure water or an aqueous solution to which phosphoric acid or a phosphate has been added so that the phosphorus concentration is no greater than 4 mass ppm. In a second hydration step (ST2), the aluminum electrode is immersed in a second hydration processing solution to which phosphoric acid or a phosphate has been added so that the phosphorus concentration is 4-5000 mass ppm, the second hydration processing solution having a pH of 3.0-9.0 and a temperature of at least 70° C. In a chemical conversion step (ST3), at least a boric acid chemical conversion process in which the aluminum electrode is chemically converted in a boric acid-based chemical conversion solution is included, and a chemical conversion coating having a coating withstand voltage of at least 200 V is formed on the aluminum electrode.
US11626256B2
Devices that convert heat into electricity, and methods for a fabrication of the same are provided. The asymmetric thermo-electrochemical capacitor uses a GO-based positive electrode and a battery-type negative electrode to open up the operating voltage window and enhance the electrical discharge capacity for converting low-grade heat into electricity with excellent efficiency, fast thermo-charging time, and stable cycles. The thermo-electrochemical device includes a carbon-based positive electrode, a conductive polymer or a metal-organic framework as negative electrode, a current collector, and a porous separator.
US11626253B2
An electronic component includes a multilayer body including a multilayer main body and side gap portions, the multilayer main body including an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal nickel electrode layers laminated alternately therein, and including end surfaces on both sides in a length direction. The internal nickel electrode layers are exposed at the end surfaces. External nickel layers are provided on the end surfaces. External copper electrode layers cover the end surfaces on which the external nickel layers are provided. A deviation amount in the width direction between positions of ends of two adjacent internal nickel electrode layers on both side surfaces is at least about 0.5 μm. The external nickel layers are provided on the end surface, in a region excluding a rounded ridge portion. Nickel and tin layers are provided outside the external copper electrode layer.
US11626244B2
An assembly for connecting to a high-voltage grid includes a plurality of single-phase transformers, each of which has a transformer tank that is filled with a fluid and is equipped with a core with at least one coil. The coils of the single-phase transformers are at least partly connected together, thereby forming a neutral or star point. In order to permit the assembly to be quickly assembled in situ while at the same time providing a reliable current path for compensation and grounding currents, the coils are connected together by a neutral or star point conductor or rail in order to form the neutral or star point. The neutral or star point conductor or rail is retained in an insulated manner on the transformer tank.
US11626228B2
A magneto-dielectric material operable between a minimum frequency and a maximum frequency, having: a plurality of layers that alternate between a dielectric material and a ferromagnetic material, lowermost and uppermost layers of the plurality of layers each being a dielectric material; each layer of the plurality of ferromagnetic material layers having a thickness equal to or greater than 1/15th a skin depth of the respective ferromagnetic material at the maximum frequency, and equal to or less than ⅕th the skin depth of the respective ferromagnetic material at the maximum frequency; each layer of the plurality of dielectric material layers having a thickness and a dielectric constant that provides a dielectric withstand voltage across the respective thickness of equal to or greater than 150 Volts peak and equal to or less than 1,500 Volts peak; and, the plurality of layers having an overall thickness equal to or less than one wavelength of the minimum frequency in the plurality of layers.
US11626220B2
A surface-mountable over-current protection device comprises at least one PTC material layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, an insulating layer, and a cover layer. The PTC material layer comprises crystalline polymer and conductive fillers dispersed therein. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are disposed on a first surface and a second surface of the PTC material layer, respectively. The first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected to the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, respectively. The insulating layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode for insulation. The cover layer includes a fluorine-containing polymer, and wraps around an entire outer surface of the surface-mountable over-current protection device.
US11626218B2
The laminated alumina board for an electronic device includes an alumina board that is made of a sintered body of alumina particles and has an unevenness structure that is formed of the alumina particles on a surface and a flattening film that is provided on an upper surface of the alumina board and contains alumina as a main component.
US11626215B2
In one embodiment the disclosure provides a portable and mountable apparatus and method capable of powering and deploying an illuminable tether to an unmanned robotic device (flying drone, ROV, terrestrial robot, to be referred to as a “URD”) that not only can provide power and command control to the robotic device, but also receive telemetry back from said robotic device's sensor(s) and data gathering instrumentation transferable to an operator's interface.
US11626210B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for constructing a numerical model to generate a probability that a patient diagnosed with multiple myeloma will die within a predetermined period of time. Reference data for a plurality of patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma is received. First variables selected from the reference data are deemed predictive of mortality for a first predetermined period of time, and second variables selected from the reference data are deemed predictive of mortality for a second predetermined period of time. A first computer model comprising a combination of variables of the first selected variables and first weighting factors is generated. A second computer model comprising a combination of variables of the second selected variables and second weighting factors is generated. The first computer model and the second computer model are trained using the reference data to determine numerical values for the respective first and second weighting factors.
US11626203B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides a prediction of a medical target variable. The computer-implemented method includes receiving medical imaging data of an examination area, the examination area including a plurality of lesions of an anatomical structure, wherein each lesion of the plurality of lesions of the anatomical structure spaced apart from any other lesion of the plurality of lesions of the anatomical structure; calculating a spread parameter based on the medical imaging data, the spread parameter being indicative of a spread of a spatial distribution of the plurality of lesions of the anatomical structure; calculating the prediction of the medical target variable based on the spread parameter; and providing the prediction of the medical target variable.
US11626198B2
The present invention relates to a patient feedback system (10) for providing feedback information on the use of a therapeutic device (14) to a patient (12), said system (10) comprising: an interface (34) for receiving personal profile data (18) of the patient (12); a database (16) for storing reference profile data (18′) and reference device settings (54) from a plurality of reference patients (42) using therapeutic devices; a cohort selection module (36) for comparing the personal profile data (18) of the patient (12) with the reference profile data (18′) of the reference patients (42) in the database (16) and for determining a cohort (44) for the patient (12) from the plurality of reference patients (42) based upon said comparison, wherein said cohort (44) comprises a subset of the reference patients (42) having reference profile data (18′) similar to the personal profile data (18) of the patient (12); and a feedback unit (38) for determining feedback information based on the reference device settings (54) of the reference patients (42) in the cohort (44) and for providing said feedback information to the patient (12).
US11626197B2
The present disclosure provides a system. In an embodiment, a system for medication management is provided and includes a mobile device. The mobile device includes a dose software application (dose-app) configured to notify a user to take a medication from a medication container. The system also includes a motion detection component attached to the medication container. The motion detection component includes a motion detection device configured to detect container motion data and wirelessly transmit the motion data to the mobile device. The mobile device includes a wireless receiver configured to receive the motion data from the motion detection device and send the motion data to the dose-app. The dose-app is configured to determine whether the received motion data constitutes a valid medication dosage.
US11626196B1
A card-type storage device includes a processing chip and a memory module. The processing chip is selectively operated in a data accessing mode or a data uploading mode. The memory module is electrically connected with the processing chip. A first data set generated by the medical device at a first time point and a second data set generated by the medical device at a second time point are stored in the memory module. In the data accessing mode, a first storage list is established by the processing chip according to the first data set, and the first storage list is updated as a second storage list according to the second data set. If the processing chip judges that the second data set satisfies a predetermined condition, the processing chip enters the data uploading mode.
US11626189B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system and method of compartmentalizing some or all aspects of clinical trial data acquisition and management. Moreover, embodiments include aggregation of the compartmentalized trial data to perform business metrics, trial interaction studies, and the like.
US11626187B2
Systems and methods are presented that allow for predicting treatment response of a tumor to a checkpoint inhibitor. In one exemplary aspect, the treatment response is directly associated with a relatively high number of patient- and tumor-specific immunologically visible neoepitopes. Specific mutational patterns in the nucleic acid encoding the neoepitope may be further indicative of treatment response.
US11626186B2
An apparatus includes a boot-up control circuit configured to, when a first boot-up operation is performed, latch first fuse data by receiving the first fuse data and fuse information from a fuse circuit and configured to, when a second boot-up operation is performed, latch second fuse data by receiving the second fuse data from the fuse circuit based on the fuse information; and a rupture control circuit configured to store a failure address as the second fuse data by rupturing the fuse circuit based on the fuse information.
US11626184B2
An apparatus for performing thermal testing of a memory device and a method of thermally testing the memory device. The apparatus includes a tester; an interface board disposed over the tester and configured to receive the semiconductor device and connect the semiconductor device to the tester; a shield disposed over the interface board and including a recess; a gas-supplying unit including a conduit extending through the shield and accessible to the recess; a temperature-sensing device disposed within the recess; and a controller configured to control and communicate with the tester, the gas-supplying unit and the temperature-sensing device.
US11626181B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction code (ECC) circuit, a fault address register, a scrubbing control circuit and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes memory cell rows. The scrubbing control circuit generates scrubbing addresses based on refresh operations performed on the memory cell array. The control logic circuit controls the ECC circuit such that the ECC circuit performs an error detection operation on a plurality of sub-pages in a first memory cell row to count a number of error occurrences, and determines whether to correct a codeword in which an error is detected based on the number of error occurrences. An uncorrected or corrected codeword is written back, and a row address of the first memory cell row may be stored in the fault address register as a row fault address based on the number of error occurrences.
US11626172B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the same. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation on a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks, and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuits to perform a retention acceleration operation including boosting a channel of a plurality of cell strings included in the selected memory block between a program voltage applying operation and a program verify operation during the program operation.
US11626169B1
A radiation detection system may include a mobile device having a flash memory. The device may monitor various characteristics of the flash memory to determine when damage to the flash memory has occurred from radiation exposure. The device may associate damage to the flash memory with a radiation dose, and determine a level of radiation to which the memory, and thus the device, has been exposed. The device also may determine a length of time and locations where the radiation exposure has occurred. If the device determines that the level of radiation exposure exceeds a threshold associated with a safe level of radiation exposure for a human user, the device may generate an alert to the user.
US11626168B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure may be used to improve equalization module architectures for NAND cell read information. For example, embodiments of the present disclosure may provide for de-noising of NAND cell read information using a Multiple Shallow Threshold-Expert Machine Learning Models (MTM) equalizer. An MTM equalizer may include multiple shallow machine learning models, where each machine learning model is trained to specifically solve a classification task (e.g., a binary classification task) corresponding to a weak decision range between two possible read information values for a given NAND cell read operation. Accordingly, during inference, each read sample with a read value within a weak decision range is passed through a corresponding shallow machine learning model (e.g., a corresponding threshold expert) that is associated with (e.g., trained for) the particular weak decision range.
US11626166B2
A memory device for performing temperature compensation and an operating method thereof are provided. The memory device includes a memory cell array; a page buffer circuit connected to the memory cell array through a plurality of bit lines, including a page buffer connected to each of the plurality of bit lines, and configured to perform a pre-charge operation during a pre-charge period for data reading; and a control logic configured to differently control the pre-charge operation of the page buffer circuit according to a detected temperature, wherein the pre-charge period includes a first period in which the plurality of bit lines are overdriven and a second period in which the plurality of bit lines are driven at a voltage lower than that of the first period, and the first period where the detected temperature is a first temperature is set to be shorter than the second period where the detected temperature is a second temperature higher than the first temperature.
US11626157B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of bit cells, each of the bit cells coupled to one of a plurality of bit lines and one of a plurality of word lines, respectively, wherein each of the plurality of bit cells is configured to: present an initial logic state during a random number generator (RNG) phase; and operate as a memory cell at a first voltage level during a SRAM phase; and a controller controlling bit line signals on the plurality of bit lines and word line signals on the plurality of word lines, wherein the controller is configured to: during the RNG phase, precharge the plurality of bit lines to a second voltage level, and determine the initial logic states of the plurality of bit cells to generate at least one random number, wherein the second voltage level is lower than the first voltage level.
US11626147B2
Embodiments relate to a transmission circuit, a transmission method, a storage apparatus, and a storage medium. The transmission circuit includes a comparison module and a data conversion module. The comparison module is configured to receive first data on a first data line and second data on a second data line, and compare the first data with the second data to output a comparison result indicating whether number of different bits between the first data and the second data exceeds a preset threshold, wherein the first data and the second data have the same preset bit width. The data conversion module is electrically connected to the first data line, the comparison module and the second data line, and is configured to invert the first data and transmit the inverted first data to the second data line when the comparison result is indicative of exceeding the preset threshold.
US11626137B1
A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head includes a main pole, a waveguide, at least one dielectric matrix layer, and a near-field transducer disposed between the waveguide and the main pole. The near-field transducer is embedded in at least one dielectric matrix layer. The near-field transducer includes an antenna and a thermal shunt. The thermal shunt includes a thermal shunt body portion in direct contact with the antenna, and a metallic shunt diffusion barrier laterally surrounding the thermal shunt body portion and disposed between the thermal shunt body portion and the at least one dielectric matrix layer.
US11626136B1
A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) device is configured to write regions of neutral polarity on a magnetic media during a same pass of the recording head in which other regions are written of positive polarity and negative polarity. The various disclosed write techniques may facilitate creation of “zero state” (substantially net zero polarity) transition zones between each pair of data bits of opposite polarity and/or may facilitate the encoding of three different logical states (e.g., 1, 0, and −1) on the media.
US11626134B1
A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) device is configured to write regions of neutral polarity on a magnetic media during a same pass of the recording head in which other regions are written of positive polarity and negative polarity. The various disclosed write techniques may facilitate creation of “zero state” (substantially net zero polarity) transition zones between each pair of data bits of opposite polarity and/or may facilitate the encoding of three different logical states (e.g., 1, 0, and −1) on the media.
US11626126B2
Systems and methods for efficient management of an audio/video conferences is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio question from a first user of a plurality of users connected to a conference, recording the audio question and preventing an immediate transmission of the audio question to the plurality of users connected to the conference, analyzing an audio portion of the conference to identify a time for transmitting the audio question to the plurality of users connected to the conference, and transmitting the audio question to the plurality of users at the identified time.
US11626124B2
An audio encoder for providing an output signal using an input audio signal includes a patch generator, a comparator and an output interface. The patch generator generates at least one bandwidth extension high-frequency signal, wherein a bandwidth extension high-frequency signal includes a high-frequency band. The high-frequency band of the bandwidth extension high-frequency signal is based on a low frequency band of the input audio signal. A comparator calculates a plurality of comparison parameters. A comparison parameter is calculated based on a comparison of the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Each comparison parameter of the plurality of comparison parameters is calculated based on a different offset frequency between the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Further, the comparator determines a comparison parameter from the plurality of comparison parameters, wherein the determined comparison parameter fulfils a predefined criterion.
US11626116B2
A speech-based system includes a local device in a user premises and a network-based control service that directs the local device to perform actions for a user. The control service may specify a first action that is to be performed upon detection by the local device of a stimulus. In some cases, performing the first action may rely on the availability of network communications with the control service or with another service. In these cases, the control service also specifies a second, fallback action that does not rely upon network communications. Upon detecting the stimulus, the local device performs the first action if network communications are available. If network communications are not available, the local device performs the second, fallback action.
US11626108B2
A method of operating a customer utterance analysis system includes obtaining a subset of utterances from among a first set of utterances. The method includes encoding, by a sentence encoder, the subset of utterances into multi-dimensional vectors. The method includes generating reduced-dimensionality vectors by reducing a dimensionality of the multi-dimensional vectors. Each vector of the reduced-dimensionality vectors corresponds to an utterance from among the subset of utterances. The method includes performing clustering on the reduced-dimensionality vectors. The method includes, based on the clustering performed on the reduced-dimensionality vectors, arranging the subset of utterances into clusters. The method includes obtaining labels for a least two clusters from among the clusters. The method includes generating training data based on the obtained labels. The method includes training a neural network model to predict an intent of an utterance based on the training data.
US11626104B2
A device includes processors configured to determine, in a first power mode, whether an audio stream corresponds to speech of at least two talkers. The processors are configured to, based on determining that the audio stream corresponds to speech of at least two talkers, analyze, in a second power mode, audio feature data of the audio stream to generate a segmentation result. The processors are configured to perform a comparison of a plurality of user speech profiles to an audio feature data set of a plurality of audio feature data sets of a talker-homogenous audio segment to determine whether the audio feature data set matches any of the user speech profiles. The processors are configured to, based on determining that the audio feature data set does not match any of the plurality of user speech profiles, generate a user speech profile based on the plurality of audio feature data sets.
US11626090B1
An adaptive equipment for playing chords on a musical instrument is provided. The apparatus can have a shell having an interior cavity. The adaptive equipment has a root pin partially installed within a root housing channel of a root housing, the root housing is fixedly installed within an interior cavity of the shell and is positioned toward the left side of the shell. The adaptive equipment has a fifth pin partially installed within a fifth housing channel of a fifth housing, the fifth housing is fixedly installed within the interior cavity of the shell and is positioned toward the right side of the shell. The adaptive equipment has a third pin partially installed within a third housing channel of a third housing, the third housing is movably installed within the interior cavity of the shell and is positioned between the root housing and the fifth housing. The root pin, the third pin and the fifth pin correspond to a major triad on a piano keyboard when the third housing is positioned closer to the fifth housing. The root pin, the third pin and the fifth pin correspond to a minor triad on the piano keyboard when the third housing is positioned closer to the root housing.
US11626088B2
A method and system for generating attention pointers, including: displaying, in a display of a mobile device, an object within and outside a field of view (FOV) of an user wherein the object outside the FOV are real objects; monitoring, by a processor of the mobile device, for a change in the object within and outside the FOV; in response to a change, generating by the processor one or more attention pointers within the FOV of the user for directing user attention to the change in the object which is either inside or outside the FOV; and displaying, by the processor, on a virtual screen within the FOV to the user, the one or more attention pointers wherein the one or more attention pointers are dynamically configured to interact with the user in response to detections based on a movement of the user or the object within or outside the FOV of the user.
US11626086B1
A method for adjusting brightness of a display panel and a device for adjusting brightness of a display panel are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and the method includes adjusting data voltages of at least two sub-pixels of the plurality of sub-pixels to be different when performing a zero grayscale display.
US11626084B2
An electronic device coupled to a display includes a graphics card and a processor. The graphics card reads the extended display identification data from the display. The processor determines, according to the extended display identification data, that the display is able to display a default resolution at a first refresh rate at most, and determines, according to the extended display identification data, whether the display device is able to display the default resolution at a second refresh rate that exceeds the first refresh rate. When it is determined that the display is able to display the default resolution at the second refresh rate, the processor adds the second refresh rate into the extended display identification data.
US11626078B2
The present disclosure provides a detection circuit (10) and a driving method, a driving circuit (20), a driving apparatus (100) and a display apparatus. The detection circuit (10) comprises a switching sub-circuit (101) and an analog-to-digital conversion sub-circuit (102). The switching sub-circuit (101) may control on-off states between a sense line (SL) and a reference power terminal (VF), a reset power terminal (RST) and the analog-to-digital conversion sub-circuit (102) according to control signals provided by the external compensation circuit (01). Wherein, a sense signal may include pixel characteristic values or may be a reference power signal.
US11626068B2
A pixel arrangement structure of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes: a first pixel having a center coinciding with a center of a virtual square; a second pixel separated from the first pixel and having a center at a first vertex of the virtual square; and a third pixel separated from the first pixel and the second pixel, and having a center at a second vertex neighboring the first vertex of the virtual square. The first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel have polygonal shapes.
US11626054B2
A display system and a driving method for a display system that includes an application processor configured to supply a mode control signal corresponding to a plurality of driving modes and input image data corresponding thereto; and a display module that includes pixels configured to display an image and configured to control any one of a plurality of gamma values and power source voltages supplied to the pixels in response to the plurality of driving modes.
US11626046B2
A sign-monitoring system includes at least one electronic sign and a controller comprising a processor and memory. The electronic sign includes a pixel array, the pixel array including a plurality of pixels. The electronic sign further includes an embedded controller coupled to the at least one electronic sign. The embedded controller develops diagnostic information for the at least one electronic sign, the diagnostic information including information related to a number of malfunctioning pixels in the plurality of pixels. The controller is communicably coupled to the embedded controller and receives at least a portion of the diagnostic information from the embedded controller. In addition, the controller assesses the at least a portion of the diagnostic information to develop health information. The assessment involves evaluating the information related to the number of malfunctioning pixels.
US11626045B2
A display device includes a display panel including a pixel electrically connected to a feedback line, a sensor electrically connected to the feedback line, the sensor being configured to measure an impedance of the pixel in response to a first control signal, and to measure a driving current flowing through the pixel in response to a second control signal, and a timing controller configured to selectively generate the first control signal and the second control signal based on an aging time of the display panel.
US11626040B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel that displays an image, a first flexible printed circuit film disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, and a cover window disposed on the display panel. The first flexible printed circuit film includes a first horizontal portion electrically connected to the display panel and extending in a first direction, a first vertical portion electrically connected to the first horizontal portion and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a protruding portion that protrudes from a side surface of the first vertical portion.
US11626036B2
A self-laminating rotating cable marker label is constructed of a transparent film having a first adhesive area, an adhesive-free smooth area, and a second adhesive area. A print-on area forms one side of the transparent film, the print-on area adapted to receive indicia identifying the cable about which the marker label is applied. A perforation extends across the transparent film providing a line of separation of the transparent film. When wrapped around a cable, the second adhesive area overlies the print-on area such that the cable identifying indicia is visible through the transparent second adhesive area. As the transparent film is wrapped around the cable, the first adhesive area adheres to the cable. The remainder of the transparent film is rotated, breaking the perforation, whereby the smooth area of the film in contact with the cable provides smooth rotation of the label around the cable.
US11626031B2
Methods, techniques, apparatuses, and systems for setting up and tracking sleep consistency goals of users are provided. In one example, a computing system for setting a sleep schedule of a user of a biometric monitoring device may obtain sleep data derived from sensor data generated by the biometric monitoring device, store the sleep data in a sleep log data store as one or more sleep logs associated with an account assigned to the user, and calculate a target bedtime based on a scheduled waketime of the user and a sleep efficiency derived, at least in part, from the sleep data for one or more users stored in the sleep log data store. The computing system may also be configured to provide a number of personalized user interfaces to an individual for the purposes of setting a sleep schedule. Such interfaces may include parameters that are tailored to the individual sleep needs and/or characteristics of the individual's sleep.
US11626022B2
Dangerous road events and conditions may be detected and responded to. A first report is received including a first location of a first vehicle and a first acceleration associated with the first vehicle beyond a threshold amount. A second report is received including a second location of a second vehicle and a second acceleration associated with the second vehicle beyond the threshold amount. In response to determining that the first and second reports meet a maximum relative time constraint and a maximum relative location constraint: (i) transmitting a notification to a dispatch console indicative of a potential dangerous road event near the first and second locations, (ii) transmitting a dispatch request to a response vehicle to respond to the potential dangerous road event near the first and second locations, or (iii) storing an indication of the potential dangerous road event.
US11626012B2
A system for managing vehicles includes a plurality of first level managers, and a plurality of second level managers each being in a higher hierarchical level than the plurality of first level managers and managing a section. Each of the plurality of first level managers collects data using one or more sensors of a vehicle, abstracts the data to obtain first information, and transmits a first instruction to the vehicle based on the first information. One of the plurality of second level managers receives the first information from one or more of the plurality of first level managers in the section managed by the one of the plurality of second level managers, obtains second information based on the first information, and transmits a second instruction to the vehicle based on the second information. The first instruction is different from the second instruction.
US11626011B2
A remote control device that is to be worn on the appendage of an operator includes a base portion, a wireless communication system, a control, and an insert member. The wireless communication system includes a wireless transmitter for transmitting wireless commands from the remote control device. The control is communicably coupled to the wireless communication system, wherein actuation of the control causes the wireless transmitter to transmit a wireless command. The insert member is removably attached to the base portion.
US11626008B2
A diagnostics and prediction system including a cloud system that continuously collects operating parameters from each of a number of environmental sensors and provides access to this data by a plurality of processing applications including (1) a predictive modeling system including (a) a health prediction system, (b) a sensor false alarm prediction system, (c) a zone false alarm prediction system and (d) a reporting system, (2) a system that diagnoses and predicts environmental hazardous areas and clusters areas based upon concentrations of CO in the site or building; and (3) a battery prediction system that predicts a battery life for the sensor.
US11626006B2
A security system is described for managing a premises. The security system comprises security system components and a first controller. A takeover component receives security data of the security system from the first controller. The security data is used to configure a second controller to communicate with the security system. The second controller communicates with the security system components and replaces the first controller in management of the security system.
US11626001B1
The disclosed wearable device systems include several features for alerting and guiding persons who are approaching or near to potentially hazardous or high-risk conditions in their nearby environment. Sensor data from wearable devices (also referred to herein as “wearables”) are used to determine the presence of various unsafe environmental conditions and phenomenon, including dangerous terrain or other unusual conditions. The wearable would be used to warn a person, for example via auditory or haptic-based feedback, if the person is about to encounter an unsafe condition. In particular, the proposed systems can be of great benefit to the visually impaired, those persons with physical disabilities, or persons otherwise vulnerable to particular environmental conditions.
US11625993B2
A system for an automated-taxi includes a display and a controller. The display is viewable by one or more of a plurality of clients of an automated-taxi. The controller-circuit is in communication with the display. The controller is configured to determine a seating-arrangement of the plurality of clients transported by the automated-taxi. The seating-arrangement is determined in accordance with destinations of the plurality of clients. The controller is also configured to operate the display to show the seating-arrangement to one or more of the plurality of clients. A method of operating an automated-taxi includes receiving destinations of a plurality of clients to transported by an automated-taxi; determining a seating-arrangement of the plurality of clients in accordance with the destinations; and operating a display viewable by one or more of a plurality of clients of an automated-taxi to show the seating-arrangement to one or more of the plurality of clients.
US11625991B1
A method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a customer device, a request to provision a financial account for the customer, associating, by the computing device, a mobile device with the requested financial account, and sending, by the computing device to the mobile device, authentication information for the requested financial account. The method further includes receiving the authentication information by the computing device from a financial terminal that received the authentication information from the mobile device, receiving, by the computing device, first location information of the mobile device, and provisioning, by the computing device and based on the first location information of the mobile device being within a predetermined distance of a location of the financial terminal, the requested financial account for the customer.
US11625986B2
A method includes receiving first customized rules for a first game of a game type to be played by a first player on a first gaming device, and receiving second customized rules for a second game of the game type to be played by a second player on a second gaming device. The method includes establishing, for the first and second games, a competitive gaming session between the first gaming device and the second gaming device. The method includes determining possible payouts for the gaming session based on the first and second customized rules. The method includes applying the first customized rules to play the first game on the first gaming device to generate first customized game play information, and applying the second customized rules to play the second game on the second gaming device to generate second customized game play information.
US11625980B2
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.
US11625978B2
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
US11625977B2
Systems and methods of providing secure wagering gaming operations involving randomly generating a plurality of playing cards as a player hand and randomly generating a plurality of playing cards as a dealer hand, distributing a payout responsive to the satisfaction of at least one of the following preset criteria: the player hand establishing a player qualifying hand of a first number of playing cards of the plurality of playing cards in the player hand, wherein the first number of playing cards is greater than a second number of playing cards of the plurality of playing cards in the dealer hand establishing a dealer qualifying hand; or wherein the first number of playing cards is the same as the second number of playing cards, and at least one playing card of the player qualifying hand has a higher rank than each playing card establishing the dealer qualifying hand.
US11625972B2
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, systems, and methods. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an invitation that provides a description of audio content to be shared, providing a query to a user of an electronic gaming machine requesting a confirmation to play the audio content to be shared, receiving a positive response to the query, sending a command to a different electronic gaming machine to transmit the audio content to be shared, receiving the audio content to be shared from the different electronic gaming machine, identifying a subset of a plurality of speakers from a speaker array to activate based on a determined position of the user relative to the speaker array, and causing the identified subset of the plurality of speakers to output the audio content to be shared as part of a directed sound beam.
US11625969B2
An economic self-service terminal with simple but high safety features is described here.
US11625960B2
Upon deactivating a vehicle, first operating data are collected, the first operating data including a measure of operation of a vehicle component other than a battery of the vehicle. Upon determining that a charge level of the battery of the vehicle is below a charge threshold, second operating data are collected from the vehicle component. Upon determining that the vehicle is unmoved from a location at which the vehicle was deactivated by determining that second operating data are within a threshold of the first operating data, a propulsion system is actuated to charge the battery.
US11625957B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer readable media for monitoring and maintaining vehicle condition. An apparatus of an example embodiment includes means for receiving a partial dataset indicator for a certain type of dataset. Said apparatus also includes means for providing at least one complete dataset indicator. The partial dataset indicator and the at least one complete dataset indicators provides an indication of one or more terms in their respective dataset. Said apparatus further includes means for determining at least one of the one or more terms of the partial dataset. Said apparatus still further includes means for causing the transmission of at least one of the one or more determined terms of the partial dataset for use by a mobile application. Corresponding systems, methods, and computer readable media are also provided.
US11625945B2
A sensor assembly includes a cover layer and a first sensor apparatus. The cover layer is molded from a first material to have a planar surface and non-uniform thickness, where a thickness of the first material at a first region of the cover layer is less than a thickness of the first material surrounding the first region. The first sensor apparatus is disposed beneath the planar surface of the cover layer, within the first region. The first sensor apparatus is configured to transmit and receive first capacitive sensing signals through a portion of the planar surface coinciding with the first region. For example, the first sensor apparatus may be a fingerprint sensor configured to detect a fingerprint on the portion of the planar surface coinciding with the first region based on changes in the first capacitive sensing signals.
US11625937B2
A weight management system for managing vehicle seat occupant body weight by using vehicle cameras and weight sensors of a plurality of vehicles having onboard communication modules. Each vehicle is equipped to analyze and compare weight changes of the vehicle seat occupant over time. Based on the weight status, a weight management recommendation can be transmitted to the vehicle seat occupant. Each vehicle is operatively connected to a weight management application in a data center. The weight management application includes a registration module which registers each vehicle. Additionally, a vehicle seat occupant may register with the weight management application to have his/her weight analyzed when travelling in any of the plurality of vehicles. The weight management application requests a search of a data lake and analysis of search results by a weight data artificial intelligence analytics program to improve the weight management recommendation.
US11625936B2
A system for high definition (HD) image recognition of criminals is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of cameras, an image recognition server, investigator user devices, a computing device, a database, and a network. At least one processor of the image recognition server is configured to receive a plurality of photographs of a first individual, perform image processing of the plurality of photographs to extract a first set of physical features, store feature data regarding the first set of physical features in the database, receive suspect data regarding a suspected individual from a first investigator user device, match the suspect data with the feature data stored in the database, and transmit an alert to the computing device in the prison, wherein the alert activates a mobile application on each investigator user device to display match data identifying the suspected individual as the first individual based on the feature data.
US11625935B2
A system for classification of scholastic works includes a computing device configured to receive a first scholastic work, identify an author and a category of the first scholastic work, determine at least a work theme by receiving theme training data, the theme training data including a plurality of entries, each entry including a training textual element and a correlated theme, training a theme classifier as a function of the training data, and determining the at least a work theme as a function of the plurality of textual elements and the theme classifier, calculate a reliability quantifier as a function of the at least a theme, the author, and the category, select the scholastic work as a function of the reliability quantifier, derive, from the scholastic work, at least a correlation between a dietary practice and alleviation of a disease state, and store the at least a correlation in an expert database.
US11625930B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to decode receipts based on neural graph architecture. An example apparatus for decoding receipts includes, vertex feature representation circuitry to extract features from optical-character-recognition (OCR) words, polar coordinate circuitry to: calculate polar coordinates of the OCR words based on respective ones of the extracted features, graph neural network circuitry to generate an adjacency matrix based on the extracted features, post-processing circuitry to traverse the adjacency matrix to generate cliques of OCR processed words, and output circuitry to generate lines of text based on the cliques of OCR processed words.
US11625925B2
A vehicle communication and control system includes a first vehicle in signal communication with a remote computing system and/or a second vehicle. The first vehicle includes a sensor configured to capture a raw image having a first image volume and including at least one target object. An image encoder included in the vehicle converts the raw image into a masked image having a second image volume that is less than the first image volume. A segmentation unit included in the remote computing system and/or the second vehicle determines the at least one target object from the masked image, generates a masked segmented image including a sparse segmentation of the at least one target object, and converts the sparse segmentation of the at least one target object into at least one recovered segmented target object indicative of the at least one target object.
US11625920B2
Provided is a method for labeling a segment of a video, in a server. In the method, a multimedia file corresponding to an acting role is obtained. A role feature of the acting role is determined based on the multimedia file. A target video is decoded to obtain a data frame and a playing timestamp corresponding to the data frame, the data frame including at least one of a video frame and an audio frame. In the data frame of the target video, a target data frame that matches the role feature is identified. A segment related to performance of the acting role in the target video is automatically labeled based on a playing timestamp of the target data frame.
US11625903B2
A sensing device includes a plurality of sensing sets having a plurality of lenses and a plurality of sensing units. The sensing units are configured to collect reflected light which pass through the lenses. Each sensing set adopts a structure which includes one sensing unit and multiple lenses for providing fingerprint sensing with high accuracy.
US11625901B2
A method for fabricating a custom cranial remodeling device for correction of cranial deformities in a subject is described. The method comprises generating a three-dimensional head data file for the subject and determining contour lines on the head. The method further comprises automatically generating a modified head shape data file and juxtaposing the modified head shape with the head represented by the three-dimensional head data file having the contour lines thereon. Still further the method includes utilizing the modified head shape data file to generate a shape for a desired custom cranial remodeling device, the shape having an interior surface to contact the head and an outer surface. The method also includes projecting lines outward from the contour lines to the outer surface and utilizing the projected lines to establish cranial remodeling device contour lines for the custom cranial remodeling device.
US11625898B2
Techniques and devices for holding and releasing virtual objects on a display based on input received from one or more handheld controllers are described herein. In some instances, a handheld controller includes one or more sensors, such as proximity sensors, force sensors (e.g., force resisting sensors, etc.), accelerometers, and/or other types of sensors configured to receive input from a hand of a user gripping the handheld controller. Hardware, software, and/or firmware on the controller and/or on a device coupled to the controller (e.g., a game console, a server, etc.) may receive data from these sensors and generate a representation of a corresponding gesture on a display, such as a monitor, a virtual-reality system, and/or the like.
US11625892B1
One embodiment provides a user interface (UI) that permits users to select how point cloud colorings determined from multiple data sources are blended together in a rendering of a point cloud. The data sources may include photographic, label, and/or LIDAR intensity data. To improve frame rates, an aggregated point cloud may be generated using a spatial hash of a large set of points and sampling of each hash bucket based on the number of points therein and a user-configurable density. Sizes of points in the point cloud may decrease proportionally to distance from a viewer, but increase based on an activation function that enlarges points greater than a threshold distance from the viewer. In addition, luminance statistics for sub-regions of photographic data and dominant colors determined from photographic data may be used to automatically determine color properties to apply to a point cloud coloring.
US11625890B2
A method for visualizing a three-dimensional volume for use in a virtual reality environment is performed by uploading two-dimensional images for evaluation, creating planar depictions of the two-dimensional images, and using thresholds to determine if voxels should be drawn. A voxel volume is created from the planar depictions and voxels. A user defines a plane to be used for slicing the voxel volume, and sets values of the plane location and plane normal. The slice plane is placed within the voxel volume and defines a desired remaining portion of the volumetric plane to be displayed. All but the desired remaining portion of the voxel volume is not drawn and the remaining portion is displayed.
US11625888B2
A system for performing a raytracing process, the system comprising a bounding volume hierarchy, BVH, identification unit operable to identify a BVH structure for use in generating images of a virtual environment, the BVH structure comprising information about one or more surfaces within the virtual environment, a BVH selection unit operable to discard one or more elements of the BVH structure in dependence upon a direction of an incident ray, and a raytracing unit operable to perform a raytracing process using the remaining BVH elements.
US11625887B2
When performing anisotropic filtering when sampling a texture to provide an output sampled texture value for use when rendering an output in a graphics processing system, an anisotropy direction along which to take samples in the texture is determined by determining X and Y components of a vector of arbitrary length corresponding to the direction of the major axis of an assumed elliptical projection of the sampling point for which the texture is being sampled onto the surface to which the texture is being applied, and then normalising the determined X and Y vector components to provide X and Y components for a unit vector corresponding to the direction of the major axis of the elliptical footprint of the sampling point to be used as the anisotropy direction along which to take samples in the texture.
US11625884B2
An electronic chip, chip assembly, device, system, and method enabling tracked data communications. The electronic chip comprises a plurality of processing cores and at least one hardware interface coupled to at least one of the one or more processing cores. At least one processing core implements a game and/or simulation engine, at least one processing core implements a position engine, and at least one processing core implements a gyroscope and, optionally, an IMU. The at least one position engine obtains pose data from an external positioning system comprising GNSS augmented by millimeter-wave cellular networks and/or Wi-Fi; and internal pose data from the gyroscope, optional IMU, and game and/or simulation engine, the data comprising inertial, 3D structure, and simulation data, thereby computing a 6 DOF pose of the client device, driving processing of 3D applications by the one or more game and/or simulation engine.
US11625873B2
A method starts with a processor receiving, at a computing system from a client device, descriptive text data from a descriptive text interface displayed on the client device, the descriptive text data associated with a media content item displayed on the client device, analyzing the descriptive text data to identify at least one data characteristic within the descriptive text data, and accessing a plurality of personalized media overlay icons each comprising at least one media overlay icon characteristic. The processor determines whether the identified data characteristic is associated with any of the at least one media overlay icon characteristics of each of the plurality of personalized media overlay icons, generates a personalized overlay icon interface which includes a selection of the plurality of personalized media overlay icons that include at least one media content icon characteristic associated with the data characteristic. The processor also causes the personalized overlay icon interface to be overlaid on the media content item displayed on the client device below the descriptive text data interface.
US11625871B2
A diagram generator comprises a line characterizer, a label characterizer, a block diagrammer to transform the set of drawing objects into a block diagram, a flow charter to transform the set of drawing objects into a flow chart, and a data flow diagrammer to transform the set of drawing objects into a data flow diagram. A client device receives a raw image signal of a print or display graph from a camera and in response processes the raw image to reduce noise, normalize the raw image data, and reduce pixel information. A server system receives the processed image from the client device and in response operates diagram generator logic to transform the processed image into a format in which image lines and other geometric objects are manipulable.
US11625867B2
A sewing apparatus, includes a display input unit including a display unit configured to display an image of an input screen, and an input detection unit configured to detect an input operation on the input screen; and a control apparatus that performs display control of the display unit in response to the input operation. The control apparatus performs display control in which a background of the input screen is set to a dark color as a whole, a sewing pattern image displayed on the input screen is set to brightness higher than that of the background, and an operation unit that receives the input operation on the input screen is set to a color lighter than that of the background.
US11625865B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: dividing three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data into three-dimensional point sub-clouds including a first three-dimensional point sub-cloud and a second three-dimensional point sub-cloud; appending first information indicating a space of the first three-dimensional point sub-cloud to a header of the first three-dimensional point sub-cloud, and appending second information indicating a space of the second three-dimensional point sub-cloud to a header of the second three-dimensional point sub-cloud; and encoding the first three-dimensional point sub-cloud and the second three-dimensional point sub-cloud so that the first three-dimensional point sub-cloud and the second three-dimensional point sub-cloud are decodable independently of each other.
US11625863B2
A three-dimensional data creation method in a client device includes: creating three-dimensional data of a surrounding area of the client device using sensor information that is obtained through a sensor equipped in the client device and indicates a surrounding condition of the client device; estimating a self-location of the client device using the three-dimensional data created; and transmitting the sensor information obtained to a server or an other client device.
US11625850B2
System for guiding medically invasive devices relative to other medical devices via image processing
A system and method for guiding invasive medical devices relative to other medical devices is disclosed. An imaging device can generate images of the invasive medical device within a body. A trained model for the invasive medical device can be trained on annotated images of the invasive medical device with at least one of orientation and position information. An imaging computer system can apply the trained model to unannotated images of the invasive medical device to determine at least one of a current orientation and a current position of the invasive medical device relative to another medical device within the body. At least one of visual orientation information representing the current orientation of the invasive medical device relative to the other medical device and visual position information representing the current position of the invasive medical device relative to the other medical device within the body can be outputted.
US11625846B2
Systems and methods described herein relate to training a machine-learning-based monocular depth estimator. One embodiment selects a virtual image in a virtual dataset, the virtual dataset including a plurality of computer-generated virtual images; generates, from the virtual image in accordance with virtual-camera intrinsics, a point cloud in three-dimensional space based on ground-truth depth information associated with the virtual image; reprojects the point cloud back to two-dimensional image space in accordance with real-world camera intrinsics to generate a transformed virtual image; and trains the machine-learning-based monocular depth estimator, at least in part, using the transformed virtual image.
US11625845B2
A depth measurement assembly (DMA) includes an illumination source that projects pulses of light (e.g., structured light) at a temporal pulsing frequency into a local area. The DMA includes a sensor that capture images of the pulses of light reflected from the local area and determines, using one or more of the captured images, one or more TOF phase shifts for the pulses of light. The DMA includes a controller coupled to the sensor and configured to determine a first set of estimated radial distances to an object in the local area based on the one or more TOF phase shifts. The controller determines a second estimated radial distance to the object based on an encoding of structured light and at least one of the captured images. The controller selects an estimated radial distance from the first set of radial distances.
US11625841B2
A localization and tracking method, a localization and tracking platform, a head-mounted display system, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. One or more images of odd frames and one or more images of even frames that are respectively collected with a preset first exposure duration and a preset second exposure duration by one or more tracking cameras arranged on a head-mounted display device are acquired, the one or more images of even frames at least containing blobs corresponding to multiple luminous bodies arranged on a gamepad; Degree of Freedom (DoF) information of the head-mounted display device is determined according to the one or more images of odd frames and attitude information of the head-mounted display device; and DoF information of the gamepad is determined according to the one or more images of even frames, attitude information of the gamepad, and the DoF information of the head-mounted display device.
US11625839B2
Systems and methods determining velocity of an object associated with a three-dimensional (3D) scene may include: a LIDAR system generating two sets of 3D point cloud data of the scene from two consecutive point cloud sweeps; a pillar feature network encoding data of the point cloud data to extract two-dimensional (2D) bird's-eye-view embeddings for each of the point cloud data sets in the form of pseudo images, wherein the 2D bird's-eye-view embeddings for a first of the two point cloud data sets comprises pillar features for the first point cloud data set and the 2D bird's-eye-view embeddings for a second of the two point cloud data sets comprises pillar features for the second point cloud data set; and a feature pyramid network encoding the pillar features and performing a 2D optical flow estimation to estimate the velocity of the object.
US11625835B2
Alias capture to support searching for an object-of-interest is disclosed. A method includes capturing, using a camera with a defined field of view, video image frames that include a moving object-of-interest. The method also includes tracking the object-of-interest over a period of time starting when the object-of-interest enters the field of view and ending when the object-of-interest exits the field of view. The method also includes detecting, at a point in time in-between the start and end of the period of time of the tracking, a threshold exceeding change in an appearance of the object-of-interest. The method also includes creating, before the end of the period of time of the tracking, a new object profile for the object-of-interest in response to the detecting of the threshold exceeding change.
US11625833B2
A system and a computer-implemented method for validating label data includes receiving the label data and segmenting it into one or more parts using a first machine learning model. Further, from the segmented label data a first plurality of attributes, including text and images, are extracted. The method further includes receiving ground truth data associated with the label data and extracting a second plurality of attributes from the ground truth data. The first and second plurality of attributes are then compared using a second machine learning model and the result of comparison are displayed on a three pane user interface. Further, the label data is validated based on the displayed results.
US11625828B2
Systems and methods based on thermal imaging for rapid detection of fever conditions in humans that provide for extremely inexpensive, mass producible, field deployable devices accurate in specific, relatively low temperature ranges, and in particular temperatures near nominal human body temperature. The system may include a thermal imager tailored for the application and a corresponding mass producible controlled temperature calibration source configured to provide real time calibration near the human body temperature of interest. The imager and source are deployed in a way such that target people and the calibration source will be within the imager FOV for fever detection. The combination of real time near measurement temperature calibration, with suitable thermography approaches, yield fast, accurate measurements in the fever range using low cost, easy-to-produce components. In combination with a visible imager and pattern/facial recognition techniques, detection of a human target's facial regions of interest suitable for fever detection can be accurately accomplished.
US11625826B2
A method of method of processing optical coherence tomography, OCT, image data representing an OCT image of a retina of an eye, to generate mapping data which maps out a predetermined band of a plurality of distinct bands which extend across the OCT image and correspond to respective anatomical layers of the retina. The method comprises: receiving the OCT image data; processing A-scan data of the received OCT image data to generate data indicative of sequences of A-scan elements corresponding to the predetermined band of the plurality of distinct bands and having respective A-scan element values that vary in accordance with a predetermined pattern; and generating the mapping data by applying a line-finding algorithm to determine a line passing through the sequences of A-scan elements indicated by the generated data.
US11625816B2
A second learning data acquisition section acquires an input image. A wide angle-of-view image generation section generates, in response to an input of the input image, a generated wide angle-of-view image that is an image having a wider angle of view than the input image. The second learning data acquisition section acquires a comparative wide angle-of-view image that is an image to be compared with the generated wide angle-of-view image. A second learning section performs learning for the wide angle-of-view image generation section by, on the basis of a comparison result between the generated wide angle-of-view image and the comparative wide angle-of-view image, updating parameter values of the wide angle-of-view image generation section such that, according to the luminance levels of pixels in the comparative wide angle-of-view image or the luminance levels of pixels in the generated wide angle-of-view image, update amounts of the parameter values concerning the pixels are increased.
US11625815B2
An image processing apparatus and a method are provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of processing modules configured to operate in series to refine a raw image captured by a camera, the modules comprising a first module and a second module, each of which independently implements a respective trained artificial intelligence model, wherein: the first module implements an image transformation operation that performs an operation from the set comprising: (i) an essentially pixel-level operation that increases sharpness of an image input to the module, (ii) an essentially pixel-level operation that decreases sharpness of an image input to the module, (iii) an essentially pixel-block-level operation on an image input to the module; and the second module as a whole implements a different operation from the said set.
US11625813B2
The present disclosure describes systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for accurately and efficiently removing objects from digital images taken from a camera viewfinder stream. For example, the disclosed systems access digital images from a camera viewfinder stream in connection with an undesired moving object depicted in the digital images. The disclosed systems generate a temporal window of the digital images concatenated with binary masks indicating the undesired moving object in each digital image. The disclosed systems further utilizes a 3D to 2D generator as part of a 3D to 2D generative adversarial neural network in connection with the temporal window to generate a target digital image with the region associated with the undesired moving object in-painted. In at least one embodiment, the disclosed systems provide the target digital image to a camera viewfinder display to show a user how a future digital photograph will look without the undesired moving object.
US11625812B2
Examples disclosed herein are related to using a machine learning model to generate image data. One example provides a system, comprising one or more processors, and storage comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors to obtain image data comprising an image with unoccluded features, apply a mask to the unoccluded features in the image to form partial observation training data comprising a masked region that obscures at least a portion of the unoccluded features, and train a machine learning model comprising a generator and a discriminator at least in part by generating image data for the masked region and comparing the image data generated for the masked region to the image with unoccluded features.
US11625806B2
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. Aspects presented herein can determine at least one split API for a user device and a server. Further, aspects presented herein can establish a communication interface between the user device and the server based on the split API. Additionally, aspects presented herein can communicate between the user device and the server based on the communication interface and the split API. Some aspects presented herein can implement the at least one split API on at least one of the user device or the server. Aspects presented herein can also divide at least one application workload between the user device and the server based on the at least one split API. Moreover, aspects presented herein can encode or decode application information at the user device or the server.
US11625801B2
A survey submission system and method for a personalised career counselling is provided to multiple users. The system includes one or more display devices with a display unit, a display region variation determining unit, a preloading controller, and a preloading performing unit displaying multiple program parameters in proximity to a short text field. Particularly, one or more display devices includes multiple display device modules and display device modules is selected from any one of an user interface module, an admin interface module, a sponsor interface module admin interface module and an expert interface module. Moreover, the system also has a remote server for storing a multiple of databases for storing multiple data related to program parameters. Particularly, one or more display device and the remote server communicate via a communication channel enabling users to communicate with other users and experts in a highly secured chat room. Moreover, communication is via secure chat room enabling users to share information only with user consent. The system analyses the answers by a trend data analysis.
US11625797B2
A system provides interactive and automated features to aid in planning, management, and execution of events within venues. Venue hardscapes are geolocated, parsed, and stored to be used when configuring events. During event configuration a venue softscape may be automatically generated and applied to the venue hardscape to produce an initial layout. The initial layout may be modified to create and assign booths to exhibitors by multiple coordinators in parallel. Geolocation of hardscaped may be extended into softscapes, such that location data may be maintained for temporary structures such as booths. Conflicts may be avoided by implementing one or more conflict prevention features, including enforcement of universal layouts, booth locking, synchronous session management, automatic identifier assignment to preserve locational correspondence, booth and layout validation, and others. The system also provides interfaces to event staff and attendees that may include features for inter-venue and intra-venue navigation, crowd management, and emergency response.
US11625796B1
Highly user-specific data is used to calculate user intent to make a purchase and the value of such a purchase. User activity and information is aggregated, per user, for a set window of time and real-time data on recent site behavior is obtained. Aggregated and/or real-time data is considered by a predictive intent model (calculating the probability that the user will make a purchase) and a predictive value model (calculating the expected revenue such a purchase may generate). Weights, specific to each model, are assigned to predictor features tracked in the aggregated and/or real-time user data. The most highly-weighted features of the intent model relate to users' viewing history, and the most highly-weighted features of the value model relate to price and market. By these means, a user conversion value can be obtained, guiding the application of user acquisition strategies for different home sharing markets.
US11625789B1
Computer network architectures for machine learning, and more specifically, computer network architectures for the automated completion of healthcare claims. Embodiments of the present invention provide computer network architectures for the automated completion of estimated final cost data for claims for healthcare clinical episodes using incomplete data for healthcare insurance claims and costs, known to date. Embodiments may use an automatic claims completion web application, with other computer network architecture components. Embodiments may include a combination of third-party databases to generate estimated final claims for pending patient clinical episodes, and to drive the forecasting models for the same, including social media data, financial data, social-economic data, medical data, search engine data, e-commerce site data, and other databases.
US11625788B1
The present disclosure introduces systems and methods to evaluate application data. A computer system to evaluate application data is described. In one embodiment, a data module may be used to receive application data and validate the application data against at least one secondary data source. A predictive modeling module may be used to model the application data by applying predictive analytics. Further, a confidence level module may be used to calculate a confidence level factor and at least one aggregate degree of confidence level to evaluate an application. Other embodiments are also described.
US11625779B2
Methods, devices, and systems for facilitation of communication between participants of an electronic marketplace involve receiving a message generated from a market participant and transmitting the message to other market participants. The facilitation also involves receiving responses to the message from the other market participants and transmitting the responses to the message originating market participant such that the transmitted response is imperceptible to the other market participants.
US11625778B2
A distributed trading platform comprising: a first participant system of a liquidity provider configured to determine a first order that is stored in a first order management system; a central system configured to determine a plurality of second orders based on the first order, an aggression level and market data; and a second participant system of a liquidity taker configured to determine that a contra order is stored in a second order management system, determine a single second order of the plurality of second orders that the liquidity taker is qualified to view based on a third quantity of the contra order, and populate a second trader interface with information soliciting submission of the contra order to the distributed trading platform for matching with the single second order.
US11625770B1
A digital camera processing system with software to manage taking photos with a digital camera. Camera software controls the digital camera. A downloaded software component controls the digital camera software and causes a handheld mobile device to perform operations. The operations may include instructing a user to have the digital camera take photos of a check; displaying an instruction on a display of the handheld mobile device to assist the user in having the digital camera take the photos; or assisting the user as to an orientation for taking the photos with the digital camera. The digital camera processing system may generate a log file including a bi-tonal image formatted as a TIFF image.
US11625750B2
A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions within the plurality of simply connected regions which have the predetermined relative locational relationship to the predetermined simply connected region. Namely, if the number is zero, a merge indicator for the predetermined simply connected region may be absent within the data stream. In other embodiments, spatial sub-division is performed depending on a first subset of syntax elements, followed by combining spatially neighboring simply connected regions depending on a second subset of syntax elements, to obtain an intermediate sub-division.
US11625744B2
There are provided systems and methods for the location-based secured transfer of a service associated with a loyalty point between mobile devices. A first mobile device submits a services request to a central system, the request identifying a service and inclusive of the position (geographical location) of the first mobile device. The central system identifies service providers capable of fulfilling the request and account owners having sufficient loyalty points to fulfill the request that are in proximity to the first mobile device. Secure communications between the first mobile device and a second mobile device enable negotiations. The central system guides the first mobile device and the second mobile device to a predetermined location to enable secure communication of transaction information, payment information, personal information (needed to procure services), etc. The central system verifies the transaction, ensuring both the first and second mobile devices fulfill the agreed upon terms.
US11625737B2
Predictive modeling within a special purpose hardware platform to determine scenarios that are most likely to increase conversion potential for each trial user and retention potential for each active subscriber of a service, collectively referred to as a propensity score. The predictive models are integrated with a contextual marketing system that uses a loss risk assessment to learn user behavior and optimize content messaging designed to improve actual conversion or retention behavior for the user.
US11625730B2
In some aspects, a computing system can detect synthetic identities based on attributes associated with online entities. The computing system can generate entity links between primary entity objects and a secondary entity object. The secondary entity object identifies a target consumer as a secondary entity for accounts identified by the primary entity objects. Attributes of the secondary entity object and attributes of the primary entity objects can be calculated and compared to determine an inconsistency between a combination of a name attribute value and an address attribute value of the secondary entity object as compared to the primary entity objects. A fraud warning indicating that the target consumer is likely to be a synthetic identity can be generated based on the inconsistency and other attributes of the target consumer, such as an inquiries attribute, a terminations attribute, a duration attribute, and so on.
US11625721B2
Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.
US11625720B2
Methods and systems are provided for making secure financial transactions, such as purchase payments, using rich Internet applications (RIA) running an RIA runtime (also referred to as a platform or framework) on the user's smart phone or other mobile device. Embodiments differ from the usual way of re-directing a user from a third-party application and authenticating the user by providing secure in-line payments from a rich Internet application running on an RIA runtime. A system includes: a mobile device executing a rich Internet application running on an RIA runtime; a payment library communicating with the RIA runtime and a service provider, for which the payment library communicates with the service provider to authenticate the rich Internet application; and in response to authentication by the service provider, facilitates secure financial transactions via the rich Internet application.
