US11634714B2
The invention provides an oligonucleotide comprising an inosine, and/or a nucleotide containing a base able to form a wobble base pair or a functional equivalent thereof, wherein the oligonucleotide, or a functional equivalent thereof, comprises a sequence which is complementary to at least part of a dystrophin pre-m RNA exon or at least part of a non-exon region of a dystrophin pre-m RNA said part being a contiguous stretch comprising at least 8 nucleotides. The invention further provides the use of said oligonucleotide for preventing or treating DMD or BMD.
US11634698B2
Disclosed herein are polypeptides having nuclease activity. Some of the polypeptides having nuclease activity were generated by an improved gene site mutagenesis (“GSSM”) method or the tailored multi-site combinatorial assembly (“TMCA”) method. Also disclosed are compositions and kits comprising the polypeptides having nuclease activity, and methods for making and using these polypeptides, compositions and kits.
US11634689B2
A cell medium for in vitro inducing chondrogenesis or tenogenesis in mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). The medium is a glucose medium supplemented with at least one growth factor is chosen from the group of fibroblast growth factors (FGF) or the group of transforming growth factors (TGF), and the FGF or TGF is present in a total concentration of between 1 and 15 ng/ml. In both cases, IGF can be added to enhance the induction process. The use of the cell medium, a method for inducing isolated mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and a cell composition obtained by the method are also provided.
US11634683B2
Non-enzymatic method and milling device for preparing therapeutic cells from adipose tissue comprising: continuously feeding the adipose tissue to the milling device (2); mechanically separating the cells or cell aggregates from adipose tissue moving through the milling device (2) by means of a multiplicity of blades (19) of a rotor (10), wherein the blades (19) are arranged in a spaced arrangement with respect to the overall direction of flow and the blades (19) are moving about an axis of rotation (18), wherein the axis of rotation (18) is provided essentially parallel to said overall direction of flow; continuously withdrawing the processed tissue comprising the separated cells from the milling device (2).
US11634679B2
Provided herein is a pipette tip for electroporation including an outer surface, a void located within the outer surface, and a conductor located at least partially on or within the outer surface, in electrical communication with at least a portion of the outer surface and the void. Further provided herein is a pipette tip for electroporation including a body, a connector, and an elongated part. The connector is located at the distal end of the body and further includes at least one connecting post, a connecting part in mechanical communication with the connector, and a conductor located at least partially on or within the connector, wherein the conductor surrounds at least a portion of the connecting post. The elongated part also has a void and is located at the distal end of the connector. The void of the body, connector, and elongated part are in fluid communication.
US11634676B2
Described herein are methods inducing the uptake of an agent by a cell. Aspects of the invention relate to physically compressing the cell to induce perturbations (e.g., holes) in the cell membrane or wall. An agent is taken up by the cell through induced perturbations.
US11634670B2
A semiconductor cleaning agent containing a sulfonic acid group-containing polymer, wherein a content of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Na, Al, K, Ca and Fe is 0.7 ppm or less.
US11634668B2
Fabric treatment compositions that include benefit agent capsules and biphenyl brightener. Methods of using the same. Wash water that includes such compositions.
US11634664B2
This invention relates to a process for preparing an inverse emulsion comprising mixing an aqueous solution comprising a water-soluble (co)polymer A synthesized from at least one cationic monomer and an inverse EMI 2 emulsion comprising a water-soluble (co)polymer B synthesized from at least one cationic monomer, optionally followed by distillation. This invention also relates to the inverse emulsion thus obtained, a detergent or cosmetic or softening composition comprising such an inverse emulsion, as well as the use of such an inverse emulsion to improve the softening properties of a fabric softening composition.
US11634658B2
The present invention relates to a process for increasing the oxidative stability of short path evaporated oils, by adding to short-path evaporated treated oil at least one other oil. It further relates to a composition comprising short-path evaporated treated palm oil and, at least one other oil. Furthermore, it relates to the food products comprising these oils with improved oxidative stability.
US11634657B2
Methods of refining palm oil in order to produce a refined, bleached and deodorized palm oil with reduced level of 3-monochloropropane-1, 2-diol (3-MCPD) ester are disclosed. The methods may include premixing a palm oil with an acid to chelate metals and form a reaction mixture, and subjecting the reaction mixture to hydrodynamic cavitation mixing for less than 1 second.
US11634656B2
The invention discloses a photocured medical catheter hydrophilic lubricating coating and a preparation method thereof. The hydrophilic lubricating coating comprises a primer coating and a lubricating coating. The primer coating is attached to the surface of a device, and the lubricating coating is attached to the primer coating. The primer coating comprises 1-10 parts by weight of one or more polyester acrylates, 50-90 parts by weight of one or more solvents, 0.5-5 parts by weight of one or more photoinitiators, 0.5-2 parts by weight of one or more wetting agents and 0.5-5 parts by weight of one or more reactive (or active) diluents. The lubricating coating comprises 1-10 parts by weight of one or more water soluble macromolecules, 1-5 parts by weight of one or more crosslinking (or crosslinked) macromolecules, 0-1 part by weight of one or more photoinitiators, 0.1-1 part by weight of one or more surfactants and 50-98 parts by weight of one or more solvents. The preparation method of the hydrophilic lubricating coating is simple and easy in operation. Substance residues caused by complicated high-temperature chemical reactions are avoided. The cured coating forms a crosslinking (or crosslinked) structure, has good adhesion on the surface of a medical catheter and has excellent and lasting lubricity in an aqueous medium. The friction coefficient of the surface of the medical catheter is reduced. Harm to human tissues and adhesion of macromolecules in blood are decreased.
US11634640B2
A liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound of general formula I, at least one compound of general formula II and at least one compound of general formula III. The liquid crystal composition has a higher optical anisotropy, the relatively large elastic constants K11 and K33 while maintaining a relatively high clearing point, an appropriate dielectric anisotropy and a better low-temperature intersolubility. A liquid crystal display device which includes the liquid crystal composition has advantages of a fast response, a high contrast and a wide temperature range, thereby having a good display effect and a large range of applicability.
US11634636B2
A method for producing flakes of a resin thin film including: a step (1) of forming a resin thin film on a substrate film to obtain a multilayer film; a step (2) of pressing the multilayer film by a member having a concavo-convex shape to form cracks in the resin thin film; and a step (3) of stripping the resin thin film from the substrate film to obtain flakes. The step (2) is preferably performed with a pressing pressure of 100 MPa or less. The resin thin film is preferably formed of a cured product of a photocurable liquid crystal composition. The resin thin film is preferably a cholesteric resin layer.
US11634625B2
A well treatment additive includes a siloxane surfactant, a solvent and an aqueous phase. The solvent is preferably a terpene hydrocarbon. Also disclosed is a method for using the well treatment additive to form and enhance the properties of terpene solvent based additives useful for the treatment of oil and gas wells. Methods of using the novel well treatment additives include using the additives in a variety of well treatment processes including, but not limited to, acidizing operations, hydraulic fracturing operations, well remediation operations and water removal operations.
US11634624B2
The anionic cocogem surfactant of formula (I) for an oil production process of increased efficiency wherein each R1 and R2 is independently selected from hydrogen or C1-C18 straight or branched alkyl optionally substituted by OH; each R3 is independently selected from hydrogen; C1-C25 straight or branched alkyl or alkenyl optionally comprising inter-chain amido-group; aromatic group optionally substituted by C1-C25, preferably C5-C20, more preferably C5-C15 straight or branched alkyl, preferably selected from phenyl and diphenylether; or C10-C20 straight or branched alkenyl, alkadienyl or alkatrienyl; Z is C1-C18 straight or branched alkylene optionally substituted by one or two C1-C6 alkyl or preferably C3-C6 cycloalkyl, optionally comprising (EO)n and/or (PO)m groups, wherein EO is ethylene-oxide i.e. —CH2CH2O—, and PO is propylene-oxide, i.e. —CH(CH3)CH2O—, wherein n and m is independently an integer of from 0 to 30 and n+m is an integer of from 1 to 30; and/or [NH(R4)]+ quaternary ammonium, wherein R4 is hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, preferably methyl or ethyl; R5 is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl, preferably methyl or ethyl; An is one or more groups selected from SO3−, Cl− or CO2−; i is an integer of 0 or 1; p is an integer of 2 or 3; j is an integer of 2 or 3.
US11634617B2
The present invention has for its object to provide an adhesive composition that is based on a naturally occurring material less likely to have adverse influences on the human body and has a tensile shear strength (adhesive strength) of at least 1 MPa with respect to a variety of adherends. The present invention provides an adhesive composition including at least a first pack and a second pack, wherein the first pack contains a tannic acid derivative in which a hydrogen atom in at least some hydroxyl group of tannic acid is substituted by a chain hydrocarbon group having at least one hydroxyl group, and the second pack contains a hydrocarbon having at least two cyanate groups or a derivative of the hydrocarbon.
US11634609B2
A substrate at least partially coated with an anti-fingerprint coating is prepared from a coating composition that includes: (a) an organic solvent; and (b) an alkoxysilane functional polymer having at least one ester linkage, at least one urethane linkage, and at least one alkoxysilane functional group. Further, the polymer is prepared from components including: (i) an active hydrogen functional compound having a hydroxyl group, amino group, thiol group, or a combination thereof; (ii) an intramolecular cyclic ester; and (iii) an isocyanate functional compound. The active hydrogen functional compound (i), the isocyanate functional compound (iii), or both (i) and (iii) have one or more alkoxysilane functional groups. Alkoxysilane functional polymers and coating compositions containing the same are also included.
US11634608B2
A compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 is a monovalent organic group containing a polyether chain; X1 and X2 are each individually a monovalent group; and the polyether chain is a chain represented by the following formula: —(OC6F12)m11—(OC5F10)m12—(OC4F8)m13—(OC3X106)m14—(OC2F4)m15—(OCF2)m16—, wherein m11, m12, m13, m14, m15, and m16 are each individually an integer of 0 or 1 or greater; X10s are each individually H, F, or Cl; the repeating units are present in any order; and the sum of m11 to m16 is an integer of 10 or greater, R1 being other than those containing a urethane bond.
US11634604B2
Loose particulate materials can be problematic in various aspects. For example, loose particulate materials may generate dust or be difficult to consolidate together. Fines in loose particulate materials may also be an issue. Coated particulates may alleviate some of the foregoing issues. Suitable coated particulates may comprise a particulate material comprising sand or a ceramic, and a polysaccharide composition coated upon the particulate material, the polysaccharide composition comprising a functionalized polysaccharide. Other particulate materials such as wood chips and animal litter particulates may be coated with functionalized polysaccharides to achieve similar advantages.
US11634600B2
An ink composition includes an acrylic resin including a polymerization product of a first monomer having a hydroxyl group, a second monomer having an epoxy group, a third monomer having an acrylate group, and a fourth monomer having a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, a first curing agent having an isocyanate group, and a second curing agent having an amine group. Durability and abrasion resistance of a window may be improved.
US11634599B2
Methods of printing a three-dimensional object using co-reactive components are disclosed. Thermosetting compositions for three-dimensional printing are also disclosed.
US11634587B2
A coating for vehicle components, such as frame assemblies and cradle assemblies formed of steel, is provided. The coating includes a first layer including a high phosphate composition applied to the substrate, and a second layer including wax applied to the first layer. For example, the first layer can include a first inorganic acid, an inorganic salt, a second inorganic acid, nickel salt, and ammonium bifluoride; and the second layer can include petroleum, carbon black pigment, and a corrosion inhibitor, the corrosion inhibitor including magnesium. The coating has been found to improve corrosion resistance when applied to steel substrates, compared to wax coatings which are currently applied to steel substrates.
US11634578B2
The invention relates to a composition for production of a thermoplastic moulding compound, wherein the composition comprises or consists of the following constituents: A) 42% to 80% by weight of at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of aromatic polycarbonate and aromatic polyestercarbonate, B) 2% to 38% by weight of at least one polysiloxane-polycarbonate block co-condensate, C) 1% to 15% by weight of at least one rubber-modified graft polymer comprising C.1) 5% to 95% by weight based on the graft polymer C of a shell composed of at least one vinyl monomer and C.2) 95% to 5% by weight based on the graft polymer C of a graft substrate composed of silicone-acrylate composite rubber, D) 2% to 10% by weight of at least one phosphazene, E) 0% to 10% by weight of at least one additive, to the moulding compound itself, to the use of the composition or moulding compound for production of moulded articles and to the moulded articles themselves.
US11634574B2
Provided is a rubber-containing graft polymer which is excellent in mechanical strength such as weld strength or impact strength, required as a rubber-containing graft polymer. A rubber-containing graft polymer (A) of the present invention is a rubber-containing graft polymer having a graft chain, in which when the rubber-containing graft polymer is mixed with an organic solvent and separated into an organic solvent insoluble component and an organic solvent soluble component, a caprolactone unit is contained in a graft chain contained in the organic solvent insoluble component.
US11634572B2
The present invention relates to a polymer composition comprising a polymer comprising methyl methacrylate, (meth)acrylic acid and styrene monomers. In particular, the present invention relates to a polymer composition comprising a polymer comprising methyl methacrylate, (meth)acrylic acid and styrene monomers, said composition having particularly advantageous compromises of heat-resistant, fluidity, scratch-resistant and chemical-resistant properties. The present invention also relates to a molded or extruded object comprising a polymer comprising methyl methacrylate, (meth)acrylic acid and of styrene monomers, and the use of these objects.
US11634571B2
The present invention is directed to a polypropylene composition (C) comprising a heterophasic propylene copolymer (RAHECO) and a plastomer (PL) as well as a process for the preparation of said polypropylene composition and a film obtained from said polypropylene composition (C).
US11634569B2
A composition for odor control includes (A) from 85 wt % to 99.5 wt % of an olefin-based compound and (B) from 15 wt % to 0.5 wt % of an odor suppressant. The odor suppressant includes a blend of (i) an ionomer, (ii) particles of zinc oxide, and (iii) particles of copper oxide. The composition has a methyl mercaptan odor suppression value of greater than 45% as measured in accordance with ASTM D5504-12.
US11634553B2
Foam composites and methods of preparation thereof are discussed. For example, the foam composite may include a polymeric material and a particulate filler, wherein the compressive strength of the foam composite is equal to or greater than 20 psi, the density is 4 pcf to 40 pcf, and wherein the thermal conductivity is equal to or less than 0.050 W/m K. the particulate filler may include fly ash, e.g., in an amount of about of 45% to about 75% by weight with respect to the total weight of the foam composite. The foam composite may be prepared from a mixture of a polyol, an isocyanate, the particulate filler, and a liquid blowing agent having a boiling point equal to or greater than 25° C. or 30° C.
US11634547B2
A water-soluble film is provided, which is less susceptible to curling even after long-term storage. The water-soluble film includes a polyvinyl alcohol resin (A) , and has a first surface, which has a crystal Unity index Xa, and a second surface, which is opposite to the first surface and has a crystallinity index Xb, where: Xa≥Xb; Xa−Xb is from 0.015 to 0.10; and the crystallinity indexes Xa and Xb are measured through an infrared spectroscopic analysis by an attenuated total reflection method and represented by: ABS1141/ABS1093, wherein ABS1141 and ABS1093 are absorbances at wavenumbers of 1141 cm−1 and 1093 cm−1, respectively.
US11634527B2
A method of preparing a graft copolymer includes a step of performing coagulation by adding an acid coagulant to 100 parts by weight (based on solids) of graft copolymer latex prepared by graft-polymerizing an aromatic vinyl compound and a vinyl cyanide compound onto conjugated diene rubber latex; and a step of performing coagulation once more by adding a salt coagulant thereto. In a resulting graft copolymer, coagulation efficiency may be improved and the gloss of the prepared graft copolymer may be increased. In addition, since a b-value measured using a Hunter lab colorimeter and a b-value measured after being left at 250° C. for 15 minutes are low, the graft copolymer may have excellent color characteristics. In addition, since heating loss is low and scorch time is long, the graft copolymer may have excellent processing characteristics.
US11634526B2
Provided is a rubber-containing graft polymer capable of reducing wet heat aging of a shaped article while improving the strength developing property of a thermoplastic resin. In the rubber-containing graft polymer of the present invention, a content of components having a weight-average molecular weight of 800,000 or more is 1% by mass or more with respect to an organic solvent-soluble fraction (100% by mass) of the rubber-containing graft polymer, and a phosphorus content in the rubber-containing graft polymer is 3 to 30 mmol/kg.
US11634519B2
Disclosed is a functionalizing method for the end functionalisation of trans-1,4 stereo-regular polydiene chains obtained by the coordination catalytic polymerisation of at least one conjugated diene monomer. It also relates to a polydiene having a trans-1,4 chain formation rate of at least 85%, preferably at least 90%, and an end functionalisation rate higher than 70%, preferably higher than 80%, and more preferably higher than 90%.
US11634508B2
The present invention relates to peptide conjugates of cytotoxins such as topoisomerase I inhibitors which are useful for the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US11634507B2
A method of producing dendritic gold nanoparticles by combining a gold precursor solution, a reducing agent, and a bifunctional peptide having an amine-rich amino acid sequence into a buffered aqueous solution in a single container, and agitating the mixture causing the formation of the dendritic gold nanoparticles having a surface with a positive charge and a second end portion of the bifunctional peptide exposed on the surface of the dendritic gold nanoparticles. The dendritic gold nanoparticles may be used to deliver therapeutic, diagnostic, and/or immunogenic amino acid sequences as portions of the bifunctional peptide.
US11634504B2
The invention relates to antibodies, and antigen-binding fragments thereof, that specifically bind TFPI and inhibit an activity thereof. Such antibodies and fragments are useful for treating bleeding disorders and shortening clotting time.
US11634502B2
Provided herein are heterodimeric bispecific antibodies that can mediate cytolysis of a target cell by an immune effector cell, nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, methods of making such antibodies, and methods of using such antibodies. These antibodies comprise two different polypeptide chains, each comprising two immunoglobulin variable regions and, optionally, a half life-extending moiety.
US11634497B2
This application discloses anti-CCR7 antibodies, antigen binding fragments thereof, and antibody drug conjugates of said antibodies or antigen binding fragments. The invention also relates to methods of treating or preventing cancer using the antibodies, antigen binding fragments, and antibody drug conjugates. Also disclosed herein are methods of making the antibodies, antigen binding fragments, and antibody drug conjugates, and methods of using the antibodies and antigen binding fragments as diagnostic reagents.
US11634476B2
The invention provides a method for culturing mammalian cells. The method provides greater control over cell growth to achieve high product titer cell cultures.
US11634475B2
A2M polypeptide compositions containing a non-natural bait region are disclosed. Methods of producing wild-type and variant A2M polypeptides and polynucleotides containing a non-natural bait region are also disclosed. The bait regions of the variant A2M polypeptides demonstrate enhanced protease inhibitory characteristics compared to wild-type A2M. Variant A2M polypeptides that demonstrate longer half-lives upon administration to an organism compared to wild-type A2M are disclosed. The A2M compositions are useful in treating a number of diseases and conditions including inflammation, chronic wounds, and diseases with a pathology associated with proteases.
US11634470B2
The disclosure relates to integrin binding peptides, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the peptides and to uses thereof as therapeutic, diagnostic, imaging and targeting agents.
US11634466B2
In certain embodiments, the present invention provides a musclin peptide and methods of increasing muscle growth, performance, resistance to injury and/or preventing or reducing muscle atrophy and improving overall skeletal muscle, metabolic and cardiac health in an animal in need thereof by administering a musclin peptide.
US11634458B2
The present invention relates to a family of peptides which are able to interfere in the formation of complex Munc18-Syntaxin-1 and, hence, are useful in the prevention and/or treatment of neuronal exocytosis and/or muscle contractility disorders; and to prevent, reduce and/or eliminate skin aging and/or expression signs.
US11634454B2
The present invention pertains to pharmaceutical chemical field, and relates to a sterol derivative as well as preparation method and uses thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to a compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester or ether thereof, wherein, R1 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, ═O(carbonyl), H, and C1-C3 alkyl; R2 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, H, and C1-C3 alkyl; R3 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, ═O, H, and C1-C3 alkyl; R4 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, H, and C1-C3 alkyl; and none, one, two, three or four of R1, R2, R3, and R4 are —OH. The compound of the present invention can inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, tumor cells and lipase effectively, and is a potential drug for reducing blood-fat, antitumors, or for losing weight.
US11634449B2
Provided herein are methods of preparing macrolides by the coupling of an eastern and western half, followed by macrocyclization, to provide macrolides, including both known and novel macrolides. Intermediates in the synthesis of macrolides including the eastern and western halves are also provided. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating infectious diseases and inflammatory conditions using the inventive macrolides are also provided. A general diastereoselective aldol methodology used in the synthesis of the western half is further provided.
US11634444B2
An metal organic complex has the following general formula (I): Ar1, selected from at least one of aromatic hydrocarbyl, R1-substituted aromatic hydrocarbyl, heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbyl and R1-substituted heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbyl; and Ar2, selected from one of heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbyl containing N atoms and R1-substituted heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbyl containing N atoms; M being a transitional group metal element; L being selected from one of a monodentate neutral ligand, a monodentate anionic ligand, a bidentate neutral ligand and a bidentate anionic ligand; m being any integer ranging from 1 to 3; and n being any integer ranging from 1 to 2.
US11634443B2
Provided are novel prodrugs of treprostinil, as well as methods of making and methods of using these prodrugs.
US11634442B2
Compositions and methods for isolating L-glufosinate from a composition comprising L-glufosinate and glutamate are provided. The method comprises converting the glutamate to pyroglutamate followed by the isolation of L-glufosinate from the pyroglutamate and other components of the composition to obtain substantially purified L-glufosinate. The composition comprising L-glufosinate and glutamate is subjected to an elevated temperature for a sufficient time to allow for the conversion of glutamate to pyroglutamate, followed by the isolation of L-glufosinate from the pyroglutamate and other components of the composition to obtain substantially purified L-glufosinate. The glutamate alternatively may be converted to pyroglutamate by enzymatic conversion. The purified L-glufosinate is present in a final composition at a concentration of 90% or greater of the sum of L-glufosinate, glutamate, and pyroglutamate. In some embodiments, a portion of the glutamate in the starting composition may be separated from the L-glufosinate using a crystallization step. Solid forms of L-glufosinate materials, including crystalline L-glufosinate ammonium, are also described.
US11634436B2
The invention provides compounds having the general formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X, Y, R1, R2, R7a, R7b, X, RB1, RB2, n, p, q, the A ring and the B ring are as described herein, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of use thereof.
US11634430B2
The present specification provides a heterocyclic compound of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device comprising the same. The heterocyclic compound used as a material of an organic material layer of an organic light emitting device provides enhanced efficiency, low driving voltage, and enhanced lifetime properties of the organic light emitting device.
US11634429B2
Chromophores with large hyperpolarizabilities, films with electro-optic activity comprising the chromophores, and electro-optic devices comprising the chromophores are disclosed.
US11634428B2
The present invention is concerned with novel deuterated Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme-2 (ACE-2) inhibitors of general structural formula I, their optically active enantiomers and diastereoisomers, and pharmaceutical salts and compositions thereof, as well as combination therapies which include compounds of the present invention, These compounds have high potency and selectivity for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme-2 (ACE-2) inhibition, and are useful in the treatment of infectious respiratory diseases including the pandemic disease Covid-19, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), and other diseases caused by coronaviruses.
US11634427B2
The present invention aims to provide a method for improving the fluidity of a crystal nucleating agent for polyolefin resins without impairing other properties, and a polyolefin resin composition containing the crystal nucleating agent with improved fluidity and having excellent properties including transparency, and a molded article thereof. Adjustment to specific characteristics can improve the fluidity of a crystal nucleating agent for polyolefin resins, and the use of such a crystal nucleating agent having specific characteristics remarkably improves the workability during molding processing and provides a polyolefin resin composition excellent in properties such as transparency, and a molded article thereof.
US11634424B2
Disclosed are a diazaindole derivative as shown in formula I and the use thereof in the preparation of a drug for treating Chk1-related diseases.
US11634422B2
Described herein are compounds that inhibit ALK2 and its mutants, pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and methods of using such compounds and compositions.
US11634420B2
A compound of formula (I): (Formula (I)) wherein Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 independently in each occurrence is a C6-20 aryl group or a 5-20 membered heteroaryl group which is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more substituents; X1, X2 and X3 in each occurrence is independently a direct bond or a group of formula —C(R1)2— wherein R1 in each occurrence is independently H or a substituent. The compound of formula (I) may be used to form an n-dopant for doping an organic semiconductor. A film formed by such n-doping may be used in an organic electronic device, for example an electron injection layer of an organic light-emitting device.
US11634415B2
A compound of Formula I includes a stereoisomer thereof and/or a salt thereof; wherein R1 is a substituted alkane group, a heterocylic group, or a pyridine group; X is hydrogen, a halogen, an amino acid residue, a substituted amino acid residue, an alkyl group, or an ester. Such compounds may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders:
US11634408B2
Provided are compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, stereoisomers, tautomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, polymorphs, and prodrugs thereof, wherein X1-X4, RX, RC, RB, n, and Ring A are as defined herein. The compounds may be aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists or partial aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) and methods of using such compounds for treating diseases and conditions related to the activity of an aryl hydrocarbon receptor, such as, for example, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, metabolic disorders, and proliferative diseases.
US11634399B2
Compositions of furan based surfactants derived from unsaturated carbon-containing molecules, such as fatty acids, as well as methods for forming furan based surfactants from unsaturated carbon-containing molecules, such as fatty acids, are disclosed herein. These compositions and methods can utilize long-chain (e.g., C14-C26) unsaturated carbon-containing molecules, for instance unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid or methyl oleate from soybean oil, to derive oleo-furan surfactants. To facilitate this, certain such embodiments include reaction steps that cleave the reactant molecule (e.g., methyl oleate) at the double bond and subsequently oxidize products to form a carboxylic acid molecule and a dicarboxylic acid molecule. In such embodiments, these two acids can be subsequently acylated with furan and functionalized to form surfactants.
US11634397B2
The invention provides a process for preparing heterocyclic fluoroalkenyl sulfones and their thioether and sulfoxide precursors of the formula: Cl—R—S(O)n—(CH2)2—CF═CF2 (Formula I′) wherein R is a heterocyclic five-membered aromatic ring and n is 0, 1 or 2, comprising a step of dehalogenation of a compound of the formula: Cl—R—S(O)n—(CH2)2—CFX1—CF2X2 (Intermediate B), wherein X1 and X2 are independently halogen atoms, to remove said X1 and X2 atoms. Also included are novel intermediate compounds.
US11634394B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of fungicidally active triazole compounds wherein said process uses homologous cage amines as the catalyst.
US11634390B2
The present invention relates to compounds which are of use in the field of agriculture as herbicides. The invention also relates to methods of using said compounds and compositions comprising said compounds.
US11634385B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing haloalkanesulfonic acids from sulfur trioxide and a haloalkane, particularly to a process for preparing trifluoromethane sulfonic acid from sulfur trioxide and trifluoromethane.
US11634383B2
The embodiments provide processes for preparing a diisocyanate composition and an optical lens, which are excellent in yield and quality with mitigated environmental problems by using a solid triphosgene composition instead of phosgene gas in the process of preparing a diisocyanate from a diamine through a hydrochloride thereof and by controlling the content of a decomposition product in a triphosgene composition, the b* value according to CIE color coordinate of the triphosgene composition in an organic solvent, or the content of water in the triphosgene.
US11634381B2
Provide herein are compounds with a general chemical structure of: Substituents R1 and R2 independently are H, Cl, F, Br, CH3, CF3, SH, —N(C1-3alkyl)2, —NHC(O)C1-3alkyl, or —NHC(O)C5-7cycloalkyl, substituent R3 is H or C1-3 alkyl and R4 is a bridged cycloalkene such as a bridged cyclohexene or a bridge-substituted cyclohexene. The compounds are therapeutics to treat a cancer, such as breast cancer, or metastatic cancers, to inhibit RUNX2 activity, such as protein expression, in a cancer cell and to increase survival of a subject with breast cancer.
US11634379B2
Compounds are provided having the following structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer or stereoisomer thereof, wherein R1a, R1b, R2a, R2b, R3a, R3b, R4a, R4b, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, L1, L2, a, b, c, d and e are as defined herein. Use of the compounds as a component of lipid nanoparticle formulations for delivery of a therapeutic agent, compositions comprising the compounds and methods for their use and preparation are also provided.
US11634376B2
The current invention relates to long α-ω di-functional linear molecules as building blocks closing the gap between small molecules and polymers, or in a polycondensated form, in the production of oligomers and/or polymers, surfactants, lubricants, coatings, colloidal stabilizing surface chains/molecules.
US11634363B2
A refractory object may include a zircon body that is intentionally doped with a dopant including an alkaline earth element and aluminum. The refractory object can have an improved creep deformation rate. In an embodiment, the refractory object can have a creep deformation rate of not greater than about 1.8 E-5 h−1 at a temperature of 1350° C. and a stress of 2 MPa. In another embodiment, the zircon body may include an amorphous phase including an alkaline earth metal element.
US11634360B2
Ion-exchanged glass ceramic articles described herein have a stress that decreases with increasing distance according to a substantially linear function from a depth of about 0.07t to a depth of about 0.26t from the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass ceramic article from a compressive stress to a tensile stress. The stress transitions from the compressive stress to the tensile stress at a depth of from about 0.18t to about 0.25t from the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass ceramic article. An absolute value of a maximum compressive stress at the outer surface of the ion-exchanged glass article is from 1.8 to 2.2 times an absolute value of a maximum central tension (CT) of the ion-exchanged glass article, and the glass ceramic article has a fracture toughness of 1 MPa√m or more as measured according to the double cantilever beam method.
US11634354B2
A colored glass article may include 50-80 mol % SiO2; 7-20 mol % Al2O3; 1-35 mol % R2O, wherein R2O comprises at least one of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O; 1×10−6-10 mol % of a colorant, wherein the colorant comprises at least one of Cr2O3, Au, Ag, CuO, NiO, Co3O4, TiO2, CeO2; and 12-24 mol % of Al2O3+MgO+CaO+ZnO. The colored glass article may have a transmittance color coordinate in the CIELAB color space with an L* value of 55 to 96.5. The colored glass article may have a compressive stress profile with a depth of compression ≥0.15t, a thickness t from 0.4 mm-5 mm, a compressive stress ≥200 MPa, and a central tension ≥60 MPa. The colored glass article may have a dielectric constant from 5.6 to 6.4 over the frequency range from 10 GHz to 60 GHz.
US11634350B2
A water filter cartridge includes a sediment filter, a carbon filter, and a core having a tubular body with openings that allow water to flow through the core. The core defines an open central area, and the core supports the sediment filter and the carbon filter. A nanofiltration unit is arranged within the open central area of the core. The nanofiltration unit includes a tubular filter element defining a central volume, and a plurality of filaments arranged within the central volume.
US11634345B2
In an insoluble material-generating apparatus, an iron salt and/or an aluminum salt, and a cationic polymer flocculant, are added to waste water containing dissolved substances to generate insoluble material. To the insoluble material-containing waste water, an anionic polymer flocculant is added, after which the waste water containing the anionic polymer flocculant and the insoluble material is stirred in a granulating flocculation precipitation tank, the insoluble material is granulated, and solid-liquid separation of the generated granulated material is performed to obtain treated water. The amount of the iron salt or the aluminum salt added is an iron or aluminum concentration of at least 0.4 mmol/L, and the cationic polymer flocculant and the anionic polymer flocculant are added so that the product of the cationic polymer flocculant concentration and the cationic group percentage is equal to or less than the product of the anionic polymer flocculant concentration and the anionic group percentage.
US11634340B2
Proposed are a layered Group III-V arsenic compound, a Group III-V nanosheet that may be prepared using the same, and an electrical device including the materials. There is proposed a layered compound having a composition represented by [Formula 1] Mx-mAyAsz (Where M is at least one of Group I elements, A is at least one of Group III elements, x, y, and z are positive numbers which are determined according to stoichiometric ratios to ensure charge balance when m is 0, and 0
US11634339B2
An oxide ion conductor has a X3Z2(TO4)3 structure, where X is a divalent metal element, Z is a trivalent metal element, and T is a tetravalent metal element, and has a composition expressed by (X1-xAx)3(Z1-yBy)2(T1-zCz)3O12+δ where the element X is Ca, Fe, Gd, Ba, Sr, Mn, and/or Mg, the element Z is Al, Cr, Fe, Mn, V, Ga, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, and/or Ir, the element T is Si and/or Ge, an element A is La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and/or Sr, an element B is Zn, Mn, Co, Ru, and/or Rh, and an element C is Si, Al, Ga, and/or Sn, 0≤x≤0.2, 0≤y≤0.2, and 0≤z≤0.2 are satisfied, and δ is a value securing electrical neutrality.
US11634338B1
A method of producing particles of aluminum chlorohydrate includes (a) feeding a solution of aluminum chloride through an atomizer associated with a spray dryer, so that a spray of droplets of the solution is formed in the spray dryer, (b) operating the dryer at a temperature sufficient to cause transformation of the droplets into crystal particulates and to dry the crystal particulates, such dried crystal particulates being aluminum chlorohydrate, and (c) recovering the dried crystal particulates. A product produced by the process is also described.
US11634337B2
A process for the chemical conversion of contaminated magnesium hydroxide to high purity solutions of magnesium bicarbonate include steps of providing an impure reagent including at least 40% and less than 95% by total weight of total metals of magnesium in a form of solid magnesium hydroxide and at least 10% by weight of total metals of calcium carbonate, combining the impure reagent containing the solid magnesium hydroxide with carbonic acid in water, thereby generating magnesium bicarbonate and water and then filtering out solid calcium carbonate leaving a solution of magnesium bicarbonate in water having a by weight ratio of Mg/(Mg+Ca) in the solution of greater than 95%. Heating and/or drying the magnesium bicarbonate solution produces correspondingly high purity magnesium carbonate.
US11634335B2
The present invention provides an iron-loaded aluminosilicate zeolite having a maximum pore opening defined by eight tetrahedral atoms and having the framework type CHA, AEI, AFX, ERI or LTA, wherein the iron (Fe) is present in a range of from about 0.5 to about 5.0 wt. % based on the total weight of the iron-loaded aluminosilicate zeolite, wherein an ultraviolet-visible absorbance spectrum of the iron-loaded synthetic aluminosilicate zeolite comprises a band at approximately 280 nm, wherein a ratio of an integral, peak-fitted ultraviolet-visible absorbance signal measured in arbitrary units (a.u.) for the band at approximately 280 nm to an integral peak-fitted ultraviolet-visible absorbance signal measured in arbitrary units (a.u.) for a band at approximately 340 nm is >about 2. The present invention further provides a method of making an metal-loaded aluminosilicate zeolite having a maximum pore opening defined by eight tetrahedral atoms from pre-existing aluminosilicate zeolite crystallites, wherein the metal is present in a range of from 0.5 to 5.0 wt. % based on the total weight of the metal-loaded aluminosilicate zeolite.
US11634316B2
A fuel storage and supply arrangement serves as a source of fuel to be dispensed via at least one fuel dispenser in a fuel dispensing environment. The arrangement comprises a storage tank for containing a quantity of the fuel. A pump assembly draws the fuel from the storage tank providing the fuel under pressure to a fuel supply line. A fuel conditioning assembly includes a housing having a storage volume, a housing inlet receiving the fuel under pressure created by the pump assembly, a housing outlet through which fuel exits the housing, and a housing port through which fuel can be drawn into the housing. A vacuum source in fluid communication with the housing outlet is operative to selectively apply a vacuum to the outlet of the housing so that liquid can be drawn into the housing via the port. A water intake device is in fluid communication with the housing port. The water intake device has at least one inlet situated adjacent to a bottom of the fuel storage tank.
US11634307B2
A tire lifting assembly used to remove and replace a wheel and a tire on a vehicle is disclosed. The tire lifting assembly is configured to take the weight of the wheel and the tire when the service technician removes or replaces it thereby eliminating the need for manual efforts from a service technician. The assembly is rolled under the mounted wheel and tire and quickly adjusted to secure the wheel and tire by using a roller platform. A scissor jack mechanism is used to adjust the height of the roller platform which allows the rotation of the tire during the mounting procedure.
US11634304B2
An elevator renewal construction method includes steps of: replacing an old control panel of an existing elevator with a new control panel; installing an auxiliary panel, which includes a communication converter to be connected to the new control panel, and which is formed separately from the new control panel; and connecting an old device including at least any one of an old hall device and an old car device, which has been placed in a communicable state with the old control panel of the existing elevator, into a communicable state with the new control panel via the communication converter, wherein the new control panel is configured to be communicable with the old device through an old communication system converted via the communication converter included in the auxiliary panel, the communication converter being configured to mutually convert a communication system between a new communication system and the old communication system.
US11634297B2
A media folding device includes a stacking portion on which media transported from an introduction path are placed; a folding roller pair that folds the media at a folding position after the media have been stacked in the stacking portion; and a bend forming mechanism that includes a first abutting portion configured to abut against a front end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in a transport direction, and a second abutting portion that is configured to abut against a rear end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in the transport direction, and that causes the folding position of the media to be nipped by the folding roller pair the folding roller pair by shortening the relative distance between the first abutting portion and the second abutting portion to bend the media toward the folding roller pair.
US11634293B2
The present invention provides an adaptive control system to control a plant using direct output feedback in which a function of the full plant state, as opposed to estimates thereof, is used for feedback control of the plant. The adaptive control system of this invention is therefore highly useful in the control of plants, particularly plants for controlling the physical properties of rolls of web material and more particularly a calendering apparatus. Accordingly, in a particularly preferred embodiment the adaptive control system of this invention controls loading of a calender apparatus, such as a pair of opposed rolls forming a calendering stack, based upon the physical properties of a previously processed web.
US11634291B2
A belt conveyance device includes an endless belt, a duct having a suction port, and a rectifier inside the duct. The duct is surrounded by an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt. The rectifier extends in a width direction of the endless belt perpendicular to a direction of conveyance by the endless belt.
US11634289B2
In an image-forming apparatus, when a sheet length of a first sheet is shorter than or equal to a predetermined length, a controller supplies power to an electromagnetic clutch to convey the first sheet and a second sheet so that a sheet gap of the second sheet is equivalent to a first gap. When the sheet length of the first sheet is longer than the predetermined length, the controller supplies power to the electromagnetic clutch to successively convey a first number of sheets so that the sheet gap of each of the first number of sheets is equivalent to the first gap. After the first number of sheets has been conveyed, the controller supplies power to the electromagnetic clutch to convey at least one sheet so that the sheet gap of each of the at least one sheet is equivalent to a second gap greater than the first gap.
US11634282B2
A processing system for processing objects using a programmable motion device is disclosed. The processing system a perception unit for perceiving identifying indicia representative of an identity of an object associated with an input conveyance system, and an acquisition system for acquiring the object from a plurality of objects at an input area using an end effector of the programmable motion device, wherein the programmable motion device is adapted for assisting in the delivery of the object to an identified processing location. The identified processing location being associated with the identifying indicia and said identified processing location being provided as one of a plurality of processing locations. The processing system also includes a delivery system for receiving the object in a carrier and for delivering the object toward the identified processing location.
US11634273B2
A liner (L) has a liner body (11) with a front wall (12), rear wall (16), bottom wall (13), a top wall (14). The top wall also includes a tubular excess liner material or chute (19) located close to the rear wall and which includes a filling fitment (20) with a fitment cap (21). The liner also has a cylindrical, hose content inlet/outlet port or bottom fitment (23). The liner may include a gap-filler or filler strip (90) of foam material extending outwardly from a position closely adjacent the outlet fitment. The filler strip is mounted to the front wall and/or top wall. The filler strip may taper so that at least a majority of the strip's longitudinal length or height so as to increase in its lateral width as it approaches the outlet fitment, thereby increasing the material volume of strip material.
US11634267B2
A pallet cover suitable for use in covering at least a portion of a payload on a pallet and a kit for use in making the pallet cover. In one embodiment, the pallet cover includes a top wall, a front wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, and a right side wall, wherein the walls are detachably joined to one another. Each of the top wall, the front wall, the rear wall, the left side wall, and the right side wall includes a first fabric sheet and a second fabric sheet, the first and second fabric sheets being joined together to form a plurality of pockets. Each pocket may removably receive a temperature-control member containing a phase-change material. At least one of the top wall, the front wall, the rear wall, the left side wall and the right side wall may include a plurality of detachably joined portions.
US11634261B2
A protective packaging web is disclosed. The web includes a flexible inflatable web that includes inflatable chambers having inlets and configured for receiving a fluid from the inlets and sealing the fluid therein, the inflatable chambers being configured such that, when inflated, the inflatable web structure has a first contoured exterior surface including a plurality of peaks and valleys, and a flexible first outer ply affixed to the peaks and detached from the valleys of the first contoured surface, such that when the inflatable chambers are inflated, the first outer ply extends along a phantom first tangential surface, bridging the valleys of the first contoured surface, such that when the chambers are inflated the affixed first outer ply and the inflatable web cooperatively form a framed structure having significantly elevated bending stiffness compared to a bending stiffness resulting from the inflatable web structure absent the attached first outer ply.
US11634260B2
Disclosed herein is a transport device comprising a first section of an outer container comprising a shell on the inside having the shape of a spherical cap with an inner diameter and an opening, wherein the opening of the spherical cap faces upwards, and an inner container having an upper section, a lower section and an inner hollow volume defined thereby, wherein at least the lower section has a spherical shape on the outside, the outer diameter of which is smaller than the inner diameter of the spherical cap of the outer container. The inner container is suitable to be arranged in the spherical cap of the outer container in a freely pivotable fashion, and is capable of accommodating a payload.
US11634258B2
The cover for a drug product bottle with transfer tubes extending therefrom. The cover is made with two parts that close on each other over a screw cap on a drug product bottle. The parts each have a ledge that fits under the screw cap, an intermediately disposed flange that rests on the screw cap and a semi-circular lid spaced from the flange. The flanges and lids define an encapsulated space when the parts are in a closed position to encapsulate the transfer tubes extending from the bottle.
US11634241B1
Certain embodiments of the inventive technology may be described as apparatus for melting and reshaping metal from a first shape into a second shape in a microgravity or zero gravity environment, such as a space foundry, where such apparatus includes feedstock input componentry (5) configured to accept conductive metal feedstock (7) having the first shape, a furnace and a furnace pre-stage (22) established upflow of the furnace, a plurality of electromagnetic field generators (10), each of which is configured to generate an electromagnetic field, to, e.g., steer, melt and/or move the metal, whether melt or otherwise, and casting componentry (15) configured to reshape molten metal to the second shape. Certain embodiments may achieve a high degree of control over electromagnetic fields by offering individual adjustment of one or more electrical parameters of the electromagnetic field generators (10).
US11634240B2
Multi-functional coilable thin-walled structures that can be implemented within space-based satellite modules, and methods for their manufacture are provided. Multi-functional coilable thin-walled structures are comprised of at least one longeron that is capable of rolling and collapsing upon itself. In some embodiments, the coilable thin-walled longeron is a flange longeron. The flange longeron contains at least two major regions: a web and a plurality of flanges. The web region comprises portions of flanges that are bonded to one another. The plurality of flanges separate from one another on the same end of the web region. The plurality of flanges are similar in thickness and shape.
US11634236B2
An autothrottle for an aircraft that includes a power-control input (PCL) manually movable by a pilot along a travel path to effect a throttle setting that controls engine power of the aircraft. The autothrottle determines a control-target setting for a throttle of the aircraft and dynamically adjusts the throttle according to the control-target setting, including moving the PCL to achieve the control-target setting. A virtual detent is set and dynamically adjusted at positions along a travel path of the PCL corresponding to the control-target setting. The virtual detent is operative, at least when the autothrottle is in a disengaged state for autothrottle control, to indicate the control-target setting to the pilot via a haptic effect that applies a detent force opposing motion of the PCL in response to the PCL achieving the position of the virtual detent.
US11634234B2
Electrical power system includes: one or more rotary electric machines, each mechanically coupled to a gas turbine engine spool; a set of converter circuits connected to the one or more rotary electric machines for conversion between alternating (ac) and direct current (dc), wherein one or more rotary electric machines and the set of converter circuits are arranged to output a number R≥2 of dc power channels, each dc power channel having a respective index r=(1, . . . , R); and a group of N dc load channels connected to the R dc power channels by a switching arrangement, wherein N>R and each dc load channel has a respective index n=(1, . . . , N). The switching arrangement is operable to connect a number Q≥1 of the N load channels to at least two different power channels of the R power channels.
US11634233B2
In an embodiment, a duct for a ducted-rotor aircraft includes a hub, the hub including a rotor and one or more motors configured to drive the rotor. The duct also includes a duct ring that defines an opening surrounding at least a portion of the hub. The duct also includes a plurality of stators that extend outward from the hub. The duct also includes at least one battery electrically coupled to the rotor and configured to power the one or more motors.
US11634231B2
A battery module can include multiple cell tubes, a first conductive plate, and multiple first spacers. The multiple cell tubes can accommodate multiple battery cells within the multiple cell tubes so that individual of the multiple battery cells are positioned within individual of the multiple cell tubes. The first conductive plate can include multiple first holes and electrically connect first terminals of the multiple cells. The multiple first spacers can be mounted in the multiple first holes and support the multiple tubes and the multiple cells with respect to the first conductive plate, the multiple first spacers being configured to provide thermal and electrical isolation between the multiple battery cells and the first conductive plate.
US11634222B2
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle having a foldable fixed wing and a twin-ducted fan power system (7) arranged at a tail portion of a fuselage in a transverse and tail propulsion arrangement provides lift for vertical take-off and landing and propulsion for horizontal flight. By means of deflection of a control servo plane arranged at a duct exit, a vectored thrust is provided to enable a fast attitude change. When the aerial vehicle takes off and lands vertically/flies at a low speed, the wing is folded to reduce the frontal area exposure to crosswind. When the aerial vehicle is flying horizontally, the wing is expanded to obtain larger lift. A Coanda effect is created at a trailing edge of the wing by suction of the duct to improve performance.
US11634220B2
Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle management service may provide a platform to manage groups of unmanned aerial vehicles to work together on a task simultaneously in an autonomous manner.
US11634210B2
A system for an unmanned aerial vehicle can include an altitude control system, which further includes a compressor assembly, a valve assembly, and an electronics assembly. The compressor assembly may include a driveshaft and a bearing assembly configured to rotate the driveshaft. The driveshaft may be formed from a first material and a compressor housing may be formed from a second material. The first and second materials may have different rates of thermal expansion. A dynamic preloading mechanism, such as a flexible plate, may be provided within the compressor assembly to exert a preloading force on the bearing assembly. Throughout the duration of the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the preloading mechanism can continually compensate for differences in rates of thermal expansion between the first and second materials throughout.
US11634205B2
A frame component for a frame of a fuselage structure of an aircraft includes a central web extending along a longitudinal direction and having an inner edge region with respect to a radial direction running transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction and an outer edge region with respect to the radial direction. An inner web is bent from the inner edge region of the central web towards a first side. An outer web is bent from the outer edge region of the central web towards the first side. The central web, the outer web and the inner web are produced integrally from a metal sheet and together define a C-shaped cross section of the frame component. At least one stringer recess is formed in the outer web and in the outer edge region of the central web. The central web has, in the region of the stringer recess, a first reinforcing formation which forms a protrusion on the first side of the central web.
US11634203B2
A device for capturing in-port ship exhaust gases is designed to be connected to a ship, when the ship has at least one funnel that serves as an outlet for exhaust gases. The device includes at least one collection device, including a hood designed to connect to the funnel at the exhaust outlet so as to collect the exhaust gases coming out of the funnel, a handling unit designed to move the collection device and position it at the exhaust outlet, a first constraint configured to interconnect or disconnect the collection device and the handling unit by command so as to create a handling configuration in which the collection device and the handling unit are interconnected by the first constraint and can be moved as one, and a collection configuration in which the collection device collects the exhaust gases and the connection achieved by the first constraint is released, and a second constraint configured to exert a magnetic attraction force, by command, intended to put the first constraint into the handling configuration.
US11634198B2
Embodiments, including systems and methods, for remotely controlling underwater vehicles (such as ROVs) and deploying ocean bottom seismic nodes from the underwater vehicles. A direct data connection may be created between an Integrated Navigation System (located on a surface vessel) and a ROV controller/Dynamic Positioning (DP) system (which may be located on the surface vessel and/or the ROV). The INS may be configured to output the ROV target position and ROV position (such as standard 2 or 3 dimensional coordinates) to the DP system. The DP system may be configured to calculate the necessary ROV movements based on directly received data from the INS. Based on a selected ROV target destination or desired ROV action (which may be done automatically or by an operator), the ROV may be automatically positioned and/or controlled based on commands from the DP system based on commands and/or data from the INS.
US11634194B2
An apparatus for mooring a boat may include a mount body including a plurality of sidewalls forming a channel. A cleat may extend from a first of the plurality of sidewalls. A plate may be removably coupled to the mount body. The apparatus may include a clamping structure comprising a movable jaw coupled to a second of the plurality of sidewalls and configured to clamp the mount to a dock rail.
US11634188B2
Systems and methods for collecting electric scooters are described herein. In some embodiments, the systems and methods facilitate a “snaking” configuration of attaching, coupling, or fixing multiple electric scooters to one another. The snaking configuration enables multiple electric scooters to be collected together and moved to various locations, such as locations where the electric scooters can be rented, serviced, and so on. Further, the systems and methods enable any electric scooter to act as a collecting scooter, and thus a scooter share service or other fleet of scooters can manage the collection and provisioning of scooters in a location without special vehicles or equipment, among other benefits.
US11634170B2
An electric power-steering control device has a substrate, a heat-generating component, and a heat-storing body. The heat-generating component is disposed on one surface of the substrate and generates heat when activated. The heat-storing body is capable of storing the heat from the heat-generating components. The heat-storing body has a main body having a rectangular plate shape and disposed on the one surface of the substrate. The heat-storing body has a notch section or a recess section.
US11634169B2
An electric power steering device includes: —a steering column provided with: a base; an upper segment connected in a tiltable manner to the base, a steering axis comprising a lower axis rotatably contained inside the base; —a hydrostatic steering assembly; —an electrically assisted steering apparatus axially interposed between the steering column and the hydrostatic steering assembly and provided with: a support frame comprising a tubular central body; a shaft whose upper end axially projects outside an upper end of the central body and is connected to the lower end of the lower axis and whose lower end is connected to the hydrostatic steering assembly; and an electric motor positioned inside the central body of the support frame; in which the upper end of the central body is directly fixed to the base and in contact therewith.
US11634164B2
An operation selection device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to perform communication between a self-driving device provided at a vehicle which performs self-driving, and a plurality of operating devices that enable the vehicle to be driven remotely via a remote-control operation performed by a remote-control driver, and that are individually provided for each of a plurality of remote-control drivers, and to acquire information relating to remote-control operations performed by each remote-control driver using each of the plurality of operating devices for a receiving remote-control operation in the vehicle currently being driven remotely, using a predetermined weighting, one remote-control operation among many acquired remote-control operations, and to output information related to remote-control operation that has been decided on to the vehicle, and to allocate a score, which is reflected in the weighting, to the remote-control driver who performed the remote-control operation that has been decided.
US11634153B2
Example embodiments relate to identification of proxy calibration targets for a fleet of sensors. An example method includes collecting, using a sensor coupled to a vehicle, data about one or more objects within an environment of the vehicle. The sensor has been calibrated using a ground-truth calibration target. The method also includes identifying, based on the collected data, at least one candidate object, from among the one or more objects, to be used as a proxy calibration target for other sensors coupled to vehicles within a fleet of vehicles. Further, the method includes providing, by the vehicle, data about the candidate object for use by one or more vehicles within the fleet of vehicles.
US11634142B2
Herein is disclosed a detection device comprising one or more sensors, configured to receive sensor input from a vicinity of a first vehicle, and to generate sensor data representing the received sensor input; one or more processors, configured to detect a second vehicle from the received sensor data; determine from the sensor data a region of a first type relative to the second vehicle and a region of a second type relative to the second vehicle; and control the first vehicle to avoid or reduce travel in the one or more regions of the first type or to travel from a region of the first type to a region of the second type.
US11634133B1
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media are configured to perform operations comprising determining a lead obstacle in front of an ego vehicle; determining an optimizable function associated with an optimized preferred following distance between the ego vehicle and the lead obstacle; and generating the optimized preferred following distance based on the optimizable function.
US11634131B2
A method for determining a speed profile of a motor vehicle on a route between a starting point and an arrival point. The method includes the steps of defining a series of noteworthy points of the route, which are characterized by a stoppage of the vehicle or a decrease in the speed of the vehicle, the series of noteworthy points dividing the route into a series of portions, for each portion of the route, generating a speed and/or torque setpoint optimizing the speed profile of the vehicle by minimizing the Hamiltonian of a system of equations modeling the driving of the vehicle, and providing the setpoint generated on each portion of the route so as to optimize the driving of the vehicle up to the arrival point.
US11634112B2
A hydraulic arrangement for connecting a tractor hydraulic brake circuit to a trailer hydraulic brake circuit is disclosed. The hydraulic arrangement includes a coupler stage fluidly connecting a source of fluid in pressure to the trailer braking hydraulic circuit and a trailer brake valve fluidly connecting the tractor hydraulic brake circuit and the trailer hydraulic brake circuit. The hydraulic arrangement further includes a selection pilot stage fluidly connected to the source of fluid in pressure and being fluidly connectable to the trailer hydraulic brake circuit via at least a connector and a selection stage fluidly connected to the selection pilot stage and to the trailer brake valve. The selection stage being configured to impart an actuation signal to the trailer brake valve in function of an hydraulic signal coming from the selection pilot stage.
US11634101B2
A removable component system may include a removable component selectively connectable to a mounting surface including a component electrical unit; an antenna; a system controller configured to communicate with the component electrical unit and the antenna; and/or a track assembly configured to be fixed to said mounting surface. The removable component may be selectively connectable to said mounting surface via the track assembly. The removable component may be configured for selective connection with, removal from, and movement along the track assembly. The system controller may be configured to obtain a position of the removable component relative to said mounting surface via the antenna and the component electrical unit (e.g., via a component controller, a sensor, and/or a communication device thereof).
US11634094B2
Electrically powered accessories connected to vehicle power systems are authenticated, and connections between the accessories and the vehicle power systems are based on permissions resulting from that authentication. accessories may supply authentication information associated with an authentication level, and form a permitted connection based on the authentication level. Vehicle power systems may obtain the authentication information, obtain the authentication level, and operate a power connection according to the authentication level. Authentication information can be obtained from the component or from a user of the component through, for example, a portable device. A system may include the electrically powered component and the vehicle power system. The system may further include a remote server to process the authentication information and determine the authentication level.
US11634093B2
A seat module adapted to be attached to a seat having mechanical parts and electric devices for seat operation in a motor vehicle includes at least one operating cable for activating at least one device, and a module plate formed with a mounting feature for attaching to the seat and a retention feature for attaching the at least one operating cable. An end portion of the operating cable is temporarily stowed on the module plate in a pre-assembled state where the operating cable is attached to the module plate, and the end portion of the operating cable is connected to the electric devices and/or mechanical parts of the seat in an assembled state where the module plate with the retained operating cables is securely mounted to the seat.
US11634088B2
An integrated housing assembly can be mounted on a roof of a vehicle, such as a semi-trailer truck. The integrated housing assembly includes a main enclosure that includes four sides, a top panel, and a bottom panel. One of the four sides is a front panel that is inclined towards the ground. The main enclosure includes one or more cavities. A front panel of the integrated housing assembly includes one or more openings to allow cameras or sensors to be placed within the one or more cavities and behind the one or more opening. The cameras or sensors cameras can be clamped at a downward angle within multiple lock apparatus. The angled front panel and the inclined cameras or sensors within the lock apparatus allow the cameras or sensors to obtain images or sensor data from one or more regions of interest at some distance from the front of the vehicle.
US11634085B2
The present invention provides an easy and quick assembled and removable rack system which can have the length and width of the system adjusted. The rack system can be assembled in numerous configurations to carry various load sizes and objects. The inventive rack system includes an expandable front brace, an expandable left and right-side frame, an expandable rear brace, expandable left and right support rails, where the expandable support rails have an inner opening for receiving an inner support rail for added support when the left and right support rails are extended. The inner support rails also have an inner opening for receiving a left and right extension arm which fits inside the inner rail opening and the extension arms can be extended from the rear of the frame for added length and support when carrying longer items of for pulling out a portion of the deck panels to create a work surface area off the back of the truck or rack system. The support rails are configured to support removeable panels for providing a deck. The deck is formed from a plurality of expandable deck panels which can have the widths or length adjusted to accommodate the vehicle size. The deck panels are received by the top edge on the left and right support rails.
US11634084B2
A mount adapter assembly for facilitating attachment of articles to a mounting rack includes a first element and a second element. The first element is shaped substantially complementary to at least a first portion of an orifice positioned in a mounting rack. The first element is at least partially insertable into the first portion of the orifice from a first face of the mounting rack. The second element can abut the mounting rack from a second face of the mounting rack. A connector engages the first element to the second element so that the first element and the second element are coupled to the mounting rack. A fastener engaged to the first element can engage a substrate so that the substrate is coupled to the mounting rack. The substrate can be used to attach a variety of articles to the mounting rack.
US11634083B2
An example adjustable truck compartment is described. The truck compartment includes a first side wall including a first guiding rail extending between a proximal end and a distal end, and a second side wall disposed opposite from the first side wall, the second side wall including a second guiding rail extending between a proximal end and a distal end of the second side wall. The truck compartment includes a rear wall coupled to the distal ends of the first and second side walls to define an enclosure between the first side wall, the second side wall, and the rear wall. The truck compartment includes a first divider panel configured to be received by the first and second guiding rails and within the enclosure in an orientation parallel to a floor of the enclosure to separate the enclosure into a first enclosure volume and a second enclosure volume.
US11634082B2
A ladder system includes a fixed support, a ladder bracket supported by the fixed support, a ladder coupled to the ladder bracket and configured to rotate with respect to the ladder bracket between a lowered position and a storage position, and an air spring coupling the ladder to the ladder bracket and configured to apply a force to the ladder when the ladder is in the lowered position to keep the ladder in the lowered position. An agricultural vehicle includes a chassis supported by a plurality of wheels, and a ladder system carried by the chassis. Related methods are also disclosed.
US11634080B2
This assembly firstly comprises a framework fastened on the body of a vehicle, a swiveling floor intended for the forward motion of travelers, in particular, persons with reduced mobility, and an intermediate device, located below the surface for forward motion. The intermediate device and the swiveling floor are able to swivel in relation to the framework in a mutually independent manner. This assembly moreover comprises a sliding system that is movable in translation in relation to the intermediate device between a stowed position and a deployed position, in which this sliding system forms, together with the surface for forward motion, a ramp extending through a lateral opening of the framework.
US11634079B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, and methods for a LiDAR mirror assembly mounted on a vehicle, such as an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. For example, a LiDAR mirror assembly may include a base plate mounted on a hood of a vehicle, where the base plate is coupled to one end of a support arm. The opposite end of the support arm is attached to a housing. The housing includes a top housing enclosure coupled to a bottom housing platform, where a sensor and a mirror is coupled to the housing, and where the sensor is at least partially exposed through an opening in the top housing enclosure. The opening for the sensor is situated near an end of the housing furthest away from the base plate.
US11634073B2
A vehicular vision system includes a front camera and a rear camera disposed at a vehicle and each viewing exterior of the vehicle. Each of the cameras connects with a control via a respective mono coaxial cable. The respective mono coaxial cables carry control data from the control to the respective cameras and carry image data captured by the respective cameras to the control. The control generates an output provided to a video display device of the vehicle. The video display device includes a video display screen viewable by a driver of the vehicle. During a reversing maneuver of the vehicle, the video display screen displays video images of an area rearward the vehicle derived from image data captured by the rear camera and carried to the control by the respective mono coaxial cable.
US11634072B2
The camera assembly (50) comprises: —a supporting arm (51) having a main axis (A51), said supporting arm (51) including a first portion (41) and a second portion (42), the first portion (41) having a first end (53) provided with a mounting device (54) for mounting on a vehicle cab and a second end (57) coupled to the second portion (42); —a camera (52) arranged on said second portion (42) of the supporting arm (51), for providing an image of a surrounding area. The first portion (41) and the second portion (42) of the supporting arm (51) are coupled via coupling means (45) which are configured so that the second portion (42) can move relative to the first portion (41) between: —a first operative position, in which the camera (52) is adapted to provide an image of a first surrounding area; —and a second operative position, in which the camera (52) is adapted to provide an image of a second surrounding area distinct from the first surrounding area.
US11634067B2
A rear liftgate assembly with at least one rear lamp applique assembly and process for manufacturing same. The lamp applique assembly includes a rear lamp applique housing with at least one attachment surface for attaching to an outer panel of the liftgate assembly. A plurality of integrated snap attachment features are provided to connect the lamp applique assembly to the outer panel, thereby eliminating additional bonding and fasteners. A self-sealing wire harness connected accepts an integrated lamp connector, thereby eliminating the need for access openings, to further minimize water intrusion, and eliminate gaskets.
US11634066B2
A protective housing wherein two parts (102, 104) of the housing may be closed together to encapsulate connectors and associated components that are external to the glazing laminate. The protective housing is sealed to the glazing and between the two parts to provide a fluid-tight housing. The parts of the protective housing are connected to the glazing and to each other by adhesive layers (116, 118, 120). A vehicle glazing (10) wherein a light guide stack (22) is located between a portion of the inner transparency (26) and the outer transparency (28). The light guide stack includes a polycarbonate film (32) that is bonded to the transparencies by layers of PET (38, 40) that are secured to the polycarbonate film on one side by silicone (34, 36) and that are secured to the transparencies on the other side by PVB (42, 44). The terminal end of an extending tab of the polycarbonate film forms an edge that is connected to a light bar (14) that such visible light propagates through the light bar and into the polycarbonate film through the edge. Visible light propagates through etchings in the smooth surface of the polycarbonate film to form an image. An extension of one of the transparencies protects the polycarbonate tab and supports the light bar during installation of the glazing into the vehicle portal.
US11634039B2
A system and method for integrated charging a vehicle includes a hybrid excitation machine, operable as a traction motor and including a rotor separated by an air gap from a stator with AC windings. An AC utility line power supply is connected to the AC windings providing an electrical current to the vehicle and inducing a magnetic flux across the air gap and in the rotor. A short circuit, an open circuit, or a DC voltage may be applied to a DC winding in the stator to reduce the magnetic flux into the rotor. A field coil in the rotor may be excited with a DC voltage using a secondary coil on the rotor in a traction mode. The secondary coil is excited by the stator windings using field-oriented control in a “self-excited machine” embodiment, and is directly excited by a separate primary coil in an “externally-excited machine” embodiment.
US11634034B1
A power electronics converter includes a converter commutation cell having a power circuit and a gate driver circuit. The power circuit includes at least one power semiconductor switching element and at least one capacitor. Each power semiconductor switching element is included in a power semiconductor prepackage. The gate driver circuit is configured to provide switching signals to a gate terminal of each power semiconductor switching element, and a peak rated power output of the power electronics converter is greater than 25 kW and a value of a converter parameter γ is less than or equal to 150 fFs/W, where the converter parameter γ is a total rated capacitance of the at least one capacitor of the power circuit divided by a product of the peak rated power output of the power electronics converter and a maximum switching frequency of the switching signals.
US11634031B2
A work vehicle includes: a chassis; an operator cab carried by the chassis; at least one fluid reservoir carried by the chassis; at least one fluid sensor disposed in the at least one fluid reservoir and configured to output a fluid level signal corresponding to a level of fluid in the at least one fluid reservoir; and a fluid display gauge carried by the chassis outside of the operator cab and operatively coupled to the at least one fluid sensor, the fluid display gauge including an activation region that is accessible from the ground. The fluid display gauge is configured to display the level of fluid in the at least one fluid reservoir upon the activation region being activated.
US11634030B2
A vehicle smart garnish is provided. The vehicle smart garnish includes an upper casing formed with a plurality of symbols to which light is emitted, a capacitive touch sensor pad corresponding to at least one of the plurality of symbols and recognizing a touch, a holder casing in which the capacitive touch sensor pad is mounted and coupled from a rear of the upper casing, and a circuit board positioned behind the holder casing and on which a light emitting element emitting light is mounted and configured to detect a touch signal of the capacitive touch sensor pad, wherein the holder casing includes a light guide path for guiding the light emitted from the light emitting element to the plurality of symbols, and a light reflection layer is formed on a partition of the light guide path.
US11634024B2
A working machine includes a machine body having a front-rear direction and a right-left direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction and having a rear part in the front-rear direction, a right side, and a left side opposite to the right side in the right-left direction. A boom has a front end part and a rear end part opposite to the front end part of the boom in the front-rear direction. The rear end part of the boom is rotatably supported at the rear part of the machine body. The front end part of the boom is to be connected to a working tool. An engine is mounted in the rear part of the machine body. A urea aqueous solution tank is provided on one side of the engine in the right-left direction and a rear side of the engine in the front-rear direction to store a urea aqueous solution.
US11634019B2
A vehicle exterior surface protective device for protecting a portion of a vehicle from damage by hail includes a shell, which defines an interior space, and a fastener. The shell is sized to cover a portion of an exterior surface of a vehicle, such as a window and a body panel. A first insert and a second insert are positioned in the interior space, adjacent to a top and a bottom of the shell, respectively. The first insert is at least semirigid and can resist impact deformation. The second insert is resiliently deformable and can dissipate a force from an impact of an object. The fastener is engaged to the shell and is selectively engageable to the vehicle to fixedly position the shell over the portion of the exterior surface. The shell thus positioned protects the portion of the exterior surface from the impact of the object.
US11634005B2
A method of controlling a temperature altering element within a seating assembly of a vehicle comprising: presenting a vehicle including a seating assembly including a temperature altering element, a controller in communication with the temperature altering element, the controller including a Pre-established Predictive Activation Model setting forth rules governing the activation of the temperature altering element as a function of data relating to Certain Identifiable Conditions, and a user interface configured to allow the temperature altering element to be manually activated or deactivated; occupying the seating assembly with a first occupant; collecting data relating to the Certain Identifiable Conditions while the first occupant is occupying the seating assembly; determining, by comparing the collected data to the rules of the Pre-established Predictive Activation Model, whether the collected data satisfies the rules of the Pre-established Predictive Activation Model so as to activate the temperature altering element; and activating the temperature altering element.
US11634003B2
A sway bar system is described. The sway bar system includes a sway bar having a first end and a second end. An electronically controlled connector to provide a remotely controllable physical connection and disconnection capability between a first location on a vehicle and the first end of the sway bar; and the second end of the sway bar coupled to a second location on the vehicle.
US11633998B2
A suspension strut for a vehicle comprises: a first connector for connecting to a first point on the vehicle; a second connector for connecting to a second point on the vehicle; and a damper assembly adapted to provide a damping force as fluid flows through the damper assembly during relative compression between the first point and the second point, wherein the damper assembly comprises a side wall and a damper aperture in the side wall, wherein the damper aperture is open throughout operation of the strut to allow fluid to flow through the damper assembly.
US11633996B2
A double-wishbone type of suspension device for a vehicle comprises a forked-shaped upper arm, a forked-shaped lower arm, and a connecting rod which connects a front-side arm portion of the upper arm and a rear-side arm portion of the lower arm, wherein the connecting rod comprises an upper rod which is rotatably connected to the upper arm, a lower rod which is rotatably connected to said lower arm, and a resilient bush which connects the upper rod and the lower rod in an expandable manner in an axial direction.
US11633995B2
A wheel suspension for a vehicle axle of a two-track vehicle, having a wheel carrier carrying a vehicle wheel, which is able to be articulated to a vehicle body via a multi-link assembly, which multi-link assembly has a trapezoidal link in the form of a four-point link with two connection points on the body side and two connection points on the wheel carrier side. The trapezoidal link connection points on the wheel carrier side are designed with a higher elastic longitudinal compliance, that is, softer, than the trapezoidal link connection points on the body side.
US11633990B2
A tire having a circumferential groove having a groove bottom and a pair of groove walls. The groove bottom is provided with groove bottom raised portions protruding radially outwardly from a reference plane 5a. The groove bottom raised portions are a first groove bottom raised portion located on a first side in the width direction of the circumferential groove and a second groove bottom raised portion located on a second side in the width direction. The first and second groove bottom raised portions each has a plurality of repeating units having a first bottom surface extending substantially in the tire radial direction and a second bottom surface inclined with respect to the tire radial direction at a larger angle than the first bottom surface. The inclination direction of the second bottom surfaces of the first groove bottom raised portion is opposite to the inclination direction of the second bottom surfaces of the second groove bottom raised portion.
US11633982B2
An all-terrain load transport system including a cylindrical first base member and at least three pairs of arms is provided. A handle is removably attached to an attachment member disposed on the cylindrical first base member. The cylindrical first base member defines a space for receiving at least one piece of accessory equipment. Each pair of the three pairs of arms defines a wheel support assembly at an end of each pair distal from an outer periphery of the cylindrical first base member. The three pairs of arms are detachably attached to the outer periphery of the cylindrical first base member. The wheel support assembly includes a cylindrical second base member defining a space for receiving a spherical wheel. The spherical wheel moves omnidirectionally within the defined space. Roller bearings positioned along an inner periphery of the cylindrical second base member facilitate the omnidirectional movement of the spherical wheel.
US11633970B2
A tape support arrangement comprises a tape take up core (220) suitable for supporting a tape; and a tape supply core (210) suitable for supporting a tape (230). The supply core (210) comprises an inner surface (212), the inner surface defining an internal volume (240) of the supply core and being configured for engagement with a tape drive support. The take up core (220) is sized and shaped such that it can be located in the internal volume (240) of the supply core (210). Refer to FIG. 2.
US11633968B2
A method comprises processing a substrate in a gas enclosure to form a film on one or more portions of the substrate. The method further comprises, while processing the substrate, circulating gas along a circulation path through the gas enclosure. Circulating the gas may comprise flowing gas through an exhaust housing enclosing a printhead assembly housed in the gas enclosure and filtering the gas flowing downstream of the printhead assembly from the exhaust housing.
US11633967B2
A base material processing apparatus includes a tension detector that detects tension on a base material that is being transported, an encoder that detects the amounts of rotational drive of rollers that transport the base material, edge position detectors that detect the position of an edge of the base material in the width direction, and a transport displacement calculation part that calculates a transport displacement of the base material in the transport direction. The transport displacement calculation part includes an operation unit that has completed learning through machine learning and outputs the transport displacement on the basis of at least one of the result of detecting the tension, the result of detecting the amounts of rotational drive of the rollers, and the result of detecting the position of the edge. Accordingly, the transport displacement can be detected with high accuracy and low cost.
US11633966B2
A cutter device including a transport unit for transporting a medium, a round blade configured to move, while rotating, in a width direction intersecting a transport direction in which the medium is transported, a fixed blade provided along the width direction, and a controller configured to control driving of the transport unit and a movement in the width direction of the round blade, in which the controller is configured, when the medium is cut by causing the round blade to move to a first direction of the width direction, to cause the round blade to move to a second direction being a direction opposite to the first direction while causing the round blade to rotate without causing the medium to move in the transport direction.
US11633958B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a body and a carriage disposed inside the body. A head is mounted on the carriage. The head discharges ink onto a recording medium and generates ink mist. An ink mist collector includes a fan that generates an air current that circulates in an air flow direction inside the body. A filter collects the ink mist generated by the head. At least one duct adjusts the air flow direction. An encoder is mounted on the carriage. The encoder is disposed downstream from the fan and disposed upstream from the head in the air flow direction.
US11633957B2
A recording method for using a line-type recording apparatus to scan a recording medium with a plurality of line heads once for recording, the line heads having a width greater than or equal to the recording width of the recording medium, the method including a treatment liquid deposition step of depositing a treatment liquid containing a coagulant on the recording medium, and an ink deposition step of ejecting a coloring ink composition from the line heads to deposit the coloring ink composition on the recording medium, wherein in the ink deposition step an identical coloring ink composition is ejected from a first line head placed on the upstream side in the transport direction perpendicular to the width direction of the recording medium and from a second line head placed on the downstream side in the transport direction.
US11633950B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a piezoelectric element with a common electrode on one side and an individual electrode on another side; a nozzle; and circuitry. The circuitry selects one from drive signals and supplies the one drive signal to the piezoelectric element via the individual electrode, to discharge a droplet through the nozzle to form an image. Each drive signal includes waveform pulses including a main pulse that rises in a slope shape during a rising time and finishes rising at an end time. The circuitry generates the drive signals so that the end time of a less influential drive signal other than a most influential drive signal falls within a range of the rising time of the main pulse of the most influential drive signal; selects the one drive signal based on an image to be formed; and supplies the one drive signal to the piezoelectric element.
US11633947B2
A method of removing a backing layer from a panel, made of an uncured pre-impregnated fiber-reinforced polymer, comprises a step of orienting the panel into a backing-separation orientation relative to an edge-engagement tool. The method also comprises a step of positioning the panel into a backing-separation position relative to the edge-engagement tool. The method further comprises a step of moving the edge-engagement tool, when the panel is in the backing-separation orientation and the backing-separation position, so that backing-engagement features of the edge-engagement tool engage the backing layer, at only an edge portion of the backing layer, and just the edge portion of the backing layer separates from the panel. The method additionally comprises a step of gripping the edge portion of the backing layer, and, when gripped, moving the backing layer relative to the panel so that an entirety of the backing layer separates from the panel.
US11633942B2
A laminated foam sheet having a polyethylene resin foam layer and an antistatic polyethylene layer laminated on one or both sides thereof is produced by coextruding melts for respective layers, wherein the melt for the antistatic layer contains a polyethylene resin, an ionomer resin antistatic agent and a specific amount of volatile plasticizer blend containing an alcohol and a saturated hydrocarbon or a dialkyl ether. The antistatic layer of the obtained laminated foam sheet has specific morphology.
US11633932B2
This invention relates to a container pre-cutting system, applicable to multilayer and/or single-layer (3) container forming machines (4) that provide intermittent advances to the multi-layer and/or single-layer material with a length according to an advance step of the machine; said system being suitable for making a lower pre-cut (32) on the lower surface and an upper pre-cut (32) on the upper surface of the multilayer and/or single-layer material (3). The system comprises a lower pre-cutting device (1) and an upper pre-cutting device (2), provided with respective lower (11) and upper (21) blades having relative vertical movement with respect to the multilayer and/or single-layer material (3); and wherein the lower pre-cutting device (1) and the upper pre-cutting device (2) are separated in the advance direction of the multilayer and/or single-layer material (3) at a length approximately equal to a multiple of the advance step of the machine.
US11633922B2
A microwave heating device includes a variable frequency microwave power supply, a waveguide launcher, and a fixture to contain a material to be heated, with the fixture located directly adjacent to the end of the launcher. All heating occurs in the near-field region, i.e., no cavity modes or standing waves are established within the fixture. This condition may be insured by keeping the thickness of the fixture or workpiece under one wavelength (at all microwave frequencies being used). The launcher is preferably a horn configured to spread the microwave power laterally over a selected area while maintaining a single propagating mode. The invention may be used to enhance catalytic reactions for research and other purposes. Alternatively, the invention may be configured to perform spot curing or repair operations involving adhesives and composites.
US11633921B2
A microwave heating device includes a variable frequency microwave power supply, a waveguide launcher, and a fixture to contain a material to be heated, with the fixture located directly adjacent to the end of the launcher. All heating occurs in the near-field region. This condition may be insured by keeping the thickness of the fixture or workpiece under one wavelength (at all microwave frequencies being used). The launcher is preferably a horn or waveguide configured to apply the microwave power to a small area to perform spot curing or repair operations involving adhesives and composites. The spot curing may secure components in place for further handling, after which a thermal or oven treatment will cure the remaining adhesive to develop adequate strength for service. A related method is also disclosed.
US11633919B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for selecting a print head of a 3D printing machine to apply 3D printing material at one or more positions in a printed 3D object. Embodiments of the present invention may include, in the selection process one or more elements pertaining for example to: geometry of the received 3D model; colorization of the received 3D model; transparency of the received 3D model; properties of the 3D printing material; and constraints of the 3D printing machine.
US11633908B2
The present disclosure relates generally to curable resins, in particular latent cure resins, and related methods for use in an additive fabrication (e.g., 3-dimensional printing) device.
US11633907B2
Systems and methods for lens creations are disclosed. The method includes initiating light transmission from a light source through a diffuser into a container holding resin and a substrate. The light transmission is performed according to an irradiation pattern wherein each point in the resin is illuminated by at least 10% of the diffuser. This causes a lens to be formed. To achieve this illumination, at least 15% of the diffuser receives light from the light source. Further, a diameter of the diffuser is greater than or equal to a diameter of the substrate. The system performing the methods includes a polymerization apparatus and may include a resin conditioning and reservoir apparatus, a metrology unit, a resin drainage apparatus and an optional postcuring apparatus.
US11633905B2
A long decorative material with an embossing in register with a pattern, a rolling method and a device therefor are described herein. The method comprises a feeding step of feeding a layered raw material of a long decorative material to be rolled into oppositely rolling rollers; and a rolling step of hot rolling an embossing on the transparent plastic layer. A feeding tension of a printed plastic layer is adjusted according to a longitudinal deviation between the embossing and the pattern in the rolling step. The device comprises a first feeding device, a second feeding device, the oppositely rolling rollers, a detecting device, and a tension controller disposed on the second feeding device. According to the long decorative material with the embossing in register with the pattern manufactured by the method, the embossing hot-rolled on the transparent plastic layer is in register with the pattern on the printed plastic layer. The method, device and the long decorative material with the embossing in register with the pattern processed thereby can implement the embossing on the transparent plastic layer in register with the pattern on the printed plastic layer and have high production efficiency, low cost and less energy consumption.
US11633888B2
A method for manufacturing a tableware article having a thermal-transfer printed pattern includes the following steps. Firstly, a PET resin composition including 3 to 15% by weight of an inorganic filler is provided. Next, the PET resin composition is granulated to obtain plastic granules. Then, the plastic granules are molded into the tableware article and the tableware article is post-crystallized. Finally, a thermal transfer printed pattern is printed on a surface of the post-crystallized tableware article.
US11633866B2
A robot casing includes, in a hollow resin body portion, two attachment openings and one work opening that communicate between an inside and an outside of the body portion. The two attachment openings are respectively provided in both end portions of the body portion; a metal member constituting an attachment surface is embedded in a resin constituting the body portion at a periphery of the attachment opening; the metal member is provided with attachment holes that allow attachment screws, which are used for attachment to the attachment surface, to penetrate therethrough or to be fastened thereinto, and is also embedded in the resin in a state in which the attachment surface is exposed; and components can be respectively attached to the two attachment openings by utilizing the work opening.
US11633865B2
A mechanical device for grasping an object includes a lower arm defining a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, an inner profile, and at least one track disposed along a portion of the lower arm between the proximal end portion and the distal end portion. An upper arm is pivotally connected to the lower arm, the upper arm defining a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and an inner profile. An actuator is pivotally connected to the proximal end portion of the upper arm, the actuator including at least one protrusion slidably disposed within the track of the lower arm.
US11633858B2
A method for simulating a braking operation of a robot wherein a dynamic model of the robot is used to determine, for a given initial state of the robot, a final state range with a plurality of possible final states of the robot as a result of the simulated braking operation.
US11633854B2
Disclosed herein is a method. The method includes moving a payload through a motion path proximate at least one sensor. Detecting edges of the payload such that at least three points on at least two edges are detected. Capturing a position when the at least one sensor detects at least one edge of the payload.
US11633853B2
Systems (100) and methods (900) for controlling movement of an articulating arm having a plurality of joints. The methods comprise: receiving, by the controller, a command to perform a task by the articulating arm; ranking movements of the joints based on how much each said joint needs to move at a first time in order to follow the command; selecting a first subset of joints with top-ranked movements from the plurality of joints, where the subset of joints comprises less than a total number of joints contained in the plurality of joints; and causing only the joints of the first subset to move during a first timeslot of a plurality of timeslots.
US11633836B2
A removing apparatus includes a main body, an operation member, and two connection members. The main body has a main arm, and a first and second side arms on two ends, so as to form a C shape, with a combination bore on one end of one side arm away from the main arm. The operation member is on another side arm and axially movable, with another combination bore on one end of the operation member. Each connection member has a base portion, with an insertion portion extending from the one lateral side of the base portion to be combined with the combination bore. Each connection member has a large and a small column portions connected in a stage shape to form a stage face. Sleeves of different sizes can be combined with the lateral side or the stage face of the connection member for removing objects.
US11633829B2
A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) system includes a polishing pad configured to polish a substrate. The CMP system further includes a heating system configured to adjust a temperature of the polishing pad. The heating system comprises at least one heating element spaced apart from the polishing pad. The CMP system further includes a sensor configured to measure the temperature of the polishing pad.
US11633828B2
A first and a second substrate polishing apparatus and are provided with a film thickness sensor for measuring a film thickness of layer to be polished and polish the layer by pressing the substrate against a polishing pad. The first substrate polishing apparatus outputs difference between output value of the film thickness sensor when an underlayer is exposed and output value of the film thickness sensor when the substrate is not present, as a first offset value. The second substrate polishing apparatus has a storage unit that stores information of the first offset value, an output correction unit that corrects the output value from the film thickness sensor based on the first offset value, and an end point detection unit that outputs control signal indicating end point of substrate polishing when measured value of the film thickness of the layer calculated based on the corrected output value reaches target value.
US11633826B2
A hand-held machine tool having a, in particular rod-shaped, handle element for an operator to grasp and having a machining head, which is movably mounted on the handle element by means of a joint assembly and which has an electric drive motor for driving a tool holder for holding a machining tool, wherein a bottom side of the handle element and a machining side of the machining head face a workpiece in a base position of the machining head, wherein the joint assembly is connected to the machining head in an articulated-connection region of the machining head, wherein a flexible suction hose for conducting a suction flow from the machining head to the handle element extends between the handle element and the machining head, which suction hose is fastened to an end region of the handle element by means of a first hose end and to a suction connection of the machining head by means of a second hose end.
US11633823B2
A minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) tool including a lance. The lance includes a passageway and an orifice. The passageway extends axially from a first end of the lance toward a second end of the lance and allows a lubricant supply to flow therein from the first end of the lance toward the second end of the lance. The first orifice extends radially through the lance at a location near the second end of the lance. The lubricant supply flowing through the passageway exits the orifice and is impinged upon by air flowing around the lance.
US11633818B2
Systems and methods for treating an aneurysm in accordance with embodiments of the present technology include intravascularly delivering an occlusive member to an aneurysm cavity via an elongated shaft and transforming a shape of the occlusive member within the cavity. The method may include introduction of an embolic element to a space between the occlusive member and an inner surface of the aneurysm wall. In some embodiments, the elongated shaft is detachably coupled to a distal portion of the occlusive member.
US11633814B2
The invention relates generally to welding and, more specifically, to welding wires for arc welding, such as Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) or Flux Core Arc Welding (FACW). In one embodiment, a tubular welding wire includes a sheath and a core, and the core comprises a rare earth silicide component (cerium, lanthanum, or a combination thereof). The core may also comprise an organic stabilizer component, a carbon component, and an agglomerate. The organic stabilizer component may comprise an organic molecule or organic polymer bound to one or more Group I or Group II metals. The carbon component may comprise graphite, graphene, carbon black, lamp black, carbon nanotubes, diamond, or a combination thereof. The agglomerate may comprise oxides of one or more Group I or Group II metals, titanium, and manganese.
US11633811B2
A peening method which can sufficiently improve fatigue properties of a lap fillet welded joint having a thin steel sheet as a base sheet, in which a knocking pin having a predetermined shape is continuously knocked as a series of knocking toward a direction inclined relative to the welding direction, the series of knocking is repeatedly performed in the welding direction, at that time, a knocking mark group made of a plurality of knocking marks formed by the series of knocking is superimposed on at least a part of an adjacent knocking mark group while an end part in the direction orthogonal to the welding direction of the knocking mark group is separated from an end part in the direction orthogonal to the welding direction of the adjacent knocking mark group.
US11633807B2
Various embodiments relate to forming particles using undercooled metal particles in response to focused low power laser light. Particle growth can be initiated by utilizing the metastable and liquid nature of the particles, allowing for surface instability promoted by the laser light to induce liquid flow to translate to a neighboring particle. This event can cascade radially leading to accumulation of the liquid metal at the epicenter. The grown solidified particle size can be varied by using different power, exposure time, or working distance. Once the liquid has accumulated into a single region, it eventually solidifies either through homogeneous or heterogeneous nucleation to give a solid particle of larger size than the original. Such a method can be used to print patterns on a surface in four dimensions, where the fourth dimension (4D) is attained through gradient in size of the particles made. Additional systems and methods are disclosed.
US11633806B1
A fill tool system that fills, seals, and inspects a heat pipe array, which includes one or more heat pipes with heat pipe working fluid.
US11633805B2
A system comprising a beam source (110) and an optical system (304) comprising first and second portions. The system further comprises first and second torque motors integrated into respective ones of the first and second portions, The first torque motor (420) is configured to rotate first portion (416) around a first axis (434). The second torque motor (426) is configured to rotate second portion (418) around a second axis (436). The first axis is perpendicular to the second axis.
US11633799B2
Systems and methods to control fabrication of an assembly involve a first end sheet having an interior surface and an exterior surface, opposite the interior surface. A system includes interior sheets, the interior sheets including a first interior sheet at one end of a stack of the interior sheets and including a last interior sheet at an opposite end of the stack of the two or more interior sheets, the first interior sheet being adjacent to the interior surface of the first end sheet, and a second end sheet having an interior surface and an exterior surface, opposite the interior surface. The last interior sheet is adjacent to the interior surface of the last end sheet, and the interior surface of the first end sheet or the second end sheet includes venting features, the venting features including holes or slots to channel heat, gas, or vapor during a brazing process.
US11633792B2
An apparatus for provisioning, in particular automatically, a complete tool having a toolholder and a tool, in particular a drilling and/or milling tool. The apparatus has a spindle that can be driven in rotation by a driving device. The spindle has a holding device for holding a toolholder. A measuring device, in particular an optical measuring device, measures a complete tool, held on the spindle. A heating device in the region of the spindle heats a shrink-fit chuck of the toolholder held on the spindle. A cooling device, in particular a cooling device associated with the spindle, enables the spindle and/or the complete tool held on the spindle, to be cooled.
US11633790B2
An apparatus includes a control system that defines a test part having multiple features of multiple feature types. The control system controls an additive manufacturing (AM) machine to print multiple copies of the test part, with each copy being printed according to a respective set of values used as printing parameters. A measurement system obtains a computed tomography (CT) image of each of the copies of the test part. An analysis system, for each of the plurality of feature types, analyzes the CT images to identify a selected set of values for the printing parameters. The analysis system identifies a portion of the CT image related to a first feature and assesses its density based on an average grayscale value. The AM machine is then controlled to print production parts according to, for each feature type of the production parts, the selected set of values for the printing parameters.
US11633786B2
A feedstock for a 3D manufacturing process, in particular a Fused Filament Fabrication process. The feedstock includes (P) sinterable particles made of a metal, metal alloy, glass, ceramic material, or a mixture thereof; and (B) a binder composition including (b1) 5-15% by weight, relative to the total weight of the binder composition, of a polymeric compatibilizer, and (b2) 85-95% by weight, relative to the total weight of the binder composition, of a polymeric binder component, the polymeric binder component being selected from the group consisting of (b2-1) a polymer mixture or polymer alloy, the mixture or alloy including at least a first and a second polymer; (b2-2) one, two or more block copolymers, including at least a first polymer block and second polymer block; and (b2-3) mixtures of (b2-1) and (b2-2), wherein the amount of sinterable particles P is 40 Vol % or more of the composition.
US11633782B2
In a three-dimensional printing method example, a liquid functional agent is selectively applied. The liquid functional agent includes an alloying agent. A metallic build material is applied. The liquid functional agent is selectively applied before the metallic build material, after the metallic build material, or both before and after the metallic build material. The liquid functional agent patterns the metallic build material to form a composite layer. At least some of the metallic build material is exposed to energy to melt the at least some of the metallic build material to form a layer. Upon contact or after energy exposure, the alloying agent and the build material alter a composition of the composite layer.
US11633780B2
A die for deforming a workpiece material in a joining tool comprises a head with a top side partially defining a cavity in which the workpiece material is to be deformed, a bottom side opposite the top side, a lateral side arranged between the top side and the bottom side, and a stem which extends along a longitudinal axis from the bottom side of the head. The die further comprises an identification tag, preferably an RFID tag, having an antenna for receiving and/or transmitting a signal, and a storing element for storing information, and the antenna is wrapped circumferentially around the head, such that the antenna entirely surrounds the head. The head may also include a groove extending around the head on the lateral side with the antenna arranged in the groove. Additionally, the die may include a recess with the storing element located in the recess.
US11633777B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide manufacturing methods for a wheel rim, a spoke and a steel wheel and a steel wheel formed by the methods. The methods includes that: a wheel rim/a spoke blank is heated in a heating furnace, and the heated wheel rim/the heated spoke blank is transferred onto a hot press. A temperature of the wheel rim/the spoke blank being required to be kept above a required temperature in a process of transferring the heated wheel rim/the heated spoke blank to the hot press. Then the wheel rim/the spoke blank is formed in the hot press. A formed wheel rim and a formed spoke are connected to product a steel wheel.
US11633773B2
A domer station having a domer assembly, a housing assembly, and a stacked piston assembly is provided. The domer assembly is movably disposed within a domer body passage located in the housing assembly and structured to move between a forward, first position and a retracted, second position. The stacked piston assembly includes a plurality of pistons, preferably three pistons, disposed in series and a pressure supply. The pistons are disposed behind the domer in pressure chambers. The pistons have a constant pressure applied thereto and are biased towards the domer. The pistons are, however, each restrained by a stop and do not contact, or operatively engage, the domer when the domer is in the domer first position.
US11633772B2
A method of producing a hot press-formed product, in which a die includes a hard layer having a skewness (Rsk), as measured in a direction from the outside of a die hole toward an inside of the die hole, of from −5.0 to 1.2, and a hardness Hv_Die of from HV 1,000 to 1,800, over the entirety of a region of a steel sheet contact surface that is adjacent to a die shoulder portion. The steel sheet contact surface is a surface located outside of the die hole and configured to contact a hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet that is to be subjected to hot press forming.
US11633767B2
A landfill gas recovery system includes a waste layer disposed in a landfill and a capping layer overlying the waste layer. The capping layer includes a cured sealing layer and a loose fill layer between the waste layer and the cured sealing layer. The loose fill layer includes a granular fill material. The cured sealing layer includes a composite of the granular fill material and a cured water soluble polymer. The cured sealing layer is substantially impermeable to landfill gases formed within the waste layer.
US11633756B2
A liquid dispenser. The dispenser includes reversible modular components to define selective removability and rearrangement between them and a base structure such that one or more sheets of a passing liquid-receiving substrate may receive such liquid through interchangeable liquid-dispensing orientations. The removability features include tool-free operation to facilitate quick insertion and removal of the modular components that include at least a liquid-dispensing valve assembly and a seal that is selectively engageable with the valve assembly to protect liquid-dispensing nozzles of the valve assembly from becoming clogged with residual dried liquid during periods of inactivity of the liquid dispenser. Selective movable cooperation or attachment between the modules—as well as between the modules and the base structure—facilitates flexible configurations of the dispenser, including top-down and bottom-up liquid-dispensing orientations.
US11633751B2
A release agent spraying device that sprays a release agent to a die of a forming apparatus main body, the release agent spraying device includes a motor, a moving nozzle that advances and retreats in a direction intersecting a moving direction of the die and jets the release agent from a tip, and a connection mechanism that connects the motor to the moving nozzle and advances and retreats the moving nozzle by a rotation output of the motor in one direction.
US11633746B2
A docking station for a robotic surface cleaning apparatus has a momentum separator. The momentum separator has an upper wall, a lower wall and a first sidewall extending between the upper and lower walls. The first sidewall comprises a side screen and an end wall is spaced from and faces the side screen whereby an up flow chamber is positioned between the end wall and the side screen. The upper wall also comprises an upper screen and an upper end wall is spaced from and faces the upper screen wherein an upper air flow chamber is positioned between the upper end wall and the upper screen.
US11633742B2
A food grinding system with alternative power sources, including a food grinder, an electrical power source, and a manual power source mounted to or otherwise carried by a common base.
US11633737B2
A microfluidic chip for focussing a stream of particulate containing fluid comprises a sample microfluidic channel configured to receive the stream of particulate containing fluid, a guidance microfluidic channel having a polygonal cross-sectional area and configured to receive a stream of guidance fluid, and a common microfluidic channel having a polygonal cross sectional area formed by the merging of the sample microfluidic channel and the guidance 10 microfluidic channel at an oblique angle along only part of one or more sides of the guidance microfluidic channel, and a detection zone disposed in the common microfluidic channel having one or more sensors. The merging of the sample microfluidic channel and the guidance microfluidic channel is configured to provide a composite fluid stream containing a focussed beam of particulates that is disposed asymmetrically in the common microfluidic channel 15 adjacent a corner or side of the common microfluidic channel and wherein the one or more sensors are configured for sensing a characteristic of the focussed beam of particulates in the common channel.
US11633725B2
Here disclosed is a composite catalyst for methane cracking and a method of producing the composite catalyst. The composite catalyst includes a substrate formed of metal oxide, and one or more catalytic transition metals solubilized in the metal oxide, wherein the metal oxide includes a metal which differs from the one or more catalytic transition metals, wherein the metal oxide forms a matrix which the one or more catalytic transition metals are solubilized in to render transition metal ions from the one or more catalytic transition metals, wherein the transition metal ions under a reducing atmosphere diffuse to reside as transition metal nanoparticles at a surface of the substrate and the transition metal nanoparticles under an oxidizing atmosphere diffuse away from the surface to reside as transition metal ions in the metal oxide, and wherein the transition metal nanoparticles at the surface induce carbon from the methane cracking to deposit on the transition metal nanoparticles and have the carbon deposited grow away from the substrate.
US11633723B2
A composition for exhaust gas purification containing Y—Mn—O and Al2O3 and having a specific surface area (SSA) retention satisfying inequality (1) SSA retention (%) >−61.54×(Y—Mn—O ratio)+75.55 and inequality (2) SSA retention (%) >45 (2), where SSA retention is represented by (SSA after aging)/(initial SSA)×100 (%). The SSA after aging and the initial SSA are as defined in the description. The Y—Mn—O ratio is a mass ratio of Y—Mn—O to the sum of Y—Mn—O and Al2O3 in the composition for exhaust gas purification, being represented by Y—Mn—O/(Y—Mn—O+Al2O3).
US11633722B2
Methods for producing a carbon-free, PGM-free support for PGM catalyst. The catalytic material comprises PGM metals disposed on a carbon-free support which is catalytic but free of PGM.
US11633719B2
The present invention relates to superabsorbent polymer and a method for preparing the same. The present invention can provide a superabsorbent polymer in which a hydrophobic material having an HLB of 0-6 and a surface cross-linking agent are mixed into a base resin prepared in the presence of water dispersible silica, thereby having improved rewetting characteristics and permeability through surface-modification of the base resin.
US11633715B2
A DNA complex includes a carrier and DNA immobilized on the carrier. 80% or more by mass of the DNA is single-stranded DNA, the DNA has an average molecular weight of 500,000 or less, and the DNA content is more than 15% by mass and 50% or less by mass of the DNA complex. The carrier contains an inorganic material. The DNA complex has an average particle size of 10 μm or more.
US11633713B2
This disclosure relates to ultra-high performance diatomite products possessing very high silica specific volume, a characteristic which provides for high filtration performance, in terms of low unit consumption and long filtration cycle times. These novel products of this disclosure also show very low extractable metals for both the non-acid washed and the high purity (acid washed) grades. These characteristics are of particular value in the separation of solids from high purity liquids in electronic chemical, specialty beverage and life science applications. In addition to outstanding physical and chemical characteristics, these products also contain no detectable levels of cristobalite and have a wide range of permeabilities, and are produced from mineralogically impure ores containing high levels of alumina and iron oxide.
US11633711B2
The present invention relates to a preparation method of La(OH)3 nanorod/walnut shell biochar composite material (LN-WB), comprising the following steps: putting walnut shell powder into a crucible and pyrolyzing and carbonizing in a muffle furnace at 350° C. to 450° C.; after the pyrolysis is completed, grinding and sieving the obtained biochar, and then repeatedly washing with deionized water; drying the washed biochar for later use; putting an appropriate amount of biochar into the deionized water to form a turbid solution; simultaneously dropwise adding LaCl3 and NaOH to the above turbid solution by using a peristaltic pump; and allowing the obtained mixture to stand at room temperature for 20 to 30 h, washing and drying for later use. The present invention successfully prepares a La(OH)3 nanoparticle-loaded biochar composite material through a simple synthesis technology.
US11633701B2
A filter medium according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first support having a plurality of pores; a nanofiber web comprising nanofibers disposed on upper and lower portions of the first support and forming a three-dimensional network structure, and a hydrophilic coating layer formed on at least a part of an outer surface of the nanofibers, wherein the hydrophilic coating layer is formed of a hydrophilic coating composition comprising a hydrophilic polymer compound having at least one functional group selected from a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group and a crosslinking agent comprising at least one sulfone group; and a second support having a plurality of pores interposed between the first support and the nanofiber web.
US11633691B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, system and method for selectively capturing a carbon-containing gas from an input gas mixture.
US11633681B2
A removable filter plate for a rotary drum filter that reduces instances of welding to secure the filter plate to the drum and obviates the need for cap strips. An exemplary filter plate assembly in accordance with this disclosure comprises a filter plate and an engagement assembly, wherein the engager of the engagement assembly is configured to extend in a lateral direction toward the leading end or the trailing end of the filter plate, wherein an extended engager having an engagement end disposed under a shelf of the adjacent top hat mounting assembly defines a closed position, and wherein a retracted engager defines an open position.
US11633674B2
A toy construction element is disclosed having a body with at least one projection extending therefrom and a plurality of complementary-shaped recesses formed therein. The recesses extend along at least two different axes and are configured for receiving a corresponding projection from like elements so as to allow like construction elements to be interconnected in three dimensions. The projections and/or recesses may be formed with snap-fit interlocking features whereby the element is configured for interlocking engagement with like elements. The snap-fit interlocking features can include complementary locking formations formed on each projection and each recess. The formations are configured to pass over each other as the projection of one element is received in the recess of another element when like elements are assembled, and the recess is at least in part defined by a resilient component that flexes to resist passage of the formations during assembly and disassembly.
US11633671B2
A computer-implemented method, non-transitory computer-readable medium and apparatus for dynamic management of formations in a video game. The method includes maintaining a virtual three-dimensional environment and causing a plurality of video game characters to travel along a path in the virtual three-dimensional environment in a formation. The formation has a formation type and the formation type is a first formation type. The method also includes moving the formation along the path. The method also includes, responsive to determining a change in characteristics of the path at a point in the virtual three-dimensional environment that is ahead of the formation, changing the formation type to a second formation type in advance of the change in characteristics of the path.
US11633645B2
The present disclosure provides an exercise apparatus designed to allow a user to perform a gluteal bridge, typically with resistance, to improve the strength of the user's posterior hip and gluteal muscles. The exercise apparatus is configurable for use in different environments—in a gym, fitness center or training facility, a spa or studio, or a home gym. The exercise apparatus includes a frame assembly, a bench assembly, and a resistance assembly. The bench assembly is pivotally connected to the frame assembly to provide an elevated pivot point about which the bench assembly pivots when the user performs the gluteal bridge movement. The resistance assembly is operably connected to the bench assembly and provides a resistance force that the user overcomes in order to pivotally move the bench through the gluteal bridge movement. The resistance assembly can include a cable, pulley and weight stack, or an elastically deformable band.
US11633644B2
The present invention may be embodied as a system or method for dynamically exercising a user's neck muscles. The system includes a headset, an arm attached thereto, a weight, and at least one motor to move the weight, for example, about the arm. The weight may be mounted eccentrically on a radial track that is rotatable by one motor and moved linearly by another motor. The direction of the arm, the distance between an apex of the headset and the weight, the eccentricity of the weight on the axis, and the speed of rotation of the motor are all parameters that can be adjusted by the caregiver or user, either manually or via controlling software.
US11633641B2
A stretch band or cord exercise apparatus comprises a flat planar base having a plurality of connection elements around a portion of a perimeter thereof. Stretch bands, bungee cords, or other similar stretch cord or band, may be attached, hooked, tied to, or otherwise disposed on one or more of the plurality of connection elements and utilized for one or more exercises by a user standing on or adjacent to the apparatus. The apparatus may be disposed on a floor, or may be attached to a different horizontal surface, such as a raised platform, a table, or even a ceiling, or may be attached to a vertical surface. Methods of using the same are further provided.
US11633638B2
A fire hose reeling system includes a support frame that is positionable on a ground surface. The support frame has a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. A reel apparatus is mounted on the support frame. The reel apparatus releasably engages a fire hose and forms the hose into a roll when the reel apparatus is actuated. A stabilizing panel has a perimeter edge pivotally coupled to the support frame such that the stabilizing panel is positionable in an upright position defining a stored position or in deployed position extending away from the first lateral edge. When in the deployed position, the stabilizing panel abuts the ground surface and is stepped upon while the reel apparatus is used to stabilize the assembly.
US11633635B2
A fire barrier includes an inflatable base deployable from an empty state to a fully inflated state and a first row of panels including a plurality of first panels disposed on the inflatable base. The base supports the plurality of first panels in an upright state when the inflatable base is in the fully inflated state, thereby forming a wall having a front side and a rear side opposing the front side. Each of the plurality of panels is independently elastically bendable with respect to the inflatable base. A coating of an infrared reflective material is disposed on each of the plurality of panels on the front side of the wall.
US11633634B2
A fall arrest system includes a line retraction device having a safety line, an energy absorber configured for connecting to a terminal end of the safety line, and a harness configured for connecting to the energy absorber such that the energy absorber is disposed between the terminal end of the safety line and the harness. The safety line is selected to have a predetermined mean breaking force with a first standard deviation, and the energy absorber is selected to have a predetermined mean deployment force with a second standard deviation. The mean breaking force of the safety line and the mean deployment force of the energy absorber overlap over an overlapping region of the first and second standard deviation. A ratio of an overlap mean force of the overlapping region to an overlap standard deviation of the overlapping region is less than or equal to 6.
US11633633B2
Techniques are described for monitoring and controlling fall protection equipment. For example, the techniques of this disclosure may be used to monitor the connection status of fall protection equipment, e.g., whether or not the fall protection equipment is connected to a support structure. The techniques described in the disclosure may determine whether the fall protection equipment is connected to a support structure based on changes in a resonant frequency of an electronic circuit of an inductive sensor within the fall protection equipment. The inductive sensor may be formed from sets of one or more coils, where a first set of one or more coils and a second set of one or more coils are wound in opposite directions.
US11633632B2
A fall-protection system including a harness and a fall-protection apparatus with a lifeline bearing a connector configured to be connected to the harness; and, a fall-protection monitoring system with a base unit and with at least one sensor module configured to sense a condition of the connector and to communicate a signal indicative of the condition of the connector to the base unit.
US11633624B2
A resource management system for better operation of a plurality of devices. The system comprises an input interface (IN) for receiving input data including one or more characteristics of at least one work object (P1-P3) and/or including context data. The at least one work object (P1-P3) can be processed by one or more processing devices (Mij). The said processing is specified in a respective work specification (S1-S3). A predictor component (PC) of the system is configured to predict, based on the input data, a change to the work specification. The system comprises an output interface (OUT) for providing output data that represents said predicted change.
US11633602B2
This disclosure relates to a device for applying a neural stimulus. A battery supplies electrical energy at a battery voltage and an electrode applies the electrical energy to neural tissue. A circuit measures the nervous response of the tissue and a voltage converter receives the electrical energy from the battery and controls a voltage applied to the electrode based on the measured nervous response of the tissue. This direct voltage control is energy efficient because losses across a typical current mirror are avoided. Further, the control based on the measured nervous response leads to automatic compensation of impedance variation due to in-growth or change in posture. As a result, the stimulation results in a desired neural response.
US11633595B2
Electrical non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) delivers weak electrical currents to the brain via electrodes that are affixed to the scalp. NIBS can excite or inhibit the brain in areas that are impacted by that electrical current during and for a short time following stimulation. Electrical NIBS can be used to change brain structure in terms of increasing white matter integrity as measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Together the electrical NIBS can induce changes in brain structure and function. The present methods and devices are adaptable to and configurable for facilitating the enhancement of brain performance, and the treatment of neurological diseases and tissues. The present methods and devices are advantageously designed to utilize modern electrodes deployed with, inter alia, various spatial arrangements, polarities, and current strengths to target brain areas or networks to thereby enhance performance or deliver therapeutic interventions.
US11633588B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods are described for delivering a therapeutic substance, such as an anesthetic, to a tympanic membrane of a subject. Such systems can include an earset with a valve configured to control flow of a fluid, such as air, into and out of a reservoir. In some embodiments, systems, apparatus, and methods described herein can include additional valves and features for relieving negative pressure within the reservoir.
US11633585B2
A medical connector that allows ventilation of vapor used in vapor sterilization and has an internal flow route that is tightly closable without using any separate clamping device. A medical connector includes a body having an internal flow route connected to an other flow route, proximal portions included in the body and having respective one-side connection ports at which the internal flow route is connectable to the one flow route, a distal portion having an other-side connection port at which the internal flow route is connectable to the other flow route, one-side lid portion, and an other-side lid portion whose state is switchable between a closing state and a ventilating state in which the other-side lid portion covers the other-side connection port such that ventilation is allowed.
US11633569B2
A system for delivering an implantable medical device includes a handle housing. An outer sheath is coupler secured to a proximal end of an outer sheath that is configured to cover at least a portion of the implantable medical device. An outer sheath drive assembly is operably coupled to the outer sheath coupler and is configured to translate the outer sheath relative to the handle housing. An actuation shaft coupler is secured to a proximal end of an activation shaft. An actuation shaft drive assembly is operably coupled to the actuation shaft coupler and is configured to cause the actuation shaft to translate relative to the handle housing and shift the implantable medical device from a first position and a second position in which the implantable medical device is radially expanded relative to the first position.
US11633566B2
A pre-curved catheter tube of a catheter assembly or other elongate medical device and methods for forming such a device using a heating procedure is disclosed. Pre-curving of the catheter tube is desirable to impart to the catheter assembly a desired positional configuration when the catheter assembly is inserted into a patient. The heating procedure may include heat sterilization procedures commonly used to sterilize medical devices prior to use. One method for curving a catheter tube of a catheter assembly includes constraining the catheter tube into a curved configuration using the tube constraint, heating the catheter tube in the curved configuration for a predetermined time at a predetermined temperature, and releasing the catheter tube from the tube constraint after the heating is complete.
US11633564B2
A full-face mask assembly includes a frame and a cushion provided to the frame. The cushion is adapted to form a seal around the patient's nose and mouth. A flexible lip is provided to an interior wall of the cushion. The flexible lip is adapted to engage the frame to provide a seal in use.
US11633551B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and devices for delivering gaseous Nitric Oxide (gNO) under therapeutic parameters to reduce infection in a subject. Certain embodiments include devices and systems for delivering pressurized gNO to reduce bioburden and promote healing in the wounds of subjects having various disease conditions, including skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) and osteomyelitis. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides portable wound healing devices for delivering pressurized gNO to the site of a wound to treat various disease conditions in a subject. Other embodiments relate to systems and devices for delivering and for monitoring gaseous Nitric Oxide (gNO) under therapeutic parameters of use to treat a subject. In certain embodiment, the devices include a subject interface unit comprising sensors for detecting gNO pressure and/or gNO flow.
US11633549B2
The disclosure provides an apparatus, system and method of providing a flexible heater on at least one conformable substrate of a medical fluid bag. The disclosed embodiments may include providing a matched function ink set, printed onto at least one substantially planar face of the at least one substrate to form at least: at least one conductive layer capable of receiving current flow from at least one power source; at least one resistive layer electrically associated with the at least one conductive layer and comprising a plurality of heating elements capable of generating heat upon receipt of the current flow; and at least one dielectric layer capable of at least partially insulating the at least one resistive layer.
US11633546B2
Disclosed is a device for the parenteral delivery of a medication, such as a drug. The device includes upper and lower housings in which the upper housing is configured to move relative to the lower housing as a result of application of an external force to permit the user of the device to control the rate at which the drug is administered.
US11633545B2
Apparatus and methods for medicament delivery. The apparatus may include, and the methods may involve, a delivery device for delivering a target amount of the medicament from a distal end of the device. The device may include a rod for moving a plunger that discharges the medicament from the distal end. The device may avoid or reduce deformation of the plunger during the discharge. The plunger motion may be stopped by detent that interacts with the rod. The apparatus and the methods may provide an operator indication of progress of stages of operation. The device may feature triggers corresponding to stages of medicament displacement from the device, such as pre-delivery stages, including priming.
US11633542B2
A pharmaceutical container for drug delivery includes a barrel configured to slidably receive a stopper. The stopper has a proximal end suitable for contacting a plunger rod and a distal end suitable for contacting a pharmaceutical composition. The stopper has a circumferential surface partially contacting an inner surface of the barrel. A surface roughness of the inner surface of the barrel declines from the stopper's start position to its end position by at least 3% of at least one of Ra roughness or Rms roughness.
US11633538B2
A system for modulating delivery of a fluid medium includes an injector for injecting the fluid medium during an injection cycle, a delivery catheter including a conduit for delivering the fluid medium, a manifold disposed in a fluid medium flow path between the injector and the delivery catheter, and a pulsatile generator. The pulsatile generator is configured to apply a pulsatile force to the fluid medium defined by a plurality of duty cycles during the injection cycle, each of the duty cycles including a first pressure level and a second pressure level that is lower than the first pressure level.
US11633535B2
Certain embodiments provide multi-medicament or single medicament infusion systems for preventing the cross-channeling or improper delivery of medicaments. The system may include one or more of an infusion pump, medicament cartridges, cartridge connectors, a multi-channel fluid conduit, and an infusion set. The medicament cartridges may be sized and shaped differently such that the medicament reservoirs can only be inserted into the pump under selected configurations.
US11633527B2
A system for filling multiple sterile containers includes a filter with an inlet port and multiple outlet ports, the outlet ports being pre-attached to sterile containers by respective filling lines of each container. Each container has an interior and each of the respective filling lines are connected to a respective container interior. The respective filling lines are sealed to the outlet ports and the containers such that the container interiors are isolated from an external environment except the inlet port, via the filter, forming a combined interior volume which is sterile. A container that is connectable to an outlet port the system has a bladder, a first tube and a second tube connected to the bladder, and a sterilizing filter. The container, the first tube and the second tube, and the sterilizing filter are sterile before water is flowed through the sterilizing filter into the bladder.
US11633514B2
A microfluidic delivery device and method of dispensing a fluid composition from a microfluidic die are provided. The method includes generating air flow from a fan; directing a first portion of the air flow through a first air outlet in a housing; directing a second portion of the air flow through a second air outlet in the housing; jetting a fluid composition from a microfluidic die through a fluid orifice in the housing; directing the second portion of air flow adjacent to the microfluidic die and out the fluid outlet, wherein the first portion of the air flow directs the fluid composition jetted out of the fluid outlet into the air.
US11633488B2
The present disclosure relates to modified IL-2 polypeptides, compositions comprising modified IL-2 polypeptides, methods of making the same, and methods of using the modified IL-2 polypeptides for treatment of diseases. In one aspect, the disclosure relates to the treatment of cancer using the modified IL-2 polypeptides. In some embodiments, the disclosed IL-2 polypeptides exhibit preferential binding characteristics to IL-2 receptor βγ complex (IL-2Rβ) over IL-2 receptor αβγ complex (IL-2Rα). In some embodiments, the molecular weight distribution of the modified IL-2 polypeptides is monodispersed.
US11633474B2
Provided herein are methods for making targeted therapeutics. In several embodiments, the therapeutics are directed against soluble agents such as toxins, venoms, and/or other factors that alter physiological biopathways as well as methods of using such therapeutics to treat patients or patient populations to reduce, eliminate, or inactivate, detrimental soluble agents that such patients or patient populations have been exposed to. In several embodiments, the therapeutics are directed to patient-specific disease markers. In several embodiments, the methods comprise screening a library comprising proteins linked to their cognate mRNAs to identify mRNA-protein pairs that bind to the diseased cells, isolating one or more proteins from the identified mRNA-protein pairs, and conjugating the isolated protein(s) to a therapeutic agent.
US11633463B2
The invention provides improved compositions for adoptive T cell therapies for B cell related conditions.
US11633458B2
Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists can induce chemokine production. We find that TLR2 and TLR6 are widely expressed on human melanoma cells, and that TLR2/6 agonists (MALP-2 or FSL-1) synergize with interferon-gamma (IFNγ) to induce production of CXCL10 from melanoma cells. Furthermore, melanoma cells and immune cells freshly isolated from surgical specimens also respond to TLR2/6 agonists +IFNγ by upregulating CXCL10 production, compared to treatment with either agent alone. It is also disclosed herein that these compounds are useful in inducing CLXL10 in other types of cancer. Collectively, these data identify a novel synergy of TLR2/6 agonists +IFNγ for inducing CXCL10 production directly from melanoma cells, raising the possibility that intratumoral administration of these agents may improve immune signatures in melanoma and have value in combination with other immune therapies, by supporting T-cell migration into melanoma metastases.
US11633455B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include formulations of silk-based product (SBP) formulations and related methods of preparation and use in a variety of applications in the fields of human therapeutics, veterinary medicine, agriculture, and material science.
US11633454B2
The disclosure provides compositions and methods of treating a metabolic disease, such as, e.g., diabetes and hyperlipidemia, in a subject, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a polypeptide derived from hepatitis B virus or a pharmaceutical composition comprising the polypeptide.
US11633452B2
A method of treating vaginal dryness by administering a vaginal care composition, which includes an effective amount of a vaginal care agent, to vaginal tissue of a user experiencing vaginal dryness. The vaginal care agent may be selected to specifically treat symptoms of vaginal dryness exhibited by the introitus and/or labia, based on the transcriptomic data of skin cells obtained therefrom. In some instances, the vaginal care composition may be applied to introitus and/or labia with a suitable implement configured for such use.
US11633446B2
This invention relates to plant extracts containing nutritionally beneficial or medicinally active compounds. Some of these extracts, or the purified compounds contained therein, may be used for the nutritional support, prevention, treatment, or possible cure of various metabolic and other diseases and disorders in human beings and animals, including type 1 and type 2 diabetes, by regulating insulin signaling. This regulatory effect may include modulations of the levels and/or activity of the Insulin Receptor (IR), the Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF) Receptor, and/or the Insulin Receptor Substrate (IRS) proteins in cells and tissues in the body.
US11633443B2
The present invention relates to an algal extract comprising sulphated and non-sulphated polyanionic polysaccharides, to a method for preparing an algal extract as well as to its therapeutic and prophylactic applications.
US11633440B2
The disclosure relates to a mixture of bacteria belonging to at least six or seven different and specific bacterial species preferably for use in preventing or treating gastro-intestinal disorders. Preferably, the mixture of bacteria is grown together in a fermenter prior to administering the mixture to a subject in order to prevent or treat the disorder.
US11633439B2
A strain of Lactobacillus crispatus KBL693 and the use thereof are disclosed. The strain of Lactobacillus crispatus KBL693 (Accession No. KCTC 13519BP) attenuates allergic reactions of cells, significantly improves symptoms of atopic dermatitis, and exhibits anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal effects. Thus, the single strain alone can achieve all the purposes of alleviating atopic dermatitis and other allergic diseases and improving inflammatory diseases and autoimmune diseases, thereby finding advantageous applications as a probiotic substance. In addition, the strain, based on the anti-fungal activity thereof, can be advantageously utilized in a skin external preparation against various skin diseases caused by fungi, and in a cosmetic composition and a functional patch for alleviating sensitive skin.
US11633438B2
The present invention comprises the discovery and development of an effective cryoprotectant composition, without containing skim milk or any other animal-derived compounds, to achieve long-term stability of freeze-dried lactic acid bacteria (LAB), at different temperatures, whereby the retention of viability of the freeze-dried LAB after 6 months of storage, preferably after 9 months of storage, more preferably after 12 months of storage is more than 50%. The invention is in the field of producing freeze dried bacteria, in particular Lactic acid bacteria. More in particular, the invention relates to the use of a novel combination of cryoprotectants for increasing the viability of bacteria after freeze drying, improving the texture of the lyofilized cake for easy grinding and improving the long term stability of the freeze dried bacteria at different temperature conditions. The invention further relates to such freeze dried bacteria for use in food industry or in human or animal health applications. More in particular, the invention relates to the increased viability and long-term storage of recombinant bacteria capable of expressing heterologous proteins or peptides and administered to humans or animals for therapeutic or vaccination purposes.
US11633436B2
Microbes expressing cholesterol oxidoreductase (COR) proteins, methods of engineering the microbes expressing COR proteins, compositions and methods of using the microbes are provided.
US11633427B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for enhancing T cell response in vivo. For example, a method of enhancing T cell response in a subject or treating a subject having cancer, the method comprising: administering an effective amount of a composition comprising modified cells to the subject having a form of cancer associated with or expressing an antigen, for example, a solid tumor antigen; and administering (1) a nucleic acid encoding the antigen, (2) additional modified cells comprising the nucleic acid or the antigen, or (3) microorganisms, for example cold viruses, comprising the nucleic acid or the antigen. In embodiments, the modified cells comprise mixed cells targeting a solid tumor antigen and a white blood cell (WBC) antigen. In embodiments, the modified cells comprise a dominant negative form of an immune checkpoint molecule (e.g., PD-1). In embodiments, the modified cells comprise an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a therapeutic agent, such as IL-12 and IFNγ.
US11633424B2
Chondroitin sulfate compounds comprising chondroitin sulfate backbone 19 mer, CS-A 19 mer, CS-C 19 mer, CS-E 19 mer, C8 backbone 13 mer, C8-A 13 mer, CS-C 13 mer, CS-E 13 mer and/or combinations thereof are provided. Methods of treating histone toxicity in a subject are provided, the methods including administering to a subject a chondroitin sulfate compound to treat the histone toxicity in the subject. Pharmaceutical compositions for use in treating histone toxicity and/or sepsis are provided. Methods of treating sepsis in a subject are provided, the methods including administering to a subject a chondroitin sulfate compound to treat the sepsis in the subject.
US11633413B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition comprising (20S,24R)-6-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside-dammar-3-one-20,24-epoxy-6a,12b,25-triol, which is a novel ginsenoside, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof or a solvate thereof as an active ingredient. In addition, it relates to a method for preventing or improving menopausal symptoms, which comprises administering an effective amount of (20S,24R)-6-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside-dammar-3-one-20,24-epoxy-6a,12b,25-triol, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof or a solvate thereof to a subject in need thereof. The novel ginsenoside has a superior effect of preventing or improving menopausal symptoms with a low risk of breast cancer.
US11633403B2
The invention provides novel 6-aryl or 6-heteroaryl 4-morpholin-4-yl-pyhdine-2-one compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and methods for using such compounds in treatment of diseases including cancer, diabetes, inflammatory diseases, neurodegenerative disorders, cardiovascular disorders and viral infections; wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the specification.
US11633392B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a morphinan derivative that exhibits an opioid δ receptor agonist activity. By administering the pharmaceutical composition provided by the present invention, opioid δ receptor-related diseases (for example, headache) can be treated or prevented.
US11633390B2
The present invention relates to agonists of the 5-HT2A serotonin receptors and their medical uses. In one aspect the invention relates to 5-HT2A agonists of formula (I). In second aspect, the invention relates to selective 5-HT2A agonists of formula (II). In another aspect, the invention relates to mixed 5-HT2A/5-HT2C agonists of formula (III). In yet another aspect, the invention relates to 5-HT2A agonists for use in the treatment of a depressive disorder, more particular a 5-HT2A agonist for the use in the treatment of treatment-resistant depression.
US11633384B2
The application describes treatment of hepatic encephalopathy using gastrointestinal specific antibiotics. One example of a gastrointestinal specific antibiotic is rifaximin.
US11633382B2
The invention discloses that ER-negative breast cancers can be converted into ER positive breast cancers, such as to a breast cancer of luminal-like phenotype by treatment with anti-PDGF-CC antibodies. ER-positive breast cancers, including luminal-like breast cancers can be treated with anti-estrogen treatment. On this basis the invention discloses that surprisingly, ER-negative breast cancers can be treated with anti-estrogen treatment, if the treatment is combined with treatment with anti-PDGF-CC antibodies. Said treatment may for example be an adjuvant treatment, for example a treatment aiming at reducing the risk of relapse of a breast cancer after removal of the primary tumor by surgery.
US11633376B2
A method for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), prostatitis, and/or prostate cancer, including the step of administering an isothiocyanate functional surfactant to a patient affected by benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, and/or prostate cancer. In a preferred embodiment, the protonated form of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant is represented by the following chemical structure:
US11633369B2
The present disclosure relates to the use of cannabidiol (CBD) for the treatment of atonic seizures. In particular the CBD appears particularly effective in reducing atonic seizures in patients suffering with etiologies that include: Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome; Tuberous Sclerosis Complex; Dravet Syndrome; Doose Syndrome; Aicardi syndrome; CDKL5 and Dup15q in comparison to other seizure types. The disclosure further relates to the use of CBD in combination with one or more anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs).
US11633362B2
The present invention relates generally to pharmaceutical formulations. Particularly, the present invention relates to a new delivery system for delivery of medical components to the lungs, and its utility in the fields of pharmaceutical formulation, drug delivery, medicine and diagnosis.
US11633357B2
The present invention relates to a liposomal formulation containing a therapeutic agent and a process for producing the formulation. The liposomal formulation comprises particular characteristics that enhance uniformity and stability of the formulation. The manufacturing process is a novel process that produces a liposomal formulation of a uniform size with many desirable properties that may be independently controlled. Further, the invention relates to a liposome formulation made in accordance with the manufacturing process.
US11633354B2
The disclosure is directed to methods related to creatinine, for example, a method for its safe administration to a human, a method for using creatinine to improve the bioavailability of creatine, and a metn.
US11633343B2
Compositions and methods of this disclosure include liquid cosmetic compositions, for example, an eyeliner, that is applied to the surface of a user (e.g., a person), the surface including, for example, an eyelid, the liquid cosmetic product including a ferromagnetic component that is capable of being attracted by and attached to a magnet, the magnet part of a false eyelash.
US11633339B2
The present disclosure relates to cleansing compositions that are free of sulfate-based surfactants and free of sodium chloride. The cleansing compositions include: (a) one or more non-sulfate anionic surfactants; one or more amphoteric surfactants; one or more nonionic surfactants; (d) one or more hydrophobically modified poly(meth)acrylates; one or more silicones; and water. The cleansing compositions are particularly useful for cleansing hair and providing conditioning benefits to the hair.
US11633337B2
An oral care composition and methods for the same are disclosed herein. The oral care composition may include an orally acceptable vehicle, an anionic surfactant, and a nonionic surfactant. The anionic surfactant may include a C6-C18 fatty acid glutamate or a salt thereof, and the nonionic surfactant may include a C6-C18 alkyl polyglucoside. A weight ratio of the nonionic surfactant to the anionic surfactant may be from about 0.25:1 to about 9:1, or from about 1.8:1 to about 2.2:1.
US11633335B2
The present invention relates to a skin cleansing composition which can sufficiently exhibit an excellent keratotic plug-removing effect without a burden such as pain and irritation on the skin. The skin cleansing composition comprises 0.08 mass % or more and 35 mass % or less of (X) 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol and has a pH of 9.3 or more and 12.5 or less at 25° C.
US11633333B2
The present invention relates to a water-in-oil surfactant consisting of a mixture of compounds of formula (I): wherein the compound of formula (I) has an average degree of polymerisation n of between 4 and 6, R1, R2 and R3 being, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom or a group R4 derived from at least one carboxylic acid, the carboxylic acid being 12-hydroxystearic acid or a mixture of 12-hydroxystearic acid and ricinoleic acid. The present invention also relates to a surfactant composition and to a cosmetic composition comprising this surfactant.
US11633317B2
The present invention is a therapeutic pad with breast receiving cavities. The therapeutic pad with breast receiving cavities contains a platform, a cavity, and an adjustment element. The cavity traverses into the platform. The adjustment element is positioned within the cavity. The therapeutic pad with breast receiving cavities may take the form of a therapy device to replace surgical table padding, chiropractic dorsal pads, or other various therapeutic treatment table paddings to accommodate humans with breasts or additional curvature in the breast area. The therapeutic pad with breast receiving cavities constitutes specialized padding with breast recess areas to provide maximum comfort by allowing patients to control the pressure in the breast area when receiving therapeutic care or medical procedures.
US11633313B2
A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, operating table, recliner, or the like, includes a litter frame, a support deck supported on the litter frame and adapted to support a mattress thereon, a touchscreen and a controller configured for carrying out various functions and to display various screens on the touchscreen, including screens for controlling a mattress therapy function or for controlling a non-mattress function of the patient support apparatus. A notification regarding the status of a mattress therapy function can be displayed on various screens. Status indications can be provided as a banner across a portion of the touchscreen.
US11633306B2
The present invention generally relates to an absorbent component (100) for use in a garment. The absorbent component (100) comprises: a first layer composite (120) comprising a first foam layer (122) and a first liquid impermeable layer (124); an absorbent layer composite (140) bonded to the first liquid impermeable layer (124) for absorbing bodily fluids; and a second liquid impermeable layer (164) bonded to the absorbent layer composite (140) and first layer composite (120) to contain the bodily fluids absorbed by the absorbent layer composite (140), wherein the second liquid impermeable layer (164) forms an opening (166) for receiving the bodily fluids to the absorbent layer composite (140); and wherein the first foam layer (122) is moulded to shape the absorbent component (100).
US11633303B2
An acoustic earmuff device comprising a pair of earmuff cup assemblies such that each is configured to be arranged at a location proximate to an ear of an user, wherein each earmuff cup assembly comprises means (320) for adapting a pressure applied to the location proximate to the ear so that the pressure around the ear is evenly distributed and a even seal is achieved, wherein the means for adapting a pressure comprises an adaptive layer (324) that is configured to apply the pressure around the ear evenly regardless whether that location comprises any protruding element (2).
US11633302B2
Apparatus and method for interfacing an ophthalmic surgical laser system with a patient's eye using a single-piece patient interface (PI). The PI includes a hollow shell, with an applanation lens and a flexible skirt at its lower end. Through channels are formed around the applanation lens to connect the spaces above and below the lens. When the PI is coupled to the laser system and the eye, the upper rim of the shell forms a seal with the laser system and the flexible skirt forms a seal with the eye. A vacuum is applied to the interior of the shell via a vacuum port on the laser system, and the vacuum is communicated to the space enclosed by the applanation lens, the skirt and the eye through the channels around the lens. A magnetic mechanism is also provided to hold the PI shell to the laser system.
US11633297B2
A footplate assembly for ankle includes a footplate base; a slider arm that is rotatably coupled to the footplate base, the slider arm being configured to be couplable to external ankle instrumentation; a locking fastener configured to lock the slider arm in a chosen orientation relative to the footplate base; and a knob coupled to the footplate base having a scale to display the angle of the slider arm relative to the footplate base.
US11633296B2
A vascular shunt frame with improved apposition including a main body tube; at least one end of the main body tube is provided with a sealing covering; the sealing covering is provided with a main blood flow opening; a shaping component is disposed at the edge of the main blood flow opening. When the main body stent is inserted into the main blood flow opening of the main body tube, the shaping component can be closely attached to the outer surface of the main body stent, such that the sealing covering closely fits the outer surface of the main body stent to prevent endoleaks. The present disclosure also provides a vascular stent provided with an apposition-improved vascular shunt frame.
US11633294B2
An orthopaedic surgical instrument system includes a tibial base trial and a tibial bearing trial. The tibial bearing trial is installed on the tibial base trial from the anterior side of the patient's tibia during an orthopaedic surgical procedure.
US11633292B2
Assemblies of one or more implant structures make possible the achievement of diverse interventions involving the fusion and/or stabilization of the SI-joint and/or lumbar and sacral vertebra in a non-invasive manner, with minimal incision, and without the necessitating the removing the intervertebral disc. The representative lumbar spine interventions, which can be performed on adults or children, include, but are not limited to, SI-joint fusion or fixation; lumbar interbody fusion; translaminar lumbar fusion; lumbar facet fusion; trans-iliac lumbar fusion; and the stabilization of a spondylolisthesis.
US11633291B2
A device for insertion into a gap between adjacent, spaced apart bony elements includes an adjustable length interconnecting member having a distal and a proximal retention plate secured to opposite ends of the interconnecting member. The distal retention plate has a non-rotated position and a plurality of rotated positions. The non-rotated position aligns the distal retention plate with the gap prior to and during insertion of the distal retention plate into the gap. The distal retention plate is rotated after it has exited the gap on a distal side of the gap to prevent its return into the gap. The proximal retention plate is misaligned with the gap so that it cannot enter into the gap. The rotated distal retention plate cooperates with the proximal retention plate to hold bony elements such as adjacent vertebral bodies in a stable relationship to one another when the interconnecting member is shortened.
US11633288B2
This disclosure provides vertebral implants, fastening devices for vertebral implants, and implant instrumentation, and various combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the implant comprises a peripheral wall extending according to a vertical axis between upper and lower surfaces of the implant, with each such surface configured to be placed in contact with a vertebral structure, respectively, at the top and the bottom of the vertebral segment replaced by the implant. Some embodiments comprise fastening means, deployment of which anchors the implant in the lower and upper vertebral structures. Some fastening means may be deployed by sliding parallel to the vertical axis of the implant, and may comprise a plate with at least one part remaining in contact with the peripheral wall of the implant when deployed and a pointed end projecting from one of the upper and lower surfaces of the implant to enter a vertebral structures on completion of deployment.
US11633272B2
A thrombus engagement tool having a flexible shaft, a clot engagement tip, and a handle. The engagement tip may include one or more radially outwardly extending structures such as a helical thread. The helical thread can be advanced through a catheter to engage a clot. The handle may be configured to be rotated by hand. When the handle is rotated, the helical thread of the engagement tip can rotate in the same direction thereby allowing the helical threat to engage the clot. The helical thread can wrap around the flexible shaft at least about one, two, or four or more full revolutions, but in some cases no more than about ten or no more than about six revolutions.
US11633270B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for sterile delivery of prostheses that protect refined and/or conditioned surface properties and thereby reduce aging of surface properties in prostheses. An example of the system includes a partially custom-shaped holder that also serves as an insertion tool that holds a customized dental prosthesis in a pre-defined position inside a titanium container that is hermetically sealed. Container materials serve as a getter or catalyst with respect to the osseoconductive surface. An example of the method includes laser welding to hermetically seal a metal container as packaging for a prosthesis with a metal foil, and the sterilization of the packaged and sealed prosthesis with dry heat.
US11633265B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of using a dynamic virtual articulator for simulating occlusion of teeth, when performing computer-aided designing of one or more dental restorations for a patient, where the method includes the steps of: providing the virtual articulator including a virtual three-dimensional model of the upper jaw and a virtual three-dimensional model of the lower jaw resembling the upper jaw and lower jaw, respectively, of the patient's mouth; providing movement of the virtual upper jaw and the virtual lower jaw relative to each other for simulating dynamic occlusion, whereby collisions between teeth in the virtual upper and virtual lower jaw occur; wherein the method further includes: providing that the teeth in the virtual upper jaw and virtual lower jaw are blocked from penetrating each other's virtual surfaces in the collisions.
US11633261B2
The present disclosure provides method, computing device readable medium, and devices for dental appliances with repositioning jaw elements. An example of a method can include identifying a misaligned jaw of a patient from a virtual image of the patient's jaw, providing a treatment plan for the patient including a virtual model of a dental appliance having a first shell and a second shell configured to reposition at least one tooth of the patient, and adjusting the position of the repositioning jaw elements on the first shell and the second shell to comply with a number of constraints. The virtual model of the dental appliance including repositioning jaw elements on the first shell and the second shell configured to move a position of the misaligned jaw of the patient.
US11633257B2
The invention provides a dental milling tool for milling dental materials in the making of dental prostheses. The dental milling tool is a ball-nose end mill having three helical flutes, each flute being associated with a cutting edge, each cutting edge having chip breakers along the curved edges of the ball. The dental milling tool may be formed from a hard material such as carbide based material, ceramic, cermet, superhard materials including polycrystalline diamond (PCD) and cubic boron nitride (CBN), and diamond composite. Alternatively, the dental milling tool may be coated with a hard coating such as diamond coating, diamond-like-carbon (DLC), nitride based coating such as titanium aluminium nitride (TiAlN), aluminium titanium nitride, (AlTiN), and titanium nitride (TiN), and ceramic coating.
US11633248B2
Methods of cutting bone using a robotic cutting system are provided. The robotic cutting system includes one or more controllers, a robotic manipulator, and one or more cutting tools, such as those including a bur or a saw blade, that can be coupled to the robotic manipulator. An initial cut, such as a notch, is made into the bone with the bur or the saw blade. This notch is then used to constrain the saw blade for limiting skiving of the saw blade during cutting along a cutting plane.
US11633239B2
A medical device drive system may include a locking structure, a locking device sized and shaped to engage with the locking structure, the locking device coupled to a drive system component, and a lifter configured to actuate the locking device into and out of engagement with the locking structure, wherein the drive system component is selectively lockable by movement of the lifter.
US11633238B2
Transducer-based systems can be configured to display a graphical representation of a transducer-based device, the graphical representation including graphical elements corresponding to transducers of the transducer-based device, and also including between graphical elements respectively associated with a set of the transducers and respectively associated with a region of space between the transducers of the transducer-based device. Selection of graphical elements and/or between graphical elements can cause activation of the set of transducers associated with the selected elements. Selection of a plurality of graphical elements and/or between graphical elements can cause visual display of a corresponding activation path in the graphical representation. Visual characteristics of graphical elements and between graphical elements can change based on an activation-status of the corresponding transducers. Activation requests for a set of transducers can be denied if it is determined that a transducer in the set of transducers is unacceptable for activation.
US11633237B2
Various systems and methods for evaluating a surgical staff are disclosed. A computer system, such as a surgical hub, can be configured to be communicably coupled to a surgical device and a camera. The computer system can be programmed to determine contextual information pertaining to a surgical procedure based at least in part on perioperative data received from the surgical device during a surgical procedure. Further, the computer system can visually determine a physical characteristic of a surgical staff member via the camera and compare the physical characteristic to a baseline to evaluate the surgical staff member.
US11633233B2
The invention relates to a surgical system for cutting an anatomical structure (F, T) of a patient according to at least one target plane defined in a coordinate system of the anatomical structure, comprising: (i) a robotic device (100) comprising: —an end effector (2), —an actuation unit (4) having at least three motorized degrees of freedom, configured for adjusting a position and orientation of the end effector (2) relative to each target plane, —a passive planar mechanism (24) connecting the terminal part (40) of the actuation unit (4) to the end effector (2); (ii) a tracker (203) rigidly attached to the end effector (2), (iii) a tracking unit (200) configured to determine in real time the pose of the end effector (2) with respect to the coordinate system of the anatomical structure, a control unit (300) configured to determine the pose of the end effector with respect to the target plane and to control the actuation unit so as to bring the cutting plane into alignment with the target plane.
US11633230B2
A medical system, including a medical device having a plurality of deployable arms, and at least one electrode on at least one of the plurality of arms; and an electric signal generator in communication with the medical device, the electric signal generator programmed to deliver pulsed energy to the medical device sufficient to induce irreversible electroporation ablation.
US11633225B2
The present invention provides a medical device that may include a catheter body having proximal and distal portions, a fluid injection lumen disposed within elongate body, and a guidewire lumen disposed within the elongate body. A tip portion defining a cavity in fluid communication with the fluid injection lumen may be coupled to the distal end of the guidewire lumen, and an expandable element may be coupled to the distal portion of the catheter body and to the tip portion, such that the expandable element is in fluid communication with the fluid injection lumen. A shaping element may at least partially surround the expandable element, where the shaping element is configurable in a first geometric configuration and a second geometric configuration.
US11633224B2
Apparatus, consisting of a probe, containing a lumen and having a distal end configured to contact tissue of a living subject. A temperature sensor is located at the distal end, and a pump, having a pump motor, is coupled to deliver a cryogenic fluid through the lumen to the distal end of the probe and to receive the cryogenic fluid returning from the probe. There is a separator, coupled to separate the returning cryogenic fluid into a returning cryogenic liquid and a returning cryogenic gas, and a flow meter, coupled to measure a rate of flow of the returning cryogenic gas. A processor is configured to control a rate of pumping of the pump motor in response to a temperature measured by the temperature sensor and the rate of flow of the returning cryogenic gas.
US11633221B2
A variety of K-wires with imbedded plates are disclosed that allow for the plate in K-wire to be secured to the bone after insertion. Further, a donut shaped washer for capturing and securing the K-wire is disclosed. Also, a screw with a channel is disclosed that has a head shaped to capture and secure the K-wire. Finally, embodiments of a slotted washer are disclosed that captures and secures the K-wire.
US11633217B2
A calcaneal fracture fixation and reduction apparatus.
US11633208B2
Systems and methods for controlling clinical soil are provided. A system includes a device cover formed of a flexible polymer sheet defining an interior volume for a skin grafting device, and includes at least a first opening configured to receive a portion of the skin grafting device. The system further includes a cincture having a gasket configured to be affixed to a perimeter of the first opening of the device cover and to secure the device cover about the first opening to the skin grafting device to inhibit fluid ingress into the interior volume of the device cover during a skin grafting process performed using the skin grafting device.
US11633196B2
A minimally invasive hip arthroplasty technique involves intramedullary insertion of an elongate femoral broach into a femur. The broach has a superior lateromedial transverse bore. A reaming rod is then located through the transverse bore and the neck of the femur. A cutting head is coupled to a distal end of the reaming rod via an incision. An orthogonal drive arm of an arthroplasty jig may also be inserted behind the cutting head to press the cutting head to ream the acetabulum while the reaming rod rotates the cutting head.
US11633192B2
Systems and methods for blood flow control are described herein. In some variations, a blood flow control system may comprise a blood flow control device. The blood flow control device may be placed within a body of a patient and may comprise an expandable member and a sensor. The sensor may be configured to measure at least one of a physiologic condition of the patient and a pressure associated with the expandable member. The blood flow control system may include at least one controller communicably coupled to the sensor to: receive data indicative of at least one of the physiologic condition of the patient and the pressure associated with the expandable member from the sensor, compare the received data with target data, identify at least one error based on the comparison, and in response to identifying the error, inhibit at least one function of the blood flow control system.
US11633190B2
Vaso-occlusive apparatuses, including implants, and methods of using them to treat aneurysms. For example, described herein are expandable vaso-occlusive implants that include one or more soft and expandable braided member coupled to a pushable member such as a coil that maybe inserted and retrieved from within an aneurism using a delivery catheter. In particular, the expandable implants described herein are configured to allow relatively soft and elongate implants to be pushed out of a cannula without binding up within the cannula.
US11633189B2
Implantable therapeutic devices and methods for endovascular placement of devices at a target site, such an opening at a neck of an aneurysm, are disclosed. Selected embodiments of the present technology have closures that at least partially occlude the neck of an aneurysm to stabilize embolic or coagulative treatment of the aneurysm.
US11633187B2
A vascular anastomosis device includes a vascular fastener having a first ring and a second ring, and a vascular fastening mechanism. The first ring is provided a first groove and the second ring is provided with a first projection. In addition, the vascular fastener is disposed in the vascular fastening mechanism. The vascular fastening mechanism includes a first tube, a vascular supporting unit, an advancing ring, a third tube, and a spreading unit. The first tube is connected with a second tube. The vascular supporting unit is disposed in the second tube. Furthermore, the vascular supporting unit includes a vascular supporting body and a vascular spreader assembled on the vascular supporting body. The first ring, the second ring, and the advancing ring are assembled on the second tube. The third tube is disposed in the first tube. The spreading unit is disposed in the third tube.
US11633186B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a method of configuring blood vessels at an anastomosis, the method comprising: ensheathing a segment of a transected first blood vessel in a lumen of a sleeve so that an open end of the segment protrudes from a sleeve end; suturing edges of an incision made in a second blood vessel to the open end of the first blood vessel to create an anastomosis; and sliding the sleeve along the first blood vessel to position the sleeve at the anastomosis.
US11633182B2
A method for deforming a staple comprising a base, a first staple leg, and a second staple leg, wherein the base, the first staple leg, and the second staple leg are positioned within a common plane prior to being deformed, the method comprising positioning the first staple leg within a first cup of a staple pocket, the first cup comprising a first inner surface, applying a first compressive force to the first staple leg to bend the first staple leg toward the base and the second staple leg, contacting the first inner surface with the end of the first staple leg to bend the end of the first staple leg toward a first side of the base, and deforming the first staple leg such that the end of the first staple leg crosses a mid-line of the staple defined between the first staple leg and the second staple leg.
US11633181B2
Systems, devices and methods to improve safety and efficiency in an operating room comprise providing a suture package that holds new suture needles and needle receptacles for storing used needles. The devices can be safely worn for the surgeon to self-dispense new suture needles in the near surgical field and to secure the used needles into a needle trap or a needle retainer located on his extremity, on his operative instruments or on the surgical drapes. The device may provide automated and/or simplified needle counting both during use and after removal from the surgical field. The device may be configured for ergonomic and efficient use so as to minimize the actions and motions of the surgeon to dispense and secure the needle.
US11633180B2
A joint clamp for a surgical retractor system includes clamps, a cam bolt, and a cam lever. The cam bolt passes through the clamps. A cam lever comprising a cam head pivotally attached an upper portion the cam bolt to permit rotation between a locked position and an unlocked positions. The joint clamp may include springs which provide a scissors clamp of the clamps with a clip-on feature in which the scissors clamp may clipped-on and clipped-off an object such as a frame member, table post, or retractor handle. The springs may further prevent or reduce a rising movement of the clamps when the cam lever rotates from an unlocked state to a locked state.
US11633177B2
A retractor device for breast reconstruction surgery which entails the effective exposure and visibility of the breast pocket and, at the same time, does not compromise the integrity of the subcutaneous flap, resulting in a positive outcome of the breast reconstruction procedure generally, but not exclusively, performed using a prepectoral (or sub-cutaneous) acellular biological matrix.
US11633173B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for remotely controlling a main processing console of an ultrasound system. In various embodiments, an ultrasound remote controller can be used to remotely control a main processing console of an ultrasound system. The ultrasound remote controller can include a user interface controller configured to provide one or more ultrasound control functions to a user remote from the main processing console. The control functions can be used to remotely control operation of the main console. Further, the user interface controller can be configured to receive input for the one or more ultrasound control functions from the user. The ultrasound remote controller can include a communication interface configured to transmit operational instructions to the main processing console for remotely controlling the operation of the main processing console through the ultrasound remote controller based on the user input for the one or more ultrasound control functions.
US11633170B2
A guidance system for guiding insertion of a needle into a body of a patient utilizes ultrasound imaging or other suitable imaging technology. The guidance system can include an imaging device including a probe for producing an image of the internal body portion target, such as a blood vessel. The imaging device can be configured to provide at least one indication of status via sensory feedback based on a determined position of the needle, for example via a plurality of light-emitting diodes located on the device. One or more sensors can be included with the probe that can sense a magnetic field associated with the needle. The system may include a processor that can receive magnetic field data sensed by the at-least-one sensor to determine the position of the needle. The system can also include a display that depicts the determined position of the needle.
US11633169B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus for AI-based automatic ultrasound diagnosis of liver steatosis and a remote medical diagnosis method using the same applied in the field of ultrasound image processing. The apparatus for AI-based automatic ultrasound diagnosis of liver steatosis can automatically determine a grade of liver steatosis, which is difficult to determine visually, through extraction from an image acquired by imaging medical examination using a deep learning trained artificial neural network.
US11633168B2
An X-ray imaging system using multiple pulsed X-ray sources to perform highly efficient and ultrafast 3D radiography is presented. There are multiple pulsed X-ray sources mounted on a structure in motion to form an array of sources. The multiple X-ray sources move simultaneously relative to an object on a pre-defined arc track at a constant speed as a group. Electron beam inside each individual X-ray tube is deflected by magnetic or electrical field to move focal spot a small distance. When focal spot of an X-ray tube beam has a speed that is equal to group speed but with opposite moving direction, the X-ray source and X-ray flat panel detector are activated through an external exposure control unit so that source tube stay momentarily standstill equivalently. 3D scan can cover much wider sweep angle in much shorter time and image analysis can also be done in real-time.
US11633152B2
This invention generally relates to methods useful for measuring heart rate, respiration conditions, and oxygen saturation and a wearable device that incorporate those methods with a computerized system supporting data collection, analysis, readout and sharing. Particularly this present invention relates to a wearable device, such as a wristwatch or ring, for real time measuring heart rate, respiration conditions, and oxygen saturation.
US11633137B2
Urine collection systems and associated methods and devices are disclosed herein. A representative system can include a urine collection device, a flow control assembly configured to direct a urine flow from the patient to the urine collection device, and a urine measurement device including a first sensor and a second sensor. The first sensor is configured to generate first sensor data based on a weight of the container, and the second sensor is configured to generate second sensor data based on the urine flow from the patient to the container. The system can further include non-transitory computer readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising determining a first patient urine output based on the first sensor data; and determining a second patient urine output based on the second sensor data.
US11633135B2
A system for calibrating a device for measuring materials concentration in the blood is disclosed. The system may include at least two sets of calibrating elements, each set may include a plurality of calibrating elements. Each of the calibrating elements in the sets may include, a first layer simulating a specific human skin characteristics; and a second layer consisting a specific concentration of one or more materials in the blood. For all calibrating elements in a set the first layer may be the same first layer simulating the same human skin characteristics such that each set of calibrating elements simulate different skin characteristics. Each calibrating element in a set of calibrating elements may include a different second layer consisting a different concentration of the one or more materials. The system may further include a controller.
US11633125B2
A method of tracking a medical instrument comprises receiving a model of an anatomical passageway formation and receiving a set of ordered sensor records for the medical instrument. The set of ordered sensor records provide a path history of the medical instrument. The method further comprises registering the medical instrument with the model of the anatomical passageway formation based on the path history. The method further includes displaying a virtual visualization image in a display system, the virtual visualization image being based on the registering of the medical instrument with the model of the anatomical passageway and depicting a rendered view of the model of the anatomical passageway from a perspective of the medical instrument within the model of the anatomical passageway.
US11633117B2
In one embodiment, a data processing method comprises obtaining one or more first photoplethysmography (PPG) signals based on one or more first light sources that are configured to emit light having a first light wavelength corresponding to a green light wavelength; obtaining one or more second PPG signals based on one or more second light sources that are configured to emit light having a second light wavelength corresponding to a red light wavelength, one or more of the first light sources and one or more of the second light sources being co-located; generating an estimated heart rate value based on one or more of the first PPG signals and the second PPG signals; and causing the estimated heart rate value to be displayed via a user interface on a client device.
US11633104B2
Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods can be provided which can generate data associated with at least one portion of a sample. For example, at least one first radiation can be forwarded to the portion through at least one optical arrangement. At least one second radiation can be received from the portion which is based on the first radiation. Based on an interaction between the optical arrangement and the first radiation and/or the second radiation, the optical arrangement can have a first transfer function. Further, it is possible to forward at least one third radiation to the portion through such optical arrangement (or through another optical arrangement), and receive at least one fourth radiation from the portion which is based on the third radiation. Based on an interaction between the optical arrangement (or the other optical arrangement) and the third radiation and/or the fourth radiation, the optical arrangement (or the other optical arrangement) can have a second transfer function. The first transfer function can be at least partially different from the second transfer function. The data can be generated based on the second and fourth radiations.
US11633101B2
An apparatus for diagnosis of ocular surface disease includes an electronic tablet with an electronic display and a forward-facing camera. The camera may be placed above the screen when the device is held in landscape mode. A software app executing on the electronic tablet displays a test screen to a patient, the test screen comprising a test image and an alignment indicator. Once alignment is achieved, the patient may read the test image for a period of time, during which blink quality and quantity are tabulated. A video recorded during the test may be reviewed by a physician to confirm or modify blink quality and quantity counts during the test to diagnose ocular surface disease.
US11633100B2
A method of detecting injury to the brain such as stroke, concussion and cognitive dysfunction using a contrast agent and light source. The blood ocular barrier is disrupted when said injury occurs, allowing the entry of contrast agent into the aqueous and vitreous humor. An exemplary method comprises injecting a contrast agent into a peripheral location and then testing for leakage of contrast agent into the eye cavity by observing for light reflection, when a beam of light incidents on the contrast agent in the eye.
US11633098B2
Disclosed herein are system and method for testing and analysis of visual acuity and changes using an acuity model, the acuity model generated based on one or more acuity chart design parameters and candidate acuity parameters calculated using the acuity test data of the subject, the acuity model comprising a chart-specific psychometric function determined using a family of multiple-optotype psychometric functions, and wherein the acuity model is configurable to estimate possibility of obtaining the acuity test data of the subject.
US11633096B2
A processor of an ophthalmologic image processing device acquires an ophthalmologic image photographed by an ophthalmologic image photographing device. The processor inputs the ophthalmologic image into a mathematical model trained by a machine learning algorithm to acquire a result of an analysis relating to at least one of a specific disease and a specific structure of a subject eye. The processor acquires information of a distribution of weight relating to an analysis by a mathematical model, as supplemental distribution information, for which an image area of the ophthalmologic image input into the mathematical model is set as a variable. The processor sets a part of the image area of the ophthalmologic image, as an attention area, based on the supplemental distribution information. The processor acquires an image of a tissue including the attention area among a tissue of the subject eye and displays the image on a display unit.
US11633081B2
A dishwasher, comprising: a wash tub; a sprayer configured to spray fluid within the wash tub; an imaging device configured to capture images within the wash tub; and a controller coupled to the imaging device and configured to perform a remote start of a wash cycle in the dishwasher in response to receiving a remote start command from a remote device by: controlling the imaging device to capture one or more images within the wash tub; initiating communication of the captured one or more images to the remote device for viewing on the remote device; waiting to receive a confirmation from the remote device; and starting the wash cycle in response to receiving the confirmation from the remote device.
US11633072B2
A container configured to hold a multiphase shampoo composition. The multiphase shampoo composition has a cleansing phase containing a detersive surfactant and a benefit phase containing a gel network. The cleansing phase and benefit phase are visually discrete phases, in physical contact, and form an aesthetic design suspended across at least a portion of the container.
US11633069B2
An easily modified bathing chair comprises: two side connecting pedestals, having a beam, two beam tubes and two leg tubes respectively; four legs which are fixed in the leg tubes of the two side connecting pedestals, respectively; a seat, having two front slides and two rear slides on a bottom thereof, wherein the two front slides each have a first seat positioning structure; and a long upper beam set and a short upper beam set, wherein either the long upper beam set or the short upper beam set is slidingly mounted on the seat and set between the beam tubes of the two side connecting pedestals, thereby it is achieved that a bathing chair of any of two types is assembled conveniently.
US11633067B2
A metal cutting board is integrally formed by a metal plate body and includes a first plate body, a second plate body, and an inclined connecting portion. The second plate body is disposed around a periphery of the first plate body, the second plate body and the first plate body are parallel to each other, and the second plate body and the first plate body are positioned on planes of different heights. The inclined connecting portion is circumferentially disposed between the first plate body and the second plate body. The first plate body, the second plate body, and the inclined connecting portion are integrally formed from the metal plate body and are connected to form a shallow tray structure.
US11633057B2
A hanger is provided which supports long garments securely and easily in half or less length than the garment would occupy hanging on a conventional hanger. Such a garment hanger comprises: a primary support including a hook and elements arranged to suspend a top portion of a garment; an auxiliary support including a bar for suspending the bottom portion of the garment, shortening a total length of the garment thus supported; and the primary support and the auxiliary support including cooperative, non-locking elements detachably suspending the auxiliary support from the primary support with the bar close to the primary support.
US11633056B2
A non-spill drinking container assembly having a container with an open upper portion and closed lower portion. A collar may be removably attached to the upper portion of the container and may have an upper surface with a contour. A seal may be removably attached to the collar and cover the contour of the upper surface of the collar.
US11633053B2
The present invention provides a weighted article for assisting sleep, wherein the weighted article includes heating and cooling means. The weighted article is perforated by a series of channels, which contribute to the weight of the weighted article and allow the passage of a fluid that is continuously pumped throughout the weighted article while the weighted article is in use. The weighted article is connected to a control unit including means to thermoelectrical heat or cool the fluid such that a user of the weighted article is able to increase or decrease their body temperature.
US11633051B2
A bracket adapted to couple to a slot disposed in a pegboard or slot-type wall and hold receptacles. The receptacles can be different sizes and be disposed at different elevations on the bracket. The bracket can also be coupled to the wall via a hook and a fastener to reduce accidental decoupling of the bracket from the wall.
US11633049B1
A User Configurable Mattress System and Method for Customizing and Repairing the Same comprising a support cored assembly, a foam assembly, and a covering assembly. The support core assembly is preferably comprised of a high resiliency foam portion, which may include one or more layers of high resiliency foam, and preferably has a thickness between 3 and 12 inches. The foam assembly further is preferably comprised of a first layer of latex foam and a second layer of gel foam. The first layer of latex foam is positioned on top of the second layer of gel foam for users who desire a firmer mattress, the second layer of gel foam is positioned on top of the first layer of latex foam for users who desire a softer mattress. The covering assembly substantially envelopes the support core assembly and the foam assembly, and is selectively removable.
US11633045B2
A light-emitting seat, comprising a chair frame, a furniture light-emitting assembly, and a skin layer. The furniture light-emitting assembly comprises a fixing part, a strip light, a light guide material layer, and a power supply assembly. The strip light is disposed on the fixing part, the light guide material layer covers the strip light, and the power supply assembly is electrically connected to the strip light. In addition, the fixing part of the furniture light-emitting assembly may cover the chair frame, and the skin layer covers the chair frame and the furniture light-emitting assembly; or, the fixing part may be disposed on the light guide material layer, and the light guide material layer covers the chair frame, the skin layer covers the chair frame and the furniture light-emitting assembly. And, at least an area of the skin layer covering the furniture light-emitting assembly is a light-transmitting material.
US11633032B2
A device for extracting lipstick from a lipstick holder and forming a new holder for application of the extracted lipstick. The device includes a housing formed around a sliding barrel movably disposed within a tube. The sliding barrel includes a tab that extends through an aperture of the housing, wherein the tab allows a user to move the sliding barrel between an extended position and a retracted position. The tube has a circumference smaller than a circumference of the lipstick holder, such that an upper end of tube can be circumscribed by the lipstick holder. A remaining portion of lipstick within the lipstick holder is removed by the sliding barrel and received within the housing when the sliding barrel is retracted. A lipstick securing member extends from an upper end of the sliding barrel to assist in the extraction of the lipstick from the lipstick holder.
US11633029B2
Fluid product reservoir having a neck defining an opening, the neck having an upper annular edge defining an outer ridge and an inner ridge, the opening being defined by an inner wall connected to the upper annular edge by the inner ridge. At least one cutout is provided at the upper annular edge, this cutout extending on the inner wall, interrupting the inner ridge, but does not extend as far as the outer ridge, such that the upper annular edge is continuous over its entire periphery, including at the cutout, this cutout further forming a base defining a ridge with the inner wall of the opening.
US11633024B1
A portable lightweight sun blocking shade system designed to provide freedom of movement under the shaded area, with a fast deployment and a safe fabric release under high wind conditions. To make shade over a desired area, position the holder apparatus to block sun, suspend the closed umbrella shade apparatus at the overhead hanger, open the suspended umbrella with a simple vertical lift of the lower handle to lock at the center shaft. To store shade, simply unlock the open umbrella with a push of the handle button, allow gravity to lower the handle, and remove the closed shade from the hanger. The holder apparatus can be left in place, or quickly removed for complete shade system storage.
US11633020B2
A lace tensioning device includes a housing component having an interior region, a first aperture, and a second aperture, and a spool component that is rotatably positionable within the interior region of the housing component. The spool component has a central cylindrical member and a lumen that extends through the central cylindrical portion. The spool component is rotatable within the interior region of the housing component to align one end of the lumen with the first aperture and to align an opposite end of the lumen with the second aperture to enable a lace to be inserted through the first aperture, the lumen, and the second aperture so that opposing ends of the lace are positioned exterior to the housing component. A knot may then be tied in the lace and the lace retracted to couple the lace with the housing component and spool component.
US11632991B2
A reusable glove for meat processing plants that is able to be easily donned and doffed, and worn over a liner. A thumb crotch is defined between first sides of the glove's index finger region and thumb region. An imaginary first plane extends generally along the index finger region's first side, beyond the thumb crotch, and through the thumb region. An imaginary second plane oriented at right angles to the first plane extends along a narrowest width of the glove's wrist region and intersects the first plane at an intersection region. An imaginary third plane oriented parallel to the first plane and at right angles to the second plane, passes through narrowest width of the wrist region, and intersects the side of the wrist region at a transition region. The transition region is located outwardly beyond the intersection region and vertically below the thumb crotch.
US11632988B2
An aerosol generating apparatus comprises: a power source; a load configured to have a resistance value that varies according to a temperature and generate an aerosol by atomizing an aerosol source or heating a flavor source when supplied with power from the power source; a sensor configured to include a resistor connected in series to the load and output a measurement value that is a current value of a current flowing through the resistor or a voltage value of a voltage applied to the resistor; and a control unit configured to control power supply from the power source to the load and receive output from the sensor, wherein the resistor has a resistance value that is set such that responsiveness of a change in the measurement value to a change in a temperature of the resistance value belongs to a prescribed range.
US11632977B2
Described are coated food products having a sugar (sucrose) coating, the coating exhibiting desirable levels of sucrose crystallinity and a desired sucrose ratio (total sucrose per total soluble solids), as well as methods or preparing such coated food products and coating.
US11632970B2
The present invention discloses a method for preparation of vitamin and carotenoid powder; the vitamin and carotenoid powder comprises vitamin, carotenoid microcapsule and physical gel protection film covered on the surface of the vitamin and carotenoid microcapsule; the physical gel protection film is made from super-molecular system; the super-molecular system comprises the following constituents of parts in weight: vegetable oil: 6-30 parts; gel: 0.5-3 parts and antioxidant: 0.5-3 parts. The hot super-molecular solution is sprayed on the surface of cold vitamin and carotenoid microcapsule during preparation to form a specific 3D network structure that is used to bind the liquefied vegetable oil to form a physical gel protection film; the physical gel protection film has improved product storage stability as well as the its stability for application in feedstuff, food and health care products.
US11632963B2
The current invention concerns a method for sprout removal treatment of tubers, especially potatoes, preferably by fogging a highly concentrated limonene composition. The invention also concerns limonene treated tubers obtainable by said method. The invention further provides limonene compositions suitable for sprout removal by fogging. The invention is advantageous as it provides a renewable and natural sprout removal agent. It allows the removal of sprouts from tubers destined for the fresh produce market, where practically no pesticide residues are allowed.
US11632962B2
A separation and singulation system for presenting shrimps or other product individually to a processor. The separation and singulation system includes a divider pan that separates a layer of shrimp into several lanes, a shaker pan that receives the lanes of shrimp and agitates them to separate clumps of shrimp and a flume for providing further singulation and acceleration of the shrimp. The singulated, separated shrimps are then sent to a processor.
US11632960B2
The present invention is a plant growth promoter, containing: a lignocellulosic biomass (A); and at least one base (B) selected from the following (B1) to (B3), wherein the plant growth promoter has a contact angle with water of 80° or less,
US11632956B2
The present invention relates to co-crystals of boscalid and a triazole fungicide.
US11632950B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio-frequency identification system for a cryogenic straw comprising: at least one integrated circuit configured to store information and generate a radio-frequency signal in a frequency range of between 30 MHz and 3 GHz; and at least one antenna comprising a conductive thread configured to be integrated, such as molded, into a sidewall of the cryogenic straw. The disclosure further relates to a cryogenic straw comprising at least one antenna, the antenna comprising a conductive thread or rod, wherein the at least one antenna is integrated, such as molded, into a sidewall of the cryogenic straw.
US11632942B1
A fishing lure has an elastomeric or soft plastic body containing multiple suction features along its surface. By being capable of sticking to the roof of the fish's mouth or the fish's tongue, the suction features help increase the chance that the lure remains in the fish's mouth a few more seconds prior to an angler's hookset. The combination of the suction features' tactile feel and their adhering ability results in a unique advantage for any type of soft plastic fishing lure.
US11632937B2
A spraying leash assembly includes a leash unit that has a retractable leash such that the leash can be attached to a collar of a dog for walking the dog. A reservoir is coupled to the leash unit and the reservoir is hollow to contain a liquid. A spray nozzle is integrated into the reservoir to spray the fluid outwardly from the reservoir onto the dog thereby distracting the dog from barking. A light emitter is coupled to the reservoir to emit light. A handle is coupled to the reservoir and the handle can be gripped for carrying the reservoir and the leash unit. A speaker is integrated into the handle for emitting an audible sound to distract the dog from barking.
US11632929B1
A novel maize variety designated 1PQUL12 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PQUL12 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PQUL12 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 1PQUL12 or a locus conversion of 1PQUL12 with another maize variety.
US11632907B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an agricultural work apparatus, an agricultural work management system, and a program capable of appropriately managing agricultural work information and smoothly implementing agricultural work and business in the future by making use of agricultural work information. An agricultural work apparatus may include: a first image-capturing device; an agricultural work determination unit that determines, on the basis of first image information obtained by capturing an image of a target of agricultural work through the first image-capturing device, whether or not to execute the agricultural work on the target; an agricultural work execution unit that executes the agricultural work; an agricultural work information generation unit that generates agricultural work information including a result of the agricultural work; a measurement unit that measures a position of the target; and an agricultural work information management unit that manages the agricultural work information and positional information.
US11632905B2
Described herein are methods and harvesters for adjusting settings of a harvester. In one embodiment, a computer Implemented method includes capturing, with at least one image capture device that is located on the harvester, images of a field view of an unharvested region to be harvested, analyzing the captured images to determine crop information for a crop of a harvested region that is adjacent to the unharvested region, and adjusting settings or operating parameters of the harvester for the unharvested region based on the crop information for the crop of the harvested region.
US11638391B2
A method for processing a semiconductor device with two closely space gates comprises forming a template structure, wherein the template structure includes at least one sub-structure having a dimension less than the CD. The method further comprises forming a gate layer on and around the template structure. Then, the method comprises removing the part of the gate layer formed on the template structure, and patterning the remaining gate layer into a gate structure including the two gates. Further, the method comprises selectively removing the template structure, wherein the spacing between the two gates is formed by the removed sub-structure.
US11638388B2
A shadow mask for patterned vapor deposition of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) material includes a ceramic membrane under tensile stress with a plurality of through-apertures forming an aperture array through which a vaporized deposition material can pass. A multilayer peripheral support is attached to a rear surface with a hollow portion beneath the aperture array. A compressively-stressed interlayer balances the tensile stress of the ceramic membrane. A shadow mask module with multiple shadow masks is also provided and includes a rigid carrier having plural windows with a shadow mask positioned in each window. To make the module, shadow mask blanks are affixed to each carrier window followed by etching of apertures and support layers. In this way extremely flat masks with precise aperture patterns are formed.
US11638387B2
An OLED display panel comprises a pixel array and a substrate. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixel includes multiple sub-pixels. Each of the sub-pixels includes multiple layers stacked in processing sequence on the substrate, a driving circuit layer, an uneven surface layer, and a light-emitting layer. The uneven surface layer includes a plurality of concave-convex structures. In each pixel, there are at least two sub-pixels corresponding to different colors respectively, and possessing different numbers of concave-convex structures, respectively. Moreover, those sub-pixels corresponding to a same color in the pixel array possess a same number of concave-convex structures. The light-emitting layer conformal to the concave-convex structures has increased surface area, so that the effective light-emitting area of the display panel is increased and the brightness of the OLED display panel is enhanced accordingly.
US11638385B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a method for driving the same, and a display device. The display substrate includes: a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of reset signal lines, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of light emitting control signal lines, a plurality of data lines, a power signal line structure, an initialization signal line structure, and at least part of the reset signal lines extend along the first direction; the plurality of reset signal lines include a sub-reset signal line corresponding to each sub-pixel, and the sub-reset signal line includes a first reset pattern and a second reset pattern that are coupled to each other, the first reset pattern is located between the substrate of the display substrate and the second reset pattern.
US11638382B2
The present application relates to a method for preparing an organic electronic device, and the organic electronic device prepared by the same, the method for preparing an organic electronic device can improve flatness and adhesion of an organic layer in a process of sealing an organic electronic element to effectively block moisture or oxygen from the outside, thereby securing the lifetime of the organic electronic device.
US11638381B2
The present invention discloses a thin-film light-emitting device including a charge generating junction layer and a method of fabricating the thin-film light-emitting device. The thin-film light-emitting device including a charge generating junction layer according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a negative electrode; at least one light-emitting unit formed on the negative electrode and including a charge generating junction layer, an electron injection/transport layer, a thin-film light-emitting layer, and a hole injection/transport layer in a sequential order; and a negative electrode formed on the light-emitting unit. In the thin-film light-emitting device of the present invention, the charge generating junction layer has a layer-by-layer structure in which a p-type semiconductor layer and an n-type semiconductor layer are formed, and the concentration of oxygen vacancies at the interface between the p-type and n-type semiconductor layers is adjusted by annealing the n-type semiconductor layer.
US11638380B2
An illumination apparatus including a transparent substrate, an opposite substrate and an electroluminescence structure disposed between the transparent substrate and the opposite substrate is provided. The transparent substrate has a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. The electroluminescence structure is disposed on the transparent substrate. The electroluminescence structure includes a first electrode disposed in the first region, an optical adjusting layer disposed in the second region, an organic electroluminescence layer disposed above the first electrode and the optical adjusting layer and a common electrode disposed above the organic electroluminescence layer. The optical adjusting layer is disposed between the organic electroluminescence layer and the transparent substrate.
US11638377B2
Electronic devices and methods of forming the electronic devices are described. The electronic devices comprise a plurality of memory holes extending along a first direction through a plurality of alternating oxide and nitride layers. Each memory hole has a core oxide surrounded by a semiconductor material, the semiconductor material surrounded by a dielectric. The memory holes are staggered to provide a plurality of memory hole lines having spaced memory holes so that adjacent memory hole lines have the memory holes in a staggered configuration. A conductive material is on top of the stack of alternating oxide and nitride layers. A dielectric filled cut line extends through the conductive material in a direction across the plurality of memory hole lines. The dielectric filled cut line separates a first memory hole line from an adjacent second memory hole line without disabling the functionality of the memory holes.
US11638374B2
Apparatuses and methods to provide a patterned substrate are described. A plurality of patterned and spaced first lines and carbon material lines and formed on the substrate surface by selectively depositing and etching films extending in a first direction and films extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction to pattern the underlying structures.
US11638371B2
An adapter device is configured to interface between a wireless power receiver that includes a first array of magnets arranged around a receiver coil in the wireless power receiver and a wireless power transmitter lacking a corresponding array of magnets arranged around a source coil in the wireless power transmitter. The adapter device includes a substrate and a ferrite shield formed of a magnetic material and configured to be placed between the wireless power receiver and the wireless power transmitter.
US11638364B1
A cryptocurrency mining furnace is provided. The cryptocurrency mining furnace comprises a furnace housing having an air flow path extending from a housing air inlet downstream to a housing air outlet; and at least three separate mining computers. Each mining computer is positioned in the furnace housing in the air flow path upstream of the housing air outlet and includes at least one cryptocurrency mining board. The cryptocurrency mining furnace also comprises a transformer positioned in the furnace housing upstream of the mining computers and downstream of the housing air inlet, the transformer electrically connected to each of the mining computers to power each of the mining computers; and a principal fan positioned in the furnace housing in the air flow path downstream of the transformer and upstream of the mining computers to induce air flow along the air flow path through the transformer and each of the mining computers.
US11638362B2
A vehicular radar sensing system includes a radar sensor disposed at a vehicle so as to sense exterior of the vehicle. The radar sensor includes a housing and at least one printed circuit board (PCB). The housing includes a front housing portion and a rear housing portion. The front housing portion includes side walls with a slot therealong. The PCB is received in the slot of the front housing portion. After the PCB is received in the slot, the front housing portion and the rear housing portion are joined to establish a cavity in which the PCB is disposed.
US11638357B2
The present application provides an installation base, and a fire detector or a fire alarm. The installation base includes: a base body, which has a plurality of installation holes; locking assemblies, which are arranged in the installation holes of the base body, and which are switched between a locked position and a released position relative to the installation holes when the locking assemblies are rotated and/or pressed; and conductive assemblies, which hold wires when the locking assemblies are switched to the locked position so that electrical conduction is realized. In the installation base for a fire detector or a fire alarm according to the present application, through a cooperation of the locking assemblies, the base body and the conductive assemblies, quick electrical connection and maintenance of the installation base are realized.
US11638356B2
A display device including a flexible display panel and a roller disposed on a side portion of the flexible display panel to wind the flexible display panel, in which the flexible display panel includes a first substrate including a first base substrate having a display region and a non-display region adjacent to each other, and a light emitting element layer including light emitting elements disposed on the display region, a second substrate including a second base substrate opposing the first base substrate, and a color conversion layer disposed on the second base substrate and corresponding to each light emitting element, and an adhesive filling layer disposed in the display region to form a cell gap between the first and second substrate, and disposed in the non-display region to be in contact with the first and second base substrates to couple and seal the first and second base substrates.
US11638354B2
A method for forming a circuit board having a dielectric core, a foil top surface, and a thin foil bottom surface with a removable foil backing of sufficient thickness to absorb heat from a laser drilling operation to prevent the penetration of the thin foil bottom surface during laser drilling utilizes a sequence of steps including a laser drilling step, removing the foil backing step, electroless plating step, patterned resist step, electroplating step, resist strip step, tin plate step, and copper etch step, which provide dot vias of fine linewidth and resolution.
US11638351B2
A component-embedded substrate includes: insulating layers each including a wiring pattern; an embedded component including a connection terminal; a plurality of vias that electrically connect the connection terminal to the wiring patterns adjacent to each other in a lamination direction. Each of the vias is composed of a via hole in the insulating layer and a conductive material in the via hole. One of the vias is a connection via connected to the connection terminal, and another of the vias is an adjacent via adjacent to the connection via in the lamination direction. The connection via and adjacent via overlap in a plan view. S1/A1≤0.61 and S1/A2≤0.61 are satisfied, where A1 is an average cross-sectional area of the connection via, A2 is an average cross-sectional area of the adjacent via, and S1 is an overlapping area of the connection via and adjacent via in the plan view.
US11638347B2
A circuit board, comprising a connector, screw holes and first ground, wherein first ground terminals of the connector and the screw holes are respectively connected to the first ground, so as to carry out electrostatic discharge by means of the first ground; and the first ground is isolated from ground wires on the circuit board.
US11638340B2
A method of increasing the color gamut of a multi-emitter light emitting device when dimming includes the steps of independently driving each emitter in the device, and increasing the lumen output of at least one emitter while simultaneously decreasing the lumen output of at least one other emitter, such that total color gamut increases while total lumen output of the light emitting device decreases. A light emitting device is also disclosed.
US11638338B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling a plurality of light-emitting devices. The method includes at least: inputting group information into a respective light-emitting device, the group information to be inputted corresponds to a seat in a venue, on which the respective light emitting device to be positioned; and selectively controlling illuminating or extinguishing of groups of light-emitting devices, in accordance with the group information, to present an image over the plurality of light-emitting devices positioned on seats in the venue of an event during a particular period of a group-performance presentation.
US11638336B2
A lighting system is disclosed. The example lighting system includes a printed circuit board. At least one LED circuit and a driver circuit are mounted on the printed circuit board. The at least one LED circuit has a plurality of phosphor coated LEDs. The driver circuit includes at least one bridge rectifier and at least one capacitor. The lighting system also includes a housing including a lens. The lighting system further includes a first power connection lead connected to a first input of the bridge rectifier and a second power connection lead connected to a second input of the bridge rectifier. At least a first portion of each power connection lead is contained within the housing and at least a second portion of each power connection lead extends beyond the housing to enable the printed circuit board to be connected to an AC power source.
US11638333B2
A method for analyzing a frequency response of a cooking device is disclosed. The method comprises controlling a plurality of RF signals within an operating range of the cooking device at plurality of phase shifts between a first RF signal and a second RF signal. A plurality of efficiencies of at least one reflection signal in the resonant cavity are measured in response to a plurality of RF feeds generated from the RF signals for the plurality of phase shifts. The frequency response of the resonant cavity is modeled with a numeric model and a plurality of interpolation parameters for the numeric model are calculated based on the plurality of measured efficiencies of the RF feeds. The frequency response of the cavity is estimated for the operating range of the cooking device based on the numeric model with the plurality of interpolation parameters.
US11638331B2
The present technology is directed to multi-frequency controllers for inductive heating and associated systems and methods. The systems can be configured to precisely heat a module via a coil to a target temperature using oscillating, pulsed electrical signals associated with unique frequencies and/or capacitance values. Each unique frequency can correspond to heating the module to a particular depth, relative to an outer surface of the module. A first pulsed electrical signal having a first frequency can heat the module to a first depth, and a second pulsed electrical signal having a second frequency can heat the module to a second depth different than the first depth. The system can include a thermal sensor for measuring a temperature associated with at least one of the module or a fluid associated with the module. Based on the temperature, the system can adjust signal delivery parameters of the first and/or second electrical signals.
US11638330B2
The present disclosure relates to food preparation apparatus with an electrical heating device comprising at least two electrical PTC thermistors for heating a food in a food preparation room, wherein the electrical PTC thermistors are electrically connected in parallel. The parallel-connected PTC thermistors are electrically connected to one another by one or more electrical bridges.
US11638328B2
The disclosure provides a multi-mode communication method, a terminal, and a computer readable storage medium thereof. The method may be applied to the terminal, where the terminal may support at least two communication modes and include at least two internal communication modules respectively corresponding to the at least two communication modes. The method may include sending, by the terminal, resource related information, where the sent resource related information includes resource related information of at least one of the at least two communication modes.
US11638319B2
Methods and apparatuses for handling radio link failure (RLF) in a wireless communication network. A method for operating a base station (BS) includes detecting occurrence of a RLF on a backhaul link with a parent BS of the BS and transmitting to a wireless communication device connected to the BS a first notification of the RLF indicating to hold data to be transmitted from the wireless communication device to the BS. The method further includes determining whether connection to a core network entity in the wireless communication network can be reestablished and transmitting to the wireless communication device a second notification based on the reestablishment determination.
US11638312B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating, by a user equipment (UE), over multiple slices. A method that may be performed by the UE includes transmitting, from an operating system (OS) to a modem, an indication of a start network request originating from an application, the transmitting of the indication based on a determination that a traffic descriptor associated with the application is a non-default descriptor. The method may also include determining one or more parameters for establishing a new network connection for the application, the one or more parameters determined based on a routing policy that provides mapping between the traffic descriptor and the one or more parameters.
US11638310B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving signals to enable a terminal to perform a random access channel procedure (RACH procedure) in an unlicensed band. In particular, the method comprises: transmitting an uplink signal including a first physical random access channel (PRACH) and a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to a base station; and receiving, from the base station, a downlink signal related to contention resolution in response to the uplink signal, wherein a power ramping counter is used to set the transmission power of the uplink signal, and the value of the power ramping counter may be increased on the basis of a transmission spatial beam for the transmission of the uplink signal being configured in the same manner as a transmission spatial beam for the transmission of a PRACH prior to the uplink signal.
US11638305B2
A UE may receive, from a base station/TRP, a configuration for a beam pair including an UL beam and a DL beam and transmit a RACH message via the UL beam while receiving DL information via the DL beam. The UE and/or the base station/TRP may be configured to operate in a FD mode. In aspects, the UE may transmit a RACH preamble based on a first mode of transmission. After a threshold time delay measured from the transmission of the RACH preamble, the UE may retransmit the RACH preamble based on a second mode of transmission. The second mode of transmission may be a same mode of transmission or a different mode of transmission from the first mode of transmission. Each mode of transmission may be based on one or more of TDM, FDM, or SDM.
US11638293B2
A method for transmitting data includes: determining whether a length of cached data of user equipment (UE) is no less than a first preset threshold; in response to determining that the length of the cached data of the UE is no less than the first preset threshold, dividing, in a preset mode, the cached data into two groups of data; and uploading the two groups of data to a base station respectively through a mobile network and a wireless local area network (WLAN).
US11638291B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a single downlink control information (DCI) message scheduling a simultaneous downlink transmission and uplink transmission in an unpaired band. In some aspects, the single DCI message may include a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field having one or more bits that indicate a first MCS for the downlink transmission. The UE may determine a second MCS for the uplink transmission based at least in part on an offset from the first MCS for the downlink transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11638290B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission. A cellular base station may provide a downlink control information transmission to a wireless device scheduling downlink transmissions to the wireless device from multiple transmission reception points. The downlink control information may include information that can be used by the wireless device to determine any or all of physical resource block bundling sizes, frequency domain resource allocations, modulation and coding schemes, redundancy versions, phase tracking reference signal configurations, and any of various other possible types of configuration information for the downlink transmissions. The wireless device may receive the downlink transmissions from the plurality of transmission reception points in accordance with the downlink control information.
US11638288B2
A wireless device may communicate via a primary cell comprising a primary control channel, and via a secondary cell comprising a secondary control channel, and may signal a scheduling request for the transmission of information via either of the control channels. A scheduling request prohibit timer may be started for the transmission via either of the control channels.
US11638286B2
In some implementations, a method of wireless communications between a wireless communications network and wireless user equipment includes receiving, using a primary Time Division Duplex (TDD) configuration, data on a primary component carrier in a first frequency band. Using a secondary TDD configuration, data on a secondary component carrier is received in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. A Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) for data received on the secondary component carrier is transmitted using a supplemental TDD configuration. A transmission or retransmission on the secondary component carrier uses a supplemental TDD configuration as well. The supplemental TDD configuration is different from the secondary TDD configuration. Furthermore, an uplink supplemental configuration may be different from a downlink supplemental configuration.
US11638274B2
A system and method for time division multiplexing using different radio access technologies is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first communication node includes: identifying a time division multiplex pattern that associates a plurality of time domain resources with: one of an uplink signal and a downlink signal, and one of at least two radio access technologies; receiving the uplink signal using at least one first associated time domain resource; and transmitting the downlink signal using at least one second associated time domain resource, wherein the plurality of time domain resources are sequential, and wherein at least one first and second associated time domain resources are associated with different radio access technologies.
US11638273B2
Aspects described herein relate to managing coexistence of multiple radio access technology (RAT) components in a device. Information related to an upcoming time period can be sent to a first radio access technology (RAT) component from a second RAT component. The first RAT component can select a resource to transmit a first RAT packet to minimize collision with the upcoming time period of the second RAT.
US11638268B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method for receiving interference information, identifying a plurality of interferers, approximating a location of the plurality of interferers, and adjusting an antenna pattern of an antenna. The method can include determining traffic loads and adjusting the antenna pattern according to the traffic loads. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11638265B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for applying uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states with downlink reference signals to codebook based physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions. An example method generally includes receiving, from a network entity, signaling of an uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state with a target codebook based uplink transmission signal, determining if the TCI state has a source downlink reference signal (RS) and deciding how to process the codebook based uplink transmission based on the determination.
US11638259B2
Various embodiments may provide streaming service downlink network assistance and/or uplink network assistance mechanisms in a fifth generation (5G) system (5GS) network via an Application Function (AF) computing device in a 5GS. In some embodiments, a computing device and/or the AF computing device may inform the network about needs for capacity for downlink or uplink traffic. Various embodiments may include sending radio access network (RAN) capacity requests to a network computing device of the 5GS network including a 5G RAN. In some embodiments, the network computing device of the 5GS network may be a computing device that is not part of the 5G RAN. In some embodiments, capacity need messages may be sent directly from user equipment (UE) computing devices to computing devices of the 5G RAN. In some embodiments, capacity information of the RAN may be delivered to an AF computing device via an intermediate network function.
US11638255B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a first transmission on a first set of beams is unsuccessful and determine a second transmission on a second set of beams is successful. The UE may identify a beam from the second set of beams based on the determination that the second transmission on the second set of beams is successful. The UE may transmit, to a base station, an indication of the identified beam from the second set of beams and communicate with the base station via the identified beam from the second set of beams.
US11638251B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for determining a transport block size in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving control information from a wireless communication node, wherein the control information includes a plurality of transmission parameters related to transport blocks to be transmitted between the wireless communication device and the wireless communication node; calculating an intermediate transport block size (TBS) for the transport blocks based on the plurality of transmission parameters; modifying the intermediate TBS to generate a modified TBS in response to an event that the intermediate TBS is smaller than a threshold; and determining a final TBS for the transport blocks based on a TBS that is closest to the modified TBS, among TBSs that are in a quantized set and not smaller than the modified TBS.
US11638248B2
Improved communications, including indication of channel occupancy time-structure information (COT-SI) for NR-U sidelink (NR-U SL) operations is disclosed. A UE may establish a current channel occupancy time (COT) on a shared communication spectrum for UE transmissions in response to a successful listen before talk (LBT) procedure. The UE may then generates a COT structure information (COT-SI) message including at least a remaining duration of the current COT and a set of time and frequency resources of the current COT. The COT-SI message may be transmitted by the UE to one or more neighboring UEs via sidelink transmission. Once the COT-SI message is sent, the UE transmits the UE transmission within the set of time and frequency resource of the current COT.
US11638242B2
A method for transmitting data by a user equipment (UE), includes configuring a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) configuration related to a physical random access channel (PRACH), wherein the PUSCH configuration includes parameters fora time interval for allocating PUSCH zones and a number of contiguous PUSCH zones in time domain, and transmitting the PRACH and a PUSCH based on the PUSCH configuration.
US11638236B2
There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for providing first control information using a first control channel and at least second control information using a second control channel, wherein the first control information comprises at least an indication of resource reservation for an associated data channel and the second control information comprises at least transmission format information for the associated data channel, wherein the associated data channel comprises periodic or aperiodic data traffic.
US11638232B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method performed by a terminal that performs registration in a non-3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access. According to the method, the terminal may receive a rejection message including a value of a back-off timer. In addition, the terminal may determine a value of a non-3GPP de-registration timer on the basis of the value of the back-off timer. In this case, the value of the non-3GPP de-registration timer may be determined to be greater than the value of the back-off timer.
US11638229B2
In some embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a mechanism for a device to perform selective synchronization (or cluster merging) with one or more neighboring peer devices.
US11638226B2
A synchronization signal block information processing method includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, identifiers of multiple SS/PBCH blocks (SSBs), wherein the identifier of the SSB is determined in accordance with demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequences of physical broadcast channels (PBCHs), and the identifier of the SSB is used for indicating a transmission position of the SSB within a set period of time; obtaining, by the terminal device, first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating a first quantity, and the first quantity is no more than a number of the SSBs sent by a network device within the set period of time; and determining, by the terminal device, a first SSB in the multiple SSBs and a second SSB in the multiple SSBs are quasi-co-located (QCL) in accordance with an identifier of the first SSB, an identifier of the second SSB and the first indication information.
US11638220B2
An indication information sending method includes that a base station generates first indication information, and send the first indication information to a terminal device; and where the first indication information is used to indicate a power control manner of a first channel, the power control manner of the first channel is one power control manner in a power control manner set, and the power control manner set comprises a transmit power of a signal on the first channel is determined by a terminal device based on a first parameter; or a transmit power of a signal on the first channel is determined by a terminal device according to a rule predefined on the terminal device.
US11638211B2
A method by which a terminal monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor are provided. In the method, a terminal wakes up in a DRX cycle linked with a monitoring occasion so as to monitor a PDCCH if a wake up signal (WUS) monitoring occasion does not exist in a monitoring window for allowing the terminal to monitor the WUS.
US11638209B2
A wireless access point includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to access instructions stored in the memory, and execute the instructions to perform following steps: periodically transmitting a plurality of beacons to a station so that the station operates in a low power sleep mode or an active mode based on the beacons, in which the beacons includes two successive beacons; and, between the transmission of the two successive beacons, determining whether to transmit a management frame to the station based on a traffic condition of packets being directed to the station so that the station establishes a mode switching in response to the management frame. The traffic condition includes a channel state and a number or a validity of the packets. The mode switching includes switching from one of the low power sleep mode and the active mode to another.
US11638208B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for access network selection for UEs not supporting NAS over non-3GPP access. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver for communicating with one or more non-3GPP access networks. The processor creates a first list of available PLMNs, each PLMN connectable via a non-3GPP access network without using a NAS protocol. The processor selects a first PLMN from the first list and selects a first network slice supported by the first PLMN. Here, the first network slice is identified by a first S-NSSAI. The processor creates a second list of available non-3GPP access networks and selects a first non-3GPP access network from the second list. The processor begins a connectivity procedure over the first non-3GPP access network. Here, the connectivity procedure creates a data connection for the apparatus via the first network slice in the first PLMN, and the connectivity procedure does not use the NAS protocol.
US11638203B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine an operating mode associated with synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission in a band, wherein the operating mode is one of a licensed operating mode or an unlicensed operating mode; and receive one or more SSBs based at least in part on the operating mode. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11638195B2
Systems and methods for dynamic communication routing based on consistency weighting and routing rules are disclosed. A computing device can receive a communication including content data. The communication can be stored in a queue position of a primary queue. For example, the primary queue can include a plurality of queue positions for storing communications. The communication can be retrieved from the queue position of the primary queue and analyzed. In some instances, analyzing can include parsing the content data for a keyword. A keyword can correspond to a secondary queue. When the keyword is identified in the communication, the communication can be stored in the secondary queue that corresponds to the keyword. A terminal device associated with the secondary queue can be identified. A retrieval request to access the communication from the secondary queue can be received, and the communication can be routed to the terminal device.
US11638185B2
A cell handover method and a device are provided, so that a target eNB uses a current serving small node as a user plane serving node after a UE is handed over. The UE and uses the target eNB as a control plane serving node after the handover. The method includes receiving a handover request acknowledgment sent by the target eNB; and sending offloading configuration information of the current serving small node to the current serving small node, and sending RRC reconfiguration information of the UE to the UE, so that offloading configuration is performed separately by the current serving small node and the UE. According to the application, a problem that in a cell handover process, a transmission resource required for transmission increases and a delay is relatively great is avoided, because the current serving small node forwards a large amount of data to the target eNB.
US11638182B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication. The UE first receives a first signaling and a second radio signal, and then transmitting a first radio signal on a sidelink. The first signaling is correlated to a first synchronization sequence. The first signaling is used for determining at least one of {first signature sequence, second synchronization sequence}. The first signature sequence is used for generating the first radio signal. The receiving timing of the second radio signal is used for determining the transmitting timing of the first radio signal. The second radio signal is associated with the second synchronization sequence. The first synchronization sequence differs from the second synchronization sequence. The first operation is transmitting, or the first operation is receiving. According to the present disclosure, both system performance and transmission efficiency are improved.
US11638181B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media are presented for retrieving security keys in gateways. In one example embodiment, a method is presented. The method of retrieving security keys from a User Equipment (UE) in gateways includes retrieving, by a HetNet Gateway (HNG) as the HNG virtualizes an eNodeB towards n Mobility Management Entity (MME) through a first message and a second message exchange, a fresh Next Hop, Next Hop Chaining Count {NH, NCC} pair from the MME; and mocking, by the HNG, an X2 handover towards the MME by sending a third message with required Information Elements filled when a fourth message from the eNodeB reaches the HNG.
US11638164B2
A wireless signal transceiver includes a main body part, an antenna array, and a refraction element. The antenna array is disposed in the main body part, and is configured to transmit or receive at least one wireless signal beam. The refraction element is disposed at a first end of the main body part, and the first end is opposite to the antenna array. The refraction element is used to receive the wireless signal beam and refracts the wireless signal beam to generate and transmit a plurality of outputted wireless signal beams.
US11638162B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may communicate, with a second UE, an indication relating to physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) beam training. The UE may transmit, to the second UE on symbols included in a transmission time interval, PSSCH data and beam training reference signals to be used by the second UE to perform beam measurements. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11638143B2
A system and method for setting blind detection and control channel element monitoring limits in a carrier aggregation scheme. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a network from a first user equipment (UE), a declaration of capabilities of the first UE; sending, by the network, to the first UE, a first search space (SS) configuration for a first component carrier in a carrier aggregation (CA) scheme; and sending, by the network, to the first UE, a second search space configuration for a second component carrier in the carrier aggregation scheme. The first search space configuration may define a first set of monitoring occasions, the second search space configuration may define a second set of monitoring occasions (MOs), and an aligned span pattern, corresponding to the first set of monitoring occasions and the second set of monitoring occasions, may comply with the declaration of capabilities of the first UE.
US11638142B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system detects installation of a subscriber identity module (SIM) on a communication device configured for connection to the network; the SIM includes a radio policy manager (RPM) provided by the network operator to manage network policies. The system also monitors connection of the communication device to the network and communications between the SIM and a processor of the communication device. The RPM determines whether the communication device is compliant with the network policies; if the communication device is not compliant with the network policies, the RPM causes the connection of the communication device to the network to be disabled. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11638136B2
An apparatus, method and wireless device for fast scanning of a wireless communications medium are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes tuning a transceiver of the wireless node to a first frequency. The method further includes computing a first difference frequency, the first difference frequency being a difference between the first frequency and a second frequency. The method further includes generating a first control signal to configure a first backscattering device to switch between at least two states at a switching frequency equal to the first difference frequency.
US11638133B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for distributing an operation across vehicles. A data processing system including one or more processors, coupled to memory can identify an operation executable by the data processing system. The data processing system can calculate a duration of a communication channel between the vehicle and a second vehicle and determine that the duration of the communication channel is greater than or equal to a threshold. The data processing system can determine, responsive to the determination that the duration of the communication channel is greater than or equal to the threshold, to split the operation into a first and second process for distributed processing by the vehicle and the second vehicle. The data processing system can transmit, responsive to the determination to split the operation, a request to perform the second process to the second vehicle to cause the second vehicle to execute the second process.
US11638131B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to dynamically updating an existing vehicular micro cloud. In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more parameters of an environment around a plurality of vehicles, and identifying an impact of the one or more parameters of the environment on one or more of the plurality of vehicles associated with the existing vehicular micro cloud. The method includes identifying one or more properties of the existing vehicular micro cloud. The method includes determining which adjustment to the one or more properties of the existing vehicular micro cloud can address the impact, and updating the one or more properties based on the determination.
US11638124B2
Dispatch-aiding communications between computing devices of a responder and a dispatch unit include a computing device of the responder determining that an event occurred, automatically sending an indication of the event to a computing device of the dispatch unit, receiving a request for information from the computing device of the dispatch unit, obtaining the information requested by the computing device of the dispatch unit, and sending the information requested by the computing device of the dispatch unit to the computing device of the dispatch unit. The computing device of the dispatch unit sends the request for information to the computing device of the responder in response to receiving the indication of the event.
US11638116B2
A receiver includes a first discrete Fourier transform (DFT) block to perform a first single tone DFT on a positive tone associated with a sounding sequence. A second DFT block performs a second single tone DFT on a negative tone associated with the sounding sequence. A DFT coefficient generation block generates first DFT coefficients based on a nominal frequency of the positive tone and an estimated frequency offset between a transmitter frequency and a receiver frequency. The DFT coefficient generation block generates second DFT coefficients based on a nominal frequency of the negative tone and the estimated frequency offset. Multipliers in the DFT blocks multiply I and Q values of the sounding sequence with the coefficients. Accumulators in the DFT blocks accumulate multiplier outputs. An arctan function receives averaged accumulated values from the first and second DFT blocks and supplies first and second phase values used to calculate fractional timing.
US11638113B2
An audio signal output system including a first audio signal path, a second audio signal path and control electronics that provide a mixed sound from sound sources to the first and second audio signal paths, and control the mixed sound in accordance with a position at which a sound image associated with at least one of the sound sources is localized relative to an orientation of a user's head. The control electronics provide one or more signals corresponding to the mixed sound to the first and second audio signal paths based on one or more transfer functions associated with one or more values corresponding to at least one of a distance from the user to the at least one sound source, an angle of the user with respect to the at least one sound source, and a size of a space in which the user is located.
US11638112B2
An apparatus including circuitry configured for: obtaining at least one spatial audio signal including at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one spatial audio signal defines an audio scene forming at least in part an immersive media content; obtaining at least one augmentation control parameter associated with the spatial audio signal, wherein the at least one augmentation control parameter is configured to control at least in part a rendering of the audio scene; and transmitting/storing the at least one spatial audio signals and the at least one augmentation control parameter, the at least one spatial audio signal and the at least one augmentation control parameter being received/retrieved at a renderer so as to control at least in part rendering of the audio scene based on the at least one augmentation control parameter.
US11638111B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving a signal for each channel of an audio transducer array on a wearable device. The method may also include calculating a beamformed signal for each beam direction of a set of beamforming filters for the wearable device. Additionally, the method may include classifying a first beamformed signal from the calculated beamformed signals into a first class of sound and a second beamformed signal from the calculated beamformed signals into a second class of sound. The method may also include adjusting, based on the classifying, a gain of the first beamformed signal relative to the second beamformed signal. Furthermore, the method may include converting the beamformed signals into spatialized binaural audio based on a position of a user. Finally, the method may include transmitting the spatialized binaural audio to a playback device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11638110B1
Determination of a composite acoustic parameter value for a headset is presented herein. A directionally enhanced audio signal is generated based on audio signals from an acoustic sensor array and a spatial signal enhancement filter that is directed for enhancement of a sound source. A SNR improvement value is determined based on a SNR value of the directionally enhanced audio signal and a SNR value of an audio signal from an acoustic sensor of the acoustic sensor array. The SNR improvement value is input into a model that maps SNR improvement values to spatial acoustic parameters to determine a spatial acoustic parameter. A temporal acoustic parameter is determined based on the audio signals. The composite acoustic parameter value is determined based on the spatial acoustic parameter and a temporal acoustic parameter value. Audio content presented to a user is adjusted based in part on the composite acoustic parameter value.
US11638107B2
A hearing device and related methods are disclosed. The hearing device comprises a housing comprising a wall, a microphone inlet comprising a through-going opening, a microphone arranged within the housing for receiving audio via the microphone inlet, a first filter device comprising a first filter material, the first filter device being arranged at the microphone, and a second filter device substantially having the shape of a torus or a hollow cylinder and comprising a second filter material, the second filter device being arranged at the wall, wherein the first filter device is arranged between the microphone and the second filter device, and wherein the through-going opening comprises an outer recess in an outer surface of the wall, wherein the second filter device is arranged in the outer recess.
US11638095B2
A method for improving the effective signal-to-noise ratio (“SNR”) of an analog to digital converter (“ADC”) for active loudspeakers uses the two available channels of a stereo ADC to separately process the low- and high-frequency components of an audio signal. Because the power spectral density of music approximates a pink noise spectrum, the high-frequency component of the signal has peak levels low enough to avoid exceeding the maximum ADC input level. The audio signal is analog high-pass filtered and the resulting high-frequency signal component is sent directly to a first ADC channel without attenuation. The remaining low-frequency component is attenuated and sent to a second ADC channel. The digital signals are processed, converted back to analog, amplified, and reproduced by loudspeaker drivers. Noise and distortion at low frequencies is less audible than higher frequencies, so the improved SNR at higher frequencies yields a significant practical improvement in audio fidelity.
US11638091B2
An example method of operation may include initializing a microphone array in a defined space to receive one or more sound instances based on a preliminary beamform tracking configuration, detecting the one or more sound instances within the defined space via the microphone array, modifying the preliminary beamform tracking configuration, based on a location of the one or more sound instances, to create a modified beamform tracking configuration, and saving the modified beamform tracking configuration in a memory of a microphone array controller.
US11638078B2
There is described a switchable microphone device which may be switched between a digital output mode and an analog output mode. There is further described a system for use of such a device, which allows for the switching between analog and digital computing modes.
US11638076B2
A display device including: a display panel configured to display an image on a first surface thereof; a first sound generating device configured to provide a first sound; and a second sound generating device configured to provide a second sound, wherein the first sound generating device is attached to a second surface of the display panel, the second surface being opposite to the first surface, and wherein the first sound generating device is a vibration generating device configured to vibrate the display panel in accordance with a first sound signal to generate the first sound.
US11638075B2
One or more sensors are configured to contextualize a series of user generated movements to control one or more electronic devices. For example, a set of earphones comprises one or more sensors for sensing a location of the earphones. The one or more sensors enable earphones such as a pair of bluetooth or earphones wirelessly coupled to a bluetooth enabled electronic device, the capability to understand the configuration of use of the earphones. Based on a location and use or non-use of the earphones, one or more contextual responses is able to be applied for a given action. In addition, a garment comprises one or more sensors for sensing a motion of a user as the garment is being used. The one or more sensors allow the user to control one or more electronic devices through a series of user generated movements.
US11638066B2
A method and device for encapsulating media data into a media file and parsing a media file. The method comprising according to one of its aspects: including, in the media file, a first track comprising media samples, each media sample contains a set of one or more NAL units; including, in the media file, a second track comprising an extractor, the extractor is a structure referencing a data entity in a media sample contained in the first track; and including, in the extractor, a copy mode attribute that identifies, in the media sample, the referenced data entity relatively to one or more NAL units contained in the media sample.
US11638064B2
A media presentation and distribution system includes a verification server that handles dynamic verification of playback of media assets on a client device. The client device receives an asset stream of media assets that comprises one or more tags embedded in the media assets. The client device detects an asset identifier associated with each of the media assets during playback of each media asset on the client device, based on identification of a tag of the one or more tags. The verification server verifies the playback of the media assets on the client device based on received support information from the client device. The playback of the media assets are verified to satisfy defined asset delivery criteria and to identify and debug a deviation or one or more errors with the playback of the media assets.
US11638062B2
Systems and techniques are described for processing media content, such as samples of sparse media content whose sample durations can be unknown at the time of decoding the samples, include obtaining, at a current time instance, a current fragment comprising at least a current time component. From the current time component, a modified duration is obtained for at least one media sample, the modified duration indicating a time duration by which a presentation of a previous media sample of a previous fragment is to be extended or reduced in relation to the current time instance. The at least one media sample is presented for a time duration based on the modified duration.
US11638060B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a display; a communication circuit configured to communicate with an external apparatus; and a processor. The processor is configured to: transmit, to the external apparatus, a request to receive information on a screen which is currently displayed on the external apparatus, receive, from the external apparatus, a response corresponding to the request, based on the response, identify a number of contents displayed in the screen, based on identifying that a plurality of contents is displayed in the screen, display a UI on the display for selecting one among the plurality of contents, in response to a content, among the plurality of contents, being selected by a user input through the UI, transmit a signal indicating the selected content to the external apparatus, and receive, from the external apparatus, data corresponding to the content to display an image on the display.
US11638056B2
A method of session-based DASH operations can include receiving a media presentation description (MPD) referencing a session-based description (SBD) and indicating a key name during a media access session. The SBD includes a first repeating pattern element that includes a first sequence of timed key values of the key name. The first repeating pattern element indicates that the first sequence of the timed key values of the key name is relocated along a timeline or an orderline. A first key value of the key name corresponding to a timing or a segment number of a current segment of a sequence of segments can be determined based on the first repeating pattern element in the SBD. A request for the current segment can be transmitted to a media content server. The request includes a pair of the key name and the first key value.
US11638054B2
Multiple scheduling producers such as content management systems, advertisement systems, and emergency broadcast systems can independently send scheduling events to scheduling consumers such as streaming servers, guide generators, and playlogs. The scheduling consumers maintain state machines with persistent storage to process scheduling events from scheduling producers and output media channel playlists, channel guides, and/or content. Scheduling producers can contribute independently to define a channel playout while information at scheduling consumers remains synchronized.
US11638053B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify co-relationships between media using social media. An example apparatus includes an audience estimator to: estimate a first audience of first media based on a first set of media-exposure social media messages corresponding to client devices referencing the first media, and estimate a second audience of second media based on a second set of media-exposure social media messages corresponding to the client devices referencing the second media. The example apparatus also includes a pairing classifier to: determine a pairing-score for a media-pairing based on the first and second audiences and the first and second sets of media-exposure social media messages, determine a relationship threshold to apply to the media-pairing based on the first media and the second media, and classify the media-pairing based on the pairing-score and the relationship threshold to improve an accuracy of a system associated with generating audience analysis information.
US11638044B1
Systems and methods, to efficiently prepare for live and stored file content, implement one or more warm inputs, which actively ingest and demux content, but do not actively decode the content until an input switch is commanded. Each warm input can cache a most recent instantaneous decoder refresh and subsequent reference frames (I-frames and P-frames). Upon an input switch being commanded, the subject input commences decoding of such preserved frames. The formerly-warm input then acts as a hot input (decoding every frame) until the input switch completes. The use of warm inputs, which avoid the decoding stage, reduces computational resource use, allows preparation of all inputs by default, and permits metrics, status reports, and thumbnails to be generated regarding non-active inputs.
US11638036B2
An example device includes memory and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and communicatively coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive a first slice header syntax element for a slice of the video data and determine a first value for the first slice header syntax element, the first value being indicative of whether dependent quantization is enabled. The one or more processors are configured to receive a second slice header syntax element for the slice of the video data and determine a second value for the second slice header syntax element, the second value being indicative of whether sign data hiding is enabled. The one or more processors are configured to determine whether transform skip residual coding is disabled for the slice based on the first value and the second value and decode the slice based on the determinations.
US11638031B2
The present disclosure relates to a motion compensation method and module, a chip, an electronic device, and a storage medium, to improve the problem of haloes easily appearing on the edges of moving objects.
US11638026B2
A method of video processing is described. The method includes determining chroma weights used for determining a chroma prediction block of a chroma block of a current block of a video by blending predictions of the chroma block according to a rule, and performing a conversion between the current block and a coded representation of the video according to the determining, wherein the rule specifies that the chroma weights are determined from luma weights of a collocated luma block of the current block; wherein the current block is coded with a geometric partitioning mode.
US11638022B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video decoding. Processing circuitry of the apparatus can decode prediction information of a current block to be reconstructed from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information can be indicative of an inter prediction mode. The processing circuitry can add motion information of a previously decoded block to a candidate list for the current block as a new motion information candidate based on a comparison between a first hash value of the motion information of the previously decoded block and one or more hash values of motion information candidates in the candidate list. The processing circuitry can reconstruct at least one sample of the current block based on current motion information of the current block that is determined based on the candidate list.
US11638020B2
A device includes a first bitstream engine and a second bitstream engine. The first bitstream engine is configured to decode a first portion of a first video frame of a plurality of video frames to generate first decoded portion data. The first bitstream engine is also configured to generate synchronization information based on completion of decoding the first portion. The second bitstream engine is configured to, based on the synchronization information, initiate decoding of a second portion of a particular video frame to generate second decoded portion data. The second bitstream engine uses the first decoded portion data during decoding of the second portion of the particular video frame. The particular video frame includes the first video frame or a second video frame of the plurality of video frames.
US11638016B2
Approaches to selection of motion vector (“MV”) precision during video encoding are presented. These approaches can facilitate compression that is effective in terms of rate-distortion performance and/or computational efficiency. For example, a video encoder determines an MV precision for a unit of video from among multiple MV precisions, which include one or more fractional-sample MV precisions and integer-sample MV precision. The video encoder can identify a set of MV values having a fractional-sample MV precision, then select the MV precision for the unit based at least in part on prevalence of MV values (within the set) having a fractional part of zero. Or, the video encoder can perform rate-distortion analysis, where the rate-distortion analysis is biased towards the integer-sample MV precision. Or, the video encoder can collect information about the video and select the MV precision for the unit based at least in part on the collected information.
US11638015B2
Methods for determining a prediction value, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. Reconstructed values of neighboring samples of a current block are acquired, and then filtered to obtain a reference value set of the current block. When a size of the current block is smaller than a preset threshold value, a first constant value is calculated according to a bit depth value of a luma component of a sample in the current block. A difference between the first constant value and a first reference value in the reference value set is determined as a first prediction input value in a prediction input value set. Other prediction input values in the prediction input value set other than the first prediction input value are determined according to the reference value set. Prediction values of samples at specific positions in the current block is calculated and then filtered.
US11638004B2
A method of video processing is described. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, whether or how to reset reference sample values of a reference region of the video picture used for predicting the current video block according to a rule; and performing the conversion based on the determining.
US11638003B2
A video encoding method, a video decoding method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium include parsing a first flag from the video bitstream when a video bitstream is allowed to be decoded by referencing a library picture corresponding to a library picture bitstream, using a value of a target parameter of the video bitstream as a value of a target parameter of the library picture bitstream referenced by the video bitstream when a value of the first flag is a first value, and reconstructing, based on the value of the target parameter of the library picture bitstream referenced by the video bitstream and the library picture bitstream referenced by the video bitstream to obtain the library picture corresponding to the library picture bitstream referenced by the video bitstream.
US11637997B2
A projection apparatus executes a first processing and a second processing on image signal received from an external device, projects an image based on the image signal processed by an image processor, and switches an operation mode of the projection apparatus to a first mode, which is a low-latency mode for suppressing a delay in displaying an image, and a second mode, which is not the low-latency mode. The image processor maintains the first processing and stops the second processing in response that the operation mode of the projection apparatus is switched to the first mode from a state in which the operation mode is the second mode and the first processing and the second processing are executed.
US11637995B2
A 3 MOS camera includes a first prism that has a first reflection film which reflects IR light that causes a first image sensor to receive the IR light, a second prism that has a second reflection film which reflects A % (A: a predetermined real number) visible light and that causes a second image sensor to receive the A % visible light, a third prism that causes a third image sensor to receive a (100−A)% visible light, and a video signal processor that combines a first video signal, a second video signal, and a third video signal of an observation part. The video signal processor performs pixel shifting on one of the second video signal and the third video signal having substantially same brightness to generate a fourth video signal and outputs a video signal obtained by combining the fourth video signal and the first video signal.
US11637989B2
A conferencing system terminal device includes a display, an audio output, a user interface, a communication device, and one or more processors. The one or more processors present an audio difficulties user actuation target upon the display during an audio or video conference occurring across a network and concurrently with a presentation of conference content. Actuation of the audio difficulties user actuation target indicates that audio content associated with the audio or video conference being delivered by the audio output is impaired.
US11637985B2
In one example, a remote tuner module includes: a first tuner to receive, process and demodulate a first radio frequency (RF) signal to output an analog audio signal, and to receive and process a second RF signal to output a first downconverted modulated signal; a second tuner to receive and process the second RF signal to output a second downconverted modulated signal; a demodulator circuit coupled to the first and second tuners to demodulate and link the first and second modulated signals, to output a linked demodulated signal. The remote tuner module may further include a gateway circuit coupled to at least the demodulator circuit to output the analog audio signal and the linked demodulated signal.
US11637980B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array having a plurality of pixels; a row driver providing the pixel array with a boosting signal; and a read-out circuit configured to read out pixel signals output from pixels of a row line selected by the row driver. Each of the plurality of pixels includes: a first photodiode; a transmission transistor connected to the first photodiode; a first floating diffusion node, a second floating diffusion node, and a third floating diffusion node, which are connected to the transmission transistor to accumulate charges generated by the first photodiode; an LCG capacitor connected to the third floating diffusion node to accumulate the charges generated by the first photodiode; an MCG transistor connected between the first floating diffusion node and the second floating diffusion node; and an LCG transistor connected to the third floating diffusion node.
US11637969B2
An imaging device capable of increasing a dynamic range of an image while minimizing a decrease in image quality when capturing is performed under low illuminance. An imaging device includes: a first imaging element (103) having sensitivity to visible light and configured to output a first image signal (107); a second imaging element (104) having sensitivity to infrared light and configured to output a second image signal (108A) and a third image signal (108B) acquired under an exposure condition different from that of the second image signal (108A) at a second frame rate higher than a first frame rate of the first imaging element (103); and a combination processor configured to generate a combination including the first image signal (107) output from the first imaging element (103) and the second image signal (108A) and the third image signal (108B) output from the second imaging element (104) and generate a fourth image signal (109).
US11637962B2
An apparatus comprises a mount body by which the apparatus is secured to a structure. A camera assembly includes an image sensor adapted to capture images within its field of view. A lighting assembly houses one or more light sources including a directional light source. A control-board assembly, fixed to the mount body, houses control boards including one or more processors configured to acquire information about an object, to associate a location within the field of view of the image sensor with the object, to point light emitted by the directional light source at the location associated with the object by rotating the lighting assembly and turning the laser assembly, and, based on an image acquired from the camera assembly, to detect change within the field of view of the image sensor corresponding to placement or removal of the object.
US11637955B2
An image capturing device includes an image capturing unit capturing an image at a timing based on a first frame rate and outputs data corresponding to the image after a first period, an image data generation unit generating image data based on the output data and outputting the image data after a second period, a display unit displaying a display image based on the image data after the second period and at a timing based on a second frame rate, and a mode selecting unit selecting a first or second mode. The first mode prioritizes reduction in a display delay time. The second mode prioritizes image quality of the display image over reduction in the display delay time. A total period of the first and second periods is less than or equal to a first vertical synchronization period based on the first frame rate when the first mode is selected.
US11637952B2
A remote display system includes a screen display controller configured to perform a first screen switching process of switching a monitor screen to be displayed on a terminal display unit of a display terminal from a first monitor screen for displaying a first image range of a captured image by a robot camera to a second monitor screen for displaying a second image range different from the first image range of the captured image, in accordance with a predetermined screen switching condition.
US11637950B2
An image capturing apparatus, including an image capturing element and having an optical axis, includes a control circuit to control the image capturing apparatus, a display panel arranged on a rear surface side of an exterior member, and a heat dissipation fan arranged on a bottom surface side of the exterior member. An image capturing element board, a control circuit board, and the display panel are arranged in a direction of the optical axis. A duct, extending from a first ventilation hole to a second ventilation hole formed to face the first ventilation hole across the optical axis, passes through an area among the image capturing element board, the control circuit board, and the bottom surface side of the exterior member. The heat dissipation fan is arranged inside the duct arranged in the area, the control circuit board, and the bottom surface side of the exterior member.
US11637945B2
An image processing apparatus for inspection of a sheet on which a code image obtained by encoding predetermined information is printed includes: a first acquisition unit which acquires positional information indicating a position and a size of the code image in the sheet; a second acquisition unit which acquires a plurality of read images obtained by a plurality of reading units reading different portions of the sheet, respectively, wherein the read images become an image indicating the entire sheet by being combined; a determination unit which determines whether any one of the read images includes the entire code image based on the positional information; and an extraction unit which extracts the predetermined information by, in a case where there is a read image including the entire code image, reading the code image in that read image.
US11637944B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a generation unit configured to generate, based on print data, pieces of information to be used for generating intermediate data based on the print data, and store the pieces of information in an external storage device connected to the image processing apparatus, and a rendering unit configured to generate the intermediate data using the pieces of information, and generate a raster image by performing rendering based on the generated intermediate data.
US11637943B2
An image reading apparatus includes a housing; a transparent plate that is provided in an opening formed in an upper part of the housing and on which an original is placed; an image reading unit that is disposed inside the housing and that scans in a main scanning direction while moving in a sub-scanning direction to read an image of the original placed on the transparent plate; a flexible flat cable having one end that is connected to a control board on which an electronic component that is configured to process the image read by the image reading unit is mounted and the other end that is connected to the image reading unit, the flexible flat cable being configured to electrically connect the image reading unit and the control board, the flexible flat cable being disposed such that a width direction of the flexible flat cable crosses a surface of the transparent plate, the flexible flat cable being partially fixed to a side wall of the housing facing the image reading unit in the main scanning direction; and a holding portion configured to hold a part of the flexible flat cable, the holding portion holding the part between a part fixed to the side wall and the other end, of the flexible flat cable, the holding portion being formed on an end face of the image reading unit in the sub-scanning direction, wherein the holding portion holds the flexible flat cable such that a distance in the main scanning direction between a position at which the holding portion holds a lower end of the flexible flat cable in the width direction and the side wall is longer than a distance in the main scanning direction between a position at which the holding portion holds an upper end of the flexible flat cable in the width direction and the side wall.
US11637941B2
An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive paper information on a type of paper on which an image is formed; acquire assist information about assistance to supply the paper by supplying gas to the paper and adjustment information about positioning of the paper after assistance to supply the paper is performed, the assist information and the adjustment information corresponding to the received paper information and relating to transport of the paper; and perform control for storing the paper information, the assist information, and the adjustment information in association with one another into a memory.
US11637931B2
The distribution of incoming queries to a customer interaction center agent group is parallel processed amongst agents of that group to improve queue wait times. A threshold number of queries that may be processed by agent devices associated with the agent group at a given time are defined based on a number of agents of the agent group that are available at the given time. In response to determining that the number of queries is satisfies the threshold number of queries based on the number of agents that are available at a current time, a number of queries awaiting processing are distributed to one or more agent devices of the agent group. The threshold number of queries may be based on half of the number of agents that are available at the given time.
US11637924B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for setting a shared ringtone for calls between users. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first device associated with a first user, selection of a ringtone for use with the first device and a second device associated with a second user, the first user and the second user corresponding to contacts in a messaging application; and saving, in response to the receiving, a ringtone setting that is shared by the first user and the second user, the ringtone setting indicating to use the ringtone for a call between the first device and the second device.
US11637922B2
A device occupation method includes a first device that obtains information related to the first device or information related to a second device, where the second device occupies a first to-be-occupied device, and the first device prepares to occupy the first to-be-occupied device, and occupying, by the first device, the first to-be-occupied device when the information matches.
US11637919B2
A portable electronic device includes a housing member defining a first portion of an exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a first portion of an exterior rear surface of the portable electronic device, at least a portion of an exterior side surface of the portable electronic device, a recess along an interior side of the housing member, and a ledge feature along the interior side of the housing member. The device also includes a top module coupled to the housing member and including a front cover defining a second portion of the exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a display stack attached to the front cover, and a frame member extending at least partially around a periphery of the display stack and set apart from a surface of the recess by a gap.
US11637917B2
An example embodiment may involve a network interface configured to transmit and receive frames. The embodiment may also involve a network protocol stack configured to: (i) perform encapsulation of outgoing messages into outgoing frames for transmission by way of the network interface, or (ii) perform decapsulation of incoming frames received by way of the network interface into incoming messages. The embodiment may also involve a parsing and validation module configured to: (i) receive representations of the incoming or the outgoing messages, and (ii) perform one or more validation checks on the representations, wherein the representations define transactions that are functionally equivalent to corresponding transactions that are defined by the messages, wherein the one or more validation checks are performed in parallel to performance of the encapsulation or decapsulation, and wherein a representation of a message failing the one or more validation checks causes the message to be discarded.
US11637912B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses may provide for the intermediated retrieval of applications on a network. A computing device may be configured to receive an application from an application server on a network. Based on, for example, the network conditions between the computing device and the application server, the computing device may query a plurality of intermediary servers. Based on a decision that, for example, the network conditions between the computing device, application server, and a selected intermediary server are better than the network conditions between the computing device and the application server, the computing device may cause the application to be retrieved by a host application of the selected intermediary server. The host application may process and transmit the application to the computing device. The computing device may display the processed application and transmit user input corresponding to the processed application to the intermediary server.
US11637908B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are provided for managing an application context-based concentration mode. Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an improved group-based communication system, apparatus, method, and computer program products for managing a concentration mode associated with a group-based communication application. Specifically, embodiments are provided for setting (such as by activating and/or deactivating, as appropriate) a concentration mode associated with the group-based communication application to reflect a concentration mode status. In some embodiments, the concentration mode status is set to modify a rendering of at least one user interface associated with the group-based communication application.
US11637900B1
A method for facilitating uses of a code for vehicle experiences includes receiving code data from the code in a sign. The sign is disposed outside a host vehicle. The method further includes establishing a connection with a service using the code data obtained from the code and in response to establishing the connection with the service, receiving service data. The service data includes information about the service. The method further includes, in response to receiving the service data, controlling the host vehicle according to the service data received after establishing the connection with the service.
US11637898B2
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for collecting, maintaining, and retrieving use and limit data for connected resources, as well as determining an optimal location for creating a new volume (or volumes) on a storage platform and placing the volume at the determined location. A resource tracker collects resource use and/or limits data and stores it in a database. A volume placement service receives a volume deployment specification having constraints for creating a new volume. The volume placement service retrieves the data from the database. The volume placement service identifies an optimal location for the volume based at least in part on given constraints from the specification and the resource usage data. The system places the requested volume at the determined location.
US11637892B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for distributing virtual visual content, including: sending a first content portion in virtual visual content to be interacted in user equipment to a plurality of edge devices; selecting at least one edge device from the plurality of edge devices; and sending a second content portion in the virtual visual content to the selected at least one edge device, the second content portion having a higher change rate than the first content portion in the interaction. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a portion of virtual visual content can be distributed to selected edge devices in advance, and there is no need to distribute the virtual visual content to all edge devices, thereby saving network burden, reducing bandwidth requirements, and improving distribution efficiency.
US11637887B2
A method and apparatus generate and process transport packets. A method of processing a transport packet at receiving entity includes identifying, in response to receiving the transport packet, a payload type based on a field indicating the payload type in a packet header for the transport packet. The method also includes identifying, in response to identifying that the payload type is a streaming mode payload type, a delivery data unit type of DU data in the transport packet based on a field indicating the delivery data unit type in a streaming mode payload header for the DU data. Additionally, the method includes processing the DU data according to the identified delivery data unit type.
US11637883B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11637871B2
User equipment (UE) and a network node may establish data radio bearers (DRBs) for wireless communication of user plane data. For each DRB, the UE and network node may signal static integrity protection for the user plane data during set-up of the DRB. When the DRB has static integrity protection, integrity protection is applied to the user plane data for a duration of the DRB.
US11637868B2
Attestation support in cloud computing environments is described. An example of an apparatus includes one or more processors to process data, including data related to hosting of workloads for one or more tenants; an orchestration element to receive a request for support of a workload of a tenant according to a selected membership policy, the orchestration element to select a set of one or more compute nodes to provide computation for the workload; and a security manager to receive the membership policy and to receive attestations from the selected compute nodes and, upon determining that the attestations meet the requirements of the membership policy, to add the one or more compute nodes to a group of compute nodes to provide computation for the workload.
US11637862B1
Techniques for performing cyber-security alert analysis and prioritization according to machine learning employing a predictive model to implement a self-learning feedback loop. The system implements a method generating the predictive model associated with alert classifications and/or actions which automatically generated, or manually selected by cyber-security analysts. The predictive model is used to determine a priority for display to the cyber-security analyst and to obtain the input of the cyber-security analyst to improve the predictive model. Thereby the method implements a self-learning feedback loop to receive cyber-security alerts and mitigate the cyberthreats represented in the cybersecurity alerts.
US11637858B2
Features are extracted from an artifact so that a vector can be populated. The vector is then inputted into an anomaly detection model comprising a deep generative model to generate a first score. The first score can characterize the artifact as being malicious or benign to access, execute, or continue to execute. In addition, the vector is inputted into a machine learning-based classification model to generate a second score. The second score can also characterize the artifact as being malicious or benign to access, execute, or continue to execute. The second score is then modified based on the first score to result in a final score. The final score can then be provided to a consuming application or process. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11637855B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for securing cloud infrastructure, including a method comprising: establishing a trusted relationship between a source account in a cloud environment and a scanner account, using the established trust relationship, utilizing at least one cloud provider API to identify workloads in the source account, using the at least one cloud provider API to query a geographical location of at least one of the identified workloads, receiving an identification of the geographic location, using the cloud provider APIs to access block storage volumes of the at least one workload, determining a file-system of the at least one workload, mounting the block storage volumes on a scanner based on the determined file-system, activating a scanner at the geographic location, reconstructing from the block storage volumes a state of the workload, and assessing the reconstructed state of the workload to extract insights.
US11637844B2
In certain embodiments, a security system is provided to receive activity data associated with a first source. The security system may scan the activity data to determine if there are one or more actions of interest associated with a first user account in the activity data. The security system may retrieve, from memory, security rules associated with the first cloud-based service and/or an organization associated the first user account. The security system may compare the actions of interest associated with the first user account to the security rules to determine if there are one or more security violations. In certain embodiments, the security system may retrieve additional activity data from a second source. The security system may scan the additional activity data to determine if there are one or more actions of interest associated with the second user account in the additional activity data.
US11637843B2
Presented herein are methodologies for implementing a system and apparatus to estimate a network disruption index and undertake a mitigation action accordingly. A method includes calculating a network disruption index based on at least a disruption score associated with a service request measure, an end-of-life measure, a security incident response measure and a return material authorization measure for respective hardware devices in a network, comparing the network disruption index to a predetermined threshold, and when the network disruption index is above the predetermined threshold, identifying one or more of the hardware devices in the network for a mitigation action and implementing the mitigation action.
US11637841B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to reporting for network events within a computer network. A computer system may access a set of data corresponding to a particular network event within a computer network, where the set of data includes captured attributes of the particular network event. The computer system may then calculate, using the set of data, a security score indicative of suspiciousness of the event and an actionability score that is based on an extent to which of a particular group of attributes are missing from the set of data. The computer system may determine, based on the two scores, a combined score for the event. The computer system may then report a notification for the event, based on the combined score. Such techniques may decrease a number of reported events for a network, which may advantageously allow resources to be focused on a smaller set of events.
US11637829B2
Systems, methods, and media for authentication are provided. In accordance with some implementations, the system comprises: a hardware processor that is programmed to: receive, from a device, a message relating to an authentication status of a user account associated with the device; transmit an authentication request to the device that is transmitted to an authentication server; receive, from the device, a response to the authentication request that includes authentication data relating to a session corresponding to the user account on the authentication server; cause an interface to be presented that requests authorization to authenticate the device with the authentication server using the user account; and transmit the authentication data to the device that causes the device to retrieve a corresponding authentication token from the authentication server, wherein the corresponding authentication token authenticates the user account on the device.
US11637827B2
The techniques herein are directed generally to providing access control and identity verification for communications when receiving a communication at an entity to be verified. In one embodiment, a receiving device receives a communication from an initiating device on a communication channel, wherein the initiating device is configured to determine whether an identity associated with the receiving device is verified by a verification service. The receiving device verifies the identity through a verification service client application on the receiving device, and conveys, to the verification service over a verification channel, that the identity associated with the receiving device is verified, wherein the verification service is caused to convey, to the initiating device over the verification channel, that the identity is verified. The communication then continues with the initiating device on the communication channel, wherein the initiating device manages the communication according to the identity being verified.
US11637820B2
Techniques are described for providing customizable sign-on functionality, such as via an access manager system that provides single sign-on functionality and other functionality to other services for use with those services' users. The access manager system may maintain various sign-on and other account information for various users, and provide single sign-on functionality for those users using that maintained information on behalf of multiple unrelated services with which those users interact. The access manager may allow a variety of types of customizations to single sign-on functionality and/or other functionality available from the access manager, such as on a per-service basis via configuration by an operator of the service, such as co-branding customizations, customizations of information to be gathered from users, customizations of authority that may be delegated to other services to act on behalf of users, etc., and with the customizations that are available being determined specifically for that service.
US11637817B2
A coordinating network element manages a protocol that prohibits the coordinating network element from substantively accessing data content that, at least in part, underlies received protocol-compliant requests. By one approach, these teachings provide for preventing substantive access to data information that is included within the protocol-compliant request in tokenized form, wherein the tokens are generated using secrets, at least one of which is unavailable to the coordinating network element.
US11637812B2
Methods for dynamic forward proxy chaining are performed by systems and devices. A forward proxy server receives an electronic communication message that includes destination information in a header and payload information. Destination information includes an ordered set of subsequent destination identifiers associated with subsequent forward proxy servers and an ultimate destination identifier for the electronic communication message. The destination information in the electronic communication message is modified by the forward proxy server to generate a modified electronic communication message. Based on proxy operations performed by the forward proxy server, destination information is modified by removing destinations, adding destinations, altering ports for destinations, and other modifications. The forward proxy server establishes an electronic connection with a next destination based on the destination information or the modified destination information, and the modified electronic communication message is provided to the next destination by the forward proxy server via the electronic connection.
US11637809B2
A system and method are provided for a network device for use with a client device having a hostname and a MAC address. The network device contains a memory that has a second hostname and a second MAC address stored within the memory. The second MAC address corresponds to the second hostname. The memory also contains a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the network device to: receive, from the client device, the hostname and the MAC address; determine whether the MAC address is randomized; provide an instruction to the client device to inform a user of the client device that the client device hostname is registered when the hostname matches the second hostname and the MAC address is randomized.
US11637805B2
A method of discovering addressing information of one or more upstream devices to respond to specific messages by a second device on behalf of the one or more upstream devices in a network includes acquiring the addressing information in an upstream direction from one or more downstream devices to the one or more upstream devices. The method further includes acquiring the addressing information in a downstream direction from the one or more upstream devices to the one or more downstream devices. The method further includes responding to specific messages using the acquired addressing information about the one or more upstream devices.
US11637797B2
Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system receives a content message from a first content source, and analyzes the content message to determine one or more quality scores and one or more content values associated with the content message. The server computer system analyzes the content message with a plurality of content collections of the database to identify a match between at least one of the one or more content values and a topic associated with at least a first content collection of the one or more content collections and automatically adds the content message to the first content collection based at least in part on the match. In various embodiments, different content values, image processing operations, and content selection operations are used to curate content collections.
US11637796B2
Technology is disclosed for feeding source images from image stores of client systems into an image processing system using image feeding servers (“the technology”). The technology includes multiple image feeding servers that can feed a source image to the image processing system, using which the image processing system can generate processed images to be served to end users. The image feeding servers can be installed at various locations, e.g., geographically spread, and more proximate to where the source images are stored. An image feeding server obtains the source image from the image store in original size, downsizes the source image, and transmits the downsized source image to the image processing system. The technology selects an image feeding server based on a score of the image feeding server. The score can be determined as a function of one or more image feeding server parameters, e.g., latency, workload, or computing resource.
US11637795B1
Techniques for templated messages are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a templated-message package at a client, the templated-message package comprising a message-template identifier and one or more parameters; retrieve a message template based on the message-template identifier; and generate a templated message based on the retrieved message template and the one or more parameters; and a user interface component operative to display the templated message in the client. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11637792B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for efficiently and dynamically integrating a chatbot into an application service. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods that dynamically build custom components that enable the chatbot to communicate and facilitate the use of the application service directly from the chatbot application. Accordingly, the systems and methods described herein provide the benefit of integrating the chatbot application into an application service without having the application developer write code for the integration, thereby enhancing the computational efficiency of the integration and the reliability of the application service when new services or service functionality are added or modified.
US11637786B1
When a measure of buffer space queued for garbage collection in a network device grows beyond a certain threshold, one or more actions are taken to decreasing an enqueue rate of certain classes of traffic, such as of multicast traffic, whose reception may have caused and/or be likely to exacerbate garbage-collection-related performance issues. When the amount of buffer space queued for garbage collection shrinks to an acceptable level, these one or more actions may be reversed. In an embodiment, to more optimally handle multi-destination traffic, queue admission control logic for high-priority multi-destination data units, such as mirrored traffic, may be performed for each destination of the data units prior to linking the data units to a replication queue. If a high-priority multi-destination data unit is admitted to any queue, the high-priority multi-destination data unit can no longer be dropped, and is linked to a replication queue for replication.
US11637784B2
A mechanism is provided to maximize utilization of internal memory for packet queuing in network devices, while providing an effective use of both internal and external memory to achieve high performance, high buffering scalability, and minimizing power utilization. Embodiments initially store packet data received by the network device in queues supported by an internal memory. If internal memory utilization crosses a predetermined threshold, a background task performs memory reclamation by determining those queued packets that should be targeted for transfer to an external memory. Those selected queued packets are transferred to external memory and the internal memory is freed. Once the internal memory consumption drops below a threshold, the reclamation task stops.
US11637782B2
At this time, a communication line load transmission interval deciding unit selects a transmission interval from the load of the bus. An instrument load transmission interval deciding unit selects a transmission interval from the processing loads of at least one of the vehicle on-board instrument and the gateway. A delivery control unit compares the transmission interval selected by the communication line load transmission interval deciding unit with the transmission interval selected by the instrument load transmission interval deciding unit, and performs control so that the divided updating data is delivered at transmission intervals which are equal to or greater than the longer of these transmission intervals.
US11637778B2
A switch is provided for routing packets in an interconnection network. The switch includes a plurality of egress ports to transmit packets. The switch also includes one or more ingress ports to receive packets. The switch also includes a port and bandwidth capacity circuit configured to obtain (i) port capacity for a plurality of egress ports of the switch, and (ii) bandwidth capacity for transmitting packets to a destination. The switch also includes a network capacity circuit configured to compute network capacity, for transmitting packets to the destination, via the plurality of egress ports, based on a function of the port capacity and the bandwidth capacity. The switch also includes a routing circuit configured to route one or more packets received via one or more ingress ports of the switch, to the destination, via the plurality of egress ports, based on the network capacity.
US11637775B2
A packet can be sent on a VLAN from a first machine that has a first address on the VLAN to a second machine that has a second address on the VLAN and that is located at a remote location associated with a remote location identifier. A network appliance can use the second address to determine the remote location identifier, can encapsulate the packet in a local segment packet that includes a local VNID and the remote location identifier; and can send the local segment packet to a local router. The local router can use the remote location identifier and the local VNID to determine a remote router and a remote VNID, can encapsulate the packet in an outer packet, which can be a VxLAN packet, that includes the remote VNID, and can send the outer packet to the remote router.
US11637764B2
A method of an abnormality detection, the method including: calculating an occurrence degree of a packet loss in each of multiple queues on the basis of a first time period in which each of multiple processes that receives a packet is in a waiting state and an arrival frequency of a packet in each of the multiple queues that stores the packets received by the multiple processes; distributing the number of packet losses occurred in a communication device that includes the multiple queues to each of the multiple queues on the basis of the calculated occurrence degree; and determining whether or not an abnormality occurs in each of the multiple processes on the basis of a correspondence relationship between an operation state of each process and the number of packet losses distributed to the queue that corresponds to each process among the multiple queues for each of the multiple processes.
US11637763B2
Systems and methods are contemplated for reconfiguration of one or more MAC instances while the WTRU is operating using dual- or multi-MAC instance connectivity. For example, upon reception of RRC reconfiguration information that modifies one or more secondary MAC instances, the WTRU may transmit a reconfiguration complete message to a Macro eNB (MeNB) and may synchronize to small-cell or secondary eNB (SeNB), for example if triggered by one or more of an RRC flag, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order (MeNB/SeNB), MAC activation information, etc. For example, the WTRU may synchronize to the SeNB for specific type(s) of RRC reconfigurations, but not other type(s) of RRC reconfigurations. Although examples may be described in terms of dual connectivity, the WTRU may establish connectivity and perform mobility procedures with more than two radio access network (RAN) nodes (e.g., eNBs), and the embodiments described may be equally applicable to those scenarios.
US11637757B2
An optical network including a plurality of gateway nodes interconnected with a plurality of intermediate nodes with segments of fiber. The network includes a plurality of devices, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexers, optimally placed at various nodes throughout the network. The device placement is optimized with an integer linear programming analysis considering span definition such that any given span involves some number of segments not exceeding a number of segments that would require wavelength regeneration, cost of placement of a device at a given node, cost of wavelength regeneration, and various parameters and constraints.
US11637755B2
A software defined network (SDN) system, controller, and controlling method, where the SDN system includes at least one Nth level controller and at least two (N+1)th level controllers belonging to the Nth level controller, where the (N+1)th level controller is configured to receive a first message sent by a node belonging to the (N+1)th level controller, and when the first message is a cross-domain message according to status information of each node that is managed by the (N+1)th level controller, forward the first message to the Nth level controller to which the (N+1)th level controller belongs, and the Nth level controller receives the first message, and perform decision processing according to status information of the (N+1)th level controller that is managed by and belongs to the Nth level controller and status information of boundary nodes of the (N+1)th level controller belonging to the Nth level controller.
US11637747B2
A wearable electronic device includes: an input module configured to receive a user manipulation for changing a configuration setting value of a main electronic device; and a communication module configured to transmit a control signal for changing a configuration setting value to the main electronic device.
US11637743B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves at a communications device, receiving a request for changing a network parameter of the communications device and at the communications device, granting or denying the request based on link status information that is stored in the communications device, where the link status information specifies a link failure status of a communications link within a wired communications network that involves the communication device.
US11637740B2
A method for automated root cause analysis in mobile radio access networks, including: determining mobile radio access network data (e.g., RAN data); detecting an anomaly for a set of user sessions and/or cells from the RAN data; and classifying the detected anomalies using a set of root cause classifiers.
US11637738B2
A partitioned virtual space supports logical networking of IoT devices. Agents of the devices are assigned to interest-based cells in a virtual space, and can travel among the cells. Within the cells, pairs of devices are tested for similarity, based on device profiles, and for detected affinity. Agents of devices having affinity are connected in a logical network. Some attributes can be based on a personality model and can reflect the personality of a user or other principal associated with a device. Such attributes can influence requests for affinity testing, calculation of similarity, and further behavioral effects incorporated in affinity determination. Evaluation of recommendations can lead to updating of similarity scores or changes in affinity determination. Disclosed embodiments provide scalable, distributed, autonomous, and unsupervised device-to-device connectivity, free of prior constraints. Embodiments can be implemented in the cloud, with privacy protection.
US11637730B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication networks having a capability of controlling the mapping of reference signals onto a carrier based on one or more Doppler parameters. A demodulation reference signal (DMRS) is mapped to a carrier according to a pattern based on one or more Doppler parameters, such as a Doppler frequency and/or a rate of change of channel conditions. In a further example, if an initial transmission of an information packet fails due to a high Doppler scenario, the probability of success of the retransmission may be improved by altering the DMRS configuration to account for the high Doppler scenario. Other aspects, examples, and features are also claimed and described.
US11637723B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some systems (e.g., Wi-Fi systems), a transmitting device such as an access point (AP) or mobile station (STA), may identify a number of spatial streams for a data transmission that is less than a number of transmit antennas, and may transmit a packet over a channel. In a first implementation, the packet may be formatted in a multi-user frame format, with a number of long training field (LTF) symbols equal to the number of transmit antennas. In a second implementation, the packet may be a null data packet (NDP), and the device may transmit a separate data packet. In a third implementation, the packet may be formatted in single-user frame format with a modified LTF. A receiving device may receive the packet, and may perform channel estimation and power amplifier (PA) distortion cancellation based on the received packet.
US11637722B2
Provided are methods for determining a transmission parameter of an uplink signal, a terminal and a network device. The method includes that: a terminal determines a first SRS resource set receives, from a network device, first indication information which is for instructing the terminal to transmit an aperiodic SRS, determines a target SRS resource set according to the first indication information and the first SRS resource set, sends the aperiodic SRS to the network device on an SRS resource in the target SRS resource set, receives, from the network device, second indication information which is for indicating a target SRS resource in the target SRS resource set; and the terminal determines a transmission parameter used to transmit an uplink signal according to the target SRS resource.
US11637717B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling a command input device. The method includes: sensing contact between a home appliance and the command input device; based on sensing the contact between the home appliance and the command input device, determining the home appliance as a target home appliance to be controlled by the command input device; and based on the determination of the home appliance as the target home appliance to be controlled by the command input device, activating a remote controller provided by the command input device and configured to control the target home appliance.
US11637712B2
An electronic device provided includes a communication module, an external module, and a signal integration circuit including first to fourth input ports, and first and second output ports. The first input port is for inputting an input signal. The second input port is for inputting a first L1 band signal. The third input port is for inputting a first L5 band signal. The fourth input port is for inputting a second L1 band signal and a second L5 band signal. The first output port selectively outputs a first output signal and a second output signal. The second output port selectively outputs the first L5 band signal and the second L5 band signal. When the fourth input port is not coupled to an external module, the first output port outputs the first output signal, and the second output port outputs the first L5 band signal.
US11637709B2
An approach is disclosed for running a first smart contract on a first blockchain platform restricting access to a client's funds appropriated to a second smart contract running on a second blockchain platform. A transaction is received by invoking the first smart contract authorizing the second smart contract. In response to receiving an indication of a successful completion of the first smart contract, a plurality of client's authorization tickets are sent to the second smart contract. The invoked smart contract receives the set of authorization information and records the set of authorization information. After receiving a set of authenticated authorization tickets exceeding a predetermined threshold, the funds are released.
US11637702B2
Techniques for verifiable computation for cross-domain information sharing are disclosed. An untrusted node in a distributed cross-domain solution (CDS) system is configured to: receive a first data item and a first cryptographic proof associated with the first data item; perform a computation on the first data item including one or more of filtering, sanitizing, or validating the first data item, to obtain a second data item; generate, using a proof-carrying data (PCD) computation, a second cryptographic proof that indicates (a) validity of the first cryptographic proof and (b) integrity of the first computation on the first data item; and transmits the second data item and the second cryptographic proof to a recipient node in the distributed CDS system. Alternatively or additionally, the untrusted node may be configured to transmit a cryptographic proof to a trusted aggregator in the CDS system.
US11637699B2
There is provided a technique of establishing encryption keys for communication between 1st peer and 2nd peer via a data path. The technique comprises: by each peer, using input keying material to independently generate equivalent pairs of peer encryption keys (PEKs), verifying equivalence of the generated PEK pairs, and using by 1st peer and 2nd peer the verified PEK pairs to become in possession of equivalent pairs of session encryption keys (SEKs). Verifying comprises: generating by 1st peer a first handshake (HS) message encrypted by PEK Tx1 and sending the first HS message to the 2nd peer via the data path; decrypting by the 2nd peer the first HS message using the PEK Rx2, generating a second HS message encrypted by PEK Tx2, and sending the second HS message to the 1st peer via the data path; and decrypting the second HS message by the 1st peer using PEK Rx1.
US11637697B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of digitally signing input by a data processing (DP) accelerator operation, and embedding the digitally signed input into an output, includes receiving, from a host device, a signature kernel specifying input to the signature kernel and executing the signature kernel to: extract a watermark from the input and obtain a hash for the watermark; generate output from the input; and embed the hash into the output. The DP accelerator provides the output to the host device. In an embodiment, the input includes an artificial intelligence (AI) model that is executed by the DP accelerator. The DP accelerator receives second input from the host, thereby producing an inference output from the AI model. The digitally signed watermark of the AI Model is embedded into the inference output and is provided to the host device.
US11637693B2
In some embodiments, the present description provides a distributed blockchain ledger system that includes at least: a first distributed blockchain ledger, configured to storing first cryptographically-secured data representative of a plurality of tokenized assets; a second distributed blockchain ledger, configured to storing second cryptographically-secured data representative of a plurality of transactions related to the plurality of tokenized assets; and a plurality of smart contracts that is configured to self-execute to at least: store the first cryptographically-secured data on the first distributed blockchain ledger, store the second cryptographically-secured data on the second distributed blockchain ledger, and maintain a plurality of digital associations between the first cryptographically-secured data of the first distributed blockchain ledger and the second cryptographically-secured data of the second distributed blockchain ledger.
US11637682B2
An apparatus is provided for converting the form in which a synchronisation request for a barrier synchronisation is provided. The synchronisation request is provided from a first synchronisation circuitry to a second synchronisation circuitry by asserting one of a set of separate signals that may each correspond to a bit in a register or a signal on a wire. The second synchronisation circuitry provides for the packetisation of the sync request by sending a packet comprising the sync request over a network to be received at a further subsystem.
US11637668B2
Provided are a signal transmission method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. The method includes generating a second narrowband positioning reference signal sequence according to a system frame number (SFN); obtaining a second narrowband positioning reference signal according to the second narrowband positioning reference signal sequence; and transmitting a first narrowband positioning reference signal on a first radio frame set, and transmitting the second narrowband positioning reference signal on a second radio frame set.
US11637658B2
A wireless device receives a downlink control information indicating an assignment for a TB or release of a SPS configuration. The TB or the SPS configuration may be associated with a first priority or a second priority. The wireless device may transmit a feedback via an unlicensed cell. Transmitting the feedback may be based on a first value of an unlicensed parameter in response to the TB or the SPS configuration being associated with the first priority. Transmitting the feedback may be based on a second value of the unlicensed parameter in response to the TB or the SPS configuration being associated with the second priority.
US11637652B2
Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding a downlink control channel transmission, such as but not exclusively a High Speed Signalling Control Channel, HS-SCCH, transmission, in a wireless communications network. A method in a network node for encoding a downlink control channel transmission, comprises determining that channel conditions are below a threshold level, and in response to determining that channel conditions are below the threshold level, performing at least one of: encoding one or more predetermined control information bits into the downlink control channel transmission, and encoding a reduced number of control information bits into the downlink control channel transmission by omitting one or more control information bits, wherein the one or more omitted control information bits are predetermined control information bits. The method further comprises transmitting the downlink control channel transmission to a user equipment. A method in a user equipment for decoding a downlink control channel transmission, comprises receiving the downlink control channel transmission, and decoding the downlink control channel transmission based on knowledge of the predetermined control information bits.
US11637649B2
As 5G, and especially 6G, push into ever-higher frequencies, phase noise presents an increasing problem. Disclosed are procedures and modulation schemes to mitigate phase noise and permit messaging at higher frequencies. Each modulation scheme provides phase-noise immunity by configuring modulation states with large phase acceptance regions. A message element is faulted if its sum-signal amplitude or phase is in an exclusion zone. Modulation schemes with fewer phase levels, more amplitude levels, and very broad phase acceptance regions are necessary for high frequency operation where phase noise dominates. Using allowed states with the maximum amplitude modulation in both branches can provide nearly 90-degree phase acceptance. Requiring that the two branches be equal provides nearly 180-degree phase acceptance. Further requiring that the amplitude levels be positive can provide total phase-noise immunity, with a 360-degree allowable phase range. Embodiments can thereby enable high frequency communication despite phase noise.
US11637646B2
Coherent optical multiplexing 1+1 protection disclosed herein uses multiplexers, each having multiplexing and demultiplexing sub-units. Relay ports of a node are connected with the multiplexers, and each relay port is configured to input and output optical signals with the corresponding multiplexer. Two transmission ports of the node are connected with disjoint paths and are configured to input and output optical signals therewith. The node includes: a first optical splitter having input ports connected with the relay ports and two output ports connected with the two transmission ports; an optical switch connected with the transmission ports respectively via two input interfaces; a second optical splitter, which is a 1×N optical splitter, having one input port connected with an output interface of the optical switch and having output ports connected with the relay ports. The solution is reliable in implementation, has low insertion loss, and has good transmission performance.
