US11641787B2
The present disclosure provides a self-rectifying resistive memory, including: a lower electrode; a resistive material layer formed on the lower electrode and used as a storage medium; a barrier layer formed on the resistive material layer and using a semiconductor material or an insulating material; and an upper electrode formed on the barrier layer to achieve Schottky contact with the material of the barrier layer; wherein, the Schottky contact between the upper electrode and the material of the barrier layer is used to realize self-rectification of the self-rectifying resistive memory. Thus, no additional gate transistor or diode is required as the gate unit. In addition, because the device has self-rectifying characteristics, it is capable of suppressing read crosstalk in the cross-array.
US11641773B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1A: wherein, in Formula 1A, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US11641772B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first substrate portion including a first area, a second substrate portion including a second area, and a bending area between the first substrate portion and the second substrate portion, the substrate being bendable around a bending axis that extends in a first direction, an encapsulation portion over the first substrate portion, an intermediate wiring including a first intermediate wiring portion in the first area and a second intermediate wiring portion in the second area, and a connection wiring including at least a portion in the bending area and connecting the first intermediate wiring portion to the second intermediate wiring portion.
US11641770B2
A display panel is provided. At least two of each of first pixels, each of second pixels, and each of third pixels of the display panel are alternately arranged. A shape of each of first pixels includes an ellipse or a circle. A shape of an edge of each of the second pixels or each of the third pixels corresponds to a concave arc. A sum of a radius of curvature of an edge of each of the first pixels and a width of a predetermined gap is equal to a radius of curvature of the concave arc corresponding to the edge of one of each of the second pixels and each of the third pixels. An aperture ratio of a pixel is effectively increased.
US11641767B2
A display device includes: a substrate comprising a first layer and a second layer; a first display area including a first pixel area on the substrate; a second display area including a second pixel area and a transparent area adjacent to each other on the substrate; and a blocking layer disposed in the second pixel area of the second display area, and disposed between a first layer and a second layer of the substrate in a side view, and the blocking layer including a metal blocks light.
US11641751B2
A photoelectric conversion device in an embodiment includes a first photoelectric conversion part including a first transparent electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer, and a first counter electrode and a second photoelectric conversion part including a second transparent electrode, a second photoelectric conversion layer, and a second counter electrode, the first photoelectric conversion part and the second photoelectric conversion part being provided on a transparent substrate. The first counter electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically connected by a connection part. As for the first photoelectric conversion layer and the second photoelectric conversion layer, adjacent portions of the adjacent first and second photoelectric conversion layers are electrically separated by an inactive region having electrical resistance higher than that of the first and second photoelectric conversion layers.
US11641745B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor devices may have a non-volatile memory (NVM) transistor including a charge-trapping layer and a blocking dielectric, a field-effect transistor (FET) of a first type including a first gate dielectric having a first thickness, a FET of a second type including a second gate dielectric having a second thickness, and a FET of a third type including a third gate dielectric having a third thickness. In some embodiments, the first, second, and third gate dielectric includes a high dielectric constant (high-K) dielectric layer, and the first thickness is greater than the second thickness, the second thickness is greater than the third thickness. Other embodiments are also described.
US11641743B2
Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device includes a stack structure including conductive layers stacked on the substrate. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a dummy structure penetrating a stepped region of the stack structure. A portion of the dummy structure includes a first segment and a second segment. The first segment extends in a first direction in a plane parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. The second segment protrudes from the first segment in a second direction, in the plane, that intersects the first direction.
US11641741B2
Microelectronic devices include a stack structure with a vertically alternating sequence of insulative structures and conductive structures arranged in tiers. A series of slit structures extends through the stack structure and divides the stack structure into a series of blocks. In a progressed portion of the series of blocks, each block comprises an array of pillars extending through the stack structure of the block. Also, each block—in the progressed portion—has a different block width than a block width of a neighboring block of the progressed portion of the series of blocks. At least one pillar, of the pillars of the array of pillars in the progressed portion, exhibits bending. Related methods and electronic systems are also disclosed.
US11641731B2
A DRAM including following components is provided. A bit line stack structure includes a bit line structure and a hard mask layer. The bit line structure is located on the substrate. The hard mask layer is located on the bit line structure. A dielectric layer is located on the bit line stack structure and has an opening. A contact structure is located on the substrate and includes an active region contact and a capacitor contact. The active region contact is located on the substrate. The top surface of the active region contact is exposed by the opening. The capacitor contact is located in the opening over the active region contact. An isolation layer is located between the hard mask layer and the dielectric layer and between the capacitor contact and the bit line stack structure. An etch stop layer is located between the dielectric layer and the isolation layer.
US11641727B2
Examples described herein relate to cooling system for an electronic circuit module. The cooling system includes a frame disposable on the electronic circuit module and comprising a plurality of compartments defined by compartment walls. The cooling system further includes a plurality of cold plates disposed in the plurality of compartments of the frame and in thermal contact with the electronic circuit module, wherein the plurality of cold plates includes one or more passages to allow flow of a coolant there-through to conduct heat away from the electronic circuit module. Further, the one or more cold plates of the plurality cold plates include a guide feature to allow vertical movement of the one or more cold plates in respective compartments.
US11641720B2
A circuit board includes a composite structure layer, at least one conductive structure, a thermally conductive substrate, and a thermal interface material layer. The composite structure layer has a cavity and includes a first structure layer, a second structure layer, and a connecting structure layer. The first structure layer includes at least one first conductive member, and the second structure layer includes at least one second conductive member. The cavity penetrates the first structure layer and the connecting structure layer to expose the second conductive member. The conductive structure at least penetrates the connecting structure layer and is electrically connected to the first conductive member and the second conductive member. The thermal interface material layer is disposed between the composite structure layer and the thermally conductive substrate, and the second structure layer is connected to the thermally conductive substrate through the thermal interface material layer.
US11641711B2
Embodiments may relate to a microelectronic package or a die thereof which includes a die, logic, or subsystem coupled with a face of the substrate. An inductor may be positioned in the substrate. Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield elements may be positioned within the substrate and surrounding the inductor. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US11641709B2
A system for determining an operational state of an atmospheric pressure plasma. The system has a transformer for coupling power into the atmospheric pressure plasma, a current sampling circuit configured to sample at least one current pulse flowing through a primary winding of the transformer, and a programmed microprocessor configured to determine, from a waveform of the current pulse, the operational state of the atmospheric pressure plasma. The operational state is one of: a no plasma state, a plasma origination state indicative of an ignited arc expanding into a plasma by gas flow thereinto, and a plasma maintenance state indicative of the plasma being expanded.
US11641708B2
An example control system includes a set of light fixtures connected to a hub, where each light fixture includes a hub-communication device configured to communicate with the hub and a direct communication device configured to communicate directly with other light fixtures. Together, the light fixtures form a mesh network facilitated by the use of their direct communication devices. An external device communicates an instruction to a light fixture, and the instruction is propagated throughout the mesh network through communications among the light fixtures using their respective direct communication devices. As a result, each light fixture to which the instruction applies receives and complies with the instructions. The light fixtures are also configured to receive instructions from the hub, such that a light fixture is configured to receive instructions over dual networks.
US11641704B2
A load control device coupled between an AC power source and an electrical load may operate in a three-wire mode or a two-wire mode based on whether the load control device is connected to a neutral side of the AC power source. The load control device may further comprise first and second zero-cross detect circuits to be respectively used in the two-wire mode or the three-wire mode, and a neutral wire detect circuit configured to generate a neutral-wire detect signal indicating whether the load control device is connected to the neutral side of the AC power source. A control circuit of the load control device may determine whether the load control device should operate in the two-wire mode or in the three-wire mode in response to the neutral-wire detect signal.
US11641703B2
A lighting arrangement such as a LED lamp comprises a light source and associated current driver, or a set of at least two parallel light sources and associated current drivers, supplied by a DC voltage from a voltage-regulated power converter. A feedback circuit provides a temperature-dependent control input to a control loop of the power converter, such that the DC voltage is adjusted in dependence on a sensed temperature. In this way, the voltage headroom required can be reduced, and efficiency gains are made.
US11641698B2
A heating device for a domestic appliance includes a planar carrier having a carrier surface. Thermally sprayed onto the carrier surface is a layer structure, and a first solder volume is applied to the layer structure. The solder volume is an ultrasonically soldered-on solder volume. The layer structure can hereby be a heating conductor layer.
US11641697B2
An aerosol-generating article may comprise a liquid storage portion containing a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, and a hydrochromic material provided on the liquid storage portion. The hydrochromic material has a first colour when in the presence of or when in contact with the liquid aerosol-forming substrate and a second colour when in the absence of or when not in contact with the liquid aerosol-forming substrate. An aerosol-generating system may comprise the aerosol-generating article, an aerosol-generating element, and an aerosol-generating device. An aerosol-generating device may comprise an electrical power supply, an electronic photosensor, and a controller configured to control a supply of electrical power from the electrical power supply based on a value of an optical property sensed with the electronic photosensor.
US11641696B2
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system includes a storage container containing a supply of an aerosol-forming substrate, a fluid permeable heating element positioned across an opening in the storage container, a protective cover coupled to the storage container and covering the fluid permeable heating element, at least one air inlet, at least one air outlet, and an airflow path from the at least one air inlet to the at least one air outlet. The protective cover is configured such that a portion of the airflow path is between the protective cover and the fluid permeable heating element.
US11641692B2
A wireless device receives, during a discontinuous reception (DRX) active time of a DRX operation of the wireless device, a response to a message that comprises a preamble and a transport block. The DRX active time is determined based on a time window that starts at least one symbol after a transmission occasion of the transport block.
US11641690B2
A high-speed communication system etc. are provided in New Radio (NR) and LTE. When a secondary base station device detects a data inactive state for all bearers, the secondary base station device notifies a master base station device of occurrence of the data inactive state regardless of absence of an inquiry from the master base station device. The data inactive state is a state in which downlink data for a communication terminal device is inactive. When the master base station device receives the notification about the occurrence of the data inactive state, the master base station device transmits a command to the communication terminal device to transition from an RRC_CONNECTED state to an RRC_INACTIVE state. Based on the command from the master base station device, the communication terminal device transitions to the RRC_INACTIVE state.
US11641688B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides an information obtaining method and a device. The method is applied to a base station, and includes: sending first information to a mobile management entity (MME), where the first information includes a first request used to re-establish an radio resource control (RRC) connection, the first request is used to instruct the MME to send second information to the base station, the second information includes context information of user equipment (UE) and indication information that is used to indicate connection establishment, and the UE is a UE that requests the RRC connection re-establishment; and receiving the second information. In the embodiments of the present invention, steps in a process of RRC link re-establishment can be reduced, thereby shortening time for re-establishing an RRC connection.
US11641684B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether an uplink communication for a first radio access technology (RAT) has been dynamically scheduled or semi-statically configured, wherein the UE is in a dual connectivity mode using the first RAT and a second RAT. The UE may identify an uplink subframe for transmission of the uplink communication based at least in part on whether the uplink communication has been dynamically scheduled or semi-statically configured, and based at least in part on a downlink-reference uplink-downlink configuration. The UE may transmit the uplink communication in the identified uplink subframe. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11641683B2
A wireless communication system comprises a host device (110) and mobile devices (120) arranged for wireless communication and for distance (140) measurement. The host device has a user interface (113) comprising a connect button (115), and is arranged to execute a connection sequence upon a user activating the connect button. The connection sequence first determines respective distances between the host and respective mobile devices. A first mobile device is identified exhibiting a movement. Then a connection action is executed regarding a connection between the first mobile device and the host device. The mobile device is arranged for executing a ranging protocol and, upon subsequently receiving a connection message, executing a connection action regarding a connection between the first mobile device and the host device. Effectively a connection may be established upon the user of a mobile device pressing a single button on a selected host device and moving the mobile device.
US11641679B2
The present application discloses a sidelink data indication method and a terminal equipment. The method includes: determining indication information, the indication information including at least one of a first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the first identifier is used to identify a first logical channel, the second identifier is used to identify a second logical channel, the first logical channel is used to carry original sidelink data, the second logical channel is used to carry duplicated sidelink data, the duplicated sidelink data is obtained by duplicating the original sidelink data; and sending the indication information.
US11641677B2
A system (900) and method (1100) instructing a vehicle (910) where and when to refuel is disclosed herein. The system (900) comprises a server (925) for receiving a workflow for a vehicle (910). The workflow comprises an origination location (901) of the vehicle, a destination (950) of the vehicle (910), a route (905) to the destination, a cargo, a time of departure and a time of arrival. The server (925) determines a plurality of fuel stops (930) along the route (905).
US11641676B2
A communication apparatus comprises a wireless communication unit, a recording unit, and a control unit. The control unit, in a case where connection with a relay apparatus is established by the wireless communication unit, controls the recording unit to record information on a network formed by the relay apparatus and information on whether a stealth mode is enabled for the network. The control unit, in a case where a beacon, which does not include an identifier of a network, is received by the wireless communication unit in a state where information on a network for which the stealth mode is enabled was recorded, controls the wireless communication unit to start wireless connection to the relay apparatus that forms the network for which the recorded information indicates the stealth mode is enabled.
US11641671B2
A first on-board terminal for radio communication in a radio network. The first on-board terminal is designed to retransmit first data via the radio channel after the expiration of a second time period, which begins after the end of the previous transmission of the first data, if the radio channel is not occupied after the expiration of a first time period.
US11641665B2
A method includes obtaining a first message from a client computing device, the first message including a first value indicating a change in a resource utilization. The method also includes obtaining a sequence of previous values associated with previous resource utilizations. The method also includes determining a predicted schedule of values for a field of a record indicating resource use using a neural network based on the first value and the sequence of previous values. The method also includes determining whether a set of alert criteria is satisfied based on the predicted schedule of values. The method also includes sending a second message to the client computing device in response to a determination that the set of alert criteria is satisfied.
US11641659B2
[Problem] A base station includes a plurality of radio communication units individually supporting a plurality of communication capabilities, and controls a terminal station to be connected with the base station to select a radio communication unit according to a communication scheme of the terminal station. [Solution] Provided is a radio communication method of a radio communication system. The radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations mounted with a plurality of radio communication units for which different communication schemes are settable, a terminal station configured to perform radio communication in a certain communication scheme, and a centralized control station configured to control the plurality of base stations. The radio communication method includes calculating, by the centralized control station, a setting policy of a communication scheme for each of the plurality of radio communication units of each of the plurality of base stations and a switching policy for the terminal station and the radio communication unit, and notifying the base station of the policies, setting, by the base station, the setting policy and the switching policy, notified from the centralized control station, for the radio communication unit, collecting, by the base station, communication scheme information of communication schemes selectable by the terminal station from the terminal station to be connected, and selecting, by the base station, a radio communication unit to be connected by the terminal station in accordance with the communication scheme information, the setting policy, and the switching policy.
US11641654B2
An uplink transmission method and an uplink transmission device are provided. The uplink transmission method includes: detecting an UL grant on a target time-domain resource and a target frequency-domain resource in a first time unit, the UL grant being to schedule one or more UEs to perform uplink transmission in a target time unit, a time unit having a predefined length of B1 subframes or B2 symbols, where B1 and B2 are each an integer greater than or equal to 1; acquiring scheduling information for the UE in the target time unit from the UL grant; and performing the uplink transmission on a time-domain resource and a frequency-domain resource scheduled in the target time unit in accordance with the scheduling information.
US11641648B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). The present disclosure is for transmitting an uplink control signal in a wireless communication system, an operating method of a terminal comprises receiving information notifying an indication scheme relating to a carrier for transmission of uplink control information and receiving subcarrier for the transmission of the uplink control information according to the indication scheme.
US11641641B2
Primary component carrier control in a wireless access node that uses multiple radio frequency bands
A wireless access node serves a wireless User Equipment (UE) over radio frequency bands that comprise layers. The layers comprise parallel signals that share individual resource blocks in the radio frequency bands. In the wireless access node, radio circuitry wirelessly receives information from the wireless UE that indicates received signal strengths for the radio frequency bands. In the wireless access node, processing circuitry determines layer amounts for the radio frequency bands. The processing circuitry selects one of the radio frequency bands that has an adequate one of the received signal strengths and a higher one of the layer amounts. The radio circuitry wirelessly exchanges user data with the wireless UE over the selected one of the radio frequency bands to serve the wireless UE.
US11641636B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a network node performs one or more positioning measurements of one or more types of positioning measurements of one or more reference signals, and reports, to a positioning entity, the one or more positioning measurements and one or more measurement quality values representing a measurement quality of the one or more positioning measurements, the one or more measurement quality values based on measurement quality reporting parameters, wherein the measurement quality reporting parameters comprise a minimum error value, a maximum error value, a number of bits used for the one or more measurement quality values, a scaling function or an identifier of the scaling function, or any combination thereof.
US11641621B2
A system in which a device may automatically provision another device with credentials, at the behest of a cloud-based service, based in part on the physical proximity of the device to be provisioned. The provisioning device and the device to be provisioned may use a radio access technology (RAT) with a limited radio range. Account information associated with the device to be provisioned is known to the cloud-based service, which authenticates the device to be provisioned via the device with credentials.
US11641619B2
Various communication systems may benefit from taking appropriate measurements. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from optimized user equipment measurements for fast cell access. A method can include receiving, at a user equipment, a configuration from a network to which the user equipment is connected. The configuration may include instructions to the user equipment regarding measurements with respect to detected cells. The method may also include performing the measurements according to the received configuration, and reporting the measurements to the network.
US11641616B2
Embodiments of this application disclose an access control method, a communications device, and a base station, so that a UE determines, based on a UAC parameter determined based on a CE-level, whether access of the UE is barred, so that a probability that a UE with a large resource consumption amount accesses a communications network system can be controlled. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: determining, by user equipment UE based on a first coverage enhancement level CE-level, a first unified access control UAC parameter corresponding to the first CE-level; and determining, by the UE based on the first UAC parameter, whether access of the UE is barred.
US11641613B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method comprises: receiving a broadcasting message from a base station, wherein the broadcasting message indicates that the base station supports relaying function.
US11641608B2
Aspects of data re-direction are described, which can include software-defined networking (SDN) data re-direction operations. Some aspects include data re-direction operations performed by one or more virtualized network functions. In some aspects, a network router decodes an indication of a handover of a user equipment (UE) from a first end point (EP) to a second EP, based on the indication, the router can update a relocation table including the UE identifier, an identifier of the first EP, and an identifier of the second EP. The router can receive a data packet for the UE, configured for transmission to the first EP, and modify the data packet, based on the relocation table, for rerouting to the second EP. In some aspects, the router can decode handover prediction information, including an indication of a predicted future geographic location of the UE, and update the relocation table based on the handover prediction information.
US11641605B2
Methods, devices, and systems for communication by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) associated with a source cell. The WTRU is configured with a conditional reconfiguration which includes a trigger condition and a configured target cell. The WTRU detects an occurrence of an impairment event resulting in impairment to operation of the WTRU in the source cell. If the impairment event satisfies the trigger condition, a reconfiguration is performed with the configured target cell. If the impairment event does not satisfy the trigger condition, a target cell is selected based on a cell selection procedure, and if the is configured with a conditional reconfiguration for the selected target cell, a reconfiguration is performed with the selected target cell; and if the WTRU is not configured with a conditional reconfiguration for the target cell, a reestablishment is performed with the selected target cell.
US11641604B1
A gateway device for providing a dynamic network activation and/or handover is disclosed herein. The gateway device may activate on a first network associated with a primary network subscription identifier and determine to switch to a secondary network associated with a secondary network subscription identifier. The gateway device may disconnect from the first network and activate on the secondary network. The gateway device may access a cached list of networks for the primary network subscription identifier and scan for available networks while active on the secondary network. Based at least in part on the scan, the gateway device may determine that a second network of the cached list of networks is available. In response, the gateway device can disconnect from the secondary network and connect to the second network.
US11641595B2
A method and apparatus for determining channel occupancy information is provided. The user device determines a measured object according to first indication information sent by a base station, determines a target beam corresponding to the measured object according to a pre-stored correspondence relationship between a plurality of measured objects and a plurality of beams, measures first strength information of a received signal on the target beam, determines the channel occupancy information according to the first strength information, and sends the channel occupancy information to the base station. The channel occupancy information is marked as being associated with the measured object.
US11641586B2
Methods and apparatuses associated with determining a location of a mobile device are described. Examples can include receiving, at a mobile device in response to a triggering event, signaling that indicates the mobile device is in an unauthorized location, in possession of an unauthorized user, or both. Examples can include prompting an input representative of authorized user verification and enabling one or more circuits or power supplies of the mobile device based at least in part on determining that a value of the input satisfies. In response and based at least in part on determining that the value of the input fails to satisfy the threshold, examples can include capturing environmental data and location data associated with the mobile device and communicating the environmental data and location data and a location determination to an authorized user. In some examples, a mobile device can be deactivated responsive to unconfirmed authorized verification.
US11641582B2
An account registration method in a Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) network cluster system includes: establishing communication with a DECT host through a DECT network cluster constructed in advance; receiving first account information allocated by the DECT host; initiating registration to a server according to the first account information, and obtaining a first registration result; sending the first registration result to the DECT host; if the first registration result is that the registration is successful, entering a first mode; if the first registration result is that the registration is not responded to, obtaining a second registration result fed back by the DECT host; if the second registration result is that the registration is successful, entering a second mode, where in the second mode, the DECT device sends SIP signaling to the DECT host so that the DECT host forwards the SIP signaling.
US11641580B2
Method and device used for wireless communications, including receiving a second media access control packet data unit (MAC PDU) group, a MAC Header of any MAC PDU in the second MAC PDU group comprising information corresponding to a first portion of a first old identifier (ID); the second MAC PDU group comprising a first packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) PDU, and a header of the first PDCP PDU comprising a first key ID; the first key ID being used to identify a first key, and the first key being used to generate a key for a security algorithm applied to the first PDCP PDU; transmitting a first MAC PDU group comprising a second PDCP PDU, the second PDCP PDU comprising information corresponding to a first portion of the first PDCP PDU; by determining a first key ID and a second key ID, reliability is improved, and risks during communications are avoided.
US11641572B2
The disclosure is directed to methods and systems for provisioning mobile electric vehicles with various operational settings data transmitted over the air. A vehicle or its components may operate according to operational settings corresponding to operational settings data included in the vehicle components. A server that is remote to the vehicle may comprise operational settings data and may transmit operational settings data to the vehicle. The server may transmit operational settings data automatically, such as on a periodic basis, in response to a request, such as from a user or from a vehicle component or anytime new or updated operational settings data are available for the vehicle or its components.
US11641567B2
The invention relates to mobility management nodes and methods of the mobility management nodes of enabling delivery of a Mobile Terminating, (MT) Short Message (SM) to a mobile terminal. In a first aspect of the invention, a method of a mobility management node is provided for enabling delivery of a Mobile Terminating, (MT) Short Message (SM) to a mobile terminal which currently is in extended idle mode discontinuous reception, eDRX, mode. The method comprises receiving an indication from a Short Message Service Gateway Mobile Switching Centre (SMS-GMSC) that the SM is to be delivered, receiving a notification that the mobile terminal has exited an extended idle Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) mode before a paging occasion has occurred, and submitting, in response to the notification, a message indicating to the SMS-GMSC that the mobile terminal is available for delivery of the SM.
US11641560B2
Methods for dialogue enhancing audio content, comprising providing a first audio signal presentation of the audio components, providing a second audio signal presentation, receiving a set of dialogue estimation parameters configured to enable estimation of dialogue components from the first audio signal presentation, applying said set of dialogue estimation parameters to said first audio signal presentation, to form a dialogue presentation of the dialogue components; and combining the dialogue presentation with said second audio signal presentation to form a dialogue enhanced audio signal presentation for reproduction on the second audio reproduction system, wherein at least one of said first and second audio signal presentation is a binaural audio signal presentation.
US11641549B2
Disclosed is a sounding device, including a frame, a vibration system, and a magnetic circuit system. The vibration system includes a diaphragm, a framework, a voice coil, and an elastic conductor. The elastic conductor includes an elastic conductor body, a connection arm, and a pad portion. The connection arm includes a first connection portion, a first bending portion, a second connection portion, a second bending portion, and a third connection portion. A covering film is attached to inner and outer surfaces of the connection arm, and the covering film is moved from inside and/or outside surfaces of the first bending portion and the second bending portion. Removal of the covering film reduces the stress on inner and outer surfaces of bent areas, stabilizes bending angles, reduces springback, and makes pad positions precise.
US11641546B2
A method for minimizing post-playback oscillation during playback of a haptic playback waveform to a haptic transducer may include determining whether a frequency response of the haptic playback waveform has a notch with a notch frequency at approximately a resonant frequency of the haptic transducer and, responsive to the notch frequency differing from the resonant frequency, modifying the haptic playback waveform for playback to the haptic transducer by shifting the notch frequency to approximately the resonant frequency.
US11641545B2
A conference terminal and a feedback suppression method are provided. In the method, a transmitting sound signal is divided into sub sound signals of multiple frequency bands. Different sub sound signals correspond to different frequency bands. An interfered frequency band corresponding to the howling interference is detected according to the sub sound signals of those frequency bands. The power of the sub sound signal of the interfered frequency band increases along with time. The interfered frequency band is affected by the howling interference. An interference direction is determined according to multiple input sound signals received by the microphone array and merely pass through the interfered frequency band. A sound from the interference direction leads to the howling interference. A beam pattern of the microphone array is determined according to the interference direction. The gain of the beam pattern in the interference direction is reduced.
US11641544B2
A system is described herein. The system includes at least one hardware processor that is configured to identify a pre-determined acoustic barrier filter, wherein the acoustic barrier filter coincides with the physical acoustic barrier and receive an audio signal within a time window at the first microphone and the second microphone. The hardware processor is also configured to calculate a first measure of variability, a second measure of variability, a third measure of variability, and a fourth measure of variability. The hardware processor further concatenates the first measure of variability, the second measure of variability, the third measure of variability, and the fourth measure of variability to form a feature vector, and inputs the feature vector into a location classifier to obtain an audio source location.
US11641542B2
The earpiece with internal UV cleaning source includes one or more internal UV light sources, specifically emitting UVC light. The UVC light is emitted during charging of the earbud, thus conserving battery power by only emitting during periods of ample power availability. In a preferred embodiment, the UV light is emitted behind the speaker, passing through and bouncing around the clear speaker mounting bracket, or through holes in the housing/frame bracket. The result is that all internal sections of the earpiece that could harbor bacteria or viruses are exposed to the UV light.
US11641537B2
Embodiments relate to a closed loop communication system. The system can include a consumer mobile device configured with a mobile application to identify its load consumption pattern and communicate the identified load consumption pattern to a utility device. The mobile device also sets a limit for maximum energy consumption through the mobile application. The system can also include the utility device that receives the identified load consumption pattern, and configured to send a short message service (SMS) alert to the mobile device to alert the mobile device to read meter energy consumption reading from energy meter and share with utility device due to direct connection failure with an energy meter. The system can also include an energy meter configured to communicate with the utility device, wherein the utility device attempts to receive the meter energy consumption reading from the energy meter.
US11641535B2
A first computing device may receive an indication of user input that is at least a part of a conversation between a user and a first assistant executing at the first computing device. The first assistant and/or an assistant executing at a digital assistant system may determine whether to handoff the conversation from the first assistant executing at the first computing device to a second assistant executing at a second computing device. In response to determining to handoff the conversation to the second assistant executing at the second computing device, the first assistant and/or the assistant executing at the digital assistant system may send to the second computing device a request to handoff the conversation which includes at least an indication of the conversation.
US11641532B2
A time-of-flight device comprises a pixel array including an array of pixel circuits, wherein a column of the array includes: a first pixel circuit including a first photodiode, a first capacitor and a second capacitor coupled to the first photodiode, and a second pixel circuit including a second photodiode, a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor coupled to the second photodiode, a first signal line coupled to the first capacitor, a second signal line coupled to the second capacitor, a third signal line coupled to the third capacitor, a fourth signal line coupled to the fourth capacitor, a first switch circuitry, a second switch circuitry, a first comparator coupled to the first signal line and the third signal line through the first switch circuitry, and a second comparator coupled to the second signal line and the fourth signal line through the second switch circuitry.
US11641525B2
An image capturing apparatus capable of displaying a live view image high in visibility on a high-luminance side. An image capturing section converts light from an object to image signals. An image processor performs image processing on image data formed by the image signals. An operation section receives an instruction for setting a live view mode for realizing a live view function. When an OVF simulation mode is set which is different from a recording live view mode for displaying image data subjected to the image processing on the image display section based on user's photographing settings, photographing is performed under an exposure condition darker than a proper exposure, gradation conversion for compensating for a difference in exposure condition from the proper exposure is performed, and display luminance is controlled to be brighter than display luminance in the recording live view mode.
US11641523B2
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, where each of the plurality of pixels includes a photodiode. The image sensor is configured to capture images of a scene exposed with a flickering light source by for each of the plurality of pixels, acquiring a value representative of a light level at a corresponding pixel by gradually varying a value of sensitivity of the corresponding pixel.
US11641512B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a video recording method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: upon receiving an instruction to be recorded, prompting a recording subject that is matched with said instruction, so as to inform a user of the subject information of a video to be recorded; and upon receiving a recording starting instruction, separately performing video recording on the user and a virtual teacher according to a recording order matched with the recording subject, wherein when video recording is performed on the user, response information is determined according to the voice content of the user in the video, and the voice of the virtual teacher expressing the response information is played in a video background voice mode.
US11641509B2
Methods and systems for an intelligent tap with dynamically configurable amplifier gain. The intelligent tap includes a filter configured to process a signal received from a service provider system via a hybrid fiber-coaxial network, an amplifier connected to the filter, the amplifier configured to apply a feedback controlled gain value to the signal to generate an output signal, where the feedback controlled gain value is based on a comparison of a target signal strength to a sampled output signal strength, and a signal strength measuring component connected to the amplifier in a feedback loop, the signal strength measuring component configured to sample the output signal, and compare a signal strength of a sampled output signal to the target signal strength to generate the feedback controlled gain value, where application of the feedback controlled gain value maintains the output signal at a constant amplitude pursuant to the target signal strength.
US11641508B2
Systems and methods are described for recommending a content item. A search query for a content item is received. The availability of the content item from more than one source is determined. In response to determining that the content item is available from more than one source, the quality of each of the available content items from respective sources is determined. A recommendation factor is determined. The recommendation factor is based on at least one of the bandwidth available to a user device, the resolution capability of the user device, and the quality of experience of each of the sources from which the content item is available. A list of search results for the available content items is generated. The list is ordered based on the quality of each of the available content items from respective sources and the recommendation factor.
US11641507B2
In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for determining channel information are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: associating with a local area network; detecting at least one media device on the local area network; determining device information associated with the at least one media device on the local area network; determining, without user intervention, television provider information based on the device information; determining location information of the at least one media device; determining channel information based on the determined television provider information and the determined location information; and causing media guidance information to be presented that includes at least a portion of the determined channel information.
US11641505B1
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining, by a media player of a media presentation system, an audio signal, where the audio signal includes a voice command and is obtained using a microphone of the media presentation system; (ii) identifying, by the media player, which of multiple speakers of a household uttered the voice command using the audio signal and a speaker-identification model; (iii) performing, by the media player, an action corresponding to the voice command; and (iv) based on the identifying of the speaker using the audio signal and the speaker-identification model, selecting, by the media player, a user profile associated with the identified speaker within a streaming channel so as to bypass a profile selection screen of the streaming channel.
US11641500B2
Aspects of the invention are directed towards systems and methods for providing the user with customized video content from a platform. Embodiments of the invention describes a user interface on the user terminal for receiving user preferences from the user. A number of buckets for the video content to be consumed by the user based on the user preferences are disclosed. The video content to be filled in each of the buckets is determined based on a real time criteria. The buckets are which are filled with the video content are assembled and a predetermined video content is interspersed between each of the bucket to form the customized video content.
US11641497B2
Method and device for detecting available bandwidth based on burstiness of key frame of video stream
A method for detecting an available bandwidth based on a burstiness of a key frame of a video stream, includes: establishing a video connection between a sender and a receiver, and sending the video stream by the sender to the receiver; recording a sending timestamp of each packet at the sender; recording a receiving timestamp of each packet received by the receiver; calculating a difference between the receiving timestamp and the sending timestamp of each packet, and obtaining the packet with the smallest difference and the packet with the greatest difference by traversing the packets in the key frame; and estimating a currently available bandwidth according to the packet with the smallest difference and the packet with the greatest difference.
US11641491B2
A media server for an on-board entertainment system comprising terminals, the server comprising: a memory for storing media content; a distribution module configured to distribute stored media content to terminals; a controller for controlling the storage of media content in the storage module; wherein the controller is configured to collect the numbers of accesses via the terminals to the media content, to calculate the value of a retention parameter relating to each item of media content as a function of said number of accesses, and to automatically trigger the continued retention of said media content in the memory or its deletion as a function of at least said calculated value.
US11641481B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for improving the encoding efficiency by adaptively changing the resolution of the motion vector in the inter prediction encoding and inter prediction decoding of a video. The apparatus includes: a predicted motion vector calculator for calculating a predicted motion vector of a current block to be encoded using motion vectors of one or more surrounding blocks; and a skip mode encoder for encoding a result of performing a prediction of the current block and information indicating that the current block is a skip block when the predicted motion vector satisfies a skip condition, wherein at least one motion vector among the motion vectors of the surrounding blocks and the motion vector of the current block has a resolution different from resolutions of the other motion vectors.
US11641473B2
A video encoder for encoding a video into a data stream using motion compensated prediction for inter predicted blocks, comprising a hypothesis number control, configured to control a number of prediction hypotheses of the inter predicted blocks within a predetermined portion of the video to meet a predetermined criterion.
US11641467B2
A method for video processing includes: determining, that the video block is split into a plurality of sub-blocks based on a condition associated with the video block, refining motion information of each sub-block using a motion refinement process, the motion refinement process being a one-step or an iterative multi-step refinement process; and performing a video processing on the video block based on the refined motion information of each sub-block.
US11641466B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices to be employed for encoding and decoding of image or video signal. They include determination of whether or not the size of a current block is larger than a minimum allowed quadtree leaf node size. If the size of the current block is not larger than the minimum allowed quadtree leaf node size, multi-type tree splitting is applied to the current block. The minimum allowed quadtree leaf node size is not larger than a maximum allowed binary tree root node size or the minimum allowed quadtree leaf node size is not larger than a maximum allowed ternary tree root node size.
US11641464B2
An example method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current picture of a video and a bitstream of the video, a scaling ratio based on a first window in the current picture and a second window in a reference picture associated with the current picture; resampling the reference picture by using the determined scaling ratio; and performing the conversion based on the result of the resampling, wherein a dimension of the first window is W×H and a dimension of the second window is W′×H′, where W, H, W′ and H′ are integers, and wherein W, H, W′ and H′ satisfy a constraint.
US11641455B2
A method and apparatus for measuring a dynamic crosstalk are provided. The method may include: controlling a driver configured to cause a camera to have a dynamic movement; at either one or both of a left eye position and a right eye position of a user, capturing a stereo pattern image output through a three-dimensional (3D) display, by the camera while the camera is in the dynamic movement; and measuring the dynamic crosstalk occurring by the 3D display based on the stereo pattern image captured by the camera.
US11641449B1
A method for providing participant status to facilitate video teleconferencing management is disclosed. The method includes receiving a starting indication that a video teleconference has been initiated, the video teleconference including a plurality of participants; generating a video histogram for each of the plurality of participants, the video histogram corresponding to an image that is captured for each of the plurality of participants; capturing an audio signature for each of the plurality of participants; determining, in real-time, a status for each of the plurality of participants based on the corresponding video histogram and the corresponding audio signature, the status relating to a connectivity status for the video teleconference; generating an indicator for each of the plurality of participants based on the corresponding status; and displaying, via a graphical user interface, the indicator for the plurality of participants, the graphical user interface corresponding to the initiated video teleconference.
US11641446B2
The disclosure discloses a method for video frame interpolation. The method includes: obtaining a first visual semantic feature and first pixel information of a first frame, and obtaining a second visual semantic feature and second pixel information of a second frame; generating semantic optical flow information based on the first visual semantic feature and the second visual semantic feature; generating pixel optical flow information based on the first pixel information and the second pixel information; and generating an interpolation frame between the first frame and the second frame based on the semantic optical flow information and the pixel optical flow information, and interpolating the interpolation frame between the first frame and the second frame.
US11641427B2
An embodiment of the system for publishing events of a telephony application to a client includes a call router that generates events from the telephony application and an event router that manages the publication of events generated by the call router and that manages the subscription to events by clients. The system can be used with a telephony application that interfaces with a telephony device and an application server.
US11641406B2
A computing system includes a database and a discovery application that initiates discovery of software applications within a managed network by probing the computing devices for applications in stalled thereon. The discovery application executes discovery patterns in an attempt to classify a discovered application and determines that the discovered application is unclassified after executing the discovery patterns. In response to determining that the discovered application is unclassified, the discovery application (i) generates a configuration item representing the discovered application without classification and (ii) selects a characteristic file containing attributes of the discovered application. The discovery application provides the characteristic file to a machine learning (ML) classifier trained using a plurality of characteristic files. The discovery application receives, from the ML classifier, a classification of the discovered application, modifies the configuration item to include the classification of the discovered application, and stores, in the database, the configuration item as modified.
US11641405B2
A GPU Box server cascade communication method, device, and system. The method includes: detecting an i2c communication bus through a baseboard management controller (BMC) in a powered-up GPU Box server to determine whether a next-stage GPU Box server corresponding to the GPU Box server exists, and if yes, reading an IP address and location information of the next-stage GPU Box server from the i2c communication bus by means of the BMC in the GPU Box server; and storing the IP address and the location information of the next-stage GPU Box server into a data structure of the GPU Box server so that a master control server reads the data structure of the GPU Box server, and establishing network communication with the next-stage GPU Box server according to the IP address and the location information stored in the data structure.
US11641402B2
A system providing connectivity management is provided. The system comprises: a content management server configured to manage connectivity for a network; one or more central controllers configured to collect connectivity information for at least a portion of the network for use by the content management server; and at least one outlet having one or more ports for receiving one or more plugs, wherein connectivity information is communicated between the outlet and the central controller through one or more wireless communication interface.
US11641394B2
An efficient cloning mechanism is provided for a distributed storage environment, where, for example, a private cloud computing environment and a public cloud computing environment are included in a hybrid cloud computing environment (on-premise object storage to off-premise computation resources), to improve computation workloads. The disclosed algorithm forms an efficient cloning mechanism in a hybrid storage environment where the read/write speed of data from the disk is not limited by its angular velocity.
US11641378B2
A method for migrating security benchmark compliance content from a source platform to a target platform includes filtering a set of configuration parameters in a source platform to a subset of configuration parameters, each of the parameters corresponding to a respectively different entry in a security checklist of a security benchmark. Then, a listing is presented in a user interface of each of the configuration parameters and for each configuration parameter, a corresponding entry in the security checklist regulating the configuration parameter according to a range of values. Finally, the configuration parameters in the subset are applied to a target platform excepting for at least one of the configuration parameters. Instead, alternative value within the range is received as input in the user interface and is applied to the target platform in lieu of the at least one of the configuration parameters.
US11641376B2
Methods and network equipment in a core network for intercepting protected communication between core network (CN) network functions (NFs). A method performed by network equipment in a core network may include establishing a first connection with a first NF for which the network equipment serves as a proxy and establishing, on behalf of the first NF, a second connection that is towards a second NF and that is secure. The method may also include selectively forwarding communication between the first and second NFs over the first and second connections, including transmitting and/or receiving the communication on behalf of the first NF over the second connection. The method may further include intercepting the communication that the network equipment selectively forwards between the first and second NFs.
US11641362B2
The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by generating a data object indicative of a defined group of users of a communication session, messages being communicated between the defined group of users, and permissions defined for the defined group of users to access content of the communication session. In response to receiving a selection of a message set including a subset of the messages of the defined group for corresponding with a non-member user who is not a member of the defined group, the system updates the first data object to include the selected message set and subsequent messages exchanged between the non-member user and a subset of the users in the defined group directed to the selected message set, and permissions defined for the additional participant to limit full access to other subsequent messages in the defined group not directed to the selected message set.
US11641359B2
A method of connecting computing devices for content sharing comprising: a first device generating a unique verification identifier and storing it in memory, requesting a pairing identifier from a privilege-group server, receiving the pairing identifier from the privilege-group server and storing it in memory, generating a code based on the unique verification identifier and the pairing identifier, a second device receiving the code, determining the unique verification identifier and the pairing identifier based on the code, storing the unique verification identifier and the pairing identifier in memory, and sending the pairing identifier to the privilege-group server.
US11641358B2
Systems and methods are provided for use in identifying synthetic identities. One example method includes receiving a request from a relying party for an identity asserted by a user to the relying party, where the request includes identity data indicative of the identity, feature data associated with the user asserting the identity, and a device ID for a communication device of the user. The method also includes parsing the identity data, the feature data, and the device ID from the request, and calculating a device behavior score based on the feature data and the device ID. The method then includes aggregating the device behavior score and at least one of a fraud profile score, a user profile score, and/or an exposure behavior score into a metric indicative of a likelihood that the identity asserted by the user is a synthetic identity and transmitting the metric to the relying party.
US11641357B1
Systems and methods are described for receiving a request from a data recipient to access information from a data provider associated with a user, wherein the request comprises a data recipient token. The request is validated and in response to validating the request, a secondary token is transmitted to the data provider. The information is received from the data provider and a package of authorized information is generated based on the information received from the data provider. The package of authorized information is transmitted to the data recipient.
US11641353B2
A method of commissioning a domestic appliance may include receiving, from a user interface of an existing household appliance, a request to add a new household appliance to the user account. The method may further include scanning for the new household appliance with the existing household appliance and establishing a direct connection from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance. The method may still further include obtaining a provisioning token from a remote database with the existing household appliance and transmitting the provisioning token from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance via the direct connection.
US11641345B2
Systems and methods for token secured routing and discovery in token secured routing are disclosed. An inbound routing table is maintained. A communication link is established with a second node via a first port. A discovery packet is sent to the second node via the first port. A token is generated for communication with the second node. A first inbound routing entry is added to the inbound routing table, wherein the first inbound routing entry maps the first token state to the second node.
US11641332B2
Methods and systems for authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages are described. One embodiment describes a method of authenticating an e-mail message. This method involves extracting a plurality of e-mail headers associated with the e-mail message, and identifying a sending edge mail transfer agent (MTA). The method then calls for determining if the sending edge MTA is authorized to send the e-mail message.
US11641331B2
Systems and methods are described, and one method includes storing a database that includes a plurality of stored attachments, each of the stored attachments including a corresponding stored attachment identification data (ID), storing a blocked attachment indicator that indicates a stored attachment among the plurality of stored attachments as a blocked attachment and its corresponding stored attachment ID as a blocked attachment ID, and blocking a distribution of a file, based at least in part on the file including a metadata that matches at least a portion of the blocked attachment ID.
US11641330B2
A method for personalizing a message between a sender and a receiver is provided. The method comprises semantically analyzing a communication history to form a knowledge graph, deriving formality level values using a first trained ML model, analyzing parameter values of replies to determine receiver impact score, and training a second ML system to generate a model to predict the receiver impact score value. The method also comprises selecting a linguistic expression in a message being drafted, determining an expression intent, modifying the linguistic expression based on the formality level and the expression intent to generate a modified linguistic expression, and testing whether the modified linguistic expression has an increased likelihood of a higher receiver impact score. The method also comprises repeating selecting the linguistic expression, determining the expression intent, modifying the linguistic expression, and testing until a stop criterion is met.
US11641325B2
Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for controlling Quality of Service (QoS) within a service provider network by retrieving from the network QoS related data, processing the retrieved QoS related data via one or more time series prediction algorithm to determine QoS prediction data, and responsively generating network management or configuration commands adapted to ensure continued services delivery in accordance with QoS requirements.
US11641319B2
Respective network metrics sets corresponding to one or more data sources are examined at a network health manager. Network health states corresponding to one or more endpoint pair categories are determined based on the analysis of the network metric sets. An indication of the network health state of a particular endpoint pair category is stored.
US11641314B2
Techniques for generating and monitoring service level objectives (SLOs) are disclosed. The techniques include an SLO platform performing: storing a first SLO definition of a first SLO including a first error budget for a first metric associated with a first service; storing a second SLO definition of a second SLO including a second error budget for a second metric associated with a second service; obtaining first telemetry data from a first data source associated with the first service; obtaining second telemetry data from a second data source associated with the second service; monitoring the first SLO at least by computing the first metric based on the first telemetry data and evaluating the first metric against the first error budget; and monitoring the second SLO at least by computing the second metric based on the second telemetry data and evaluating the second metric against the second error budget.
US11641310B1
An example method of entity lifecycle management in a service monitoring system includes: receiving, by a software application of a service monitoring system, a policy definition specifying an entity lifecycle management policy, wherein the entity lifecycle management policy defines management rules for a plurality of entities in the network environment, wherein each entity of the plurality of entities is represented by one of: a device, an application, a service, or a user account; identifying, by applying the entity lifecycle management policy to a plurality of active entities, one or more candidate entities for retirement; identifying, as retired entities, at least a subset of the one or more candidate entities; and excluding the retired entities from the plurality of active entities, thus preventing the retired entities from interacting with other components of the service monitoring system.
US11641309B2
An intelligent network policy engine can be utilized to apply dynamic policy changes for microservices. For example, based on outlined service provider policies, user equipment state data, and/or network state data, the intelligent network policy engine can determine which microservices to use and/or what order to use the microservices to increase a performance of the network. The intelligent network policy engine can perform conflict resolution based on how network traffic should be treated in certain scenarios.
US11641307B2
A method for configuring a first network node using a first autonomous system (AS) number in at least one session established with another node according to a dynamic routing protocol is described. The method is implemented by the first node and includes receiving a configuration message comprising at least one piece of information that is representative of a second AS number intended to be used by the first node as a replacement for the first number, configuring the first node with the second AS number, identifying at least one second node having at least one session according to the dynamic routing protocol, active with the first node, in which the first node is associated with the first AS number, and sending a control message to the at least one second node requesting the replacement of the first AS number with the second AS number by the at least one second node, such that, after the replacement, the first node is associated with the second AS number in the at least one active session.
US11641305B2
Example methods and systems are provided for network diagnosis. One example method may comprise: detecting an egress packet and determining whether each of multiple network issues is detected for the egress packet or a datapath between a first virtualized computing instance and a second virtualized computing instance. The method may also comprise: generating network diagnosis code information specifying whether each of the multiple network issues is detected or not detected; generating an encapsulated packet by encapsulating the egress packet with an outer header that specifies the network diagnosis code information; and sending the encapsulated packet towards the second virtualized computing instance to cause a second computer system to perform one or more remediation actions based on the network diagnosis code information.
US11641301B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus can receive SSB grouping information associated with one or more SSB groups, each of the one or more SSB groups including one or more TRPs. The apparatus can also receive at least one of TCI information or QCL information, each of the TCI information and the QCL information indicating an SSB of the one or more SSB groups that is associated with a downlink Tx beam for downlink data or an uplink Rx beam for uplink data. Additionally, the apparatus can communicate the downlink data from or the uplink data to TRPs in a same SSB group or TRPs in different SSB groups based on at least one of the SSB grouping information, the TCI information, or the QCL information.
US11641290B2
An on-vehicle device for a driver monitoring system can be configured to be isolated from the vehicle bus while connected to the vehicle's OBD port. In a fully-isolated mode, the device only receives power and ground from the vehicle's OBD port and there is no other communication sent or received from the vehicle bus. In a passive mode, the device can obtain some information from the vehicle bus but does not request any information on the vehicle bus. The device may be undetectable on the vehicle bus. Optionally, the device receives commands via a communication interface to be switched among the three modes: fully active mode, fully isolated mode and passive mode. The commands may come from a server and may be communicated over the internet or over a cell network to a communication module on the device.
US11641269B2
A method for implementing a fast UBDM transform includes receiving a first, input vector via a processor, and partitioning the first vector to produce a magnitude vector and a sign vector. A second vector, including a modified magnitude vector and a modified sign vector, is generated by: applying a permutation to the magnitude vector to produce the modified magnitude vector, converting the sign vector, based on an algorithm, into an intermediate sign vector, and applying nonlinear layers to the intermediate sign vector. Each nonlinear layer includes a permutation, an S-box transformation, a diffusive linear operation and/or an Xor operation. Multiple linear layers are applied to the second vector to produce a third vector, the third vector being a transformed version of the first vector. A first signal representing the third vector is sent to at least one transmitter for transmission of a second signal representing the transformed data vector.
US11641267B2
The present disclosure discloses a clock and data recovery circuit. The clock and data recovery circuit may include a clock recovery unit configured to output a recovery clock signal by operating a first time-to-digital conversion circuit or a second time-to-digital conversion circuit depending on a phase difference between a clock of an input signal and the recovery clock signal, and a data recovery unit configured to sample data from the input signal and output recovery data.
US11641252B1
A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a receiver. The apparatus is configured to receive a non- coherent signal and determine a first differential of the received non-coherent signal on each of one or more receive antennas for a set of binary vectors to obtain a lower order representation of the non-coherent signal. The apparatus is configured to combine the differentials across antennas, decode the lower order representation of the non-coherent signal based on the first differential of the non-coherent signal and to reconstruct a higher order representation of the non-coherent signal based on the decoded lower order representation of the non-coherent signal.
US11641246B2
This application provides an optical switching apparatus. The apparatus includes: a first optical switch, L first wavelength division multiplexers/demultiplexers, L second wavelength division multiplexers/demultiplexers, a beam generation apparatus connected to the L first wavelength division multiplexers/demultiplexers, and a detection apparatus connected to the L second wavelength division multiplexers/demultiplexers. One of a plurality of multiplexing ports of the first wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer is a signal light port, and a remaining multiplexing port is connected to the beam generation apparatus. A plurality of demultiplexing ports of the first wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer are connected to the first optical switch. One of a plurality of multiplexing ports of the second wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer is a signal light port, and a remaining multiplexing port is connected to the detection apparatus. A plurality of demultiplexing ports of the second wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer are connected to the first optical switch.
US11641232B2
Disclosed is a method of performing a beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system. The beam failure recovery method performed by a user equipment includes detecting a beam failure, identifying a new beam for the beam failure recovery, and transmitting a beam failure recovery request to a base station using a PRACH resource. The PRACH resource includes a first PRACH resource and a second PRACH resource. The first PRACH resource and the second PRACH resource are associated with a SS block (SSB). If the SSB is identified as the new beam, the beam failure recovery request is transmitted using the first PRACH resource. If a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) resource is identified as the new beam, the beam failure recovery request is transmitted using the second PRACH resource.
US11641217B2
In an embodiment method, a hybrid coupler comprises a first input receiving an analog signal, a second input receiving an additional analog signal phase shifted by 90° from the analog signal, and first and second outputs. The method comprises injecting into the second output a test signal having an initial test phase, iteratively generating a current test phase for the test signal, from the initial test phase to a final test phase equal to the initial test phase increased by at least one portion of one complete revolution, and, in each iteration, measuring the current peak value of the first output, and storing the current test phase and the current peak value as a maximum/minimum peak value if there is not a stored maximum/minimum peak value higher/lower than the current peak value, respectively, and determining a phase of the analog signal from the stored test phase.
US11641215B2
Techniques for generating a power tracking supply voltage for a circuit (e.g., a power amplifier) are disclosed. The circuit may process multiple transmit signals being sent simultaneously on multiple carriers at different frequencies. In one exemplary design, an apparatus includes a power tracker and a power supply generator. The power tracker determines a power tracking signal based on inphase (I) and quadrature (Q) components of a plurality of transmit signals being sent simultaneously. The power supply generator generates a power supply voltage based on the power tracking signal. The apparatus may further include a power amplifier (PA) that amplifies a modulated radio frequency (RF) signal based on the power supply voltage and provides an output RF signal.
US11641207B2
Disclosed is a fast lock phase-locked loop circuit for avoiding cycle slip, which belongs to the technical field of integrated circuits. The fast lock phase-locked loop circuit includes a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, an intermediate stage circuit, a loop filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator and a frequency divider. The phase frequency detector, the charge pump, the intermediate stage circuit, the loop filter and the voltage-controlled oscillator are connected in sequence; an output OUT end of the voltage-controlled oscillator is connected with an input IN end of frequency divider, and an output OUT end of the frequency divider is connected with an input IN end of the phase frequency detector to form a feedback path. The output clock frequency of the VCO and the expected frequency, i.e., the reference clock frequency and the feedback clock frequency, are prevented from being too close when the loop is started.
US11641188B1
One or more systems, devices and/or methods of use provided herein relate to a device that can facilitate a signal generation. A current-mode end-to-end signal path can include a digital to analog converter (DAC) operating in current-mode and an upconverting mixer, operating in current-mode and operatively coupled to the DAC. Analog inputs and analog outputs of the DAC and the upconverting mixer can be represented as currents, and the DAC can generate a baseband signal. In one or more embodiments, a current source and a diode-connected transistor can be arranged in parallel in the current-mode signal path between a baseband filter and an output stage comprising the upconverting mixer. The device and/or system can be a radio frequency DAC. The diode-connected transistor can be programmable to vary gain and/or can be directly connected to the output stage absent a turnaround current mirror connected therebetween.
US11641187B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to quartz crystal devices and more particularly to quartz crystal devices configured to vibrate in torsional mode. In one aspect, a quartz crystal device configured for temperature sensing comprises a fork-shaped quartz crystal comprising a pair of elongate tines laterally extending from a base region in a horizontal lengthwise direction of the fork-shaped quartz crystal. Each of the tines has formed on one or both of opposing sides thereof a vertically protruding line structure laterally elongated in the horizontal lengthwise direction. The quartz crystal device further comprises a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the one or both of the opposing sides of each of the tines and configured such that, when an electrical bias is applied between the first and second electrodes, the fork-shaped quartz crystal vibrates in a torsional mode in which each of the tines twists about a respective axis extending in the horizontal lengthwise direction.
US11641181B2
An amplifier system with high gain, compact size, and extended bandwidth is disclosed. The amplifier system includes one or more inputs configured to receive one or more input signals and a pre-driver configured to receive the one or more input signals. The pre-driver may comprise source connected FETs which create a virtual ground and may include inductors which cancel or counter parasitic capacitance of the FETs. The pre-driver amplifies the one or more input signals to create one or more pre-amplified signals, which are provided to a voltage divider network configured to reduce a DC bias voltage of the one or more pre-amplified signals, while maintaining a wide bandwidth range. An amplifier receives and amplifies the output of the voltage divider network to create amplified signals. The amplifier may comprise mirrored FET pairs in a common source configuration and a common gate arrangement.
US11641178B2
An oscillator circuit includes an oscillator transistor (Q1) having respective first, second, and control terminals, the oscillator transistor being arranged to generate a microwave oscillating signal at the first terminal. A surface integrated waveguide resonator (Y1) is connected to the second terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1). An active bias circuit portion (202) including a negative feedback arrangement is between the first terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1) and the control terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1), the active bias circuit portion being arranged to supply a bias current to the control terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1). The bias current is dependent on a voltage at the first terminal of the oscillator transistor (Q1) multiplied by a negative gain.
US11641164B2
A power conversion circuit includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a first switching conversion unit, a second switching conversion unit, a flying capacitor and a magnetic element. The first switching conversion unit includes a first switch and a third switch. The second switching conversion unit includes a second switch and a fourth switch. The magnetic element includes two first windings and a second winding. A first one of the two first windings is serially connected between the flying capacitor and the second terminal. A second one of the two first windings is serially connected between the second switch and the second terminal. The second winding is serially connected with the flying capacitor and the first one of the two first windings. A turn ratio between the second winding, the first one of the two first windings and the second one of the two first windings is N:1:1.
US11641163B2
A trans-inductor voltage regulator (TLVR) has regulator blocks and transformers. Secondary windings of the transformers are connected in series with a compensation inductor to form a trans-inductor loop, which is connected to the output voltage of the TLVR instead of to ground. Primary windings of the transformers serve as output inductors of the regulator blocks. The inductance of each output inductor and the output inductance of the TLVR are input to an averaging network of an averaging inductor direct current resistance (DCR) current sense circuit to generate an average sensed voltage. The average sensed voltage is converted to an average sensed current, which is used by a controller to generate control signals that drive the regulator blocks to generate the output voltage of the TLVR.
US11641160B1
A power providing circuit and a power providing method are provided. The power providing circuit includes at least one first charge pump circuit, at least one second charge pump circuit, a first control circuit, a signal latch, and a voltage detector. The first charge pump circuit is configured to receive a first clock to generate a first pump voltage. The second charge pump circuit is configured to receive the first clock to generate the first pump voltage. The first control circuit is configured to provide the first clock to the first charge pump circuit and the at second charge pump circuit according to a power-on detection signal. The signal latch is coupled to the second charge pump circuit. The voltage detector is configured to receive an operation voltage and generate the power-on detection signal by detecting the operation voltage.
US11641159B1
Circuits and methods that can rapidly detect voltage degradation in a positive charge pump output and discharge control node accumulated charge (CNAC), thereby forcing the positive charge pump into a high-power mode. Embodiments include circuitry configured to provide a load current to a positive charge pump, including a low-dropout regulator (LDO) having a pass device that includes a control input, and a rapid charge transfer circuit coupled to the control input of the pass device and configured to be coupled to a source of a trigger voltage, the rapid charge transfer circuit configured to transfer a charge to or from the control input of the pass device when the trigger voltage falls sufficiently below a specified level so as to rapidly place the pass device in a higher conduction state, and to automatically cease to provide the transfer the charge after a settable amount of time.
US11641158B2
A system includes a switching power converter, including a first transistor having a first gate, a first drain, and a first source, the first drain adapted to be coupled to a power supply. The switching power converter also includes a second transistor having a second gate, a second drain, and a second source, the second gate coupled to a second gate driver, the second source adapted to be coupled to ground, and the second drain coupled to the first source. The switching power converter also includes a third transistor having a third gate, a third drain, and a third source, the third gate adapted to be coupled to a current source, the third source coupled to a resistor, and the third drain coupled to the first gate. The switching power converter includes a capacitor coupled to the first drain and adapted to be coupled to the current source.
US11641155B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus and techniques for wireless communication implemented with harmonic cancellation. One example implementation includes a polar transmitter having at least one amplifier having an input configured to receive a phase-modulated signal to be amplified based on an amplitude-modulated signal, a harmonic cancellation circuit coupled to the input of the at least one amplifier, the harmonic cancellation circuit being configured to cancel at least one of an even harmonic or an odd harmonic of a transmission signal at an output of the polar transmitter, a controller having an output coupled to one or more control inputs of the harmonic cancellation circuit, and a feedback path between an output of the at least one amplifier and an input of the controller.
US11641147B2
The present disclosure is related to providing a motor capable of removing electric noise sufficiently. The present disclosure is also related to providing a motor capable of handling cases where no choke coil is disposed. A motor comprising a choke coil, a terminal electrically connected to a lead wire led out from the choke coil, and a bracket including a first wall part, a second wall part and an elastic part located between the first wall part and the second wall part in an axial direction of the choke coil, in which the choke coil is located between the elastic part and the second wall part in the axial direction, the terminal is sandwiched between the first wall part and the elastic part in the axial direction and the lead wire is led out from the elastic part side to the first wall part side.
US11641144B2
A method of removing heat from an electrical machine located in a gas turbine engine at least partially inward of a core airflow path in a radial direction, the electrical machine including an outer generator stator and an inner generator rotor is provided. The method includes directing cooling airflow radially through an airflow passageway to an enclosure at least partially defined by a thermal shield at least partially around the electrical machine. The cooling airflow is directed radially inward past the outer generator stator and toward the inner generator rotor using a cooling manifold thereby removing heat from the generator rotor.
US11641136B2
A device for high-frequency communication and for the inductive charging of an apparatus, including a charging surface, at least one charging antenna emitting a magnetic field at a low frequency and a layer of ferromagnetic material. The device includes at least one communication antenna and a printed circuit board. The communication antenna is in the form of a coil locally surrounding the layer with an axis of symmetry located in a plane parallel to the layer. The material of the layer is selected so as to have, at high frequency, an imaginary part with sufficiently high permeability to generate leaks on a surface of the layer extending perpendicular to the layer, while at the same time maintaining, at low frequency, an imaginary part with sufficiently low permeability to allow inductive charging.
US11641134B2
A wireless charging device includes a power source configured to generate a direct current (DC) voltage signal. Also, the wireless charging device includes a driver unit configured to receive the DC voltage signal and convert the DC voltage signal to a first alternating current (AC) voltage signal. Further, the wireless charging device includes a transmitting unit including a resonant capacitor and a resonant coil, coupled to the driver unit, wherein the transmitting unit is configured to receive and transmit the first AC voltage signal. Additionally, the wireless charging device includes a control unit configured to detect a receiver device based on a change in at least one of a capacitive voltage across the resonant capacitor and an inductive voltage across the resonant coil if the receiver device is positioned within a predetermined distance from the transmitting unit.
US11641133B2
A power management system includes an output facility configured to output output power with environment additive value and a consumption facility. The system further includes: a first receiver configured to receive, from the output facility, a message including an information element indicating the output power, a second receiver configured to receive, from the consumption facility, a message including an information element indicating consumption power consumed by the consumption facility, and a controller configured to identify the output power occupied in the consumption power and identify alternative power corresponding to a power loss, based on the power loss occurring on a power path from the output facility to the consumption facility. The controller is configured to identify the environment additive value corresponding to the output power occupied in the consumption power without based on the power loss.
US11641132B2
Embodiments described herein provided methods and apparatus for controlling switching a power supply of a first network node between an electrical power grid and an alternative power supply in which the first network node is configured to transmit data to a second network node over a data transmission link. The method includes receiving first information indicative of a predicted decrease in a transmission rate of data transmitted by the first network node over the data transmission link. Responsive to receiving the first information, a first request is transmitted to the first network node to switch the power supply of the first network node from the electrical power grid to the alternative power supply.
US11641131B2
Systems and methods for verifying correct completion of a power control sequence in a switchgear provide a commissioning agent that can automatically verify correct completion of the power control sequence. The commissioning agent includes a sequence verification tool that can initiate performance of a power control sequence in the switchgear and immediately compare the sequence actually performed to the sequence intended to be performed. If the two sequences do not match in order and timing, the verification tool reports the mismatch and identifies the error. In some embodiments, the commissioning agent further includes a log viewer that captures the sequence actually performed in the switchgear and displays the result for viewing. Such an arrangement provides a faster and more reliable way to double-check the system integrity of the switchgear during initial engineering and after factory and/or field modifications.
US11641129B2
A power distribution system utilizes direct-current (DC) electrical power. A distribution cable carries DC power from a distribution unit to an edge device. The edge device provides a communication connector with DC power for use by a load device. The edge device optionally includes an energy storage device, such as a rechargeable battery, to allow the edge device to provide more power to the load device than it is receiving from the power distribution unit for some period of time.
US11641128B2
Presented are mobile charging stations for recharging electrified vehicles, methods for making/using such mobile charging stations, and parking facilities equipped with such mobile charging stations. A mobile charging station includes a frame with drive wheels and a prime mover operable to drive the wheels to propel the charging station. A hydrogen storage container and fuel cell are mounted to the frame. The fuel cell oxidizes hydrogen received from the storage container to generate electrical current. An electrical coupling mechanism connects the fuel cell to a battery pack of an electric-drive vehicle. A resident or remote controller is programmed to receive charge requests to recharge vehicles, and responsively determines path plan data for the mobile charging station. The controller commands the prime mover to propel the mobile charging station from the charger's origin to a charger destination, and enables the fuel cell to transmit electrical current to the vehicle.
US11641118B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and apparatus for a battery system. The apparatus may provide a fuel gauge circuit that operates in conjunction with a protection circuit to control discharging and/or current leakage at exposed terminals of the apparatus.
US11641115B2
Provided is a method for feeding electrical power into an electrical supply network having a network voltage with a network frequency by means of a converter-based generator, in particular by means of a wind power system, comprising the following steps: estimating a converter proportion, representing a ratio of power fed in by means of converters to total power fed in, of a network section of the electrical supply network, feeding electrical power into the electrical supply network in a normal mode, and activating at least one support control for supporting the electrical supply network. The activating is effected depending on the converter proportion, the at least one support control is adjustable in each case by way of a degree of activation, and the degree of activation of the at least one support control is dependent in each case on the estimated converter proportion.
US11641110B2
Apparatus and method for controlling reactive power. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a bidirectional power converter comprising a switched mode cycloconverter for generating AC power having a desired amount of a reactive power component.
US11641108B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for controlling power modes in electronic devices are provided. A system may include an electronic device and an input device that sends power mode selection information via a network to a power mode selection receiving component in the electronic device. The electronic device includes a first power component that powers a first component, and a switching component that controls the first power component. The electronic device may include a second power component that powers a second component. The switching component may control the second power component. The power mode selection receiving component and the switching component may be powered independently of the first and the second component. If the power mode selection information indicates an off mode, the electronic device may provide power to the power mode selection receiving component and the switching component and not to the first and the second component.
US11641102B2
An apparatus for injecting impedance into a high voltage (HV) transmission line is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of modular flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) based impedance injection units (IIUs), each modular FACTS based IIU without fault current protection. The apparatus further comprises a fault current protection module external to the modular FACTS based IIUs. The fault current protection module is coupled to the modular FACTS based IIUs to provide fault current protection to the modular FACTS based IIUs.
US11641100B2
A system includes a first USB Type-C Power Delivery (USB-C/PD) port and a control circuit operatively coupled to the first USB-C/PD port. The control circuit is configured to determine whether a short circuit condition has occurred. The control circuit is also configured to turn off a ground isolation switch when short circuit condition occurs. The control circuit is further configured to determine a whether a voltage on a configuration channel line (CC line) is greater than a first threshold voltage. The control circuit is further configured to determine whether the voltage on the CC line is less than a second threshold voltage. The control circuit is further configured to turn on the ground isolation switch when the voltage on the CC line is less than the second threshold voltage. The control circuit may perform one or more error recovery operations after turning on the ground isolation switch.
US11641096B2
An electrical box assembly is provided. The electrical box assembly includes an electrical box and a support bracket positioned proximate the back wall of the electrical box and coupled to the electrical box. The support bracket includes a plate member and a cable management member extending laterally from the plate member and forming at least one pass-through opening sized to receive an electrical cable. The plate member includes a bending line that divides the plate member into a first portion and a second portion. The plate member has first and second configurations. The plate member is generally planar in the first configuration. When the plate member is in the second configuration, the first portion of the plate member bends along the bending line and extends laterally from the second portion to engage a second wall opposing the first wall and opposing the back wall of the electrical box.
US11641092B2
In various embodiments, laser devices include a thermal bonding layer featuring an array of carbon nanotubes and at least one metallic thermal bonding material.
US11641087B2
Low power MASER (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) radiation is used to non-invasively record molecular activity in a biological object such as a brain. Low power MASER radiation is also used to neuromodulate molecular targets via Rabi coupling, resulting for example in conformational and function change in specific molecular targets such as ligand-gated ion channels, voltage-gated ion channels, G-proteins, or dopamine receptors. The method can be used to change the energy state of targeted molecules via energization or enervation, or to ablate targeted molecules.
US11641081B2
The present disclosure a connector including a housing, a terminal module, a metal plate and a shielding member. The housing is provided with a slot. The terminal module includes a number of signal terminals and an insulating block. Each signal terminal is provided with a contact portion extending into the slot. The metal plate and the at least one terminal module are arranged side by side along a thickness direction of the connector. The shielding member extends along the thickness direction to contact the insulating block and to be electrically connected to the ground plate.
US11641079B2
An electrical connector for a compressor of an HVAC system includes electrical leads and a plug communicatively coupled to the electrical leads. The plug includes a plug body and first connectors configured to electrically couple the electrical leads to second connectors of the compressor via engagement of the first connectors with the second connectors. The first connectors are symmetrically distributed on the plug body such that the first connectors can align with the second connectors in a plurality of alignment orientations of the first connectors and the second connectors. The plug also includes at least one interference projection radially extending from a periphery of the plug body. The at least one interference projection is configured to physically interfere with a positioning guide of the compressor and block engagement between the first connectors and the second connectors in all except for one alignment orientation of the plurality of alignment orientations.
US11641076B2
An electronically lockable, electrical plug configured to communicate power and data signals to mobile electronic devices (MED) includes a male electrical plug body insertable into a female electrical socket of the MED and plurality of electrical contacts defined in the male electrical plug for communicating the power and data signals to and from the MED, via corresponding electrical contacts associated with an MED electrical socket. The MED electrical socket is shaped and sized to physically receive and support therein said male electrical plug body. Plug locking elements are formed in the male plug body are so formed as to be lockable to or with corresponding, complementary socket locking elements of the MED, so that upon insertion of the male plug body into the MED socket the electrical plug is locked with the MED An associated, electronically operable locking mechanism is operable to mechanically disengage the plug locking elements from the socket locking elements to thereby enable the electrical plug to be released from the MED and an electrical cable is coupled to the male plug body for electrically conducting the signals.
US11641067B1
Technologies directed to terminated bridge elements between panel gaps are of an antenna structure are described. The antenna structure includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board, and a structure. The first circuit board includes a first set of antenna elements. The second circuit board includes a second set of antenna elements. The structure is located over a gap between the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The structure includes an antenna element. The antenna element, an antenna element of the first set of antenna elements, and an antenna element of the second set of antenna elements form a lattice pattern.
US11641065B2
An antenna device is provided. The antenna device includes a first antenna patch configured to transmit and receive an RF signal in a first frequency bandwidth and disposed a first dielectric layer; a second antenna patch disposed on a second dielectric layer and coupled to the first antenna patch; a third antenna patch disposed on a third dielectric layer and coupled to the second antenna patch; and a fourth antenna patch configured to transmit and receive an RF signal in the second frequency bandwidth, wherein the second antenna patch includes a plurality of first sub-antenna patches that do not overlap the first antenna patch, and the third antenna patch includes a plurality of second sub-antenna patches that overlap the first sub-antenna patches.
US11641060B2
A ten-frequency band antenna includes a carrier, a high-frequency segment, a low-frequency segment, a printed circuit board (PCB) and an inductor. The high-frequency segment is arranged on left side of the carrier and the low-frequency segment is arranged on right side of the carrier. The radiator on the bottom face of the carrier electrically connects with the micro strip of the PCB and the ground line of the ground metal when the carrier is fixed to the PCB. The low-frequency segment is located at an opened area and corresponding to a metal face with smaller area such that the low-frequency segment is at a free space to enhance the frequency response of the low-frequency segment and the bandwidth of the high-frequency segment. The area and the volume of blind hole on the carrier can adjust the effective dielectric constant to adjust the resonant frequency and bandwidth of the antenna.
US11641051B2
A controllable electrical outlet may comprise a resonant loop antenna. The resonant loop antenna may comprise a feed loop electrically coupled to a radio-frequency (RF) communication circuit and a main loop magnetically coupled to the feed loop. The controllable electrical outlet may comprise one or more electrical receptacles configured to receive a plug of a plug-in electrical load and may be configured to control power delivered to the plug-in electrical load in response to an RF signal received via the RF communication circuit. The RF performance of the controllable electrical outlet may be substantially immune to devices plugged into the receptacles (e.g., plugs, power supplies, etc.) due to the operation of the resonant loop antenna. For example, degradation of the RF performance of the controllable electrical outlet may be less when the controllable electrical outlet includes the resonant loop antenna rather than other types of antennas.
US11641046B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery module, including two or more battery cells, each including an electrode terminal; a connecting member, wherein the electrode terminals of adjacent battery cells are connected by the connecting member; and a clamping-sampling member, including a wire connection portion for fixing a wire harness and a clamping portion, wherein one end of the clamping portion is connected with the wire connection portion and the other end of the clamping portion clamps the connecting member.
US11641045B2
An ion trapping agent which is a layered phosphate compound that includes a proton as an ion exchange group, that supports lithium ions in excess of a theoretical exchange capacity of the layered phosphate compound, and that has no water of crystallization; and a separator for a lithium ion battery or a lithium ion secondary battery containing the ion trapping agent.
US11641042B2
A battery, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise: a pouch; an electrode assembly received in the pouch in a state in which a positive electrode substrate, a negative electrode substrate disposed below the positive electrode substrate, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode substrate and the negative electrode substrate are rolled up together; a first adhesive member for fixing at least one portion of one end of the electrode assembly to the rolled up outer surface of the electrode assembly; and a second adhesive member for providing fixing between the electrode assembly and the pouch at a region other than the region where the first adhesive member is disposed.
US11641039B2
A vehicle battery temperature control apparatus includes a battery temperature detector, first and second ducts, an exhaust pipe, a heat receiver, a blower fan, and a processor. The processor causes the blower fan to rotate in one of opposite directions, thereby introducing cooling air from the first duct into a battery compartment, and emitting the cooling air that has cooled a battery to the outside via the second duct, if the battery temperature is higher than a first set temperature, and causes the blower fan to rotate in the other direction, thereby introducing air raised in temperature by exchanging heat with the exhaust pipe through the heat receiver from the second duct into the battery compartment, and emitting the air that has raised the temperature of the battery to the outside via the first duct, if the battery temperature is lower than a second set temperature.
US11641038B2
A pouch-type secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, and a pouch member in which the electrode assembly is accommodated and a sealing portion is formed on an edge of the pouch member, where the sealing portion protruding on one side surface extends in a diagonal direction towards the other side surface adjacent to the at least one side surface.
US11641036B1
Vehicles can employ onboard telematic monitoring devices to collect vehicle and operation data, such as for improved vehicle fleet management. Such telematic monitoring devices are dependent on power from a vehicle, such that data collection and communication can be interrupted if a telematic monitoring device is disconnected or has a poor connection. The present disclosure relates to battery devices, which provide power to telematic monitoring devices as needed in order to maintain data collection and communication, or other more limited functionality. The present disclosure also relates to systems including battery devices, and methods for operating battery devices. The present disclosure also relates to detecting temperature of batteries, as well as emergency input and messages for telematic monitoring systems.
US11641034B2
A fuel cell system installed in a vehicle, the system comprising: a fuel cell, a secondary cell, a system temperature acquirer for acquiring a temperature of an inside of the fuel cell system, and a controller, wherein, when the system temperature is a predetermined first temperature or less, the controller charges the secondary cell until a state-of-charge value of the secondary cell reaches a predetermined first threshold value, and the controller carries out a first pattern purge on the fuel cell, and wherein, when the system temperature exceeds the predetermined first temperature, the controller charges the secondary cell until the state-of-charge value of the secondary cell reaches a predetermined second threshold value that is larger than the predetermined first threshold value, and the controller carries out a second pattern purge having a shorter purge time than the first pattern purge on the fuel cell.
US11641031B2
A solid electrolyte according to the present disclosure is represented by the following compositional formula (1). Li7−x+y(La3−ySry)(Zr2−xMx)O12 (1) In the formula (1), x and y satisfy 0.20≤x<1.50 and 0.00
US11641030B2
A solid-state ion conductor includes a compound of Formula 1: Li16+(5−n)*a−(2+m)*bM2−aXnaN8O1−bAmb Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, M is Ta, Nb, V, or a combination thereof, X is an element having an oxidation state of n, wherein n is +1, +2, +3, +4, or a combination thereof, A is an element having an oxidation state of m, wherein m is −1, −2, or a combination thereof, and 0
US11641027B2
A secondary battery system includes a secondary battery having a positive electrode including a positive electrode active substance and a negative electrode including first and second negative electrode active substances, and a control device that estimates an internal state of the secondary battery based on an active substance model of the secondary battery. The control device calculates a charge carrier amount in the first negative electrode active substance based on a first active substance model, under a condition that the first and second negative electrode active substances are at the same potential, calculates an amount of change in open circuit potential of the first negative electrode active substance based on surface stress of the first negative electrode active substance, and calculates an open circuit potential of the negative electrode from the open circuit potential and the amount of change in open circuit potential of the first negative electrode active substance.
US11641010B2
A light-emitting device includes a carrier, a light-emitting element and a connection structure. The carrier includes a first electrical conduction portion. The light-emitting element includes a first light-emitting layer capable of emitting first light and a first contact electrode formed under the light-emitting layer. The first contact electrode is corresponded to the first electrical conduction portion. The connection structure includes a first electrical connection portion and a protective portion surrounding the first contact electrode and the first electrical connection portion. The first electrical connection portion includes an upper portion, a lower portion and a neck portion arranged between the upper portion and the lower portion. The lower portion has a width is wider than of the upper portion.
US11641003B2
Diffusion-based and ion implantation-based methods are provided for fabricating planar photodetectors. The methods may be used to fabricate planar photodetectors comprising type II superlattice absorber layers but without mesa structures. The fabricated planar photodetectors exhibit high quantum efficiencies, low dark current densities, and high specific detectivities as compared to photodetectors having mesa structures.
US11640996B2
A semiconductor device with favorable electric characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor layer, and first to third conductive layers. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a region in contact with the first insulating layer, the first conductive layer is connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, and the second conductive layer is connected to the oxide semiconductor layer. The second insulating layer includes a region in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, and the third conductive layer includes a region in contact with the second insulating layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes first to third regions. The first region and the second region are separated from each other, and the third region is located between the first region and the second region. The third region and the third conductive layer overlap with each other with the second insulating layer located therebetween. The first region and the second region include a region having a higher carbon concentration than the third region.
US11640985B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin comprising silicon, the fin having a lower fin portion and an upper fin portion. A first insulating layer is directly on sidewalls of the lower fin portion of the fin, wherein the first insulating layer is a non-doped insulating layer comprising silicon and oxygen. A second insulating layer is directly on the first insulating layer directly on the sidewalls of the lower fin portion of the fin, the second insulating layer comprising silicon and nitrogen. A dielectric fill material is directly laterally adjacent to the second insulating layer directly on the first insulating layer directly on the sidewalls of the lower fin portion of the fin.
US11640981B2
The invention provides a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure includes a substrate, two shallow trench isolation structures are located in the substrate, a first region, a second region and a third region are defined between the two shallow trench isolation structures, the second region is located between the first region and the third region. Two thick oxide layers are respectively located in the first region and the third region and directly contact the two shallow trench isolation structures respectively, and a thin oxide layer is located in the second region, the thickness of the thick oxide layer in the first region is greater than that of the thin oxide layer in the second region.
US11640980B2
A field-effect transistor includes a gate structure comprising a structure in which a first insulating layer, a first gate electrode, and a second insulating layer are sequentially stacked on a first conductive layer, the gate structure surrounding a first hole through the first insulating layer and exposing a part of the first conductive layer; a second conductive layer on the second insulating layer and surrounding a second hole connected to the first hole and exposing a part of the first conductive layer; a first gate insulating layer covering an inner wall of the gate structure exposed by the first hole; a semiconductor layer covering a part of the first conductive layer exposed through the first hole and the second hole, the first gate insulating layer, and the second conductive layer; a second gate insulating layer covering the semiconductor layer; and a second gate electrode filling the first and second holes.
US11640976B2
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure with first conductive layers and insulating layers that are stacked alternately with each other, second conductive layers located on the stacked structure, first openings passing through the second conductive layers and the stacked structure and having a first width, second conductive patterns formed in the first openings and located on the stacked structure to be electrically coupled to the second conductive layers, data storage patterns formed in the first openings and located under the second conductive patterns, and channel layers formed in the data storage patterns and the second conductive patterns.
US11640975B2
A semiconductor device includes an emitter, a base, and a collector. A portion of the collector is located below a trench in a substrate. A collector silicide is located on at least a portion of a bottom portion of the trench and on at least a portion of a sidewall of the trench. The collector silicide structure is electrically coupled to a collector contact structure.
US11640970B2
A capacitor structure includes an insulation layer and a capacitor unit disposed on the insulation layer. The capacitor unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first dielectric layer, and a patterned conductive layer. The second electrode is disposed above the first electrode in a vertical direction. The first dielectric layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode in the vertical direction. The patterned conductive layer is disposed between first electrode and the second electrode, the patterned conductive layer is electrically connected with the first electrode, and the first dielectric layer surrounds the patterned conductive layer in a horizontal direction.
US11640960B2
A number of integrated circuits and methods of manufacturing the integrated circuits are described. An integrated circuit can include different semiconductor devices formed from different semiconductor systems in different regions over the same substrate. The integrated circuit can also include bulk regions of low-loss electrically-insulating material extending through the substrate and located between the different semiconductor regions. Passive RF circuit elements can be formed on the low-loss electrically-insulating material.
US11640956B2
A module-rotation LED dome belongs to the technical field of display screens and includes multiple display devices. Each display device includes 1st-4th light-emitting units. The second light-emitting unit is located beside the first light-emitting unit and oriented with a clockwise rotation of 90 degrees relative to the first light-emitting unit. The third light-emitting unit is located below the second light-emitting unit and oriented with a clockwise rotation of 90 degrees relative to the second light-emitting unit. The fourth light-emitting unit is located beside the third light-emitting unit and oriented with a clockwise rotation of 90 degrees relative to the third light-emitting unit. The 2nd-4th light-emitting units sequentially are rotated clockwise with 90 degrees, so that adjacent full-color LEDs in the 1st-4th light-emitting units cannot form adjacent LEDs of a same color, and there is no condition of appearing a bright blue line.
US11640952B2
An electronic component embedded substrate includes a core structure including a first insulating body and core wiring layers and having a cavity and having a stopper layer disposed as a bottom surface; an electronic component disposed in the cavity and attached to the stopper layer; and a build-up structure including a second insulating body covering at least a portion each of the core structure and the electronic component and filling at least a portion of the cavity, and build-up wiring layers wherein the stopper layer has a first region in which a portion of one surface is exposed from the first insulating body and a second region in which the other portion of one surface is covered with the first insulating body, and a surface roughness of one surface of the stopper layer in the first region is greater than that of the stopper layer in the second region.
US11640950B2
A semiconductor chip includes; an intermetal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate, an uppermost insulation layer on the IMD layer, the uppermost insulation layer having a dielectric constant different from a dielectric constant of the IMD layer, a metal wiring in the IMD layer, the metal wiring including a via contact and a metal pattern, a metal pad in the uppermost insulation layer, the metal pad being electrically connected to the metal wiring, and a bump pad on the metal pad. An interface portion between the IMD layer and the uppermost insulation layer is disposed at a height of a portion between an upper surface and a lower surface of an uppermost metal pattern in the IMD layer.
US11640938B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes impurity regions formed in surface portions of a substrate, gate structures formed on surface portions of the substrate between the impurity regions, a first insulating layer formed on the impurity regions and the gate structures, first wiring patterns formed on the first insulating layer, and first contact patterns connecting the impurity regions and the first wiring patterns through the first insulating layer, and the first wiring patterns are arranged in a zigzag shape.
US11640933B2
Embodiments are disclosed for providing a ball grid array pattern for an integrated circuit. An example integrated circuit apparatus includes an integrated circuit and a ball grid array. The integrated circuit includes at least a package substrate and a silicon chip. The ball grid array is disposed on the package substrate of the integrated circuit. The ball grid array includes a first set of solder balls that is configured to provide electrical connections for communication channels and a second set of the solder balls associated with an electrical ground. The first set of solder balls includes a first subset of solder balls configured in a first orientation and a second subset of solder balls configured in a second orientation. Furthermore, at least one solder ball from the second set of the solder balls is disposed between the first subset of solder balls and the second subset of solder balls.
US11640925B2
A packaged power device includes a ceramic package body having a top drain pad having a first area, a top source pad having a second area smaller than the first area, and a top gate pad having a third area smaller than the second area; a power device having a bottom surface affixed to a top drain pad, a die source pad coupled to the top source pad, and a die gate pad coupled to the top gate pad; and a ceramic lid affixed to the ceramic package body to form the packaged power device.
US11640908B2
A method of implanting an implant species into a substrate at different depths is described. The method includes forming an implant mask over the substrate. The implant mask includes a first implant zone designed as an opening and a second implant zone designed as a block array. The implant species is implanted through the implant mask under an implant angle tilted against a block plane, such that a first implant area is formed by the implant species at a first depth in the substrate beneath the first implant zone and a second implant area is formed by the implant species at a second depth in the substrate beneath the second implant zone. The first depth is greater than the second depth.
US11640902B2
An ion detector includes a first dynode, a second dynode, a scintillator, a conductive layer, and a photomultiplier tube. The first dynode is configured to emit a charged particle in response to the incidence of the ion. The second dynode is configured to be given a negative potential and emit a secondary electron in response to incidence of the charged particle from the first dynode. The scintillator includes an electron incident surface arranged to receive the secondary electron from the second dynode, and is configured to convert the secondary electron into light. The conductive layer is disposed on the electron incident surface. The photomultiplier tube is configured to detect the light from the scintillator.
US11640897B2
The present invention provides a charged particle beam apparatus capable of efficiently reducing the effect of a residual magnetic field when SEM observation is performed. The charged particle beam apparatus according to the present invention includes a first mode for passing a direct current to a second coil after turning off a first coil, and a second mode for passing an alternating current to the second coil after turning off the first coil.
US11640894B2
A charged particle beam apparatus that includes a magnetic lens having an electromagnetic coil composed of a pair of coils includes: a setting unit that sets a maximum current value that defines a maximum magnetomotive force of the magnetic lens based on an operation of a user; and a current control unit that controls a current to be supplied to each of the pair of coils within a current range corresponding to a set maximum current value so that thermal power consumed by the electromagnetic coil is maintained constant at thermal power corresponding to the set maximum current value.
US11640893B1
A high-power vacuum electron device source of 10 mm-0.1 mm wavelength radiation is composed of an electron gun joined to a RF vacuum electronic circuit. The electron gun includes a cathode, a focus electrode, and a grid. It generates an electron beam that is injected into the circuit for amplifying RF waves. The circuit is composed of metal circuit plates, e.g., copper alloy, that mate with each other and are shaped to provide a beam tunnel and RF circuit envelopes. Precision alignment pins made of nickel super alloy, are used to mutually align the metal circuit plates using elastic averaging implemented by positioning the precision alignment pins in precision alignment holes in the metal circuit plates. Preferably, the electron gun is aligned with the circuit using quasi-kinematic coupling.
US11640890B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a first movable contact piece, a moving member, a coil, and a movable iron core. The moving member holds the first movable contact piece. The movable iron core is connected to the moving member and is configured to move by a magnetic force generated by the coil. The moving member is made of resin having electrical insulation. The moving member includes a first member and a second member. The second member is connected to the first member by snap fitting. The first member includes a first protrusion. The second member includes a second main body, a first locking portion, and a first arm. The first locking portion locks to the first protrusion. The first arm connects the second main body and the first locking portion. A thickness of the first arm is smaller than a thickness of the first locking portion.
US11640887B2
A mechanical latching accessory kit for a Medium Voltage contactor including one or more movable contacts connected through a mechanical link to a contact actuator moving the one or more movable contacts between a contact open position and a contact closed position. The mechanical latching accessory kit includes: a supporting interface adapted to be fixed to and removed from the Medium Voltage contactor; a latching element movable between a first operating position and a second resting position; a latching actuating system moving the latching element between the first, operating, position and the second, resting, position; the latching element being adapted, when it is in the first operating position, to cooperate with the mechanical link of the Medium Voltage contactor to latch the one or more movable contacts, and, when it is in the second resting position, to release the one or more movable contacts.
US11640861B2
A power cable having a central ground conductor. Phase interweave power conductors are positioned about the central ground conductor. Individual phase interweave power conductors have the same diameter. The individual phase interweave power conductors have a cross sectional area which is optimized. Each of the individual phase interweave power conductors is configured to support 100% cross sectional usage to maximize power carrying capability. The power cable reduces the skin effect of the power cable and the proximity effect of the power cable.
US11640859B2
A method and system for conducting genomic sequencing, the method comprising storing a set of user application programs wherein each of the programs requires an application specific subset of data, for each of a plurality of patients that have cancerous cells and that receive cancer treatment, obtaining clinical records data in original forms including cancer state information, treatment types and treatment efficacy information, storing the clinical records data in a semi-structured first database, for each patient, using a genomic sequencer to generate genomic sequencing data for the patient's cancerous cells and normal cells, storing the sequencing data in the first database, shaping at least a subset of the first database data to generate system structured data including clinical record data and sequencing data wherein the system structured data is optimized for searching, storing the system structured data in a second database, for each user application program, selecting the application specific subset of data from the second database and storing the application specific subset of data in a structure optimized for application program interfacing in a third database.
US11640857B2
Examples described herein generally relate to referring a patient to a provider for a drug use disorder. A computer system accesses a plurality of provider data records. The system determines a geographical location of the patient. The system searches, within a geographical distance of the geographical location for a provider that satisfies patient requirements based on a patient data record. The system determines one or more certified providers that are certified to treat a condition of the patient. The system determines that one or more of the certified providers has an available opening for the patient. The system determines an outcome rating for the patient and each certified provider based on the patient data record. The system matches the patient to a certified provider with a best outcome rating that accepts payment from a payer for the patient. The system refers the patient to the matched provider.
US11640854B1
Provided are systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for obtaining specific information about one or more psychological conditions. The information is obtained in a manner such that a second response is based on a first response. Once the information has been obtained, a customized content program for responding to the one or more psychological conditions may be generated.
US11640852B2
In a risk level assessment method for a plurality of clinical conditions as follows, a set of laboratory test results (32) are stored with time stamps for a patient, including at least one hematology test result and at least one arterial blood gas (ABG) test result. For each clinical condition, a risk level is determined for the clinical condition based on a clinical condition-specific sub-set of the stored set of laboratory test results. This determination is made conditional on the stored clinical condition-specific sub-set of laboratory test results being sufficient to determine the risk level. A time stamp is assigned to each determined risk level based on the time stamps for the laboratory test results of the clinical condition-specific sub-set of laboratory test results. A display device (44, 46) displays the determined risk level and the assigned time stamp for each clinical condition whose determined risk level satisfies a display criterion.
US11640851B2
A vaccine candidate is herein described comprised by statistically significant DNA fragments resulting in three types of compositions: 1) a composition of statistically significant DNA fragments, 2) a composition of RNA transcripts corresponding to the statistically significant DNA fragments, and 3) a computational reduction composition wherein the DNA fragments are fully or partially subtracted from a base organism, resulting in a synthetic organism which has a high statistical likelihood of problematic functions being partially or fully removed.
US11640847B2
This invention relates to the identification of peptide binding to ligands, and in particular to identification of epitopes expressed by microorganisms and by mammalian cells. The present invention provides polypeptides comprising the epitopes, and vaccines, antibodies and diagnostic products that utilize or are developed using the epitopes.
US11640844B2
A method for detecting a writing error of a datum in memory includes: storing at least two parts of equal size of a binary word representative of said datum at the same address in at least two identical memory circuits, and comparing internal control signals of the two memory circuits to determine existence of the writing error.
US11640834B2
A droop reduction circuit on a die includes a voltage detector circuit to detect voltage droop in a supply voltage received by a first load. The droop reduction circuit further includes a driver controller circuit to drive power switch (PSH) banks in response to detection of the voltage droop. Each of the PSH banks includes at least one power switch having an input terminal, a gate terminal, and an output terminal. The input terminal is to receive a secondary voltage, which is higher than the supply voltage and is also received by a second load on the die. The gate terminal is to receive a drive signal from the driver controller, and the output terminal is to pull up the voltage droop in the supply voltage.
US11640833B2
A disk-shaped substrate for a magnetic disk has a diameter D of 85 mm or more and a thickness T of 0.6 mm or less, and a material of the substrate has a Young's modulus E of 90 GPa or more.
US11640832B2
An emotion-based voice interaction method, a storage medium and a terminal device, the method comprising: receiving voice information to be processed, and acquiring an intent type of the voice information (S10); when the intent type is an emotion intent, determining an emotion type of the voice information (S20); generating a voice response for the voice interaction according to the emotion type, and playing the voice response (S30). The present method can generate a corresponding voice response according to emotion intent, enabling a voice response to match the emotion intent of the user, both realizing voice interaction and achieving emotional interaction, making use more convenient for a user. The emotion type of the voice information is further determined by comparing pitch, fluctuation and tone with corresponding ranges.
US11640826B2
A communication system includes at least one first device and at least one second device which are linked in a manner that enables data transfer with each other. The first device enables the speech signal that it receives as the input to be expressed in terms of the energy functions representing the energy patterns, information functions representing the information patterns and the noise functions of the frames of the real speech samples; and transfers the indexes of these functions in the database and the frame gain factor of each frame to the second device. The second device finds the functions via the indexes from the copy database which is a copy of the database and reconstructs the speech signal by these functions and the frame gain factor, enabling it to be provided as the voice output.
US11640824B2
Systems, devices, and methods transcribe words recorded in audio data. A computer-generated transcript is provided. The transcript comprises records for each word in the computer-generated transcript. At least one confirmation input is received for each record. The at least one confirmation input modifies a selected record and automatically identifies a next record for receiving a next confirmation input. A sequence of confirmation inputs may rapidly modify and validate each record in a sequence of records in the computer-generated transcript. A validated transcript is generated from the modified records and is provided from an evidence management system.
US11640823B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for a speech processing routing architecture. First input data representing an input request may be received. First data may be sent to a first skill representing a first request for the first skill to evaluate an ability of the first skill to process the first input data. Second data may be sent to a second skill representing a second request for the second skill to evaluate an ability of the second skill to process the first input data. Third data may be received from the first skill indicating a first action performed by the first skill in response to receipt of the first input data. Fourth data may be received from the second skill indicating a second action performed by the second skill. The first skill may be selected for processing the first input data.
US11640809B2
The invention comprises a system of client-server visualization with hybrid data processing, having a server digital data processor, that allows for server side rendering and processing image data, and client digital data processors simultaneously connected to the server, which receives messages from the clients, creates rendered images of data sets or other data processing results and sends those rendered images and results to the clients for display or further processing. Performing certain image rendering operations on either the server or the client according to which is better suited for the tasks requested by the user at any point in time, and possibly adjusting this division of work dynamically, improves rendering speed and application responsiveness on the clients.
US11640802B2
A display device, comprising a display panel and a touch panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of scan lines. The plurality of scan lines are respectively classified into a plurality of scan areas, and the display panel is configured to sequentially scan the plurality of scan areas through the plurality of scanning lines. The touch panel is electrically connected to the display panel, and is configured to receive a touch signal. During a first frame period, when a position of the touch signal corresponds to one of plurality of the scan areas, the display panel is configured to start scanning the plurality of scan areas from the one of the plurality of the scan areas to display an image of the plurality of scan areas.
US11640792B2
A method of driving a display device including a sensing line, a light-emitting element, a capacitor, and a driving transistor, the driving transistor comprising a control terminal that is connected to the capacitor, an input terminal, and an output terminal, the method including: connecting the control terminal and the output terminal; connecting the control terminal and the output terminal to a ground voltage and then disconnecting the control terminal and the output terminal from the ground voltage; sensing a first voltage of the control terminal through the sensing line; and calculating a threshold voltage of the driving transistor based on the first voltage.
US11640791B2
A pixel includes a capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode, a first transistor which generates a driving current, a second transistor which applies a data voltage to the first electrode of the capacitor, a third transistor which applies an initialization voltage to the second electrode of the capacitor, a fourth transistor which generates a leakage current in response to a dimming signal, and a light emitting element which emits light based on a residual driving current, where the residual driving current is obtained by subtracting the leakage current from the driving current.
US11640790B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel rendering method, a pixel rendering device, a computer readable storage medium, and a display panel. The method includes: receiving an initial data signal for driving a target sub-pixel to display; determining a data range where the initial data signal is located, where different data ranges correspond to different display modes; determining a weight of color, shared by the target sub-pixel, of a sub-pixel around the target sub-pixel and having the same color as the target sub-pixel according to the data range, where the weight of color is varied in the different display modes; calculating a target data signal of the target sub-pixel according to the weight of color; and outputting the target data signal to the target sub-pixel.
US11640788B2
A stage including: an output circuit connected to a first node and a second node; an input connected to a third node and a fourth node; and a plurality of signal processors between the output and the input, the plurality of signal processors electrically connecting the first node and the third node and electrically connecting the second node and the fourth node, wherein the input includes: a seventh transistor connected between a first input terminal and the fourth node and having a gate electrode connected to a second input terminal; a plurality of eighth transistors serially connected between the third node and the second input terminal and having gate electrodes connected to the fourth node; and a ninth transistor connected between the third node and a second power source and having a gate electrode connected to the second input terminal.
US11640782B2
The invention relates to a gamma adjustment method and device for a display panel. The gamma adjustment method comprises the following steps: obtaining the light intensity of ambient light of a display panel; obtaining a value of the intensity of the reflected light from the display panel according to the light intensity of the ambient light and the corresponding relation between the intensity of the reflected light from the display panel and the light intensity of the ambient light; and determining a gamma curve according to the value of the intensity of the reflected light and the maximum brightness of the display panel.
US11640781B2
The present disclosure relates to a data driving device and a display device including the same, and more particularly, to a data driving device and a display device including the same, capable of improving the slew rate and the display speed of the display device by overdriving a pixel of a display panel with a power voltage of the data driving device.
US11640776B1
An arcuate display device, including an arcuate display surface, a plurality of display units, an image source, and a controller, is provided. The display units are configured on the arcuate display surface in an array manner, and each of the display units includes a plurality of pixels. The controller is configured to receive a plurality of pixel signals from the image source to generate a plurality of frame signals respectively corresponding to the display units. Each of the frame signals includes the pixel signals, a plurality of first dummy signals, and a plurality of second dummy signals, in which the pixel signals respectively correspond to the pixels. A sum of an amount of the pixel signals, an amount of the first dummy signals, and an amount of the second dummy signals in each of the frame signals is same. A driving method of the arcuate display device is also provided.
US11640774B2
A display method includes, determining a first target value by correcting a first luminance value representing luminance at a first position in a first image based on a second luminance value representing luminance at a second position in the first image, displaying, by the display apparatus, on the display surface a first corrected image generated by correcting the first image in such a way that a luminance at the first position in the first image becomes the first target value, displaying, by the display apparatus, on the display surface a third corrected image generated by using a changed first target value obtained by changing the first target value based on a second target value based on a fourth luminance value representing luminance at a fourth position in the second image, when the second target value is smaller than the first target value.
US11640772B1
A disabled vehicle illumination sign including a sign assembly, an electronic assembly and an attaching assembly is disclosed herein. The sign assembly includes a plurality of members being hingedly connected one to each other. The plurality of members form multiple signs of a letter to alert of a disabled vehicle. Each of the multiple signs can be used separately or in conjunction to alert that a vehicle is having engine problems, or medical problems or tire problems. The sign assembly is foldable. The electronic assembly includes a plurality of lights being disposed on a front portion of each member of the plurality of members. The attaching assembly includes an attaching member located on a bottom portion of the sign assembly. The attaching member allows the sign assembly to be removably attached to the disabled vehicle.
US11640769B2
This specification generally discloses an apparatus, system and method for refreshable braille display. The apparatus can include a first base having a contact surface and a plurality of cavities. The contact surface can be configured to receive fingertips. The plurality of cavities can be recessed from the contact surface. A plurality of pins can be housed within the plurality of cavities and configured to move in the plurality of cavities to selectively extend from the contact surface of the first base. A plurality of solenoids can be configured to at least partially operably connect to the plurality of pins. A controller can be configured to selectively provide a first electric current to the plurality of solenoids to generate first magnetic fields through the plurality of solenoids. The first magnetic fields can be configured to selectively move the plurality of pins to extend from the contact surface of the first base.
US11640768B2
A configuration for a breathing sequence may be defined using a hardware element of a user device. A user interface of the user device may be used to begin the breathing sequence. During the breathing sequence, a fluctuating progress indicator user interface element may fluctuate at a cyclic rate. Such fluctuation may include repeated growing and repeated shrinking of the fluctuating progress indicator user interface element. During the breathing sequence, heart rate data may be collected and used to present heart rate information at a conclusion of the breathing sequence.
US11640751B2
An ATM system is provided. The system may include a back-end server, an ATM CPU that receives information relating to the ATM, an ATM dispenser configured to dispense a cash withdrawal amount in the event that the ATM CPU receives information relating to a selection of a cash withdrawal amount and a mobile computer. The mobile computer may include a CPU, a keypad, a touch screen having a diagonal dimension of between 9 inches and 17 inches, and an interface system that interfaces between the ATM CPU and MC CPU, wherein the back-end server is configured to format and transmit an API call to request information regarding an ATM session. The ATM may be configured to respond to the API call and the back-end server is configured to respond to an API call response. The back-end server response may be further configured for display on the touch screen.
US11640748B2
A feature game presented on a gaming machine after a base game includes symbols having corresponding values which may be incremented based at least in part on a random determination during an instance of the feature game. Such symbols and their associated values may persist through one or more subsequent instances of the feature game. In some embodiments values of individual symbols may be incremented multiple times.
US11640747B2
A new method of playing a lottery or other game of chance is described in which a Player who purchased a ticket for a first lottery may subsequently purchase a “Milligan,” a chance to win a subset of prizes at a subsequent lottery but at a reduced cost. Similar to a mulligan in golf, the “Milligan” affords the Player a second opportunity to play. While giving the Player the benefit of an additional, discounted chance to a win, this new method of play also provides Lottery Operators additional revenue at a lower payout risk. Ticket Retailers benefit from the new method of play because it may incentivize players to return to Ticket Retailers to purchase the “Milligan.” Another new method of playing a lottery or other game of chance is described in which a Player may purchase a ticket for a lottery for a chance to win a subset of prizes but at a reduced cost is also provided.
US11640743B2
Disclosed are a bucket and a vending machine. The bucket is used for the vending machine and includes a shell, a turnover body and a first driving mechanism. The shell has a base plate and the turnover body is provided with a storage cavity, an inlet and an outlet. Both the inlet and the outlet are connected with the storage cavity. The turnover body may be located in a first position and a second position. When the turnover body is located in the first position, the base plate closes the outlet; when the turnover body is located in the second position, the outlet deviates from the base plate and is opened. The first driving mechanism is in transmission connection with the turnover body and is configured to drive the turnover body to switch between the first position and the second position.
US11640742B2
A vending machine includes a product storage cabinet having a housing defining a storage compartment for storing a product and a door movably connected to the housing. A product sensor is configured to detect removal of the product from the storage compartment. The vending machine further includes a control assembly configured to control operation of the vending machine. The control assembly includes a support structure, a control unit mounted on the support structure, a transceiver mounted on the support structure, and a power supply mounted on the support structure. The control assembly is configured to receive information from collected by the product sensor to determine an identity of the product removed from the storage compartment.
US11640732B2
A system includes a diagnostic step module and an optimal diagnostic procedure module. The diagnostic step module is configured to identify diagnostic steps of a service procedure to be performed to diagnose a root cause of a fault on a vehicle based on a diagnostic trouble code identifying the fault, and identify a cost associated with performing each of the diagnostic steps. The optimal diagnostic procedure module is configured to determine an order in which to perform the diagnostic steps that minimizes the cost of diagnosing the fault, and output an optimal diagnostic procedure that indicates the diagnostic steps and the order in which to perform the diagnostic steps.
US11640729B2
A sound output device provided in a vehicle includes: an obtainer that obtains a drive state of the vehicle; a generator that generates a simulated vehicle sound signal based on the drive state obtained; an outputter that outputs the simulated vehicle sound signal generated; a determiner that determines that a first wheel of the vehicle is free spinning when the drive state obtained suddenly changes; and a corrector that corrects the simulated vehicle sound signal generated based on the drive state that has suddenly changed, when the determiner determines that the first wheel is free spinning. The outputter outputs the simulated vehicle sound signal corrected.
US11640727B2
An event administration system is disclosed with a server connected to the internet to present a registration webpage to a remote event participant desiring to attend an event; a database connected to the server, the database stores information about the event participant and the event; an administrator module operated by an administrator of the system, the administrator can create and edit the event. The system allows registration register until the event starts and after the start of the event and can also provide a profile for participants that keeps track of their event statistics.
US11640719B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving one or more electronic slide images associated with a tissue specimen, the tissue specimen being associated with a patient and/or medical case, partitioning a first slide image of the one or more electronic slide images into a plurality of tiles, detecting a plurality of tissue regions of the first slide image and/or plurality of tiles to generate a tissue mask, determining whether any of the plurality of tiles corresponds to non-tissue, removing any of the plurality of tiles that are determined to be non-tissue, determining a prediction, using a machine learning prediction model, for at least one label for the one or more electronic slide images, the machine learning prediction model having been generated by processing a plurality of training images, and outputting the prediction of the trained machine learning prediction model.
US11640715B2
A display system for a paving machine can include a plurality of cameras configured to provide a 360° bird's-eye view of a paving machine and an area surrounding the paving machine; a display operatively coupled to the plurality of cameras showing the 360° bird's-eye view; and a controller coupled to the display, the controller further coupled to a sensor on the paving machine positioned to measure a height of a paving material at one or more locations on the paving machine, wherein when the material height falls below a pre-determined level, the controller sends a warning to the display such that the display shows the 360° bird's-eye view with the material height warning incorporated into the display.
US11640712B2
Visibility of a summary video image is improved. An information processing apparatus generates a summary video image by changing an appearance order of a target object detected from a video image, the information processing apparatus including an identification unit configured to identify an identical target object based on data on a plurality of target objects detected from a video image, a determination unit configured to determine an arrangement of movement paths of two or more target objects identified as an identical target object by the identification unit such that the movement paths do not overlap in a time direction, and a generation unit configured to generate the summary video image of the video image based on the arrangement determined by the determination unit.
US11640697B2
A method for providing an augmented reality view including inserting a virtual object into a three-dimensional space of a subject real estate property at a location with an input device; and displaying the virtual object in response to the location within the three-dimensional space of the subject real estate property being viewed by a user on a display device.
US11640693B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that determines the size of a graphics primitive, renders pixels associated with the graphics primitive on a per tile basis if the size exceeds a threshold, and renders the pixels associated with the graphics primitive in a mesh order if the size does not exceed the threshold. In one example, the technology discards state data associated with the graphics primitive in response to a completion of rendering the pixels associated with the graphics primitive in the mesh order.
US11640683B2
Stroke special effect program file package generating methods and apparatuses, and stroke special effect generating methods and apparatuses are provided. The stroke special effect program file package generating method includes: obtaining a parameter value of a stroke effect parameter of a target object; and generating a stroke special effect program file package according to the parameter value of the stroke effect parameter of the target object.
US11640678B2
This application relates to a target object detection method and apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-detected image; inputting the to-be-detected image into a target object detection model; generating, by the target object detection model, a prediction diagram corresponding to the to-be-detected image, the prediction diagram describing a relation degree to which pixels of the to-be-detected image belong to a target detection object; and performing region segmentation on the prediction diagram to obtain a target detection object region. In addition, a method and an apparatus for training an object detection model into the target object detection model, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a computer device are also provided.
US11640673B2
The invention relates to a method and a system for measuring an object (2) by means of stereoscopy, in which method a pattern (3) is projected onto the object surface by means of a projector (9) and the pattern (3), which is designated as a scene and is projected onto the object surface, is captured by at least two cameras (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4), wherein correspondences of the scene are found in the images captured by the cameras (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4) by means of a computing unit (5) using image processing, and the object (2) is measured by means of the correspondences found. According to the invention, the cameras (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4) are intrinsically and extrinsically calibrated, and a two-dimensional and temporal coding is generated during the pattern projection, by (a) projecting a (completely) two-dimensionally coded pattern (3) and capturing the scene using the cameras (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4), and (b) projecting a temporally encoded pattern having a two-dimensionally different coding several times in succession and using the cameras (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4) to capture several scenes in succession, the capturing of said scenes being triggered simultaneously in each case.
US11640672B2
A system for scanning a body to create scan data comprises a processor, a range camera capable of capturing at least a first set of depth images of the body rotated to 0 degrees, and at least a second set of depth images of the body rotated to x degrees, wherein x is >0 degrees, and x<360 degrees. a set of computer instructions are executable on a processor capable of synchronizing scan data and body measurements with a server.
US11640669B2
A motion analysis system analyzing a prescribed motion performed by a person using a prescribed tool, with a prescribed portion of the person or portion of the tool in the motion being taken as a measurement portion, a predictive model generated by learning based on learning data including an image frame of a motion video, wherein the person performing the motion, and an inter-frame differential frame indicating a difference in pixel values between frames of each pixel of the image and an adjacent frames, which is adjacent to the image frame, in the motion video; generates an inter-frame differential frame of a given analysis object video; and predicts by using the predictive model a position of the measurement portion in an image frame of the analysis object video on the basis of the image frame of the analysis object video and the inter-frame differential frame of the analysis object video.
US11640649B2
An interpolation method may include scheduling spatially adjacent image blocks for interpolation, and calculating ranges of values of an attribute of the image blocks, wherein at least one value for a first one of the image blocks may be used for a second one of the image blocks. Calculating the ranges of values may include calculating a root value of the attribute at a root location of an array of the spatially adjacent image blocks, and adding incremental values of the attribute to the root value at points of the image blocks that are offset from the root location. The root location may be centrally located in an array of the spatially adjacent image blocks. The interpolation may be calculated in a diagonal hierarchical manner based on a plane equation.
US11640648B2
A graphics processing system for generating a rendering output includes geometry processing logic and rasterization logic. The geometry processing logic includes first transformation logic configured to transform a plurality of untransformed primitives into a plurality of transformed primitives, the first transformation logic configured to implement one or more expansion transformation stages which generate one or more sub-primitives; a primitive block generator configured to: divide the plurality of transformed primitives into a plurality of groups; and generate an untransformed primitive block for each group comprising (i) information identifying the untransformed primitives related to the transformed primitives in the group; and (ii) an expansion transformation stage mask for at least one of the one or more expansion transformation stages that indicates the sub-primitives generated for the untransformed primitives in that untransformed primitive block that are to be used in generating the rendering output. The rasterization logic comprising: second transformation logic configured to re-transform the plurality of untransformed primitives into the plurality of transformed primitives on an untransformed primitive block-basis in accordance with the expansion transformation stage mask for the at least one of the one or more expansion transformation stages; and logic configured to render the transformed primitives to generate the rendering output.
US11640644B2
Secure system and method of detecting and preventing inmate to inmate message relays. A system and method which monitors inmate communications for similar phrases that occur as part of two or more separate inmate messages. These similar phrases may be overlapping in real time as in a conference call or can occur at separate times in separate messages. The communications that appear similar are assigned a score and the score is compared to a threshold. If the score is above a certain threshold, the communication is flagged and remedial actions are taken. If the flagged communication contains illegal matter then the communication can be disconnected or restricted in the future.
US11640643B2
According to various embodiments, systems and methods are provided for enabling parties to create, define, buy, and sell usage rights in radio frequency (RF) ranges, e.g., via a computerized trading exchange. The usage rights may comprise exclusive or shared ownership or lease interests. A government or other entity may initially offer on the exchange usage rights in radio frequencies owned or controlled by the government. The usage rights may be sold to market participants, e.g., through a competitive bidding process such as a reverse auction, Dutch auction, RFQ, or other methodology. Such rights may be transferred subject to government use, e.g., in emergency situations. Information associated with offered RF usage rights such as historical usage data, geographical reach, and available RF equipment may be published on the exchange. The exchange may also enable secondary trading of usage rights.
US11640639B2
A share allocation (SA) computing device includes a processor in communication with a database. The processor is configured to execute a computational model including a plurality of model layers. The plurality of model layers includes a fractional node layer configured to assign each candidate investor of a plurality of candidate investors to a corresponding node. Each node is associated with a weight, and the nodes define an interconnected neural network. The fractional node layer is also configured to apply a machine learning algorithm configured to adjust the weights of the nodes in response to respective fitness values input to the nodes, and convert the adjusted weight for each node into a corresponding fraction. The fractional node layer is further configured to allocate, to each candidate investor, a respective fractional share of an offering, the fractional share corresponding to the fraction associated with the corresponding node.
US11640634B2
Systems, methods, and computer storage media are disclosed for predicting visual compatibility between a bundle of catalog items (e.g., a partial outfit) and a candidate catalog item to add to the bundle. Visual compatibility prediction may be jointly conditioned on item type, context, and style by determining a first compatibility score jointly conditioned on type (e.g., category) and context, determining a second compatibility score conditioned on outfit style, and combining the first and second compatibility scores into a unified visual compatibility score. A unified visual compatibility score may be determined for each of a plurality of candidate items, and the candidate item with the highest unified visual compatibility score may be selected to add to the bundle (e.g., fill the in blank for the partial outfit).
US11640628B2
A method of ordering a new optical article definable based on features of an initial optical article including at least a lens, the method including the following steps: —acquiring an identifier by capturing a marking carried by the lens of the initial optical article; —sending, by an electronic device, the identifier and an order for the new optical article. A corresponding apparatus and a corresponding method for launching production of the new optical article are also described.
US11640626B2
A queue monitoring system includes at least one sensor configured to monitor guests admitted from an entrance and generate a sensor signal. The system also includes a virtual queue controller comprising a processor and communications circuitry, wherein the virtual queue controller is configured to: communicate guest admittance information to an operator device, the guest admittance information causing the operator device to display a target number of guests to be admitted during a time interval; determine a count of guests admitted from the entrance during the time interval based on the sensor signal; determine a remaining number representative of remaining guests to be admitted based on the target number and the count of guests admitted from the entrance; and communicate a standby admit signal to the operator device to cause the operator device to display the remaining number.
US11640621B2
A system includes a rule engine to determine details of loyalty reward currency redemption from one or more reward accounts as part of the processing of a payment transaction in a payment account of a user. The redemption details are determined based on user preferences and rules of the loyalty programs, and transmitted to the user during the authorization of the payment transaction. During the authorization and/or within a time window after the authorization, but before the settlement of the payment transaction, the user may provide a confirmation message that may accept, reject, or modify the redemption details. A transaction handler is configured to authorize and/or settle the payment transaction, as modified by the redemption details initially computed by the rule engine and subsequently confirmed, rejected or modified by the user via an optional confirmation message.
US11640615B2
Methods for product authentication, which include: providing an article having a substrate with an analyte encoded composition; obtaining a sample of the composition; applying the sample to a test device to obtain test results, analyzing test results from the test device using an electronic device communicatively connected to an authentication authority, wherein the electronic device transmits the test device code and the test results to the authentication authority and confirms or denies authentication after comparison to an authentication database of authentic test results.
US11640612B2
A transaction card construction and computer-implemented methods for a transaction card are described. The transaction card has vector formatted visible information lasered onto its surface. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for enabling the sourcing of visible information using a scalable vector format. The systems and methods may receive a request to add a first plurality of visible information to a transaction card and capture an image of the first plurality of visible information. The systems and methods may also map the image to a bounding box and convert the mapped image into vector format. In addition, the systems and methods may provide the converted image to a laser machine.
US11640610B2
Provided are a system, method, and computer program product for generating synthetic data. The method includes receiving a plurality of data types associated with an environment to be evaluated and receiving a plurality of correlations of one data type to another data type. The method also includes generating a correlation graph of the plurality of data types based on the plurality of correlations and generating a directed acyclic graph of the plurality of data types based on the correlation graph. The method further includes generating a hierarchical graph of the plurality of data types by applying a path traversal technique to the directed acyclic graph and generating a synthetic dataset by repeatedly traversing the hierarchical graph to generate a plurality of records of data.
US11640603B1
A system for crypto token linked assets in at least one of a game, a fantasy sport, and a wagering opportunity, the system including a token server storing at least one transaction of at least one licensor crypto token over a network, the token server being programmed to create proof of ownership for at least one of a unique digital asset and a unique physical asset of at least one licensor, analyze the at least one transaction, and associate the at least one licensor to the at least one licensor crypto token, at least one licensor apparatus being programmed to generate and distribute the at least one licensor crypto token, and send the at least one licensor crypto token to the token server, and at least one licensee apparatus being programmed to request use of the at least one licensor crypto token on the token server, and obtain a license to use the at least one licensor crypto token in response to completing the at least one transaction.
US11640594B2
A method of processing a purchase transaction includes generating a transaction file containing a product code, which is transmitted from a user computing device when an image of a product code identifier is captured by the user computing device, a first user ID of the customer, and an indicator of whether or not the customer has opted in to receive electronic receipts. The method further includes generating an electronic receipt based on the transaction file, storing a conversion table containing the first and second user IDs of the customer, converting the first user ID contained in the transaction file to the second user ID based on the conversion table, when the indicator indicates that the customer has opted in, and storing the electronic receipt in association with the second user ID. The electronic receipt is transmitted in response to a request for electronic receipts associated with the second user ID.
US11640593B2
A system comprises a client module installed on a vending machine, the vending machine displaying one or more items for purchase in a first arrangement, and a purchase fulfilment subsystem. A QR code is generated by the purchase fulfilment subsystem and transmitted to the client module. A first set of signals to initiate a transaction is transmitted by the user device to the purchase fulfilment system. The purchase fulfilment subsystem transmits to the user device a second set of signals to display elements in a second arrangement. The user device transmits a third set of signals to the purchase fulfilment subsystem related to activation of an element. The purchase fulfilment subsystem transmits to the client module a fourth set of signals comprising commands to enable the vending machine to dispense an item. The client module sends one or more instructions to the vending machine to dispense the item.
US11640583B2
A user profile may be generating from a source accordingly to embodiments of the present disclosure. In some embodiments, a process (e.g., implemented by a client) includes obtaining a set of commits associated with a user from a source code version control system, extracting at least one signal from the set of commits, obfuscating the signal(s), and outputting the obfuscated signal(s). In some embodiments, a process (e.g., implemented by a server) includes receiving a signal associated with source code, where the signal is extracted from a commit obtained via a source code version control system. The process further includes aggregating the signal with at least one other signal, generating a user profile based at least on part on the aggregated signals, and rendering the user profile on a graphical user interface.
US11640577B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data capture instructions for asset tracking are provided. An example method for capturing data involves obtaining raw data from a data source onboard an asset and monitoring the raw data for satisfaction of a simplified data capture trigger. When the simplified data capture trigger is satisfied, a dataset simplification algorithm is performed on the raw data to generate a simplified set of raw data, and the simplified set of raw data is logged. The method further involves monitoring the raw data for satisfaction of a rich data capture trigger. When the rich data capture trigger is satisfied, an unsimplified block of raw data is identified and logged for rich data analysis. The data is transmitted to a server. The unsimplified block of raw data contains raw data that is additional to the raw data contained in the simplified set of raw data.
US11640573B2
Systems and methods for assessing the skills of a customer support agent using one or more Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) models are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more benchmarks against which the performance of the customer support agent is to be measured are established. The one or more benchmarks may be derived through direct and/or indirect analysis of historical customer service data by an AI/ML benchmark model. In at least one embodiment, data relating to performance of the customer support agent during a customer call is monitored. In at least one embodiment, the AI/ML benchmark model is used to determine one or more benchmark scores identifying whether the customer support agent is meeting the one or more benchmarks.
US11640569B2
Systems and methods are described herein for learning an entity's trust model and risk tolerance. An entity's trust score may be calculated based on data from a variety of data sources, and this data may be combined according to a set of weights which reflect an entity's trust model and risk tolerance. For example, an entity may weight data of a certain type more heavily for certain types of transactions and another type of data more heavily for other transactions. By gathering data about the entity, a system may predict the entity's trust model and risk tolerance and adjust the set of weights accordingly for calculating trust scores. Furthermore, by monitoring how entities adjust weights for different transaction types, default weighting profiles may be created that are customized for specific transaction types. As another example, an entity's trust score, as reported to a requesting entity, may be adjusted based on that requesting entity's own trust model, or how “trusting” the requesting entity is.
US11640564B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for machine learning engine optimization. An example apparatus includes a selection metric analyzer to compute a first selection metric based on a first set of ordered output values from a first candidate machine learning engine and a set of reference data values; compute a second selection metric based on a second set of ordered output values from a second candidate machine learning engine and the set of reference data values; and a machine learning engine replacer to determine whether to replace an active machine learning engine with at least one of the first candidate machine learning engine or the second candidate machine learning engine based on the first selection metric and the second selection metric.
US11640550B2
The disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for updating a deep learning model. An embodiment of the method comprises: executing following updating: acquiring a training dataset under a preset path, training a preset deep learning model based on the training dataset to obtain a new deep learning model; updating the preset deep learning model to the new deep learning model; increasing training iterations; determining whether a number of training iterations reaches a threshold of training iterations; stopping executing the updating if the number of training iterations reaches the threshold of training iterations; and continuing to execute the updating after an interval of a preset time length if the number of training iterations fails to reach the threshold of training iterations. This embodiment has improved the model updating efficiency.
US11640546B2
A system architecture for managing access to data and managing operations performed by applications using the data. In one example, a secure edge module is provided. In some embodiments, a secure edge module may be provided. The secure edge module may be a secure environment that is trusted to control/manage access to different sets of data. The secure edge module may identify/authenticate applications that may perform operations on the data. The secure edge module may decrypt the data within the secure edge module and allow the operations to execute within the secure edged module, using the decrypted data.
US11640543B2
Rule induction is used to produce human readable descriptions of patterns within a dataset. A rule induction algorithm or classifier is a type supervised machine learning classification algorithm. A rule induction classifier is trained, which involves using labelled examples in the dataset to produce a set of rules. Rather than using the rules/classifier to make predictions on new unlabeled samples, the training of the rule induction model outputs human-readable descriptions of patterns (rules) within the dataset that gave rise to the rules (rather than using the rules to predict new unlabeled samples). Parameters of the rule induction algorithm are tuned to favor simple and understandable rules, instead of only tuning for predictive accuracy. The learned set of rules are outputted during the training process in a human-friendly format.
US11640537B2
An apparatus to facilitate execution of non-linear functions operations is disclosed. The apparatus comprises accelerator circuitry including a compute grid having a plurality of processing elements to execute neural network computations, store values resulting from the neural network computations, and perform piecewise linear (PWL) approximations of one or more non-linear functions using the stored values as input data.
US11640536B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for defining an autoencoder architecture including a neural network, during training of the autoencoder, recording a loss value at each iteration to provide a plurality of loss values, the autoencoder being trained using a data set that is associated with a domain, and a learning rate to provide a trained autoencoder, calculating a penalty score using at least a portion of the plurality of loss values, the penalty score being based on a loss span penalty PLS, a convergence penalty PC, and a fluctuation penalty PF, comparing the penalty score P to a threshold penalty score to affect a comparison, and selectively employing the trained autoencoder for anomaly detection within the domain based on the comparison.
US11640532B2
In an embodiment, a method for generating contrastive information for a classifier prediction comprises receiving image data representative of an input image, using a deep learning classifier model to predict a first classification for the input image, evaluating the input image using a plurality of classifier functions corresponding to respective high-level features to identify one or more of the high-level features absent from the input image, and identifying, from among the high-level features absent from the input image, a pertinent-negative feature that, if added to the input image, will result in the deep learning classifier model predicting a second classification for the modified input image, the second classification being different from the first classification. In an embodiment, the method includes creating a pertinent-positive image that is a modified version of the input image that has the first classification and fewer than all superpixels of the input image.
US11640529B2
A method creates an embedding for an unlabeled vertex in a hypergraph. The method includes receiving a hypergraph of hyperedges, where each of the hyperedges includes one or more vertices, and at least one of the hyperedges includes an unlabeled vertex; generating a hypergraph of vertices from the hypergraph of hyperedges, where each of the vertices in the hypergraph of vertices includes one or more of the one or more hyperedges from the hypergraph of hyperedges; performing a first type of random walk through the hypergraph of hyperedges; performing a second type of random walk through the hypergraph of vertices; generating a set of vertex embeddings from the first type of random walk and a set of hyperedge embeddings from the second type of random walk; and using results of the first and second random walks to train a neural network to create an embedding for the unlabeled vertex.
US11640528B2
A method for information processing for accelerating neural network training. The method includes: acquiring a neural network corresponding to a deep learning task; and performing iterations of iterative training on the neural network based on a training data set. The training data set includes task data corresponding to the deep learning task. The iterative training includes: processing the task data in the training data set using a current neural network, and determining, based on a processing result of the neural network on the task data in a current iterative training, prediction loss of the current iterative training; determining a learning rate and a momentum in the current iterative training; and updating weight parameters of the current neural network by gradient descent based on a preset weight decay, and the learning rate, the momentum, and the prediction loss in the current iterative training. This method achieves efficient and low-cost deep learning-based neural network training.
US11640524B1
A computer processor includes an on-chip network and a plurality of tiles. Each tile includes an input circuit to receive a voltage signal from the network, and a crossbar array, including at least one neuron. The neuron includes first and second bit lines, a programmable resistor connecting the voltage signal to the first bit line, and a comparator to receive inputs from the two bit lines and to output a voltage, when a bypass condition is not active. Each tile includes a programming circuit to set a resistance value of the resistor, a pass-through circuit to provide the voltage signal to an input circuit of a first additional tile, when a pass-through condition is active, a bypass circuit to provide values of the bit lines to a second additional tile, when the bypass condition is active; and at least one output circuit to provide an output signal to the network.
US11640521B2
A multi-task feature sharing neural network-based intelligent fault diagnosis method has the following steps: (1) separately collecting original vibration acceleration signals of rotating machinery under different experimental conditions, forming samples by means of intercepting signal data having a certain length, and performing labeling; (2) constructing a multi-task feature sharing neural network, having: an input layer, a feature extractor, a classification model and a prediction model; (3) using multi-task joint training to simultaneously train the classification model and the prediction model; and (4) inputting a vibration acceleration signal collected in an actual industrial environment into the trained models to obtain a multi-task diagnosis result.
US11640515B2
A method and neural network system for human-computer interaction, and user equipment are disclosed. According to the method for human-computer interaction, a natural language question and a knowledge base are vectorized, and an intermediate result vector that is based on the knowledge base and that represents a similarity between a natural language question and a knowledge base answer is obtained by means of vector calculation, and then a fact-based correct natural language answer is obtained by means of calculation according to the question vector and the intermediate result vector. By means of this method, a dialog and knowledge base-based question-answering are combined by means of vector calculation, so that natural language interaction can be performed with a user, and a fact-based correct natural language answer can be given according to the knowledge base.
US11640514B2
The invention relates to a chip card designed to communicate data in a contactless mode with a card reader operating at a reading frequency. The resonance frequency of the chip card may change according to the capacitance of the chip used in the contactless mode of the chip card. In order to be able to use various chips without changing the booster antenna design, the card antenna circuit is provided with a capacitance element such that the chip card including the card antenna circuit and the chip module has two different resonance frequencies, one of which being equal to, or lower than, the reading frequency and the other being equal to, or greater, than the reading frequency. This create a broadband wherein the reading frequency falls.
US11640511B1
A electronic tag device is provided and includes: a processor; a memory connected to the processor and stored with multiple sets of tag data; a wireless data transmission circuit connected to the processor and used to connect an electronic device; a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag chip connected to the processor; a cellular communication circuit connected to the processor and provided with a subscriber identity module (SIM) interface used to connect a SIM card; and a positioning circuit connected to the cellular communication circuit. When a geographical region where the electronic tag device is located changes, the electronic tag device can automatically select a target set of tag data corresponding to a current geographical region from the multiple sets of tag data for data updating, thereby avoiding an additional expense for toll settlement.
US11640505B2
Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for an Explicit Memory Tracker (EMT) that tracks each rule sentence to perform decision making and to generate follow-up clarifying questions. Specifically, the EMT first segments the regulation text into several rule sentences and allocates the segmented rule sentences into memory modules, and then feeds information regarding the user scenario and dialogue history into the EMT sequentially to update each memory module separately. At each dialogue turn, the EMT makes a decision among based on current memory status of the memory modules whether further clarification is needed to come up with an answer to a user question. The EMT determines that further clarification is needed by identifying an underspecified rule sentence span by modulating token-level span distributions with sentence-level selection scores. The EMT extracts the underspecified rule sentence span and rephrases the underspecified rule sentence span to generate a follow-up question.
US11640504B2
An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The method of controlling an electronic apparatus according to an embodiment includes: obtaining first text information including a plurality of words, identifying a security level of the first text information based on at least one of a source from which the first text information is obtained or a type of the first text information, obtaining second text information by converting at least one of the plurality of words included in the first text information based on the identified security level, and obtaining first summary sentence information summarizing the second text information through a summary module.
US11640495B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for translation comments flowback. In some embodiments, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a first document associated with a primary document, the primary document in a primary language, the first document comprising one or more translated sections in a first language, the one or more translated sections being mapped to one or more sections in the primary document via a content identifier, the first language being different from the primary language; transmitting the first document to a first user for review; receiving a first input associated with the one or more translated sections in the first document from the first user; and populating the first input to the primary document based on the content identifier.
US11640494B1
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method which, in one example embodiment, can include receiving text data that includes at least unstructured data and wherein the text data is associated with a plurality of messages communicated between a plurality of entities. The method can also include determining relationships between the entities, based on the text data associated with the plurality of messages, and generating, from a knowledge base assembled from at least the text data, a response to a user interaction representing a query for information that corresponds to at least one of the entities and indicates information on one or more of the determined relationships between the entities. The method can also include detecting a deviation in communication between the entities that indicates unauthorized disclosure of information between a first entity and a second entity.
US11640491B2
An automatic font value distribution system receives input specifying parameters for a variable font allowing one or more characteristics of the variable font to change along a design axis. Examples of design axes include weight, width, slant, optical size, italic, and so forth. The parameters include, for example, an upper value limit for the design axis, a lower value limit for the design axis, and a distribution profile for the design axis. A collection of glyphs is received, and design axis values are applied to the glyphs in accordance with the distribution profile and distributed across the design axis between the upper and lower value limits. The collection of glyphs is displayed with the generated design axis values.
US11640481B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing a security policy for an electronic control unit (ECU) implementing an Autosar Adaptive Platform (AAP) standard. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises maintaining a list of allowed interactions, the allowed interactions being between control applications and a basic component, the basic component including at least a program element defined by the AAP standard. In one aspect, when a request for a verdict as to whether or not access for an interaction of a first control application with the basic component is received from an operating system (OS) kernel, the method comprises performing a search in the list of allowed interactions, and when the interaction for which the request is received is found in the list, the method comprises providing a verdict to the OS kernel allowing the interaction.
US11640475B1
In various embodiments, once the client registers onto the system, a third party (a “requestor”) may transmit a request to the client for the client to provide the requestor with access to the client data. In at least one embodiment, a requestor may be an entity or person that desires to utilize client data for the requestor's business purposes. In one embodiment, upon registration with the application, the system generates and assigns the requestor a requestor key. In one or more embodiments, the system transmits the requestor key along with each requestor request. In some embodiments, the client may accept or reject the requestor's request. In many embodiments, if the client accepts the requestor's request, the system grants the requestor access to the client data.
US11640474B2
Enclosed are a method and apparatus for operating a database. The method includes: performing, in response to determining a user indicated by a user identifier having a permission to operate on data targeted by a database operation statement, a digital signature on the database operation statement using a user private key to obtain signature information, generating transaction information according to the database operation statement, the signature information and the user identifier, and storing the generated transaction information into a local transaction information buffer pool; and selecting, in response to competing for a transaction information block recording permission using a preset consensus algorithm, transaction information in the local transaction information buffer pool to generate a block, parsing and executing a database operation statement in each piece of selected transaction information, concatenating the generated block to a local blockchain, and broadcasting the generated block to other database servers.
US11640468B2
A method for operating an industrial PC (IPC) device, wherein the IPC device includes a general-purpose operating system (GPOS) section implemented to execute program code under the GPOS, and a real time operating system (RTOS) section implemented to execute program code adapted to real-time data processing under the RTOS, includes providing a wrapped application program based on an application program including binary code designed to be executed under the RTOS and a security policy; validating the wrapped application program according to the security policy by an RTOS process for obtaining a validated application program; transferring the binary code of the validated application program and a security element from the RTOS process to a GPOS process; establishing a secure communications channel between the GPOS process and the RTOS section using the security element; and executing the binary code of the validated application program by the GPOS process.
US11640466B2
A controller and techniques for expanding its feature capabilities. Techniques may incorporate using an external memory to store feature sets that can be downloaded to an internal memory for intimate incorporation and usage by the controller. The external memory may be large in comparison to the internal memory. External storage of additional feature sets allows for use of a small and simple controller with access to numerous feature sets that otherwise could not be incorporated by the small controller.
US11640444B2
A processing device is provided which comprises memory configured to store data and a plurality of processor cores in communication with each other via first and second hierarchical communication links. Processor cores of a first hierarchical processor core group are in communication with each other via the first hierarchical communication links and are configured to store, in the memory, a sub-portion of data of a first matrix and a sub-portion of data of a second matrix. The processor cores are also configured to determine a product of the sub-portion of data of the first matrix and the sub-portion of data of the second matrix, receive, from another processor core, another sub-portion of data of the second matrix and determine a product of the sub-portion of data of the first matrix and the other sub-portion of data of the second matrix.
US11640443B2
Based on a predetermined number of available processor sockets, a plurality of candidate matrix decompositions are identified, which correspond to a multiplication of matrices. Based on a first comparative relationship of a variation of first sizes of the plurality of candidate matrix decompositions along a first dimension and a second comparative relationship of a variation of second sizes of the plurality of candidate matrix decomposition sizes along a second dimension, a given candidate matrix decomposition is selected. Processing of the multiplication among the processor sockets is distributed based on the given candidate matrix decomposition.
US11640441B2
The present disclosure provides a page displaying method and device, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method comprises: acquiring, in response to a display instruction to a target page in a Flutter application program, a component file of the target page from a server, wherein the component file comprises at least: component building information, a data interface address, and a binding relation between component data and a page object; acquiring the component data of the target page according to the data interface address, and building a component object of the target page according to the component building information; merging the component data into a corresponding component object according to the binding relation to build the target page; and displaying the target page.
US11640440B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for identifying one or more portions of a website structure of a specific website; and associating the one or more portions of the website structure with one or more descriptors of the specific website to define a specific data description model corresponding to the specific website.
US11640437B1
According to an embodiment, a system for driving a point-of-interest (POI) search and recommend process through POI modeling comprises a POI data pre-processing unit gathering POIs to be modeled, extracting POI features from the gathered POIs by a service provider, and classifying the POIs by POI categories, a POI modeling unit modeling the POIs and outputting the modeled POIs, the modeled POIs including attribute information and learning-purpose features, a POI information providing unit providing the modeled POIs, by the POI features or the POI categories, through a user terminal, a POI search unit receiving a search request including a keyword or a POI feature from the user terminal, and a POI recommending unit learning user data based on the learning-purpose features included in the modeled POIs and recommending a user-customized POI list through the user terminal.
US11640429B2
The described technology is directed towards evaluating client-specific information and possibly other information to determine whether to return less data than is available for a data item in response to a request for graph node data to a data service, and/or return expanded graph node data. When a request for graph data is received, client-specific information is used at least in part by a data service in determining whether to return a virtual graph node comprising a relatively lightweight set of information relative to the full set of information maintained in a main (graph) node. The client-specific information is also used in determining whether to return expanded data beyond that requested, e.g., for caching at the client in anticipation of it likely being needed by the client.
US11640418B2
The disclosure herein describes providing responses to natural language queries associated with transcripts at least by searching multiple indexes. A transcript associated with a communication among a plurality of speakers is obtained, wherein sets of artifact sections are identified in the transcript. A set of section indexes is generated from the transcript based on artifact type definitions. A natural language query associated with the transcript is analyzed using a natural language model and query metadata of the analyzed natural language query is obtained. At least one section index of the set of section indexes is selected based on the obtained query metadata and that selected section index is searched. A response to the natural language query is provided including result data from the searched at least one search index, wherein the result data includes a reference to an artifact section referenced by the searched section index(es).
US11640409B2
A system for accessing and amalgamating entity data from a plurality of inconsistent data sources may be provided. The system may include a plurality of databases. The plurality of databases may include a first database and a second database. The first database may include a first plurality of entity datasets. Each entity dataset of the first plurality of entity datasets may relate to an entity. The first database may include a first database identifier for each entity dataset. The second database may include a second plurality of entity datasets. Each entity dataset of the second plurality of entity datasets may relate to an entity. The second database may include a second database identifier for each entity dataset. One entity dataset included in the first database may relate to the same entity as an entity dataset included in the second database. The system may include an indexing system.
US11640403B2
A system for automated analysis of behavior modification data. The system includes at least a server. The system includes a receiving module operating on the at least a server designed and configured to receive at least a request for a behavior modification and extract at least an expert quality as a function of the at least a request for a behavior modification. The system includes an expert module operating on the at least a server designed and configured to generate at least an expert list as a function of the at least an expert quality and the at least a request for a behavior modification, receive at least a user input selecting at least a selected expert as a function of the at least an expert list, generate at least a request the selected expert and transmit the at least a request for a behavior modification to the selected expert.
US11640399B2
In some examples, a database system identifies a plurality of query portions in a database query that contain references to a first external table, the first external table being based on data from a remote data store coupled to the database system over a network. The database system creates a common spool portion that includes projections and selections of the plurality of query portions, and rewrites the plurality of query portions into rewritten query portions that refer to a spool containing an output of the common spool portion. For execution of the database query, the database system determines, as part of optimizer planning, whether to use the plurality of query portions or the common spool portion and the rewritten query portions.
US11640387B2
Methods and systems are described herein for improving anomaly detection in timeseries datasets. Different machine learning models may be trained to process specific types of timeseries data efficiently and accurately. Thus, selecting a proper machine learning model for identifying anomalies in a specific set of timeseries data may greatly improve accuracy and efficiency of anomaly detection. Another way to improve anomaly detection is to process a multitude of timeseries datasets for a time period (e.g., 90 days) to detect anomalies from those timeseries datasets and then correlate those detected anomalies by generating an anomaly timeseries dataset and identifying anomalies within the anomaly timeseries dataset. Yet another way to improve anomaly detection is to divide a dataset into multiple datasets based on a type of anomaly detection requested.
US11640379B2
An embodiment includes identifying metadata attached to a first node of a graph, where the metadata satisfies an ontological condition. The embodiment also includes transforming the graph such that the transforming results in the graph having a new graph structure, where the transforming of the graph comprises removing the metadata from the first node and adding a second node representative of the metadata removed from the first node to the graph such that the second node is connected to the first node by a first edge.
US11640377B2
Systems and methods utilize telemetry data to provide administrators with metric information related to a detected IHS (Information Handling System) event, such as an error condition, where the provided metric information is particularized to the context of the event. A remote access controller (RAC) of the IHS stores metric reports received from metric sources. The RAC receives an indication of the event that specifies a first IHS component as a source of the event and specifies a time associated with the event. The RAC identifies stored metric reports generated by the first component prior to the first time and identifies stored metric reports generated by components that are logically and/o physically related to the first component. The RAC generates an event report that includes the metric reports generated by the first component prior to the first time and the metric reports generated by components related to the first component.
US11640373B2
A method includes, for files in a storage system requested in sequence by an application, identifying a pre-file and identifying a post-file requested after the pre-file. The method also includes incrementing a pre-read count for the pre-file in file attributes associated with the pre-file and incrementing a post-read count for the post-file in file attributes associated with the post-file. The method includes selecting a position in a save list for each file based on the pre-read and post-read counts and saving the files on tape media according to the relative positions of the files in the save list. A computer program product includes one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media. The program instructions includes program instructions to perform foregoing method. A system includes a processor and logic configured to perform the foregoing method.
US11640370B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for extracting customer relationship management (CRM) data from an on-premises database for testing with a cloud-based CRM. The extraction approach simplifies, through the use of a wizard, the selection of relevant customer records and their extraction, along with any dependencies on other records. The extracted records can then be uploaded to the cloud-based CRM for evaluation.
US11640353B2
A data management method of a data storage device having a data management unit different from a data management unit of a user device receives information regarding a storage area of a file to be deleted, from the user device, selects a storage area which matches with the data management unit of the data storage device, from among the storage area of the deleted file, and performs an erasing operation on the selected storage area which matches with the data management unit.
US11640349B2
A method may be performed by a network server and includes: applying historical raw user data as an input to a first application running in a simulation environment; receiving activity log entries from the first application in the simulation environment; identifying a first group of the activity log entries corresponding to an error of the first application; saving an error entry in non-volatile storage media in response to identifying the first group of the activity log entries, the error entry including the first group of the activity log entries and an identification of action to be taken in response to the error of the first application; and causing a monitoring system to generate a first alert corresponding to the error entry.
US11640348B2
Systems and methods are described for applying a plurality of data points of a time series data set representing values of a metric measuring performance of a cloud computing service to a machine learning model to predict a forecast of a most likely value of the metric at a selected future time. The method includes determining whether the plurality of data points of the time series data set are anomalies according to the machine learning model and the forecast and generating a collective anomaly from the anomalies when the plurality of data points is determined to be anomalies. The method further includes determining whether the collective anomaly does not meet one or more cloud computing service level objective (SLO) threshold requirements and sending an alert when the collective anomaly does not meet one or more cloud computing SLO threshold requirements.
US11640343B2
A method of performing a migration of a physical extent in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage system with a protection pool of storage units includes identifying a first physical extent of a first physical disk to be migrated to a second physical disk, wherein the first physical extent is associated with an array of physical extents distributed across physical disks of a storage cluster. The method further includes assigning a second physical extent from the second physical disk to the array to replace the first physical extent and migrating data from the first physical extent of the first physical disk to the second physical extent of the second physical disk.
US11640340B2
A system and method includes a plurality of nodes distributed between a first cluster and a second cluster, each of the plurality of nodes storing a copy of a source database and a processor executing computer-readable instructions stored on a memory to designate a first node of the plurality of nodes as a primary node, designate remaining ones of the plurality of nodes as secondary nodes to take over from the primary node upon failure of the primary node, designate a second node of the plurality of nodes as an initial active node, backup the source database from the initial active node, automatically designate, based on a switch over policy, a third node of the plurality of nodes as a next active node upon the initial active node becoming unavailable, and continue backups of the source database from the next active node upon the initial active node becoming unavailable.
US11640333B2
Systems and methods for increasing the endurance of a solid state drive are disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods can assign different levels of error protection to a plurality of blocks of the solid state drive. The disclosed methods can provide a plurality of error correction mechanisms, each having a plurality of corresponding error correction levels and associate a first plurality of blocks of the solid state drive with a first zone and a second plurality of blocks of the solid state drive with a second zone. The disclosed methods can assign a first error correction mechanism and a first corresponding error correction level to the first zone and can assign a second error correction mechanism and a second corresponding error correction level to the second zone.
US11640331B2
Techniques for establishing a network connection via a physical medium after exiting a low-power state. The technique includes receiving circuit configuration information for configuring a circuit for establishing a network connection via a physical medium. The technique also includes determining first redundancy information based on the circuit configuration information. The technique also includes storing the determined first redundancy information and the circuit configuration information. The technique also includes entering, by the circuit, a low-power state, and exiting the low-power state. The technique also includes determining second redundancy information based on the stored circuit configuration information after the circuit has exited the low-power state. The technique also includes comparing the second redundancy information to the first redundancy information. The technique also includes detecting an error based on the comparing. The technique also includes outputting an indication of the detected error.
US11640325B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to allocate hardware in virtualized computing architectures. An example apparatus to manage a virtual server rack comprises a drift analyzer to determine that hardware resources assigned to a virtualized workload domain exceed the resources requested for the virtualized workload domain; and a rebalancer to reassign one or more of the hardware resources in response to an indication from the drift analyzer.
US11640316B2
Embodiments relate to a compiler. The compiler decreases data fetch and read associated with storing data in a data buffer of a neural processor circuit to or from a system memory. The data buffer can store an input slice of data for processing by a neural engine(s) of the neural processor circuit, an output slice of data output from the neural engine(s), and/or an intermediate data slice of data.
US11640315B2
A method of deploying a virtual network function of a network service in a data center having a cloud management server running a cloud computing management software to provision virtual infrastructure resources of the data center to at least one tenant, includes generating at least first and second API calls to the cloud computing management software in response to external commands received at the data center to deploy a virtual network function, and executing at least the first and second API calls by the cloud computing management software to deploy the virtual network function. The cloud computing management software creates at least one virtual machine by executing the first API call and at least one virtual disk by executing the second API call.
US11640313B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device upgrade method and apparatus. Both NFVI (network functions virtualisation infrastructure) resources used to create a target VNFC (virtualised network function component) and NFVI resources used to scale out/up the target VNFC are fewer than those occupied by a to-be-upgraded VNFC; or both the NFVI resources used to create the target VNFC and the NFVI resources used to scale out/up the target VNFC are fewer than those required for upgrading the to-be-upgraded VNFC.
US11640312B2
In some examples, a storage medium stores information relating to reset ports associated with respective virtual machines (VMs) of a plurality of VMs. A controller detects, based on the information, an activation of a first reset port associated with a first VM of the plurality of VMs. In response to the detecting, the controller provides an indication of the activation of the first reset port to a hypervisor that is separate from the controller, the indication to cause the hypervisor to reset the first VM.
US11640306B2
Systems and methods are provided for computationally configuring computing devices and performing multi-layer cluster analysis. For example, the system can identify multiple layers of clusters of devices (e.g., shared hardware configuration, shared application configuration, number of applications, etc.) in a large scale infrastructure environment automatically. For each layer of the clusters of devices, parameters of these devices are provided to a machine learning model to produce an objective function (e.g., minimum number of devices, utilization under 80%, etc.), whose output can be provided to a datacenter operator or other user in the large scale infrastructure environment so they can make further configuration changes to the devices in each cluster.
US11640300B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an instruction processing apparatus, comprising a first register configured to store a source string, wherein the source string comprises at least one byte, and an execution circuitry, communicatively coupled to the first register and configured to execute a comparison instruction to compare the at least one byte in the source string with an ending identifier to obtain a result value corresponding to the source string, wherein the comparison instruction is executed on each of the at least one byte in the source string and the comparison instruction is an assembly code instruction.
US11640298B2
In an embodiment, the present invention is directed to a processor including a decode logic to receive a multi-dimensional loop counter update instruction and to decode the multi-dimensional loop counter update instruction into at least one decoded instruction, and an execution logic to execute the at least one decoded instruction to update at least one loop counter value of a first operand associated with the multi-dimensional loop counter update instruction by a first amount. Methods to collapse loops using such instructions are also disclosed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11640297B2
Embodiments described herein provided for an instruction and associated logic to enable GPGPU program code to access special purpose hardware logic to accelerate dot product operations. One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit comprising a fetch unit to fetch an instruction for execution and a decode unit to decode the instruction into a decoded instruction. The decoded instruction is a matrix instruction to cause the graphics processing unit to perform a parallel dot product operation. The GPGPU also includes systolic dot product circuitry to execute the decoded instruction across one or more SIMD lanes using multiple systolic layers, wherein to execute the decoded instruction, a dot product computed at a first systolic layer is to be output to a second systolic layer, wherein each systolic layer includes one or more sets of interconnected multipliers and adders, each set of multipliers and adders to generate a dot product.
US11640295B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that generates a dependence graph based on a plurality of intermediate representation (IR) code instructions associated with a compiled program code, generates a set of graph embedding vectors based on the plurality of IR code instructions, and determines, via a neural network, one of an analysis of the compiled program code or an enhancement of the program code based on the dependence graph and the set of graph embedding vectors. The technology may provide a graph attention neural network that includes a recurrent block and at least one task-specific neural network layer, the recurrent block including a graph attention layer and a transition function. The technology may also apply dynamic per-position recurrence-halting to determine a number of recurring steps for each position in the recurrent block based on adaptive computation time.
US11640293B2
A method for data migration of a pointer element in the course of data migration of a program state of a control program of an automation system comprises identifying the first pointer element and the second pointer element as pointer elements associated with each other via a first relation in a pointer-identifying step, and mapping the first pointer element to the second pointer element in a pointer migration step. The pointer migration step comprises identifying the first pointer object referenced by the first pointer element, identifying an object associated with the first pointer object as the second pointer object, determining an absolute memory address of the second pointer object, and writing the determined memory address of the second pointer object as a value of the second pointer element into the second pointer element.
US11640289B2
A system and method for deploying software is disclosed. The system includes an architecture for deploying simulation software as a service. The architecture includes a client layer. The client layer includes an edge device, a resource manager, an update framework, a firewall, and a key management system. The architecture further includes a control layer communicatively coupled to the client layer, wherein a portion of the control layer is configured within a server. The control layer includes an application programming interface, one or more containers, wherein at least one of the one or more containers is a simulation processing container. The control layer further includes an orchestration node, a continuous integration tool, one or more processors, and a content delivery network module. The architecture further includes a data layer communicatively coupled to the one or more containers.
US11640279B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for improved pseudo-random number generation are provided. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a request for a pseudo-random number, selecting, by extraction circuitry of the computing device, a first parameter from a server parameter dataset, and obtaining a first value for the first parameter. The method further includes selecting, by the extraction circuitry, a second parameter, and obtaining a second value for the second parameter. The method includes generating, by transformation circuitry, the pseudo-random number based on the first value and the second value.
US11640274B2
An acoustic system includes: a first terminal device including a first-terminal sound emitting unit, an earhole sound collecting unit configured to collect earhole echo sound, and a first-terminal control unit configured to perform authentication between the first terminal device and a user based on the echo sound collected by the earhole sound collecting unit; an onboard device including an onboard-device sound emitting unit and an onboard-device control unit configured to perform authentication between the onboard device and the user based on communication with the first terminal device; and a second terminal device includes a second-terminal control unit configured to set a destination of sound data to one of the first terminal device and the onboard device when the onboard-device control unit detects that a predetermined condition including a condition that the user has been authenticated is satisfied.
US11640272B2
An image forming system includes a controller to discharge to a first discharger a sheet determined not to have a product defect and discharge to a second discharger a sheet determined to have a product defect. The controller is configured to, in a case where it is determined that a first sheet on which an image has been formed has the product defect, execute an adjustment operation of adjusting image forming conditions for an image former, and execute a recovery process in which the image formed on the first sheet is formed on a second sheet by the image former with the product defect removed based on completion of the adjustment operation.
US11640255B2
Disclosed is a memory device and an operation method thereof. The operation method of memory device, comprising: programming a plurality of sub-matrices including at least one of non-zero element of a rearranged matrix to a plurality of operation units of the memory device; and programming a mapping table into a working memory of a memory device. The rearranged matrix is generated by rearrange a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows of an original matrix according to the positions of a plurality of non-zero elements of the original matrix. The mapping table comprises a correspondence of row indexes between the original matrix and the rearranged matrix, a correspondence of column indexes between the original matrix and the rearranged matrix and a correspondence between the sub-matrices including at least one non-zero element and the operation units storing the sub-matrices including at least one non-zero element.
US11640251B2
The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, such as solid state drives, and effective power management of the data storage device. The data storage device includes a controller, where the controller is configured to predict when a host device will send a command to enter a low power state, prepare the data storage device to enter the low power state, and receive a command to enter the low power state after the predicting and preparing. If the data storage device is idled for greater than a threshold value, then the data storage device prepares to transition to a low power state but will wait to enter the lower power state until receiving a request from a host device.
US11640249B2
Aspects include receiving, at a portable storage device, a file from a digital device. The file is stored into an unprotected storage area on the portable storage device and a storage policy associated with the digital device is accessed by the portable storage device. It is determined, by the portable storage device, based at least in part on the portable storage policy, whether to store a copy of the file in a protected storage area on the storage device. Access to the protected storage area is restricted to authenticated users. A copy of the file is stored in the protected storage area in response to determining that a copy of the file should be stored in the protected storage area.
US11640246B2
An information processing device includes: a request queue that stores a request for IO processing; a response queue that stores a response that makes notification of completion of the IO processing; an IO device that obtains the request from the request queue, executes the IO processing instructed by the obtained request, and stores the response in the response queue after the completion of the IO processing; a first processing unit that writes a request to the request queue after saving context that is information that indicates an operation state of the first processing unit; and a second processing unit that polls the response queue, detects storage of the response in the response queue, obtains the response from the response queue, and notifies the first processing unit of the completion of the IO processing.
US11640242B2
A computer storage device having: a host interface; a controller; non-volatile storage media; and firmware. The firmware instructs the controller to: divide a contiguous logical address capacity into blocks according to a predetermined block size; and maintain a data structure to identify free blocks are available for allocation to new namespaces and blocks that have been allocated to namespaces in use. Based on the content of the data structure, non-contiguous blocks can be allocated to a namespace; and logical addresses in the namespace can be translated to physical addresses for addressing the non-volatile storage media of the storage device.
US11640241B2
A data path connection can be established between a target of a remote source system and an initiator of a local destination system. A storage object of the remote source system exposed over such a data path connection can be mapped to a local storage object name of the local destination system. Such a remote storage object of the remote source system can be accessed as a local storage object of the local destination system using the local storage object name. Within the destination system, the local storage object name of the destination system can be used as a proxy to access the remote storage object of the remote source system. Accessing the remote storage object from the destination system can be used in several data mobility use cases, including, but not limited to, offloaded data copy across arrays, snapshot mobility and backup use-cases.
US11640239B2
Cost conscious garbage collection, including: selecting one or more storage classes from among a plurality of storage classes of one or more data storage services for storing one or more data objects; determining, for the one or more data objects stored in the one or more data storage services, an estimated quantity of data eligible for garbage collection; and initiating, after determining that resources for continued storage of the one or more data objects exceed resources for performing garbage collection on the data eligible for garbage collection and based upon an expected cost savings based on storage cost savings from performing garbage collection compared against access cost expenses for performing one or more cloud-based operations to perform the garbage collection, garbage collection on the one or more data objects in the one or more data storage services.
US11640238B2
A method of controlling a portable device including first and second touch screens is provided. The method includes displaying first information related to a first application on the first touch screen and displaying second information related to the first application on the second touch screen; receiving a first user input moving to the first touch screen on the second touch screen; and replacing the first information and the second information with a third information and a fourth information related to the first application on the first and second touch screens, in response to receiving the first user input, wherein each of the third information and the fourth information is displayed while being slidden from the second touch screen to the first touch screen and the third information is displayed over a boundary between the first and second screens during the sliding of the third and fourth information.
US11640234B2
One or more embodiments of a digital content system allow a user to conveniently search and/or navigate through a collection of digital content items. In particular, a user can interact with a client device to search for and identify one or more digital content items within a collection of digital content items. For example, the digital content system may provide a photo from a collection of photos via a graphical user interface. The digital content system can receive a user input identifying a selection of one or more visual features within the photo. Based on the selected visual feature(s), the digital content system may identify photos from the collection of photos that include the identified visual feature(s) and provide access to the identified photos via the graphical user interface.
US11640230B2
A method for visualizing corporate hierarchies is provided. The method comprises receiving a selection of a first company stored in a database and retrieving, from the database, an ultimate parent company of the first company. All other known companies with the same ultimate parent company as the first company are then retrieved from the database. An interactive hierarchical tree diagram is displayed in an interface, wherein the first company, the ultimate parent company, and the other known companies with the same ultimate parent company are displayed as nodes according to parent/child relationships among the companies. Also displayed in the interface, adjacent to the tree diagram, is a collapsible nested tree list comprising the first company, the ultimate parent company, and the other known companies with the same ultimate parent company. The tree diagram and nested tree list have synchronized responses to user input.
US11640226B2
A display and interaction method in a user interface and devices, computer program products and systems therefor are disclosed. An information object display area includes a plurality of information objects displayed on a track. The track extends along a path created between an outer and inner elliptical border in the interface. A plurality of elliptical frames are generated along the track, each in contact with the outer and inner elliptical borders, and first and second neighboring elliptical frames adjacent to it. Information objects are displayed based on the elliptical frames. In response to receiving user input associated with movement of a pointer, the center of the inner elliptical border is moved in the direction of pointer movement while resizing the inner border so that it remains within the outer border. The elliptical frames are resized and moved along the track so that all the elliptical frames remain in contact with the borders and their neighboring elliptical frames.
US11640222B2
In various embodiments, electronic devices such as touch-panel displays incorporate interconnects featuring a conductor layer and, disposed above the conductor layer, a capping layer comprising an alloy of Cu and one or more refractory metal elements selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Mo, W, Zr, Hf, Re, Os, Ru, Rh, Ti, V, Cr, and Ni.
US11640218B2
A display panel, a driving method for a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a functional component area, a display area at least partially surrounding the functional component area, a first non-display area between the functional component area and the display area, a second non-display area at least partially surrounding the display area, a touch-control electrode layer, and touch-control signal lines. The touch-control electrode layer includes a plurality of touch-control electrode blocks. The touch-control signal lines are electrically connected to the plurality of touch-control electrode blocks correspondingly. At least one touch-control signal line of the touch-control signal lines is multiplexed as crack detection lines. At least a portion of the crack detection lines is located in the first non-display area and surrounding the functional component area.
US11640216B2
A control device comprising a housing assembly, at least one button, and a controller. The housing assembly comprises a front surface including plurality of button zones each comprising a tactile switch and a plurality of touch sensors. The at least one button is adapted to attach to the housing assembly over at least one of the button zones such that a projection extending from a rear surface of the button is aligned with the tactile switch in the at least one of the button zones. The controller determines which button zone and which location of the button zone is actuated in response to receiving signals from at least one of the tactile switches and at least one of the touch sensors.
US11640209B2
A keyboard device includes a substrate, a touch panel module, a cover plate, a cover layer, an elastic layer, and an adhesive layer. The touch panel module is disposed on a top surface of the substrate and includes a circuit board. The cover plate covers the top surface and includes an avoidance hole defined through an upper surface and a lower surface of the cover plate. The cover layer covers the upper surface and includes a through hole. The through hole corresponds to the avoidance hole. The elastic layer is in the through hole and includes a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion is seamlessly connected to a hole edge of the through hole. The adhesive layer is adhered between a first inner surface of the cover layer and the upper surface and adhered between a second inner surface of the elastic layer and the circuit board.
US11640206B1
A method for large scale integration of haptic devices is described. The method comprises forming a first elastomer layer of a large scale integration (LSI) device on a substrate according to a specified manufacturing process, the first elastomer layer having a plurality of fluid based circuits, the first elastomer layer adhering to a plurality of formation specifications. The method further comprises curing the first elastomer layer. Additionally, one or more additional elastomer layers of the LSI device are formed with the first elastomer layer according to the specified manufacturing process, the one or more additional elastomer layers having a plurality of fluid based circuits, the one or more additional elastomer layers adhering to the plurality of formation specifications.
US11640204B2
Systems and methods for decoding intended symbols from neural activity in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a symbol decoding system for brain-computer interfacing, including a neural signal recorder implanted into a brain of a user, and a symbol decoder, the symbol decoder including a processor, and a memory, where the memory includes a symbol decoding application capable of directing the processor to obtain neural signal data from the neural signal recorder, estimate a symbol from the neural signal data using a symbol model, and perform a command associated with the symbol.
US11640195B2
A power management system may provide power management recommendations to a computer system including a plurality of computing nodes (which may include processors, etc.), to cause the computing nodes to individually or collectively adjust power states or modes of respective processors to achieve power management of the computer system. The power management system may be provided with a power management framework that continuously utilizes direct and indirect service-level feedbacks to guide power management decisions. The power management system may employ a reinforcement learning algorithm to make power management decisions at a user level, and provide a fast decision overriding mechanism for platform events or service-requested performance boosts.
US11640189B2
A source side fan-out structure includes: a height extension region, a height of a first side of the height extension region being greater than a height of a second side of the height extension region, wherein the first side of the height extension region is a side of the height extension region adjacent to a wiring of an array substrate, and the second side of the height extension region is a side of the height extension region away from the wirings of the array substrate; and a lead region provided with a plurality of fan-out leads therein, wherein the plurality of fan-out leads diverge from an inside of the height extension region.
US11640187B2
An electronic device includes a host, a display, a sliding plate, and a keyboard. The host has an operating surface. The display is pivoted to the host. The sliding plate is slidably disposed in the host, where the display is mechanically coupled to the sliding plate, and the sliding plate includes a plat portion and a recess portion that are arranged side by side. The keyboard is integrated to the host. The keyboard includes a key structure, where the key structure includes a key cap and a reciprocating element, and the key cap is exposed from the operating surface of the host. The reciprocating element is disposed between the key cap and the sliding plate and has a first end connected to the key cap and a second end contacting the sliding plate. The second end is located on a sliding path of the plat portion and the recess portion.
US11640186B2
A portable display device is provided in which two display panels are joined to each other to form a single screen when two panel housings are unfolded from a folded state. The portable display device includes at least two panel housings and display panels that are mounted on the panel housings, respectively. When the panel housings are unfolded, the display panels are joined to each other to form a single screen. The distance between the display panels when the display panels are contiguous to each other is less than 3 mm and the distance between input units or between input sensors is less than 3 mm.
US11640184B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for generating an internal reset signal that is synchronous to a clock signal. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a clock switch circuit and a plurality of serially coupled D flip-flops (DFFs). The clock switch circuit receiving the clock signal can output the clock signal in an on state and block the clock signal in an off state. The plurality of serially coupled DFFs are coupled to the clock switch circuit and driven by the clock signal. If an external reset signal is enabled, the plurality of serially coupled DFFs can enable the internal reset signal. If the external reset signal is disabled, after a predefined number of clock signal cycles, the plurality of serially coupled DFFs can disable the internal reset signal.
US11640181B2
An externally adjustable pressure regulator includes a body having a shoulder, a longitudinal axis and a high pressure inlet. The body has an opening along a side. A bonnet has a regulated pressure outlet and is engaged with the body. A piston is positioned in part in the body and the bonnet. The piston has a shoulder, a longitudinal bore and a transverse bore at about the end thereof in flow communication with the longitudinal bore. A spring is disposed on the piston. A wedging element is positioned in the opening in the body side and is in contact with the spring. An adjusting ring engages the wedging element to move it into the spring to increase compression of the spring and off of the spring to decrease compression. Increasing compression of the spring increases a spring force of the spring on the piston and decreasing compression of the spring decreases the spring force on the piston.
US11640177B2
A sensor data processing and control system acquires data from multiple, disparate sources on a worksite. A plurality of different data pipes are generated for different action systems. The action systems receive data through a corresponding data pipe and generate action signals, based upon aggregated and fused data received through the data pipe.
US11640176B2
A system and method for controlling movement of transporting devices arranged to transport containers, the containers being stored in stacks arranged in a facility. A facility having pathways arranged in a grid-like structure above stacks, the transporting devices being configured to operate on the grid-like structure. A control unit configured to determine at least one task to be performed by at least one transporting device, wherein the at least one task is determined based on at least one of: transporting device battery condition, transporting device damage, transporting device maintenance issues, and transporting device service issues.
US11640174B2
Smart car method for autonomous navigation by creating a 3D model based on outputs of the camera and sensor; accessing a high definition map database and generating a trip with travel segments from origin to destination; detecting a freeway entrance or an exit lane based on a road marking using a camera and a sensor; if the travel segment passes the freeway entrance or exit, then follow the current lane without exiting; and otherwise following the freeway entrance or exit.
US11640169B2
Consumption information associated with a user consuming video segments may be obtained. The consumption information may define user engagement during a video segment and/or user response to the video segment. Sets of flight control settings associated with capture of the video segments may be obtained. The flight control settings may define aspects of a flight control subsystem for the unmanned aerial vehicle and/or a sensor control subsystem for the unmanned aerial vehicle. The preferences for the flight control settings of the unmanned aerial vehicle may be determined based upon the first set and the second set of flight control settings. Instructions may be transmitted to the unmanned aerial vehicle. The instructions may include the determined preferences for the flight control settings and being configured to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to adjust the flight control settings to the determined preferences.
US11640168B2
Systems and methods relating to controlling a driving system operatively coupled to a vehicle are disclosed. A location is identified using one or more sensors included with the vehicle. An input of the driving system is identified using the location. A desired output of the driving system is determined using the input.
US11640166B2
A method for specifying a cleaning area to a cleaning robot without an in-built map provides a hand-held mobile device capturing a two-dimensional code label arranged on a top of a cleaning robot parked on a charging base, and obtaining a positional relationship between the mobile device and the cleaning robot through the captured image. The cleaning robot is controlled to enter a cleaning mode under the guidance of the mobile device. With captured images, a user can specify an area within the environment for cleaning, and through a touch display screen can control the cleaning robot to go to the specified cleaning area for cleaning. The mobile device and the cleaning robot employing the method are also disclosed.
US11640161B2
Systems and methods for measuring, reporting, controlling, and improving enterprise performance are described. A system receives objective statements for an enterprise, which can be an IEE value chain of the enterprise, and enterprise-specific measurable metrics through an interactive user interface with their associated processes. The system collects historical data and real-time data (e.g., daily) associated with enterprise-specific measurable metrics from a plurality of infield resources and analyses the historical data and the real-time data using a statistical model to provide information that teams can use to determine the strengths and shortcomings of the enterprise. Based on the determined strength and shortcomings, the system provides, using a knowledge database, information so that leadership and teams can determine where to focus process-output metric improvement efforts via process improvement efforts so that the enterprise-as-a-whole financially benefits. Process output response measurements are reported, so there is alignment to the processes that created the output response. The system automatically assesses process-output responses in the IEE value chain for stability, using a statistical technique. If a process-output response is stable, a prediction statement is provided for the metric in the chart's report. If a prediction statement is undesirable, there is a “pull” for a process improvement effort that is to enhance the metric's response.
US11640126B2
An image forming apparatus includes a toner container, a storage part, a cover and an opening/closing mechanism. The toner container includes a shutter. The cover is movable between a closed position for closing the storage part and an opened position for opening the storage part. The opening/closing mechanism closes a supply port by rotating the shutter in accordance with an opening operation for moving the cover to the opened position and opens the supply port by rotating the shutter in accordance with a closing operation for moving the cover to the closed position, in a state where the toner container is attached to the storage part. The toner container includes an interference portion which interferes with the opening/closing mechanism to prevent the toner container from being attached to the storage part in a case where the cover is not moved to the opened position normally.
US11640125B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a first release processing portion, and a second release processing portion. The image forming portion includes a storage portion storing developer and forms an image by using the developer stored in the storage portion. The first release processing portion releases regulation on removal of a developer storage portion when a storage amount of the developer stored in the storage portion is equal to or smaller than a second threshold smaller than a first threshold. The second release processing portion releases the regulation on the removal of the developer storage portion based on the remaining amount of the developer that is acquired when the storage amount of the developer stored in the storage portion is larger than the second threshold.
US11640124B2
A developing device includes a developing roller, a developing case, and a support. The developing roller includes a sleeve and a magnetic field generator. The sleeve is rotatable and includes a hollow shaft at an axial end of the sleeve. The magnetic field generator is irrotationally disposed inside the sleeve and includes a non-rotating shaft at an axial end of the magnetic field generator. The non-rotating shaft penetrates through the hollow shaft and projects outward. The developing case is configured to store developer and rotatably supports the hollow shaft. The support includes a fitting portion into which the non-rotating shaft of the magnetic field generator is irrotationally fitted. The support is supported on the developing case using the fitting portion as a main-positioning portion.
US11640120B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charger, a light exposure device, a development device, a transfer belt, a primary transfer device, a secondary transfer device, and a cleaning member. The cleaning member is pressed against a circumferential surface of the image bearing member and collects residual toner remaining on the circumferential surface of the image bearing member as a result of primary transfer of a toner. The transfer belt has a surface resistivity of at least 6 Log Ω and no greater than 11 Log Ω. A linear pressure of the cleaning member on the circumferential surface of the image bearing member is at least 10 N/m and no greater than 40 N/m. The image bearing member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer of a single layer. The image bearing member satisfies formula (1): 0.06 ≦ V ( Q / S ) × ( d / ε r · ε 0 ) . ( 1 )
US11640119B2
An exposure method of performing an exposure operation of exposing a substrate via a projection optical system is provided. The method includes executing, in an exposure period in which the exposure operation is performed, aberration correction of the projection optical system to correct an aberration generated by performing the exposure operation, measuring, in a non-exposure period succeeding the exposure period, in which the exposure operation is not performed, an aberration of the projection optical system, and correcting the aberration of the projection optical system using a correction amount adjusted based on a result of the measurement so as to reduce a correction residual in the aberration correction of the projection optical system.
US11640111B2
A photosensitive resin composition including a poly(imide-benzoxazine) block copolymer, and a cured film. The poly(imide-benzoxazine) block copolymer included in the photosensitive resin composition enables the formation of a cured film having excellent mechanical and insulation even at a low temperature of less than 200° C.
US11640109B2
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; and an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer made from antimony and nitrogen.
US11640105B2
A projector includes a light source module, a light valve, and a projection lens. The light source module is adapted to provide an illumination light beam and includes a base having first and second side surfaces, first and second color light-emitting units respectively disposed on the first and second side surfaces, and first and second heat dissipation structures respectively connected to the first and second color light-emitting units. The first and second heat dissipation structures are separated from each other and define an accommodation space together. The light valve is located on a transmission path of the illumination light beam and adapted to convert the illumination light beam into an image light beam. The projection lens is located on a transmission path of the image light beam and adapted to project the image light beam.
US11640101B2
Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for determining reflectance of an image on a per-pixel basis. More specifically, a characterization module can initially acquire a first data set generated by a multi-channel light source and a second data set generated by a multi-channel image sensor. The first data set may specify the illuminance of each channel of the multi-channel light source (which may be able to produce visible light and/or non-visible light), while the second data set may specify the response of each sensor channel of the multi-channel image sensor (which is configured to capture an image in conjunction with the light). Thus, the characterization module may determine reflectance based on illuminance and sensor response. The characterization module may also be configured to determine illuminance based on reflectance and sensor response, or determine sensor response based on illuminance and reflectance.
US11640094B2
A display device includes a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, an isolation structure, and a front panel laminate (FPL) structure. The TFT array substrate has pixel electrodes. The isolation structure is between the pixel electrodes to form a first resistance between adjacent pixel electrodes. The front panel laminate structure is located on the isolation structure and the pixel electrodes adhesive layer, and has a display medium layer therein.
US11640071B2
Enhancement of the functionality of image stabilization is achieved while smooth operation of a movable body is ensured. A lens barrel includes a lens unit including at least one lens, a first magnet for performing image stabilization in at least one of a first direction or a second direction, a second magnet for performing image stabilization in a rolling direction, a first coil that forms a magnetic circuit together with the first magnet, and moves the lens unit in at least one of the first direction or the second direction, a second coil that forms a magnetic circuit together with the second magnet, and rotates the lens unit in the rolling direction, and a mounting body having the first magnet and the second magnet mounted thereon. When the lens unit is moved in at least one of the first direction or the second direction, the first magnet, the second magnet, and the mounting body are integrally operated.
US11640059B2
A head-mounted display optical module includes an optical lens group located at a light-emitting display side of the display panel and a protective layer located on an optical path between the display panel and the optical lens group. The protective layer includes at least one first protective layer. A refractive index of the first protective layer continuously changes therein at least along a radial direction that is located in a plane of the first protective layer and points from a center of the first protective layer to an edge of the first protective layer.
US11640046B2
A lens system includes four lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. Each of the four lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the first lens element has at least one inflection point. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power, the object-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element has at least one inflection point.
US11640043B2
An optical focus control and method use rotations of a set of shift-invariant optical elements (Risley elements) that are fairly tolerant to optical misalignments and wobble in control systems. The Risley elements can be Risley prisms, Risley gratings, or photonic crystals that impart a fixed angular offset. Aligning at least one pair of Risley elements that are individually rotated can achieve an angular correct to light received off-axis for better detection by an optical detector, improving focus control.
US11640042B2
A mirror assembly can include a housing, a mirror, and a light source. In certain embodiments, the mirror is rotatable within a support portion of the mirror assembly. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly includes a light pipe configured to emit a substantially constant amount of light along a periphery of the mirror. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly includes a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly can be configured to adjust the amount of emitted light based on the position of a user in relation to the mirror.
US11640038B2
A lens includes a cover part and a light-shielding part. The cover part includes a lens part, a connection part extending downward from lateral sides of the lens part, and one or more flange parts each extending outward from a lower-end portion of the connection part. The lens part and the connection part define a recess having an opening facing downward. The flange parts extend outward from a periphery of the opening of the recess. The lens part, the flange parts, and the connection part are formed of a thermosetting first resin and continuous to one another. The light-shielding part covers outer lateral surface of the connection part and is formed of a thermosetting second resin having a greater light-absorptance or a greater light-reflectance than the thermosetting first resin. The flange parts have a greater thickness than the connection part.
US11640029B2
A hollow core optical fibre comprises a tubular jacket; a cladding comprising a plurality of primary capillaries spaced apart from one another in a ring and each bonded to an inner surface of the jacket at a peripheral location around the circumference of the jacket; and a hollow core formed by a central void within the ring of primary capillaries; wherein the cladding further comprises, within each primary capillary, two secondary capillaries and no more, the two secondary capillaries spaced apart from one another and each bonded to an inner surface of the primary capillary at an azimuthal location around the circumference of the primary capillary which is displaced from the peripheral location of the primary capillary.
US11640028B2
A hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) (10) for guiding at least one mode of a light field (1) along a mode guiding section (11) of the HC-PCF (10), comprises an outer jacket (12), an inner cladding (13) and a hollow core (14), which extend along the HC-PCF (10), wherein the inner cladding (13) is arranged on an interior surface of the outer jacket (12) and comprises anti-resonant structures (15) surrounding the hollow core (14), and the hollow core (14) has a mode guiding core diameter (d) provided along the mode guiding section of the HC-PCF (10), and wherein at least one fiber end (16) of the HC-PCF (10) has a light field coupling section (17) in which the hollow core (14) is tapered over an axial coupling section length from a fiber end core diameter (D) at the at least one fiber end (16) to the mode guiding core diameter (d). Furthermore, methods of using the HC-PCF and manufacturing the HC-PCF are described.
US11640026B2
An automobile comprises a light transmitting film with a thickness not greater than 0.5 millimeters with a core layer, a lightguide region of the film comprises a light emitting region with light extracting features positioned to receive and extract light from at least one light source propagating by total internal reflection within the core layer out of the core layer, and a light mixing region positioned between the at least one light source and the light emitting region, wherein a surface of the portion of the automobile is visible through the light emitting region of the film when the at least one light source is not emitting light and the light transmitting film is conformal with the surface of the portion of the automobile. The surface of the film may have arcuate cross-sectional shape conforming to a curved surface of the portion of the automobile.
US11640021B2
An optical filter (1a) includes a light-absorbing layer (10). The light-absorbing layer absorbs light in at least a portion of the near-infrared region. When light with a wavelength of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident on the optical filter (1a) at incident angles of 0°, 30°, and 40°, the optical filter (1a) satisfies given transmittance requirements. IEθ1/θ2λ1 to λ2, IAEθ1/θ2λ1 to λ2, and ISEθ1/θ2λ1 to λ2 defined by the following equations (1) to (3) for two incident angles θ1° and θ2° (θ1<θ2) selected from 0°, 30°, and 40° satisfy given requirements in a given domain of a wavelength λ.
US11640016B2
A liquid lens can include a cavity disposed between a first window and a second window, first and second liquids disposed in the cavity, and a variable interface disposed between the first and second liquids, thereby forming a variable lens. At least one of the first window or the second window can have a multi-layer structure with interior and exterior plies and a deformable spacer disposed between the interior and exterior plies. A refractive index of the interior ply can be substantially the same as a refractive index of the deformable spacer, whereby an index-matched boundary is formed between the interior ply and the deformable spacer. A structural axis of the liquid lens can pass through each of the index-matched boundary and the variable interface.
US11640012B2
A method for determining tortuosity, e.g., in an oilfield well includes obtaining a planned trajectory for a hole, and obtaining a first survey of the hole using a sensor deployed into the hole. The first survey includes a first surveyed position at a first depth of the hole and a second surveyed position at a second depth of the hole, and no surveyed positions between the first and second depths. The method further includes simulating a second survey of the hole between the first and second depths using a model. The second survey includes a plurality of simulated positions of the hole between the first and second depths. The method includes determining that the simulated position at the second depth is proximal to the second surveyed position, and visualizing a trajectory of the hole based on the first and second surveys.
US11640004B2
A method includes outputting a plurality of simulated global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and interference signal pairs comprising a simulated GNSS signal and a simulated interference signal. Each of the simulated GNSS signals, or the simulated interference signals, has an associated reference signal. A calibration GNSS signal that combines the simulated GNSS signals and the associated reference signals, or a calibration interference signal that combines the simulated interference signals and the associated reference signals is received. A phase, time, or a power offset is calculated for the simulated GNSS signals based on the calibration GNSS signal and the associated reference signals, or for the simulated interference signals based on the calibration interference signal and the associated reference signals. A corrected plurality of simulated GNSS and interference signal pairs are output based on the calculated phase, time, or power offset for the simulated GNSS signals or for the simulated interference signals.
US11640001B2
A laser radar device includes a laser radar optical system that emits laser light and receives reflected light of the laser light reflected from a reflector disposed outside the laser radar device. A controller determines that it is rainy weather when a measurement width of the reflector in a scanning direction of the laser light measured by use of the laser light and the reflected light is larger than a predetermined reference measurement width of the reflector.
US11639997B2
Technology for light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor can include an optical signal source, an optical modulation array and optical detector on the same integrated circuit (IC) chip, multi-chip module (MCM) or similar solid-state package.
US11639985B2
Motion-related 3D feature extraction by receiving a set of sequential radar signal data frames associated with a subject, determining radar signal amplitude and phase for each data frame, determining radar signal phase changes between sequential data frames, and extracting, by a trained machine learning model, one or more three-dimensional features from the sequential radar signal data frames according to the radar signal amplitude and the radar signal phase changes between sequential data frames.
US11639979B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence control circuitry and processing circuitry. The sequence control circuitry performs multi-frame acquisition where FOVs (Field Of Views) of at least two acquired frames are overlapped in a first direction. Then, based on the multi-frame acquisition performed by the sequence control unit, the processing unit generates data regarding the components in the first direction of flow of a fluid.
US11639969B2
A data processing system includes: a host suitable for checking battery state information and determining a battery grade based on the battery state information; and a memory system suitable for storing information indicating the battery grade provided from the host, determining a method of performing a background operation based on the battery grade, and performing the background operation based on the determined method.
US11639956B2
A test socket comprising a guide plate with a lower surface engaged with an upper surface of a main test structure, the guide plate further including an upper surface which is parallel to the lower surface and an opening extending through the guide plate, the main test structure includes a body with one or more apertures through the upper surface and one or more probes mounted within the main test structure, the probes including a front end which extends through the apertures for engagement by a lead or terminal pad of a device to be tested, and a tail end which is secured within the main test structure by an elastomeric material.
US11639955B2
The fault detection system described provides an efficient method to test and monitor component to component connectivity in an electronic package using on chip test circuits and on chip components, which reduces the need for external testing equipment and analysis. The on chip nature allows for both real time testing in the assembly process of the electronic packages and during use of the electronic package by determining an on chip reference measurement and using the reference measurement to determine an operational status of the package.
US11639954B2
A system and method for monitoring the health of a heater connected to a power supply by a power cable that includes a first power lead conducting an inlet current having an inlet current direction, and a second power lead conducting an outlet current having an outlet current direction opposite to the inlet current direction. The power cable passes through a center region of a toroid core one or more times, and a secondary winding on the toroid core is configured to induce a secondary voltage indicative of a difference between the inlet current and the outlet current, which defines the leakage current. The system includes a prognostic processor that is configured to calculate a heater health indication based on the secondary voltage, which is indicative of the heater health.
US11639942B2
A sample analyzer, comprising a sample storage region, a sample-drawing channel, and a transport mechanism; the sample storage region being provided with a plurality of storage channels; the sample-drawing channel is provided with a sample-drawing position; the transport mechanism comprises an engagement slot, an actuation mechanism and a first moving mechanism; the engagement slot and the actuation mechanism are fixed on the first moving mechanism, the actuation mechanism comprises an actuator and a second moving mechanism, the actuator is drivable by at least one of the first moving mechanism and the second moving mechanism to realize the movement of the sample holder between the storage channels and the engagement slot; during sample drawing, the first moving mechanism drives the engagement slot to move to the sample-drawing channel, the actuation mechanism enables samples to pass through the sample-drawing position and to make a stop for sample drawing.
US11639940B2
Disclosed is a method for determining sensitivity to a CDK4/6 inhibitor, comprising the steps of: comparing a value based on activity of at least one CDK selected from CDK4 and CDK6 in a sample collected from a subject, with a threshold level corresponding to the CDK, and determining that the subject is insensitive to the CDK4/6 inhibitor when the value based on the CDK activity is less than the threshold level.
US11639930B2
Identification of immunodominant Babesia microti antigens using genome-wide immunoscreening is described. Candidate antigens were screened against sera from patients with clinical babesiosis. Also described are diagnostic assays with high sensitivity and specificity for detecting B. microti-specific antibodies in patient samples using the identified immunodominant antigens.
US11639927B2
Methods and kits for predicting infusion reaction risk and antibody-mediated loss of response during intravenous PEGylated uricase therapy in gout patients is provided. Routine SUA monitoring can be used to identify patients receiving PEGylated uricase who may no longer benefit from treatment and who are at greater risk for infusion reactions.
US11639923B2
Described herein are methods for treating rheumatoid arthritis by determining whether a subject having rheumatoid arthritis will respond to an anti-TNF-alpha therapy based on the number of innate and adaptive immune cells in a sample from the subject prior to treatment.
US11639914B2
Non-destructive test systems and associated methods. A non-destructive test system includes an infrared thermography assembly and an ultrasonic test assembly for testing a test piece. The infrared thermography assembly may include one or more thermography sensor modules and a thermography test controller. The ultrasonic test assembly may include one or more ultrasonic sensor subassemblies with respective excitation modules and respective detector modules and an ultrasonic test controller. Each excitation module may be configured to produce a respective ultrasonic beam within the test piece, and each detector module may be configured to detect a respective reflected vibration of the test piece. In some examples, a method of performing a non-destructive test on a test piece includes testing an infrared test region of the test piece with an infrared thermography assembly and testing an ultrasonic test region of the test piece with an ultrasonic test assembly.
US11639902B1
A method of evaluating microwave characteristics includes the steps of: (A) measuring thermal diffusion features and microwave characteristics of at least three mode samples to obtain at least three data points, wherein the mode samples include identical constituents but at different ratios thereof; (B) obtaining a mathematical relation between the data points by linear regression; (C) measuring a thermal diffusion feature of a sample under test, wherein the sample under test and the mode samples include identical constituents; and (D) substituting the thermal diffusion feature of the sample under test into the mathematical relation to evaluate a microwave characteristic of the sample under test. The method is applicable to a ceramic material to evaluate microwave characteristics of the ceramic material.
US11639899B2
The present disclosure relates to a lighting apparatus. A lighting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a dome structure including a first opening opened in a circular or polygonal shape at least partially in one surface thereof, and a second opening opened in a circular or polygonal shape at least partially in the other surface so as to be larger than the first opening; a plurality of reflective plates configured to connect one line the first opening and one line of the second opening; a PCB provided in the dome structure and disposed at a predetermined first angle based on a region of the other surface that excludes the second opening in the other surface of the dome structure; and a light source disposed on the PCB, in which light outputted at the first angle from the inside of the dome structure through the light source is reflected through at least one of the plurality of reflective plates, and the reflected light is emitted through the second opening to an object disposed at a lower end of the second opening and spaced apart from the dome structure.
US11639894B2
A method and apparatus for analyzing a substance is disclosed. An optical medium is arranged on a substance surface with at least one region of the optical medium surface in contact with the substance surface. An excitation light beam is emitted through the contacting region of the medium surface (to the substance surface. A measurement light beam is emitted through the optical medium to the contacting region of the medium surface such that the measurement light beam and the excitation light beam overlap on the interface of the optical medium and of the substance surface, on which the measurement light beam is reflected. A deflection of the reflected measurement light beam is detected in dependence on the wavelength of the excitation light beam. The substance is then analyzed based on the detected deflection of the measurement light beam in dependence on the wavelength of the excitation light beam.
US11639893B2
A device for observing a biological sample is provided, including: a light source to emit a light beam at a wavelength between 1 μm and 20 μm; an image sensor including pixels defining a detection plane; a holder to hold the sample between the source and the sensor at a distance from the plane smaller than 1 mm, such that the source is configured to illuminate an area of the sample larger than 1 mm2, no image-forming optics are placed between the sample and the sensor, and the sensor is configured to acquire an image corresponding to an area of the sample larger than 1 mm2 and representative of an absorption of the beam by the sample at the wavelength; and a processor to determine a map of an amount of analyte in the sample, based on the image acquired by the sensor, the analyte absorbing light at the wavelength.
US11639892B2
Systems and methods for skewed basis set fitting may include obtaining measured absorption data indicative of an amount of absorption of light by a sample gas at each of multiple frequencies, determining an absorption dependent cavity time constant indicative of a skew to the measured absorption data caused by light reflections within a cavity in which the sample gas is contained, obtaining reference absorption data including basis sets indicative of reference amounts of light absorbed by each of multiple gases at each of the multiple frequencies, skewing the reference absorption data based on the absorption dependent cavity time constant to generate skewed reference absorption data, and fitting the measured absorption data to the skewed reference absorption data to identify an amount of at least one constituent gas within the sample gas.
US11639891B2
The present disclosure relates to a photoacoustic gas sensor for detecting the presence or absence of gas using the interaction of a laser beam and gas molecules. The integrated photoacoustic gas sensor according to an embodiment includes a light output unit; a lens unit configured to concentrate a laser beam output from the light output unit; and a photoacoustic sensing unit having a quartz tuning fork aligned on the lens unit and configured to convert a vibration, generated when the laser beam passing through the lens unit interacts with gas molecules, into an electric signal.
US11639890B2
A protection device for an oil-smoke sensor has a protection housing having two ends and an inner chamber; the first end having a first opening for receiving a probe of the oil-smoke sensor and in communication with the inner chamber; a second opening is disposed on the second end which is opposite to the first opening and in communication with the inner chamber. Because the probe is sealing mounted in the first opening, the probe will not be directly exposed in oil-smoke flow. The protective device is mounted such that the axial direction of the protective device is vertical to the oil-smoke flow direction. Therefore, the inner chamber of the protection housing has a pressure with respect to the oil-smoke flow that tangentially flows at a high speed, and the oil-smoke can only be diffused into the protection housing, thus, the probe is much less likely to be contaminated.
US11639889B2
A test method for determining impact effects and abrasion effects of particles such as rain, hail, dust, ice, sand, and micrometeoroids at speeds above Mach, i.e., higher than the speed of sound. The test method includes the steps of placement of balls in capsules, firing the capsules with a rifle firing system, hitting of the fired capsules and/or the balls to a target inside a firing range, recording the impact effects during a firing with a recording system, determining a durability and a lifetime of a test sample of test samples by calculating a number of the balls hitting the target and a number of shots providing an effect.
US11639888B2
A method of inseminating an animal including flowing a stream of a population of sperm cells through a channel, differentiating the sperm cells into two subpopulations of X-chromosome containing sperm cells and Y-chromosome containing sperm cells, selecting a desired subpopulation, ablating an undesired subpopulation, and collecting both the subpopulations of sperm cells including the desired subpopulation and the ablated undesired subpopulation together, wherein the collected population of sperm cells is used to fertilize an egg.
US11639884B2
A shear control instrument under a three-dimensional space condition and a control method of the shear control instrument can include a loading system, a transposition system and a control monitoring system. The loading system is used for loading a soil body sample. The transposition system is connected with the loading system in an anchoring manner and is used for adjusting the direction of the loading system. The control monitoring system is connected with the transposition system in an anchoring manner and is used for controlling the transposition system and monitoring test data.
US11639883B2
A filtration apparatus and methods of installing, using, and retracting the same. A filtration apparatus includes a compression gland, a ball valve, and a filter pipe. A distal portion of the filter pipe has one or more filtration holes. The filtration apparatus may be installed in a process pipe and the distal portion of the filter pipe may be disposed within the process pipe. The filter pipe can be easily retracted from the process pipe without interruption of the industrial process. The filtration apparatus can be automatically cleaned by compressed air or water.
US11639877B2
A calorimeter for measuring a heat flux of a sample comprises a container, a first heat sink and a second heat sink whereby the sample is arranged in the container. The first heat sink and the second heat sink are arranged at a distance from each other on the container. The first heat sink comprises a first heat transducer element and the second heat sink comprises a second heat transducer element. Each of the first and second heat transducer elements comprise a heat receiving surface and a heat absorbing surface for generating an electromotive force equivalent to the heat flux to or from the respective heat sink to be sent to a detecting unit for obtaining an electrical potential representing the heat flux leaving or traversing the container.
US11639876B2
A temperature measuring method capable of switching calculation based on displacement detection includes a temperature measuring instrument and a displacement detecting unit. When the displacement detecting unit feeds back that the temperature measuring instrument is under an inactive state, a point calculation formula A is used to calculate and obtain a body temperature value. When the displacement detecting unit feeds back that the temperature measuring instrument is under an active state, a scanning calculation formula B is used to calculate and obtain the body temperature value.
US11639866B2
A pump control system for a wet test meter (WTM) is disclosed. The pump control system includes a WTM that contains packing fluid, a control module that has a DC power supply and is configured to detect a level of the packing fluid in the WTM, a pump that is configured to be controlled by the control module and is activated when the packing fluid in the WTM falls below a predetermined level, and a level sensor/detector that is located outside of the WTM, wired to the control module, and configured to monitor the packing fluid level within the WTM. When the packing fluid falls below the predetermined level as detected by the control module, the WTM is automatically filled by pumping packing fluid from a storage tank using the pump, until the packing fluid level reaches above the predetermined level.
US11639851B1
A leveling rod attachment including a first telescopic assembly, a second telescopic assembly and a clamper assembly is disclosed herein. The first telescopic assembly includes vertical rods being slidably connected one to each other. Each of the vertical rods has measurement indicia. The second telescopic assembly includes horizontal rods being slidably connected one to each other. Each of the horizontal rods has measurement indicia. One of the horizontal rods has a bubble level mounted thereon. the clamper assembly includes a clamper and latches. The clamper is attached to the second telescopic assembly. The damper slidably mounts the second telescopic assembly to the first telescopic assembly. The latches secure length of the first telescopic assembly and length of the second telescopic assembly.
US11639849B2
A system and method for aligning a floor target relative to a vehicle, the floor target including a calibration pattern for observation by a vehicle safety system sensor during calibration. The system includes at least one optical projection system consisting of at least one optical projector having an orientable projection axis. The optical projection system is operatively controlled by a processor to orient said projection axis towards a selected location on the floor surface relative to the vehicle, and to activate the optical projected to illuminate a point, a line, or a boundary, against which the floor target is aligned.
US11639845B2
A cartridge incorporating a projectile assembly, the projectile assembly having a base, mid body component housing a marking powder and metallic nose cap. The projectile's mid-body component houses liquids in a cylindrical compartment, where set-back and rotation induce chemical mixing, and in flight allowing for a chemical reaction, and at impact the projectile undergoes wall failure in the mid body, resulting from shear and residual rotational momentum, the actions in combination releasing and expelling marking materials, the ejection suspended signature producing materials, including liquid, powdered metals or fine particles released into the atmosphere emit and reflect light, the signature materials producing an observable signature at the projectile's impact location.
US11639842B2
A personal defense device for projecting a lachrymator agent includes an L-shaped housing, which defines a barrel and a grip. A valve is positioned in the barrel proximate to the grip, which extends from a first end of the barrel. A channel extends from the valve to a second end of the barrel. A cavity extends into the grip and is in fluidic communication with the valve. The grip selectively engages a cannister, which contains a lachrymator agent, that is inserted into the cavity. The cannister is removably engaged to the L-shaped housing and an outlet of the cannister is operationally engaged to the valve. A trigger is engaged to the L-shaped housing and operationally engaged to the valve can be triggered to actuate the valve. The lachrymator agent is dispensed from the cannister through the channel toward a target that is in substantial alignment with the barrel.
US11639841B2
A detector for detecting the removal and/or insertion of a firearm out of and/or into a holster. The detector may transmit a message each time the firearm is removed from the holster. A recording system may receive the message and determine whether or not it will begin recording the data it captures. A detector may detect the change in a magnitude of an inductance and/or an impedance of a circuit to detect insertion and removal of the firearm into and out of the holster. The holster is configured to couple to the detector to position the detector to detect insertion and removal of the firearm. An adhesive tape may couple a detector to a holster.
US11639824B2
An apparatus and method for cooling a gas stream is provided comprising at least one heat exchanger in which a gas stream is cooled against a cooling liquid, whereby the cooling liquid temperature increases from a first temperature to a second temperature, at least one air cooler for cooling the cooling liquid after passing though the at least one heat exchanger, surface area of the at least one air cooler being designed to decrease temperature of the cooling liquid to the first temperature; a pump; and conduits to form a closed-circuit for the cooling liquid to pass continuously through the at least one heat exchanger and the at least one air cooler. The ratio of surface area of the at least one air cooler to the surface area of the at least one heat exchanger is optionally 12 or lower, and the difference of temperature between the second temperature and first temperature being greater than 15° C.
US11639823B2
A refrigerator appliance includes a chilled chamber defining a plurality of cooling zones and a lighting assembly comprising a plurality of lighting zones corresponding to the plurality of cooling zones. A climate control system generates and selectively directs a flow of cooling air into the plurality of cooling zones such that the temperature in each zone is independently regulated and the lighting assembly selectively illuminates the plurality of lighting zones to provide user feedback regarding the operation of the climate control system, e.g., by indicating which zones are receiving the flow of cooling air, by notifying a user when a zone has reached a setpoint temperature, or by identifying the presence and location of a flow restriction.
US11639822B1
Exemplary embodiments include a device that may serve as a drink dispenser for beverage cans. The device may be shaped like a keg. The device may include a portion to contain, cool, and dispense the beverage cans and a portion to contain ice to provide cooling, as well as contain additional beverage containers. The device may include up to five tubes with each tube capable of containing up to four beverage containers in the form of cans. A dispensing mechanism may be located at the lower end of each tube to dispense the beverage cans form the device. The tube structure may provide for cooling of the beverage containers within each tube. The device may be portable and may have a cart that can be used for transportation of the device. The device may be detachable from the cart.
US11639819B2
A vector control system is used to control a vapor compression circuit. The vector control system may monitor the vapor compression circuit and adjust the speed of one or more motors to increase efficiency of the system by taking into account the torque forces placed on a compressor motor.
US11639817B2
A heat exchanger includes a heat exchange tube (10) and a first water collecting tank (20). The first water collecting tank (20) is provided on the heat exchange tube (10), a first water diversion hole (21) is provided at a bottom portion of the first water collecting tank (20), the heat exchange tube (10) passes through the first water diversion hole (21), and the first water diversion hole (21) has a diameter greater than an outer diameter of the heat exchange tube (10). By providing the first water collecting tank (20), and making the heat exchange tube (10) pass through the first water diversion hole (21) provided on the first water collecting tank (20), and leaving a gap between the heat exchange tube (10) and the first water diversion hole (21), the water in the first water collecting tank (20) evenly flows into the first water diversion hole (21).
US11639808B2
An in-ground geothermal heat pump (GHP) closed loop optimization method is disclosed for designing, analyzing, optimizing, controlling, and simulating a detailed model and analysis of a building's in-ground geothermal heat pump system, including borehole length, number of boreholes, heat pump capacity, grid layout, total electric operating costs, efficiency ratios, and hybrid designs, among others. In one aspect of the disclosure described herein, the GHP optimization method can reliably and efficiently predict and optimized the fluctuations of the GHP equipment performance in very small increments which enable the determination of energy consumption and demand information on a specific and unique hourly schedule basis for the building design, including incorporating thermal load data for each individual zone of the building. More specifically, the small increment method here can be used to eliminate overly broad approximations by evaluating GHP performance that is specific to building dynamics, constants, and variables for all of the building individual zones and the building's hourly operating schedule, thereby providing an efficient, reliable, simple, and effective geothermal heat pump design and simulation model.
US11639803B2
A controller of an HVAC system is communicatively coupled to a suction-side sensor and a shutoff switch. The controller stores measurements of the suction-side property over an initial period of time. The controller detects that the shutoff switch is tripped at a first time stamp corresponding to an end of the initial period of time. The controller accesses the measurements of the suction-side property. The controller determines, based on the measurements of the suction-side property, whether the suction-side property has an increasing or decreasing trend. In response to determining that the suction-side property has the increasing trend, the controller determines that a malfunction of a fan caused the shutoff switch to trip. In response to determining that the suction-side property has the decreasing trend, the controller determines that a blockage of the refrigerant conduit subsystem caused the shutoff switch to trip.
US11639797B2
An oven comprising a housing, a cook cavity located within the housing, wherein the housing includes an opening to the cook cavity and the cook cavity is configured to receive a food item through the opening, an oven door for covering the opening, a heating element configured to heat an air within the cook cavity, an active vent interconnecting the cook cavity and an outside of the housing, and a controller operatively coupled to the active vent and the heating element is disclosed. The controller is configured to perform the steps of (a) turning on the heating element to initiate a cooking cycle, (b) keeping the active vent closed during an initial stage of the cooking cycle, (c) after the initial stage of the cooking cycle, opening the active vent, and (d) keeping the active vent open during at least a portion of a remainder of the cooking cycle.
US11639795B2
A fuel injector is provided for a turbine engine. This fuel injector includes a fuel nozzle, and the fuel nozzle includes a gallery, one or more feed passages and a plurality of exit passages. The gallery extends within the fuel nozzle circumferentially around an axis between a first end of the gallery and a second end of the gallery. A size of the gallery changes as the gallery extends circumferentially around the axis between the first end of the gallery and the second end of the gallery. The one or more feed passages extend within the fuel nozzle to the gallery. The one or more feed passages are configured to supply fuel to the gallery. The exit passages extend within the fuel nozzle from the gallery. The exit passages are configured to receive the fuel from the gallery.
US11639773B2
A system for transporting natural gas. The system may include a loading facility, a first storage system, a second storage system, and a CNG carrier. The loading facility may be operable to receive, compress, and chill natural gas while maintaining the natural gas in a gaseous state, and further operable to transfer the chilled CNG at a constant flowrate. The first storage system may be operable to receive chilled CNG from the loading facility at the constant flowrate, store the chilled CNG, and transfer the chilled CNG. The second storage system may be operable to receive and store the chilled CNG. The CNG carrier may be operable to receive chilled CNG from the first storage system, transport the chilled CNG, and transfer the chilled CNG to the second storage system. The system may be sized such that the constant flowrate of the chilled CNG is maintained without interruption.
US11639771B2
Systems and methods for automatic maintenance of lube oil quality include a storage tank for storing fresh lube oil, a lube oil reservoir containing a volume of operational lube oil, and an oil disposal tank. A first controllable flow system transports lube oil from the reservoir to the oil disposal tank, and a second controllable flow system transports fresh lube oil from the storage tank to the reservoir. Provided are a level transmitter to measure a level of lube oil within the reservoir and an antioxidant sensor to measure a concentration of antioxidant level inside the lube oil reservoir. A control system activates and deactivates the first controllable flow system based upon the concentration of antioxidant measured by the antioxidant sensor, and activates and deactivates the second controllable flow system based upon the level of lube oil measured by the level transmitter.
US11639768B2
A charged particle transport system and its installation method, both of which can readily and quickly adjust alignment, are provided. The charged particle transport system 10a includes: a frame 16 fixed to a base 15; a first plate 21 joined to an upper portion of the frame 16 with a height-adjustable first screw 11; a second plate 22 movably accommodated in a horizontal surface of the first plate; a second screw 12 screwed into a screw hole formed in a fixing member 25 around the first plate 21 such that its tip abuts on an outer peripheral surface of the second plate 22; a third screw 13 that fixes the second plate 21 to the first plate 21; and first engagement pins 31 inserted into respective engagement holes 17a, 17b formed in the second plate 22 and a supporting member 27 for engaging both.
US11639765B2
A connector arrangement (100) for connecting a first tube (102) and a second tube (104) in a detachable manner has a first connector (110) and a second connector (130), wherein both connectors (110, 130) have a closed circumference. For establishing a connection between the first and second connectors (110, 130) an internal surface of a first circumferential portion (115) of the first connector (110) is arranged on an external surface of a first circumferential portion (135) of the second connector (130) and an external surface of a second circumferential portion (118) of the first connector (110) is arranged on an internal surface of a second circumferential portion (138) of the second connector (130). An air duct having such a connector arrangement (100) and connectors for such a connector arrangement (100) is disclosed.
US11639756B1
A molded one-piece stub out and rough-in plumbing valve cylinder including a front cylindrical face having a front inner off-set cavity disposed therein, which extends to an inner wall member forming an integral conduit member that extends into an inner cylindrical rear cavity extending from an inner cylindrical rear wall surface on an opposite side of the front cylindrical face to an open ended mounting plate. The integral conduit member extends through the inner cylindrical rear cavity to a selective distance beyond the open end of the mounting plate. A plurality of support members disposed on the integral conduit member along a portion thereon and along portion of the inner cylindrical rear cavity for supporting the integral conduit member therein. Also, the integral conduit member includes a self-leveling member to level the mounting plate upon attachment to vertical or horizontal wall framed stud members.
US11639745B2
A self-locking securing device facilitates secure connection to cable or elongated object ends, and employs a retaining jaw, a barrel, a spacer and a sleeve. In various embodiments, the retaining jaw and spacer are formed as part or all of a replaceable cartridge and can include a fastening ring therebetween.
US11639743B2
An elastic support device according to an embodiment includes: a first member including a first magnet; and a second member including a second magnet, disposed so as to face the first member, and movable relative to the first member in response to receipt of an external force. A magnetic force acting between the first magnet and the second magnet holds the second member in an original position when the second member does not receive an external force, and the magnetic force returns the second member to the original position when the second member is moved due to receipt of an external force.
US11639738B2
To provide a bearing device which can ensure the sealing performance by using floating seal to eliminate the need of adding lubricant over a long term and a construction machine comprising the bearing device. The bearing device comprises a shaft. The bearing device comprises a boss portion having a bearing rotatably holding the shaft. The bearing device comprises a cylindrical collar mounted on an end part side of the shaft rather than the boss portion. The bearing device comprises a floating seal for sealing lubricant sandwiched between the boss portion and collar. The bearing device comprises a pin being inserted into the insertion holes provided in the shaft and collar and integrally fixing the shaft and collar at a position where a predetermined axial load is applied to the floating seal between the collar and boss portion. The bearing device comprises a bracket having an opening for mounting the collar.
US11639735B2
A fastener to fasten a member to be fastened includes a shaft portion, a tool working surface, and an external operation restricting portion. The shaft portion is provided with a male thread configured to be rotated about an axis line to work so as to fasten the member to be fastened. The tool working surface is formed to a tool working portion integrated with the shaft portion. A tool to rotate the shaft portion works to the tool working surface. The external operation restricting portion is configured to restrict the rotation of the shaft portion through an operation from outside the fastener. In this fastener, the tool working surface to which the tool works is formed in an approximately cylindrical inner surface shape.
US11639714B2
A pump device includes a first piezoelectric pump, a second piezoelectric pump connected in series to the first piezoelectric pump on an upstream side of the first piezoelectric pump, a driver unit that supplies alternating-current input power to the first piezoelectric pump and the second piezoelectric pump, and a distribution setting unit that sets a distribution ratio of the input power to be supplied from the driver unit to each of the first piezoelectric pump and the second piezoelectric pump, wherein the distribution setting unit sets a ratio of the input power for the second piezoelectric pump to the input power for the first piezoelectric pump to a value greater than 1 and equal to or less than 1.57.
US11639712B2
Described is a system for monitoring deflection of turbine blades of a wind turbine comprising a tower. The system comprises a position detecting apparatus mounted to the wind turbine, the position detection apparatus comprising position detection components each detecting a presence or absence of a corresponding one of the segments of the turbine blades; and a deflection controller configured to receive the presence or absence detection and to use the presence or absence detection to determine a distance of each of the segments of the turbine blades relative to the tower, whereby the distance of each of the segments of the turbine blades relative to the tower is representative of the deflection of the turbine blades.
US11639710B2
Systems and methods of autonomous farm-level control and optimization of wind turbines are provided. Exemplary embodiments comprise a site controller running on a site server. The site controller collects and analyzes yaw control data of a plurality of wind turbines and wind direction data relating to the plurality of wind turbines. The site server determines collective wind direction across an area occupied by the plurality of wind turbines and sends yaw control signals including desired nacelle yaw position instructions to the plurality of wind turbines. The site controller performs wake modeling analysis and determines desired nacelle positions of one or more of the plurality of wind turbines. The desired nacelle yaw position instructions systematically correct static yaw misalignment for all of the plurality of wind turbines. Embodiments of the disclosure provide means to perform whole site or partial site level controls of the yaw controllers of a utility scale wind turbine farm. The overall effect of the coordinated yaw control of wind turbines across the whole or partial site is intended to keep the wake loss of the wind turbines from the upstream wind turbines to the minimum and to maximize the production of turbines that are not waking other turbines.
US11639708B2
A rotor hub of a wind turbine comprising a hub housing, which has a plurality of connecting flanges, which are each adapted for connection of a rotor blade, wherein each of the rotor blades is coupled to a pitch drive for rotating the rotor blade, wherein the pitch drive is connected to an arrangement of electrical control devices, which are adapted to control the pitch drive. The arrangement of the control devices is provided in a module as a structural unit, the module being connected as a whole to the hub housing.
US11639705B2
An air intake system for an internal combustion engine is described, and includes a vapor capture element disposed in an interior portion of an air intake system. The vapor capture element includes a flexible Metal Organic Framework (MOF) material, wherein the flexible MOF material is reversibly controllable to a first state and to a second state in response to a control stimulus. The flexible MOF material is configured to adsorb hydrocarbon vapor when controlled to the first state and configured to desorb the hydrocarbon vapor when controlled to the second state.
US11639701B1
An engine system includes an engine housing having a cylinder block and a cylinder head. An intake opening and an exhaust opening and an igniter opening are formed in a fire deck surface of the cylinder head. A plurality of always-open fuel admission ports are fluidly connected to a combustion chamber and arranged in at least one of the cylinder block or the cylinder head. The always-open fuel admission ports convey a gaseous fuel such as a gaseous hydrogen fuel, a gaseous hydrocarbon fuel, or still others, to the combustion chamber.
US11639697B2
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine controlled as a function of an operating-point setpoint, the method includes: determining whether a new operating-point setpoint is received, and if so determining the maximum capacity of the pump based on determined values of rotational speed of the engine, quantity of fuel injected, and fuel pressure in the common injection rail; determining fuel consumption flow rate; subtracting fuel consumption flow rate of the vehicle from the maximum capacity of the pump to obtain the remaining capacity of the fuel pump; determining the difference in fuel flow rate between the current operating point and the operating point of the new operating-point setpoint; and if the remaining capacity of the fuel pump is less than the difference in fuel flow rate, a reduced fuel flow rate gradient setpoint is emitted with the new operating-point setpoint or the quantity of fuel injected is limited.
US11639694B2
A vehicle control system includes an accelerator sensor which detects an accelerator opening, a target acceleration setting unit which sets a target acceleration of a vehicle based on the detected accelerator opening, a target torque setting unit which sets a target torque of a drive source based on the set target acceleration, and a drive source controller which controls the drive source to generate the set target torque. In a case where the target acceleration at a time when the accelerator opening is increased is set as a depression-increasing target acceleration and the target acceleration at a time when the accelerator opening is decreased is set as a pedal-returning target acceleration, under the same condition of the accelerator opening, the target acceleration setting unit sets the target acceleration such that the pedal-returning target acceleration becomes lower than the depression-increasing target acceleration.
US11639679B2
Disclosed is a process for the dynamic monitoring of the flow rate of liquid additive consumed by a liquid-additive injector of an exhaust gas treatment system of a motor vehicle. The measurement of the pressure of the liquid makes it possible firstly to deduce the flow rate circulating through the orifice and secondly, by knowing the operating characteristic of the pump, to determine the flow rate of liquid additive actually delivered to the system for treating polluting gases. The process also provides a phase of characterizing the pump, including commanding the closure of the injector, measuring at least two pressure values for two different operating speeds of the pump, and updating the pump operating characteristics table on the basis of the pressure values measured.
US11639678B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a diesel exhaust fluid tank for a vehicle. An exemplary diesel exhaust fluid tank includes a tank body to store diesel exhaust fluid, a tank supply line to deliver the diesel exhaust fluid to a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) device, and a tank siphon line to drain the diesel exhaust fluid from the tank body. The tank siphon line is mounted to the tank body and includes a siphon inlet (e.g., devoid of a filter) at or proximate to a bottom wall of the tank body. The integrated tank siphon line avoids any need to remove tank components to feed a siphon tube into a tank. Further, the tank siphon line leverages preexisting components in the diesel exhaust fluid tank and/or the vehicle to siphon diesel exhaust fluid as needed.
US11639677B1
System and methods for capturing carbon dioxide from a flow of exhuast gas from a combustion process
A carbon dioxide capture system includes a first capture tank containing carbon dioxide absorbent material which operates to absorb carbon dioxide from a flow of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. A heat exchange loop is in heat exchange communication with the first capture tank and further in heat exchange communication with one of the flow of exhaust gas or a flow of engine coolant from the internal combustion engine. A heat exchange fluid is operable to flow through the heat exchange loop. The heat exchange fluid operates to transfer heat from the exhaust gas or the engine coolant to the first capture tank. The heat from the exhaust gas or the engine coolant operates to release a portion of the carbon dioxide absorbed by the carbon dioxide absorbent material in the first capture tank.
US11639668B2
A method for controlling the clearance between the blade tips of a high-pressure turbine of a gas turbine aircraft engine and a turbine shroud, including the controlling of a valve delivering a stream of air to the turbine shroud, this method further including the following steps: the detection of a transient acceleration phase of the engine; the receiving of an item of data representative of the gas temperature at the outlet of the combustion chamber of the engine; a valve opening command, to deliver the air stream to the turbine shroud or to increase the flow rate of the delivered air stream, if the transient acceleration phase is detected and if the gas temperature at the outlet of the combustion chamber is greater than a first temperature threshold corresponding to a degraded clearance characteristic of an aged engine, this threshold being less than an operating limit temperature of the engine.
US11639665B2
A turbomachine blade including a body that extends mainly in a plane defined by a main axis and a longitudinal direction, which is defined by a lower surface wall, an upper surface wall, a leading edge located at a first longitudinal end of the body and a trailing edge located at a second longitudinal end of the body, wherein the body of the blade includes a plurality of first pipes that extend mainly along the direction of the main axis, for circulation of a gas flow, and a plurality of second pipes that extend mainly along the longitudinal direction, for circulation of a second gas flow.
US11639656B1
Hydrocarbon gas capture from a well stream can involve recovering light hydrocarbon gases from liquids and solids via a multiphase separator that is upstream of a sand removal system. Pressure is controlled in the multiphase separator to facilitate hydrocarbon gas capture. The light hydrocarbon gases can be recovered for sale or can be used on-site.
US11639645B2
An adaptive fluid switch for regulating the production rate of a fluid. The adaptive fluid switch includes a fluid control valve having a fluid selector, a swirl chamber and a self-impinging valve element. When the fluid produced through the adaptive fluid switch has a viscosity greater than a first predetermined level, the fluid selector determines the fluid to be a selected fluid such that the fluid swirls in one direction in the swirl chamber and follows a low resistance flow path in the valve element. When the fluid has a viscosity less than a second predetermined level, the fluid selector determines the fluid to be a non-selected fluid such that the fluid swirls in the opposite direction in the swirl chamber and follows a high resistance flow path in the valve element, thereby regulating the production rate of the fluid responsive to changes in the viscosity of the fluid.
US11639637B2
A centralizing perforating gun for perforating a tubular in a wellbore include a gun housing, perforating charges positioned within the gun housing and detonatable to perforate the tubular, and a centralizing system. The centralizing system includes an extendable member configured to move between a retracted position and an extended position. The extendable member is configured to engage a surface of the tubular in the extended position, thereby biasing the centralizing perforating gun away from the surface of the tubular.
US11639632B2
The window treatment includes a top member, a shade unit, and an outdoor temperature indication arrangement. The top member is adapted for mounting at a ceiling of the window frame. The shade unit is downwardly suspended from the top member and being moved between a closed position and an opened position, wherein at the closed position, the shade unit is moved for covering the window glass to control an amount of light in a space, and at the opened position, the shade unit is moved for uncovering the window glass. The outdoor temperature indication arrangement is formed with the shade unit for indicating an outdoor temperature when the shade unit is moved at the closed position.
US11639626B1
A threshold system with an insulated thermal break device configured to provide a thermal break for insulating a door opening and related methods is provided.
US11639612B1
A rack system including a rail assembly, a leg assembly and a vehicle assembly is disclosed. The rail assembly includes load support rails secured to a roof of a vehicle. The load support rails receive legs therein. The legs extend towards a ground surface. The legs include a telescopic portion which extends until the vehicle roof is elevated off of the vehicle. The legs are defined by a top leg portion and a bottom leg portion that are interconnected with a hinge. Once the legs are extended enough to elevate the roof from the vehicle, the vehicle can be operated while the rack system is left self-standing and self-supported.
US11639610B2
A mobile lighting device is disclosed with extendable boom sections. The boom sections are stored in a horizontal position and then pivot to a vertical position before being extended upward. A light section is positioned at the uppermost end of the last extendable boom section. A variety of safety features are also disclosed.
US11639606B2
The present disclosure relates to a floor panel, comprising a laminate of a core layer, comprising a ceramic or mineral material and a binder a first pair of opposite edges, said first pair of opposite edges comprising complementary coupling parts allowing to mutually couple of plurality of floor panels to each other, a top layer, comprising a ceramic material or a natural stone, wherein the side of the core layer facing the top layer comprises a reinforcement layer, locally having a higher density than the density of the rest of the core layer.
US11639600B2
A storm water retention or detention system is constructed to fit a desired land area from square shaped concrete modules. Each of the modules has at least one water passage and one air passage, and the water passages and air passages of adjacent concrete modules are in alignment to allow the free flow of water and air therebetween. The water passage may be circular, have a cross-sectional area less than 60% of the total area of a side of module, and be slightly above the bottom inside surface of the modules.
US11639599B2
A toilet assembly includes a toilet, a non-vitreous fluid delivery component, and a connector assembly. The non-vitreous fluid delivery component is coupled to, and in fluid communication with, the toilet. The connector assembly couples the non-vitreous fluid delivery component to the toilet in a substantially watertight manner. The connector assembly includes a connector body, a nut adjustably coupled to the connector body, and a sealing member disposed on the connector body. The nut is configured to be adjusted relative to the connector body to cause the connector body to compress the sealing member against a portion of the toilet, such that the sealing member creates a substantially watertight seal between the toilet and the connector body.
US11639594B2
A transmission system includes a transmission assembly having clutches to transmit power from an input shaft to an output shaft at a plurality of gear ratios. A traction motor drives the input shaft and propels the work vehicle, while a controller controls operation of the transmission assembly and the traction motor. A hydraulic circuit controls actuation of the clutches responsive to commands from the controller. The hydraulic circuit includes a hydraulic pump driven by the traction motor, an accumulator connected to the hydraulic pump and that holds hydraulic fluid therein under pressure, and an unloading valve positioned in a secondary fluid path running from an outlet of the hydraulic pump to a sump. The unloading valve operates in a closed state to direct hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump to the accumulator and operates in an open state to direct hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump to the sump.
US11639593B2
Provided is a work machine that can operate a front work implement at a speed according to an operator's lever operation while securing the accuracy of work by machine control. A hydraulic excavator 1 includes a controller 20 that sets a target surface for a bucket 10 and controls the operation of a front work implement 1B in such a manner that the bucket does not penetrate to below the target surface. The controller sets a speed correction region on an upper side of the target surface, varies a width R of the speed correction region in accordance with an operation amount of an operation device 15A or 15C, and controls the operation of the front work implement in such a manner that the work tool does not penetrate into the speed correction region.
US11639592B2
A spacer structure (204; 205) for a saw disc assembly of a sawing machine (4), comprises a hub device (220) having a central axis and being adapted to be coaxially arranged between a pair of axially peripheral saw discs. According to the invention, said hub device (220) is configured and adapted to detachably or non-detachably receive a proximal portion (231) of an elongated spacer means (230) in a substantially radial manner in relation to said hub device, said elongated spacer means (230) being adapted to be arranged between said pair of saw discs, a distal portion (235) of said elongated spacer means (230) being constituted and adapted to detachably or non-detachably connect to said pair of peripheral saw discs.
US11639584B2
An end post (30) for a rail joint assembly comprising: a top portion (12) consisting essentially of a first electrically insulating material comprising a fiber reinforced polymer material and having a profile substantially identical to cross-sectional shapes of rail head sections of first and second rails of the rail joint assembly; a base (16) having a profile substantially identical to cross-sectional shapes of rail base sections of first and second rails of the rail joint assembly; and a stem (14) disposed between the top portion (12) and the base (16); wherein the stem (14) and the base (16) consist essentially of a second electrically insulating material comprising a polymer material.
US11639579B2
A recycled cellulose pulp composition is provided which comprises recycled cellulosic fibers and cellulose ester staple fibers. A wet-laid fibrous product is also provided which comprises recycled cellulosic fibers and cellulose ester staple fibers. A bailed article is also provided that comprises recycled cellulosic fibers and cellulose ester staple fibers. In embodiments, the recycled cellulosic fibers are present in an amount of 50 wt % or more, based on the total dry weight of fibers, and the cellulose ester staple fibers are present in an amount sufficient to increase the Canadian standard freeness (CSF) of the composition by 5% or more compared to a 100 wt % cellulosic fiber pulp composition processed under similar conditions.
US11639577B2
An automated method is provided for forming pleats in a textile product in a production line. The method includes conveying a web of the textile product on a conveyor in the production line. The web is folded using a folding board at a folding station in the production line. The method includes removing heat from the folding board. The automated method can allow for high speed folding of the textile product without damaging the textile product from heat caused by friction between the web of textile product and the folding board.
US11639570B2
[Purpose] To obtain a sewing machine comprising a device with which it is possible to easily perform a threading operation in which a needle thread is inserted into the needle hole of the sewing machine needle, wherein the sewing machine comprises a threading device configured so that the needle thread does not drop onto or coil around an operation part (operation part) of the operation lever of the threading device when a thread-hooking operation is completed before insertion of the needle thread. [Configuration] The present invention comprises: a needle bar 52; a threading shaft 53; a thread-holding tool 71; a threading tool 72 provided at the bottom end of the threading shaft 53; an operation lever 4 that has an operation part 41 and moves the threading shaft 53 up and down and rotates the threading shaft in the circumferential direction; and a cutting tool 93 for the needle thread n. The present invention is configured such that a needle thread guide member A, in which an inclined part 1 is formed that guides the needle thread n from the thread-holding tool 71 to the cutting tool 93, is provided between the thread-holding tool 71 and the cutting tool 93, and the inclined part of the needle thread guide member A guides the needle thread n that has been cut by the cutting tool out of the operation range of the operation lever 4.
US11639568B2
An needling machine and process needle a nonwoven fibrous web (2) fed in a direction of passage (3). A needling unit (5) with oscillatingly moved needles (11) is configured to needle and strengthen the nonwoven fibrous web (2). The needling unit (5) has a lifting drive (6) and parallel, linearly guided driving rods (15, 16) driven reversably thereby. The needling unit (5) has a supporting beam (8) connected to the needles (11) and extending in the direction of passage (3). Driving rods (15), arranged one after another in the direction of passage (3), are each connected to the supporting beam (8) via a respective beam bearing (18, 19) in an articulated manner. One of the beam bearings (18, 19), arranged one after another in the direction of passage (3), has an additional degree of freedom of motion.
US11639566B2
Method for knitting three-dimensional fabric with variable thickness through a flat knitting machine
A method for knitting a three-dimensional fabric with variable thickness through a flat knitting machine includes the following steps: moving two cam groups and driving a plurality of knitting needles to knit a first piece of knitting by a starting cam system; moving the two cam groups and driving the plurality of knitting needles to knit a second piece of knitting by a middle cam system; and moving the two cam groups and driving the plurality of knitting needles to knit a supporting yarn by two tail cam systems respectively. The tail cam systems control each of a plurality of knock-over bit cams to move according to a gap size corresponding to a knitting length of the supporting yarn, so as to promptly change a thickness of the three-dimensional fabric along the length change of the supporting yarn.
US11639559B2
An optical element is provided. The optical element includes a solid crystal including crystal molecules aligned in a predetermined alignment pattern at least partially defined by an alignment structure.
US11639557B2
A composite copper foil contains a carrier layer, a release layer and an ultra-thin copper layer in this order. In the composite copper foil, the release layer includes a binary alloy or a ternary alloy comprising nickel, and is formed into an amorphous layer, and the ultra-thin copper layer is peelable from the carrier layer. A method of fabricating the composite copper foil includes preparing a carrier layer, forming a release layer which is amorphous on the carrier layer by electroplating using an electrolyte that comprises nickel, and forming an ultra-thin copper layer on the release layer by electroplating.
US11639555B2
A device for generating ozone from oxygen-containing gas by silent electric discharge. At least two high-voltage electrodes and at least one ground electrode are nested. A discharge gap is defined between each high-voltage electrode and adjacent ground electrode. A dielectric is arranged in each discharge gap. In one embodiment, at least two discharge gaps are traversed by the gas, and a different voltage is applied to each gap according to the individual gap width. In another embodiment, filler material is arranged in an interstice between the high-voltage electrode and the corresponding dielectric, and the same amount of power is applied to each discharge gap.
US11639542B2
A multi-scale and multi-phase dispersion strengthened iron-based alloy, and preparation and characterization methods thereof are provided. The alloy contains a matrix and a strengthening phase. The strengthening phase includes at least two types of the strengthening phase particles with different sizes. A volume of the two types of the strengthening phase particles with different sizes having a particle size less than or equal to 50 nm accounts for 85-95% of a total volume of all the strengthening phase particles. The matrix is a Fe—Cr—W—Ti alloy. The strengthening phases include crystalline Y2O3 phase, Y—Ti—O phase, Y—Cr—O phase, and Y—W—O phase. The characterization method comprises electrolytically separating the strengthening phases in the alloy, and then characterizing by using an electron microscope. The tensile strength of the prepared alloy is more than 1600 MPa at room temperature, and is more than 600 MPa at 700° C.
US11639537B2
A gas blower device for blowing gas onto a surface of a traveling strip includes a plenum in the form of a hollow box for containing gas and comprising two side surfaces, a back surface and a front surface opposite to the back surface. The front surface having a profile of convex type symmetry with respect to a mid-plane perpendicular to the plane of the strip, so that a middle ridge of the front surface is located at the smallest distance from the plane of the strip. The front surface further presenting multiple tubular nozzles protruding at the front surface and having a gas outlet orifice facing in use the traveling strip. All the outlet orifices are essentially in a plane parallel to the strip plane. The gas blower device further includes a gas intake tube for feeding the plenum with gas.
US11639534B2
A device for double-sided processing through single shot peening includes: a shot peening system, a workpiece clamping mechanism for clamping a workpiece, and a rebound system. The workpiece is provided with a first through-hole, and the first through-hole directly faces a nozzle. The rebound system includes a reflecting surface, an open container, and a reflecting surface gripping unit. The reflecting surface includes an upper reflecting surface, a middle reflecting surface, and a lower reflecting surface. The middle reflecting surface is provided with a second through-hole. The upper reflecting surface and the lower reflecting surface are both made of flexible elastic materials and are both provided with waterproof layers. A partition plate is disposed in the open container and partitions the open container into a first cavity and a second cavity. The second cavity is provided with a filling liquid, and the partition plate is slidable in the open container.
US11639530B2
The present invention relates to a use of CD133 involved in resistance to an EGFR-targeting agent in colon cancer. The CD133 protein may be used as a novel target protein for diagnosing and treating resistant cancer as well as general cancer.
US11639526B2
Disclosed herein in are methods and systems for determining genetic variants (e.g., copy number variation) in a polynucleotide sample. A method for determining copy number variations includes tagging double-stranded polynucleotides with duplex tags, sequencing polynucleotides from the sample and estimating total number of polynucleotides mapping to selected genetic loci. The estimate of total number of polynucleotides can involve estimating the number of double-stranded polynucleotides in the original sample for which no sequence reads are generated. This number can be generated using the number of polynucleotides for which reads for both complementary strands are detected and reads for which only one of the two complementary strands is detected.
US11639522B2
Provided herein, in some aspects, are methods of imaging molecules without a microscope or other specialized equipment, referred to herein as “microscope-free imaging (MFI).” Herein, “molecular instruments” (e.g., DNA-based and protein-based molecules) are used, instead of microscopes, in a “bottom-up” approach for inspecting molecular targets.
US11639505B2
Described herein are UV-resistant or UV-protective biological devices and extracts produced therefrom. The biological devices include microbial cells transformed with a DNA construct containing genes for producing UV-resistant proteins such as, for example, hexokinase, heat shock proteins, alcohol dehydrogenase, transferrin, flavonol synthase, zinc oxidase, and iron oxidase. Methods for producing and using the devices are also described herein. Finally, compositions and methods for using the devices and extracts to reduce or prevent UV-induced damage or exposure to materials, items, plants, and human and animal subjects are described herein.
US11639503B2
The present invention provides an aptamer that binds to chymase, and contains a common sequence represented by UAACR1N1R2GGGG wherein R1 and R2 are each any one base, and N1 shows 3 to 30 bases (uracil is optionally thymine).
US11639496B2
The present application relates to the field of immunotherapy, more particularly to the manufacture of cells for adoptive cell therapy. Provided herein are methods to prevent and/or reduce fratricide during manufacturing of such cells, particularly of cells expressing a chimeric NKG2D receptor. Also provided are cells and compositions comprising cells in which fratricide is prevented and/or reduced.
US11639492B2
The present invention relates to the field of fermentation biotechnology, more particularly to methods for the fermentative production of massoia lactone by Aureobasidium species.
US11639491B2
Provided herein is a method for producing a lyophilized composition of viable cells of Rhizobium bacteria having high viable cell viability, and a lyophilized composition of viable cells of Rhizobium bacteria having desirable long-storage survivability, among others. The lyophilized composition of viable cells of Rhizobium bacteria having high viable cell viability and desirable long-storage survivability can be obtained when a composition containing viable cells of Rhizobium bacteria and more than 10 mass % moisture is lyophilized to bring the moisture content to 10 mass %, and the drying is ended before the moisture content becomes less than 5 mass % so that the composition after the lyophilization contains the viable bacteria and 5 to 10 mass % of moisture.
US11639489B2
A packed-bed bioreactor system is provided, the system including a cell culture vessel having a first end, a second end, and a reservoir between the first and second ends; and a cell culture matrix disposed in the reservoir. The cell culture matrix includes a structurally defined substrate with a plurality of interwoven fibers having surfaces for adhering cells thereto. The substrate is disposed within the reservoir in a wound configuration creating a plurality of layers of substrate in the wound configuration, and none of the plurality of layers of substrate are separated by a spacer material.
US11639487B2
This disclosure relates to a cleaning composition that contains 1) hydroxylamine; 2) a chelating agent; 3) an alkylene glycol; 4) water. This disclosure also relates to a method of using the above composition for cleaning a semiconductor substrate.
US11639486B2
Disclosed is a detergent composition (F) for domestic or industrial use including, as thickener, a self-invertible inverse latex including an aqueous phase including: a. a crosslinked anionic polyelectrolyte (P) consisting of: —at least one monomer unit derived from 2-methyl-2-[(1-oxo-2-propenyl)amino]-1-propanesulfonic acid in free acid form or partially or totally salified form; —at least one monomer unit derived from at least one monomer chosen from the elements of the group consisting of acrylamide, N,N-dimethylacrylamide, methacrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide, N-tert-butylacrylamide; and —at least one monomer unit derived from a polyethylenic crosslinking monomer (AR), b. glutamic acid, N,N-diacetic acid, tetrasodium salt.
US11639482B2
A lubricant composition includes a base lubricant and a plurality of lubricant additive molecules functioning as precursor molecules to induce tribopolymerization and forming in situ protective tribofilm with desirable robustness and low shear resistance. Each lubricant additive molecule includes one or more surface-active groups attractable to target surface, and a carbon containing component operable connected to the one or more surface active groups. The carbon containing component comprise a carbon ring structure having a high ring strain that is metastable and activatable with a ring-opening reaction. A less stable carbon ring structure is more readily activated to the intermediate state, preferable to form more active fragments. Increasing the adsorption strength further is beneficial to prolonging the residence time of additive molecules on the target surface, thereby facilitating the dissociation of molecules and subsequent polymerization.
US11639477B2
A gasification process may include (a) introducing a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock and at least one of a dry feedstock or a first slurried feedstock into a reactor lower section, wherein the at least one dry feedstock or first slurried feedstock is introduced through two primary feed nozzles while the liquid hydrocarbon feedstock is introduced through at least two secondary feed nozzles; (b) partially combusting the feedstocks in the reactor lower section with a gas stream comprising an oxygen-containing gas or steam to evolve heat and form products comprising hot synthesis gas; (c) passing said hot synthesis gas from step (b) upward into a reactor upper section; (d) and introducing a second slurried feedstock into said reactor upper section, whereby heat from said hot synthesis gas supports reaction of the second slurried feedstock by pyrolysis and gasification reactions.
US11639475B2
A hydrocracking process for converting a petroleum feed to lower boiling products. The process comprises hydrotreating a petroleum feed in a pre-treating zone in the presence of hydrogen to produce a hydrotreated effluent stream comprising a liquid product. At least a portion of the hydrotreated effluent stream is then passed to an MMS catalyst zone, and then to a hydrocracking zone. In one embodiment, the MMS catalyst zone comprises a self-supported multi-metallic catalyst prepared from a precursor in the oxide or hydroxide form. The percentage work of the hydrotreating in the pre-treating zone is maintained at a level of at least 56%.
US11639471B2
The present invention provides a compound represented by the following general formula (I), and provides a liquid crystal composition containing the compound and a device using the liquid crystal composition. The compound of the present invention has a large refractive index anisotropy Δn and a high compatibility with a liquid crystal composition, and exhibits a large dielectric constant anisotropy in a high frequency region; and therefore, it is useful as a material for a device of a high-frequency phase shifter, a phased array antenna, an image recognition device, distance measuring equipment, a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal lens, a birefringent lens for stereoscopic image display, or the like.
US11639470B2
An etching composition for a silver-containing thin film, the etching composition comprising an inorganic acid compound, a sulfonic acid compound, an organic acid compound, a nitrate, a metal oxidizing agent, an amino acid compound, and water.
US11639469B2
A semiconductor nanocrystal particle including a transition metal chalcogenide represented by Chemical Formula 1, the semiconductor nanocrystal particle having a size of less than or equal to about 100 nanometers, and a method of producing the same: M1M2Cha3 Chemical Formula 1 wherein M1 is Ca, Sr, Ba, or a combination thereof, M2 is Ti, Zr, Hf, or a combination thereof, and Cha is S, Se, Te, or a combination thereof.
US11639468B2
This disclosure pertains to the field of nanotechnology. The disclosure provides methods of preparing nanostructures with fluoride passivation. The disclosure also provides methods of preparing nanostructures with fluoride and amine passivation. The nanostructures have high quantum yield, narrow emission peak width, tunable emission wavelength, and colloidal stability. Also provided are nanostructures prepared using the methods. And, nanostructure films and molded articles comprising the nanostructures are also provided.
US11639464B2
Treatment fluids and associated methods for treating a subterranean formation. An example method includes introducing a treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating the subterranean formation. The treatment fluid includes a competitive metal binder selected from the group consisting of polyamino polyether methylene phosphonic acid, hydoxyethylamino-di(methylene phosphonic acid), and a combination thereof; a polymer capable of forming a polymer-metal complex; and an aqueous fluid. The method further includes contacting a metal ion with the treatment fluid after introduction of the treatment fluid into the wellbore and binding the metal ion with the competitive metal binder.
US11639456B1
The present invention relates to thermally conductive materials, including, for instance, thermally conductive tubing and thermally conductive apparel, and applications thereof. In particular, the invention relates to thermally conductive tubing that can used in thermoregulatory apparel, such as, for example, cooling garments and cooling vests. In at least one embodiment, the present invention includes a thermally conductive material made from one or more base polymers and one or more additives that increase the thermal conductivity of the thermally conductive material relative to the one or more base polymers. The base polymer may include, for example, ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), and the additive may include, for example, graphite fibers. The thermally conductive material may also include, for instance, a secondary polymer, such as ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) and/or a plasticizer, such as bis(2-ethylhexyl) adipate (DEHA). Thermally conductive material produced according to one or more embodiments of the present invention may also be extruded or formed to create thermally conductive tubing and/or sheets.
US11639446B2
A cationic electrodeposition paint composition comprising a cationic base-containing resin (A), a blocked polyisocyanate compound (B), and a modified imidazole (C) having a specific structure, wherein the cationic base-containing resin (A) is a cationic base-containing epoxy resin and/or a cationic base-containing acrylic resin.
US11639445B2
A high-haze anti-glare film is disclosed. The high-haze anti-glare film comprises a transparent substrate and an anti-glare layer on the substrate. The anti-glare layer comprises acrylate binder, amorphous silica microparticles and spherical organic polymer microparticles, wherein the spherical organic polymer microparticles are monodispersity and the average particle size thereof is smaller than that of the amorphous silica microparticles. The total haze (Ht) of the anti-glare film is more than 40%, and the total haze is the sum of the surface haze (Hs) and the inner haze (Hi) of the anti-glare film, and the inner haze (Hi) and the total haze (Ht) satisfy the relation 0.25
US11639444B2
The present invention relates to a particulate carbon material that can be produced from renewable raw materials, in particular from biomass containing lignin, comprising: a 14C content that corresponds to that of the renewable raw materials, said content being preferably greater than 0.20 Bq/g carbon, especially preferably greater than 0.23 Bq/g carbon, but preferably less than 0.45 Bq/g carbon in each case; a carbon content in relation to the ash-free dry substance of between 60 ma. % and 80 ma. %; an STSA surface area of the primary particles of at least 5 m2/g and at most 200 m2/g; and an oil absorption value (OAN) of between 50 ml/100 g and 150 ml/100 g. The present invention also relates to a method for producing said carbon material and to the use thereof.
US11639440B2
The present invention relates to bituminous compositions comprising molecules of formula (I), (II) and/or (III). The invention also relates to the use of said bitumen compositions in the fields of road applications, particularly in the production of road binders and roadways in general, as well as in the fields of industrial applications. The invention also relates to a method for producing said bituminous compositions. The invention further relates to novel molecules that can be used in particular in the formulation of bituminous compositions.
US11639439B2
A thermosetting resin composition and a prepreg are provided. The thermosetting resin composition includes a maleimide resin, a cyanate ester resin, and a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is a silane-modified diallyl bisphenol compound whose structure is represented by Formula (1): in Formula (1), X is a linear or branched C1 to C6 alkyl, cycloalkyl, or sulfonyl group, R1 is a linear or branched C1 to C6 alkyl or aryl group, R2 is a C1 to C6 alkyl group, R3 is a functional group with a crosslinkable double bond, and n+m is a positive integer from 1 to 8.
US11639435B2
Disclosed is a method using a metallocene catalyst system so as to control the polymer structure of a diene-modified polypropylene through process simplification, thereby being capable of preparing a hyperbranched polypropylene resin having a low gel content and improved melt strength. The present invention provides a method using a catalyst so as to polymerize propylene and a diene compound, thereby preparing a diene-modified polypropylene resin having a branching index of 0.95 or less, a gel content of 3 wt % or less and an advanced rheometric expansion system (ARES) melt strength of 5 g or more.
US11639430B2
A black polyester film and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method for manufacturing the black polyester film includes: providing a recycled polyester material; physically regenerating a part of the recycled polyester material to form physically regenerated polyester chips having a first intrinsic viscosity; chemically regenerating another part of the recycled polyester material to form chemically regenerated polyester chips having a second intrinsic viscosity lower than the first intrinsic viscosity; mixing black regenerated polyester chips, the physically regenerated polyester chips, and the chemically regenerated polyester chips according to a predetermined intrinsic viscosity so as to form a polyester chip raw material; melting and then extruding the polyester chips raw material to form the black polyester film having the predetermined intrinsic viscosity.
US11639424B1
An extrusion process of a manufacturing system for plastic which also serves as a depolymerization reactor through the use of melting point's temperature as activation energy and liquid solvents. The melting point activation energy and liquid solvents are used to generate a certain level of depolymerization at the manufacturing process of any given plastic product. The process includes several variables that are used in determining a final additive that is introduced at the beginning of the extrusion process. The final additive includes a mixture of a liquid solvents, a molecular filler, chemical carriers, and stabilizers.
US11639423B2
Provided is a resin composition for producing a coating composition excellent in appearance, abrasion resistance, and hardness of a coating film. The resin composition of the present invention includes a compound A having a branched structure which has a terminal hydroxyl group, a polyisocyanate B, and an inorganic particle C, in which the inorganic particle C has a functional group enabling reacting with a hydroxyl group or an isocyanate group on a surface thereof.
US11639415B2
Provided are poly(AAG)-compositions, and corresponding coatings, foams, and coated articles. Also provided are methods for preparing the poly(AAG)-compositions and corresponding reagents including, e.g., polyol-AAG compositions. Coatings using the poly(AAG)-compositions may be useful for, e.g., replacing bisphenol-A cross-linked coatings used in food and beverage containers, coating metal articles, and the like.
US11639402B2
A pattern forming material is configured to use for forming an organic film on a film to be processed, patterning the organic film, and then forming a composite film by infiltrating a metallic compound into the patterned organic film. The pattern forming material contains a polymer including a monomer unit represented by a general formula (1) described below, wherein, R5 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, each R6 independently is an ethyl group, an n-propyl group, an isopropyl group, an n-butyl group, an isobutyl group, or an s-butyl group, and a monomer unit derived from a compound represented by a general formula (2) described below, wherein, R11 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, each R12 independently is a methyl group, an ethyl group, an n-propyl group, an isopropyl group, an n-butyl group, an isobutyl group, an s-butyl group, or a t-butyl group.
US11639392B2
The present invention relates to methods for treating medical conditions and/or disorders characterized by uncontrolled or abnormal expression of members of the IL1R3 signaling pathway such as IL-1α, IL-Iβ, IL-33, IL-36, IL1RA and/or IL1R3, as well as variants thereof. More specifically, the present invention relates to anti-IL1R3 antibodies for use in the treatment of an IL1R3-mediated inflammatory condition and/or disorder in a subject. Such conditions and disorders include but are not limited to inflammatory diseases, immune disorders, fibrotic disorders, eosinophilic disorders, infection, pain, a central nervous system disorder, an ophthalmologic disorder, Hereditary Systemic Inflammatory Diseases, and Systemic and Local Inflammatory Diseases and cancer associated chronic inflammation.
US11639377B2
The disclosure discloses a preparation of type I collagen-like fibers and a method for regulating and controlling the periodic length of fiber stripes thereof, belonging to the technical field of genetic engineering. The disclosure produces a three-segment chimeric collagen P-CL-P pattern by inserting a continuous Gly-Xaa-Yaa triplet collagen sequence in the middle based on the N- and C-terminal (GPP)n sequences. The self-assembly is driven by the interaction between the N- and C-terminal (GPP)n triple helixes to form banded fibers with periodic bright and dark stripes. According to the method of the disclosure, a fiber from a clean source, which can self-assemble to form periodic bright and dark stripes can be prepared, the structure of which is similar to type I collagen, the preparation process is simple, the collagen fiber with low cost can be produced on a large scale, and the method has broad application prospects in the field of biological materials.
US11639376B2
The present disclosure features signal-regulatory protein α (SIRP-α) polypeptides and constructs that are useful, e.g., to target a cell (e.g., a cancer cell or a cell of the immune system), to increase phagocytosis of the target cell, to eliminate immune cells such as regulatory T-cells, to kill cancer cells, to treat a disease (e.g., cancer) in a subject, or any combinations thereof. The SIRP-α constructs include a high affinity SIRP-α D1 domain or variant thereof that binds CD47 with higher affinity than a wild-type SIRP-α. The SIRP-α polypeptides or constructs include a SIRP-α D1 variant fused to an Fc domain monomer, a human serum albumin (HSA), an albumin-binding peptide, or a polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymer. Compositions provided herein include (i) a polypeptide including a signal-regulatory protein α (SIRP-α) D1 variant and (ii) an antibody.
US11639373B2
The present disclosure relates to imaging and endoradiotherapy of diseases involving chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4). Provided are compounds which bind or inhibit CXCR4 and furthermore carry at least one moiety which is amenable to labeling. Provided are also medical uses of such compounds.
US11639365B2
The present invention is relevant to proteins and novel methods of protein evolution. The present invention further relates to methods of identifying and mapping mutant polypeptides formed from, or based upon, a template polypeptide.
US11639364B2
The present invention relates to a new class of sialyltransferase inhibitors. The class features a carbamate or similar moiety on the amine of a neuraminic acid derivative. Such inhibitors are suitable for use as a medicament, for example for treating, preventing, or delaying bacterial infection, viral infection, cancer, a disorder of sialic acid metabolism, or an autoimmune disease.
US11639362B2
The present invention relates to a transition metal complex having a PNNP4 ligand, which is easy to manufacture and handle and is relatively inexpensively available, and a method for manufacturing the same, as well as a method using this transition metal complex as a catalyst for hydrogenation reduction of ketones, esters and amides to manufacture corresponding alcohols, aldehydes, hemiacetals and hemiaminals, a method using this transition metal complex as a catalyst for oxidation of alcohols, hemiacetals and hemiaminals to manufacture corresponding carbonyl compounds, and a method using this transition metal complex as a catalyst for dehydrogenation condensation between alcohols and amines to manufacture alkylamines.
US11639361B2
A composition, a film, a display device and article prepared therefrom, and a method of preparing the article, the composition including: a compound having a fluorine-containing (poly)ether group represented by Formula 1; and a heteroatom-containing cyclic silane compound represented by Formula 2 or 3: wherein, in Formulas 1 to 3, Rf is a fluorine-containing (poly)ether group, and L1, Q1, p1, q1, q2, q3, A1, A2, A3, Ra, Rb, Ri, Rj, Rc, Rd, Re, Rf, Rg, Rh, Rk, Rl, Rm, Rn, Ro, Rp, Rq, Rr, Rs, and Rt are as described in the detailed description.
US11639353B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): or stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, wherein all the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are antagonists to αv-containing integrins. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating a disease, disorder, or condition associated with dysregulation of αv-containing integrins, such as pathological fibrosis, transplant rejection, cancer, osteoporosis, and inflammatory disorders, by using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions.
US11639350B2
Provided herein are compounds useful for the treatment of HBV infection in a subject in need thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of inhibiting, suppressing, or preventing HBV infection in the subject, and the compound has the structure of Formula I including any possible deuterated isomers, stereoisomers or tautomeric forms thereof.
US11639349B2
Provided is a stereoselective synthesis of an intermediate for the preparation of the heterocyclic derivative as a Cap-dependent endonuclease inhibitor. The synthesis process has the advantages of simple operation, higher yield and relatively controllable steroselectivity, such that it is suitable for large-scale production.
US11639342B2
Compositions, methods, and kits for the labeling, detecting, isolating and/or analysis of biomolecules modified by attachment of chemical handles are disclosed. These embodiments involve a compound of the formula:
US11639322B2
A process for sulfuric acid catalyzed alkylation involving the use of surfactants which form bi-continuous micro-emulsions with the sulfuric acid and the hydrocarbon is described. The bi-continuous phase facilitates and improves the sulfuric acid catalyzed alkylation reactions. The concentration of the surfactant is selected based on the type of olefin feed. Easy to alkylate feeds, such as 2-butene, use lower concentrations of surfactant, while feeds which are harder to alkylate, such as propene or isobutene, use higher concentrations of the surfactant. In addition, increasing the concentration of sulfuric acid when a surfactant is included resulted in higher calculated RON. The use of a surfactant and a high concentration of sulfuric acid can provide a calculated RON over 100 and close to theoretical yields.
US11639319B2
The present invention relates to fertilizer particles encapsulated in modified chitosan and a method of obtaining them. The particles described in this invention allow a controlled, moderate, or gradual release of an active material from a reserve substrate to another medium, in order to increase the effectiveness of the active material by prolonging its action over time. This invention is characterized in that the active components of said formulations are capable of causing a synergistic effect, considerably increasing the growth and development of plants.
US11639316B2
Fiber tows including a heat-activatable sizing are described. The sizing compositions have a first modulus at 25° C. of at least 150 megapascals (MPa) and no greater than 400 MPa; and a second modulus of 100,000 pascals (Pa) at a temperature of no greater than 160° C. Methods of preparing articles from such sized fiber tows and the articles comprising such sized fiber tows, including unidirectional and bidirectional constructions are also described.
US11639312B2
The present invention relates to parts of transparent corundum ceramics and the production and use of said parts.
US11639311B2
High alumina cement is produced in a submerged combustion melter, cooled and ground.
US11639305B2
An apparatus for fusion draw glass manufacture, including: at least one isopipe having at least one weir; and a fluid discharge member in proximity to the at least one weir of the at least one isopipe, the fluid discharge member is in fluid communication with a remote fluid source. Methods of making and using the apparatus are also disclosed.
US11639303B2
Methods are provided for treating intimately dispersed mixtures of water, bitumen, and fine clay particles, such as oil sands mature fine tailings (MFT). Select methods use dissolved silicate ions and a base (alkali), optionally in combination with a biopolymer, to flocculate a slurry. A mixing regime is disclosed involving the addition to MFT of silicate ions in solution and alkali, to initiate aggregation/destabilization of clay particles. Methods are exemplified that provide distinct sediment layers in conjunction with the release of residual bitumen (for example 40-50% of the initial bitumen content). In these exemplified embodiments, a densely packed bottom layer containing ˜75 wt. % solids showed high yield stress values (3.5-5.5 kPa) and entrapped little residual bitumen (0.2-0.3 wt. %). The methods accordingly segregate a material suitable for reclamation.
US11639302B2
A process for reducing the concentration of one or more arsenic-containing compounds in an aqueous solution comprising at least one fluoroacid, which process comprises: (i) contacting the aqueous solution with an oxidising agent to produce one or more Asv-containing compounds; and (ii) removal of precipitated arsenic-containing compounds; wherein the process comprises a step (iii) the addition of an aqueous alkali solution or slurry, which may take place after step (i) and before step (ii) or after step (ii).
US11639301B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can include a method for isolating a contaminate from water comprising: introducing a plurality of aluminum-doped nanoparticles to water, the water comprising the contaminate; contacting the plurality of aluminum-doped nanoparticles with the contaminate to form contaminate-adsorbed nanoparticles; and isolating the contaminate-adsorbed nanoparticles by applying a magnetic field to the water.
US11639300B2
Systems and methods for electrolytic spa sanitation are provided which control electrodes in a manner that extends the use of electrodes, reducing the frequency of replacement of electrodes. The system also incorporates electrodes that can be easily replaced by a user, further reducing the need to maintenance by trained service personnel. Systems and methods use measurements from ORP, pH, and temperature sensors to determine the amount of sanitizer necessary to be produced from the electrodes. The electrodes are capable or acting as either an anode or a cathode.
US11639295B1
In one aspect, a modular filter assembly for filtering fluid that flows in a flow direction therethrough is disclosed. The assembly includes a first housing section having a first filter element; a second housing section having a second filter element; and a connector disposed between the first and second housing sections. A housing includes the first housing section, the connector, and the second housing section. The flow direction is through the first and second filter elements in series.
US11639289B2
A dispensing unit having a circulation system for circulating a fluid in the dispensing unit is provided. The circulation system comprises, a circulation circuit, and a mechanism configured to circulate the fluid in the circulation circuit. By circulating the fluid, the fluid is counteracted from crystallizing. A method for circulating a fluid in a dispensing unit is also provided.
US11639278B2
A media feeding apparatus includes a media mounting section, a first feed roller, a media pressing section for pressing media sheets against the first feed roller, and a pressing force adjuster for adjusting the pressing force of the media pressing section. The controller sets the pressing force of the media pressing section to first pressing force and drives the first feed roller and the second feed roller in a forward rotation direction, and in a case in which the first detector detects a passage of a leading edge of the media sheet and the second detector detects no passage of the leading edge of the media sheet after predetermined first set time has passed, the controller continues the rotation of the first feed roller and the second feed roller with second pressing force of the media pressing section greater than or equal to the first pressing force.
US11639268B2
Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose an axle lock assembly comprising a first plate with a first aperture, a second plate with a second aperture, a shaft, wherein the shaft is inserted through the first aperture and the second aperture and a bush. When the hushing is in contact with the first plate and the second plate, the bush creates a lateral force to move the first plate and the second plate in opposite directions to secure the shaft.
