US11689046B2
The present invention relates to a device (10) for powering a rotating electrical machine (13) of a motor vehicle, comprising: —an amplifier (15) capable of being electrically powered by the first electrical energy storage unit (11) and capable of electrically powering the second electrical energy storage unit (12), characterised in that the amplifier (15) comprises an oscillating circuit (16), the oscillating circuit (16) comprising a capacitance (C) of value C′ and an inductive assembly comprising an inductance (L) of value L′ and a resistance (R) of value R′, —the oscillating circuit (16) having a specific angular frequency ω such that ω=I/√(L′×C′) and a natural frequency f such that f=ω(2π), and in that the value of the inductance (L) is variable in a predetermined manner, in particular so as to increase an electric current, supplied by the first electrical energy storage unit (11) to the oscillating circuit (16), into an amplified current supplied by the oscillating circuit (16) to the second electrical energy storage unit (12).
US11689044B2
A battery with a battery management system is capable of charging the battery with recaptured energy from an energy regeneration device. The battery management system charges the battery with the energy regeneration device if the output voltage from the energy regeneration device is larger than the charging voltage of the battery.
US11689041B2
Systems and methods for detecting electrical connection and disconnection on an USB Type-A charging port like power adapters, power banks and car chargers having one or more USB Type-A charging port of an USB device. The system includes: a voltage source; a MOSFET SWITCH gate driver, in USB type-A connected state, that operatively couples MOSFET SWITCH with voltage source and VBUS supply of USB type-A port; charge pump; a current sense differential amplifier; and a control unit configured to: monitor VBUS current, and detect potential disconnected state of connected USB type-A port; and monitor VBUS voltage and compare VBUS voltage with predetermined voltage to sense external condition such that VBUS voltage drops because of load capacitance and load current. The control unit is further configured to, when the duty cycle has reached a minimum VBUS current, detect the USB type-A disconnection with a charge pump state.
US11689033B2
This application is directed to protecting a battery or battery by a battery protection system including two distinct protection integrated circuits (PICs). The two PICs are configured to determine whether a drive current of the battery is at fault and generate distinct switching signals indicating whether the drive current of the battery is at fault. The two PICs are interchangeable with each other. The battery protection system further includes control logic and two switching components. The control logic is configured to combine the switching signals provided by the two PICs to provide a combined switching signal. Each switching component is coupled to the control logic and configured to control a current path of charging and discharging the battery based on the combined switching signal.
US11689028B2
Various embodiments include a method for controlling an exchange of energy in an energy system having multiple energy subsystems each connected to one another for the purpose of exchanging energy, the method comprising: receiving respective supply data at a control center from the energy subsystems, wherein the supply data comprise respective remuneration conditions of the applicable energy subsystem for receiving and/or providing energy; determining optimum conditions on the basis of the supply data of the energy subsystems; and controlling the exchange of energy between the energy subsystems on the basis of the optimum conditions with the control center.
US11689024B2
The disclosure relates to a two-side stochastic dispatching method for a power grid. By analyzing historical data of wind power, the Gaussian mixture distribution is fitted by software. For certain power system parameters, a two-side chance-constrained stochastic dispatching model is established. The hyperbolic tangent function is used to analyze and approximate cumulative distribution functions of random variables in the reserve demand constraint and the power flow constraint, to convert the two-side chance constraint into a deterministic constraint. The disclosure can have the advantage of using the hyperbolic tangent function to convert the two-side chance constraint containing risk levels and random variables into the solvable deterministic convex constraint, effectively improving the solution efficiency of the model, and providing decision makers with a more reasonable dispatching basis.
US11689023B2
A modular HVDC platform and a method for constructing the same are disclosed herein. The modular HVDC platform has a topside disposed on a structural jacket. The topside includes a first rectifier module, a second rectifier module, and a utility module. The first and second rectifier modules have equipment for converting AC power to DC power disposed therein. The utility module contains equipment for supporting the operations of the rectifier modules. Each of the rectifier modules and the utility modules can be fabricated and commissioned onshore prior to installation on the structural jacket at an offshore location.
US11689019B2
A power distribution system configured as a radial network includes buses having respective voltages, and distribution lines having respective currents. The radial network interconnects the buses with the distribution lines in a tree-like manner. A bus has a link to at least two distribution lines. The bus voltages and distribution line currents are determined by a processing circuitry configured to receive a Branch Matrix (BM), iteratively determine currents for the distribution lines and voltages for each of the buses until a difference is below a predetermined tolerance, and output final bus voltages and final distribution line currents. The circuitry iteratively determines the currents by determining a current matrix (CM) using the BM, and by determining the currents for the plurality of distribution lines in a zig zag manner over the matrix elements in the CM. The system finds a solution using fewer iterations than the backward forward sweep method.
US11689012B2
Described are system and method embodiments for shield fault detection to protect the cable, components and other circuits connected to the cable shield, and to avoid high short circuit currents flowing from a power source to ground during unexpected events. A threshold voltage detector and a slope detector may be used to sense the voltage on a shield pin switchably coupled to ground via a shield ground. Method embodiments to distinguish the shield ground switch current caused by a shield fault from normal operation are also discussed. In certain situations, a weak ground path is established first to sense or identify a valid attachment on the cable before establishing a strong ground path. The disclosed embodiments, separately or in combination, may effectively detect shield fault with improved performance.
US11688997B2
A laser assembly (1710) for generating an assembly output beam (1712) includes a laser subassembly (1716) including a first laser module (1716A) and a second laser module (1716B), a transform assembly (1744), and a beam combiner (1746). The first laser module (1716A) emits a plurality of spaced apart first laser beams (1720A). The second laser module (1716B) emits a plurality of spaced apart second laser beams (1720B). The transform assembly (1744) is positioned in a path of the laser beams (1720A) (1720B). The transform assembly (1744) directs the laser beams (1720A) (1720B) to spatially overlap at a focal plane of the transform assembly (1744). The beam combiner (1746) is positioned at the focal plane that combines the lasers beams (1720A) (1720B) to provide a combination beam. The laser beams (1720A) (1720B) directed by the transform assembly (1744) impinge on the beam combiner (1746) at different angles.
US11688985B2
A modular electrical interconnect system for coupling electrical components of an electric vehicle. The interconnects include connectors configured to be coupled to one another to form a bus.
US11688977B2
An electrical connector having a connector housing and a lever. The connector housing has a first wall, a second wall and side walls which extend between the first wall and the second wall. Multiple contacts are positioned in contact receiving cavities of the housing. The multiple contacts have wires which extend therefrom. A lever is rotatably mounted relative to the connector housing. The lever has lever arms and a lever handle. The lever arms extend from the side walls of the housing and the lever handle extends between the lever arms. A wire guide is positioned on the lever. The lever is rotatable between a pre-insertion position and an insertion position. When the lever is in the insertion position, the wire guide engages the wires which extend from the housing to direct the wires to a designated position.
US11688975B2
The present invention provides a plug connector engaged with a socket. The plug connector includes an insulating body and a metal limiter. The insulating body has a mating port and a space for accommodating a circuit board, and the mating port is connected with the space. The metal limiter includes a metal bottom plate and a pair of metal side structures. The metal bottom plate is arranged under the opening of the mating port. The pair of metal side structures are respectively connected to the two sides of the metal bottom plate and arranged on the left and right sides of the opening to form a limiting space. When the plug connector is matched with the socket, the metal shell of the socket is sheathed with the front end of the insulating body, and the metal shell is located in the limiting space to restrict the plug connector from shaking.
US11688974B2
A test plug block (1) for plugging onto a series terminal block (2), comprising a plurality of test plugs (4) connected to one another and two fastening parts (5), which are arranged on both sides of the plurality of test plugs (4) and are connected to one another by means of a grip piece (6), the fastening parts (5) each having a housing (7) and an insertion portion (8), which can be inserted into a receiving portion (9), the receiving portion (9) being formed in the clamp housing (10) of a fastening clamp (11) of the series terminal block (2).
US11688970B2
Cable connector having over-molded strain relief member formed from electrically conductive material
The present disclosure provides a cable connector assembly that includes a cable having conductors secured to contact pads formed on a printed circuit board. A housing and cover are configured to be secured together and combine to form a cavity for receiving the printed circuit board and the cable. A slug is formed around a portion of the cable. Upon assembly of the cover to the housing, the slug is disposed in a pocket formed in the cavity and helps secure the cable to the housing and cover.
US11688969B2
An electrical connector includes a metal shell and a cover. The metal shell includes first, second, third, and fourth side walls sequentially connected and defining an accommodating space, a first opening, and a second opening that are sequentially connected. The first side wall is provided with two buckle grooves. The cover includes a flat plate portion covering the first opening and two fixing portions disposed in the accommodating space. Each fixing portion includes a first plate, a curved portion, and a second plate that extend from the flat plate portion and are sequentially connected. Outer surfaces of the curved portions respectively contact the second and fourth side walls. The two first plates are parallel to and in contact with the first side wall. Each first plate is provided with a buckle member buckled in one corresponding buckle groove. A free end of each second plate contacts the third side wall.
US11688967B2
A wire termination device for coupling a wire to a feedthrough device is disclosed. The wire termination device can include a housing having a first end and a second end spaced apart from the first end in a longitudinal direction. The housing can define a cavity and an opening to the cavity at the first end for receiving a pin of the feedthrough device. The pin of the feedthrough device can extend in the longitudinal direction. The wire termination device can include a retention member coupled to the housing and located at least partially within the opening of the housing. The retention member can be configured to engage the pin of the feedthrough device to retain the pin of the feedthrough device in the opening of the housing.
US11688963B2
A cable shield tunnel for an electrical device includes a ground bus and a floor shim, discrete from the ground bus, and coupled to a circuit card and forming a cable tunnel that receives an end of a cable. The ground bus includes an end wall extending along a first end of the cable tunnel, a first side wall extending from the end wall along a first side of the cable tunnel, and a second side wall extending from the end wall along a second side of the cable tunnel opposite the first side. The first and second side walls are configured to be coupled to the circuit card. The floor shim is provided at a second end of the cable tunnel opposite the first end and is positioned between the cable and the circuit card.
US11688961B2
The movable housing has an entry wall portion that enters the interior space of the stationary housing; terminal holding grooves accommodating a portion of the resilient portions, which extend in the direction of connection to a counterpart connect body, are formed to be arranged in the terminal array direction on one wall surface of the entry wall portion; movable-side terminal holding portions securing the movable-side retained portions of the terminals are formed on the opposite side in the connector width direction perpendicular to said one wall surface; between adjacent terminal holding grooves. When the terminals are attached in the direction of connection from the circuit board side, the projections have gaps formed between them and the resilient portions of the terminals located within the terminal holding grooves in the terminal array direction.
US11688958B2
An electronic assembly that includes a rigid printed circuit board having an upper surface with a first plurality of lands. The electronic assembly further includes a flexible printed circuit board having a second plurality of lands on an upper surface. The lower surface of the flexible printed circuit board is directly attached to the upper surface of the rigid printed circuit board. The electronic assembly further includes a plurality of wires. Each of the wires is bonded to the first plurality of lands on the upper surface of the rigid printed circuit board and the second plurality of lands on the upper surface of the flexible printed circuit board.
US11688957B2
A connector port module and a method of manufacturing the same. The connector port module includes a circuit board, with a connector having a plurality of connector pads formed on the circuit board configured to electrically connect to a mating connector. At least one via hole is formed in the circuit board for reinforcing the physical integrity and the heat diffusivity of the circuit board. The connector port module is capable of supporting Universal Serial Bus (USB) (e.g. USB-C) and Thunderbolt 3 connectors. The method includes: providing a circuit board; forming a plurality of connector pads on the circuit board configured to electrically connect to a mating connector; and forming at least one via hole for reinforcing physical integrity of the circuit board.
US11688954B2
The present disclosure provides a highly-integrated vehicle antenna configuration, which includes: a metal structure as a reference ground for a broadband antenna; a broadband antenna; a first electrical connection structure electrically connected to the metal structure and the broadband antenna; a first excitation signal source loaded between the metal structure and the broadband antenna, wherein by exciting some resonance modes of the metal structure and the broadband antenna, the broadband design is realized; and an antenna module located on the broadband antenna, wherein the broadband antenna is used as an antenna radiator and/or reference ground of the antenna module. Multiple broadband antennas are realized by using only the space occupied by one broadband antenna, and other antennas are built on the broadband antenna at the same time, which maintains a good isolation between all antennas while ensuring the performance of the broadband antenna.
US11688946B2
An antenna device according to the present disclosure includes two wiring layers and an antenna layer. One of the two wiring layers is divided in the x-direction by a first slit extending in the y-direction, and the antenna layer is divided in the x-direction into first and second antenna areas by a second slit extending in the y-direction. The first and second slits overlap each other in the z-direction. One of the first and second slits is larger in width than the other one thereof. The antenna layer includes an antenna conductor formed in the first antenna area and another antenna conductor formed in the second antenna area.
US11688936B2
An antenna module, including a first antenna, a second antenna, a first ground, a third antenna, and a second ground, is provided. The first ground is located between the first antenna and the second antenna and is connected to the first antenna and the second antenna. The first ground has a first slot near the first antenna. The second antenna is located between the first antenna and the third antenna. An extension direction of the first antenna is not parallel to an extension direction of the second antenna. The extension direction of the second antenna is not parallel to an extension direction of the third antenna. The second ground is located between the second antenna and the third antenna and is connected to the third antenna. The second ground is separated from the first ground and the second antenna, and has a second slot.
US11688927B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes a display module including a display panel and a conductive layer, and an enclosure configured to surround the display module, where the enclosure includes a conductive portion. The display device includes an antenna having a structure formed by an air gap disposed between the conductive layer and the conductive portion of the enclosure. The antenna includes an antenna feed located within the air gap. The antenna feed is coupled to the conductive portion of the enclosure and to the conductive layer such that at least a portion of the display module is configured as a radiating element for wireless communication.
US11688926B2
Disclosed is a system and method for wirelessly monitoring process conditions within a reactor vessel. A sensor-enabled radio frequency identification tag is located within a catalyst bed of a vessel and used to measure various conditions within the vessel. The sensor-enabled RFID tag is wirelessly linked to a reader for transmitting interrogation signals and for receiving transponder signals from the sensor-enabled RFID tag that carry information representative of the measured condition.
US11688925B2
A module for a base station monopole has a wall defining an interior space. The wall includes an opening configured to receive electronic equipment and a vent opening in communication with the exterior of the module. A reinforcement member is secured to the wall and is positioned opposite to the opening and adjacent the vent opening. A baffle is supported adjacent the wall where the baffle has an intake opening and an exhaust opening in communication with the vent opening. The intake opening is laterally offset from the exhaust opening.
US11688915B2
An electrochemical energy storage module and a vehicle having an energy storage module of this type. At least one energy storage cell and at least one bridging device are electrically connected in parallel. The bridging device has a first current conductor having at least one bridging point, which has a bridging point cross-section, and a second current conductor, which is spaced apart from the first current conductor by a gap. The bridging device also has a bridging switch for establishing a first partial electrical connection between the first current conductor and the second current conductor and has a bridging material arranged in the region of the bridging point.
US11688900B2
A cell assembly, having a cell frame, into which bus bars and a thermal plate are integrated, and a lithium-ion pouch cell having a first face and a second face opposite the first face are provided. The pouch cell further includes positive and negative cell terminals arranged at a top end of the pouch cell, and a compression element. The cell frame is configured to receive and house the pouch cell and the compression element in a space defined by the thermal plate and the cell frame.
US11688898B2
An attachment assembly with a battery module, a cooling device, and an attachment device for attaching the battery module to the cooling device. The battery module is arranged on the cooling device. A heat-conducting element is arranged between the battery module and the cooling device. The battery module has a first attachment component. The attachment assembly has a second attachment component, which is provided by a part of the cooling device or is connected to the cooling device. The first attachment component is attached to the second attachment component by the attachment device.
US11688895B1
A battery safety system includes a flow valve and a sensing device. The flow valve is disposed on a housing of the battery and includes a first valve that is embedded inside the housing and a second valve that intersects the housing. The first valve includes a cavity through which analytes released upon electrochemical reactions within the battery flow towards the second valve. The second valve extends through the housing to the outside, and defines an opening through which the released analytes exit the housing. The sensing device is disposed within the cavity of the first valve of the valve and is situated in a manner to be in fluidic contact with the released analytes as they flow from the inside of the battery to the outside. In some aspects, the battery safety system can detect a minute presence of one or more analytes. In some aspects, the sensor is in communication with a battery management system.
US11688892B2
A process for charging a discharged electrochemical cell includes applying a voltage bias to the discharged electrochemical cell; and illuminating the cathode with a light source.
US11688889B2
A monitoring system and method for charging multiple battery packs in an electric aircraft is illustrated. The system includes a plurality of submodules, a power bus element, and a computing device. The plurality of battery submodules is coupled to the electric aircraft and each battery submodules comprises a battery management component which comprises a sensor to detect a health metric. The power bus element is electrically connected to each battery submodule of the plurality of battery submodules. A computing device is connected at each battery submodule and is configured to receive the health metric form the sensor, determine a charging status of the battery submodule as a function of the health metric, and charge the battery submodules using the power bus element as a function of the charging status.
US11688886B2
A three-dimensional all-solid-state lithium ion batteries including a cathode protection layer, the battery including: a cathode including a plurality of plates which are vertically disposed on a cathode current collector; a cathode protection layer disposed on a surfaces of the cathode and the cathode current collector; a solid state electrolyte layer disposed on the cathode protection layer; an anode disposed on the solid state electrolyte layer; and an anode current collector disposed on the anode, wherein the cathode protection layer is between the cathode and the solid state electrolyte layer, and wherein the solid state electrolyte layer is between the cathode protection layer and the anode.
US11688878B2
A packaging material for batteries including a laminate in which at least a base material layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer are laminated in order. The battery packaging material satisfies the relationships of: (A1−A2)≥60 N/15 mm; and (B1−B2)≥50 N/15 mm. A1 is a stress in elongation by 10% in the MD direction and B1 is a stress in elongation by 10% in the TD direction in the laminate, and A2 is a stress in elongation by 10% in the MD direction and B2 is a stress in elongation by 10% in the TD direction in the base material layer.
US11688877B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly in which a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator are rolled up; and a support plate which is coupled to one end surface of the electrode assembly where the rolled first electrode plate, second electrode plate, and separator are exposed, so as to support the electrode assembly. A secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a support plate coupled to the lower end of an electrode assembly, whereby, when the secondary battery falls, movements of the electrode assembly can be prevented, and deformation of the electrode assembly due to an external impact can be suppressed.
US11688867B2
To provide a fuel cell system capable of evaluating degradation of an electrolyte membrane by quantifying metal ions involved in degradation of an electrolyte membrane instead of evaluating degradation of an electrolyte membrane itself. A fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell, a fuel gas system for supplying fuel gas to an anode of the fuel cell, an oxidant gas system for supplying oxidant gas to a cathode of the fuel cell, a voltage detector for detecting a voltage of the fuel cell, and a controller.
US11688864B2
The present disclosure relates to a fuel cell system including a discharge line configured to discharge exhaust gas, which is discharged from a fuel cell stack, to the outside, and a pneumatic branch line having an outlet end connected to the discharge line, and an inlet end connected to a pneumatic supply unit configured to supply air to a pneumatic part of a mobility vehicle, the pneumatic branch line being configured to selectively supply the air from the pneumatic supply unit to the discharge line, thereby effectively reducing a hydrogen concentration in the exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell stack.
US11688862B2
An air-cooling fuel cell stack includes fuel cells, wherein each of the fuel cells includes an anode bipolar plate, a cathode bipolar plate, a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) between the anode and cathode bipolar plates, and an anode sealing member. The MEA includes an anode side structure, a cathode side structure, and an ion conductive membrane (ICM), and the ICM is sandwiched between the anode side structure and the cathode side structure. The anode sealing member is disposed at a periphery of the anode side structure and sandwiched by the anode bipolar plate and the ICM. The anode sealing member includes a first sealing material and a second sealing material, a Shore hardness of the first sealing material is different from that of the second sealing material, and an arrangement direction of the first and second sealing materials is perpendicular to a compression direction of the plurality of fuel cells.
US11688854B2
An anode active material for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery are provided. The anode active material includes a carbon-based particle including pores formed in at least one of an inside of the particle and a surface of the particle and having a pore size of the carbon-based particle is 20 nm or less, and silicon formed at an inside of the pores of the carbon-based particle or on the surface of the carbon-based particle. A peak intensity ratio in a Raman spectrum of silicon defined as I(515)/I(480) is 1.2 or less. Difference between volume expansion ratios of carbon and silicon can be reduced to improve life-span property of the secondary battery.
US11688850B1
A preparation method of SnO2@Sn coated reduced graphene oxide composite material. By compounding reduced graphene oxide and SnO2, SnO2 undergoes conversion and alloying reactions to form Sn nanoparticles, and the three components have a synergistic effect and good reversibility. Nano SnO2@Sn particles are uniformly distributed on the ultrathin RGO nanosheets. RGO can effectively alleviate volume expansion caused by SnO2 and prevent SnO2@Sn nanoparticles from agglomeration during cycle. The adhesion of SnO2@Sn on RGO can also effectively reduce the repacking of RGO nanosheets, so that the composite material maintains a large surface area during the charge-discharge process, providing sufficient space for the storage of potassium ions. Therefore, the prepared SnO2@Sn coated reduced graphene oxide composite material (SnO2 @Sn@RGO) has excellent electrochemical performance, exhibits excellent cycle performance, rate capability and long-term cycle stability, and has a very ideal first coulomb efficient.
US11688849B2
This invention relates to particulate electroactive materials comprising a plurality of composite particles, wherein the composite particles comprise: (a) a porous carbon framework including micropores and optional mesopores having a combined total volume of at least 0.7 cm3/g, wherein at least half of the micropore/mesopore volume is in the form of pores having a diameter of no more than 1.5 nm; and (b) an electroactive material located within the micropores and/or mesopores of the porous carbon framework. The D90 particle diameter of the composite particles is no more than 10 nm.
US11688844B2
The present invention provides a solvent-free process for producing foil with a functional coating containing an active material and a meltable polymer, the foil with a functional coating and its use as an electrode foil, electrolyte in solid-state batteries or separator for electrochemical storage. The process comprises scattering a dry powder mixture onto a foil, melting the dry powder mixture, and calendering the foil covered with the molten powder.
US11688828B2
A display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display area. The display area includes pixels in an array, pixels include at least three sub-pixels of different colors; display area includes a general display area, a transition display area, a photosensitive device setting area, general display area surrounds at least a part of transition display area, transition display area surrounds photosensitive device setting area; in transition display area, sub-pixels include display sub-pixels and virtual sub-pixels, sub-pixels include pixel circuits and light-emitting units, light-emitting units are electrically connected to pixel circuits in display sub-pixels, light-emitting units are insulated from pixel circuits in virtual sub-pixels; in photosensitive device setting area, sub-pixels include display sub-pixels; a setting density of display sub-pixels in transition display area is higher than that of the display sub-pixels in photosensitive device setting area, and lower than that of the display sub-pixels in general display area.
US11688823B2
A photocoupler of an embodiment includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a first MOSFET, a second MOSFET, a semiconductor light receiving element, a semiconductor light emitting element, and a resin layer. The first MOSFET is joined onto the third lead. The second MOSFET is joined onto the fourth lead. The semiconductor light receiving element is joined to each of the first junction region and the second junction region. The semiconductor light receiving element includes a light receiving region provided in a central part of a surface on opposite side from a surface joined to the first and second MOSFET. The resin layer seals the first and second MOSFETs, the semiconductor light receiving element, the semiconductor light emitting element, an upper surface and a side surface of the input terminal, and an upper surface and a side surface of the output terminal.
US11688820B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a photodetector that includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor annulus on a planar face of the semiconductor substrate, and a metal layer on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the metal layer comprises a first region surrounding the semiconductor annulus and comprises a second region filling an interior region to the semiconductor annulus, and the metal layer in the first region forms a Schottky junction with the semiconductor ring.
US11688817B2
An energy storage device comprising a substrate comprising a series of grooves. Each groove having a first and a second face. Wherein there is a capacitor material in each groove of the series of grooves.
US11688815B2
Method for manufacturing a cover for an electronic package and electronic package comprising a cover
A cover for an electronic package is manufactured by placing an optical insert, having opposite faces and configured to allow light radiation to pass therethrough, between two opposite faces of a cavity of a mold in a position such that said optical faces of the optical insert make contact with said opposite faces of the cavity of the mold. A coating material is injected into the cavity and around the optical insert. The coating material is set to obtain a substrate that is overmolded around the optical insert so as to produce the cover. An electronic package includes an electronic chip mounted to a support substrate with the cover formed by the overmolded substrate mounted to the support substrate.
US11688814B2
In a standard cell including nanowire FETs, pads connected to nanowires are arranged at a predetermined pitch in X direction along which the nanowires extend. A cell width of the standard cell is an integral multiplication of the pitch. In a case where the standard cell is arranged to constitute the layout of a semiconductor integrated circuit device, the pads are regularly arranged in the X direction.
US11688809B2
A semiconductor device structure includes a fin structure, a semiconductive capping layer, an oxide layer, and a gate structure. The fin structure protrudes above a substrate. The semiconductive capping layer wraps around three sides of a channel region of the fin structure. The oxide layer wraps around three sides of the semiconductive capping layer. A thickness of a top portion of the semiconductive capping layer is less than a thickness of a top portion of the oxide layer. The gate structure wraps around three sides of the oxide layer.
US11688805B2
A method for forming an integrated circuit structure is provided. The method includes forming a gate dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate; depositing a first gate electrode layer over the gate dielectric layer; etching the first gate electrode layer to form a gate electrode over the gate dielectric layer; forming a drift region in the semiconductor substrate; depositing a dielectric layer over the gate dielectric layer and the gate electrode, in which the dielectric layer has a first portion alongside a first sidewall of the gate electrode; depositing a second gate electrode layer over the dielectric layer; etching the second gate electrode layer to form a field plate electrode alongside the first portion of the dielectric layer; and forming source/drain features in the semiconductor substrate.
US11688803B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes; a semiconductor part between the first and second electrodes; a control electrode and a third electrode in a trench between the semiconductor part and the second electrode. The device further includes a first insulating part insulating the control electrode from the semiconductor part; a second insulating part insulating the third electrode from the semiconductor part; and a third insulating part insulating the third electrode from the control electrode. The second insulating part includes first and second insulating films and a portion of a third insulating film. The first insulating film is provided between the semiconductor part and the third electrode. The second insulating film is provided between the first insulating film and the third electrode. The third insulating film includes the portion between the first insulating film and the second insulating film, and another portion inside the third insulating part.
US11688795B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. A semiconductor device according to an example of the present disclosure includes a gate electrode of a ring shape having an opening area on a substrate; a P-type deep well region formed in the opening area; a drain region formed on the P-type deep well region; an N-type well region overlapping with the gate electrode; a source region formed in the N-type well region; a bulk tab region formed by being isolated from the source region by a first isolation region; a P-type drift region formed in contact with the N-type well region; and a second isolation region formed near the bulk tab region.
US11688793B2
A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC) structure is provided. The method includes: etching a first recess and a second recess in a substrate; forming a sacrificial epitaxial plug in the first recess in the substrate; forming a first epitaxial feature and a second epitaxial feature respectively in the first recess and the second recess, wherein the first epitaxial feature is over the sacrificial epitaxial plug; forming a first source/drain epitaxial structure and a second source/drain epitaxial structure over the first epitaxial feature and the second epitaxial feature respectively; forming a gate structure laterally between the first source/drain epitaxial structure and the second source/drain epitaxial structure; removing the sacrificial epitaxial plug and the first epitaxial feature to form a backside via opening exposing a backside of the first source/drain epitaxial structure; and forming a backside via in the backside via opening.
US11688791B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first active region over a substrate and extending along a first direction, a gate structure over the first active region and extending along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a gate-cut feature abutting an end of the gate structure, and a channel isolation feature extending along the second direction and between the first active region and a second active region. The gate structure includes a metal electrode in direct contact with the gate-cut feature. The channel isolation feature includes a liner on sidewalls extending along the second direction and a dielectric fill layer between the sidewalls. The gate-cut feature abuts an end of the channel isolation feature and the dielectric fill layer is in direct contact with the gate-cut feature.
US11688790B2
An HEMT includes a first III-V compound layer. A second III-V compound layer is disposed on the first III-V compound layer. The composition of the first III-V compound layer is different from the composition of the second III-V compound layer. A trench is disposed within the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer. The trench has a first corner and a second corner. The first corner and the second corner are disposed in the first III-V compound layer. A first dielectric layer contacts a sidewall of the first corner. A second dielectric layer contacts a sidewall of the second corner. The first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer are outside of the trench. A gate is disposed in the trench. A source electrode and a drain electrode are respectively disposed at two sides of the gate. A gate electrode is disposed directly on the gate.
US11688783B1
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device having a buried wordline. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a surface and a first dielectric layer extending from the surface of the substrate into the substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer and extending from the surface of the substrate into the substrate and a first conductive layer disposed in the substrate and separated from the substrate by the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer.
US11688782B2
A semiconductor structure includes a gate structure over a substrate. The structure also includes source/drain epitaxial structures formed on opposite sides of the gate structure. The structure also includes a contact structure formed over the source/drain epitaxial structure. The structure also includes a first via structure formed over the contact structure. The structure also includes a metal line electrically connected to the first via structure. The structure also includes a spacer layer formed over the sidewall and over a portion of a top surface of the metal line. The structure also includes a second via structure formed over the metal line through the spacer layer.
US11688774B2
A field-plate trench FET having a drain region, an epitaxial layer, a source region, a gate conductive layer formed in a trench, a field-plate dielectric layer formed on vertical sidewalls of the trench, a well region formed below the trench, a source contact and a gate contact. When the well region is in direct physical contact with the gate conductive layer, the field-plate trench FET can be used as a normally-on device working depletion mode, and when the well region is electrically isolated from the gate conductive layer by the field-plate layer, the field-plate trench FET can be used as a normally-off device working in an accumulation-depletion mode.
US11688770B2
A method for increasing a forward biased safe operating area of a device includes forming a gate; and forming a segmented source close to the gate, wherein the segmented source includes first segments associated with a first threshold voltage and second segments associated with a second threshold voltage different from the first threshold voltage, wherein at least one device characteristic associated with the first segments is different from the same device characteristic associated with the second segments.
US11688762B2
A capacitor structure and method of forming the capacitor structure is provided, including a providing a doped region of a substrate having a two-dimensional trench array with a plurality of segments defined therein. Each of the plurality of segments has an array of a plurality of recesses extending along the substrate, where the plurality of segments are rotationally symmetric about a center of the two-dimensional trench array. A first conducting layer is presented over the surface and a bottom and sidewalls of the recesses and is insulated from the substrate by a first dielectric layer. A second conducting layer is presented over the first conducting layer and is insulated by a second dielectric layer. First and second contacts respectively connect to an exposed top surface of the first conducting layer and second conducting layer. A third contact connects to the substrate within a local region to the capacitor structure.
US11688756B2
Slot antennas for graphene mid-IR imaging arrays as well an approach for CMOS implementation thereof
A filter-based color imaging array that resolves N different colors detects only 1/Nth of the incoming light. In the thermal infrared wavelength range, filtering loss is exacerbated by the lower sensor detectivity at infrared wavelengths than at visible wavelengths. To avoid loss due to filtering, most spectral imagers use bulky optics, such as diffraction gratings or Fourier transform interferometers, to resolve different colors. Fortunately, it is possible to avoid filtering loss without bulky optics: detect light with interleaved arrays of sub-wavelength-spaced antennas tuned to different wavelengths. An optically sensitive element inside each antenna absorbs light at the antenna's resonant wavelength. Metallic slot antennas offer high efficiency, intrinsic unidirectionality, and lower cross-talk than dipole or bowtie antennas. Graphene serves at the optically active material inside each antenna because its 2D nature makes it easily adaptable to this imager architecture.
US11688755B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a light receiving circuit configured to convert light into an electrical signal, a first hold circuit configured to hold a data signal which represents the electrical signal, a second hold circuit configured to hold a noise signal read out from the light receiving circuit in a reset state, a first resistive element to which a voltage corresponding to a difference between the data signal held by the first hold circuit and the noise signal held by the second hold circuit is applied, an A/D converter configured to convert an analog current flowing in the first resistive element into digital data, a second resistive element, and a temperature detection circuit configured to generate, based on a current flowing in the second resistive element, an analog output corresponding to an internal temperature of the photoelectric conversion device.
US11688754B2
Photonic devices and methods having an increased quantum effect length are provided. In some embodiments, a photonic device includes a substrate having a first surface. A cavity extends into the substrate from the first surface to a second surface. A semiconductor layer is disposed on the second surface in the cavity of the substrate, and a cover layer is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is configured to receive incident radiation through the substrate and to totally internally reflect the radiation at an interface between the semiconductor layer and the cover layer.
US11688738B2
Disclosed herein is a composite transistor which includes a first transistor TR1 including a control electrode, a first active region, a first A extending part, and a first B extending part, and a second transistor TR2 including a control electrode, a second active region, a second A extending part, and a second B extending part. The first active region, the second active region, and the control electrode overlap one another. Both the first A extending part and the first B extending part extend from the first active region and both the second A extending part and the second B extending part extend from the second active region. The first electrode is connected to the first A extending part, the second electrode is connected to the second A extending part, and the third electrode is connected to the first B extending part and the second B extending part.
US11688734B2
A three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit (3D SIC) for implementing an artificial neural network (ANN) having a memory die having an array of memory partitions. Each partition of the array of memory partitions is configured to store parameters of a set of neurons. The 3D SIC also has a processing logic die having an array of processing logic partitions. Each partition of the array of processing logic partitions is configured to: receive input data, and process the input data according to the set of neurons to generate output data.
US11688728B2
An embodiment integrated circuit structure includes a substrate, a metal pad over the substrate, a post-passivation interconnect (PPI) structure over the substrate and electronically connected to the metal pad, a first polymer layer over the PPI structure, an under bump metallurgy (UBM) extending into an opening in the first polymer layer and electronically connected to the PPI structure, and a barrier layer on a top surface of the first polymer layer adjacent to the UBM.
US11688724B2
Provided is a display backplate including an array substrate and a plurality of pairs of connection structures on the array substrate, wherein the array substrate includes a plurality of thin-film transistors and a common electrode signal line, wherein at least one of the plurality of thin-film transistors is connected to one of a pair of connection structures and the common electrode signal line is connected to the other of the pair of connection structures; and an area of a first section of the connection structure is negatively correlated with a distance between the first section and a surface of the array substrate, and the first section is parallel to the surface of the array substrate.
US11688715B2
The present disclosure is directed to a semiconductor die with multiple contact pads electrically coupled to a single lead via a single wire, and methods for fabricating the same. In one or more embodiments, multiple contact pads are electrically coupled to each other by a plurality of conductive layers stacked on top of each other. The uppermost conductive layer is then electrically coupled to a single lead via a single wire.
US11688704B2
An integrated circuit package and a system including the integrated circuit package as well as a process for assembling the integrated circuit package are provided to improve integrated circuit power delivery. The integrated circuit package includes a first die having a plurality of pads formed in the first die and exposed on a top surface of the first die, at least one post on the first die, and a substrate including one or more redistribution layers. Each post in the at least one post spans at least two pads on the first die utilized for power distribution, and the first die is connected to the substrate via the at least one post.
US11688702B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a metallization layer. The substrate has an active region that includes opposite first and second edges. The metallization layer is disposed above the substrate, and includes a pair of metal lines and a metal plate. The metal lines extend from an outer periphery of the active region into the active region and toward the second edge of the active region. The metal plate interconnects the metal lines and at least a portion of which is disposed at the outer periphery of the active region.
US11688700B2
Methods and apparatus for providing an assembly including a base substrate, a lid substrate, and a ring frame between the base substrate and the lid substrate to define a protected volume, where the ring frame includes through vias. A die may be contained in the protected volume. Sensor circuitry can include conductive pillars in the protected volume and the die can include circuity to determine an impedance of the pad and the pillars for tamper detection. An edge cap can be coupled to at least one side of the assembly for tamper detection.
US11688699B2
Some embodiments include a method of forming an arrangement. A first tier is formed to include CMOS circuitry. A second tier is formed to include an assembly which has first and second sets of memory cells on opposing sides of a coupling region. A support material is adjacent the first and second sets of the memory cells, and an intervening material is adjacent the support material. The support material has a different composition than the intervening material. A conductive interconnect extends through the intervening material. An upper surface of the assembly is polished to reduce an overall height of the assembly. The support material provides support during the polishing to protect the memory cells from being eroded during the polishing. The conductive interconnect of the second tier is coupled with the CMOS circuitry of the first tier. Some embodiments include multitier arrangements.
US11688694B2
An electronic device comprising a semiconductor chip which comprises a plurality of structures formed in the semiconductor chip, wherein the semiconductor chip is a member of a set of semiconductor chips, the set of semiconductor chips comprises a plurality of subsets of semiconductor chips, and the semiconductor chip is a member of only one of the subsets. The plurality of structures of the semiconductor chip includes a set of common structures which is the same for all of the semiconductor chips of the set, and a set of non-common structures, wherein the non-common structures of the semiconductor chip of the subset is different from a non-common circuit of the semiconductor chips in every other subset. At least a first portion of the non-common structures and a first portion of the common structures form a first non-common circuit, wherein the first non-common circuit of the semiconductor chips of each subset is different from a non-common circuit of the semiconductor chips in every other subset. At least a second portion of the non-common structures is adapted to store or generate a first predetermined value which uniquely identifies the first non-common circuit, wherein the first predetermined value is readable from outside the semiconductor chip by automated reading means.
US11688689B2
Electronic devices including stair step structures, and related memory devices, systems, and methods
An electronic device comprises a stack structure comprising tiers of alternating conductive structures and insulative structures, staircase structures within the stack structure and including steps defined by edges of the tiers, contacts on the steps of the staircase structures, support pillars extending vertically through the stack structure, and support structures laterally adjacent to the contacts in a first horizontal direction and extending vertically through the stack structure. The support pillars exhibit a lateral dimension relatively larger than a lateral dimension of the contacts and the support structures. Related methods, memory devices, and systems are also described.
US11688683B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor device, an interconnect structure, a capacitor, and a plurality of pads. The semiconductor device is disposed at the substrate. The interconnect structure is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the semiconductor device. The capacitor is disposed on the interconnect structure and electrically connected to the interconnect structure. The capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode covering a top surface and a sidewall of the first electrode, and an insulating layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The plurality of pads are disposed on the interconnect structure and electrically connected to the interconnect structure, wherein at least one of the plurality of pads is electrically connected to the capacitor.
US11688674B2
A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer; an external connection pad embedded in a first surface of the first insulating layer and having a first externally exposed surface disposed at substantially the same level as the first surface of the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed on a second surface of the first insulating layer and having a first surface in contact with the second surface of the first insulating layer; and a first wiring pattern embedded in the second insulating layer and exposed from the first surface of the second insulating layer to be in contact with a second externally exposed surface of the external connection pad opposing the first externally exposed surface.
US11688664B2
Semiconductor device assemblies having stacked semiconductor dies and thermal transfer devices that include vapor chambers are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device assembly includes a first semiconductor die having a base region, at least one second semiconductor die at the base region, and a thermal transfer device attached to the first and second dies. The thermal transfer device includes an encapsulant at least partially surrounding the second die and a via formed in the encapsulant. The encapsulant at least partially defines a cooling channel that is adjacent to a peripheral region of the first die. The via includes a working fluid and/or a solid thermal conductor that at least partially fills the channel.
US11688659B2
A lead frame includes a first outer lead portion and a second outer lead portion which is arranged to oppose to the first outer lead portion with an element-mounting region between them. An inner lead portion has first inner leads connected to the first outer leads and second inner leads connected to the second outer leads. At least either the first or second inner leads are routed in the element-mounting region. An insulation resin is filled in the gaps between the inner leads located on the element-mounting region. A semiconductor device is configured with semiconductor elements mounted on both the top and bottom surfaces of the lead frame.
US11688655B2
A semiconductor package structure including a package substrate, at least one semiconductor die, a lid structure, a first electronic component and a heat sink is provided. The package substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The semiconductor die is on the first surface of the package substrate and is surrounded by an encapsulating layer. The lid structure surrounds and is spaced apart from the encapsulating layer. The lid structure includes a first opening that is covered by the first surface of the package substrate. The first electronic component is over the first surface of the package substrate and arranged within the first opening of the lid structure. The heat sink covers the lid structure and the semiconductor die.
US11688642B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for forming a chiplet onto a semiconductor structure. The method can include providing a first semiconductor structure having a first circuit and a first wiring structure formed on a first side thereof, and attaching the first side to a carrier substrate. The method can further include forming a composite of a first stress film and a second stress film on a second side of the first semiconductor structure, and separating the carrier substrate from the first semiconductor structure. The method can further include cutting the composite of the first stress film and the second stress film and the first semiconductor structure to define at least one chiplet, and bonding the at least one chiplet to a second semiconductor structure that has a second circuit and a second wiring structure such that the second wiring structure is connected to the first wiring structure.
US11688640B2
Systems and methods for manufacturing flexible electronics are described herein. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include disposing electrical features, such as thin film circuits, on a first side of a glass substrate, applying a first protective material over the electronic features, and exposing a second side of the glass substrate to a chemical etching tank to thin the glass substrate to a predetermined thickness. The thinning process can remove cracks and other defects from the second side of the glass substrate and enhance the flexibility of the electronic assembly. A second protective material can be disposed on the second side of the thinned glass substrate to maintain the enhanced backside surface of the glass substrate. In some embodiments, the method also includes singulating the plurality of electronic features into individual electronic components by submerging the electronic assembly into a chemical etching tank.
US11688631B2
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure in accordance with some embodiments. The method includes receiving a substrate having an active region and an isolation region; forming gate stacks on the substrate that extends from the active region to the isolation region; forming an inner gate spacer and an outer gate spacer on sidewalls of the gate stacks; forming an interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer on the substrate; forming a mask layer over the substrate that exposes a portion of the ILD layer and a portion of the outer gate spacer; selectively etching the exposed portion of the outer gate spacer, resulting in an air gap between the inner gate spacer and the ILD layer; and performing an ion implantation process on the exposed portion of the ILD layer to seal the air gap.
US11688629B2
A method for producing a semiconductor-on-insulator type substrate includes epitaxial deposition of a first semiconductor layer on a smoothing layer supported by a monocrystalline support substrate to form a donor substrate; production of an assembly by contacting the donor substrate with a receiver substrate; transfer, onto the receiver substrate, of the first semiconductor layer, the smoothing layer and a portion of the support substrate; and selective etching of the portion of the support substrate relative to the smoothing layer. The epitaxial deposition of the first semiconductor layer can be preceded by a surface preparation annealing of the support substrate at a temperature greater than 650° C. After the selective etching of the portion of the support substrate, selective etching of the smoothing layer relative to the first semiconductor layer and epitaxial deposition of a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer may be carried out in an epitaxy frame.
US11688628B2
A method of manufacturing an epitaxy substrate is provided. A handle substrate is provided. A beveling treatment is performed on an edge of a device substrate such that a bevel is formed at the edge of the device substrate, wherein a thickness of the device substrate is greater than 100 μm and less than 200 μm. An ion implantation process is performed on a first surface of the device substrate to form an implantation region within the first surface. A second surface of the device substrate is bonded to the handle substrate for forming the epitaxy substrate, wherein a bonding angle greater than 90° is provided between the bevel of the device substrate and the handle substrate, and a projection length of the bevel toward the handle substrate is between 600 μm and 800 μm.
US11688625B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming at least one epitaxial layer over a substrate; forming a mask over the epitaxial layer; patterning the epitaxial layer into a semiconductor fin; depositing a semiconductor capping layer over the semiconductor fin and the mask, wherein the semiconductor capping layer has a first portion that is amorphous on a sidewall of the mask; performing a thermal treatment such that the first portion of the semiconductor capping layer is converted from amorphous into crystalline; forming an isolation structure around the semiconductor fin; and forming a gate structure over the semiconductor fin.
US11688622B2
In a laser irradiation apparatus 1 according to one embodiment, each of first and second flotation units 30a, 30b includes a base 31, and a porous plate 32 bonded to an upper surface of the base 31 by an adhesive layer 34, the base 31 includes a rising portion 312 protruding upward at an outer periphery facing at least the gap, and the porous plate 32 includes a cutout portion 321 configured to fit to the rising portion 312, and the adhesive layer 34 is formed along an inner wall of the rising portion 312 having fitted to the cutout portion 321.
US11688620B2
In an embodiment, a system includes: a cassette comprising a slit opening configured to house a wafer; a blade configured to move the wafer to and from the slit opening by extending into the slit opening, wherein a blade thickness of the blade is at most ⅖ of a height of the slit opening and wherein the blade is configured to secure the wafer within a pocket on the blade that is at least ⅔ of a wafer thickness of the wafer.
US11688618B2
A method and apparatus for loading substrates in an inspection station is disclosed herein. In one embodiment a loading module is disclosed that includes a loading station for two or more substrate cassettes, a first lane comprising a first conveyor that is substantially aligned with one of the two or more substrate cassettes and a conveyor system, a second lane comprising a second conveyor that is substantially aligned with another of the two or more substrate cassettes and positioned in a spaced-apart relation relative to the first lane, and a lateral transfer module positioned between the first lane and the second lane that is adapted to move substrates from the second lane to the first lane.
US11688616B2
A method for determining whether to modify a manufacturing process recipe is provided. A substrate to be processed at a manufacturing system according to the first process recipe is identified. An instruction to transfer the substrate to a substrate measurement subsystem to obtain a first set of measurements for the substrate is generated. The first set of measurements for the substrate is received from the substrate measurement subsystem. An instruction to transfer the substrate from the substrate measurement subsystem to a processing chamber is generated. A second set of measurements for the substrate is received from one or more sensors of the processing chamber. A first mapping between the first set of measurements and the second set of measurements for the substrate is generated. The first set of measurements mapped to the second set of measurements for the substrate is stored. A determination is made based on the first set of measurements mapped to the second set of measurements for the substrate of whether to modify the first process recipe or a second process recipe for the substrate.
US11688615B2
A semiconductor process system includes a wafer support and a control system. The wafer support includes a plurality of heating elements and a plurality of temperature sensors. The heating elements heat a semiconductor wafer supported by the support system. The temperature sensors generate sensor signals indicative of a temperature. The control system selectively controls the heating elements responsive to the sensor signals.
US11688614B2
A process condition sensing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a substrate and an electronic enclosure including one or more electronic components. The apparatus includes a floating connection assembly configured to mechanically couple the electronic enclosure to the substrate, the floating connection assembly includes a leg and a foot. The leg or foot are arranged to mitigate thermal stress between one or more interfaces. The one or more interfaces include a leg-enclosure interface or a foot-substrate interface.
US11688605B2
The present disclosure describes a method that includes forming a first two-dimensional (2D) layer on a first substrate and attaching a second 2D layer to a carrier film. The method also includes bonding the second 2D layer to the first 2D layer to form a heterostack including the first and second 2D layers. The method further includes separating the first 2D layer of the heterostack from the first substrate and attaching the heterostack to a second substrate. The method further includes removing the carrier film from the second 2D layer.
US11688601B2
A method of forming a composite crystalline nitride structure is provided. The method includes depositing a first crystalline nitride layer on a substrate, patterning the first crystalline nitride layer to form a patterned crystalline nitride layer having a top surface and that includes undulations, annealing the patterned crystalline nitride layer at a temperature between 300° C. to 850° C. to form an annealed patterned crystalline nitride layer, and depositing a second crystalline nitride layer on the annealed patterned crystalline nitride layer. The second crystalline nitride layer is lattice-matched to the underlying annealed patterned crystalline nitride layer to within 2%, thereby forming the composite crystalline nitride structure.
US11688600B1
A method for removing particles from a semiconductor wafer surface is disclosed. A liquid is placed on a surface of a semiconductor wafer on which particles may adhere. A light pulse is then applied to the surface of the semiconductor wafer through the liquid. The liquid containing the particles is then removed from the surface of the semiconductor wafer.
US11688596B2
The present disclosure relates to a lattice substrate adapted for use in direct ionization mass spectrometry. The substrate may have a plurality of tessellated unit cells forming an integral structure. Each tessellated unit cell may have a dimension of no more than about 1.5 mm and may include a plurality of pores arranged in an ordered pattern. The substrate may further include a form factor suitable for use with a direct ionization mass spectrometry system.
US11688594B2
A method of mass spectrometry for analyzing a sample within a mass range of interest includes the steps: ionizing the sample to produce a plurality of precursor ions; performing an MS1 scan of the precursor ions comprising mass analyzing the precursor ions across the mass range of interest, to obtain an MS1 mass spectrum of the precursor ions; determining ion intensity values within the MS1 mass spectrum; selecting precursor mass segments within the mass range of interest, and for each precursor mass segment: fragmenting the precursor ions within that precursor mass segment; and performing an MS2 scan of the fragmented ions by: controlling an amount of fragmented ions for that precursor mass segment, based on an intensity value for that precursor mass segment derived from the MS1 spectrum; and mass analyzing the amount of fragmented ions.
US11688591B2
A an apparatus includes a processing chamber configured to house a workpiece, a target holder in the processing chamber, a first magnetic element positioned over a backside of the target holder, a first arm assembly connected to the first magnetic element, a rotational shaft, and a first hinge mechanism connecting the rotational shaft and the first arm assembly.
US11688589B2
Various embodiments herein relate to carriers for supporting one or more substrate as the substrates are passed through a processing apparatus. In many cases, the substrates are oriented in a vertical manner. The carrier may include a frame and vertical support bars that secure the glass to the frame. The carrier may lack horizontal support bars. The carrier may allow for thermal expansion and contraction of the substrates, without any need to provide precise gaps between adjacent pairs of substrates. The carriers described herein substantially reduce the risk of breaking the processing apparatus and substrates, thereby achieving a more efficient process. Certain embodiments herein relate to methods of loading substrates onto a carrier.
US11688588B1
Systems and methods for material processing using wafer scale waves of precisely controlled electrons in a DC plasma is presented. A surface floating potential of a substrate placed atop a stage in a positive column of the DC plasma is adjusted and maintained to a reference potential. A periodic biasing signal referenced to the reference potential is capacitively coupled to the stage to control a surface potential at the substrate according to: an active phase for provision of kinetic energy to free electrons in the DC plasma for activation of targeted bonds at the surface of the substrate; a neutralization phase for repelling of the free electrons from the surface of the substrate; and an initialization phase for restoring an initial condition of the surface floating potential.
US11688574B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a base, at least one fixed conductive sheet assembly, at least one movable conductive sheet assembly, at least one arc blow component, an electromagnet and an outer cap. The fixed conductive sheet assembly includes a fixed connecting plate and a fixed contact, and the movable conductive sheet assembly includes a movable connecting plate and a movable contact. The base is made of a thermal conductive polymer, and the fixed connecting plate has a first heat conduction part installed in the base and a second heat conduction part connected to the first heat conduction part and extended to an outer side of the base. The electromagnetic relay further includes at least two thermal conduction components installed in the base and symmetrically configured on both opposite sides of the fixed and movable contacts respectively for dissipating the heat generated by the electromagnetic relay.
US11688573B2
The relay safety system provided by the present invention includes a relay, an emergency stop device, a trigger detection circuit, a sticking detection circuit, and a power-off circuit. The emergency stop device is used to generate an emergency stop signal. The trigger detection circuit connects the relay and the emergency stop device, and is used to convert the emergency stop signal into a trigger signal. The sticking detection circuit is connected to the trigger detection circuit and the relay, and is used to detect the sticking signal generated by the relay, and generate a power-off signal according to the trigger signal and the sticking signal. The power-off circuit is connected to the emergency stop device, the relay and the sticking detection circuit, and receives the power-off signal, and disconnects the power of the relay according to the power-off signal.
US11688572B2
A group-operated switching system for multi-phase electrical transmission lines including a number of inline axial switches for opening and closing circuits to control electrical flow through the transmission lines. The switches include axially mounted load break vacuum interrupters and are mechanically and electrically isolated from each other and from a control box. The control box communicates with the inline switches via RF communications. Power for the switch electronics and operations can be provided from line power, a battery, or a capacitive source.
US11688569B2
A switch includes a power in contact, a piston, a power out contact, a plurality of flexible locking elements, an earthing contact, and a threaded rod. In a first position, the piston contacts the power in contact and the power out contact. In a second position, the piston contacts the power out contact. In a third position, the piston contacts the earthing contact and the power out contact. The piston comprises an inner threaded section that engages the threaded rod. Rotation of the threaded rod moves the piston along an axis of the switch between the different switch positions. The piston comprises a groove extending in a direction parallel to the axis. Each of the flexible locking elements is configured such that a part of each of the flexible locking elements moves into and out of the groove as the piston is moved along the axis of the switch.
US11688568B2
Multiple position switches and specifically in-line multiple position switches where a user has definitive points of on and off switching which are used to turn multiple redundant internal circuit switches on and off. This can provide for increased reliability of switch operation. The multi-position switch is typically a five-position switch with all five positions in-line and with double or triple redundancy at each position.
US11688558B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer chip having a rectangular parallelepiped shape and including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately stacked, the dielectric layers being mainly composed of ceramic, the internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two edge faces of the multilayer chip opposite to each other, and external electrodes respectively formed on the two edge faces, wherein an average crystal grain size of the ceramic in a cross section is 200 nm or less in a dielectric portion, and a CV value of a grain size distribution of crystal grains of the ceramic in the cross section is less than 38% in the dielectric portion, the dielectric portion being defined as a region made of the ceramic in the multilayer chip that is in contact with one of the external electrodes and that has a width of 5 μm from said one of the external electrodes.
US11688551B2
The method heats the metal foil made of amorphous soft magnetic material while bringing the metal foil into close contact with a placement surface of a metal base such that the metal foil conforms to the placement surface, to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material of the metal foil into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. In the crystallization, the metal foil is heated at a heating temperature to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material, the heating temperature being higher than or equal to a crystallization starting temperature at which the amorphous soft magnetic material crystallizes into nano-crystal soft magnetic material and allowing a temperature of the placement surface to be lower than a temperature of the metal foil having temperature rise due to heat generated by self-heating during crystallization, and the heat generated by self-heating of the metal foil during crystallization is absorbed by the base.
US11688545B2
A removable weighted vehicle safety guard system having a safety attachment that removably attaches to the back end of a vehicle to add weight, thereby helping to keep the back end of the vehicle stabilized while driving in inclement weather or on slippery road surfaces, and additionally forms a brush guard to prevent damage to the vehicle should another vehicle rear-end the user's vehicle. The removable weighted vehicle safety guard system attaches to the back end of the vehicle via the hitch and is secured using bolts or trailer pins. The removable weighted vehicle safety guard system provides static weight to the back end of the vehicle but may optionally also receive additional if needed. The additional weight may take a number of forms, including weight blocks, and can be added to the removable weighted vehicle safety guard system via bolts or trailer pins.
US11688544B2
An inductor component comprising a first magnetic layer, a spiral wiring disposed on the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer covering the spiral wiring. The first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer contain a magnetic powder and a resin containing the magnetic powder, and the spiral wiring includes a spiral-shaped first conductor layer and a second conductor layer disposed on the first conductor layer and shaped along the first conductor layer.
US11688535B2
This ferrite sintered magnet comprises ferrite phases having a magnetoplumbite type crystal structure. This magnet comprises an element R, an element M, Fe, Co, B, Mn and Cr, the element R is at least one element selected from rare earth elements including Y, the element M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr and Ba, with Ca being an essential element, and when an atomic composition of metallic elements is represented by R1-xMxFem-yCoy, x, y and m satisfy formulae: 0.2≤x≤0.8 (1) 0.1≤y≤0.65 (2) 3≤m<14 (3). Additionally, a content of B is 0.1 to 0.4% by mass in terms of B2O3, a content of Mn is 0.15 to 1.02% by mass in terms of MnO, and a content of Cr is 0.02 to 2.01% by mass in terms of Cr2O3.
US11688534B2
A process for producing R-T-B-based rare earth magnet powder having excellent coercive force and high remanent flux density. A process for producing R-T-B-based rare earth magnet powder by HDDR treatment, in which a raw material alloy for the R-T-B-based rare earth magnet powder includes R (wherein R represents at least one rare earth element including Y), T (wherein T represents Fe, or Fe and Co) and B (wherein B represents boron), and has a composition including R in an amount of between 12.0 atom % and 17.0 atom %, and B in an amount of between 4.5 atom % and 7.5 atom %; the HDDR treatment includes a DR step including a preliminary evacuation step and a complete evacuation step; and a rate of pressure reduction caused by evacuation in the preliminary evacuation step is not less than 1 kPa/min and not more than 30 kPa/min.
US11688532B2
A chip resistor includes a substrate, two top electrodes, a resistor element, two back electrodes, and two side electrodes. The substrate has a top surface, a back surface and two side surface. The top and back surfaces face away in the thickness direction of the substrate. The side surfaces, spaced apart in a predetermined direction orthogonal to the thickness direction, are connected to the top and back surfaces. The top electrodes, spaced apart in the predetermined direction, are in contact with the top surface. The resistor element, disposed on the top surface, is connected to the top electrodes. The back electrodes, spaced apart in the predetermined direction, are in contact with the back surface. The side electrodes, held in contact with the side surfaces, are connected to the top and back electrodes. Each back electrode has a first and a second layer. The first layer is in contact with the back surface. The second layer, covering a part of the first layer, is made of a material containing metal particles and synthetic resin.
US11688529B2
The present invention relates to a semi-conductive polymer composition, the present invention provides a semi-conductive polymer composition comprising an ethylene copolymer comprising polar co-monomer units; an olefin homo- or copolymer; and a conductive filler; wherein the olefin homo- or copolymer has a degree of crystallinity below 20%. The invention also relates to a wire or cable comprising said semi-conductive polymer composition, and to the use of said composition for the production of a layer, preferably a semi-conducting shield layer of a wire or cable.
US11688524B2
A method of packaging a radioactive waste including the steps of: (a) providing a containment enclosure having (i) an outer polymeric fabric layer and (ii) an inner polymeric fabric layer, wherein the outer and inner polymeric fabric layers are thermally stable to −40° F.; (b) placing a radioactive waste within the inner polymeric fabric layer; and (c) closing an outer closeable flap on the outer polymeric fabric layer.
US11688521B2
Methods and systems to stratify risks for adverse health outcomes include aggregating data sets culled over a predetermined period of time; adjusting at least two variables within the aggregated data sets; and executing a regression analysis to identify an average causal effect between aggregated variables against at least one particular adverse health outcome.
US11688514B2
This disclosure relates to remote control of dialysis machines. In certain aspects, a method includes receiving a request for a network connection from a dialysis machine and establishing the network connection with the dialysis machine. The method also includes receiving, from a client device, a request to access the dialysis machine, authorizing the client device to access the dialysis machine, receiving, from the dialysis machine, information pertaining to an operation of the dialysis machine, and providing, to the client device, the received information.
US11688509B2
In general, this disclosure describes techniques for a health management system that schedules medical appointments based on a dialog with a user (e.g., a patient), clinical guideline information, and/or other information. The health management system may engage in a dialog with the user, the dialog including requests from the health management system for audio input to the user device and audio input from the user in response to each request. The health management system may extract information from the audio input and compare the extracted information to clinical guideline information to determine one or more probable health conditions of the user. The health management system may determine a time allotment, identify a health care provider type and a platform for a medical appointment based on the one or more probable health conditions.
US11688504B2
A system for informing food element decisions in the acquisition of edible materials from any source. The system includes a processor coupled to a memory configured to receive from a user client device a food element descriptor uniquely identifying a particular food element. The system retrieves from a physiological database at least an element of physiological data. The system identifies using at least an element of physiological data and a machine-learning algorithm user constitutional enhancing food elements and user constitutional advancing food elements. The system classifies using a food element classifier a food element descriptor. The system displays on a graphical user interface a constitutional enhancing food element or a constitutional advancing food element.
US11688493B1
A medication reconciliation system that interfaces between pharmacies and healthcare providers to provide accurate patient medication history and a medication reconciliation process for providing accurate patient medication history by interfacing between pharmacies and healthcare providers are disclosed. The medication reconciliation system and process provide a level of healthcare that allows healthcare providers to accurately reconcile a patient’s medication history across multiple medication supplying sources.
US11688468B2
Devices and techniques are disclosed herein to provide a high-voltage bias signal in a standby state of the storage system without exceeding a limited maximum standby current allowance of the storage system. The high-voltage bias signal can enable a string driver circuit in the standby state to couple a global word line to a local word line, to provide a bias to, or sink a voltage from, a pillar of a string of memory cells of the storage system in the standby state, such as to reduce read disturbances in the storage system.
US11688455B2
In some examples, a subword driver block of a memory device includes a first active region and a second active region adjacent to each other. The first active region forms drains/sources of a first and second transistors in a first region; the second active region forms drains/sources of a third and fourth transistors in a second region, where the first and second regions are adjacent to each other. The first, second, third and fourth transistors are coupled to a common non-active potential via a shared contact overlaid over a merged region between the first and second regions. The first and second active regions may comprise N+ diffusion materials.
US11688443B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first transfer path outputting a first preliminary signal; a second transfer path outputting a second preliminary signal; a third transfer path outputting a third preliminary signal; a first calibration circuit generating a first calibration code corresponding to a difference in delay values between the first transfer path and a selected transfer path having a largest delay value among the first to third transfer paths; a second calibration circuit generating a second calibration code corresponding to a difference in delay values between the second transfer path and the selected transfer path; a third calibration circuit generating a third calibration code corresponding to a difference in delay values between the third transfer path and the selected transfer path; a first delay control circuit generating a first signal; a second delay control circuit generating a second signal; and a third delay control circuit generating a third signal.
US11688442B2
A clock signal processing circuit includes a clock buffer configured to generate a pair of second clock signals with opposite phases after receiving a pair of first clock signals with opposite phases and configured to fix the second clock signals to determined levels according to a control signal until toggling of the first clock signals begins.
US11688440B2
The present technology relates to a page buffer and a semiconductor memory device including the same. The page buffer includes a bit line selector configured to connect a bit line of a memory cell array to a sensing node, a precharger configured to precharge a potential of the sensing node to a first level, and a latch component configured to sense data by detecting a time at which the potential of the sensing node is decreased from the first level to a second level.
US11688428B2
An apparatus includes a housing that is configured to receive and retain a plurality of removable storage media, and a shuffler that is positioned at least partially within the housing. The housing includes an open first end, an opposed, closed second end, a first channel that receives and retains a first subset of the plurality of removable storage media, and a second channel that receives and retains a second subset of the plurality of removable storage media. The first channel and the second channel are shaped to receive and retain the plurality of removable storage media in respective single-file rows via the open first end. The shuffler is movable between a resting position and a second position wherein the shuffler has been moved away from the resting position. The shuffler includes a rake that protrudes into the first channel to contact and move a first removable storage medium of the first subset of the plurality of removable storage media toward the open first end when the shuffler is moved from the resting position to the second position.
US11688420B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a tape head and a tape drive including a tape head. The tape head comprises servo heads configured to read servo data from a tape, a plurality of write heads configured to: write user data to a plurality of data tracks of the tape and write embedded servo data into one or more data fields of the tape, the embedded servo data comprising servo positioning information, and a plurality of read heads configured to read the user data and the embedded servo data from the tape. The embedded servo data may be embedded servo fields or embedded servo tracks. The embedded servo data allows the tape head to be accurately controlled and positioned above the tape, and for new data to be accurately appended to the tape.
US11688416B2
Systems and methods enrich speech to text communications between users in speech chat sessions using a speech emotion recognition model to convert observed emotions in speech samples to enrich text with visual emotion content. The method may include generating a data set of speech samples with labels of a plurality of emotion classes, selecting a set of acoustic features from each of the emotion classes, generating a machine learning (ML) model based on the acoustic features and data set, applying the set of rules based on the selected set of acoustic features and data set, computing a number of rules that have been satisfied, and presenting the enriched text in speech-to-text communications between users in the chat session for visual notice of an observed emotion in the speech sample.
US11688412B2
A method, computer program, and computer system for separating a target voice from among a plurality of speakers is provided. Video data associated with the plurality of speakers and audio data associated with each of the one or more speakers are received. Video feature data is extracted from the received video data. The target voice is identified from among the plurality of speakers based on the received audio data and the extracted video feature data.
US11688409B2
The present disclosure relates to processing a plurality of audio signals. A device receives the plurality of audio signals in the frequency domain and determining an overall attenuation multiplier based on the plurality of audio signals and an overall lookup table that relates decibel values to different overall attenuation multipliers. The device determines an attenuation vector comprising a plurality of bin-specific attenuation multipliers, each bin-specific attenuation multiplier respectively corresponding to a different frequency bin of the plurality of frequency bins. The device scales each bin-specific attenuation value in the attenuation vector with the overall attenuation multiplier, and edits each of the audio signals based on the scaled bin-specific attenuation values in the attenuation vector.
US11688407B2
A decoder for generating an audio output signal having one or more audio output channels includes a receiving interface for receiving an audio input signal including a plurality of audio object signals, for receiving loudness information on the audio object signals, and for receiving rendering information indicating whether one or more of the audio object signals shall be amplified or attenuated. Moreover, the decoder includes a signal processor for generating the one or more audio output channels of the audio output signal. The signal processor is configured to determine a loudness compensation value depending on the loudness information and depending on the rendering information. Furthermore, the signal processor is configured to generate the one or more audio output channels of the audio output signal from the audio input signal depending on the rendering information and depending on the loudness compensation value. Moreover, an encoder is provided.
US11688392B2
A method for detecting freeze words includes receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance spoken by a user and captured by a user device associated with the user. The method also includes processing, using a speech recognizer, the audio data to determine that the utterance includes a query for a digital assistant to perform an operation. The speech recognizer is configured to trigger endpointing of the utterance after a predetermined duration of non-speech in the audio data. Before the predetermined duration of non-speech, the method includes detecting a freeze word in the audio data. In response to detecting the freeze word in the audio data, the method also includes triggering a hard microphone closing event at the user device. The hard microphone closing event prevents the user device from capturing any audio subsequent to the freeze word.
US11688390B2
Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition. One method involves identifying a user-configured speech recognition performance setting value selected from among a plurality of speech recognition performance setting values, selecting a speech recognition model configuration corresponding to the user-configured speech recognition performance setting value from among a plurality of speech recognition model configurations, where each speech recognition model configuration of the plurality of speech recognition model configurations corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of speech recognition performance setting values, and recognizing an audio input as an input state using the speech recognition model configuration corresponding to the user-configured speech recognition performance setting value.
US11688387B2
A hearing apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to obtain a first speech signal; a processor configured to provide of an electrical output signal based on the first speech signal; and a receiver for providing an audio output signal based on the electrical output signal; wherein the hearing apparatus is configured to determine a first word count of the first speech signal, and update a total word count based on the first word count.
US11688383B2
A processor is configured to perform headphone playback with a playback audio signal. The processor produces a feedback signal from an internal microphone, compresses the feedback signal according to a variable compressor setting, and determines a context of usage of the headphone, as being one of running or jogging, transportation, and critical listening. In response, the processor changes the variable compressor setting and drives the headphone speaker with the compressed feedback signal combined with the playback audio signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11688382B2
Noise-canceling audio devices may include a first vibration member, a second vibration member, and a microphone supported by a housing. A feedback, noise-cancelation circuit may be operatively connected to the microphone, the feedback, noise-cancelation circuit configured to generate a first portion of a modified audio signal by combining an audio signal with a noise-canceling signal generated in response to a signal from the microphone to at least partially cancel at least a portion of an audible response of the second vibration member. A feed-forward, noise-cancelation circuit may be operatively connected to the microphone, the feed-forward, noise-cancelation circuit configured to compare the signal from the microphone to a predetermined SPL profile and generate a second portion of the modified audio signal configured to at least partially cancel environmental noise, the feedback, noise cancelation circuit configured to output the modified audio signal only to the first vibration member.
US11688377B2
Methods, Apparatus, and a System (collectively a “platform”) for facilitating, enabling, or enhancing creation, control, and playback of digital audio loops or parts are disclosed herein. The platform may include playing back midi song segments. The midi song segments may comprise a midi sequence that is looped a predetermined number of times. The platform may include transitioning to another midi song segment automatically after predetermined number of loops or transitioning in response to a command. The platform may include changing the number of loops during playback of a song segment in response to a command. The platform may relate to enabling automatic generation of song segments during a performance. The platform may include automatically selecting midi sequences to enhance playback. The platform may include other features pertaining to enhancing or enabling digital music creation or composition.
US11688372B2
The disclosed technology relates to a process for detecting musical artifacts within a musical composition. The detection of musical artifacts is based on analyzing the energy and frequency of the digital signal of the musical composition. The identification of musical artifacts within a musical composition would be used in connection with audio-video editing.
US11688367B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for enabling a variable refresh rate on a display. One of the methods includes receiving, from a content presentation device, a first signal set to a first value; completing generation of first visual content; and after completing the generation of the first visual content, determining that the first signal is set to the first value and a second threshold duration of time has not expired; sending, to the content presentation device, the first visual content, wherein sending the first visual content causes the content presentation device to change the first signal from the first value to the second value; and after sending the first visual content, receiving, from the content presentation device, the first signal set to the second value.
US11688363B2
An electronic device may include an electronic display including display pixels to display an image based on compensated image data. The electronic display may also include a stressed reference pixel to exhibit burn-in related aging in response to one or more stress sessions and a non-stressed reference pixel configured to not undergo the one or more stress sessions. Additionally, the electronic device may include image processing circuitry to determine a panel-specific aging profile based on a comparison between one or more properties of the stressed reference pixel and the one or more properties of the non-stressed reference pixel. The image processing circuitry may also generate one or more gain maps based on the panel-specific aging profile and generate the compensated image data by applying the one or more gain maps to input image data.
US11688360B2
An overcurrent protection circuit and display drive device, comprising: when input current of a front end corresponding to a logic signal experiences overcurrent, preventing the input current of the front end experiencing overcurrent from being transmitted to a drive chip, thereby preventing damage to the drive chip.
US11688356B2
An electronic paper display and a driving method thereof are provided. The electronic paper display includes an electronic paper display panel, a touch panel and a processing circuit. The touch panel outputs a first touch coordinate of a current touch and a second touch coordinate of a next touch. The processing circuit executes a filter module and a line drawing module. The filter module outputs a first measured position data and a first predicted position data to the line drawing module. The line drawing module drives the electronic paper display panel to display a first predicted track. The filter module outputs a second measured position data to the line drawing module. The line drawing module determines whether a second track display coordinate corresponding to the second measured position data is equal to the first predicted display coordinate to correct the first predicted track.
US11688310B2
The present invention is an optical LED light display incorporating one or more louvers operable to limit the light emission in a specified direction from a LED diode within the LED light display, each louvers being positioned in relation to each LED light element in the LED light display. The specified direction of the light emission may be towards a target audience or a target direction. A method of the present invention that may be implemented by a software program processed by computer processors of a computer device, may be operable to enable the design of the LED display louver for installation in a specific area to enable simultaneous elimination of light trespass and preservation of image quality for the target audience. A LED light display can be manufactured, configured and installed in accordance with the method.
US11688308B2
A display device including a lower electrode layer including a first lower electrode having first and second areas, and a second lower electrode having third and fourth areas; a pixel defining layer covering the second and fourth areas; a first electroluminescent layer having an outline substantially surrounding an outline of the first area; a second electroluminescent layer having an outline substantially surrounding an outline of the third area; an upper electrode having an outline substantially surrounding the outlines of the first and second electroluminescent layers; and a color filter layer including a first color filter having an area of which an outline thereof is between the outline of the first area and the outline of the first electroluminescent layer; and a second color filter having an area of which an outline thereof is between the outline of the third area and the outline of the second electroluminescent layer.
US11688301B2
In certain embodiments, secure data presentation may be facilitated for a tactile system. In some embodiments, the tactile system may include a display having carbon nanotube-based components having a surface that absorbs at least 96% of visible light. The tactile system may obtain tactile data and present the tactile data on the display by adjusting one or more positions of the carbon nanotube-based components based on the tactile data. In some embodiments, the tactile system may obtain environmental data (e.g., lighting data, presence data, etc.) for an environment (in which the display is located) and perform the adjustment of the positions of the carbon nanotube-based components based on (i) the tactile data and (ii) the environmental data.
US11688296B2
A fault simulation system, a server (100), a user device (200) comprising a user interface and a wire controller (300), intended for teaching and validating practical knowledge in the long-distance training of vehicle (500) maintenance personnel, allowing the emulation or simulation of faults by manipulating the signals of the electronic system of the vehicle (500). Some embodiments of the invention are developed with the purpose of simulating the most diverse defects in vehicles, acting, for example, in the injection calculator module, air conditioning system, CAN bus system, dynamic stability control, ABS system, accelerator, speed governor, speed limiter, airbag system, fuel pump, gear selector lever, wiper nozzle, among others, enabling a highly realistic emulation of a fault scenario by manipulating the signals of the electronic communication system of the vehicle (500).
US11688289B2
Methods, devices, and systems for ground traffic aircraft management are described herein. One device includes a user interface, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive airport information associated with an airport, generate, using the airport information, a map of the airport, display an intersection on the map of the airport, receive a selection of the intersection, and display flight information of each of a plurality of aircraft passing through the intersection within a particular period of time and the map of the airport in a single integrated display responsive to receiving the selection of the intersection.
US11688285B2
Disclosed is a dynamic collision avoidance method for an unmanned surface vessel based on route replanning. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring navigation information and pose information of a neighboring ship of an unmanned vessel itself via a vessel-borne sensor; constructing a collision cone between the unmanned vessel and the neighboring ship; introducing a degree of uncertainty with respect to observing movement information of the neighboring ship and applying a layer of soft constraint to the collision cone; applying a speed and a heading limit range of the unmanned vessel; acquiring an ultimate candidate speed set; introducing a cost function to select an optimum collision avoidance speed; and performing an internal recycle of navigation simulation with the optimum collision avoidance speed to obtain a route replanning point for dynamic collision avoidance of the unmanned vessel. According to the present invention, a dynamic collision avoidance strategy of the unmanned surface vessel is output in form of route replanning to meet constraints of international regulations for preventing collisions at sea, and it is well adapted to manipulate and control the unmanned vessel itself, so that a dynamic collision avoidance requirement of the unmanned vessel is met.
US11688266B2
A health advisory alert system for a vehicle is presented. A controller may determine whether a vehicle occupant is preparing to exit the vehicle. Upon determination that the vehicle occupant is preparing to exit the vehicle, the controller may determine a location of the vehicle, determine a health advisory metric based on the location of the vehicle, and determine whether personal protective equipment should be worn based on the health advisory metric. Upon determination that personal protective equipment should be worn, the controller may output a notification to the vehicle occupant indicating that personal protective equipment should be worn.
US11688262B1
A wearable, body position monitor and activity alert device, designed to protect patients with a compromised ability to stand or walk from their own impulses to stand up by delivering a personal audible message of “caution”, “persuasion”, “discouragement” and/or “direction” when detecting the initiation of a “signature body movement” that could lead to a dangerous fall. The objective is to prevent falls from happening by monitoring a person's movements using a 3D accelerometer sensor and/or a 3D gyroscope sensor. No caregiver assistance belts, tethers, or other restraints are needed. When the patient starts to stand up, the patient monitoring system simultaneously and wirelessly alerts a caregiver, who is wearing a Caregiver's Personal Alert Device (CPAD), of the patient's intent to stand. When alerted by the CPAD, the caregiver then intervenes before the patient falls.
US11688259B2
Some embodiments are directed to a lockdown apparatus for facilitating initiation of lockdown procedures at a facility that includes multiple doors and is configured for occupation by facility occupants. A lockdown actuator is disposed at the facility and configured to initiate transmission of a lockdown initiation signal upon being actuated, the lockdown actuator being configured to be recognizably distinguishable from the fire alarm actuator. A lockdown communicator is configured to produce a lockdown initiation communication for communicating initiation of lockdown procedures to the facility occupants and individuals not disposed proximate the facility upon transmission of the lockdown initiation signal, the lockdown initiation communication being recognizably distinguishable from the fire alarm communication. A display is configured to indicate status of each of the multiple doors of the facility upon transmission of the lockdown initiation signal, the status including at least one of open versus closed, and locked versus unlocked.
US11688257B2
A surveillance monitoring system may use a camera to detect any viewing faces visible within viewing sight of a monitor and determine whether the detected viewing faces belong to authorized individuals who are authorized to view video surveillance footage on the monitor or if any of the detected viewing faces belong to individuals who are not authorized to view video surveillance footage on the monitor. When the detected viewing faces belong only to authorized individuals, the surveillance monitoring system continues to display the video surveillance footage that includes identifiable faces without anonymizing the identifiable faces. When the detected viewing faces also include unauthorized individuals, the surveillance monitoring system may continue to display the video surveillance footage, but the surveillance monitoring system may automatically anonymize one or more of the identifiable faces seen in the video surveillance footage.
US11688255B2
A method of providing a haptic signal is described therein, the method comprising the steps of providing a first source signal, filtering a mid-range band of the first source signal for restricting a bandwidth of the first source signal to the mid-range band, integrating the filtered mid-range band of the first source signal to identify an amplitude of the filtered first source signal, providing a voltage control amplifier with a proportional calibrated voltage on a basis of the integration of the filtered first source signal for adjusting an amplitude of the filtered source signal, isolating a trans-conductance voltage control amplifier high impedance output from a second source signal with a buffer, filtering the filtered source signal with a low pass filter to identify original sub-frequencies of an audio program and combining the identified original sub frequencies of the audio program with transposed midrange frequencies in a haptic signal.
US11688247B2
According to some implementations, when a triggering symbol lands in a defined area of a slot game display during an instance of a base game, there is a chance that the triggering symbol may change to a new symbol. If so, the new symbol may be held in the defined area and may persist during one or more additional purchased base game instances. The new symbol may persist if at least one additional triggering symbol lands in the defined area in subsequent bought games. Each additional triggering symbol may automatically change to a new symbol as the additional triggering symbol lands in the defined area of the slot game display. Whether the triggering symbol will change to a new symbol may involve a random component. In some examples, the greater the number of triggering symbols, the greater the probability the triggering symbol will change to the new symbol.
US11688245B2
A gaming machine provides a spinning reel game having a base game, from which a hold and spin game is triggered when a determined quantity of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. When the feature game is triggered, volatility options are presented to the player. After receiving a volatility selection that specifies a first control factor for a hold and spin game, the gaming machine conducts the hold and spin game per the specified first control factor while using at least another control factor to maintain a same return-to-player across the volatility options.
US11688242B2
A gaming device comprises a display, a processor, and a memory storing (i) a plurality of symbol position states, each defining a number of active symbol positions in each of a plurality of columns of symbol positions. Also stored in memory is data defining a plurality of sets of reel strips including a first set of reels strips, wherein each reel strip of the first set has a first stack length defining a number of consecutive reel strip positions containing the same symbol, and a second set of reel strips, wherein each reel strip of the second set of reel strips has a second stack length shorter than the first stack length. In at least a first game instance, the processor selects symbols from the first set of reel strips for display in the plurality of columns of symbol positions of the first symbol state. Responsive to a trigger condition being met, the processor updates the current symbol position state to a second symbol position state comprising at least one additional active symbol position relative to the first symbol position state. Subsequent symbol position states will have progressively shorter stacks in one or more of the corresponding sets of reel strips.
US11688235B2
The game system of the present disclosure comprises a game table having a betting area in which a plurality of betting targets are laid out, a camera that captures the game table and generates a captured image, and an information processing device that identifies which betting target the stack is bet on, wherein when a plurality of stacks of the gaming chips are bet on the same betting area, the information processing device, based on the captured image, determines which stack is the stack of main player and which stack is the stack of back-betting player.
US11688232B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method performed by a gaming system. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a scheme for further improving a randomness in a game provided by means of the gaming system. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding gaming system and a computer program product.
US11688230B2
A gaming machine provides an operation unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The operation unit is an operation of the player. The display unit displays a display area with a plurality of cells arranged in a grid. The control unit allows a player to establish a wager, to establish one of a plurality of predefined subsets of the cells as a feature area as a function of the wager and to provide a game in response to player operation. The control unit randomly selects a plurality of symbols associated with the display area. Each symbol in the plurality of symbols is associated with one of the plurality of cells in the grid. The plurality of symbols forming an outcome of the game; detect an occurrence of a predetermined symbol in the feature area; and provide a game feature as a function of the occurrence of the predetermined symbol.
US11688224B2
The invention provides a vending machine for dispensing hot packaged food. The vending machine includes a storage and dispenser unit comprising plural dispensing trays arranged in an array for storing one or more packaged foods, a frame, and a carrier structure. Each individual dispensing tray includes a pivotable gate and a slideway inclined by a tilting angle from a horizontal axis. The carrier structure comprises a carrying arm having an engaging feature; and an engaging mechanism for actuating the pivotable gate. The engaging mechanism is configured to move the carrying arm towards the individual dispensing tray such that the engaging feature actuates the pivotable gate from a locked position to an unlocked position. The packaged food is prevented from sliding down when the pivotable gate is at the locked position. The packaged food is slidable relative to the individual dispensing tray when the pivotable gate is at the unlocked position.
US11688223B2
Provided herein are automated article dispensing systems having inventory management capabilities, and methods for managing inventory of articles in automated dispensing systems. In particular, the systems and methods disclosed herein utilize an inventory management assembly which includes one or more sensors configured to detect directly or indirectly one or more parameters related to quality and/or quantity the articles and an inventory management processing module configured to compute inventory related data based at least on the one or more parameters.
US11688218B2
The present invention is directed to intelligent secure keyless keypad transmitter entry system mounted outside property integrated into an existing motorized garage door opening system or any motorized gate system for secure entry and package delivery using a barcode scanner. The invention uses package tracking codes stored in advance to open a door or gate with a delivery notification to the owner. Motion detection and facial recognition biometric cameras allow invited persons to enter property. The camera and microphone/speaker allow video communication via external devices. The keypad may be used in conjunction with the LED screen to program the console device with temporary or permanent PIN codes for entry code allowing owners to verify access and exit of service providers. The console device offers complete remote control of device functions and all activity on the device to be transmitted electronically to the owner's mobile device.
US11688211B1
An improved system and method of selectively transmitting asset data from one or more sensors associated with the vehicle to a backend server, which is configured to analyze the asset data and, if necessary for further analysis of the asset data (e.g., to determine whether a safety event has occurred) and/or to provide actionable data for review by a safety analyst, requests further asset data from a vehicle device.
US11688210B2
In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies include an apparatus for storing data and communicating data between a vehicle or an agricultural implement and a computing device. Embodiments include a non-conductive housing, an antenna coupled to the non-conductive housing, an integrated circuit coupled to the antenna, a thermally and electrically conductive housing coupled to the integrated circuit, at least one ground clip coupled to the thermally and electrically conductive housing, at least one other integrated circuit coupled to the at least one ground clip, a memory coupled to the other integrated circuit and arranged to at least temporarily store digital communications between a vehicle or an agricultural implement and the computing device, and a connector communicatively coupled to the memory and arranged to mate with a connector of the vehicle or the agricultural implement.
US11688209B1
An video analysis computing system driving analysis may include a camera associated with a first vehicle and having a viewing angle capable of capturing a video of one or more other vehicles in proximity to the first vehicle, a first memory location communicatively coupled to the camera, wherein the first memory location stores video data captured by the camera, and an evaluation module including a processor executing instructions that cause the processor to: evaluate the captured video stored in the first memory location to determine whether a driving event performed by a second vehicle has occurred, assign, in response to an identified driving event performed by the second vehicle, a driving event rating to a video showing the identified driving event, wherein the driving event rating may be calculated, at least in part, using a crowd-sourced driving event rating obtained after posting the video to a social network.
US11688208B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving scheduling tasks within an edge-computing environment. In one embodiment, a method includes, upon establishing a communication connection with a vehicle by an edge device of the edge-computing environment, collecting offloading information about the vehicle including task information describing at least a vehicle task that is to be offloaded to the edge device and context information about aspects relating to operation of the vehicle. The method includes triggering offloading of the vehicle task to the edge device in response to determining that at least the context information satisfies a scheduling threshold. The method includes providing, by the edge device, a result of executing the vehicle task to the vehicle.
US11688191B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for contextually disambiguating queries are disclosed. In an aspect, a method includes receiving an image being presented on a display of a computing device and a transcription of an utterance spoken by a user of the computing device, identifying a particular sub-image that is included in the image, and based on performing image recognition on the particular sub-image, determining one or more first labels that indicate a context of the particular sub-image. The method also includes, based on performing text recognition on a portion of the image other than the particular sub-image, determining one or more second labels that indicate the context of the particular sub-image, based on the transcription, the first labels, and the second labels, generating a search query, and providing, for output, the search query.
US11688188B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for automatically detecting and classifying tumor regions in a tissue slide. The method generally includes obtaining a digitized tissue slide from a tissue slide database and determining, based on output from a tissue classification module, a type of tissue of shown in the digitized tissue slide. The method further includes determining, based on output from a tumor classification model for the type of tissue, a region of interest (ROI) of the digitized tissue slide and generating a classified slide showing the ROI of the digitized tissue slide and an estimated diameter of the ROI. The method further includes displaying on an image display unit, the classified slide and user interface (UI) elements enabling a pathologist to enter input related to the classified slide.
US11688186B2
Systems and methods for rapidly developing annotated computer models of structures and properties is provided. The system generates three-dimensional (3D) models of structures and property using a wide variety of digital imagery, and/or can process existing 3D models created by other systems. The system processes the 3D models to automatically identify candidate objects within the 3D models that may be suitable for annotation, such as roof faces, chimneys, windows, gutters, etc., using computer vision techniques to automatically identify such objects. Once the candidate objects have been identified, the system automatically generates user interface screens which gather relevant information related to the candidate objects, so as to rapidly obtain, associate, and store annotation information related to the candidate objects. When all relevant annotation information has been gathered and associated with model objects, the system can create a list of materials that can be used for future purposes, such as repair and/or reconstruction of real-world structures and property.
US11688184B2
A method, system and non-transitory computer readable medium which monitor a road user in order to move the external position of the vehicle intent notification (eHMI) to another external position that can be seen by the road user based on the gaze direction of the road user. In some aspects, the eHMI notification displays the vehicle intent for a single autonomous vehicle. In another aspect, a group eHMI notification displays the trajectories for a plurality of autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles. Based on the gaze direction of the road user, the eHMI notification can be displayed on a single external position or on multiple external positions. Different eHMI notifications can be displayed at different external positions on the autonomous vehicle to provide information to more than one road user.
US11688176B2
An apparatus includes: a first camera configured to view an environment outside a vehicle; and a processing unit configured to receive images generated at different respective times by the first camera; wherein the processing unit is configured to identify objects in front of the vehicle based on the respective images generated at the different respective times, determine a distribution of the identified objects, and determine a region of interest based on the distribution of the identified objects in the respective images generated at the different respective times.
US11688175B2
A framework in which annotated images can be analyzed in small batches to learn and distinguish between higher-quality annotations and lower-quality annotations, especially in the case of manual annotations for which quality assurance is desired. This framework is extremely generalizable and can be used for indoor images, outdoor images, medical images, etc., without limitation. An echo state network (ESN) is provided as a special case of semantic segmentation model that can be trained using as few as tens of annotated images to predict semantic regions and provide metrics that can be used to distinguish between higher-quality annotations and lower-quality annotations.
US11688166B2
A multi-mode tracking method according to the present disclosure includes receiving sensor signals from a plurality of positioning sensors located on a plurality of sport participants wherein the sensor signals each include a participant identifier and location data, receiving a sport image captured from a camera located near a playfield wherein the sport image includes at least a target participant among a plurality of sport participants on the playfield, detecting an occlusion related to the target participant in the sports image, determining the severity of the occlusion on the basis of a sensor signal received from a specific positioning sensor installed on a specific sport player located in a region of interest related to the occlusion, and determining a location of the sport participant on the basis of the severity of the occlusion.
US11688159B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of a trigger action by a first user at a client system, wherein the trigger action is associated with a priming content object, identifying related content objects associated with the priming content object, selecting recommended content objects based on the priming content object, the related content objects, and profile information of the first user, wherein each of the selected recommended content objects comprises entity information of entities associated with the priming content object, and presenting content suggestions at the client system, wherein each content suggestion comprises one of the selected recommended content objects.
US11688158B1
Disclosed herein is digital object generator that makes uses a one-way function to generate unique digital objects based on the user specific input. Features of the input are first extracted via a few-shot convolutional neural network model, then evaluated weight and integrated fit. The resulting digital object includes a user decipherable output such as a visual representation, an audio representation, or a multimedia representation that includes recognizable elements from the user specific input.
US11688144B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system guide a user through dimensional relationships. The method includes receiving a plurality of images of a unit of a perspective of a user. When a number of corresponding three-dimensional points between a current image and a previous image is less than a registration threshold to perform a three-dimensional registration operation, the method includes performing a three-dimensional data augmentation operation based on two-dimensional data from the current image and the previous image to generate extended corresponding three-dimensional points. The method includes determining a three-dimensional transform function between the current image and the previous image based on the extended corresponding three-dimensional points. The method includes generating annotations to be shown for the unit in the current image based on the three-dimensional transform function, the annotations being shown as a virtual rendering in a mixed reality environment viewed by the user.
US11688136B2
Systems and methods for reconstructing 3D models of human bodies from 2D images that counts for perspective and/or distortion effects are provided. The systems and methods include reconstructing a three-dimensional model of an object in a three-dimensional scene from a two-dimensional image comprising an image of the object. The systems and methods include determining an absolute depth of a key point of the object in the image; determining, using the absolute depth of the key point, a three-dimensional position of the key point in the three-dimensional scene; generating, using a neural network, a three-dimensional representation of the object, the three-dimensional representation comprising mesh nodes defined in a coordinate system relative to the key point; and positioning the three-dimensional representation of the object in the scene based on the position of the key point by applying a position dependent rotation to the three-dimensional object.
US11688135B2
Computer vision systems and methods for generating building models using three-dimensional sensing and augmented reality (AR) techniques are provided. Image frames including images of a structure to be modeled are captured by a camera of a mobile device such as a smart phone, as well as three-dimensional data corresponding to the image frames. An object of interest, such as a structural feature of the building, is detected using both the image frames and the three-dimensional data. An AR icon is determined based upon the type of object detected, and is displayed on the mobile device superimposed on the image frames. The user can manipulate the AR icon to better fit or match the object of interest in the image frames, and can capture the object of interest using a capture icon displayed on the display of the mobile device.
US11688132B2
One method embodiment comprises storing data on a storage system that is representative of a point cloud comprising a very large number of associated points; organizing the data into an octree hierarchy of data sectors, each of which is representative of one or more of the points at a given octree mesh resolution; receiving a command from a user of a user interface to present an image based at least in part upon a selected viewing perspective origin and vector; and assembling the image based at least in part upon the selected origin and vector, the image comprising a plurality of data sectors pulled from the octree hierarchy, the plurality of data sectors being assembled such that sectors representative of points closer to the selected viewing origin have a higher octree mesh resolution than that of sectors representative of points farther away from the selected viewing origin.
US11688131B2
A system comprises a storage system comprising data representing a point cloud comprising a very large number of associated points; a controller operatively coupled to the storage cluster and configured to organize the data into an octree hierarchy of data sectors, each of which is representative of one or more of the points at a given octree mesh resolution; and a user interface through which a user may select a viewing perspective origin and vector, which may be utilized to command the controller to assemble an image based at least in part upon the selected origin and vector, the image comprising a plurality of data sectors pulled from the octree hierarchy, the plurality of data sectors being assembled such that sectors representative of points closer to the selected viewing origin have a higher octree mesh resolution than that of sectors representative of points farther away from the selected viewing origin.
US11688129B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for recommending products or services by receiving a three-dimensional (3D) model of one or more products; performing motion tracking and understanding an environment with points or planes and estimating light or color in the environment; and projecting the product in the environment.
US11688126B2
A medical image processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: acquire volumetric image data for rendering; determine a plurality of positions of a viewpoint or positions of a light based on distance, or other spatial relationship, between the viewpoint or light and a surface or other selected feature in the image data; and render the volumetric data based on the plurality of viewpoint positions or light positions.
US11688124B2
A background image is also generated, e.g., by filling portions of a captured image where a foreground object was extracted and communicated to the playback device, Foreground objects are identified and point cloud representations of the foreground objects are generated and communicated to a playback device so that they can be used in generating images including the background which is communicated separately. In the case of a point cloud representation a number of points in an environment, e.g., 3D space, are communicated to the playback device along with color information. Thus in some embodiments a foreground object is represented as a set of points with corresponding color information on a per point basis. Foreground object information is communicated and processed in some embodiments at a different rate, e.g., faster rate, then the background textures. The playback device renders images which are sent to the display by first rendering a background layer using the communicated background information, e.g., background texture(s), UV map and environmental geometry, e.g., mesh, to which the background textures are applied.
US11688120B2
A user may create an avatar and/or animated sequence illustrating a particular object or living being performing a certain activity, using images of portions of the object or living being extracted from a still image or set of still images of the object or living being.
US11688119B2
Embodiments described herein include an expressive icon system to present an animated graphical icon, wherein the animated graphical icon is generated by capture facial tracking data at a client device. In some embodiments, the system may track and capture facial tracking data of a user via a camera associated with a client device (e.g., a front facing camera, or a paired camera), and process the facial tracking data to animate a graphical icon.
US11688116B2
An electronic device and method of preservation of geometry details in tracked meshes is provided. A set of three-dimensional (3D) scans and a sequence of tracked meshes of an object of interest are acquired. The sequence of tracked meshes comprises a set of tracked meshes which temporally corresponds to the set of 3D scans. Based on differences between the set of tracked meshes and the set of 3D scans, a set of displacement maps is generated. A plurality of vectors is computed, each of which includes surface tension values associated with mesh vertices of a corresponding tracked mesh. Based on the set of displacement maps and a corresponding set of vectors, a neural network is trained on a task of displacement map generation. The trained neural network model is applied on the plurality of vectors to generate displacement maps. Each tracked mesh is updated based on a corresponding displacement map.
US11688115B2
A spline-based animation process creates an animation sequence. The process receives a plurality of frames that illustrate a figure based on a design template (e.g., which includes a skeleton having segments). The process further identifies a spine segment, generates hip, shoulder, and head segments at respective positions relative to the spine segment, identifies limb and facial feature segments, and converts the segments into respective splines bound between endpoints. The process further determines changes between frames for respective splines and animates movement of the figure over a sequence of frames based on the changes.
US11688114B2
In some embodiments, a method comprises obtaining a pipeline of operations, the pipeline of operations including a plurality of functions providing any of one or more modification operations or visualization operations for a plurality of datasets. A first dynamic visualization of the pipeline of operations at a first level of granularity is generated. A second dynamic visualization of the pipeline of operations at a second level of granularity is generated in response to user input.
US11688111B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate visualization of a model selection process are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an interaction backend handler component that obtains one or more assessment metrics of a model pipeline candidate. The computer executable components can further comprise a visualization render component that renders a progress visualization of the model pipeline candidate based on the one or more assessment metrics.
US11688102B2
An image capture system with calibration function includes an image capture device, a laser rangefinder, and a processer. The image capture device captures two images. The processer determines at least one feature point according to the two images, and generates depth information corresponding to each feature point of the at least one feature point according to the two images, wherein the laser rangefinder measures a reference distance corresponding to the each feature point, and the processer optionally calibrates the depth information or the two images according to the reference distance.
US11688099B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for detecting an obstacle, and relates to the technical field of intelligent transportation. A specific implementation plan is: acquiring a current image acquired by a camera; inputting the current image into a pre-trained detection model to obtain a position of a detection frame of an obstacle and determine a first pixel coordinate of a grounding point in the current image; determining an offset between the current image and a template image; converting the first pixel coordinate into a world coordinate of the grounding point based on the offset; and outputting the world coordinate of the grounding point as a position of the obstacle in a world coordinate system. This embodiment solves the problem of camera jitter from an image perspective, greatly improves the robustness of the roadside perception system, and saves computing resources.
US11688093B2
A system includes a controller with at least one processor and at least one non-transitory, tangible memory on which instructions are recorded for executing a method for obtaining a profile of a lens capsule of an eye. The profile is represented by respective central surfaces and respective equatorial surfaces separated at respective transition points. The controller is configured to obtain imaging data for a portion of the lens capsule visible through a pupil of the eye. The imaging data is transformed to an adjusted frame of reference and fitted to the respective central surfaces in a predefined central region of the lens capsule. The profile is obtained based on a set of fitting parameters for the respective central and equatorial surfaces. The respective central surfaces and respective equatorial surfaces may be represented as elliptical cones and skewed parabolas, respectively.
US11688090B2
A method for multi-camera self-supervised depth evaluation is described. The method includes training a self-supervised depth estimation model and an ego-motion estimation model according to a multi-camera photometric loss associated with a multi-camera rig of an ego vehicle. The method also includes generating a single-scale correction factor according to a depth map of each camera of the multi-camera rig during a time-step. The method further includes predicting a 360° point cloud of a scene surrounding the ego vehicle according to the self-supervised depth estimation model and the ego-motion estimation model. The method also includes scaling the 360° point cloud according to the single-scale correction factor to form an aligned 360° point cloud.
US11688080B2
A method of tracking 3D position and orientation of an entity in a moving platform is described. The method comprises receiving data sensed by an inertial measurement unit mounted on the entity. Visual tracking data is also received, computed from images depicting the moving platform or the entity in the moving platform. The method computes the 3D position and orientation of the entity by estimating a plurality of states using the visual tracking data and the data sensed by the inertial measurement unit, where the states comprise both states of the moving platform and states of the entity.
US11688069B2
A method and system for crop health change monitoring is provided. The method includes acquiring a companion image of a crop growing within a field at a first point in time, acquiring a master image of the crop growing within the field at a second point in time, and computing, using a processor, vegetation indices using the master image and the companion image for subsequently determining regions of change within the master image. An alert condition is determined if change within one or more of the regions of change is sufficient to meet defined criteria. If a minimum field area threshold is met, a modulation coefficient is applied to the defined criteria that determines the alert condition. The coefficient reduces area-based thresholds used in health detection in a manner proportional to the size of the agricultural field of interest.
US11688068B2
Methods and systems for providing various skin-related metrics and tracking the effects of skincare and cosmetic products are described. The system may acquire user images via optical scanning methods and analyze the images before and after application of a product to provide quantitative feedback to the user of beneficial or adverse effects of the product. The system may track response of the skin based on changes in inflammation, dryness, elasticity, pH levels, and/or microbiomes and correlate these changes with user information including ethnicity, location, and lifestyle to generate models that are capable of predicting a user's response to certain ingredients and/or predicting long-tern effects of certain ingredients on the skin.
US11688066B2
An apparatus for recording and displaying a three-dimensional OCT video includes an OCT system and a data processing unit configured to combine OCT volumes recorded sequentially in time to form a combined OCT volume, to generate display data which facilitate the display of the combined OCT volume, to register a current OCT volume of the OCT volumes, to combine the registered current OCT volume with the previous combined OCT volume to generate an updated combined OCT volume, to carry out a check for combining the registered current OCT volume with the previous combined OCT volume and in respect of which volume regions of the current OCT volume have changed in comparison with the corresponding volume regions of the previous combined OCT volume, and only to combine those volume regions of the current OCT volume that have not changed with the corresponding volume regions of the previous combined OCT volume.
US11688062B2
There is provided a device configured to transcribe an appearance of a human being, said device comprising a common housing holding an image capturing sensor, a computing device comprising a data processor, and a computer program product comprising a first machine learning model trained for detecting and labeling human beings, a second machine learning model trained for detecting appearances of human beings and a transcription module to transcribe the detected appearances of human beings to text.
US11688060B2
A device includes software instructions for a circular plot analysis agent and at least one circular plot definition. The circular plot analysis agent obtains a digital image of a circular plot, detects a perimeter of the circular plot within the digital image, detects a plurality of edges within the perimeter, identifies a set of endpoints on the perimeter as a function of the plurality of edges, generates a plot descriptor from the set of endpoints, and initiates a transaction with a second device as a function of the plot descriptor.
US11688052B2
Methods and systems for providing weak pattern (or hotspot) detection and quantification are disclosed. A weak pattern detection and quantification system may include a wafer inspection tool configured to inspect a wafer and detect defects present on the wafer. The system may also include at least one processor in communication with the wafer inspection tool. The at least one processor may be configured to: perform pattern grouping on the detected defects based on design of the wafer; identify regions of interest based on the pattern grouping; identify weak patterns contained in the identified regions of interest, the weak patterns being patterns deviating from the design by an amount greater than a threshold; validate the weak patterns identified; and report the validated weak patterns or facilitate revision of the design of the wafer based on the validated weak patterns.
US11688051B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media that perform the steps of capturing capture one or more images comprising a plurality of visual features of an inspected device, transmitting the one or more images to a server comprising a neural network, wherein the neural network analyzes the plurality of visual features to identify the inspected device and the server identifies the checklist comprising tasks or questions associated with an inspection process of the inspected device, receiving the checklist associated from the server, and displaying the checklist.
US11688039B2
A method for generating a super-resolution image and related device is provided. In one aspect, the method comprises: receiving a first low-resolution image and a second low-resolution image, the first low-resolution image and second low-resolution image have a first spatial resolution and having been captured simultaneously by a pair of pixel arrays of a common image sensor, wherein the pixel arrays of the image sensor are located as to be diagonally shifted from each other by a sub-pixel increment; adaptively enhancing the first low-resolution and the second low-resolution images to generate an enhanced first low-resolution image and an enhanced second low-resolution image, respectively; mapping (e.g., non-uniformly) pixels of each of the enhanced first and second low-resolution images to a super-resolution grid having a spatial resolution greater than the first spatial resolution to generate a first intermediate super-resolution image and a second intermediate super-resolution image, respectively; and combining the first intermediate super-resolution image and second intermediate super-resolution image to generate a composite super-resolution image.
US11688034B2
In a video capture system, a virtual lens is simulated when applying a crop or zoom effect to an input video. An input video frame is received from the input video that has a first field of view and an input lens distortion caused by a lens used to capture the input video frame. A selection of a sub-frame representing a portion of the input video frame is obtained that has a second field of view smaller than the first field of view. The sub-frame is processed to remap the input lens distortion to a desired lens distortion in the sub-frame. The processed sub-frame is the outputted.
US11688032B2
A processor system comprises a memory organizer unit and a matrix computing unit. The memory organizer unit is configured to receive a request for a three-dimensional data of a convolutional neural network layer. The requested three-dimensional data is obtained from a memory. The obtained three-dimensional data is rearranged in an optimized linear order and the rearranged data in the optimized linear order is provided to the matrix computing unit. The matrix computing unit is configured to perform at least a portion of a three-dimensional convolution using at least a portion of the provided rearranged data in the optimized linear order.
US11688028B2
Systems and methods are provided for efficient box packing and visualization. One method comprises receiving, from a remote system, an order comprising at least one item; searching at least one data store to determine dimensions associated with the at least one item; and modifying dimensions of at least one largest item of the order using a factor. The method may further comprise selecting a data structure representing a first package, the data structure comprising a size of the first package; iteratively simulating packing the items into the first package based on the modified dimensions, until all items are packed in the selected package; and generating at least one set of instructions for packing the items into the selected package. The method may further comprise sending the generated instructions to a second system for display, the instructions including at least one item identifier and one package identifier.
US11688023B2
Systems and related methods include an Internet of Things data collection circuit structured to collect information about at least one entity involved in at least one transaction comprising at least one bond, a condition classifying circuit structured to classify a condition of the at least one entity in accordance with a model and based on information from the Internet of Things data collection circuit, wherein the model is trained using a training data set of a plurality outcomes related to the at least one entity, and an event processing circuit structured to undertake an action related to the at least one transaction in response to the classified condition of the at least one entity.
US11688022B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input comprising a natural-language utterance by an assistant xbot from a client system associated with a user, determining a semantic representation of the user input based on a structural ontology defining a labeling syntax for parsing the natural-language utterance to semantic units comprising actions, objects, and attributes, wherein the semantic representation embeds at least one object within at least one action and declares at least one attribute of the embedded object to be acted upon, sending a request based on the semantic representation to an agent for executing a task corresponding to the user input, receiving results of the executed task mapped to a structure determined by the structural ontology from the agent, and sending from the assistant xbot to the client system instructions for presenting a response based on the results of the executed task.
US11688020B1
Home telematics devices are engineered to identify unique device signatures for all appliances, fixtures, and so on that generate voltage noise, pressure waves, and acoustic responses throughout a property. The device signatures comprise the inventory of devices in the insured's home and are used to create an electronic record of the devices that assists him in filing a claim with an insurer that is quick and easy after a theft or total loss. Using the device signatures provided by home telematics devices' sensing an itemization technology, fraud detection is also possible. Additionally, analytics software predicts possible failure by analyzing the device signatures.
US11688010B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system, which may also be referred to as a trading system architecture, having improved performance which further assures transactional determinism under increasing processing transaction loads while providing improved trading opportunities, fault tolerance, low latency processing, high volume capacity, risk mitigation and market protections with minimal impact, as well as improved and equitable access to information and opportunities.
US11688004B1
In an example implementation, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, borrower information, requested financing plan information, and credit bureau information relating to a particular borrower. Likewise, a method includes processing at least one of the received information to identify a subset of lenders as potential candidates to approve a loan for the particular borrower and generate an offer of the loan for the borrower. Further, the method includes performing a portfolio assignment process and generating electronic documents relating to the loan following the borrower's acceptance of the offer. Finally, the method includes sending an offer of the loan to a borrower and, upon receipt of the borrower's acceptance, transmitting the loan documents to the borrower.
US11688003B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for generating new credit accounts for immediate availability for use in current online transaction. One example process includes identifying, at a merchant application, a request to perform a credit application process associated with a particular user via a client application. The credit application process is associated with a financial institution, and the merchant application stores a set of user accounts, each associated with a merchant-specific identifier identifying the particular user profile at the merchant. An interactive application is presented within the merchant application, and information associated with the completed application is transmitted to an API associated with the financial institution with the merchant-specific identifier of the associated user. A payment credential for a newly created credit account is received, and can be associated with the user profile corresponding to the merchant-specific identifier.
US11687998B2
Various embodiments are directed to overlaying relevant product information in augmented reality via the use of near-field communication (NFC) and a product selection system. A user may authenticate into an application or user profile. Information about the user in the user profile may be used to determine which products are relevant to the user. Information related to the relevant products may then be displayed to the user in augmented reality, which improves at least the overall shopping and in-store experience.
US11687997B2
A direct payment token generation method provides executable codes to a client device. The executable codes invokes functionalities in a browser application. The set of executable codes further provides login prompts to the user for logging to a virtual wallet account. The method provides a list of products for purchase from merchants in response to a successful login to the virtual wallet account. A graphical element is provided for purchasing one provided product from one of the merchants. In response to receiving a selection of the provided graphical element confirming the purchase, a payment token is generated for the virtual wallet account. The received selection includes confirming detailed information of the purchase. The payment token is transmitted to the client device and is embedded in a payment payload with the detailed information of the purchase. The payment load is transmitted to the one of the merchants to complete the purchase.
US11687984B2
Methods and systems are described that detail the rapid validation of scientific products and scientist consumer information derived from multiple science/research based sources, such as peer-reviewed scientific publications and online resources, for example, as well as any other available tasked forum or venue. The refined information will facilitate unique product evaluation opportunities via an accessible website/forum, trade shows, etc., and provide previously unknowable sales leads, market intelligence, and targeted advertising opportunities for product manufacturers.
US11687983B2
Review data associated with a guest experience at an event, such as a vacation rental, for example, is transmitted over a communications network to one or more networked computing devices for processing the review data into a review data file for publication. The review data may be generated by an application executing on a processor of a client device such as a smartphone, tablet or pad. The review data may include access credentials and location data that may be processed to validate that the review data is legitimate. The review data may include media content captured in-situ at the event while the guest is experiencing the event. Prior to publishing a review data file, an owner may receive a notice and/or a copy of the pending review data file and the owner may take action to cure a less than stellar review and/or amend the review prior to publication.
US11687975B2
A deal allocation platform is disclosed. The deal allocation platform may be configured to be used in multiple contexts, such as, for example, a batch processing context and a real-time context. Further, the deal allocation platform may be configured to reallocate users assigned to deals based on an approximation of a global optimization problem. In addition, the deal allocation platform may enable configuration of one or multiple experiments.
US11687966B2
A method for online advertising, is provided, including: receiving a request for a web page from a client device; in response to the request, selecting an advertisement for presentation on the web page, and transmitting the web page to the client device; determining a duration of exposure of the advertisement when the web page is presented on the client device; determining a level of performance of a guaranteed presentation amount associated with the advertisement, the level of performance based on the duration of exposure of the advertisement. In another embodiment, a plurality of candidate advertisements are identified for presentation on a requested web page; for each candidate, an expected cost per time unit (eCPTU) of exposure is determined; one candidate advertisement is selected for presentation on the web page based on the eCPTU's; the web page is transmitted to a client device.
US11687964B2
Provided are an information processing device, etc. by which points can be given in various manners without performing complicated operations. The information processing device is provided with: acquisition means for acquiring user's biometric information; authentication means for authenticating a user by using the biometric information acquired by the acquisition means, and referring to storage means for storing user information pertaining to a plurality of users and point information in association with identification information of a single point card, the user information including user identification information and user's biometric information; calculation means for calculating a point value according to a combination of the authenticated users when the authentication is successful; and processing means for adding the point value calculated by the calculation means to the point value stored, in association with the user identification information of the successfully authenticated user, in the storage means.
US11687961B2
Disclosed are embodiments for the aggregation and analysis of vehicle prices via a geo-specific model. Data may be collected at various geo-specific levels such as a ZIP-Code level to provide greater data resolution. Data sets taken into account may include demarcation point data sets and data sets based on vehicle transactions. A demarcation point data set may be based on consumer market factors that influence car-buying behavior. Vehicle transactions may be classified into data sets for other vehicles having similar characteristics to the vehicle. A geo-specific statistical pricing model may then be applied to the data sets based on similar characteristics to a particular vehicle to produce a price estimation for the vehicle.
US11687958B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, first instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the first instructions. The first instructions, when executed, are to: instruct a media provider to include second instructions in an application to create an instrumented application and receive data from a media device based on the media device executing the second instructions. The second instructions, when executed, are to cause the media device to: access configuration information to instruct the instrumented application on the media device to operate in at least one of a first mode or a second mode, the second mode different from the first mode; access a media identifier corresponding to a media presentation event when monitoring functionality is enabled on the instrumented application; determine a second identifier to identify at least one of the media device or a user of the media device when the monitoring functionality is enabled, the second identifier assigned by a first entity when the instrumented application is to operate in the first mode, the second identifier assigned by a second entity when the instrumented application is to operate in the second mode, the first entity separate from the second entity; and send the media identifier in association with the second identifier to the second entity when the monitoring functionality is enabled.
US11687947B2
The present invention is directed toward an automated automotive enrollment system and method for automatically enrolling a vehicle whereafter the vehicle may be registered with one or more subscription-based events based on customer and vehicle data associations. In one more embodiments, a computer implemented method provides for identifying customer and vehicle information in conjunction with registration and subscription event opportunities, and provides for activating an associated subscription set in response to the specific customer and vehicle information so that the vehicle is suitably enrolled.
US11687942B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing an account of a blockchain network. The method includes: obtaining an account transaction request associated with a chain account, wherein, the chain account belongs to the blockchain; obtaining an account smart contract from the account transaction request, and writing the account smart contract into a block, wherein, the account smart contract is configured to perform operation on a chain element in the chain account when executed.
US11687940B2
A computer-implemented system, method and computer program product for preparing alert reports that includes: receiving an override request to override an insight used to prepare the alert reports; determining, determining one or more execution pipelines used to prepare the alert reports that used the insight that is the subject of the override request; determining one or more impacted pipeline runs that were executed to prepare the alert reports that used the insight that is the subject of the override request; updating the one or more execution pipelines used to prepare the alert reports; and generating new alert reports, wherein generating the new alert reports comprises re-running the one or more impacted pipeline runs using the one or more updated execution pipelines wherein the insight that is the subject of the override request is overridden.
US11687936B2
A system and method of managing chargeback risk may include: receiving one or more projected transaction data elements, each comprising information pertaining to projection of future transactions among nodes of a computer network; receiving a plurality of actual transaction data elements, each comprising information pertaining to a respective plurality of actual transactions among nodes of the computer network; receiving one or more merchant profile data elements, each pertaining to a profile of one or more merchants, associated with nodes of the computer network; computing a distribution of chargeback risk for each actual transaction, based on the one or more actual transaction data elements and respective one or more merchant profile data elements; computing a clearance-period (CP) chargeback overage based on distribution of chargeback risk of actual transactions and the projected transaction data elements; and producing a suggestion for managing chargeback risk based on the CP chargeback overage.
US11687935B1
Disclosed are methods and systems for validating instruments. For instance, a request to generate a cashier's check may be received from an application executing on a drawer's computing device. Request information may be stored within a data storage entry for the check, and a code to be printed on the check may be generated to include at least a portion of the request information. Instructions may be provided to a printing system to cause the check to be printed with the code, where the printed check is invalid. Instructions may be provided to the application and/or printing system to cause display of a prompt to facilitate a reading of the code to validate the check. When information within the code is read by and received from the printing system, the check may be validated, which triggers a transfer of funds from the drawer's account. Otherwise, the check may remain invalid.
US11687929B2
A system for customer defined limited use authorization. The system may receive an identification credential from at least one of an issuer native app or an issuer web app and receive a customer data. The system may determine a valid customer identity in response to the receiving the identification credentials and the customer data The system may receive a request to generate a token from at least one of the issuer web app or the issuer native app, wherein the request comprises at least one of the identification credential or a parent transaction account, and wherein the request comprises at least one of a customer defined authorization control or a customer defined generation control.
US11687928B2
Systems (100), methods, and machine-executable data structures for the processing of data for the secure creation, administration, manipulation, processing, and storage of electronic data useful in the processing of electronic payment transactions and other secure data processes. Aspects of such systems (100) include trusted platforms (120) by which networked communication devices (110) and merchant systems (130) may registered as trusted entities 110′, 130. Information associated with particular payment means, such as accounts or payment tokens, can be stored on device(s) secure data sets known as virtual or electronic wallets (112), or in the form of secure payment tokens. Common application programming interfaces executed by devices (110) may facilitate push and pull processes between electronic wallets (112) and other secure data stores (136, 120, 160). Users (190) may thereby initiate and complete electronic transactions directly from within applications on trusted devices (110′).
US11687927B2
Described herein are systems and methods in which more secure methods are provided for a connected device to conduct transactions. In accordance with embodiments of the disclosure, a transaction code is generated and provided to the connected device. The transaction code may be stored in association with the information for the transaction such that when the transaction code is received at a transaction processing server, the transaction processing server is configured to generate an authorization request that includes the transaction information. The authorization request may then be routed to an authorization server associated with an account maintained by the transaction processing server.
US11687921B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for control of blockchain data access based on a smart contract. The method includes obtaining, by a blockchain node, an access operation request of an institution, the access operation request including a transaction identifier of a transaction to be accessed, according to the transaction identifier, determining a blockchain state corresponding to the transaction identifier, the blockchain state including a hash value of the transaction corresponding to a last time change of the blockchain state, according to the hash value of the transaction corresponding to the last time change in the blockchain state and an identifier of the institution, performing data access control on the institution, obtaining control result, and transmitting the control result to the institution.
US11687919B2
A system for implementing and managing network-based, variable authentication protocols receives information relating to a digital monetary transaction. Additionally, the system accesses an initial authentication protocol dataset. The system also generates a variable authentication protocol dataset. The system then communicates the variable authentication protocol dataset to the point-of-sale computer system. The system also receives, from the point-of-sale computer system, authentication tokens. Further, the system validates the authentication tokens in view of the variable authentication protocol dataset. Further still, in response to the validation of the authentication tokens, the system processes the digital monetary transaction.
US11687918B2
Methods and systems for providing browser extension are disclosed. In some embodiments, the browser extension system includes a communication device in communication with a computing device and a networked system. The browser extension system also includes a processor configured to perform operations comprising: maintaining data associated with the computing device; detecting, through a browser extension application running on the computing device, a field in a web page associated with the networked system and provided by a web browser application running on the computing device; and in response to detecting the field: (i) automatically populating the field, through the browser extension application, with a secure token mapped to the data, (ii) detecting, through the browser extension application, a submission script associated with the web page, and (iii) automatically executing the submission script to submit the secure token through the browser extension application to the networked system.
US11687913B2
An ultra-wideband (UWB)-enabled payment acceptance system can include a UWB anchor and a terminal device. The UWB anchor identifies UWB-enabled devices within a vicinity; and in response to receiving an indication of an intent to perform a payment transaction from a particular UWB-enabled device, the UWB anchor establishes a secure communication channel with the particular UWB-enabled device. The terminal device, via the UWB anchor, communicates transaction related information over the secure communication channel to the particular UWB-enabled device and receives a transaction payload from the particular UWB-enabled device over the secure communication channel. A UWB-enabled device includes a processor, storage, a battery, and a UWB chip. Instructions can be stored in the storage of the UWB-enabled device that when executed by the processor direct the UWB-enabled device to perform various processes supporting frictionless transactions, such as with respect to the UWB-enabled payment acceptance system.
US11687904B2
An example operation may include one or more of storing, within a blockchain, a request comprising an identifier of content and a value of a user who created the content, detecting consumption of a reusable instance of the content by a second user, designating fractional values of the content to the first and second users based on the detected consumption of the reusable instance, and storing, within the blockchain, a second request comprising an identifier of the reusable instance of the content, identifiers of the first and second users, and the designated fractional values of the content to the first and second users.
US11687901B2
On receiving simplified settlement data generated form settlement data and ID data for downloading electronic-receipt data from an electronic-receipt server, both from a settlement-processing apparatus, a portable terminal records the simplified settlement data in association with the ID data. The display unit of the portable terminal displays the simplified settlement data thus recorded. The portable terminal downloads electronic-receipt data from the electronic-receipt server by using the ID data recorded in association with the simplified settlement data, when the input unit is operated, thereby commanding that the electronic receipt related to the simplified settlement data displayed by the display unit should be downloaded. The electronic-receipt data is recorded in the electronic-receipt recording unit. The display unit displays the electronic receipt on the basis the electronic-receipt data recorded in the electronic-receipt recording unit.
US11687899B2
Systems and methods for sharing user inventory information to initiate peer-to-peer exchanges of digital assets that are usable within an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a sharing request for information regarding a first user inventory; access a blockchain to obtain asset information; transfer the asset information in response to the sharing request; receive an offer request for the transfer of ownership of a first digital asset from a first user to a second user; if the offer according to the offer request is accepted, receive a transfer request and transfer the ownership of the first digital asset as requested.
US11687894B2
In a method for instantly issuing a personalized financial transaction card to a customer a bank employee receives customer information and card information from the customer at a branch location. The card information may include a card personal identification number (PIN) selected by the customer. The operator inputs the customer information and at least some the card information into a data processing terminal at the branch. The customer information and the card information are communicated from the branch across a network to a card services provider. At the card services provider, the PIN is entered into a PIN database and a reference number associated with the customer and a PIN offset is generated. The reference number and at least some of the customer data and card data may be stored in a card file associated with the customer. The reference number is used to retrieve the PIN from the PIN database. The retrieved PIN is then used to apply calculations to the card file. The card file is securely sent from the card services provider across the network to the branch location. Using information from the card file, the financial transaction card is printed for the customer at the branch location. In a preferred embodiment, the personalized card is instantly issued while the customer is present at the branch location.
US11687893B2
A computer-implemented method for updating stored cardholder account data is provided. The method is implemented using an account updating server in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving, from an issuer computer system, cardholder account update information associated with a plurality of cardholder accounts, identifying a merchant associated with at least one of the plurality of cardholder accounts based, at least in part, on the cardholder account update information, generating a merchant update file for the identified merchant including the cardholder account update information for the at least one of the plurality of cardholder accounts, and transmitting the merchant update file.
US11687885B2
Embodiments relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing transaction signing utilizing asymmetric cryptography and a private ledger. A transaction data is signed by a user device using a private key, and may be utilized in an authorization request message without including a real credential of the user. A transaction verification and accounting module (TVAM) can verify the signed transaction data and can continue processing the transaction.
US11687884B2
The present disclosure includes a device for recycling a payment card, which can include a payment card receiver for receiving a payment card that has a substrate and an information-saving component, an image capture device configured to identify a location of the information-saving component on the substrate, a separating device configured to remove the information-saving component from the substrate, and a storage portion configured receive the substrate and the information-saving component.
US11687876B2
A system and method are including a computer and a processor and memory. The computer receives a product class representing a product in a supply chain network including one or more supply chain entities and generates one or more new products for the product class using one or more automatically generated templates including a graphical representation of an exemplary product using a first smart product attribute value, the first smart product attribute value defined by a quantifiable measurement of a product attribute. The computer further causes items to be transported among the one or more supply chain entities to restock the inventory of the one or more items of the product class according to the current state of items in the supply chain network and the one or more new products.
US11687874B2
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products in a physical retail store through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification probabilities; collectively evaluate the aggregated identification probabilities and identify when a predefined relationship with a collective threshold probability exists; and cause an image of the first product to be displayed in response to identifying that one or more of the aggregated identification probabilities having the predefined relationship with the collective threshold probability.
US11687869B2
A system and method for securing delivery of an autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining visual features of a captured image of a current location of the autonomous vehicle, the captured image generated by an image sensor communicatively coupled with the autonomous vehicle; retrieving location coordinates of the current location of the autonomous vehicle from a positioning sensor communicatively coupled with the autonomous vehicle; matching the visual features of the captured image to reference data associated with the location coordinates; and determining if the current location is the final destination. In some embodiments, the method further includes matching a verification code present within the captured image to a reference verification code, where the verification code is a two-dimensional visual code previously associated with the final destination.
US11687866B2
Systems and methods of automated personalized guidance include the evaluation of interaction content data. At least one automated guidance is assigned to an agent based upon the evaluation. The automated guidance is defined by at least one interaction type and at least one guidance trigger. Interaction content data is monitored to identify instances of the interaction type and the guidance trigger. Upon identification of the interaction type and the guidance trigger, the automated guidance is automatically provided. The automated guidance is then evaluated based upon the interaction content data.
US11687865B2
A method for reacting to changes of items hanging on peg-hooks connected to pegboards may include: determining a location of a store shelf within a retail store; obtaining a first coverage parameter corresponding to a first product type and a second coverage parameter corresponding to a second product type; accessing a database to determine a first height of products of the first product type and a second height of products of the second product type; determining a position for placing a camera configured to capture images of at least a portion of the store shelf by analyzing the location of the store shelf, the first coverage parameter, the second coverage parameter, the first height, and the second height; and providing, to a user interface of a user device, information relating to the determined position of the camera.
US11687859B2
The proper visualization of a business process plays a key role in analyzing, changing, simulating and monitoring the business process. Most BPMS systems today, provide a modeling environment where the business user can define and visualize business processes as BPMN diagrams. Some more advanced systems (such as Savvion Business Manager) enable monitoring of the business process at run-time via a color-coded view of the process diagram. While process diagram is an important view of the process, it lacks the level of abstraction needed to provide information in an optimal way to the business users. The proposed visualization, called the 360 degree view provides an optimal view of a business process without losing important details about the process.
US11687855B2
Producing media content such as films, television shows, commercials, and other formats requires aggregating a large number of resources before, during, and after filming. A method of production scheduling that directly connects to real-time accessible marketplace resources (labor, equipment, services) to help producers find and hire the equipment, creative services, and human capital needed to produce a film or other audiovisual media is disclosed. This method helps producers schedule and book the resources they need to produce content. The resources are tied to a smart timeline that synchronizes production schedule changes against available resources. The method also alerts suppliers and producers of any changes to the production timeline.
US11687851B2
A computing system establishes a geofence associated with a particular service area, where the geofence corresponds to a set of rules for matching drivers with requesting users of the transport service. The system monitors a location of a computing device of a driver and detects when the driver enters the geofence. In response to the driver entering the geofence, the system places the driver into a queue for the particular service area. The system receives a transport request from a computing device of a requesting user, where the transport request is associated with the particular service area. The system arranges the transport service for the requesting user in accordance with the set of rules by (i) selecting a driver from the queue to service the transport request for the requesting user, and (ii) communicating a pickup location for the transport request to a computing device of the selected driver.
US11687844B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire reservation information on a rental space and perform, using the reservation information, processing of prompting a user to perform a predetermined task that is to be performed before or after using the rental space.
US11687842B2
The field of the invention relates to methods, servers and computer program products for inferring which fare classes are available. There is provided a method of inferring fare class availability for a specific flight or flights by: (a) receiving observable, live bookable prices for that flight(s), in which that price information is not accompanied by complete fare class information for those flight(s); (b) comparing the observable, live bookable prices with a set of prices calculated from stored data, such as valid itinerary data, fare data such as FROP data, and tax/surcharge data; and (c) determining which fare class was used in the observable live bookable price by determining which fare class was used in the calculated price that matches most closely to the observable live bookable price.
US11687839B2
A computer implemented method for generating and optimizing an artificial intelligence model, the method comprising receiving input data and labels, and performing data validation to generate a configuration file, and splitting the data to generate split data for training and evaluation; performing training and evaluation of the split data to determine an error level, and based on the error level, performing an action, wherein the action comprises at least one of modifying the configuration file and tuning the artificial intelligence model automatically; generating the artificial intelligence model based on the training, the evaluation and the tuning; and serving the model for production.
US11687821B2
A method, product and apparatus for efficient execution of a quantum program. The method comprises: determining a target qubit of a quantum program and a target cycle, wherein the quantum program is configured to manipulate a set of qubits, including the target qubit, using a set of quantum gates, wherein the quantum program is defined to use a predetermined number of gates; performing an impact analysis of the quantum program with respect to a value of the target qubit at the target cycle to identify a gate that does not impact the value of the target qubit at the target cycle; modifying the quantum program based on the impact analysis by removing the gate, whereby determining a modified quantum program, wherein the modified quantum program is defined to use a number of gates that is smaller than the predetermined number of gates; and executing the modified quantum program.
US11687819B2
The present disclosure discloses a high-fidelity superconducting circuit structure, a superconducting quantum chip, and a superconducting quantum computer, which relate to the field of quantum computation. The specific implementation is as follows: computation qubits; a coupling device configured to be coupled with two computation qubits, respectively; a connecting component disposed between a computation qubit and the coupling device to couple the computation qubit with the coupling device, so as to implement a target quantum gate based on the coupling device and the computation qubit.
US11687817B2
A system and a method for providing data computation using quantum computing is disclosed. In particular, the present invention enables client computing devices to readily access quantum computers and perform complex computational tasks using quantum computing. In operation, a computational problem is defined based on one or more inputs received from the client device. The one or more inputs include an objective, and one or more parameters associated with the objective. Further, a category associated with the computational problem is identified. Furthermore, one or more predefined machine learning codes are determined based on the identified category of the computational problem. Finally, the computational problem is encoded into a format interpretable by the quantum computers, and processed by the quantum computers based on the selected one or more machine learning codes to obtain an optimal solution to the computational problem.
US11687816B2
This disclosure relates generally to the field of quantum algorithms and quantum data loading, and more particularly to constructing quantum circuits for loading classical data into quantum states which reduces the computational resources of the circuit, e.g., number of qubits, depth of quantum circuit, and type of gates in the circuit.
US11687814B2
Techniques regarding a threshold scheme for quantum recommendation algorithms are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a quantum recommendation component that can project a preference vector onto a portion of a Hilbert space based on a value of a qubit phase register. The portion of the Hilbert space can encode singular values of a preference matrix that are greater than or equal to a defined threshold.
US11687811B2
A question database storing questions and a conditional probability of one question to be asked given that a previous question was asked is searched to predict a future question based on the conditional probability stored in the question database given an input question as the previous question. The future question is suggested to a user. Responsive to receiving an acceptance of the future question, the question database is updated to strengthen the conditional probability associated with the future question occurring given the input question. An answer to the future question can be provided and searching, predicting, suggesting and updating may be repeated, with the future question as the input question, until the future question is declined.
US11687802B2
This application relates to systems and methods for proactively predicting user intents on personal agents. In some examples, a user intent prediction system can include a computing device configured to obtain user intent data identifying a desired action by a user on a network-enabled tool. The computing device is further configured to obtain contextual data characterizing a user's interaction with the network-enabled tool. The computing device can then determine at least one predicted future intent of the user on the network-enabled tool based on the user intent data and the contextual data and present the at least one predicted future intent to the user.
US11687801B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for generating and using a knowledge graph. In an aspect, the knowledge graph may be generated based on data fields for one or more datasets associated with one or more parameters extracted from a group of chart data structures. In another aspect, a query dataset may be analyzed, and one or more query data fields may be extracted from the query dataset. The one or more query data fields may be compared to a knowledge graph stored in a graph database to determine one or more result data fields. A context may be determined for each of the one or more result data fields, and an associated data set may be determined. Based on the context, each of the associated data sets may be scored, and a recommended analysis may be presented to a user.
US11687800B2
Optimizing and/or personalizing activities to a user through artificial intelligence and/or virtual reality.
US11687798B2
In one embodiment, a deep fusion reasoning engine receives network telemetry data collected from a network. The deep fusion reasoning engine learns resource utilizations for different heuristic packages that can be used in the network to evaluate operation of the network. The deep fusion reasoning engine selects one of the heuristic packages based on the resource utilizations learned for the different heuristic packages. The selected heuristic package comprises a subservice and a set of rules to be evaluated. The deep fusion reasoning engine deploys the selected heuristic package for execution by a device in the network to evaluate operation of the network using the set of rules.
US11687796B2
An approach is provided that receives a document and a document type of the document. The document type identifies a document category to which the received document belongs. A set of linguistic metrics are retrieved that correspond to the document type. A quality of the received document is automatically determined based on a set of linguistic features found in the document as compared to the retrieved set of linguistic metrics. The document is then ingested into a corpus that is utilized by a question-answering (QA) system. The ingestion of the document is based on the determined quality.
US11687793B2
A method includes receiving data collected from a plurality of managed devices in a plurality of data collections. The data collections are performed using a plurality of collection protocols. A trigger that generated each of given ones of the data collections is determined. The method further includes identifying a collection protocol of the plurality of collection protocols used for each of the given ones of the data collections, and determining one or more attributes of a plurality of attributes of the plurality of managed devices that have been collected using given ones of the collection protocols. A mapping is generated between the triggers, the collection protocols and the attributes using one or more machine learning algorithms. The generated mapping is used to predict one or more collection protocols of the plurality of collection protocols to use to collect data from one or more of the managed devices.
US11687788B2
Computer systems and methods generate data examples by training, through machine learning, a data generator with a training objective to produce a data example for a specific value of R, where R is value related to S1(x) and S2(x), where, for a data example, x, generated by the data generator, S1(x) is a likelihood that the data example x is in a first class of a first selected data example and S2(x) is a likelihood that the data example x is in a second class of a second selected data example. S1(x) and S2(x) are determined by a discriminator that is trained through machine learning to discriminate between the first and second classes. After training the data generator, the data generator generates a synthetic data example for each of multiple specific values of R.
US11687786B2
A method includes receiving input that identifies one or more data sources and determining, based on the input, a machine learning problem type of a plurality of machine learning problem types supported by an automated model building (AMB) engine. The method also includes generating an input data set of the AMB engine based on application of one or more rules to the one or more data sources. The method further includes, based on the input data set and the machine learning problem type, initiating execution of the AMB engine to generate a neural network configured to model at least a portion of the input data set.
US11687775B2
Embodiments of the invention relates to a data processing apparatus comprising a processor configured to provide a neural network, wherein the neural network comprises a neural network layer being configured to generate from an array of input data values an array of output data values based on a plurality of position dependent kernels and a plurality of input data values of the array of input data values. Moreover, embodiments of the invention relates to a corresponding data processing method.
US11687773B2
A learning method includes an input process to input, to a neural network, a first image and a second image that constitute a moving image and that are temporally adjacent to each other, where the second image is an image subsequent to the first image with a predetermined time interval therebetween, a learning process to cause the neural network to use the first image and the second image and learn to output a transformation matrix applied to all pixels of the first image and used to convert the first image into the second image, and an output process to output, as a result of estimation of motion between the first image and the second image, a motion amount image generated from the transformation matrix and representing an amount of motion of each of the pixels of the first image that continues until the predetermined time interval elapses.
US11687771B2
Computing resources are optimally allocated for a multipath neural network using a multipath neural network analyzer that includes an interface and a processing device. The interface receives a multipath neural network that includes two or more paths. A first path includes one or more layers. A first layer of the first path corresponds to a first kernel that runs on a compute unit that includes two or more cores. The processing device allocates to the first kernel a minimum number of cores of the compute unit and a maximum number of cores of the compute unit. The minimum number of cores of the compute unit is allocated based on the first kernel being run concurrently with at least one other kernel on the compute unit and the maximum number of cores of the compute unit is allocated based on the first kernel being run alone on the compute unit.
US11687770B2
Systems and methods for multimodal classification include a plurality of expert modules, each expert module configured to receive data corresponding to one of a plurality of input modalities and extract associated features, a plurality of class prediction modules, each class prediction module configured to receive extracted features from a corresponding one of the expert modules and predict an associated class, a gate expert configured to receive the extracted features from the plurality of expert modules and output a set of weights for the input modalities, and a fusion module configured to generate a weighted prediction based on the class predictions and the set of weights. Various embodiments include one or more of an image expert, a video expert, an audio expert, class prediction modules, a gate expert, and a co-learning framework.
US11687768B2
In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems for automatically assessing damage vulnerability of a property include accessing digital images of a property parcel having a first structure thereon, classifying features visible in the images, including at least one feature of the first structure and at least one feature present in a neighborhood of the property parcel, to determine at least one of characteristic of each feature, determining a spatial relationship between a first structure and each manmade and/or natural feature represented by the classified features, and applying a property loss risk profile, based at least in part on the determined characteristics and the determined spatial relationships, to calculate a risk estimate for the first structure under at least one risk scenario.
US11687758B2
The disclosed embodiments generally relate to transaction card constructions, and particularly, to a two-piece transaction card construction. Disclosed embodiments include a generally planar first card component including a first surface and a generally planar second card component including a second surface wherein the first card component is separate from the second card component. In disclosed embodiments, for example, the generally planar first card component and the generally planar second card component may be configured such that one forms a cavity and the other forms an inlay component configured to be seated within the cavity. In other embodiments the generally planar first card component and the generally planar second card component may be configured such that one forms a container and the other forms a lid configured to close the container.
US11687752B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing information describing a fault code for an object. A display device having an electronic display detects a fault occurrence event in the object. The display device determines a fault code indicative of the fault occurrence event and one or more parameters associated with the fault code. The display device generates a machine-readable code representing the fault code and the one or more parameters.
US11687744B2
This disclosure relates to systems with multiple NFC front ends and at least one shared controller. One disclosed system includes a first discrete device having a first near field communication (NFC) controller, a second discrete device having a second NFC controller, a communicative connection between the first discrete device and the second discrete device, and a system controller located on the first discrete device. The system controller is communicatively connected to the first NFC controller. The system controller is connected to the second NFC controller via the communicative connection. In specific approaches, the second discrete device can include a display which is also controlled by the system controller, and the system controller is NCI compliant and application aware. In specific approaches, the system controller can control the second NFC controller based on the content concurrently being provided to the display.
US11687739B2
A method to encode and decode a digital fingerprint code by an identification encoder and an identification decoder wherein the digital fingerprint code includes a plurality of N-bit data embedded on a set of curves by changed thicknesses in the curves.
US11687734B2
A method for performing a search for a result set of documents comprises receiving, at a computing device, an electronic document, identifying a numerical value in the document, extracting the numerical value and a portion of text surrounding the numerical value from the document to obtain extracted text, creating a vector representation of the extracted text, generating a series of questions associated with the extracted text, generating answers to the series of questions based on the vector representation of the extracted text, determining a context associated with the numerical value based on the answers to the plurality of questions, and storing the numerical value and the context associated with the numerical value in a database.
US11687733B2
In an example embodiment, a self-supervised learning task is used for training commonsense-aware representations in a minimally supervised fashion and a pair level mutual-exclusive loss is used to enforce commonsense knowledge during representation learning. This helps to exploit the mutual-exclusive nature of the training samples of commonsense reasoning corpora. Given two pieces of input where the only difference between them are trigger pieces of data, it may be postulated that the pairwise pronoun disambiguation is mutually exclusive. This idea is formulated using a contrastive loss and then this is used to update the language model.
US11687732B2
Systems, methods and products for automatic translation of content items, where in one embodiment a system includes one or more processors configured to identify components of a content item to be translated (translation items) and components not to be translated (non-translation items). The system generates a key-value pair corresponding to each translation item, where the key-value pair includes a key which comprises a unique identifier and a value which comprises a text string of the translation item. The system also generates a translation template that corresponds to the content item, wherein the translation template matches the content item except that the text string of each translation item is replaced by the key of the corresponding key-value pair. The system then provides a translation of each of the key-value pairs. The system generates a translated content item. By replacing each key in the translation template with the corresponding generated translation.
US11687728B2
A text sentiment analysis method based on multi-level graph pooling includes steps of: preprocessing a target text; taking collocate point mutual information between word nodes as an edge weight between the word nodes, and building a graph for each text independently; constructing a multi-level graph pooling model, of which a gated graph neural network layer transfers low-level information, a first graph self-attention pooling layer performs an initial graph pooling operation and uses a Readout function to extract low-level features, a second graph self-attention pooling layer performs a graph pooling operation again, performs a pruning update on the graph structure by calculating attention scores of nodes in the graph and uses a Readout function to extract high-level features; obtaining a multi-level final vector representation through a feature fusion function; and selecting a sentiment category corresponding to a maximum probability value as a final sentiment category output of the text.
US11687727B2
A method for processing a natural language communication includes a processor receiving a natural language communication and identifying, in the natural language communication, an ordered sequence of a plurality of word spellings of a natural human language. The processor performs constraint-based parsing of the natural language communication by reference to a consistent meaning framework (CMF) graph including a plurality of nodes each corresponding to a respective word meaning. The parsing includes scanning the phrase in multiple different parse scan directions and determining a respective meaning associated with each of multiple word spellings in a phrase of the natural language communication by reference to multiple constraints provided by multiple nodes in the CMF graph respectively corresponding to the word meanings.
US11687724B2
Word sense disambiguation using a glossary layer embedded in a deep neural network includes receiving, by one or more processors, input sentences including a plurality of words. At least two words in the plurality of words are homonyms. The one or more processors convert the plurality of words associated with each input sentence into a first vector including possible senses for the at least two words. The first vector is then combined with a second vector including a domain-specific contextual vector associated with the at least two words. The combination of the first vector with the second vector is fed into a recurrent deep logico-neural network model to generate a third vector that includes word senses for the at least two words. A threshold is set for the third vector to generate a fourth vector including a final word sense vector for the at least two words.
US11687723B2
Text blocks are semantically compared, and a semantic score is provided to a user. The semantic score is based on application of a machine learning model trained on a text corpus. One or both of the two text blocks may have one or more words that do not appear in the training text corpus (skip-words). Skip-words are used, rather than discarded, to adjust the semantic score via, for example, a penalization function. The user provides feedback about the accuracy of the adjusted semantic score, and the feedback is used to perform supervised learning model.
US11687716B2
This disclosure involves executing machine-learning techniques for transforming or otherwise processing electronic data. This disclosure, for example, relates to executing machine-learning techniques to generate data-verification indicators that augment electronic documents to represent the veracity of text. The machine-learning techniques include neural networks trained to retrieve and analyze evidence regarding content of electronic documents and to generate indicators of veracity to be displayed with that content via electronic reading software.
US11687704B2
Disclosed are a method, apparatus and electronic device for annotating information of a structured document. A specific implementation is: obtaining a template image of a structured document and at least one piece of annotation information of a field to be filled in the template image, where the annotation information includes attribute value and historical content of the field to be filled, and historical position of the field to be filled in the template image; generating, according to the attribute value of the field to be filled, the historical content of the field to be filled and the historical position of the field to be filled in the template image, target filling information of the field to be filled; obtaining, according to the target filling information of the field to be filled, an image of an annotated structured document.
US11687703B2
A computer implemented method that renders a document and receives a selection of a portion of the rendered document along with a linked document command from a user. The method prompts the user for a title for a new document for the selected portion. Creating a new document in response to receiving a title with the selected portion inserted into the new document. The method further includes replacing the selected portion with the title in the rendered document, with the title being a link to the new document.
US11687701B1
The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for enabling text editing across multiple content blocks in a system. The system renders a workspace page including a plurality of content blocks in a user interface of a client application. The workspace page is rendered according to a hierarchical tree derived from the parent and child attributes of the content blocks on the workspace page. The system maintains an in-memory selection state for text selection in the client application. The system receives a user selection of text on the workspace page across a plurality of content blocks. The system updates the in-memory selection state to include a text selection range. The system receives a user edit to the selected text. The system identifies the plurality of content blocks within the text selection range. The system applies the user edit to the content blocks within the text selection range.
US11687696B2
A semiconductor design automation system comprises a simulator configured to generate simulation data, a recovery module configured to correct a sampling error of the simulation data to generate recovery simulation data, a hardware data module configured to generate real data, a preprocessing module configured to preprocess the real data to generate preprocessed real data, a database configured to store the recovery simulation data and the preprocessed real data, a first graphic user interface including an automatic simulation generator configured to generate a machine learning model of the recovery simulation data and the preprocessed real data and generate predicted real data therefrom, and a second graphic user interface including a visualization unit configured to generate a visualized virtualization process result from the machine learning model.
US11687694B1
An approach is disclosed herein for balancing layer densities in using an automated process. The approach disclosed herein operates on a region-by-region and layer-by-layer basis to perform parameterized layer balancing. In some embodiments, the process comprises determining densities of respective layers in respective regions, evaluating each layer and region to determine whether operations need to be taken to balance those layers in the corresponding regions, determining what those actions should be, and then implementing those actions. Additionally, in some embodiments, the process may operate in different orders and may be associated with a looping flow until a layout being processed has been balanced.
US11687692B2
A method, apparatus, and system provide the ability to simulate dynamic motion for a computerized model (of finite mesh elements). An element diagonal lumped mass matrix of the mesh, an estimate of a highest element eigenvector and eigenvalue of the mesh, and a kinematic state of the model are computed. Processing iterates until exceeding a time duration. Incremental strain and stress tensors, and hypo-elastic material constants are computed. Within the time duration iteration, eigenvalues are converged, a power-sweep stress field is computed from the strain field using the material constants; divergence of the power-sweep stress field is computed using the current gradient operator; and a power-sweep estimate is computed. Upon convergence, the stability limit is determined and utilized as a time interval for simulating the dynamic motion.
US11687687B1
An apparatus for superimposing two-dimensional drawings of a part for manufacture onto three-dimensional computer models of the part for manufacture is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive a two-dimensional drawing of a part for manufacture and a three-dimensional model of the part for manufacture. The apparatus defines an area of the two-dimensional drawing using a bounding box and extracts a section view from the area of the two-dimensional drawing. The apparatus positions the section view of the two-dimensional drawing at least partially over the three-dimensional model of the part for manufacture and aligns a component of the section view with a corresponding component of the three-dimensional model.
US11687685B2
A CAD plotting method of equally dividing an optional angle which is capable of reducing a plotting error so as to be fitted for a practical use with a simple plotting procedure, as compared to a conventional plotting method.
US11687683B2
A method and system of selecting a surface finish for a computer designed component associated with an anatomical area of a specific patient. A computer designed component is created. The component includes at least one surface. An interface of finishing software displays an image of the component and the at least one surface. A plurality of finishes available for the at least one surface is displayed. A selection of one of the plurality of finishes for the at least one surface is input by a user. The component data and finishing data may then be sent to a computer aided manufacturing system to manufacture the computer designed component.
US11687680B2
A technique includes providing a security monitor to at least detect a penetration attack on a circuit assembly that contains the security monitor. The technique includes inhibiting success of the penetration attack, including flexibly mounting the security monitor to the circuit assembly to allow the security monitor to move in response to the security monitor being contacted during the penetration attack.
US11687679B2
Various implementations of a current flattening circuit are disclosed, including those utilizing a feedback current regulator, a feedforward current regulator, and a constant current source.
US11687676B2
A platform implements a remote online notarization service. The remote online notarization (RON) service allows notarization of digital documents which have been electronically signed. The RON process can be initiated by a facilitator and involves participants including one or more signers and a notary. The RON service provided by the present system confirms technical features of each participants device used to participate in the RON process. Once a participant's device is verified and the participant is verified, the participant is provided with access to a notarization session in which the notarization takes place. The service provides a manageable, reliable platform for implementing a RON process based on features including digitally witnessing of document e-signing, use of custom notary stamps, and creation of unique notary journal entries.
US11687673B2
A method and a corresponding runtime environment for migrating an instance of an actor of an application are provided. An initiating runtime environment performs a method comprising selecting, based on obtained security attributes for a set of target runtime environments, a target runtime environment from the set of target runtime environments for migration of the instance of the actor. The method comprises migrating the instance of the actor to the selected target runtime environment once the target runtime environment has been selected.
US11687667B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for secure multiparty computation (MPC) protocols. A first computing entity may send a first cryptographically protected data set to a server and a second computing entity may send a second cryptographically protected data set to the server. The server may lack access to plaintext versions of the data sets. The server may compare cryptographically protected data elements from the first and second data sets as part of a secure MPC protocol to determine certain information regarding the data sets, such as determining which data elements are included in both sets, and perform homomorphic computations according to a homomorphic encryption scheme. The server is accordingly able to determine an encrypted result.
US11687664B2
This invention relates generally to blockchain application implementations. It can be used for allowing regular users to obtain formal authorization for accessing files from blockchain powered file storage devices. Before a user accesses a file, a smart contract should be invoked and check if the user device possesses an authorized file access token which is non-fungible token and recorded in the blockchain network. Accordingly, this invention can turn a file abstractly into a token that can be traded or distributed on the internet. Furthermore, these files are encrypted by the access token and binding with it, unauthorized access or illegal copy is not possible. Eventually, Digital File becomes tradable and unique Digital Asset, which will result in a new era of e-commerce transactions. Virtual things Real.
US11687662B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for intelligent identification of content data in files are disclosed. A receiver receives a request from a user to send an electronic mail (email) for external communication outside of an organization's internal network. A processor detects whether the email includes a file as an attachment to the email; scans the file for content data; tags and highlights the content data for preview check and for receiving user's input of confirmation data when it is determined that the email includes an external recipient. The receiver receives the user's input of confirmation data whether the external recipient is a recipient who is authorized to obtain the file including the content data. The processor transmits the email to the external recipient in response to receiving a positive user's input of confirmation data.
US11687660B2
An ephemeral peripheral system includes an ephemeral memory system and controller circuit for securing user data for a smartphone application. Different secure operating modes are provided for customizing user security requirements across end-to-end communications links, including in exchanges of electronic data between smartphone devices.
US11687659B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: obtaining hardware performance information concerning hardware deployed within a computing platform; obtaining platform performance information concerning the operation of the computing platform; obtaining application performance information concerning one or more applications deployed within the computing platform; and generating a holistic platform report concerning the computing platform based, at least in part, upon the hardware performance information, the platform performance information and the application performance information.
US11687648B2
Deriving and surfacing insights regarding security threats is disclosed. A plurality of features associated with a message is determined. A plurality of facet models is used to analyze the determined features. Based at least in part on the analysis, it is determined that the message poses a security threat. A prioritized set of information is determined to be provided as output that is representative of why the message was determined to pose a security threat. At least a portion of the prioritized set of information is provided as output.
US11687647B2
A method and an electronic device (100) are disclosed for generating semantic representation of a document to determine data security risk associated with the document. The method includes receiving, by a document semantics controller (160) of the electronic device (100), a document in an electronic form and determining, by the document semantics controller (160), raw text. Further, the method includes generating, by the document semantics controller (160), a plurality of sentence blocks using the raw text and determining, by the document semantics controller (160), embeddings for the plurality of sentence blocks. Further, the method includes determining, by the document semantics controller (160), the semantic representation of the document based on the embeddings for each of the sentence blocks; and generating, by the document semantics controller (160), the semantic representation of the document to determine the data security risk associated with the document.
US11687644B2
A computer stores, within a single user account, multiple supervised computing resources and multiple additional computing resources. The multiple supervised computing resources are associated with a security policy. The computer executes a first instance of a specified application that lacks read access and lacks write access to any and all of the multiple supervised computing resources. The computer executes, simultaneously with the first instance, a second instance of the specified application that accesses at least a portion of the multiple supervised computing resources. The computer applies rules from the security policy to the second instance of the specified application while foregoing applying the rules from the security policy to the first instance of the specified application.
US11687635B2
This document describes techniques and systems that enable automatic exposure and gain control for face authentication. The techniques and systems include a user device initializing a gain for a near-infrared camera system using a default gain. The user device ascertains patch-mean statistics of one or more regions-of-interest of a most-recently captured image that was captured by the near-infrared camera system. The user device computes an update in the initialized gain to provide an updated gain that is usable to scale the one or more regions-of-interest toward a target mean-luminance value. The user device dampens the updated gain by using hysteresis. Then, the user device sets the initialized gain for the near-infrared camera system to the dampened updated gain.
US11687630B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for dynamic password inducing techniques for security configuration and validation of a user. The method includes one or more processors identifying textual data of a user. The method further includes generating a set of password parameters for a password. The method further includes identifying one or more password dynamisms of the user from one or more sources, where the one or more password dynamisms are dynamic inputs, from the user, to an authentication device. The method further includes modifying the textual data to include a text placeholder, wherein the text placeholder includes a replacement parameter that induces the user to provide a password dynamism. The method further includes configuring the set of password parameters for the password of the user based at least in part on the one or more password dynamisms of the user from the one or more sources.
US11687618B2
The invention concerns a method comprising: detecting strokes of digital ink input on a computing device in a free handwriting format; detecting a text block from said strokes; performing text recognition on each text line of said text block, including extracting text lines from the text block and generating model data that associate each stroke of the text block with a character, a word and a text line of the text block; normalizing each text line from the free handwriting format into a structured format to comply with a document pattern. The normalization may comprise for each text line: computing a transform function to transform said text line into the structured format; applying the transform function to the text line; and updating the model data of said text line based on the transform function.
US11687617B2
The present invention provides self-driven AI based system and method for operating one or more applications including enterprise application and supply chain management applications. The system includes centralized data lake for storing data received from plurality of distinct sources, a control tower configured for sensing change in attribute of the received data and determining impact of the change on plurality of functions of EA and SCM applications.
US11687612B2
A method for mitigating cold starts in recommendations includes receiving a request that identifies a requested page and identifying a content vector of the requested page. The content vector is generated based on providing text of the requested page to a neural network text encoder. The method further includes selecting, based on the content vector, a link to a cold start page that does not satisfy a threshold level of interaction data. The selected link is ranked above a second link to a warm page that does satisfy the threshold level of the interaction data. The method further includes presenting the requested page with the selected link.
US11687609B2
The disclosed embodiments generally relate to techniques for tailoring messages for network communication. More specifically, the disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods to provide customized information updates based on recipient preferences. For example, a recipient may prefer receiving updates less frequently than the system creates updates and/or may prefer to receive different levels of data in the updates. In some embodiments, a deltasnap technique is provided which allows for more efficient tailoring of the rate that update messages are provided. In some embodiments, a partitioning technique is provided which allows for more efficient tailoring of the content of update messages. In some embodiments, the deltasnap technique is provided in combination with the partitioning technique which allows for more efficient tailoring of the rate and content of the update messages.
US11687607B2
In certain embodiments, a presentation of a user interface may be dynamically modified for a user based on data related to the user's email address or other user identifier. As an example, the user interface may be caused to reflect the look and feel of an interface of an entity trusted by the user, incorporate data items related to the user's identifier, or effectuate other modifications. In some embodiments, a user identifier of a user may be received via a user interface associated with the third party, and a query for data related to one or more user accounts associated with the user identifier may be generated. Based on the query, multiple datasets associated with different user accounts may be received, and a first dataset associated with a first account of the user may be selected over other datasets associated with the user's other accounts effectuate the presentation modification.
US11687603B2
Techniques for configuring and training an ensemble predictor for click probability of content on search engine results pages. In an aspect, a first stage machine learning algorithm, such as a neural network, is trained using a first training data set. The output of the trained first stage algorithm may be coupled to a second stage machine learning algorithm to form an ensemble predictor. In another aspect, the ensemble predictor is trained using a second training data set, using the output of the first stage algorithm to initialize a priori settings of the second stage algorithm.
US11687600B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for ranking search results based upon content creation trends. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for ranking search results based upon content creation trends includes first receiving a set of results from a search engine produced in response to a search engine query of one or more search terms. The method additionally includes ranking the results of the result set according to at least one ranking factor. The method yet further includes retrieving trend data for terms associated with either or both of the results and/or the search terms. Finally, the method includes weighting the ranked results in the result set according to the retrieved trend data.
US11687599B2
A data search apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an input unit; and a storage apparatus configured to store master data names managed with master data. The data search apparatus calculates edit distances between master data names stored in the storage apparatus and input data names input in the input unit, calculates degrees of similarity between the master data names and the input data names based on term frequency and inverse document frequency of the master data names and the input data names, performs processing for narrowing down candidates for the data name being searched for in the master data names based on the calculation results and adjacency information indicating adjacency relationships between the master data names and the input data names, and outputs information indicating correspondence between the master data names and the input data names based on the candidate for the data name being searched for, the candidate for the data name being obtained through the narrowing-down processing.
US11687596B2
A computer-implemented method for automatic generation of data visualizations may include: receiving, from a user, a request to open a document, receiving, from the user, a selection of data for visualization in the new document, determining whether the user has a trained visualization model, upon determining that the user has a trained visualization model, loading the user's trained visualization model, upon determining that the user does not have a trained visualization model, loading a default trained visualization model as the user's trained visualization model, using the user's trained visualization to generate one or more suggested visualizations of the selected data, and displaying the one or more suggested visualizations to the user.
US11687590B2
User permissions for a search on content managed by a content management system (CMS) can be evaluated in a search engine based on a user identity of a user providing a query input for the query rather than after return of an initial results set to the CMS or some other front-end application. The search engine can constrain possible results returned from a search for the query input using a content index of a plurality of content items maintained in a repository of the content management system. The constraining can include limiting the search engine from adding a content item of the plurality of content items to a permissions-filtered results set unless the evaluating of the user permissions and the search for the query input against the content index do not exclude the content item. Other aspects can support index updating by selective use of a metadata index.
US11687588B2
Systems and methods are provided for weakly supervised natural language localization (WSNLL), for example, as implemented in a neural network or model. The WSNLL network is trained with long, untrimmed videos, i.e., videos that have not been temporally segmented or annotated. The WSNLL network or model defines or generates a video-sentence pair, which corresponds to a pairing of an untrimmed video with an input text sentence. According to some embodiments, the WSNLL network or model is implemented with a two-branch architecture, where one branch performs segment sentence alignment and the other one conducts segment selection. These methods and systems are specifically used to predict how a video proposal matches a text query using respective visual and text features.
US11687586B2
A network device is configured to (i) play back a media item indicated by a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system, (ii) receive an indication that a playback device is available for playback, (iii) display a now playing screen including (a) information identifying the media item, and (b) an icon that indicates that the network device is not in a connected state with any other network device, (iv) receive a first input selecting the icon, (v) in response to the first input, display a list of one or more available network devices including the playback device, (vi) receive a second input selecting the playback device from the list (vii) after receiving the second input, update the list to indicate that the playback device is selected for playback of the remote playback queue, and (viii) transfer playback of the remote playback queue from the network device to the playback device.
US11687582B2
Methods and systems for automatically creating item records for physical items. The method may include receiving an image obtained using an image sensor; detecting a physical item in the image; extracting item data regarding the physical item by applying image analysis to the image; determining, using the extracted item data, whether a memory contains an item record for the physical item; and, when no item record for the physical item exists in the memory, generating and storing in the memory a new item record for the physical item in association with the extracted item data.
US11687579B2
Embodiments are directed to a system, computer program product, and method for text mining, and dynamic facet and facet value management and application to a document collection. Two or more words from a first document collection are extracted, with the extracted words being associated with an applied annotation. At least one word is selected from the extracted words, designated as a facet, and a value is selectively added to the facet. An analysis of the added value is dynamically performed, and a dictionary with the annotation, facet, and values is constructed and the dictionary is applied to the document collection. A targeted list of documents is returned from the dictionary application to the document collection.
US11687552B2
System and methods are provided for displaying dynamic content on a graphical user interface. A first data illustration of a first facet of data is displayed in a first two-dimensional interface, wherein the first two-dimensional interface corresponds to a side or cross-section of a three-dimensional interface, and the first two-dimensional interface displays a plurality of filters for the first data illustration. A selection for one of the plurality of filters and a selection to display a second facet of data are received from a user. A dynamic rotation of the three-dimensional interface to a second side or cross-section that corresponds to a second two-dimensional interface is displayed, wherein a second data illustration of the second facet of data is displayed in the second interface, the second data illustration being filtered according to the selected filter.
US11687542B2
One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for performing efficient data searches in a distributed computing system. The method may comprise, receiving a search request including a key. The key may be provided to a block-based table manager via a programming interface external to a virtual machine executing on a computer system. The programming interface may provide a translation between a first programming framework of the virtual machine and a second programming framework of the block-based table manager. Providing the key may cause the block-based table manager to conduct a search for a value corresponding to the key. The value may be provided in response to the search request. Utilizing such block-based tables may enable a data search to be performed using on-board memory of computing node operating within a distributed computing system.
US11687533B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to servicing search requests based on index information stored in a storage shared between multiple search servers. In some embodiments, a first search server maintains a local cache including index information usable to service received search requests and synchronizes the local cache with the shared storage. The synchronizing includes retrieving, from the shared storage, metadata indicative of the index information in the shared storage and determining, based on the metadata, whether the index information in the local cache differs from the shared storage. In response to determining that the index information in the local cache differs from the index information in the shared storage, the first search server updates the index information in the local cache with the index information in the shared storage. The first search server may then provide one or more search results determined using the updated index information.
US11687527B2
A system for analyzing graph databases using intelligent reasoning systems including scalable collection of, and transformation of, graph data into facts suitable for use with programming logic languages doing deductive reasoning. A graph analyzer ingests disparate graph data from across the Internet and transforms the graph data into a fact table. In order to reduce latency and processing congestion, a stream processing engine and sharding strategy are employed to ensure scalability through parallelized processing of programming logic queries. Transformed graph data, now relational data, is utilized with programming logic languages that allow for hypothetical queries whereby an inference engine can deduce new information to satisfy such a query. Furthermore, the self-contained nature of inputs, outputs, and transformations of the system means strict data provenance can be observed and adhered to.
US11687510B2
A system includes first logic to obtain a fixed constituent data object and a variable constituent data object for each data object of a set of objects, second logic to analyze the fixed constituent data objects to allocate each fixed constituent data object to one of a plurality of fixed groups, third logic to analyze the variable constituent data objects to allocate each variable constituent data object to one of a plurality of variable groups, fourth logic to determine a net magnitude for each fixed group and for each variable group, fifth logic to determine a historical component for each variable constituent data object, sixth logic to determine a net historical magnitude for each variable group based on the historical components, and seventh logic to define at least one representative data object to represent the fixed and variable constituent data objects in each pair of fixed and variable groups having a matching common set of properties, the at least one representative data object maintaining the net magnitudes and maintaining the net historical magnitude.
US11687507B2
Techniques are described for performing session termination(s) for active sessions in response to a planned operation on a database server of a DBMS. In an embodiment, the DBMS receives a request for a planned operation on a database server. The database server may have session(s) established with a client system to receive request(s) to execute database command(s) on the DBMS. In response, the DBMS transmits to the client system a notification to drain a session with the database server, and the DBMS marks the sessions at the database to drain. The DBMS is configured to terminate any drain-marked sessions by the database server when a rule is satisfied, and the failover is expected to succeed, and/or that the session is unlikely to drain or to failover at a later point in the session lifecycle. The DBMS may identify, in a rule set, a rule having rule instructions to detect a possible termination point for the session before the drain timeout period expires. Based on the execution of the rule instructions before the drain timeout expires, the DBMS determines that a termination point for the session is detected where that session will failover. In such a way, sessions are failed over early and at points where the failover is expected to succeed.
US11687504B2
Data reduction services are implemented on one or more nodes of an IIoT data pipeline to intelligently determine an appropriate data reduction strategy based on characteristics of the incoming data. In one or more embodiments, data reduction components on the pipeline node or on an edge device define different data filtering rules or algorithms that are selectively applied to streaming time-series data based on a probability distribution of the data. The data pipeline node performs real-time distribution analysis on the streaming data to determine whether the data has a unimodal distribution, a multimodal distribution, or no mode, and selects one of the data filtering rules based on this determined probability distribution. In this way, the data is intelligently reduced in a manner that retains critical information within the reduced data set while achieving a high level of data reduction.
US11687492B2
Computer implemented methods for selective data deduplication in a multitenant environment are disclosed. Data deduplication of blocks written to a storage area associated with a tenant and redundant copies of the blocks written to other storage areas of other tenants is permitted or prevented based on tagging the first storage area associated with the tenant with a particular type of parameter. Responsive to detecting a write operation directed to the storage area tagged with a parameter indicating that deduplication is not permitted, a block to be written to the storage area is modified prior to hashing the block. Responsive to detecting a write operation directed to the storage area tagged with a parameter indicating that deduplication is permitted, a block to be written to the storage area is prevented from being modified prior to hashing the block.
US11687490B2
A method performed by a computing system, includes executing an application, using a data call to an Application Programming Interface, the data call requesting access to a file stored on a storage system associated with the computing system, with a context extraction module, determining contextual information associated with the data call, through use of a library, causing a kernel to access the file according to the data call, storing the contextual information on the storage system, and performing an analysis on the contextual information, the analysis including determining an average size of a call stack when the data was accessed.
US11687489B2
A method and system for identifying garbage data, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: uploading an object to a distributed object storage system; acquiring a head object identifier in an index storage pool of the distributed object storage system; querying a data storage pool for a target data group corresponding to the head object identifier; marking a tail object corresponding to a tail object identifier in the target data group as a target tail object; and marking tail objects in the data storage pool other than the target tail object as garbage data.
US11687487B1
Systems and methods are described for updating text files for a processing pipeline without restarting the processing pipeline. A processing pipeline may include a frontend thread and a backend thread. The frontend thread of the processing pipeline may generate transformed data using the text file. A backend thread of the processing pipeline may periodically determine whether an updated text file has been uploaded. The backend thread can determine that an updated text file has been uploaded and cause the frontend thread to pause generating transformed data. The backend thread can validate the updated text file by comparing the text file and the updated text file. Based on validating the updated text file, the backend thread can cause the frontend thread to resume transforming data using the updated text file.
US11687483B1
Disclosed herein are devices and systems that embed a physical layer (e.g., an M-PHY) on a configurable integrated circuit (e.g., an FPGA) and include glue hardware that provides AC coupling between a high-speed serial communication device (e.g., a MIPI device) and the configurable integrated circuit. The glue hardware provides AC coupling using only resistors, capacitors, and inductors. The configurable integrated circuit includes a logic block that manages the operation to provide the desired PHY connectivity. Because the disclosed devices and systems use AC coupling, the signaling drive and receive paths are controlled based on the received signal frequency and not based on the mode (e.g., LS mode or HS mode). Specifically, the line state of the MIPI device is inferred from observation of signal transitions as opposed to direct detection of DC signal levels.
US11687473B2
An electronic component (10) is formed by a semiconductor component or a semiconductor-like structure having gate electrode assemblies (16, 18), for initializing the quantum mechanical state of a qubit.
US11687472B2
An interface for a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device has a master device and multiple slave devices as stacked up with electric connection. The interface includes a master interface, implemented in the master device and including a master interface circuit with a master bond pattern. Further, a slave interface is implemented in each slave device and includes a slave interface circuit with a slave bond pattern to correspondingly connect to the master bond pattern. A clock route is to transmit a clock signal through the master interface and the slave interface. The master device transmits a command and a selecting slave identification through the master interface to all the slave interfaces. One of the slave devices corresponding to the selecting slave identification executes the command and responds a result back to the master device through the slave interfaces and the master interface.
US11687466B1
A virtually-indexed and virtually-tagged cache has E entries each holding a memory line at a physical memory line address (PMLA), a tag of a virtual memory line address (VMLA), and permissions of a memory page that encompasses the PMLA. A directory having E corresponding entries is physically arranged as R rows by C columns=E. Each directory entry holds a directory tag comprising hashes of corresponding portions of a page address portion of the VMLA whose tag is held in the corresponding cache entry. In response to a translation lookaside buffer management instruction (TLBMI), the microprocessor generates a target tag comprising hashes of corresponding portions of a TLBMI-specified page address. For each directory row, the microprocessor: for each directory entry of the row, compares the target and directory tags to generate a match indictor used to invalidate the corresponding cache entry.
US11687459B2
Example implementations relate to cache coherency protocols as applied to a memory block range. Exclusive ownership of a range of blocks of memory in a default shared state may be tracked by a directory. The directory may be associated with a first processor of a set of processors. When a request is received from a second processor of the set of processors to read one or more blocks of memory absent from the directory, one or more blocks may be transmitted in the default shared state to the second processor. The blocks absent from the directory may not be tracked in the directory.
US11687448B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory, configuration unit, address translation unit, write unit and control unit. The configuration unit assigns write management areas included in a nonvolatile memory to spaces and an input space. The write management area is a unit of an area which manages the number of write. The address translation unit associates a logical address of write data with a physical address which indicates a position of the write data in the nonvolatile memory. The write unit writes the write data to the input space and then writes the write data in the input space to a space corresponding to the write data amongst the spaces. The control unit controls the spaces individually with respect to the nonvolatile memory.
US11687443B2
The present disclosure relates to one or more memory management techniques. In embodiments, one or more regions of storage class memory (SCM) of a storage array is provisioned as expanded global memory. The one or more regions can correspond to SCM persistent cache memory regions. The storage array's global memory and expanded global memory can be used to execute one or more storage-related services connected to servicing (e.g., executing) an input/output (IO) operation.
US11687436B2
Techniques described herein can monitor various data metrics. The auto-insight techniques can further detect and rank data segments that contributed to, or counteracted, shifts in data and detect when such shifts occurred. Thus, the techniques described herein can detect and identify root causes in shifts in different metrics. The techniques include pruning and ranking causes to identify the root causes and identify non-relevant factors, as well.
US11687426B1
Techniques described herein manage failed storage devices. A number of failed storage devices is determined to exceed a number of redundancies in a storage configuration of the storage system. The status of a failed storage device is changed to permit solely read operations. Valid data from the failed storage device is copied to a spare storage device. Invalid data on the failed storage device is reconstructed based on corresponding data from other storage devices, and the reconstructed data is stored on the spare storage device. The failed storage device is removed from the storage system.
US11687425B2
A first server and a second server use a virtual address to mount the storage synchronous area in a storage by the NFS. The first server obtains a snapshot of memory content of a virtual system operated as an active system and transmits the snapshot to the second server. The first server replicates content of the storage synchronous area in the storage to a storage synchronous area in a storage. When a failure occurs in the first server, the second server sets a virtual address to the storage and uses the virtual address to mount the storage synchronous area in the storage by NFS. The second server uses the snapshot received from the first server to execute the application on the virtual system.
US11687424B2
Described herein are techniques for automating media agent state management. For example, if a media agent is running poorly, then the media agent can be disabled and an alternate media agent can perform secondary copy job operations in place of the poorly running media agent. To determine whether a media agent is running poorly, a storage manager can determine whether the media agent has an anomalous number of failed jobs, pending jobs, and/or long running jobs and/or can determine whether the amount of resources used by the media agent is high or is increasing constantly, at a constant rate, or at a near constant rate.
US11687420B2
A control method for error handling in a controller, storage medium therefor, controller, and storage device. The controller for use in a first device is capable of linking to a second device according to an interconnection protocol. The control method includes the following steps: handling a first error information by transmitting a negative acknowledgement control (NAC) message to the second device according to the interconnection protocol through the controller, wherein the first error information indicates a first error occurring while the controller performs data reception according to a protocol layer of the interconnection protocol; and setting error handling status data to indicate that error handling is asserted for the first error information so that the controller does not handle sequence number errors occurring after the first error until the error handling status data is set to indicate that the error handling is de-asserted.
US11687415B2
Embodiments for optimizing a backup operation for a data protection system, by connecting with network devices in a network implementing the backup operation, the backup operation implementing a policy that specifies a plurality of service requirements and that is initiated at a time within a plurality of time windows, and determining a size of dataset to be backed up by the backup operation. The method further monitors a flow of data between a source and a destination of data in the network, compiles historical data of operational parameters for data transfers between the source and destination, and determines an optimum time within the plurality of time windows based on the dataset size and the historical data.
US11687414B2
Technology for identifying relevant data (also called “data of interest”) for applying a machine logic based rule and for increasing the frequency of making backups (for example, snapshots) of the relevant data.
US11687397B2
There is provided a device including: a diagnosis unit configured to diagnose an input and output function, in an input and output device that is configured to perform an input and output operation in accordance with the input and output function programmed in programmable circuitry; an error detection unit configured to detect an error of a configuration storage area; and an abnormality determination unit configured not to determine an abnormality of the input and output device when the error of the configuration storage area is detected and the input and output function is diagnosed to be normal.
US11687389B2
A computing device can monitor a set of memory usage metrics of the computing device. Based on the set of memory usage metrics, the computing device can determine whether memory usage will exceed a critical memory threshold within a future period of time. In response to determining that the memory usage will exceed the critical memory threshold within the future period of time, the computing device can degrade one or more application features of an application executing on the computing device.
US11687386B2
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data, creating, based on the video data, a timed metadata track indicating a segment bandwidth and comprising information of a plurality of aligned segments of a media adaptation set such that duration information and size information of each of the aligned segments are included in at least one metadata sample, switching to one of a plurality of representations of the video data based on whether the timed metadata track indicates at least an overflow to an input buffer per each of the plurality of representations, and delivering the one of the plurality of representations to a client as a part of an event stream and based on at least one mode indicated in the event stream.
US11687384B2
Systems and methods for generating synthetic video are disclosed. For example, a system may include a memory unit and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving video data, normalizing image frames, generating difference images, and generating an image sequence generator model. The operations may include training an autoencoder model using difference images, the autoencoder comprising an encoder model and a decoder model. The operations may include identifying a seed image frame and generating a seed difference image from the seed image frame. The operations may include generating, by the image sequence generator model, synthetic difference images based on the seed difference image. In some aspects, the operations may include using the decoder model to synthetic normalized image frames from the synthetic difference images. The operations may include generating synthetic video by adding background to the synthetic normalized image frames.
US11687379B2
Systems and methods for managing containerized clusters from virtualization management systems. An example method may include identifying one or more cluster entities of a containerized computing cluster, where the containerized computing cluster comprises a plurality of virtual machines running on one or more host computer systems, generating one or more virtualization management entities in the virtualization management system, wherein each virtualization management entity represents a respective cluster entity, receiving a request to perform an operation on a specified virtualization management entity in the virtualization management system, identifying a cluster entity represented by the virtualization management entity, translating, responsive to the request, the request to one or more commands to be performed on the identified cluster entity of the containerized computing cluster, and sending the one or more commands to the containerized computing cluster.
US11687377B1
An apparatus can include a control board operatively coupled to a modular compute boards and to a resource boards by (1) a first connection associated with control information and not data, and (2) a second connection associated with data and not control information. The control board can determine a computation load and a physical resource requirement for a time period. The control board can send, to the modular compute board and via the first connection, a signal indicating an allocation of that modular compute board during the time period. The control board can send, from the control board to the resource board, a signal indicating an allocation of that resource board to the modular compute board such that that resource board allocates at least a portion of its resources during the time period based on at least one of the computation load or the physical resource requirement.
US11687374B2
An architecture for a load-balanced groups of multi-stage manycore processors shared dynamically among a set of software applications, with capabilities for destination task defined intra-application prioritization of inter-task communications (ITC), for architecture-based ITC performance isolation between the applications, as well as for prioritizing application task instances for execution on cores of manycore processors based at least in part on which of the task instances have available for them the input data, such as ITC data, that they need for executing.
US11687369B2
Methods and systems for optimizing an application for a computing system having multiple distinct memory locations that are interconnected by one or more communication channels include determining one or more data handling properties for a data region in an application. One or more data handling policies for the data region are determined based on the one or more data handling properties. Data setup costs are determined for a scope in the application that uses the data region in different memory locations based on the one or more data handling properties. The application is optimized in accordance with the one or more data handling policies and the data setup costs for the different memory locations.
US11687349B1
Systems and techniques for interconnection discovery for automated standards assay are described herein. Configuration data may be obtained for a set of computing systems operating in the computing environment. The configuration data may be evaluated to identify a first application executing on a first computing system of the set of computing systems. First computing system configuration data may be obtained for the first computing system. The first computing system configuration data may be evaluated to identify a dependency of the first application. The dependency may be added to a first application dependency profile for the first application.
US11687344B2
One aspect provides a system for hardware-assisted pre-execution. During operation, the system determines a pre-execution code region comprising one or more instructions. The system increments a global counter upon initiating the one or more instructions. The system issues a first instruction, which involves setting, in a first entry for the first instruction in a data structure, a first prefetch region identifier with a current value of the global counter. Responsive to a head pointer of the data structure reaching the first entry, the system: determines, based on a non-zero value for the first prefetch region identifier, that the first entry is not available to be allocated; and advances the head pointer to a next entry in the data structure, which renders a load associated with the first entry as a non-blocking load. The system resets the global counter upon completing the one or more instructions.
US11687343B2
A data processing apparatus and a method are disclosed. The data processing apparatus comprising: a prediction cache to store a plurality of prediction entries, each defining an association between a prediction cache lookup address and a predicted behaviour; prediction circuitry to select a prediction entry based on a prediction cache lookup of the prediction cache based on a given prediction cache lookup address and to determine the predicted behaviour associated with the given prediction cache lookup address based on the selected prediction entry; and a candidate prediction buffer to store a plurality of candidate predictions each indicative of a candidate prediction entry to be selected for inclusion in a subsequent prediction cache lookup, wherein the candidate prediction entry is selected in response to a candidate prediction lookup based on a candidate lookup address different to a candidate prediction cache lookup address indicated as associated with a candidate predicted behaviour in the candidate prediction entry.
US11687342B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for instruction tightly-coupled memory (iTIM) and instruction cache (iCache) access prediction. A processor may use a predictor to enable access to the iTIM or the iCache and a particular way (a memory structure) based on a location state and program counter value. The predictor may determine whether to stay in an enabled memory structure, move to and enable a different memory structure, or move to and enable both memory structures. Stay and move predictions may be based on whether a memory structure boundary crossing has occurred due to sequential instruction processing, branch or jump instruction processing, branch resolution, and cache miss processing. The program counter and a location state indicator may use feedback and be updated each instruction-fetch cycle to determine which memory structure(s) needs to be enabled for the next instruction fetch.
US11687332B2
A communication apparatus includes a first communication unit that communicates with a terminal apparatus using a first communication method, a second communication unit that communicates with a server apparatus using a second communication method different from the first communication method, a reception unit that controls receiving update information from the server apparatus in a case where the communication apparatus can communicate with the server apparatus via the second communication unit, an update unit that performs an update process for updating the communication apparatus using the update information, and a progress management unit that controls transmitting a progress status of a process regarding the update information to the terminal apparatus.
US11687331B2
System and techniques for an internet-of-things device blank are described herein. An IoT blank device may be tested to determine whether it is in an initial state. In response to a determination that the IoT blank device is in the initial state, a cloud endpoint may be contacted, via a transceiver, to retrieve a package. Here, the contact includes a message with an identifier of the IoT blank device. The package may be received, the package including an application. The package may be installed. The installation including registering the application with a message queue of the IoT blank device. The application may also be run after installation. Data from the application running on the IoT blank device may be received via a message queue. The data may then be transmitted to the cloud endpoint via the transceiver of the IoT blank device.
US11687321B2
The method of building a patent valuation model includes acquiring patent information, processing the patent information and separately performing a plurality of multiple regression analyses in which a plurality of key valuation elements preset for a valuation index are dependent variables, calculating a representative value of a plurality of regression coefficients for each independent variable of a plurality of multiple regression models calculated through the plurality of multiple regression analyses, and generating a valuation model for the valuation index by building a valuation model in which the calculated representative values are coefficients for the respective independent variables.
US11687315B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an audio blending system with a computing device that processes operations including receiving a transition request from a user including an out element and/or an in element of at least one transition between at least one content item of at least one recipe. The recipe includes a sequence of a plurality of elements of content of a break, where at least one content item includes audio content and/or video content. The operations include causing a track server to couple to a metadata file of the audio file using a wired or wireless link. The metadata file includes audio content parameters measured or calculated from the audio file. The operations include calculating a transition between the out element and the in element, selecting, assembling and scheduling the sequence of plurality of elements for the transition, and adding the out element to the at least one recipe.
US11687311B2
A screen projection processing method includes obtaining an operation for a first electronic device, responding to the operation by calling a task manager of the first electronic device to display a plurality of application objects managed by the task manager in a display area of the first electronic device, determining a first application object from the plurality of application objects, and projecting a first display content generated by an application program corresponding to the first application object in an operative state to a second display area of a second electronic device in real-time.
US11687309B2
In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system comprising a camera, a plurality of displays and a processor. The processor receives a series of images, from the camera, corresponding to a physical environment, wherein the series of images include the plurality of displays. The processor identifies a fiducial mark within the series of images corresponding to a display. The processor determines a three-dimensional space based on a camera position based on the series of images. The processor determines a location within the three-dimensional space corresponding to the one of the plurality of displays. The processor creates a geospatial relationship between the location and the camera within the three-dimensional space. The processor correlates the geospatial relationship to a display configuration screen. The processor creates a pointing device path in the display configuration screen corresponding to the geospatial relationship.
US11687303B2
An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus that includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material in accordance with a print job and a first reception section that receives a command about output of the print job; and a post-processing apparatus that includes a post-processing section that performs post-processing on the recording material transported from the image forming apparatus in accordance with the print job and a second reception section that receives a command about the post-processing and that receives a command about re-output of the print job in a case where the print job is to be possibly re-output.
US11687300B2
Methods, systems, and software are disclosed for a create-to-print document solution. A main processor generates individualized bespoke print material by receiving transmitted customizable third-party data and user input data, comprising, at least in part, project metadata. The third party data and user input data are integrated at the processor to create a plurality of customizable user templates and content.
US11687299B2
Provided is an an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, an image processing method, and a storage medium that can suppress a reduction in the processing speed. To this end, whether the connection state between a printer and a server is online is determined by confirming the connection state between the printer and a relay device and whether there is an un-transmitted operation log.
US11687294B2
A computing device includes: a housing configured to receive a supply of print media; a print head supported by the housing; a wireless communications subsystem supported by the housing; a controller supported by the housing, the controller configured to: control the communications subsystem to detect a data collection device; obtain, from the data collection device via the communications subsystem, monitoring data collected by the data collection device indicative of an environmental condition; transmit the monitoring data; receive a command based on the monitoring data; and control the print head to apply indicia to the print media according to the command.
US11687289B2
Methods, systems, and devices for generating memory array control signals are described. A timing component may be configured to generate signals for operating a memory array. The timing component may include first logic that indicates when input signals are different, second logic that indicates when at least one of the input signals has a particular state, and third logic that indicates when the input signals have the same state. The output of the second logic and third logic may be controllable by other input signals. An output of the timing component may be set by one of the input signals and reset by the other input signals using the first logic, second logic, and third logic.
US11687285B2
A processing device in a memory system receives a request to read data stored on a first plane of a plurality of planes of a memory device while a plurality of write operations are ongoing, wherein each of the plurality of write operations are performed concurrently to write each of a plurality of single-plane segments of data to a corresponding plane of the plurality of planes of the memory device, and wherein a multi-plane segment of data received with a write request is divided into the plurality of single-plane segments of data. The processing device further suspends a first write operation of the plurality of write operations, the first write operation corresponding to the first plane, and performs a read operation to read the data stored on the first plane while continuing to perform at least one other write operation of the plurality of write operations corresponding to another plane of the plurality planes.
US11687281B2
A memory controller includes a command queue and an arbiter for selecting entries from the command queue for transmission to a DRAM. The arbiter transacts streaks of consecutive read commands and streaks of consecutive write commands. The arbiter transacts a streak for at least a minimum burst length based on a number of commands of a designated type available to be selected by the arbiter. Following the minimum burst length, the arbiter decides to start a new streak of commands of a different type based on a first set of one or more conditions indicating intra-burst efficiency.
US11687262B2
Memory systems and methods of operating the memory systems are disclosed. A memory system including a plurality of data storage zones may comprise a memory device including a plurality of zones for storing data, and a memory controller configured to control the memory device in performing a write operation in the memory device. The memory controller is configured to, upon performing a write operation corresponding to a write request received from a host, update a logical write pointer and a physical write pointer associated with a zone that is targeted to perform the write operation corresponding to the write request received from the host, and upon performing a write operation corresponding an internal write command internally issued by the memory controller, update a physical write pointer associated with the zone that is targeted to perform the write operation corresponding to an internal write command issued by the memory controller.
US11687230B2
Some examples provides a set of frameworks, process and methods aimed at enabling the expression and exploration of free-form and parametric 3D shape designs enabled through natural interactions with a hand-held mobile device acting as a controller for 3D virtual objects. A reference plane in a virtual space generated by the location of the mobile device may be used to select a 3D virtual object intersected by the reference plane. Positioning of the mobile device may also be used to control a pointer in the virtual space. In an example, the orientation of the mobile device may be detected by an accelerometer or gyroscope. In example, the position of the mobile device may be detected by a position sensor.
US11687223B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for defining, designing, laying out, and/or configuring for a load control environment a load control system that may include window treatments including, for example, roller shades.
US11687220B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to perform an interactive image recolorization process. The method includes receiving user input including a stroke drawn on an image presented on a client device. The stroke comprises a user-specified color. The method further includes determining a region of interest in the image. The method further includes recolorizing the region of interest on the image based on the user-specified color and causing presentation of a result of the recolorization on the client device.
US11687219B2
In embodiments of statistics chart row mode drill down, a first interface is displayed in a table format that includes columns and rows, where each row is associated with an event and each column includes field for a respective event. The rows can further include one or more aggregated metrics representing a number of events associated with a respective row. A row can be emphasized in the first interface and, in response a menu can be displayed with selectable options to transition to a second interface, where the data displayed by the second interface is based on an option selected from the menu.
US11687215B2
Disclosed herein is method and application navigation system for navigating through an application. The method includes detecting at least one of an operating hand of a user holding a user device and a number of touch points on one or more screens of the application. The application includes a plurality of menu options on each of one or more screens. Thereafter, the method includes selecting a menu option, from the plurality of menu options on one or more screens. The selected menu option corresponds to detecting at least one of the operating hand of the user and the number of touch points on one or more screens. Once the menu option is selected, one or more menu options associated with each selected menu option is provided on a screen subsequent to one or more screens thereby navigating through the application.
US11687208B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating interactions with a user interface are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of mutation events specifying changes to the structure of a user interface that occurred during the user session, and generating user interface states specifying different structures of the user interface throughout the given user session. Based at least in part on the user interface states, playback data that present visual changes of the user interface corresponding to the set of mutation events that occurred during the user session are generated. Session activity data describing user interactions that occurred during the user session are also generated. At least a portion of the playback data and the session activity data are output to a requesting device.
US11687190B2
A multitouch touch device (DIS) employing capacitive detection, including: a touch matrix array and a first voltage-generating source configured to generate, for each row and each column of the matrix array, a first input voltage having a first frequency leading to the generation of a first output voltage. The device also includes a second voltage-generating source for generating, for each intersection between at least two rows and two columns of the matrix array, a second input voltage having a second frequency different from the first frequency leading to the generation of a second output voltage. A processing circuit is configured to determine, depending on first and second reference values, whether the first and second output voltages are representative of a press and of its position.
US11687186B2
According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
US11687185B2
A touch display panel, including a pixel circuit substrate, a color filter substrate, and a display medium layer, is provided. The pixel circuit substrate includes pixel structures, data lines, touch sensing electrodes, touch signal lines, and at least one test circuit. Each pixel structure has an active element and a pixel electrode. The data lines are electrically connected to active elements. The touch sensing electrodes are overlapped with pixel electrodes. The touch signal lines are electrically connected to the touch sensing electrodes. The test circuit is electrically connected to at least part of the touch signal lines or the data lines and includes a peripheral line and first and second test pads. The first and second test pads are respectively disposed on a first side and a second side of a display area. The display medium layer is disposed between the pixel circuit substrate and the color filter substrate.
US11687184B2
A touch display device including a display panel including a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels alternately disposed along a first direction, and a touch screen layer disposed on the display panel, the touch screen layer including a plurality of first touch electrodes having a zigzag shape and disposed between one of the first and second pixels along a second direction crossing the first direction, in which a first pixel of the first pixels and a second pixel of the second pixels have different sizes from each other, and a first distance from a first touch electrode of the first touch electrodes to the first pixel is different from a second distance from the first touch electrode to the second pixel.
US11687181B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus with integrated touch screen and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus, which prevent short circuit between touch electrodes. The display apparatus with integrated touch screen including a light emitting layer disposed on a substrate, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting layer, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the encapsulation and spaced apart from each other, and an upper PAC layer disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes. The upper PAC layer is patterned to be disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes.
US11687179B2
An electronic device is provided by the present disclosure, wherein the electronic device includes a base layer, a sensing layer disposed on the base layer and at least two conductive layers disposed on the base layer. The sensing layer includes a plurality of sensing electrodes. The conductive layers respectively include a plurality of signal lines, and each of the signal lines is electrically connected to one of the sensing electrodes.
US11687177B2
A wearable information terminal that can be worn by a user is provided with: a main body; a display that is incorporated in the main body and includes a screen; a controller that is incorporated in the main body and executes display processing onto the screen; and an operation detector that detects input operation executed by the user with respect to the controller.
US11687168B2
In a case where an input field is selected, an information processing apparatus determines whether a remote operation is being performed, and based on a state of the remote operation, the information processing apparatus displays or hides a software keyboard of the information processing apparatus.
US11687165B2
A method includes displaying an artificial reality environment to a user, determining a context in which the user is interacting with the artificial reality environment, and determining, based on the context, that the user intends to use a hand gesture to interact with a target virtual object within the artificial reality environment. The method further includes monitoring, while the user is attempting to interact with the target virtual object, motional patterns of the hand gesture performed by the user with respect to the target virtual object, and generating a motion-stabilization profile associated with the user based on the motional patterns. The motion-stabilization profile is configured to be utilized to stabilize the hand gesture performed by the user during subsequent user interactions within the artificial reality environment.
US11687163B2
A Head Mounted Display (HMD) device includes a display configured to display an augmented reality effect in relation to an Electromyography (EMG) device. The HMD device also includes at least one processor configured to control the display of the augmented reality effect in relation to the EMG device according to a user motion detected by the EMG device. The HMD device may further include a communication unit configured to communicate with the EMG device, and the at least one processor may be configured to receive, from the EMG device via the communication unit, information about data stored on the EMG device. At least some of the received information may be displayed in relation to the EMG device as the augmented reality effect. Information sent from the EMG device to a mobile terminal may be displayed in relation to the EMG device as the augmented reality effect.
US11687160B2
Variations in the manufacturing, tolerances, and environmental conditions, for example, of haptic trackpads can cause mechanical properties to vary click-by-click and unit-by-unit. Also, as time goes, mechanical wear or material degradation within each trackpad may change its mechanical properties. All of which may cause the haptic response received by the user to vary across similarly designed trackpads, and also change over time on the same trackpad. This may be interpreted by the user as an indication of low product quality. The following describes in detail haptic trackpads including accelerometers that enable active control and/or calibration. This allows for a more uniform user experience across a manufacturing run of trackpads and/or throughout the projected life of individual trackpads.
US11687149B2
A context processing unit receives an environmental signal from a registration unit of a motor vehicle. The environmental signal describes an item of information, independent of a movement direction of the motor vehicle, regarding an event in an environment of the motor vehicle. The event establishes a predetermined thematic context of media content of an output file. The predetermined media content of the output file is changed in dependence on the thematic context of the media content, so that a virtual environment described by the changed media content takes into consideration the information of the event in the environment of the motor vehicle with respect to context. The output file with the changed media content is transmitted to a display unit of an output device which outputs the output file.
US11687148B1
A system and method for supporting an interconnection of processor cores, each core with functional state monitors for monitoring operations of each processor core, the processor cores interconnected using a resistive network connected between two-terminal regions being embedded in the resistive network such that each terminal of a region may be connected by controllable resistors to one or both fixed rails or by controllable resistors to one or more intermediate nodes. The resistor values are configurable to provide indirect control of the voltages across each two-terminal region, allowing full dynamic control of voltages of the two-terminal regions in a range up to the full voltage between the two voltage rails, and where a management unit accesses the functional state monitors and controls the resistor values. Feedback from functional state monitors allow the operating frequency to extend down to arbitrarily low values and up to the limits imposed by the technology.
US11687144B2
A new approach contemplates systems and methods to support control of power consumption of a memory on a chip by throttling port access requests to the memory via a memory arbiter based on a one or more programmable parameters. The memory arbiter is configured to restrict the number of ports being used to access the memory at the same time to be less than the available ports of the memory, thereby enabling adaptive power control of the chip. Two port throttling schemes are enabled—strict port throttling, which throttles the number of ports granted for memory access to be no more than a user-configured maximum throttle port number, and leaky bucket port throttling, which throttles the number of ports granted for the memory access down to be within a range based on a number of credit tokens maintained in a credit register.
US11687142B2
Described are mechanisms and methods for applying Machine Learning (ML) techniques for power management at different levels of a power management stack. An apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may have a plurality of memory registers. The second circuitry may be operable to establish values for a plurality of features based on samples of values of the plurality of memory registers taken at one or more times within a range of time of predetermined length. The third circuitry may be operable to compare the plurality of features against a plurality of learned parameters for a reference workload.
US11687122B2
A display device including a display panel; a frame coupled to a rear of the display panel; at least one first guide plate fixed to a rear of the frame and having a guide groove; and a stand positioned below the display panel. Further, the stand include a top plate including at least one protruding support guide inserted into the guide groove of the at least one first guide plate to couple the display panel to the stand; a bottom plate spaced apart from the top plate; first and second side plates connecting the top plate and the bottom plate; and a bottom receiving part coupled to a lower part of the bottom plate and including an electronic component accommodation space.
US11687107B2
This application relates to voltage regulators and, particular, to low-dropout regulators (LDOs). The regulator (300) has an output stage (102) which receives an input voltage (Vin) and outputs an output voltage (Vout) and which includes at least one transistor (103) as an output device configured to pass an output current to the output, based on a drive voltage (V1). A differential amplifier (101) is configured to receive a feedback signal derived from the output voltage and also a reference voltage (REF) to generate an amplifier output to control the drive voltage (V1) to minimise any difference between the feedback signal and the reference voltage. A controller (301) is operable to selectively reconfigure the output stage to provide a change in output current in response to a load activity signal (ACT), which is indicative of a change in load activity that results in a change in load current demand for a load connected, in use, to the output.
US11687105B2
A driving device includes a voltage regulator, a voltage generator, and a first NMOSFET. The voltage regulator is coupled between a first high-voltage terminal and the output terminal of the driving device. The voltage regulator receives the first high voltage of the first high-voltage terminal. The voltage regulator steps down the first high voltage to generate a supply voltage. The voltage generator is coupled to a second high-voltage terminal and the output terminal of the driving device. The voltage generator provides a reference voltage for the output terminal of the driving device. The reference voltage is substantially lower than the supply voltage. The first NMOSFET is coupled between the output terminal of the driving device and a low-voltage terminal.
US11687098B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a vehicle body, one or more propulsion units coupled to the vehicle body and configured to effect movement of the UAV, and one or more processors coupled to the one or more propulsion units and individually or collectively configured to receive one or more sets of altitude restrictions for the UAV, receive location information indicating a current location of the UAV, determine a priority of the one or more sets of altitude restrictions by which the UAV abides based on the location information, select a set from the one or more sets of altitude restrictions based on the determined priority, and generate control signals to control the one or more propulsion units such that the UAV is operated in compliance with the selected set of altitude restrictions.
US11687097B2
A method and system allowing fully autonomous automatic take-off using only images captured by cameras on the aircraft and avionics data. The system includes an image capture device on the aircraft to take a stream of images of the runway, image processing modules to estimate, on the basis of the streams of images, a preliminary current position of the aircraft on the runway and to assign a preliminary confidence index to the estimate. A data consolidation module can determine a relevant current position of the aircraft on the runway by consolidating data originating from the image processing modules with inertial data to correct the estimate of the preliminary current position and determine a relevant confidence index using a current speed of the wheels of the aircraft to refine the preliminary confidence index. A flight control computer can control and guide aircraft take-off.
US11687093B2
A method for autonomous mower navigation includes receiving a return-to-zero encoded signal including a pseudo-random sequence, transforming the received signal to a non-return-to-zero representation, digitally sampling the non-return-to-zero signal representation in a time domain, filtering the sampled signal utilizing a reference data array based on the return-to-zero encoded signal to produce a filter output, and determining a location of the autonomous mower relative to a defined work area based on an evaluation of the filter output.
US11687091B2
A method comprises generating a map comprising day-time features and night-time features, wherein the position of night-time features relative to the day-time features is determined by at least one image captured during twilight. The invention also relates to a corresponding processing unit configured to execute such a method.
US11687086B2
A robot includes an image sensor that captures the environment of a storage site. The robot visually recognizes regularly shaped structures to navigate through the storage site using various object detection and image segmentation techniques. In response to receiving a target location in the storage site, the robot moves to the target location along a path. The robot receives the images as the robot moves along the path. The robot analyzes the images captured by the image sensor to determine the current location of the robot in the path by tracking a number of regularly shaped structures in the storage site passed by the robot. The regularly shaped structures may be racks, horizontal bars of the racks, and vertical bars of the racks. The robot can identify the target location by counting the number of rows and columns that the robot has passed.
US11687084B2
A computer-implemented method for determining a control trajectory for a robotic device. The method includes: performing an information theoretic model predictive control applying a control trajectory sample prior in each time step to obtain a control trajectory for a given time horizon; determining the control trajectory sample prior depending on a data-driven trajectory prediction model which is trained to output a control trajectory sample as the control trajectory sample prior based on an actual state of the robotic device.
US11687072B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation system includes a portable, ground-based landing pad comprising having a first antenna configured to transmit a data packet; a UAV comprising a second antenna configured to receive the data packet; and second processing circuitry configured to determine a signal strength between the first antenna and the second antenna; determine, based on the signal strength, an orientation of the vehicle relative to the landing pad; and determine, based on a time of flight of the data packet, a distance between the vehicle and the landing pad.
US11687068B2
Conducting automatically a process failure mode and effect analysis, PFMEA, for a factory adapted to produce a product in a production process using a meta model, MM, stored or loaded in a data storage. The stored meta model, MM, comprises abstract factory model elements modeling an abstract factory, AF, including one or more service declarations modeling abstract services across different factories, wherein each service declaration comprises failure mode declarations for different failure modes.
US11687064B2
IBATCH interactive batch operations system enabling operational excellence and competency transition
This disclosure provides an apparatus and method for interactive batch operations system enabling operation excellence and competency transition. The method includes collecting data related to a batch process from different departments within a batch processing facility into a common data repository; transforming the collected data based on provided intelligence; exploiting the transformed data in the common data repository; determining a best possible alternative for continued operation of the batch process based on the exploited data; providing a visualization of the best possible alternative of the batch process using a digital twin; and operating the batch process using the determined best possible alternative on a physical twin corresponding to the digital twin.
US11687059B2
A first building equipment to be controlled by a building controller is selected via a user interface from a plurality of predefined building equipment options and a first control loop for controlling the first building equipment is defined via the user interface by selecting from a plurality of predefined first control loop parameter options and one or more terminals of the building controller are assigned to the first control loop. A second building equipment to be controlled by the building controller is selected via the user interface from the plurality of predefined building equipment options and a second control loop for controlling the second building equipment is defined via the user interface by selecting from a plurality of predefined second control loop parameter options. One or more terminals of the building controller are assigned to the second control loop.
US11687055B2
The present disclosure is intended to enable a user to grasp a state of load on an arithmetic processing unit (100, 200) so that the user can stop an excessive function of the arithmetic processing unit (100, 200), or can transfer part of arithmetic processes to another arithmetic processing unit (100, 200) with a small load. Included are the arithmetic processing unit (100, 200) that executes a plurality of processes related to servo control processing; and an observation unit (300) that determines at least one of point-of-time information about start of each of the processes executed by the arithmetic processing unit or point-of-time information about end of each of the processes executed by the arithmetic processing unit; and an output unit (400) that calculates information about usage of the arithmetic processing unit based on the point-of-time information determined by the observation unit, and outputs the calculated information. The information about the usage is constituted by, for example, a processing time period during which the processes are executed by the arithmetic processing unit, a difference between a given processing time period and the processing time period during which the processes are executed, a ratio of the processing time period during which the processes are executed to the given processing time period, or a ratio of the difference to the given processing time period.
US11687053B2
Some implementations provides a system to implement a safety control at an oil and gas facility, the system comprising: one or more motor control centers, each comprising a network interface, and a programmable logic controller (PLC), wherein each motor control center is configured to monitor and control one or more field devices coupled thereto, and wherein a plurality of field devices are dispersed at the oil and gas facility; and a safety instrumented system (SIS) in communication with the one or more motor control centers through the network interface thereof, wherein each motor control center is configured to communicate with the SIS without an interposing relay, and wherein the SIS comprises control elements configured to implement the safety control at the oil and gas facility based on communication with each motor control center through the network interface thereof.
US11687040B2
A method for fabricating a composite timepiece or jewellery component: a base is made in a substrate with an apparent surface remaining visible; each visible apparent surface is mirror polished; each polished apparent surface is coated with a first transparent or coloured semi-transparent layer of a first material in a dry process, or PVD or CVD or ALD process, or lacquering or zapon varnish process; a decorative element is affixed and bonded to an external surface of the first layer; the first layer and each decorative element is coated with a second layer of a transparent treatment material in a dry process, or PVD or CVD or ALD process, or lacquering or zapon varnish process.
US11687039B2
A method for assembling at least a first element and a second element to form, once assembled, an external component for a portable device, including the steps of: a) making the first element; b) making the second element; c) arranging at least a first groove in the first element and at least a second groove in the second element; d) placing and holding the first and second element end-to-end with at least a third connecting element which is inserted and locked in the first and second grooves.
US11687029B2
[TASK] An object of the present invention is to provide an image developing apparatus and a process cartridge with which an image quality can be improved while reducing a number of parts and reducing an amount of remaining developer. [SOLUTION] A process cartridge detachably mountable to an electrophotographic image forming operators includes a developing chamber including a developing roller and a developer supplying roller; a developer accommodating container accommodating the developer provided below the developing chamber with respect to gravity direction, wherein the developer is fed into the developing chamber while being stirred by a feeding member. The developer supplying roller rotates such that a surface thereof moves in the same direction as a surface of the developing roller at a position where the developer supplying roller contacts the developing roller. A surface speed of the developer supplying roller is higher than a surface speed of the developing roller. The developer supplying roller is rotationally driven by receiving a driving force at a position upstream of the developing roller.
US11687023B2
An imaging system includes a toner image forming device and a gloss treatment device. The toner image forming device accommodates a color toner that forms a color toner image on a printing medium, and which accommodates a clear toner that forms a clear toner image on the printing medium. The clear toner has a wax content that is lower than a wax content of the color toner. The gloss treatment device melts the clear toner on the printing medium to apply gloss treatment to the printing medium including the color toner image and the clear toner image.
US11687019B2
A fixing device includes a rotatable endless belt; a planar heat-generating section in which at least a downstream end portion in a movement direction of the belt is in pressure contact with a rotating body via a pressure contact portion and a cross-sectional shape of a downstream edge portion being in contact with an inner surface of the belt is formed in a curved shape having a curvature radius of 0.01 mm or more 0.2 mm or less or in a shape in which the edge portion is cut out over the dimension; and a holding section that is disposed inside the belt and holds the planar heat-generating section to be in pressure contact with the rotating body.
US11687018B2
The object of the present invention is to fix the thermoplastic ink in powder state used to print digital images by means of an electrographic laser motor on self-adhesive web media such as self-adhesive paper webs, self-adhesive film webs such as polypropylenes, polyethylenes, polyesters, and vinyls, with different thicknesses and finishes, allowing work to be stopped between one production batch and another and/or stops for self-calibration of the print motor without changing the self-adhesive media, preventing problems due to overheating of the printout. The apparatus according to the present invention makes it possible to enhance the fixed prints with a glossy, matt, or holographed finish, without the need for subsequent treatment and/or the use of chemical materials afterwards, offering greater flexibility and economy at work.
US11687017B2
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a motor that drives a fixing device; and a controller. The motor outputs a signal corresponding to a driving current value of the motor. The controller performs a first operation where a magnitude value of the signal has fallen out of a first range while driving the motor in a first operation mode. The controller performs a second operation where the magnitude value of the signal has fallen out of a second range while driving the motor in a second operation mode.
US11687015B2
A developer storage container includes a storage portion, a communication portion, and a gear portion. The storage portion conveys developer stored therein in a conveying direction parallel to a rotation axis by being rotated around the rotation axis in a specific direction. The communication portion has a tubular shape coaxial to the rotation axis and extending in the conveying direction from an end of the storage portion on a downstream side in the conveying direction, includes an inner peripheral part that gradually increases its diameter in the conveying direction, and connects the storage portion to an opening portion that has an opening facing the conveying direction. The gear portion is provided for an outer peripheral part of the communication portion and receives a rotational driving force supplied from the outside.
US11687013B2
A toner for electrostatic charge image development, wherein a spin-spin relaxation time of the toner at 90° C. is 0.30 msec or more but 1.50 msec or less, and a spin-spin relaxation time of the toner at 50° C. is 0.0185 msec or more but 0.0300 msec or less, the spin-spin relaxation time of the toner at 90° C. and the spin-spin relaxation time of the toner at 50° C. being obtained by Hahn echo method of pulse NMR analysis.
US11687007B2
A method for categorizing a substrate subject to a semiconductor manufacturing process including multiple operations, the method including: obtaining values of functional indicators derived from data generated during one or more of the multiple operations on the substrate, the functional indicators characterizing at least one operation; applying a decision model including one or more threshold values to the values of the functional indicators to obtain one or more categorical indicators; and assigning a category to the substrate based on the one or more categorical indicators.
US11687004B2
A system and method for patterning of a substrate at sub-micron length scales using interference lithography that includes a substrate; a chuck that promotes substrate motion; at least two EM beams; a beam phase controller, wherein the phase controller modifies phases of the EM beams with respect to each other creating an interference pattern; a displacement sensor that measures the substrate displacement; and a feedback control mechanism configured to monitor and synchronize the substrate motion with the interference pattern using the beam phase controller and the displacement sensor.
US11686999B2
The invention relates a method for producing a radiation-emitting component including a step A, in which a laser having an optical resonator and an output mirror is provided, wherein during the intended operation, laser radiation exits the optical resonator via the output mirror. In a step B), a photoresist layer is applied to the output mirror. In a step C), an optical structure is generated from the photoresist layer by means of a 3D lithography method, wherein the optical structure is designed to influence the beam path of the laser radiation by refraction and/or reflection.
US11686972B2
A backlight device is provided and includes case having bottom plate; light guide including front surface as emission surface, rear surface opposed to front surface, and incidence surface provided between front and rear surfaces, rear surface being arranged on bottom plate; and light-emitting elements facing incident surface of light guide, wherein light-emitting elements includes first surface provided at bottom of light-emitting elements, and light-emitting surface facing incidence surface of light guide, first surfaces and rear surface are arranged side by side, and fixed to fixing tape attached over first surfaces and rear surface of light guide, and light-shield is facing fixing tape through light guide.
US11686970B2
Provided is a display device including a display panel, a polarizing layer on the display panel and including a linear polarizer having a stretched polymer film, an adhesive member directly on the linear polarizer, and a window on the adhesive member, wherein the adhesive member absorbs 90% or greater of light having a wavelength in a range of about 300 nm to about 380 nm, and may thus effectively protect the polarizing layer from ultraviolet light incident from the outside. In addition, the display device may obtain thinner thickness, thereby exhibiting excellent reliability.
US11686968B2
A light-filtering film for a screen of a device comprising a polymer substrate. A first absorbing compound combined with the polymer substrate, the first absorbing compound absorbing blue light in a blue notch band having a full-width half-maximum of not greater than about 50 nm. A second absorbing compound combined with the polymer substrate, the second absorbing compound absorbing green light in a green notch, wherein the first absorbing compound comprises an absorption that has a maximum absorbance peak between about 420 nm and about 445 nm, and wherein the second absorbing compound has a maximum absorbance peak between about 540 nm and 610 nm.
US11686965B2
A light control sheet including a light control layer switchable between a transparent state and an opaque state, and transparent electrode layers sandwiching the light control layer. The light control layer includes a transparent polymer layer that has domains whose average size is 1.0 μm-1.55 μm, and the light control layer includes a liquid crystal composition at a concentration of 37%-55% such that the liquid crystal composition fills the domains.
US11686964B2
A common electrode for a display, which is originally provided in a liquid crystal display element, is also used as one (drive electrode) of a pair of electrodes for a touch sensor, and the other (detection-electrode-for-the-sensor) of the pair of electrodes is newly formed. An existing common drive signal as a drive signal for display is used in common for a drive signal for the touch sensor. A capacitance is formed between the common electrode and the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and touch detection is performed by utilizing a change of this capacitance caused by a finger touch of a user. Thus, a display device with a touch sensor is also applicable to a mobile device in which electric potential of the user is inconstant in many cases. The newly-provided electrode is only the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and it is unnecessary to newly prepare a drive signal for the touch sensor.
US11686962B2
A display panel, a display device and a preparation method for a display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate; a conductive structure layer is formed on a side surface of the first substrate, and the conductive structure layer is provided with a binding region close to a side edge thereof; the binding region of the conductive structure layer protrudes from a first end surface of the first substrate, and a protruding part of the conductive structure layer forms a first protruding portion; the first protruding portion bends toward a side of the first substrate away from the conductive structure layer; and a turning portion of the first protruding portion is fixed on the first end surface of the first substrate. The binding region of the conductive structure layer is located at a bending part of the conductive structure layer and is not carried on the first substrate.
US11686957B2
Apparatus include a photoelastic modulator (PEM) optical element, a controller having a frequency generator configured to produce a frequency signal at a selected frequency based on a clock signal of the controller wherein the controller is configured to produce a PEM driving signal based on the frequency signal, a PEM transducer coupled to the PEM optical element and the controller and configured to drive the PEM with the PEM driving signal, and a detector optically coupled to the PEM optical element and configured to receive a PEM modulated output and to produce a PEM detection signal that includes a PEM modulation signal, wherein the controller is configured to receive the PEM detection signal and to extract the PEM modulation signal from the PEM detection signal using the frequency signal and the clock signal.
US11686954B2
A soft contact lens designed to improve visual performance with reduced pupil edge wavefront aberration, reduced halo and reduced light scattering. The soft contact lens is designed with pupil apodization for modulating the lens amplitude transmission profile.
US11686949B2
A display device includes a light emitting unit and a light controlling means. The light controlling means is disposed on a route that a light emitted from the light emitting unit moves. Through the light controlling means, the light is controlled to move at a first angle in a horizontal direction and at a second angle in a vertical direction. The first angle is different from the second angle.
US11686943B2
A display device comprising: a lens module comprising a lens and a reflective module in the lens; and a display module on at least one side surface of the lens, the display module being configured to display an image, the lens comprising: a side surface facing the display module and configured to receive the image; and an exiting surface configured to emit the image reflected by the reflective module, wherein the side surface comprises one or more inclination surfaces.
US11686942B2
A display system includes a source of unpolarized image light, and a stack of polarization-selective optical elements operable to switchably convert the unpolarized image light into two orthogonally polarized light beams, each of which being switchable in at least one beam characteristic. An output polarizer selects one of the two orthogonally polarized light beams for providing to a user. A depolarizer may be disposed between an electronic display emitting polarized light and the stack. The depolarizer may be in the form of an LC bilayer with randomized in-plane optic axis.
US11686940B2
System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for presenting images on a mobile device. Images are presented by monitoring one or more physical characteristics surrounding the mobile device using at least one sensor, determining a contextual state of the mobile device based on the monitored one or more physical characteristics, selecting an image from a plurality of related images associated with the determined contextual state, generating at least one overlay image from the selected image, and presenting the at least one overlay image with an optical assembly of the mobile device.
US11686929B2
A light sheet microscope, such as an oblique plane microscope or a swept confocally-aligned planar excitation (SCAPE) microscope, includes an optical system with a first optical element, a second optical element and a mirror assembly. In a first operational state of the microscope, the optical system is configured to transmit illumination light along a first illumination light path through the first optical element into a first sample volume, and configured to transmit observation light along a first observation light path from the first sample volume to a detector device. In a second operational state of the microscope, the optical system is configured to transmit the illumination light along a second illumination light path via the mirror assembly through the second optical element into a second sample volume, and configured to transmit observation light along a second observation light path from the second sample volume to the detector device.
US11686928B2
A light microscope includes a scan illumination unit, which is designed to illuminate a specimen having a line focus produced by an illumination light beam and moved transversely to a light propagation direction. A descanned detection unit is designed to produce a stationary first line image of a target region from detection light that originates from a target region of the specimen illuminated with the moving line focus. The scan illumination unit and the descanned detection unit have a common objective, which is designed to receive both the illumination light beam and the detection light. The descanned detection unit contains a dispersive element, which is designed to spectrally split the detection light in order to generate multiple second line images, corresponding to the first line image, with different spectral compositions.
US11686922B2
An imaging optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element has at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11686914B2
An optical component fixing structure includes a bearer and at least two or more clamping pieces. The bearer has an accommodating opening, at least two or more sliding trenches and at least two or more protuberances. The protuberance is disposed in the sliding trench. After the clamping piece is moved into the sliding trench, the protuberance is engaged with the retaining hole and at least one of the two sidewalls covers portion of the accommodating opening to fit with the bearer to fix a lens in the accommodating opening. The invention provides a projector using the optical component fixing structure. The projector including a body, and a light source system, the optical component fixing structure, a light valve and a projecting lens are accommodated and fixed in the body.
US11686911B2
An optical distribution and splice frame system includes rack(s), enclosure(s), cable management component(s), and/or cassette(s) that have features to allow for different cable management configurations not yet available in the market. A fiber optic cassette and enclosure are designed to enable flexibility in cable management configurations for the overall system.
US11686908B2
A package includes a photonic layer on a substrate, the photonic layer including a silicon waveguide coupled to a grating coupler; an interconnect structure over the photonic layer; an electronic die and a first dielectric layer over the interconnect structure, where the electronic die is connected to the interconnect structure; a first substrate bonded to the electronic die and the first dielectric layer; a socket attached to a top surface of the first substrate; and a fiber holder coupled to the first substrate through the socket, where the fiber holder includes a prism that re-orients an optical path of an optical signal.
US11686907B2
A pluggable optical module may include a substrate. The pluggable optical module may include a compressible sliding thermal interface disposed on the substrate to contact a riding heatsink. The compressible sliding thermal interface material may be compressed to fill interstices between a first surface of the substrate and a second surface of the riding heatsink. The compressible sliding thermal interface may protrude from the first surface of the substrate such that insertion of the pluggable optical module into a cage compresses the compressible sliding thermal interface to achieve a threshold thermal boundary resistance.
US11686894B2
A luminaire includes a housing, a light diffusion panel, a reflective surface, and a plurality of light sources. The light diffusion panel includes a light source aperture, an edge surface bounding the light source aperture, and an emission surface. The emission surface includes first and second emission surface sections. The second emission surface section is disposed on an opposite side of the light source aperture from the first emission surface section. The reflective surface is disposed on a side of the light diffusion panel opposite the emission surface. The light sources project light into the light diffusion panel through the edge surface. The light sources include first and second light sources. The first light source projects light into the light diffusion panel and through the first emission surface section. The second light source projects light into the light diffusion panel and through the second emission surface section.
US11686886B2
This disclosure describes illumination assemblies operable to generate a patterned illumination that maintain high contrast over a wide temperature range. An implementation of the illumination assembly can include an array of monochromatic light sources positioned on an illumination plane, first and second optical elements, and an exit aperture. A chief ray of each light source within the array of monochromatic light sources can substantially converge at an exit aperture. In such implementations light generated by the array of monochromatic light sources can be used efficiently.
US11686884B2
Light-absorbing flange lenses that may be used in the lens stacks of compact lens systems. In a light-absorbing flange lens, the effective area of the lens is composed of a transparent optical material, and at least a portion of the flange of the lens is composed of an optical material that absorbs at least a portion of the light that enters the flange. Using light-absorbing flange lenses may allow the lens barrel to be eliminated from the lens system, thus reducing the X-Y dimensions of the lens system when compared to conventional compact lens systems that include a lens stack enclosed in a lens barrel. In addition, using a light-absorbing material in the flanges of the light-absorbing flange lenses may reduce or eliminate optical aberrations such as lens flare, haze, and ghosting in images.
US11686879B2
A distributed weather system includes a storage, a plurality of wireless weather stations, a server, and an interface. Each of the plurality of wireless weather stations is associated with a user and has a battery, a location sensor generating location information, an anemometer generating apparent wind speed, a transmitter transmitting the location information with the apparent wind speed to a network at periodic intervals, and a receiver receiving control commands that include a length of the periodic intervals. The server receives the location information with the apparent wind speed and stores them in the storage. The interface is accessible by a mobile computer, and receives the control commands from a user and sends them to the receiver of the wireless weather station associated with the user. The interface displays a true wind speed for each of the plurality of wireless weather stations, which is calculated using the apparent wind speed, the location information, and historical location information.
US11686857B2
A method of navigating with a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) includes receiving a GNSS signal, calculating a GNSS navigation solution according to the GNSS identifying map information corresponding to the GNSS navigation solution, detecting features from the identified map information, and correcting a GNSS navigation based on the features detected from the map information and the GNSS signal.
US11686856B2
A system includes a receiver mounted on a work machine, and a processor. The receiver receives a signal usable to identify a position of the work machine. The processor acquires a position of the receiver from the signal received by the receiver. The processor acquires a calculated position of a calibration point in the work machine by calculating a position of the calibration point from the position of the receiver. The processor acquires an actual position of the calibration point. The processor generates calibration data usable to calibrate a position of a reference point in the work machine by comparing the actual position with the calculated position of the calibration point.
US11686852B2
A communication system, includes a satellite receiver in operable communication with a central server, a cellular node configured to operate within a proximity of the satellite receiver, and at least one mobile communication device configured to communicate (i) with the cellular node, (ii) within the proximity of the satellite receiver, and (iii) using a transmission signal capable of causing interference to the satellite receiver. The satellite receiver is configured to detect a repeating portion of the transmission signal and determine a potential for interference from the at least one mobile communication device based on the detected repeating portion.
US11686832B2
An ultrasonic target, including a main reflector, the main reflector including three main faces, extending from a main vertex, the main faces forming a main trirectangular trihedron; defining a main base plane, lying facing the main vertex, and forming a base of the main trirectangular trihedron; the target including at least one auxiliary reflector fastened to the main reflector, the or each auxiliary reflector including three auxiliary faces, extending from an auxiliary vertex, the auxiliary faces forming an auxiliary trirectangular trihedron; defining an auxiliary base plane, lying facing the auxiliary vertex, and forming a base of the auxiliary trirectangular trihedron.
US11686828B2
A method for compensating stray light caused by an object in a scene that is sensed by a time-of-flight camera is provided. The method includes receiving an image of the scene from the time-of-flight camera. Further, the method includes controlling the time-of-flight camera to capture a reference image of the scene using a code modulated signal for illumination such that a measurement range of the time-of-flight camera is limited to a distance range around the object. The method additionally includes modifying the image of the scene or an image derived therefrom using the reference image to obtain a compensated image of the scene. The method includes outputting the compensated image.
US11686827B2
A Lidar system is provided. The Lidar system comprise: a light source configured to emit a multi-pulse sequence to measure a distance between the Lidar system and a location in a three-dimensional environment, and the multi-pulse sequence comprises multiple pulses having a temporal profile; a photosensitive detector configured to detect light pulses from the three-dimensional environment; and one or more processors configured to: determine a coding scheme comprising the temporal profile, wherein the coding scheme is determined dynamically based on one or more real-time conditions including an environment condition, a condition of the Lidar system or a signal environment condition; and calculate the distance based on a time of flight of a sequence of detected light pulses, wherein the time of flight is determined by determining a match between the sequence of detected light pulses and the temporal profile.
US11686822B2
LIDAR measurement system with a LIDAR transmitting unit and a LIDAR receiving unit, which is configured in a focal-plane-array arrangement, wherein the LIDAR receiving unit has a plurality of sensor elements and wherein the LIDAR transmitting unit has a plurality of emitter elements, wherein a plurality of sensor elements form a macrocell, wherein the macrocell is associated with a single emitter element, wherein the distance between two adjacent emitter elements is unequal to an integer multiple of the distance between two adjacent sensor elements.
US11686819B2
A time-of-flight (ToF) optical beam splitter includes a main body having a first reflectivity and comprising a main surface configured to receive a receive light beam from an environment that corresponds to a transmit light beam transmitted into the environment, where the main surface includes a first region and a second region; and a reflective coating disposed on the main surface at the first region and excluded from the main surface at the second region, where the reflective coating has second reflectivity that is greater than the first reflectivity. The ToF optical beam splitter has a time variable splitting ratio with respect to the receive light beam that is dependent on a ToF of a round trip light beam comprising of the transmit light beam and the receive light beam.
US11686804B2
A method, system and computer readable medium for Ultrasound contact tracing comprising receiving one or more advertise messages determining a base station from the one or more advertise messages wherein the base station generates a broadcast order from at least the one or more advertise messages. A broadcast order is determined and an ultrasound message is sent according to the broadcast order. A detection period for ultrasound messages is initiated according to the broadcast order and a user may be notified of a detected ultrasound message.
US11686801B2
During obtaining a sensitivity distribution in a k-space, data based on which the sensitivity distribution is obtained is expanded with a mirror image to create an expanded image to prevent spectrum leakage, and the sensitivity distribution is stably calculated. During obtaining the sensitivity distribution in the k-space, image data based on which the sensitivity distribution is obtained is inverted as a mirror image to be made into the expanded image, the expanded image is transformed into k-space data, and a frequency component (frequency space data) of the sensitivity distribution is calculated. A region corresponding to the original image data is clipped from the calculated frequency space data, and the sensitivity distribution is obtained.
US11686797B2
A method of controlling and processing data from a hybrid PET-MR imaging system includes acquiring a positron emission tomographic (PET) dataset over a time period, wherein the PET dataset is affected by a quasi-periodic motion of the patient, and acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) data during the time period such that the acquisition time of the MR data relative to the PET dataset is known. A characteristic of the patient motion is then determined based on the PET dataset and the MR data is processed based on the characteristic of patient motion.
US11686795B2
A fat saturation method for a magnetic resonance imaging system having a main magnet providing a magnetic field B0 The method includes: driving a shim coil assembly with a first set of shimming currents to sufficiently alter a B0 field inhomogeneity of the magnetic field B0 within a region that includes a first imaging volume of interest such that water saturation inside the region is reduced from before the first set of shimming currents are applied; applying a fat saturation pulse to the region; identifying the first imaging volume of interest from the region; driving the shim coil assembly with a second set of shimming currents to alter the B0 field inhomogeneity of the magnetic field B0 within the first imaging volume of interest such that the B0 field inhomogeneity within the first imaging volume of interest is reduced; and obtaining magnetic resonance signals from the first imaging volume of interest.
US11686787B2
A magnetic sensor includes first to fourth resistor sections and a plurality of MR elements. Each of the plurality of MR elements belongs to any of first to fourth groups. The first to fourth groups are defined based on the areas of top surfaces of the MR elements. The first resistor section, the second resistor section, the third resistor section, and the fourth resistor section are constituted of the first group, the second group, the third group, and the fourth group, respectively; the second group, the first group, the fourth group, and the third group, respectively; the first group, the fourth group, the third group, and the second group, respectively; or the third group, the second group, the first group, and the fourth group, respectively.
US11686785B2
A magnetic field generator includes: an upper layer coil composed of a first conductive material and forming a loop circuit having a coil portion; a lower layer coil composed of a second conductive material and forming a loop circuit having a coil portion arranged opposite to the coil portion of the upper layer coil at a predetermined distance; and a substrate supporting the upper layer coil and the lower layer coil and having a dielectric material between the upper layer coil and the lower layer coil. High-frequency currents of opposite phases are passed through the upper layer coil and the lower layer coil, respectively, and a length per loop of the coil portion in the upper layer coil and the coil portion in the lower layer coil is matched to one wavelength of the high-frequency current.
US11686782B2
A power cable failure prediction apparatus and method includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature around a vehicle, a resistance measurer configured to measure a resistance of a cable connected to a drive motor of the vehicle, and a controller configured to predict in advance whether the cable is damaged by comparing the temperature around the vehicle with the resistance of the cable.
US11686767B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes at least one fabric to interface with a plurality of intellectual property (IP) blocks of the apparatus, the at least one fabric including at least one status storage, and a fabric bridge controller coupled to the at least one fabric. The fabric bridge controller may be configured to initiate a functional safety test of the at least one fabric in response to a fabric test signal received during functional operation of the apparatus, receive a result of the functional safety test via the at least one status storage, and send to a destination location a test report based on the result. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11686759B2
Systems and methods for testing printed circuit boards (PCBs) are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a tester for printed circuit boards (PCBs) includes a test fixture having a plurality of electrical contacts for contacting the PCBs that are units under test (UUTs). The test fixture carries a remote test peripheral master (RTPM) module, and a remote test peripheral slave (RTPS) module. The RTPM module and the RTPS module are connected through a remote test peripheral (RTP) bus.
US11686758B2
An arc fault detection device for detecting an arc fault in an electric line includes a first terminal and a second terminal for connecting the arc fault detection device to a conductor of the electric line. A sensor is adapted for generating a sensor signal from a current through the electric line; and a controller is adapted for detecting the arc fault from the sensor signal. The sensor includes an inductor connected to the first terminal and the second terminal and a capacitor connected in parallel with the inductor. The inductor and the capacitor form a resonant circuit with a resonance frequency, the resonance frequency determining an impedance behavior of the resonant circuit; wherein the inductor and the capacitor are chosen such that the impedance behavior of the resonant circuit corresponds to a desired impedance behavior over a relevant frequency range of the current through the electric line.
US11686755B2
A method for rapidly evaluating inequality expressions for electromagnetic propagation includes obtaining a threshold loss value establishing a maximum electromagnetic (EM) path loss between a first geographical point and a second geographical point. The method also includes, for each of a plurality of EM paths between the first geographical point and the second geographical point, obtaining a minimum EM loss value for the corresponding EM path and a maximum EM loss value for the corresponding EM path and determining whether the maximum EM loss value for the corresponding EM path satisfies the threshold loss value. Additionally, the method includes, when the maximum EM loss value for the corresponding EM path satisfies the threshold loss value, determining that an actual EM path loss value for the corresponding EM path between the first geographical point and the second geographical point satisfies the threshold loss value.
US11686754B2
Described is an invention that adds capacitive sensing ability with a single magnetic field sensor location or distributed within an array of surfaces of the sensor. The capacitive sensing can be achieved by modifying a classic Hall effect sensor or putting separate capacitive sensor plates in close proximity to the hall effect sensor.
US11686752B2
In an example, monitoring circuitry includes a first and a second coupling to electrically connect the monitoring circuitry to a monitored circuit having a resistance. The resistance of the monitored circuit may be indicative of a status, and the monitored circuit may be connected in series between the first and second coupling. The first coupling comprises a plurality of galvanically separated connection elements which are to form an electrical connection with a common connection element of the monitored circuit. The monitoring circuitry further comprises a monitoring apparatus to determine the resistance of the monitored circuit via the first coupling and the second coupling. The monitoring apparatus is to acquire a plurality of electrical values and to use the plurality of electrical values to determine a value of the resistance of the monitored circuit.
US11686751B2
Systems and methods relate to electric propulsor fault detection. An exemplary system includes at least a first inverter configured to accept a direct current and produce an alternating current, a first propulsor, a first motor operatively connected with the first propulsor and powered by the alternating current, and at least a noise monitoring circuit electrically connected with the direct current and configured to detect electromagnetic noise and disengage the at least an inverter as a function of the electromagnetic noise.
US11686749B2
A power meter or other electrical device is provided having two independent and communicatively isolated Ethernet ports. The first Ethernet port is addressable by a first unique identifier and is configured for enabling full access to the power meter via an internal LAN. This enables a LAN operator to remotely access the power meter via the internal LAN for performing metering functions, such as full telemetry, control and programming. The second Ethernet port is addressable by a second unique identifier and is configured for being connected to the Internet. Since the second Ethernet port is communicatively isolated from the first Ethernet port, a user can access the power meter via the Internet, but cannot access the internal LAN by connecting to the power meter via the Internet.
US11686746B2
A low power comparator and a self-regulated device for adjusting power saving level of an electronic device are provided. The low power comparator includes an input differential pair circuit, a self-regulated device, and a tail current switch. The input differential pair circuit is configured to receive input signals to be compared. The self-regulated device is coupled to the input differential pair circuit and includes a self-regulated circuit which has a first transistor with a first threshold voltage and a second transistor with a second threshold voltage and is configured to adjust a power saving level of the low-power comparator according to the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage. The tail current switch is coupled to the input differential pair circuit through the self-regulated circuit to provide a constant current to the input differential pair circuit.
US11686736B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of laboratory diagnostics. Specifically, methods are disclosed for determining a patient's risk of suffering from heart failure (HF) based on the detection of NT-proBNP, troponin T, and/or a natriuretic peptide. Also disclosed are methods for improving both the accuracy and speed of HF risk models by incorporating biomarker data from patient samples.
US11686731B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention relates to LRG1 protein markers for use in the diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment of prostate cancer.
US11686726B2
A separation system, a method in a separation system and an elution arrangement to be provided in a separation system for separating a biomolecule from a cell culture are provided. The method comprises the steps of: —providing a feed from a cell culture (3; 103; 203) comprising said biomolecule to a magnetic separator (5; 105; 205) and providing to the magnetic separator magnetic beads comprising ligands capable of binding this biomolecule; —separating by the magnetic separator said magnetic beads with bound biomolecules from the rest of the feed; —forwarding said magnetic beads as a slurry with an added buffer to an elution cell (7; 107; 207); —eluting the bound biomolecules in the elution cell.
US11686724B2
The current invention provides methods to identify γ9δ2T-cell receptors (γ9δ2TCR) that mediate anti-tumour responses. Surprisingly, it was now found that the CDR3 regions of the γ9-T-cell receptor chain and the δ2-T-Cell receptor chain (δ2TCR chain) are of importance. Based on these findings, combinatorial-γδTCR-chain-exchange (CTE) is proposed as an efficient method for identifying γ9δ2TCRs that mediate anti-tumour responses. Using the method of the invention, specific sequences of the respective γ9TCR and δ2TCR chains were identified that mediate anti-tumour responses. Hence, the invention further provides for specific γ9δ2TCRs, or fragments thereof, that may be used e.g. in diagnostics or treatment of cancer. The invention further provides for nucleic acid sequences, genetic constructs and retroviral vectors that can be used to express the γ9δ2TCRs according to the invention.
US11686719B2
Methods of evaluating viscous compositions are disclosed. The methods may be used to evaluate degradation levels of lubricants including grease. The methods may include preparing a surface for testing by leveling and flattening a viscous composition, placing a drop of a liquid on the flattened leveled surface, evaluating the observed contact angle between the drop and the surface, and then comparing the observed contact angle to a reference contact angle.
US11686716B2
A flow cell with a first section and a second section, and a gasket sealing between the first and second sections. A chamber is defined in the flow cell, having a perimeter with a narrower end and a rounded wider end. An inlet passage, outlet passage, and a sensor are arranged in fluid communication with the chamber. The inlet passage directs fluid into the chamber proximal its narrow end at an angle of between about 45° and 75° relative to the plane of gasket and the outlet passage directs fluid flow out of the wider end of the chamber at an angle between about 45° and 75° relative to the plane of gasket, the inlet passage and outlet passage being angled in opposite directions. The flow cell is useful for monitoring levels of chemicals in an industrial process stream, such as lactose levels in a dairy process stream.
US11686706B2
A nanopore based sequencing system includes a plurality of nanopore sensors. Each nanopore sensor has a portion for receiving a fluid. The nanopore based sequencing system includes a fluid chamber configured to guide the fluid over the plurality of nanopore sensors and an inlet configured to deliver the fluid into the fluid chamber. At least a portion of the fluid chamber is made of a material that has been molded around at least a portion of an electrode.
US11686703B2
The present solution describes an automated system for analyzing analytical gels or blots, such as electrophoresis gels. The system can automatically detect the lanes within the gel and convert the lane into a feature vector that can be compared to reference datasets. Based on a comparison of the feature vector to the reference datasets, the system can automatically classify the feature vector (and the test sample in the lane) into a phenotype group.
US11686700B2
A gas sensor includes an element body having an oxygen ion conductive solid electrolyte layer and internally provided with a measurement-object gas flow section that introduces a measurement-object gas and allows the gas to flow; a measurement-object gas-side electrode disposed in a portion of the element body, the portion being exposed to the measurement-object gas; and a reference electrode disposed inside of the element body. Let A [μA] be a limiting current when oxygen is pumped from the surroundings of the measurement-object gas-side electrode to the surroundings of the reference electrode with the measurement-object gas introduction section, and B [μA] be a limiting current when oxygen is pumped from the surroundings of the reference electrode to the surroundings of the measurement-object gas-side electrode with the reference gas introduction section, then a ratio A/B is greater than or equal to 0.005.
US11686697B2
A method of identifying a gas is provided. The method includes providing a gas sensor device comprising at least two stacked metal oxide layers, wherein a change in conductance of the gas sensor device in a presence of a gas varies with a temperature of the stacked metal oxide layers. The method includes bringing the gas into proximity with the stacked metal oxide layers. The method also includes measuring the conductance of the gas sensor device when the gas is in proximity with the stacked layers at multiple temperatures to generate a temperature-conductance profile. The method also includes identifying a gas of interest based on the temperature-conductance profile.
US11686695B2
Evaluation arrangement for a thermal gas sensor with at least one heater and at least one detector. The evaluation arrangement is configured to obtain information about an amplitude of a detector signal of a first detector, and information about a first phase difference between a heater signal and the detector signal of the first detector. In addition, the evaluation arrangement is configured to form as an intermediate quantity, dependent on the information about the amplitudes of the detector signal and dependent on the information about the first phase difference, a combination signal, and to determine information about a gas concentration or information about a thermal diffusivity of a fluid on the basis of the combination signal.
US11686693B2
The present disclosure concerns an electron microscopy method, including the emission of a precessing electron beam and the acquisition, at least partly simultaneous, of an electron diffraction pattern and of intensity values of X rays.
US11686679B2
An optical waveguide includes a core layer which extends along a longitudinal direction and through which light can propagate; and a protective film that is formed on at least a portion of a surface of the core layer and has a smaller refractive index than the core layer. At least a portion of the protective film is provided in a manner allowing contact with a gas or a liquid. In a cross-section of at least a portion perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the core layer, the protective film is formed around the entire surface of the core layer.
US11686675B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for infrared (IR) image operations are provided. An example imaging system includes a first IR imaging device configured to generate first IR image data and a second IR imaging device configured to generate second IR image data. The system further includes a computing device that receives the first IR image data from the first IR imaging device and receives the second IR image data from the second IR imaging device. The computing device further determines a first feature representing a position of a gas plume based upon the first IR image data and a second feature representing a position of the gas plume based upon the second IR image data and determines a disparity between the first and second features. The computing device further determines a distance between the imaging system and the gas plume based upon the determined disparity.
US11686671B2
A concentration measurement device 100 includes a light source 22 for generating incident light to a measurement space 10A, a photodetector 24 for receiving light emitted from the measurement space, and an arithmetic control circuit 26 for calculating a concentration of a measurement fluid on the basis of an output of the photodetector, and the light source includes a first light-emitting element 22a for generating light having a first wavelength, and a second light-emitting element 22b for generating light having a second wavelength, and the concentration measurement device is configured so as to calculate the concentration using either light of the first wavelength or the second wavelength on the basis of the pressure or temperature of the measurement fluid.
US11686666B2
The present invention discloses a method for detecting a microstructure of a functionally graded material based on digital acousto-optic holography, including the following steps: excite a sample with an ultrasonic wave; record a light wave; form a single tomographic acousto-optic hologram; perform numerical reconstruction of phase information, and perform global detection. The present invention uses an acoustic-optic modulation device to modulate a laser light source of a laser of a laser device to form two light waves of different frequencies. The two light waves each constitute a Mach-Zehnder interference system to record reflection wave information and transmission wave information of an ultrasound, and are finally combined and recorded in the same hologram to form the single tomographic acousto-optic hologram.
US11686663B2
Some embodiments of the methods provided herein relate to sample analysis and particle characterization methods. Some such embodiments include receiving, from a particle analyzer, measurements for a first portion of particles associated with an experiment. Some embodiments also include generating a tree representing groups of related particles based at least in part on the measurements, wherein the tree includes at least three groups. Some embodiments also include generating a measure of relatedness between a first group and a second group of the tree based at least in part on the measurements. Some embodiments also include and configuring the particle analyzer to classify a subsequent particle associated with the experiment with the first group real-time, wherein the subsequent particle is not included in the first portion of particles. Some embodiments also include sorting the subsequent particle.
US11686662B2
There is provided technology that enables a microparticle sorting device to be adjusted highly accurately without using adjustment beads. The present technology provides a microparticle sorting device including a light detection unit that optically detects a microparticle flowing through a flow path, a droplet forming unit that forms a droplet containing the microparticle, and a device adjustment unit that adjusts the device, in which, in a process of adjusting the device before actual measurement of the microparticle, the device adjustment unit performs optical axis position calibration for calibrating a relative position of the flow path relative to irradiation light and delay time calibration for calibrating a delay time from light irradiation to the microparticle to formation of the droplet on the basis of information obtained from the microparticle to be measured.
US11686650B2
A method for imaging a room by a controller includes requesting a signal, indicative of a measurement of a parameter, from a sensor associated with a position and direction of a mobile platform in the room, wherein the measurement from the sensor includes background noise, distortions, and a foreground signal of interest, in response to the mobile platform reaching a new position, requesting a second measurement of the parameter from the sensor associated with the new position of the mobile platform, spatially aggregating the signal from the sensor and associated position and direction to create an energy map via spatio-dynamic beamforming, wherein the background noise and distortions are reduced, by spatially averaging beamformed information acquired across multiple locations to synthesize signals indicative of the foreground signal of interest, analyzing the energy map to identify a state of an apparatus in the room, and outputting a foreground beamformed image.
US11686646B2
A pressure-adjustable auxiliary control system for high-pressure gas sealing detection includes: a high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit configured to construct high-pressure test gas sealing environment and to test sealing performance of a sealing member; a first gas pipeline divided into two branches, of which one branch is connected to the high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit as a first gas replacement path; a second gas pipeline which is connected to a test gas pressurization path together with the other branch of the first gas pipeline, where a first booster pump processing unit and a second booster pump processing unit are sequentially arranged in the test gas pressurization path for pressurizing the test gas, and are connected to the high-pressure chamber environment monitoring unit; a system air control module configured for control of respective air control valves; and a booster pump air control module and a driving air source preprocessing unit.
US11686643B2
The present disclosure relates to an arrangement (100) for obtaining a quantity related to a temperature along a part of an optical fibre (110). The arrangement comprises a light emitter (120) arranged to emit light into the optical fibre (110). The optical fibre is at at least one location along said part of the optical fibre provided with a Fibre Bragg Gratings, FBGs (111, 112, 113), wherein the FBGs are arranged to reflect light within a predetermined wavelength range. The arrangement further comprises a detector (160) arranged to receive and detect the reflected light, a first optical shutter (130) arranged in the optical path after the light emitter. The first optical shutter is arranged to be opened and closed in order to let the emitted light through and into the optical fibre (110), a second optical shutter (150) arranged to be opened and closed in order to let the reflected light through, and an optical circulator (140) having a first, a second and a third port. The optical circulator is operatively connected to the first optical shutter (130) at the first port, to the part of the optical fibre provided with the FBGs (111, 112) at the second port, and to the second optical shutter (150) at the third port. A control unit (180) is arranged to control the first optical shutter (130) and the second optical shutter (150). The control unit (180) is arranged to coordinate the timing of the opening of the first optical shutter (130) and the second optical shutter (150), respectively.
US11686622B2
A frequency-measurement method uses a dual frequency-comb spectrometer as an optical wavemeter to measure the frequency of a reference laser that is used to frequency-stabilize the spectrometer. The method includes measuring a walking rate of center bursts in a sequence of interferograms recorded by the spectrometer, determining a number of teeth in each of a plurality of Nyquist windows formed by the dual frequency-comb spectrometer, and determining a Nyquist number of the one Nyquist window covering the laser frequency. The reference laser frequency can then be determined from the number of teeth in each Nyquist window, the Nyquist number, and the comb spacing of either one of the two frequency combs of the dual frequency-comb spectrometer. The reference laser frequency does not need to be measured with a separate wavemeter, or calibrated with respect to a known atomic or molecular transition.
US11686621B2
A method of spectroscopy, comprises: transmitting output radiation to a sample; collecting from the sample input radiation being indicative of interaction between the output radiation and the sample; modulating at least one of the output radiation and the input radiation, wherein at least one of the output radiation and the modulation is characterized by a scanned parameter; combining the input radiation, following the modulation, with a reference signal to provide a combined signal; processing the combined signal to construct a vector describing a dependence of a radiation property of the input radiation on the parameter; and at least partially identifying the sample or a change in comprises sample based on at least the vector.
US11686618B2
Disclosed are hyperspectral/multiple spectral imaging methods and devices. A method obtains first and second spectral image datasets of a region of interest (ROI). The first spectral image dataset is characterized by a first spectral range and the second spectral image dataset is characterized by a second spectral range. The method then performs a first spectral analysis on the first spectral image dataset and a second spectral analysis on the second spectral image dataset. Afterwards, the method determines one or more spectral signature(s) at a deeper layer of the ROI.
US11686617B2
Provided are an optical spectrum analyzer and a pulse-modulated light measurement method capable of measuring pulse-modulated light even when a pulse-on time and a pulse period of the pulse-modulated light are unknown. Pulse-modulated light (DUT) is incident on a diffraction grating 3. A first light receiving unit 8 receives the 0th-order light of diffracted light diffracted by the diffraction grating 3. A second light receiving unit 7 receives diffracted light of an order other than the 0th-order light. A measurement timing signal generation unit 9 generates a sampling signal based on the 0th-order light received by the first light receiving unit. The spectrum of the diffracted light received by the second light receiving unit is measured based on the sampling signal generated by the measurement timing signal generation unit.
US11686611B2
An acousto-optic transducer comprises a graphene resonator, a substrate, an entry window and an exit window. The graphene resonator bears at least one donor molecule. The substrate bears at least one acceptor molecule. The graphene resonator is responsive to sound to bring the at least one donor molecule within range of the at least one acceptor molecule for Förster resonance energy transfer from the at least one donor molecule to the at least one acceptor molecule to take place. The entry window is arranged to permit incoming light to fall on the at least one donor molecule. The exit window is arranged to allow light emitted by the at least one acceptor molecule to leave the acousto-optic transducer. Thus, the acousto-optic transducer can function as a passive device using only energy derived from ambient light to convert sound into light.
US11686606B2
A system includes a conduit, a sensor system and a controller. The conduit may be associated with a structure, having a portion thereof disposed on a surface, and being disposed in a direction normal to the surface. The controller is in communication with the sensor component. When the sensor system is operable to detect when sediment on the surface and surrounding the structure is removed from an area around the structure, an initial length, li, of the conduit is disposed below the surface of the sediment on the surface and surrounding the structure at an initial time. When the sensor system is operable to detect when sediment is deposited around the structure, the initial length, li, of the conduit is disposed above the surface at the initial time.
US11686605B2
A tank fill control apparatus comprising: a tank-installed switch, including: a tubular body including an upper end, a lower end, and an annular mounting flange on an outer surface between the upper end and the lower end; a liquid level sensor including a detector, a float in and moveable along a length of the lower end and a rod connecting the float to the detector, the liquid level sensor configured to sense a liquid level relative to the lower end and further configured to generate a signal when at least a maximum selected liquid level is sensed; and a control unit in communication with the tank-installed switch including: a liquid level monitoring function for receiving the signal from the liquid level sensor; and a control function for generating at least one of (i) an alert signal indicating that the maximum selected liquid level is sensed and (ii) a valve control to modify a fill operation from a tank fill system.
US11686603B2
A pressure type flowmeter includes a fluid resistance element provided in a flow path through which fluid flows, and in which a resistance flow path communicating with the flow path is formed, an upstream-side pressure sensor that detects upstream-side pressure of the fluid resistance element, and a downstream-side pressure sensor that detects downstream-side pressure of the fluid resistance element, in which the fluid resistance element is sandwiched and fixed by a pair of sandwiching components sealing components having a sheet-like shape are provided between the fluid resistance element and the sandwiching components and protrusions that partially press the sealing components are formed on at least one of the fluid resistance element and the sandwiching components.
US11686599B2
Methods and apparatus that can include a rotatable target to generate a sinusoidal signal in a magnetic field sensor, wherein the target includes a plurality of sinusoidal teeth to reduce angular error. A magnetic field sensor can be configured to determine a position of the target. In embodiments, a rotatable target to generate a sinusoidal signal in a magnetic field sensor can include a plurality of sinusoidal teeth and a number of harmonics to reduce angular error.
US11686596B2
Provided are waveguide sensors and position sensing systems. In some embodiments, a position sensing system may include a waveguide configured to receive and transmit a pulse, and a magnet moveable relative to the waveguide. The waveguide may include a first core layer and a second core layer, a magnetic layer between the first and second core layers, and a conductive winding around the first core layer, the second core layer, and the magnetic layer. The position sensing system may further include a first substrate layer above the conductive winding and a second substrate layer below the conductive winding.
US11686578B2
An expandable level that is configured to extend from a first length to a second length in order to identify a vertical or horizontal plane across a greater distance. The level of the present invention includes a body wherein the body has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and second portion are axially aligned and secured together in the first position of the level with a fastener. The first portion and second portion of the body have telescoping support members operably coupled therebetween. The telescoping support members include a plurality of segments that facilitate the expansion of the length of the level wherein the first portion and second portion are moved away from each other. Sight windows and level bubbles are in both the first portion and second portion.
US11686563B2
A system and method of correcting the trajectory of a hunting arrow is disclosed and described. The arrow can include a compensator coupled to a shaft of the arrow and the compensator has diameter that is larger than a diameter of the shaft of the arrow. A thickness of the compensator, which is measured as the difference in the diameter of the compensator and the diameter of the shaft of the arrow, is configured to enable a user to aim the arrow with a bow that has been sighted for a standard arrow.
US11686554B2
A foldable dot sight device is provided that includes a body capable of being assembled into a firearm. A dot generator is disposed on the body, and is capable of generating a dot for aiming at a target. A reflective mirror is provided, which transmits an image of a target toward the user and reflects the dot generated by the dot generator. A housing is connected to the reflective mirror. A protective cover includes a sliding guide rotatably connected to the body and rotates the housing in a folding or unfolding direction according to a rotational position.
US11686553B2
A firearm retention mechanism is provided for a holster. The device comprises first and second arms that each have a first end and a second end, outwardly extending retention elements and trigger guard stops, and a fastener which connects the first and second arms so that they define an open top, with the retention elements and trigger guard stops facing one another, the trigger guard stops located below the retention elements. The arms are connected to sides of the holster with the open top facing upwardly to receive a trigger guard of the firearm, which is then pressed between the retention elements.
US11686551B2
A handguard assembly for installation on a firearm includes a handguard, an index block, a first fastener, and a second fastener. The handguard includes first and second clearance apertures and the index block includes first and second threaded apertures. The first and second fasteners extend through the respective first and second clearance apertures and threaded into the respective first and second threaded apertures. The first and second fasteners define respective first and second longitudinal axes that are non-parallel and non-collinear with each other. Tightening the first and second fasteners with respect to the index block secures the handguard to the index block and prevents movement of the handguard relative firearm.
US11686550B1
A shooting toy includes a gun body defining a bullet loading position and a launching position, a bullet loading device rotatably arranged on an outer side of the gun body, a pumping device communicated with the launching position, and a rotating device rotatably arranged in the gun body. The rotating device defines bullet accommodating cavities. The rotating device drives the bullet accommodating cavities to rotate in the gun body, so that the bullet accommodating cavities rotate to the bullet loading position and the launching position in turn. The bullet loading device loads soft bullets to the bullet loading position during a rotation process, so that the soft bullets are loaded in the bullet accommodating cavities. The pumping device pumps pressurized air to the launching position, so that each of the soft bullets is shot from the launching position under driving of the pressurized air.
