US11700302B2
Techniques for adjusting a compute capacity of a cloud computing system. In an example, a compute scaling application accesses, from a cloud computing system, a compute capacity indicating a number of allocated compute instances of a cloud computing system and usage metrics indicating pending task requests in a queue of the cloud computing system. The compute scaling application determines, for the cloud computing system, a compute scaling adjustment by applying a machine learning model to the compute capability of the cloud computing system and the usage metrics. The compute scaling adjustment indicates an adjustment to a number of compute instances of the cloud computing system. The compute scaling application provides the compute scaling adjustment to the cloud computing system. The cloud computing system adjusts a number of allocated compute instances.
US11700300B2
Techniques are provided for managing resources among clusters of computing devices in a computing system. Resource reassignment message are generated for indicating that servers are reassigned and in response to resource compute loads exceed or fall below certain thresholds. Techniques also include establishing communications with the reassigned servers to assign compute loads without physically relocating the servers from one cluster to another cluster.
US11700299B2
Provided are a request processing unit to send a first process distribution request to other information processing apparatuses via a communication I/F unit, the first process distribution request being a request for ordering execution of a first process on a first; and an order destination selecting unit to receive, via the communication I/F unit, as a response to the first process distribution request, a first estimated reply time calculated as the time required to receive the transfer of the first data and to reply a first process result obtained by executing the first process on the first data, to use the first estimated reply time to select an order destination to which the execution of the first process is to be ordered by the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and to order the execution of the first process on the first data to the order destination via the communication interface unit.
US11700295B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US11700290B1
Techniques and systems for selectively implementing a silent retry procedure after a voice session has moved from a preferred IP-based system (e.g., 5GS) to a legacy IP-based system (e.g., EPS) are disclosed. The silent retry procedure may be implemented by a UE and/or by a TAS using one or more specific error codes and/or timeouts. In this manner, after a voice session has been redirected or handed over from a preferred system (e.g., 5GS) to a legacy system (e.g., EPS), and based on an issue arising that prevents the voice session from being successfully established thereafter, the UE or the TAS may reattempt to establish the voice session directly in the legacy system, instead of allowing the UE to transition back to the preferred system (e.g., 5GS) after a session failure in the legacy system, which increases the overall success rate of establishing voice sessions.
US11700288B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computer program products for transferring a performance of a procedure found in technical documentation for an item via an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to the technical documentation. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: providing the steps of the procedure in an order in which the steps are to be carried out; and while a user is participating in the performance of the procedure: causing a particular step that is being carried out to be highlighted; receiving input of a selection of a transfer mechanism and in response: causing an indication to be displayed between the particular step and a next step to be carried out identifying where the performance has been suspended; providing a transfer window displaying transfer information; and recording the transfer information and an identifier for the indication.
US11700287B2
During a Session Initiation Protocol dialog setup, a media gateway or container executes or initiates two or more applications that provide features during a conference call. The applications are applied to messages or data in the conference call based on a sequence order established during the setup of the conference call. The sequence order and the application identities are stored in a shared database. When a failure occurs during the conference call, the applications are reestablished in the reconstructed or reestablished conference call. The application reconstruction includes reinitiating the applications with the same sequence as previously established before the failure. As such, the user has the same features applied in the same way before and after the failure, which improves the systems performance and expected operation.
US11700286B2
Embodiments described herein enable a teleconference among host-side user(s) at a host site and remotely located client-side user(s), wherein a host device is located at the host site, and wherein each of the client-side user(s) uses a respective client device to participate in the teleconference. A host site audio-visual feed is received from the host device. A client data feed is received from the client device of each client-side user. Orientation information for the respective client-side user using a client device is also received. Each client device is provided with the host site audio-visual feed or a modified version thereof. The host device is provided with, for each client device, the client data feed and the orientation information of the client-side user that is using the client device. This enables host-side and client-side users to display visual representations of one another with their respective orientations.
US11700281B2
The present application is directed a computer-implemented technique for enhancing security and preventing cyber-attacks on a network. The technique includes receiving information from user equipment, selecting a first VPN server from a VPN service provider based upon a traffic-type of the user equipment, creating a policy to prevent cyber-attacks such that traffic associated with the received information of the user equipment is routed to the first VPN server, provisioning the first VPN server to last a predetermined amount of time based on the policy, coordinating the policy with a router on the network, with the traffic being sent to the VPN server via the router, and sending, after a predetermined condition is met, a request to the VPN service provider to transmit a second VPN server, and where the first VPN server terminates.
US11700279B2
An integrated computer network security and threat prevention and detection platform includes a central processor and a display operable to aggregate and present data from a plurality of network security applications in an integrated dashboard format to a system administrator. The network security applications may be hardware, software, or hybrid applications running on local machines, local networks, remote machines, or remote networks, in communication with the central processor. In one embodiment implementation of the integrated computer network security and threat prevention and detection platform is performed on premises, in an alternative embodiment the integrated computer network security and threat prevention and detection platform is provided in an Internet or cloud-based environment, in other embodiments the computer system security platform is a hybrid configuration having both on-premises and cloud base components.
US11700278B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing access to computing environments based on a multi-environment policy are provided. The a multi-environment policy is configurable to define rules that have provider-controlled and customer-controlled computing environment parameters for approving access to provider-controlled computing environments and customer-controlled computing environments. In operation, a request associated a computing environment are received. The computing environment is associated with a multi-environment policy. The multi-environment policy is configurable to define the rules based on access vectors having grouped computing environment aspects for control and visibility associated with accessing computing environments. Based on the request, a determination whether the request is for a provider-controlled or a customer-controlled computing environment is made. Based on the multi-environment policy, approval-request parameters of an approval-request are communicated to receive approval-request response values. And, based on receiving the approval-request response values, a request response indicating approval or denial of the request is communicated.
US11700268B2
Disclosed is a device for configuring and implementing network security for a connected network node, and for shifting the network security closer to the attack point of origin. In particular, the device may activate attack protections on different Multi-Access Edge Computing (“MEC”) devices that are physically located near or at the attack point of origin. The device may detect an attack signature based on one or more received data packets, and may provide a response with an extended header field, the attack signature, and/or other attack protection instructions. The responses may be passed to an address of a suspected attacker. MEC devices along the network path may detect and receive the responses, and implement attack protections in response. The responses may also be passed to a multicast or broadcast address that the MEC device may use to receive responses.
US11700238B2
A system having an off-premises proxy server residing in a cloud computing environment and backend servers residing in an enterprise computing environment are provided. Requests received by the off-premises proxy server for access to a first, non-publicly accessible backend server are routed to a tunnel server which stores the request and waits to be polled by a tunnel agent connected to the first backend server. When the tunnel server is polled, the request is forwarded through an HTTP tunnel to the tunnel agent, which forwards it to the backend server for processing. Responsive information is returned to the tunnel agent, which forwards it through the HTTP tunnel to the tunnel server and returned through the off-premises proxy server to the remote application. Requests for access to a first, publicly accessible backend server are routed by the off-premises proxy server directly to the backend server for processing and return of responsive information.
US11700231B2
A method in which a communication device can be configured with a MAC address so that when the user logs into a network environment using a communication device from among a number of communication devices a MAC address is assigned to the user and is specific to the user. The MAC address assignment can be used for pairing with a communication device assigned to the user (e.g. a near-field communication device). A database containing MAC addresses can be connected to communication devices through a network and can provide user-specific MAC addresses that are readable into or otherwise transmittable to a predetermined communication device when a user logs into the network. The database can be managed by a server or other computer device of the network.
US11700216B2
Disclosed arc a messaging system. apparatuses circuits and methods of operation thereof. A messaging client device is adapted to receive an impermanent message and to manage the received message in accordance with a message management policy associated with the message. An impermanent messaging server is adapted to validate said messaging client device as complying with message management policies prior to authorizing transmission of the message to said messaging client device.
US11700212B2
Some embodiments provide a network forwarding IC with packet processing pipelines, at least one of which includes a parser, a set of match-action stages, and a deparser. The parser is configured to receive a packet and generate a PHV including a first number of data containers storing data for the packet. A first match-action stage is configured to receive the PHV from the parser and expand the PHV to a second, larger number of data containers storing data for the packet. Each of a set of intermediate match-action stage is configured to receive the expanded PHV from a previous stage and provide the expanded PHV to a subsequent stage. A final match-action stage is configured to receive the expanded PHV and reduce the PHV to the first number of data containers. The deparser is configured to receive the reduced PHV from the final match-action stage and reconstruct the packet.
US11700206B2
Systems and methods for providing RDMA (remote direct memory access) read requests as a restricted feature in a high performance computing environment. An exemplary method can provide, at one or more microprocessors, a first subnet, the first subnet comprising a plurality of switches, a plurality of host channel adapters, wherein each of the host channel adapters comprise at least one host channel adapter port, and wherein the plurality of host channel adapters are interconnected via the plurality of switches, and a plurality of end nodes, including a plurality of virtual machine. The method can associate a host channel adapter with a selective RDMA restriction. The method can host a virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines at the host channel adapter that comprises a selective RDMA restriction.
US11700202B2
A switching system comprises a controlling switch and a plurality of port extenders. One of the port extenders includes: at least one upstream port; multiple downstream ports; and a forwarding engine. A forwarding database is populated with entries indicating associations between i) respective network addresses corresponding to devices coupled to downstream ports, and ii) respective local downstream ports. The forwarding database excludes entries corresponding to network addresses corresponding to devices coupled to the at least one upstream port. The forwarding engine is configured to: for a first packet received via one of the local downstream ports, and having a destination network address in the forwarding database, forward the first packet to a different local downstream port indicated by the forwarding database. For a second packet received via one of the local downstream ports, and having a destination network address not in the forwarding database, forward the second packet to the at least one upstream port.
US11700199B2
A method of controlling a packet stream generated by an application installed in a mobile terminal, the stream being intended to be sent by the terminal over a communications network managed by an operator. The method includes the following acts implemented in the terminal, for at least one packet generated by the application: obtaining a first packet having a first header and payload data; transmitting a request message to a security module installed in the terminal, the message including a parameter of the first header; receiving a response from the security module, which includes an instruction relating to transmission of a second packet, the response being based on the parameter and established according to a processing rule; preparing the second packet by modifying the first header into a second header, based on the instruction, the second packet including the second header and the payload data; and transmitting the second packet.
US11700198B2
The present disclosure provides a transmission control method, a node, a network system, and a storage medium. The transmission control method includes encapsulating, by a node, overlay service identification information corresponding to a packet in the packet, and transmitting, by the node, the packet to a next hop using an underlay network resource dedicated to a service corresponding to the overlay service identification information.
US11700191B1
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for network management. In a first aspect, a method of transmitting delay-sensitive data with multi-link operation includes receiving, at a first device, first data for transmission to a second device; packaging, by the first device, the first data for transmission to the second device in a first set of packets; packaging, by the first device, the first data for transmission to the second device in a second set of packets; transmitting, by the first device, at least a portion of the first set of packets on a first shared resource; and transmitting, by the second device, at least a portion of the second set of packets on a second shared resource. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11700182B2
The automatic classification of network devices in a network. Specifically, the disclosure entails the designation of network device roles to network devices, as well as the clustering of network devices into logical groups. The association of network devices with network device roles and logical groups may be contingent on the connections between the network devices and a set of network device classification heuristics.
US11700178B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein are related to an apparatus. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a processor and a memory. In some embodiments, the memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to collect, at a cloud server, service data from a collector framework service of an edge network. In some embodiments, the memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to provide a configuration to the collector framework service based on the service data.
US11700175B2
Systems, methods, and devices, including computer-readable media, for reducing medication side effects using digital therapeutics. In some implementations, a system analyzes tracking data, user data, and medication data for various users to determine a degree to which different digital therapeutics program parameters reduce a likelihood or severity of undesired effects of medications. The system generates data that associates the parameters of the digital therapeutics programs with effects of the medications. The system receives data indicating a medication prescribed for a user of a mobile device and, based on the generated data, selects one or more digital therapeutics program parameters to activate or adjust a particular digital therapeutic program to provide interactions to the user.
US11700171B2
Provided is a method, performed by a user equipment (UE), of controlling an access, the method including receiving, through system information from a base station, barring information including a barring configuration information list and a public land mobile network (PLMN)-specific barring information list, the barring configuration information list including at least one barring configuration information and the PLMN-specific barring information list including at least one barring information per PLMN and performing a barring check based on the received barring information when the access is triggered, in which the barring configuration information corresponds to one barring configuration information index according to an order of being included to the barring configuration information list.
US11700167B2
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for routing data in a distributed environment. A controller can maintain an inactive state. A terminal can receive a request associated with a physical object. The terminal can be communicatively coupled to a cloud computing system. The terminal can attempt to transmit the request to the cloud computing system. A router communicatively coupled to the controller and cloud computing system can attempt to initiate communication between the terminal and the cloud computing system in response to the terminal attempt to transmit the request to the cloud computing system. The router can route the request to the controller in response to failing to initiate communication between the terminal and the cloud computing system after specified amount of time. The controller can switch from an inactive state to an active state in response to receiving the request.
US11700160B2
A method of determining reserved tones to be used for reduction of a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of a signal includes: randomly selecting carrier indices for the reserved tones and generating a kernel signal based on the randomly selected carrier indices; calculating a comparison reference average value of the kernel signal, comparing the calculated comparison reference average value with a prestored comparison reference average value, and preliminarily determining carrier indices of the reserved tones based on the comparison; randomly re-arranging an order of the preliminarily determined carrier indices of the reserved tones; and calculating the comparison reference average value while changing each of the re-arranged indices of the reserved tones, and finally determining carrier indices for which the calculated comparison reference average value becomes the smallest value as carrier indices of the reserved tones.
US11700159B2
In a transmission device, a signal processing circuit generates an aggregate physical layer convergence protocol data unit (A-PPDU) by adding a guard interval to each of a first part of a first physical layer convergence protocol data unit (PPDU) transmitted over each of a first through L′th channel of a predetermined channel bandwidth, where L is an integer of 2 or greater, a second part of the first PPDU transmitted over each of an (L+1)′th through P′th channel, which is a variable channel bandwidth that is N times the predetermined channel bandwidth, where N is an integer of 2 or greater and P is an integer of L+1 or greater, and a second PPDU transmitted over the (L+1)′th through P′th channel. A wireless circuit transmits the A-PPDU.
US11700149B1
Provisioning a set of tunnel endpoint aliases for a tunnel endpoint. A request is sent from the first tunnel endpoint to the second tunnel endpoint over a control plane of a network to provision the set of tunnel endpoint aliases. The second tunnel endpoint generates the set of tunnel endpoints and sends a response including the set of tunnel endpoint aliases to the first tunnel endpoint over the control plane. The first tunnel endpoint sends network traffic over the network tunnel that includes a tunnel endpoint alias of the set of tunnel endpoint aliases received.
US11700146B2
An apparatus may be communicatively coupled to other nodes in a network. The apparatus may include a control circuit configured to repeatedly issue transmission cycles to the other nodes. A given transmission cycle may include a least one send slot for each of the other nodes to send data. The control circuit may be configured to initiate transmission cycles by issuing beacon signals to the other nodes. The control circuit may be configured to determine when to issue a beacon signal in a given transmission cycle by determining that all of the other nodes have completed all associated send slots in an immediately previous transmission cycle and based upon a determination of the completion of the other nodes' transmission, delaying transmission of the beacon signal for the given transmission cycle.
US11700117B2
A system for credential storing and verifying includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to register a credential. The processor is configured to indicate to store in a distributed ledger a DID document associated with a holder identifier using a smart contract. Storing using the smart contract employs a dual signature authentication scheme to authorize storing based at least in part on an individual signature and a ledger writer signature. The processor is further configured to indicate to store in the distributed ledger a schema associated with an issuer of the credential using the smart contract and indicate to store in the distributed ledger a credential definition associated with the schema using the smart contract.
US11700116B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are presented for securing data based on randomization. An apparatus includes a security component that is configured to determine, during compile time of an application, at least one random value used to determine a partition size, a set of storage locations, and an access threshold for a data element during execution of the application. An apparatus includes a partition module that is configured to partition a data element into a plurality of data segments that each have a size that is randomly determined, during execution of an application, based on at least one random value to determine the partition size. An apparatus includes a storage module that is configured to randomly determine a first set of storage locations for a plurality of data segments, during execution of an application, based on at least one random value for the set of storage locations.
US11700115B2
An optical transmitter for quantum key distribution includes a plurality of spatially separated light sources configured to emit a light signal with the same wavelength. Each light source emits a light signal with a unique encoding. A beam combiner receives the light signals from the plurality of light sources and combines the received light signals into a combined light signal. A spatial filter is optically coupled to the beam combiner and includes an aperture that receives the combined light signal and emits a filtered light signal. The aperture has an aperture diameter less than or equal to the specified wavelength. A collimator is optically coupled to the spatial filter and receives the filtered light signal and emits a collimated light signal. An output aperture receives the collimated light signal and outputs the collimated light signal as an output light signal towards an optical receiver.
US11700114B2
One example method includes receiving, by a compliance auditing server, an indication of an encrypted video conference; sending, by the compliance auditing server, a request to a video conference provider to join a compliance auditing participant to the encrypted video conference, wherein the video conference provider does not have access to the compliance auditing server; receiving and storing, by the compliance auditing server, encrypted streams of audio and video from a plurality of participants in the video conference, wherein: the compliance auditing participant is one of the plurality of participants; and the video conference provider does not have access to the cryptographic meeting key; receiving, by the compliance auditing server after the encrypted video conference has ended, a request for a portion of the encrypted streams of audio and video; and providing, in response to the request, the portion of the encrypted streams of audio and video.
US11700111B2
Systems and methods for protecting block cipher computation operations from external monitoring attacks. An example apparatus for implementing a block cipher may comprise a memory device to store instructions for computing a block cipher; and a processing device coupled to the memory device. The processing device performs a Data Encryption Standard (DES) cryptographic operation with multiple rounds of a Feistel structure, each round including a substitution function and a transformation function that combines an expansion function and a permutation function into a single operation. The transformation function transforms a first input portion of an internal state of the respective round and a second input portion of the internal state into a first output portion and a second output portion of data. The second output portion is equal to the first input portion and the first output portion is dependent on a combined permutation output from the transformation function.
US11700109B2
A receiver for recognizes blinding attacks in a quantum encrypted channel having an optical fiber. The receiver includes a multipixel detector having a plurality of pixels, and configured to be illuminated by a light beam outputted by the optical fiber. A processing unit connects to the multipixel detector and is configured to determine the presence of a blinding attack if a predetermined number of pixels detects light within a predetermined interval. The receiver recognizes blinding attacks in a quantum encrypted channel and implements a method for recognizing blinding attacks in a quantum encrypted channel.
US11700105B2
A communication device includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver is configured to receive, from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network, downlink signals on a downlink via a wireless access interface of the mobile communications network. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to the infrastructure equipment, uplink signals on an uplink via the wireless access interface. The control circuit is configured to control the receiver to receive the downlink signals and control the transmitter to transmit the uplink signals. The control circuit is further configured to delay a reception period for the receiver to receive the downlink signals after a transmission period in which the transmitter transmits the uplink signals when a duration of the transmission period exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11700100B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring a sensing reference signal. One method includes receiving, at a first device, configuration information from a second device. The configuration includes: a set of sensing reference signal sequence generation parameters; a set of sensing reference signal resource pattern parameters, wherein a pattern corresponding to the set of sensing reference signal resource pattern parameters includes time domain locations of symbols within a sensing reference signal, frequency domain locations of resource elements within the sensing reference signal, or a combination thereof; and information indicating to map a generated sequence based on the pattern on at least one antenna to create a sensing reference signal pattern. The method includes generating a sensing reference signal. The method includes transmitting and/or receiving the sensing reference signal according to the configuration information.
US11700083B2
A method for processing service data in an optical transport network includes receiving service data, where the service data is to be mapped to a plurality of consecutive data frames, determining a quantity of code blocks, occupied by the service data, of each of the plurality of consecutive data frames and locations of the code blocks, where the code block includes a payload area and an overhead area, the payload area of the code block is used to carry the service data, and the overhead area of the code block includes identification information of the service data, and mapping the service data to the plurality of consecutive data frames based on the quantity of code blocks and the locations of the code blocks.
US11700076B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e−j(π/2)”, so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).
US11700071B2
The present disclosure provides methods, devices, systems, and storage mediums for live broadcast detection and data processing. In one exemplary embodiments, a user terminal device cooperates with a server and a camera device in a live broadcast system. The terminal device turns towards the camera device and outputs detection content within a detection time. It can be determined whether live broadcast content uploaded/captured by the camera device includes the detection content captured by the camera device within the detection time. If the detection content is found in the live broadcast content, it can be determined that unauthorized live broadcasting exists. Accordingly, corresponding measures can be taken to stop the unauthorized live broadcasting in a timely manner, which helps improve the security of user information.
US11700070B2
A processor-implemented method is presented. The method includes receiving an input sequence comprising a group of channel dynamics observations for a wireless communication channel. Each channel dynamics observation may correspond to a timing of a group of timings. The method also includes determining, via a recurrent neural network (RNN), a residual at each of the group of timings based on the group of channel dynamics observations. The method further includes updating Kalman filter (KF) parameters based on the residual and estimating, via the KF, a channel state based on the updated KF parameters.
US11700066B2
A photon entanglement system is disclosed which includes a plurality of remote nodes (Nodes Ai and Node Bi) each without a quantum memory; and a central entangling node (Node C) in both quantum and classical communication with the remote Nodes configured to provide photon entanglement therebetween, and includes a first and second broadband photon generators each adapted to generate sets of photon pairs at: i) random times within time-bins, and ii) random frequency bins, wherein one photon of each pair set is transmitted to an associated remote node over quantum channels, and a multiplexed Bell-state analyzer configured to receive another photon of the pair, wherein if the received photons arrive at about same time, then the received photons are marked as being entangled by the controller which communicates the associated time-bin to the associated remote nodes and thereby entangling their associated photons.
US11700058B2
Wireless communication using germicidal light frequencies is a system and method for transmitting and receiving data using Far-UVC light. The system communicates data using Far-UVC light of a germicidal wavelength. Far UV is a specific spectrum of UV light. The ultraviolet spectrum is a band of electromagnetic radiation with higher energy, thus shorter wavelengths, than visible light. With respect to this system, the UV light wavelengths of interest are Far-UVC for solar-blind data-carrying frequencies in the THz range to provide a UVGI function.
US11700053B2
A repeater system includes a first repeater device to receive a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signal from a first network node, and a second repeater device to receive a second beam of RF signal from the first network node. The first repeater device controls the second repeater device to provide the first beam and the second beam of RF signal to a second network node. A plurality of signal parameters is selected at the first and second repeater devices for a first beam and a second beam of RF signal, respectively. The first repeater device establishes an additional link with the second repeater device, where based on the additional link, a first data stream carried by the first beam of RF signal is provided to the second network node through the first repeater device as well as the second repeater device.
US11700052B2
A repeater device includes a first antenna array having a plurality of antenna configuration modes, where each mode defines a unique configuration of one or more sub-arrays of a plurality of different sub-arrays of the first antenna array. The repeater device further includes control circuitry configured to select one of the plurality of antenna configuration modes and based on the selected one of the plurality of antenna configuration modes, activate a first set of antenna elements of the first antenna array and deactivate a second set of antenna elements of the first antenna array. The first set of antenna elements corresponds to a first configuration of one or more sub-arrays of the first antenna array. A beam of RF signal is directed to a user equipment from the first configuration of the one or more sub-arrays of the first antenna array.
US11700040B2
A method is based on the user-specific frozen bit patterns of polar codes assigned to users. At the transmitter, the binary-valued user-specific frozen bit pattern sequences to be used in frozen bit locations are determined for each user, the information bits of each user are encoded using a polar encoder, and the binary-valued user-specific frozen bit patterns are used in frozen bit locations during encoding operation to improve the performance of the downlink multi-user MIMO system. Coded bits are mapped to symbols to be transmitted, and the symbols are mapped to the MIMO layers. Then, multi-antenna precoding is applied and baseband-to-RF processing is performed onto the precoded symbols to transmit the signal. The signal of all users is transmitted at the same time-frequency resources using transmit antennas. Each receiver receives the transmitted signal which is transmitted through respective downlink channels. Each user performs RF-to-baseband processing to their respective received signal.
US11700030B2
Methods and apparatus for providing quasi-licensed spectrum access within a prescribed area or venue, including to users or subscribers of one or more Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). In one embodiment, the quasi-licensed spectrum utilizes 3.5 GHz CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) spectrum allocated by a Federal or commercial SAS (Spectrum Access System) to a managed content delivery network that includes one or more wireless access nodes (e.g., CBSDs) in data communication with a controller, and the core(s) of the MNO network(s). In one variant, the controller dynamically allocates (i) spectrum within the area or venue within CBRS bands, and (ii) MNO “roaming” users or subscribers to CBRS bands (e.g., via extant LTE-TD technology). In one particular implementation, the managed network comprises a Multiple Systems Operator (MSO) network such as a cable or satellite network, and the MSO and MNO coordinate to implement user-specific and/or data-specific policies for the roaming MNO subscribers.
US11700028B2
A TX/RX RF switch that may include a reception path; and a transmission path that has an antenna port, a transmission input port, and transmission transistors. The transmission transistors have source-bulk connections. The reception path has an antenna port, a reception output port, and reception transistors. The reception path includes a first reception transistor that is closest to the antenna port, out of the reception transistors, and has a source-bulk connection, and at least one other reception transistor that has a bulk-to-ground connection. The reception transistors and the transmission transistors are CMOS transistors.
US11700025B2
A wireless single-phase AC-to-AC conversion circuit based on a 2.4G microwave includes a receiving antenna unit, a RF switch unit, a positive voltage rectification unit, a negative voltage rectification unit and an AC synthesis unit. An output port of the receiving antenna unit is connected to the common input port of the RF switch unit. A first microwave output end of the RF switch unit and a second microwave output end of the RF switch unit are correspondingly connected to a microwave input end of the positive voltage rectification unit and a microwave input end of the negative voltage rectification unit, respectively. A DC output end of the positive voltage rectification unit and a DC output end of the negative voltage rectification unit are correspondingly connected to a positive voltage input port of the AC synthesis unit and a negative voltage input port of the AC synthesis unit, respectively.
US11700019B2
A transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method for securing good communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. The LDPC coding is performed using a parity check matrix with the code length N of 17280 bits and the coding rate r of 13/16 or 14/16. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, and the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a table representing positions of elements of 1 of the information matrix for every 360 columns.
US11700010B2
A batteryless wireless sensor system includes a data acquisition system, a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, and a batteryless wireless sensor device. The RF transceiver is in communication with the data acquisition system, transmits a RF signal, and receives sensor data and provide the sensor data to the data acquisition system. The batteryless wireless sensor device includes a RF transmitter, an analog to digital converter (ADC), and a sensor. The batteryless wireless sensor harvests energy from the RF signal and generates a DC signal based on the energy harvested from the RF signal, powers up and operates the ADC and the sensor based on the DC signal, and generates sensor data. The batteryless wireless sensor then transmits the sensor data via the RF transmitter to the RF transceiver. In certain examples, the ADC is implemented as a current mode ADC.
US11700002B2
Techniques described herein may relate to providing a programmable interconnect network (e.g., a programmable network-on-chip (NOC)). A method may include determining a transmission parameter, bonding one or more channels of an interconnect network based at least in part on the transmission parameter, and power-gating any unused channels after the bonding.
US11700001B1
A system and method for a logic device is disclosed. A first substrate, a second substrate and a third substrate is provided. A first input nanomagnet is disposed over the first substrate, a second input nanomagnet is disposed over the second substrate, and a third input nanomagnet is disposed over the third substrate. A spacer layer is disposed over the first input nanomagnet, the second input nanomagnet, and the third input nanomagnet. An output magnet is disposed over the spacer layer.
US11699993B2
Methods, systems, and devices for signal sampling with offset calibration are described. For example, sampling circuitry may include an input pair of transistors where input signals may be provided to gate nodes of the transistors, and an output signal may be generated based on a comparison of voltages of drain nodes of the transistors. In some examples, source nodes of the transistors may be coupled with each other, such as via a resistance, and each source node may be configured to be coupled with a ground node. In some examples, a conductive path between the source nodes may be coupled with one or more switching components configurable for further coupling of the source nodes with the ground node. In some examples, enabling such switching components may add an electrical characteristic (e.g., capacitance) to the conductive path between the source nodes, which may be configurable to mitigate sampling circuitry imbalances.
US11699988B2
A resonator includes a silicon substrate, a bottom electrode stacked on a portion of the silicon substrate, a piezoelectric layer covering the bottom electrode and another portion of the silicon substrate, a top electrode stacked on the piezoelectric layer, and a Bragg reflecting ring. The Bragg reflecting ring is formed on a side of the piezoelectric layer connected to the top electrode and surrounds the top electrode. The Bragg reflecting ring includes a Bragg high-resistivity layer and a Bragg low-resistivity layer alternately arranged along the radial direction of the Bragg reflecting ring. An acoustic impedance of the Bragg high-resistivity layer is greater than an acoustic impedance of the Bragg low-resistivity layer. The Bragg reflecting ring forms reflection surfaces to reflect the laterally propagating clutter waves, thereby suppressing the parasitic mode in the working frequency band, improving the frequency response curve of the resonator and the overall performance of the resonator.
US11699979B2
Example embodiments provide a process that includes one or more of receiving an audio signal at a feedback compressor circuit, multiplying the received audio signal with a power feedback signal to create a product audio signal, wherein the feedback signal comprises a low-pass filtered signal, applying a power amplifier to the product audio signal, and providing the amplified product audio signal as an output signal to a speaker.
US11699977B2
A digital envelop tracker for a power amplifier. The digital envelop tracker includes a supply filter for filtering a supply voltage to a power amplifier, a level selection circuitry configured to determine a level of supply voltage based on an instantaneous power of an input data stream, schedule a series of switching events based on the determined level of supply voltage, and generate a level select signal based on the scheduled series of switching events, and a switch for connecting one of supply voltages to the supply filter based on the level select signal. The level selection circuitry schedules a primary switching event of the switch based on the determined level of supply voltage and secondary switching events of the switch delayed with respect to the primary switching event based on the determined level of supply voltage to generate a filter response of the supply filter with smaller peaking.
US11699972B2
The present disclosure includes techniques for implementing a variable speed drive (VSD) in an environmental conditioning system to facilitate mitigating or eliminating system faults. The variable speed drive drives a motor during on-cycles and heats motor windings of the motor during off-cycles. The variable speed motor drive includes a rectifier that converts alternative-current (AC) power input to a direct-current (DC) power output, a DC bus that is coupled to the rectifier and includes a DC bus transistor, and an inverter. The DC bus transistor pre-charges a DC capacitor of the DC bus to drive the motor during on-cycles and receives a gate pulse with a duty cycle based on a differential temperature, where the gate pulse heats the motor windings. The inverter receives the gate pulse applied to the DC bus transistor and transmits it a motor winding to prevent moisture on the motor winding.
US11699960B2
A power converter includes a plurality of switches coupled between an input bus and an output bus, a full bridge coupled between the output bus and ground, and a plurality of capacitors coupled between the plurality of switches and the full bridge, wherein one capacitor of the plurality of capacitors is connected to a midpoint of one leg of the full bridge through a switch.
US11699950B2
A fast-switching power management circuit operable to prolong battery life is provided. The power management circuit includes a voltage circuit that can generate an output voltage for amplifying an analog signal in a number of time intervals and a pair of hybrid circuits each causing the output voltage to change in any of the time intervals. A control circuit is configured to activate any one of the hybrid circuits during a preceding one of the time intervals to cause the output voltage to change in an immediately succeeding one of the time intervals. By starting the output voltage change earlier in the preceding time interval, it is possible to complete the output voltage change within a switching window in the succeeding time interval while concurrently reducing rush current associated with the output voltage change, thus helping to prolong battery life in a device employing the power management circuit.
US11699948B2
A power supply system with self-excited drive function includes a power supply apparatus, a logic disconnection circuit, a self-boosting circuit, a protection circuit, and a current sensing unit. The logic disconnection circuit is coupled between a positive power wire and a negative power wire. The self-boosting circuit converts a voltage into an auxiliary voltage, and the self-boosting circuit is coupled to the logic disconnection circuit to receive the auxiliary voltage. The current sensing unit outputs a current sensing signal according to a current flowing through the positive power wire or the negative power wire. The protection circuit makes a short circuit or an open circuit between the positive power wire and the negative power wire according to the current sensing signal. The logic disconnection circuit disables or enables the self-boosting circuit according to the voltage between the positive power wire and the negative power wire.
US11699947B2
A converter system (100) includes a switch (102) adapted to be coupled to a switching terminal (104). The switch (102) is configured to generate a switching signal having first and second states at the switching terminal (104). Ripple generating circuitry (122) is adapted to be coupled to the switching terminal (104) and is configured to: generate a filtered signal based on the switching signal; and keep the filtered signal within a particular range. Loop control circuitry (116) is coupled to the ripple generating circuitry (122) and is configured to control the switch (102) based on the filtered signal.
US11699944B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods of use for a magnetic coupling device is disclosed. The magnetic device may have a plurality of magnets to create a magnetic field to the devices enclosed within the device. The coupling device may have a housing that encloses and/or partially surrounds one or more rotatable shafts. The coupling device may couple an output shaft from a motor to an input shaft of a generator. The coupling device may have an electric coil that when energized may vary any applied magnetic field to the rotatable shafts. The magnetic device may have a first plurality of magnets positioned at a first radial position and a second plurality of magnets positioned at a second radial position, with the first magnets being rotatable and the second magnets being stationary. Multiple magnetic coupling devices may be coupled together in series to provide increased magnetic fields to the enclosed system.
US11699936B2
A rotary actuator is used in a shift-by-wire system for a vehicle. The actuator includes a motor, a controller, an upper case, a lower case, a case fastening member, and a board fixing member. The controller controls the motor. The upper case is made from resin and houses the controller. The lower case houses the motor together with the upper case. The case fastening member is made from metal and fastens the upper case and the lower case to each other. The board fixing member fixes a board of the controller to the case fastening member.
US11699934B2
A non-output-side end shield (100) for a brushless electric motor (500) is provided, including a centrally arranged bearing seat (110) for accommodating a non-output-side rotor bearing (510) for a rotor shaft (560) of the brushless electric motor (500), the non-output-side end shield (100) including a sensor receptacle (150), which is used as a carrier for a sensor circuit board (550) for detecting the rotational position of the rotor shaft (560), the non-output-side end shield (100) and the sensor receptacle (150) being formed together as a one-part component.
US11699921B2
A system and a method for charging a mobile device in a vehicle are provided. A method, performed by an electronic device, for controlling a wireless charging device in a vehicle includes: identifying at least one mobile device in the vehicle; obtaining state information of the identified mobile device; obtaining state information of the vehicle; and controlling power of a plurality of wireless charging devices in the vehicle based on a state of the mobile device and a state of the vehicle.
US11699920B2
A wireless power receiver and a wireless power reception method are disclosed. The wireless power receiver includes a charging element, a receiving coil configured to wirelessly receive power from a wireless power transmitter, a rectifier configured to convert an alternating current (AC) voltage generated from the receiving coil to a direct current (DC) voltage, and to output the DC voltage, a voltage converter configured to generate a charging current to charge the charging element, based on the DC voltage output from the rectifier, a current measurer configured to measure the charging current transferred to the charging element, and a controller configured to control a level of the charging current generated from the voltage converter based on a result of the measuring.
US11699916B2
A method for charging a battery includes coupling an electrical device in a circuit between the battery and an electrical power source. The electrical device having on and off states that are mechanically different. The method includes charging the battery by setting the electrical device to the on state, measuring current flowing through contacts of the electrical device while in the on state, determining current as a function of time flowing through the contacts of the electrical device, using the current as a function of time as a variable in a thermal model based on heating of the contacts and cooling of the contacts, determining by the thermal model a predicted temperature of the contacts based on the current as a function of time and the heating and cooling of the contacts and controlling the on and off state of the electrical device based on the predicted temperature.
US11699914B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol source; a connector able to be electrically connected to an external power supply; a control device configured to control at least one of charging and discharging of the power supply or configured to be able to convert power which is input from the connector into charging power for the power supply; and a zener diode provided between the connector and the control device so as to be connected in parallel with the control device. A maximum value of zener voltage of the zener diode is lower than a maximum operation guarantee voltage of the control device.
US11699910B2
This document describes techniques and systems that enable battery state estimation. The techniques and systems may be used to determine a shut-down voltage for a battery of an electronic device. Additionally or alternatively, the techniques and systems may be used to determine a state-of-charge of the battery, which may be determined relative to the shut-down voltage. The techniques and systems use current or expected conditions at the battery to estimate the battery state. These techniques can allow the electronic device to dynamically set a shut-down voltage, rather than using a fixed shut-down voltage over the life of the electronic device. The dynamically set shut-down voltage can provide a low margin, and therefore a greater portion of battery capacity, when operating in good conditions and provide a relatively large margin that is sufficient for poor conditions.
US11699896B2
A cable processing system comprises a stripping device for stripping a segment of an outer cladding layer of a cable. The stripping device includes a support frame, and a mounting plate movably mounted on the support frame between a start position and an end position in the axial direction of the cable. The mounting plate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other in an axial direction of the cable. A plurality of cutting units are mounted on the first surface of the mounting plate for cutting off the outer cladding layer in a circumferential direction of the cable. A plurality of stripping units are mounted on the second surface of the mounting plate for slicing the outer cladding layer in the axial direction.
US11699893B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein include a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) device that includes an anode, a cathode, and one or more curved apertures located in an epitaxial layer between the anode and the cathode, each of the one or more curved apertures having an aperture edge and one or more oxidation bridges crossing the curved aperture that allow current to flow inside the curved aperture, in which when a current signal is applied to the VCSEL, current flow between the anode and the cathode is distributed along the aperture edge of the one or more curved apertures.
US11699892B2
A discrete wavelength tunable laser having an optical cavity which comprises: a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); a demultiplexer (Demux) having a single input and a plurality of outputs, the Demux configured to receive the output of the SOA and to produce a plurality of fixed spectral passbands within the gain bandwidth of the SOA; one or more tunable distributed Bragg reflector(s) (DBR(s)) arranged to receive the outputs of the Demux, each tunable DBR configured to select a reflective spectral band within the gain bandwidth of the SOA upon application of a bias current; wherein the SOA forms the back end mirror of the optical cavity; the one or more tunable DBRs form the front end mirror of the optical cavity; and wherein the lasing channel of the discrete wavelength tunable laser is chosen by the overlap of the selected reflective spectral band of one of the one or more tunable DBRs with a fixed spectral passband of the Demux.
US11699887B2
The present disclosure relates to a connector for a bus bar including a bar-shaped finger divided into a central portion, a pair of end portions symmetrically formed on opposite sides of the central portion, and a pair of connecting portions respectively formed between the central portion and the pair of end portions. The connector for a bus bar includes: a plurality of fingers, at least two or more of which are stacked in the thickness direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction to form one side portion and at least two or more of which are stacked in the thickness direction to form the other side portion disposed opposite to the one side portion; a pair of coil springs, one end and the other end of which is fixed to the one side portion and the other side portion to be arranged at a predetermined distance apart from each other with respect to the central portion of the finger; and a bracket for supporting the one side portion and the other side portion.
US11699885B1
The present invention is an RFID-enabled electrical connector with connector position assurance (“CPA”) features, comprised of an electrical connector having a plug, a socket, and a CPA feature; a strategically located electrically conductive material, such as a conductive polymer or metalized plastic; and an RFID tag. The present invention can be fabricated using a standard RFID tag, or a mini-RFID tag that has no antenna. The lack of antenna gives the mini-RFID tag an effective transmission distance of less than 25 mm. In the illustrated embodiments, until the CPA feature has been fully deployed, the RFID tag or mini-RFID tag cannot be read because of the strategic placement of the electrically conductive material. The RFID tag can only be properly read after the CPA feature has been fully deployed.
US11699869B2
An electrical female terminal for mating with a connector assembly generally including a main body, a two-bodied spring, and a wire fastening portion. A protrusion extends from an unattached end portion of the lever member, the protrusion having faces angled relative to each other to efficiently deflect the lever member upwards when the protrusion interacts with an internal protrusion of a housing or a connector assembly. A top portion of the retainer member of the electrical female terminal, located above the two-bodied spring, has a dimple portion. The terminal face or leading end portion of the electrical female terminal is prevented from damaging or cutting a silicone seal. The overstress feature of the tang member of the lever is improved upon by relocating and reshaping the protruding member thereof. The configuration or shape of the cross-section across the upper portion and the support member at the front end portion of the main body of the electrical female terminal is substantially U-shaped. The configuration or shape of the cross-section across the attached end portion of the lever member of the electrical female terminal is also substantially U-shaped. The electrical female terminal is formed as a continuous and contiguous single construction having included therein at least the main body, the two-bodied spring, and the wire fastening portion and/or the lever member (or tang member), along with the neck member that joins the main body and the wire fastening portion.
US11699865B2
Flexible electrical connectors are provided to electrically connect electronic devices. The flexible electrical connector includes a removable adhesive tape strip having an adhesive surface thereof and an electrically conductive trace disposed on the adhesive tape strip. The flexible electrical connector engages an electronic device to form an electrical contact where the adhesive tape strip has an adhesive surface removably adhesively bonded to the substrate of the electronic device to at least partially cover the electrical contact.
US11699862B2
An antenna system has a two-dimensional field of view, yet can be implemented on a surface, such as on electronic or photonic integrated circuits. The antenna system includes an array of antennas disposed in a predetermined non-linear pattern and a two-dimensional beamforming network (BFN). The antenna system can be steered/selectively beamformed in two dimensions through beam port selection. The beamforming network is disposed entirely on a single first surface. The beamforming network has a one-dimensional array-side interface disposed on the first surface and a one-dimensional beam-side interface disposed on the first surface. The antennas of the array of antennas are individually communicably coupled to the array-side interface. Segments of the beam-side interface map to respective pixels in the two-dimensional field of view.
US11699861B2
A radar system includes a transmit front end device including a transmit planar component, and a receive front end device including a receive planar component. Each of the transmit planar component and the receive planar component includes a first end, a second end, a cavity space and a linear array of antennas. The cavity space is bounded by beam ports along a first side of the cavity space and by array ports along a second side of the cavity space. The cavity space is in operative communication with the beam ports and with the array ports to form a Rotman lens. A linear array of antennas is located along the second end of the planar component. The transmit planar component and receive planar component are arranged such that the linear array of antennas of the transmit planar component and the linear array of antennas are perpendicular to one another.
US11699856B1
A vehicular half loop antenna is provided that includes a ground section and a feed section. The ground section has a ground point that is configured to be electrically grounded. The feed section is configured to be electrically connected to the ground section. The feed section includes a first feed portion having a feed point that is configured to be electrically connected to an antenna feed, and a second feed portion connected to the first feed portion via a corner portion therebetween, with the corner portion being located farther from the ground point than the feed point and having a curved or tapered outer edge.
US11699853B2
Provided is an antenna device with a simple configuration, said antenna device supporting a plurality of frequency bands. An antenna device according to the present invention is provided with: at least one first radiation element that has a resonant frequency in a first frequency band; at least one second radiation element; and a connection line for connecting the first radiation element and the second radiation element. The line length formed of the first radiation element, the connection line, and the second radiation element is set to a length so as to have a resonant frequency in a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band.
US11699851B2
Methods and apparatus for a phase array radar to generate fan beams with curve of constant phase with spoiling in u and/or v space. In embodiments, beam pattern weighting is phase-only and applicable to transmit and receive. In embodiments, the beam pattern accounts for the apparent curvature of the horizon in uv space.
US11699849B2
An antenna device includes antennas to receive and transmit signals; and a processor to divide radiation patterns of combinations of the antennas into a predetermined number of characteristic patterns, and to calculate similarities of the characteristic patterns and a RSSI of each of the characteristic patterns. When the antenna device is in operation, the processor reads and analyzes RSSI of the signals received by the antennas, compares the RSSI of the signals of the antennas with the RSSI of the characteristic patterns, and determines a matched characteristic pattern group according to results of comparisons and the similarities of the characteristic patterns.
US11699847B2
An example method performed by a wireless-power-transmitting device that includes an antenna array is provided. The method includes radiating electromagnetic waves that form a maximum power level at a first distance away from the antenna array. Moreover, a power level of the radiated electromagnetic waves decreases, relative to the maximum power level, by at least a predefined amount at a predefined radial distance away from the maximum power level. In some embodiments, the method also includes detecting a location of a wireless-power-receiving device, whereby the location of the wireless-power-receiving device is further from the antenna array than a location of the maximum power level.
US11699845B2
An antenna device, a transportation vehicle, and a textile article having an antenna device. The antenna device includes conductive filaments woven into a carrier fabric, wherein the conductive filaments form an antenna structure and are a contacting structure at a first end.
US11699842B2
A base station antenna includes a radome and an antenna assembly that is mounted within the radome. The antenna assembly includes a backplane that includes a first reflector, a first array that includes a plurality of first radiating elements mounted to extend forwardly from the first reflector, a second reflector mounted to extend forwardly from the first reflector and a second array that includes a plurality of second radiating elements mounted to extend forwardly from the second reflector. The first radiating elements extend a first distance forwardly from the first reflector and the second radiating elements extend a second distance forwardly from the second reflector, where the first distance exceeds the second distance.
US11699836B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of low temperature co-fireable dielectric materials which can be used in conjunction with high dielectric materials to form composite structures, in particular for isolators and circulators for radiofrequency components. Embodiments of the low temperature co-fireable dielectric materials can be scheelite or garnet structures, for example, bismuth vanadate. Adhesives and/or glue is not necessary for the formation of the isolators and circulators.
US11699835B2
A circuit board and a battery connection module are provided. The circuit board has an insulating substrate and a plurality of circuit traces provided thereto. At least one of the traces is provided with a fuse unit. The fuse unit has a main fuse and at least one spare fuse. The main fuse has two main trace connection end portions respectively positioned at two ends of the main fuse and connected to the trace and a main fuse section connected between the two main trace connection end portions. The spare fuse has two trace connection end portions respectively positioned at two ends of the spare fuse and a fuse section connected between the two trace connection end portions, the fuse section and the main fuse section are spaced apart from each other and arranged side by side, and at least one of the two trace connection end portions is not connected with the trace so as to form an electrical disconnection with the trace, and after the main fuse section forms an electrical disconnection, the two trace connection end portions are connected to the trace so that a current conductive path is formed by the spare fuse and the trace.
US11699831B2
A separator which includes: a porous polymer substrate having a plurality of pores; a separator base including a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate; and an adhesive layer formed on at least one surface of the separator base, said adhesive layer comprising a plurality of second inorganic particles and adhesive resin particles, wherein the weight ratio of the second inorganic particles to the adhesive resin particles is 5:95-60:40, and the diameter of the adhesive resin particles is 1.1-3.5 times the diameter of the second inorganic particles. An electrochemical device including the separator is also disclosed. The separator shows improved adhesion between an electrode and the separator, maintains the pores of the adhesive layer even after a process of electrode lamination, and improves the resistance of an electrochemical device.
US11699824B2
The present invention provides a nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can (1), having a nickel layer with a nickel amount of 4.4 to 26.7 g/m2 on a steel sheet (11), wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured along the depth direction from the surface of the nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can, by using a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the difference (D2-D1) between the depth (D1) at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth (D2) at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is less than 0.04 μm.
US11699822B2
A wearable accessory, comprising: a device mounting part configured to be coupled with a device; and a body-coupled part formed to extend from the device mounting part along a lengthwise direction, wherein the body-coupled part includes: a flexible cell equipped with an electrode assembly, a casing that accommodates therein the electrode assembly, and a cell terminal connected to the electrode assembly and protruding from an opposite side of a side adjacent to the device mounting part; a connection circuit extending by being connected to a main circuit module formed on the device or the device mounting part; and a protection circuit module configured to connect the cell terminal and the connection circuit to each other and block an electrical connection between the cell terminal and the connection circuit when damage of the protection circuit module occurs by external force.
US11699820B2
A battery module is provided. The battery module comprises a plurality of battery cells. Each battery cell comprises a first electrical terminal and a second electrical terminal. The battery module further comprises at least one bi-metallic busbar, e.g., at least one first busbar. The at least one first busbar comprises a metallic part, e.g., a first aluminum part, electrically coupled to the first electrical terminals of a first group of the plurality of battery cells. The first busbar further comprises another metallic part, e.g., a first copper part. The first copper part comprises a first interface part electrically coupled to the first aluminum part. The first copper part comprises a first terminal part configured to be electrically coupled to a conductor external to the battery module.
US11699813B2
Disclosed is an electrolyte for a secondary battery, and a secondary battery comprising the same, and in particular, to an electrolyte for a secondary battery including an electrolyte salt, an organic solvent and an additive, wherein the additive includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound having an N—Si-based bond and a compound having an O—Si-based bond.
US11699802B2
Self-charging electrochemical cells, including self-charging batteries that incorporate such self-charging electrochemical cells, the electrochemical cells including a cathode including a cathode active material, an electrolyte including a solvent and a salt dissolved in the solvent, the electrolyte being in contact with the cathode, where the cathode active material is transformed into a discharge product during or after a discharge of the self-charging electrochemical cell and a solubility of the cathode active material in the electrolyte is less than a solubility of the discharge product in the electrolyte.
US11699800B2
Provided is a microbial fuel cell including a cathode and an anode, wherein the cathode includes a waterproof gas diffusion layer including a siloxane and a catalyst layer including a binder, wherein a surface of the gas diffusion layer opposite the catalyst layer contacts air, and the anode includes electrogenic bacteria. Also provided is a method for making a microbial fuel cell, including fabricating a cathode, wherein fabricating includes disposing a siloxane solution onto a surface of a substrate, wherein the siloxane solution includes a siloxane and a solvent, drying the siloxane solution to form a waterproof gas diffusion layer, and placing the gas diffusion layer on a catalyst layer including a binder, and facing an anode with the cathode whereby the gas diffusion layer faces away from the anode and contacts air.
US11699791B2
A binder for a secondary battery includes a copolymer having a first repeating unit, a second repeating unit, and a third repeating unit. A ratio of a number of the first repeating unit (A) and a sum of a number of the second repeating unit and a number of the third repeating unit (B) is 90:10 to 52:48. A ratio of the number of the second repeating unit and the number of the third repeating unit is 67:33 to 1:99. A weight average molecular weight of the copolymer is 225,000 to 2,000,000.
US11699788B2
A positive electrode material for a secondary battery, including a first positive electrode active material and a second positive electrode active material, wherein the first positive electrode active material and the second positive electrode active material consist of a lithium composite transition metal oxide including at least two or more transition metals selected from the group consisting of nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co) and manganese (Mn) are provided. The average particle size (D50) of the first positive electrode active material is two or more times larger than that of the second positive electrode active material, and the first positive electrode active material has a concentration gradient in which at least one of Ni, Co or Mn contained in the lithium composite transition metal oxide has a concentration difference of 1.5 mol % or more between the center and the surface of a particle of the lithium composite transition metal oxide.
US11699787B2
An electrochemical battery cell comprising an anode having a primary anode active material, a cathode, and an ion-conducting electrolyte, wherein the cell has an initial output voltage, Vi, measured at 10% depth of discharge (DoD), selected from a range from 0.3 volts to 0.8 volts, and a final output voltage Vf measured at a DoD no greater than 90%, wherein a voltage variation, (Vi−Vf)/Vi, is no greater than ±10% and the specific capacity between Vi and Vf is no less than 100 mAh/g or 200 mAh/cm3 based on the cathode active material weight or volume, and wherein the primary anode active material is selected from lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), zinc (Zn), titanium (Ti), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), vanadium (V), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), a mixture thereof, an alloy thereof, or a combination thereof.
US11699783B2
Hybrid electrodes for batteries are disclosed having a protective electrochemically active layer on a metal layer. Other hybrid electrodes include a silicon salt on a metal electrode. The protective layer can be formed directly from the reaction between the metal electrode and a metal salt in a pre-treatment solution and/or from a reaction of the metal salt added in an electrolyte so that the protective layer can be formed in situ during battery formation cycles.
US11699768B1
An electrode structure including a top electrode and a bottom electrode located below the top electrode. The top electrode includes a plurality of inner electrodes and an outer electrode connected with the inner electrodes. The inner electrodes are configured to filter a light by wavelength range and filter the light into a polarized light. The inner electrodes extend along a first direction. Each of the inner electrodes includes a metal structure having a first portion and a second portion and a dielectric structure located between the first portion and the second portion of the metal structure. The first portion, the dielectric structure, and the second portion are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US11699766B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a Schottky barrier diode which is less likely to cause dielectric breakdown due to concentration of an electric field. A Schottky barrier diode includes a semiconductor substrate 20 made of gallium oxide, a drift layer 30 made of gallium oxide and provided on the semiconductor substrate 20, an anode electrode 40 brought into Schottky contact with the drift layer 30, and a cathode electrode 50 brought into ohmic contact with the semiconductor substrate 20. The drift layer 30 has an outer peripheral trench 10 formed at a position surrounding the anode electrode 40 in a plan view. An electric field is dispersed by the presence of the outer peripheral trench 10 formed in the drift layer 30. This alleviates concentration of the electric field on the corner of the anode electrode 40, making it unlikely to cause dielectric breakdown.
US11699760B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a stack of first channel members, a stack of second channel members disposed directly over the stack of first channel members, a bottom source/drain feature in contact with the stack of the first channel members, a separation layer disposed over the bottom source/drain feature, a top source/drain feature in contact with the stack of second channel members and disposed over the separation layer, and a frontside contact that extends through the top source/drain feature and the separation layer to be electrically coupled to the bottom source/drain feature.
US11699757B2
Methods and structures for forming highly-doped, ultrathin layers for transistors formed in semiconductor-on-insulator substrates are described. High dopant concentrations may be achieved in ultrathin semiconductor layers to improve device characteristics. Ion implantation at elevated temperatures may mitigate defect formation for stoichiometric dopant concentrations up to about 30%. In-plane stressors may be formed adjacent to channels of transistors formed in ultrathin semiconductor layers.
US11699755B2
Examples of the present technology include processing methods to incorporate stress in a channel region of a semiconductor transistor. The methods may include depositing a stressed material on an adjacent layer, where the adjacent layer is disposed between the stressed material and semiconductor material having an incorporated dopant. The adjacent layer may be characterized by an increased stress level after the deposition of the stressed material. The method may further include heating the stressed material and the adjacent layer, and removing the stressed material from the adjacent layer. The adjacent layer retains at least a portion of the increased stress after the removal of the stressed material. Examples of the present technology also include semiconductor structures having a conductive layer with first stress, and an intermediate layer with second stress in contact with the conductive layer. The second tensile stress may be at least ten times the first tensile stress.
US11699754B2
A vertical field-effect transistor (VFET) includes: a fin structure on a substrate; a gate structure including a gate dielectric layer on an upper portion of a sidewall of the fin structure, and a conductor layer on a lower portion of the gate dielectric layer; a top source/drain (S/D) region above the fin structure and the gate structure; a bottom S/D region below the fin structure and the gate structure; a top spacer on an upper portion of the gate dielectric layer, and between the top S/D region and a top surface of the conductor layer; and a bottom spacer between the gate structure and the bottom S/D region. A top surface of the gate dielectric layer is positioned at the same or substantially same height as or positioned lower than a top surface of the top spacer, and higher than the top surface of the conductor layer.
US11699737B2
Various examples of an integrated circuit with a sidewall spacer and a technique for forming an integrated circuit with such a spacer are disclosed herein. In some examples, the method includes receiving a workpiece that includes a substrate and a gate stack disposed upon the substrate. A spacer is formed on a side surface of the gate stack that includes a spacer layer with a low-k dielectric material. A source/drain region is formed in the substrate; and a source/drain contact is formed coupled to the source/drain region such that the spacer layer of the spacer is disposed between the source/drain contact and the gate stack.
US11699729B2
Semiconductor devices and their manufacturing methods are disclosed herein, and more particularly to semiconductor devices including a transistor having gate all around (GAA) transistor structures and manufacturing methods thereof. The methods described herein allow for complex shapes (e.g., “L-shaped”) to be etched into a multi-layered stack to form fins used in the formation of active regions of the GAA nanostructure transistor structures. In some embodiments, the active regions may be formed with a first channel width and a first source/drain region having a first width and a second channel width and a second source/drain region having a second width that is less than the first width.
US11699728B2
A semiconductor device including a fin field effect transistor (fin-FET) includes active fins disposed on a substrate, isolation layers on both sides of the active fins, a gate structure formed to cross the active fins and the isolation layers, source/drain regions on the active fins on sidewalls of the gate structure, a first interlayer insulating layer on the isolation layers in contact with portions of the sidewalls of the gate structure and portions of surfaces of the source/drain regions, an etch stop layer configured to overlap the first interlayer insulating layer, the sidewalls of the gate structure, and the source/drain regions, and contact plugs formed to pass through the etch stop layer to contact the source/drain regions. The source/drain regions have main growth portions in contact with upper surfaces of the active fins.
US11699722B2
A stacked, high-blocking III-V semiconductor power diode having a first metallic terminal contact layer, formed at least in regions, and a highly doped semiconductor contact region of a first conductivity type and a first lattice constant. A drift layer of a second conductivity type and having a first lattice constant is furthermore provided. A semiconductor contact layer of a second conductivity, which includes an upper side and an underside, and a second metallic terminal contact layer are formed, and the second metallic terminal contact layer being integrally connected to the underside of the semiconductor contact layer, and the semiconductor contact layer having a second lattice constant at least on the underside, and the second lattice constant being the lattice constant of InP, and the drift layer and the highly doped semiconductor contact region each comprising an InGaAs compound or being made up of InGaAs.
US11699718B2
A BSI image sensor includes a substrate including a front side and a back side opposite to the front side, a pixel sensor disposed in the substrate, and a color filter disposed over the pixel sensor. The pixel sensor includes a plurality of first micro structures disposed over the back side of the substrate. The color filter includes a plurality of second micro structures disposed over the back side of the substrate. The first micro structures are arranged symmetrically to a first axial, and the second micro structures are arranged symmetrically to a second axial.
US11699702B2
Semiconductor devices and methods are provided. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first transistor in a first area and a second transistor in a second area. The first transistor includes a first gate structure extending lengthwise along a first direction, and a first gate spacer, a second gate spacer, and a third gate spacer over sidewalls of the first gate structure. The second transistor includes a second gate structure extending lengthwise along the first direction, and the first gate spacer and the third gate spacer over sidewalls of the second gate structure. The first gate spacer, the second gate spacer and the third gate spacer are of different compositions and the third gate spacer is directly on the first gate spacer in the second area.
US11699699B1
An apparatus and configuring scheme where a ferroelectric capacitive input circuit can be programmed to perform different logic functions by adjusting the switching threshold of the ferroelectric capacitive input circuit. Digital inputs are received by respective capacitors on first terminals of those capacitors. The second terminals of the capacitors are connected to a summing node. A pull-up and pull-down device are coupled to the summing node. The pull-up and pull-down devices are controlled separately. During a reset phase, the pull-up and pull-down devices are turned on in a sequence, and inputs to the capacitors are set to condition the voltage on node n1. As such, a threshold for the capacitive input circuit is set. After the reset phase, an evaluation phase follows. In the evaluation phase, the output of the capacitive input circuit is determined based on the inputs and the logic function configured during the reset phase.
US11699698B2
A semiconductor device 100 has a power transistor N1 of vertical structure and a temperature detection element 10a configured to detect abnormal heat generation by the power transistor N1. The power transistor N1 includes a first electrode 208 formed on a first main surface side (front surface side) of a semiconductor substrate 200, a second electrode 209 formed on a second main surface side (rear surface side) of the semiconductor substrate 200, and pads 210a-210f positioned unevenly on the first electrode 208. The temperature detection element 10a is formed at a location of the highest heat generation by the power transistor N1, the location (near the pad 210b where it is easiest for current to be concentrated) being specified using the uneven positioning of the pads 210a-210f.
US11699692B2
A semiconductor device includes a first switching element, a second switching element, an optical coupling element, a plurality of leads and an outer resin member. The first switching element includes a first semiconductor chip and a first inner resin member sealing the first semiconductor chip. The second switching element includes a second semiconductor chip and a second inner resin member sealing the second semiconductor chip. The optical coupling element includes a light-emitting element, a light-receiving element and a third inner resin member sealing the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element. The first and second switching element and the optical coupling element are provided with terminals projecting from the first to third inner resin member, and the plurality of leads are electrically connected to the terminals. The outer resin member seals the first and second switching elements, the optical coupling element, and the plurality of leads.
US11699683B2
A semiconductor device with an interface includes a master device and a plurality of slave devices. The master device includes a master interface. The slave devices are stacked on the master device one after one as a three-dimension (3D) stack. Each of the slave devices includes a slave interface and a managing circuit, the master interface and the slave interfaces form the interface for passing signals in communication between the master device and the slave devices. The managing circuit of a current one of the slave devices drives a next one of the slave devices. An operation command received at the current one of the slave devices is just passed to the next one of the slave devices through the interface. A response from the current one of the slave devices is passed back to the master device through the interface.
US11699680B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof. Semiconductor chips may be disposed on a package substrate with vent holes formed therethrough, and a molding layer including a lower molding portion connected to an upper molding portion may be formed. The package substrate may include a substrate body with a plurality of unit regions, ball lands disposed in the unit regions, and first and second dam patterns that cross the unit regions and extend into edge regions, which is outside of the unit regions.
US11699656B2
A tank circuit structure includes a first gate layer, a first substrate, a first shielding layer, a first inductor, a second inductor and a first inter metal dielectric (IMD) layer. The first substrate is over the first gate layer. The first shielding layer is over the first gate layer. The first inductor is over the first shielding layer. The second inductor is below the first substrate. The first IMD layer is between the first substrate and the first shielding layer.
US11699652B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a microelectronic device structure comprising a base structure, a doped semiconductive material overlying the base structure, a stack structure overlying the doped semiconductive material, cell pillar structures vertically extending through the stack structure and the doped semiconductive material and into the base structure, and digit line structures vertically overlying the stack structure. An additional microelectronic device structure comprising control logic devices is formed. The microelectronic device structure is attached to the additional microelectronic device structure to form a microelectronic device structure assembly. The base structure and portions of the cell pillar structures vertically extending into the base structure are removed to expose the doped semiconductive material. The doped semiconductive material is then patterned to form at least one source structure over the stack structure and coupled to the cell pillar structures. Microelectronic devices and electronic systems are also described.
US11699647B2
One example of a pre-molded lead frame includes a mold body, a plurality of recesses, and a plurality of first leads. The mold body includes a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. Each recess of the plurality of recesses extends from the first main surface into the mold body. The plurality of first leads are coupled to the mold body and extend from a third surface of the mold body. The third surface extends between the first main surface and the second main surface.
US11699637B2
An integrated circuit structure comprises a lower device layer that includes a first structure comprising a first set of transistor fins and a first set of contact metallization. An upper device layer is bonded onto the lower device layer, where the upper device layer includes a second structure comprising a second set of transistor fins and a second set of contact metallization. At least one power isolation wall extends from a top of the upper device layer to the bottom of the lower device layer, wherein the power isolation wall is filled with a conductive material such that power is routed between transistor devices on the upper device layer and the lower device layer.
US11699634B2
Methods and apparatus for a cooling plate for solid state power amplifiers are provided herein. In some embodiments, a cooling plate of a solid state power amplifier includes a body having a rectangular shape, a first sidewall opposite a second sidewall, and a third sidewall opposite a fourth sidewall; a plurality of holes disposed on a first side of the body configured to mount a plurality of heat generating microelectronic components; and a channel having a plurality of segments disposed within the body and extending from a first port disposed on the first sidewall to a second port disposed on the first sidewall.
US11699621B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a method for patterning a doping layer, such as a lanthanum containing layer, used to dope a high-k dielectric layer in a gate stack of a FinFET device for threshold voltage tuning. A blocking layer may be formed between the doping layer and a hard mask layer used to pattern the doping layer. In an embodiment, the blocking layer may include or be aluminum oxide (AlOx). The blocking layer can prevent elements from the hard mask layer from diffusing into the doping layer, and thus, can improve reliability of the devices formed. The blocking layer can also improve a patterning process by reducing patterning induced defects.
US11699617B2
The present application provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device including providing a substrate, concurrently forming a first conductive line and a bottom contact on the substrate, concurrently forming a first conductive line spacer on a sidewall of the first conductive line and a bottom contact spacer on a sidewall of the bottom contact, forming a first insulating layer over the substrate and concurrently forming an air gap between the first conductive line spacer and the bottom contact spacer.
US11699614B2
A film deposition method includes maintaining an inside of a chamber to have a predetermined pressure, cooling a stage, on which the object to be processed mounts, to have an ultralow temperature of −20° C., and mounting the object to be processed on the stage, supplying a gas including a low vapor pressure material gas of a low vapor pressure material into the inside of the chamber, and generating plasma from the supplied gas including the gas of the low vapor pressure material, and causing a precursor generated from the low vapor pressure material by the plasma to be deposited on a recess part of the object to be processed.
US11699605B2
An apparatus for treating a substrate includes a chamber having a treating space formed therein, a substrate support unit that supports the substrate in the treating space, a plate that is located to face the substrate support unit in the treating space and that has a plurality of holes formed therein, a gas supply unit that supplies gas into the treating space through the holes, and a gas exhaust unit that exhausts the gas in the treating space through the holes.
US11699601B2
A substrate processing device includes a processing tank, a substrate holding unit, a fluid supply unit, and a control unit. The processing tank stores a processing liquid for processing a substrate. The substrate holding unit holds the substrate in the processing liquid in the processing tank. The fluid supply unit supplies a fluid to the processing tank. The control unit controls the fluid supply unit. The control unit controls the fluid supply unit such that the fluid supply unit changes supply of the fluid during a period from a start of supply of the fluid to the processing tank storing the processing liquid in which the substrate is immersed to an end of supply of the fluid to the processing tank storing the processing liquid in which the substrate is immersed.
US11699600B2
A wafer processing apparatus is configured to process a wafer by supplying mist to a surface of the wafer. The wafer processing apparatus includes a furnace in which the wafer is disposed, a gas supplying device configured to supply gas into the furnace, a mist supplying device configured to supply the mist into the furnace, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute a processing step by controlling the gas supplying device and the mist supplying device to supply the gas and the mist into the furnace, respectively. The controller is further configured to control the mist supplying device to stop supplying the mist into the furnace while controlling the gas supplying device to keep supplying the gas into the furnace when the processing step ends.
US11699598B2
A semiconductor device and method that comprise a first dielectric layer over a encapsulant that encapsulates a via and a semiconductor die is provided. A redistribution layer is over the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer is over the redistribution layer, and the second dielectric layer comprises a low-temperature polyimide material.
US11699596B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving, within a processing chamber, a wafer with a photoresist mask above a metal layer, wherein the processing chamber is connected to a gas source; applying an etchant configured to etch the metal layer in accordance with the photoresist mask within the processing chamber; and applying gas from the gas source to perform plasma ashing in the processing chamber.
US11699589B2
A method for forming a patterned mask layer is provided. The method includes forming a first layer over a substrate. The method includes forming a first strip structure and a second strip structure over the first layer. The method includes forming a spacer layer conformally covering the first strip structure, the second strip structure, and the first layer. The method includes forming a block structure in the first trench. The method includes removing a first portion of the spacer layer, which is under the first trench and not covered by the block structure, and a second portion of the spacer layer, which is over the first strip structure and the second strip structure. The method includes forming a third strip structure in the second trench and the third trench. The method includes removing the block structure. The method includes removing the spacer layer.
US11699574B2
In a method, an aluminum body is chemically treated with at least one of an alkaline solution and an acid solution. Anode-oxidization is performed on the chemically treated aluminum body to form an aluminum oxide layer. The aluminum oxide layer is treated with hot water at a temperature more than 75° C. or steam. The aluminum oxide layer after being treated with hot water or steam includes plural columnar grains, and an average width of the columnar grains is in a range from 10 nm to 100 nm.
US11699568B2
A charged particle buncher includes a series of spaced apart electrodes arranged to generate a shaped electric field. The series includes a first electrode, a last electrode and one or more intermediate electrodes. The charged particle buncher includes a waveform device attached to the electrodes and configured to apply a periodic potential waveform to each electrode independently in a manner so as to form a quasi-electrostatic time varying potential gradient between adjacent electrodes and to cause spatial distribution of charged particles that form a plurality of nodes and antinodes. The nodes have a charged particle density and the antinodes have substantially no charged particle density, and the nodes and the antinodes are formed from a charged particle beam configured to hit the target.
US11699565B2
An ion implantation system, ion source, and method are provided having a gaseous aluminum-based ion source material. The gaseous aluminum-based ion source material can be, or include, dimethylaluminum chloride (DMAC), where the DMAC is a liquid that transitions into vapor phase at room temperature. An ion source receives and ionizes the gaseous aluminum-based ion source material to form an ion beam. A low-pressure gas bottle supplies the DMAC as a gas to an arc chamber of the ion source by a primary gas line. A separate, secondary gas line supplies a co-gas, such as a fluorine-containing molecule, to the ion source, where the co-gas and DMAC reduce an energetic carbon cross-contamination and/or increase doubly charged aluminum.
US11699563B2
An ion implantation system, ion source, and method are provided, where an ion source is configured to ionize an aluminum-based ion source material and to form an ion beam and a by-product including a non-conducting material. An etchant gas mixture has a predetermined concentration of fluorine and a noble gas that is in fluid communication with the ion source. The predetermined concentration of fluorine is associated with a predetermined health safety level, such as approximately a 20% maximum concentration of fluorine. The etchant gas mixture can have a co-gas with a concentration less than approximately 5% of argon. The aluminum-based ion source material can be a ceramic member, such as a repeller shaft, a shield, or other member within the ion source.
US11699562B2
A system may include a power supply that generates a first voltage. The power supply may couple upstream from an electrical load. The electrical load may operate based at least in part on the first voltage. In some cases, a solid-state circuit breaker may be coupled between the power supply and the electrical load. Furthermore, a control system may be communicatively coupled to the power supply, the electrical load, and the solid-state circuit breaker. The control system may receive an operational status from the solid-state circuit breaker and may update a visualization rendered on a graphical user interface based at least in part on the operational status. The operational status may indicate an operation of the solid-state circuit breaker coupling the power supply to the electrical load.
US11699561B2
A system for monitoring a circuit breaker includes: at least one sensor and a processor. The at least one sensor is configured to be located and utilized to obtain at least one sensor data of a main shaft of an operational circuit breaker, and the at least one sensor is configured to provide the at least one sensor data of the main shaft of the operational circuit breaker to the processor. The processor is configured to determine position and/or velocity information for a moveable contact of the operational circuit breaker, where the determination comprises analysis of the at least one sensor data of the main shaft of the operational circuit breaker by a trained neural network implemented by the processor.
US11699560B2
A button deck includes a substrate and a two-part non-penetrating pushbutton assembly with an upper portion positioned on an upper surface of the substrate and a lower portion positioned on a lower surface of the substrate. The upper portion includes a button face positioned in a button frame that is coupled to the upper surface of the substrate. The button face is configured to be pressed to move within the button frame toward the upper surface of the substrate. The upper portion and the lower portion are configured to work together to provide a signal to an EGM that the button face has been pressed. The pushbutton assembly is non-penetrating because it does not provide any penetration points through the substrate of the button deck.
US11699556B2
A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal. A pressure interrupter cover assembly is sealingly secured to the open end of case for the elements and has a deformable cover with a centrally mounted common cover terminal and a plurality of section cover terminals mounted at spaced apart locations. A conductor frangibly connects the common element terminal of the capacitor section to the common cover terminal and conductors respectively frangibly connect the capacitor section terminals to the section cover terminals. Deformation of the cover caused by failure of the capacitor element breaks at least some of the frangible connections sufficient to disconnect the capacitive element from an electric circuit in which it is connected. A cover insulation barrier mounted on the deformable cover, has a barrier cup substantially surrounding the common cover terminal and a plurality of barrier fins each extending radially outwardly from the barrier cup, and deployed between adjacent section cover terminals.
US11699551B2
The invention relates to a device (10) for inductive energy transmission into a human body (1), having a transmitter coil (24) and/or a receiver coil (14) having a first magnetic core (26) and a resonance or choke coil (16, 34) having a second magnetic core (32), wherein the first magnetic core (26) forms a part of the second magnetic core (32).
US11699548B2
A structure for forming inductor windings includes a first portion and a second portion of a clamshell casing. The first portion includes a first set of electrically conductive segments, a first inner carrier, and a first outer carrier. The second portion includes a second set of electrically conductive segments, a second inner carrier, and a second outer carrier. An inductor core is mountable between the first inner carrier and the first outer carrier within the first portion. A control assembly aligns and joins the first portion to the second portion of the clamshell casing such that the first set of electrically conductive segments arranged in the first pattern that correspond to first half-turns of the inductor windings, are attached to the second set of electrically conductive segments arranged in the second pattern that correspond to second half-turns of the inductor windings, to form continuous turns around the inductor core.
US11699528B2
Automatically gathering and processing data relating to risk of patient falls. The data is analyzed to determine a level of risk each patient has for falling. Patient risk for falls is stratified and protocols are implemented to mitigate that risk. The system communicates instructions and alerts to caregivers to complete tasks or provide aid to patients. Updates to patient medical information and updates to best practices in fall risk management result in updates to patient risk stratifications. In turn, tasks and alerts are updated to reflect updates to patient risk stratifications.
US11699522B2
This disclosure relates generally to a unified platform for domain adaptable human behaviour inference. The platform provides a unified, low level inference and high level inference of domain adaptable human behaviour inference. The low level inferences include cross-sectional analysis techniques to infer location, activity, physiology. Further the high inference that provide useful and actionable for longitudinal tracking, prediction and anomaly detection is performed based on several longitudinal analysis techniques that include welch analysis, cross-spectrum analysis, Feature of interest (FOI) identification and time-series clustering, autocorrelation-based distance estimation and exponential smoothing, seasonal and non-seasonal models identification, ARIMA modelling, Hidden Markov models, Long short term memory (LSTM) along with low level inference, human meta-data and application domain knowledge. Further the unified human behaviour inference can be obtained across multiple domains that include health, retail and transportation.
US11699514B2
Dual machine translators are trained by generating a translated medical image by operation of an illustrative model on an original medical record, generating information based on whether the translated medical image is natural in a modality of medical imaging, producing a back-translated medical record by operation of an interpretive model on the translated medical image, calculating a reward by comparing the back-translated medical record to the original medical record, updating parameters of the illustrative model in response to the information and the reward, and updating parameters of the interpretive model in response to the reward.
US11699511B2
Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for providing disease management. In one implementation, a system develops a treatment recommendation for a patient based on patient data. The system may receive patient data, execute a basic model of the physiological system of the patient to generate a modified model for the patient based on the patient data, perform a statistical analysis of the patient data to detect data excursions of the parameter values; use the modified model to determine factors causing the data excursions; and use the model to develop a treatment recommendation to ameliorate negative effects of the disease.
US11699510B2
Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a patient involves obtaining, by a control system associated with the infusion device, measurement values indicative of a condition of the patient provided by a sensing device, identifying an event pattern based at least in part on the measurement values for the condition and historical data associated with the patient, generating a notification indicative of the event pattern in response to identifying the event pattern, and adjusting operation of the infusion device to deliver the fluid to the patient in a manner that is influenced by the event pattern in response to receiving user input confirming the event pattern.
US11699509B1
A medication dispenser apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a container configured to hold medication, a display interface, and a controller configured to perform, in sequence, a learning operation in which the controller learns a medication dispensing regimen of the container, a validation operation in which the controller validates the learned medication dispensing regimen; and a notification operation in which the controller provides on the display interface a status of use of the container for medication dispensing in relation to the learned medication dispensing regimen.
US11699506B2
A method of providing an anti-VLA-4 antibody to a patient.
US11699505B2
There is a demand for low-cost robust method to detect corrosion for estimating corrosion inhibitor (CI) concentration sensing. This disclosure herein relates to method and system for estimating corrosion inhibitor (CI) concentration using a multi-electrode array sensor. The method initially obtains a plurality of electrochemical signals using the multi-electrode array sensor from the corroding environment. Further, the plurality of electrochemical signals are analyzed to obtain a plurality of parameters. Further, the method analyses a plurality of features from the plurality of parameters for estimating the corrosion inhibitor (CI) concentration using a trained machine learning model. The method is capable of estimating the corrosion inhibitor concentration of any unknown liquid using the regression model and the classification model.
US11699503B2
Methods for identifying cancer patients amenable to anti-cancer immunotherapy are provided along with methods of monitoring cancer therapy. Also provided are methods of treating cancer patients amenable to anti-cancer immunotherapy. The methods involve determining the level of CD127
US11699502B2
Technology is disclosed herein for testing circuitry that controls memory operations in a memory structure having non-volatile memory cells. The testing of the circuitry can be performed without the memory structure. The memory structure may reside on one semiconductor die, with sense blocks and a control circuit on another semiconductor die. The control circuit is able to perform die level control of memory operations in the memory structure. The control circuit may control the sense blocks to simulate sensing of non-volatile memory cells in the memory structure even though the sense blocks are not connected to the memory structure. The control circuit verifies correct operation of the semiconductor die based on the simulated sensing. For example, the control circuit may verify correct operation of a state machine that controls sense operations at a die level. Thus, the operation of the semiconductor die may be tested without the memory structure.
US11699500B2
A storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device stores a history read table including root bit information, read voltage information, and error bit information on each of a plurality of memory blocks, and performs a read operation of reading data stored in the plurality of memory blocks based on the history read table. When the read operation fails, a memory controller changes a level of a read voltage, and controls the memory device to perform a read retry operation of retrying the read operation by using the changed read voltage. When the read retry operation passes, the memory controller determines whether the history read table is to be updated by comparing the root bit information of the read retry operation with the root bit information of the history read table.
US11699496B2
An anti-fuse memory circuit includes: a memory array including multiple anti-fuse memory cells; bit lines, each connected to the anti-fuse memory cells arranged in extension direction of the bit line, each anti-fuse memory cell being electrically connected to respective one of bit lines through first switch transistor; word lines, each connected to first switch transistors arranged in extension direction of word line; a second switch transistor connects one of the bit lines to transmission wire; a reading circuit, having first input terminal connected to the transmission wire, second input terminal for receiving reference voltage, and sampling input terminal for receiving sampling signal; and a signal generation circuit for generating sampling signal according to precharge voltage and precharge signal, where precharge signal is used for instructing to precharge transmission wire to precharge voltage, and delay duration between sampling signal and precharge signal is positively correlated with voltage amplitude of precharge voltage.
US11699482B2
A compute cell for in-memory multiplication of a digital data input and a balanced ternary weight, and an in-memory computing device including an array of the compute cells, are provided. In one aspect, the compute cell includes a set of input connectors for receiving modulated input signals representative of a sign and a magnitude of the data input, and a memory unit configured to store the ternary weight. A logic unit connected to the set of input connectors and the memory unit receives the data input and the ternary weight. The logic unit selectively enables one of a plurality of conductive paths for supplying a partial charge to a read bit line during a compound duty cycle of the set of input signals as a function of the respective signs of data input and ternary weight, and disables each of the plurality of conductive paths if at least one of the ternary weight and data input have zero magnitude.
US11699479B2
A nonvolatile memory apparatus may include a control circuit, a sense amplifier, and a reference generator. The control circuit may apply a read voltage across a target memory cell through a selected global bit line and a selected global word line. The sense amplifier may generate an output signal by comparing voltage levels of the selected global word line and a reference line. The reference generator may change the voltage level of the reference line by charging and discharging a capacitor that is coupled to the reference line.
US11699467B2
A data output buffer includes a first driver configured to drive a data input/output (I/O) pad according to an input signal and allow data drivability to be controlled according to an impedance calibration code and a second driver configured to perform a de-emphasis operation on the data I/O pad and allow de-emphasis drivability to be controlled according to the impedance calibration code.
US11699453B2
Utilizing an adaptive multichannel technique to mitigate reverberation present in received audio signals, prior to providing corresponding audio data to one or more additional component(s), such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) components. Implementations disclosed herein are “adaptive”, in that they utilize a filter, in the reverberation mitigation, that is online, causal and varies depending on characteristics of the input. Implementations disclosed herein are “multichannel”, in that a corresponding audio signal is received from each of multiple audio transducers (also referred to herein as “microphones”) of a client device, and the multiple audio signals (e.g., frequency domain representations thereof) are utilized in updating of the filter—and dereverberation occurs for audio data corresponding to each of the audio signals (e.g., frequency domain representations thereof) prior to the audio data being provided to ASR component(s) and/or other component(s).
US11699445B2
A system and method for improving T-matrix training for speaker recognition, comprising receiving an audio input, divisible into a plurality of audio frames including at least an audio sample of a human speaker; generating for each audio frame a feature vector; generating for a first plurality of feature vectors centered statistics of at least a zero order and a first order; generating a first i-vector, the first i-vector representing the human speaker; and generating an optimized T-matrix training sequence computation, based on at least the first i-vector.
US11699426B1
Active noise cancellation systems, components, and methods are provided with single-source forward cancellation using a direction-dependent filter response. One illustrative active sound cancelling device includes: a primary external microphone that produces a primary receive signal; a secondary external microphone that produces a secondary receive signal, the primary and secondary receive signals representing ambient audio that potentially includes sound having a predominate direction of arrival; a speaker that converts an output signal into internal audio to at least partly cancel said sound, the output signal including a forward cancellation signal; a forward filter that operates solely on the primary receive signal to produce the forward cancellation signal; and a direction finder that operates on the primary and secondary receive signals to derive an estimate of said predominate direction of arrival, the direction finder adjusting the forward filter to implement a filter response corresponding to said estimate.
US11699415B2
A vehicle display system includes a vehicle detection device detecting at least one other vehicle present in surroundings of a host vehicle, a vehicle speed detection device detecting a speed of the host vehicle, a display device displaying the host vehicle and the at least one other vehicle respectively as vehicle icons, and a display control part configured to control a content of display of the display device. When the speed of the host vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the display control part is configured to blank out the display of or display transparently at least a part of a vehicle icon of a following vehicle detected by the vehicle detection device and positioned at a rear of the host vehicle in a driving lane of the host vehicle.
US11699413B2
An afterimage compensation device includes: an afterimage area detector to receive an input image, and detect an afterimage area including an afterimage in the input image; an afterimage area corrector to detect a false detection area, and generate a corrected afterimage area, the false detection area being a part of a general area that is not detected as the afterimage area and surrounded in a plurality of directions by the detected afterimage area; and a compensation data generator to adjust a luminance of the corrected afterimage area to generate compensation data.
US11699406B2
A control method of an e-ink screen. The e-ink screen includes a plurality of pixels, at least one pixel includes first color charged particles and second color charged particles, and the first color charged particles and the second color charged particles are same in electrical property. The control method of the e-ink screen includes: inputting a first color driving signal to pixels expected to display a first color in the e-ink screen. The first color driving signal includes a plurality of sub-signals corresponding to a plurality of driving stages. The plurality of sub-signals include a first color imaging sub-signal and a particle separation sub-signal. The particle separation sub-signal is configured to drive the first color charged particles and the second color charged particles in the at least one pixel to move, and to separate the first color charged particles from the second color charged particles.
US11699399B2
A scan driver including a plurality of scan stages. A first scan stage among the plurality of scan stages includes first-to-sixth transistors and a first capacitor. The first transistor is connected to a first Q node, a first scan clock line, and a first scan line. A second transistor is connected to a first scan carry line and the first Q node. A third transistor is connected to a first sensing carry line and a second sensing carry line. A fourth transistor is connected to a first control line and the third transistor. A fifth transistor is connected to the fourth transistor, a second control line, and a first node. A first capacitor is connected to the fifth transistor. A sixth transistor is connected to a third control line, the first node, and the first Q node.
US11699391B2
A semiconductor device includes first to tenth transistors and first to fourth capacitors. Gates of the first and the fourth transistors are electrically connected to each other. First terminals of the first, second, fifth, and eighth transistors are electrically connected to a first terminal of the fourth capacitor. A second terminal of the fifth transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the sixth transistor and a first terminal of the second capacitor. A second terminal of the eighth transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the ninth transistor and a first terminal of the third capacitor. Gates of the second, seventh, and tenth transistors are electrically connected to first terminals of the third and fourth transistors and a first terminal of the first capacitor. First terminals of the sixth and seventh transistors are electrically connected to a second terminal of the second capacitor.
US11699390B2
An electronic module comprising an input capacitor connected between a first and second node; a first and second switch connected in series between the first and second node and the second node, in parallel with the input capacitor, and defining an intermediate node at their interconnection; a voltage regulator configured for receiving power from the input capacitor and for providing output power at a configurable voltage (out) between an output node and the second node. A multi-output power supply system comprising three such modules. A LED-driver comprising such module. A multi-color LED driver comprising three modules. A solid state lighting device comprising three modules and three LEDs.
US11699380B2
An embodiment of a display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller, and a data driver. In operation the driving controller determines a gain reducing area based on an edge load of input image data corresponding to an edge area of the display panel and compensates a grayscale value of the input image data corresponding to the gain reducing area to generate a data signal. The data driver converts the data signal to a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to the display panel.
US11699372B2
An operating method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes measuring an external temperature of the electronic device by using at least one sensor. The method may calculate, from an entire region of a flexible display, a fixed region that is visually exposed to an outside regardless of a screen size of the electronic device, and a variable region that is visually exposed at least in part to the outside in a screen expansion or screen size change state of the electronic device. The method may compare the external temperature with a preset first threshold temperature, thereby determining heating of the variable region in response to the external temperature being less than the first threshold temperature. The method may heat the variable region by controlling at least one of a luminance or a driving frequency of the variable region.
US11699371B2
A display apparatus comprises a mirror assembly, a first mirror of the mirror assembly oscillating about a first axis upon excitation by a first excitation signal and the first or a second mirror of the mirror assembly oscillating about a second axis upon excitation by a second excitation signal, a light source projecting a light beam onto the mirror assembly for deflection by the mirror assembly towards an image area, the light source being controlled according to pixels of image frames, a gaze tracker detecting a user's region of interest, ROI, within the image area, and a controller modulating one of the excitation signals by a first modulation signal which is dependent on the ROI detected by the gaze tracker.
US11699364B2
The present disclosure provides a stretchable display substrate, a method for preparing the same, and a stretchable display device. The display substrate includes: a plurality of island areas arranged in an array, and a bridge area for connecting adjacent island areas, each of the plurality of island areas including a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region, in which the non-display region is provided with a first groove arranged around the display region, an organic light emitting pattern arranged in the first groove, and an encapsulation pattern arranged in the first groove and covering the organic light emitting pattern in the first groove.
US11699362B2
A self-expiring band structure is activated upon the contacting of two chemical constituents together. This contacting may be performed by the attachment action of the band or independently thereof. After a time duration has passed, the coaction of the chemical constituents result in a visually perceptible change can alert others to the fact the band has expired. These bands may be both printable, such as by a printer or other machine printing, as well as time-expiring making them a very versatile product that offer heightened security at the price point closer to that of a disposable item because they do not require complex infrastructure for validation.
US11699356B2
An apparatus for coaching improvements for a performer during a performance activity based on observed actual performance in comparison to a possible performance, with sensors measuring performance criteria. A microprocessor computer creates respective pseudo-measurements relevant to the performance activity based on the measurements, which are normalized and evaluated as to proximity to a possible performance value. A display presents the measured actual performance in relation to the possible performance, so the performer may change actions and observe on the display the effect of the change. A method of coaching performer during a performance activity is disclosed.
US11699354B2
This disclosure presents a method and system to securely distribute educational content to residents of controlled-environment facilities participating in voluntary educational programs. The method and system involve the provision of portable devices to residents. The residents view externally managed educational content on the portable devices. Users outside of the controlled-environment facility configure classes and students and tailor curricula for individual residents. A portable device downloads the appropriate educational content through a synchronization process that occurs within the controlled-environment facility by interfacing with a synchronization and charging station. The portable device functions only to access the educational content and does not allow any unrelated capabilities or functionalities.
US11699353B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for generating and delivering extended reality content, such as augmented reality, mixed reality, and virtual reality, to physical, electronic, and audio media using deep learning algorithms, dynamic differential programming, and application programming interfaces. Such media can include, for example, printed books, electronic books, and audiobooks that can be prompted from a physical electronic device for immersive recyclable digital media utilization.
US11699352B2
An achievement platform may be maintained using a database system. A user interface may be displayed on a device of an authorized user of the achievement platform. The user interface may be configurable to allow the authorized user to create or modify customizable awards that are achievable based on customizable logic definable by the authorized user. The authorized user may be affiliated with a first one of a plurality of organizations implementing an application or service. Input, to create a first award based on first customizable logic may be processed. The first customizable logic may be configured by the authorized user such that satisfaction of conditions causes designated users associated with the application or service to be presented with the first award. It may be determined that a first user affiliated with the first organization has satisfied the conditions. The first user may be presented with the first award.
US11699350B2
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can provide opportunities to incorporate aerial transportation into transportation networks for cities and metropolitan areas. However, VTOL aircraft may be noisy. To accommodate this, the aircraft may utilize onboard sensors, offboard sensing, network, and predictive temporal data for noise signature mitigation. By building a composite understanding of real data offboard the aircraft, the aircraft can make adjustments to the way it is flying and verify this against a predicted noise signature (via computational methods) to reduce environmental impact. This might be realized via a change in translative speed, propeller speed, or choices in propulsor usage (e.g., a quiet propulsor vs. a high thrust, noisier propulsor). These noise mitigation actions may also be decided at the network level rather than the vehicle level to balance concerns across a city and relieve computing constraints on the aircraft.
US11699347B2
According to one example there is provided a method comprising selecting a first location from a set of locations and analysing, by a processor, data collected from a first vehicle located within a first distance of the first location. A first value representative of a first performance parameter of the first vehicle is generated. A second value representative of a second performance parameter of the first vehicle is generated. At least one of the first and second values is compared with a first threshold and, when one of the first and second values is greater than the first threshold, a safety alert is issued greater than (in some examples, less than).
US11699346B1
A parking management system that facilitates motorist guidance, payment, violation detection, and enforcement using highly accurate space occupancy detection, unique vehicle identification, guidance displays, payment acceptance, violation detection, enforcement data generation, electronic booting, and towing management is described. The system enables reduced time to find parking, congestion mitigation, accurate violation detection, and easier enforcement, and increased payment and enforcement revenues to cities.
US11699344B2
A traffic light management system that manages display of traffic lights includes a communication device, a control device, and a map database. The control device performs emergency control of the display when abnormal traveling information indicating the information on an abnormally traveling vehicle is included in the information received from a communication vehicle. In the emergency control, the control device predicts a future trajectory of the abnormally traveling vehicle based on the abnormal traveling information. Next, the control device generates the emergency control signal for temporarily prohibiting passage at an intersection and a crosswalk on a road along the future trajectory based on the map information and the future trajectory. After that, the control device sends the emergency control signal to controlled traffic lights. The controlled traffic lights are each a traffic light at the intersection and the crosswalk on a road along the future trajectory.
US11699332B2
A Self-Service Terminal (SST) that provides valuable media deposit features is enhanced with an apparatus fastened to an outside surface of the SST. The apparatus is adapted to receive an externally provided valuable media cassette and connect/interface a port of the cassette to an unload infeed port. A transaction interface is enhanced to identify the cassette as a source device for obtaining valuable media during a deposit transaction. The SST feeds the valuable media from the externally connected cassette through media validation and transport modules of the SST into cassettes of a safe and the SST returns rejected media for the deposit transaction back through the modules to return rejected media to the externally interfaced cassette.
US11699329B2
Example embodiments relate to predicting aspects of an unknown event. A system may involve an electronic device communicatively coupled to a server. The server may provide a set of possible parameters relating to an unknown event to the electronic device. The electronic device may enable a user to select predicted parameters via a user interface and may further transmit the predicted parameters to the server. The server may generate a combination from the set of possible parameters to use to retrieve a pre-recorded event and transmit the event to the electronic device for display to the user. The server may also compare the predicted parameters to the generated parameters to determine a result and provide the result to the electronic device for display to the user.
US11699319B2
A method of processing a transaction includes receiving a site location code. Site configuration information corresponding to the received site location code is received from a database. That information includes more product record(s), each corresponding to a reservable product or a non-reservable product. A selection of one or more of the product records in the retrieved information is received. If any selected product record corresponds to a reservable product, a reservation command is produced. That command requests reservation of selected reservable product(s). A method of selecting a product includes receiving a location input and determining a site location code with it. The site location code is transmitted and one or more product records are received. Representations of one or more of the received product records are presented and a selection of products is received. An indication of the selection is transmitted.
US11699318B2
Apparatuses, methods and systems for unlocking a tracking apparatus that is affixed to an asset are disclosed herein. In one example, a method of unlocking a tracking apparatus that is affixed to an asset is provided. The tracking apparatus may comprise an electronic tag electronically coupled to a securing component comprising an actuating element. The method may comprise: receiving asset information associated with the tracking apparatus; generating and storing a secure machine-readable code in conjunction with the asset information; in response to receiving a request to unlock the tracking apparatus, determining whether a received input corresponds with the stored secure machine-readable code; and providing an indication to cause an electronic reader in electronic communication with the tracking apparatus to trigger deactivating the actuating element.
US11699312B2
A recording system for a vehicle according to an example of the present disclosure includes proximity sensors configured to obtain data indicative of a distance between a vehicle and external objects and at least one vehicle operation sensor configured to obtain data indicative of how a driver is operating the vehicle. A controller is configured to obtain input data for a current monitoring period that includes data from the plurality of proximity sensors and the at least one vehicle operation sensor; utilize a predictive engine to determine whether the input data fulfills a criteria set corresponding to a potential impending vehicle incident; based on the input data fulfilling the criteria set commence saving of the input data from the current monitoring period and subsequent monitoring periods in a data set; and based on the input data not fulfilling the criteria set delete the input data for the current monitoring period.
US11699303B2
A system and a method of calculating coordinates of a pupil center point are provided. The system for acquiring the coordinates of the pupil center point includes a first camera, a second camera, a storage and a processor. The first camera is configured to capture a first image including a face and output the first image to the processor, the second camera is configured to capture a second image including a pupil and output the second image to the processor, a resolution of the first camera is smaller than a resolution of the second camera, and the storage is configured to store processing data, and the processor is configured to: acquire the first image and the second image; extract a first eye region corresponding to an eye from the first image; convert the first eye region into the second image, to acquire a second eye region corresponding to the eye in the second image; and detect a pupil in the second eye region and acquire the coordinates of the pupil center point.
US11699294B2
Systems and methods for performing OCR of an image depicting text symbols and imaging a document having a plurality of planar regions are disclosed. An example method comprises: receiving a first image of a document having a plurality of planar regions and one or more second images of the document; identifying a plurality of coordinate transformations corresponding to each of the planar regions of the first image of the document; identifying, using the plurality of coordinate transformations, a cluster of symbol sequences of the text in the first image and in the one or more second images; and producing a resulting OCR text comprising a median symbol sequence for the cluster of symbol sequences.
US11699292B2
An object recognition-based driving pattern managing server, a driving control apparatus of a vehicle using the same, and a method are provided. A server includes a processor recognizing a target object extracted from image information and determining a priority for each vehicle behavior scenario based on an accident rate for each vehicle behavior scenario among patterns similar to a mother pattern of the recognized target object to transmit the priority for each vehicle behavior scenario to a vehicle and a storage storing at least one or more of information about an image similar to the target object, target object information, pattern information for each target object, vehicle behavior scenario information, and priority information for each vehicle behavior scenario based on the target object.
US11699288B2
Automated detection of features and/or parameters within an ocean environment using image data. In an embodiment, captured image data is received from ocean-facing camera(s) that are positioned to capture a region of an ocean environment. Feature(s) are identified within the captured image data, and parameter(s) are measured based on the identified feature(s). Then, when a request for data is received from a user system, the requested data is generated based on the parameter(s) and sent to the user system.
US11699287B1
Techniques for improving image processing related to item deliveries are described. In an example, a computer system receives image data showing a portion of a delivery location. The computer system determines an artificial intelligence (AI) model associated with the delivery location. The computer system inputs the image data to the AI model. The computer system receives an indication of whether the portion corresponds to a correct drop-off location and causes a presentation about the indication to be provided at a device.
US11699282B1
This application is directed to augmenting training data used for vehicle driving modelling. A computer system obtains a first image of a road and identifies a drivable area of the road within the first image. The computer system obtains an image of an object and generates a second image from the first image by overlaying the image of the object over the drivable area. The second image is added to a corpus of training images to be used by a machine learning system to generate a model for facilitating driving of a vehicle (e.g., at least partial autonomously). In some embodiments, the computer system applies machine learning to train a model using the corpus of training images and distributes the model to one or more vehicles. In use, the model processes road images captured by the one or more vehicles to facilitate vehicle driving.
US11699278B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating a sequence of symbols based on input data for a neuro-linguistic model. The model may be used by a behavior recognition system to analyze the input data. A mapper component of a neuro-linguistic module in the behavior recognition system receives one or more normalized vectors generated from the input data. The mapper component generates one or more clusters based on a statistical distribution of the normalized vectors. The mapper component evaluates statistics and identifies statistically relevant clusters. The mapper component assigns a distinct symbol to each of the identified clusters.
US11699276B2
A method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium for character recognition are provided. The method may perform image processing on an acquired original image to obtain a region to be recognized. The region may include a character. The method may determine an area ratio of the region to be recognized on the original image. The method may determine an angle between the region to be recognized and a preset direction. The method may determine a character density of the region to be recognized. The method may perform character recognition on the character in the region to be recognized in response to determining that the area ratio is greater than a ratio threshold, the angle is less than an angle threshold, and the character density is less than a density threshold.
US11699275B2
This disclosure relates generally to visio-linguistic understanding. Conventional methods use contextual visio-linguistic reasoner for visio-linguistic understanding which requires more compute power and large amount of pre-training data. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for visio-linguistic understanding using contextual language model reasoner. The method converts the visual information of an input image into a format that the contextual language model reasoner understands and accepts for a downstream task. The method utilizes the image captions and confidence score associated with the image captions along with a knowledge graph to obtain a combined input in a format compatible with the contextual language model reasoner. Contextual embeddings corresponding to the downstream task is obtained using the combined input. The disclosed method is used to solve several downstream tasks such as scene understanding, visual question answering, visual common-sense reasoning and so on.
US11699269B2
With the advent of augmented reality devices becoming increasingly prevalent, accessible, and cross-compatible, there is an opportunity to leverage the capabilities of such devices in order to streamline workflow and information access in number of contexts. The present invention provides an integrated, dynamic system for leveraging the capabilities of augmented reality systems in order to provide users with personalized information in a dependable, seamless, and secure manner.
US11699251B2
An information display apparatus may include a processor configured to display a display object in augmented reality; and a storage configured to store data and algorithms driven by the processor, wherein the processor determines a position of the display object by use of at least one of a total number of lanes or a number of lanes in a road in a driving direction of a host vehicle, possible traveling direction information for each lane, and driving direction information related to the host vehicle, and the information display apparatus is disposed within a vehicle or outside the vehicle, and when disposed outside the vehicle, is configured to transmit display information related to the display object to the vehicle or a mobile device.
US11699238B2
A local extension method for segmentation of anatomical treelike structures includes receiving an initial segmentation of 3D image data including an initial treelike structure. A target point in the 3D image data is defined, and a region of interest based on the target point is extracted to create a sub-image. Highly tubular voxels are detected in the sub-image, and a spillage-constrained region growing is performed using the highly tubular voxels as seed points. Connected components are extracted from the results of the region growing. The extracted components are pruned to discard components not likely to be connected to the initial treelike structure, keeping only candidate components likely to be a valid sub-tree of the initial treelike structure. The candidate components are connected to the initial treelike structure, thereby extending the initial segmentation in the region of interest.
US11699224B2
A device includes image generation circuitry and convolutional-neural-network circuitry. The image generation circuitry, in operation, generates a digital image representation of a wafer defect map (WDM). The convolutional-neural-network circuitry, in operation, generates a defect classification associated with the WDM based on: the digital image representation of the WDM and a data-driven model associating WDM images with classes of a defined set of classes of wafer defects and generated using a training data set augmented based on defect pattern orientation types associated with training images.
US11699221B2
An information processing apparatus that functions as a non-limiting example image processing apparatus includes a processor. When an original image drawn with horizontally-long first pixels is to be drawn by square second pixels, the processor generates two intermediate image data in each of which the number of second pixels is 1.2 times the number of first pixels of the original image data, by generating a second area formed with six (6) second pixels arranged in a horizontal direction for each of first areas that are formed dividing the original image by every five (5) first pixels arranged in the horizontal direction, and outputs the two intermediate image data to a display control device. The display control device generates output image data by synthesizing the two intermediate image data, and outputs the generated output image data to a display. The output image data is generated in each of the second areas with colors that include colors of the second pixels at both ends, which are in agreement with colors of the first pixels at both ends in each corresponding first area and colors of the second pixels other than the both ends, each of which is generated based on colors of adjacent two first pixels in corresponding first area.
US11699220B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products of fusing Molecular Chemical Imaging (MCI) and Red Green Blue (RGB) images are disclosed herein. A sample is illuminated with illuminating photons which interact with the sample and are used to form MCI and RGB images. The MCI and RGB images are fused by way of mathematical operations to generate a RGB image with a detection overlay.
US11699218B2
A method of controlling parameters for image sensors includes; receiving a first image and a second image, calculating first feature values related to the first image and second feature values related to the second image; generating comparison results by comparing the first feature values of fixed regions and first variable regions of the first image with the second feature values of fixed regions and first variable regions of the second image, and controlling at least one parameter on the basis of the comparison results.
US11699214B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for denoising an image. The method can include receiving an acquired image from an image acquisition system, and processing the acquired image with a nonlinear diffusion coefficient based filter having a diffusion coefficient that is calculated using gradient vector orientation information in the acquired image.
US11699212B2
Systems and methods of encoding display data include performing a part of a first predetermined transform algorithm on at least a first part of a first frame of display data, and analyzing a light level to determine whether a different transform algorithm would be more suitable for encoding a second part of the first frame of the display data. If it is determined that a different transform algorithm would be more suitable for encoding, the second part of the first frame of the display data is encoded using the different transform algorithm to generate an encoded first frame. If it is determined that a different transform algorithm would not be more suitable for encoding, the second part of the first frame of the display data is encoded using the first predetermined transform algorithm to generate the encoded first frame.
US11699211B2
Spherical rotation is described for encoding a video that has a wide field of view, such as a spherical or hemispherical video. One example relates to receiving encoded video including rotation orientation metadata, decoding the video, extracting the rotation orientation metadata, rotating the decoded video based on the rotation orientation metadata, generating a view of the rotated decoded video, and buffering the generated view for display.
US11699209B2
There is provided a method for embedding a digital watermark into and extracting a digital watermark from a numerical data set. In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for embedding a digital watermark into a numerical data set. The method includes selecting portions of the numerical data set identified as data noise, the selected portions to be used for embedding the digital watermark into the numerical data set, the digital watermark being unique for each recipient of the numerical data. The method further includes replacing the least significant bit (LSB) of at least some of the selected portions of the numerical data set with at least portion of the digital watermark.
US11699208B2
A method is provided for watermarking a machine learning model used for object detection or image classification. In the method, a first subset of a labeled set of ML training samples is selected. The first subset is of a predetermined class of images. In one embodiment, the first pixel pattern is selected and sized to have substantially the same dimensions as each sample of the first subset or each bounding box in the case of an object detector. Each sample of the first subset is relabeled to have a different label than the original label. An opacity of the pixel pattern may be adjusted independently for different parts of the pattern. The ML model is trained with the labeled set of ML training samples and the first subset of relabeled ML training samples. Using multiple different opacity factors provides both reliability and credibility to the watermark.
US11699199B2
A method and system include identifying, by a processor, departing flight information that designates departure airports and departure times in payment card transaction data of a plurality of users. Airport-specific data for a departure airport before a departure time of a departing flight of a user from the plurality of users is received. The airport-specific data is inputted into a machine learning model that outputs a user-specific airport processing time for the user to reach a departure gate upon arriving to the departure airport. A travel time from a geographical location of the computing device of the user to the departure airport is received from a navigation system. The computing device displays a time for the user to start travel to the departure airport based on the user-specific airport processing time and the travel time to the departure airport for the user to reach the departure gate by the departure time.
US11699194B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first user request to execute a first task comprising one or more sub-tasks from a client system associated with a user, receiving a second user request to suspend the first task from the client system, storing a dialog state for the first task in response to the second user request, wherein the dialog state comprises results of executed sub-tasks and a status indicating the first task is suspended, receiving a third user request to resume the first task, accessing the dialog state for the first task, and providing a prompt to resume the first task at the client system.
US11699190B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and apparatus for managing investment savings of individuals through an investment vehicle suitable for retirement, estate or general investment planning. The invention establishes the mechanics of the operations to create an open-end investment fund as a means for individual participants to earn both market returns on their investments and demographic returns (DR) on the actual demographic experience of the pool of investors who participate in the investment fund. Individuals can invest in the fund and make additional deposits and withdrawals at any time. Investors specify a payout schedule, and those who sell their investments, as scheduled, earn full returns, combining market returns and the DR. Investors who make unscheduled withdrawals from the fund, receive lower returns. The investment fund is customized, and administered by computer software that is available to both participants in the fund and to asset managers who offer the fund to investors.
US11699179B2
A system for size and fitting recommendation for fashion products is provided. The system includes a memory having computer readable instructions stored therein. The system further includes a processor configured to access purchase and content data of one or more fashion products purchased by a plurality of users. The processor is configured to generate an observable feature vector for each of the one or more fashion products. The observable feature vector is generated based upon observable features data corresponding to each of the one or more fashion product. The processor is further configured to aggregate the observable feature vectors of the fashion products purchased by each user to compute an observable user vector for the respective user. In addition, the processor is further configured to generate a latent feature vector for each of the one or more fashion products. The latent feature vector is generated based upon latent features data corresponding to each fashion product. Furthermore, the processor is configured to aggregate the latent feature vectors of fashion products purchased by each user to compute a latent user vector for the respective user. Moreover, the processor further configured to generate size and fitting recommendations of fashion products for each user based upon the observable feature vector, the observable user vector, latent feature vector and the latent user vector.
US11699174B2
A computing device can obtain data describing at least one document, the at least one document referencing at least one media object, wherein a portion of the at least one media object includes one or more characters. The computing device can obtain data describing the one or more characters in the at least one media object in the at least one document. The computing device can generate an updated copy of the at least one document that includes the data describing the one or more characters in the at least one media object. The computing device can present, on a display screen of the computing device and through an interface, the updated copy of the at least one document, wherein the one or more characters in the at least one media object are able to be selected or searched.
US11699172B2
A data enrichment system for enriching requests for advertising opportunities. The data enrichment system is configured to aggregate and index data to provide end user insights to marketers based upon information supplied by publishers in regards to advertising opportunities passed along in requests. The system is configured to take attributes passed along in a request associated with the advertising opportunity and provide enriched data based upon the attributes received in the request. The attributes can then identify corresponding enriched data that can be passed along to the marketers.
US11699170B2
A system, method, and computer program product for implementing electronically generated promotion deployment is provided. The method includes receiving electronic data comprising shipment identification for a shipment of an item from a shipping client to a recipient. Specialized programable software code is generated and a resulting profile is generated for the recipient. A visible promotional structure associated with a package comprising the shipment is generated and presented during delivery of the package. Generating the visible promotional structure may include generating a physical structure or a digital structure.
US11699165B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a game program for a game which is played through a network causes a computer to realize a selection receiving function of receiving, from one user, the selection of whether to transmit a message to another user, an extraction function of extracting at least one other user to which the message is transmitted, on the basis of a certain condition, a message transmitting function of transmitting the message to the at least one other user extracted by the extraction function when the selection receiving function receives the selection indicating that the message is transmitted to the other user, and a reward giving function of giving a reward to the one user when the message transmitting function transmits the message to the at least one other user extracted by the extraction function.
US11699163B2
A provider-based platform analytics engine provides real-time analytics to online services for providers. The analytics are integrated into customer-facing interfaces of the online services for providing meaningful real-time information and recommendations to consumers during customer order processing.
US11699161B2
Systems and methods for integrating and managing an authentication and automated return process are provided. In example embodiments, a network system receives, via a first application protocol interface (API) call from an authenticator system, an indication that an item associated with a transaction is not authentic, whereby the transaction occurred on the network system between accounts associated with a first and second client device. Based on the receiving of the indication, the network system automatically causes a return to be created at the network system. The network system then automatically triggers processing of the return including transferring funds to the account associated with the first client device, the account associated with the first client device previously providing payment to purchase the item and the account associated with the second client device providing the item for sale.
US11699151B2
Disclosed are examples of a method, a wearable device and a system enabling authentication of a user of a payment account or completion of a purchase transaction via signals generated by the wearable device. A process may include a wearable device generating a modulated signal using an encryption algorithm. The modulated signal may contain authentication information related to the wearable device including a cryptographic authentication message. The modulated signal is output to a biological medium interface of the wearable device that is coupled to a biological medium of a wearer of the wearable device. The biological medium is operable to conduct the modulated signal. A receiving device processes including decrypting and demodulating the modulated signal received from the biological medium. Using the demodulated signal, the authentication information transmitted from the wearable device is obtained. Based on the obtained authentication information, a transaction may be authorized, or a user authenticated.
US11699142B1
Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media are described for using a vehicle as a payment device. Various aspects may include receiving a selection of a stored financial card or financial account at a vehicle head unit. The selected financial card or financial account may be transmitted to a point-of-sale (POS) terminal for making a payment by transmitting a tokenized card number to the POS terminal. The tokenized card number may be transmitted over a very short-range communication link to ensure that the transmission is secure. For example, electronic circuitry may be attached to the exterior of the vehicle, where the electronic circuitry may be within a threshold distance (e.g. one inch, three inches, six inches, one foot, three feet, etc.) of the POS terminal. The tokenized card number may be transmitted from the vehicle head unit to the electronic circuitry and then to the POS terminal.
US11699140B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to determining whether geographic locations of a user computing device satisfy a location consensus threshold. A computer system receives results of a plurality of location determination operations, each of which specifies a geographic location of a computing device initiating an action. The computer system then makes a determination whether the received results satisfy a consensus threshold as to geographic location of the computing device. In some embodiments, the determination is usable to select, from a plurality of sets of rules for different geographic regions, a particular set of rules for processing the action. In some cases, the particular set of rules is usable to determine whether to process the action. Such techniques may advantageously allow a processing system to understand how to process actions initiated by a computing device associated with different geographic locations.
US11699135B2
Delegating issuance capability to a third-party of fungible digital assets involves a central (e.g., central bank) processor receiving a request to issue fungible digital assets from a third-party node; verifying the request; validating request to issue fungible digital assets from the third-party; approving or rejecting the request; if the request to issue fungible digital assets is approved, creating an issuance authorization message; executing a smart contract clause to add an entity of the third-party node to a list of authorized entities; publishing the issuance authorization message on a blockchain indicating that a third-party node has been added to the list of authorized entities; and publishing a revocation message on the blockchain revoking an authorization granted to the third-party node to issue digital assets.
US11699131B2
In one aspect, a distributed ledger system include a first network node configured to detect a triggering condition for processing a claim; collect user and broker information for processing the claim; convert the information from a first computer-readable format to a second computer-readable format; validate the converted information based on corresponding digital signatures; generate claim state objects based on the validated information to be used by each node of the distributed ledger system to execute a smart contract for processing the claim; receive one or more updated claim state objects from a second network node reflecting updated processing status of the claim to be used by each node of the distributed ledger system to execute the smart contract for processing the claim; and process the claim based on results of execution of the smart contract using the one or more updated claim state objects.
US11699126B2
Systems and methods for generating and implementing an anonymized delivery point processing system are disclosed. Anonymous addresses can be associated with actual physical delivery points. An item having an anonymous address thereon can be sorted and/or routed on item processing equipment based on the associated actual physical delivery point.
US11699124B2
A method for tracking physical assets can include: receiving a digital asset; determining an asset identifier for the digital asset; generating an asset barcode; optionally facilitating printing and sending of the asset to an asset recipient; determining an asset event for the asset; and notifying a sender of an asset event.
US11699120B2
System and methods may facilitate user guidance to risk relationship documents for an enterprise. A risk relationship document data store may contain a set of electronic data records, each electronic data record being associated with a risk relationship document and including a document identifier and a set of document metadata values. A document navigation computer may receive information from a user associated with the enterprise, and, based on the information received from the user and document metadata values, dynamically create a sub-set of the documents in the risk relationship data document data store. An interactive user interface display computer may provide indications associated with the documents in the dynamically created sub-set to the user via an interactive user interface and receive a selected document of the dynamically created sub-set. The user interface display computer may then, responsive to the selection, deliver the selected document to a remote user device.
US11699115B2
Systems and methods capable of providing customized business processes, such as with regard to intermediate business transaction documents, within a standard business process flow system. The systems and methods may include a process interface for receiving the standard business process flow; a developmental graphical user interface capable of developing a plurality of object-oriented custom modules indicative of a plurality of custom business steps; a plurality of data libraries capable of storing at least configurations and rules applicable to the plurality of object-oriented custom modules; a run time graphical user interface capable of selecting multiple ones of the plurality of object-oriented custom modules for inclusion in a custom process stack; and a trigger sensor capable of receiving a trigger indicated by one of the configurations at the process interface, and capable of diverting the standard business process flow to process the custom process stack related to the trigger according to the configurations and rules upon receipt of the trigger.
US11699102B2
An apparatus, system and process for identifying one or more different tissue types are described. The method may include applying a configuration to one or more programmable light sources of an imaging system, where the configuration is obtained from a machine learning model trained to distinguish between the one or more different tissue types captured in image data. The method may also include illuminating a scene with the configured one or more programmable light sources, and capturing image data that includes one or more types of tissue depicted in the image data. Furthermore, the method may include analyzing color information in the captured image data with the machine learning model to identify at least one of the one or more different tissue types in the image data, and rendering a visualization of the scene from the captured image data that visually differentiates tissue types in the visualization.
US11699099B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to confidence volumes for earth modeling using machine learning. A method includes receiving detected data, wherein the detected data includes formation attributes relating to one or more depth points along or near a wellbore. The method further includes providing inputs to a plurality of machine learning models based on the detected data. The method further includes receiving output values from the plurality of machine learning models based on the inputs. The method further includes determining a measure of variance among the output values. The method further includes generating a confidence indicator related to the output values based on the measure of variance.
US11699090B2
A method for compiling a quantum circuit on a trapped-ion quantum processor includes: obtaining a quantum circuit containing a first predetermined category of two-qubit quantum gates, and/or one-qubit quantum gates; a separation of the quantum circuit into local layers, and entangling layers; compiling the local layers; compiling the entangling layers, separate from the step of compiling the local layers, transforming the quantum gates of those entangling layers so that they contain only collective or entangling N-qubit quantum gates of a third predetermined category, one-qubit quantum gates of a fourth predetermined category; and a step of grouping together the compiled local layers and the compiled entangling layers into a compiled quantum circuit.
US11699077B2
Provided is multi-layer neural network technique that includes: calculating, from an input and using a first one or more layers of a plurality of layers of a neural network, a first intermediate output; reducing a size of one or more dimensions of the first intermediate output; calculating, from the first intermediate output and using a second one or more layers of the neural network, a second intermediate output (the second one or more layers including one or more ultra-low precision layers); reducing a size of one or more dimensions of the second intermediate output; combining a plurality of reduced intermediate outputs (including the reduced first intermediate output and the reduced second intermediate output) to derive a combined intermediate output; and calculating, using the combined intermediate output and one or more higher-precision layers of the plurality of layers, a neural network output.
US11699074B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a sequence generation neural network. One of the methods includes obtaining a batch of training examples; for each of the training examples: processing the training network input in the training example using the neural network to generate an output sequence; for each particular output position in the output sequence: identifying a prefix that includes the system outputs at positions before the particular output position in the output sequence, for each possible system output in the vocabulary, determining a highest quality score that can be assigned to any candidate output sequence that includes the prefix followed by the possible system output, and determining an update to the current values of the network parameters that increases a likelihood that the neural network generates a system output at the position that has a high quality score.
US11699073B2
The present disclosure provides a network off-line model processing method, an artificial intelligence processing device and related products, where the related products include a combined processing device. The combined processing device includes the artificial intelligence processing device, a general-purpose interconnection interface, and other processing devices, where the artificial intelligence processing device interacts with the other processing devices to jointly complete computation designated by users. The embodiments of the present disclosure can accelerate the operation of the network off-line model.
US11699070B2
A method and apparatus for providing a rotational invariant neural network is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first input of an image in a first orientation and training a kernel to be symmetric such that an output corresponding to the first input is the same as an output corresponding to a second input of the image in a second orientation.
US11699064B2
A neural network system executable on a processor. The neural network system, when executed on the processor, comprises a merged layer shareable between a first neural network and a second neural network. The merged layer is configured to receive input data from a prior layer of at least one of the first and second neural networks. The merged layer is configured to apply a superset of weights to the input data to generate intermediate feature data representative of at least one feature of the input data, the superset of weights being combined from a first set of weights associated with the first neural network and a second set of weights associated with the second neural network. The merged layer is also configured to output the intermediate feature data to at least one subsequent layer, the at least one subsequent layer serving the first and second neural networks.
US11699062B2
A system and method for implementing reward based strategies for promoting exploration that include receiving data associated with an agent environment of an ego agent and a target agent and receiving data associated with a dynamic operation of the ego agent and the target agent within the agent environment. The system and method also include implementing a reward function that is associated with exploration of at least one agent state within the agent environment. The system and method further include training a neural network with a novel unexplored agent state.
US11699050B1
A decoding device includes an aiming component and a scanning component of a scanning engine; a display component and tactile components of a touch screen; and a processor configured to operate the display component to display an initial icon, monitor the tactile components to detect a commencement of a digit tip press on the touch screen at the initial icon, and in response to the digit tip press having a pressure between predetermined lower and higher pressure levels, perform operations including: operate the aiming component to project the visual guide; monitor the tactile components to detect a pressure increase of the digit tip press to higher than the predetermined higher pressure level; and in response to the increase in pressure, operate the scanning component to attempt to scan an encoded data marking, and operate the tactile components to provide a haptic indication of the attempt to the digit tip.
US11699046B2
Sortable tracking objects that can be associated with item containers and items for tracking and organization.
US11699045B2
Material in a supply chain is tracked by a method of applying a DNA taggant set to a first batch of the material produced by a first supplier of the material. The DNA taggant set corresponds to a tag string corresponding to the first supplier. The first batch is aggregated with a second batch to create an aggregated lot. A sample is selected from the aggregated lot and tested to determine a DNA taggant set of the sample. After selecting a sample from the aggregated lot, the sample may be labeled with a grade and then placed in a receptacle corresponding to the grade.
US11699042B2
There is a need for solutions that perform predictive natural language processing with improved efficiency and/or accuracy. This need can be addressed by, for example, by identifying an indexed representation of a natural language object; obtaining a vocabulary domain associated with one or more first phrases; determining an individual frequency for each first phrase based on a count of occurrences of the first phrase in the indexed representation; identifying one or more dominant phrases of the first phrases; for each dominant phrase, identifying any dependent phrases for the first dominant phrase; determining a semantically-adjusted frequency for each dominant phrase based on the individual frequency for the dominant phrase and each individual frequency for any dependent phrase for the dominant phrase; generating a structured representation of the natural language object based on each semantically-adjusted frequency associated with a dominant phrase; and providing the structured representation for the predictive analysis.
US11699041B2
There is a need for solutions that perform predictive natural language processing with improved efficiency and/or accuracy. This need can be addressed by, for example, by identifying an indexed representation of a natural language object; obtaining a vocabulary domain associated with one or more first phrases; determining an individual frequency for each first phrase based on a count of occurrences of the first phrase in the indexed representation; identifying one or more dominant phrases of the first phrases; for each dominant phrase, identifying any dependent phrases for the first dominant phrase; determining a semantically-adjusted frequency for each dominant phrase based on the individual frequency for the dominant phrase and each individual frequency for any dependent phrase for the dominant phrase; generating a structured representation of the natural language object based on each semantically-adjusted frequency associated with a dominant phrase; and providing the structured representation for the predictive analysis.
US11699040B2
There is a need for solutions that perform predictive natural language processing with improved efficiency and/or accuracy. This need can be addressed by, for example, by identifying an indexed representation of a natural language object; obtaining a vocabulary domain associated with one or more first phrases; determining an individual frequency for each first phrase based on a count of occurrences of the first phrase in the indexed representation; identifying one or more dominant phrases of the first phrases; for each dominant phrase, identifying any dependent phrases for the first dominant phrase; determining a semantically-adjusted frequency for each dominant phrase based on the individual frequency for the dominant phrase and each individual frequency for any dependent phrase for the dominant phrase; generating a structured representation of the natural language object based on each semantically-adjusted frequency associated with a dominant phrase; and providing the structured representation for the predictive analysis.
US11699034B2
Disclosed embodiments perform patent claims analysis using preconditioning rules to determine relevant portions of a reference document. A query is submitted to find a set of patents that are similar to the reference document. A set of matching patents from the query are received and claim construction rules are used to determine how a meaning of claim elements of the patents will be ascertained in further analysis. Patent infringement rules and an artificial intelligence (AI) system are used to search the relevant portions of the reference document with the claim constructed claim elements of the patents returned from the search. The set of patents are ranked based on assigned confidence scores indicating a degree to which respective claim elements match the relevant portions of the reference document, and the results are presented to a client device. The system may a machine learning model and a natural language understanding (NLU) system.
US11699033B2
The presently disclosed embodiments may include a computer readable medium including instructions that when executed by one or more processing devices cause the one or more processing devices to perform a method. The method may include: analyzing an electronic document text; identifying in the electronic document text a first drafted text element to be modified; causing the first drafted text element to be highlighted to a user on a display; generating at least one text output option that conveys a meaning associated with the first drafted text element but includes one or more changes relative to the first drafted text element; and causing the at least one text output option to be shown to the user via the display.
US11699029B2
Methods and systems are presented for dynamically generating programming code for implementing input data fields that automatically verifies formatting of input data based on platform agnostic formatting rules. A user interface page is obtained for display on a user device, wherein the user interface page is configured to obtain data from a user. Based on first programming code associated with the interface page, formatting rules are retrieved from a remote server. Second programming code that implements one or more input data fields on the user interface page is generated based on the formatting rules. The user interface page with the one or more input data fields is rendered on the user device for obtaining user data. Based on the second programming code, the user data inserted into the one or more input data fields is automatically formatted.
US11699028B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying an online document, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method for displaying an online document includes, in response to receiving an interactive instruction for a first user through the online document, generating an online document notification message in the instant messaging session list of the first user, where the interactive instruction includes that a second user mentions the first user or that the second user mentions the content published by the first user in the online document; in response to receiving an instruction triggering the online document notification message, acquiring a target link address; and jumping to the target link address in an instant messaging window through a document container and displaying the online document in the instant messaging window, where the document container is integrated into an instant messaging framework.
US11699027B1
Embodiments described herein provide methods and systems for presenting a document and generating a human-AI summary. A system provides a user with a selection of an amount of time to spend reading the document, or a list of questions from which the user may select which questions they would like answered by reading the document. The system highlights sections of the document according to the user selection. Implicit and explicit user data such as dwell times, user highlights, and user notes, are collected while displaying the document. A human-AI summary is generated based on the document and the user data.
US11699020B2
A document architecture system includes an intelligent document processing engine that can receive raw data streamed from external data source(s), analyze the raw data to identify triggering events, apply rules to the triggering events identified, break down the raw data accordingly, and generating messages in an internal format to represent the pieces of data without any formatting or layout information. The messages can be augmented with custom metadata and stored as fragments that reference, but that do not physically incorporate, the messages. The stored fragments can be used by the document process engine to intelligently render documents and versions thereof. Some embodiments store only unique fragments, resulting in a significant reduction in storage requirements and an extremely efficient way of processing huge amounts of data (e.g., millions of documents) for document production. The messages and fragments are in internal formats under control of the document architecture system.
US11699018B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for comparing selections of text to show differences between the two selections. The text may be selected from the same source or from two different sources. In one implementation, a system receives a first selection of text for comparison and places the selection in a first buffer. The system receives a second selection of text for comparison and places the second selection in a second buffer. The system compares the first buffer and the second buffer to determine differences and displays the differences. In some embodiments, the system may allow a user to choose two buffers from among a plurality of buffers for comparison.
US11699014B2
Pathways between reference locations in a physical system are generated based on a layout table. Nodes and edges of the directed graph are associated with cell locations of the layout table. The cell locations define features of the reference locations. Parameters of the nodes and edges are defined based on descriptors recalled from the cells associated with the nodes and edges. The nodes and edges are configured based on the descriptors. Path data regarding potential pathways is generated based on the defined nodes and edges.
US11699013B2
A computer-implemented method for simulation of an electrical circuit with circuit components by at least one computing unit includes mapping a coupling of the substate representations in a coupling equation system for exchange of calculated coupling variables between the subcircuits. The method also includes calculating, in an evaluation step, at least one stability parameter on a basis of the coupling equation system, and deciding, in a selection step and depending on the at least one calculated stability parameter, whether the current separation of the electrical circuit into subcircuits will be used as the basis of the simulation. The method further includes performing, after a successful selection, the simulation of the electrical circuit by calculating the substate space representations on the at least one computing unit.
US11699012B2
Microelectronic circuit com-prises a plurality of logic units and register circuits, arranged into a plu-rality of processing paths, and a plu-rality of monitoring units associated with respective ones of said processing paths. Each of said monitoring units is configured to produce an observation signal as a response to anomalous opera-tion of the respective processing path. Each of said plurality of logic units belongs to one of a plurality of delay classes according to an amount of delay that it is likely to generate. Said de-lay classes comprise first, second, and third classes, of which the first class covers logic units that are likely to generate longest delays, the second class covers logic units that are likely to generate shorter delays than said first class, and the third class covers logic units that are likely to generate shorter delays than said second class. At least some of said plurality of pro-cessing paths comprise logic units be-longing to said second class but are without monitoring units. At least some of said plurality of processing paths comprise logic units belonging to said third class but have monitoring units associated with them.
US11699010B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes reducing errors in a migration of a first netlist to a second netlist, the first netlist corresponding to a first semiconductor process technology (SPT), the second first netlist corresponding to a second SPT, the first and second netlists each representing a same circuit design, the reducing errors including: inspecting a timing constraint list corresponding to the second netlist for addition candidates; generating a first version of the second netlist having a first number of comparison points relative to a logic equivalence check (LEC) context, the first number of comparison points being based on the addition candidates; performing a LEC between the first netlist and the first version of the second netlist, thereby identifying migration errors; and revising the second netlist to reduce the migration errors, thereby resulting in a second version of the second netlist.
US11698999B2
A casting system design method is disclosed. The casting system design method comprises the steps of: receiving an input of entities associated with the shape of a cast product; generating respective entities for the constituent elements of a casting system on the basis of the inputted shape-related entities and pre-stored knowledge-based basic design information; generating a 3D graphic shape of a casting system designed on the basis of the generated entities; and editing the design of the casting system according to editing commands inputted on a graphics user interface (GUI) on which a 2D graphic shape corresponding to the generated 3D graphic shape is displayed, and dynamically modifying and displaying the 2D graphic shape so as to correspond to the editing.
US11698990B2
A system allows the identification and protection of sensitive data in a multiple ways, which can be combined for different workflows, data situations or use cases. The system scans datasets to identify sensitive data or identifying datasets, and to enable the anonymisation of sensitive or identifying datasets by processing that data to produce a safe copy. Furthermore, the system prevents access to a raw dataset. The system enables privacy preserving aggregate queries and computations. The system uses differentially private algorithms to reduce or prevent the risk of identification or disclosure of sensitive information. The system scales to big data and is implemented in a way that supports parallel execution on a distributed compute cluster.
US11698980B2
Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more processing devices to facilitate and/or support participation in computing activities by multiple parties having limited mutual trust. In one embodiment, computation may occur in a secure processing environment (SPE) while one or more untrusted parties reside outside of the SPE.
US11698978B2
A computer-implemented method includes: identifying, by a computing device, private portions and non-private portions of content displayed on a user device; generating, by the computing device, instructions to modify the display of the content on the user device to mask the private portions of the content, group the private portions of the content together, and group and the non-private portions of the content together; and outputting, by the computing device, the instructions to cause the user device to modify the display of the content on the user device such that the masked private portions of the content are grouped together and the non-private portions of the content are grouped together, wherein the non-private portions are exposed and visible.
US11698972B2
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to implementing a secure boot process in information handling systems that supports both an external root of trust (eRoT) and an internal root of trust (RoT). Further, embodiments of the invention relate to binding a management controller to a specific chassis and, in the case where the eRoT is used, to an eRoT. When the management controller and the chassis are provisioned according to one or more embodiments of the invention, security checks may be performed by management controller executing an initial program loader (IPL) using the aforementioned bindings. If the bindings are not present or do not match, then the boot process halts and the user is unable to use the information handling system.
US11698971B2
One embodiment is a device comprising a controller for verifying a digital signature of a process, a memory for storing an indication from the controller that the digital signature was verified the indication including at least one symmetric key, and a bootloader for receiving the indication from the memory and performing at least one security check using the at least one symmetric key, wherein the bootloader executes a function of the external process, only when it passes the security check.
US11698970B2
Methods, systems, and devices for double wrapping for verification are described. In some cases, a memory subsystem can receive a firmware image for the memory subsystem where the firmware image is signed with a first signature according to a first signing procedure. The memory subsystem can then verify an integrity of the firmware image based on the first signing procedure. After verifying the integrity of the firmware image, the memory subsystem can then generate a second signature for the firmware image based on a second signing procedure different from the first signing procedure. The memory subsystem can then write the second signature to the firmware image. The memory subsystem can then perform a verification process to verify the integrity of the firmware image based on one or both of the first signing procedure or the second signing procedure. In this case, a first verification time is associated with the first signing procedure and is greater than a second verification time associated with the second signing procedure.
US11698969B1
Techniques for measuring firmware at the point and time of execution are described. Hardware logic can be implemented in a processing unit that is tasked with executing firmware code to make on-the-fly measurements of the instructions being executed by the processing unit. For example, an instruction register that stores instructions being executed by the processing unit can be monitored to obtain a set of instructions corresponding to the firmware being executed. Firmware verification circuitry can be implemented to compute a cryptographic measurement of the instructions being executed to verify the authenticity of the firmware.
US11698962B2
A method detects intrusions in an audit log including records of user sessions with activity features and a user label of a claimed user of the user session. Probabilities that a user session belongs to a user are predicted. A probability is predicted for each combination of a user and a user session of the audit log based on the activity features of the user sessions. A user group including users with similar activity features is constructed based on the predicted probabilities. An anomaly score for a user session of the audit log and a claimed user of the user session belonging to the user group is determined based on a probability that the user session belongs to the user group. An intrusion is detected if the anomaly score of the user session and the claimed user exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11698955B1
Some implementations provide input-triggered user verification. This may involve trigging a user verification (e.g., capture of an image, sound, fingerprint, etc.) to verify a user's identity based on input (e.g., typing) received ad the device. Triggering the user-verification based on receiving input may help ensure that the image, sound, fingerprint, etc. is captured at a time when the user is close to the device, touching the finger-print sensor, and/or in view of the camera during the capturing. Some implementations provide user verification based on a user-identification of a previously selected image. This may involve using an inmate-selected picture or other image to recover a forgotten alphanumeric reference. Some implementations of the invention disclosed herein provide user verification based on a computer-vision identification of a wearable identification tag. This may involve using an image of the user's identification tag worn on the user's wrist to verify the user's identity.
US11698954B2
A user device, such as a smartphone or laptop, may be password (passphrase) protected. The user device may combine biometric input analysis, such as facial recognition, with viseme analysis to authenticate a user attempting to use a password (passphrase) to access the user device. Secure authentication methods and systems are described that account for variations in how, based on the user's emotion (e.g., mood, temperament, unique pronunciation, etc. . . . ), a password (passphrase) may be presented to the user device.
US11698950B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to anti-tamper computer systems, in particular to methods and systems which can embed protection code into software. Among other things, the protection code helps prevent (and make it more costly) to reverse engineer to tamper with the protected software with malicious intent, such as, but not restricted to: the removal of a license protection mechanism; the removal of code displaying advertisements; the injection of a malicious thread into the program memory space; illicit usage; or any other kind of unauthorized modification of the software.
US11698948B2
A method for license validation is disclosed herein, including receiving one or more strings of one or more parameters defining a license authorizing access to at least one or more portions of software, generating a first hash based on the one or more parameters defining the license and a key, storing parameters defining the generated first hash, storing the generated first hash, responsive to an element rendering on a web page, determining a version of an application program interface used to generate the first hash and the key used to generate the hash, by interpreting the hash, and integrating the one or more portions of software for use by a user. The one or more portions of software are integrated based on the one or more parameters defining the license embedded in the first hash.
US11698945B2
An analog computing system with coupled non-linear oscillators can solve complex combinatorial optimization problems using the weighted Ising model. The system is composed of a fully-connected LC oscillator network with low-cost electronic components and compatible with traditional integrated circuit technologies. Each LC oscillator, or node, in the network can be coupled to each other node in the array with a multiply and accumulate crossbar array or optical interconnects. When implemented with four nodes, the system performs with single-run ground state accuracies of 98% on randomized MAX-CUT problem sets with binary weights and 84% with five-bit weight resolutions. The four-node system can obtain solutions within five oscillator cycles with a time-to-solution that scales directly with oscillator frequency. A scaling analysis suggests that larger coupled oscillator networks may be used to solve computationally intensive problems faster and more efficiently than conventional algorithms.
US11698944B2
A website building system (WBS) includes a database of website components and definitions and instances of website building system configurable applications (WCAs), where the WCAs are single packaged entities which can also be accessed as a sets of customizable elements; a WCA app builder to enable a developer to develop a first version WCA; an in-site editor to provide specific editing capabilities for a user to edit at least one of a definition or an instance of the first version WCA and a WCA handler to receive a modification to the first version WCA from the user and an update to the first version WCA from the developer, the WCA handler to merge between the modification and the update to create a changed WCA, to resolve conflicts or loss of functionality and to handle permissions between the modification and the update.
US11698943B2
A mapping support apparatus includes a search unit that performs a web search by using a part or a whole of dictionary mapping target data as a search key, and performs a search on a predetermined classification dictionary using a part or a whole of the dictionary mapping target data as a search key, a UI providing unit that displays a screen including a search result of the web search and a search result of the predetermined classification dictionary, and a data creation unit that applies, to the dictionary mapping target data, classification information selected by a user from the search result of the predetermined classification dictionary.
US11698942B2
Generating a composite screenshot including contextually relevant screenshots and displayed information. The composite screenshot includes one or more screenshots captured from a display screen of a requesting user. Contextual relevance is determined according to collected user communications data such as IoT interactions, social media posts, and chat session transcripts.
US11698933B1
A computing device receives from a user a partial natural language input related to a data source. The computing device receives an additional keystroke corresponding to the partial natural language input. The partial natural language input and the additional keystroke comprise a character string. In response to the additional keystroke, the computing device generates one or more interpretations corresponding to entities in the data source. The computing device displays the interpretations. In some implementation, the character string comprises a sequence of terms, and the device displays the interpretations in a dropdown menu adjacent to the most recently entered term in the sequence. In some implementations, the dropdown menu includes a plurality of rows, each row displaying a respective data value and a respective data field corresponding to the respective data value. Some implementations display a statistical distribution of data values for a data field (displayed adjacent to the first interpretation).
US11698923B2
Methods and systems of inserting image files into a container are described herein. One method includes overseeing a submission of images to containers, retrieving a job of inserting images into the container, and inserting images into the container by, for each of the plurality of images: (i) reading and analyzing source data including the image; (ii) opening the container, which includes records, where the image will be stored; (iii) determining whether the source data is valid to be entered into a record; (iv) responsive to a determination that the source of data is valid, preparing metadata; (v) writing the record into the container; and (vi) marking a status flag/mark of the record as being updated while writing the record into the container.
US11698921B2
Technology for the improved processing of search queries is provided. In one embodiment, methods may return semantically relevant search results for a search query. During a pre-computing offline processing, an inventory semantic index may be generated and may include inventory binary hashing signatures that are associated with inventory listings, such as goods or services for sell, and the index may be partitioned by categories and shards. When a search query is received, relevant categories are determined using a relevant category recognition service, and a search query binary hashing signature maybe generated for the search query. The relevant categories are searched to determine hamming distances between the inventory binary hashing signatures and the search query binary hashing signature, where the hamming distance indicates semantic relevance.
US11698914B1
A system receives a request to import data file(s) from a source data store into a target database. The system reserves a first portion of computing resources that host the target database to import the data file(s). The reservation of the first portion of computing resources permits the import throughput rate of the data file(s) through the first portion of computing resources while maintaining a second portion of the computing resources to support client access to the target database at an access throughput rate. The system initiates import of the data file(s) from the source data store to the target database through one or more storage nodes at the import throughput rate according to the first portion of computing resources. The target database is able to receive access requests from one or more clients during the import of the data file(s) to the target database.
US11698912B2
A method involves receiving a first command. The first command includes a data extraction expression applied to fields of a dataset of a data source. The first command also includes a first report configuration expression applied to first dimensions of a first report. The method also involves generating, by executing the data extraction expression on the dataset, records of the dataset. The method also involves generating, by executing the first report configuration expression on the records, a first tree of subsets of the records. The method also involves populating, using the first report configuration expression and the first tree of subsets, cells of the first dimensions to obtain first populated dimensions. The method also involves generating, in response to receiving the first command and by traversing the first tree of subsets, the first report including the first populated dimensions.
US11698910B1
A safety case discovery system includes a scenario framework and safety protocols for edge cases. The safety case discovery system receives sensor data generated by at least one sensor during operation of a vehicle and stores the sensor data in a data warehouse. The data warehouse can be queried based on a predefined scenario description to produce a subset of records which are ranked based on a relevancy of the records to the predefined scenario description. The safety case discovery system deduplicates the ranked results to produce edge cases and updates the safety framework. The safety case discovery system can train a machine learning model vehicle based on the edge cases.
US11698901B1
Embodiments are disclosed for a data analysis tool for facilitating iterative and exploratory analysis of large sets of data. In some embodiments a data analysis tool includes a graphical user interface through which an interactive set of field identifiers is displayed. Each of the listed field identifiers may reference fields associated with a set of events returned in response to a search query, the set of events including machine data produced by components within an information technology (IT) environment that reflects activity in the IT environment. In response to user selections of field identifiers included in the displayed set, a data analysis tool may cause display of manipulable visualizations based on values included in fields referenced by the selected field identifiers.
US11698900B2
In various embodiments, methods and systems for presenting a search interface with search query history based functionality is provided. A search query history store comprising search queries is accessed. The search query history store includes search queries executed in a search computing system. A search query comprises one or more commands. A plurality of search queries retrieved from the search query history store is displayed on the search interface using a placement style. A placement style, such as an indent style, provides a structure for separating and arranging commands of a plurality of search queries displayed. The search interface further provides for receiving a selection of at least a portion of a search query from the plurality of search queries to initiate actions or execute actions based on the selection. The search interface includes a search input interface, such as a search bar, where the selection of the portion of the search query is displayed based on a selected action.
US11698897B2
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium is provided for creating first and second blockchain instances, each comprising representative blocks corresponding to steps in first and second multistep processes, respectively; performing a linking operation to link a block in the first blockchain instance to a block in the second blockchain instance; receiving change evidence data pertaining to steps in one of the first and second multi-step processes; and performing an update operation comprising updating one of the first and second blockchain instances based on said change evidence data.
US11698883B2
A method of recording tile identifiers in each of a plurality of tiles of a multitile processor is described. Tiles are arranged in columns, each column having a plurality of processing circuits, each processing circuit comprising one or more tiles, wherein a base processing circuit in each column is connected to a set of processing circuit identifier wires. A base value is generated on each of the set of processing circuit identifier wires for the base processing circuit in each column. At the base processing circuit, the base value on the set of processing circuit identifier wires is read and incremented by one. The incremented value is propagated to a next processing circuit in the column, and at the next processing circuit a unique identifier is recorded by concatenating an identifier of the column and the incremented value.
US11698881B2
A first solid state drive (SSD) includes a built-in network interface device configured to communicate via a network fabric, and a second SSD includes a built-in network interface device configured to communicate via the network fabric. A connection is opened between the first SSD and the second SSD over the network fabric, where the first SSD is further communicatively coupled to the second SSD further over an interconnect associated with a host computer. The first SSD encapsulates a non-volatile memory over fabric (NVMe-oF) command to transfer data between the first SSD and the second SSD in a capsule and sends the capsule to the second SSD over the connection. The second SSD executes the NVMe command to transfer the data between the first SSD and the second SSD over the connection according to an NVMe-oF communication protocol and without transferring any of the data to the host computer.
US11698874B2
Systems and methods enable data collection and analytics consumption with a generalized assurance framework using a message bus that supports a publish-subscribe model. A producer network element subscribes to a request topic on the message bus and posts, to the message bus, an announcement indicating a data topic is available from the producer network element. The producer network element receives via the message bus, the request topic including a request for the data topic and posts, to the message bus, records for the data topic in response to the request.
US11698873B2
This invention provides a system having a processor assembly interconnected to a memory bus and a memory-storage combine, interconnected to the memory bus. The memory-storage combine is adapted to allow access, through the memory bus, a combination of random access memory (RAM) based data storage and non-volatile mass data storage. A controller is arranged to address the both RAM based data storage and the non-volatile mass data storage as part of a unified address space in the manner of RAM.
US11698864B2
A processing device in a memory sub-system sends a program command to the memory device to cause the memory device to initiate a program operation on a corresponding wordline and sub-block of a memory array of the memory device. The processing device further receives a request to perform a read operation on data stored on the wordline and sub-block of the memory array, sends a suspend command to the memory device to cause the memory device to suspend the program operation, reads data corresponding to the read operation from a page cache of the memory device, and sends a resume command to the memory device to cause the memory device to resume the program operation.
US11698863B1
Disclosed is a data set and node cache-based scheduling method, which includes: obtaining storage resource information of each host node; in response to receiving a training task, obtaining operation information of the training task, and according to the operation information and the storage resource information, screening host nodes that satisfy a space required by the training task; in response to no host node satisfying the space required by the training task, scoring each host node according to the storage resource information; according to scoring results, selecting, from among all of the host nodes, a host node to be executed that is used to execute the training task; and obtaining and deleting an obsolete data set cache in the host node to be executed, and executing the training task in the host node to be executed.
US11698858B2
Apparatuses and methods can be related to performing prediction based garbage collection. Performing prediction based garbage collection can include performing a first instance of garbage collection, of the memory device, using a first circuitry of the controller and generating a prediction using a second circuitry of the controller. A confidence interval can also be generated for the prediction using the second circuitry of the controller. Responsive to determining that the confidence interval is greater than a threshold, a second instance of garbage collection, of the memory device, can be triggered using the first circuitry of the controller where the first instance of garbage collection is triggered before the second instance of garbage collection.
US11698855B2
An operating method of a memory controller configured to control a memory device including memory blocks each for storing a plurality of pages is provided. The operating method includes transferring a program command to the memory device based on a write request from a host, updating a valid page bitmap representing validity of a plurality of pages based on valid page information received from the memory device, calculating a fragmentation ratio representing a segmentation degree between at least one valid page and at least one invalid page of a memory block based on the valid page bitmap, determining source blocks among the memory blocks in ascending order of fragmentation ratios, and performing garbage collection on the source blocks.
US11698854B2
A data storage device coupled to a controller. The controller is configured to determine whether a request to perform a data transfer operation has been received and determine whether a request to perform a garbage collection operation is necessary during the data transfer operation. The controller generates an extended logical-to-physical table (L2P) including information for the data transfer operation in response to determining the request to perform the data transfer operation has been received and the request to perform the garbage collection operation is necessary, transmits the extended L2P table to one or more peer data storage devices, and performs the garbage collection operation after transmitting the extended L2P table to the one or more peer data storage devices.
US11698852B2
A device for writing data to a memory, the device including: a first write buffer having a first data width that matches a width of write data included in a write request and wherein the first write buffer is configured to store the write data as first data; a second write buffer having a second data width that matches a data width of the memory and is greater than the first data width; and a controller configured to, based on a write address included in the write request and an address of the second data stored in the second write buffer, write the first data stored in the first write buffer to the second write buffer and write the second data stored in the second write buffer to the memory.
US11698847B2
Diffing a subject replayable trace against a comparison replayable trace includes identifying a first plurality of functions within a first sequence of instructions recorded in the subject trace, and identifying a second plurality of functions a second sequence of instructions recorded in the comparison trace. A first plurality of groups of the first plurality of functions, and a second plurality of groups of the second plurality of functions are identified. The first and second pluralities of groups are compared, including determining, based on an identity of each group, and on function(s) corresponding to the group, if each first group in the first plurality of groups is at least one of: equal to a second group in the second plurality of groups, a replacement of a second group in the second plurality of groups, deleted from the second plurality of groups, or inserted into the second plurality of groups.
US11698845B2
A method for execution by an analysis unit includes obtaining a collection of data for a particular evaluation of a system aspect. The method further includes acquiring data analysis parameters regarding the particular evaluation of the system aspect. The method further includes determining one or more evaluation perspectives based on the data analysis parameters. The method further includes determining one or more evaluation modalities based on the data analysis parameters. The method further includes determining one or more evaluation metrics based on the data analysis parameters. The method further includes evaluating the collection of data in accordance with the one or more evaluation metrics, the one or more evaluation perspectives, and the one or more evaluation modalities to produce one or more evaluation outputs.
US11698844B2
Managing storage systems that are synchronously replicating a dataset, including: detecting a change in membership to the set of storage systems synchronously replicating the dataset; and applying one or more membership protocols to determine a new set of storage systems to synchronously replicate the dataset, wherein the one or more membership protocols include a quorum protocol, an external management protocol, or a racing protocol, and wherein one or more I/O operations directed to the dataset are applied to a new set of storage systems.
US11698843B2
Described herein is a method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for helping customers in accessing data through an application from a replica database, detecting whether the replica database, zone of availability of the replica database, or geographical region encompassing the zone of availability is experiencing an outage or other failure, and re-routing traffic to a backup replica database accordingly. To assess the status of the database, metrics are pushed in a secure manner from a private subnet to a public-facing monitoring agent, achieving a clear segregation of private subnet and public facing components. Further, circuit-breaker logic is included for preventing failure during updating DNS addresses during the re-routing process.
US11698827B2
The present embodiments relate to proactive learning of network software problems. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a detection system, webpage data from a computer system. The computer system can receive the webpage data from a plurality of client devices. The webpage data can be associated with user identifiers identifying each client device of the plurality of client devices. The detection system can then receive assistance data from a user assistance computer. The user assistance computer can receive the assistance data from a plurality of user devices. The assistance data can be associated with user identifiers identifying each user device of the plurality of user devices. The detection system can label the webpage data based on the assistance data including matching user identifiers and then determine at least a pattern based on the labeled webpage data.
US11698825B2
A system, comprising a memory and a processor, where the processor is in communication with the memory, is configured to receive a request to determine a compatibility of a first version of an application programming interface (API) with a second version of the API. Next, a model of the first version of the API and a model of the second version of the API is retrieved. Each of the models is parsed to determine a first set of functionality of the first version of the API and a second set of functionality of the second version of the API. The first set of functionality is mapped to the second set of functionality to determine differences between the first set of functionality and the second set of functionality. The compatibility of the first version of the API with the second version of the API is determined based on the differences.
US11698823B2
Provided are an application interface implementation method and apparatus in a host platform layer, a device, and a storage medium, which relate to the field of computer technologies. The implementation scheme includes: the host platform layer acquiring description data of a terminal capability interface; parsing the description data to acquire a communication mode of the terminal capability interface; and configuring a corresponding processor according to the communication mode, configuring a corresponding concept mapping relationship according to the communication mode, or configure a corresponding processor and a corresponding concept mapping relationship according to the communication mode to encapsulate a platform layer interface of the terminal capability interface, where the platform layer interface is configured to process data of communication interactions in a process in which a mini program calls the terminal capability interface through the host platform layer.
US11698821B2
A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system, making a first determination that a first information handling system is not capable of servicing the composition request local, and based on the first determination: allocating, an available resource on the first information handling system to the composed information handling system, sending a resource allocation request to a system control processor manager for access to an additional resource, obtain, in response to the allocation request, a notification for access to a second information handling system of the information handling systems that provides the available resource, setting up management services for available resource and the additional resource to obtain logical hardware resources, and presenting the logical hardware resources to at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources.
US11698819B2
A system and method for scaling resources of a secondary network for disaster recovery uses a disaster recovery notification from a primary resource manager of a primary network to a secondary resource manager of the secondary network to generate a scale-up recommendation for additional resources to the secondary network. The additional resources are based on latest resource demands of workloads on the primary network included in the disaster recovery notification. A scale-up operation for the additional resources is then executed based on the scale-up recommendation from the secondary resource manager to operate the secondary network with the additional resources to run the workloads on the secondary network.
US11698813B2
Provided is an electronic device for managing computing resources of at least one cloud server that provides a cloud service by using a virtual machine instance including a communicator configured to receive, from a client device, at least one service request for a service provided by the virtual machine instance; and a controller configured to select one of a plurality of modes of the virtual machine instance for management of the computing resources, based on the at least one service request, and control the computing resources allocated to the virtual machine instance according to the selected mode of the virtual machine instance, wherein the virtual machine instance is generated by the at least one cloud server.
US11698805B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for dynamically exchanging runtime state data between datacenters with a gateway using a controller bridge is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method comprises: receiving one or more first runtime state data from one or more logical sharding central control planes (“CCPs”) controlling one or more logical sharding hosts; receiving one or more second runtime state data from a gateway that is controlled by a CCP that also controls one or more physical sharding hosts; aggregating to aggregated runtime state data, the one or more first runtime state data received from the one or more logical sharding CCPs and the one or more second runtime state data received from the gateway; determining updated runtime state data based on the aggregated runtime state data, the one or more first runtime state data, and the one or more second runtime state data; and transmitting the updated runtime state data to at least one of the one or more logical sharding CCPs and the gateway.
US11698804B2
Techniques for providing adaptive virtual function (VF) drivers capable of operating with physical devices having a plurality of different hardware configurations are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include logic to implement a virtual machine (VM), the logic to initialize an adaptive virtual function (VF) driver to facilitate communication between the VM and a physical device to be virtualized, establish communication between the adaptive VF driver and a physical function (PF) driver of the hypervisor for the physical device, activate a standard feature set for the adaptive VF driver to execute on a PF of the physical device, and negotiate activation of an advanced feature set for the adaptive VF driver to execute on the PF, the adaptive VF driver to provide the advanced feature set to the PF, the PF activate each feature of the advanced feature set supported by the PF.
US11698802B2
The present disclosure relates techniques for coordinating and synchronizing client-facing support services with the activities and responses from one or more technical teams assigned to address a client issue. In certain implementations, this may allow an agent or customer approach to use a single reference identifier (such as a case or matter number) to access information or updates from technical teams that do not typically employ such a number for their own tracking purposes. In this manner, relevant information to a client issue may be accessed from all involved technical teams at the agent level as well as allowing the technical teams themselves to readily see activity by other teams.
US11698799B2
A system can improve application performance by using lazy loading of code containers based on non-navigational actions in single-page or hybrid applications. A page can launch by loading a main bundle of code. The main bundle can include an action manifest that maps action identifiers to separate code modules. Those separate code modules can include functions for handling the actions. Based on a non-navigational action that occurs, the application can use the action manifest to map a first action identifier of the first action to a first code module. The application can then lazy load a first code module asynchronously from the main bundle. The application can also use route guards with filters to determine child actions, validate action routes, and cache the validated routes for later use without a remote server call.
US11698798B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for tool registry for automating DevOps toolchains. Submission of a DevOps tool, authentication information, and tool configuration data is received from a user. Subsequently, the DevOps tool is selected for inclusion in a DevOps job. The DevOps tool including the authentication information and tool configuration data is automatically accessed from the tool registry. The DevOps tool is configured in accordance with the accessed authentication information and accessed tool configuration data as part of the DevOps job and for interaction with the one or more other DevOps tools. The DevOps job is deployed.
US11698797B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to receive information regarding a performance characteristic of an application during predetermined time periods. The processor may calculate a rate of change in the performance characteristic over the predetermined time periods. Based on a determination that the performance characteristic of the application has changed over the predetermined time periods, the processor may tune values of a set of parameters for the application based on the calculated rate of change in the performance characteristic.
US11698791B2
Devices and techniques for on-demand programmable atomic kernel loading are described herein. A programmable atomic unit (PAU) of a memory controller can receive an invocation of a programmable atomic operator by the memory controller. The PAU can then perform a verification on a programmable atomic operator partition for the programmable atomic operator. Here, the programmable atomic operator partition is located in a memory of the PAU. The PAU can then signal a trap in response to the verification indicating that the programmable atomic operator partition is not prepared.
US11698788B2
Systems and methods provide for efficiently and accurately determining a simplified path that conforms to the geometry of an original path by simultaneously minimizing the deviation from the original path and reducing the number of anchor points in the simplified path. A simplified path may be iteratively generated by updating parametric values and anchor points for candidate simplified paths at epochs. A deviation in distance between points on the original path and corresponding points on candidate paths may be iteratively decreased to ensure that the resulting simplified path follows the geometry of the original path to a predetermined threshold. Continuity constrains can also be applied to ensure smoothness of the simplified path.
US11698785B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for switching an application executing on an ambulatory medical device to a new application without interrupting therapy provided by the ambulatory medical device to a subject. The ambulatory medical device may receive an indication that an update to an application executing on the ambulatory insulin pump is available, establish a communication connection to a host computing system, download and install the application update, while a prior version of the application continues to run. The disclosed systems and methods can confirm successful installation of the application update on the ambulatory medical device and switch control of the ambulatory medical device from the prior version to the new version of the application without interrupting therapy provided to the subject.
US11698780B2
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to an edge-CaaS (eCaaS) framework for providing life-cycle management of containerized applications on the edge. According to an example, declarative intents are received indicative of a use case for which a cluster of a container orchestration platform is to be deployed within an edge site that is to be created based on infrastructure associated with a private network. A deployment template is created by performing intent translation on the declarative intents and based on a set of constraints. The deployment template identifies the container orchestration platform selected by the intent translation. The deployment template is then executed to deploy and configure the edge site, including provisioning and configuring the infrastructure, installing the container orchestration platform on the infrastructure, configuring the cluster within the container orchestration platform, and deploying a containerized application or portion thereof on the cluster.
US11698777B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for automatically building an application framework are disclosed. An internal database stores available design patterns and code snippets for developing an application. A receiver receives, as input, a requirement document that includes one or more requirements for developing the application. A processor parses the requirement document by implementing a natural language processing algorithm; creates, based on the parsed requirement document, a plurality of code blocks for generating a structure and a design pattern to be used to develop the application by matching the one or more requirements with the available design patterns; accesses the database to obtain the code snippets for the plurality of code blocks; and automatically builds an application framework based on the code snippets.
US11698772B2
An instruction is executed in round-for-reround mode wherein the permissible resultant value that is closest to and no greater in magnitude than the infinitely precise result is selected. If the selected value is not exact and the units digit of the selected value is either 0 or 5, then the digit is incremented by one and the selected value is delivered. In all other cases, the selected value is delivered.
US11698766B2
Systems and methods are described that can include transmitting, from a first wearable computing device, a first ultrasound signal and receiving, by the first wearable computing device and responsive to the first ultrasound signal, a second ultrasound signal from a second wearable computing device. The method can include identifying, by the first wearable computing device, a location of the second wearable computing device with respect to a location of the first wearable computing device where the location of the second wearable computing device can be identified based on a determined time-of-flight of the first ultrasound signal. The method can include establishing a wireless connection between the first wearable computing device and the second wearable computing device where the wireless connection can be based at least in part on the identifier and the identified location associated with the second wearable computing device.
US11698763B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: when performing control of outputting a file from a storage unit in accordance with a request from a using user, issue second identification information to the using user, the file having been stored by a registering user in the storage unit, the file being associated with first identification information for identifying the file, the second identification information to be used for recording information related to use of the file; and upon receipt of the second identification information from the using user, perform control of recording the information related to the use of the file.
US11698762B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a storage printing process that includes storing print data in a dedicated memory, which is a portable memory set as a storage destination to store the print data in the storage printing process when attached to a dedicated port among a plurality of ports, and causing a print engine to perform printing according to the print data stored in the dedicated memory in response to an operation received via a user interface, prior to the storage printing process, set one of the plurality of ports as the dedicated port, in response to a portable memory being attached to a port, determine whether the portable memory is the dedicated memory and the port is the dedicated port, and provide a notification when determining that the portable memory is not the dedicated memory but the port is the dedicated port.
US11698760B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for improving the resiliency and performance of cluster memory. First, a computing device can submit a write request to a byte-addressable chunk of memory stored by a memory host, wherein the byte-addressable chunk of memory is read-only. Then, the computing device can determine that a page-fault occurred in response to the write request. Next, the computing device can copy a page associated with the write request from the byte-addressable chunk of memory to the memory of the computing device. Subsequently, the computing device can free the page from the memory host. Then, the computing device can update a page table entry for the page to refer to a location of the page in the memory of the computing device.
US11698759B2
A clustered storage system may include potentially many different nodes. A node may mount a virtual storage volume for the use of a container application at the node. The node may receive a request from a different node and respond by indicating whether the virtual storage volume is in active use. In this way, the clustered storage system may safely but forcibly unmount a virtual storage volume having a failed or hanging mount point so that the volume may be mounted on a different node.
US11698751B2
A data storage device and method for low-latency power state transitions by having power islanding in a host memory buffer are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive information from a host about which area, if any, in a host memory buffer will be powered on during a low-power state; and in response to the information indicating that a first area of the host memory buffer will be powered on during the low-power state, flush data from a second area of the host memory buffer that will not be powered on during the low-power state to the first area of the host memory buffer prior to entering the low-power state. Other embodiments are provided.
US11698745B2
Storage devices include a memory array comprised of a plurality of memory devices. These memory devices are programmed to store data and erased when data is invalidated. Traditional storage devices waited to erase memory devices until new data was ready to write to them in order to avoid baking in the erase state. However, the act of erasing adds time to the overall program cycle and is getting larger as storage device capacity and complexity increases. Because of newer configurations, the threat of baking in erase states is decreased, allowing memory devices within a memory array to be pre-erased prior to writing. This reduces write times and be dynamically implemented in response to one or more changing conditions. Pre-erasing can be accomplished by utilizing a pre-erase list that can indicate pre-erased memory devices and provide them in response to a write command prior to the use of non-erased memory devices.
US11698737B2
Examples provide a method of communication between a client application and a filesystem server in a virtualized computing system. The client application executes in a virtual machine (VM) and the filesystem server executes in a hypervisor. The method includes: allocating, by the client application, first shared memory in a guest virtual address space of the client application; creating a guest application shared memory channel between the client application and the filesystem server upon request by the client application to a driver in the VM, the driver in communication with the filesystem server, the guest application shared memory channel using the first shared memory; sending authentication information associated with the client application to the filesystem server to create cached authentication information at the filesystem server; and submitting a command in the guest application shared memory channel from the client application to the filesystem server, the command including the authentication information.
US11698736B2
A storage system includes a master storage device for storing data based on a RAID level determined by a host, a slave storage device for storing the data according to a command distributed from the master storage device, and a controller hub for coupling the slave storage device to the master storage device, wherein the master storage device is further configured to transfer the command to the slave storage device through the controller hub when the master storage device receives a command processing request from the host, transmit a complete queue (CQ) to the host when operations of the master storage device and the slave storage device are completed in response to the command processing request, and request a host to allocate a capacity to each function in the master storage device and the at least one of the plurality of slave storage devices based on a reference capacity.
US11698731B2
Responsive to a power-on of a memory device, an elapsed power-off time is identified based on a difference between a time at which the power-on occurred and a time at which a previous power-off of the memory device occurred. Responsive to a determination that the elapsed power-off time satisfies the elapsed time threshold criterion, a request to perform a first write operation on a memory unit of the memory device since power on is received, a performance parameter associated with the memory unit of the memory device is changed to a first parameter value that corresponds to a reduced performance level, and the write operation is performed on the memory unit of the memory device in accordance with the first parameter value that corresponds to the reduced performance level. Responsive to completion of the write operation, the performance parameter is changed to a value that corresponds to a normal performance level.
US11698724B2
An example multi-zone touchscreen device is configured to receive multiple feeds of touchscreen display data from different respective data sources. The touchscreen device scales the respective feeds of touchscreen display data for concurrent display in predefined regions of a touch-sensitive display. The touchscreen device receives a touch input in one of the predefined regions of the touch-sensitive display and applies a reverse scaling to the selected touchscreen display data to determine a location of the selection in the original data feed. The touchscreen device then communicates the location of the selection to the source of the original data feed.
US11698722B2
Method of generating customized avatars based on location information includes processor receiving from first client device location information including a location of the first client device. Processor causes a status interface to be displayed on first client device that includes selectable location items corresponding to locations based on the location information. Processor receives a selection from first client device of first selectable location item and causes avatar selection interface to be displayed on first client device that includes versions of first avatar performing actions related to the first selectable location item. Processor receives selection of first selectable version of the first avatar and generates a map interface that includes a map display based on the location information and the first selectable version of the first avatar. Processor causes the map interface to be displayed on at least one of the plurality of client devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11698718B2
The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by providing a system that automatically generates a scalable summary with adaptable graphical associations between people and content. The system can select a level of detail that can be applied to a process for generating a summary of content. The level of detail can be based on a user's engagement with respect to one or more events. The system can improve the usability of the summary by selecting a level of detail that is optimized for the user's contextual status. The system also improves the user's interaction with a computer by providing an adaptable layout of information indicating a source of content. The adaptable layout allows users to readily identify topics, content sources, and high-priority summary sections regardless of the level of detail that is selected for the summary.
US11698714B2
The invention relates to a page display method, apparatus for an application and an electronic device. The method comprises the following steps: displaying a navigation bar of the application, wherein the navigation bar comprises a first style of publisher, the navigation bar is used for providing a set of recommended functions of the application, and the publisher is used for creating multimedia contents and/or starting a live webcast; when no operation triggered on the publisher is received after a first preset duration, switching to display a second style of publisher in the navigation bar from the first style of publisher, and a color contrast between the second style of publisher and the navigation bar is smaller than that between the first style of publisher and the navigation bar, and/or a display area of a target color in the second style of publisher is smaller than that of the target color in the first style of publisher, and the target color is a color which is most distinct from a fill color of the navigation bar.
US11698707B2
Disclosed herein is a method of provisioning a collaborative virtual experience of a building to two or more users, in accordance with some embodiments. The method may include transmitting an interactive 3D model data to two or more follower user devices associated with two or more followers. Further, the method may include receiving two or more follower state data from the two or more follower user devices. Further, the method may include generating a collaborative view data based on the interactive 3D model data and the two or more follower state data. Further, the method may include transmitting the collaborative view data to a leader user device operated by a leader associated with the two or more followers. Further, the leader user device may be configured for presenting the collaborative view data.
US11698705B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes: a display having a display area that is variable, at least one processor operably connected to the display. The processor implements the method, including: controlling the display to display a plurality of elements on the display, receiving a user input requesting resizing of the display area, in response to the user input, identifying a core element among the displayed plurality of elements, resizing the display area based on the received user input and the identified core element, wherein a first window in which the core element is displayed is resized in proportion to resizing of the display area.
US11698704B2
A display device includes a display panel and a lower member disposed under the display panel. The lower member includes a support layer, a digitizer, a flexible circuit board, and a metal layer. The digitizer is disposed under the support layer having an insulating property. The flexible circuit board is connected to the digitizer. The metal layer is disposed under the digitizer, and an opening is defined through the metal layer to correspond to the flexible circuit board.
US11698700B1
Systems and methods for automated interaction with a touch-screen device are described. A system for automated interaction with a touch-screen device may include at least one optical sensor configured to sense at least a first portion of a touch-screen of the touch-screen device; at least one solenoid including an end effector that is tactilely detectable by the touch-screen, wherein operation of the at least one solenoid causes the end effector to tactilely engage with a second portion of the touch-screen; and a controller that is operatively connected to the at least one optical sensor and the at least one solenoid, and that is configured to operate the at least one solenoid in response to detecting a predetermined characteristic of the touch-screen via the at least one sensor.
US11698698B2
A sensing method includes sensing a first touch source at a first time point; transferring a first sensing signal of the first touch source to a CPU at the first time point; sensing a second touch source at a second time point; transferring a second sensing signal of the second touch source to the CPU at the second time point; stopping transferring the second sensing signal at a third time point, and the second touch source is away from the touch display device at a fourth time point; and the second time point is earlier than the third time point, the third time point is earlier than the fourth time point, and the first touch source is different from the second touch source.
US11698697B2
A capacitive sensor with a plurality of sense inputs connectable to capacitive sense electrodes and a common reference input, each sense input and the reference input can be put in a measure state, in a ground state, or in a shield state. The sensor can be equipped with external reference capacitors between each of the sense input and the common reference terminal. The reference capacitor can be read individually by selectively pulling one of the input terminals to ground and driving the other to be equipotential with the reference input.
US11698695B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a chip on flex (COF), a touch assembly, and a display device. The chip on flex includes a flexible base provided with a first opening, the flexible base includes a bonding area provided with a plurality of metal bonding pads; on the flexible base, a spacing area with a preset range is provided between the first opening and the bonding area; wherein, the flexible base is provided with a reinforcement sheet thereon, the reinforcement sheet is located on a portion of the flexible base other than the first opening, the spacing area and the bonding area.
US11698693B2
The present application relates to an input sensing unit and a display device using the same. The input-sensing unit including a first conductive layer, a first organic layer, a second conductive layer, and a second organic layer sequentially stacked one over another, in which the first organic layer includes a first base resin and a first hollow polymer, and the second organic layer includes a second base resin and a second hollow polymer.
US11698681B2
Method for generating haptic feedback responses based on gestures starts with processor causing communication interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface and on a second user interface. Processor detects a predetermined gesture by a first user of the first client device on the first user interface. In response to detecting the predetermined gesture by the first user, processor causes the first user interface and the second user interface to generate a haptic feedback response based on the predetermined gesture. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11698677B1
In accordance with various implementations, a method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a display. The method includes determining an engagement score that characterizes a level of engagement between a user and a first object. The first object is located at a first location on the display. The method includes determining an interruption priority value that characterizes a relative importance of signaling a presence of a second object to the user. The second object is detectable by the electronic device. In some implementations, the method includes presenting the second object according to one or more output modalities of the electronic device. The method includes, in response to determining that the engagement score and the interruption priority value collectively together satisfy an interruption condition, presenting a notification.
US11698663B2
A computing device can include a housing including a peripheral housing defining an aperture, the peripheral housing having a constant cross-sectional area. The computing device can also include a display having a first major surface and a second major surface opposing the first major surface, the display disposed within the aperture defined by the peripheral housing and attached to the housing at one or more locations such that the first major surface and the second major surface of the display are substantially unobstructed by any other portion of the computing device.
US11698648B2
A gas supply system includes a first flow channel connected to a first gas source of a first gas, formed inside a ceiling or a sidewall of the treatment container, and communicating with the treatment space through a plurality of first gas discharge holes, a second flow channel connected to a second gas source of a second gas, formed inside the ceiling or the sidewall of the treatment container, and communicating with the treatment space through a plurality of second gas discharge holes, and a plurality of first diaphragm valves, wherein each of the first diaphragm valves is provided between the first flow channel and the first gas discharge hole to correspond to the first gas discharge hole.
US11698642B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes an information acquisition unit and a control prediction unit. The information acquisition unit acquires information regarding a location and a posture of a first mobile object that includes a sensing device. The control prediction unit predicts control performed with respect to the sensing device, on the basis of the information regarding the location and the posture and map information, the information regarding the location and the posture being acquired by the information acquisition unit.
US11698641B2
Systems and method are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: initiating, by a controller onboard the vehicle, a first laser pulse from a first laser device; initiating, by a controller onboard the vehicle, a second laser pulse from a second laser device, wherein the initiating the second laser pulse is based on a phase shift angle; receiving, by the controller onboard the vehicle, first return data and second return data as a result of the first laser pulse and the second laser pulse; interleaving, by the controller onboard the vehicle, the first return pulse and the second return pulse to form a point cloud; and controlling, by the controller onboard the vehicle, the vehicle based on the point cloud.
US11698631B2
A crash sensor device may include multiple sensor components positioned along one or more data paths to a communication interface of the crash sensor device. The crash sensor device may include a test control unit. The test control unit may receive a test command from an electronic control unit during operation of a vehicle. The test control unit may perform a test of one or more sensor components, of the multiple sensor components, during operation of the vehicle based on the test command. The test control unit may output a test result to the electronic control unit based on performing the test.
US11698623B2
The subject technology is related to methods and apparatus for discretization and manufacturability analysis of computer assisted design models. In one embodiment, the subject technology implements a computer-based method for the reception of an electronic file with a digital model representative of a physical object. The computer-based method determines geometric and physical attributes from a discretized version of the digital model, a cloud point version of the digital model, and symbolic functions generated through evolutionary algorithms. A set of predictive machine learning models is utilized to infer predictions related to the manufacture process of the physical object.
US11698617B2
Positions of both end edges of a weld bead in a bead width direction are measured over the entire circumference of a liner in a circumferential direction of the liner. Based on information on the position of the end edge, bead profile information being information on a shape of the end edge of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the liner in the circumferential direction is created. Based on this bead profile information, machining information of the liner per rotation of the liner being position information of a cutting tool in the bead width direction per phase in the circumferential direction of the liner is created so that a moving locus of the cutting tool relative to the liner along the circumferential direction of the liner approximates the shape of the end edge of the weld bead over the entire circumference of the liner in the circumferential direction.
US11698615B2
The disclosure relates to a safety module for an automation system assembly, having a safety component which is configured to implement a safe operation of the automation system assembly, and an adaptation component which is configured to mediate between the safety component and a communication system of the automation system assembly in order to incorporate the safety module into the automation system assembly, wherein the safety component and the adaptation component are constructed on separate circuit carriers and are connected in such a way that they are mechanically detachable and reconnectable.
US11698610B2
A building management system (BMS) interface system. The BMS interface system includes a user interface and a BMS controller in communication with the user interface. The BMS controller includes a processor. The processor is configured to display a graphical scheduling interface on the user interface and receive a scheduling input from the user interface. The processor is further configured to extract one or more scheduling elements from the received scheduling input and convert the scheduling elements into one or more BMS data objects. The processor is further configured to update the graphical scheduling interface displayed on the user interface. The processor is also configured to execute one or more scheduling instructions based on the received scheduling input, wherein the scheduling instructions are associated with the operation of one or more BMS devices.
US11698608B2
A continuous-time recurrent neural network (CTRNN) is described that exploits the nonlinear dynamics of micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) devices to model a neuron in accordance with a neuron rate model that is the basis for dynamic field theory. Each MEMS device in the CTRNN is configured to simulate a neuron population by exploiting the characteristics of bi-stability and hysteresis inherent in certain MEMS device structures. In an embodiment, the MEMS device is a microbeam or cantilevered microbeam device that is excited with an alternating current (AC) voltage at or near an electrical resonance frequency associated with the MEMS device. In another embodiment, the MEMS device is an arched microbeam device that is excited with a direct current voltage and exhibits snap-through behavior due to the physical design of the structure. A CTRNN can be implemented using a number of MEMS devices that are interconnected, the connections associated with varying connection coefficients.
US11698607B2
A back (1) for a watch case (50), the back (1) including a first element (10) arranged so as to be screwed onto the watch case (50), and a second element (20) including an end face bearing a pattern (M), the second element (20) being mounted such that it can move in rotation about an axis (C) passing through the centre of the case (50), wherein the second element (20) has a brake arranged so as to hold same relative to the first element (10) in different angular positions about the rotational axis (C), the brake being disposed between the first and second elements (10, 20).
US11698606B2
An apparatus and method to produce a hologram of an object includes an electromagnetic radiation assembly configured to receive a received electromagnetic radiation, such as light, from the object. The electromagnetic radiation assembly is further configured to diffract the received electromagnetic radiation and transmit a diffracted electromagnetic radiation. An image capture assembly is configured to capture an image of the diffracted electromagnetic radiation and produce the hologram of the object from the captured image.
US11698591B2
An EUV photolithography system utilizes a baseplate of an EUV pod to unload an EUV reticle from a chuck within an EUV scanner. The baseplate includes a top surface and support pins extending from the top surface. The when the reticle is unloaded onto the baseplate, the support pins hold the reticle at relatively large distance from the top surface of the baseplate. The support pins have a relatively low resistance. The large distance and low resistance help ensure that particles do not travel from the baseplate to the reticle during unloading.
US11698587B2
A resist underlayer composition and a method of forming patterns using a resist underlayer composition, the resist underlayer composition including a polymer, the polymer including a structural unit that is a reaction product of an isocyanurate compound, the isocyanurate compound having at least one thiol group thereon, and a solvent.
US11698580B2
A reflective mask blank for EUV lithography includes a substrate, a reflective layer for reflecting EUV light, and an absorption layer for absorbing EUV light. The reflective layer and the absorption layer are formed on or above the substrate in this order. The absorption layer contains tantalum (Ta) and niobium (Nb), and the absorption layer has a composition ratio Ta:Nb of Ta (at %) to Nb (at %) of from 4:1 to 1:4. Among diffraction peaks derived from the absorption layer observed at 2θ: from 20° to 50° by out-of-plane XRD method, a peak having the highest intensity has a half width FWHM of 1.0° or more.
US11698579B2
A wavelength conversion element according to the present disclosure includes a substrate, a dichroic layer provided to a first surface of the substrate, an intermediate layer disposed so as to be opposed to the substrate via the dichroic layer, and a wavelength conversion layer disposed so as to be opposed to the dichroic layer via the intermediate layer, and configured to convert light in a first wavelength band into light in a second wavelength band. The dichroic layer has two or more types of refractive index layers having respective refractive indexes different from each other.
US11698578B2
[Problem] An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a recording medium with which a user can recognize a boundary of a drivable range by feedback for a projection specification position by the user to facilitate determination of and search for a projection position are provided. [Solution] The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform processing of outputting feedback indicating an effect corresponding to a boundary of a drivable region of a drive-type projector in a projection environment space in accordance with a state of a projection specification position specified by a user for the drivable region, the state being determined based on the drivable region and the projection specification position.
US11698565B2
The invention relates to devices that provide a color change under the influence of an electric voltage, in particular to an electrochromic device and a method for manufacturing such a device. Disclosed is the method for manufacturing an electrochromic device comprising at least two electrodes that are flexible and optically transparent with a hermetically closed space between the electrodes filled with an electrochromic composition that may contain transparent and insoluble microparticles that function as spacers.
US11698558B2
A display device includes: a first pixel including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel; and a second pixel including the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The first pixel and the second pixel are alternately arranged in a row direction and a column direction. The third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel are alternately arranged in the column direction. A branch electrode in one of two first sub-pixels adjacent in the column direction extends in a first direction, and a branch electrode in the other thereof extends in a second direction. A branch electrode in one of two second sub-pixels adjacent in the column direction extends in the first direction, and a branch electrode in the other thereof extends in the second direction. Each branch electrode in the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel includes a bending portion.
US11698556B2
The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal panel including sub-pixels and including an active matrix substrate and a counter substrate, the active matrix substrate including a gate line, a first electrode, and a second electrode, the counter substrate including a third electrode, each of the sub-pixels being provided with an optical opening, the third electrode including a linear electrode extending along the gate line, a distance between the linear electrode and the optical opening being less than D/4 and a width of the linear electrode being D/4 or less, wherein a distance between two optical openings adjacent in the direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the gate line is defined as D.
US11698554B2
A power reduced display includes a light source having an available space and configured to generate a backlight, a first display having multiple first pixels, wherein each first pixel is configured to selectively pass and block the backlight, a second display having multiple second pixels. The light source includes a first number of first packages each having a single light-emitting diode. The first number is a largest number of the first packages that fit in the available space of the light source. The first number of the first packages is configured to consume a first power to produce a particular luminance. A second number of second packages each having two light-emitting diodes alternatively fit in the available space and is configured to consume a second power to produce the particular luminance. The first number is greater than the second number. The first power is less than the second power.
US11698549B2
A multi-view (MV) display panel includes a flat panel display (FPD) having FPD pixels, and lenses configured to image the FPD. Each of the FPD pixels, when imaged through one of the lenses, forms a beamlet that is emitted in a direction unique from other beamlets formed by other FPD pixels through the lens. The lens and the FPD pixels which, when imaged through the lens, form beamlets emitted in different directions collectively configure an MV pixel. Each of the FPD pixels includes multiple sub-pixels. The MV display panel also includes a diffuser arranged between the FPD and the lenses, and a light block configured to isolate a diffusion of the multiple sub-pixels of each FPD pixel from its neighboring FPD pixels. The FPD may be backlit using custom lighting and optics. Lens elements may be staggered in a manner that facilitates assembly of the lenses.
US11698548B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus, includes: a light-condensing backlight unit; a liquid crystal panel including a first linear polarizer and a second linear polarizer; a light scattering film facing the second linear polarizer; and a third linear polarizer facing the light scattering film. The light scattering film includes a functional layer including an organic polymer compound and light scattering particles. The functional layer includes a particle layer in which a fraction of 60% by volume to 100% by volume of the light scattering particles included in the functional layer expands along a surface of the particle layer at which the light output from the liquid crystal panel is received, and the particle layer is concentrated to a region having a thickness of 1 to 80% of a total thickness of the functional layer, in a direction perpendicular to the contact surface.
US11698527B2
An eye-tracking system, including at least one vertical capacitance sensor, configured to measure the vertical position of a cornea of a user's eye by sensing a position of an eyelid of the user; and at least one horizontal capacitance sensor, configured to measure the horizontal position of the cornea of the user's eye by sensing a position of the user's eyeball.
US11698523B2
An electronic device is disclosed herein that includes an infrared light source to emit infrared light, a rolling shutter sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is to: cause the rolling shutter sensor to output a first signal corresponding to a first frame of image data during exposure to the infrared light, reset the rows of the rolling shutter sensor at a same time, cause the rolling shutter sensor to output a second signal corresponding to a second frame of image data without exposure to the infrared light from the infrared light source, determine a difference between the first signal and the second signal to generate an ambient infrared free frame, and recognize a face based on the ambient infrared free frame.
US11698522B2
An illuminator including a receptacle for connecting a light cable to an illuminator. The receptacle includes a clamp assembly having a plurality of clamping jaws that are moveable from an open configuration in which a connecter of the light cable can be positioned between the clamping jaws for receiving light traveling in a light pathway in the illuminator to a closed configuration in which the clamping jaws completely block the light pathway, and a clutch that is movable between an engaged position for holding the clamping jaws in the open configuration and a disengaged position for allowing the clamping jaws to move to a gripped configuration and to the closed configuration, the clutch can be pushed by the connector when the connector is positioned between the clamping jaws to move the clutch out of the engaged position so that the clamp assembly moves the clamping jaws to the gripped configuration.
US11698517B2
A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a rear group, sequentially from an object side. Intervals between lens groups varies when changing magnification. A lens group having a highest negative refractive power among a lens group having a negative refractive power in the rear group is a focusing lens group GF configured to move toward an image side when focusing from infinity to a close range. A lens group GFF having a positive refractive power and arranged adjacent to an object side of the focusing lens group GF among a lens group having a positive refractive power included in the rear group includes a positive lens component L1 positioned on a most image side, which includes a positive lens L1P having a refractive index NdL1P, and a conditional expression (1) 1.85
US11698516B2
A near-eye light field display device includes a plurality of sub-aperture light field emitting modules and a bi-telecentric lens group. The plurality of sub-aperture light field emitting modules are adapted to generate a plurality of sub-aperture light fields. The bi-telecentric lens group is disposed on one side of the plurality of sub-aperture light field emitting modules, wherein the plurality of sub-aperture light fields pass through the bi-telecentric lens group and are converted into an exit light field by the bi-telecentric lens group, and the exit light field is incident on a receiver.
US11698515B2
An optical system includes a first lens having negative refractive power and having two concave surfaces, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power, and a seventh lens having refractive power. The first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side.
US11698514B2
The present disclosure discloses an imaging lens assembly. Sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, the imaging lens assembly includes a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power, and both an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being concave surfaces; a third lens having a positive refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof being a convex surface; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof being a concave surface; a fifth lens having a refractive power; and a sixth lens having a refractive power. A total effective focal length f of the imaging lens assembly and half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on an imaging plane of the imaging lens assembly satisfy 2.0≤f/ImgH≤3.0.
US11698508B2
A motor for driving lenses is provided. The motor includes a case, a yoke fixed in the case, a magnet fixed in the yoke, a carrier equipped with lenses and installed in the magnet such that the carrier moves up and down within the magnet, a coil coupled with the carrier, in which the coil cooperates with the magnet to move up and down the carrier, a spring unit including first and second springs having arc shapes and being separated from each other while forming a ring shape as a whole, a spacer supporting the outer peripheral surface of the spring unit, and a terminal provided on the spacer.
US11698506B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a carrier mechanism for retaining optical devices. The carrier mechanism includes adjacent tray assemblies stacked such that a plurality of optical device lenses are retained therebetween. The carrier mechanism retains the plurality of optical device lenses without damaging the plurality of optical device lenses by contacting corners of the optical device lenses. The plurality of optical device lenses are retained with a plurality of support pins and a plurality of capture pins disposed in the tray assemblies. Each tray includes a plurality of openings corresponding to the plurality of optical device lenses such that fluids may contact the plurality of optical device lenses. The carrier mechanism may be utilized in multiple processing methods of the plurality of optical device lenses.
US11698503B2
An optical fiber holding device may comprise a first track and a second track. The first track may be configured to hold and guide a first optical fiber from a first track input location to a first track output location, wherein the first track is configured to allow the first optical fiber to connect to a first optical component and a first optical communication point. The second track may be configured to hold and guide a second optical fiber from a second track input location to a second track output location, wherein the second track is configured to allow the second optical fiber to connect to a second optical component and a second optical communication point.
US11698499B2
An optical fiber drop cable. The optical fiber drop cable includes at least one optical fiber and at least one inner tensile element wound around the at least one optical fiber having a laylength of at least 200 mm. The optical fiber drop cable also includes an interior jacket disposed around the at least one inner tensile element and an exterior jacket having an inner surface and an outer surface. The optical fiber drop cable further includes at least one outer tensile element disposed between the interior jacket and the outer surface of the exterior jacket. Each of the at least one outer tensile element has a laylength of at least 1 m. The exterior jacket includes at least one polyolefin, at least one thermoplastic elastomer, and at least one high aspect ratio inorganic filler. The exterior jacket has an averaged coefficient of thermal expansion of no more than 120 (10−6) m/mK.
US11698486B2
Described are various configurations of optical structures having asymmetric-width waveguides. A photodetector can include parallel waveguides that have different widths, which can be connected via passive waveguide. One or more light absorbing regions can be proximate to the waveguides to absorb light propagating through one or more of the parallel waveguides. Multiple photodetectors having asymmetric width waveguides can operate to transduce light in different modes in a polarization diversity optical receiver.
US11698478B2
An optical device may include a plurality of sensor elements and a plurality of optical channels. The plurality of sensor elements may include a first set of sensor elements associated with a first wavelength range and a second set of sensor elements associated with a second wavelength range. The plurality of optical channels may include a first set of optical channels associated with the first wavelength range and a second set of optical channels associated with the second wavelength range. A first optical channel, of the first set of optical channels, may be disposed over a first sensor element, of the first set of sensor elements, and a second optical channel, of the second set of optical channels, may be disposed over a second sensor element, of the second set of sensor elements.
US11698471B2
A method for training a backpropagation-enabled regression process is used for predicting values of an attribute of subsurface data. A multi-dimensional seismic data set with an input dimension of at least two is inputted into a backpropagation-enabled process. A predicted value of the attribute has a prediction dimension of at least 1 and is at least 1 dimension less than the input dimension.
US11698467B2
An indoor positioning method based on image visual features. A Wi-Fi signal strength value of a Wi-Fi tag closest to a current location of a mobile device is matched with a signal strength list in a map database to obtain a first location of a first Wi-Fi tag with the greatest matching degree. A SURF descriptor of an image of the Wi-Fi tag closest to the current location of the mobile device is matched with SURF descriptors recorded in the signal strength list in the map database to discover an image of a Wi-Fi tag with the greatest matching degree, thereby obtaining a second location of a second Wi-Fi tag corresponding to the image of the Wi-Fi tag with the greatest matching degree. A three location of a three Wi-Fi tag is obtained according to a homography matrix corresponding to the image of the Wi-Fi tag with the largest matching degree and an empirical value of a positioning error. Positioning information of the mobile device is obtained according to the first location, the second location and the third location.
US11698466B2
A positioned location adjustment method and apparatus. The method includes: a first vehicle sends a request message to a plurality of reference vehicles, where the request message includes current location information of the first vehicle; the first vehicle receives a response message from the reference vehicle, where the response message includes positioned location information of the reference vehicle, a positioning error value of the reference vehicle, and vehicle identifier information of the reference vehicle; the first vehicle determines a second vehicle from the plurality of reference vehicles based on the positioning error value of the reference vehicle; and the first vehicle adjusts the first positioned location information based on positioned location information of the second vehicle and vehicle identifier information of the second vehicle, to obtain second positioned location information. According to the embodiments, positioning precision and accuracy can be improved.
US11698452B2
Vehicles and methods for tracking an object and controlling a vehicle based on the tracked object. A Radar-Doppler (RD) map is received from the radar sensing system of the vehicle and relative acceleration of an object with respect to the vehicle is detected based on the RD map so as to provide acceleration data. A current frame of detected object data is received from a sensing system of the vehicle. When the relative acceleration has been detected, a tracking algorithm is adapted to reduce the influence of the predictive motion model or the historical state of the object and the object is tracked using the adapted tracking algorithm so as to provide adapted estimated object data based on the object tracking. One or more vehicle actuators are controlled based on the adapted estimated object data.
US11698449B2
Techniques are disclosed for real-time mapping in a movable object environment. A system for real-time mapping in a movable object environment, may include at least one movable object including a computing device, a scanning sensor electronically coupled to the computing device, and a positioning sensor electronically coupled to the computing device. The system may further include a client device in communication with the at least one movable object, the client device including a visualization application which is configured to receive point cloud data from the scanning sensor and position data from the positioning sensor, record the point cloud data and the position data to a storage location, generate a real-time visualization of the point cloud data and the position data as it is received, and display the real-time visualization using a user interface provided by the visualization application.
US11698445B2
A vehicle, Lidar system for the vehicle and method of scanning an object with the Lidar system. The Lidar system includes a first quarter wave plate, a first deflection stage and a detector. The first quarter wave plate produces a circularly polarized scanning beam of light. The first deflection stage selects a rotation direction for a polarization vector of the scanning beam and deflects the scanning beam by a selected angle based on the selected rotation direction of the polarization vector. The detector receives a reflected beam that is a reflection of the scanning beam from the object.
US11698434B2
A machine control device includes an imaging control unit that controls an imaging device to capture two images at two different imaging positions; an imaging position information acquiring unit that acquires positional information of two imaging positions; a measurement distance restoring unit that restores a measurement distance of an object based on two images, distance information between two imaging positions, and a parameter of the imaging device, by using a stereo camera method; a measurement precision calculating unit that calculates a measurement precision of the measurement distance of the object based on two images, the distance information between two imaging positions, and the parameter of the imaging device; an area specifying unit that specifies a partial area of the object as a specified area; and a measurement precision determining unit that determines whether the measurement precision of the object satisfies a predetermined precision in the specified area.
US11698429B2
An MR image especially useful for computer-guided diagnostics uses at least one programmed computer to acquire an MR-image of T1 values for a patient volume containing at least one predetermined tissue type having a respectively corresponding predetermined range of expected T1 values. A color-coded T1-image is generated from the MR-image by (a) assigning a first color or spectrum of colors to those pixels having a T1 value falling within a predetermined range of expected T1 values and (b) assigning a second color or spectrum of colors to those pixels having a T1 value falling outside a predetermined range of expected T1 values. The color-coded T1-image is then displayed for use in computer-aided diagnosis of patient tissue.
US11698425B2
A magnetic resonance device having a main magnet unit with a cylindrical patient aperture. A gradient connection plate for a gradient coil arrangement surrounds the patient aperture. A cladding arrangement with at least one cladding part outwardly delimits the main magnet unit.
US11698413B2
A self-test circuit for an integrated circuit, having a plurality of scan chains is provided, wherein each of the scan chains has a plurality of first memory elements, a data input for providing the scan chain with test data, wherein the data input is connected to one of the first memory elements, a plurality of second memory elements, and a switching apparatus having a first and a second switching position, which switching apparatus is coupled between the first memory elements and the second memory elements and is configured to respectively connect a last one of the first memory elements to a data output in the first switching position and to respectively connect the last one of the first memory elements to a first one of the second memory elements in the second switching position.
US11698399B2
[Object] An electric conductivity-measuring material which emits light according to electric conductivity of a measurement object; an electric conductivity-measuring film containing the material; and an electric conductivity-measuring device and an electric conductivity-measuring method using the electric conductivity-measuring film are provided. An electric resistivity-measuring material which emits light according to electric resistivity of a measurement object when electrons are made incident; an electric resistivity-measuring film containing the material; and an electric resistivity-measuring device and an electric resistivity-measuring method using the electric resistivity-measuring film are also provided. [Solution] An electric conductivity-measuring material is used, which contains at least one of a fluorescent substance, a luminescent substance, an electroluminescent substance, a fractoluminescent substance, a photochromic substance, an afterglow substance, a photostimulated luminescent substance and a mechanoluminescent substance.
US11698377B2
Provided herein are methods for determining the serotype of a virus particle and/or or determining the heterogeneity of a virus particle (e.g., an AAV particle). In other embodiments, the invention provides methods to determine the heterogeneity of AAV particles. In some aspects, the invention provides viral particles (e.g., rAAV particles) with improved stability and/or improved transduction efficiency by increasing the acetylation and/or deamidation of capsid proteins.
US11698375B2
A method for producing an examination reagent includes adding a helper ligand to a receptor protein which is unfolded in an initial solution so as to provide a pre-solution of the examination reagent with a receptor protein which is folded. The receptor protein which is folded comprises a bonded helper ligand which can be exchanged with an examination peptide.
US11698370B2
A system for urine sample analysis, the system may include one or more transmitters for transmitting radiation; one or more sensors that are configured to receive received radiation that passed through the urine sample and to generate detection signals indicative of an intensity of the received radiation at multiple frequencies; detaching elements that are configured to detach the one or more transmitters and the one or more sensors to a toilet bowl; and a processor that is configured to participate in the urine sample analysis for determining a content of the urine sample based on the detection signals.
US11698368B2
This disclosure provides a method for determining male fertility status. The method comprises determining GM1 distribution patterns following induced sperm capacitation, identifying the frequency of distribution of various patterns, and determining if the frequency distribution of certain GM1 patterns in response to induced capacitation is altered. Based on the change in the frequency distribution patterns of certain patterns in response to induced capacitation, alone or in combination with other sperm attributes, male fertility status can be identified.
US11698367B2
This invention provides methods to evaluate therapeutic efficacy of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.
US11698359B2
Provided herein are methods and devices for characterizing a biomolecule parameter by a nanopore-containing membrane, and also methods for making devices that can be used in the methods and devices provided herein. The nanopore membrane is a multilayer stack of conducting layers and dielectric layers, wherein an embedded conducting layer or conducting layer gates provides well-controlled and measurable electric fields in and around the nanopore through which the biomolecule translocates. In an aspect, the conducting layer is graphene.
US11698356B2
A gas detector comprises a metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor whose resistance decreases in reducing gases and a digital information processing device that treats the output of the gas sensor and compares the output with a comparison value for gas detection. The digital information processing device extracts data representing the resistance of the gas sensor in air from the output of the gas sensor and generates the comparison value such that the larger the resistance of the gas sensor in air is, the larger the ratio between the resistance of the gas sensor in air and a resistance value corresponding to the comparison value is.
US11698352B2
Provided are an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer and a control method for an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer which are capable of preventing deterioration and breakage of a sample, and contamination of an inside of an apparatus even when an abnormality occurs in the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. The X-ray fluorescence spectrometer includes: a measuring unit including: a moving mechanism configured to move a sample between a standby position and a measurement position; an X-ray source; a detector; and a first control unit; and an information processing unit including: an analysis unit; and a second control unit configured to control the measuring unit by communicating with the first control unit, the first control unit including retreat controller configured to perform retreat control for causing the moving mechanism to retreat the sample present at the measurement position to the standby position when communication between the first control unit and the second control unit is interrupted.
US11698348B2
A system of a machine includes a waveguide system and a radio frequency transceiver/detector coupled to the waveguide system and configured to emit a calibration signal in the waveguide system to establish a reference baseline between the radio frequency transceiver/detector and a calibration plane associated with an aperture of the waveguide system, emit a measurement signal in the waveguide system to transmit a radio frequency signal from the radio frequency transceiver/detector out of the aperture of the waveguide system, and detect a reflection of the measurement signal at the radio frequency transceiver/detector based on an interaction between the measurement signal and a component of the machine. A measurement result of the reflection of the measurement signal can be adjusted with respect to a reflection of the calibration signal.
US11698347B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for synthesizing a diamond using a diamond synthesis machine. A processor receives a plurality of images of a diamond during synthesis within a diamond synthesis machine, each of the plurality of images captured within a time period. The processor executes a diamond state prediction machine learning model using the plurality of images to obtain a predicted data object, the predicted data object indicating a predicted state of the diamond within the diamond synthesis machine at a time subsequent to the time period. The processor detects a predicted defect, a number of defects, defect types, and/or sub-features of such defects and/or other characteristics (e.g., a predicted shape, size, and/or other properties of predicted contours for the diamond and/or pocket holder) of the predicted state of the diamond. The processor adjusts operation of the diamond synthesis machine.
US11698344B2
Medical swabs incorporating a pH indicator in an absorbent crosslinked hydrogel matrix. The medical swabs can provide for visual monitoring of biological pH. The medical swabs can be used to monitor wounds, such as chronic wounds, burn wounds, surgical wounds, etc., as well as other biological fluids. The swabs can be used for early detection of chronic wounds and/or early detection of bacterial infections.
US11698327B2
A residue tube assembly includes a residue tube having an open upper end and a cap assembly including a cap sealingly secured with the open upper end and an adjustable member assembled with the cap and defining an outlet passage extending into the residue tube to define a fill limit of the residue tube, and an overflow passage extending radially outward and downward of the open upper end of the residue tube. The adjustable member is vertically adjustable in the cap to adjust the fill limit of the residue tube.
US11698315B1
A rarefied piezometric uptake apparatus and method for measuring gaseous uptake for large solid samples with little or no sample preparation. Past systems and methods require extensive sample preparation. The method includes providing a rarefied piezometric uptake apparatus having a dosing chamber and uptake chamber in an improved selective fluid communication. The apparatus and method improve the measurement of gaseous uptake into solid samples resulting in improved prediction of gas migration through solid samples such as geologic formations.
US11698311B2
A torque measurement system includes an outer rotational shaft and an inner rotational shaft both configured to rotate about a rotational axis. A rotation of the inner rotational shaft causes a rotation of the outer rotational shaft via a coupling structure. At least one torque applied to the inner rotational shaft is translated into a first torque-dependent angular shift between the shafts. A first metamaterial track is coupled to the outer rotational shaft and configured to co-rotate with the outer rotational shaft. A second metamaterial track is coupled to the inner rotational shaft and configured to co-rotate with the inner rotational shaft. The tracks are configured to convert an electro-magnetic transmit signal into a first electro-magnetic receive signal based on the first torque-dependent angular shift and a receiver is configured to receive the electro-magnetic receive signal and measure the at least one torque based on the electro-magnetic receive signal.
US11698310B2
Described herein is a MEMS force sensor with stress concentration design. The stress concentration can be performed by providing slots, whether through or blind, and/or selective thinning of the substrate. The MEMS force sensor is in chip scale package with solder bumps or metal pillars and there are sensing elements formed on the sensor substrate at the stress concentrate area. The stress concentration can be realized through slots, selective thinning and a combination of both.
US11698308B2
Temperature measurements of photonic circuit components may be performed optically, exploiting a temperature-dependent spectral property of the photonic device to be monitored itself, or of a separate optical temperature sensor placed in its vicinity. By facilitating measurements of the temperature of the individual photonic devices rather than merely the photonic circuit at large, such optical temperature measurements can provide more accurate temperature information and help improve thermal design.
US11698296B2
A light sensor includes a semiconductor substrate supporting a number of pixels. Each pixel includes a photoconversion zone extending in the substrate between a front face and a back face of the substrate. An optical diffraction grating is arranged over the back face of the substrate at a position facing the photoconversion zone of the pixel. For at least two different pixels of the light sensor, the optical diffraction gratings have different pitches. Additionally, the optical grating of each pixel is surrounded by an opaque wall configured to absorb at operating wavelengths of the sensor.
US11698290B2
Systems and methods for operating a distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS)/distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system include a length of optical sensing fiber suspended aerially by a plurality of utility poles and in optical communication with a DFOS interrogator/analyzer. The method includes operating the DFOS/DAS system while manually exciting more than one of the poles to obtain frequency response(s) of the excited poles; contrastively training a convolutional neural network (CNN) with the frequency responses obtained; classifying the utility poles using the contrastively trained CNN; and generating a profile map of the excited poles indicative of the classified utility poles.
US11698285B2
A method can include obtaining a first weight measurement of a receptacle and obtaining a second weight measurement of the receptacle. The method can further include calculating a first difference between the first weight measurement and the second weight measurement, resulting in a reference dispensation value. The method can further include obtaining dispensation data, the dispensation data including a measured dispensation value. The measured dispensation value can correspond to a quantity of a substance dispensed from the receptacle, the quantity of the substance passing through a dispensation monitor coupled to the receptacle. The method can further include calculating a second difference between the reference dispensation value and the measured dispensation value. The method can further include determining that the second difference exceeds a threshold and adjusting the dispensation monitor in response to determining that the second difference exceeds the threshold.
US11698283B2
A method carried out using a radar level gauge system, the tank having a tank roof supporting the radar level gauge system, a tank wall, and a tank atmosphere in a space defined by a surface of a product in the tank, the tank roof, and the tank wall, wherein the method comprises generating and transmitting an electromagnetic first transmit signal; propagating the first transmit signal through the tank atmosphere towards a corner reflector formed by the surface of the product and the tank wall where the surface of the product meets the tank wall, the corner reflector being at a known horizontal distance from the radar level gauge system; receiving an electromagnetic first reflection signal resulting from reflection of the first transmit signal at the corner reflector; and performing a filling level determination and/or a verification operation for the radar level gauge system based on a timing relation between the first transmit signal and the first reflection signal, and the known horizontal distance between the radar level gauge system and the corner reflector.
US11698269B2
The present technology improves points-of-interest (POIs) in applications by the gathering and use of data available from various sources to improve metadata of POIs in applications (e.g., map applications) or any other metadata or information that may be of interest to a user regarding any given POI. The present technology resolves transactions to POIs or Brands (in a map application, for example) and improves, updates, creates, and removes POIs/Brands. The present technology can also gain a clear name, granular and correct categorization, a URL, phone/chat contact info, etc. of the transactions.
US11698264B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to generating and utilizing three-dimensional terrain maps for vehicular control. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11698255B2
Method of servicing or maintaining a gyroscope of an anti-roll stabilizer onboard of a seacraft. The method comprising a step of providing a seacraft provided with an anti-roll stabilizer. The stabilizer comprises a gyroscope comprising a container housing a rotor including a flywheel and a flywheel shaft that is rotatably mounted within said container by means of two support devices placed inside said container and arranged to support a respective end of said flywheel shaft so as to allow the relative rotation of said shaft with respect to said container. The container comprises a base portion mounted on a suspension held by a frame of the anti-roll stabilizer so as to be able to oscillate around a first axis transverse with respect to a rotation axis of the flywheel shaft. The container further comprises two end portions removably connected to said base portion. The method further comprising the steps of: removing one of the end portions from the base portion onboard of the seacraft; placing back said removed end portion and reconnecting said end portion with the base portion onboard of the seacraft; and pumping out air of the interior of the container of the gyroscope onboard of the seacraft after the container of the gyroscope has been reassembled.
US11698250B2
Vehicle alignment systems and methods are disclosed which operate based on a calculation of “drive direction,” or the direction in which a vehicle is moving. Since a vehicle can be assumed to be a rigid body, each wheel has the same drive direction. Consequently, an alignment parameter of one wheel can be compared to the same parameter of another wheel by equating their drive direction, eliminating the need for the aligner to “see” both sides of the vehicle at the same time. Embodiments include a system having one or more cameras on a fixture carrying a calibration element for an ADAS system, and one or more targets placed on the vehicle to measure the drive direction of the vehicle. The drive direction is assumed to be parallel to the vehicle thrust line and can be used as the line for orientation of the fixture to the vehicle.
US11698242B2
A phosphorescent sight system is provided comprising a rear sight for disposition along a proximal portion of a slide substrate of a firearm and a front sight for disposition along a distal portion of the slide substrate. The sight system may further comprise an optical waveguide disposed within a waveguide cavity of the rear sight or the front sight. Further, a phosphorescent element may be disposed adjacent a proximal portion of the optical waveguide.
US11698238B2
A system and method for a programmable trigger device for a firearm, capable of situational awareness providing intelligent contextual data related to projectile management to a downstream firing device. In particular, a smart trigger system that evaluates targets in line-of-fire, estimated target age, estimated target distance, and other contextual data that is then passed along to a programmable device. The device, as provided by the consumer of this invention, may make the determination then whether to eject or prevent ejection of a bullet after the trigger is activated, firing an alternative shot based on environmental factors of which the device is aware, or other activations or deactivations as seen fit.
US11698228B2
A shell-and-plate heat exchanger includes: a shell forming an internal space; and a plate stack, disposed in the internal space, including heat transfer plates that are stacked and joined together. The shell-and-plate heat exchanger is configured to allow a refrigerant that has flowed into the internal space to evaporate. The plate stack forms: refrigerant channels that communicate with the internal space and through which a refrigerant flows; and heating medium channels that are blocked from the internal space and through which a heating medium flows. Each of the refrigerant channels is adjacent to an associated one of the heating medium channels with one of the heat transfer plates interposed therebetween. The shell-and-plate heat exchanger further includes one or more supply structures that supply the refrigerant to the refrigerant channels such that the refrigerant flows downward.
US11698227B2
An eddy fluid heat exchange device comprises a compound tube assembly mounted with an eddy guiding structure. The compound tube assembly comprises an outer tube mounted with an inner tube. The outer tube and the inner tube have an eddy passage along an axis of the inner tube formed therebetween. The outer tube has a guiding exit at one end of the eddy passage. The eddy guiding structure is mounted at another end of the eddy passage, having a guiding entrance. Entering from the guiding entrance, high pressure fluid forms eddies surrounding the inner tube when flowing through the eddy guiding structure. A flowing path of the high pressure fluid in the eddy passage extends, simplifying structures and lowering costs of production and maintenance. Besides, increasing a heat transfer area between the high pressure fluid and the outer tube or the inner tube improves the heat transfer efficiency.
US11698222B2
A food preservation system including a refrigerator and a freezer, wherein the refrigerator and freezer are independent from each other; the refrigerator comprising a fresh food compartment; the freezer including an icemaker and means for receiving filtered water; a water filter located in the fresh food compartment; a water supply line leading into an inflow side of the water filter; a refrigerator inlet valve connected to an inlet side of the water filter and a water distribution valve, wherein the water distribution valve comprises an auxiliary icemaker water valve, the distribution valve connected to an outflow side of the water filter; tubing connecting an outflow side of the auxiliary icemaker water valve to the icemaker; and a refrigerator main controller, wherein the refrigerator main controller is in operable communication with the refrigerator inlet valve and the auxiliary icemaker water valve is provided, Methods to make ice with filtered water are also provided.
US11698217B2
Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a cabinet including an inner case defining a storage compartment, an outer case surrounding the outside of the inner case, and an insulation material provided between the inner case and the outer case, a storage compartment door opening and closing the storage compartment, a cold air duct provided in the storage compartment and disposed in an upper side of the storage compartment to discharge cold air to the storage compartment, and a guide duct disposed outside the inner case to communicate with the cold air duct and extending to the storage compartment door to guide the cold air received from the cold air duct to the storage compartment door.
US11698214B2
A lock assembly includes at least a lock component, a lock member, and a bracket. The lock component is securable to a load cell. The lock member is configured to move into a first position to provide an unlocked state in which the lock member is disengaged from the lock component. In the unlocked state, the load cell is physically unsecured from the lock member and enabled to operate. The lock member is configured to move into a second position to provide a locked state in which the lock member is engaged with the lock component. In the locked state, the load cell is physically secured to the lock member via the lock component. The bracket is configured to support the lock member in relation to the lock component.
US11698212B2
An air conditioner may include a compressor that compresses refrigerant; a condenser that condenses the refrigerant; at least one expansion valve that expands the refrigerant; a gas-liquid separator that separates and discharges the refrigerant into gas refrigerant and liquid refrigerant; an evaporator that evaporates the liquid refrigerant discharged from the gas-liquid separator; a refrigerant inflow pipe that connects the expansion valve and the gas-liquid separator; a bypass pipe that connects the gas-liquid separator and the compressor; and a refrigerant discharge pipe that connects the gas-liquid separator and the evaporator. The gas-liquid separator may include a housing in which a portion of the refrigerant inflow pipe, the bypass pipe, and the refrigerant discharge pipe may be disposed, and first and second partition walls disposed in the housing.
US11698211B2
A refrigerator includes an inner case, an outer case, a vacuum space, and a liquid-gas interchanger. The inner case defines an exterior appearance of a storage space. The outer case is spaced apart a predetermined distance from the inner case. The vacuum space is provided between the inner case and the outer case, and maintains a vacuum to insulate the inner case from the outer case. The liquid-gas interchanger is arranged in the vacuum space to generate heat exchange between a refrigerant after it is exhausted from an evaporator and a refrigerant before it is drawn into an evaporator.
US11698202B2
Methods and apparatus for an exhaust demand control system for measuring one or more contaminants at one or more exhaust locations within one or a plurality of exhaust ducts or plenums served by an exhaust fan system. Example systems and methods can include sensing the one or more contaminants within the one or more exhaust duct locations using a multipoint air sampling system having one or more sensors and comparing contaminant concentration measurements from the one or more of said exhaust duct or plenum locations against an action level to create a fan setback signal.
US11698198B2
This invention provides an isothermal turbo-compressor-expander-condenser-evaporator in a single integral arrangement that is suitable for a variety of compact arrangements, such as a window air-conditioner and/or automotive-based unit. This arrangement avoids the use of rotary fluid joints and maintains the entire fluid cycle, including compression, condensation, expansion and evaporation within a single rotating shaft-based structure, with the compressor/condenser section and the expansion/evaporator section separated from each other in separate spaces and/or plena by a rotating, insulated barrier disc and associated seal.
US11698197B2
The present invention relates to a heating paint which can be used to generate a surface heating device on a wall. The invention further relates to a surface heating device which is suitable in particular for heating a room, and also to a kit for producing a surface heating device on a wall. The invention relates, moreover, to uses of the subjects of the invention, especially for producing a surface heating device and, respectively, for heating a room, and to corresponding methods.
US11698195B2
An electrical cooking appliance with automatic cleaning of a cooking chamber is provided. The appliance may include a steam supply device configured to generate steam and supply the steam to the cooking chamber; a water supply pump that supplies water from a water tank to the steam supply device; a water discharge pump that collects condensed water from the steam supply device into the water tank; and a controller configured to activate the water supply pump to supply water to the cooking chamber to clean the cooking chamber; and activate the steam supply device to supply steam to the cooking chamber to clean the cooking chamber.
US11698193B2
A control method of stepwise and stepless linear adjustment of a gas oven includes step 1: obtaining the setting temperature of the gas oven; step 2: obtaining the temperature inside the gas oven; step 3: determining the low temperature threshold, high temperature threshold and preset flame level according to the setting temperature, wherein the high temperature threshold is greater than the low temperature threshold; step 4: ensuring the temperature inside the gas oven is between the low temperature threshold and the high temperature threshold; step 5: if it exceeds, determining the change trend of the temperature inside the gas oven; step 6: when the change trend of the temperature inside the gas oven rises or falls, adjusting the flame level of the gas oven to the preset flame level.
US11698192B2
A combustor liner assembly includes a first liner panel that has a first forward end and a first aft end. A second liner panel has a second forward end and a second aft end. A support band has a plurality of circumferentially spaced holes. The support band is arranged between the first liner panel and the second liner panel. The support band has a protrusion with a first angled surface and a second angled surface. The first angled surface is in engagement with the first aft end and the second angled surface in engagement with the second forward end.
US11698191B2
An ignition method of a plasma chamber includes steps of: (a) starting softly an ignition voltage to a first voltage, (b) decreasing the magnitude of the ignition voltage to a second voltage after a first ignition time, (c) increasing the magnitude of the ignition voltage to the first voltage after a second ignition time, and (d) repeating the step (b) and the step (c) until the ignition is successful.
US11698184B2
A lighting module includes a first printed circuit board (PCB) with a push button switch and a charging port, a second PCB with a light emitting diode (LED), a rechargeable battery sandwiched between the PCB's, and ring disposed between the PCB's and surrounding the battery. A device including the lighting module, a body having a cavity with an aperture, and a cap having a protrusion facing the body. The lighting module received in the cavity, with the cap covering the aperture. The protrusion and push button switch are positioned such that when the cap is pushed inward near the protrusion, the protrusion pushes the push button switch and activates the lighting module. The cap further includes a ridge surrounding the protrusion on the outward side, the ridge preventing the protrusion from being pushed into the push button switch, unless the cap is pressed at approximately a location of the protrusion.
US11698183B1
A stage light with electronically adjustable lighting effects comprises a light box with a heat dissipation mechanism, a heat dissipation hole formed on a rear side communicating with the mechanism, and a light panel disposed on a front side; a dimmable glass disposed on the light panel, comprising an outer glass layer and liquid crystal molecules; and a control box disposed on the light box and having a control circuit electrically connected to the glass, the control circuit comprises a central processing unit, a voltage regulating unit and a signal receiving unit, the signal receiving unit receives a digital multiplexing signal and transmits it to the central processing unit that generates a voltage adjustment command through the signal and transmits the command to the voltage regulating unit, the voltage regulating unit controls arrangement of the liquid crystal molecules through the command to change a light transmittance of the glass.
US11698182B2
A light source module and a lighting device using the light source module. The light source module includes a first light-emitting element and a packaging part covering the first light-emitting element. The packaging part includes a first additional luminous body, a second additional luminous body, and a third additional luminous body, the light emitted by each luminous body is mixed into day white light, which is used as the emitted light of the light source module. The light source module provided by the present disclosure provides a cold white LED (5700K) light source with high luminous efficiency, high CS values and high color rendering by controlling the ratio of luminous energy of different wavelength ranges in the total luminous energy.
US11698181B1
A garden light with a modular design for convenient packaging and transportation includes a first light set, and a second light set substantially in the same shape of the first light set and proportionally enlarged, and the two light sets include a hollow column, a solar lighting module and a base, and the hollow column of the second light set can be sheathed on the outer periphery of the hollow column of the first light set, such that two bases and two solar lighting modules can be accommodated in the inner periphery of the hollow column of the first light set to reduce the packaging and transportation costs.
US11698178B1
An illuminating device and a method for optimizing the light pattern are provided. The illuminating device includes a lamp case having a lighting space; a light-reflecting cup, located in the lighting space and including a light incident side, a light emergent side; a light source, located in the lighting space and corresponding to the light incident side of the light reflecting cup; and a cylindrical lens, located in the lighting space and corresponds to the light emergent side of the light reflecting cup; wherein one surface of the cylindrical lens has a plurality of convex columns extending up and down, and each convex column faces to the light emergent side; wherein, when the light source emits light, the main bright area of the light pattern reflected by the light emergent side of the light reflecting cup is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
US11698174B2
A device for day lighting the interior of structure deploys reflective louvers that are spaced apart in stacks. The louvers include a coating or multilayer structure that is operative to reflect visible light but transmit IR light through the louver. The louvers also have a retro-reflective structure to return the IR light by reverse reflection in the opposite direction of the incident light, which is back toward the sun. The interior of the structure is more uniformly illuminated with visible light while the louvers and interior are not heated by IR light or radiation from the sun.
US11698170B2
An LED tube lamp comprises: a glass lamp tube; a light diffusion layer disposed on a surface of the glass lamp tube; an LED light strip, which comprises a fixing portion and an extending portion disposed in the glass lamp tube; a plurality of LED light sources mounted on the fixing portion of the LED light strip; a fixing structure disposed between the fixing portion and the inner circumferential surface the glass lamp tube; a power supply module disposed on the fixing structure and electrically connecting to the LED light strip and two end caps attached to two ends of the glass lamp tube respectively. The fixing structure comprises a first end fixedly connected to the inner circumferential surface of the glass lamp tube and a second end fixedly connected to the fixing portion of the LED light strip and not connected to the extending portion of the LED light strip.
US11698150B2
A clip for suspending a horizontal pipe from a ceiling joist has a cut ring for supporting the pipe, two prongs projecting from the ring, and securing holes in the prongs for securing the prongs to the joist with a nail or screw. The pipe enters the ring through the cut. The clip is then secured into a closed position, with the cut ends of the cylinder in close contact. Each prong has a lower end, which is angled slightly toward the cut, and an upper end bent at a large angle from the lower end. In closed position, the upper prongs align in parallel, with one prong directly in front of the other. The securing holes in the two prongs are then aligned so that a nail or screw can pass through both of them. The clip, ideally constructed from plastic, is inexpensive and easy to install and reuse.
US11698146B2
An electronic expansion valve and a manufacturing method therefor, a thermal management assembly and a cooling system are provided. The electronic expansion valve includes a valve core assembly, an electronic control part and a stator assembly. The valve core assembly includes a valve base, a valve core and a rotor assembly, wherein the valve base is provided with a valve port, and the valve core moves relative to the valve base to change the degree of opening of the valve port. The electronic control part controls the stator assembly, and the rotor assembly drives the valve core to move. The electronic expansion valve further includes a sensor, the electronic control part includes an electronic control board, and the stator assembly and the sensor are both directly electrically connected to the electronic control board. The thermal management assembly and the cooling system both include the electronic expansion valve.
US11698143B2
A latching assembly for a solenoid operated valve includes a solenoid assembly including a core defining a bore extending along an axis, and a coil mounted to the core and disposed about the axis. The solenoid operated valve further includes an armature assembly including an armature stud disposed at least partially within the bore and extending along the axis, an armature disc disposed radially about a portion of the armature stud and defining at least one window, and at least one stationary magnet respectively disposed within the at least one window.
US11698140B2
A coolant control regulator assembly that comprises a plurality of modular housings, an actuator, and a plurality of ball valves. The actuator is operatively connected to at least one of the plurality of modular housings. Each of the modular housings comprises an internal cavity, at least one inlet port, and at least one outlet port. Further, each of the internal cavities includes one of the plurality of ball valves positioned therein. At least one of the plurality of ball valves comprises a plurality of apertures that are configured to align with the at least one inlet port and the at least one outlet port in certain rotational positions.
US11698136B1
A fluid-distribution system for use with one or more vehicle sub-systems in a vehicle includes a first transfer conduit, a second transfer conduit, and a valve unit. The first transfer conduit defines a first interior space and is coupled to a fluid source to receive and direct a fluid through the first interior space. The second transfer conduit defines a second interior space and is spaced apart downstream from the first transfer conduit. The valve unit extends between and interconnects the first transfer conduit and the second transfer conduit.
US11698134B2
Apparatuses for controlling fluid flow are important components for delivering process fluids for semiconductor fabrication. These apparatuses for controlling fluid flow require a variety of fluid flow components which are tightly packaged within the apparatuses for controlling flow. Servicing the apparatuses requires specialized equipment and methods which enable installation of seals in close quarters in apparatuses which are installed in the field. Seal retainers may be used to retain the seals during assembly of fluid flow components into apparatus for controlling flow.
US11698130B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a gearbox including: a housing having an opening; an input pinion disposed in the housing; a moving feature mechanically coupled to the input pinion, the moving feature and the input pinion being operable to convert between power and torque; and first sensors disposed on the moving feature, the first sensors having batteries, where the moving feature is operable to rotate about a common axis, each of the first sensors being exposed by the opening as the moving feature rotates about the common axis.
US11698129B2
An apparatus and a method of retaining a bearing assembly having a bore to a shaft received within the bore, the method comprising physically limiting the axial movement of the bearing assembly on the shaft by a retainer mounted to an end of the shaft and having a portion extending radially beyond the shaft and into an axial path of the bearing assembly.
US11698127B2
A planetary gearbox includes a planet carrier, with a planetary gear rotatably disposed on the planet carrier, and a gear that meshes with the planetary gear, as well as a gas turbine engine having such a planetary gearbox. The planet carrier has an oil supply installation including a supply line for oil to an opening. The oil is directed out of the opening in the direction of the planetary gear and/or the gear. The oil supply installation in relation to a primary rotating direction of the planetary gear and/or the gear in front of the opening includes a shielding region which protrudes from an external side of the oil supply installation and which by way of the external side of the oil supply installation on a side that faces the primary rotating direction of the planetary gear and/or the gear, delimits an oil collection groove.
US11698120B2
A damper assembly includes a pressure tube defining a chamber. The damper assembly includes a body supported by the pressure tube. The body has a first surface and a second surface opposite and spaced from the first surface along an axis. The body defines a passage extending from the first surface to the second surface. The damper assembly includes an orifice disc movable from an unflexed position to a first flexed position and movable from the first flexed position to a second flexed position. The orifice disc in the unflexed position is spaced from the first surface radially outward and radially inward of the passage. The orifice disc in the first flexed position is spaced from the first surface radially outward of the passage and abuts the first surface radially inward of the passage. The orifice disc in the second flexed position abuts the first surface radially outward and radially inward of the passage.
US11698119B2
A directional vibration control apparatus, which includes a tunable vibration absorber (TVA) for a vibratory compactor machine is provided. The TVA includes a frame mounting structure that is configured to mechanically interface with a frame of the vibratory compactor to provide a fixed attachment of the TVA to the frame of the vibratory compactor, a TVA carrier that extends from the frame mounting structure into an interior portion of a drum of the vibratory compactor machine, a resilient element that includes a first portion that is fixedly attached relative to the TVA carrier and a second portion that includes a degree of freedom of movement relative to the TVA carrier, and a mass that is attached to the second portion of the resilient element and that includes the degree of freedom of movement relative to the TVA carrier.
US11698116B2
A brake apparatus for a vehicle includes a screw bar positioned inside a caliper body, and rotated by receiving power of a driving motor; a nut unit including a nut which surrounds the screw bar, and a nut holder which is threadedly coupled with the screw bar, is movable on the nut and is moved toward a pad member by rotation of the screw bar; and a piston unit surrounding the nut unit, and pressing the pad member, wherein the nut holder is brought into contact with the piston unit while being moved toward the pad member, and moves the nut such that the nut pushes the piston unit.
US11698110B2
A joint assembly for use in a motor vehicle. The joint assembly includes a first joint member that is drivingly connected to a second joint member via one or more third joint members. At least a portion of the first joint member is drivingly connected to at least a portion of a first shaft and at least a portion of the second joint member is drivingly connected to at least a portion of a second shaft. One or more first joint member tool grooves circumferentially extends along the outer surface of the first joint member. The joint assembly further includes a nut that drivingly connects at least a portion of a third shaft to at least a portion of the second shaft. The nut includes one or more nut tool grooves circumferentially extending along the outer surface of the nut.
US11698106B2
An insulating device for a bearing mountable within a housing, the bearing having an inner ring and an outer ring with an outer circumferential surface and opposing axial ends and a plurality of rolling elements disposed there between. The insulating device comprises: a first annular part, which is adapted to be in contact to the outer circumferential surface of the outer ring, and a second annular part, which is also adapted to be in contact to the outer circumferential surface of the outer ring. The first and second part form the insulation device which is adapted to contact, in an assembled state of the bearing in the housing, both the outer ring and the housing. The first part is thermally conductive and electrically insulating and the second part is electrically insulating and less thermally conductive than the first part or is not thermally conductive.
US11698104B2
A bearing raceway element configured as an inner ring or as an outer ring, or configured to be attachable to an element serving as an inner ring or as an outer ring for the bearing or to an inner ring or an outer ring of the bearing. The raceway element is manufactured from a sheet metal panel and includes at least one first joint edge and at least one second joint edge directed in the circumferential direction that are configured to be connected to each other in order to form an annular raceway element. The at least one first joint edge is at least partially configured as a first alignment element and/or includes the first alignment element. Also a bearing including the raceway element and an associated method.
US11698099B1
A cable release comprises a control handle, at least one retractable latch pin, and cables connected from the handle to the latch pins. The handle assembly includes a cup with a non-round orifice at one end. A rod within the cup passes through the handle allowing it to spin, so twisting the handle does not cross up its attached control lines. The latch pin assembly includes another cup and a set screw so that a stop tube may be inserted adjustably to establish a gap length between the stop tube and the retractable latch pin in the cup. A spring between the stop tube and a flange of the pin extends the pin when not pulled into a retracted position by the handle. Varying pin lengths and stop tube gaps allows a single pull of the handle to effect simultaneous or sequential releases of articles retained by the pins.
US11698093B2
A blind rivet for establishing a screw connection between a support component and a fastening part has an elastic outer body and a metal bushing arranged therein. The outer body is at least partially surrounded by a fixing sleeve which fixes the outer body on an end portion in the metal bushing.
US11698080B2
A sealing system includes: a double mechanical seal having a pump-side sealing mechanism (10, 12) and an atmospheric-side sealing mechanism (11, 13); a pump mechanism (19) driven by a rotational shaft (1); a first medium circulation line (30) for circulating a fluid barrier-and-cooling medium between a first chamber (22a) and a second chamber (22b), the first medium circulation line (30) being coupled to the first chamber (22a) and the second chamber (22b), the fluid barrier-and-cooling medium being different from a fluid handled by the centrifugal pump; a heat exchanger (21) and a shut-off valve (28) attached to the first medium circulation line (30); a second medium circulation line (31) bypassing the shut-off valve (28); and a medium pressurizing pump (45) and an on-off valve (23) attached to the second medium circulation line (31).
US11698079B2
The present invention is directed to a fluid sealing member and a motor for preventing or reducing chances of fluids and/or substances or products from entering the motor chamber or cavity of a motor and causing damage to the motor's internal components and/or causing the motor to make undesirable noises or sounds. The present invention is also directed to a motor having a fluid sealing member, and to a fluid pump having a fluid sealing member. The present invention is further directed to a fluid pump that comprises a jet assembly and a motor assembly, which comprises a motor. The fluid pump may further comprise one, some or all of the following: a fluid sealing member, a mounting housing member or coupling device, a gasket or seal, a liner (when a liner is not already provided or present), and a driven magnetic disc assembly having a magnetic pole array.
US11698066B2
A pressure-controlling device (10) includes a pump (21), a connection pipe (30), a first valve (41), and a second valve (42). The pump (21) has an inlet port (211) and an outlet port (212). The connection pipe (30) has a first end in communication with the outlet port (212), and a second end in communication with the inlet port (211) and that has a first space (31) that contains the first end, a second space (32) that contains the second end, and a third space (33) that is located between the first space (31) and the second space (32).
US11698063B2
A hydraulic end assembly structure of a plunger pump, comprising a valve housing assembly, a suction gland and a suction pressing cap. The suction gland is connected to the suction pressing cap, and the suction gland is connected to the valve housing assembly through the suction packing seal assembly.
US11698062B2
An oil wiper packing for a piston rod of a crosshead piston compressor, and corresponding assembly method. The oil wiper packing has at least one chamber disc having a chamber disc cutout, wherein a wiper ring arranged in the chamber disc cutout. At least two chamber discs, each having a chamber disc cutout, are arranged in succession in a direction of extent (L), and a single wiper ring is in each chamber disc cutout. Each wiper ring has no play or only negligible play in the direction of extent (L) in the operating state but is movable in the radial direction. It is necessary to set the play in in the cold state during the assembly of the wiper rings. Such an arrangement allows advantageous wiping of oil, preventing oil from spreading in the direction of extent of the piston rod.
US11698057B2
A wind turbine rotary connection for two wind turbine components which are rotatable relative to each other, having a combined axial-radial bearing, wherein the axial-radial bearing has an axial bearing component and a separate radial bearing component. In particular it is proposed that the axial bearing component is in the form of a plain bearing component having a first convexly curved bearing surface and a corresponding second concavely curved bearing surface.
US11698046B2
A method of operating exhaust gas recirculation pump for an internal combustion engine including: providing an EGR pump assembly including an electric motor coupled to a roots device having rotors, the EGR pump operably connected to an internal combustion engine; providing an system controller; providing an EGR control unit linked to the EGR pump assembly; sending a speed command from the system controller to the EGR control unit; determining if a motor temperature and module temperature is within a predetermined target; outputting a desired speed signal; determining if a motor speed is within a predetermined target; determining if a motor voltage is within a predetermined target; and outputting a current to the electric motor controlling the speed of the electric motor and regulating an EGR mass flow rate.
US11698041B2
A turbocharger system (1) of a combustion engine (4) comprises a turbocharger turbine (5) operable by exhaust gases, a valve (7) configured to control gas flow of pressurized gas from a pressurized gas reservoir (6) to the turbocharger turbine (5), and a sensor (8). Turbocharger system operation comprises injecting a test pulse of pressurized gas from the pressurized gas reservoir (6) to drive the turbocharger turbine (5) by means of controlling the valve (7), detecting an impact of injected pressurized gas on the turbocharger turbine (5) by means of the sensor (8), collecting data from the sensor (8), and diagnosing the turbocharger system (1) by evaluating an operational response of the turbocharger turbine (5) as a result of the injected test pulse of pressurized gas, based on the collected data.
US11698038B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a fuel supply pump of a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a combustion engine system and a gearbox, the method comprising the steps of: determining one or more operational values of at least one operational parameter of the combustion engine system; determining a reduction of a fuel provision rate to the combustion engine system; determining whether a gear step change of the gearbox is at hand, on the basis of the determined one or more operational values of the at least one operational parameter; and in case a gear step change of the gearbox is at hand, controlling operation of the fuel supply pump so as to maintain fuel supply pump speed.
US11698037B1
A method of controlling an evaporative emissions system for a vehicle is provided. A fuel system for a vehicle and a vehicle are also provided. A signal indicative of an entry condition associated with a secondary air flow path for a purge of an evaporative emissions canister is received. A filter is decoupled from a port of the evaporative emissions canister in response to receiving the signal and prior to the evaporative emissions canister purge. The evaporative emissions canister is purged by flowing atmospheric air into the port and through the evaporative emissions canister while the filter is decoupled from the port. The filter is coupled to the port of the evaporative emissions canister after purging the canister.
US11698036B2
Methods and systems are presented for operating a refueling valve of an evaporative emissions system. The methods and systems may attempt to reactivate a refueling valve that has stuck due to the refueling valve being exposed to liquid fuel. In one example, a voltage that is applied to the refueling valve may be increased to reactivate the refueling valve.
US11698035B2
A fugitive gas detection system is provided. The system includes a cloud service, a plurality of reach-based components, a plurality of wireless gas sensors. The reach-based components comprise backhauls and gateways. The wireless gas sensors are acted as nodes to acquire sensor data in a local mesh network and the nodes are connected to the cloud service through the reach-based components, one node can transmit the sensor data to other sensor nodes of the local mesh network. The system measures flammable gas levels with speed, economy and accuracy.
US11698030B2
A gas turbine engine has a compression system blade ratio defined as the ratio of the height of a fan blade to the height of the most downstream compressor blade in the range of from 45 to 95. This results in an optimum balance between installation benefits, operability, maintenance requirements and engine efficiency when the gas turbine engine is installed on an aircraft.
US11698028B2
An exhaust energy recovery system (EERS) and associated methods for an engine are disclosed. An embodiment of an EERS, for example, includes an inlet duct that is configured to divert exhaust gas from an exhaust duct of the engine into the recovery system and an outlet duct configured to return the exhaust gas to the exhaust duct downstream of the inlet duct. The recovery system is configured to heat components or fluids associated with engine to operating temperatures. The recovery system may be part of a mobile power system that is mounted to a single trailer and includes an engine and a power unit such as a high pressure pump or generator mounted to the trailer. Methods of operating and purging recovery systems are also disclosed.
US11698009B2
An exhaust gas aftertreatment system for an internal combustion engine has an exhaust system that can be connected to an outlet of the internal combustion engine. A three-way catalytic converter that is situated close to the engine and, downstream from the three-way catalytic converter that is situated close to the engine, a second catalytic converter and a particle reduction device are arranged in the direction in which an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine flows through an exhaust gas channel of the exhaust system. A fuel injector is arranged on the exhaust gas channel so as to inject fuel downstream from the three-way catalytic converter that is situated close to the engine and upstream from the second catalytic converter, and the exhaust system comprises a secondary air system with which secondary air can be blown into the exhaust gas channel downstream from the three-way catalytic converter that is situated close to the engine and upstream from the second catalytic converter.
US11698006B2
A structural subassembly which has a bearing which comprises a statically arranged outer ring and a rotatably arranged inner ring, wherein the inner ring is connected for conjoint rotation to a component that is rotatable about a longitudinal axis or said inner ring forms part of such a component, and wherein the longitudinal axis defines an axial direction of the bearing. The structural subassembly furthermore comprises a housing flange of a support structure, to which flange the statically arranged outer ring is connected. Provision is made for the outer ring to be of two-part design, wherein each part of the outer ring has a connecting element which is connected to the housing flange, wherein the housing flange is arranged between the two connecting elements in the axial direction.
US11698001B2
A containment system for a gas turbine engine includes an outer containment ring having a first projection that extends radially inward and an inner containment ring having at least a second projection that extends radially outward toward the outer containment ring. The second projection is offset and spaced apart from the first projection to define a chamber in a first state. The containment system includes a lattice defined within the chamber that spans the chamber, and the lattice is integrally formed with each of the outer containment ring and the inner containment ring. A density of the lattice varies in at least one of an axial direction and a radial direction. The second projection is configured to interlock with the first projection in a second state.
US11697997B2
A turbine for a turbo-machine is proposed in which, at a gas inlet for a turbine wheel, vanes extend from a nozzle ring though slots in a shroud. The nozzle ring and shroud are relatively rotatable about a rotational axis of the turbine by at least 0.1 degrees. In use, the nozzle ring and shroud are relatively rotated to bring one side of the vane into close contact with one surface of the slot, to inhibit leakage of gas between the vane and the slot surface. For this purpose the respective surfaces of the nozzle and slot can be configured to closely conform to each other. If there is differential thermal expansion of the shroud and nozzle ring, the nozzle ring and shroud can relatively rotate, to withdraw the vane from the edge of the slot to relieve the pressure between them.
US11697992B2
A method and system can obtain real time property measurements of a fluid comprising a formation fluid downhole, real time measurements of an amount of an interactive component of the fluid downhole, and real time measurements of an amount of a non-interactive component of the fluid downhole. The method and system further includes determining a total amount of the interactive component in the fluid or a contamination level of the formation fluid at a time of interest based on the real time property measurements of the fluid downhole and the real time measurements of the amounts of the interactive component and non-interactive component downhole. The real time measurements of the amount of the interactive component downhole are real time measurements of the amount of the interactive component in its free form downhole, and the property can be scaled with the contamination level.
US11697986B2
Apparatus and methods for managing power at a wellsite. An example apparatus may include a well construction equipment operable to construct a well at the wellsite, a power supply system operable to output electrical power to the well construction equipment to facilitate operation of the well construction equipment, and a control system for controlling the well construction system. The control system may be operable to store a digital drilling program and cause the well construction equipment to perform planned well construction operations based on the digital drilling program. The digital drilling program may include an equipment operational plan indicative of the planned well construction operations to be performed by the well construction equipment to construct the well, and an electrical power plan indicative of a planned electrical power demand of the well construction equipment to perform the planned well construction operations.
US11697983B2
A first well, configured to act as a production well or an injection well, is formed. The first well includes a first horizontal portion. A second well, configured to act as a production well or an injection well, is formed. The second well includes a second horizontal portion substantially parallel to the first horizontal portion. The first horizontal portion and the second horizontal portion are at different depths. A fluid is injected into a geologic formation through the first well for a first duration of time. Hydrocarbons are produced from the geologic formation through the second well for the first duration of time. A fluid is injected into a geologic formation through the second well for a second duration of time. Hydrocarbons are produced from the geologic formation through the first well for the second duration of time.
US11697977B2
A portion of a wellbore is put into communication or is isolated by selectively applying an axial or rotational force downhole. The axial force moves a shifting sleeve and deployment sleeve from an initial position to an opening position causing a valve element to move into an open configuration and allowing communication to the portion of the wellbore. The shifting sleeve is returned to the initial position and separated from the deployment sleeve, which is anchored to a retraction sleeve adjacent the valve element. Threads on the shifting and retraction sleeves become engaged when the deployment sleeve is moved to the opening position. The retraction sleeve is rotated by rotating the shifting sleeve, threaded engagement with the rotating retraction sleeve draws the deployment sleeve away from the valve element, and allows the valve element to move to a closed configuration.
US11697961B2
Embodiments of systems, methods, and devices for protecting service personnel by deploying a physical barrier are described. Further embodiments describe additional security features such as lights, sirens, cameras, electronic locks, timers, and/or notifying security personnel or local law enforcement when the system is activated.
US11697958B1
An apparatus for controlling bus doors (14, 16) that are arranged as a pair of doors that move in coordinated relation between door open positions and door closed positions, enables passengers to access an interior area (12) of a bus (10). The apparatus includes an actuator (28, 226). The actuator includes a drive lever (34, 228) that is selectively rotationally movable between rotational positions in which both of the doors are in the open positions and in the closed positions. Exemplary arrangements include at least one controller (128) that is operative to prevent the doors from causing damage to or from being damaged by engagement with obstructions. The controller further enables a bus driver or other authorized user to control access to the interior area of the bus using a user mobile device (144).
US11697956B1
A hinge includes a rotating shaft, two pivoting parts, and a seat. The rotating shaft includes a friction section and a protruding section coaxially extending from the friction section. Each of the pivoting parts includes a connecting piece and a sleeve piece. Each sleeve piece is extended from an edge side of the corresponding connecting piece, and bent and wrapped to form a sleeve hole. Each sleeve piece is configured to be sleeved on the friction section, and the two sleeve pieces on the peripheral surface of the friction section are bent and wrapped in different directions respectively. The seat includes a shaft hole. The friction section and the sleeve pieces are jointly arranged in the shaft hole, the connecting piece is fixed on the seat, and the protruding section protrudes out of the seat.
US11697954B2
A hinge assembly for a door of a household appliance has a first hinge and a second hinge. The first hinge includes a base portion and a door receiving portion. The base portion includes at least one elongated slot to receive a fastener. The elongated slot enables positioning of the door receiving portion. The second hinge includes a mounting block and a door plate. The door plate has a door receiving portion that has at least one elongated slot to enable positioning of the door receiving portion. The door plate is secured via at least one fastener to the mounting block. The mounting block is movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the door plate for positioning the door.
US11697949B2
A sliding seismic isolator includes a first plate attached to a building support, and at least one elongate element extending from the first plate. The seismic isolator also includes a second plate. The first and second plates are capable of moving relative to one another along a horizontal plane. The seismic isolator also includes a lower support member attached to the second plate, with a biasing arrangement positioned within the lower support member. The elongate element(s) extend from the first plate at least partially into the lower support member, and movement of the elongate element(s) is influenced or controlled by the biasing arrangement. The seismic isolator also includes a damping structure with closed ends spaced apart from the first plate and the base of the seismic isolator. The damping structure is configured to contain a substance, such as a liquid, gas, silicone, and/or a combination thereof, and to expand longitudinally when it is compressed.
US11697946B2
Below grade fluid containment structures, which may include a foam floor and a foam wall extending upward from the floor, the foam wall being formed from foam panels and optionally a plurality of metal splines. A foam buttress is provided as part of or adjacent to the foam wall, for reducing pressure against an exterior face of the foam wall that would otherwise be exerted by the soil, in the absence of the foam buttress, which places a top portion of the soil at an angle of repose, to minimize inward pressure. A concrete footing can be provided below the foam wall, where the splines of the wall are vertically oriented in the foam wall, with a bottom of the splines anchored into the concrete footing. The interior surface of the pool or other structure can be coated with any desired finish coating.
US11697942B2
A tile lippage control and tile spacing system provides a spacer post having a base member, a shaft, and a breakaway connection between the base member and the shaft; and a leveler that releasably and adjustably engages with the spacer post shaft, the leveler having a friction plate, a foot ring and an engager; and the leveler is both axially and rotatably engageable with the spacer post shaft.
US11697941B2
A handrail system that is constructed and arranged to be coupled to a stairwell such that at least a portion of a hand railing may be in an upright position or a lowered position. In an upright position, the system provides a complete top-to-bottom handrail. In the lowered, stowed position, the upper railing portion is conveniently stowed away within the stairwell. In a bulkhead embodiment, a full handrail is provided in the upright, use position and the upper railing is stowed within the bulkhead when the bulkhead doors are closed.
US11697933B2
A connector pipe screen device configured for mounting on a water conduit includes an expandable ring mounting assembly, the expandable ring mounting assembly being configured to be engagable with and securable to the conduit near or at an axial end of the conduit at which a conduit opening is disposed, a back plate mounted on the expandable ring mounting assembly and a front cover mounted on the back plate. The front cover has a perforated portion defining a multiplicity of openings formed therein to allow water to pass through the perforated portion and to prevent debris carried by the water from passing through the perforated portion.
US11697920B2
A surroundings monitoring system for a work machine includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to detect an obstacle present around the work machine and control an output apparatus mounted on the work machine. The processor is configured to display an output image on a display apparatus. The output image includes an image part generated using a captured image of an image capturing apparatus attached to the work machine and an icon of the work machine. The processor is configured to highlight, among image parts around the icon, an image part corresponding to a direction in which or a position at which the detected obstacle is present.
US11697911B2
A V-blade for a snowplow, a snowplow incorporating the V-blade and a method of use thereof. The blade includes left and right wings engaged with one another. A trip edge is provided on each wing and includes a lower section of moldboard, a cutting edge, and a snow shield. Each trip edge engages an upper section of the associated moldboard via a biasing assembly. The biasing assembly biases the trip edge into alignment with the moldboard's upper section and also biases the trip edge towards a central vertical axis. When the V-blade strikes an obstacle on the surface during snow removal, the trip edges individually pivot about a horizontal axis extending along a shaft of the associated biasing assembly. The trip edges subsequently translate linearly along the horizontal axis and away from the vertical axis.
US11697910B2
Impact resistant retractable safety barriers are disclosed. An apparatus includes a support member, a flexible elongate member to extend and retract through an opening in the support member, and a stop member including a region to interface with the flexible elongate member. The stop member engages with structure of the support member surrounding the opening to limit a distance with which the flexible elongate member extends through the opening. The stop member cooperates with the structure of the support member to maintain a gap between a surface of the region of the stop member and the structure of the support member. A width of the gap is equal to or greater than a thickness of the flexible elongate member.
US11697909B2
In a self-propelled construction machine comprising a working device (e.g. milling drum) and a profile sensor device arranged in front of the milling drum as seen in the direction of travel, the following features are achieved: the profile sensor device measures ground pavement profile data in at least one first location, wherein at least one second sensor device is provided which, after the construction machine has traversed a section corresponding to the distance between the milling drum and the profile sensor device, measures or otherwise determines, in at least one point associated with the first location, at least one distance value between the ground surface and the milling drum, wherein a machine control system correlates the determined distance value for the at least one point with a corresponding at least one point associated with the measured ground profile data.
US11697896B2
The present disclosure provides: a biodegradable nonwoven fabric for thermoforming, the biodegradable nonwoven fabric being composed of a fiber of a polylactic acid-based polymer, and having a basis weight of 20-300 g/m2, preferably, a biodegradable nonwoven fabric characterized by being composed of a long fiber of a polylactic acid polymer, having an MD-direction elongation of 50% or more at 120° C., and having an MD-direction dimensional change rate of ±4% or less at 80-140° C. as determined by thermomechanical analysis; a method for producing a molded body by using said biodegradable nonwoven fabric; and a method for molding a biodegradable beverage extraction container, the method being characterized in that the molded body has an MD-direction elongation change rate of 4% or less, as determined by thermomechanical analysis (TMA) under a load of 0.05 N/2 mm at 30-100° C.
US11697894B2
A method controls a device configured on a textile machine, wherein the device is one or both of (1) a sensor of physical quantities having a primary function in a primary operating mode to detect a state at a workstation of the textile machine; or (2) an optical signaling device having a primary function in a primary operating mode to provide visual information about a state of a workstation, group of workstations, or the textile machine. The method includes targeted switching of the device to a secondary operating mode wherein the device performs a secondary function that is different from the primary function. After performance of the secondary function, the device is switched back to the primary operating mode.
US11697893B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing biodegradable fibers on the basis of a silane compound, said silane compound being crosslinked during production and, at least to some extent, an organic acid being incorporated into the forming crosslinked structure via covalent bonds and/or contributing to the crosslinking. The present invention also relates to the fibers that can be produced by the method according to the invention and to the use thereof.
US11697877B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to faceplates for a processing chamber. In one example, a faceplate includes a body having a plurality of apertures formed therethrough. A heating element is disposed within the body, and the heating element circumscribes the plurality of apertures. A support ring is disposed the body. The support ring circumscribes the heating element. The support ring includes a main body and a cantilever extending radially inward from the main body. The cantilever contacts the body of the faceplate.
US11697865B2
A high melt superalloy powder mixture is provided for use with additive manufacturing or welding metal components or portions thereof. The high melt superalloy powder may include by weight about 7.7% to about 18% chromium, about 10.6% to about 11% cobalt, about 4.5% to about 6.5% aluminum, about 10.6% to about 11% tungsten, about 0.3% to about 0.55% molybdenum, about 0.05% to about 0.08% carbon, and at least 40% nickel.
US11697862B2
A mineral processing method capable of efficiently separating a copper mineral from a molybdenum mineral is provided. The mineral processing method includes: a conditioning step of adding sulfite as a surface treatment agent to a mineral slurry containing a copper mineral and a molybdenum mineral; and a flotation step of performing flotation using the mineral slurry after the conditioning step. The hydrophilicity of the copper mineral can be selectively enhanced by sulfite, so as to be able to produce a difference in hydrophilicity between the copper mineral and the molybdenum mineral. Therefore, the molybdenum mineral can be selectively caused to float, and the copper mineral and the molybdenum mineral can be efficiently separated from each other.
US11697858B2
The invention relates to a surface-hardened, rotationally symmetrical workpiece, to a hardening method and to a hardening apparatus. The proposed hardening apparatus comprises a machine frame on which two coaxially arranged rotary bearings designed to support a rotationally symmetrical workpiece are arranged, at least one rotary bearing being operatively connected to a drive device to generate rotation of the workpiece; and at lease one laser apparatus for generating focused, high-energy radiation is arranged on said rotary bearing, said laser apparatus being movable in the axial direction, and the radiation being directed toward the workpiece.
US11697855B2
A method for direct reduction of metal oxide-containing starting materials to produce metallized material by contact with hot reduction gas in a reduction unit (1), wherein the product of the direct reduction is discharged from the reduction unit (1) by means of a product discharge device (3) which is flushed with seal gas and from which vent gas is drawn and subsequently de-dusted. The vent gas is de-dusted dry and the content of at least one gaseous constituent is reduced by catalytic conversion or combustion. Also, a device for carrying out the method is disclosed.
US11697851B2
A method to detect ovarian cancer is provided that employs probes and/or primers to detect certain RNA isoform transcripts, as well as kits therefor.
US11697849B2
Provided herein are methods, processes and apparatuses for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations.
US11697840B2
The present invention is directed to improved methods for conducting immunoassays. The methods are designed to amplify signals in immunoassays and anchor immunoassay complexes employed therein.
US11697838B2
The present invention concerns an oligonucleotide-functionalized hydrophobic polymer nanoparticle and method of its preparation. Said nanoparticle is a dye-loaded polymeric nanoparticle, and being functionalized by: (a) target-specific oligonucleotides, and/or (b) non-specific oligonucleotides.
US11697828B2
Compositions and methods are provided for creating and promoting biallelic targeted modifications to genomes within cells and for producing non-human animals comprising the modified genomes. Also provided are compositions and methods for modifying a genome within a cell that is heterozygous for an allele to become homozygous for that allele. The methods make use of Cas proteins and two or more guide RNAs that target different locations within the same genomic target locus. Also provided are methods of identifying cells with modified genomes.
US11697827B2
The present disclosure provides a method for designing a set of guide RNAs for hybridizing a genomic region of interest. The present disclosure further provides methods of editing at least one genomic region of interest with at least one set of guide RNAs.
US11697824B2
The present invention relates to the production of plasmids which are useful in the production of Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) particles. In particular, the invention provides nucleic acid molecules comprising capgenes and repgenes, wherein the capand repgenes are both operably-associated with the same promoter. The invention also provides host cells comprising nucleic acid molecules of the invention and methods for their use.
US11697822B2
The present invention relates to materials and methods for creating and maintaining a cereal plant line for the production of a hybrid cereal plant, that include for example, and not limitation, using the BLue Aleurone (BLA) system.
US11697815B2
The invention provides polynucleotide constructs for the regulation of gene expression by aptamer-based modulation of U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP)-mediated suppression of polyadenylation and methods of using the constructs to regulate gene expression in response to the presence or absence of a ligand that binds the aptamer. The polynucleotide construct contains a U1 binding site in the context of a riboswitch comprising an effector region and an aptamer such that when the aptamer binds a ligand, target gene expression occurs.
US11697808B2
Engineered Streptococcus canis Cas9 (ScCas9) variants include an ScCas9 protein with its PID being the PID amino acid composition of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9)-NG, an ScCas9 protein having a threonine-to-lysine substitution mutation at position 1227 in its amino acid sequence (Sc+), and an ScCas9 protein having a threonine-to-lysine substitution mutation at position 1227 and a substitution of residues ADKKLRKRSGKLATE [SEQ ID No. 4] in position 365-379 in the ScCas9 open reading frame (Sc++). Also included are CRISPR-associated DNA endonucleases with a PAM specificity of 5′-NG-3′ or 5′-NNG-3′ and a method of altering expression of a gene product by utilizing the engineered ScCas9 variants.
US11697803B2
The present disclosure provides methods for releasing intracellular proteins. The method allows isolation of the protein of interest from the cell without the requirement for mechanical disruption of the cells, without the need for isolation of the cells from the culture media, and without the need for removal of the cells from the culture media.
US11697800B2
In a first aspect, the present invention relates to a method for the purification of virus compositions as well as biological macromolecular compounds in a sample comprising mixing the sample with osmolytes, like non-ionic organic polymers and contacting the mixed sample with a hydrophilic membrane, optionally washing the membrane, and eluting the virus preparations or biological macromolecular components from the membrane with an eluting solution containing reduced amounts or no osmolytes, like non-ionic organic polymer. Moreover, virus compositions and biological macromolecular components obtainable with the method according to the present invention are provided as well as the use of the method according to the present invention for purification of virus compositions including whole virus particles and virus-like particles or biological macromolecular components.
US11697796B2
The present disclosure relates to improved supplements, culture media and methods for enhancing the survival or proliferation of mammalian stem cells. In particular, adding a lipid supplement, such as a lipid-enriched carrier (e.g. a lipid-enriched albumin), to the culture medium may enhance the survival and/or proliferation of the stem cells by at least 5% to 65% as compared to a culture medium that does not contain the lipid supplement.
US11697792B2
The invention generally relates to a microfluidic platforms or “chips” for testing and conducting experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). More specifically, microfluidic Brain-On-Chip, comprising neuronal and vascular endothelial cells, will be analyzed in both healthy and inflamed states to assess how the circumstances of space travel affect the human brain.
