US11716491B2
Methods, systems, and devices for luma mapping with chroma scaling for video and image coding are disclosed. An example method of video processing includes performing, for a current region comprising a luma block, a first chroma block, and a second chroma block, a conversion between the current region of a video and a bitstream representation of the video according to a rule that specifies an order in which, during decoding, the first chroma block and the second chroma block are processed based on mapped sample values of the luma block.
US11716479B2
A method comprising obtaining a bitstream, the bitstream comprises a transform unit syntax and a coding unit syntax, the transform unit syntax includes a value of a first flag and a value of a second flag related to, respectively, a first chroma transform block and a second chroma transform block of a current transform unit or a current sub-transform unit within the current transform unit, the first or second flag specifies whether the first or second chroma transform block contains at least one transform coefficient levels not equal to 0, the coding unit syntax includes a value of a third flag specifying whether a transform tree structure is present or not; and deriving a value of a fourth flag based on the values of the first, second, and third flags, the fourth flag specifies whether a luma transform block contains at least one transform coefficient levels not equal to 0.
US11716463B2
According to embodiments described herein, sub-pictures and/or virtual boundaries can be used for coding an image. For example, sub-pictures in the current picture can be used for predicting, reconstructing, and/or filtering the current picture. Virtual boundaries can be used for filtering reconstructed samples of the current picture. Through image coding based on the subpictures and/or virtual boundaries according to embodiments described herein, the subjective/objective quality of an image can be improved, and the consumption of hardware resources necessary for the coding can be reduced.
US11716456B2
A near-eye display device comprises right and left display projectors, expansion optics, and inertial measurement units (IMUs), in addition to a plurality of angle-sensitive pixel (ASP) elements and a computer. The right and left expansion optics are configured to receive respective display images from the right and left display projectors and to release expanded forms of the display images. The right IMU is fixedly coupled to the right display projector, and the left IMU is fixedly coupled to the left display projector. Each ASP element is responsive to an angle of light of one of the respective display images as received into the right or left expansion optic. The computer is configured to receive output from the right IMU, the left IMU and the plurality of ASP elements, and render display data for the right and left display projectors based in part on the output.
US11716455B2
In one embodiment, a method for a stereo endoscope includes receiving electromagnetic radiation through an inner protective window; focusing the electromagnetic radiation with a left optical component toward a left pixel array of a stereo image sensor along an optical axis of the left optical component parallel with but offset from a center axis of the left pixel array; and focusing the electromagnetic radiation with a right optical component toward a right pixel array of the stereo image sensor along an optical axis of the right optical component parallel with but offset from a center axis of the right pixel array. The left pixel array and the right pixel array are offset from the center optical axis of the stereo endoscope to provide stereo image convergence.
US11716448B2
An information processing apparatus includes a comparison unit configured to compare an image capturing condition for a collation target object with an image capturing condition for each of a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, a selection unit configured to select an image capturing apparatus to be collated from among the plurality of image capturing apparatuses based on a result of the comparison by the comparison unit, and a collation unit configured to collate information about an object captured by the image capturing apparatus to be collated with information about the collation target object.
US11716447B2
Systems and methods of real-time audiovisual interaction with a target location includes receiving an identification of a target location. The identification can be received at a processor of a server from an electronic device of an end-user. A request can be transmitted for a video feed associated with the target location. For example, the video feed can be a live video feed of an interior of the target location or a video chat with a representative of the target location. In response to receiving the video feed, the video feed can be transmitted to the electronic device of the end-user. When audiovisual communication is established, a user can view different aspects of a target location, for example the capacity of a restaurant or speak directly with a representative of a clothing store to see if they have a specific item in the users' size.
US11716443B2
A radio-frequency amplifier for a cable network includes a forward amplifier configured to amplify a high frequency range of signals that are provided downstream to a cable receiver of the cable network and a return amplifier configured to amplify a low frequency range of signals that are provided upstream to a head end of the cable network. An out-of-band forward amplifier configured to amplify a digitally protected video signal having a frequency in a range between 70 MHz and 130 MHz that are provided downstream to the cable receiver of the cable network and a notch filter configured to reject the amplified digitally protected video signal having the frequency in the range between 70 MHz and 130 MHz from being amplified by the return amplifier.
US11716440B2
A portable media content device for providing media content to remote devices external to a home network, the portable media content device may include a processor in communication with a memory configured to maintain media content, and a transceiver. The processor may be configured to recognize a home network provided at a first location, instruct the transceiver to transmit a media request to an in-home media recorder connected to the home network and at the first location, receive, in response to the media request, media content from the media recorder and to store the media content in the memory.
US11716433B2
Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a derivation unit configured to derive a target luminance characteristic based on a viewing condition of an image and a print luminance characteristic predicted based a reflection characteristic corresponding to data thereon; a unit configured to generate print image data on an image by converting input image data by using a tone conversion characteristic that is set based on these characteristics, in which the derivation unit derives, in a case where a reproduction range of an illumination intensity in the print luminance characteristic is different, the target luminance characteristic so that a liner area of an output luminance in a case where the reproduction range is relatively large becomes large.
US11716429B2
According to the present disclosure, there is provided an image forming apparatus including an operation device, one or more memories, and one or more processors that execute instructions to receive an instruction for registering a document in the one or more memories, register the document according to the instruction in the one or more memories, and control the operation device such that a function selection screen including a button for instructing execution of printing of the registered document is displayed, in which if the instruction received by a reception unit includes information indicating a printing valid period of the document according to the instruction, a button for instructing execution of printing of the document according to the instruction is displayed as being valid on the function selection screen in the printing valid period.
US11716428B1
A scanner redirection method for a remote desktop system that includes a client computing device and a host server includes the steps of: receiving a name of a physical scanner from a scanner core; transmitting the received name of the physical scanner to the host server; and in response to a first user selection to acquire a scanned image and a second user selection of the name of the physical scanner, the first and second user selections being made on a user interface of the host server, receiving from an application running on the host server a request for the scanned image, transmitting to the scanner core a request to acquire the scanned image from the physical scanner, and upon receiving the scanned image from the scanner core, transmitting the scanned image to the application.
US11716416B2
A disconnection of a client device is disconnected during a multi-participant communication, such as a call or a conference. An indication of the disconnection is transmitted to the client device to cause an agent at the client device to record media locally at the client device. The media recorded by the agent at the client device based on the indication of the disconnection is later received and included within a recording of the communication. For example, a gap of the recording in which the disconnection occurred may be identified, such as by performing a comparison of media within the recording to identify a start time of the gap and an end time of the gap. The media is then inserted within a portion of the recording of the multi-participant communication corresponding to the gap.
US11716408B2
Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for locating and navigating to the location of a requestor based on proximity between a requestor device and a provider device. For example, embodiments display proximity indicators to allow a provider to quickly, easily, and safely locate a requestor upon arrival near a request location. Further, in some embodiments, graphics associated with a proximity vector may be presented on a provider communication device to clearly display the navigation directions to the provider so that the provider may easily find their matched requestor without requiring additional communication between the provider and the requestor. Additionally, embodiments provide efficient navigation to riders by limiting display of proximity indicators for navigation until the provider is within a threshold distance to the request location to conserve system resources and communication between an on-demand matching system and the provider computing device.
US11716403B2
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is one of the most widely used methods of distinguishing electronic mail that is authorized by the purported sending domain from unauthorized mail. SPF policies are published into a domain's DNS and then looked up and evaluated by mail receivers. Due to the complexity and limitations of the SPF specification, implementation mistakes are widespread. This problem is compounded by the common practice of nesting SPF policies which introduces hidden risks, particularly exceeding DNS lookup limits. To address these issues, inline service provider designation may be configured to capture the benefits of existing techniques without their associated costs. Additionally, the domain owner may enjoy simplified SPF service provider onboarding and policy failover redundancy to protect against SPF service provider disruptions, thus improving policy availability uptime.
US11716402B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing redirects. In one aspect, a method includes receiving request data indicating that a user device has requested a content item. The request data specifies other data processing apparatus to which user interactions with the content item are to be reported. The content item includes a reference to a resource that is requested in response to user interaction with the content item. Response data is provided. The response data includes data that cause presentation of the content item. Interaction data is received specifying user interaction with the content item occurred. Redirect data is provided that cause the user device to be redirected to the resource. Reporting data is provided to the other data processing apparatus, specifying user interaction with the content item occurred. The reporting data is provided asynchronously relative to the redirect data.
US11716393B1
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for establishing a session. A client may identify, to access at least one of a plurality of services via a connector, a plurality of metrics on network conditions between the connector and a corresponding service of the plurality of services. The client may use at least one value of the plurality of metrics to scale each metric of the plurality of metrics. The client may determine a score for each service of the plurality of services as a function of each of the plurality of scaled metrics for the corresponding service. The client may select, from the plurality of services, a service based at least on the score. The client may establish a session with the connector to access the selected service.
US11716382B2
An embodiment method creates, at a first data center, a first storage volume for an application that is started at the first data center, communicates with a second data center for creating a second storage volume for the application at the second data center to replicate the first storage volume, and sends information identifying the application to the second data center. The second data center creates the second storage volume, and establishes a mapping between the application and the second storage volume using the information identifying the application, where the second data center identifies the second storage volume for the application using the mapping when the application is migrated from the first data center to the second data center.
US11716380B2
Methods, computer readable media, and devices for securely managing interactions between distributed components are provided. One method may include generating a first interaction identifier based on a first component identifier and data to be shared with a second component, storing the first interaction identifier in an interaction data store of the first component, sending a request to the second component including the first component identifier, the first interaction identifier, and the data to be shared with the second component, creating a graph node in an interaction relationship data store based on the first interaction identifier, receiving a response from the second component including a second component identifier, a second interaction identifier, and response data, and adding a relationship edge in the interaction relationship data store connecting the graph node based on the first interaction identifier with a graph node based on the second interaction identifier.
US11716369B2
A system and method are provided for dynamic web streaming of media content without restore and batch processing. The system and method provides for a partial restore of media content, where a small sub-section of the archived media is requested by a user, for inclusion in an edit. The exemplary system and method provides a web server that offers grains for any part of an archived monolithic file to be made available just-in-time, instead of the batch processing. Because grains are available over HTTP, any part of the customer's archive is available to them instantly and dynamically with no restore process being required at all.
US11716358B2
A system compares two network security specifications expected to implement the same network security policy for a network and identifies possible discrepancies between them. The system generates a representation of relations between subnetworks of the network for each network security specification. The representation efficiently stores permitted connections between subnetworks. The system compares the representations corresponding to the two network security specifications to identify discrepancies across the two network security specifications. If discrepancies are identified across the two network security specifications the system generating a report identifying the discrepancies.
US11716337B2
Systems and methods for detecting suspicious malware by analyzing data such as transfer protocol data or logs from a host within an enterprise is provided. The systems and methods include a database for storing current data and historical data obtained from the network and a detection module and an optional display. The embodiments herein extract information from non-encrypted transfer protocol metadata, determine a plurality of features, utilize an outlier detection model that is based on historical behaviors, calculate a suspiciousness score, and create alerts for analysis by users when the score exceeds a threshold. In doing so, the systems and methods of the present invention improve the ability to identify suspicious outliers or potential malware on an iterative basis over time.
US11716331B2
An authentication method for a user to access service providers through an online enabled device, an offline authentication device configured to authenticate a user to service providers through online enabled devices, and a user authentication system comprising a authentication device, an online enabled device and online service providers.
US11716323B1
Techniques for a service provider network to perform adaptive, step-up authentication for client devices that invoke privileged API calls for services. A client device may perform an initial authentication protocol with an identity service provider (ISP), and be provided with a JSON web token (token) that enables the user to interact with a service of the service provider network according to an access scope. When the service provider network receives an API call from the client device, the service provider network may determine that the API call is a privileged API call. The service provider network may further determine that the privileged API call is not permitted by the access scope of the token. The service provider network may then require that the client device perform a step-up authentication process with the ISP to obtain another token with an elevated access scope to invoke the privileged API call.
US11716321B2
A communication network employing a method and system for secure access from a security device at a local network location to a remote network location are disclosed. At the security device having a unique identifier (UID), processor, and memory, a security software is obtained from a remote network location, the security software obtaining a personal identification number (PIN) of a user, and the UID of the security device. The PIN, the UID and the private security software are forwarded to the remote network location for generating a credential code, including encrypting the credential code. At the security device, the credential code is obtained from the remote network location, and authenticity of the PIN and the UID is verified, without communicating over a network, including decrypting the credential code. Upon verifying the authenticity of the PIN and the UID, access credentials to the remote network location are retrieved.
US11716315B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods that allow for secure access to websites and web-based applications and other resources available through the browser. Also described are systems and methods for secure use and retention of user credentials, as well as methods for dynamic authentication of users and integrity checking of service providers in online environments. Thus, described in the present specification are systems and methods for constructing and destroying private, secure, browsing environments (a secure disposable browser), insulating the user from the threats associated with being online for the purposes of providing secure, policy-based interaction with online services.
US11716311B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology comprise generating firewall rules based on traffic, outputting the generated firewall rules to an output file, and using the output file to set firewall rules in a network. The firewall rules may be generated without a priori knowledge of the network; alternatively no firewall rules are required. Generated rules may be tuned for user preferences to adjust for the number of generated firewall rules, and their over or under inclusiveness to non-historic traffic data.
US11716310B2
A universal resource locator (URL) collider processes a click event referencing a URL and directs a browser to a page at the URL. While the page is being rendered by the browser with page data from a web server, the URL collider intercepts the page data including events associated with rendering the page, determines microfeatures of the page such as Document Object Model objects and any URLs referenced by the page, applies detection rules, tags as evidence any detected bad microfeature, bad URL, or suspicious sequence of events, and stores the evidence in an evidence database. Based on the evidence, a judge module dynamically determines whether to condemn the URL before or just in time as the page at the URL is fully rendered by the browser. If so, the browser is directed to a safe location or a notification page.
US11716304B2
Systems and methods are provided for sending a combined read and reaction message. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: receiving, from a server, a set of messages and one or more reactions exchanged between a plurality of users; determining that a given message has been presented on the client device to a first user of the plurality of users; determining that a given reaction of the one or more reactions has been presented on the client device to the first user; and transmitting, to the server by the one or more processors of the client device, a communication indicating that both the given message and the given reaction have been presented by the client device to the first user.
US11716298B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire user data posted in a chat room participated by multiple users; and with multiple display forms changed, display association information that associates at least one piece of information of the user data or response information responsive to the user data with a user having posted the user data and posting time of the user data.
US11716288B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for orchestrating data center resources and user access to data. In some examples, a system can determine, at a first time, that a user will need, at a second time, access to data stored at a first location, from a second location. The system can identify a node which is capable of storing the data and accessible by a device from the second location. The system can also determine a first service parameter associated with a network connection between the device and the first location and a second service parameter associated with a network connection between the device and the node. When the second service parameter has a higher quality than the first service parameter, the system can migrate the data from the first location to the node so the device has access to the data from the second location through the node.
US11716279B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a first router, service level agreement (SLA) requirements for an application and generating, by the first router, first SLA characteristics for the first router. The first router is in an active mode within a network. The method also includes comparing, by the first router, the first SLA characteristics for the first router to the SLA requirements and determining, by the first router, second SLA characteristics for a second router. The second router is in a standby mode within the network. The method further includes comparing, by the first router, the second SLA characteristics for the second router to the SLA requirements and determining, by the first router, whether to lower a first hop redundancy protocol (FHRP) priority of the first router.
US11716277B2
A method is performed at a provider edge node configured to communicate with remote provider edge nodes over an Ethernet virtual private network. The method includes receiving, from the remote provider edge nodes, route advertisements for a common subnet hosted on the remote provider edge nodes. The route advertisements include distinct remote route distinguishers, a common IP prefix for the common subnet, and remote paths for the common subnet. The method further includes determining whether there are at least a predetermined number of the remote paths preferred over a local path for the common subnet hosted on the provider edge node based on the remote route distinguishers and a local route distinguisher for the local path. The method includes, when there are at least the predetermined number of the remote paths preferred over the local path, suppressing sending of a route advertisement for the local path for the common subnet.
US11716265B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for detecting and reporting anomalies in a network environment for providing network assurance. In some embodiments, a system can determine confidence scores for at least one value of parameters of a network environment defining network events occurring in the network environment. The confidences scores can indicate a frequency that the defined network events have a specific event state. The confidence scores can be monitored to detect an anomaly in the network environment. In response to detecting the anomaly in the network environment, the system can determine a relevant network state of the network environment. The relevant network state of the network environment and the anomaly in the network environment can be presented to a user.
US11716258B2
A network performance degradation detection system is provided. The system receives Key Performance Indicator (KPI) values for devices of different device types running different software versions. The system determines baseline values of a first device type by averaging the KPI values of the different software versions running on devices of the first device type. The system compares KPI values for a first software version running on devices of the first device type with the determined baseline values to produce a set of comparison results. The system applies the set of comparison results to a classification model to determine whether the first software version running on devices of the first device type causes network performance degradation.
US11716253B2
A method for managing network devices is provided. The method comprises collecting position data of at least one network device with a location device for determining the position of the at least one network device relative to at least one positioning base, collecting device information data from the at least one network device with the location device, the device information data representing individual properties of the at least one network device, determining the position of the at least one network device according to the position data, providing a model of the physical environment based on environment data, and mapping the at least one network device to the model of the physical environment such that the device information data of the at least one network device is assigned to at least one location in the model of the physical environment, according to the position of the at least one network device.
US11716251B2
The disclosure is directed to providing virtual network functions to a customer node by a communication system with a provider node in an automatic, traceable, and auditable way. The provider node includes a retrieving module, a validation module, and a deployment module. The retrieving module is configured to retrieve a notification signal, wherein the notification signal is indicative of a selected one of a plurality of virtual network functions and the customer node. The validation module is configured to establish service level agreement data and to validate the agreement service level data, based on the notification signal. The deployment module is configured to selectively transmit a deployment signal to a communication node depending on the validation of the service level agreement data for providing the selected virtual network function to the customer node.
US11716248B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system causes for display a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements containing a set of statistics associated with one or more event streams that comprise the time-series event data. The system then causes for display, in the GUI, one or more graphs comprising one or more values from the set of statistics. Finally, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a value of a statistic from the set of statistics based on a position of a cursor over the one or more graphs.
US11716245B2
An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store setting that associates a node number assigned to a first external device with a first command transmittable and receivable to/from the first external device, a determination unit configured to determine, in a case where the first command is not transmittable and receivable to/from a second external device that takes over the node number of the first external device, whether a second command compatible with the first command is transmittable and receivable to/from the second external device, and a control unit configured to perform, in a case where the determination unit determines that the second command is transmittable and receivable to/from the second external device, control to change the first command in the setting to the second command.
US11716242B2
Systems and methods described herein include receiving, from a first network function, a request to receive a notification when a second network function becomes available after a failure. A status update may be received from the second network function indicating that the second network function is available. It may be determined that the second network function is in a stable state. A notification may be sent, to the first network function, that the second network function is available along with an indication of a time period in which to switch from accessing a third network function to accessing the second network function.
US11716239B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced constellation shaping. A device may generate payload bits associated with a frame to be sent to a first station device. The device may generate a first output bits having a first length based on the application of a first mask of one or more masks to the payload bits. The device may generate a second output bits having a second length based on the application of a second mask of the one or more masks. The device may compare the first length of the first output bits to the second length of the second output bits. The device may select the first mask or the second mask based on the comparison. The device may convert the payload bits using the selected mask before passing through a shaping encoder to generate shaped bits. The device may cause to send the frame bits and an indication of the selected mask to the first station device.
US11716237B1
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may obtain a multi-level coding (MLC) configuration to be applied to a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellation set comprising a plurality of constellation symbols and having a non-linearity that is based at least in part on a phase noise or a power amplification associated with the plurality of constellation symbols. The mobile station may process the QAM constellation set, using MLC set partitioning in accordance with the MLC configuration, based at least in part on the phase noise or the power amplification associated with the plurality of constellation symbols of the QAM constellation set. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11716233B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to selection and use of peak reduction tones (PRTs) including obtaining a predetermined sequence of PRTs corresponding to a set of granted resources including a plurality of tones, mapping a set of data to a first subset of the plurality of tones outside of the predetermined sequence of PRTs and mapping a set of PRTs to a second subset of the plurality of tones within the predetermined sequence of PRTs. At least one peak of a time domain representation of the first subset of the plurality of tones is canceled using a time domain representation of the second subset of the plurality of tones. A transmitted waveform comprising the first subset of the plurality of tones and the second subset of the plurality of tones is transmitted.
US11716229B2
A PAM-N receiver capable of adaptively adjusting threshold voltages determining a level of a received signal and a method of adaptively adjusting threshold voltages thereof are disclosed. According to the method of the present invention, the result of comparison between reference data levels and the level of data in the received signal are used to adjust the reference data levels, and the threshold voltages of a PAM-N receiver are adaptively calculated from the adjusted reference data levels, thereby reflecting transmission line conditions and Inter-Symbol Interference.
US11716226B2
A plurality of driver slice circuits arranged in parallel having a plurality of driver slice outputs, each driver slice circuit having a digital driver input and a driver slice output, each driver slice circuit configured to generate a signal level determined by the digital driver input, and a common output node connected to the plurality of driver slice outputs and a wire of a multi-wire bus, the multi-wire bus having a characteristic transmission impedance matched to an output impedance of the plurality of driver slice circuits arranged in parallel, each driver slice circuit of the plurality of driver slice circuits having an individual output impedance that is greater than the characteristic transmission impedance of the wire of the multi-wire bus.
US11716215B2
Methods and systems provide for dynamically generating a note with captured content from a communication session. In one embodiment, a method presents, to each of a number of participants within a communication session, a UI which includes session content produced during the communication session. The method records at least a portion of the session content. The method receives a request from one of the participants to generate a note. In response to receiving the request, the method generates a note which includes at least a designated portion of the recorded session content. Finally, the method provides access to the requesting participant to the portion of the session content in the note upon demand.
US11716212B2
Methods and systems for providing software applications on a client device with dynamic control over low-latency mode (LLM) operations of the client device. The client device may monitor downlink data packets of a client software application operating on the client device to detect trigger events. The client device may determine operating parameters of the modem based on a detected trigger event and dynamically adjust the low-latency mode of the modem based on the detect trigger event or the determined operating parameters.
US11716198B2
One-time password (“OTP”) generation on a smartwatch is provided. OTP generation may include communication between an application on a smartwatch and an application on a smartphone. The request for an OTP may be received at the smartwatch. The smartwatch application may communicate with the smartphone application. An OTP may be generated within a third-party library within the smartphone application. The generated OTP may be transmitted from the smartphone application to the smartwatch application. The OTP may be displayed on the smartwatch.
US11716196B2
A secure multi-party computation implements real number arithmetic using modular integer representation on the backend. As part of the implementation, a secret shared value jointly stored by multiple parties in a first modular representation is cast into a second modular representation having a larger most significant bit. The parties use a secret shared masking value in the first representation, the range of which is divided into two halves, to mask and reveal a sum of the secret shared value and the secret shared masking value. The parties use a secret shared bit that identifies the half of the range that contains the masking value, along with the sum to collaboratively construct a set of secret shares representing the secret shared value in the second modular format. In contrast with previous work, the disclosed solution eliminates a non-zero probability of error without sacrificing efficiency or security.
US11716192B2
Replica is an encryption algorithm where security is based on lavish use of randomness rather than on mathematical complexity and the cipher is decoy-tolerant, namely it can readily distinguish between bona fide ciphertext bits and randomized meaningless bits. This attribute allows its users to project as much security as they care by mixing the message bits with more and more decoy bits. It also allows its user to conceal their pattern of communication in a fixed rate of message bit flow.
US11716191B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for searching polymorphically encrypted data includes storing one or more pseudonymous tokens in a data store, the one or more pseudonymous tokens being generated by encrypting a ciphertext using a first algorithm and an encryption key, the first algorithm comprising a polymorphic algorithm configured to generate a distinct pseudonymous token for each application of the polymorphic algorithm to the same plaintext, and identifying data in the data store that corresponds to the ciphertext by querying the data store using a search token generated by encrypting the plaintext using a second algorithm and the encryption key, the search token being distinct from the one or more pseudonymous tokens.
US11716181B1
A radio head includes a standalone small cell configured to receive a plurality of IP packets over a series of sequential sub-frames, and generate a bandwidth report for each of the plurality of received IP packets. The radio head further includes a radio link control unit configured to sum a received bandwidth report with segmentation induced noise for each of the plurality of received IP packets, and an adaptive filter configured to apply a filter weight to each of the series of sequential sub-frames. The applied filter weight is based on (i) an output of the radio link control unit for a previous sub-frame, and (ii) an output of the adaptive filter for the previous sub-frame.
US11716180B2
Limited uplink bandwidth radio network devices are supported on wide bandwidth uplink carriers by configuring and controlling the use of multiple control regions within the uplink carrier bandwidth. In some embodiments, the total bandwidth of the uplink carrier is divided into a plurality of sub-band portions, wherein each sub-band portion includes at least one control region nominally dedicated to the transmission of uplink control signaling. Radio network devices are configured with a specified portion of the uplink carrier bandwidth for use for uplink transmission, which includes at least one control region. Radio network devices may be provisioned or provided with information regarding control regions reserved for control signaling by other radio network devices. The radio network devices may be dynamically configured to allow or suppress uplink data signaling in specified control regions, or portions thereof.
US11716172B2
A method for delivering payloads through an interface includes receiving an out-of-sequence data transfer unit, DTU; segmenting the out-of-sequence DTU into at least one data unit; determining at least one priority level of the at least one data unit; and for any particular data unit among the at least one data unit, (1) selectively forwarding a payload of the particular data unit to the interface in response to priority level thereof satisfying a priority condition; or (2) holding the particular data unit in response to the priority level thereof not satisfying the priority condition.
US11716170B2
A protocol layer on top of the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) system of paired devices to provide transmission that allows arbitrary sizes of data to be sent. To guarantee transmissions, the transmissions may be validated and, if required, resent to replace data that was lost or corrupted. The protocol layer also supports Remote Procedure Calls to allow functions on either of two connected devices to be executed on one device on behalf of the other. A further protocol layer also allows high priority, short messages to temporarily interrupt the transmission of low priority, long messages.
US11716168B2
Embodiments of methods of communications, communications devices, and redrivers are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves enabling a Loss of Signal (LOS) detector and a Low Frequency Periodic Signaling (LFPS) detector connected to a communications channel, using a digital logic circuit, combining an output of the LOS detector and an output of the LFPS detector to generate a combined LFPS output, and outputting the combined LFPS output and the output of the LOS detector to control data communications through the communications channel.
US11716149B2
An optical reception device includes a nonlinear optical compensation section which performs compensation of wavelength dispersion of a received signal obtained by receiving an optical signal according to a coherent detection method and compensation of a nonlinear optical effect of the received signal N (N is an integer of at least 1) step(s), and a coefficient update section which updates a coefficient so as to optimize the coefficient used in each step of the nonlinear optical compensation section based on a signal having been subjected to the compensation by the nonlinear optical compensation section and a predetermined training signal.
US11716146B2
To relax the accuracy with respect to a positional deviation, and thus to reduce costs. An optical waveguide is included that performs propagation only in a reference mode at a first wavelength. Communication is performed using light that has a second wavelength and includes a component of at least a first order mode in addition to a component of the reference mode. Here, the second wavelength is a wavelength that enables the optical waveguide to perform propagation in at least the first order mode in addition to the reference mode. For example, a light path adjuster that adjusts a light path such that input light is guided to a core of the optical waveguide, is further included.
US11716140B2
The disclosure provides a system for transmitting and receiving optical signals. The system includes a first mirror of a communication device, a first mirror actuator configured to control a pointing direction of the first mirror, a second mirror of the communication device, a second mirror actuator configured to control a pointing direction of the second mirror, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to direct the second mirror actuator to move the second mirror to track a signal within a zone in an area of coverage of the communication device and meanwhile keep the first mirror stationary at a first angle. The one or more processors are also configured to direct the first mirror actuator to move the first mirror to a second angle in a direction of motion of the signal when the signal reaches an edge of the zone and meanwhile move the second mirror to a default angle.
US11716136B2
Disclosed systems and methods configure a plurality of wireless access points to perform probe request handling operations including, responsive to receiving a probe request from a mobile device, relaying the probe request to a network controller, and responsive to receiving a probe response from the network controller, relaying the probe response to the mobile device. The network controller is configured to provide the mobile device with a multipoint wireless network by identifying two or more of the plurality of wireless access points as selected access points for multipoint transmission with the mobile device, coordinating the selected access points to allow simultaneous transmissions to the mobile device from each of the selected access points, and forwarding a probe response indicative of the selected access points to the selected access points.
US11716129B2
A method and a device are provided. The device includes an antenna module, an interface for delivery to a protocol for transmission, a memory, and a processor, wherein the processor is set to determine antenna information for each beam index based on a transmission beam that can be generated in the antenna module, generate beam book information based on the determined antenna information, and transmit the beam book information and device connection information, related to an electronic device present inside the coverage of a base station, to an external server through the interface.
US11716107B2
Circuits with filters and acoustic resonators. In some embodiments, a radio-frequency circuit can include a plurality of nodes and a common node. The radio-frequency circuit can further include a signal path implemented between each of the plurality of nodes and the common node. Each corresponding signal path can include a filter having a first Q-factor value and a respective resonator having a second Q-factor value higher than the first Q-factor value.
US11716097B2
Example systems, read channel circuits, data storage devices, and methods to provide signal correction based on soft information in a read channel are described. The read channel circuit includes a soft output detector, such as a soft output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA) detector, and a signal correction circuit. The soft output detector passes detected data bits and corresponding soft information to the signal correction circuit. The signal correction circuit uses the soft information to determine a signal correction value, which is combined with input signal to return a corrected signal to the soft output detector for a next iteration. In some configurations, the signal correction value may compensate for DC offset, AC coupling poles, and/or signal asymmetries to reduce baseline wander in the read channel.
US11716096B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory error correction based on layered error detection are described. In some examples, a memory system identifies, based on a first type of error detection procedure, that a set of bits includes a quantity of erroneous bits that is uncorrectable based on the first type of error detection procedure alone. The memory system generates one or more candidate sets of bits based on altering different groups of bits within the set of bits and evaluate one or more such candidate sets of bits using a second type of error detection procedure until a candidate set of bits is identified as error-free. The memory system then corrects the set of bits based on the candidate set of bits identified as error-free.
US11716093B2
A method of applying digital pre-distortion includes: outputting, by a look-up table, a first table value based on an input digital signal; adding the first table value and the input digital signal to generate a first combined signal comprising a first combined value having a first integer coefficient and a first fractional coefficient; separating the first integer coefficient from the first fractional coefficient to generate a first integer signal representing the first integer coefficient and a first fractional signal representing the first fractional coefficient; generating a delta-sigma modulated signal based on the first fractional signal; converting, by a first digital-to-analog, a first digital signal into a first analog signal, wherein the first digital signal is representative of the first integer signal; and converting, by a second DAC, a second digital signal into a second analog signal, wherein the second digital signal is representative of the delta-sigma modulated signal.
US11716090B2
An integrated circuit may include a full-scale reference generation circuit that corrects for variation in the gain or full scale of a set of interleaved analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Notably, the full-scale reference generation circuit may provide a given full-scale or reference setting for a given interleaved ADC, where the given full-scale setting corresponds to a predefined or fixed component and a variable component (which may specify a given full-scale correction for a given full scale). For example, the full-scale reference generation circuit may include a full-scale reference generator replica circuit that outputs a fixed current corresponding to the fixed component. Furthermore, the full-scale reference generation circuit may include a full-scale reference generator circuit that outputs a first voltage corresponding to the given full-scale setting based at least in part on the fixed current and a variable current that, at least in part, specifies the given full-scale correction.
US11716087B1
Presented herein are techniques for implementing a differential sub-sampling phase locked loop (PLL). A method includes detecting a common-mode voltage on an output of a differential sub-sampling phase detector operating in the differential sub-sampling phase locked loop, and controlling, based on the common-mode voltage, a duty cycle of a feedback signal of the differential sub-sampling phase locked loop that is fed back to the differential sub-sampling phase detector.
US11716080B2
A smart switch apparatus is coupled between a live wire of an indoor power and two output terminals of a SPDT (Single Pole Double Throw) switch. Two ends of a load are respectively connected to a neutral wire of the indoor power and an input terminal of the SPDT switch. The smart switch apparatus includes an on-off status detector, a switch position detector, a controller, an on-off controller and a power circuit. The on-off status detector is coupled to the live wire of the indoor power for generating an on-off status signal. The switch position detector is coupled to the two output terminals of the SPDT switch for generating a switch position signal. The controller is coupled to the on-off status detector and the switch position detector for receiving the on-off status signal and the switch position signal. The on-off controller is coupled to the two output terminals of the SPDT switch and the live wire of the indoor power to selectively turn on or turn off the target power loop according to the on-off control signal.
US11716073B2
A chip with pad tracking having an input/output buffer (I/O buffer), a pad, and a bias circuit. The I/O buffer is powered by a first power and is coupled to the pad. The pad is coupled to the system power. The bias circuit generates a bias signal to be transferred to the I/O buffer to block a leakage path within the I/O buffer when the system power is on and the first power is off. The bias circuit is a voltage divider which generates a divided voltage as the bias signal. In an example, the bias circuit is powered by a second power that is independent from the first power and is not drawn from the pad. In another example, a power terminal of the bias circuit is coupled to an electrostatic discharging bus, and the pad is coupled to the electrostatic discharging bus through a diode.
US11716072B1
Examples of contactor controllers, systems and methods time-modulate levels of high-side (HS) and low-side (LS) clamp voltages in a contactor controller to switch a path through which current flows during quick-turn-off (QTO) of the contactor controller. One of the clamp voltages is at a high level and the other is at a low level. The output voltage of the contactor controller is held at the low level. The path switching may be a function of one or more parameters. In a configuration, the level of a supply voltage of the contactor controller is monitored and used to control the path switching. In a configuration, temperatures of HS and LS transistors of the contactor controller are monitored and used to control the path switching. Control of the path switching may be performed to dissipate power in a larger area to increase thermal performance of the contactor controller. Both clamps may remain active throughout the QTO process, providing redundancy and safety.
US11716070B2
Acoustic sensor devices and sensor systems are disclosed. An acoustic sensor device includes a piezoelectric plate having a front surface and a back surface. A floating back-side conductor pattern is formed on the back surface. A first and second front-side conductor patterns are formed on a portion of the front surface opposite the back-side conductor pattern. A sensing layer is formed over all or a portion of the floating back-side conductor pattern.
US11716069B2
A device includes a die and an interdigital transducer on the die. The interdigital transducer includes a first bus bar, a second bus bar, and a number of electrode fingers. The first bus bar is parallel to the second bus bar. The electrode fingers are divided into a first set of electrode fingers and a second set of electrode fingers. The first set of electrode fingers extend obliquely from the first bus bar towards the second bus bar. The second set of electrode fingers extend obliquely from the second bus bar towards the first bus bar, and are parallel to and interleaved with the first set of electrode fingers. By providing the electrode fingers oblique to the bus bars, spurious transverse modes may be suppressed while maintaining the quality factor, electromechanical coupling coefficient, and capacitance of the device.
US11716066B2
A thin-film filter may include a monolithic substrate and a patterned conductive layer formed over the monolithic substrate. The patterned conductive layer may include at least one thin-film inductor. The thin-film filter may have a power capacity that is greater than about 25 W. In some embodiments, the thin-film inductor(s) may be connected between the input port and the output port. A heat sink terminal may be exposed along the bottom surface of thin-film filter. In some embodiments, the heat sink terminal may have an exposed heat sink area, and the bottom surface of the thin-film filter has an area that is less than 20 times larger than the exposed heat sink area.
US11716064B1
Distributed gain equalization circuits for use with radio frequency (RF) devices are provided. The distributed gain equalization circuits include a substrate layer, multiple transverse electromagnetic (TEM) line circuits disposed on the substrate layer and multiple traces disposed on the substrate layer, each trace connected to one or more of the TEM line circuits. The traces and TEM line circuits are configured to provide resistances, inductances and capacitances to eliminate the need for lumped or packaged resistors, inductors and capacitors. The distributed gain equalization circuit operates at millimeter wave frequencies and provides a compensating gain slope to counteract a negative gain slope of the RF device. Methods of manufacturing distributed gain equalization circuits are also provided.
US11716058B2
Apparatus and methods for a multiclass, broadband, no-load-modulation power amplifier are described. The power amplifier (500) may include a main amplifier (532) operating in a first amplification class and a plurality of peaking amplifiers (536, 537, 538) operating in a second amplification class. The main amplifier (532) and peaking amplifiers (536, 537, 538) may operate in parallel on portions of signals derived from an input signal to be amplified. The main amplifier (532) may see no modulation of its load impedance between a fully-on state of the power amplifier (all amplifiers amplifying) and a fully backed-off state (peaking amplifiers idle). By avoiding load modulation, the power amplifier (500) can exhibit improved bandwidth and efficiency compared to conventional Doherty amplifiers.
US11716049B2
A rotating machine power conversion device is obtained which achieves operational continuation in a rotational speed range in which the operational continuation is enabled, even when a single phase of an electrical power conversion device made of switching devices causes a disconnection or turn-off failure. The rotating machine power conversion device comprises: a normality-case/abnormality-case current control device selection device for transferring between a normality-case current control device and an abnormality-case current control device in accordance with a determination result of an abnormality determination device; and an abnormality-case current control device/power conversion halt device selection device, using a rotational speed calculation device, for transferring between the abnormality-case current control device used when a rotational speed is lower than that being prespecified, and the power conversion halt device used when a rotational speed is higher than that being prespecified.
US11716048B2
A current detection unit includes current detection elements provided to phases on a high potential side of an upper arm element or on a low potential side of a lower arm element. A detection target element is the upper arm element or the lower arm element to which the current detection elements are provided. A target duty is a duty ratio of the detection target element. The control unit includes a current acquisition unit, an energization control unit, and an abnormality determination unit. The current acquisition unit acquires a current detection value from the current detection unit. The abnormality determination unit performs an abnormality determination based on the current detection value. The abnormality determination unit varies a determination threshold, which is used for the abnormality determination based on the current detection value, according to the target duty.
US11716038B2
A motor control device includes: a plurality of sensors detecting a rotation position of a rotor and outputting a position detection signal; a rotational speed determination part determining whether a rotational speed of a brushless motor is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value based on the position detection signal; and a motor control part. An energization control part included in the motor control part uses, between a first mode and a second mode, different sensor signals serving as a trigger for an energization timing of each phase. In the first mode, an energization timing to a second phase is advanced relative to a timing at which the position detection signal of a first sensor turns on. In the second mode, an energization timing to the second phase is retarded relative to a timing at which the position detection signal of the first sensor turns on.
US11716030B2
Described is a hybrid electronic and magnetic structure that enables a transformer with fractional and reconfigurable effective turns ratios (e.g. 12:0.5, 12:⅔, 12:1, and 12:2) and hereinafter referred to as a Variable-Inverter-Rectifier-Transformer (VIRT). A VIRT is valuable in converters having wide operating voltage ranges and high step-up/down, as it offers a means to reduce turns count and copper loss within a transformer while facilitating voltage doubling and quadrupling. Such characteristics are beneficial for reducing the size of a transformer stage in many power electronics applications, such as USB wall chargers. In embodiments, a VIRT comprises a plurality of switching cells distributed around a magnetic core and coupled to half-turns wound through that core. By controlling operating modes of the switching cells, it is possible to gain control over flux paths and current paths in the transformer.
US11716013B2
A Buck-Boost converter includes an input node to receive a supply voltage and a supply current, an output node, an inductor, capacitors including a load capacitor and a helper capacitor, and transistors to configure the Buck-Boost converter to: when the supply voltage is turning ON, operate in a Buck mode to (a) in a first cycle, use the supply current to charge the capacitors and an inductor magnetic field, and (b) in a second cycle, without using the supply current, discharge the inductor and the capacitors through the output node, to limit an inrush current; and when the supply voltage is turning OFF, operate in a Boost mode to (c) in a third cycle, cause the helper capacitor, but not the load capacitor, to charge the magnetic field, and (d) in a fourth cycle, discharge the inductor, and the capacitors, through the output node, to extend a voltage hold-up time.
US11716002B2
A stator assembly has coils in a distributed winding configuration. A poly-phase switched reluctance motor assembly may include a stator assembly with multiple coils in a distributed winding configuration. The stator assembly may have a central bore into which a rotor assembly having multiple poles is received and configured to rotate. A method of controlling a switched reluctance motor may include at least three phases wherein during each conduction period a first phase is energized with negative direction current, a second phase is energized with positive current and there is at least one non-energized phase. During each commutation period either the first phase or second phase switches off to a non-energized state and one of the non-energized phases switches on to an energized state with the same direction current as the first or second phase that was switched off. The switched reluctance motor may include a distributed winding configuration.
US11715999B2
A method to make a stator lamination of an axial flux motor for an automobile vehicle includes: constructing a stator having multiple stator stack members, including: providing a stator lamination with individual ones of the stator stack members; forming the stator lamination from a single lamination sheet of steel defining a sinuous-shaped assembly having multiple bends; compressing the stator lamination; and machining the stator lamination to create a first edge by removing a first portion of the multiple bends and to create a second edge opposite to the first edge by removing a second portion of the multiple bends.
US11715997B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a structure capable of stably removing noise. A DC motor includes: a brush in sliding contact with a commutator; a brush holder base holding the brush; a flexible wiring connected to the brush; and a choke coil connected to the brush via the wiring, wherein the brush holder base has a clamping portion restraining the wiring to extend along a direction parallel to a direction of a magnetic flux generated in the choke coil.
US11715991B2
To provide a brushless motor with a simple configuration, which has accomplished size reduction. An inner rotor brushless motor having a rotor in a center of a cylindrical stator includes: three bus bars on one end side of the stator in an axial direction thereof, the bus bars connecting three phase coils provided to the stator on a phase-by-phase basis; a bottomed tubular connector portion adjacent to a housing that houses the stator and the rotor; a plurality of connector terminals fixed, penetrating a bottom portion of the connector portion, the plurality of connector terminals being exposed to an internal space of the connector portion; and a board stretching from the one end side of the stator in the axial direction to the bottom portion side of the connector portion, the board being configured to electrically connect an end of each of the bus bars and the penetrating connector terminal.
US11715990B2
There is provided an electric compressor in which the connection strength between an inverter circuit section and an electrical circuit section connected thereto by a connection terminal is improved. An inverter circuit section (3) includes an inverter control board (17) and a resin-molded sleeve assembly (18). In the sleeve assembly, a sleeve (32) and a terminal connection portion (23) are integrally resin-molded in a state in which a screw groove portion is protruded. The inverter control board (17) and a filter side connection terminal (71) of a filter circuit section (4) are fastened together to the terminal connection portion with a nut (92) screwed into the screw groove portion, whereby the inverter control board 17 and the filter circuit section 4 are electrically connected.
US11715983B2
A magnetic alignment system can include a primary annular magnetic alignment component and a secondary annular magnetic alignment component. The primary alignment component can include an inner annular region having a first magnetic orientation, an outer annular region having a second magnetic orientation opposite to the first magnetic orientation, and a non-magnetized central annular region disposed between the primary inner annular region and the primary outer annular region. The secondary alignment component can have a magnetic orientation with a radial component.
US11715980B2
A wireless power transmitting system includes a power amplifier comprising a plurality of measurement points and a power amplifier controller integrated circuit (IC). In some embodiments, the power amplifier controller IC performs synchronization of the various components of the power amplifier, conducts impedance and temperature measurements at the measurements points, determines if a foreign object is within the transmission range of the wireless power transmitter, and decides if a shutdown of the power amplifier is needed. In some embodiments, the power amplifier controller IC determines through a transmitter controller IC, the presence of a foreign object within the transmission range and adjusts the power transmission to one or more receivers.
US11715976B2
Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a first coil pattern wound in a planar spiral shape. At least one turn constituting the first coil pattern is divided into a plurality of lines by a spiral slit, and a space width between the plurality of lines differs depending on a planar position.
US11715974B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a versatile UPS. The versatile UPS is operative to provide power to a load and to an interconnected network for delivering electricity from producers to consumers (i.e., an electricity grid, or simply, “a grid”). The versatile UPS has a plurality of switches providing for a multiplicity of switching states. The output to the load, the grid, or both is dependent, at least in part, on the switching states. Related systems, methods and apparatus is also described.
US11715960B2
A dual-battery charging and discharging method is described to be used for a dual-screen terminal. The method includes: obtaining a state identifier of the first display screen and a state identifier of the second display screen; determining whether the dual-screen terminal is in a charging state; in response to determining that the dual-screen terminal is in a charging state, controlling the first battery and the second battery to be charged according to the state identifier of the first display screen and the state identifier of the second display screen; and in response to determining that the dual-screen terminal is not in a charging state, controlling whether the first battery and the second battery supply power to the dual-screen terminal according to the state identifier of the first display screen and the state identifier of the second display screen.
US11715957B2
When a baseline is in a certain state, a server executes a process including: a step of calculating an amount of power exchanged between a battery and a power grid during the first charging control; a step of calculating an amount of power exchanged between the battery and the power grid during the second charging control; a step of calculating an amount of power exchanged between the battery and the power grid during the first power feeding control; a step of calculating an amount of power exchanged between the battery and the power grid during the second power feeding control; and a step of setting a calibration line for the amount of power.
US11715954B2
Systems and apparatuses include a non-transitory computer readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied therein that, when executed by a circuit of a power system, causes the power system to perform functions to activate and deactivate routes. The functions include determining a plurality of source objects, each including source functions and being assigned a position on a one-line topology; determining one or more switch objects, each including switch functions and being assigned a position on the one-line topology; determining one or more bus objects, each including bus functions and being assigned a position on the one-line topology; determining one or more load objects, each including load functions and being assigned a position on the one-line topology; and allocating each object to one of a plurality of controllers, each of the controllers structured to cooperatively perform the source functions, the switch functions, the bus functions, and the load functions to provide operation of the system.
US11715952B2
An electricity distribution system includes a peer-to-peer decentralized ledger network and a plurality of distributed ledger nodes in communication within the peer-to-peer decentralized ledger network. At least one distributed ledger node of the plurality of distributed ledger nodes includes a processor that aids in executing peer-to-peer energy and financial transactions between energy suppliers and energy buyers. The processor is programmed to schedule at least one of supply of electricity from one of a plurality of available energy sources to an on-site load based on predetermined demand parameters set by an energy buyer and delivery of electricity generated by a distributed energy resource to an external load based on predetermined supply parameters set by an energy supplier.
US11715950B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to automatically load matching, in time, energy physically generated and transmitted to a consumption location across at least one tracking and processing infrastructure. In an illustrative example, a load pool (LP) may be created based on energy consumed at a physical location at one or more selected time periods. A generation pool (GP) may, for example, be created based on energy generated and physically available for consumption at the physical location during the time periods. Associations may be created, for example, between measurements in the GP of energy generated and transmitted and measurements in the LP of energy consumed. The associations may be created as a function of predetermined privileges associated with the consumption location and generation locations and/or physical transmission links corresponding to the GP during the time periods. Various embodiments may advantageously determine environmental impact based on location and time-based load matching.
US11715946B2
An electronic device includes a first group III nitride transistor and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit. an electronic device may include a first group III nitride transistor and an ESD protection circuit. The ESD protection circuit may include a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor. The first transistor may have a source and a gate connected to each other and electrically connected to a gate of the first group III nitride transistor. The second transistor may have a source and a gate connected to each other and electrically connected to a source of the first group III nitride transistor. The third transistor may have a drain electrically connected to the gate of the first group III nitride transistor, a gate electrically connected to a drain of the first transistor and to a drain of the second transistor, and a source electrically connected to the source of the first group III nitride transistor.
US11715945B2
A system including an arc flash sensor that detects an arc flash event and an arc flash mitigation device in communication with the sensor. The mitigation device includes a path of least resistance having a path input and a path output. The arc flash sensor is located downstream the output. The mitigation device includes an electro-mechanical switch between the input and the output and an actuator. The mitigation device also includes a bypass power switch device that includes a solid-state circuit interrupter and that conduct current between the input and the output in response to an open-circuit condition of the switch. A system controller is provided to generate a trigger to activate the actuator to generate the open-circuit condition of the switch, which causes the power switch device to interrupt a fault current associated with a fault event in response to detection of the arc flash event.
US11715940B2
A circular cutting unit for partially cutting one or more layers of a cable or wire along a cutting plane. The circular cutting unit include a knife head including a drive disc and an adjustment disc that are each rotatable about a disc axis. A pair of knife holders that each include a knife blade are pivotally mounted to the drive disc. Relative rotation of the adjustment disc relative to the drive disc causes the knife holders to pivot causing movement of the knife blades toward or away from each other. The circular cutting unit includes a primary drive assembly and an adjustment drive assembly that are each separately operable. The primary drive assembly rotates the knife head at the cutting speed and the adjustment drive assembly rotates the adjustment disc relative to the drive disc.
US11715939B2
The present disclosure relates to a distributing board having a position lock device and, more specifically, having a position lock device which can hold or release, at a specific position, an electric power device unit. The distributing board having a position lock device, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises an external case and an electric power device unit drawn into and out of the external case, and further comprises: a position setting bracket which is fixed to the external case and has convex-concave parts for setting the position of the electric power device unit; and a lock device which moves with the electric power device unit by being coupled to a portion of the electric power device unit, and which restricts or allows movement of the electric power device unit by being hooked into or released from the positions of the position setting bracket.
US11715938B2
A mounting device includes a panel portion, and a fastener receiving structure provided within a perimeter of the panel portion. The fastener receiving structure can include a flexure mechanism to enable at least a portion of the fastener receiving structure to flex with insertion of a fastener into the flexure mechanism that attaches the panel portion against an underlying surface.
US11715925B2
An optical device includes first and second 45° Faraday rotators. A 45° polarizer is located between the first and second Faraday rotators such that light in a prescribed polarization state that is incident on the first 45° Faraday rotator traverses the first 45° Faraday rotator as well as the 45° polarizer and the second 45° Faraday rotator. In one implementation the optical device is operable to receive a light beam traveling in a first direction and output a light beam that is in a predetermined polarization state. Likewise, the optical device is operable to receive an unpolarized light beam traveling in a second direction opposite the first direction and outputs a light beam that is in a predetermined polarization state. The polarization state in which the two output beams are arranged may be the same or orthogonal to one another.
US11715917B1
A powered wall plate with a plug-in module having an electrical plug and an module cover. The electrical plug has at least two electrical prongs that are configured to removably mate with an electrical receptacle. The module cover is located adjacent to the electrical plug and has a surround configured to extend around a portion of the perimeter of the wall plate, an LED light located along a bottom edge of the module cover, a USB port exposed on a surface of the module cover, and a circuit contained within the module cover and configured to supply power to the USB port and the LED light when power is supplied to the electrical prongs. The wall plate has a first mounting screw aperture and the plug-in module has a second mounting screw aperture that receive a mounting screw, attaching the plug-in module to the wall plate and the electrical device.
US11715916B2
The disclosure discloses a leakage protective socket, relating to the technical field of electrical equipment protection. The leakage protective socket includes: a socket housing, and a leakage protector and an electrical connection portion arranged in the socket housing. The socket housing includes a support frame for fixing the electrical connection portion, a base for fixing the leakage protector, and a power socket for connecting an external power supply. One end of the electrical connection portion is provided with a wiring end, and the other end of the electrical connection portion is provided with at least one plug-in end. The leakage protector controls the opening and closing of a circuit between the power socket and the wiring end.
US11715915B2
An electrical connector for a multi-wire electrical cable includes two cable-side electrical contact elements including associated terminals to each of which is to be connected a wire of the electrical cable, and two output-side electrical contact elements which are spaced apart from the cable-side electrical contact elements and from each of which projects an electrical connector element via which an electrical connection can be established to a mating connector. An active electrical device is disposed between the cable-side contact elements and the output-side contact elements. The active electrical device is placed on the contact elements, such that the active electrical device is in electrical contact with each of the contact elements, and such that the cable-side contact elements and the output-side contact elements are electrically connected to each other. The output-side contact elements are separated and axially spaced apart from the cable-side contact elements.
US11715913B2
An adapter connector includes a terminal assembly, a first adapter housing and a second adapter housing. The terminal assembly includes a first terminal clamping portion at a first end and a second terminal clamping portion at a second end. The first adapter housing includes a number of first receiving grooves for receiving the first terminal clamping portion. The second adapter housing includes a number of second receiving grooves for receiving the second terminal clamping portion. The terminal assembly is provided with a first lock assembly locked with the first adapter housing and a second lock assembly locked with the second adapter housing. This arrangement facilitates the assembly of the adapter connector.
US11715911B2
A contact assembly for an electrical connector signal contacts arranged in pairs and ground contacts are interspersed with the pairs of the signal contacts. Each signal contact includes a signal contact body having first and second sides extending between a signal mating end and a signal terminating end. Each ground contact includes a ground contact body having first and second sides extending between a ground mating end and a ground terminating end. The contact assembly includes a ground shield assembly including a ground shield spanning across the contacts and ground connective elements electrically connected to the ground shield and the corresponding ground contacts. The ground connective elements are compressible.
US11715910B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with plural passageways arranged in a hexagonal dense manner. Plural signal contacts and grounding contacts are disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively, in a mixed manner wherein each pair of signal contacts are surrounded by eight grounding contacts. Some grounding contacts are aligned with one another along a row direction and linked together via a transverse bar, and a pair of extensions extend from the two opposite ends of the transverse bar in a column direction perpendicular to the row direction so as to have the pair of signal contacts essentially fully enclosed and shielded within a region with the boundary defined by a combination of the grounding contacts and the transverse bars.
US11715905B2
An angled housing part for an electrical connector includes a first section having a first flange surface, a second section having a second flange surface, and a bellows section arranged between the first section and the second section. The first flange surface is angled with respect to the second section. The first section and the second section are movable relative to one another upon elastic deformation of the bellows section.
US11715904B2
A wire harness includes a connector, a grommet assembled to the connector and being in close contact with one opening edge portion of an attachment hole of a panel, and a plurality of electric wires that are inserted into the grommet. The connector includes terminal fittings provided at end portions of the plurality of electric wires, a connector housing that accommodates the terminal fittings, and an inner member having an annular plate-shaped flange disposed outside the connector housing. The grommet includes a flange assembly portion that is assembled to the flange, and an electric wire accommodating dome portion that accommodates drawn-out portions of the plurality of electric wires being drawn out from the connector housing. The inner member includes two deformation preventing walls that prevent the electric wire accommodating dome portion from being deformed inward.
US11715883B2
To provide a frequency selective surface of which an operating frequency and a bandwidth thereof can be readily adjusted. A frequency selective surface structured such that resonators kxy formed by conductive patterns with a same shape are periodically arranged on a dielectric substrate, wherein the resonator kxy includes: a conductor wire part with a lateral pattern 10 and a longitudinal pattern 20 which form a cross above a dielectric substrate 101; and an electrode plate part created by extending, in directions in which the lateral pattern and the longitudinal pattern are orthogonal to each other, respective both end parts of the lateral pattern and the longitudinal pattern having been extended by a prescribed length, the electrode plate part being shaped such that a tip portion thereof opposes a tip portion extended from another direction at an interval above a diagonal line, and the electrode plate part is shaped such that a central portion opposing an electrode plate part of another adjacent resonator is notched in a width of the lateral pattern, the electrode plate part being joined with the electrode plate part of the other adjacent resonator by being extended from a center of the notched portion in a width that is narrower than the width of the lateral pattern 10 and in a length that is shorter than the prescribed length, and the interval of the tip portion is wider than an interval with the electrode plate part of the other adjacent resonator.
US11715882B2
An antenna assembly includes a first magnetic substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite from the first surface. One or more antenna elements are disposed on the first surface of the first magnetic substrate. A microstrip feed line is disposed on the second surface of the first magnetic substrate. A second magnetic substrate is secured to the first magnetic substrate. The second magnetic substrate includes one or more cavities aligned with the one or more antenna elements and the microstrip feed line.
US11715873B2
The straddle type vehicle comprises an antenna that can receive a wireless signal of a predetermined frequency band, and a sensing unit for sensing a situation in front of the vehicle. A constituent component of the vehicle is arranged between the antenna and the sensing unit.
US11715870B2
A waveguide structure and a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a control module, an antenna module and a waveguide structure connected between the control module and the antenna module. The waveguide structure includes an insulating carrier component and a conductive metal component. The insulating carrier component includes a first insulating carrier and a second insulating carrier matching with the first insulating carrier. The first insulating carrier includes a first groove, and the second insulating carrier includes a second groove in communication with the first groove. The conductive metal component includes a first conductive body accommodated in the first groove of the first insulating carrier and a second conductive body accommodated in the second groove of the second insulating carrier, and the conductive metal component includes a penetrating channel passing therethrough.
US11715865B2
A battery module includes a plurality of cylindrical battery cells respectively having electrode terminals formed at an upper portion and a lower portion thereof; a module housing including an accommodation portion having a plurality of hollow structures in which the plurality of cylindrical battery cells are inserted and accommodated; and a module bus bar including a first metal plate having a body portion located at an upper portion or a lower portion of the plurality of cylindrical battery cells to extend in a horizontal direction and a plurality of connection portions configured to extend in a horizontal direction from one side of the body portion to contact the electrode terminals of the plurality of cylindrical battery cells, and a second metal plate bonded to the body portion of the first metal plate and having a metal with a relatively higher electric conductivity than the first metal plate.
US11715862B2
A battery pack including a housing having a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The first portion has a first wall and an interface extends from the first wall. The interface includes a plurality of terminal apertures that provide access to electrical terminals within the housing. The second portion has a second wall, and the second wall is positioned opposite the first wall. A first plurality of vents extends through the first wall and a second plurality of vents extends through the second wall. A cumulative surface area of the first plurality of vents is different than a cumulative surface area of the second plurality of vents.
US11715861B2
A battery cell may include, among other things, a can assembly, an electrode assembly housed inside the can assembly, and a venting system including a vent port and at least one of a vent tube inside the can assembly or a spacer plate mounted between the vent port and the electrode assembly.
US11715860B2
A traction battery venting system includes, among other things, an engine exhaust system that discharges engine exhaust gas to an area outside an electrified vehicle. The engine exhaust gas is emitted from an internal combustion engine of the electrified vehicle. The system further includes a sound deadening device of the engine exhaust system, a traction battery, and a battery vent system that communicates battery vent byproducts to the engine exhaust system at a position that is downstream from the sound deadening device. The battery vent byproducts are emitted from the traction battery of the electrified vehicle.
US11715859B2
Systems, methods, and other implementations described herein relate to a battery for use in a battery cell assembly that facilitates pack manufacturing. In one embodiment, the battery cell assembly includes a first battery cell having two electrical tabs extending from the first battery cell. The battery cell assembly also includes a second battery cell positioned substantially adjacent to the first battery cell and having two electrical tabs extending from the second battery cell. Additionally, the electrical tabs of the first and second battery cells are prebent. The battery cell assembly further includes a busbar operatively connected to the electrical tabs of the first and second battery cells.
US11715857B2
Embodiments include enclosures for protecting electronics such as circuit board and battery assemblies in high-pressure environments. Customized pressure distribution structures are positioned around the electronics. The pressure distribution structures include cavities that are sized to distribute pressure across the electronics in a predetermined manner based on known pressure tolerances of components or portions of the electronics. The pressure distribution structures may include various features such as vias for enhancing thermal conductivity. The enclosure may be sealed and surrounded by an envelope. Methods for manufacturing such enclosures are disclosed.
US11715853B2
An apparatus mounts a battery cell stack to a frame that includes a base cover and a pair of side covers respectively extending from both ends of the base cover. The apparatus includes a support member to support the battery cell stack, and two films, wherein one side of each of the two films is respectively attachable to one of the pair of side covers of the frame, and another side of each of the two films is respectively attachable to one of two side surfaces of the battery cell stack, wherein, when the support member and the frame move toward each other, the two films are movable into the frame, and the battery cell stack is movable along the two films to be mounted to the frame.
US11715849B2
Disclosed herein are improved methods and devices for recycling lithium cathodes from batteries using a Soxhlet extractor.
US11715847B2
Disclosed are a connection assembly for a battery module and a battery module. The connection assembly for a battery module has a housing body, a cover plate and an openable and closable door, wherein the housing body is used for supporting a plurality of components; the cover plate covers the housing body and used for covering the plurality of components on the housing body; the cover plate is provided with a second through-hole, and the second through-hole positionally corresponds to at least one of the plurality of components; the openable and closable door is movably mounted on the cover plate, and is positionally changeable between an open position and a closed position; wherein in the open position, the openable and closable door opens the second through-hole to expose the at least one of the plurality of components; and in the closed position, the openable and closable door shields at least part of the second through-hole to cover the at least one of the plurality of components on the body. A contact state between a temperature sensor and a cell can be examined by means of the second through-hole.
US11715837B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for using an energy storage device to assist a venturi or an ejector in a fuel cell or fuel stack system.
US11715813B2
A light emitting diode (LED) structure includes a semiconductor template having a template top-surface, an active quantum well (QW) structure formed over the semiconductor template, and a p-type layer. The p-type layer has a bottom-surface that faces the active QW and the template top-surface. The bottom-surface includes a recess sidewall. The recess sidewall of the p-type layer is configured for promoting injection of holes into the active QW structure through a QW sidewall of the active QW structure.
US11715811B2
A light emitting diode (LED) transfer system includes an alignment apparatus configured to align a plurality of target substrates; a handling robot configured to transport the plurality of target substrates; a transfer stage configured to hold the plurality of target substrates and move the plurality of target substrates; a substrate stage configured to move a relay substrate having a plurality of LEDs with respect to the transfer stage while the plurality of LEDs are facing the transfer stage; a laser configured to emit a laser beam toward the plurality of LEDs of the relay substrate so that the plurality of LEDs are transferred from the relay substrate to the plurality of target substrates; and a processor configured to control the alignment apparatus, the handling robot, the transfer stage, the substrate stage, and the laser to transfer the plurality of LEDs of the relay substrate to the plurality of target substrates.
US11715807B2
A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap and positioned for receiving an incoming light beam; a second solar subcell disposed below and adjacent to and lattice matched with said upper first solar subcell, and having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; wherein at least one of the solar subcells has a graded band gap throughout the thickness of at least a portion of the active layer.
US11715802B2
A nanowire FET device includes a vertical stack of nanowire strips configured as the semiconductor body. One or more of the top nanowire strips are receded and are shorter than the rest of the nanowire strips stacked lower. Inner spacers are uniformly formed adjacent to the receded nanowire strips and the rest of the nanowire strips. Source/drain structures are formed outside the inner spacers and a gate structure is formed inside the inner spacers, which wraps around the nanowire strips.
US11715794B2
Semiconductor devices include a channel fin having a top surface. A top semiconductor structure, in contact with the entire top surface of the channel fin and having a top portion and a bottom portion, with the top portion of the top semiconductor structure being narrower than the bottom portion. A restraint structure being formed over the bottom portion of the semiconductor structure.
US11715793B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor part, an first electrode, a control electrode and second electrodes. The control electrode and the second electrodes are provided between the semiconductor part and the first electrode, and provided inside trenches, respectively. The second electrodes include first to third ones. The first and second ones of the second electrodes are adjacent to each other with a portion of the semiconductor part interposed. The second electrodes each are electrically isolated from the semiconductor part by a insulating film including first and second insulating portions adjacent to each other. The first insulating portion has a first thickness. The second insulating portion has a second thickness thinner than the first thickness. The first insulating portion is provided between the first and second ones of the second electrodes. The second insulating portion is provided between the first and third ones of the second electrodes.
US11715790B2
Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistors implementing various means by which their threshold voltage it tuned. In some embodiments, a III-N transistor may include a doped semiconductor material or a fixed charge material included in a gate stack of the transistor. In other embodiments, a III-N transistor may include a doped semiconductor material or a fixed charge material included between a gate stack and a III-N channel stack of the transistor. Including doped semiconductor or fixed charge materials either in the gate stack or between the gate stack and the III-N channel stack of III-N transistors adds charges, which affects the amount of 2DEG and, therefore, affects the threshold voltages of these transistors.
US11715789B2
A transistor and a diode are formed on a common semiconductor substrate; the semiconductor substrate has a transistor region and an outer peripheral region surrounding it; the transistor region is divided into a plurality of channel regions and a plurality of non-channel regions by a plurality of gate electrodes each having a stripe shape; each of the plurality of non-channel regions has a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer, a fifth semiconductor layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode; the third semiconductor layer and the fifth semiconductor layer are electrically connected to the second electrode via a contact hole; and the fifth semiconductor layer is selectively provided not to be in contact with an impurity layer of a first conductivity type that is provided in the outer peripheral region and defines a boundary with a cell region.
US11715785B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate structure located on a substrate; and a raised source/drain region adjacent to the gate structure. An interface is between the gate structure and the substrate. The raised source/drain region includes a stressor layer providing strain to a channel under the gate structure; and a silicide layer in the stressor layer. The silicide layer extends from a top surface of the raised source/drain region and ends below the interface by a predetermined depth. The predetermined depth allows the stressor layer to maintain the strain of the channel.
US11715783B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method and semiconductor device is described, including forming a plurality of gaps of variable size between device features, each of the gaps including vertical sidewalls perpendicular to a substrate surface and a horizontal surface parallel to the substrate surface. Spacer material is directionally deposited concurrently on the horizontal surface in each gap and in a flat area using a total flow rate of gaseous precursors that minimizes gap-loading in a smallest gap compared to the flat area such that the spacer material is deposited on the substrate surface in each gap and in the flat area to a uniform thickness.
US11715775B2
Self-aligned gate endcap architectures with gate-all-around devices having epitaxial source or drain structures are described. For example, a structure includes first and second vertical arrangements of nanowires, the nanowires of the second vertical arrangement of nanowires having a horizontal width greater than a horizontal width of the nanowires of the first vertical arrangement of nanowires. First and second gate stacks are over the first and second vertical arrangements of nanowires, respectively. A gate endcap isolation structure is between the first and second gate stacks, respectively. First epitaxial source or drain structures are at ends of the first vertical arrangement of nanowires and have an uppermost surface below an uppermost surface of the gate endcap isolation structure. Second epitaxial source or drain structures are at ends of the second vertical arrangement of nanowires and have an uppermost surface below the uppermost surface of the gate endcap isolation structure.
US11715774B2
A vertical gallium oxide (Ga2O3) device having a substrate, an n-type Ga2O3 drift layer on the substrate, an, n-type semiconducting channel extending from the n-type Ga2O3 drift layer, the channel being one of fin-shaped or nanowire shaped, an n-type source layer disposed on the channel; the source layer has a higher doping concentration than the channel, a first dielectric layer on the n-type Ga2O3 drift layer and on sidewalls of the n-type semiconducting channel, a conductive gate layer deposited on the first dielectric layer and insulated from the n-type source layer, n-type semiconducting channel as well as n-type Ga2O3 drift layer, a second dielectric layer deposited over the conductive gate layer, covering completely the conductive gate layer on channel sidewalls and an ohmic source contact deposited over the n-type source layer and over at least a part of the second dielectric layer; the source contact being configured not to be in electrical contact with the conductive gate layer.
US11715773B2
A semiconductor device includes first to fourth electrodes, a semiconductor portion, and first and second insulating films. The semiconductor portion includes first to third semiconductor layers. The second electrode is in contact with the third semiconductor layer and is spaced from the second semiconductor layer, the third semiconductor layer, and the second electrode. The first insulating film covers the third electrode. The fourth electrode is connected to the second electrode, and is spaced from the first semiconductor layer and the third electrode. The second insulating film is provided on a side surface of the fourth electrode, faces the first semiconductor layer through an air gap, and increases in thickness toward the first direction.
US11715769B2
An electronic device includes a solid body of SiC having a surface and having a first conductivity type. A first implanted region and a second implanted region have a second conductivity type and extend into the solid body in a direction starting from the surface and delimit between them a surface portion of the solid body. A Schottky contact is on the surface and in direct contact with the surface portion. Ohmic contacts are on the surface and in direct contact with the first and second implanted regions. The solid body includes an epitaxial layer including the surface portion and a bulk portion. The surface portion houses a plurality of doped sub-regions which extend in succession one after another in the direction, are of the first conductivity type, and have a respective conductivity level higher than that of the bulk portion.
US11715763B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor fin, a first epitaxial layer, a first alloy layer and a contact plug. The first semiconductor fin is on a substrate. The first epitaxial layer is on the first semiconductor fin. The first alloy layer is on the first epitaxial layer. The first alloy layer is made of one or more Group IV elements and one or more metal elements, and the first alloy layer comprises a first sidewall and a second sidewall extending downwardly from a bottom of the first sidewall along a direction non-parallel to the first sidewall. The contact plug is in contact with the first and second sidewalls of the first alloy layer.
US11715760B2
A semiconductor device including a device isolation layer defining an active region; a first trench in the device isolation layer; a second trench in the active region; a main gate electrode structure filling a portion of the first trench and including a first barrier conductive layer and a main gate electrode; a pass gate electrode structure filling a portion of the second trench and including a second barrier conductive layer and a pass gate electrode; a support structure filling another portion of the second trench above the pass gate electrode; a first capping pattern filling another portion of the first trench above the main gate electrode; and a second gate insulating layer extending along a bottom and sidewall of the second trench, wherein the second barrier conductive layer is between the second gate insulating layer and the pass gate electrode and extends along a bottom and sidewall thereof.
US11715757B2
A three-dimensional metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is formed in an integrated circuit structure. The 3D MIM capacitor may include a bottom conductor including a bottom plate portion (e.g., formed in a metal interconnect layer) and vertically-extending sidewall portions extending from the bottom plate portion. An insulator layer is formed on the bottom plate portion and the vertically extending sidewall portions of the bottom conductor. A top conductor is formed over the insulating layer, such that the top conductor is capacitively coupled to both the bottom plate portion and the vertically extending sidewall portions of the bottom conductor, to thereby define an increased area of capacitive coupling between the top and bottom conductors. The vertically extending sidewall portions of the bottom conductor may be formed in a single metal layer or by components of multiple metal layers.
US11715744B2
This disclosure provides an array substrate, a method for preparing the array substrate, and a display panel. The method includes: forming a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor on a base substrate. In the formation of an active layer of the first thin film transistor, by using an eutectic point of the catalyst particle and silicon, and a driving factor that the Gibbs free energy of amorphous silicon is greater than that of crystalline silicon (silicon-based nanowire), and due to absorption of the amorphous silicon by the molten catalyst particle to form a supersaturated silicon eutectoid, the silicon nucleates and grows into a silicon-based nanowire. Moreover, during the growth of the silicon-based nanowire, the amorphous silicon film grows linearly along guide structure under the action of the catalyst particle, thus obtaining a silicon-based nanowire with a high density and high uniformity.
US11715738B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor fin and a gate stack. The first semiconductor fin is over the substrate and includes a first germanium-containing layer and a second germanium-containing layer over the first germanium-containing layer. The first germanium-containing layer has a germanium atomic percentage higher than a germanium atomic percentage of the second germanium-containing layer. The gate stack is across the first semiconductor fin.
US11715735B2
A resistor includes a substrate including an active region protruding from an upper surface of the substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction, a doped region extending in the first horizontal direction on the active region and comprising a semiconductor layer with n-type impurities, a plurality of channel layers spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction on the active region and connected to the doped region, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode extending in the second horizontal direction intersecting the first horizontal direction and surrounding the plurality of channel layers, a first contact plug and a second contact plug in contact with an upper surface of the doped region. The first contact plug is adjacent to the first gate electrode. The second contact plug is adjacent to the second gate electrode.
US11715734B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device comprises a source region and a drain region in a substrate and laterally spaced. A gate stack is over the substrate and between the source region and the drain region. The drain region includes two or more first doped regions having a first doping type in the substrate. The drain region further includes one or more second doped regions in the substrate. The first doped regions have a greater concentration of first doping type dopants than the second doped regions, and each of the second doped regions is disposed laterally between two neighboring first doped regions.
US11715733B2
An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a substrate, and a cell over the substrate. The cell includes at least one active region and at least one gate region extending across the at least one active region. The cell further includes at least one input/output (IO) pattern configured to electrically couple one or more of the at least one active region and the at least one gate region to external circuitry outside the cell. The at least one IO pattern extends obliquely to both the at least one active region and the at least one gate region.
US11715731B2
Provided are a package structure and a method of forming the same. The package structure includes a first tier, a second tier, and a third tier. The first tier includes an interposer. The second tier is disposed on the first tier and includes a bottom die. The third tier is disposed on the second tier and includes a plurality of first dies and at least one second die. The at least one second die is disposed between the plurality of first dies. The plurality of first dies are electrically connected to the bottom die by a plurality of first connectors to form a signal path, the plurality of first dies are electrically connected to the interposer by a plurality of second connectors to form a power path, and the plurality of first connectors are closer to the at least one second die than the plurality of second connectors.
US11715730B2
Direct-bonded LED arrays and applications are provided. An example process fabricates a LED structure that includes coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structure on a flat bonding interface surface of the LED structure. The coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface surface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of a driver circuit for the LED structure. In a wafer-level process, micro-LED structures are fabricated on a first wafer, including coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structures on the flat bonding interface surfaces of the wafer. At least the coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of CMOS driver circuits on a second wafer. The process provides a transparent and flexible micro-LED array display, with each micro-LED structure having an illumination area approximately the size of a pixel or a smallest controllable element of an image represented on a high-resolution video display.
US11715729B2
A display module and a method for manufacturing thereof are provided. The display module includes a glass substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) layer provided on a surface of the glass substrate, the TFT layer including a plurality of TFT electrode pads; a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided on the TFT layer, each of the plurality of LEDs including LED electrode pads that are electrically connected to respective TFT electrode pads among the plurality of TFT electrode pads; and a light shielding member provided on the TFT layer and between the plurality of LEDs, wherein a height of the light shielding member with respect to the TFT layer is lower than a height of the plurality of LEDs with respect to the TFT layer.
US11715721B2
Disclosed herein is an electrical connecting structure having nano-twins copper, including a first substrate having a first nano-twins copper layer and a second substrate having a second nano-twins copper layer. The first nano-twins copper layer includes a plurality of first nano-twins copper grains. The second nano-twins copper layer includes a plurality of second nano-twins copper grains. The first nano-twins copper layer is joined with the second nano-twins copper layer. At least a portion of the first nano-twins copper grains extend into the second nano-twins copper layer, or at least a portion of the second nano-twins copper grains extend into the first nano-twins copper layer.
US11715719B2
A semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package may include at least one semiconductor chip including a contact pad configured to conduct a current, a conductor element, wherein the conductor element is arranged laterally overlapping the contact pad and with a distance to the contact pad, at least one electrically conductive spacer, a first adhesive system configured to electrically and mechanically connect the at least one electrically conductive spacer with the contact pad, and a second adhesive system configured to electrically and mechanically connect the at least one electrically conductive spacer with the conductor element, wherein the conductor element is electrically conductively connected to a clip or is at least part of a clip, and wherein the spacer is configured to electrically conductively connect the contact pad with the laterally overlapping portion of the conductor element.
US11715709B2
A radiofrequency device includes a buried insulation layer, a transistor, a contact structure, a connection bump, an interlayer dielectric layer, and a mold compound layer. The buried insulation layer has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side in a thickness direction of the buried insulation layer. The transistor is disposed on the first side of the buried insulation layer. The contact structure penetrates the buried insulation layer and is electrically connected with the transistor. The connection bump is disposed on the second side of the buried insulation layer and electrically connected with the contact structure. The interlayer dielectric layer is disposed on the first side of the buried insulation layer and covers the transistor. The mold compound layer is disposed on the interlayer dielectric layer. The mold compound layer may be used to improve operation performance and reduce manufacturing cost of the radiofrequency device.
US11715707B2
Described examples include an apparatus including a package substrate having a die attach pad and a first semiconductor die on the die attach pad, the first semiconductor die including a transmitter. The apparatus also includes an assembly having a first plate coupled to the transmitter, a second plate separated from the first plate by a dielectric and a second semiconductor die on the die attach pad, the second semiconductor die including a receiver coupled to the second plate.
US11715705B2
An integrated circuit memory includes a state transistor having a floating gate which stores a respective data value. A device for protecting the data stored in the memory includes a capacitive structure having a first electrically-conducting body coupled to the floating gate of the state transistor, a dielectric body, and a second electrically-conducting body coupled to a ground terminal. The dielectric body is configured, if an aqueous solution is brought into contact with the dielectric body, to electrically couple the floating gate and the ground terminal so as to modify the charge on the floating gate and to lose the corresponding data. Otherwise, the dielectric body is configured to electrically isolate the floating gate and the ground terminal.
US11715704B2
Apparatuses and methods for manufacturing chips are described. An example method includes: forming at least one first dielectric layer above a substrate; forming at least one second dielectric layer above the first dielectric layer; forming a cover layer above the at least one second dielectric layer; forming a groove above the substrate by etching; covering at least an edge surface of the at least one first dielectric layer in the groove with a liner; forming a hole through the cover layer and a portion of the at least one second dielectric layer; depositing a conductive layer in the hole, on the cover layer and the liner; and forming a conductive pillar on the conductive layer in the hole by electroplating.
US11715703B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate and a semiconductor die disposed over the substrate. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and substrate with a surface of the semiconductor die exposed from the encapsulant. A first shielding layer is formed over the semiconductor die. In some embodiments, the first shielding layer includes a stainless steel layer in contact with the surface of the semiconductor die and a copper layer formed over the stainless steel layer. The first shielding layer may further include a protective layer formed over the copper layer. One embodiment has a heatsink bonded to the semiconductor die through a solder layer. A second shielding layer can be formed over a side surface of the semiconductor die.
US11715701B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a wiring board that has a first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface, a semiconductor chip provided on the first surface, external connection terminals provided on the second surface, a sealing resin layer provided on the first surface, and a conductive shield layer that covers at least a portion of a side surface of the wiring board and the sealing resin layer. The wiring board includes a first ground wire that is electrically connected to the conductive shield layer, and a second ground wire that is electrically connected to the conductive shield layer and is electrically insulated from the first ground wire.
US11715695B2
An integrated circuit package is disclosed. The integrated circuit package includes a first integrated circuit die, a second integrated circuit die, an organic substrate, wherein both the first integrated circuit die and the second integrated circuit die are connected to the organic substrate, a multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) embedded within the organic substrate, and a termination resistor associated with a circuit in the first integrated circuit die, wherein the termination resistor is located within the multi-die interconnect bridge embedded within the organic substrate.
US11715693B2
Embodiments may relate to a semiconductor package that includes a package substrate coupled with a die. The package may further include a waveguide coupled with the first package substrate. The waveguide may include two or more layers of a dielectric material with a waveguide channel positioned between two layers of the two or more layers of the dielectric material. The waveguide channel may convey an electromagnetic signal with a frequency greater than 30 gigahertz (GHz). Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US11715692B2
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising alternating conductive structures and insulative structures arranged in tiers, each of the tiers individually comprising a conductive structure and an insulative structure, strings of memory cells vertically extending through the stack structure, the strings of memory cells comprising a channel material vertically extending through the stack structure, and conductive rails laterally adjacent to the conductive structures of the stack structure. The conductive rails comprise a material composition that is different than a material composition of the conductive structures of the stack structure. Related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US11715690B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device including a conductive contact having a tapering profile and a method for preparing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a conductive layer disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and a conductive contact disposed over the conductive layer. The semiconductor device also includes a conductive line disposed over the conductive contact. An upper portion of the conductive contact has a tapering profile in a first cross-sectional view along a longitudinal axis of the conductive line, and the upper portion of the conductive contact has a non-tapering profile in a second cross-sectional view along a line orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the conductive line.
US11715689B2
A device includes a first conductive feature disposed over a substrate; a second conductive feature disposed directly on and in physical contact with the first conductive feature; a dielectric layer surrounding sidewalls of the second conductive feature; and a first barrier layer interposed between the second conductive feature and the dielectric layer and in physical contact with both the second conductive feature and the dielectric layer. The first barrier layer and the dielectric layer comprise at least two common elements.
US11715687B2
A planarization dielectric layer is formed over the semiconductor device on a semiconductor substrate. A device contact via structure is formed through the planarization dielectric layer. A planar dielectric spacer liner is formed over the planarization dielectric layer, and is patterned to provide an opening over the device contact via structure. An etch stop dielectric liner and a via-level dielectric layer are formed over the planar dielectric spacer liner. An interconnect via cavity may be formed through the via-level dielectric layer by a first anisotropic etch process that may be selective to the etch stop dielectric liner, and may be subsequently extended by a second anisotropic etch process that etches the etch stop dielectric liner. An interconnect via structure may be formed in the interconnect via cavity. A bottom periphery of the interconnect via structure may be self-aligned to the opening in the planar dielectric spacer liner.
US11715685B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device includes forming a microelectronic device structure. The microelectronic device structure includes a stack structure comprising insulative structures and electrically conductive structures vertically alternating with the insulative structures, pillar structures extending vertically through the stack structure, an etch stop material vertically overlaying the stack structure, and a first dielectric material vertically overlying the etch stop material. The method further includes removing portions of the first dielectric material, the etch stop material, and an upper region of the stack structure to form a trench interposed between horizontally neighboring groups of the pillar structures, forming a liner material within the trench, and substantially filling a remaining portion of the trench with a second dielectric material to form a dielectric barrier structure.
US11715674B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip structure. The integrated chip structure includes a first substrate having an upper surface and a recessed surface extending in a closed loop around the upper surface. The recessed surface is vertically between the upper surface and a lower surface of the first substrate opposing the upper surface. A first plurality of interconnects are disposed within a first dielectric structure on the upper surface. A dielectric protection layer is over the recessed surface, along a sidewall of the first dielectric structure, and along a sidewall of the first substrate. The first substrate extends from directly below the dielectric protection layer to laterally outside of the dielectric protection layer.
US11715672B2
A method of detecting a polishing endpoint includes storing a plurality of library spectra, measuring a sequence of spectra from the substrate in-situ during polishing, and for each measured spectrum of the sequence of spectra, finding a best matching library spectrum from the plurality of library spectra to generate a sequence of best matching library spectra. Each library spectrum has a stored associated value representing a degree of progress through a polishing process, and the stored associated value for the best matching library spectrum is determined for each best matching library spectrum to generate a sequence of values representing a progression of polishing of the substrate. The sequence of values is compared to a target value, and a polishing endpoint is triggered when the sequence of values reaches the target value.
US11715664B2
A holding mechanism includes a wafer holding section that holds a wafer under suction, and a frame support section that is disposed on the outer circumference of the wafer holding section and that supports a frame. The frame support section includes a permanent magnet.
US11715662B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to carrier assemblies that can clamp more than one optical device substrates and methods for forming the carrier assemblies. The carrier assembly includes a carrier, one or more substrates, and a mask. The carrier is magnetically coupled to the mask to retain the one or more substrates. The carrier assembly is used for supporting and transporting the one or more substrates during processing. The carrier assembly is also used for masking the one or more substrates during PVD processing. Methods for assembling the carrier assembly in a build chamber are described herein.
US11715656B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a method for processing semiconductor wafer is provided. The method includes connecting a drum which stores the chemical liquid with a testing pipe. The method also includes guiding the chemical liquid in the drum into the testing pipe. In addition, the method includes detecting a condition of the chemical liquid in the testing pipe. The method further includes determining if the condition of the chemical liquid is acceptable. When the condition of the chemical liquid is acceptable, supplying the chemical liquid to a processing tool at which the semiconductor wafer is processed.
US11715653B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a process chamber, a support part, disposed in the process chamber, having a substrate loading region in which a substrate is seated, a heating part disposed in a location opposing the substrate loading region to heat the substrate loading region, and a reflective member, disposed in a location opposing the substrate loading region in the process chamber, in which a sealed hollow portion is disposed.
US11715651B2
A substrate treatment apparatus includes a substrate support unit, a chemical supply unit supplying a chemical solution onto an upper surface of a substrate supported on the substrate support unit, a laser irradiation unit applying a laser pulse to the substrate to heat the substrate, and a controller controlling the laser irradiation unit to emit the laser pulse such that the substrate is repeatedly heated and cooled to maintain a preset temperature.
US11715644B2
A method for packaging an integrated circuit chip includes the steps of: a) providing a plurality of dies and a lead frame which includes a plurality of bonding parts each having a die pad, a plurality of leads each having an end region disposed on and connected to the die pad, and a plurality of bumps each disposed on the end region of a respective one of the leads; b) transferring each of the dies to the die pad of a respective one of the bonding parts to permit each of the dies to be flipped on the respective bonding part; and c) hot pressing each of the dies and the die pad of a respective one of the bonding parts to permit each of the dies to be bonded to the bumps of the respective bonding part.
US11715643B2
A method for the dry removal of a material on a microelectronic workpiece is described. The method includes receiving a substrate having a working surface exposing a metal layer and having at least one other material exposed or underneath the metal layer; and differentially etching the metal layer relative to the other material by exposing the substrate to a controlled gas-phase environment containing an anhydrous halogen compound.
US11715633B2
The invention generally relates to systems including nanoelectrospray ionization emitters in a movable array format in which the emitters can be loaded, singly or simultaneously, through their narrow ends using a novel dip and go method based on capillary action, taking up sample from an array. The sample solutions in each emitter can be electrophoretically cleaned, singly or simultaneously, by creating an inductive electric field that moves interfering ions away from the narrow end of the capillary. Subsequent to cleaning, the emitters are supplied with an inductive electric field that causes electrospray into a mass spectrometer allowing mass analysis of the contents of the emitter.
US11715632B2
A reaction chamber includes an upper electrode device and a lower electrode device. The lower electrode device is disposed in the reaction chamber for carrying a workpiece to-be-processed. The upper electrode device includes a dielectric cylinder, a coil, an upper power source, an upper electrode plate, a first switch, and a second switch. The dielectric cylinder has a hollow cylindrical structure and is disposed at an upper portion of a chamber wall of the reaction chamber. The coil is arranged around the dielectric cylinder. The upper electrode plate is located above the lower electrode device. The first switch can selectively electively connect the upper power source to a first terminal of the coil or to the upper electrode plate. The second switch can selectively electrically connect a second terminal of the coil to the ground or to the upper electrode plate.
US11715631B2
Gas discharge tube having glass seal. In some embodiments, a gas discharge tube can include an insulator layer having first and second sides and defining an opening, and first and second electrodes that cover the opening on the first and second sides of the insulator layer, respectively. The gas discharge tube can further include a first glass layer implemented between the first electrode and the first side of the insulator layer, and a second glass layer implemented between the second electrode and the second side of the insulator layer, such that the first and second glass layers provide a seal for a chamber defined by the opening and the first and second electrodes.
US11715626B2
A roll-to-roll surface cleaning treatment system may include an upper housing containing a first plasma generating device and a first transfer roller that faces a nozzle from which a plasma beam generated by the first plasma generating device is discharged and that winds and transfers a flexible substrate, the upper housing comprising a gas inlet, an entrance through which the flexible substrate is introduced, and an outlet through which the flexible substrate is discharged, and a lower housing connected to the entrance of the upper housing and containing a second plasma generating device and a second transfer roller that faces a nozzle from which a plasma beam generated by the second plasma generating device is discharged and that winds and transfers the flexible substrate, the lower housing comprising a gas outlet, and an inlet through which the flexible substrate is introduced.
US11715622B2
A material recovery system for an optical component includes a reservoir containing gas and configured to supply a gas flow containing the gas. The material recovery system also includes an ion beam generator disposed on the reservoir and configured to receive the gas flow and to ionize the gas in the gas flow to generate an ion beam. The ion beam is configured to be directed to the optical component to remove at least a portion of a F-containing optical material degraded by exposure to VUV radiation, DUV radiation, and/or photo-contamination.
US11715621B2
A system may include a substrate stage, configured to support a substrate, where a main surface of the substrate defines a substrate plane. The system may include an ion source, including an extraction assembly that is oriented to direct an ion beam to the substrate along a trajectory defining a non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to the substrate plane. The system may include a radical source oriented to direct a radical beam to the substrate along a trajectory defining the non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to the substrate plane. The substrate stage may be further configured to scan the substrate along a first direction, lying with the substrate plane, while the main surface of the substrate is oriented within the substrate plane.
US11715611B2
A push-button switch assembly with means for indicating a switch status includes: an actuation head for actuating the push-button switch assembly, the actuation head having a disc-shaped upper part and a tubular lower part; a sleeve-type push-button guide which is coupled to the actuation head such that, in relation to a longitudinal axis of the push-button switch assembly, the upper part is arranged above the push-button guide and the lower part surrounds the push-button guide; a sleeve-type locking unit for determining a switch status of the push-button switch assembly, the sleeve-type locking unit being arranged within the push-button guide in relation to the longitudinal axis and being transferrable between a first and a second locking state by the actuation head, the locking unit having a plunger sleeve and an annular detent catch coupled to the plunger sleeve, which delimit a central through-opening through the locking unit.
US11715609B2
An electrical connection device is connected between a main body and a draw-out device of an electrical appliance having a draw-out structure. The electrical connection device includes: a draw-out device connection assembly being fixed on the draw-out device and electrically connected to inlet and outlet ends of the draw-out device; a main body connection assembly including contact pieces with a clamping mechanism, wherein the clamping mechanism makes the contact pieces close to and clamp main body busbars; and a flexible assembly connecting the draw-out device connection assembly and the main body connection assembly to form a conductive path. The contact pieces of the main body connection assembly are offset by adapting to the position deviation of the main body busbars. A linked electrical connection assembly is formed by the described electrical connection devices and an electrical appliance using the described electrical connection devices or the electrical connection assembly.
US11715607B2
Disclosed here is a method for producing a graphene macro-assembly (GMA)-fullerene composite, comprising providing a mixture of graphene oxide and water, adding a hydroxylated fullerene to the mixture, and forming a gel of the hydroxylated fullerene and the mixture. Also described are a GMA-fullerene composite produced, an electrode comprising the GMA-fullerene composite, and a supercapacitor comprising the electrode.
US11715597B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body and two external electrodes. The multilayer body includes a multilayer main body including an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately stacked, and outer layer portions on opposite sides of the inner layer portion in a stacking direction, two side gap portions on opposite sides in a width direction, main surfaces on opposite sides in the stacking direction, side surfaces on opposite sides in the width direction, and end surfaces respectively provided on opposite sides in a length direction. The two external electrodes are provided at the end surfaces, each including a foundation electrode layer in contact with the multilayer body, and a conductive resin layer on the foundation electrode layer. An end region of the internal electrode layers in contact with the foundation electrode layer is thicker than other regions of the internal electrode layers.
US11715595B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes alternately disposed with the dielectric layers and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes. The one of the internal electrodes includes Ni, Ba, Ti, O, and Tb, and a content of Tb relative to a sum of contents of Ni, Ba, Ti, O, and Tb is 0.45 to 3.0 wt %.
US11715579B2
An electronic device is provided. The device comprises a singulated carrier portion, a substrate molded onto the singulated carrier portion, and conductive traces disposed on the substrate. The substrate comprises a polymer composition that includes an aromatic polymer and an electrically conductive filler, wherein the polymer composition exhibits a surface resistivity of from about 1×1012 ohms to about 1×1018 ohms as determined in accordance with ASTM D257-14.
US11715578B2
The present invention relates to core shell liquid metal encapsulates comprising and processes of making and using such encapsulates and networks. The shell(s) of such encapsulates employ a palette of materials having widely varied band structures and/or the desired spin pairing and/or bond polarization. Such encapsulates can be designed to respond to one or more stimuli of choice, including but not limited to electromagnetic, thermal, mechanical, photonic, and/or magnetic and are environmentally robust.
US11715572B2
Process for manufacturing a composite nuclear component comprising i) a support containing a substrate comprising a metallic material and a ceramic material (1), the substrate (1) being coated or not coated with an interposed layer (3) positioned between the substrate (1) and at least one protective layer (2) and ii) the protective layer (2) composed of a protective material comprising chromium; the process comprising a step a) of vaporizing a mother solution followed by a step b) of depositing the protective layer (2) onto the support via a DLI-MOCVD deposition process. Composite nuclear component comprising i) a support containing a substrate comprising a metallic material and a ceramic material (1), the substrate (1) being coated or not coated with an interposed layer (3) positioned between the substrate (1) and at least one protective layer (2) and ii) the protective layer (2) composed of a protective material comprising chromium; the process comprising a step a) of vaporizing a mother solution followed by a step b) of depositing the protective layer (2) onto the support via a DLI-MOCVD deposition process. The composite nuclear component has improved resistance to oxidation and/or migration of undesired material. The invention also relates to the use of the composite nuclear component for combating oxidation and/or degradation of the ceramic material contained in the substrate.
US11715571B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel material containing three-layer-structured isotropic nuclear fuel particles coated with a ceramic having a composition which has a higher shrinkage than a matrix in order to prevent cracking of ceramic nuclear fuel, wherein the three-layer-structured nuclear fuel particles before coating is included in the range of between 5 and 40 fractions by volume based on after sintering. More specifically, the present invention provides a composition for preparing a fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel containing three-layer-structured isotropic particles coated with the substance which includes, as a main ingredient, a silicon carbine derived from a precursor of the silicon carbide wherein a condition of ΔLc>ΔLm at normal pressure sintering is created, where the sintering shrinkage of the coating layer of the three-layer-structured isotropic nuclear fuel particles is ΔLc and the sintering shrinkage of the silicon carbide matrix is ΔLm; material produced therefrom; and a method for manufacturing the material. The residual porosity of the fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel material is 4% or less.
US11715566B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for optimization techniques and a realistic 3D model to design optimal parameters for transcutaneous stimulation to achieve focalized stimulation of a target tissue such as the spinal cord, brain or other internal organ. The methods, apparatus, and systems include generation of a 3D model from a CT/MRI image, as well as an optimization algorithm that enables stimulation of any target location (e.g., on the dorsal root, or on the dorsal column) with any orientation at high precision.
US11715552B2
A medicine dispenser, including a medicine prescription reader, for reading a medicine prescription including two due times, trays, each for containing medicine doses of one type only, and a robot, for dispensing medicine doses from at the trays to two cells of box according to the reading of the medicine prescription reader, thereby dedicating each of the cells to one of the due times.
US11715550B1
A multi-format communications system provides a way for a company to control information, some of which may be confidential information, such as PHI, exchanged with existing and potential customers, through individuals associated with the company in a manner preferred by the customers, particularly for non-confidential information, while maintaining a permanent record of communications. With the company maintaining control, if an employee leaves, the employee can be blocked from access to customer information, including communications. Additionally, a time-line view of all events related to a customer can be displayed including communications.
US11715543B2
A memory test circuit apparatus and a method are provided. The method may include: compressing first test data output by a first storage array in a memory to generate first compressed data, compressing second test data output by a second storage array in the memory to generate second compressed data, compressing the first compressed data and the second compressed data to generate third compressed data, and outputting one of the first compressed data, the second compressed data and the third compressed data to determine a working condition of each of the first storage array and the second storage array. This method can provide not only a test result on a memory, but also a test result for individual storage array within the memory, which improves the efficiency of a circuit test.
US11715542B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having a peripheral region surrounding, a defect detection circuit in the peripheral region, the defect detection circuit arranged in an open conduction loop, the defect detection circuit comprising a plurality of latch circuits and a plurality of defect detection conduction paths, each defect detection conduction path of the plurality of defect detection conduction paths connecting two adjacent latch circuits of the plurality of latch circuits, and a test control circuitry configured to perform (a) a test write operation by transferring bits of an input data pattern in a forward direction of the open conduction loop to cause the plurality of latch circuits to store the bits of the input data pattern in the plurality of latch circuits, and (b) a test read operation by transferring bits stored in the plurality of latch circuits in a backward direction of the open conduction loop.
US11715537B2
Nonvolatile memory devices, operating methods thereof, and memory systems including the same. A nonvolatile memory device may include a memory cell array and a word line driver. The memory cell array may include a plurality of memory cells. The word line driver may be configured to apply word line voltages to a plurality of word lines connected to the plurality of memory cells, respectively. Magnitudes of the word line voltages may be determined according to locations of the plurality of word lines.
US11715530B2
Several embodiments of memory devices and systems with offset memory component automatic calibration error recovery are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system includes at least one memory region and calibration circuitry. The memory region has memory cells that read out data states in response to application of a current read level signal. The calibration circuitry is operably coupled to the at least one memory region and is configured to determine a read level offset value corresponding to one or more of a plurality of offset read level test signals, including a base offset read level test signal. The base offset read level test signal is offset from the current read level signal by a predetermined value. The calibration circuitry is further configured to output the determined read level offset value.
US11715526B2
A memory device including: a memory block including a word lines, word lines located in the middle of the word lines are used as dummy word lines, a control circuit establish word lines stacked on one side and other side of the dummy word lines into a first and second sub-blocks, respectively, performs an independent erase operation on one of the first and second sub-blocks in an erase operation period, and a control logic differently sets a level of a first transfer voltage for controlling transfer of an erase common voltage to the selected sub-block and the level of a second transfer voltage for controlling transfer of the erase common voltage to the unselected sub-block, applies an erase allowable voltage from the erase common voltage to a word line of the selected sub-block, and floats a word line of the unselected sub-block, in the erase operation period.
US11715524B2
There are provided a memory device and an operating method thereof. The memory device includes: a memory block including a plurality of memory cells; and a peripheral circuit for performing a program operation and an erase operation on the memory block. The program operation is performed by using a hole injection method, and the erase operation is performed by using an electron charging method. The plurality of memory cells are programmed when a threshold voltage of each of at least some of the plurality of memory cells is decreased to be less than a set level in the program operation, and are erased when the threshold voltage of each of the plurality of memory cells is increased to be the set level or higher in the erase operation.
US11715523B2
In certain aspects, a memory device includes a memory cell array having rows of memory cells, word lines respectively coupled to the rows of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit coupled to the memory cell array through the word lines. The peripheral circuit is configured to program a row of memory cells using a first program voltage and verify the programmed row of memory cells using a verify voltage and a sample voltage smaller than the verify voltage. The peripheral circuit is also configured to obtain a first number of memory cells of the programmed row of memory cells based on the sample voltage. The peripheral circuit is further configured to predict, based on the first number of memory cells and the sample voltage, a second number of memory cells of the programmed row of memory cells that fail to pass the verification.
US11715516B2
A nonvolatile memory device including: a memory cell array, the memory cell array including a plurality of cell strings, at least one of the cell strings including a plurality of memory cells stacked in a direction perpendicular to a surface of a substrate, at least one of the memory cells is a multi-level cell storing at least three bits; and a control logic circuit configured to control a page buffer to read a fast read page of the memory cells with one read voltage and at least two normal read pages of the memory cells with the same number of read voltages.
US11715513B2
Apparatuses and methods for sense line architectures for semiconductor memories are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first array region including first portions of a plurality of sense lines and memory cells coupled to the first portions of the plurality of sense lines and further includes a second array region including second portions of the plurality of sense lines and memory cells coupled to the second portions of the plurality of sense lines. An array gap is disposed between the first and second array regions and includes third portions of the plurality of sense lines and does not include any memory cells. Each third portion of the plurality of sense lines includes conductive structures having vertical components configured to couple the first portions and second portions of the plurality of sense lines to provide an electrically continuous sense lines through the first and second array regions and the array gap.
US11715500B2
Row and/or column electrode lines for a memory device are staggered such that gaps are formed between terminated lines. Vertical interconnection to central points along adjacent lines that are not terminated are made in the gap, and vertical interconnection through can additionally be made through the gap without contacting the lines of that level.
US11715494B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for recording video information on the computing device during a monitored event. Execution information is recorded on the computing device during the monitored event. The video information and the execution information are temporally synchronized to form temporally-synchronized diagnostic content.
US11715491B2
Methods of critical dimension (CD) uniformity control for magnetic head devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method can include providing a film stack, the film stack including a substrate, a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor layer, and a hard mask layer, patterning the hard mask layer using a first mask that defines critical shape patterns other than the CD, forming a mandrel pattern using a second mask that defines the CD, and forming a sidewall spacer pattern on sidewalls of the mandrel pattern, and removing the mandrel pattern.
US11715481B2
An encoding parameter adjustment method is performed at a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a first audio signal, and determining a psychoacoustic masking threshold within a service frequency band in the first audio signal; obtaining a second audio signal, and determining a background environmental noise estimation value of the frequency within the service frequency band in the second audio signal; determining a masking tag corresponding to the service frequency band according to the psychoacoustic masking threshold of the first audio signal and the background environmental noise estimation value of the second audio signal; determining a masking rate of the service frequency band according to the masking tag corresponding to the frequency within the service frequency band; determining a first reference bit rate according to the masking rate of the service frequency band; and configuring an encoding bit rate of an audio encoder based on the first reference bit rate.
US11715477B1
Quantizing speech model parameters includes, for each of multiple vectors of quantized excitation strength parameters, determining first and second errors between first and second elements of a vector of excitation strength parameters and, respectively, first and second elements of the vector of quantized excitation strength parameters, and determining a first energy and a second energy associated with, respectively, the first and second errors. First and second weights for, respectively, the first error and the second error, are determined and are used to produce first and second weighted errors, which are combined to produce a total error. The total errors of each of the multiple vectors of quantized excitation strength parameters are compared and the vector of quantized excitation strength parameters that produces the smallest total error is selected to represent the vector of excitation strength parameters.
US11715476B2
A secure audio switch comprising: a plurality of host computer interfaces, each for interfacing the secure audio switch with a corresponding host computer, for receiving audio signals from said corresponding host computer; a user audio interface, for interfacing the secure audio switch with at least one user audio device, wherein said at least one user audio device comprises at least one of a speaker or an earphone; an Audio Output Channel (AOC), coupled to said user audio interface comprises audio security device to reduce data leak by intentionally reducing data rate capable of flowing through said AOC to a maximum rate comparable to the minimal rate required for reproducing human speech, and forcing audio data flow only in the direction to said user audio interface by using an analog audio diode and an analog low pass filter in the audio output channel (AOC).
US11715467B2
A method and system of audibly broadcasting responses to a user based on user queries about a specific patient report, the method comprising receiving an audible query from the user to a microphone coupled to a collaboration device, identifying at least one intent associated with the audible query, identifying at least one data operation associated with the at least one intent, associating each of the at least one data operations with a first set of data presented on the report, executing each of the at least one data operations on a second set of data to generate response data, generating an audible response file associated with the response data and providing the audible response file for broadcasting via a speaker coupled to the collaboration device.
US11715456B2
It discloses a serial FFT-based low-power MFCC speech feature extraction circuit, and belongs to the technical field of calculation, reckoning or counting. The circuit is oriented toward the field of intelligence, and is adapted to a hardware circuit design by optimizing an MFCC algorithm, and a serial FFT algorithm and an approximation operation on a multiplication are fully used, thereby greatly reducing a circuit area and power. The entire circuit includes a preprocessing module, a framing and windowing module, an FFT module, a Mel filtration module, and a logarithm and DCT module. The improved FFT algorithm uses a serial pipeline manner to process data, and a time of an audio frame is effectively utilized, thereby reducing a storage area and operation frequency of the circuit under the condition of meeting an output requirement.
US11715455B2
A machine has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to supply a name page in response to a request from an administrator machine. Name page updates are received from the administrator machine. The name page updates include participants and associated network contact information for the participants. A code is utilized to form a link to the name page. Prompts for textual name information and audio name information are supplied to a client machine that activates the link to the name page. Textual name information and audio name information are received from the client machine. The textual name information and audio name information are stored in association with the name page. Navigation tools are supplied to facilitate access to the textual name information and audio name information.
US11715453B2
Defining critical spacing is necessary for steering of parametric audio. Comparing steering measurements both with and without a waveguide leads to a conclusion that the diffuse phyllotactic grating lobe contributes audio and is to blame for poor steering. In addition, the waveguide needs to function with correct phase offsets to achieve the steering required for performance. Arranging tubes so that the array configuration changes from rectilinear to another distribution is useful when the waveguide is short of critical spacing or constrained for space. Array designs may also capitalize on rectilinear transducer design while having the benefits of a transducer tiling that has irrational spacing to promote the spread of grating lobe energy.
US11715450B2
An acoustic panel is provided that includes a perforated first skin, a second skin and a core. The core is connected to the perforated first skin and the second skin. The core includes a plurality of chambers and a plurality of septums respectively arranged with the chambers. The chambers include a first chamber that extends vertically between the perforated first skin and the second skin. The septums include a first septum that extends laterally across the first chamber. The first septum includes a first septum orifice. The first septum tapers laterally inward towards the first septum orifice as the first septum extends vertically towards the second skin.
US11715439B2
Described embodiments provide a method and user equipment for dynamically controlling a display mode of an external device coupled to user equipment. The method may include determining whether to detect connection to an external device and upon the detection of the connection, controlling the coupled external device to display image data produced in the user equipment on a display unit of the coupled external device in a display mode different from a display mode of the user equipment.
US11715437B2
A light control panel including an image display region including a region corresponding to an image display region in a display panel and a region corresponding to a peripheral circuit region in the display panel is provided between the display panel and a backlight. A pattern image for controlling radiation of light emitted from the backlight to the display panel is displayed in the image display region in the light control panel according to an action state of the peripheral circuit in the display panel.
US11715425B2
A display method, a display device, a display system, and a storage medium are provided. The display method includes: obtaining a first fixation coordinate transmitted by an image acquisition device, and obtaining a second fixation coordinate and a current frame of image that are transmitted by a first processor; performing refresh and display by using the current frame of image; determining a type of the current frame of image, and determining, based on the type, whether the first fixation coordinate changes abnormally; and performing refresh and display by using a previous frame of image for non-fixation region in a case that the first fixation coordinate changes abnormally, and performing refresh and display by using a next frame of image transmitted by the first processor in a case that the first fixation coordinate does not change abnormally.
US11715423B2
A plurality of package units is on a surface of a substrate, and a driving circuit is on the surface of the substrate. Each package unit includes at least one pixel, and each pixel is provided with a plurality of light-emitting elements. The driving circuit electrically connects to the light-emitting elements and is configured to transmit a plurality of gate driving signals and a plurality of data signals to drive the plurality of light-emitting elements to emit light to display images. The driving circuit is partially in the package units and is partially between adjacent package units. The substrate and a portion of the driving circuit between adjacent package units are made to be stretchable, while the package units are not stretchable.
US11715422B2
A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode that includes first and second terminals. A driving transistor generates a driving current, and includes a first terminal for a first power supply voltage, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the organic light emitting diode, and a gate terminal for an initialization voltage. The first switching transistor includes a first terminal connected to a first node, a second terminal connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor, and a gate terminal for a data initialization gate signal. The second switching transistor includes a first terminal for the initialization voltage, a second terminal connected to the first node, a first gate terminal for the data initialization gate signal, and a second gate terminal for a light emitting element initialization signal. The first terminal of the organic light emitting diode is connected to the first node.
US11715412B2
The present disclosure discloses a self-luminous pixel circuit which includes a driving module and a light emitting module that are connected between a first variable potential and a second variable potential; the driving module controls magnitude of electric current flowing through the light emitting module according to timing control; the self-luminous pixel circuit provided by the present disclosure can be switched to have a high brightness adjustment range via the first variable potential and the second variable potential, thereby increasing the number of gray levels.
US11715398B2
This application provides a measurement signal circuit and a measurement method thereof. The measurement signal circuit includes: a first switch, the first switch being electrically coupled to a first node, a second node and a third node; a second switch, a control end of the second switch being electrically coupled to the first node, a first end of the second switch being electrically coupled to a fourth node, and a second end of the second switch being electrically coupled to the third node; and a third switch, a control end of the third switch being electrically coupled to a fifth node, a first end of the third switch being electrically coupled to the third node, and a second end of the third switch being electrically coupled to a pad.
US11715387B2
An interactive computer simulation system, station and method for training a user in the performance of a task through a training activity. A tangible instrument module allows a user to interact with the tangible instrument module for controlling a virtual element. A plurality of performance metric datasets representing results of the interactions between the user and the tangible instrument module is obtained. During execution of the interactive computer simulation, in the plurality of performance metric datasets, a plurality of actual maneuvers of the virtual element are detected during the training activity, one or more standard operating procedures (SOPs) are identified for the training activity from a plurality of the individually detected actual maneuvers. In real-time upon detection of the SOPs, information for display in the interactive computer simulation related the SOPs.
US11715385B2
This disclosure provides methods, systems, and storage media for automatically generating curricula. The method is performed by one or more machine learning models and one or more algorithms. The method comprises receiving user input related to a subject matter for learning; searching a database for keywords of material related to the subject matter; generating knowledge areas in response to the keywords of the material; searching one or more databases for modules that include material related to the subject matter in response to the generated knowledge areas; populating a map with the knowledge areas; and associating, in the map, modules with the knowledge areas. The subject matter for learning may comprise career skills, job skills, academic disciplines, or areas of general knowledge. For example, the methods, systems, and storage media may be configured to create personalized curriculum based on career type, industry, company, role, or discipline.
US11715378B2
Provided herein is a system and method of a vehicle that detects a signal and reacts to the signal. The system comprises one or more sensors; one or more processors; a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform detecting a signal from a source; determining an intended action of the vehicle based on the detected signal; sending, to the source, a response signal indicative of the intended action; determining whether the source has sent a response to the response signal; and in response to determining that the source has sent a response to the response signal, taking the intended action based on the response to the response signal.
US11715370B2
Embodiments include methods performed by a processor of a vehicle control unit for managing a driving condition anomaly. In some embodiments, the vehicle may receive a first driving condition based on data from a first vehicle sensor, receive a second driving condition based on data from another data source, determine a driving condition anomaly based on the first driving condition and the second driving condition, send a request for information to a driving condition database, receive the requested information from the driving condition database, and resolve the driving condition anomaly based on the requested information from the driving condition database.
US11715369B2
A method for traffic prediction of a road network includes receiving past traffic information corresponding to multiple locations on the road network. The method further includes determining, by a processor and based on the past traffic information, temporal characteristics of the past traffic information corresponding to changes of characteristics over time and spatial characteristics of the past traffic information corresponding to interactions between locations on the road network. The method further includes predicting predicted traffic information corresponding to a later time based on the determined temporal and spatial characteristics of the past traffic information. The method further includes receiving detected additional traffic information corresponding to the later time. The method further includes updating the temporal characteristics of the traffic information and the spatial characteristics of the traffic information based on the predicted traffic information and the detected additional traffic information.
US11715359B1
A smoke alarm may include at least one sensor head including a miniature mass spectrometer; a microcontroller unit configured to receive data from each of the at least one sensor head; and at least one of a photoelectric detector, or ionization detector. Further, the smoke alarm may be capable of determining categories of smoke and delivering discrete alerts accordingly.
US11715355B1
A head-mountable device can include a crown module that receives input from a user and provides localized haptic feedback to the user. A magnetic element coupled to a crown can be moved by inducing magnetic fields, and the position and/or movement of the magnetic element can be detected to provide closed-loop control of the induced magnetic fields. The haptic feedback can be effectively perceived by the user at the crown without causing the entire head-mountable device to vibrate against the head and/or face of the user.
US11715354B2
A sounder apparatus 100 includes a sounder 110 having at least two volume settings, at least one detector 120, a micro-controller wherein the micro controller is configured to receive an input signal from the at least one detector 120, and to control the volume setting of the sounder based on the input signal.
US11715345B2
Systems and methods for using a non-regulated device to generate data objects via a regulated device
Systems and methods are provided for using a non-regulated device to generate data objects via a regulated device. A first device can provide interface content items corresponding to one or more events for which to generate a data object, and receive, via a user selection, object information identifying an event of the one or more events, one or more object parameters, and a second device identifier identifying a second device of the user. The first device can generate a request to provide the object information to one or more servers, and transmit the request to provide the object information to one or more servers. The request causes the one or more servers to store an entry including the object information, generate a link to the object information, and transmit a message including the link to the second device of the user using the second device identifier.
US11715328B2
An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of selecting an image having common characteristics with a previously selected image, and a recording medium storing the program are provided. In a case where an image of a child and a father captured together is included in common in a first image selected from a first image group and a second image selected from a second image group, a speech balloon 200 for notifying a user to select such an image IR1 from a target image group is displayed on a display panel 21 of a smartphone. In a case where the user selects the image IR1 of the child and the father captured together, common characteristics with a previously selected image are maintained.
US11715315B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for identifying content to represent web pages and creating a representative image from the content. An example method may include retrieving a web document using a uniform resource locator (URL) contained in a dequeued work item, determining, from the web document, candidate images for creation of the representative image including extracting image references, wherein the image references are extracted by identifying image tags with source attributes, values of which are URLs locating images, filtering the URLs using a blacklist of expressions designed to match the URLs of images comprising one or more predefined undesirable characteristics, and retrieving the images which do not match any of the expressions using an HTTP client, and creating the representative image, comprising at least modifying a chosen image selected from among the candidate images.
US11715312B1
A system and a method for smart information recognition for user health identification are disclosed. The system and the method comprise a display unit, a color code detection unit, an image filter, an optical character recognition unit, a code detection unit and an elimination unit. The display unit contains a user information. The color code detection unit is associated with the display unit to split at least one of the user information by analyzing at least three colors in an image. The image filter detects at least one of the user's information. Further, the optical character recognition unit recognizes a text of the user information. The code detection unit detects an image code and the elimination unit is used for eliminating a binary object that is close to an image border. The proposed system and method ensure complete security to prevent abuse of an individual's personal information.
US11715311B1
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing licence plate matching. A reference list comprising licence plate identifiers is obtained. At least one transformation rule is applied to the licence plate identifiers of the reference list to generate entries forming at least one augmented reference list, and storing the at least one augmented reference list in at least one database. A search request comprising an input licence plate identifier is obtained. The at least one transformation rule is applied to the input licence plate identifier to generate a search list comprising at least one search term. The at least one database is queried with the search list to identify a match between at least one of the entries of the at least one augmented reference list and the at least one search term of the search list. A signal responsive is output to identifying the match.
US11715306B2
Systems and methods monitor driver behavior for vehicular fleet management in a fleet of vehicles using driver-facing imaging device. The systems and methods herein relate generally to vehicular fleet management for enhancing safety of the fleet and improving the performance of the fleet drivers, and further relate to monitoring the operation of fleet vehicles using one or more driver-facing imaging devices disposed in the fleet vehicles for recording activities of the fleet drivers and their passengers, storing information relating to the monitored activities, selectively generating warnings related to the monitored activities, and reporting the monitored activities to a central fleet management system for use in enhancing the safety of the vehicles of the fleet and for helping to improve the performance of the fleet drivers.
US11715299B1
In one implementation, a method of defining a negative space in a three-dimensional scene model is performed at a device including a processor and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a three-dimensional scene model of a physical environment including a plurality of points, wherein each of the plurality of points is associated with a set of coordinates in a three-dimensional space. The method includes defining a subspace in the three-dimensional space with less than a threshold number of the plurality of points. The method includes determining a semantic label for the subspace. The method includes generating a characterization vector of the subspace, wherein the characterization vector includes the spatial extent of the subspace and the semantic label.
US11715298B1
Augmented reality (AR) technology can be used to perform a real-time overlay on an image displayed on a user device. A user device can receive image data of an area comprising an item from the real-world. Based on the image data, an identity and a value of the item can be obtained by the user device. If the value of the item is greater than a pre-determined value for the item or a category of the item, then the user device can obscure in real-time on the displayed image the item or category of the item having the value that is greater than the pre-determined value.
US11715294B2
Systems that search databases of videos or images to identify similar products in a given video or image of a product are disclosed. The content of the given video is represented by a feature vector used to measure the given video's similarity to either a video or an image. When the system is deployed to recognize particular fashion items in videos, some such videos are taken in uncontrolled settings, and as a result, may have low resolution, poor contrast, minimal focus, motion blur, or low lighting. By recognizing and removing poor quality video frames from the image recognition pipeline, associating products across video frames to form tracklets of each product, and enriching the feature representation of each item for best retrieval result by fusing information from multiple video frames depicting the item, the system addresses the aforementioned shortcomings.
US11715293B2
Methods, devices, and systems for identifying charging devices are provided. In one aspect, a method of identifying a charging device include: capturing an infrared image and a depth image of a current field of view with a depth camera; determining, according to the infrared image, that there are one or more suspected charging device areas that satisfy first specified conditions; determining, according to the depth image, that there is a target charging device area whose height relative to a depth camera is within a specified range in the one or more suspected charging device areas; and identifying the charging device according to the target charging device area. The first specified conditions indicate that a gray-scale value of each of pixels in an area is greater than a second specified value, and a number of the pixels in the area is greater than a third specified value.
US11715288B2
Systems and methods for optical character recognition using specialized confidence functions. An example method comprises: receiving a grapheme image; computing a feature vector representing the grapheme image in a space of image features; and computing a confidence vector associated with the grapheme image, wherein each element of the confidence vector reflects a distance, in the space of image features, between the feature vector and a center of a class of a set of classes.
US11715284B2
An anomaly detection apparatus extracts a circumstantial feature value for anomaly detection corresponding to a circumstantial feature value for learning from other modal signal for anomaly detection different in modal from acoustic, calculates a signal pattern feature related to an acoustic signal of anomaly detection target based on the acoustic signal of anomaly detection target, the circumstantial feature value for anomaly detection and a signal pattern model learned based on an acoustic signal for learning and the circumstantial feature value for learning calculated from other modal signal for learning, and calculates an anomaly score for performing an anomaly detection of the acoustic signal of anomaly detection target based on the signal pattern feature.
US11715280B2
Disclosed are an object detection device and a control method. A method for controlling an object detection device comprises the steps of: receiving one image; dividing the received image into a predetermined number of local areas on the basis of the size of a convolutional layer of a convolution neural network (CNN); identifying small objects at the same time by inputting a number of the divided local areas corresponding to the number of CNN channels to each of a plurality of CNN channels; sequentially repeating the identifying of the small objects for each of the remaining divided local areas; selecting MM mode or MB mode; setting an object detection target area corresponding to the number of CNN channels on the basis of the selected mode; and detecting the small objects at the same time by inputting each set object detection target area to each of the plurality of CNN channels.
US11715276B2
An example system includes a first and second digital device. The first digital device may be configured to provide an interface displaying an image including a depiction of an object, place a bounding shape around the object, and crop contents of the bounding shape to create a portion. The second digital device may be configured to receive the portion, retrieve high-level features and low-level features, apply first Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) to the high-level features to aggregate the high-level features as aggregate features, concatenate results to create the aggregate features, up-sample, apply a convolution to the low-level features, concatenate the aggregate features with the low-level features after convolution to form combined features, segment the combined features to generate a polygonal shape outline along outer boundaries of the first object, and provide the first polygonal shape outline to the first digital device for display.
US11715275B2
Systems and methods are described to enable the creation of user interfaces that may adapt to different environments and may be automatically created. User interfaces may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional and may be used in virtual reality or augmented reality applications. An interface creator may create or receive digital assets associated with a content item, define virtual planes and associated digital asset templates, associate the digital assets with the virtual planes, and enable display of the virtual planes with associated digital assets to a user for user interaction. Digital assets may be automatically edited to meet the specifications of the templates associated with the virtual planes. Virtual planes and templates may also be standardized and aggregated so that a completed user interface may be easily delivered and presented with other content items in a uniform manner.
US11715271B2
Presenting a virtual object includes obtaining, by a first device, a first geometric representation and a second geometric representation corresponding to a physical surface in a real environment, determining an initialization location on the first physical surface for a virtual object, obtaining a first normal for the first representation and a second normal for the second representation at the initialization location, and rendering the virtual object at the initialization location based on the first normal and the second normal.
US11715270B2
An illustrative content augmentation system identifies a presentation context dataset indicating how an extended reality (XR) presentation device is to present XR content in connection with a presentation of primary content. Based on the presentation context dataset, the content augmentation system selects a subset of secondary content items from a set of secondary content items each configured for presentation as XR content that augments the presentation of the primary content. The content augmentation system also provides the selected subset of secondary content items for presentation by the XR presentation device in connection with the presentation of the primary content. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11715263B2
A file generation apparatus generates a file which includes material data used for generation of a virtual viewpoint image that is based on a multi-viewpoint image and type information for specifying a type of the material data, and outputs the generated file.
US11715258B2
The present invention provides a method for reconstructing a 3D object based on dynamic graph network, first, obtaining a plurality of feature vectors from 2D image I of an object; then, preparing input data: predefining an initial ellipsoid mesh, obtaining a feature input X by filling initial features and creating a relationship matrix A corresponding to the feature input X; then, inputting the feature input X and corresponding relationship matrix A to a dynamic graph network for integrating and deducing of each vertex's feature, thus new relationship matrix is obtained and used for the later graph convoluting, which improves the initial graph information and makes the initial graph information adapted to the mesh relation of the corresponding object, therefore the accuracy and the effect of 3D object reconstruction have been improved; last, regressing the position, thus the 3D structure of the object is deduced, and the 3D object reconstruction is completed.
US11715257B2
A sensor simulation system may generate sensor data for use in simulations by rendering two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional simulated environment. In various examples, the sensor simulation system uses sensor dependency data to determine specific views to be re-rendered at different times during the simulation. The sensor simulation system also may generate unified views with multi-sensor data at each region (e.g., pixel) of the two-dimensional view for consumption by different sensor types. A hybrid technique may be used in some implementations in which rasterization is used to generate a view, after which ray tracing is used to align the view with a particular sensor. Spatial and temporal upsampling techniques also may be used, including depth-aware and velocity-aware analyses for simulated objects, to improve view resolution and reduce the frequency of re-rendering views.
US11715251B2
Training deep neural networks requires a large amount of labeled training data. Conventionally, labeled training data is generated by gathering real images that are manually labelled which is very time-consuming. Instead of manually labelling a training dataset, domain randomization technique is used generate training data that is automatically labeled. The generated training data may be used to train neural networks for object detection and segmentation (labelling) tasks. In an embodiment, the generated training data includes synthetic input images generated by rendering three-dimensional (3D) objects of interest in a 3D scene. In an embodiment, the generated training data includes synthetic input images generated by rendering 3D objects of interest on a 2D background image. The 3D objects of interest are objects that a neural network is trained to detect and/or label.
US11715247B1
An animation system wherein scanned facial expressions are processed to form muscle models based on live actors combines muscle models over a plurality of live actors to form a facial rig usable for generating expressions based on specification of a strain vector and a control vector of a muscle model for varying characters corresponding to live actors.
US11715243B2
Anisotropic texture filtering applies a texture at a sampling point in screen space. Calculated texture-filter parameters configure a filter to perform filtering of the texture for the sampling point. The texture for the sampling point is filtered using a filtering kernel having a footprint in texture space determined by the texture-filter parameters. Texture-filter parameters are calculated by generating a first and a second pair of screen-space basis vectors being rotated relative to each other. First and second pairs of texture-space basis vectors are calculated that correspond to the first and second pairs of screen-space basis vectors transformed to texture space under a local approximation of a mapping between screen space and texture space. An angular displacement is determined between a selected pair of the first and second pairs of screen-space basis vectors and screen-space principal axes of a local approximation of the mapping that indicate the maximum and minimum scale factors of the mapping. The angular displacement and the pair of screen-space basis vectors are used to generate texture-space principal axes comprising a major axis associated with the maximum scale factor of the mapping and a minor axis associated with the minimum scale factor of the mapping.
US11715240B2
A video and audio presentation device configured to present video and audio for sports training with less delay in physical reaction is provided. The device includes: an offset determination unit configured to determine a time-series offset toffset obtained by correcting a time difference tdiff on a basis of a correction coefficient α, the time difference tdiff representing a time difference between Areal and Amix, or a time difference between AVR and Amix, where a physical reaction Areal represents time-series data of physical reaction to an incoming object in a real environment, a physical reaction AVR represents time-series data of physical reaction to an incoming object presented in a virtual reality environment, and a physical reaction Amix represents time-series data of physical reaction to an incoming object presented in a semi-virtual reality environment; a video presentation unit configured to present video in the semi-virtual reality environment; and an audio presentation unit configured to shift audio corresponding to the video on a basis of the time-series offset toffset so that the audio precedes arrival of the video, and to present the shifted audio in the semi-virtual reality environment.
US11715233B2
An embodiment mobility device includes a position detector configured to detect a first current position of the mobility device, a display configured to display position information of the mobility device, and a controller configured to set the first current position of the mobility device detected by the position detector as first position information, identify an augmented reality (AR) marker in a predetermined range, based on the first position information, determine a second current position of the mobility device based on the identified AR marker, and set the second current position of the mobility device determined based on the identified AR marker as second position information, and determine final position information of the mobility device by applying the second position information to the first position information.
US11715232B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for determining an attitude angle of a camera, capable of improving the accuracy of the attitude angle of the camera, and in turn the accuracy of the attitude of the camera that is obtained based on the attitude angle of the camera. The present disclosure can also improve the accuracy of object distance measurement and vehicle positioning based on the attitude angle of the camera. In the method for determining an attitude angle of a camera, the camera is fixed to one and the same rigid object in a vehicle along with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The method includes: obtaining IMU attitude angles outputted from the IMU and images captured by the camera; determining a target IMU attitude angle corresponding to each frame of image based on respective capturing time of the frames of images and respective outputting time of the IMU attitude angles; and determining an attitude angle of the camera corresponding to each frame of image based on a predetermined conversion relationship between a camera coordinate system for the camera and an IMU coordinate system for the IMU and the target IMU attitude angle corresponding to each frame of image.
US11715220B1
In one implementation, a method of activating a depth sensor is performed by a device including a depth sensor including a plurality of depth sensor elements, a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining content to be displayed on the display in association with a physical environment. The method includes selecting a subset of the plurality of depth sensor elements. The method includes activating the subset of the plurality of depth sensor elements to obtain a depth map of the physical environment. The method includes displaying, on the display, at least a portion of the content based on the depth map of the physical environment.
US11715205B2
Methods and systems for characterizing tissue of a subject are disclosed. The method includes retrieving a time series of angiography images of tissue of a subject, defining a plurality of calculation regions, generating a time-intensity curve for each respective calculation region, calculating a rank value for each respective calculation region based on one or more parameters derived from the time-intensity curve; and generating a viewable image in which on the image position of each calculation region an indication is provided of the calculated rank value for that calculation region. Also disclosed are methods and systems for generating first and second time-intensity curves for respective first and second calculation regions, calculating first and second rank values for the respective calculation regions based on first and second pluralities of parameters selected to approximate the respective time-intensity curves, and generating a spatial map of the first and second calculated rank values.
US11715204B2
Systems and methods for image-based biological sample constituent analysis are disclosed. For example, image data corresponding to an image having a target constituent and other constituents may be generated and utilized for analysis. The systems and processes described herein may be utilized to differentiate between portions of image data corresponding to the target constituent and other portions that do not correspond to the target constituent. Analysis of the target constituent instances may be performed to provide analytical results.
US11715203B2
An medical image processing method comprises generating a first segmented medical image in accordance with a first segmentation model and based on an original medical image that comprises a plurality of pixels. The method also comprises determining a foreground point and a background point according to the initial target region of the first segmented image. The method further comprises: for each pixel of the plurality of pixels of the original image, determining a first image distance between the respective pixel and the foreground point and a second image distance between the respective pixel and the background point. The method further comprises obtaining a foreground point range image and a background point range image corresponding to the original image, and generating a second segmented image in accordance with a second segmentation model based on the original image, the foreground point range image, and the background point range image.
US11715201B2
Provided is a capsule endoscope. The capsule endoscope includes: an imaging device configured to perform imaging on a digestive tract in vivo to generate an image; an artificial neural network configured to determine whether there is a lesion area in the image; and a transmitter configured to transmit the image based on a determination result of the artificial neural network.
US11715195B2
Circuit board inspection by receiving a near infrared (NIR) image of at least a portion of a circuit board, analyzing the NIR image using a machine learning model, and detecting anomalous circuit board portions according to the analysis.
US11715189B2
A semiconductor image processing apparatus has an image input unit inputs a first semiconductor image, an exposure condition input unit configured to input exposure conditions, a generator performs a process of extracting a feature amount in consideration of the exposure conditions while reducing resolution of the first semiconductor image and thereafter use the extracted feature amount to increase the resolution to generate a second semiconductor image, and a discriminator configured to discriminate whether the input image is the second semiconductor image or a third semiconductor image provided in advance. The generator performs learning so that the discriminator erroneously discriminates the second semiconductor image as the third semiconductor image based on a result discriminated by the discriminator. The discriminator performs learning so as not to erroneously discriminate the second semiconductor image as the third semiconductor image, and not to erroneously discriminate the third semiconductor image as the second semiconductor image.
US11715188B1
An electronic device may be configured to detect a fault in imaging and vision hardware accelerators. The electronic device may include a controller configured to select a first golden input frame of multiple golden input frames to perform a first self-test, and retrieve a first reference image signature corresponding to the first golden input frame. The electronic device may include a hardware accelerator module configured to obtain the first golden input frame, and generate a first output frame based on the first golden input frame. The electronic device may include a signature generator configured to generate a first generated image signature based on the first output frame. The electronic device may include a signature comparison module configured to compare the first generated image signature to the first reference image signature in order to determine whether the hardware accelerator module includes a fault at a first time.
US11715187B2
Systems and methods for improving soft tissue contrast, characterizing tissue, classifying phenotype, stratifying risk, and performing multi-scale modeling aided by multiple energy or contrast excitation and evaluation are provided. The systems and methods can include single and multi-phase acquisitions and broad and local spectrum imaging to assess atherosclerotic plaque tissues in the vessel wall and perivascular space.
US11715184B2
Devices, methods, and program storage devices for creating and/or displaying backwards-compatible High Dynamic Range (HDR) images are disclosed, comprising: obtaining two or more exposures of a scene; creating a gain map based on at least one of the two or more exposures, wherein the gain map comprises a plurality of pixels each corresponding to a portion of the scene, and wherein values of the pixels in the gain map comprise indications of a brightness level of the corresponding portions of the scene; combining the two or more exposures to form a first image; tone mapping the first image based on a Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) format to generate a first SDR image of the scene; and storing the first SDR image and created gain map in a first enhanced image file. The first enhanced image file may be, e.g., a HEIF, HEIC, PNG, GIF, JPEG, or other suitable file format.
US11715157B2
Various systems and methods for presenting and interacting with electronic trading related information on a display screen of a computer system are provided. According to one or more embodiments, buttons are positioned and compressed along an axis, where each button corresponds to a function. A button can be selected through an action of a user input device. A button is removed from the region when a function corresponding to the button is no longer current and when the cursor is not positioned within the region. The remaining buttons, if any, in the region are compressed subsequent to removing the button from the region. A button is not removed from the region when the cursor is positioned within the region.
US11715154B2
Systems and methods for creating accounts at a plurality of payment processors include a method that receives a first request to create a new account, and identifies a payment processor of the plurality of payment processors to handle the first request. The method determines whether a proxy for the new account exists in a local storage and sends a second request to the identified payment processor to create the new account, where the second request includes the proxy when the proxy for the new account exists.
US11715148B2
A method for automatically populating an ecommerce cart is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to add a product item to a shopping cart of an ecommerce shopping environment. The method includes adding the product item to the shopping cart. The method includes updating, responsive to adding the product item, a shopping cart status. The method includes determining a failure of the shopping cart status to satisfy a purchasing criteria associated with the ecommerce shopping environment. The method includes selecting, responsive to determining the failure, an additional product item based on information associated with an user account. The method includes adding the additional product item to the shopping cart.
US11715137B2
A method is disclosed for controlling a charge transfer of an electric vehicle using an electric vehicle charging station, a mobile device, and a cloud server. The method includes receiving, at a mobile device, a message for an electric vehicle of a user from the electric vehicle charging station, wherein a user of the mobile device is associated with the electric vehicle to be charged. The method also includes receiving the charging control signal from the cloud server via the mobile device at the electric vehicle charging station in response to authorizing a charging control signal using identification information and credit account information received from the mobile device, wherein the charging control signal is configured to adjust a parameter used to draw electric power from the electric vehicle charging station.
US11715135B2
A first processor-accessible memory device system and a second processor-accessible memory device system of a self-regulating transaction system may each store a respective local copy of one or more transaction ledgers that record transactions. A first data processing device system may be configured to generate a transaction information block associated with a particular market channel, store it in the local copy of a transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, and transmit it to a second data processing device system over a communications network for storage in the local copy of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel stored in the second processor-accessible memory device system.
US11715134B2
A content compliance system uses machine learning to generate objective verification that content complies with brand criteria. The content compliance system may force the company to select specific brand criteria listed on a user interface. The selected brand criteria are then readily displayed to the creative agency. The content compliance system then compares the selected brand criteria with content generated by the creative agency. The content compliance system uses machine learning algorithms to generate a compliance score that provides a real-time objective indication of the compliance of the creative content with the selected brand criteria. The creative agency can then modify the creative content and receive a real-time updated compliance score.
US11715133B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for determining a bid value for placing an advertisement onto advertising space available through an electronic marketplace. A method is used for calculating the option value of maintaining the advertisement in the advertising space during one or more periods of time. The option value may be based on expected profits and the estimated future value of maintaining the advertisement. The option value may then be used to calculate the bid price for placing the advertisement.
US11715124B1
Systems and methods are provided for identifying and communicating with a user through the user's mobile device. One example method includes receiving, from the mobile device, a user identifier associated with the user and an entity identifier associated with an entity location, the entity identifier being obtained by the mobile device from a wireless transmitter located adjacent to an entrance of the entity location; retrieving user profile data associated with the user identifier from a user database, the user profile data including a user qualifier; providing the user profile data to a display device at the entity location, the display device configured to display the user profile data, including the user qualifier; and sending at least one notification to the mobile device for display thereon, the at least one notification comprising at least one of information related to the entity location and a portion of the user profile data.
US11715118B1
Systems and techniques may be used for providing information related to an underperforming product. An example technique may include determining, for products in a particular zone of a website, an underperforming product based on pageviews or interaction metrics of users visiting the website. The technique may include identifying a product type of the underperforming product, and outputting a recommendation for display. The recommendation may include at least one replacement product of the product type, other than the underperforming product, to replace the underperforming product in the particular zone.
US11715106B2
A message tracking computing device for identifying anomalous activity in real-time is provided. The message tracking computing device is programmed to receive real-time transaction data including a plurality of transaction records. Each transaction record associated with a payment transaction. The message tracking computing device is also programmed to sort the plurality of transaction records into a plurality of channels. The message tracking computing device is further programmed to compute, for each channel, a normalized velocity score by computing a streaming mean, computing a streaming standard deviation, and computing the normalized velocity score based on the streaming mean, the streaming standard deviation, and a transaction ratio. In addition, the message tracking computing device is programmed to analyze the computed normalized velocity score for each channel to detect anomalous activity, automatically generate an alert message identifying the anomalous activity, and transmit the alert message to a remote computing device.
US11715102B2
A first device may receive, from a second device, a request to approve a transaction wherein the request includes transaction data related to the transaction and an image of a signature of an individual that submitted the request. The first device may determine, after receiving the request, a priority level associated with the transaction based on the transaction data. The first device may process the image of the signature using a computer vision technique and/or a vector-based technique. The first device may select, from a memory storing a plurality of comparator signatures, a comparator signature for the signature based on the priority level. The first device may use the comparator signature to verify the signature to approve or deny the transaction. The first device may perform a comparison of the comparator signature and the signature in the image after processing the image and selecting the comparator signature.
US11715099B2
A method for processing a trust-based transaction via a blockchain includes: receiving data associated with a proposed trust-based transaction including at least a transaction amount, payment data, and a broker identifier; processing payment for the transaction amount using the payment data; identifying a blockchain address associated with a broker corresponding to the broker identifier; generating a digital token, wherein the digital token is unique to the proposed trust-based transaction; electronically transmitting the generated digital token to a first computing device; and electronically transmitting at least the transaction amount, blockchain address, and at least one of: the generated digital token and data used to generate the generated digital token to a node associated with a blockchain network.
US11715097B2
The CLOUD-BASED VIRTUAL WALLET NFC APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“EAE”) transform user enhanced security transaction initiation requests using EAE components into time-limited, session-specific transaction bounding tokens. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of transforming a transaction bounding token request into transaction bounded tokens and purchase authorizations.
US11715088B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing cloud-based access to consumer financial information. A cloud-based platform may receive a notification from a server, the notification comprising a request to access consumer data associated with a financial services account. After confirming authorization by both the associated financial services account provider and the consumer, the platform may configure a software object identifying the server and at least a portion of the consumer data that the server is authorized to access. After presentation of the configured software object by the third party server, the platform may verify the configured software object, and provide to the server access to the authorized consumer data. The server may then utilize the provided consumer data to perform a mobile service for the consumer.
US11715079B2
A memory device is interfaced to a SST; an identifier and, optionally, an invalid identifier list are received from the device. The invalid identifier list is updated to the SST when the invalid identifier list is a more recent version of a SST invalid identifier list. The identifier is invalidated when the identifier is matched in the invalid identifier list or when an expiration date associated with the identifier has expired. When the identifier is invalid, access to administrative features of the SST is denied; and when the identifier is valid access to the administrative features is granted.
US11715078B1
A system includes a location identifier device configured to receive location information from a user device; a surveillance device configured to capture video surveillance; and a computer system. The computer system is configured to: receive the location information; receive a request for an ATM transaction that includes attribute information associated with the user; obtain, from the received video surveillance, captured attribute information associated with the user; determine that the captured attribute information at least partially matches the received attribute information; transmit a transaction code to the user device based on (i) the location information from the user device being within the area, (ii) the captured attribute information at least partially matching the attribute information, and (iii) the identification of the user associated with the request; and facilitate the ATM transaction based at least partially on the received transaction code.
US11715064B1
The present disclosure relates to an inventory system, wherein the inventory system includes at least one Internet of Things (IOT) inventory device having at least one pressure sensor and a radio field antenna, wherein a weighing surface is located on a top side of the at least (IOT) inventory device, and wherein the radio field antenna is positioned beneath the weighing surface.
US11715056B2
A device that is configured to establish a network connection between a user and an agent. The device is further configured to identify a first issue type for the user and to identify a first resolution type provided by the agent based on a conversation between the user and the agent. The device is further configured to identify a performance score from a resolution mapping based on a combination of the first issue type and the first resolution type. The device is further configured to identify a first knowledge area that is associated with the first issue type and to update a first knowledge score that is associated with the first knowledge area in a performance record for the agent based on the performance score. The device is further configured to send a recommendation to the agent based at least in part on the performance score.
US11715055B2
Provided is a manufacture and sales strategy planning method comprising a step of determining, based on information related to a sales plan of a plurality of products and a production capacity of a production facility to produce each product, whether there is any spare capacity in the production capacity of the production facility in relation to the sales plan for each of the products, a step of applying one among a plurality of profit improvement strategies, according to an availability of the spare capacity, to each product determined in this step, and calculating an improvement effect of each product, a step of selecting, based on each calculation result obtained in this step, a specific product among the plurality of products in which the improvement effect has exceeded a set value with regard to each of the plurality of profit improvement strategies, a step of extracting, for each profit improvement strategy, an item which satisfies a restricting condition of sale or production of the specific product selected in this step and which configures the specific product, and a step of planning a manufacture and sales strategy related to the items extracted in this step, and selecting one or more specific item strategies based on the improvement effect, wherein a supply and demand plan is simulated by reflecting the improvement effect of the selected strategy.
US11715051B1
An example method includes collecting, at a computing system of a data intake and query system, source data corresponding to an instance of a service hosted by a service provider, wherein the service provider hosts the service on a network of the service provider, identifying in the source data a set of metrics for the instance of the service, applying a machine learning model to the set of metrics to determine a classification for the set of metrics, generating, using the classification, a recommendation, wherein the recommendation relates to usage by the instance of the service of one or more physical resources of the service provider, and transmitting, for receipt by a client device, data comprising the recommendation, wherein the data enables display on the client device of a visualization comprising the recommendation.
US11715047B2
The image processing apparatus for performing display restriction processing on a captured image captured by a moving robot includes: a task acquisition unit configured to acquire information that corresponds to a property of a task to be executed via the remote operation performed on the moving robot; a target object identification unit configured to identify target objects in the captured image; a restricted target object specification unit configured to specify a target object for which a display restriction is required among the target objects identified in the target object identification unit in accordance with the property of the task to be executed by the moving robot based on the above information; and a display restriction processing unit configured to perform the display restriction processing on a restricted area in the captured image that corresponds to the target object for which display restriction is required.
US11715042B1
In one embodiment, a method includes training a target machine-learning model iteratively by accessing training data of content objects, training an intermediate machine-learning model that outputs contextual evaluation measurements based on the training data, generating state-indications associated with the training data, wherein the state-indications comprise user-intents, system actions, and user actions, training the target machine-learning model based on the contextual evaluation measurements, the state-indications, and an action set comprising possible system actions, extracting rules based on the target machine-learning model by a sequential pattern-mining model, generating synthetic training data based on the rules, updating the training data by adding the synthetic training data to the training data, determining if a completion condition is reached for the training, and if the completion condition is reached returning the target machine-learning model, else repeating the iterative training of the target machine-learning model.
US11715037B2
A processor may receive an original dataset. The processor may segment, automatically, the original dataset into a plurality of data groups. The plurality of data groups may include a model training dataset and a holdout dataset. The processor may generate a model with the model training dataset. The processor may validate the model with the holdout dataset.
US11715034B2
Methods for training machine learning algorithms for generation of a reservoir digital twin include receiving information obtained from hydrocarbon wells. The information includes porosity logs, petrophysical data, rock typing data, pressure transient test results, vertical production logs, reservoir pressure logs, reservoir saturation logs, production performance, and injection performance. The reservoir saturation logs are normalized in accordance with time. A machine learning algorithm is trained using the reservoir pressure logs, the production performance, and the injection performance to provide variations in reservoir pressure of the hydrocarbon reservoir in accordance with time. The machine learning algorithm is trained to provide variations in reservoir saturation of the hydrocarbon reservoir in accordance with time. The machine learning algorithm is trained using the reservoir saturation logs, the vertical production logs, the production performance, the injection performance, the reservoir pressure logs, and the petrophysical data.
US11715027B2
A method of performing simultaneous entangling gate operations in a trapped-ion quantum computer includes selecting a gate duration value and a detuning frequency of pulses to be individually applied to a plurality of participating ions in a chain of trapped ions to simultaneously entangle a plurality of pairs of ions among the plurality of participating ions by one or more predetermined values of entanglement interaction, determining amplitudes of the pulses, based on the selected gate duration value, the selected detuning frequency, and the frequencies of the motional modes of the chain of trapped ions, generating the pulses having the determined amplitudes, and applying the generated pulses to the plurality of participating ions for the selected gate duration value. Each of the trapped ions in the chain has two frequency-separated states defining a qubit, and motional modes of the chain of trapped ions each have a distinct frequency.
US11715024B1
A system and method for interpolating soil chemistry variables to different plots of land is described. A first interpolation training model includes a machine learning model that receives soil composition information. A distance field training model generates spatial predictors that are applied to the machine learning model. The first interpolation training model prioritizes spatial smoothing over accuracy. A second interpolation training model is also applied that includes a distance weighting training model that more greatly weighs interpolated soil composition information closer to a point of interpolation than interpolated soil composition information that is further away to the point of interpolation. The second interpolation training model prioritizes accuracy over spatial smoothing. The illustrative crop prediction engine estimates soil chemistry values at different locations with the first interpolation training model and the second interpolation training model.
US11715022B2
A method for managing the composition and presentation sequencing of compound visual elements, the method including generating a graph of all possible compound visual element combinations, generating a set of possible visual element presentation sequences according to a depth-first search (DFS) of the graph, generating a score for each member of the set of possible visual element presentation sequences according to visual element attributes, and enumerating a visual element presentation sequence according to a visual element presentation sequence score.
US11715020B2
A device for operating a machine learning system. The machine learning system is assigned a predefinable rollout, which characterizes a sequence in which each of the layers ascertains an intermediate variable. When assigning the rollout, each connection or each layer is assigned a control variable, which characterizes whether the intermediate variable of each of the subsequent connected layers is ascertained according to the sequence or regardless of the sequence. A calculation of an output variable of the machine learning system as a function of an input variable of the machine learning system is controlled as a function of the predefinable rollout. Also described is a method for operating the machine learning system.
US11715007B2
An exemplary embodiment may present a behavior modeling architecture that is intended to assist in handling, modelling, predicting and verifying the behavior of machine learning models to assure the safety of such systems meets the required specifications and adapt such architecture according to the execution sequences of the behavioral model. An embodiment may enable conditions in a behavioral model to be integrated in the execution sequence of behavioral modeling in order to monitor the probability likelihoods of certain paths in a system. An embodiment allows for real-time monitoring during training and prediction of machine learning models. Conditions may also be utilized to trigger system-knowledge injection in a white-box model in order to maintain the behavior of a system within defined boundaries. An embodiment further enables additional formal verification constraints to be set on the output or internal parts of white-box models.
US11715005B2
The application relates to a method for verifying characteristic features of a neural network, comprising obtaining the neural network as well as an identifier assigned to the neural network, determining the characteristic features of the neural network, calculating a first hash code using a predetermined hash function from the characteristic features of the neural network, obtaining a second hash code assigned to the identifier from a secure database, as well as verifying the neural network by comparing the first hash code to the second hash code. The application furthermore comprises a computer software product which can be downloaded to the internal memory of a digital computer and which comprises software code sections with which the steps according to the method described here are carried out when the software is executed on a computer.
US11715004B2
A method comprising: receiving observed data points each comprising a vector of feature values, wherein for each data point, the respective feature values are values of different features of a feature vector. Each observed data point represents a respective observation of a ground truth as observed in the form of the respective values of the feature vector. The method further comprises learning parameters of a machine-learning model based on the observed data points. The machine-learning model comprises one or more statistical models arranged to model a causal relationship between the feature vector and a latent vector, a classification, and a manipulation vector. The manipulation vector represents an effect of potential manipulations occurring between the ground truth and the observation thereof as observed via the feature vector. The learning comprises learning parameters of the one or more statistical models to map between the feature vector, latent vector, classification and manipulation vector.
US11715003B2
An optimization apparatus calculates a first portion, among energy change caused by change in value of a neuron of a neuron group, caused by influence of another neuron of the neuron group, determines whether to allow updating the value, based on a sum of the first and second portions of the energy change, and repeats a process of updating or maintaining the value according to the determination. An arithmetic processing apparatus calculates the second portion caused by influence of a neuron not belonging to the neuron group and an initial value of the sum. A control apparatus transmits data for calculating the second portion and the initial value to the arithmetic processing apparatus, and the initial value and data for calculating the first portion to the optimization apparatus, and receives the initial value from the arithmetic processing apparatus, and a value of the neuron group from the optimization apparatus.
US11714996B2
A computer-implemented method of training a student machine learning system comprises receiving data indicating execution of an expert, determining one or more actions performed by the expert during the execution and a corresponding state-action Jacobian, and training the student machine learning system using a linear-feedback-stabilized policy. The linear-feedback-stabilized policy may be based on the state-action Jacobian. Also a neural network system for representing a space of probabilistic motor primitives, implemented by one or more computers. The neural network system comprises an encoder configured to generate latent variables based on a plurality of inputs, each input comprising a plurality of frames, and a decoder configured to generate an action based on one or more of the latent variables and a state.
US11714994B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for learning from delayed outcomes using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving an input observation; generating, from the input observation, an output label distribution over possible labels for the input observation at a final time, comprising: processing the input observation using a first neural network configured to process the input observation to generate a distribution over possible values for an intermediate indicator at a first time earlier than the final time; generating, from the distribution, an input value for the intermediate indicator; and processing the input value for the intermediate indicator using a second neural network configured to process the input value for the intermediate indicator to determine the output label distribution over possible values for the input observation at the final time; and providing an output derived from the output label distribution.
US11714989B2
An RFIC module includes an insulating substrate; a stacked coil formed into a plurality of layers in the insulating substrate and formed along four side surfaces of the insulating substrate; an RFIC mounted on a first planar surface of the insulating substrate; and a planar coil disposed on a second planar surface of the insulating substrate, that partially has an open portion, and that overlaps the stacked coil in a plan view of the insulating substrate. The stacked coil is connected to the RFIC. The RFIC is disposed at a position close to a first side surface and close to a third side surface of the insulating substrate. A part of the RFIC overlaps the stacked coil in a plan view of the insulating substrate. The open portion of the planar coil is formed at a position close to the first side surface.
US11714984B2
A system for determining positions of labels. Each label includes a processor and a transmitting and receiving device, and each label is configured for transmitting an electromagnetic first type beacon signal. The labels are also configured for receiving first type beacon signals from other labels, and for determining first type positioning data. The labels are also configured to transmit information about the positioning data. The system includes a receiver for receiving transmitted information about the positioning data, and a computer configured to calculate, on the basis of the received information, the relative positions of the labels relative to each other. The information about the relative positions of the labels can be exported by means of an electrical information signal.
US11714983B1
An apparatus and method directed to a coin-type digital currency device that provides for a portable smart coin that has a universal and variable value with enhanced security features. The coin-type digital currency device is activated for a transaction and placed in a position proximate to a communications device and the communications device is altered that a transaction is awaiting execution. A secure communications link is established between the coin-type digital currency device and the communications device using a combination of RF and optical communications. Once the secure communications is established, the transaction is approved, executed, and registered together with updating the currency balance associated with the coin-type digital currency device.
US11714982B2
A printing device includes a mounting part to which consumables to be used for printing is mounted, a print engine configured to print an image on a recording medium using the consumables, a display configured to display information regarding the consumables, and a controller. The printing device is operable based on a concluded contract with a contractor for the consumables used for printing. The controller is configured to perform obtaining arrival time information of a first consumable, determining a model of the consumables, and displaying consumable handling related information on the display based on the arrival time information and a determining result.
US11714979B2
The present disclosure relates to data readers including an improved imaging system that optimizes active and passive autofocus techniques for improving data reading functions. In an example, the data reader initially uses active autofocus techniques to focus a lens system based on a measurement reading by a rangefinder and acquire an image of an item in the field-of-view of the data reader. The data reader includes a decoding engine operable to decode an optical code of the item using the acquired image. If the decoding engine is unable to decode the optical code using the active autofocus technique, the data reader alternates to a passive autofocus technique to alter the focus settings of the lens system and reattempt the decoding process.
US11714974B2
A reader device for attachment to a smart device comprising a display, the reader comprising an antenna, processing and reading circuitry, and a communications module, wherein the antenna, the processing and reading circuitry, the processor and the communications module are coupled to each other, and whereby the antenna encloses said display. When a card is tapped on the display, the antenna receives a signal and transmits the signal to the processing and reading circuitry. The processing and reading circuitry processes the signal to produce data, and the produced data is transmitted to a device external to the reader device by the communications module.
US11714966B2
Providing cognitive responses with an electronic message system includes predicting an urgency level corresponding to an electronic message received by the system based on detecting pre-defined features within the message and assigning a classification to the message based on the detected features. The message and corresponding urgency level can be mapped to a response action based on the classification assigned to the message. A notification of the response action and corresponding urgency level can be generated.
US11714965B2
A system and method are presented for model derivation for entity prediction. An LSTM with 100 memory cells is used in the system architecture. Sentences are truncated and provided with feature information to a named-entity recognition model. A forward and a backward pass of the LSTM are performed, and each pass is concatenated. The concatenated bi-directional LSTM encodings are obtained for the various features for each word. A fully connected set of neurons shared across all encoded words is obtained and the final encoded outputs with dimensions equal to the number of entities is determined.
US11714952B2
A document processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor receives a document in which components suitable for a creation purpose are disposed. The processor extracts a piece of pattern information from pattern information stored in a memory. The extracted pattern information corresponds to the creation purpose of the received document. The memory stores the pattern information in which item values of items are set in association with a document creation purpose. The item values of the items define a document pattern. The processor refers to the extracted pattern information and sets a pattern for the components disposed in the received document.
US11714951B2
A method includes generating a diffraction map from a plurality of target patterns, generating a favorable zone and an unfavorable zone from the diffraction map, placing a plurality of sub-resolution patterns in the favorable zone, and performing a plurality of geometric operations on the plurality of sub-resolution patterns to generate modified sub-resolution patterns. The modified sub-resolution patterns extend into the favorable zone, and are away from the unfavorable zone.
US11714948B1
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for use in an electronic circuit design. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, one or more DFM rules files from at least one PCB fabricator and importing the one or more DFM rules files to a DFM rule aggregator database. Embodiments may also include grouping one or more rules associated with the one or more DFM rules files using an automated or manual operation. Embodiments may further include performing automatic or manual rule aggregation on the grouped rules based upon, at least in part, rules aggregation information including a DFM template file.
US11714943B2
A parallel analog circuit automatic optimization method based on genetic algorithm and machine learning comprises global optimization based on genetic algorithm and local optimization based on machine learning, with the global optimization and the local optimization performed alternately. The global optimization based on genetic algorithm utilizes parallel SPICE simulations to improve the optimization efficiency while guaranteeing the optimization accuracy, combined with parallel computing. The local optimization based on machine learning establishes a machine learning model near the global optimal point obtained by the global optimization, and uses the machine learning model to replace the SPICE simulator, thus reducing the time costs brought by a large number of simulations.
US11714937B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for generating simulations of physical variables of a physical system are disclosed. A method includes fusing observation data and numeric simulation data. The fusing includes preprocessing the observational data and the numeric simulation data to remove inconsistencies of the observational data and the numeric simulation data, processing the preprocessed observational data and the numeric simulation data to extract interpretable structures and patterns within that data using ground truth and labeled information to create domain interpretable data, normalizing the preprocessed observation data, the numeric simulation data, and the domain interpretable data layers. The method further comprises training a spatial-temporal emulator model for a physical numerical model using the normalized preprocessed observation data, the numeric simulation data, and the domain interpretable data, incorporating prior knowledge of the physical system into the spatial-temporal emulator model, estimating physical parameters of the physical system based on the spatial-temporal emulator model.
US11714925B2
A processing device sets a first flag that indicates whether a first critical security parameter (CSP) file exists. The first CSP file includes a first set of CSPs for a memory device. The processing device sets a second flag that indicates whether the first CSP file is valid. The processing device sets a third flag that indicates whether a second CSP file exists. The second CSP file includes a second set of CSPs for the memory device. The processing device sets a fourth flag that indicates whether the second critical security parameter file is valid. The processing device selects one of the first or second CSP file as an active CSP file based on an evaluation of the first, second, third, and fourth flags.
US11714922B2
An inspection apparatus includes an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of an article, an inspection unit configured to inspect the article, a generation-processing unit, and a storage-processing unit. The generation-processing unit generates a data group related to an inspection result obtained by the inspection unit, the data group including article information for distinguishing the article, the inspection result obtained by the inspection unit, captured-image information for distinguishing a captured image captured by the image-capturing unit from another captured image, and a hash value of the captured image that are associated with each other. The storage-processing unit stores the data group and the captured image in respective different storage units.
US11714917B2
An apparatus includes a memory, a communication interface in communication with a network, a first processor, and a second process different from the first processor. The first processor configured to receive data from a user device and to separate the data into a first data set including metadata associated with a user of the user device and a second data set including anonymized data associated with a set of actions to be performed on a predetermined schedule. The second processor is configured to receive the second data set from the first processor and a user input associated with a selection of a simulation and at least one additional action otherwise not included in the set of actions. The second processor configured to perform the simulation using the second data set to simulate an acceleration of the predetermined schedule as a result of the at least one additional action.
US11714916B2
A data management device manages personal data to which consent information indicating a data user authorized as a receiver has been added. The data management device includes: a cache memory and a processor. When personal data requested by a data user is stored in the cache memory, the processor acquires the requested personal data from the cache memory. When personal data requested by the data user is not stored in the cache memory, the processor acquires the requested personal data from a data holder. The processor decides based on consent information added to the personal data acquired whether to provide the personal data to the data user. When the data management device acquires new personal data from a data holder, the processor decides whether to store the new personal data in the cache memory based on consent information added to the new personal data.
US11714915B2
Systems and methods for data aggregated based on disparate local processing of requests. One of the methods includes receiving a request associated with analyzing medical data, the request specifying one or more constraints; accessing index information, and identifying one or more medical providers storing medical data responsive to the request; instructing, for each medical provider, compute systems controlled by the medical provider to perform the request; receiving, from the medical providers, results associated with the request, and aggregating the results; providing the aggregated results in response to the request.
US11714908B2
Techniques and architectures for representing data with one or more n-dimensional representations and/or using one or more models to identify malware are described herein. For example, the techniques and architectures may determine one or more coordinates for one or more points based on one or more sets of bits in the data and generate an n-dimensional representation for the data based on the one or more points. The techniques and architectures may evaluate the n-dimensional representation with one or more machine-trained models to detect malware.
US11714904B2
A script analysis platform may obtain a script associated with content wherein the script includes one or more functions that include one or more expressions. The script analysis platform may parse the script to generate a data structure and may traverse the data structure to determine the one or more functions and to determine properties of the one or more expressions, wherein traversing the data structure includes evaluating one or more constant sub-expressions of the one or more expressions. The script analysis platform may analyze the properties of the one or more expressions to determine whether the script exhibits malicious behavior. The script analysis platform may cause an action to be performed concerning the script or the content based on determining whether the script exhibits malicious behavior.
US11714902B2
In embodiments of the present invention, a framework for an extensible, file-based security system is described for determining an appropriate application, application environment, and/or access or security control measure based at least in part on a file's reputation. In response to the selection of a file, an application controller may be used to select a software application from two or more software applications to open the selected file, based at least in part on the selected file's reputation. If launched, a software application may be configured to open the file in an environment, such as a virtual machine, quarantined environment, and the like, that is appropriate for the file based at least in part on the reputation information. A software application may be a secure software application configured to manage secure files, or an insecure software application configured to manage insecure files. The selected file, and communications relating to the selected software application, may be managed according to the selected software application's secure or insecure configuration. Further, the selected software application may associate reputation information with all files that are modified and/or created by the selected software application, including at least in part, reputation information matching that of the selected file.
US11714897B2
A processing unit, where the processing unit one of a group of processing units of a system, includes a processor; and memory including instructions, which when executed by the processor while avoiding interrupting a controller that does not belong to the group of processing units, cause the processor to: perform at least one iteration of the steps of: (a) entering a trusted mode, (b) selecting a selected job to be executed by the processing unit, (c) retrieving access control metadata related to the selected job, (d) entering, by the processing unit, an untrusted mode, (e) executing the selected job by the processing unit while adhering to the access control metadata related to the job, and (f) resetting the processing unit.
US11714890B2
Systems and methods for knowledge-based authentication are disclosed. The systems and methods can include an authentication system. The authentication system can generate authentication questions using object data received from an augmented reality system associated with a user. The authentication system can authenticate the user using the authentication questions. The augmented reality system may acquire image data, detect and validate objects in the image data, and provide object data for the objects to the authentication system. The augmented reality system may provide an indication to the user when an object is detected and may receive, in response, a user-acknowledgement of detection.
US11714885B2
Encryption key exchange processes are disclosed. A disclosed method includes initiating communication between a portable communication device including a token and a first limited use encryption key, and an access device. After communication is initiated, the portable communication device receives a second limited use key from a remote server via the access device. The portable communication device then replaces the first limited use key with the second limited use key. The second limited use key is thereafter used to create access data such as cryptograms that can be used to conduct access transactions.
US11714879B2
A method and device for behavior control of a virtual image based on a text, and a medium are disclosed. The method includes inserting a symbol in a text, and generating a plurality of input vectors corresponding to the symbol and elements in the text; inputting the plurality of input vectors to a first encoder network, and determining a behavior trigger position in the text based on an attention vector of a network node corresponding to the symbol; determining behavior content based on a first encoded vector that is outputted from the first encoder network and corresponds to the symbol; and playing an audio corresponding to the text, and controlling the virtual image to present the behavior content when the audio is played to the behavior trigger position.
US11714875B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to a matrix operations accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a matrix operations accelerator circuit that includes a two-dimensional grid of fused multiply accumulate circuits that is switchable to a scheduling mode for execution of a decoded single instruction where the matrix operations accelerator circuit loads a first buffer of the two-dimensional grid of fused multiply accumulate circuits from a first plurality of registers that represents a first input two-dimensional matrix, checks if a second buffer of the two-dimensional grid of fused multiply accumulate circuits stores an immediately prior input two-dimension matrix that is the same as a second input two-dimensional matrix from a second plurality of registers that represents the first input two-dimensional matrix, and when the second buffer of the two-dimensional grid of fused multiply accumulate circuits stores the immediately prior input two-dimension matrix, from execution of a previous instruction, that is the same as the second input two-dimensional matrix: prevents reclamation of the second buffer between execution of the previous instruction and the decoded single instruction, performs an operation on the first input two-dimensional matrix from the first buffer and the immediately prior input two-dimension matrix from the second buffer to produce a resultant, and stores the resultant in resultant storage, and when the second buffer of the two-dimensional grid of fused multiply accumulate circuits does not store the immediately prior input two-dimension matrix, from execution of the previous instruction, that is the same as the second input two-dimensional matrix: loads the second input two-dimensional matrix into the second buffer of the two-dimensional grid of fused multiply accumulate circuits, performs the operation on the first input two-dimensional matrix from the first buffer and the second input two-dimension matrix from the second buffer to produce a resultant, and stores the resultant in the resultant storage.
US11714872B2
A network service maintains a recently used resource list for a user that includes a list of references (e.g., hyperlinks) to resources (e.g., files) recently accessed by the user. An application, such as a web browser application or a web browser extension, periodically retrieves the recently used resource list for the user from the network service. When the application is utilized to display a text entry field, a user interface (“UI”) can be provided for inserting references to recently used resources identified in the recently used resource list into the text entry field. Through the UI, the user can select a resource identified in the recently used resource list using appropriate user input (e.g., selection of a resource using a mouse cursor, touch, or keyboard input). In response thereto, a reference (e.g., a hyperlink) to a selected resource can be inserted into the text entry field.
US11714870B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using frames for performing tasks. One of the methods includes receiving a first request to perform a task, the first request comprising user speech identifying the task; generating a frame associated with the task, wherein the frame comprises one or more types of values necessary to perform the task, and wherein each type of value can be satisfied by a respective value; receiving a second request to provide information related to a question, the second request comprising user speech identifying the question; providing information identifying the question to a search engine, and receiving a response identifying one or more terms; determining that at least one term can satisfy a type of value necessary to perform the task; and storing the at least one term in the frame.
US11714855B2
Embodiments are provided that relate to a computer system, a computer program product, and a computer-implemented method for improving performance of a virtual dialog agent system employing an automated virtual dialog agent. Embodiments involve generating ground truth (GT) from a user's knowledge base, and leveraging the GT to evaluate how the virtual dialog agent performs with the GT. The evaluation measures quality of a multi-turn virtual dialog, and generates a remediation plan directed at an algorithmic improvement of the virtual dialog agent.
US11714846B2
Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in conventional conversation systems by executing a customized supplemental function for a natural language query based on the user's profile. In some aspects, the systems and methods receive a user query for a media asset, determine a query template in the user's profile matching the user's query, and identify and execute a supplemental function corresponding to the query template in addition to responding to the user's query. The user's profile is customized on the user's usage patterns of an interactive media guidance application. By monitoring the user's usage patterns and learning from the user's actions in conjunction with the user's natural language queries on which supplemental functions to execute, the interactive media guidance application may provide a smarter and more efficient user experience.
US11714845B2
A method for automated routing of pictures taken on mobile electronic devices to a digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires.
US11714844B2
A system, server device, and method are provided for managing document metadata. The method includes storing metadata in a graph separately from documents with which the metadata is associated and connecting metadata in the graph according to a hierarchy, with each node of the graph being classified based on metadata content. The method also includes assigning properties to edges in the graph connecting the nodes; receiving, via a communications module, an instruction to update the metadata; and dynamically updating at least one edge or node in the graph according to the instruction without requiring access to an associated document. The method also includes receiving, via the communications module, an inquiry related to a document; and responding to the inquiry, via the communications module, after accessing metadata associated with the document by navigating the graph.
US11714840B2
The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for information query, and an electronic device, which relates to a field of deep learning (DL), natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The method includes: receiving a query sentence, segmenting the query sentence to obtain word segments, and obtaining a dependency relationship between two word segments and part of speech of the word segments; obtaining a coding sequence of the query sentence according to the dependency relationship and the part of speech of the word segments; matching the coding sequence with a generalized template to obtain a core corpus of the query sentence, wherein the generalized template comprises part of speech to be extracted and a dependency relationship to be extracted; and obtaining a query result corresponding to the query sentence based on the core corpus. The application no longer relies on the accumulation of massive business scenario data to enhance a generalization ability, which ensures accurate and efficient information query, and improves the efficiency and reliability of the information query process. At the same time, it may support information query in different business scenarios, with strong expansion capability and high universality.
US11714834B2
Co-clustering of at least some parameters is employed to reduce data transferred between edge and cloud resources. Single-parameter cluster information, including cluster counts, for each of two or more parameters of interest is accessed. Each parameter may represent a time series of numeric values sent from an IoT unit to an edge device. A co-clustering ratio is determined for each unique parameter pair. The co-clustering ratio indicates whether the number of clusters produced by a co-clustering algorithm applied to a group of parameters is less than the number of clusters required to represent the parameters without co-clustering. Co-cluster groups may be identified based on the cluster ratios. For each co-cluster group, the co-clustering algorithm may be invoked to produce compressed encodings of numeric value tuples. The compressed encoding is then transmitted to a cloud computing resource and decoded into a tuple of surrogate values.
US11714833B2
Exemplary embodiments pertain to new techniques for classifying or labeling organized data. A major impediment to implementing high-quality machine learning is the lack of readily accessible labeled data. In some cases, data can be classified using a classifier, but these solutions can be inaccurate and slow. Exemplary embodiments address the problem of obtaining accurate labeled data in a timely manner by applying a classifier configured to operate on character-level embeddings. Among other advantages, this can help the classifier to recognize information contained within a data unit, such as a cell of a table. The classifier may operate within the organizational structure of the data, such as by operating across a particular row or column of a table. Because data within a particular row or column is often temporally organized (e.g., transactions that are logged in chronological order), row- or column-based approaches can yield more accurate results.
US11714828B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for aligned purpose disassociation in a multi-system landscape. One example method includes receiving, from multiple systems, a can-disassociate status for a purpose for an object instance. The status from a respective system can be an affirmative status that indicates that the system can disassociate the purpose from the instance or a negative status that indicates that the system cannot disassociate the purpose from the instance. The received statuses are evaluated to determine a central disassociate purpose decision for the purpose for the instance. The central disassociate purpose decision can be to disassociate the purpose from the instance when no system has the negative status and to not disassociate the purpose from the instance when at least one system has the negative status. The central disassociate purpose decision is provided to at least some of the multiple systems.
US11714823B1
Systems and methods are described for generating metrics from real-time streaming log data. In order to generate the metrics, a metricization rule associated with the log data can be obtained. For example, the metricization rule may be obtained from a user. The metricization rule may include one or more field-value pairs that define how the metrics are generated from the log data. Preview metric data can be generated by applying the metricization rule to the log data. For example, the preview metric data may be displayed via a user interface. Further, the metricization rule can be accepted or approved by the user. Further, the additional log data can be ingested and based on determining that the metricization rule has been accepted, metric data may be generated by applying the metricization rule to the additional log data.
US11714820B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a system for ranking videos. Videos are identified that have been presented at client devices. For each video, session start data is identified that specifies a lead video that initiated presentation to a user during a presentation session. For each lead video, presentation times over multiple user sessions are determined, a scaled presentation time is obtained, user sessions for which the lead video initiated presentation of videos are identified, and an aggregate video presentation time attributable to the lead video is determined. For each given video, a presentation score is determined based on a scaled presentation time of the lead video relative to a sum of the aggregate video presentation times for the lead videos. The videos are ranked based on the presentation scores. A user interface is updated to present the ranked videos.
US11714818B1
A combined configuration rules-attribute configuration system uses an integrated configuration model to efficiently identify and attribute prioritize valid configuration answers. Submitting an attribute-based configuration query to the combined configuration rules-attribute configuration system allows the query to be answered in a single step. The combined configuration rules and attribute data guide product configuration processing and minimize configuration processing by, for example, calculating only the valid configuration answers that are candidates for the preferred valid answer(s). Thus, the combined configuration rules-attribute configuration system can minimize the number of valid configuration answers to be considered for presentation to a client system or other user of the combined configuration rules-attribute configuration system.
US11714817B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods customizing electronic communications. A future event associated with a first user may be determined, and a second user that is associated with the first user may be identified. A plurality of communications involving the first user and the second user may be analyzed. A selection rule may be applied based on the analyzed plurality of communications, the selection rule identifying content from the database. Content from the database may be selected based on the application of the selection rule. An electronic message may be provided to the first user identifying the future event, and the selected content may be provided to the first user.
US11714816B2
An information search method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium, relating to fields of intelligent search, intelligent recommendation, deep learning and the like. A specific implementation includes: determining feature information of a target user; acquiring at least one candidate search path to determine candidate search results in a database; determining a matching degree between the feature information of the target user and the at least one candidate search path using a matching model, and determining a target search path from the candidate search paths according to the matching degree; and determining a target search result matched with the target user using the target search path.
US11714805B1
A method and system for streaming data from portable storage devices. Specifically, the disclosed method and system implement iterative data streaming from a portable storage device for remote storage operations, while requiring zero over-provisioning storage space for buffering incoming write operations to the portable storage device.
US11714792B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises creating and storing an ontology for a data store in response to receiving first user input defining the ontology, wherein the ontology comprises a plurality of data object types and a plurality of object property types; creating one or more parser definitions in response to receiving second user input defining the parser definitions, wherein each of the parser definitions specifies one or more sub-definitions of how to transform first input data into modified input data that is compatible with one of the object property types; and storing each of the one or more parser definitions in association with one of the plurality of object property types.
US11714789B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient cross-dataset field integration. In one example, a method comprises determining a primary integration feature vector for a primary dataset field; for each secondary dataset field of a plurality of secondary dataset fields, determining a secondary integration feature vector; determining, based at least in part on the primary integration feature vector and each secondary integration feature vector, an integration space; determining, for each secondary dataset field of the plurality of secondary dataset fields and based at least in part on the integration space, a distance measure between the primary dataset field and the secondary dataset field; determining, based at least in part on each distance measure between the primary dataset field and a secondary dataset field of the plurality of secondary dataset fields, a predefined number of the plurality of secondary dataset fields; and performing the cross-dataset field integration based at least in part on the a predefined number of the plurality of secondary dataset fields.
US11714788B2
According to an embodiment, a method of building a database in which voice signals match texts comprises providing a captcha-purposed voice signal including a first voice signal matched with a first text and a second voice signal matched with no text, sending a request for a first input text and a second input text for the captcha-purposed voice signal, when the first input text and the second input text are received, comparing the first text with the first input text, and when the first text is identical to the first input text, matching the second voice signal with the second input text and storing the match. Embodiments of the present invention may be related to artificial intelligence (Al) modules, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, and 5G service-related devices.
US11714785B2
A client identifies a first data unit to be shared from a first file to a second file and sends an operation to copy that indicates the first data unit to be shared. The operation to copy the first data unit from the first file to the second file is received. In response to receiving the operation to copy the first data unit from the first file to the second file, it is determined whether the first data unit can be shared with the second file. In response to determining that the first data unit cannot be shared with the second file, the first data unit is copied to the second file. In response to determining that the first data unit can be shared with the second file, the first data unit is shared between the first file and the second file.
US11714778B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication apparatus, a communication method, a program, and a communication system that enable more reliable communication. An I3C master receives a max read length and a max write length from an I3C slave. Then, when transmitting/receiving data to/from the I3C slave, the I3C master controls transmission/reception of the data so that the data to be transferred in one data transfer has a data length equal to or shorter than the max read length and the max write length, and transmits transfer length information indicating the data length of the data to be transferred, prior to data transfer of the data. The present technology is applicable to a bus IF, for example.
US11714766B2
An address translation buffer or ATB is provided for emulating or implementing the PCIe (Peripheral Component Interface Express) ATS (Address Translation Services) protocol within a PCIe-compliant device. The ATB operates in place of (or in addition to) an address translation cache (ATC), but is implemented in firmware or hardware without requiring the robust set of resources associated with a permanent hardware cache (e.g., circuitry for cache control and lookup). A component of the device (e.g., a DMA engine) requests translation of an untranslated address, via a host input/output memory management unit for example, and the response (including a translated address) is stored in the ATB for use for a single DMA operation (which may involve multiple transactions across the PCIe bus).
US11714762B2
An arbitration control circuit in a pseudo-static random access memory (PSRAM) device includes a first arbiter circuit and a second arbiter circuit. The first arbiter circuit receives a normal access request signal and a refresh access request signal and generates a first output signal in response to a logical operation to arbitrate between the normal access reqeuest signal and the refresh access request signal. The second arbiter circuit configured to receive the first output signal and a delayed signal of the first output signal, and to generate a second output signal in response to a logical operation of the first output signal and the delayed signal. The second output signal has a first logical state indicative of granting the read or write access request and a second logical state indicative of granting the refresh access request to the memory cells of the PSRAM device.
US11714757B2
Methods, systems, and devices that support efficient upload of firmware from memory are described. Multiple copies of a set of firmware may be stored across multiple planes of a memory device, such as with one respective copy within each of a set of planes. The copies may be staggered or otherwise offset in terms of page locations within the respective planes such that like-addressed pages within different planes store different subsets of the set of firmware. A controller may concurrently retrieve different subsets of the set of firmware, each of the different subsets included in a different copy, by concurrently retrieving the subsets stored at like-addressed pages within different memory planes. Upon loading the firmware code, the controller execute the firmware code to perform one or more further operations.
US11714754B2
An apparatus including a CPU core and a L1 cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core. The L1 cache subsystem includes a L1 main cache, a L1 victim cache, and a L1 controller. The apparatus includes a L2 cache subsystem coupled to the L1 cache subsystem. The L2 cache subsystem includes a L2 main cache, a shadow L1 main cache, a shadow L1 victim cache, and a L2 controller. The L2 controller receives an indication from the L1 controller that a cache line A is being relocated from the L1 main cache to the L1 victim cache; in response to the indication, update the shadow L1 main cache to reflect that the cache line A is no longer located in the L1 main cache; and in response to the indication, update the shadow L1 victim cache to reflect that the cache line A is located in the L1 victim cache.
US11714751B2
In a complex system including; one or more storage systems including a cache and a storage controller; and one or more storage boxes including a storage medium, the storage box generates redundant data from write data received from a server, and writes the write data and the redundant data to the storage medium. The storage box transmits the write data to the storage system when it is difficult to generate the redundant data or it is difficult to write the write data and the redundant data to the storage medium. The storage system stores the received write data in the cache.
US11714748B1
A logical-to-physical (L2P) address mapping table is maintained, wherein a plurality of sections of the L2P address mapping table is cached in a volatile memory device. A journal entry count is maintained reflecting a number of L2P journal entries associated with an L2P journal. It is determined that the journal entry count satisfies a first threshold criterion. In response to determining that the journal entry count satisfies the first threshold criterion, a writing of the L2P journal to a non-volatile memory device is triggered. A written journal count reflecting a number of L2P journals written to the non-volatile memory device is maintained. In response to determining that the written journal count satisfies a second threshold criterion, a first section of the plurality of sections of the L2P address mapping table is identified. The first section of the L2P address mapping table is written to the non-volatile memory device.
US11714744B2
A system and method may cause a computing device to operate according to a selected operational mode. A diagnostic application may selectively execute one or more tests on the computing device; record a result of executing a test; and perform an action based on the result. An operational mode selected may be a safe mode that includes executing only a portion of an operating system and the diagnostic application. A test may include executing an application and selectively validating performance of one or more resources of a computing device while the application is executing. A test may include executing an application selected based on a rule related to a category of applications.
US11714743B2
Systems and methods are described for automated classification of defective code from bug tracking tool data. An example method includes receiving a plurality of datasets representing a plurality of bug reports from a bug tracking application. Each dataset may be generated by vectorizing and clustering a source code associated with a respective bug report represented by the dataset. Each dataset may comprise a plurality of classes. At least one class of each dataset may indicate at least one known bug. For each dataset of the plurality of datasets, a respective supervised feature vector may be generated. Each supervised feature vector may be associated with an index of the at least one class with the at least one known bug. Using the supervised feature vectors, a classification model is trained to detect a new bug presence in a new source code.
US11714742B2
High level synthesis (HLS) begins with high-level specification of a problem, where behavior is generally decoupled from e.g., clock-level timing. Programming code can be run and debugged during functional simulation using debugging techniques. However, it is not possible to understand execution flow of register transfer level instructions (RTL) generated during RTL debug. Conventionally, it is challenging and not possible due to nature of debugging techniques which ignore printf statements in code for invocation. Systems and methods of present disclosure synthesize printf and/or scanf statements for generating debug messages in HLS code, wherein printf and/or scanf statements is/are included before/after function(s) in sections comprising instructions in code and synthesized as a block during run-time which communicate with host system and debug messages are generated for display on screen. This enables traceability of the code execution on the screen and printf/scanf statements output can be observed without any challenges.
US11714741B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device that includes a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to receive, by a trace filter system, a trace chunk from a trace buffer associated with a processor core in a processing device, where the trace buffer is comprised of a plurality of trace chunks, to filter, by the trace filter system, the trace chunk, and to store the filtered trace chunk in the trace buffer.
US11714740B2
A process in a system can monitor available free storage space on a storage device, and, based on preset log file parameters, can act upon log files being stored on or written to the storage device to keep the storage device from running out of storage space due to excessive logging. The process monitors the device free space as reported by the file system to determine space utilization. A threshold of free space can be specified as a parameter. A log file action can also be specified as a parameter and is an action designed to reduce the space being used by a log file or log files. Once the process recognizes that the free space is under the threshold it will perform the configured action.
US11714739B2
A system and method for processing application performance using application phase differentiation and detection is disclosed. Phase detection may be accomplished in a number of different ways, including by using a deterministic algorithm that looks for changes in the computing resource utilization patterns (as detected in the performance data collected). Machine learning (ML) and neural networks (e.g. sparse auto encoder SAE) may also be used. Performance data is aggregated according to phase and stored in a database along with additional application and computing system information. This database may then be used to find similar applications for performance prediction.
US11714726B2
Replicated instances in a database environment provide for automatic failover and recovery. A monitoring component can periodically communicate with a primary and a secondary replica for an instance, with each capable of residing in a separate data zone or geographic location to provide a level of reliability and availability. A database running on the primary instance can have information synchronously replicated to the secondary replica at a block level, such that the primary and secondary replicas are in sync. In the event that the monitoring component is not able to communicate with one of the replicas, the monitoring component can attempt to determine whether those replicas can communicate with each other, as well as whether the replicas have the same data generation version. Depending on the state information, the monitoring component can automatically perform a recovery operation, such as to failover to the secondary replica or perform secondary replica recovery.
US11714725B2
A device comprising a memory controller coupled to a non-volatile memory (NVM) device with a shadow tracker memory region. The controller comprises a low-overhead and low recovery time for integrity-protected systems by recovering a secure metadata cache. The controller is configured to persistently track addresses of blocks in the secure metadata cache in the NVM device when a miss occurs, and track the persistent addresses, after the miss. The controller is configured to rebuild affected parts of the secure metadata cache associated with the persistent addresses in the NVM device. A system is provided which includes the memory controller interfaced with an NVM device with the shadow tracker memory region.
US11714723B2
In an embodiment, two or more storage systems are requested to prepare respective local checkpoints for a dataset, wherein each of the two or more storage systems stores portion of the dataset. The two or more storage systems are determined to have established the checkpoint. In response to determining that the local checkpoints have been established, a coordinated checkpoint is completed.
US11714718B2
A method of performing partial redundant array of independent disks (RAID) stripe parity calculations is disclosed. The method includes receiving a last portion of a RAID stripe among multiple portions of the RAID stripe, all portions for a successful write of the RAID stripe being previously received except for the last portion. The method also includes calculating a parity value based on the last portion of the RAID stripe and a previous parity value without calculating the parity value using a previous portion of the RAID stripe. The method further includes writing of the RAID stripe.
US11714714B2
Techniques for non-deterministic operation of a stacked memory system are provided. In an example, a method of operating a memory package can include receiving a plurality of memory access requests for a channel at a logic die, returning first data to a host in response to a first memory access request of the plurality of memory access requests, returning an indication of data not ready to the host in response to a second memory access request of the plurality of memory access requests for second data, returning a first index to the host with the indication of data not ready, returning an indication data is ready with third data in response to a third memory access request of the plurality of memory access requests, and returning the first index with the indication of data ready.
US11714702B1
A processor may analyze a specific area. The processor may determine whether a threshold number of attempts to perform an action by a device has been exceeded. The processor may activate one or more scanning devices. The processor may record an attempt to perform the action. The processor may automatically provide a repair for a failure attempt. The repair may allow the device to not subsequently exceed the threshold.
US11714689B2
A system and method for cloud management of user interactions on a client device comprising: initiating, in response to an initiation request of a client application, processing of a workflow configuration with an initial session state, wherein the workflow is a data model of a graph of nodes connected with directed edges, where the nodes include a set of node types that includes at least a pane node; iteratively processing the workflow configuration, initially using the initial session state, and thereby generating rendered panes for use in a user interaction flow of a client application, which comprises: following a next edge of the workflow configuration to determine a next workflow node, processing the next workflow node, which comprises, when the next workflow node is a pane node, rendering the pane node into a rendered pane, and sending the rendered panes to the client device.
US11714688B1
Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for allocating computing resources for a data object. The system obtains a plurality of characteristics of a data object, and estimates, from the obtained characteristics, one or more cumulative sustainability metrics characterizing one or more categories of energy consumption during a life-cycle of the data object. The system further determines, from the cumulative sustainability metrics, allocations of one or more computing resources to the data object to optimize one or more objectives including minimizing a cumulative carbon cost during the life-cycle of the data object.
US11714681B2
A method for dynamically assigning an inference request is disclosed. A method for dynamically assigning an inference request may include determining at least one model to process an inference request on a plurality of computing platforms, the plurality of computing platforms including at least one Central Processing Unit (CPU) and at least one Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), obtaining, with at least one processor, profile information of the at least one model, the profile information including measured characteristics of the at least one model, dynamically determining a selected computing platform from between the at least one CPU and the at least one GPU for responding to the inference request based on an optimized objective associated with a status of the computing platform and the profile information, and routing, with at least one processor, the inference request to the selected computing platform. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11714666B2
Systems and methods are provided for modifying webpages. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented system can include: an authoring component configured to generate and output a file of metadata indicating contents for a new webpage and specifying a template for the new webpage. The system also includes a transformer component configured to receive the file of metadata indicating contents for the new webpage and specifying the template, and merge, with the template, the file of metadata. The transformer component is also configured to automatically generate a file describing the new webpage, wherein the new webpage is based, at least, on the contents for the new webpage and the template.
US11714664B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with content consumption are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a decoder, a user interface engine, and a presentation engine. The decoder may be configured to receive and decode a streaming of the content. The user interface engine may be configured to receive user commands. The presentation engine may be configured to present the content as the content is decoded from the stream, in response to received user commands. Further, the decoder, the user interface engine, the presentation engine, and/or combination/sub-combination thereof, may be arranged to adapt the presentation to enhance user experience during response to a skip back command, where the adaption is in addition to a nominal response to the skip back command, e.g., display of closed captions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11714654B2
In a method for parallel processing of a data stream, a processing task is received to process the data stream that includes a plurality of segments. A split operation is performed on the data stream to split the plurality of segments into N sub-streams. Each of the N sub-streams includes one or more segments of the plurality of segments. The N is a positive integer. N sub-processing tasks are performed on the N sub-streams to generate N processed sub-streams. A merge operation is performed on the N processed sub-streams based on a merge buffer to generate a merged output data stream. The merge buffer includes an output iFIFO buffer and N sub-output iFIFO buffers coupled to the output iFIFO buffer. The merged output data stream is identical to an output data stream that is generated when the processing task is applied directly to the data stream without the split operation.
US11714642B2
Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, the loading of a matrix (tile) from memory. For example, support for a loading instruction is described in at least a form of decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a source matrix operand identifier, and destination memory information, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to store each data element of configured rows of the identified source matrix operand to memory based on the destination memory information.
US11714639B2
A data processing device has an instruction decoder, a control logic unit, and ALU. The instruction decoder decodes instruction codes of an arithmetic instruction. The control logic unit detects the effective data width of operation data to be processed according to the decode result from the instruction decoder and determines the number of cycles for the instruction execution corresponding to the effective, data width. The ALU executes the instruction with the number of cycles of the instruction execution determined by the control logic unit.
US11714637B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to support content generation. An issue description is received from a user. A software feature associated with the issue description is identified using a trained classification model. A base image associated with the software feature is obtained. The base image is modified to add information indicated in the issue description, wherein the modified base image is generated support content. The generated support content is transmitted.
US11714631B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for managing an operating system. The method includes receiving a version upgrade request for the system. The method further includes using a target system image to upgrade the system from a first version to a second version corresponding to the target system image. The method further includes storing, in response to determining that the system operates normally within a first time period, the target system image to a first storage device for the system without updating a historical system image stored in a second storage device for the system, wherein the historical system image corresponds to the first version. In this way, by storing image files of different versions for selectively resetting the operating system in case of a failure, stability of the system after an upgrade is improved.
US11714630B2
A method is provided for adding a sensor monitoring feature of a newly-added sensor to a system monitoring feature provided by a baseboard management controller (BMC). The BMC stores a BMC firmware that contains a main program, a sensor library and a sensor data record. The BMC updates the sensor library to a target sensor library that includes identification information of the additional sensor, and functions used to execute the sensor monitoring feature of the additional sensor. By executing the main program, the BMC loads the target sensor library, and adds the identification information of the additional sensor to the sensor data record.
US11714628B2
A program update system includes a vehicle including a first and second electronic devices, and a program transmission device. The program transmission device is configured to communicate with the vehicle and transmit a program for the first electronic device and a program for the second electronic device to the vehicle. The program transmission device transmits an update program for a first electronic device to a second electronic device. The program transmission device transmits a program in a state before the update for backup. The second electronic device updates the program for the first electronic device based on the update program. The second electronic device stores the program in the state before the update.
US11714627B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing mobile device updates. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems can include a key provisioning system, a key system, and mobile devices. The key provisioning system can provide keys to the mobile devices and the key system. The key system can receive a key from the key provisioning system, receive a request from an application system, calculate a first token, and provide the first token to the application system for transmission to a mobile device. The mobile device can receive a key from the key provisioning system, establish a local connection with a connected device, receive an application and the first token from the connected device, generate a second token using the application and the key, compare the first token and the second token, and update the mobile device according to the application based on a result of the comparison.
US11714614B2
Methods, storage media, and systems for translating a software expression from a user application programming interface (API) call to an API call of a software development kit (SDK) are disclosed. Some examples may include: receiving a tagged expression indicating that a translation of the software expression from a user API call to an API call of an SDK is to be performed, the SDK being associated with a cloud-native high-performance computing environment, processing an abstract syntax tree associated with the software expression, the processing including replacing symbols in the abstract syntax tree with respective variables, replacing a return statement in the abstract syntax tree with a serialization instruction to write a result to local storage, and serializing the processed abstract syntax tree and providing the serialized abstract syntax tree and one or more resource files to the cloud-native high-performance computing environment for execution.
US11714609B2
The present application discloses methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically generating source code implementing a regular expression. A regular expression that is defined within source code of an application project is identified. The source code uses a higher-level programming language. Based on identifying the regular expression, a source code implementation of the regular expression is automatically generated using the higher-level programming language, and the source code implementation of the regular expression is integrated into the application project. After integrating the source code implementation of the regular expression into the application project, the source code implementation of the regular expression is compiled into lower-level code and the lower-level code is emitted into an application executable when building the application project, or the source code implementation of the regular expression is interpreted when executing the application project.
US11714598B2
A method and an apparatus for providing feedback for confirming a user's intention during an interactive artificial intelligence (AI) service (e.g., a virtual secretary service and a virtual friend service) is provided by an electronic device. The electronic device includes an input/output interface for a dialogic interaction with a user and at least one processor configured to control to execute a service based on the dialogic interaction with the user, monitor a process during the service, detect entry to a predetermined phase based on a result of the monitoring, and output at least one feedback alerting the user to the predetermined phase. Other embodiments are possible.
US11714595B1
Adapting an audio portion of a video conference includes a presenter providing content for the video conference by delivering live content, prerecorded content, or combining live content with prerecorded content, at least one additional co-presenter provides content for the video conference, and untangling overlapping audio streams of the presenter and the co-presenter by replaying individual audio streams from the presenter and/or the at least one co-presenter or separating the audio streams by diarization. Adapting an audio portion of a video conference may also include recording the presenter to provide a recorded audio stream, using speech-to-text conversion to convert the recorded audio stream to text, correlating the text to the recorded audio stream, retrieving a past portion of the recorded audio stream using a keyword search of the text, and replaying the past portion of the recorded audio stream. The keyword may be entered using a voice recognition system.
US11714594B2
A cuepoint determination system utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN) to determine cuepoint placements within media content items to facilitate smooth transitions between them. For example, audio content from a media content item is normalized to a plurality of beats, the beats are partitioned into temporal sections, and acoustic feature groups are extracted from each beat in one or more of the temporal sections. The acoustic feature groups include at least downbeat confidence, position in bar, peak loudness, timbre and pitch. The extracted acoustic feature groups for each beat are provided as input to the CNN on a per temporal section basis to predict whether a beat immediately following the temporal section within the media content item is a candidate for cuepoint placement. A cuepoint placement is then determined from among the candidate cuepoint placements predicted by the CNN.
US11714592B2
In an exemplary process for interacting with user interface objects using an eye gaze, an affordance associated with a first object is displayed. A gaze direction or a gaze depth is determined. While the gaze direction or the gaze depth is determined to correspond to a gaze at the affordance, a first input representing user instruction to take action on the affordance is received, and the affordance is selected responsive to receiving the first input.
US11714579B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a first pin that receives a first signal, a second pin that receives a second signal, third pins that receive third signals, a fourth pin that receives a write enable signal, a memory cell array, and a memory interface circuit that obtains a command, an address, and data from the third signals in a first mode and obtains the command and the address from the first signal and the second signal and the data from the third signals in a second mode. In the first mode, the memory interface circuit obtains the command from the third signals and obtains the address from the third signals. In the second mode, the memory interface circuit obtains the command from the first signal and the second signal and obtains the address from the first signal and the second signal.
US11714577B2
A plurality of entries associated with a media management operation for a plurality of transfer units are stored. A respective destination location for each of the respective transfer units are determined in connection with the garbage procedure such that a subset of the plurality of transfer units aligns with a codeword boundary on the memory page. A plurality of write commands in connection with the media management operation are issued based at least in part on the determining.
US11714576B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory bus drive defect detection and related operations are described. A controller coupled with a memory array may receive a command for data. The memory array may include one or more pins for communicating data to and from the memory array, in response to the command. The controller may transmit to the memory array, over a bus that is coupled with the controller and the pins, the command. The controller may detect, based at least in part on a resistor coupled with the bus and a power supply of the memory array, that the bus is operating in a first state after transmitting the command. The first state may comprise a voltage that is relatively higher than a voltage of the second state. The controller may determine a defect associated with the bus or the pin based on detecting the bus in the first state.
US11714573B1
Techniques for storage optimization in a distributed object store are described. A storage optimization service of a provider network monitors changes to data objects in a distributed object store that are part of a data lake and are referenced by a table index. The storage optimization service determines whether particular storage optimizations involving the data objects would be beneficial, prioritizes the ordering of these optimizations with a focus on performing impactful optimizations first, while intelligently scheduling the optimizations to avoid overutilization of available resources.
US11714564B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method for power management is disclosed. The method includes: computing, by a central processing unit, software instructions of a software workload in an active-mode operation corresponding to a first operating point on a performance curve of a performance mode; transitioning from instances of the active-mode operation to instances of standby-mode operation of the CPU, and recording, by a time tracking element, each of a plurality of standby entry data points; transitioning from the instances of the standby-mode operation to the instances of the active-mode operation of the CPU, and recording, by the time tracking element, each of a plurality of standby exit data points; and determining a second operating point on the performance curve of the performance mode based on the recorded standby entry data points and the recorded standby exit data points.
US11714563B2
Methods, systems, and devices for volatile register to detect power loss are described. The memory system may receive a command to enter a first power mode having a lower power consumption than a second power mode. The memory system may store data in a register associated with the memory system before entering the first power mode (e.g., a low-power mode). The memory system may receive a command to exit the first power mode. The memory system may determine whether the data stored in the register includes one or more errors. The memory system may select a reset operation to perform to exit the first power mode based on determining whether the data stored in the register includes one or more errors.
US11714552B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a compressor configured to output second data obtained by compressing input first data and a non-volatile memory to which third data based on the second data output from the compressor is written. The compressor includes a dictionary coding unit configured to perform dictionary coding on the first data, an entropy coding unit configured to perform entropy coding on the result of the dictionary coding, a first calculation unit configured to calculate compression efficiencies of the dictionary coding and the entropy coding, and a first control unit configured to control an operation of at least one of the dictionary coding unit and the entropy coding unit based on the compression efficiencies and a power reduction level.
US11714546B2
The present disclosure relates to a multi QWERTY key input method, and more particularly, to a multi QWERTY key input method that allows a plurality of characters to be input by a single key using the QWERTY keyboard arrangement.
US11714544B2
A gesture definition is provided for intuitively interacting with applications on a multi-screen device. The gesture is defined by one or more user motions signaling a user intent to perform an action on an object based on a context within the multi-screen environment. Unlike traditional gestures, the defined gesture is “context aware.” That is, the gesture may initiate different actions in different contexts. Actions responsive to the gesture include opening an application, sharing data between applications (e.g., cut/paste), and/or attaching files (e.g., to a mail message). App developers can define custom actions responsive to the gesture for particular applications. Avoiding cumbersome, multi-step user inputs and interactions, the actions defined for the gesture may be performed automatically. In this way, the well-defined gesture allows users to intuitively interact with applications between and among the various screens of a multi-screen device, including seamlessly opening applications, sharing data, and attaching files.
US11714538B2
At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium is provided. The storage medium can store one or more programs including instructions which, when executed by one or more processors in an electronic device with a display, cause the electronic device to use the display to display a user interface of an application program while the application program is running, the user interface having a first height, which is higher than a reference height, and including a content region and an expanded bar region directly above the content region, receive an input for changing the first height of the user interface being displayed to a second height shorter than the reference height, and use the display to switch the expanded bar region, included in the user interface of the application program, into a regular bar region having a smaller area than the area of the expanded bar region, based on receiving the input.
US11714531B2
Techniques and systems are provided for glyph-aware text selection. For instance, a glyph selection system can detect that a user has selected a glyph within a user interface. The glyph selection system can highlight the glyph and/or a region encompassing the glyph to communicate, to the user, that the glyph is selected. This highlighted region can be determined based on the shape and/or outline of the glyph. For example, the glyph selection system can determine bounds (e.g. coordinates) of the glyph in order to highlight a region within the user interface that fully encompasses the glyph and does not include portions of unselected glyphs. In some cases, the highlighted region may be rectangular. Alternatively, the highlighted region may be non-rectangular, such as a border defined by the outline of the glyph.
US11714529B2
A method for navigating a list of media items on a client device includes providing a user interface (UI) of an application executed on an electronic device, the UI comprising one or more playlist portions, wherein a first playlist portion of the one or more playlist portions provides a list of media items in a first playlist of one or more playlists, wherein the media items in the first playlist comprise a collection of media items streamable to the application on the electronic device. The method further includes receiving indications of gestures made by a user, such as a swipe left gesture, a swipe right gesture, a swipe up gesture, or a swipe down gesture. The method also includes navigating media items of the first playlist in different directions depending on whether a corresponding gesture is a swipe left gesture or a swipe right gestures.
US11714527B2
Using a set of menu to key process mappings, historical menu usage data for an application is aggregated into aggregated key process usage data. A set of key process association rules, each comprising a consequent key process given a particular antecedent key process, is generated. From the set of key process association rules and a set of ranked menus by frequency of usage within each key process, a set of model menu recommendations is generated. According to an application usage history, a menu frequency ratio, and a confidence value of a modelled next menu, the set of menu recommendations is scored. A scored menu recommendation having a rank below a threshold rank is pruned from a set of menu items of the application ranked according to their scores. The pruned set of scored menu recommendations is presented for selection instead of the set of menu items.
US11714522B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for controlling a graphical user interface using a presentation of messages based upon predicted interactions with the messages are provided. For example, a plurality of messages associated with the messaging account may be received. Interactions with the plurality of messages may be tracked to generate sets of message interactions. The plurality of messages may be analyzed to identify sets of attributes. An expected action model may be generated based upon the sets of message interactions and the sets of attributes. A set of messages associated with the messaging account may be analyzed based upon the expected action model to predict one or more interactions corresponding to one or more potential presentations of the set of messages. A presentation may be selected from the one or more potential presentations. A graphical user interface may be controlled using the presentation.
US11714514B2
An electronic device includes first and second sensing electrode configured to form capacitance with each other, and sensing lines respectively connected to the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode, wherein the first sensing electrode includes first patterns in a main area, arranged in a first direction, and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a first edge pattern in an edge area that is between the main area and a peripheral area, is spaced apart from the first patterns in the first direction, and extends in the second direction, and a second edge pattern that is in the edge area, is spaced apart from the first edge pattern in the first direction, and extends in the second direction, and wherein a planar surface area of each of the first and second edge patterns is smaller than a planar surface area of each of the first patterns.
US11714496B2
An apparatus, method and computer program, the apparatus comprising: means for enabling three dimensional content to be rendered; means for determining movement of the apparatus; means for controlling scrolling of the three dimensional content, wherein if the movement of the apparatus is within a first category the three dimensional content is scrolled to correspond to the movement of the apparatus and if the movement of the apparatus is within a second category the three dimensional content is not scrolled.
US11714487B2
An eye tracking device determines a user's gaze point on a display device and a setting for a foveated region associated with a fixation position, based on a first location of the fixation position. The eye tracking device defines at least one of a size, shape, or positioning of the foveated region relative to the fixation position. The eye tracking device determines a second location of the fixation position associated with a change of user gaze and changes the foveated region setting. At least one of the shape or size of the foveated region changes based on the eye tracking device determining that a distance difference between the first and second locations is larger than a threshold. At least one of the size or the shape of the foveated region is continuously adjusted based on the fixation position being in smooth pursuit between the first location and the second location.
US11714479B2
A sensing apparatus includes a sensor, a processing circuit that acquires sensor output information from the sensor, a communication circuit that receives communication start time information, a power supply circuit that supplies the processing circuit with power supply voltage based on battery voltage from a battery, and a clocking circuit that operates by using the battery voltage and generates time information. The power supply circuit is activated by an instruction from the clocking circuit. The processing circuit starts acquiring the sensor output information after the power supply voltage is supplied from the power supply circuit. The communication circuit starts transmitting the transmission information at communication start time specified by the communication start time information.
US11714458B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel including a display area that can be stretched by including a plurality of stretching units and a peripheral area positioned at an edge of the display area. Each of the stretching units includes: a plurality of islands separately disposed to include a plurality of pixels disposed therein; a plurality of bridges extended from the islands to connect adjacent islands or to connect the islands with the peripheral area; and a plurality of openings disposed adjacent to the bridges, between the bridges, and between the bridges and the islands, wherein areas of the islands are gradually increased toward the peripheral area.
US11714448B2
A logic circuit comprising: inputs for receiving multiple n-bit numbers, n being greater than one; and an adder capable of receiving m n-bit numbers, m being greater than one, and forming an output representing the sum of those numbers, the adder having a plurality of single-bit stages and being configured to form the sum by subjecting successive bits of each of the numbers to an operation in a respective one of the single-bit stages, the single-bit stages being such that the adder has insufficient capacity to add all possible combinations of bits in a respective bit position of m n-bit numbers; the addition circuit being configured to add the multiple n-bit numbers by: in the adder, adding a first one of the n-bit numbers to a value corresponding to a set of non-consecutive bits of another of the n-bit numbers to form a first intermediate value; adding the first intermediate value to a value corresponding to the bits of the said other of the n-bit numbers other than those in the said set to form a sum; and outputting the sum.
US11714441B2
A control system for an energy storage system located behind a utility meter uses a unique, feedback-based, communication and control method to reliably and efficiently maximize economic return of the energy storage system. Operating parameters for the energy storage system are calculated at an external, centralized data center, and are selected to prevent electrical power demand of an electric load location from exceeding a specified set-point by discharging energy storage devices, such as DC batteries, through a bidirectional energy converter during peak demand events. The control system can operate autonomously in the case of a communications failure.
US11714436B2
A regulator, e.g., a pressure regulator for supplying a high pressure fuel to an engine, is disclosed. The regulator includes at least a pair of annular bearings composed of a rigid synthetic resin interposed along a length direction of a pressure regulating valve body at a predetermined distance at a position on a valve seat side in an axial direction of a gap formed between the pressure regulating valve body and an inner wall of the passage formed in a body main body.
US11714435B2
An integrated pressure regulator is provided with three stages configured to reduce an extreme tank pressure down to a typical working pressure. The regulator is configured to supply a steady working pressure until the tank pressure is reduced to little more than the working pressure itself. Stages of the pressure regulator are integrated into a body and arranged to minimize regulator mass and volume. A thermally-triggered pressure relief device may be included with a triggering time adapted to enhance the safety of smaller cylinders that may be used, e.g., in aerial applications.
US11714421B2
A driving support apparatus (12) is configured to support a vehicle (1) to travel at a parking lot, a parking spot (PS) at which the vehicle should be parked is defined by a parking section line (PL) at the parking lot, the driving support apparatus is configured to: detect a specific edge part (PLE) of the parking section line that is an edge part nearest to a traveling space at which the vehicle travels at the parking lot; set a virtual road section line (VDL) if a plurality of specific edge parts are detected at a specific area (LSA, RSA) located on a predetermined side viewed from the vehicle, the virtual road section line is an approximate line connecting the plurality of detected specific edge parts at the specific area; and support the vehicle to travel on the basis of the set road section line.
US11714412B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of managing a fleet of autonomous vehicles providing trip services. The method includes receiving information identifying an intermediate destination and a final destination for a trip. In this example, the intermediate destination is a destination where an autonomous vehicle will drop off and wait for a passenger in order to continue the trip, and the final destination is a destination where the trip ends. The method also includes determining an amount of waiting time the vehicle is likely to be waiting for the passenger at the intermediate destination, determining how a vehicle of the fleet of autonomous vehicles should spend the amount of waiting time, and sending an instruction to the vehicle, based on the determination of how the vehicle should spend the amount of waiting time.
US11714410B2
A vehicle driving system that controls switching between automatic driving by a vehicle and manual driving by a driver of the vehicle includes a temperature sensor configured to monitor a temperature of an automatic driving ECU which controls the automatic driving; and a microcontroller configured to: (i) set a threshold temperature based on an estimated gradient of increase in the temperature of the automatic driving ECU, the estimated gradient of increase being estimated based on a drive state of an equipment installed on the vehicle, and (ii) in a case where the temperature of the automatic driving ECU that is sensed by the temperature sensor becomes equal to or greater than the threshold temperature, perform an operation for prompting the driver to switch to the manual driving during the automatic driving.
US11714390B2
Systems and methods for creating and using equipment definitions are provided. An archetypal device used to identify one or more data points associated with the archetypal device. A point definition is generated for each identified data point associated with the archetypal device. Each point definition includes an abstraction of a text string extracted from the corresponding data point that is applicable to multiple different devices of the same type of building equipment. The generated point definitions are used to create an equipment definition for a type of building equipment. The equipment definition can be used to identify data points associated with other devices of the same type of building equipment and to automatically create equipment objects representing such devices.
US11714385B2
A device capable of being used for a long time is achieved. A power supply, a connection method of a power supply, or a connecting member, for easy attachment and detachment and non-detachment when in use, is provided. A power supply, a connection method of a power supply, or a connecting member for easy replacement is provided. A highly designed power supply is provided. Power from a battery is supplied to an electronic device through a connecting member including a pipe, a spring, and a pair of pivots. The pair of pivots are electrically insulated from each other, and electrically connected to any one of a pair of electrodes of the battery. The electronic device into which the pair of pivots are inserted includes a pair of bearings capable of receiving power.
US11714380B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main body casing having an opening; a cover movable between a closing position to close the opening and an opening position to open the opening; and a process cartridge detachably attachable to the main body casing through the opening while the cover is at the opening position. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a developing device; a toner receiving part; and a toner conveying part. The toner receiving part has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion has a receiving opening for receiving toner. When the cover is at the closing position and the process cartridge is in the attached state, the first end portion is outside the main body casing while the second end portion is inside the main body casing. The toner conveying part conveys toner in the toner receiving part to the developing device.
US11714377B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a first unit, a second unit, a cover, and a restrictor. The apparatus body includes a body-side connection terminal. The first unit is detachably attached to the apparatus body. The second unit detachably attached to the first unit and includes a unit-side connection terminal. The cover covers the body-side connection terminal disposed in the apparatus body and is movable between a covering position at which the cover covers the body-side connection terminal and a retracted position at which the cover is retracted from the covering position. The restrictor restricts movement of the cover from the covering position to the retracted position in a state in which the first unit is detached from the apparatus body.
US11714374B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dismounted from the receiving device and (d) a retracted position retracted from the engaging position, and wherein the engaging portion is movable from the retracted position to the engaging position with rotation of the open/close member from the closing position to the opening position.
US11714373B2
A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for holding toner. A first electrical contact and a second electrical contact are positioned on a first longitudinal end of the housing. The first electrical contact is electrically connected to processing circuitry positioned on the housing. The second electrical contact is electrically connected to an imaging component positioned on the housing. The first electrical contact is positioned higher than the second electrical contact. A first drive coupler and a second drive coupler are positioned on a second longitudinal end of the housing. The first electrical contact and the second electrical contact are positioned higher than a first rotational axis of the first drive coupler. The first electrical contact is positioned higher than a second rotational axis of the second drive coupler and the second electrical contact is positioned lower than the second rotational axis.
US11714372B2
In an image forming apparatus, a lifetime detection unit acquires an activation time threshold using a threshold stored in an activation time storage unit and an environmental temperature detected by a temperature detection unit, and, in a case where activation time acquired by an activation time acquisition unit is shorter than the activation time threshold, makes a notification of at least one of a lifetime or replacement of a deflection unit or an optical scanning unit.
US11714363B2
A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a resin A, and an external additive A, wherein the resin A is a resin represented by formula (1) below, the resin A is present at the surface of the toner particle, the external additive A is a fine particle containing silicon, the average value of the shape factor SF-1 of the external additive A is from 105 to 120, the average value of the shape factor SF-2 of the external additive A is from 100 to 130.
US11714360B2
A lustrous developer according to an embodiment may include: a metallic pigment; and a binder resin. The lustrous developer includes small diameter particles smaller than a volume median diameter of the metallic pigment. A ratio of a volume of particles other than the small diameter particles in the lustrous developer to a volume of the entire lustrous developer is 90.297% or more and 99.314% or less. The volume median diameter of the metallic pigment is 5.91 μm or less.
US11714359B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes: a conductive support; a charge generation layer disposed on the conductive support, the charge generation layer including a charge generating material and a vinyl copolymer, the vinyl copolymer including a structural unit including a chlorine atom, a structural unit including an acyloxy group, and a structural unit including an aromatic polycarboxylic acid structure, a proportion of the structural unit including a chlorine atom to all the structural units being 80% by mass or more, a proportion of the structural unit including an aromatic polycarboxylic acid structure to all the structural units being 0.5% by mass or more; and a charge transport layer disposed on the charge generation layer, the charge transport layer including a charge transporting material and a binder resin.
US11714356B2
The inventive concept provides a bake unit. The bake unit comprising: a housing having an upper cover and a lower frame, the upper cover and the lower cover in combination providing a treatment space for heat treatment of a substrate; a heater provided in the treatment space for heating a substrate placed thereon; a heater cup configured to surround the heater; and a first purge gas supply unit for providing a first purge gas flow to block inflow of outer air through a gap between the lower frame and the heater cup.
US11714351B2
Imprint apparatus brings pattern region of mold into contact with imprint material on shot region of substrate, aligns the shot region and the pattern region with each other, and cures the imprint material. The apparatus includes light irradiator which irradiates the imprint material with light. In state that the imprint material on the shot region and the pattern region are in contact and the pattern region is flat, the light irradiator performs preliminary exposure of irradiating the imprint material with the light to increase viscosity of the imprint material. In the preliminary exposure, the light irradiator irradiates the imprint material with the light under illuminance distribution determined such that illuminance in contact beginning region where the imprint material and the pattern region begin to contact is lower than illuminance in certain region different from the contact beginning region.
US11714348B2
An apparatus for removing a pellicle frame from a photomask includes a heater configured to soften an adhesive between the pellicle frame and the photomask; a shower head including a plate, a central region of the plate is configured to overlap with a pattern area of the photomask, and a periphery region of the plate is configured to provide a flow from the periphery region of the plate toward the pellicle frame and the adhesive; and a gripper configured to secure the pellicle frame against the flow and remove the adhesive and the pellicle frame from the photomask. A method of removing a pellicle frame, includes providing a plate overlapped with a pattern area of the photomask; providing a flow from the plate toward the pellicle frame and an adhesive; securing the pellicle frame; soften the adhesive; and leveraging the pellicle frame to remove the adhesive and the pellicle frame.
US11714339B2
An image reading apparatus includes a placement board, a camera that captures an image of a subject placed on the placement board, a first holding member to which the camera is fixed, a second holding member that is fixed to the placement board, and a fixing portion that fixes the first holding member to the second holding member, wherein a sliding surface along a spherical surface is formed on one of the first holding member and the second holding member, three contact points disposed at three different positions respectively are formed on the other one of the first holding member and the second holding member, the first holding member is rotatably supported about three axes by the second holding member as a result of the three contact points coming into contact with the sliding surface, and the camera is disposed inside the spherical surface.
US11714337B2
A trigger weight camera device that is retrofittable to existing equipment to image underwater objects and underwater processes, and method of using the device to image the underwater objects and the underwater processes, and operate as a trigger weight for the existing equipment.
US11714333B2
An optical imaging apparatus capable of focusing is provided. The apparatus includes a lens assembly and an imaging sensing component. The lens group includes a stabilization component and a focusing component. The stabilization component has an optical axis and includes a first optical lens group and a driving element. The driving element is configured to drive the first optical lens group to move on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis or to rotate around the optical axis. The focusing component is fixed to the stabilization component and includes a second optical lens group. The second optical lens group is aligned with the optical axis. The image sensing component is fixed to one end of the lens group and is aligned with the optical axis.
US11714331B2
A camera assembly can include a housing that includes a front side that includes a front side perimeter, a back side that includes a back side perimeter, and a surface that extends between the front side and the back side; a camera that includes a front side aperture; a front side illumination light; and a status light.
US11714325B2
Provided is a display device. The display device comprises: a substrate including a display area having a plurality of pixels and a non-display area, a plurality of data lines connected to each of the plurality of pixels and extending in a first direction, a plurality of first gate lines connected to each of the plurality of pixels and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of second gate lines extending along the first direction from one end of the display area to a line contact portion contacting each of the plurality of first gate lines, and a plurality of off voltage lines extending in a direction opposite to the first direction from the other end of the display area opposite to one end of the display area to a periphery of the line contact portion and insulated from the plurality of second gate lines.
US11714324B2
A display panel includes a first substrate; a scan line and a data line disposed on the first substrate and extending in a first direction and a second direction, respectively, wherein the data line intersects the scan line; a polysilicon layer disposed on the first substrate. In a top view, the polysilicon layer includes: a first channel region overlapping a portion of the scan line; a second channel region overlapping another portion of the scan line; a non-channel region not overlapping the scan line and connected between the first channel region and the second channel region; a long region extended in the second direction; wherein a portion of the non-channel region extends in the first direction, the portion has a first width in the second direction, the long region has a second width in the first direction, and the first width is greater than the second width.
US11714317B2
A display apparatus is provided, including at least one viewing angle limiting device, a display panel, and a light polarization converter disposed between the at least one viewing angle limiting device and the display panel. The light polarization converter includes first regions and second regions alternately arranged. Light beams passing through the first regions and the second regions respectively have a first light polarization direction and a second light polarization direction. The light polarization converter is overlapped with the at least one viewing angle limiting device and the display panel. The viewing angle limiting device includes light-absorbing molecules. The light-absorbing molecules have a first absorption coefficient in a thickness direction of the viewing angle limiting device and a second absorption coefficient in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction. A ratio of the first absorption coefficient to the second absorption coefficient is greater than 1.
US11714316B2
A reflective display tile can be used in connection with a static or video display. The tile includes a transparent substrate having a front surface, a rear surface, and a peripheral edge surrounding the front and rear surfaces, an electrostatic shutter array disposed at the front surface of said substrate, a reflective medium disposed at the rear surface of the substrate, and drive electronics disposed rearward of the reflective medium. The shutter array and drive electronics are configured so that the tile is tileable and can be abutted at any of its peripheral edges against identical tiles to form a display with substantially no perceived optical interface between adjacent tiles. Another embodiment includes an opaque substrate such as a circuit board. A further embodiment has a polymeric film coated on one side with a metal film and on another side with ink or blackening material.
US11714314B2
According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a wiring substrate, light emitting elements, a projection, and a protective layer. The main surface of the wiring substrate is divided into segment regions. Each of the segment regions is provided with n of the light emitting elements. N is greater than 1. The light emitting elements are independently driven in units of the segment regions. The protective layer is configured to protect the light emitting elements. The upper surface of the protective layer is located on the main surface side from the highest part of the projection.
US11714308B2
A portable radio includes a housing having a front display. The front display includes a liquid crystal display structure, a first layer of touch panel rear glass disposed exterior to the liquid crystal display structure, and a second layer of touch panel front glass disposed exterior to the first layer of touch panel rear glass. The second layer of touch panel front glass provides a viewable surface and user interface. The front display also includes a vacuum layer disposed between the first layer of touch panel rear glass and the second layer of touch panel front glass, and a plurality of spacers disposed in the vacuum layer that maintain a gap. The front display also includes a seal that at least partially seals and maintains a vacuum within the vacuum layer.
US11714306B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a first substrate, a frame positioned in the rear of the first substrate, a second substrate opposite the first substrate and positioned between the first substrate and the frame, the second substrate having an area less than an area of the first substrate, and a member layer electrically connected to the first substrate and extended toward the frame.
US11714303B2
A display device is disclosed, which includes a display screen and a dimming screen which are arranged in a stacked manner, a backlight module on a side of the dimming screen away from the display screen, and a circuit board module on a side of the backlight module away from the dimming screen. The circuit board module includes a first control circuit board on the side of the backlight module away from the dimming screen and a second control circuit board on a side of the first control circuit board away from the backlight module, the first control circuit board is electrically connected with the dimming screen through a first Chip On Film and the second control circuit board is electrically connected with the display screen through a second Chip On Film. The circuit board module further includes a first support frame and a second support frame.
US11714295B2
An imaging correction unit and an imaging module are provided. The imaging correction unit has an optical axis and includes four wedge optical elements with the same structure. The wedge optical elements are disposed sequentially on the optical axis. Each of the wedge optical elements has a minimum thickness dimension at a first edge and a maximum thickness dimension at a second edge. A connection line between the first edge and the second edge forms a symmetry axis of the each of the wedge optical elements. When a beam transmitted along the optical axis of the imaging correction unit passes sequentially through the wedge optical elements and is imaged at a center of an imaging surface, the symmetry axis of any one of the four wedge optical elements is at an angle of 90 degrees relative to the symmetrical axis of one of adjacent wedge optical elements.
US11714292B2
[Problem to be Solved] There are provided an optical system having good imaging performance, an optical apparatus, and a method for manufacturing the optical system. [Solution] An optical system OL used in an optical apparatus, such as a camera 1, includes a diffractive optical element GD and at least one specific lens Lp, which is a lens made of crystalline glass. The specific lens Lp satisfies the condition expressed by the following expression: θgFp+0.0017×νdp<0.730, where θgFp represents partial dispersion ratio of a medium of the specific lens Lp, and νdp represents the Abbe number of the medium of the specific lens Lp at a d line.
US11714286B1
Head-mountable devices can be supplemented with accessory devices that provide a variety of different components and functions to achieve the results that are desired by a user. The exchangeable configurations allow a user to easily customize a head-mountable device with one or more accessory devices to provide features that integrate with other operations of the head-mountable device. The accessory devices can be easily exchanged with each other to provide different components and functions at different times. Accordingly, a head-mountable device need not include permanent components that provide every function that will later be desired by the user. Instead, the head-mountable device can have expanded and customizable capabilities by the use of one or more accessory devices.
US11714284B2
An augmented reality headset may include a reflective holographic combiner to direct light from a light engine into a user's eye while also transmitting light from the environment. The combiner and engine may be arranged to project light fields with different fields of view and resolution to match the visual acuity of the eye. The combiner may be recorded with a series of point to point holograms; one projection point interacts with multiple holograms to project light onto multiple eye box points. The engine may include a laser diode array, a distribution waveguide, scanning mirrors, and layered waveguides that perform pupil expansion and that emit wide beams of light through foveal projection points and narrower beams of light through peripheral projection points. The light engine may include focusing elements to focus the beams such that, once reflected by the holographic combiner, the light is substantially collimated.
US11714273B1
Methods and systems are provided for microscope auto-focusing. In one example, a a method for microscope auto-focusing comprises: acquiring a plurality of contrast samples of an imaged subject; modeling a contrast distribution based on the plurality of contrast samples; acquiring an additional contrast sample based on the contrast distribution; modeling a corrected contrast distribution based on the additional contrast sample and the plurality of contrast samples; and focusing the imaged subject based on the corrected contrast distribution.
US11714272B2
An IR microscope includes an IR light source/interferometer (1) generating a collimated IR beam (26), an effectively beam-limiting element (8) in a stop plane (27), a sample position (15), a detector (19) having an IR sensor (19a), a detector stop (19b), a first optical device focusing the collimated IR beam onto the sample position, and a second optical device imaging the sample position onto the IR sensor. The effectively beam-limiting element is situated in the collimated IR beam. The first and second optical devices image the detector stop opening into an input beam plane. For the area A1 of the image of the detector stop opening in the input beam plane and the area A2 of the cross section of the collimated IR beam in the input beam plane: 0
US11714270B2
A laser scanning system for capturing an image of a specimen is described herein. The laser scanning system includes a light source configured to emit a light beam for illuminating the specimen, a scanning unit including a plurality of reflectors for scanning the light beam along first and second axes, and a data acquisition unit configured to control acquisition of the image. The laser scanning system can include a control circuit configured to receive a reference clock signal for the first reflector and generate a synchronization clock signal based on the reference clock signal. The laser scanning system can include a synchronization controller configured to control the scanning unit and the data acquisition unit. The synchronization controller can be configured to receive the synchronization clock signal, receive a plurality of imaging parameters, and generate a plurality of control signals based on the synchronization clock signal and the imaging parameters.
US11714260B2
An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front unit having a positive refractive power and including one or more lens units configured to move during focusing, and a negative lens unit having a negative refractive power. The one or more lens units included in the front unit moves to the object side during focusing from infinity to a short distance so as to widen a distance between the front unit and the negative lens unit. The front unit includes a first subunit having a negative refractive power and including a lens disposed on the object side of a first positive lens that is one of positive lenses included in the optical system, which is the closest to an object. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11714259B2
A focus detection device includes: an imaging unit having a first pixel and a second pixel each of which receives light transmitted through an optical system and outputs signal used for focus detection; an input unit to which first information regarding a position on an image plane and an exit pupil distance of the optical system is input; a selection unit that selects a first focus detection based on the signal having been output from the first pixel or a second focus detection based on the signal having been output from the second pixel, based on the first information having been input to the input unit; and a focus detection unit that performs the first focus detection or the second focus detection based on a selection by the selection unit.
US11714258B2
A flexure including a bipod strut pair extending from a base and a titanium-zirconium-niobium alloy, which includes titanium, about 13.5 to about 14.5 wt. % zirconium, and about 18 to about 19 weight % (wt. %) niobium. The titanium-zirconium-niobium alloy has a congruent melting temperature of about 1750 to about 1800° Celsius (° C.).
US11714237B2
An assembly including a first waveguide produced in a first photonic chip and that extends in a first direction in order to guide an optical signal at a wavelength λ, an array of a plurality of second waveguides, which is produced in a second photonic chip adjoined to the first photonic chip, and a power summer including inputs that are optically connected to one end of each of the second waveguides. Each of the second waveguides includes upstream and downstream segments that are offset with respect to each other in the second direction. The configurations of the first waveguide and of the second waveguides are such that, for any position of the first waveguide above the array, the distance between one of the segments of the first waveguide and one of the segments of one of the second waveguides is smaller than λ/2.
US11714236B2
An example single-station splicing unit is provided that includes a housing, an alignment element, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The housing includes an interior space and at least one cover configured to be interlocked with the housing to enclose the interior space. The alignment element is disposed within the interior space of the housing. The first electrode is disposed on one side of the housing, and the second electrode is disposed in the housing on an opposing side from the first electrode and in a facing relationship with the first electrode. The housing is configured to receive fibers in an opposing and abutting relationship to splice the fibers, and the housing remains secured to the fibers after splicing.
US11714233B2
One example LIDAR device comprises a substrate and a waveguide disposed on the substrate. A first section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a first direction. A second section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a second direction different than the first direction. A third section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a third direction different than the second direction. The second section extends lengthwise between the first section and the second section. The LIDAR device also comprises a light emitter configured to emit light. The waveguide is configured to guide the light inside the first section toward the second section, inside the second section toward the third section, and inside the third section away from the second section.
US11714231B2
A semiconductor structure comprises a substrate; an oxide layer on the substrate; a set of group III nitride layers on the oxide layer; and a set of silicon carbide layers located on the set of group III nitride layers.
US11714228B2
An optical fiber includes: a central core portion; an intermediate layer; a trench layer; and a cladding portion. Further, relationships Δ1>Δ2>Δ3 and 0>Δ3 are satisfied, where Δ1, Δ2, and Δ3 are a relative refractive-index difference of the central core portion, the intermediate layer, and the trench layer, respectively, with respect to the cladding portion, Δ1 is equal to or larger than 0.34% and equal to or smaller than 0.37%, |Δ3| is equal to or larger than 0.1% and equal to or smaller than 0.25%, Δ1×|Δ3| is equal to or smaller than 0.08%2, a mode field diameter at a wavelength of 1310 nm is equal to or larger than 8.8 μm, and a transmission loss at a wavelength of 1550 nm is equal to or smaller than 0.195 dB/km.
US11714224B2
An optical system including a light-guide optical element (LOE) with first and second sets (204, 206) of mutually-parallel, partially-reflecting surfaces at different orientations. Both sets of partially-reflecting surfaces are located between parallel major external surfaces. A third set of at least partially-reflecting surfaces (202), deployed at the coupling-in region, receive image illumination injected from a projector (2) with an optical aperture having a first in-plane width and direct the image illumination via reflection of at least part of the image illumination at the third set of at least partially-reflective facets towards the first set of partially-reflective facets with an effective optical aperture having a second width larger than the first width.
US11714211B2
A method for building and using soil models that determine soil properties from soil spectrum data is provided. In an embodiment, building soil model may be accomplished using soil spectrum data received via hyperspectral sensors from a land unit. A processor updates the soil spectrum data by removing interference signals from the soil spectrum data. Multiple ground sampling locations within the land unit are then determined based on the updated soil spectrum data. Soil property data are obtained from ground sampling at the ground sampling locations. Soil models that correlate the updated soil spectrum data with the soil property data are created based on the updated soil spectrum data and the soil property data. The soil models are sent to a storage for future use.
US11714210B2
A system can determine a temperature profile based on a prior production temperature profile and a reference start point pressure for a well. The system can virtually divide the well into a plurality of sections including uphill sections and downhill sections. The system can determine a gas-oil interface depth for each section of the plurality of sections from a water-oil ratio and a gas-oil ratio based on the temperature profile and the reference start point pressure. The system can determine an oil-water interface depth for each section of the plurality of sections from the gas-oil ratio and the water-oil ratio based on the temperature profile and the reference start point pressure.
US11714209B2
In a method to transform logs, an acoustic logging tool inserted into a borehole includes a source and an array of receiver stations. Each station includes a receiver spaced along the tool from the source by successively greater distances. In the method, the source emits energy (I) to cause the propagation towards the stations of plural signals exhibiting paths characteristic of first and second respective modes and (II) to stimulate a receiver of each station to generate an output signal per station that indicates the signal packets and represents the modes in combination with one another. In the method, the output signals are transformed into transformed signals containing phase/amplitude information of each mode. The phase/amplitude are linked by an operator to the slowness and attenuation of the mode and the transmitter-receiver distance of the station. The phase/amplitude are used to extract slowness and attenuation information for each mode.
US11714208B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for gridding of subsurface salt structures include determining a predetermined area lacks three dimensional seismic coverage, generating a two dimensional seismic top salt interpretation for the predetermined area, generating a bathymetry elevation of the predetermined area, determining that at least one two dimensional seismic line intersects a bathymetric feature of interest, and determining a correlation coefficient between the two dimensional seismic top salt interpretation and the bathymetry elevation. The method may further include determining the correlation coefficient is greater than a predetermined threshold value, and applying the bathymetry elevation as an additional control for gridding top of the subsurface salt structure. The step of gridding the top of the subsurface salt structure may further include applying at least one of kriging with external drift (KED), polygon-based approaches, regression-kriging, and other geostatistical methods.
US11714206B2
A detector includes an enclosure having a side wall, a sensor array positioned in an enclosed portion of the enclosure, a controller connected to the sensor array and positioned in the enclosure, with the controller being connected to a first electrical connector within the enclosure, a second electrical connector positioned external to the side wall, with the first and second electrical connectors being removably connected to each other through the side wall, and a third electrical connector in electrical communication with the second electrical connector, with the third electrical connector configured to contact a fourth electrical connector of an energy storage device.
US11714199B2
The invention pertains to a method for operating a GNSS receiver in the presence of spoofed signals, the GNSS receiver having a plurality of satellite signal receive chains with a low associated antenna envelope correlation coefficient, the method comprising: receiving signals from said plurality of satellite signal receive chains; obtaining (1010) relative amplitude and phase values of respective signals as provided by a pair of satellite signal receive chains from among said plurality of satellite signal receive chains; clustering (1020) said received signals on the basis of said monitored relative amplitude and phase values; and asserting (1040) a spoofing detection state when said clustering reveals a cluster of signals exhibiting similar relative amplitude and phase values over a predetermined time frame (1030). The invention also pertains to a GNSS receiver.
US11714198B2
A positioning method that into account frequently changing ionosphere delays. The method includes: (a) including, in the pseudo-range determination associated with each signal received from various signal sources, a function that represents the environmental bias by one or more parameters, in addition to parameters representing the position of the signal receiver and a clock drift of the signal receiver; and (b) jointly solving for values of the parameters of the function and the parameters representing the position of the signal receiver and the clock drift of the signal receiver. The environmental bias may be an ionosphere delay, which may be modeled by a function having parameters that relate to an Ionosphere Pierce Point (IPP) of the signal received. The function may characterize the ionosphere delay as a function of variations in longitude and latitude from the signal source.
US11714193B1
One variation of a method for registering distance scan data includes: accessing a first distance scan recorded, at a first time, by a first depth sensor defining a first field of view; accessing a second distance scan recorded, at approximately the first time, by a second depth sensor defining a second field of view overlapping a portion of the first field of view; calculating a first set of lines represented by points in a first portion of the first distance scan overlapping a second portion of the second distance scan; calculating a second set of lines represented by points in the second portion of the second distance scan; calculating skew distances between each pair of corresponding lines in the first and second sets of lines; and calculating an alignment transformation that aligns the first distance scan and the second distance scan to minimize skew distances between corresponding pairs of lines.
US11714191B2
Embodiments for a terrain following (TF) radar configured for use in an airborne system are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a radar return comprising dual polarimetry radar data is processed to determine a Correlation Coefficient (CC), a Differential Reflectivity (ZDR), and a Specific Differential Phase (KDP). Discriminator logic is applied to the CC, the ZDR and the KDP to determine whether the radar return comprises solely rain. Further signal processing may be performed on the radar return when the radar return does not comprise solely rain. When the radar signal comprises solely rain, the radar return is tagged as a rain return. Applying the discriminator logic may include applying linear and/or quadratic functions to the CC, the ZDR and the KDP to determine whether the radar return comprises solely rain.
US11714186B2
Provided herein is a system and method to determine a heading of a target. The system includes a radar sensor that obtains a snapshot of radar data comprising Doppler velocities and spatial positions of a plurality of detection points of a target, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform conducting a first estimation of a heading of the target based on the spatial positions; conducting a second estimation of the heading of the target based on the Doppler velocities; and obtaining a combined estimation of the heading of the target based on a weighted sum of the first estimation and the second estimation.
US11714184B2
An access system for a vehicle includes a receiver and an access module. The receiver is configured to receive a signal transmitted from a portable access device to the vehicle. The access module is configured to: generate a differentiated signal based on the received signal; up-sample the differentiated signal to generate a first up-sampled signal; obtain or generate an expected signal; up-sample the expected signal to generate a second up-sampled signal; cross-correlate the first up-sampled signal and the second up-sampled signal to generate a cross-correlation signal; based on the cross-correlation signal, determine a phase difference between the first up-sampled signal and the second up-sampled signal; determine a round trip time of the signal received by the receiver; and permit access to the vehicle based on the round trip time.
US11714180B2
This document describes techniques and systems to enable a radar system to detect angles in bistatic and monostatic scenarios. In some examples, an automotive radar system includes one or more processors. The processors can obtain electromagnetic (EM) energy reflected by objects and generate, based on the reflected EM energy, a two-dimensional (2D) data matrix. The 2D data matrix has a number of rows corresponding to the number of antenna elements in a transmitter array and a number of columns corresponding to the number of antenna elements in a receiver array. Using the 2D data matrix, the processors can determine DoA estimates and DoD estimates in monostatic and bistatic scenarios. By comparing the DoA estimates to the DoD estimates, the processors can determine an angle associated with the objects. In this way, the described techniques and systems can enable angle detection in monostatic and bistatic conditions with improved angular resolution and reduced cost.
US11714174B2
The method comprises: creating a 3D scenario model of a calibration scenario, based on data of the calibration scenario collected by an already-calibrated 3D scanner; obtaining point cloud data collected by a to-be-calibrated multi-line laser radar at a plurality of position points in the calibration scenario respectively; aligning the point cloud data collected by the multi-line laser radar at the respective point points and point cloud data in the 3D scenario model into the same coordinate system on a principle that the respective position points are aligned with corresponding position points in the 3D scenario model; building a target function between data of points collected by the multi-line laser radar and data of matching points nearest to the points in the 3D scenario model, under the same coordinate system; calibrating the parameters of the multi-line laser radar according to the target function.
US11714172B2
A light reception device comprises a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including a photosensitive element configured to generate a signal in response to detection of a photon by the photosensitive element, wherein the plurality of pixels include a first pixel having a first sensitivity to detect a first photon incident on the first pixel and a second pixel having a second sensitivity to detect a second photon incident on the second pixel, wherein the second sensitivity is lower than the first sensitivity.
US11714162B2
An optical tracking system includes optical source devices. The optical source devices are configured to emitting optical signals. A control method, suitable for the optical tracking system, includes following operations. A dimensional scale to be covered by the optical tracking system is obtained. Signal strength of the optical signals provided by the optical source devices is adjusted according to the dimensional scale. The signal strength of the optical signals is positively correlated with the dimensional scale.
US11714147B2
Some aspects comprise a tuning system configured to tune a radio frequency coil for use with a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising a tuning circuit including at least one tuning element configured to affect a frequency at which the radio frequency coil resonates, and a controller configured to set at least one value for the tuning element to cause the radio frequency coil to resonate at approximately a Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance imaging system determined by the tuning system. Some aspects include a method of automatically tuning a radio frequency coil comprising determining information indicative of a Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance imaging system, using a controller to automatically set at least one value of a tuning circuit to cause the radio frequency coil to resonate at approximately the Larmor frequency based on the determined information.
US11714135B2
A method for determining the capacity of at least one lithium-ion cell, in particular of at least one high-voltage battery, during open circuit voltage aging, uses at least one distinct point in a voltage curve and/or in at least one open circuit voltage of the Li-ion cell.
US11714119B2
An earth fault detection apparatus includes a switch group configured to switch between a first measurement path including a battery and a capacitor, and a second and third measurement paths including the battery, a positive/negative-side insulation resistance, and the capacitor; a reference resistance and a test switch; and a control unit calculating a first reference value based on each charging voltage in a case where the test switch is opened and the capacitor is charged, and calculating the insulation resistance with reference to a conversion map created to correspond to an electrostatic capacitance between a power supply line and ground, wherein the control unit calculates a second reference value based on each charging voltage in a case where the test switch is closed and the capacitor is charged for a shorter time, and estimates the electrostatic capacitance with reference to a predetermined test conversion map.
US11714116B2
A detection and measurement unit for detecting electromagnetic interference, the detection and measurement unit being configured to receive a representative digital signal. The detection and measurement unit includes a detection subunit configured to compare the amplitude of the representative digital signal with a first triggering threshold and a second stopping threshold. The second stopping threshold corresponds to an amplitude less than that of the first triggering threshold. The detection subunit is configured to detect an electromagnetic pulse on each detection of the passage of the amplitude of the representative digital signal through the second stopping threshold in a falling edge after the amplitude of the representative digital signal.
US11714114B2
A method of measuring electromagnetic interference (EMI) to noninvasively identify component degradation or failure in power electronics circuitry. The method involves characterizing the degradation or failure characteristics of the component and modeling those characteristics to enable a machine learning algorithm to identify EMI frequency distribution characteristics that correspond to the degradation or failure. The EMI frequency distribution is measured and the data provided to the machine learning algorithm whereupon the algorithm identifies degradation or failures indicated by the measured data.
US11714106B2
Provided is a technique capable of improving test efficiency of semiconductor devices. A test apparatus includes a probe card having a plurality of measurement sites that contact with a plurality of semiconductor devices formed on a semiconductor wafer; a control unit configured to generate map information, probe-card form information, and contact-position information, the map information including position information and peculiar information of the semiconductor devices on the semiconductor wafer, the probe-card form information including arrangement information of the measurement sites, the contact-position information indicating a contact position that is a range of the semiconductor device tested at one time by the probe card based on constrained-condition information of limiting contact with the probe card; and a position control unit configured to control a relative position between the probe card and the semiconductor wafer based on the contact-position information.
US11714105B2
A socket electrically connects a first electric component and a second electric component, including: a base part in which a through hole extending through the base part from a top surface to a bottom surface in a vertical direction is formed; a contact pin inserted to the through hole such that a pin lower end is exposed from the bottom surface, and configured such that, when in use, a pin upper end makes contact with the first electric component; and a sheet member including a through electrode extending therethrough in the vertical direction, disposed at the base part in a state where the sheet member faces the bottom surface, and configured such that, when in use, an upper end of the through electrode makes contact with the pin lower end and a lower end of the through electrode makes contact with the second electric component.
US11714098B2
An ultrasonic air data system can include a pole having a length longer than a boundary layer thickness of a boundary layer flow such that at least a distal end of the pole is configured to extend outwardly from an aircraft surface to be at least partially outside of the boundary layer flow. The system can include a transmitter disposed on or in the pole at or near the distal end of the pole such that the transmitter is located at least partially outside of the boundary layer flow when in use, wherein the transmitter is configured to output a transmitter signal. The system can include one or more receivers disposed downstream of the pole as defined by the boundary layer flow and configured to receive the transmitter signal.
US11714080B2
This invention relates to methods of identifying, synthesizing, optimizing and profiling compounds that are inhibitors or activators of proteins, both naturally occurring endogenous proteins as well as certain variant forms of endogenous proteins, and novel methods of identifying such variants. The method accelerates the identification and development of compounds as potential therapeutically effective drugs by simplifying the pharmaceutical discovery and creation process through improvements in hit identification, lead optimization, biological profiling, and rapid elimination of toxic compounds. Implementation results in overall cost reductions in the drug discovery process resulting from the corresponding increases in efficiency.
US11714079B2
A pressure cell for sum frequency generation spectroscopy includes: a metal pressure chamber; a heating stage that heats a liquid sample; an ultrasonic stage that emulsifies the liquid sample; a chamber pump that pressurizes an interior of the metal pressure chamber; and a controller that controls the chamber pump, the ultrasonic stage, and the heating stage to control a pressure of the interior of the metal pressure chamber, an emulsification of the liquid sample, and a temperature of the liquid sample, respectively. The metal pressure chamber includes: a liquid sample holder that retains the liquid sample; a removable lid that seals against a base; a window in the removable lid; a sample inlet that flows the liquid sample from an exterior of the metal pressure chamber to the liquid sample holder at a predetermined flow rate; and a sample outlet.
US11714069B2
A microfluidic diagnostic device comprises a base and at least one switch coupled to a portion of the base, the switch comprising a flap that is pivotable with respect to the base from a first position spaced away from the base a first distance to a second position where the flap is spaced away from the base a second distance. Both the base and the switch comprise one or more channels that permit passive transportation of an aqueous solution. The switch may be formed by bending or deforming a strip to cause the flap to be in the first position when there is less than a predetermined amount of fluid within the channel of switch. When a predetermined amount of fluid is in the channel of the switch, the flap pivots to the second position, which may be achieved through power from gravity, capillarity, and/or inherent elastic energy.
US11714065B2
A method of measuring hematocrit is provided. The method for measuring hematocrit includes the following steps. A test strip is provided. The test strip includes a reaction region and a pair of electrodes disposed in the reaction region. A whole blood sample is entered to the reaction region. After the whole blood sample enters the reaction region, a plurality of sets of square wave voltages are intermittently applied to the pair of electrodes based on a square wave voltammetry method to obtain a plurality of feedbacks related to hematocrit. An interval between two adjacent sets of square wave voltages ranges from 0.1 seconds to 4 seconds. A feedback of an n-th set of square wave voltages is obtained to calculate a hematocrit value of the whole blood sample and n is a positive integer greater than 1. A hematocrit value is calculated according to the feedback.
US11714057B2
A gas sensor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a polythiophene film which is formed between the first and second electrodes to be electrically coupled to the first and second electrodes, and to which cuprous bromide is adsorbed.
US11714050B2
A method for determining a phosphate concentration in a water sample includes providing the water sample, adding a first acid to the water sample to obtain a second water sample in which a concentration of the first acid is at least 0.5 wt.-%, performing a first photometric measurement of the second water sample, adding a coloring component to the second water sample to obtain a third water sample, performing a second photometric measurement of the third water sample, and calculating the phosphate concentration from a difference between the first photometric measurement and the second photometric measurement.
US11714046B2
A system and method indicate capability for detecting methane leaks inside buildings. This approach provides the ability to detect methane behind high efficiency coated windows and can extract methane concentration (rather than concentration-path length product CL). Lock-in imaging technologies can facilitate lower laser transmitter power. A field deployable, hand held prototype sensor for use in remote sensing a appropriate standoff distances can support operational testing. Distance infrared imaging of methane is feasible. Fully characterized real time image of a methane cloud offers operational advantages in accuracy and safety as compared to current sensors.
US11714032B2
Vacuum systems for epoxy mounting of material samples are disclosed. In some examples, a vacuum system may be a castable and/or cold mounting vacuum system that facilitates mounting and/or encapsulation of material samples in epoxy resin under low, vacuum, and/or near vacuum pressure. In some examples, the vacuum system may comprise a flow control device configured to control epoxy flow through a dispensing tube that connects to a hollow vacuum chamber. In some examples, the vacuum chamber may have an opening encircled by a rim sandwiched between upper and lower portions of a sealing ring. A movable lid may be configured to press down on the upper portion of the sealing ring when in a closed position, so as to seal the opening.
US11714024B2
A computer-vision-based fatigue crack detection approach using a short video is described. Feature tracking is applied to the video for tracking the surface motion of the monitored structure under repetitive load. Then, a crack detection and localization algorithm is established to search for differential features at different frames in the video. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated through testing two experimental specimens with in-plane and out-of-plane fatigue cracks. Results indicate that the proposed approach can robustly identify fatigue cracks, even when the cracks are under ambient lighting conditions, surrounded by other crack-like edges, covered by complex surface textures, or invisible to human eyes due to crack closure. The approach enables accurate quantification of crack openings under fatigue loading with good accuracy.
US11714017B2
A test unit for measuring internal pressure in a cylindrical glass container includes a support adapted for housing the cylindrical glass container during a test phase, defining a longitudinal axis; a piston for selectively exerting a predetermined axial force in a longitudinal direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis and for actuating a plunger movable along the longitudinal axis; at least one measuring sensor for measuring a change in diameter in a transverse direction to the longitudinal axis; a programmable control unit operatively connected to the measuring sensor and configured to correlate a diameter change measured by the measuring sensor in the presence of a predetermined axial force with reference internal pressure values to which the measured diameter change and the predetermined axial force correspond. Associated processes for measuring internal pressure in a cylindrical glass container are further disclosed.
US11714015B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to sensing pressure and mitigating the error introduced by the thermoelectric effect. A pressure sensing device includes a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, and an error correction device. The pressure sensor produces a voltage output proportional to a sensed pressure. The temperature sensor measures a first temperature at a first location and a second temperature at a second location to produce a temperature difference signal. The error correction device modifies the pressure output proportionally to the temperature difference signal to produce a temperature adjusted pressure output which compensates for error introduced from the temperature difference.
US11714014B2
A trunnion roller thrust measurement assembly includes a trunnion roller assembly and a thrust measurement assembly. The trunnion roller assembly includes a roller configured to provide rotary support of a rotary drum; a shaft attached to the roller, the shaft being aligned with an axis of rotation of the roller; and a bearing housing configured support an end of the shaft. The thrust measurement assembly includes a bearing housing end cap attachable to an end of the bearing housing; and one or more thrust sensors disposed on the bearing housing end cap. The one or more thrust sensors are configured to sense a thrust force exerted on the bearing housing end cap by an axial displacement of the shaft. An adjustment mechanism is utilized to skew the roller based on the sensed thrust force.
US11714010B2
A reactor temperature measurement system includes a Fiber Bragg Grating sensor array arranged in a body of the reactor for monitoring temperatures at multiple positions in an axial direction of the body to obtain temperature sensing optical signals; and a fiber grating demodulator, connected to the Fiber Bragg Grating sensor array, and used to demodulate the temperature sensing optical signals. A method for preparing a Fiber Bragg Grating includes preparing a Fiber Bragg Grating by using a single-mode fiber and annealing the Fiber Bragg Grating, which includes heating the Fiber Bragg Grating to a temperature above 400° C. and maintaining for 100 to 200 hours.
US11714007B2
A temperature interpolation device includes: a temperature data reading/writing unit which continues to record both time information and temperature data in a nonvolatile storage medium in the operation of a target device whose temperature data is read, and which checks the time information recorded in the nonvolatile storage medium at predetermined time intervals so as to determine whether or not data is lost in a predetermined time section; and a past temperature estimation unit which uses, when the temperature data reading/writing unit determines that the data is lost, the data recorded in the nonvolatile storage medium and a calculation parameter recorded in a calculation parameter setting unit so as to estimate and interpolate the lost data with a temperature interpolation formula.
US11714005B2
Measurement method of the temperature of a mechanical part of a wheel end of an automotive vehicle fitted with a thermal sensor method allowing a high precision measurement and broadcasting of the temperature of a mechanical part in case of an imminent thermal event while saving battery the rest of the time.
US11713998B2
According to one aspect, an ambient-light sensor includes a photodiode configured to generate an electrical signal according to an ambient light, a capacitive-feedback transimpedance amplifier connected at its input to the photodiode for receiving a signal generated by the photodiode and for generating as an output an amplified signal from the signal generated by the photodiode, and an auto-zero switch at the input of the capacitive-feedback transimpedance amplifier. The ambient-light sensor further includes a control circuit including a bootstrap circuit configured to receive an initial positive- or zero-voltage logic control signal, and then generate, from this initial logic control signal, an adapted logic control signal having a first positive voltage level and a second negative voltage control level for controlling the auto-zero switch.
US11713994B2
A method at a sensor apparatus affixed to a transportation asset. The method includes calibrating the sensor apparatus by initiating a vertical impact at the transportation asset, measuring spring oscillation and creating a model of the transportation asset. The method further includes detecting, subsequent to the calibrating, an impact event at the sensor apparatus. The method further includes measuring spring oscillation due to the impact event at the sensor apparatus and using the measured spring oscillation in the model created during calibration to create a load mass estimate for the transportation asset.
US11713993B2
A measurement method include a step to obtain observation point information, including physical quantities in association of a plurality of times, via observation devices at observation points of a structure on which a moving object moves, a step to calculate a correction coefficient that corrects the physical quantities based on a plurality of time periods and a reference time periods, a step to calculate a plurality of deflection waveforms of the structure generated by a plurality of parts of the moving object, a step to calculate a second deflection waveform of the structure generated by the moving object by adding the plurality of deflection waveforms, and a step to calculate a displacement of the structure based on the second deflection waveform. The structure is a superstructure of a road bridge or a railway bridge.
US11713991B2
A drop test measuring system and method of use is described. Embodiments of the drop test measuring system can include, but is not limited to, a control module, a liquid level measuring device, and a remotely located smart device. The liquid level measuring device can be implemented to take measurements that can allow a smart device to calculate a liquid level based on the measurements in addition to other known parameters. Typically, the drop test measuring system can be implemented in a water treatment facility implementing a filter medium.
US11713990B2
A monitoring and control system for a flow duct and a method for determining a component status of an operational component disposed within a flow passage of the flow duct utilizing the system are provided. In one exemplary aspect, the system includes at least two sensors that are disposed within the flow passage and configured to sense a characteristic of a fluid flowing therethrough. The sensors may be averaging sensors. Each sensor extends circumferentially about an axial centerline defined by the flow duct. The sensors are arranged in an overlapped arrangement. Particularly, the sensors extend circumferentially about the axial centerline such that the sensors physically overlap one another circumferentially. Additionally, the sensors may be disposed within the same or substantially the same plane axially. Signals generated by the sensors may be utilized to monitor and control the fluid and various operational components disposed within the flow passage.
US11713988B2
A flow rate-velocity sensor device includes a package including a light receiver and a light emitter, a transparent substrate including a light shield, and a flow rate-velocity calculator. The flow rate-velocity calculator includes a receiver, a correction unit, an arithmetic unit, and a transmitter. The receiver receives data on a first power spectrum. The correction unit corrects the data received by the receiver to calculate a second power spectrum. The arithmetic unit calculates at least one of a flow rate or a flow velocity from the second power spectrum calculated by the correction unit. The transmitter transmits, to an external unit, at least one of the flow rate or the flow velocity calculated by the arithmetic unit.
US11713984B2
A rotary encoder for a valve comprises a rotatable code plate and an optical detector module comprising one or more optical detectors. The code plate defines a set of voids arranged along a set of one or more concentric circular arcs about an axis of rotation. The voids define an angle-dependent pattern over the set of arcs, the pattern comprising a plurality of distinct sectoral elements (A-O, X). At least two of the sectoral elements, located in non-adjacent sectors of the code plate, are identical, but the pattern is non-repeating over a single full rotation of the code plate about the axis. Each optical detector is aligned with a respective concentric circular arc of the code plate. A controller processes time-varying output signals from the optical detectors to determine successive positions of the rotatable code plate.
US11713979B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating a transition variability index related to autonomous driving. In this regard, a first transition variability index is calculated. The first transition variability index is indicative of a first degree of variability in relation to transition of vehicles from respective autonomous levels while traveling proximate a first spatial reference point. Furthermore, a second transition variability index is generated. The second transition variability index is indicative of a second degree of variability in relation to transition of vehicles from respective autonomous levels while traveling along proximate a second spatial reference point. Updating of transition data associated with one of the first and second spatial reference points relative to another one of the first and second spatial reference points is then prioritized based on a comparison between the first transition variability index and the second transition variability index.
US11713969B1
A method and system of tracking and reporting locations of entity employees, the method for use with at least a first interface device including a display screen, the method comprising the steps of, providing a processor programmed to perform the steps of, storing schedules of entity employees where the schedules indicate scheduled locations of employees during time slots, receiving an indication from a first employee indicating at least a first future time slot, identifying locations of the entity employees during the future time slot, using the schedules of entity employees to generate a location representation indicating the locations of at least a subset of the entity employees during the at least a first future time slot and presenting the location representation via the first interface device.
US11713968B2
A fully self-contained portable location tracking device autonomously compares a current location with a latitude-longitude map stored in memory. The latitude-longitude map stores guidance zone values indicative of a predetermined safe zone, progressive alert zones, and a predetermined reference point. The guidance zone values represent actions to be taken based upon current location. When initiated by some combination of current location or zone value, location history, and time, or when otherwise queried, the tracking device transmits the offset from reference location, rather than actual current location data, to at least one wireless communications monitoring apparatus. The monitoring apparatus also stores a copy of the latitude-longitude map and reference point. Using the received offset, the monitoring apparatus knows both the location of the location tracking device and the actions to be taken based upon current location.
US11713960B2
A method for measuring a surface of an object including at least one structure using low coherence optical interferometry, the method including the steps of acquiring an interferometric signal at a plurality of measurement points in a field of view and, for at least one measurement point, attributing the interferometric signal acquired to a class of interferometric signals from a plurality of classes, each of the classes being associated with a reference interferometric signal representative of a typical structure; and analysing the interferometric signal to derive therefrom an item of information on the structure at the measurement point, as a function of its class.
US11713957B2
A measuring tape for measuring the size of limbs or waists is provided with a tape head capable of being stably inserted into a positioning hole during measurement and being automatically ejected out of the positioning hole after measurement, and includes a shell, and a cavity formed in the shell and used for receiving a flexible rule. An elastic switch assembly for clamping the tape head in the positioning hole is disposed at a position, close to the positioning hole, in the cavity. The elastic switch assembly and a leaf spring are disposed in the positioning hole, allowing the tape head to be inserted thereinto, in the shell, such that the tape head can be stably disposed in the positioning hole after being inserted into the positioning hole, and will not slide out of the positioning hole when users observe measure data.
US11713953B2
A method for rotating a toggle link upon an acceleration event greater than a predetermined threshold. The method including: biasing a toggle link against a stop when the acceleration event is less than the predetermined threshold, a position of the toggle link against the stop being on a first side of a singular position of the toggle link; biasing the toggle link towards an opposite direction from the stop when the toggle link is positioned on a second side of the singular position; and moving the toggle link from the first side of the singular position to the second side of the singular position when the base structure undergoes an acceleration event greater than a predetermined threshold.
US11713950B1
A system for improving the accuracy of the seating of primers in primer pockets of shell casings while avoiding damaging the end of the shell casing is provided. A stop mechanism that directly engages the bottom of the shell is included such that, as the primer is inserted into the primer pocket, more accurate seating depth is ensured. In addition, the seating depth may be adjusted in order to compensate for changes over time, which may be due to changes in materials or wear. Further, components that interact with the end of the shell casing and rod have increased thickness to add strength and provide more surface area relative to the base of the shell casing, thus reducing the chance that the base of the shell casing is bent and allowing for a precise stopping position during priming.
US11713945B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a ballistic filler for a flexible soft body armor and methods of manufacturing the same. In one implementation, a first portion having a first subpanel is stitched directly to a second subpanel with a stitching pattern. The first subpanel has one or more layers of woven fabric, and the second subpanel has one or more layers of unidirectional fabric. A second portion backs the first portion. The second portion has one or more layers of unstitched unidirectional fabric.
US11713940B2
Systems and apparatuses include a crossbow including a stock defining a projectile axis, a limb coupled to the stock and arranged in a vertical limb plane parallel to the projectile axis, the limb including a power cable engagement end positioned vertically above the projectile axis, and a drawstring hub rotatably mounted to the stock about a central hub axis arranged perpendicular to the vertical limb plane, the drawstring hub including: a first wheel defining a first diameter and configured to engage a power cable, and a second wheel defining a second diameter and configured to engage a drawstring, wherein the first diameter is less than the second diameter.
US11713938B2
A bow includes a handle and upper and lower limbs. The upper and lower limbs are formed of a laminated fiber-reinforced plastic material. The upper limb has first and second sets of fiber sheets stacked in a direction along a lateral axis. The first set of fiber sheets have fibers aligned at a first angle from a longitudinal axis, and the second set of fiber sheets having fibers aligned at a second angle from the longitudinal axis in an opposite direction. The lower limb has third and fourth sets of fiber sheets stacked in a direction along the lateral axis. The third set of fiber sheets have parallel fibers aligned at a third angle from the longitudinal axis, and the fourth set of fiber sheets having fibers aligned at a fourth angle from the longitudinal axis in an opposite direction. The angles are between 16 and 44 degrees.
