US11765989B2

A composition of matter consisting primarily of a stabilizing element and a transition metal oxide, wherein the transition metal oxide is an anti-ferromagnetic Mott insulator with strong spin orbit interactions, and the composition of matter has a canted crystal structure.
US11765977B2

Methods and materials are disclosed for simultaneously optimizing both the piezoelectric and mechanical properties of wurtzite piezoelectric materials based on the AlN wurtzite and alloyed with one or two end-members from the set BN, YN, CrN, and ScN.
US11765971B2

A highly rigid tetradentate ligand is combined with a gold(III) ion as a thermally stable tetradentate gold(III) complex. The tetradentate gold(III) complex is a tetradentate gold(III) compound that can be used as a light-emitting material which can be used for fabricated of light-emitting devices such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED). The tetradentate gold(III) compound can be deposited as a layer or a component of a layer using a solution-process or a vacuum deposition process. The luminescent tetradentate gold(III) compounds are robust and can provide electroluminescence (EL) with a high efficiency and brightness.
US11765966B2

A phosphorescent metal complexes containing a ligand LA having the formula selected from is disclosed.
US11765964B2

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a first layer that includes a perovskite defined by ABX3 and a second layer that includes a perovskite-like material defined by at least one of A′2B′X′4, A′3B′2X′9, A′B′X′4, A′2B′X′6, and/or A′2AB′2X′7, where the first layer is adjacent to the second layer, A is a first cation, B is a second cation, X is a first anion, A′ is a third cation, B′ is a fourth cation, X′ is a second anion, and A′ is different than A.
US11765960B2

Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a driving backboard, a touch-control layer, a first inorganic layer and a first organic layer, wherein the driving backboard is provided with a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, the peripheral area comprising a binding area; the touch-control layer comprises a first touch-control electrode layer, an insulating layer and a second touch-control electrode layer; the first inorganic layer and the first organic layer are arranged in the binding area, the first inorganic layer and the insulating layer of the touch-control layer are arranged on the same layer, the first organic layer and an organic layer of the display area are arranged on the same layer, the first organic layer is located on one side of the first inorganic layer that is away from the display area.
US11765955B2

For the first type of display pixel, a display device determines a luminance value assigned from a first frame pixel to the green subpixel, a luminance value assigned from the first frame pixel to each of the two red subpixels to be a value lower than a luminance value for one red subpixel, and a luminance value assigned from the first frame pixel to each of the two blue subpixels to be a value lower than a luminance value for one blue subpixel. For the second type of display pixel, the display device determines a luminance value assigned from a second frame pixel to each of the red subpixel and the blue subpixel, and a luminance value assigned from the second frame pixel to each of the two green subpixels to be a value lower than a luminance value determined for one green subpixel.
US11765954B2

A display device including a first light emitting element including a first emission layer and a first charge transport layer adjacent to the first emission layer, the first emission layer including a first quantum dot to emit first light, and a second light emitting element including a second emission layer and a second charge transport layer adjacent to the second emission layer, the second emission layer including a second quantum dot to emit second light that is longer in wavelength than the first light. The first charge transport layer includes a first metal oxide. The second charge transport layer includes a second metal oxide different from the first metal oxide.
US11765953B2

A display apparatus includes a first transistor including a first semiconductor layer and a first electrode that at least partially overlaps the first semiconductor layer. A first capacitor includes the first electrode and a second electrode that at least partially overlaps the first electrode. A second capacitor includes the second electrode and a third electrode that at least partially overlaps the second electrode. A first data line is configured to transfer a data voltage therethrough. First and second scan lines are configured to transfer first and second scan signals therethrough, respectively. A second transistor connects the first data line to the second electrode in response to the first scan signal. A third transistor connects the first electrode to a drain of the first transistor in response to the second scan signal.
US11765940B2

A light emitting display device includes: a first display area including a first light-emitting element and a first pixel circuit unit; and a second display area including a second light-emitting element disposed to overlap a driving unit and a second pixel circuit unit which drives the second light-emitting element, where the first pixel circuit unit further include a first boost capacitor.
US11765937B2

Disclosed is a display device that is capable of being driven with low power consumption. A first thin-film transistor including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer and a second thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer are disposed in an active area, thereby reducing power consumption. At least one opening formed in a bending area is formed to have the same depth as any one of contact holes formed in the active area, thereby making it possible to form the opening and the contact holes through the same process and consequently simplifying the process of manufacturing the device. Since a high potential supply line and a low potential supply line overlap each other with a protective film formed of an inorganic insulation material interposed therebetween, short-circuiting of the high potential supply line and the low potential supply line may be prevented.
US11765934B2

A display device includes a first substrate including a display area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a light transmitting area disposed in the display area, an interlayer insulating layer covering the display area and exposing the light transmitting area, an inner sidewall of the interlayer insulating layer defining the light transmitting area, and an inorganic film disposed directly on the first substrate in the light transmitting area and overlapping the entire light transmitting area. A size of the light transmitting area is larger than a size of a pixel of the plurality of pixels.
US11765931B2

A display device includes a first substrate, a display region with pixels each including a light emitting element above the first substrate, a first inorganic insulating layer covering the display region, a first organic insulating layer on the first inorganic insulating layer, a second inorganic insulating layer on the first organic insulating layer, a second organic insulating layer on the second inorganic insulating layer, a third organic insulating layer a on the second organic insulating layer, acidity of the third organic insulating layer being stronger than acidity of the second organic insulating layer, and a polarizing plate arranged on the third organic insulating layer.
US11765929B2

A display device according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area, a flexible film disposed on the non-display area of the display panel, and a sealing member disposed on an overlapping area of the display panel and the flexible film to cover the flexible film, the flexible film includes a plurality of holes which passes through the flexible film in the overlapping area of the display panel and the flexible film, and the sealing member may be disposed to fill in the plurality of holes. Accordingly, the sealing member is filled in an area between the display panel and the flexible film so that the bonding reliability may be improved.
US11765928B2

A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a component area including a transmission area, and display elements disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes grooves corresponding to the transmission area of the component area.
US11765925B2

A display device includes a flexible substrate including a first region including a display region, a second region including a curved region, and a third region including a terminal region; an electro-optical element located in the display region; and a resin layer continuously extending from the first region to the third region.
US11765924B2

A light emitting display panel includes a substrate, a pixel driving circuit disposed on the substrate, a planarization layer disposed on the pixel driving circuit, a pixel driving electrode disposed on the planarization layer and electrically connected to the pixel driving circuit, a light emitting layer disposed on the pixel driving electrode, and a common electrode disposed on the light emitting layer. The pixel driving electrode includes a plurality of first electrodes apart from one another and a second electrode covering the first electrodes, and at least one of the second electrode or the plurality of first electrodes is connected to the pixel driving circuit.
US11765919B2

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display panel having a non-rectangular display region. The display panel includes a substrate, a pixel definition layer, a first organic material layer, and a second organic material layer. The pixel definition layer is disposed on the substrate, and defines a first pixel area and a second pixel area on the substrate. The first organic material layer is disposed in the first pixel area and has a first light-emitting region. The second organic material layer is disposed in the second pixel area and has a second light-emitting region. The first organic material layer and the second organic material layer have the same material and the same vertical projection area on the substrate, and the vertical projection area of the first light-emitting region on the substrate is smaller than the vertical projection area of the second light-emitting region on the substrate.
US11765909B1

A process integration and patterning flow used to pattern a memory array area for an embedded memory without perturbing a fabricating process for logic circuitries. The fabrication process uses a pocket mask (e.g., a hard mask) to decouple the etching process of a memory array area and non-memory area. Such decoupling allows for a simpler fabrication process with little to no impact on the current fabrication process. The fabrication process may use multiple pocket masks to decouple the etching process of the memory array area and the non-memory area. This fabrication process (using multiple pocket masks) allows to avoid exposure of memory material into a second pocket etch chamber. The process of etching memory material is decoupled from the process of etching an encapsulation material. Examples of embedded memory include dynamic random-access memory and ferroelectric random-access memory.
US11765901B2

Disclosed is 3D flash memory comprises a gate stack structure, an annular channel pillar, a first source/drain pillar, a second source/drain pillar and a charge storage structure. The gate stack structure is disposed on a dielectric base, and comprising a plurality of gate layers electrically insulated from each other. The annular channel pillar is disposed on the dielectric base and penetrating through the gate stack structure. The first source/drain pillar and the second source/drain pillar, disposed on the dielectric base, located within the annular channel pillar and penetrating through the gate stack structure, wherein the first source/drain pillar and the second source/drain pillar are separated from each other and are each connected to the annular channel pillar. The charge storage structure is disposed between each of the plurality of gate layers and the annular channel pillar. The first source/drain pillar and the second source/drain pillar are P-type doped.
US11765896B2

There are provided a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device includes: a stack structure; a source structure; a channel structure penetrating the stack structure, the channel structure being connected to the source structure; and a first memory layer interposed between the channel structure and the stack structure. The source structure includes a first protrusion part protruding between the first memory layer and the channel structure.
US11765886B2

The present invention discloses a semiconductor memory device, including a substrate, active areas, first wires and at least one first plug. The active areas extend parallel to each other along a first direction, and the first wires cross over the active areas, wherein each of the first wires has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first plug is disposed on the first end of the first wire and electrically connected with the first wire, wherein the first plug entirely wraps the first end of the first wire and is in direct contact with a top surface, sidewalls and an end surface of the first end. Therefore, the contact area between the plug and the first wires may be increased, the contact resistance of the plug may be reduced, and the reliability of electrical connection between the plug and the first wires may be improved.
US11765885B2

A semiconductor device including a substrate including a recess; a gate insulation layer on a surface of the recess; a first gate pattern on the gate insulation layer and filling a lower portion of the recess; a second gate pattern on the first gate pattern in the recess and including a material having a work function different from a work function of the first gate pattern; a capping insulation pattern on the second gate pattern and filling an upper portion of the recess; a leakage blocking oxide layer on the gate insulation layer at an upper sidewall of the recess above an upper surface of the first gate pattern and contacting a sidewall of the capping insulation pattern; and impurity regions in the substrate and adjacent to the upper sidewall of the recess, each impurity region having a lower surface higher than the upper surface of the first gate pattern.
US11765876B2

An exchange device to exchange an exchangeable element includes an arrangement directional moving section to move with respect to the component mounting device in the arrangement direction; multiple attachment/detachment directional moving sections provided in the arrangement directional moving section to move independently of each other in the attachment/detachment direction of the exchangeable element; at least one holding section provided in each of the multiple attachment/detachment directional moving sections to hold the exchangeable element; an arrangement direction driving device to move the arrangement directional moving section in the arrangement direction; and an attachment/detachment direction driving device to move multiple attachment/detachment directional moving sections, independently of each other, in the attachment/detachment direction.
US11765875B2

A shielding film having a multi-layered metal structure is provided, including an insulating layer and a multi-layered metal compounded on the insulating layer, wherein the thickness of each layer of metal is 0.05-5 μm, the multi-layered metal has 2-10 layers, and a conductive bonding layer is disposed between the multi-layered metal. In the present application, the thickness of each layer of metal is controlled by providing a multi-layered metal, and a conductive bonding layer is bonded between the layers of metal such that the shielding film has good flexibility and shielding effect. Additionally, the conductive bonding layer is used so that the binding force between the layers of metal is good, and a high-frequency signal shielding performance of greater than 80 db@10 ghz is ensured so that the shielding film has good flexibility and meets flexibility requirements for flexible circuit boards while also having good high-temperature resistance.
US11765873B2

The present disclosure provides an electromagnetic shielding film, a flexible circuit board and a display device. The electromagnetic shielding film includes a central portion and an edge portion. The central portion has a plurality of surrounding side edges; and the edge portion is provided on at least one side edge of the central portion, and includes a plurality of protruding units protruding away from the central portion. The plurality of protruding units are arranged in an extending direction of the side edge where the edge portion is located. The electromagnetic shielding film is used to attach on a flexible circuit board body, the central portion is located on a non-bending area, and the edge portion is located on a bending area, so that the flexible circuit board is formed.
US11765860B2

An electronic device is provided in the present disclosure, and the electronic device includes a middle frame, a heat transfer unit, a shielding case, a heat source and a radiator. The middle frame includes a first surface. The heat transfer unit is disposed on the first surface. The shielding case is spaced apart from the heat transfer unit and is provided with a shielding cavity. The heat source is disposed between the heat transfer unit and the shielding case and includes a circuit board disposed on the heat transfer unit and a first heat source component disposed on the circuit board, the first heat source component is disposed in the shielding cavity. The radiator is configured to dissipate heat from the shielding case and/or the heat source.
US11765856B2

A fan tray for an enclosure containing devices to be cooled is provided. The fan tray includes a top cover having a top surface and a bottom surface facing opposite the top surface, wherein, when the fan tray is mated to the enclosure, (i) the top surface is exposed relative to outside the enclosure and (ii) the bottom surface is contained within the enclosure, a fan-receiving portion extending from the bottom surface of the top cover and configured to receive one or more fans, and one or more electrical connectors configured to provide electrical power to the one or more fans.
US11765854B2

The present disclosure describes an equipment rack for a telecommunications cabinet. The equipment rack allows a telecommunications cabinet to be reconfigured such that telecommunications equipment can be vertically mounted therein. The equipment rack includes a structural rail configured to be mounted within the telecommunications cabinet, an insert plate configured to fit within a cavity of the structural rail and be secured to the structural rail, and a bracket configured to be secured to the to the insert plate and configured such that a piece of telecommunications equipment can be mounted thereto.
US11765853B2

A server rack is configured to accommodate a network switch. The server rack includes a rack body, at least one stretchable frame, and at least one baffle. The rack body has two first strips opposite to each other. The stretchable frame includes a guiding part and an adjustable part slidably disposed on the guiding part. The guiding part and the adjustable part of the stretchable frame are respectively mounted on the two first strips. The baffle is connected to the guiding part. The baffle is located between the two first strips, and the baffle is configured to be located at a side of the network switch to guide an airflow to the network switch.
US11765828B2

A flexible printed circuit and a manufacturing method thereof, an electronic device module and an electronic device are provided. The flexible printed circuit includes a main sub-circuit board and a bridge sub-circuit board; the main sub-circuit board includes a first substrate, and a first bridge end, a second bridge end, a first wiring portion, and a second wiring portion on the first substrate, the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion are spaced apart from each other and are electrically connected to the first bridge end and the second bridge end, respectively; the bridge sub-circuit board includes a second substrate, and a third bridge end, a fourth bridge end, and a third wiring portion for a first functional wiring line on the second substrate, the third bridge end and the fourth bridge end are electrically connected by the third wiring portion, the first substrate and the second substrate are not in direct contact, and the bridge sub-circuit board is configured to be mounted on the main sub-circuit board by electrically connecting the third bridge end and the fourth bridge end to the first bridge end and the second bridge end, respectively. The wiring layout of the flexible printed circuit is simple and is easy to be manufactured.
US11765825B2

In an example, an article of manufacture includes a composite material. The composite material includes hollow glass filaments that are encapsulated within a polymeric matrix material. The hollow glass filaments are at least partially filled with the polymeric matrix material.
US11765820B2

A printed circuit board includes an insulating layer and a circuit layer disposed on the insulating layer. The circuit layer includes a first circuit pattern and a second circuit pattern. Each of the first and second circuit patterns has a first side surface, a second side surface opposing the first side surface, and a top surface connected to ends of the first and second side surfaces, when viewed in a cross section direction. The first side surface of the first circuit pattern and the first side surface of the second circuit pattern face each other. A height of the first side surface of the first circuit pattern is greater than a height of the second side surface of the first circuit pattern, and a height of the first side surface of the second circuit pattern is greater than a height of the second side surface of the second circuit pattern.
US11765816B2

Tamper-respondent assemblies are provided which include an enclosure mounted to a circuit board and enclosing one or more components to be protected within a secure volume. A tamper-respondent sensor covers, at least in part, an inner surface of the enclosure, and includes at least one tamper-detect circuit. A monitor circuit is disposed within the secure volume to monitor the tamper-detect circuit(s) for a tamper event. A pressure connector assembly is also disposed within the secure volume, between the tamper-respondent sensor and the circuit board. The pressure connector assembly includes a conductive pressure connector electrically connecting, at least in part, the monitor circuit and the tamper-detect circuit(s) of the tamper-respondent assembly, and a spring-biasing mechanism to facilitate breaking electrical connection of the conductive pressure connector to the tamper-detect circuit(s) with a tamper event.
US11765815B2

A bi-directional solid state switch includes: a first bus bar; a second bus bar; a first solid state switch implemented on a first printed circuit board (PCB), the first solid state switch including: a first control terminal; a first terminal electrically connected to the first bus bar; and a second terminal; and a second solid state switch implemented on a second PCB, the second solid state switch including: a second control terminal; a third terminal electrically connected to the second terminal of the first solid state switch; and a fourth terminal electrically connected to the second bus bar.
US11765809B2

A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load is able to receive radio-frequency (RF) signals from a Wi-Fi-enabled device, such as a smart phone, via a wireless local area network. The load control device comprises a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series between the source and the load, a controller for rendering the controllably conductive device conductive and non-conductive, and a Wi-Fi module operable to receive the RF signals directly from the wireless network. The controller controls the controllably conductive device to adjust the power delivered to the load in response to the wireless signals received from the wireless network. The load control device may further comprise an optical module operable to receive an optical signal, such that the controller may obtain an IP address from the received optical signal and control the power delivered to the load in response to a wireless signal received from the wireless network that includes the IP address.
US11765803B2

An LED drive circuit, comprising: a Flyback circuit that has a current-limiting mode and a constant-voltage mode, a non-isolated DC-DC circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit is used to detect the output voltage of the Flyback circuit, and, when the output voltage of the Flyback circuit is greater than or equal to a first preset voltage value, control the Flyback circuit to operate in the constant-voltage mode; the control circuit is further used to detect the switch transistor current or output current of the Flyback circuit, and, when the output current of the Flyback circuit is greater than a first preset current value, control the Flyback circuit to operate in the current-limiting mode.
US11765801B2

A light-emitting diode (LED) driver configured to generate an LED driving current based on an input signal may include a terminal exposed to outside, a controller configured to identify a first identifier and data from the input signal, identify a second identifier based on a signal applied to the terminal, and when the first identifier and the second identifier are identical to each other, generate a control signal based on the data. The LED driver further may further include a current source configured to generate the LED driving current based on the control signal.
US11765793B2

An apparatus for treating a substrate includes a process chamber having a treatment space defined therein, a support unit for supporting the substrate in the treatment space, a liquid supply unit for supplying treating liquid to the substrate supported on the support unit, and a heating unit disposed in the support unit for heating the substrate supported on the support unit, wherein the heating unit includes a plurality of lamps to heat the substrate, and a window disposed above the lamps to transmit light emitted from the lamps, wherein the window includes a base in a form of a plate, and light adjustment means formed on the base to spread or converge light emitted from the lamps.
US11765787B2

Provided are an entity configuration method, device and system, a gNB-CU-User Plane (gNB-CU-UP). The entity configuration method includes: acquiring, through an Xn interface, specified information for configuring each packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity for processing a data radio bearer, where the Xn interface is an interface between a gNB-CU-Control Plane (gNB-CU-CP) and a gNB-CU-UP; and configuring the each PDCP entity according to the specified information. The present disclosure solves the problem of how to implement configuration of a gNB-CU-UP protocol entity and achieves centralized traffic convergence.
US11765786B1

Disclosed are methods and systems for configuring service of a user equipment device (UE). When the UE has dual-connectivity service, such as EN-DC service, high quality on one of the UE's air-interface connections could result in transition of the UE to operate in discontinuous reception (DRX) mode on the UE's other air-interface connection.
US11765780B2

A first base station receives, from a second base station, at least one listen before talk (LBT) parameter based on one or more results of one or more LBT processes performed by the second base station on one or more unlicensed cells. Based on the one or more results of the one or more LBT processes performed by the second base station transmit, a request for a handover of a wireless device to the second base station is transmitted to the second base station. A response confirming the request for the handover is received from the second base station.
US11765779B2

This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems related multi-link wireless communication. A method may include establishing, between the first WLAN device and a second WLAN device, a multi-link association that enables a first wireless communication link and a second wireless communication link. The method may include determining a temporal key for the multi-link association. The method may include encrypting a first and second media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) based on the temporal key. The method may include preparing a first frame including the encrypted first MPDU and a second frame including the encrypted second MPDU. The method may include assigning packet numbers from a set of sequential packet numbers to the first and second frames. The method may include transmitting the first frame over the first wireless communication link and the second frame over the second wireless communication link.
US11765777B2

Spectrum and radio resources associated with a 5G radio unit (RU) of a host network are dynamically allocated amongst one or more guest networks. A provisioning plane receives inputs from a guest network operator that identifies desired times, locations and/or frequency bands for desired network coverage. The provisioning plane responsively identifies bandwidth allocations that meet the requested parameters for exclusive use by the guest network. User equipment (UE) associated with each guest network maintains time and frequency synchronization with the host network, but otherwise limits its communications to the frequency bands allocated to the guest network. By dynamically obtaining physical radio and spectrum resources from a host provider and by scaling backend network capabilities using cloud resources, guest networks for any number of different purposes can be quickly deployed or modified as desired.
US11765775B2

A cellular communication system is disclosed in which user equipment (UE) initiates a random access channel (RACH) procedure by sending one or more messages, comprising a random access preamble, to a 5G base station, using one or more uplink carriers of a plurality of such carriers available for use by the UE. The base station selects an uplink carrier for initial access by the UE and informs the UE, as part of the RACH procedure, of the UL carrier selected by the base station.
US11765763B2

A method and system are provided for scheduling data transmission in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system may comprise at least one MIMO transmitter and at least one MIMO receiver. Feedback from one or more receivers may be used by a transmitter to improve quality, capacity, and scheduling in MIMO communication systems. The method may include generating or receiving information pertaining to a MIMO channel metric and information pertaining to a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in respect of a transmitted signal; and sending a next transmission to a receiver using a MIMO mode selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the MIMO channel metric, and an adaptive coding and modulation selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the CQI.
US11765761B2

A transmission method and a transmission device are provided to satisfy different transmission demands in limited conditions of system resources. The transmission method includes: determining a channel priority of a first channel by a terminal device; determining a transmission scheme of the first channel by the terminal device according to the channel priority of the first channel; and performing a transmission of the first channel by the terminal device using the determined transmission scheme.
US11765759B2

The described technology is generally directed towards adaptive spectrum as a service, in which spectrum can be dynamically allocated to adapt to demand for wireless capacity. The demand for wireless capacity can be based on monitoring system state, and/or proactively predicted based on other system state such as time of day. Reallocated spectrum can be monitored for performance, to converge spectrum allocation to a more optimal state. Allocated spectrum can be relocated, increased or decreased, including by the use of citizens band radio service spectrum or other spectrum. Currently allocated spectrum can be adapted into modified allocated spectrum by an application program (xApp) coupled to a radio access network intelligent controller (RIC), a citizens broadband radio service device, a domain proxy service, and/or a user device.
US11765758B2

The present disclosure relates to a resource configuration method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. A terminal receives configuration information sent by a network device. Since the configuration information is used to indicate at least one PUCCH resource, and the at least one PUCCH resource is used to transmit feedback response information corresponding to a plurality of downlink semi-persistent scheduling resources, the terminal may send the feedback response information corresponding to the downlink semi-persistent scheduling resources on the PUCCH resource indicated by the configuration information, or a plurality of SPS resources may share one PUCCH resource, so that each downlink semi-persistent scheduling resource has a corresponding PUCCH resource that may transmit the feedback response information, thereby avoiding the circumstance in the prior art in which some downlink semi-persistent scheduling resources have no available PUCCH resources, and ensuring the quality of data transmission.
US11765754B2

A resource scheduling method implemented by a device, where the resource scheduling method includes determining a load characteristic of a frame drawing thread, where the frame drawing thread draws an image frame determining a target resource scheduling manner based on the load characteristic, and scheduling a resource for the frame drawing thread in the target resource scheduling manner.
US11765749B2

A selected network element is arranged for distributed transmission resource allocation conflict reduction. The selected network element receives a transmission from one of a first other network element and a second other network element and identifies at least one transmission resource indicated by the received transmission as being reserved by the first other network element and the second other network element. The selected network element stores an indication of each of the at least one identified transmission resource. In response to reading the stored indications, the selected network element selects a different transmission resource that is different from the transmission resource indicated by the stored indications. The selected network element transmits a transmission from the selected network element using the selected different transmission resource.
US11765743B2

The present application discloses a downlink channel receiving method and a terminal device, including: receiving, by a terminal device, first downlink authorization information and second downlink authorization information that are sent by a network device, where the first downlink authorization information is used to indicate that the terminal device receives a first physical downlink shared channel PDSCH in a first time unit, the second downlink authorization information is used to indicate that the terminal device receives a second PDSCH in a second time unit, and at least one symbol of the first time unit and at least one symbol of the second time unit overlap in a time domain; determining, by the terminal device, according to a RNTI used to scramble the first downlink authorization information and the second downlink authorization information, a PDSCH that is preferentially decoded from the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.
US11765738B2

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may initiate a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure using a bandwidth part (BWP) on a secondary cell. Based on initiating a random access procedure for the BFR procedure and/or based on unsuccessfully completing the BFR procedure, the wireless device may perform one or more operations to prevent and/or reduce misalignment between the wireless device and a base station.
US11765736B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE on a sidelink channel, an indicator of a state of the sidelink channel. Accordingly, the first UE may transmit, to a base station, a request for an additional resource for the sidelink channel, based at least in part on determining that the indicator of the state of the sidelink channel satisfies a condition. For example, the first UE may determine that a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) supported by a current resource for the sidelink channel is outside a range of MCSs granted by the base station. In some aspects, the request may include a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the first UE may also transmit a scheduling request for transmitting the indicator of the state of the sidelink channel Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11765717B2

Aspects of the present disclosure present techniques for coordination between a user equipment (UE) and one or more network entities to allow necessary interruptions on a first link associated with a first subscriber identification module (SIM) of the UE in order to establish or use a second link associated with a second SIM of the UE. A UE may include two or more SIMs, such as, for example, when offering Dual-SIM-Dual-Active (DSDA) functionalities. The UE may be limited by a single receiving chain, disregarding the multiple SIMs carried therein. The present disclosure alleviates or removes such limitations by coordinating between the UE and one or more network entities to optimize the use of the multiple SIMs.
US11765716B2

Methods and apparatuses for scheduling on a cell from different cells. A method for operating a UE includes receiving first information for first and second scheduling cells of a scheduled cell and second information for receptions of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) from the first and second scheduling cells. The PDCCHs provide downlink control information (DCI) formats. The DCI formats schedule physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions, or physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions, on the scheduled cell. The method further includes determining whether to receive the PDCCHs either only from the first scheduling cell or only from the second scheduling cell within a time unit based on the second information and receiving the PDCCHs either only from the first scheduling cell or only from the second scheduling cell within the time unit.
US11765705B2

Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving a first plurality of bits indicating availabilities of a plurality of resource block (RB) sets, receiving a second plurality of bits indicating transmission directions associated with the plurality of RB sets, and transmitting or receiving information via at least one of the plurality of RB sets based on the first plurality of bits and the second plurality of bits.
US11765703B2

Aspects relate to joint relaying of a transport block. For example, a first relay (e.g., a first user equipment) and a second relay (e.g., a second user equipment) may each relay at least a portion of the transport block during different resource elements of the same slot. In some examples, the second relay continues encoding the transport block at the point where the first relay completes its encoding. In some examples, the first relay and the second relay independently encode transport block data. In some examples, the first relay and the second relay are each allocated complete symbols within the slot.
US11765699B2

Proposed is an operation method of a first device in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, TDD-UL-DL configuration information including information related to a first slot pattern and information related to a second slot pattern; acquiring the number of first SL slots related to the first slot pattern and the number of second SL slots related to the second slot pattern on the basis of first SCS related to Sl-, communication and the TDD-UL-DL configuration information; and transmitting, to a second device, a PSBCH including information related to the number of the first SL slots and information related to the number of the second SL slots.
US11765694B2

A first wireless device may determine a number of sidelink slots, configured in a sidelink resource pool configuration, over a fixed duration. The first wireless device may determine a reservation period in units of slots based on a first reservation period in milli-second (ms) and the number of sidelink slots. The first wireless device may transmit a transport block via one or more transmission resources selected based on the reservation period.
US11765691B2

Methods, systems, and devices for signaling quasi-co-location information in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, from a first communication node and to a second communication node, a signal according to a beam set that comprises a first subset of B beams selected from a pool of beams, wherein B is positive integer. In an example, a beam of the beam set comprises one or more channel property assumptions, one or more reference signals (RSs), one or more RS sets, one or more spatial relation states, one or more quasi-co-location (QCL) states, one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, one or more spatial domain filters or one or more pre-coding filters.
US11765687B2

A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.
US11765686B2

This application provides a packet transmission method that includes: receiving from a first session management network element, a first message including an address of a first terminal device and an identifier of a first user plane network element servicing the first terminal device; receiving from a second session management network element, a second message including an address of a second terminal device and an identifier of a second user plane network element servicing the second terminal device; determining, that the first terminal device and the second terminal device belong to a same local area network group; sending to the first session management network element the identifier of the second user plane network element and the address of the second terminal device; and sending to the second session management network element the identifier of the first user plane network element and the address of the first terminal device.
US11765685B2

A UE may receive information associated with an MCG. The UE may train, based on at least one of the information associated with the MCG or historical information of the UE for an SCG, an ML model that indicates whether a location of the UE is within a coverage area of the SCG. The UE may communicate with a base station based on an indication of the ML model. The indication of the ML model may be indicative of whether the UE is within the coverage area of the SCG.
US11765680B2

Computer systems and methods are described for operating a network data and analytics function (NWDAF) in a cellular core network. The NWDAF receives user equipment (UE) mobility information from a first network function of the cellular network system and receives edge application server (EAS) information from a second network function of the cellular network system. The NWDAF derives data analytics based at least in part on the UE mobility information and the edge application server information. The NWDAF receives a request for the data analytics from a third network function in the cellular network system, and provides the data analytics to the third network function.
US11765671B2

A method for controlling access to a radio channel in a single frequency network in which multiple base stations transmit the same data simultaneously to a user equipment, UE device, includes a first plurality of base stations transmitting a set of random access parameters of the single frequency network. The method also includes a second plurality of base stations receiving a random access preamble transmitted by the UE device. The second plurality of base stations the same or a subset of the first. The method also includes transmitting responses to the random access preamble from a third plurality of bases stations. The third plurality of base stations the same as or a subset of the second. The method also includes a fourth plurality of base stations receiving a scheduled transmission in response to the responses. The fourth plurality of base stations the same as or a subset of the third.
US11765670B2

Provided are a transmission timing method and apparatus, a base station, and a computer readable storage medium. In the method, a second node issues timing control information to a first node and/or a third node to control alignment of data transmission received by the second node and sent by the first node and data transmission received by the second node and sent by the third node, or to control alignment of data transmission sent by the second node to the first node and data transmission sent by the second node to the third node.
US11765659B2

Logic may define one or more wake-up preambles suitable for high data rates for a wake-up radio (WUR) packet. Logic may define wake-up preamble with different counts of symbols. Logic may generate a wake-up preamble as an on-off keying (OOK) signal. Logic may generate and receive a wake-up preamble that signals a high data transmission rate with respect to data rates defined for WUR packet transmissions. Logic may generate or receive a preamble that signals a rate of transmission of the WUR packet as 250 kilobits per second. Logic may transmit or receive bits of the wake-up preamble as two microsecond orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based pulses, wherein each two microsecond OFDM based pulse is based on a 32-point Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in a 20 Megahertz (MHz) bandwidth, with a subcarrier spacing of 625 Kilohertz (KHz) to produce six subcarriers in a four MHz bandwidth.
US11765653B2

This application provides an example load threshold determining method and apparatus. The method includes obtaining a plurality of preselected load thresholds of a cell. The method also includes obtaining an evaluation value corresponding to each preselected load threshold in a first periodicity, where each evaluation value is used to evaluate key performance indicator (KPI) information and energy saving information of the cell. The method further includes determining a target load threshold of the cell in a second periodicity based on all evaluation values, where the target load threshold is a load threshold in the plurality of preselected load thresholds, and where the second periodicity is a next periodicity of the first periodicity.
US11765649B1

A method and system for a base station (BS) configured for sharing among a plurality of public land mobile networks (PLMNs), and for providing open radio access and/or closed subscriber group (CSG) radio access for user equipment devices (UEs) served. The BS may make a determination of which PLMNs have enabled CSG and which have not, and may transmit a request to a core network of each PLMN to set up an interface connection with each. Based on the determination, the request may either include information for configuring CSG radio access, or information for configuring only open radio access. For each PLMN having CSG enabled, the interface connection may be established for CSG radio access for UEs associated with PLMNs having CSG enabled. For each PLMN not having CSG enabled, the interface connection may be established for only open radio access for UEs associated with PLMNs without CSG enabled.
US11765644B2

A second network which communicates with a communication system for providing access to a network other than a first network, via the second network, to a wireless terminal on which an identification number for accessing the first network is stored, configured to: receive a connection initiation request on C-plane from the wireless terminal to send the connection initiation request to the communication system, receive a gateway ID of a gateway on U-plane to the network connected to the second network, selected on the communication system based on a network ID of the second network, in response to the connection initiation request, wherein the gateway is within a third network other than the first network, and establish a communication path between the gateway on U-plane designated by the gateway ID.
US11765641B2

A method and apparatus for supporting communication buffer status reports (BSRs) are disclosed. A wireless device may generate a first buffer status report (BSR) associated with first data for transmission to at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). Also, the wireless device may generate a second BSR associated with second data for transmission to a base station. Further, the wireless device may transmit the first BSR and the second BSR in a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) to the base station. Additionally, the wireless device may transmit the first data to the at least one WTRU. Moreover, the wireless device may transmit the second data to the base station. In a further example, the wireless device may generate the first BSR and generate the second BSR are based on a priority associated with the first BSR and a priority associated with the second BSR.
US11765633B2

A wireless station of a radio access network receives a reselection priority value of a frequency band used when the wireless station is an E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) anchor. The wireless station broadcasts an intra-frequency system information block (SIB) that includes a first Cell Reselection Priority information element (IE) and a first Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE, wherein the first Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE includes the reselection priority value of the frequency band used by the wireless station. The wireless station also broadcast an inter-frequency SIB that includes a second Cell Reselection Priority IE and a second Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE, wherein the second Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE includes another reselection priority value of another frequency band for another EN-DC anchor. Use of additional anchor-cell priorities enable EN-DC-capable end devices to camp on an anchor cell even when a non-anchor cell has a higher conventional priority than the anchor cell.
US11765631B2

A session management function (SMF) sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a first message for user plane activation of a wireless device. The first message comprises an identifier of a packet data unit session of the wireless device. A second message is received from the AMF and in response to the wireless device being unreachable. The second message is used to determine an extended buffering time. A third message is sent to a user plane function (UPF). The third message comprises the extended buffering time and indicates buffer downlink data of the wireless device.
US11765629B2

The present invention provides a connection setup method, the corresponding user equipment, common central control node and communication system. A connection setup method performed by a user device, comprising: acquiring information transmitted by a plurality of cells; determining a plurality of candidate cells according to the information transmitted by the plurality of cells, sending a common connection setup request for the plurality of candidate cells to a common central control node, the common central control node corresponding to each of the plurality of candidate cells; receiving a common connection setup message for a plurality of connecting cells transmitted by the common central control node, the plurality of connecting cells being determined from the plurality of candidate cells by the common central control node, so that the user equipment establishes multiple radio connections through each of the plurality of connecting cells.
US11765628B2

A baseband circuit that receives, from a RFIC, and being configured to process, a signal including a plurality of synchronization signal blocks generated in a neighbor cell and a signal including radio resource control parameters generated in a serving cell, includes: a storage; a controller configured to write/read data to/from the storage; and a signal processor controlled by the controller, wherein the controller sets a number of measurement target SSBs based on the RRC parameters, wherein the signal processor checks a validity of the set number of SSBs, and the controller stores valid SSB information in the storage based on the checking result, verifies a number of valid SSBs based on the stored valid SSB information, and controls the signal processor or invalidates the neighbor cell so that the signal processor measures reference signal received power of the neighbor cell based on a verification result.
US11765627B2

One or more processors, operating in a source base station and/or a target base station, determines a change in the termination point from the source base station to the target base station for a radio bearer with a current count value according to data unit sequencing. The one or more processors determine (1806) whether a user equipment (UE) changes the data unit sequencing as a result of the change in the termination point. In a first instance, the one or more processors cause the target base station to apply (1810) the current count value to the radio bearer, in response to determining that the data unit sequencing does not change. In a second instance, the one or more processors cause the target base station to apply (1820) a new count value different from the current count value to the radio bearer, in response to determining that the data unit sequencing changes.
US11765624B2

This application discloses example communications methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving a first request message from a terminal, where the first request message is used to request information used for PC5 interface-based communication of the terminal. A second request message can be sent to a policy and charging function network element based on the first request message, where the second request message is used to request the information used for the PC5 interface-based communication. A quality of service (QoS) rule used for the PC5 interface-based communication can then be received from the policy and charging function network element. The QoS rule can then be sent to the terminal based on the first request message, where the apparatus is a mobility management network element or located in a mobility management network element.
US11765620B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may include a first component for communications with a parent node and a second component for communications with a child node. The IAB node may perform a first channel access procedure for a first fixed frame period associated with the first component. The IAB node may perform a second channel access procedure for a second fixed frame period associated with the second component, the second fixed frame period staggered in time with respect to the first fixed frame period in accordance with an offset. The IAB node may communicate with one or more wireless devices during a first channel occupancy time associated with the first fixed frame period, during a second channel occupancy time associated with the second fixed frame period, or a combination thereof based on performing the channel access procedures.
US11765616B2

Signaling to enable relay-based user equipment (UE) cooperation (UC) by a group of UEs, and a configuration including an adaptation protocol for processing of UC bearer traffic, are communicated in a wireless communication network. The UC bearer traffic includes a UC bearer and UC bearer attributes, and the UC bearer includes either a split bearer or a duplicated bearer indicated in the UC bearer attributes. In some embodiments, wireless network connectivity that is available for a relay link is determined, and the adaptation protocol is determined based on the determined connectivity. Signaling to enable configuration of the relay link in accordance with the connectivity and the adaptation protocol is communicated. A UE may receive signaling to configure the UE for such a relay link, and communicates traffic between a remote UE and the wireless communication network over the relay link.
US11765613B2

A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control messages. The one or more radio resource control messages comprise configuration parameters of semi-persistent channel state information (CSI) reports for transmission via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of a first cell in a timing advance group. A downlink control information (DCI) indicating activation of semi-persistent CSI is received via PUSCH resources of the PUSCH of the first cell. In response to a time alignment timer of the timing advance group expiring, first PUSCH resources of the PUSCH resources are cleared. The first PUSCH resources occur after the time alignment timer expires.
US11765611B2

A method for minimization of drive tests (MDT) measurement includes: determining an identifier of a target network environment to be measured corresponding to a target terminal device; sending MDT configuration information to the target terminal device, the MDT configuration information including the identifier of the target network environment; and receiving measurement information of the target network environment from the target terminal device, the measurement information of the target network environment being associated with mobile network signal information of the target terminal device.
US11765605B2

A wireless communication system includes: a first sub-system including a first radio and a second radio, each including a transceiver or a receiver; and a second sub-system coupled to the first sub-system and including: a first antenna configured to convey signals; a first tuner coupled to the first antenna; and a controller coupled to the first tuner, the controller being configured to cause the first tuner to adjust a characteristic of the first tuner; where the controller and/or the first tuner is configured to provide, to the first sub-system, an indication of an effect on operational performance of a portion of the second sub-system coupled to the second radio based on operation of the first tuner or the first antenna, or a combination thereof; where the first sub-system is configured to modify operation of the second radio based on the indication of the effect on operational performance.
US11765603B2

It is recognized herein that as the number of transmit antennas in cellular systems (e.g., NR or 5G systems) increase, the Channel State information (CSI) feedback overhead may increase to unacceptable levels, and the current CSI feedback might not support beamforming training for NR. Embodiments described herein provide an enhanced and more efficient design for Channel State Information feedback as compared to current approaches.
US11765602B2

Examples of methods, systems, and computer program products relating to supervising data in a wireless network are disclosed. At least part of a system may be located between a packet data network and a base station, and/or may be at least logically separate from the base station. The system may be capable of evaluating the service provided by the base station, and may be capable of determining whether or not any action should consequently be performed. Examples of an action may include an action which may not necessarily affect en-route data packets such as outputting a report, and/or an action which may affect en-route data packets such as delaying packets, not delaying packets, and/or stopping the delaying of packets. An action which affects data packets may or may not affect data packets uniformly. An action may or may not result in an improvement in quality of user experience.
US11765601B2

An information handling system (IHS) boosts a cellular signal. The information handling system boosts the cellular signal by providing an information handling system with a cellular communication capability; pairing the information handling system with a mobile device; determining whether a cellular signal received by the mobile device is weak; and, configuring the information handling system to perform a cellular signal boosting operation when the cellular signal received by the mobile device is weak.
US11765600B2

The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for wireless communication and a computer-readable storage medium. An electronic device comprising: a processing circuit configured to: generate, where a user equipment accesses an unauthorized frequency band successfully, an indication representing whether sharing a channel occupancy time of the user equipment with other user equipment is permitted; and send the indication to a base station or the other user equipment.
US11765599B2

During operation, the radio node may identify a second portion of a shared-license-access (SLA) band of frequencies with an improved communication-performance metric relative to a first portion of the SLA band of frequencies, which is currently approved and authorized for use. In response, the radio may provide a grant request to the computer for the second portion of the SLA band of frequencies, and may receive a grant response from the computer with an approval for a grant to the second portion of the SLA band of frequencies. Then, the radio node may provide a heartbeat request to the computer requesting authorization to use the second portion of the SLA band of frequencies, and may receive a heartbeat response from the computer with the authorization. Next, the radio node may provide a relinquishment request to the computer for the first portion of the SLA band of frequencies.
US11765596B2

In accordance with an example embodiment, there is provided an apparatus, such as a user equipment, configured to receive, from a communication network, an authentication request which comprises a nonce and a received sequence number, check, whether the received sequence number is advanced with respect to a first sequence number, the first sequence number being from a most recent previous authentication request handled by the apparatus, check, responsive to the received sequence number not being advanced with respect the first sequence number, whether the nonce is identical to one from among plural stored nonces, and send, responsive to the nonce being identical to the one stored nonce, a response to the authentication request which comprises as a synchronization failure token a dummy value which is not derived from the first sequence number.
US11765589B2

A device receives data indicative of a plurality of broadcast service set identifiers. The device applies a schema to the data indicative of the plurality of broadcast service set identifiers to determine data indicative of a physical access point that broadcasts each of the plurality of broadcast service set identifiers. The device provides the data indicative of the physical access point to a user interface.
US11765578B2

A security negotiation method includes receiving, by a terminal, security negotiation information from a centralized unit control plane (CU-CP)/a centralized unit user plane (CU-UP), where the security negotiation information includes an integrity protection indication identifier of the CU-UP, and determining, by the terminal based on the integrity protection indication identifier, whether to enable user-plane integrity protection of the terminal.
US11765568B2

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining remote unit behavior parameters. One method includes receiving a message including parameters associated with an application in a remote unit. The method includes determining a first set of parameters including a first portion of the parameters, wherein each parameter of the first set of parameters corresponds to a remote unit behavior. The method includes determining a second set of parameters including a second portion of the parameters, wherein each parameter of the second set of parameters corresponds to a service behavior. The method includes associating the second set of parameters with a data network name, a single network slice selection assistance information, or a combination thereof.
US11765566B2

A system including a processor and memory may provide for automated support communications, such as communications with individuals who need assistance. Automated communications may use one or more factors to determine how to adjust communications according to the needs of a user. For example, automated communications may be adjusted based on, e.g., a keyword used by a user in the user's communications, or a location associated with the user's mobile device or user vehicle. Automated communications may be adjusted in timing, frequency, or content. One or more external events (e.g., phone call, dispatch request, additional automated communication) may be triggered based on the automated communications.
US11765564B2

This document describes low-latency Bluetooth connectivity in a wireless network in which a central node and a peripheral node establish a connection. During a first connection interval, the peripheral node receives a packet from the central node to synchronize communication with the central node, and based on receiving the packet, the peripheral node transmits a first fixed-length packet. If the first fixed-length packet fails to reach the central node, the peripheral node does not receive an acknowledgement, ACK, from the central node during the first connection interval and retransmits the first fixed-length packet during the first connection interval.
US11765563B2

Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for provisioning a Bluetooth Mesh network, used for provisioning a plurality of non-provisioned devices, so as to add the plurality of non-provisioned devices to the Bluetooth Mesh network. The method includes: provisioning, by a top provisioner, surrounding non-provisioned devices of the top provisioner, so as to add the surrounding devices to the Bluetooth Mesh network as nodes; selecting, by a top provisioner, the one or more newly added nodes to be configured as one or more temporary provisioners; provisioning, by each of the one or more temporary provisioners, surrounding non-provisioned devices, so as to add the surrounding devices to the Bluetooth Mesh network as nodes; and completing, by the top provisioner and each of the one or more temporary provisioners, the provisioning of the plurality of non-provisioned devices. The method of the present disclosure may greatly improve the average provisioning speed of device, and ensure the unified allocation of key network information and the compatibility of provisioning on the premise of ensuring the provisioning security of the Bluetooth Mesh network.
US11765558B2

A system and method for determining the presence of an asset or person at a particular spot within a location. The asset or person is provided with a beacon transmitting a beacon signal. A plurality of receivers are disposed throughout the location. In one embodiment, two or more adjacent or nearby receivers are grouped together to define a receiver cluster. The receiver cluster having the highest average signal strength from the signal being transmitted from the beacon of the asset or person as determined by an electronic identification and location tracking system determines the particular area within the location where the asset or person is present at.
US11765557B2

A short message service (SMS) message processing method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The electronic device is configured to receive a SMS message and set identification information of the SMS message to correspond to a processing manner for the received SMS message. A first processing manner is either deleting the received SMS message or saving the received SMS message in a junk SMS message storage area. A second processing manner is saving the received SMS message in a conventional SMS message storage area, and displaying both a content of the received SMS message and a delete option when a view operation on the received SMS message is detected. A third processing manner is saving the received SMS message in the conventional SMS message storage area. A fourth processing manner is saving the received SMS message in a confidential SMS message storage area.
US11765548B2

Provided are systems and methods for location information measurement. The location information measurement implementation method is applied to an access network element, and includes sending auxiliary positioning information to a terminal, where the auxiliary positioning information is used by the terminal for positioning measurement.
US11765540B2

A method and apparatus of controlling a sound using an audio system in a vehicle, includes receiving seat posture information related to a seat by occupied an occupant among seats in a vehicle, determining at least one speaker to output a sound among a plurality of speakers in the vehicle according to the seat posture information, and generating a control signal to control the sound output by the at least one speaker according to the seat posture information.
US11765538B2

A method assists in playing sound of a graphical representation for an electronic communication between a first person with a first portable electronic device (PED) to a second person with a second PED. The method displays a first visual indication that when selected plays the sound of the graphical representation in stereo or mono sound and a second visual indication that when selected plays the sound of the graphical representation in binaural sound.
US11765530B2

An assembly for a hearing aid is disclosed. The hearing aid with the assembly comprises an in the ear part and a behind the ear part and a part mechanically interconnecting the two parts. In the interconnection, a flexible substrate is arranged. The flexible substrate comprises conductive paths. The conductive paths may be used for communication between the in the ear part and the behind the ear part, and/or for an antenna function.
US11765527B2

A hearing aid is described which incorporates an antenna integrated into the housing that is configured to radiate with linear polarization such that the electric field is perpendicular to the head of a wearer. The described technique results in lower propagation losses from ear to ear and an improvement in ear-to-ear communications using a far-field link (e.g., in the 2.4 GHz band).
US11765518B2

A sound apparatus includes a piezoelectric device, a vibration member connected to the piezoelectric device, a first magnet connected to the piezoelectric device, and a second magnet facing the first magnet, which can readily realize a desired frequency characteristic.
US11765516B2

Provided is a sounding device, including frame and vibration system and magnetic circuit unit fixed to the frame. The vibration system includes diaphragm, voice coil driving the diaphragm to vibrate and sound, holder fixed to diaphragm, and auxiliary diaphragm spaced from diaphragm. The holder includes holder main body, first connection portion formed from holder main body to magnetic circuit unit and second connection portion spaced from first connection portion. The voice coil is fixed to second connection portion. One end of the auxiliary diaphragm is fixed to frame. One end of first connection portion away from holder main body bends and extends away from second connection portion to form flange. One end of auxiliary diaphragm away from frame is fixed to flange. The sounding device may reduce accuracy deviation and hidden dangers of gluing failure caused by rear assembling of the auxiliary diaphragm.
US11765513B2

The present disclosure provides a dual magnetic circuits structure and a sound device, the dual magnetic circuits structure includes a shell and an inner magnetic assembly, the shell is made of a magnetically permeable material, the inner magnetic assembly is arranged in the shell and includes a first inner magnetic element and a second inner magnetic element, a first magnetic gap, a second magnetic gap, an outer diameter of the second inner magnetic element is greater than that of the first inner magnetic element. Therefore, compared to the existing dual magnetic circuits structure, the dual magnetic circuits structure provided by the present invention has the advantage that the thickness of the whole dual magnetic path structure can be effectively reduced while ensuring that the vibration spaces and winding heights of the first voice coil and the second voice coil are not changed.
US11765499B2

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of driving a playback waveform to an electromagnetic actuator by a transducer driving system may include operating the transducer driving system in a first mode wherein the electromagnetic actuator is driven with the playback waveform in a closed loop to form a closed-loop voltage drive system that includes a negative impedance, operating the transducer driving system in a second mode wherein the electromechanical actuator is driven with the playback waveform in an open loop, and operating a mode switch for transitioning the transducer driving system to operate between the first mode and the second mode.
US11765498B2

A microphone array system or microphone array unit for a conference system is provided that includes a front board, side walls and a plurality of microphone capsules arranged in or on the front board mountable on or in a ceiling of a conference room. The microphone array system or unit is adapted for generating a steerable beam within a maximum detection angle range. The microphone array system or microphone array unit includes a processing unit which is configured to receive the output signals of the microphone capsules and to steer the beam based on the received output signal of the microphone array. The processing unit is configured to control the microphone array to limit the detection angle range to exclude at least one predetermined exclusion sector in which a noise source is located.
US11765493B2

A protective headgear including an on-ear headset attachable to an inside portion of the protective headgear; a magnetization exhibited that reduces a gap between the compressible foam material of the protective headgear and the on-ear headset; and a method of adjusting the force of the magnetization by a switch adapted to the outer casing of the protective head gear, wherein the switch adjusts the distance between the protective headgear magnet and the on-ear headset magnet.
US11765481B2

An imaging element of the present disclosure includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert multiple analog pixel signals that are acquired under multiple imaging conditions different from each other and that are output from a pixel, to multiple digital pixel signals, a threshold setting unit configured to set, on an input side of the analog-to-digital converter, a threshold that is randomly varied, a comparison unit configured to use, as a comparison threshold, the threshold set by the threshold setting unit and compare the comparison threshold with one of the multiple analog pixel signals, and a selection unit configured to select and output, on the basis of a result of comparison from the comparison unit, one of the multiple digital pixel signals that are output from the analog-to-digital converter.
US11765463B2

A multi-channel video recording method comprises: starting, by an electronic device, a camera; acquiring images by using a first camera lens and a second camera lens in a plurality of camera lenses; displaying a preview interface, where the preview interface includes a first image and a second image; the first image is an image acquired by the first camera lens, the second image is from the second camera lens, and the second image corresponds to a central area of an image acquired by the second camera lens; and the first image is located in a first area in the preview interface, and the second image is located in a second area in the preview interface; starting video recording after detecting a video recording instruction operation of a user; and displaying a shooting screen, where the shooting screen includes the first area and the second area.
US11765453B2

An information processing apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus via a communication path, the communication path being selected from a first communication path and a second communication path, the first communication path being different from the second communication path. The apparatus also comprises an operation unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to change an apparatus mode and to change a mode of communication performed by the communication unit, depending on a state of the operation unit.
US11765450B2

An electronic device, method and computer program product provide multiple simultaneous camera previews of different imaging modes of the same image. The electronic device includes at least one image capturing device that generates a photographic image stream. The electronic device includes an image processing module that simultaneously produces more than one camera previews of the photographic image stream in different imaging modes. The electronic device includes a display driver. A controller of the electronic device is communicatively coupled to the at least one image capturing device, the image processing module, the display driver, and a first display device. The controller receives the more than one camera previews from the image processing module. The controller simultaneously presents, via the display driver, the more than one camera previews on the first display device.
US11765437B2

Generating automatic diagnostics alerts is disclosed. At a first time, a set of quality metrics for a plurality of groups of streaming sessions is computed. An anomaly is identified at least in part by performing anomaly detection using the set of quality metrics and historical information. A cause of the identified anomaly is diagnosed. An alert is generated based at least in part on the diagnosis.
US11765435B2

Systems and methods for text tagging and graphical enhancement of subtitles in an audio-visual media display are disclosed. A media asset associated with an audio-visual display that includes one or more speaking characters may be received by a text tagging and graphical enhancement system. A set of sounds from the audio-visual display corresponding to speech by one of the speaking characters is identified. The set of sounds corresponding to the identified speaking character may be analyzed and one or more vocal parameters is identified, each vocal parameter measuring an element of one of the sounds. A display of subtitles synchronized to the speech of the identified speaking character within the audio-visual display may be generated. The appearance of the subtitles may be modified based on the identified vocal parameters for each of the corresponding sounds.
US11765423B2

Methods and systems for transmitting an interruption-free version of a television program for recording on a user equipment device. In one aspect, a system transmits a first stream including a television program to a user equipment device. The system receives an indication that the television program is being recorded on the user equipment device. The system determines whether an interruption is imminent during transmission of the television program. In response to determining that the interruption is imminent, the system generates a second stream including the television program. The second stream does not include the interruption during the transmission of the television program. The system transmits the second stream to the user equipment device along with an instruction to switch recording of the television program from the first stream to the second stream.
US11765412B2

Example apparatus disclosed herein to implement signature matching with meter data aggregation for use in media identification applications include a match job aggregator to aggregate batches of meter data from a meter to form aggregated meter data associated with the meter, and a hash matcher to identify a valid hash key match between meter hash keys generated from meter signatures in the aggregated meter data and reference hash keys corresponding to a collection of media assets. Disclosed example apparatus also include a signature matcher to align, based on the valid hash key match, a sequence of reference signatures corresponding to a first media asset associated with the valid hash key match and a corresponding sequence of the meter signatures, and compare the sequence of reference signatures and the corresponding sequence of meter signatures to identify media represented by at least a portion of the sequence of the meter signatures.
US11765410B2

Systems and methods for synchronizing the playback of OTT or other time sensitive content on multiple playback devices is disclosed. The systems and methods include receiving time information based on a network time source in the playback devices. The playback clock in each playback device is set based upon the time information. Stream initiation information derived using the time information from the network time source is received by each of the playback device from the media provider. The playback devices use the stream initiation information to adjust the presentation time stamps of the frames of the media content in the stream.
US11765404B2

A live media production function (LMPF) provisions a live media production service and live media service in a 5G system. The LMPF may be deployed as a virtual or physical network function in a 5G network or as an application function interfacing with the 5G network over a standardized interface.
US11765399B2

An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an intra block copy mode, the current block is one of a plurality of coding blocks in a coding tree block (CTB) with a right to left coding order being allowed within the current CTB. The processing circuitry determines a block vector that points to a reference block in a same picture as the current block. Then, the processing circuitry ensures the reference block being buffered in a reference sample memory based on at least a determination that a sample that is right of a leftmost sample of the reference block is buffered in the reference sample memory. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least a sample of the current block based on reconstructed samples of the reference block.
US11765396B2

Reducing artifacts in decoded images includes decoding a first facet of an image, where the first facet includes first edge pixels. A second facet of the image that includes second edge pixels is decoded. The first edge pixels are not adjacent to the second edge pixels and the second facet is decoded independently of the first facet. The first edge pixels are copied to an area adjacent to the second edge pixels. The second edge pixels are filtered using the copied first edge pixels. The second edge pixels are copied to an area adjacent to the first edge pixels. The first edge pixels are filtered using the copied second edge pixels.
US11765388B2

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for image encoding/decoding. The method for image decoding includes comparing whether a size of a current transform block and a size of a smallest transform block (smallest transform unit (STU)) are the same as each other, and decoding information indicating whether transformation is performed on the current transform block and determining whether to perform inverse transformation on the current transform block based on the decoded information indicating whether the transformation is performed when the size of the current transform block and the size of a smallest transform block are the same as each other.
US11765385B2

Disclosed are an intra prediction method of a chrominance block using a luminance sample and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method comprises the steps of calculating an intra prediction mode of a chrominance block on the basis of an LM mapping table when the chrominance block uses an LM; and generating a prediction block for the chrominance block on the basis of the calculated intra prediction mode of the chrominance block. When intra prediction mode information of chrominance blocks are decoded, mutually different tables are used depending on whether or not an LM is used, so that encoding and decoding can be performed without an unnecessary waste of bits.
US11765384B2

Methods and apparatus of motion compensation using the bi-directional optical flow (BIO) techniques are disclosed. According to one method of the present invention, the BIO process is applied to encode or decode bi-directional current block in Merge mode only or in AMVP (advanced motion vector prediction) mode only. According to another method, the BIO process conditionally to encode or decode the current block depending on a jointly-coded flag if the current block is coded using a bi-prediction mode. According to yet another method, x-offset value vx and y-offset value vy for the current block are added to the current motion vector to form a final motion vector. The final motion vector is then used as a reference motion vector for following blocks. In still yet another method, the BIO process is applied to the chroma component.
US11765380B2

Method and apparatus for deriving a motion vector at a video decoder. A block-based motion vector may be produced at the video decoder by utilizing motion estimation among available pixels relative to blocks in one or more reference frames. The available pixels could be, for example, spatially neighboring blocks in the sequential scan coding order of a current frame, blocks in a previously decoded frame, or blocks in a downsampled frame in a lower pyramid when layered coding has been used.
US11765379B2

Provided herein are an encoding method, a decoding method, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, for a video image. The encoding method includes: determining an optimal integrated neighboring block for a current block based on a motion vector integration technology; determining, based a prediction direction of the optimal integrated neighboring block, a motion vector derivation mode that needs to be used by a decoder; correcting a motion vector of the current block based on the motion vector derivation mode; and determining a residual between a predicted value and an original value of the current block based on the corrected motion vector, thereby encoding the current block. According to the technical solutions, a more accurate predicted value is obtained by correcting the motion vector, and a smaller residual is generated.
US11765375B2

An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document is characterized by comprising the steps of: acquiring image information including a Block-based Delta Pulse Code Modulation (BDPCM) available flag; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the image information, wherein the BDPCM available flag relates to whether BDPCM is available for chroma and luma blocks.
US11765372B1

Techniques for emulating frequency coefficients of film grain for video (e.g., frame) encoding are described. According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to encode a video with film grain at a content delivery service, performing a film grain synthesis on a frame of the video with film grain to generate film grain metadata for the frame and generate a degrained frame from the frame, determining film grain emulation frequency coefficients based at least in part on the film grain metadata for the frame, performing a frequency transform on the degrained frame to generate frequency coefficients for the degrained frame, encoding the frame into an encoded frame, by the content delivery service, based at least in part on the frequency coefficients for the degrained frame and the film grain emulation frequency coefficients, and transmitting the encoded frame from the content delivery service to a viewer device.
US11765371B2

A method of decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including: obtaining from the encoded video bitstream a coded video sequence including a picture unit corresponding to a coded picture; obtaining a picture header (PH) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit included in the picture unit; obtaining at least one video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit included in the picture unit; decoding the coded picture based on the PH NAL unit, the at least one VCL NAL unit, and an adaptation parameter set (APS) included in an APS NAL unit obtained from the coded video sequence; and outputting the decoded picture, wherein the APS NAL unit is available to the at least one processor before the at least one VCL NAL unit.
US11765370B2

A video residual decoding apparatus includes a residual decoding circuit and a neighbor storage device. The residual decoding circuit applies residual decoding to a transform block, wherein the transform block is divided into M sub-blocks, M is a positive integer, and the M sub-blocks are processed by the residual decoding in a diagonal scan order. The neighbor storage device stores neighbor data that belong to neighboring sub-blocks and are referenced by the residual decoding of a current sub-block, wherein neighbor data belonging to a sub-block is derived from a residual decoding result of the sub-block, and a storage size of the neighbor storage device is not larger than a maximum data amount of neighbor data derived from residual decoding results of N sub-blocks, where N is a positive integer, and N is smaller than M.
US11765364B2

An image encoding method including: a constraint information generating step of generating tile constraint information indicating whether or not there is a constraint in filtering on boundaries between adjacent tiles among a plurality of tiles obtained by dividing a picture, and storing the tile constraint information into a sequence parameter set; and a filter information generating step of generating, for each of the boundaries, one of a plurality of filter information items respectively indicating whether or not filtering is executed on the boundaries, and storing the plurality of filter information items into a plurality of picture parameter sets, wherein, in the filter information generating step, the plurality of filter information items which indicate identical content are generated when the tile constraint information indicates that there is the constraint in the filtering.
US11765342B2

The coding efficiency of a multi-component picture or video coding concept is improved by reconstructing a third component signal relating to a third component of the multi-component video using inter-component prediction from both a reconstructed first component signal and a reconstructed second component signal.
US11765338B2

A method, a system, a processing device and a computer storage medium for evaluating a viewpoint density are provided. The method includes: acquiring a quantity of viewpoints of a display panel; comparing a size of an image spot radius of each viewpoint and image point spacing between the viewpoint and an adjacent viewpoint, and selecting one viewpoint as a reference viewpoint, calculating a crosstalk value between another viewpoint except the reference viewpoint and the reference viewpoint; and evaluating a viewpoint density for the auto-stereoscopic display according to the comparison of the size of the image spot radius of each viewpoint and the image point spacing between the viewpoint and the adjacent viewpoint and the calculated crosstalk value between the another viewpoint and the reference viewpoint.
US11765334B2

An image processing method includes determining a display mode; processing, according to an image processing manner corresponding to the display mode, original image data to obtain target image data; and transmitting the target image data to an image display terminal, so that the image display terminal performs image display according to a scanning display manner corresponding to the display mode, a resolution of the target image data is less than or equal to that of the original image data, and the target image data carries indication information of the display mode.
US11765332B2

A method for conducting a three dimensional (3D) video conference between multiple participants, the method may include receiving second participant metadata and first viewpoint metadata by a first unit that is associated with a first participant, wherein the second participant metadata is indicative of a pose of a second participant and an expression of the second participant, wherein the first viewpoint metadata is indicative of a virtual position from which the first participant requests to view an avatar of the second participant; generating, by the first unit, and based on the second participant metadata and the first viewpoint metadata, a second participant representation information; wherein the second participant representation information comprises a compact 3D model of the second participant and a second participant texture map; and determining, for the first participant and during the 3D video conference, a representation of virtual 3D video conference environment, wherein the determining is based on the second participant representation information.
US11765325B2

A system having a color filter having first and second segments. The first and second segments allow respective first and second wavelengths to pass through to a spatial light modulator. The first and second segments also reflect second and first wavelengths, respectively. The reflected first and second wavelengths are recycled and directed towards the color filter.
US11765305B2

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for processing an image. The method comprise: determining weights corresponding to candidate colors for a target color based on an original color of a pixel in the image; selecting a target color of the pixel from the candidate colors based on the weights; and converting the original color of the pixel into the target color to obtain a target image. According to the embodiment of the present disclosure, by determining the weights of the candidate colors, the image can be converted into the target image comprising only the candidate colors, thereby using a limited number of candidate colors to represent the target image.
US11765301B2

An image processing apparatus capable of improving operability of a question preparer. The image processing apparatus including a memory device that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions to: generate a question sheet image by controlling a reading unit to read a question sheet in which question sentences and question numbers are written, generate an answer sheet image by controlling the reading unit to read an answer sheet that includes answer fields, question numbers corresponding to the answer fields, and marks showing marking results, detect an answer field including a wrong answer mark from the answer sheet image, obtain a question number corresponding to the detected answer field from the answer sheet image, obtain a question sentence corresponding to the obtained question number from the question sheet image, and generate a review image including the obtained question sentence and a new answer field.
US11765298B2

An image sensor unit includes: a visible light cut filter that is arranged between a first light source and a first light guide and blocks light including visible light having wavelengths longer than those of ultraviolet light; a lens body that condenses light generated on a reading target by light radiated from the first light guide and light radiated from a second light guide; a line sensor that receives the light condensed by the lens body; and an ultraviolet light cut filter arranged between the lens body and the line sensor and blocks ultraviolet light.
US11765297B2

An image scanning apparatus includes plural light sources, an image sensor, a driving circuit, and a controller. The plural light sources are configured to emit light of plural colors. The image sensor is configured to scan an image on the basis of the light sequentially emitted by the plural light sources. The driving circuit is configured to drive the plural light sources. The controller is configured to supply to the driving circuit an instruction of light-emitting pulse widths of the light sources. Further, the controller corrects the light-emitting pulse widths in monochrome scanning on the basis of a rising time and a falling time of driving currents conducted through the light sources by the driving circuit so as to cause the light-emitting pulse widths to agree with light-emitting pulse widths based on predetermined color balance ratios of the plural colors, respectively.
US11765292B2

An information processing apparatus capable of reducing troublesome work of a user when converting an image obtained by newly scanning a business form to a file. An information processing apparatus that sets, when converting the image to a file, a file name of the image. A preview image of the scanned original is displayed, and user selection of a character area on the preview image is detected. An item name candidate area is extracted based on location information of the character area selected by the user on the preview image, and a character string included in the item name candidate area is set as an item name of a character string included in the character area selected by the user. The set item name is displayed as a file name rule such that the set item name is selectable by the user.
US11765290B2

A system is provided for processing documents. In particular, the system is incorporates a feeder for feeding documents to a device for further processing of the documents. For instance, the system finds particular application in the field of document imaging in which a variety of documents of varying sizes and orientation are to be fed to an imaging system, such as a document scanner. The system may provide an input mechanism for easily identifying a characteristic of one of the documents and the system may include features for handling packets of documents.
US11765289B2

In an operation assistance system, an operation assistance method, and a computer-readable recording medium recording an operation assistance program, each of which assists with making an operation setting of an image forming apparatus by using a mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal wirelessly communicates with the image forming apparatus, and at least two types of setting items among plural types of the setting items for the image forming apparatus are simultaneously set by a single touch operation on an operation screen of the mobile communication terminal.
US11765277B2

Disclosed are systems and methods for intelligent, real-time network consumption tracking and traffic steering in fifth-generation (5G) networks via a network configuration and implementation. The disclosed hybrid network traffic steering is effectuated by using Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) and Subscriber Location Function (SLF) to route/steer fourth-generation (4G) network traffic by 5G subscribers to a 5G Charging Function (CHF) for 4G fallback network consumptions. Network currency consumption tracking is performed by the 5G CHF. The CHF dictates policy rules for 5G networks via the Policy Control Function (PCF) of the 5G Core, and dictates policy rules for 4G networks via the Policy and Charging Rules Functions (PCRF) for fallback sessions.
US11765276B2

Mechanisms for implementing a billing process between a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN1) and a second Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN2) for a subscriber of the PLMN1 that visits the PLMN2. A method comprises establishing a smart contract between the PLMN1, the PLMN2, and a Data Clearance House (DCH). The method comprises sending a subscriber usage record, represented by a distributed ledger, of the subscriber from the PLMN2 to the DCH using a blockchain upon the subscriber having visited the PLMN2, wherein the blockchain is based on the smart contract. The method comprises sending the subscriber usage record from the DCH to the PLMN1 using the blockchain.
US11765259B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing comprising a front plate facing a first direction, a back plate facing a second direction that is opposite the first direction, and an outer wall which encompasses the space between the front plate and the back plate and in which a pipe passage extending to the outside is arranged, a speaker module positioned in the space, which is adjacent to the pipe passage, a printed circuit board arranged along at least a part of the side surface of the speaker module and formed along the periphery of the region between the outer wall, having the pipe passage, and the speaker module, and a first sealing member arranged between the back plate and a bracket and formed into a closed loop along the edge of the speaker module.
US11765258B2

Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same. The mobile terminal includes a master device and a slave device detachably mounted on the master device. The master device includes a housing, a bracket, a master controller and a switch assembly. The housing is provided with a groove to receive the bracket. The bracket can be rotated into or out of the groove relative to the housing. The switch assembly is arranged on the housing and directly faces the groove. When the bracket is rotated out of the groove relative to the housing and the rotation angle thereof meets a first angle, the switch assembly generates a first signal and sends it to the master controller. The master controller controls, according to the first signal, at least one component of the master device to be switched to a first usage state.
US11765256B2

A device and method for analyzing service-oriented communication in a communications network. A data packet includes a header for service-oriented communication. It is analyzed for the data packet depending on information about at least two data fields of the header whether or not the data packet meets a criterion, the criterion defining a setpoint value for values from the at least two data fields permitted in the communications network or a combination of information from the at least two data fields permitted in the communications network.
US11765247B2

A compute device can monitor interactions with a user and/or remote entity. A real-time stream of event information can be generated by the compute device based on the interactions. At least one software application operating in the compute device can analyze the real-time stream of event information to identify a predefined trigger. In response to identifying the predefined trigger, a pre-defined message can be output.
US11765236B2

A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for multi-instance Network-Based Media Processing (NBMP) function execution. A function call corresponding to an NBMP request is received. A function is retrieved from among a function group having a function descriptor, the retrieved function corresponding to the received function call. One or more instances of the retrieved function are executed.
US11765232B1

A method including configuring an intermediate layer included in a network stack associated with an infrastructure device to: receive a request from a first device in a mesh network, the request requesting the infrastructure device to determine a communication parameter associated with communicating meshnet data with the first device; determine the communication parameter based at least in part on information included in the request; and transmit identification information identifying the communication parameter to an application layer included in the network stack; configuring the application layer to determine a response including an encrypted meshnet packet including the identification information; and transmitting, by the infrastructure device, the response to a second device in the mesh network is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11765223B2

An information processing system according to an embodiment includes at least one supplementary information processing apparatus and a main information processing apparatus. The main information processing apparatus is connected to each of the at least one supplementary information processing apparatus via a communication network. The supplementary information processing apparatus executes, on input information, arithmetic processing using a preceding network from an input layer to a boundary layer located at a predetermined position in a first neural network, and transmits intermediate information indicating an arithmetic result of the arithmetic processing using the preceding network, to the main information processing apparatus. The main information processing apparatus executes, on the intermediate information, arithmetic processing using a succeeding network from a layer subsequent to the boundary layer to an output layer in the first neural network.
US11765221B2

Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are provided to facilitate adaptive security and cooperative multi-system operations in conformance with dynamic protocols. An implementation of the protocol that includes parameter constraints mapped to the defined event may be generated, defining an operation flow in response to detection of a defined event at a remote system and transforming the protocol into an executable process that applies to at least one remote system. References to metadata specifications may be transmitted that include specifications of interface elements and cause interface configuring in accordance with the specifications. Upon determination that responses satisfy the parameter constraints, access to a resource may be controlled in accordance with the protocol, or, upon determination that the responses fail to satisfy the parameter constraints, an alert may be transmitted that is indicative of at least one of the references and/or additional references to second metadata specifications.
US11765218B2

Systems, devices, and methods for managing capabilities of a 5G media streaming (5GMS) network, including obtaining a streaming access object corresponding to 5GMS media content; obtaining a media service entry based on the streaming access object, wherein the media service entry includes a protocol identifier corresponding to the media service entry, and a service entry uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the media service entry; and performing at least one of uplink streaming or downlink streaming of the 5GMS media content based on the media service entry, wherein the media service entry is consistent with a 5GMS M5 interface regardless of whether the media service entry is used for uplink streaming or downlink streaming of the 5GMS media content.
US11765217B1

Methods and apparatus are described for providing thinned manifests during a live event. As network usage of a regional internet service provider (ISP) or content delivery network (CDN) becomes unsustainable, new streaming sessions for a live event are provided a thinned manifest that does not have playback options for bitrates above a bitrate limit.
US11765208B2

Provided are methods and systems for dynamic connection management. The method can comprise establishing a persistent connection with a web service, receiving a notification of a request for a communication session with a computing device via the web service, registering with a communication processing system to receive the request for the communication session, and establishing the communication session with the computing device via the communication processing system. When the communication session ends, the user device can be deregistered and free up the resources on the computing device.
US11765207B1

Embodiments are directed to declaring network policies using natural language. A policy statement for the management of the network resources may be generated based on a statement. A prompt dataset may be generated for large language models based on the policy statement and a prompt template. In response to providing the prompt dataset to train the large language models further actions may be performed, including: generating a candidate configuration profile based on information provided by the trained large language models such that the candidate configuration profile may include field names or field values that may be associated with providing the management of the network resources; in response to validation of the candidate configuration profile for the management of the network resources, the validated candidate configuration profile may be provided to an infrastructure security computer (ISC) such that the ISC updates network policies based on the validated candidate configuration profile.
US11765200B2

Methods, a user data node (120), a policy node (150), an application node (170) and an operator network (101) for enabling management of an attack towards an application (190) hosted by the application node (170) are disclosed. The policy node (150) receives (3) attack information and an identifier of the application (190) to which the attack information applies. The attack information relates to the management of the attack and the attack information comprises a type of attack, a set of detection conditions relating to detection of attacks of the type of attack, and a mitigation action to be invoked when at least one detection condition of the set of detection conditions is fulfilled. In this manner, degeneration of the application (190) caused by the attacks of the type of attack is mitigatable. The policy node (150) generates (13) at least one rule based on the attack information. Moreover, the operator network (101) transfers (14, 15), from the policy node to the user data node (120), said at least one rule. The user data node (120) detects (18), in traffic towards the application (190), the attack while utilizing said at least one rule. Corresponding computer programs and computer program carriers are also disclosed.
US11765199B2

At least some embodiments are directed to a computer-based cyber-attack frequency tracking system that determines types and frequencies of cyber-attacks. In at least some embodiments, the method of a cyber-attack frequency tracking system may operate a processor in an enterprise computing environment for automatically conducting a process that comprises receiving, a plurality of data values that represent a plurality of cyber-attacks. Determining cyber-attack types, and then determining the frequency of attempts and contacts with assets. After that determining likelihood values. Aggregating these determinations to produce a quantifiable value of a likelihood values of each of the plurality of cyber-attack types.
US11765198B2

Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for implementing security actions in a computing environment. In one example, a method of operating an advisement system to provide actions in a computing environment includes identifying a security incident in the computing environment, identifying a criticality rating for the asset, and obtaining enrichment information for the security incident from one or more internal or external sources. The method also provides identifying a severity rating for the security incident based on the enrichment information, and determining one or more security actions based on the enrichment information. The method further includes identifying effects of the one or more security actions on operations of the computing environment based on the criticality rating and the severity rating, and identifying a subset of the one or more security actions to respond to the security incident based on the effects.
US11765197B2

An inventory of Internet-facing assets related to a target domain is generated using network data gathered from network data sources. Using data sources of known threats, such as malware, phishing attempts, scam pages, blacklisted sites, and so on, a network analytic system generates analytical information about domains, sub-domains, and components that are owned, managed, and/or controlled by a target entity. A confidence score of ownership is generated based on a recursive rule engine. A visual representation of the inventory of Internet-facing assets is generated in a graphical user interface.
US11765196B2

Attack scenario information describes each state of an information processing system to be attacked and an attack scenario including a chain of actions that can be taken in the state, an action that transitions from a first state to a second state is obtained with reference to state information, action information, and attack tactics information, a reward of the action is obtained with reference to reward information, the action information, and the attack tactics information, an expected reward of the reward of the action that transitions from the first state to the second state is obtained with reference to success probability information, the highest expected reward is set as a state value of reinforcement learning of the first state among the expected rewards of the action, and the attack scenario is generated by the reinforcement learning.
US11765193B2

In a computer-implemented method for improving a static analyzer output, a processor receives a labeled data set with labeled true vulnerabilities and labeled false vulnerabilities. A processor receives pretrained contextual embeddings from a contextual embeddings model. A processor maps the true vulnerabilities and the false vulnerabilities to the pretrained contextual embeddings model. A processor generates a fine-tuned model with classifications for true vulnerabilities.
US11765189B2

Techniques for building and maintaining cyber security threat detection models are described. The techniques include data selection, algorithm selection, risk score algorithm selection, model outcome selection, and model automation. During data selection, data is received from various sources and in various formats. The data is then tokenized into vector form and compared to preexisting vectors. If the vectors are equal, the tokenized vector is saved in the database. If the vectors are not equal, a new vector, in key value pair format, is formed. After which, algorithms can be selected to detect anomalies within the data and assign a risk score to the data. Subsequently, a matrix is formed with the vector, selected algorithm, and parameters of the data that were analyzed. The matrix is then stored for application with future data based on a predetermined rule. The output can be modeled in various user-friendly methods.
US11765184B2

One variation of a method for end-to-end encryption of electronic mail includes: receiving an email encrypted according to a first encryption protocol and designating a recipient within an external domain; verifying encryption protocol supported by the recipient's mail client; in response to a recipient exclusion database identifying the recipient, encrypting the email to a less-robust encryption protocol supported by the recipient mail client and transmitting the email to the recipient; in response to the recipient exclusion database excluding the recipient and the recipient mail client supporting the first encryption protocol, transmitting the email encrypted according to the first encryption protocol to the recipient; and, in response to the recipient exclusion database excluding the recipient and the recipient mail client not supporting the first encryption protocol, generating a notification email including a hyperlink to a secure webpage containing content of the email and transmitting the notification email to the recipient.
US11765172B2

In a network system for wireless communication an enrollee accesses the network via a configurator. The enrollee acquires a data pattern that represents a network public key via an out-of-band channel by a sensor. The enrollee derives a first shared key based on the network public key and the first enrollee private key, and encodes a second enrollee public key using the first shared key, and generates a network access request. The configurator also derives the first shared key, and verifies whether the encoded second enrollee public key was encoded by the first shared key, and, if so, generates security data and cryptographically protects data using a second shared key, and generates a network access message. The enrollee processor also derives the second shared key and verifies whether the data was cryptographically protected and, if so, engages the secure communication based on the second enrollee private key and the security data.
US11765167B2

A secure mechanism for adding network devices uses an unsecure guest network and a secure network both coupled to a secure hub. When an unknown device is introduced, it is initially connected to the guest network and can only communicate with the hub and with a wide area network (WAN). The unknown device is prohibited from communicating with the secure network and any device connected to the secure network. The unknown device provides credentials to the hub, which are verified with a secure database, such as a blockchain ledger, that provides manufacturer device information and certification. Upon authentication, the hub permits the identified device to connect to the secure network. The hub may also configure the now identified device for security and operational parameters. The hub may also retrieve network traffic pattern information from the secure database and use such information to monitor normal expected activity from the identified device.
US11765152B2

Access control enhancements reduce security risks and management burdens when a user with access to a primary asset seeks access to a related supplementary asset. When a sufficient proof of access to the primary asset is provided, and the relationship of the primary and supplementary assets is recognized, access to the supplementary asset is granted without requiring a separate sign-in, a permission query to the supplementary asset's owner, or an authorization through an authenticated identity of the requestor, for example. Automatic access to the supplementary asset can be granted without the security risks inherent in a file share or a share link. In particular, a developer with access to one component of a project can be automatically and conveniently granted access to the rest of the project. Likewise, a custom machine learning model for autocompletion becomes accessible to all developers working on the repository source used to train the model.
US11765151B1

Methods and systems for verifying a user's identity on a computing device using two-factor authentication are described. More particularly, the system utilizes a personal identification number input by a user, together with one or more of a secure browsing feature, a device fingerprint, and a token generator to authenticate the user on the computer.
US11765150B2

Mechanisms support machine-to-machine service layer sessions that can span multiple service layer hops where a machine-to-machine service layer hop is a direct machine-to-machine service layer communication session between two machine-to-machine service layer instances or between a machine-to-machine service layer instance and a machine-to-machine application. Mechanisms are also disclosed that illustrate machine-to-machine session establishment procedures for oneM2M Session Management Service supporting multiple resources.
US11765148B2

A method performed by a computing device of establishing a secret shared between a first communications device and at least one second communications device is provided. The method comprises acquiring, using a first means of communication with the first communications device, a first data representation from which the shared secret can be derived. The method further comprises generating a second data representation from the first data representation, from which second data representation the shared secret can be derived. Moreover, the method comprises providing, using a second means of communication, the second communications device with the second data representation, the first means of communication being different from the second means of communication.
US11765140B2

A baseband processor of a communication device, the baseband processor comprising a multiple encryption manager that utilizes a transmit data stream as an input data stream in the case that the transmit data stream is determined not to already have encryption applied by a higher layer component, and that utilizes a known unencrypted dataset as an input data stream in the case that the transmit data stream is determined to already have encryption applied by a higher layer component, an encryptor block that encrypts the input data stream into an encrypted data stream, and a randomness inspector that is in communication with the encryptor block, the randomness inspector unit accessing the input data stream and the encrypted data stream from the encryptor block and determining a randomness gain by comparing a first randomness measurement associated with the input data stream to a second randomness measurement associated with the encrypted data stream.
US11765132B2

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to transmit connection information regarding a repay apparatus to a terminal in a case where terminal unique information is received from the terminal subjected to network authentication performed by communication equipment of a carrier, and cause the terminal to connect to the relay apparatus using the connection information regarding the relay apparatus, where the relay apparatus is associated with the terminal unique information as an apparatus to be connected to a local network, and where the relay device is on a public network connected to a mobile carrier network provided by the carrier. If the relay apparatus successfully authenticates the terminal, the terminal and the relay apparatus are connected to each other over a virtual private network.
US11765121B2

Provided herein are systems and methods for providing concurrent connection maximization. Operations include repeatedly increasing a quantity of logical connections between a source email sender and a destination email recipient server and tracking a quantity of logical connections; receiving a connection refusal signal and recording the tracked quantity of logical connections as active upon receipt; storing in a recipient status data set the active quantity of logical connections; and upon initiation of a new message send request to a recipient at the destination email recipient server, configuring a plurality of concurrent connections to the destination email recipient server based on the tracked quantity of logical connections and stored for the destination email recipient server; and sending messages over a portion of the plurality of concurrent connections within a threshold indicated by the tracked quantity of logical connections stored for the destination email recipient server.
US11765118B1

This disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing user content on a social network. In some aspects, the social network receives, over a communications network from a first computing device associated with a first user of the social network, a transmission including a post to be published on the social network. The social network detects, in the post, goods or services sought or inquired about by the first user, and determines a proximity of the first user. The social network identifies one or more other users of the social network located within a geographical area or the proximity associated with the first user, and presents the post only to the one or more identified users of the social network.
US11765117B2

Systems and methods are provided for storing data based on device location. The systems and methods include operations for: determining, by a messaging application server, a geographical location associated with a client device; identifying, by the messaging application server, a plurality of storage devices located in different geographical regions; computing, by the messaging application server, a plurality of distances between the geographical location associated the client device and the geographical regions of the plurality of storage devices; selecting, by the messaging application server based on the computed plurality of distances, a first storage device of the plurality of storage device that is in a geographical region that is closest to the geographical location associated with the client device; and storing, by the messaging application server on the first storage device, data associated with a messaging application implemented on the client device.
US11765110B2

A system and a method for providing resiliency in a telephony communication system are provided. The method includes: obtaining resources that are available in a first data center; receiving, from a client, a request for accessing a first resource; transmitting, to the client, a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that includes information for facilitating a client access to the first resource in the first data center; when the first resource becomes unavailable in the first data center and available in a second data center, transmitting, to the second data center, a subscribe message for facilitating a client access to the first resource in the second data center; and when the client access to the first resource in the second data center is available, transmitting, to the client, a second URL that includes information for facilitating the client access to the first resource in the second data center.
US11765104B2

Systems and methods for creating chatbot-enabled web forms and workflows, the method comprising, mapping web forms and workflows to intents, wherein the web forms have required fields to be completed and the workflows have required tasks to be performed; mapping the required fields and the required tasks to entities for the intents that map to the web forms and the workflows; mapping utterances to complete the required fields and perform the required tasks to the intents and the entities that map to the web forms and the workflows; and creating chatbots configured to assist users to complete the required fields and perform the required tasks using the utterances, the intents and the entities that map to the web forms and the workflows.
US11765103B2

A data communication system includes a plurality of mutually-disjoint sets of switches, each set including multiple mutually-disjoint subsets of the switches in the set. Local links interconnect the switches within each of the subsets in a fully-connected topology, while none of the switches in any given subset are connected in a single hop to any of the switches in any other subset within the same set. Global links interconnect the sets of the switches, each global link connecting one switch in one of the sets to another switch in another one of the sets, such that each of the subsets in any given set of the switches is connected in a single hop by at least one global link to at least one of the subsets of every other set of the switches.
US11765088B2

A method and a system for processing a data flow with an incomplete comparison process are provided. The method is implemented by a network device that includes a flow table and a flow filter in a memory thereof. A flow analyzing module is provided for analyzing and classifying packets of an input flow, and identifying an application category to which the input flow belongs. The flow table is queried according to a result of resolving the input flow for determining whether the input flow matches any flow entry of the flow table. The flow filter is queried if the input flow fails to match any flow entry of the flow table for determining whether features of the input flow match conditions of the flow filter. The input flow is processed accordingly, without needing to copy all flows that do not match the flow entries to the flow table.
US11765087B1

Programmable networking devices configured to perform various packet processing functions for packet filtration, control and user plane separation (CUPS), user plane function (UPF), pipeline processing, etc. Upon arrival of a user plane packet, a UPF performs a rapid lookup or hash table of the provisioned PDRs associated with a given PFCP session, arrange PDRs in decreasing order of precedence, and process the packet more efficiently than evaluating all PDRs.
US11765081B2

Systems and methods of offloading multicast virtual network packet processing to a network interface card are provided. In an example implementation, a network interface card can route packets in a virtual network. The network interface card can be configured to receive a data packet having a multicast header for transmission to a plurality of destination virtual machines. The network interface card can retrieve a list of next hop destinations for the data packet. The network interface card can replicate the packet for each next hop destination. The network interface card can encapsulate each replicated packet with a unicast header that includes a next hop destination virtual IP address indicating the next hop destination and a source virtual IP address, and transmit the encapsulated packets.
US11765078B2

Techniques for routing in communications networks include determining a state of a destination node in a current routing table stored at a first node. A value for a reference cost to the destination node is determined based on a minimum cost to the destination in the current routing table. Based on the state, a request message is formed including a reference distance field to prevent loops, an originating node field, a destination field, and a previous hop field. The request message is sent to a different second node within range. A record that indicates the data in the request message is stored in a pending request table. A reply message is received in response to sending the request message. In response to receiving the reply message, the record in the pending request table is removed, and the current routing table is updated based on the reply message.
US11765073B2

A multipath streaming method and system provide at least one stream of data packets for media and/or video from a transmitting node to a receiving node. The system includes a transmitting node configured to transmit data packets via at least two network connection paths, a receiving node configured to receive data packets via at least two network connection paths, and at least one proxy node configured to relay data packets received from the transmitting node to the receiving node. Processing circuitry is configured to send data packets from the transmitting node to the receiving node via a first network connection path, and send data packets from the transmitting node to the receiving node via at least one proxy node via at least a second network connection path.
US11765072B2

Systems and methods of routing are provided. In the system, one or more processors determine that a packet is to be transmitted to a destination. In one or more aspects of the system, the one or more processors select a next port to be used for transmitting the packet by selecting a set of ports among a plurality of ports based on a static weight configuration associated with each port. The next port may be selected from the set of ports based on a number of hops required to reach the destination from each port and based on an estimated latency from each port to the destination. The one or more processors may then route the packet through the selected next port.
US11765069B2

A multicast rule is represented in a hierarchical linked list with N tiers. Each tier or level in the hierarchical linked list corresponds to a network layer of a network stack that requires replication. Redundant groups in each tier are eliminated such that the groups in each tier are stored exactly once in a replication table. A multicast replication engine traverses the hierarchical linked list and replicates a packet according to each node in the hierarchical linked list.
US11765067B1

A method includes monitoring, at a computing device, outputs of a sensor validator. Each output is generated by the sensor validator based on corresponding sensor data from a sensor coupled to an autonomous vehicle, and each output indicates whether the corresponding sensor data is associated with an event. The method also includes mutating, at the computing device, particular sensor data to generate mutated sensor data that is associated with a particular event. The method further includes determining, at the computing device, a performance metric associated with the sensor validator based on a particular output generated by the sensor validator. The particular output is based on the mutated sensor data.
US11765066B2

Systems, methods, and related technologies for parsing network traffic are described. Network traffic transmitted by a set of devices communicatively coupled to a network is obtained. A set of protocol fields for parsing the network traffic is determined. The set of protocol fields are associated with a set of processing engines. The network traffic is parsed to determine a set of field values from the network traffic based on the set of protocol fields. The set of field values are transmitted to the set of processing engines.
US11765065B1

Various embodiments disclosed herein are related to an apparatus. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a processor and a memory. In some embodiments, the memory includes programmed instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to receive an indication that an entity state of an entity has been updated, and, in response to receiving the indication that the entity has been updated, determine that the number of updates of the entity within a time period exceeds a threshold. In some embodiments, the memory includes the programmed instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to determine that the time period has expired, and, in response to determining that the time period has expired, collect the entity state of the entity.
US11765057B2

Described are systems and methods of monitoring network health and traffic. Monitoring network health and traffic can include sending a request to a compute instance to trigger a response from the compute instance, monitoring, via a network virtualization device, communications from a virtual network interface card (VNIC) associated with the compute instance, storing information indicative of a last received packet by the VNIC, monitoring the stored information indicative of the last received packet to determine a health status of the compute instance associated with the VNIC, updating a table configured to track received responses from the compute instance, and notifying a downstream user of the health status of the compute instance.
US11765043B2

An organizational graph and a microservice graph can be generated. For two neighboring microservices, a combined organizational distance can be determined based on a distance for respective workers of each microservice in the organizational graph. The combined organizational distance can be used to determine a priority for a connection between the two microservices, and chaos testing can be performed on that connection based on its priority.
US11765042B2

A traffic application amount calculation device 14 includes a calculation unit 143 that uses traffic data flowing to an IF of a NW device to calculate, in the IF, an average traffic amount in a transmission direction and an average traffic amount in a reception direction, a first arithmetic operation unit 145 that selects a direction in which an average traffic amount is smaller out of the transmission direction and the reception direction and calculates a standard deviation of the traffic amount in a selected direction that is selected, and a second arithmetic operation unit 146 that determines a traffic amount obtained by multiplying the standard deviation by a predetermined value as a traffic application amount to be applied to traffic in the selected direction.
US11765034B2

A device receives policy information indicating a policy to be implemented for an application hosted by multiple cloud domains, and receives, from the multiple cloud domains, different application resource tags and addresses associated with the application. The device maps the different application resource tags to a generic identifier, and associates the policy with the generic identifier and with the addresses associated with the application. The device provides, based on associating the policy with the generic identifier and with the addresses associated with the application, the policy to the multiple cloud domains to permit the multiple cloud domains to implement the policy.
US11765030B2

Methods, systems, and computer readable media for registering application functions (AFs) using common application programming interface (API) framework (CAPIF) are disclosed. One example method for registering AFs using CAPIF comprises: at a CAPIF node comprising at least one processor: receiving, from an AF, a registration trigger message comprising information about the AF; determining that the registration trigger message is valid; generating a custom NF registration message using the information about the AF; and sending the custom NF registration message to an NF repository function (NRF).
US11765029B2

A tracking device can be reconfigured after an amount of operation to preserve the battery capacity of the tracking device and to ensure that the tracking device can be operated for a pre-determined threshold period of time. The tracking device can provide diagnostic information representative of a state of the tracking device, such as a current power capacity of the tracking device's battery, to a mobile device within a threshold proximity of the tracking device. The mobile device can then provide the diagnostic information to a tracking server, which in turn can provide reconfiguration instructions to the mobile device. The mobile device can then pass on the reconfiguration instructions to the tracking device, in response to which the tracking device can reconfigure itself.
US11765020B2

Networks and methods are provided for use in directing retry requests for content based on intervals to retry defined by network conditions. One example method generally includes receiving, from a computing device, an application programming interface (API) request for content and determining whether the API request exceeds a predefined rate limit of API requests. The method then includes, in response to the API request exceeding the predefined rate limit, calculating a retry interval for the API request based on the predefined rate limit of API requests and a number of expected API requests for an upcoming interval, appending the retry interval to a failure notice, and transmitting the failure notice to the computing device thereby indicating to the computing device to retry the API request based on the retry interval rather than immediately or rather than at another preset interval of the computing device.
US11765018B2

A control plane (CP) device switching method includes that when a user plane (UP) device in a forwarding-control separation system detects that performance of communication between the UP device and an active CP device does not meet a normal communication condition, and performance of communication between the UP device and a standby CP device meets the normal communication condition, the UP device sends a switching request to the standby CP device. When detecting that a quantity of UP devices that each send the switching request is greater than or equal to a first quantity threshold, the standby CP device may indicate each UP device in the forwarding-control separation system to switch to the standby CP device.
US11765010B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for cyclic shift selection for physical sidelink control channel retransmissions. A method that may be performed by a first user equipment (UE) includes monitoring one or more sidelink control information (SCI) transmissions from one or more second UEs. The method generally includes determining, based on the one or more SCI, whether one or more collisions occur between one or more retransmissions of the one or more SCI transmissions by the one or more second UEs and a scheduled SCI transmission by the first UE. The method generally includes selecting a cyclic shift to use for the scheduled SCI transmission by the first UE based at least on the determination.
US11765006B2

A device includes an analog to digital converter configured to convert voltages into a digital signal by sampling the voltages at a fixed sampling time; a first multiplier configured to multiply the digital signal with in-phase coefficients, the in-phase coefficients generated to produce a demodulated in-phase signal at a demodulation signal frequency; a first adder configured accumulate the demodulated in-phase signal to output in-phase magnitude values; a second multiplier configured to multiply the digital signal with quadrature coefficients, the quadrature coefficients generated to produce a demodulated quadrature signal at the demodulation signal frequency; and a second adder configured to accumulate the demodulated quadrature signal to output quadrature magnitude values.
US11764999B2

A method and system of transmitting network traffic through a stack having at least two switches is provided. The method includes receiving encapsulated network traffic via an inbound stack port of a switch of the stack, wherein the encapsulated network traffic was encapsulated with a flow identification (flow ID), and wherein the flow ID is assigned to a particular flow and is unique across the stack. The method further includes decapsulating the encapsulated network traffic using the flow ID contingent upon the switch being configured to decapsulate using the flow ID and transmitting the decapsulated network traffic from the switch in accordance with mapping information associated with the flow ID, wherein the switch is preconfigured with the mapping information.
US11764996B2

In some examples, a transport agnostic source includes a streaming device to stream video on diverse transport topologies including isochronous and non-isochronous transports. In some examples, a transport agnostic sink includes a receiving device to receive streamed video from diverse transport topologies including isochronous and non-isochronous transports.
US11764994B2

Embodiments of this present disclosure may include an industrial control system that uses a daisy chain communication network to couple point-to-point sensors (P2P sensors) for communication of data between respective P2P sensors and a controller. Each P2P sensor may couple to the daisy chain communication network via accessing circuitry. The accessing circuitry may include switching circuitry and flip-flop circuitry to control when each P2P sensors may communicate with the controller via the daisy chain communication network.
US11764981B2

Sharing data by defining a data encoding table, maintaining a data record database, defining a data encryption code, providing the data encryption code with an outgoing call, receiving an audio response including encrypted data, decrypting the encrypted data, and updating the data record database according to the data.
US11764974B2

A method and system for certification and authentication of objects is disclosed herein. The method and system use multiple attestations along with digital ledger technology to provide a digital certificate of authenticity for an object such as a work of art, collectible, or a non-fungible token (NFT).
US11764970B2

A method of verifying partial data based on collective certificate is provided. A provider-end computer apparatus receives a request of data, retrieves a data cluster, executes a fingerprint process on the unrequested part of the data cluster for obtaining an unrequested data fingerprint, and transfer the requested part of the data cluster and the unrequested data fingerprint to a request-end computer apparatus. The request-end computer apparatus retrieves a trusty collective data fingerprint, executes the fingerprint process on the requested part of the data cluster for obtaining a requested data fingerprint, merges the unrequested data fingerprint and the requested data fingerprint into a merged collective data fingerprint, and determines that the requested part is correct if the merged collective data is consistent with the trusty collective data fingerprint. The present disclosed example can effectively verify correctness of the requested part of data.
US11764959B1

Disclosed is a neural network enabled interface server and blockchain interface establishing a blockchain network implementing event detection, tracking and management for rule based compliance, with significant implications for anomaly detection, resolution and safety and compliance reporting.
US11764958B2

Systems and methods for dynamically encrypting requests in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a notification indicating an updated private key has been issued for a third-party service, obtaining, based on the notification, an updated public encryption key associated with the third-party service, generating a security token for the third-party service, the security token associated with a caching system, obtaining, from a secured database and based on the security token, the updated private key, storing, using the caching system, a routing entry comprising the security token and encrypted based on the updated private key, receiving, from a client device, a request to access the third-party service, authenticating the request with the third-party service using the routing entry, and redirecting the client device to the third-party service.
US11764946B2

Provided is a system and method for verifying a blockchain using an external audit chain. The system may include an engine which facilitates communication between two or more independent blockchains. In one example, the method may include reading block data of a source data block that is stored among a hash-linked chain of data blocks on a blockchain, verifying a hash of the source block based on the block data that is read, generating a token based on the hash verification of the source block and storing the generated token in a verification block among the hash-linked chain of blocks on the blockchain to create a verification point on the blockchain, and storing a copy of the generated token in a block among a hash-linked chain of blocks on an audit blockchain that is independent from the blockchain.
US11764945B2

A data processing apparatus includes a processing circuit configured to segment an original bit sequence into a plurality of input blocks each having a first block length, create a random bit sequence, encrypt respective ones of the plurality of input blocks with a block cipher scheme using a key (having a key length larger than the first block length) based on the random bit sequence to derive intermediate blocks, concatenate every predetermined number of intermediate blocks to form one or more output blocks, compute an invertible transformation function on the one or more output blocks and the random bit sequence to derive a further output block, and output an encrypted bit sequence including those output blocks.
US11764944B2

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) cluster, comprising a plurality of FPGA devices, can be used to accelerate homomorphic encryption functionality. In particular, the FPGA cluster can accelerate the relinearization process used in homomorphic encryption by using multiple FPGA devices to perform portions of the relinearization process in parallel. Further, the use of the FPGA cluster provides sufficient memory resources to allow data used by the relinearization process, namely the keyswitch keys, to be stored on-chip.
US11764943B2

Disclosed are methods and systems to encrypt data with SomeWhat Homomorphic Encryption (SWHE) properties for submission to a distributed ledger/blockchain that allows further open operations retained in the distributed ledger/blockchain on the encrypted data that will be properly reflected when the encrypted result is decrypted by the data owner. The somewhat homomorphic properties include addition and scalar division. Also disclosed is an ability to update a secret key applied for a ciphertext such that a single piece of data may be provided on the distributed ledger/blockchain by a data owner to a new data owner without also exposing other data encrypted with the original secret key of the original data owner.
US11764942B2

Systems and memory devices are disclosed for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). The system may include a processing unit including: a data memory for storing coefficients for a polynomial; a twiddle factor (TF) memory for storing TF values associated with the polynomial; a TF register connected to the TF memory; a plurality of first registers connected to the data memory; a plurality of first MUXs connected to the first registers; a plurality of second registers connected to the plurality of first MUXs; a plurality of Butterfly (BF) cores connected to the plurality of the second registers and the TF register; wherein each of the plurality of BF cores is configured to, responsive to a control signal, perform a Butterfly Transform (BFT) operation based on two coefficients from the data memory and a TF value from the TF memory.
US11764932B2

A base station transmits an indication of a configuration indicating one or more time-variable parameters for a group-specific wake-up signal (WUS) to an associated group of user equipment (UEs). The base station determines a value of the one or more time-variable parameters based on a time associated with the group-specific WUS and transmits the group-specific WUS to the group of UEs based on the determined value. A UE in the group of UEs receives the indication of the configuration from the base station and determines a value of the one or more time-variable parameters based on a time associated with the group-specific WUS. The UE monitors for the group-specific WUS based on the determined value.
US11764930B2

A base station triggers transmission of sounding reference signals (SRS) from one or multiple user equipments (UEs) on one or multiple cells and a UE determines a power, a time instance, and other parameters for SRS transmissions in response to the triggering. An SRS transmission can be on a cell where a UE is not configured to transmit data or control information.
US11764929B2

A method and apparatus for information reporting as well as a method and apparatus for information transmission are provided. The method for information reporting includes: receiving, by a second communication node, a reference signal from a first communication node, to determine a reference signal-related index and/or channel state information; reporting, by the second communication node, a set to the first communication node, and the set includes at least one of: the reference signal-related index and the channel state information. This technical solution solves the problems of low flexibility and poor adaptability of beam-related information reporting in the related art; the second communication node reports its own capability, so that the first communication node can indicate a beam reporting that meets to user capability, thereby improving the stability of beam-related information reporting.
US11764926B2

A base station selects, from among a plurality of code sequences orthogonal to one another, one code sequence by which an uplink signal including a demodulation reference signal repeated in a plurality of subframes is multiplied and transmits, to a terminal for which transmission of the repeated uplink signal is configured, information indicating the selected code sequence by using a field for indicating a cyclic shift and an orthogonal sequence used for the demodulation reference signal. A terminal receives information indicating one of a plurality of code sequences orthogonal to one another using a field for indicating a cyclic shift and an orthogonal sequence used for a demodulation reference signal and multiplies an uplink signal including the demodulation reference signal repeated in a plurality of subframes by the code sequence indicated by the information.
US11764923B2

A method and apparatus include determining for use with a user equipment a measurement configuration, which includes at least information on a frequency location of synchronization signals, a carrier frequency value, and a measurement bandwidth. The measurement configuration is transmitted to the user equipment by higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling is above the physical layer. One or more synchronization signals are transmitted on the frequency location, from which a first identity value can be determined. A broadcast channel is transmitted to the user equipment from which a second identity value can be determined, the broadcast channel including a first reference signal based on the first identity value. A second reference signal based on the first identity value, the second identity value, the frequency location of synchronization signals, the carrier frequency value, and the measurement bandwidth is transmitted.
US11764922B2

A method performed by a wireless device for enabling a determination of a reference signal configuration for downlink transmissions in a wireless communications network is provided. The wireless device obtains information indicating the number of used transform coefficients of the total number of transform coefficients determined in a transform-based channel estimator in the wireless device upon receiving a first downlink transmission according to a first reference signal configuration. Also, the wireless device determines, based on the obtained information, if the first reference signal configuration for downlink transmissions to the wireless device is to be modified or not. A wireless device for enabling a determination of a reference signal configuration for downlink transmissions in a wireless communications network is also provided. Further, a network node and method therein for determining a reference signal configuration for transmissions in a wireless communications network are provided.
US11764918B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for carrier group based multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers and antenna adaptation. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration of one or more groups of component carriers (CCs) and, for each group of CCs, one or more sets of configured maximum number of MIMO layers. Each set includes a configured maximum number of MIMO layers associated with each CC in the group. The UE receives an indication of at least one of the one or more sets and determines the configured maximum number of MIMO layers associated with each CC in the corresponding group of CCs based on the indication.
US11764914B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The methods, systems, and devices provide for identifying tone spacing for transmission or reception of signals. The identified tone spacing may vary depending on the transmission or reception spectrum band or signal type. Using the identified tone spacing, a number of repetitions or a number of symbols for transmission or receiver algorithm of a signal may be determined.
US11764892B2

Provided is an optical transceiver including: a receiver configured to receive an optical transmission signal including wavelength information from another optical transceiver through a multiplexer/demultiplexer connected to the receiver; and a controller configured to identify a reception wavelength for communication with the other optical transceiver and to determine a wavelength corresponding to the reception wavelength as a transmission wavelength for communication with the other optical transceiver, based on the wavelength information included in the optical transmission signal.
US11764886B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a multi-panel device may determine, for each antenna panel of the multi-panel device, a coverage region over which the multi-panel device may communicate using that antenna panel based on an array gain pattern of that antenna panel. For example, the multi-panel device may determine, for each antenna panel of the multi-panel device, a coverage region over which the multi-panel device may communicate using that antenna panel to avoid the formation of a grating lobe from that antenna panel. The multi-panel device may dynamically adjust the coverage regions associated with the antenna panels of the multi-panel device based on determining that an interference metric exceeds a threshold interference level or based on determining that a power or thermal condition of the multi-panel device fails to satisfy a power or thermal constraint of the multi-panel device.
US11764883B2

Systems, methods, and apparatus for automatic signal detection in a radio-frequency (RF) environment are disclosed. At least one node device is in a fixed nodal network. The at least one node device is operable to measure and learn the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. The at least one node device is operable to create a spectrum map based on the learning data. The at least one node device is operable to calculate a power distribution by frequency of the RF environment in real time or near real time, including a first derivative and a second derivative of fast Fourier transform (FFT) data of the RF environment. The at least one node device is operable to identify at least one signal based on the first derivative and the second derivative of FFT data.
US11764882B1

Embodiments of a calibration system for third order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) cancellation and a wireless apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment, a calibration system for IMD3 cancellation includes a cancellation circuit for IMD3 cancellation between a first transmitter and a second transmitter, and a controller coupled to the cancellation circuit and configured to for each frequency channel of the first transmitter, perform a pre-conditional calibration of the cancellation circuit, after the pre-conditional calibration, determine a phase configuration for the cancellation circuit, and after the phase configuration for the cancellation circuit is determined, determine an attenuation configuration for the cancellation circuit.
US11764869B2

Systems and methods for synchronizing communications between a User Equipment (UE) and Base Station (BS) using a synchronization signal structure. The synchronization signal structure can include a sequence of Synchronization Signals (SS) including repetitions of a synchronization signal burst set. The synchronization signal burst set can include a plurality of synchronization signal bursts. The synchronization signal bursts can include a plurality of synchronization signal blocks, wherein the synchronization signal blocks can include a plurality of Synchronization Signals (SS).
US11764867B2

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for communicating a satellite behavior change. In one aspect, a satellite identifies a satellite behavior change to occur for the satellite of a non-terrestrial network for cellular communications. The apparatus also signals the satellite behavior change to a user equipment serviced by the satellite. In another aspect, a user equipment obtains, from a satellite servicing the user equipment, a signaling of a satellite behavior change to occur for the satellite. The user equipment also adjusts one or more user equipment parameters for cellular communication based on the obtained signaling. The satellite behavior change may include a satellite attitude or a transmit power or coverage area of one or more satellite beams. The user equipment parameters may include satellite or beam selection or reselection to listen to paging information, satellite or beam handover parameters, or transmit power control parameters.
US11764857B2

Methods for improving multiple signal reception using receiver diversity in the context of a wideband radar and communications receiver. The method allows for improved signal reception as well as improved angle of arrival estimation. A first approach uses a method that improves angle of arrival estimation while using the standard diversity technique of selection combining. A second approach uses a method of equalization of the signal rather than equalization of the channel to both improve the signal SNR over standard selection combining and further improve the angle of arrival estimate over the first approach.
US11764856B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure to techniques for sidelink re-discovery without repeating beamforming in millimeter wave (e.g., Frequency Range 2) bands. For example, a Tx UE may complete a first beam training with a Rx UE. The Tx UE may generate a discovery message that includes at least one of: an indication of a beam training reference signal (BT-RS) sequence index of the first beam training; an indication of a timer for changing the BT-RS sequence; or an indication of a second BT-RS sequence to be used by the Tx UE before an expiration of the timer. The second BT-RS sequence may be indicated as an index to a set of BT-RS sequences including the BT-RS sequence associated with the first beam training. The Tx may transmit the generated discovery message to the Rx UE.
US11764855B2

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing beam selection. In one aspect, an initiating wireless device may determine whether a pre-grant acknowledgement associated with a first beam has been received from a responding wireless device within an expected receive time. The initiating wireless device may generate an indication to prevent the initiating wireless device from using the first beam for a blocking duration in response to determining that the pre-grant acknowledgement associated with the first beam has not been received within the expected receive time.
US11764854B2

Wireless communications systems and methods related to coordinated beam refinement and coordinated beam failure recovery (BFR) in a wireless communication network are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device of a group of wireless communication devices, a communication signal using a first beam characteristic. The first wireless communication device receives, from the second wireless communication device, at least one of beam feedback information or a beam change request. The first wireless communication device transmits, to the group of wireless communication devices in response to the at least one of the beam feedback information or the beam change request, a beam configuration indicating a second beam characteristic to be used by the group of wireless communication devices for communicating with the first wireless communication device, the second beam characteristic being different from the first beam characteristic.
US11764849B2

A method for deriving cell quality based on filtered beam measurements comprises detecting a first set of beamformed signals in a cell. The method further comprises determining a beam quality associated with each beamformed signal of the first set. The method further comprises identifying a first subset of beamformed signals. The first subset comprises the beamformed signals of the first set having a beam quality greater than a first threshold. The method further comprises initiating first beam level filters. Each first beam level filter is associated with a respective beamformed signal of the first subset of beamformed signals. The method further comprises generating filtered values for each beamformed signal of the first subset of beamformed signals.
US11764845B2

Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for channel state information for multiple access points are disclosed. Channel station information (CSI) may be coordinated for multiple access points (APs) where one AP may act as a master AP with other AP acting as slave APs. The channel station information may be based on information from null data packets received by stations from multiple-APs, which may enable a multi-AP coordinated beamforming (CBF) to be determined based on the received first CSI reports. New frame formats are disclosed that include fields for including APs. Overlapping basic service set (OBSS) stations may respond to APs that are not within their BSS. Some embodiments relate to passive range finding in a multi-AP sounding where location configuration information (LCI) changes for one of the APs.
US11764836B2

The application relates to link adaptation for extremely high throughput (EHT) systems. Various approaches are provided to enable transmission of link adaptation parameters for single-user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO), and multi-user multiple input multiple output MU-MIMO. In some embodiments, two control IDs in the A-control subfield are used, one for SU-MIMO and one for MU-MIMO. These can both be reserved control IDs, or a combination of a reserved control ID and control ID 2 normally used for HE link adaptation. In some embodiments, a single control ID in the A-control subfield is used. This can be a reserved control ID or control ID 2 normally used for HE link adaptation.
US11764833B2

There is described a method of determining a phase value for an NFC card emulating device that enables said NFC card emulating device to communicate in phase with an NFC reader device while utilizing active load modulation, wherein the NFC card emulating device comprises a card antenna and the NFC reader device comprises a reader antenna, the method comprising receiving a reader signal from the NFC reader device at the NFC card emulating device through coupling of the card antenna and the reader antenna, the reader signal comprising a subcarrier modulation; estimating a resonance frequency of a system corresponding to the coupled card antenna and reader antenna based on the received communication signal; and determining the phase value based on the estimated resonance frequency and a set of parameters that represents a predetermined reference system. Furthermore, an NFC card emulating device, an NFC system, and a computer program are described.
US11764828B2

Aspects of the present disclosure describe controlling coherent crosstalk errors in multi-channel acousto-optic modulators (AOMs). A method, an AOM system, and a quantum information processing (QIP) system are described in which a separate radio-frequency (RF) signal is generated and applied to each of multiple channels of a multi-channel AOM using an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) to turn on each of those channels, where each channel that is turned on interacts with one or more of the remaining channels that are not turned on to cause a combined crosstalk effect on those remaining channels. Each channel has a single respective AWG. Moreover, a correcting RF signal is generated and applied to the one or more of the remaining channels using a respective AWG to produce an acoustic wave that corrects for the combined crosstalk effect such that the one or more of the remaining channels are not unintentionally turned on.
US11764820B2

The present invention relates to the field of car holders for mobile phones. The car holders in existing technologies have problems such as cumbersome operations and a requirement of auxiliary buttons. In order to solve the problems in existing technologies, the present invention provides a full-automatic gear driven clamping type self-locking mobile phone holder, including a base, wherein the base is provided with a rack column, two sides of which are provided with a first rack; a shell is sleeved on the rack column in a sliding manner, a gear is provided on two sides inside the shell, and the gear is meshed with the first rack on the same side; a clamp arm is provided on the shell on the two sides of the rack column respectively, a guide slide arm is provided with a second rack extending along the guide direction, and the second rack is meshed with the gear on the same side; the shell is internally connected to a reset spring, and the reset spring has a free end connected to the rack column; when the shell is stressed to move downwards, the reset spring is continuously compressed, and the downward force drives the first rack to rotate the gear, and the gear drives the two second racks away from each other. Compared with the existing technologies, the present invention has advantages of convenient usage and compact structure.
US11764818B2

A filter circuit includes: a division unit that divides an input signal and adds, to a tail end of a division block, of head data of the next division block, to generate an input block; a plurality of signal processing units that perform filtering of a feedback type on input blocks to generate output samples, and generate and output blocks; and a coupling unit that couples the output blocks. The signal processing unit outputs first output samples generated until a switching timing, and outputs second output samples generated by the signal processing unit after the timing. The switching timing is a timing within a period corresponding to the duplicated data, at which timing a difference between a first signal generated by the signal processing unit and a second signal generated by the signal processing unit is less than or equal to a threshold consecutively for a second data length.
US11764815B2

A method for calibrating one or more compensation values utilized by a compensation device of a transmitter includes: obtaining a plurality of output signals which were sequentially generated by the transmitter by processing a pair of input signals according to multiple pairs of compensation values as a plurality of feedback signals, where each feedback signal corresponds to one of the multiple pairs of compensation values, determining a plurality of coefficients of a cost function according to the multiple pairs of compensation values and the feedback signals in an operation of calibration; and determining a pair of calibrated compensation values according to the coefficients and providing the pair of calibrated compensation values to the compensation device.
US11764806B2

A system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store instructions thereon; and a processor connected to the non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for generating a mask based on received data from a sensor, wherein the mask includes a plurality of importance values, and each region of the received data is designated a corresponding importance value of the plurality of importance values. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for encoding the received data based on the mask; and transmitting the encoded data to a decoder for defining reconstructed data. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for computing a loss based on the reconstructed data, the received data and the mask. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for providing training to an encoder for encoding the received data based on the computed loss.
US11764800B2

A switched emitter follower circuit is constituted by a transistor in which a base is connected to a signal input terminal, a power voltage is applied to a collector, and an emitter is connected to a signal output terminal, a capacitor in which one end is connected to the collector of the transistor, and the other end is connected to the emitter of the transistor, and a Gilbert-cell type multiplication circuit in which a positive-phase clock output terminal is connected to the emitter of the transistor, a negative-phase clock output terminal is connected to the base of the transistor, and a multiplication result of a differential clock signal and a differential clock signal input from an outside is output to the positive-phase clock output terminal and the negative-phase clock output terminal.
US11764793B2

An all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) circuit and a calibration method thereof are provided. The ADPLL circuit includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) circuit, a phase detector circuit, and a calibration circuit coupled between the DCO circuit and the phase detector circuit. The DCO circuit generates a clock signal according to a frequency control signal. The phase detector circuit generates a phase error value according to a reference signal and the clock signal. More particularly, after the ADPLL circuit performs a locking operation for a period of time, the frequency control signal is tied at a locked value which is obtained when the ADPLL circuit performs the locking operation, and the calibration circuit may modify a current of at least one current source within the DCO circuit according to the phase error value.
US11764791B2

Systems and methods are provided for a phase locked loop. A phase/frequency detector is configured to receive a reference signal and a feedback signal. A charge pump is configured to receive outputs from the phase/frequency detector and to generate pulses. An oscillator is configured to generate an output waveform based on the charge pump pulses. A realignment path is configured to generate a clock realignment signal that is provided to the oscillator based on the outputs from the phase/frequency detector.
US11764786B2

A magneto-electric (ME) majority gate device includes a conducting device and a plurality of ME transistors coupled to the conducting device. In one implementation, the plurality of ME transistors include a ME AND gate device with downward interface polarization, a ME-transmission gate device with downward interface polarization, and a ME-XNOR gate device. In another implementation, the plurality of ME transistors is five single-input ME-FETs.
US11764781B2

A switching device includes at least one (a first) sheet of glazing material having a first major surface and an opposing second major surface, a switch attached to the first major surface of the first sheet of glazing material, and a sensor assembly facing the second major surface of the first sheet of glazing material. The switch includes a movable portion operatively coupled with the sensor assembly such that upon operation of the switch, the movable portion moves from a first position to a second position and the movement of the movable portion from the first position to the second position is detectable by the sensor assembly. The switching device may be part of a window or door for a building or a vehicle.
US11764772B2

A gate-drive controller for a power semiconductor device includes a master control unit (MCU) and one or more comparators that compare the output signal of the power semiconductor device to a reference value generated by the MCU. The MCU, in response to a turn-off trigger signal, generates a first intermediate drive signal for the power semiconductor device and generates a second intermediate drive signal, different from the first drive signal, when a DSAT signal indicates that the power semiconductor device is experiencing de-saturation. The MCU generates a final drive signal for the power semiconductor when the output signal of the one or more comparators indicates that the output signal of the power semiconductor device has changed relative to the reference value. The controller may also include a timer that causes the drive signals to change in predetermined intervals when the one or more comparators do not indicate a change.
US11764759B2

An apparatus includes a comparator. The comparator includes first and second pregain stages, and a switch network coupled to the first and second pregain stages. A plurality of switches in the switch network are operable to provide a feedback path around at least one of the first and second pregain stages. The comparator further includes a latch coupled to the second pregain stage.
US11764757B2

This application relates to a signal filtering device. The device includes a memory and a processor. The processor may generate one or more matrices based on a size of a digital filter bank that generates an output signal by dividing an input signal into a plurality of channels and store in the memory each of the generated one or more matrices to which a plurality of digital filter bank coefficients or a plurality of input signals are assigned. The processor may also partially calculate the stored plurality of digital filter bank coefficients and the plurality of signals based on a number of at least some of the plurality of channels, and calculate the calculated digital filter bank coefficients and signals. The processor may further perform a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on the calculated signal and compensate for a phase of the discrete Fourier transformed signal according to a preset reference.
US11764752B2

An elastic wave device includes an elastic wave element chip, a bump electrically connected to the elastic wave element chip, a package substrate including an electrode bonded to the bump, the elastic wave element chip mounted on the package substrate with the bump, and a sealing resin portion covering the elastic wave element chip on the package substrate. A space surrounded by the elastic wave element chip, the package substrate, and the sealing resin portion is provided. The elastic wave element chip includes a substrate having piezoelectricity, an interdigital transducer electrode, and a pad electrode. A first main surface of the substrate having piezoelectricity includes a first region and a second region closer to a second main surface than the first region. The interdigital transducer electrode is disposed in the first region. The pad electrode is disposed in the second region and bonded to the bump.
US11764748B2

Disclosed are designs for inductor cores for electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters. In some embodiments, an inductor core comprises a plurality of enclosed structures, where each enclosed structure of the plurality of enclosed structures includes a plurality of elongated bars and at least one connection device. In some embodiments, an enclosed structure is configured to encompass a signal bus. In some embodiments, an enclosed structure has a longitudinal axis and a triangular cross-sectional shape taken perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
US11764741B1

A switched mode amplifier system may include a switched mode amplifier having an amplifier input coupled to an output of an analog integrator and an amplifier output, include a feedback network coupled between the amplifier output and an input of the analog integrator, and a calibration system. The calibration system may be configured to force the input of the analog integrator to a fixed known input value, force the amplifier output to a fixed known duty cycle, measure an analog signal generated at the output of the analog integrator in response to forcing the input of the analog integrator to the fixed value, determine an offset of the switched mode amplifier system based on the analog signal, and correct for the offset.
US11764740B2

Examples of amplifiers accurately generate control currents for control terminals of output drivers using current-replication transistors and current mirrors. An input terminal of a first current mirror is coupled to the control terminal of a first current-replication transistor, and an input terminal of a second current mirror is coupled to the control terminal of a second current-replication transistor. The output terminals of the first and second current mirrors are coupled to the control terminals of first and second output drivers, respectively. First and second intermediate currents indicative of first and second currents flowing to the first and second output driver elements, respectively, are generated. Using the first and second current mirrors, first and second control currents are generated to control the first and second output driver elements, respectively, by scaling the first and second intermediate currents according to the gain factors of the current mirrors.
US11764739B2

In a radio frequency power amplifier with harmonic suppression, one end of an input matching circuit is connected with a radio frequency input end; and another end is connected with a base of a power amplification transistor having a collector connected with a power supply voltage through a first matching branch, and an emitter connected with a first connection point on a package substrate. The collector of the power amplification transistor is connected with a radio frequency output end through a second matching branch that is connected with the package substrate. A harmonic control circuit has a first end connected with the collector of the power amplification transistor, and a second end connected with a second connection point on the package substrate.
US11764734B2

The disclosure relates to a signal combiner for a Doherty power amplifier architecture, the signal combiner including a termination circuit on an isolation port, the termination circuit being tuned to improve performance of the Doherty power amplifier. The architecture includes a carrier amplifier and a peaking amplifier. The peaking amplifier modulates the load seen by the carrier amplifier, allowing the carrier amplifier to remain in high-efficiency, saturated operation even at back-off. This load modulation can be achieved using impedance matching networks having an impedance matched to a specific frequency. The architectures include tuned or tailored signal combiners with termination circuits on isolation ports. The termination circuits are tuned or tailored for particular operating frequencies to enhance operation.
US11764732B2

A high-speed high-linearity time-interleaved dynamic operational amplifier circuit includes a first current channel and a second current channel. The first current channel includes a first MOS transistor, a second MOS transistor and a third MOS transistor which are sequentially connected in series between a high level and a ground level. The first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor have opposite conductivity types. A control end of the first MOS transistor is connected to a control end of the second MOS transistor. The second current channel includes a fourth MOS transistor, a fifth MOS transistor and a sixth MOS transistor which are sequentially connected in series between the high level and the ground level. The fourth MOS transistor and the fifth MOS transistor have opposite conductivity types. A control end of the fourth MOS transistor is connected to a control end of the fifth MOS transistor.
US11764729B2

An oscillator includes: a resonator element; a circuit element configured to output a clock signal; and a container accommodating the resonator element and the circuit element and including a substrate having a first surface. The substrate includes a first electrode provided on the first surface and electrically coupled to the resonator element, a second electrode electrically coupled to the resonator element, and an output electrode configured to output the clock signal. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed side by side in a first direction. The output electrode is disposed adjacent to the first electrode in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. When an end portion of the first electrode on a side close to the second electrode is defined as a first end portion, the output electrode includes a first region disposed closer to the second electrode side than the first end portion in the first direction.
US11764728B1

An oscillator includes a first current source, a second current source, a first chopper circuit, a resistive component, a capacitive component, and a processing circuit. The first current source provides a first current. The second current source provides a second current. The first chopper circuit includes a first terminal coupled to the first current source, a second terminal coupled to the second current source, a third terminal coupled to the resistive component, and a fourth terminal coupled to the capacitive component. The processing circuit generates an output clock in response to a first voltage across the resistive component and a second voltage across the capacitive component. The first chopper circuit couples the first terminal and the second terminal to the third terminal and the fourth terminal, respectively and alternately. The resistive component and the capacitive component receive the first current and the second current, respectively and alternately.
US11764727B2

A solar system comprises at least one solar panel with a plurality of solar cells. The solar panels include first and second split-circuits to extract electrical energy from the solar panel. The first split-circuit includes solar panel wires that electrically connect, in series, the solar cells of the first split-circuit to extract electrical energy from the solar panel. Similarly, the second split-circuit includes solar panel wires that electrically connect, in series, the solar cells of the second split-circuit to extract electrical energy from the solar panel. The first and second split-circuits are configured to generate a voltage not to exceed a voltage specification, such as a voltage specification of 35 volts.
US11764722B2

A photovoltaic system includes a collection of photovoltaic modules, a base supporting the collection of photovoltaic modules, and a damper coupled between the collection of photovoltaic modules and the base. The damper resists movement of the photovoltaic modules relative to the base. The damper has a first damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a first rate relative to the base and a second damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a second rate relative to the base, and the damper passively transitions from the first damping ratio to the second damping ratio.
US11764719B2

A direct current power supply device includes: a reactor; a converter connected to an alternating current power supply via the reactor; a smoothing capacitor connected between output terminals of the converter; an inrush current preventing circuit disposed on a charging path from the alternating current power supply to the smoothing capacitor; a current detection unit detecting direct current representing an operating state on an output side of the converter; a current detection unit detecting power supply current representing an operating state on an input side of the converter; and a control unit receiving the direct current and the power supply current and controlling an operation of the converter. The control unit receives a detected value of saturated current from at least one of the direct current and the power supply current when the power supply voltage recovers from a state in which the power supply voltage is reduced.
US11764709B2

A motor controller comprises a switch circuit and a control unit. The switch circuit is coupled to a motor for driving the motor. The control unit generates a control signal to control the switch circuit. The motor controller determines a non-excitation time. When the motor is in a locked state, the motor controller enables the non-excitation time to be a variable value. The motor controller utilizes the non-excitation time to achieve a lock protection function. The motor controller determines whether the motor is in the locked state by detecting a rotor speed or a rotor temperature. Moreover, the motor controller further comprises a driving signal, where the driving signal has the non-excitation time.
US11764708B1

An apparatus and method for rotating a part includes a sequence of relays to rotate the part given number of degrees. The apparatus does not require software or complex mechanical gearing.
US11764705B2

A high-torque and high-precision ultrasonic motor with a self-protection function and an implementation mode of the high-torque and high-precision ultrasonic motor are provided. In the device, a gasket encloses an output shaft of an ultrasonic motor body. A harmonic reducer encloses a shell of the ultrasonic motor body. A motor shaft penetrates through the ultrasonic motor body. The end, close to the motor shaft, of the ultrasonic motor body is defined as a top end, and the bottom end of the motor shaft is sequentially enclosed with an encoder support and a high-precision encoder assembly. The gasket, the harmonic reducer, the encoder support and the high-precision encoder assembly are sequentially arranged from the ultrasonic motor body to the bottom end of the motor shaft. After the ultrasonic motor body decelerates and increases torque, the motor shaft outputs rotating speed and torque.
US11764701B2

An electrical wiring device for delivering power to multiple mobile devices including: a housing having a faceplate; a first power delivery port accessible through the faceplate; a second power delivery accessible through the faceplate; an AC/DC converter disposed in the housing and configured to receive an AC signal from a connection to a source of AC mains power and to output a DC signal; a first DC/DC converter disposed in the housing and configured to receive the DC signal and provide a first DC output signal having a first power to a first power delivery port; a second DC/DC converter disposed in the housing and configured to receive the DC signal and provide a second DC output signal having a second power to a second power delivery port; wherein the first DC output signal is different from the second DC output signal.
US11764697B2

System and method for controlling synchronous rectification. For example, the system for controlling synchronous rectification includes: a switch including a first switch terminal configured to receive a first voltage, the switch further including a second switch terminal and being configured to be closed or opened by a control signal; a voltage generator configured to receive a second voltage from the second switch terminal and generate a third voltage based at least in part on the second voltage; a filter circuit including a resistor and a capacitor, the filter circuit being configured to receive the second voltage from the second switch terminal and generate a fourth voltage based at least in part on the second voltage; a first comparator configured to receive the third voltage and the fourth voltage and generate a first comparison signal based at least in part on the third voltage and the four voltage.
US11764687B2

An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes an aerosol precursor composition and a quasi-resonant flyback converter configured to cause components of the aerosol precursor composition to vaporize to produce an aerosol. The quasi-resonant flyback converter includes a transformer including an induction transmitter and an induction receiver, a capacitor that with the induction transmitter forms a tank circuit. The quasi-resonant flyback converter also includes a transistor that is switchable in cycles to cause the induction transmitter to generate an oscillating magnetic field and induce an alternating voltage in the induction receiver when exposed to the oscillating magnetic field, the alternating voltage causing the induction receiver to generate heat and thereby vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition.
US11764686B1

A semiconductor package includes a VLSI semiconductor die and one or more output circuits connected to supply power to the die mounted to a package substrate. The output circuit(s), which include a transformer and rectification circuitry, provide current multiplication at an essentially fixed conversion ratio, K, in the semiconductor package, receiving AC power at a relatively high voltage and delivering DC power at a relatively low voltage to the die. The output circuits may be connected in series or parallel as needed. A driver circuit may be provided outside the semiconductor package for receiving power from a source and driving the transformer in the output circuit(s), preferably with sinusoidal currents. The driver circuit may drive a plurality of output circuits. The semiconductor package may require far fewer interface connections for supplying power to the die.
US11764683B2

This light-emitting element drive control device (100) comprises: a drive logic unit (113) which performs a drive control of a switch output stage (N1, D1, L1) for dropping an input voltage (VIN) to an output voltage (VOUT) and supplying a light-emitting element therewith: a charge-pump power supply unit (α) which generates a step-up voltage (CP) higher than the input voltage (VIN); and a current detecting comparator (114) which receives a supply of the step-up voltage (CP) and the output voltage (VOUT) as power supply voltages, and generates control signals (SET, RST) for the drive logic unit (113) by directly comparing a current detection signal (Vsns) corresponding to an inductor current (IL) of the switch output stage with a peak detection value (Vsns_pk) and a bottom detection value (Vsns_bt).
US11764679B2

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a power device in a power system. The power device may include a plurality of power stages, which may reduce the number of connectors needed for the power system. The plurality of power stages in the same power device may allow the power device to be configured with additional functionalities.
US11764675B2

A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply; a first DC/DC converter; a second DC/DC converter; and a circuit board. As viewed from a first direction perpendicular to a surface of the circuit board on which the first DC/DC converter and the second DC/DC converter are mounted, at least a portion of the circuit board includes: a connection portion; a first portion extending from the connection portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a second portion extending from the connection portion in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. The first DC/DC converter is mounted on the first portion, and the second DC/DC converter is mounted on the second portion.
US11764671B2

A voltage converter including first to fourth switches between a first voltage node and ground, fifth to eighth switches between the first voltage node and the ground, a first floating capacitor between a first node between the first and second switches and a second node between the third and fourth switches, a second floating capacitor between a third node between the fifth and sixth switches and a fourth node between the seventh and eighth switches, a ninth switch between a second voltage node and a center node, a first inductor between the second node and a third voltage node, a center capacitor between the center node and the ground, a tenth switch between the second voltage node and the third voltage node, a first capacitor between the third voltage node and the ground, and a second capacitor between the second voltage node and the ground may be provided.
US11764670B2

An apparatus for processing electric power includes a power-converter having a path for power flow between first and second power-converter terminals. During operation the first and second power-converter terminals are maintained at respective first and second voltages. Two regulating-circuits and a switching network are disposed on the path. The first regulating-circuit includes a magnetic-storage element and a first-regulating-circuit terminal. The second regulating-circuit includes a second-regulating-circuit terminal. The first-regulating-circuit terminal is connected to the first switching-network-terminal and the second-regulating-circuit terminal is connected to the second switching-network-terminal. The switching network is transitions between a first switch-configuration and a second switch-configuration. In the first switch-configuration, charge accumulates in the first charge-storage-element at a first rate. Conversely, in the second switch-configuration, charge is depleted from the first charge-storage-element at a second rate. These rates are constrained by the magnetic-storage element.
US11764666B2

This DC pulse power supply device comprises a voltage clamper including a capacitor that is connected in parallel to a DC reactor in a chopper circuit provided in a pulsing unit in order to suppress increases in the surge voltage resulting from the leakage inductance of the DC reactor. During the start-up of pulsing operation, which is the initial stage of the pulse mode, the frequency of the pulsing operation of the chopper circuit is controlled over the period until the capacitor voltage is charged to a sufficient voltage to reset the magnetic saturation of the DC reactor.
US11764652B2

Polyphase electrical machine with n phases, n≥3, including a casing defining a longitudinal axis, a stator and a rotor including a mechanical drive shaft, the electrical machine being equipped with a power electronics and a coolant circuit and the power electronics is formed of n power electronic modules evenly distributed over an inner circumference of a longitudinal extension of the casing whose outer circumference is covered with a single annular DC bus decoupling capacitor electrically connected to the n power electronic modules, the coolant circuit including a plurality of U-shaped tubes with a tubular outgoing part extending over an entire length of the casing and including the longitudinal casing extension and a shorter tubular return part, extending over a casing length excluding the longitudinal casing extension.
US11764640B2

To provide a rotary apparatus able to facilitate assembly of the rotary apparatus, and an attaching structure of the rotary apparatus. A rotary apparatus (1) includes a motor (10) having motor terminals (13), terminal members (21) and (22), a first housing (60), the terminal members (21) and (22) being attached to the first housing (60), and a second housing (40) having an accommodating part configured to accommodate the motor (10), the first housing (60) being attached to the second housing (40). The first housing (60) is attachable to or separable from the second housing (40) in a predetermined direction. The terminal members (21) and (22) are electrically connected to the motor terminals (13). The terminal members (21) and (22) have externally-connected terminal portions (33) and (34) to be connected to an external unit. The predetermined direction is a longitudinal direction of the externally-connected terminal portions (33) and (34).
US11764636B2

A motor according to the present invention includes: a stator having a stator core and a coil; a rotor having a rotary shaft and a rotation body; a shaft bearing rotatably supporting the rotor; and a molding resin covering the stator. The motor has a coil end that is the coil protruding from the stator core in a shaft center X direction, and has a non-combustible layer provided to cover the coil end. The non-combustible layer is a metallic cover made of, for example, metal. The metallic cover is disposed to cover a periphery of a coil assembly in which the coil is formed on the stator core through an insulator. The metallic cover is integrated with the coil assembly by a molding resin.
US11764635B2

A slinger for an electric motor broadly includes a hub and a wheel. The motor includes a housing in which a stator and rotor are at least partly housed. The motor also includes a rotatable output shaft projecting upwardly through a shaft opening in the housing. The hub is fixedly attachable to the output shaft of the motor so that the slinger rotates with the output shaft. The wheel is configured to divert liquid radially away from the shaft opening. The wheel includes a wheel plate and a plurality of radially extending blades cooperatively forming a series of passages extending radially outward relative to the shaft opening, when the hub is attached to the output shaft. The wheel plate is supported by the hub so as to be positioned above the housing when the hub is attached to the output shaft. The blades present radially inboard ends intersecting the hub.
US11764633B2

A busbar unit that is electrically connected to a motor, the motor including a coil would around a stator, the busbar unit including: a terminal including a body, and a terminal portion protruding from an inner circumferential surface of the body; and a holder including a holder body configured to support the body, and a terminal holder portion disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the holder body and configured to electrically connect the terminal portion and the coil.
US11764631B2

A motor includes: a stator including assemblies; and a rotor disposed on one side of the stator. Each of the assemblies includes: a bobbin; a core inserted into the bobbin; and a coil surrounding an outside of the bobbin. The bobbin includes: a main through hole into which the core is inserted; and a sub-through hole disposed in either one of a top surface and a bottom surface on one side of the main through hole. An inner space of the bobbin is communication with the outside of the bobbin through the sub-through hole.
US11764626B2

A rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets positioned radially outside the rotor core, a rotor cover having a tubular portion surrounding the rotor core and the magnet, and a resin portion coupling the rotor core and the magnet with each other. The resin portion has a first lid portion positioned on one axial side of the rotor core and the magnet. The rotor cover has a flange portion projecting radially inward from the tubular portion on one axial side of the first lid portion. The first lid portion has a recess portion depressed from a surface on one axial side of the first lid portion. The recess portion is positioned at a position overlapping between the circumferentially adjacent magnets. The flange portion has a first swage portion swaged to the other axial side and positioned inside the recess portion.
US11764618B2

A wireless charging system and a method for implementing wireless charging are provided. The wireless charging system includes a bearing surface, a guide rail, a wireless charger, and a driver. On the bearing surface there are multiple regions for placing equipment to-be-charged. The guide rail is located under the bearing surface, and includes a first-direction track. The wireless charger is mounted on the first-direction track under the bearing surface. The wireless charger includes a first slider and a charging circuit. The driver is located under the bearing surface, and includes a first driving circuit connected to the first slider, adapted to changing a location of the wireless charger by driving the first slider to move along the first-direction track.
US11764608B2

A mounting assembly for transferring electrical power to an inductively powered device is contemplated, with a plurality of magnets positioned inside the mounting assembly includes for magnetically attracting and retaining the inductively powered device against a face plate, and for axially aligning the inductive power receiver of the inductive powered device with the inductive coil assembly inside the mounting assembly. A mounting support member is attached to the back plate of the mounting housing with adjustable joint for adjusted the orientation of the mounting housing relative to the mounting support member. The magnets retain the inductively powered device against the face plate and in the correct orientation with the inductive coil assembly even against forces which would otherwise disturb the inductive coupling, permitting use of the mounting assembly to transfer power in non-horizontal orientations and in moving vehicles.
US11764603B2

A smart circuit breaker includes a communication interface, separable contacts, a processing unit having a memory with a routine stored therein which, when executed by the processing unit causes the processing unit to: sense a power outage in an electrical grid, control a meter to open contacts to disconnect from the electrical grid, sense power restoration to the electrical grid, control contacts corresponding to a secondary power source to open, control the meter to close contacts to reconnect to the electrical grid, sense that a frequency of power from the electrical grid matches a frequency of power from the secondary power source, and control the contacts corresponding to the secondary power source to close.
US11764601B2

A power supply system connected to a motor unit of an electric vehicle, the power supply system includes: a fuel cell; a secondary battery; a voltage control unit; and a switch. The fuel cell is directly connected to the motor unit, the secondary battery is connected to the motor unit via the voltage control unit, and the switch is configured to switch between a first state in which the secondary battery and the voltage control unit are connected in parallel with the fuel cell and a second state in which the secondary battery and the voltage control unit are connected in series with the fuel cell.
US11764586B2

Controllers are provided for providing ports corresponding to Dual Role Powers (DRPs), which may be both the feed side and the receive side, in accordance with the USB Type-C and/or USB Power Delivery standards. The controller includes a control interface for controlling a power management unit for controlling charging and discharging of the secondary battery, a signal transmission module for exchanging a signal with a connection destination via a communication line in the USB cable, and a sequence execution unit. If the power supply from the secondary battery becomes over discharged while the power stored in the secondary battery as the power supply side is being supplied to the connection destination, the sequence execution unit stops the substantial execution of the sequence as the power receiving side unless a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11764578B1

A control method for an energy-storage apparatus, an energy-storage apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The energy-storage apparatus supplies power to electrical devices, establishes a communication connection with a terminal bound to a target user, and includes a high-voltage box including a controller, and multiple energy-storage modules. The method includes: obtaining, by the controller, a current power of the energy-storage apparatus; determining, by the controller, power consumption of the energy-storage apparatus when the energy-storage apparatus normally supplies multiple the electrical devices in a future preset period; generating, by the controller, prompt information or an adjustment scheme of a running strategy for the energy-storage apparatus according to the current power of the energy-storage apparatus, the power consumption, and weather information of a location of the energy-storage apparatus in the future preset period; and controlling, by the controller, the energy-storage apparatus according to the adjustment scheme.
US11764574B2

A charging apparatus includes at least one housing including a compartment, an access door connected to the housing and covering the compartment, the access door being movable from an open position to a closed position, a releasable latching mechanism configured to latch the access door in the closed position, a charging terminal in the compartment, a voltage sensing terminal, and a door release circuit coupled to the voltage sensing terminal and to the releasable latching mechanisms and configured to sense a charging voltage applied to the voltage sensing terminal. The door release circuit is configured to selectively unlatch the releasable latching mechanism in response to a voltage within a predetermined voltage range being applied to the voltage sensing terminal.
US11764569B2

The present disclosure provides a circuit including a coaxial cable interface, a data module, a power module, a power signal transmission branch, and a data signal transmission branch. The data module may receive or output a data signal. The power module may receive or output a power signal. The power signal transmission branch may be electrically coupled between the coaxial cable interface and the power module, and may include an inductor that allows the power signal to pass. The data signal transmission branch may be electrically coupled between the coaxial cable interface and the data module, and may include a capacitor that allows the data signal to pass and a first electrical surge protection circuit. The first electrical surge protection circuit may release a surge current on the data signal transmission branch.
US11764562B2

The present application discloses a terminal structure for conduction cooling high temperature superconducting cable, comprising: a cable terminal body; a terminal thermal insulation shell, in which a vacuum thermal insulation cavity is formed, and the cable terminal body being arranged in the vacuum thermal insulation cavity; a refrigeration mechanism comprising a refrigeration output part extending into the vacuum thermal insulation cavity, and the refrigeration output part being connected to the cable terminal body through a cooling-conducting structure. The terminal structure provided by the present application cools the high-temperature superconducting cable by means of conduction cooling of a refrigerator without operations of low-temperature liquid transportation and supplementary, and can operate for a long time without regular maintenance, reduce the heat leakage of the cable terminal, improve the utilization efficiency of the cooling capacity of the refrigerator, and effectively ensure the stable operation of the cable for a long time.
US11764560B2

A busway system including a first electrical busway section, a second electrical busway section, the first and the second electrical busway sections being offset from each other, a busway joint for coupling the first and the second electrical busway sections. The busway joint including a plurality of busbars, a plurality of splice plates electrically coupled to the plurality of busbars, the plurality of splice plates and the plurality of busbars configured to electrically couple the first and the second electrical busway sections, and a pivot shaft passing through the plurality of busbars and splice plates.
US11764546B2

The semiconductor laser device includes: an activation layer having at least one first quantum dot layer and at least one second quantum dot layer having a longer emission wavelength than the first quantum dot layer. The gain spectrum of the active layer has the maximum values at the first wavelength and the second wavelength longer than the first wavelength corresponding to the emission wavelength of the first quantum dot layer and the emission wavelength of the second quantum dot layer, respectively. The maximum value of the gain spectrum at the first wavelength is defined as the first maximum value, and the maximum value of the gain spectrum at the second wavelength is defined as the second maximum value. The first maximum value is larger than the second maximum value.
US11764545B2

A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) including a substrate including a plurality of emitters forming an array region, a lower mirror, an upper mirror, an active layer interposed between the lower mirror and the upper mirror, an aperture forming layer interposed between the upper mirror and the active layer and including an oxidation region and a window region, a connector disposed on the upper mirror, a plurality of oxidation holes passing through the upper mirror and the aperture forming layer, an upper insulation layer covering the plurality of oxidation holes, and a pad electrically connected to the connector, in which at least a portion of the connector is disposed in the plurality of oxidation holes, the plurality of emitters is disposed in substantially a honeycomb shape on the substrate, and the pad is formed on one side of the substrate adjacent to the array region.
US11764542B2

The present invention is intended to reduce variations in oscillation wavenumber of a semiconductor laser element due to the influence of circumferential temperatures. The invention includes a semiconductor laser semiconductor laser element, a temperature control part to control a temperature of the semiconductor laser element, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the temperature control part, and a temperature control device to control a supply signal to the temperature control part so that a detected temperature obtained from the temperature sensor reaches a predetermined target temperature. The temperature control device changes a target temperature for the temperature control part depending on a supply signal to the temperature control part.
US11764535B2

A method for manufacturing a power distribution member includes preparing a solid wire with a circular cross-sectional shape, pressing to a portion of the solid wire in a pressing direction orthogonal to the solid wire to cause plastic deformation, thereby forming a pair of small curvature surfaces on an outer circumference of the solid wire on both sides in the pressing direction, the small curvature surfaces having a smaller curvature than an outer circumferential surface of the solid wire before the pressing and facing the pressing direction, preparing a terminal metal piece including a pair of facing walls facing each other and a coupling wall coupling between ends of the pair of facing walls, inserting the solid wire after the pressing between the pair of facing walls of the terminal metal piece in such a manner that one of the pair of small curvature surfaces faces one of the pair of facing walls and the other of the pair of small curvature surfaces faces the other of the pair of facing walls, and, after the inserting, crimping the pair of facing walls onto the solid wire.
US11764523B2

A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. In some embodiments, the connector is may be assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. In some embodiments, the modules may have projecting portions, of conductive and/or dielectric material, that are shaped and positioned to reduce changes in impedance along the signal paths as a function of separation of conductive elements, when the connectors are separated by less than the functional mating range.
US11764519B2

A terminal includes a wire barrel and an insulation barrel. The wire barrel includes a wire barrel base portion, a one-side wire barrel piece and an other-side wire barrel piece to be laid on an outer periphery of the one-side wire barrel piece. The insulation barrel includes an insulation barrel base portion connected to and behind the wire barrel base portion, a one-side insulation barrel piece for covering one side of an outer periphery of a coating and an other-side insulation barrel piece for covering the other side of the outer periphery of the coating. Tips of the respective one-side and other-side insulation barrel pieces are locked to the coating of a wire on a side closer to the other side than a center in a width direction of the insulation barrel.
US11764508B2

A connection terminal for use with a plug-in terminal includes a terminal body and a tongue. The tongue extends from a first end of the terminal body along an axial direction of the connection terminal and defines a locking element. A first curled portion and a second curled portion are disposed oppositely on two sides of the terminal body. The first curled portion and the second curled portion define at least one first reinforcing rib and at least one second reinforcing rib, and include a first abutting portion and a second abutting portion. A plug-in space is formed between the first and second curled portions and the terminal body for receiving the plug-in terminal. With the plug-in terminal inserted into the plug-in space, the first abutting portion and the second abutting portion abut against the plug-in terminal, and the locking element locks the plug-in terminal within the plug-in space.
US11764504B2

A connector including a housing mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) and including a sidewall having an empty space that is open to one side and a fixing portion extending from an outer surface of the sidewall, the fixing portion passing through the PCB, a connection terminal having a part passing through the sidewall of the housing and the other part passing through the PCB and configured to be electrically connected to the PCB, and a connection unit including a terminal receiving portion and a coupling portion extending from an outer surface of the terminal receiving portion toward a position of the fixing portion to be mechanically coupled with a part of the fixing portion extending out of the PCB.
US11764500B2

An assembly for electrical equipment includes: a plurality of connection devices to be modularly arranged side-by-side in a row along a row direction, each having a housing and at least one termination point for connecting at least one electrical conductor; and a connecting element having a main body and a connecting portion formed on the main body, the connecting element connecting together two of the plurality of connection devices which two connection devices are adjacent to each other along the row direction. The connecting element is connectable via the connecting portion to the housing of at least one of the two adjacent connection devices by material-to-material bonding.
US11764497B2

Provided is an electrical connection cassette with which it is possible to freely expand a device and add functions in accordance with the size of free space. An electrical connection cassette is provided with: a circuit board; and first connection terminals and second connection terminals mounted on the circuit board and having terminal shapes that can be engaged with each other. In a state with a terminal connection direction oriented in a predetermined direction with respect to the circuit board, the first connection terminals are disposed on the side of one main surface of the circuit board, and in a state with a terminal connection direction oriented in a direction parallel to the predetermined direction, the second connection terminals are disposed near the other main surface of the circuit board.
US11764495B2

A protective conductor connection connects a protective conductor to a busbar of a grounding element. The grounding element extends in a plug-in direction on a wall of an isolating body of the plug connector. The grounding element has a mounting region for mounting on the wall, a contact element for electrically contacting a counterpart plug connector, and a contact surface for electrical contacting a plug connector housing. A spring element and an actuating element are provided on the mounting region and configured such that the actuating element, during actuation thereof, interacts with the spring element such that, in a first position of the actuating element, a contact connection for the protective conductor to the current rail is opened by the spring element, and in a second position of the actuating element, a contact connection for the protective conductor to the current rail is closed by the spring element.
US11764484B2

The present invention provides phased array antenna apparatus (200) for operation in frequencies above six gigahertz. The apparatus (200) comprises: a plurality of sub-arrays (208) together configured to form a phased array antenna, each sub-array (208) comprising at least four antenna elements (220), each antenna element (220) for receiving an input signal from the sub-array (220) and comprising: an antenna (230) for transmission of the input signal; and a signal modification component (222) to adjust a phase of the input signal during propagation to the antenna (230); and a plurality of power amplifiers (212), wherein each sub-array (208) is provided with a one of the plurality of power amplifiers (212), wherein each sub-array (208) is arranged to be provided with an amplified input signal, and each antenna element (220) of the sub-array (208) is configured to be provided with the amplified input signal of the respective sub-array (208) as the input signal to the antenna element (220), and wherein the power amplifier (212) for each sub-array (208) is configured to receive a phased array input signal for amplification and to output the respective amplified input signal to the respective sub-array (208). The power amplifier (212) for each sub-array (208) may be physically separate and distinct from each sub-array (208).
US11764477B2

An antenna apparatus is provided. The antenna apparatus includes a cavity element, a radiating element, and a feeding element. The cavity element includes an opening. The radiating element is located in the opening and is disposed at a conductive layer. An outline of the radiating element and the opening form a surround slot. An imaginary rectangle has four sides respectively abutted against an external outline of the surround slot. The feeding element is disposed at another parallel conductive layer. The feeding element includes two sections. There is a coupling spacing is between a section and the radiating element to feed into the radiating element through electric field coupling. A tail end of the section is an open circuit. Another section is an initial section of the feeding element inserted into the opening. There is a shifting spacing between the another section and a central line of the imaginary rectangle.
US11764472B2

A device includes a plurality of antennas, including one or more active antennas, the antennas being configured in one of a plurality of possible configurations to achieve operation in WAN, LTE, WiFi, or WiMax bands, or a combination thereof. In some embodiments, a passive antenna is utilized with lumped loading to fix the antenna tuning state. A primary and auxiliary radiator can be included in the device and configured for WAN/LTE bands, while additional antennas can be incorporated for WiFi and WiMax bands. Various antenna configurations incorporate the antenna having multiple coupled regions.
US11764469B2

The trirectangular tetrahedron array provides nearly constant gain over a hemisphere, by adaptively combining signals from elements, having substantially cosine-squared power patterns, on orthogonal faces. By using a deterministic aperiodic lattice, the array can use higher gain elements rather than lower gain elements for traditional wide-scan phased arrays. Thus, the number of elements needed can be reduced by more than a factor of two. Importantly, element spacing is increased with this design, thus lowering mutual coupling and the associated potential for scan blindness. Higher gain elements require spacing exceeding ½ wavelength can have grating lobes. This is addressed with an aperiodic lattice designed to ensure that no grating lobe can form. By connecting two trirectangular tetrahedrons by their bases and mounting on an air/space-based platform, nearly spherical coverage with constant gain results.
US11764467B2

The present disclosure relates to a cover for at least one antenna emitting or sensing electromagnetic radiation in at least one first frequency band, the cover includes at least one first surface facing the antenna and at least one second surface averted to the antenna, where the cover includes at least one substrate being transmissible for electromagnetic radiation and at least one first coating covering the substrate in at least one first area, the first coating being transmissible for electromagnetic radiation of at least the first frequency band, whereas the first coating is reflective for electromagnetic radiation falling onto the second surface and having a frequency within at least one second frequency band.
US11764464B2

An ultra wide band antenna includes a ground plane and an antenna body including a planar portion arranged above and parallel to the ground plane. A tapered spiral portion includes a T spiral tapered legs that have a spiral shape and that horizontally taper in a direction towards the ground plane, where T is an integer greater than one. L supporting legs connecting an outer edge of the planar portion to the ground plane, where L is an integer greater than one.
US11764460B2

Provided are a wearable device, comprising: a metal frame, a gap between the metal frame and a mainboard of the wearable device forming an antenna of the wearable device; and a metal bezel, the metal bezel and the metal frame being electrically connected to each other through a plurality of connectors, a distance between any adjacent two of the connectors along a first direction being less than ¼ of a wavelength corresponding to a maximum operating frequency of one or more antennas of the wearable device, and the first direction being a peripheral direction of the metal frame.
US11764452B2

Disclosed herein are various designs for dielectric waveguides, as well as methods of manufacturing such waveguides. One type of dielectric waveguides described herein includes waveguides with one or more cavities in the dielectric waveguide material. Another type of dielectric waveguides described herein includes waveguides with a conductive ridge in the dielectric waveguide material. Dielectric waveguides described herein may be dispersion reduced dielectric waveguides, compared to conventional dielectric waveguides, and may be designed to adjust the difference in the group delay between the lower frequencies and the higher frequencies of a chosen bandwidth.
US11764440B2

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator which has a low shutdown temperature, a high mechanical strength, and a high ion permeability is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator contains a polyolefin-based resin as a main component. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator has a maximum heating value of not less than 30 mW/g observed during isothermal crystallization of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator at 128° C.
US11764438B2

An energy storage module includes: a cover member accommodating a plurality of battery cells in an internal receiving space, the battery cells being arranged in a first direction, each of the battery cells including a vent; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member and including a duct corresponding to the vent of each of the battery cells; a top cover coupled to a top of the top plate and having a discharge opening corresponding to the duct; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate, the extinguisher sheet being configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a reference temperature.
US11764437B2

Embodiments of the present application provide a battery, a power consumption apparatus, and a method and apparatus for producing a battery. The battery includes: a plurality of battery cells, the battery cell comprising a housing, the housing being configured to be actuated when an internal pressure or temperature of the housing reaches a threshold, to relieve the internal pressure of the housing; a plurality of first boxes, the first box being configured to accommodate at least one battery cell of the plurality of battery cells, the first box including a pressure relief region, and the pressure relief region being configured to relieve an internal pressure of the first box; and a second box, the second box being configured to accommodate the plurality of first boxes. According to the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the safety of the battery can be enhanced.
US11764415B2

A method for charging a battery includes: determining a first charging section, in which a current charging rate of the battery is located, from among a plurality of charging sections predetermined based on a functional relation between a state of charge of the battery and an open circuit voltage of an anode of the battery; and charging the battery for the first charging section with a first charging rate corresponding to the first charging section.
US11764399B1

Provided is an all-solid-state battery with high charge-discharge efficiency. Disclosed is an all-solid-state battery, wherein the all-solid-state battery comprises a cathode comprising a cathode layer, an anode comprising an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer; wherein the anode layer contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a lithium metal and a lithium alloy; and wherein a protective layer comprising a composite metal oxide represented by Li-M-O (where M is at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Au, Al and Sn) is disposed between the anode layer and the solid electrolyte layer.
US11764398B1

A method of synthesizing an inorganic precursor for an ionic conductor includes mixing at least one oxide of M with at least one halide of M, heating the mixture of the at least one oxide of M and the at least one halide of M and forming an MOX inorganic oxyhalide compound, and injecting defects in the MOX inorganic oxyhalide compound and forming a defect doped (MOX)′ precursor for an ionic conductor. The element or component M is selected from at least one of Fe, Al, La, and Y, the at least one halide of M is selected from at least one of a fluoride of M, a chloride of M, a bromide of M, and an iodide of M, and the element or component X is at least one of F, Cl, Br, and I.
US11764369B2

Systems and methods are provided for electrochemical and/or chemical pretreatment of bipolar plates, for example, for plating electrodes in redox flow batteries. In one example, a method may include pretreating a bipolar plate for the redox flow battery by disrupting a surface of the bipolar plate. In some examples, pretreating the bipolar plate may include positioning the bipolar plate within the redox flow battery, and thereafter charging the redox flow battery at multiple discrete plating current densities for each of one or more initial charging cycles to electrochemically etch the surface. In additional or alternative examples, pretreating the bipolar plate may include soaking the bipolar plate in solution to chemically treat the surface. In this way, the bipolar plate may be pretreated via electrochemical etching and/or chemical treatment so as to reduce electrochemical performance losses and dendrite formation in the redox flow battery.
US11764361B2

The present invention provides a slurry composition comprising (a) a binder comprising a polymer comprising a fluoropolymer dispersed in a liquid medium; and (b) at least one conductive carbon material having a BET surface area of greater than 100 m2/g. Also provided are electrodes and electrical storage devices.
US11764360B2

This application provides a negative electrode plate, a lithium metal battery, and an apparatus including the lithium metal battery. The negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode current collector and a lithium-metal negative electrode disposed on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector, where a polymer protective film is disposed on a surface of the lithium-metal negative electrode away from the negative electrode current collector, the polymer protective film includes a citric acid copolymer, and a number-average molecular weight Mn of the citric acid copolymer is 10,000 to 1,000,000. In this application, a polymer protective film with high tensile strength, high puncture strength, high elongation, and high electrolyte holding capacity may be formed on the surface of the lithium-metal negative electrode in the negative electrode plate.
US11764356B2

Making a positive electrode active material for lithium ion secondary batteries includes: weighting and mixing lithium carbonate and a compound containing respective metallic elements other than Li in a composition formula LiαNixCoyM21-x-y-zM2zO2+β so as to have a metallic constituent ratio of the formula to obtain a mixture, and firing the mixture to obtain a lithium composite compound. Performing, on the mixture, a first heat treatment at 200° C. to 400° C. for 0.5 to 5 hours to obtain a first precursor. A step of performing a heat treatment on the first precursor under an oxidizing atmosphere at 450° C. to 800° C. for 0.5 to 50 hours, and reacting 92 mass % or more of the lithium carbonate to obtain a second precursor, and a finishing step of performing a heat treatment on the second precursor under an oxidizing atmosphere at 755° C. to 900° C. for 0.5 to 50 hours to obtain the lithium composite compound.
US11764340B2

A micro light emitting diode (LED) display device includes a substrate, micro LED dies, a protection layer, and a funnel-tube structure array. The micro LED dies are located on the substrate. The protection layer covers the micro LED dies and the substrate. The funnel-tube structure array is located on the protection layer and includes funnel-tube structures. Each of the funnel-tube structures has a top surface facing away from the protection layer. The funnel-tube structures respectively overlap the micro LED dies in a vertical direction, and widths of the funnel-tube structures are gradually increased from the protection layer to the top surfaces of the funnel-tube structures.
US11764338B2

A light emitting device includes first and second light emitting elements, first and second wavelength conversion members, a reflecting member surrounding lateral surfaces of the first and second light emitting elements, and the lateral surfaces of the first and second wavelength conversion members, and a covering member continuously covering at least a top surface of the first wavelength conversion member, a top surface of the reflecting member disposed between the first and second wavelength conversion members, and a top surface of the second wavelength conversion member. The covering member contains at least one of a pigment and a dye so that a body color of the covering member is the same or a similar color as a body color of the wavelength conversion member.
US11764329B2

A light emitting device includes plural light emitting elements arranged on a substrate in lines and individually emit light each other. The light emitting device includes a single continuous n-type semiconductor layer on the substrate shared by the plural light emitting elements, a single continuous light emitting layer on the n-type semiconductor layer shared by the plural light emitting elements, a single continuous p-type semiconductor layer on the light emitting layer shared by the plural light emitting elements, a single continuous contact electrode film on the p-type semiconductor layer shared by the plural light emitting elements, and plural p-side bonding electrodes on the contact electrode film respectively used for the plural light emitting elements. The contact electrode film and the p-type semiconductor layer are configured so as to control current diffusion in in-plane directions thereof.
US11764317B2

Provided is a busbar-free interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cell and an IBC solar cell module. The IBC solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate, finger electrode lines and conductive lines. The finger electrode lines include first finger electrode lines and second finger electrode lines that are alternately arranged on the semiconductor substrate. The conductive lines include first conductive lines and second conductive lines that are alternately arranged. The first conductive lines are connected to the first finger electrode lines and spaced apart from the second finger electrode lines. The second conductive lines are connected to the second finger electrode lines and spaced apart from the first finger electrode lines.
US11764314B2

An imaging device may include single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). To improve the sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio of the SPADs, light scattering structures may be formed in the semiconductor substrate to increase the path length of incident light through the semiconductor substrate. The light scattering structures may include a low-index material formed in trenches in the semiconductor substrate. The light scattering structures may have different sizes and/or a layout with a non-uniform number of structures per unit area. SPAD devices may also include isolation structures in a ring around the SPADs to prevent crosstalk. The isolation structures may include metal-filled deep trench isolation structures. The metal filler may include tungsten.
US11764313B2

Provided is a photovoltaic solar cell, a solar cell module and a manufacturing process. The photovoltaic solar cell includes a silicon substrate, and a passivation layer located on at least one surface of the silicon substrate. An electrode, an electrode pad and an extension line are printed on at least one surface of the silicon substrate. The electrode includes a busbar and a finger crossed with each other, and the finger is in contact with the silicon substrate. Two ends of the extension line are respectively connected to the busbar and the electrode pad, and the extension line is in contact with the silicon substrate.
US11764309B2

In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, field-effect mobility and reliability are improved. A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, an insulating film over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film over the insulating film, and a pair of electrodes over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first oxide semiconductor film, a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film, and a third oxide semiconductor film over the second oxide semiconductor film. The first oxide semiconductor film, the second oxide semiconductor film, and the third oxide semiconductor film include the same elements. The second oxide semiconductor film includes a region having a higher carrier density than the first oxide semiconductor film and the third oxide semiconductor film.
US11764286B2

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of nanostructures. The nanostructures each contain a semiconductive material. A plurality of first spacers circumferentially wrap around the nanostructures. A plurality of second spacers circumferentially wrap around the first spacers. A plurality of third spacers is disposed between the second spacers vertically. A gate structure surrounds the second spacers and the third spacers.
US11764273B2

The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures for capacitive isolation, and structures incorporating the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to capacitive isolation structures for high voltage applications. The present disclosure also relates to methods of forming structures for capacitive isolation and the structures incorporating the same. The disclosed semiconductor structures may enable a smaller device footprint and reduced dimensions of components on an IC chip, whilst ensuring galvanic isolation between circuits.
US11764268B2

A semiconductor device, includes: gate electrodes spaced apart from each other and on a substrate; channel structures penetrating the gate electrodes, each of channel structures including a channel layer, a gate dielectric layer between the channel layer and the gate electrodes, a channel insulating layer filling between the channel layers, a channel pad on the channel insulating layer; and separation regions penetrating the gate electrodes, and spaced apart from each other, wherein the gate dielectric layer extends upwardly, further than the channel layer upwardly such that a portion of an inner side surface of the gate dielectric layer contacts the channel pad, the channel pad includes a lower pad on an upper end of the channel layer and the inner side surface of the gate dielectric layer, and having a first recess between the inner side surfaces of the gate dielectric layer; and an upper pad having a first portion in the first recess and a second portion extending from the first portion in a direction, parallel to an upper surface of the substrate on the first portion.
US11764267B2

A semiconductor device includes a fin structure, a two-dimensional (2D) material channel layer, a ferroelectric layer, and a metal layer. The fin structure extends from a substrate. The 2D material channel layer wraps around at least three sides of the fin structure. The ferroelectric layer wraps around at least three sides of the 2D material channel layer. The metal layer wraps around at least three sides of the ferroelectric layer.
US11764265B2

A field effect transistor (FET) structure upon a substrate formed by forming a stack of nanosheets upon a semiconductor substrate, the stack including alternating layers of a compound semiconductor material and an elemental semiconductor material, forming a dummy gate structure upon the stack of nanosheets, recessing the stack of nanosheets in alignment with the dummy gate structure, recessing the compound semiconductor layers beyond the edges of the dummy gate, yielding indentations between adjacent semiconductor nanosheets. Further by filling the indentations with a bi-layer dielectric material, epitaxially growing source/drain regions adjacent to the nanosheet stack and bi-layer dielectric material, removing remaining portions of the compound semiconductor nanosheet layers, recessing the bi-layer dielectric material to expose an inner material layer, and forming gate structure layers in contact with first and second dielectric materials of the bi-layer dielectric material.
US11764263B2

Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures using multiple bottom-up oxidation approaches, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of nanowires. All nanowires of the vertical arrangement of nanowires are oxide nanowires. A gate stack is over the vertical arrangement of nanowires, around each of the oxide nanowires. The gate stack includes a conductive gate electrode.
US11764244B2

A first conductive pattern and a third conductive pattern are joined to each other in a junction plane, and a second conductive pattern and a fourth conductive pattern are joined to each other in the junction plane, and an insulation layer is arranged at least in one of spaces between the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern and between the third conductive pattern and the fourth conductive pattern.
US11764241B2

An image sensing device includes a first pixel configured to generate an electrical signal in response to incident light and including a first optical filter configured to transmit the incident light corresponding to a first color; and a second pixel configured to generate another electrical signal in response to the incident light and including a second optical filter configured to transmit the incident light corresponding to the first color, wherein a thickness of the first optical filter is larger than a thickness of the second optical filter.
US11764239B2

A method for forming an image sensor package is provided. An image sensor chip is formed over a package substrate. A protection layer is formed overlying the image sensor chip. The protection layer has a planar top surface and a bottom surface lining and contacting structures under the protection layer. An opening is formed into the protection layer and spaced around a periphery of the image sensor chip. A light shielding material is filled in the opening to form an on-wafer shield structure having a sidewall directly contact the protection layer.
US11764238B2

An image sensing device is provided to include a pixel array of unit pixels, each pixel structured to respond to incident light to produce photocharges and including different photosensing sub-pixels at different locations within the unit pixel to detect incident light, different detection structures formed at peripheral locations of the different photosensing sub-pixels of the unit pixel, respectively, and configured to receive the photocharges that are generated by the different photosensing sub-pixels of and are carried by a current in the unit pixel, a unit pixel voltage node located at a center portion of the unit pixel and electrically coupled to electrically bias an electrical potential of the different photosensing sub-pixels, and a control circuit coupled to the different detection structures of the unit pixel to supply sub-pixel detection control signals to the different detection structures of the unit pixel, respectively.
US11764236B2

A semiconductor substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface opposing each other is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type. The semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of planned regions where a plurality of second semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type forming pn junctions with the first semiconductor region are going to be formed, in a side of the second main surface. A textured region is formed on surfaces included in the plurality of planned regions, in the second main surface. The plurality of second semiconductor regions are formed in the plurality of planned regions after forming the textured region. The first main surface is a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US11764229B2

A pixel array substrate, including a substrate, multiple conductors, a pixel driving circuit, a first pad, and a second pad, is provided. The substrate has a first surface, a second surface, and multiple through holes. The through holes extend from the first surface to the second surface. The conductors are respectively disposed in the through holes. The pixel driving circuit is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The first pad and the second pad are disposed on the second surface of the substrate. The conductors include a first conductor, a second conductor, and a first dummy conductor. The first conductor is electrically connected to the pixel driving circuit and the first pad. The second conductor is electrically connected to the pixel driving circuit and the second pad. The first dummy conductor is overlapped with and electrically isolated from the pixel driving circuit.
US11764227B2

An array substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The array substrate includes a substrate having a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. The display region includes a plurality of signal lines extending along a first direction. The non-display region includes at least three repair lead wires, and welding terminals connected to the repair lead wires in a one-to-one corresponding manner. The signal lines form overlapping regions together with an orthographic projection of at least one repair lead wire on the substrate.
US11764223B2

The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a fin on a substrate; forming a gate structure on the fin; forming impurity regions on two sides of the fin; forming contacts correspondingly on the impurity regions; and forming conductive covering layers correspondingly on the contacts. Forming the contacts includes forming lower portions correspondingly on the impurity regions and below the first dielectric layer; forming middle portions correspondingly on the lower portions; and forming upper portions correspondingly on the middle portions, and protruding from the top surface of the second dielectric layer.
US11764220B2

A method includes forming fins extending over a semiconductor substrate; forming a photoresist structure over the fins; patterning a serpentine cut pattern in the photoresist structure to form a cut mask, wherein the serpentine cut pattern extends over the fins, wherein the serpentine cut pattern includes alternating bridge regions and cut regions, wherein each cut region extends in a first direction, wherein each bridge region extends between adjacent cut regions in a second direction, wherein the second direction is within 30° of being orthogonal to the first direction; and performing an etching process using the cut mask as an etching mask.
US11764198B2

A method and device for bonding chips onto a substrate or onto further chips. The chips are bonded onto the substrate or the further chips by means of a direct bond.
US11764189B2

Dies and/or wafers are stacked and bonded in various arrangements including stacks, and may be covered with a molding to facilitate handling, packaging, and the like. In various examples, the molding may cover more or less of a stack, to facilitate connectivity with the devices of the stack, to enhance thermal management, and so forth.
US11764179B2

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a conductive pillar having a first surface, a second surface, and a lateral surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The lateral surface has a first part and a second part connected to the first part. The semiconductor device package also includes a barrier layer in contact with the first part of the lateral surface of the conductive pillar and an encapsulant in contact with the second part of the lateral surface of the conductive pillar. The semiconductor device package also includes a first flowable conductive material disposed on the first surface of the conductive pillar. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device package is also disclosed.
US11764174B2

A semiconductor structure including a substrate, a dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, and a passivation layer is provided. The dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate. The first conductive layer is disposed on the dielectric layer. The passivation layer is disposed on the first conductive layer and the dielectric layer. The passivation layer includes a first upper surface and a second upper surface. The first upper surface is located above a top surface of the first conductive layer. The second upper surface is located on one side of the first conductive layer. A height of the first upper surface is higher than a height of the second upper surface. The height of the second upper surface is lower than or equal to a height of a lower surface of the first conductive layer located between a top surface of the dielectric layer and the first conductive layer.
US11764173B2

A semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a first dielectric layer over the substrate; a waveguide over the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and laterally surrounding the waveguide; a first conductive member and a second conductive member over the second dielectric layer and the waveguide, the first conductive member and the second conductive member being in contact with the waveguide; a conductive bump on one side of the substrate and electrically connected to the first conductive member or the second conductive member; and a conductive via extending through the substrate and electrically connecting the conductive bump to the first conductive member or the second conductive member. The waveguide is configured to transmit an electromagnetic signal between the first conductive member and the second conductive member.
US11764170B2

A sensing substrate and an electronic device are provided. The sensing substrate includes a sensing unit on a base substrate. The sensing unit includes a sensing element and a conductive pattern, the sensing element has a light incident surface and a back surface that are opposite and a side surface between the light incident surface and the back surface. The conductive pattern is on a side of the sensing element away from the base substrate, and has a hollow portion and a transparent conductive portion surrounding the hollow portion, an orthographic projection of the hollow portion on the base substrate is at least partially within an orthographic projection of the sensing element on the base substrate, and an orthographic projection of the transparent conductive portion on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the side surface of the sensing element on the base substrate.
US11764168B2

A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a wiring substrate having a surface. The chip package structure includes a chip structure over the surface of the wiring substrate. The chip package structure includes an antiwarpage structure over the surface of the wiring substrate. The antiwarpage structure surrounds the chip structure. The chip package structure includes a first anchor structure affixed to the surface of the wiring substrate and adjacent to a first lower portion of the antiwarpage structure. The first lower portion is between the first anchor structure and the chip structure, and the first anchor structure is electrically isolated from the chip structure.
US11764165B2

A method includes encapsulating a first device die and a second device die in an encapsulating material, forming redistribution lines over and electrically coupling to the first device die and the second device die, and bonding a bridge die over the redistribution lines to form a package, with the package including the first device die, the second device die, and the bridge die. The bridge die electrically inter-couples the first device die and the second device die. The first device die, the second device die, and the bridge die are supported with a dummy support die.
US11764164B2

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; and a multilevel wiring structure on the semiconductor substrate, the multilevel wiring structure including at least an intermediate metal layer over the semiconductor substrate and an uppermost metal layer over the intermediate metal layer, and the multilevel wiring structure being divided into a main circuit portion and a scribe portion surrounding the main circuit portion; wherein the scribe portion of the multilevel wiring layer includes at least a metal pad exposed in the intermediate metal layer.
US11764163B2

Provided are a semiconductor encapsulation structure and an encapsulation method. The structure includes a circuit board, which includes at least one electromagnetic shield area and a non-electromagnetic shield area located on one side of the electromagnetic shield area, where the circuit board internally includes a number N of metal line layers stacked in sequence and insulating layers located between adjacent metal line layers; a non-shield module and a shield module, where the non-shield module is located within the non-electromagnetic shield area, and the shield module is located within the electromagnetic shield area; a thin film encapsulation layer, located on a side of the circuit board adjacent to the first surface, where the thin film encapsulation layer covers the non-electromagnetic shield area and the electromagnetic shield area; an electromagnetic shield structure, which covers the electromagnetic shield area and forms the closed space with the circuit board.
US11764159B2

Structures and formation methods of chip packages are provided. The method includes disposing a semiconductor die over a carrier substrate. The method also includes disposing an interposer substrate over the carrier substrate. The interposer substrate has a recess that penetrates through opposite surfaces of the interposer substrate. The interposer substrate has interior sidewalls surrounding the semiconductor die, and the semiconductor die is as high as or higher than the interposer substrate. The method further includes forming a protective layer in the recess of the interposer substrate to surround the semiconductor die. In addition, the method includes removing the carrier substrate and stacking a package structure over the interposer substrate.
US11764155B2

A cell on an integrated circuit is provided. The cell includes: a fin structure; an intermediate fin structure connection metal track disposed in an intermediate fin structure connection metal layer above the fin structure, the intermediate fin structure connection metal track being connected to the fin structure; and a first intermediate gate connection metal track disposed in an intermediate gate connection metal layer above the intermediate fin structure connection metal layer, the first intermediate gate connection metal track being connected to the intermediate fin structure connection metal track. A first power supply terminal is connected to the first intermediate gate connection metal track.
US11764153B1

The present disclosure provides an interconnect structure and a method for forming an interconnect structure. The interconnect structure includes a first metal line, a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer over the first metal line, a first conductive feature over the first metal line, wherein at least a portion of the first conductive feature is laterally surrounded by the first ILD layer, and a sidewall of the first conductive feature has a corrugated profile.
US11764151B2

An electronic chip includes a shared strip with first and second spaced apart portions extending along a direction of elongation and an intermediate connecting portion extending between the first and second portions. The second portion is connected to a pad that has a greater surface area than the second portion. The first portion is formed by a first plurality of metallic strips. Metallic strips of the first plurality of metallic strips that are adjacent and side by side are separated by a distance smaller than a width of those metallic strips. The second portion is formed by a second plurality of metallic strips. Metallic strips of the second plurality of metallic strips that are adjacent and side by side are separated by a distance smaller than a width of those metallic strips.
US11764150B2

Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a package substrate having a core layer. An inductor may include a first coaxial line and a second coaxial line vertically through the core layer, and an interconnect within the package substrate coupling the first coaxial line and the second coaxial line. A first magnetic segment may surround the first coaxial line within the core layer, and a second magnetic segment may surround the second coaxial line within the core layer. In addition, a third magnetic segment may surround the interconnect and be coupled to the first magnetic segment and the second magnetic segment. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11764145B2

A wiring structure includes a filling metal, a cover metal including cobalt (Co) on the filling metal, the cover metal having a first portion along a side surface and along a lower surface of the filling metal, and a second portion along an upper surface of the filling metal, a barrier metal on an outer surface of the first portion of the cover metal, and a capping metal on an outer surface of the second portion of the cover metal, the capping metal including a cobalt (Co) alloy, wherein the filling metal has higher conductivity than the cover metal and the barrier metal.
US11764143B2

A method includes forming a first electrode layer having a first opening, with the first opening having a first lateral dimension, forming a first capacitor insulator over the first electrode layer, and forming a second electrode layer over the first capacitor insulator, with the second electrode layer having a second opening. The first opening is directly underlying the second opening. The second opening has a second lateral dimension greater than the first lateral dimension. The method further includes depositing a dielectric layer over the second electrode layer, and forming a contact opening, which comprises a first portion including the first opening, and a second portion including the second opening. A conductive plug is formed in the contact opening.
US11764130B2

There is provided a semiconductor device that includes a wiring layer having a main surface and a rear surface which face opposite sides in a thickness direction, a first insulating layer covering an entirety of the rear surface, a second insulating layer which is in contact with the main surface, a semiconductor element which faces the second insulating layer and is mounted on the wiring layer, and a sealing resin which is in contact with the second insulating layer and covers the semiconductor element, wherein surface roughness of the main surface is larger than surface roughness of the rear surface.
US11764129B2

Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) in which a shield structure blocks the migration of charge to a semiconductor device from proximate a through substrate via (TSV). In some embodiments, the IC comprises a substrate, an interconnect structure, the semiconductor device, the TSV, and the shield structure. The interconnect structure is on a frontside of the substrate and comprises a wire. The semiconductor device is on the frontside of the substrate, between the substrate and the interconnect structure. The TSV extends completely through the substrate, from a backside of the substrate to the wire, and comprises metal. The shield structure comprises a PN junction extending completely through the substrate and directly between the semiconductor device and the TSV.
US11764112B2

Fin patterning methods disclosed herein achieve advantages of fin cut first techniques and fin cut last techniques while providing different numbers of fins in different IC regions. An exemplary method implements a spacer lithography technique that forms a fin pattern that includes a first fin line and a second fin line in a substrate. The first fin line and the second fin line have a first spacing in a first region corresponding with a single-fin FinFET and a second spacing in a second region corresponding with a multi-fin FinFET. The first spacing is greater than the second spacing, relaxing process margins during a fin cut last process, which partially removes a portion of the second line in the second region to form a dummy fin tip in the second region. Spacing between the dummy fin tip and the first fin in the second region is greater than the second spacing.
US11764111B2

Fabrication of an integrated circuit includes forming a photoresist layer over a substrate. Target regions defined on the substrate are exposed using a reticle that defines a first exposure window for a first doped structure of a first type; the first exposure window has a first plurality of openings and a first plurality of dopant blocking regions. A respective exposure dose for each of the target regions is determined by an exposure map and provides controlled variations in the size of the first plurality of openings across the plurality of target regions. Subsequent to the exposure and to developing the photoresist, a dopant is implanted into the substrate through the first plurality of openings.
US11764107B2

A semiconductor device includes a pair of line patterns disposed on a substrate. A contact plug is disposed between the pair of line patterns and an air gap is disposed between the contact plug and the line patterns. A landing pad extends from a top end of the contact plug to cover a first part of the air gap and an insulating layer is disposed on a second part of the air gap, which is not covered by the landing pad.
US11764096B2

Methods for protecting edges of semiconductor dies are disclosed. Further, the disclosed methods provide for separating the semiconductor dies without using a dicing technique. In one embodiment, a plurality of trenches may be formed on a front side of a substrate including a plurality of semiconductor dies. Individual trenches may correspond to scribe lines of the substrate where each trench includes a depth greater than a final thickness of the semiconductor dies. A dielectric layer may be formed on sidewalls of the trenches, thereby protecting the edges of the semiconductor dies, prior to filling the trenches with an adhesive material. Subsequently, the substrate may be thinned from a back side such that the adhesive material in the trenches may be exposed from the back side. The adhesive material may be removed to singulate individual semiconductor dies of the plurality from the substrate.
US11764093B2

A substrate transport apparatus including a transport chamber, a drive section, a robot arm having an end effector at a distal end configured to support a substrate and being connected to the drive section generating at least arm motion in a radial direction extending and retracting the arm, an imaging system with a camera mounted in a predetermined location to image at least part of the robot arm, and a controller connected to the imaging system to image the arm moving to a predetermined repeatable position, the controller effecting capture of a first image of the robot arm proximate to the repeatable position decoupled from encoder data of the drive axis, wherein the controller calculates a positional variance of the robot arm from comparison of the first image with a calibration image, and from the positional variance determines a motion compensation factor changing the extended position of the robot arm.
US11764087B2

A process apparatus includes a heating module and a supporter disposed below the heating module. A process space is provided between the heating module and the supporter. The heating module includes a housing, at least one heating lamp disposed in the housing, at least one temperature sensor disposed in the housing, and a blocking plate disposed under the housing. The blocking plate spatially separates the at least one heating lamp from the process space, and the blocking plate includes at least one window spatially connecting the at least one temperature sensor to the process space.
US11764081B2

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for wafer cleaning. The apparatus includes an enclosure made of a noncombustible material, a wafer holder, a cleaning nozzle, at least one sensor, and an exhaust unit. The wafer holder can hold and heat a wafer. The cleaning nozzle can supply a flow of a cleaning fluid onto a surface of the wafer. The at least one sensor can detect attributes of the wafer. The exhaust unit can expel a vapor generated by the cleaning fluid in the enclosure. The exhaust unit can include a rinse nozzle to rinse the vapor passing through the exhaust unit with a mist.
US11764080B2

Embodiments of the invention include device packages and methods of forming such packages. In an embodiment, the method of forming a device package may comprise forming a reinforcement layer over a substrate. One or more openings may be formed through the reinforcement layer. In an embodiment, a device die may be placed into one of the openings. The device die may be bonded to the substrate by reflowing one or more solder bumps positioned between the device die and the substrate. Embodiments of the invention may include a molded reinforcement layer. Alternative embodiments include a reinforcement layer that is adhered to the surface of the substrate with an adhesive layer.
US11764078B2

A wafer level fan out package includes a semiconductor die having a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. A stiffener is disposed on the third surface of the semiconductor die. A conductive via passes through the stiffener. First and second electrically conductive patterns electrically connected to the conductive via are disposed on the first and second surfaces of the semiconductor die and stiffener. Solder balls are electrically connected to the first or second electrically conductive patterns.
US11764069B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a method of removing material on a substrate. An exemplary method includes rotating a substrate about a first axis in a first direction and urging a surface of the substrate against a polishing surface of a polishing pad while rotating the substrate, wherein rotating the substrate about the first axis includes rotating the substrate a first angle at a first rotation rate, and then rotating the substrate a second angle at a second rotation rate, and the first rotation rate is different from the second rotation rate.
US11764059B2

According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a substrate is disclosed. The method can include preparing a structure body. The structure body includes a first semiconductor member and a second semiconductor member. The first semiconductor member includes silicon carbide including a first element. The second semiconductor member includes silicon carbide including a second element. The first element includes at least one selected from a first group consisting of N, P, and As. The second element includes at least one selected from a second group consisting of B, Al, and Ga. The method can include forming a hole that extends through the second semiconductor member and reaches the first semiconductor member. In addition, the method can include forming a third semiconductor member in the hole. The third semiconductor member includes silicon carbide including a third element. The third element includes at least one selected from the first group.
US11764057B2

A method of forming a structure having a coating layer includes the following steps: providing a substrate; coating a fluid on the surface of the substrate, where the fluid includes a carrier and a plurality of silicon-containing nanoparticles; and performing a heating process to remove the carrier and convert the silicon-containing nanoparticles into a silicon-containing layer, a silicide layer, or a stack layer including the silicide layer and the silicon-containing layer.
US11764055B2

A substrate processing method is provided, which includes: a substrate holding step of causing a substrate holding unit to hold a substrate; an ozone-containing hydrofluoric acid solution supplying step of supplying an ozone-containing hydrofluoric acid solution containing ozone dissolved therein a hydrofluoric acid solution to one major surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit; a brush-cleaning step of cleaning the one major surface of the substrate by bringing a cleaning brush into contact with the one major surface of the substrate after the ozone-containing hydrofluoric acid solution supplying step; and an ozone water supplying step of supplying ozone water to the one major surface of the substrate before start of the brush-cleaning step after the ozone-containing hydrofluoric acid solution supplying step or in the brush-cleaning step.
US11764050B2

Systems and approaches for semiconductor metrology and surface analysis using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) are disclosed. In an example, a secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) system includes a sample stage. A primary ion beam is directed to the sample stage. An extraction lens is directed at the sample stage. The extraction lens is configured to provide a low extraction field for secondary ions emitted from a sample on the sample stage. A magnetic sector spectrograph is coupled to the extraction lens along an optical path of the SIMS system. The magnetic sector spectrograph includes an electrostatic analyzer (ESA) coupled to a magnetic sector analyzer (MSA).
US11764049B2

Exemplary embodiments may deploy a valve that introduces a sample of a calibrant coaxially with flow exiting a source of a mobile phase flow, such as a liquid chromatography (LC) column, on a path to an ion source for the mass spectrometer (MS). The valve may be positioned remotely on a branch that has a junction with the path leading form the source of the mobile phase flow to the ion source. Alternatively, the valve may be positioned in line on the flow path from the source of the mobile phase flow to the ion source of the MS. A novel five port valve design may be employed. With this valve design, a first position of the valve allows a sample loop for the calibrant to be filled. In a second position, the calibrant is added coaxially to the flow from the source of the mobile phase to the MS. In a third position of the valve, diversion of or infusion to a post-source flow is enabled.
US11764047B2

A universal nanochip for mass spectrometry analysis and preparing method and application of the same, relates to a technical field of mass spectrometry analysis. A main material of the nanochip is a silicon-based semiconductor material, array-type spotting wells are distributed at a surface of the main material, and an inner surface of the spotting well is of a nanostructure; the surface of the main material has a regional hydrophobic modification, and inside the array-type spotting well is a hydrophilic region and outside the spotting well is a hydrophobic region; or outside the array-type spotting well is a hydrophilic region and inside the spotting well is a hydrophobic region. The nanostructure can extract molecules on a surface of a biological tissue sample to be tested, and improves laser energy absorption and utilization, thereby improving ionization efficiency and enhancing mass spectrum signals. The universal nanochip can be widely applied to clinical inspection.
US11764046B2

The invention generally relates to systems and methods for precursor and neutral loss scan in an ion trap. In certain aspects, the invention provides a system that includes a mass spectrometer having an ion trap, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU includes storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to excite a precursor ion and eject a product ion in the single ion trap.
US11764036B2

A gas feed device is operated, including displaying a functional parameter of the gas feed device. A gas feed device may carry out the operation, and a particle beam apparatus may include the gas feed device. A method may include predetermining and/or measuring a current temperature of a precursor reservoir of the gas feed device using a temperature measuring unit, where the precursor reservoir contains a precursor to be fed onto an object, loading a flow rate of the precursor through an outlet of the precursor reservoir from a database into a control unit, said flow rate being associated with the current temperature of the precursor reservoir, and (i) displaying the flow rate on the display unit and/or (ii) determining the functional parameter of the precursor reservoir depending on the flow rate using the control unit and informing a user of the gas feed device about the determined functional parameter.
US11764032B2

Apparatuses for collection of wavelength resolved and angular resolved cathodoluminescence (WRARCL) emitted from a sample exposed to an electron beam (e-beam) or other excitation beams are described. Cathodoluminescence light (CL) may be emitted from a sample at specific angles relative to the excitation beam and analyzed with respect to light-emitting and other optical phenomena. The described embodiments allow collection of WRARCL data more efficiently and with significantly fewer aberrations than existing systems.
US11764015B2

An electromagnetic relay includes a first fixed terminal, a second fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a movable member, a contact spring, and an electromagnet block. The movable member is configured to move in a moving direction including a first direction and a second direction. The contact spring biases the movable contact piece in the first direction. The electromagnet block includes a movable iron piece and moves the movable member in the moving direction. The movable contact piece and the contact spring are disposed in the movable member by insertion from a side opposite to a side where the electromagnet block is located. The movable member includes a first member constituted by a single member. The first member includes a press portion to be pressed by the movable iron piece in accordance with rotation of the movable iron piece, and a support portion configured to support the movable contact piece.
US11764012B2

A gas circuit breaker includes a first arc contactor electrically connected to a first lead-out conductor, a cylindrical guide portion provided on a second lead-out conductor side, a trigger electrode arranged to be movable between the first arc contactor and the guide portion, and igniting an arc along with a movement in a first half of a current breaking action, a compression chamber being formed by a cylinder having an outer wall and an inner wall both formed in a cylindrical shape, and a piston sliding between the outer wall and the inner wall, and an insulation nozzle guiding the arc-extinguishing gas to an arc ignited at the first arc contactor. The insulation nozzle is formed integrally with the inner wall of the cylinder.
US11764011B2

A current interrupter system has a series arrangement of at least two interrupter units. At least one of the interrupter units is a vacuum tube, and the at least two interrupter units are mechanically connected to a drive system. The drive system has a drive assembly and a drive shaft. The drive shaft is a crank shaft equipped with at least two cranks. The at least two cranks have two crank strokes of different magnitudes.
US11764008B2

A circuit structure includes a light-transmissive insulation layer, a patterned conductive layer and an electronic component. The patterned conductive layer is disposed on the light-transmissive insulation layer. The electronic component is disposed on the patterned conductive layer and electrically connected to the patterned conductive layer.
US11764004B2

An illuminated keyswitch structure includes a base plate, a drive circuit board under the base plate, a spacer between the drive circuit board and the base plate, and a light-emitting part on the circuit board. The spacer has a through hole communicating with an opening of the base plate in a vertical direction. The sidewall of the through hole is opaque. The light-emitting part is located in the through hole, and falls within a projection of the opening in the vertical direction. The light-emitting part has a top surface that is lower than or equal to a bottom surface of the base plate in the vertical direction. The structure of the illuminated keyswitch structure around the light-emitting part can keep flat by the spacer. The spacer can prevent the light-emitting part from structurally entering the opening, avoiding structural interference between the light-emitting part and other components above the base plate.
US11764003B2

A hybrid supercapacitor where the charging state is indicated by color is demonstrated. The device comprises a molecular network that functions as both the battery-type electrode and the charge indicator. Related batteries, electrodes and devices, their processes of preparation and methods of use are provided as well.
US11763999B2

An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body having a porous structure, an anode lead partially embedded in the anode body, a dielectric layer formed on a surface of the anode body, and a cathode part that covers at least part of the dielectric layer. The anode body has a first region in which first particles sintered together and a second region in which second particles sintered together. The average particle diameter D1 of the first particles is smaller than the average particle diameter D2 of the second particles. The volume-based pore diameter distribution of the anode body with the dielectric layer has a first peak in a range of less than or equal to 0.5 μm in pore diameter, and a second peak in a range of more than 0.5 μm in pore diameter.
US11763988B2

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers which are stacked and internal electrode layers which are stacked, and external electrodes, each connected to the internal electrode layers. The external electrodes each include a conductive resin layer and a plated layer on the conductive resin layer. The conductive resin layer includes a resin portion, conductive fillers dispersed in the resin portion, and metal particles dispersed unevenly in a distribution differing from that of the conductive fillers in the conductive resin layer. An abundance ratio of the metal particles to the resin portion is higher on a side of the plated layer of the conductive resin layer than on a side of the conductive resin layer close to the multilayer body.
US11763986B2

An electronic component includes a capacitor body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes, and a first to sixth surfaces, the first and the second internal electrodes being exposed through the third and the fourth surfaces, respectively; first and second external electrodes respectively extending from the third and fourth surfaces of the body to a portion of the first surface and respectively connected to the first and second internal electrodes; a shielding layer comprising a cap portion disposed on the second surface of the capacitor body and a side wall portion disposed on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth surfaces of the capacitor body; and an insulating layer disposed between the capacitor body and the shielding layer. A lower portion of the capacitor body is exposed from the insulating layer and the shielding layer.
US11763985B2

A method of manufacturing a coil component includes arranging a plurality of coil conductors that is a wound body of a conductive wire, and each has opposing first and second surfaces, in a winding axis direction on a surface of an adhesive layer in contact with the first surface, manufacturing a processed body by placing a first magnetic sheet including a first metal magnetic particle and a first resin on a side of the second surface of each of the coil conductors and performing press processing on the first magnetic sheet, manufacturing an aggregate base body by peeling the processed body from the adhesive layer, placing a second magnetic sheet including a second metal magnetic particle and a second resin on a side of the first surface of each coil conductor, and press processing the second magnetic sheet, and manufacturing a body by individualizing the aggregate base body.
US11763980B2

A coil component in which a crack is rarely generated around a coil conductor layer. The coil component includes an element body; and a coil provided in the element body and spirally wound along a first direction. The coil has a plurality of coil conductor layers stacked along the first direction. The element body has a vicinity area located in a vicinity of each of the coil conductor layers, and has a non-vicinity area other than the vicinity area. The vicinity area has a pore area rate less than a pore area rate in at least a part of the non-vicinity area.
US11763979B2

A coil component 1 includes a base body 10 having a mounting surface 10b, a coil conductor 25 wound around a coil axis X through a plurality of layers in the base body 10, where the coil conductor 25 has a first end 25a and a second end 25b, external electrodes 21 and 22 provided on the mounting surface 10b, a lead-out conductor 26 connecting the first end 25a of the coil conductor 25 and the external electrode 21, and a lead-out conductor 27 connecting the second end 25b of the coil conductor 25 and the external electrode 22. At least a portion of the lead-out conductor 26 is positioned within a first region R1 inside the coil conductor 25 in a radial direction when seen in a direction of the coil axis X.
US11763977B2

An inductor core includes a tubular magnetic material body formed of a magnetic material. The magnetic material body includes an inclined portion including an inclined surface which constitutes a peripheral surface of a truncated cone having an outer diameter that increases from one end toward the other end of the tubular magnetic material body; a straight trunk portion which is disposed coaxially with the inclined portion and includes an outer peripheral surface which constitutes a peripheral surface of a cylindrical body which extends from the other end toward the one end and a flange portion which is provided between the inclined portion and the straight trunk portion and connects the inclined portion and the straight trunk portion. An outer peripheral surface of the flange portion has an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the inclined portion and an outer diameter of the straight trunk portion.
US11763974B2

An Isolating Transmission Line Transformer (ITLT) for use in a data communications system is provided, the transformer comprising: a substantially planar substrate formed of electrically insulative material having opposed first and second surfaces; a first port formed of two separate terminals provided at one part of the substrate; a second port formed of two separate terminals provided at a second part of the substrate; a first conductor connected in series to the first port and arranged as a single loop; a second conductor which is electrically isolated from the first conductor and connected in series to the second port, the second conductor being arranged as a single loop in a substantially opposite orientation to the first conductor; wherein the first and second ports and at least part of the first and second conductors are provided on the substrate surface (s); and a core arranged between the first and second ports to cover the majority of the first and second conductors.
US11763969B2

A soft magnetic metal powder having soft magnetic metal particles including Fe, wherein a surface of the soft magnetic metal particle is covered by a coating part, the coating part has a first coating part and a second coating part in this order from the surface of the soft magnetic metal particle towards outside, the first coating part includes oxides of Fe as a main component, the second coating part includes a compound of at least one element selected from the group consisting of P, Si, Bi, and Zn, and a ratio of trivalent Fe atom among Fe atoms of oxides of Fe included in the first coating part is 50% or more.
US11763960B2

A wire harness includes a first electric wire member including a first flexible wire and a hard wire electrically connected to the first flexible wire, a second electric wire member including a second flexible wire, and a tubular member through which the first and second electric wire members extend. The wire harness also includes a tubular holder that is attached to a longitudinal end portion of the tubular member and holds the first and second electric wire members therein. The holder has a first housing recess that is located in an inner surface of the holder and houses the second electric wire member.
US11763959B2

The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide electro-conductive particles and a signal-transmitting connector having same, wherein the electro-conductive particles are improved to prevent the phenomenon of irregular scrub between the electro-conductive particles and to have improved signal delivery characteristics. Electro-conductive particles according to the present disclosure are provided on a signal-transmitting connector having multiple electroconductive portions supported by an insulating portion made of an elastic insulating material to be spaced apart from each other such that the signal-transmitting connector can be connected to an electronic component and can transmit electric signals.
US11763956B1

An optical trap for laser cooling and trapping atoms. Three Z pairs of laser beams are directed to cross in a vacuum chamber at a common intersection volume, wherein each pair is formed by two counterpropagating beams. Rather than having a mutually orthogonal arrangement in which each beam pair forms an angle χ of 45° to a reference axis, z, these angles are instead between 5°≤χ≤40°. Moreover, in each beam pair, the counterpropagating beams are not precisely aligned in a common path, as in a conventional magneto-optical trap, but are slightly misaligned by respective misalignement angles [α, β, κ] of typically 0.1° to 2°. The misalignment angles and beam widths are however selected so that a common intersection volume for all six beams is maintained This provides an all-optical trap in which laser cooling and trapping of atoms takes place without a magnetic field being present.
US11763954B2

An integrated passive cooling containment structure for a nuclear reactor includes a concentric arrangement of an inner steel cylindrical shell and an outer steel cylindrical shell that define both a lateral boundary of a containment environment of the nuclear reactor that is configured to accommodate a nuclear reactor and an annular gap space between the inner and outer steel cylindrical shells, a concrete donut structure at a bottom of the annular gap space, and a plurality of concrete columns spaced apart azimuthally around a circumference of the annular gap and extending in parallel from a top surface of the concrete donut structure to a top of the annular gap space. The outer and inner steel cylindrical shells and the concrete donut structure at least partially define one or more coolant channels extending through the annular gap space.
US11763949B1

An emergency medical treatment system is provided that can be used in connection with providing prehospital medical treatment to a patient. The system includes a patient data display device programmed to receive and display data associated with the patient; an environmental assessment device configured to capture visual, aural, or other ambient environmental data associated with an emergency treatment site associated with the patient; a patient monitoring device configured to be positioned on the patient and having multiple sensors programmed to collect physiological data or vitals data associated with the patient; and a patient data processing device configured with a speech-to-text module. Rules-based or machine learning based algorithm modules can be provided for generating alerts or making treatment option recommendations in connection with the patient data collected and displayed on the patient display device.
US11763941B2

Systems, devices, and methods are provided that enable the revision of RF command handling software stored in ROM, and that enable to supplementation of RF command handling software stored in ROM. Examples of the systems, devices, and methods make use of a lookup data structure stored within writable non-volatile memory.
US11763940B2

A medical data communication system including: at least one medical device; at least one wireless access point; and a central computer; wherein the at least one wireless access point and the central computer are coupled via a network; the at least one medical device comprises a logic module and a transmit/receive module coupled thereto; the transmit/receive module and the at least one wireless access point are configured to establish a wireless data link at least intermittently; and the logic module comprises at least one input interface to receive data, the logic module being configured to transmit the received data via the transmit/receive module and via the wireless data link to the access point.
US11763935B2

A care system for predicting bed exit and suitable for a frame supporting a patient is provided. The care system includes a boundary-crossing detection system, a location sensing system, and a control circuit. The boundary-crossing detection system is coupled with the frame. The location sensing system is coupled with the frame, and is for obtaining relative position information between the patient and the frame. The control circuit is for data communicating with the boundary-crossing detection system and the location sensing system, and is for accessing care data defining multiple bed-exit behaviors. When one of following situations occurs, the control circuit transmits a warning signal: (1) the control circuit determines that, according to the relative position information and the care data, a current behavior of the patient corresponds to one of the multiple bed-exit behaviors; and (2) the boundary-crossing detection system senses that an object is passing through.
US11763921B2

A computing device arrangement (20) for receiving fetal monitoring data from a fetal monitoring system is disclosed. The computing device arrangement comprises a display device (30) arranged to display the fetal monitoring data, a touchscreen device (32) and a processor arrangement (24) communicatively coupled to the display device and the touchscreen device. The processor arrangement is arranged to receive the fetal monitoring data from the fetal monitoring system, control the display device to display the fetal monitoring data, receive a freeform input (36) in a region of the touchscreen device from the touchscreen device; modify the fetal monitoring data by annotating a displayed region (34) of the fetal monitoring data with the freeform input, said displayed region corresponding to the region of the touchscreen device; and generate an output of the modified fetal monitoring data for storage in a data storage device (28). Also disclosed are a fetal monitoring system including such a computing device arrangement and a method of generating freeform annotations with such a computing device arrangement.
US11763918B2

Method and apparatus for the coding and selective access of compressed genomic sequence data produced by genomic sequencing machines. The coding process is based on aligning sequence reads with respect to pre-existing or constructed reference sequences, on classifying and coding the sequence reads by means of sets of descriptors, and further partitioning the descriptor sets into access units of different types. Efficient selective access to specific genomic regions with the guarantee of retrieving all sequence reads mapped to those regions, is provided by: signaling the type of data mapping configuration used to store or transmit the descriptor sets, determining the minimum number of access units that need to be retrieved and decoded to access a genomic region, providing a master index table that contain all information for optimizing the data access process.
US11763916B1

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using machine learning models for plant biotechnology. One of the methods includes obtaining a network input comprising an image depicting a plurality of plant cells or regions of plant tissue; processing the network input using a machine learning model to obtain an identification of one or more particular biotechnologically-modifiable plant cells or one or more particular biotechnologically-modifiable regions of the plant tissue; excising or delineating the one or more identified plant cells or the one or more identified regions of the plant tissue; and delivering exogenous material to the excised or delineated plant cells or regions of plant tissue.
US11763914B2

A first sequence of operations corresponding to an error recovery process of a memory sub-system is determined. A value corresponding to an operating characteristic of a memory sub-system is determined, the operating characteristic corresponding to execution of a first sequence of operations of an error recovery process. A determination is made that the value satisfies a condition. In response to the value satisfying the first condition, a second sequence of operations corresponding to the error recovery process is executed.
US11763910B2

Memory devices may perform read operations and write operations with different bit error correction rates to satisfy a bit error correction rate. However, improving the bit error correction rate of the memory device using a single type of read command and/or write commands may result in longer read and write commands. Moreover, using longer read and write commands may result in undesirable higher memory power consumption and may reduce memory throughput. Accordingly, memory operations are described that may use combination of commands with increased bit error correction capability and reduced bit error correction capability. For example, the read operations may use multiple (e.g., at least two) sets or groupings of read commands and the write operations may use multiple (e.g., at least two) sets or groupings of write commands.
US11763909B2

A method for operating a memory includes: receiving a first write command and a first write address; receiving first write data a portion of which is masked; reading first read data and a first read error correction code from a region selected based on the first write address in a cell array; detecting and correcting an error in the first read data based on the first read error correction code to produce error-corrected first read data; generating first new write data by replacing the masked portion of the first write data with a portion of the error-corrected first read data; generating a first write error correction code based on the first new write data; and writing the first new write data and the first write error correction code into the region selected based on the first write address in response to the detecting of the error.
US11763906B2

Methods, systems, and devices for degradation signaling for a memory device are described. In one example, a method in accordance with the described techniques may include monitoring, at a memory device, an operational characteristic of the memory device. For example, the threshold voltage of one or more transistors within the memory device may be monitored. The memory device may identify a degradation of the memory device based at least in part on the monitored operational characteristic. Based on identifying the degradation, the memory device may signal, to a host device, an indication of the degradation of the memory device.
US11763904B2

A method of adjusting operating conditions includes: a substrate; first conductive layers; a first semiconductor layers facing the first conductive layers; a second semiconductor layer connected to the first semiconductor layers; and an electric charge accumulating layer disposed between the first conductive layers and the first semiconductor layers. At a predetermined timing of a program operation, the second conductive layer which is one of the first conductive layers is supplied with a program voltage or a write pass voltage. The method executes: a first operation that supplies the second conductive layer with the write pass voltage and supplies a third conductive layer which is one of the plurality of first conductive layers with the program voltage; and a second operation that supplies the second conductive layer with a verify voltage and supplies the third conductive layer with a voltage.
US11763903B2

A nonvolatile memory device includes; a memory cell array including a meta data region storing chip-level information, control logic identifying a target cell in response to a command, machine learning (ML) logic inferring an optimum parameter based on the chip-level information and physical information associated with the target cell applied as inputs to an artificial neural network model, and a buffer memory configured to store weight parameters of the artificial neural network model.
US11763902B2

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. Each memory cell is configured to store a piece of N-bits data in one of 2N levels, where N is an integer greater than 1. The level corresponds to one of 2N pieces of N-bits data. The peripheral circuit is configured to program, in a first pass, a row of target memory cells, such that each target memory cell is programmed into one of K intermediate levels based on the corresponding piece of N-bits data, wherein 2N-1
US11763901B2

A method of detecting, by a nonvolatile memory system, a defective memory cell block from among memory cell blocks, includes performing, after performing an erase operation, a read operation on at least some memory cells included in a target memory cell block based on an off-cell detection voltage that is different from a read reference voltage that distinguishes an off-cell on which no data is written from an on-cell on which data is written; counting a number of hard off-cells having a higher threshold voltage than the off-cell detection voltage from among the memory cells based on a result of performing the read operation; and identifying whether the target memory cell block is a defective memory cell block based on the number of counted hard off-cells.
US11763900B2

A system includes a memory component and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory component, to send a read command to the memory component while a program or erase operation being executed by the memory component is suspended. The processing device, operatively coupled with the memory component, can then send an auto resume command to the memory component to automatically resume execution of the program or erase operation after the read command is executed.
US11763894B2

A method of operating a non-volatile memory device includes performing a first sensing operation on the non-volatile memory device during a first sensing time including a first section, a second section, and a third section. The performing of the first sensing operation includes applying a first voltage level, which is variable according to a first target voltage level, to a selected word line in the first section, applying a second voltage level, which is different from the first voltage level, to the selected word line in the second section, and applying the first target voltage level, which is different from the second voltage level, to the selected word line in the third section. The first voltage level becomes greater as the first target voltage level becomes greater.
US11763889B2

Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming such apparatuses. One of the apparatus includes first memory cells located in different levels in a first portion of the apparatus, second memory cells located in different levels in a second portion of the apparatus, a switch located in a third portion of the apparatus between the first and second portions, first and second control gates to access the first and second memory cells, an additional control gate located between the first and second control gates to control the switch, a first conductive structure having a thickness and extending perpendicular to the levels in the first portion of the apparatus, a first dielectric structure between the first conductive structure and charge-storage portions of the first memory cells, a second dielectric structure having a second thickness between the second conductive structure and a sidewall of the additional control gate, the second thickness being greater than the first thickness.
US11763883B2

According to one embodiment, three bits stored in one memory cell of a nonvolatile memory correspond to three pages. In first page writing, a threshold voltage becomes within a first or second region base on a bit value. In second page writing, if being within the first region, it becomes within the first or fourth region; and if being within the second region, it becomes within the second or third region. In the third page writing, if being within the first region, it becomes within the first or sixth region; if being within the second region, it becomes within the second or seventh region; if being within the third region, it becomes within the third or eighth region; and if being within the fourth region, it becomes within the fourth or fifth region.
US11763880B2

Various implementations described herein are related to a device having memory architecture having multiple bitcell arrays. The device may include column multiplexer circuitry coupled to the memory architecture via multiple bitlines for read access operations. The column multiplexer circuitry may perform read access operations in the multiple bitcell arrays via the bitlines based on a sense amplifier enable signal and a read multiplexer signal. The device may include control circuitry that provides the read multiplexer signal to the column multiplexer circuitry based on a clock signal and the sense amplifier enable signal so that the column multiplexer circuitry is able to perform the read access operations.
US11763872B2

A memory architecture for 3-dimensional thyristor cell arrays is disclosed. Thyristor memory cells are connected in a 3-dimensional cross-point array to form a bit line cluster. The bit line clusters are connected in parallel to sense amplifier and write circuits through multiplexer/demultiplexer circuits. Control circuits select one of the bit line clusters during a read or write operation while the non-selected bit line clusters are not activated to avoid disturbs and power consumption in the non-selected bit line clusters. The bit line clusters, multiplexer/demultiplexer circuits, and sense amplifier and write circuits from a memory array tile (MAT).
US11763868B2

A sub-wordline driver for a semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of first active regions spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in each of a first direction and a second direction within a first region and a main wordline formed to traverse the plurality of first active regions by extending in the first direction. The main wordline includes a first line formed to extend in the first direction, a second line formed to extend in the first direction, and configured to be spaced apart from the first line by a predetermined distance in the second direction, and a connection line configured to interconnect the first line and the second line in the second direction at an end portion of the first region.
US11763855B2

Methods and apparatuses are provided for aligning read data in a stacked semiconductor device. An example apparatus includes a stacked semiconductor device comprising stacked first and second die. The stacked semiconductor device includes a first path having a first align (first die) and second align (second die) circuits for providing read data from the second die and a second path having a first replica align (first die) and second replica align (second die) circuits. During a timing align operation, a first control circuit sets the first align and replica align circuits to a first delay value based on a propagation delay of a clock signal through the second replica align circuit. After setting of the first delay value, a second control circuit sets the second align and replica align circuits to a second delay value based on a difference in propagation delays through the first and second replica align circuits.
US11763848B2

Systems and methods are described to identify jump points indicative of potential time points from which to resume consumption of the media asset in response to receiving a request to skip a portion of a media asset being consumed. The jump points include a first jump point identified based on a content viewing profile and a second jump point identified based on a scene information associated with the media asset. A preview image is displayed at each of the identified jump points. Systems and methods are also described to pause the skipping operation at the identified jump points and provide a preview at the respective jump points. Systems and method are further described to identify jump points based on analysis of the portion of the media asset being skipped.
US11763841B2

A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, the tunnel barrier layer is expressed by a chemical formula of AB2Ox, and has a spinel structure in which cations are arranged in a disordered manner, A represents a divalent cation that is either Mg or Zn, and B represents a trivalent cation that includes a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, and In.
US11763839B2

According to one embodiment, a voice activity detection apparatus comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit calculates an acoustic feature based on an acoustic signal; calculates a non-acoustic feature based on a non-acoustic signal; calculates a correlation coefficient based on the acoustic feature and the non-acoustic feature; and detects a voice section and/or a non-voice section based on a comparison of the correlation coefficient with a threshold, the voice section being a time section in which voice is presence, the non-voice section being a time section in which voice is absence.
US11763836B2

Disclosed is a hierarchical generated audio detection system, comprising an audio preprocessing module, a CQCC feature extraction module, a LFCC feature extraction module, a first-stage lightweight coarse-level detection model and a second-stage fine-level deep identification model; the audio preprocessing module preprocesses collected audio or video data to obtain an audio clip with a length not exceeding the limit; inputting the audio clip into CQCC feature extraction module and LFCC feature extraction module respectively to obtain CQCC feature and LFCC feature; inputting CQCC feature or LFCC feature into the first-stage lightweight coarse-level detection model for first-stage screening to screen out the first-stage real audio and the first-stage generated audio; inputting the CQCC feature or LFCC feature of the first-stage generated audio into the second-stage fine-level deep identification model to identify the second-stage real audio and the second-stage generated audio, and the second-stage generated audio is identified as generated audio.
US11763833B2

Disclosed are a method, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium for reducing crosstalk when performing automatic speech translation between at least two users speaking different languages. The method for reducing crosstalk includes receiving a signal inputted to an out-ear microphone of a first user, wherein the first user is wearing a headset equipped with an in-ear microphone and the out-ear microphone and the signal includes a voice signal A of the first user and a voice signal b of a second user, receiving a voice signal Binear inputted to an in-ear microphone of the second user, wherein the second user is wearing a headset equipped with the in-ear microphone and an out-ear microphone, and removing the voice signal b of the second user from the signal A+b inputted to the out-ear microphone of the first user, based on the voice signal Binear inputted to the in-ear microphone of the second user.
US11763827B2

A method and device for extracting information from acoustic signals receives acoustic signals by a microphone, processes them in an analog front-end circuit, converts the processed signals from the analog front-end circuit to digital signals by sampling at a rate of less than 1 kHz or more preferably less than 500 kHz; and processes the digital signals by a digital back-end classifier circuit. The analog front-end processing decomposes the received signals into frequency components using a bank of analog N-path bandpass filters having different subband center frequencies.
US11763823B2

A system and a method are disclosed for identifying a subjectively interesting moment in a transcript. In an embodiment, a device receives a transcription of a conversation, and identifies a participant of the conversation. The device accesses a machine learning model corresponding to the participant, and applies, as input to the machine learning model, the transcription. The device receives as output from the machine learning model a portion of the transcription having relevance to the participant, and generates for display, to the participant, information pertaining to the portion.
US11763820B2

A monitoring method and system based on a magnetic field of a loudspeaker are provided. This method includes: collecting a magnetic field signal near the loudspeaker, and converting the magnetic field signal into a magnetic field digital signal; converting the magnetic field digital signal into a speech signal and removing an interference from the speech signal to obtain a filtered speech signal; removing noise in the speech signal, and performing short-time inverse Fourier transform on a speech power spectrum to obtain a denoised speech signal; equalizing response of the denoised speech signal to each frequency to convert the speech signal into an intelligible speech audio signal; and recognizing the speech audio signal and converting the same into a text content.
US11763818B2

A messaging system, which hosts a backend service for an associated messaging client, includes a voice chat system that provides voice chat functionality that enables users to dictate their messages, while delivering the resulting message to the intended recipient as both the associated audio and text content. When a user at a sender client device begins dictating a voice message, the voice chat system starts converting the received audio stream into text and, also, starts communicating the audio content together with the generated text to the recipient client device. The recipient user can listen to the voice message and read the text generated from the audio in real time. It is also possible for the recipient user to consume the voice message in a textual form only, if the sound at the client device is undesirable.
US11763817B2

Methods, systems, and media for connecting an IoT device to a call are provided. In some embodiments, a method is provided, the method comprising: establishing, at a first end-point device, a telecommunication channel with a second end-point device; subsequent to establishing the telecommunication channel, and prior to a termination of the telecommunication channel, detecting, using the first end-point device, a voice command that includes a keyword; and in response to detecting the voice command, causing information associated with an IoT device that corresponds to the keyword to be transmitted to the second end-point device.
US11763814B2

Digitized audio command is decoded to generate audio features. An in-domain confidence score is calculated for a model trained by a limited set of peripheral device commands. An out-domain confidence score is calculated for a model trained without the peripheral device commands. The best score determines whether to process the audio locally or at a remote server. In some embodiments, a likelihood ratio (LR) is calculated of the in-domain and out-domain confidence scores. Based on the likelihood ratio, a locally decoded audio command is performed, or the audio features are sent to a remote server for processing to determine the audio command.
US11763811B2

Typical graphical user interfaces and predefined data fields limit the interaction between a person and a computing system. An oral communication device and a data enablement platform are provided for ingesting oral conversational data from people, and using machine learning to provide intelligence. At the front end, an oral conversational bot, or chatbot, interacts with a user. On the backend, the data enablement platform has a computing architecture that ingests data from various external data sources as well as data from internal applications and databases. These data and algorithms are applied to surface new data, identify trends, provide recommendations, infer new understanding, predict actions and events, and automatically act on this computed information. The chatbot then provides audio data that reflects the information computed by the data enablement platform. The system and the devices, for example, are adaptable to various industries.
US11763809B1

A speech-processing system may provide access to multiple virtual assistants via one or more voice-controlled devices. Each assistant may leverage language processing and language generation features of the speech-processing system, while handling different commands and/or providing access to different back applications. Each assistant may be associated with its own voice and/or speech style, and thus be perceived as having a particular “personality.” In some situations, a user may invoke a first assistant, e.g., with a wakeword or button press, and provide a command that the speech-processing system may determine will be better handled by a second assistant. The speech-processing system may thus call on a component to generate plan data describing one or more operations for the speech-processing system to execute to handoff the command to the second assistant and provide the user with indications of which assistant will handle the command.
US11763808B2

Systems and methods for temporarily associating user accounts with voice-enabled devices are disclosed. A voice-enabled device, which may be associated with a default account, may be situated in an environment, such as a hotel room. A user may desire to utilize the voice-enabled device to perform one or more actions. In examples, some or all of the actions may require the use of a system resource not available to the default account. In these examples, the user may provide contact information to be used to send a message to personal device of the user to acquire user account information. Upon receipt of such information, the user account may be temporarily associated with the voice-enabled device, and may be dissociated from the voice-enabled device upon the lapse of a period of time and/or occurrence of a dissociation event.
US11763804B2

A method of leveraging a dialogue history of a conversational computing interface to execute an updated dialogue plan. The method comprises maintaining an annotated dialogue history of the conversational computing interface. The annotated dialogue history includes a plurality of traced steps defining a data-flow including input data used to execute a context-dependent operation and output data recorded from a previous execution of the context-dependent operation. The method further comprises recognizing an updated dialogue plan including a prefix of executable steps and an updated executable step following the prefix. The method further comprises automatically computer-recognizing that the prefix of executable steps of the updated dialogue plan matches a corresponding prefix of traced steps in the annotated dialogue history. The method further comprises re-using the data-flow from the prefix of traced steps in the annotated dialogue history to automatically determine input data of the updated executable step.
US11763802B2

A method of obtaining high accuracy urination information is proposed. There may be provided the method of obtaining the urination information, wherein sound data is divided into a plurality of windows, segmented target data corresponding to respective windows is obtained from the sound data, segmented classification data classifying urination sections or non-urination sections and segmented urine flow rate data are obtained by using the obtained segmented target data, and urination data is obtained by using the obtained segmented classification data and the segmented urine flow rate data.
US11763799B2

An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a microphone; a memory configured to store a text-to-speech (TTS) model and a plurality of evaluation texts; and a processor configured to: obtain a first reference vector of a user speech spoken by a user based the user speech being received through the microphone, generate a plurality of candidate reference vectors based on the first reference vector, obtain a plurality of synthesized sounds by inputting the plurality of candidate reference vectors and the plurality of evaluation texts to the TTS model, identify at least one synthesized sound of the plurality of synthesized sounds based on a similarity between characteristics of the plurality of synthesized sounds and the user speech, and store a second reference vector of the at least one synthesized sound in the memory as a reference vector corresponding to the user for the TTS model.
US11763797B2

A speech model includes a sub-model corresponding to a vocal attribute. The speech model generates an output waveform using a sample model, which receives text data, and a conditioning model, which receives text metadata and produces a prosody output for use by the sample model. If, during training or runtime, a different vocal attribute is desired or needed, the sub-model is re-trained or switched to a different sub-model corresponding to the different vocal attribute.
US11763795B2

A vehicle sound generation device includes a controller that generates a sound signal representing a sound and sets the localization of the sound, and left and right front speakers and left and right rear speakers that output sounds corresponding to the sound signals for which localization has been set by the controller, in which the controller sets the localization of the sounds based on the change amounts (such as the pitch rate, the torque change amount, the roll rate, and steering angular speed) per unit time of the physical quantities correlated with a driving operation by the driver of the vehicle so that the sound image of at least part (low frequency component) of frequency components of the sound is located toward the wheel where the ground load is increasing according to the driving operation.
US11763789B2

A silencer comprises a main air guide tube provided with an air guide channel; the main air guide tube comprises an air inlet end and an air outlet end; both ends of an assistant air guide tube are connected with an outer wall of the main air guide tube, and the assistant air guide tube comprises a guide section and a reflux section; the guide section is provided with an air inlet, and the air inlet is communicated with the air guide channel; the reflux section is provided with an air outlet, and the air outlet is communicated with the air guide channel.
US11763788B2

A communication device for an electronic musical instrument includes a battery; an input terminal that is connected to a MIDI output terminal of the electronic musical instrument; an output terminal that is connected to a MIDI input terminal of the electronic musical instrument; a control unit that transmits and receives various kinds of electronic information between the electronic musical instrument and the other electronic instrument via the input terminal and the output terminal; and a switching unit that switches between taking in electric power to be supplied to the control unit through a MIDI signal line from the electronic musical instrument via the input terminal and taking in the electric power from the battery in accordance with a communication state of the control unit.
US11763786B2

According to the invention, a musical instrument having a device for tuning tuning bodies is disclosed, a) having at least (12) mechanical tuning elements or tuning element systems, b) wherein the (12) mechanical tuning elements or tuning element systems represent the (12) chromatic notes of an octave, c) wherein in each case a tuning element or tuning element system is mechanically operatively connected to at least one tuning body, d) wherein each tuning element or tuning element system has exclusively octave-related tuning bodies associated with it, e) wherein during tuning of the musical instrument the tuning elements or tuning element systems are actuatable or actuated independently of one another, wherein the tuning elements are embodied as tuning levers and/or the tuning element systems are embodied as tuning lever systems, wherein a tuning lever system has at least two tuning levers that have differently located pivots, wherein the tuning levers are slidingly connected to one another by means of adjacent pivots, and wherein the geometric arrangement of the operative connections of the octave-related tuning bodies and the associated tuning elements in relation to one another is configured in the manner of an intercept theorem.
US11763782B2

The object of the invention is a bowed instrument comprising a body (2) and a neck (1), the upper face of the body (2) being the top plate (4), at the bottom of which a tailpiece is disposed secured to the bottom of the instrument, the strings (14) being disposed in a tensioned state, supported from below by a bridge, between the tailpiece and the scroll (8) of the neck (1). The bowed instrument according to the invention comprises a tailpiece (16) that is adapted to retain the bottom portion of the strings (14), has an arcuate triangular shape, has an asymmetrically shaped body made of a multilayered material, and is rounded along the periphery of its body, wherein bores (20) adapted for receiving the strings (14) are disposed at the bottom corner (a) and along the arced portion (9) extending between the two upper corners (b, c) thereof.
US11763779B1

A head-mounted device may have a left display and a right display that provide respective left and right images. Left and right optical combiner systems may be configured to pass real-world light to left and right eye boxes while directing the left and right images respectively to the left and right eye boxes. Misalignment of the left and right images with respect to the left and right eye boxes may be detected using gaze tracking systems, using cameras such as front-facing cameras in conjunction with a database of known real-world object properties, using visual inertial odometry systems formed from cameras and inertial measurement units, or using one or more sensors in a portable head-mounted device case or other item with a receptacle configured to receive a head-mounted device. Compensating adjustments may be made to the images based on the measured misalignment.
US11763776B1

A display device includes a display panel and a processor. The processor is coupled to the display panel. The processor is configured to generate first output data according to first input data and a first compensation value, generate a stress reduction value and a compensation reduction value according to the first input data, calculate a final stress value according to the first output data, at least one first operating factor, and the stress reduction value, calculate a second compensation value according to the final stress value and the compensation reduction value, and output second output data according to second input data, the second compensation value, and at least one second operating factor. The display panel receives the second output data to display according to the second output data.
US11763773B2

A computer device and a multi-computer system are provided. The computer device includes a central processing unit (CPU), a wireless connection circuit, and a switch circuit. The CPU is coupled to a display to provide an enabling display signal to the display according to a hot plug detection signal provided from the display. The wireless connection circuit receives one of a wireless connection signal and a wireless disconnection signal from a wireless input device. The switch circuit is coupled between the display and the CPU and coupled to the wireless connection circuit. The switch circuit provides the hot plug detection signal to the CPU when the wireless connection circuit receives the wireless connection signal, and masks the hot plug detection signal from the CPU when the wireless connection circuit receives the wireless disconnection signal.
US11763769B2

The present application provides a GOA device and a gate driving circuit. The GOA device includes a pull-up control circuit, a bootstrap capacitor, a pull-up circuit, a pull-down circuit, and a pull-down holding circuit. The present application decreases a number of TFTs of the gate driving circuit and simplifies a structure of the gate driving circuit by multiplexing the bootstrap capacitor, the pull-down circuit, and the pull-down holding circuit.
US11763763B2

An electrophoretic display device and a driving method for electrophoretic display device are provided. The electrophoretic display device includes an electrophoretic display panel, a network module, a processor and an electrophoretic display driver. The network module is configured to transmit a panel information of the electrophoretic display panel to a web application programming interface. The processor is coupled to the electrophoretic panel and the network module. The processor is configured to receive an image information packet corresponding to the panel information via the web application programming interface. The electrophoretic display driver is coupled to the processor and the electrophoretic display panel. The processor makes the electrophoretic display driver drive the electrophoretic display panel to display an image information according to the image information packet.
US11763761B2

An electronic device with auxiliary lighting function and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a first body, a light-emitting module, and a processing module. The first body has a first surface. The light-emitting module is located on the first surface of the first body. The processing module is coupled to the light-emitting module, and is used to determine an operation of a first power supply mode or a second power supply mode according to a current power supply state. When the processing module is operated in the first power supply mode, the processing module dynamically adjusts an auxiliary illumination light provided by the light-emitting module according to a battery power. When the processing module is operated in the second power supply mode, the processing module dynamically adjusts the auxiliary illumination light provided by the light-emitting module according to a sensing result.
US11763751B2

A display device includes a gate driving circuit and a driving circuit. The gate driving circuit outputs a clock signal. The driving circuit receives the clock signal for driving a display unit and comprises two transistors. Wherein one of the two transistors is an oxide transistor and the other one of the two transistors is a silicon transistor.
US11763735B2

An image display device includes a glass, a plurality of driving circuits disposed on the glass, and a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the driving circuits respectively. The plurality of light emitting elements corresponds to a plurality of pixels respectively. Each of the plurality of driving circuits is configured to provide a driving current to each of the plurality of light emitting elements and to control the driving current by a pulse amplitude modulation and a pulse width modulation.
US11763729B2

A method includes: obtaining a first frame synchronization signal, period between a trailing edge of a first pulse and a leading edge of a next first pulse being first time period corresponding to a first integer number of pulses of a first pixel clock signal; generating a synchronization calibration signal, a triggering edge of the second pulse being delayed compared to a trailing edge of a first pulse; generating a second frame synchronization signal, period between a triggering edge of the second pulse and a leading edge of a third pulse being second time period. When ratio of frequency of the second pixel clock signal to frequency of the first pixel clock signal is within threshold range, the second time period corresponds to a second integer number of pulses of the second pixel clock signal. The second integer is integer value of product of the first integer and ratio.
US11763728B2

There are provided an image display device, a display control method, and a cradle that are capable of adjusting display image quality with a simple configuration. An image display device according to the present embodiment includes a tablet terminal having a display, a cradle holding the tablet terminal, and an optical sensor provided on the cradle and capable of receiving display light from the display.
US11763727B2

The display method includes obtaining a target image showing a target region including a surface, displaying a simulation image on a display, the simulation image being obtained by superimposing a display image on the target image, the display image corresponding to an image to be projected by a projector on the surface, displaying the target image included in the simulation image on the display with a brightness based on first information which specifies a brightness of the target region, and displaying the display image included in the simulation image on the display with a brightness based on second information which specifies a brightness of the display image.
US11763724B2

A shift register unit, a method for driving a shift register unit, a gate drive circuit, and a display device are disclosed. A shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, and a first control circuit. The input circuit controls a level of a first node in response to an input signal. The output circuit outputs at least one clock signal of at least one clock signal terminal to at least one signal output terminal under the control of the level of the first node, and outputs a level of a second node to at least one of the at least one signal output terminal in the case where the first node is at a non-operating potential. The first control circuit controls the level of the second node in response to the level of the first node.
US11763722B1

Provided is a flip chip space pixel arrangement structure, a pixel multiplexing method and system, an apparatus and a storage medium. The pixel multiplexing method includes: equidistantly dividing, in rows and columns, an LED display screen into a plurality of first element sets and a plurality of second element sets; on the basis of a pixel acquisition algorithm, sampling a single frame of original image having high resolution into seven basic images having low resolution; on the basis of a determination strategy, formulating display orders of the basic images, the single frame of original image corresponding to three display orders, and each of the display orders corresponding to one or more of the basic images; and on the basis of the display orders, sequentially displaying each of the basic images in a single frame duration, to complete sub-pixel reconstruction of the flip chip space pixel arrangement structure.
US11763717B2

The present invention provides a drive-control method and control apparatus of display screens, and a display screen thereof, the method includes: determining a staged target gray-scale value of all sub-pixels in the currently scanned row, based on a current gray-scale value of each sub-pixel, the staged target gray-scale value and a pre-stored look-up table, determining the charging-discharging target count corresponding to each column channel in the current scan row, terminating the charging-discharging of the column channel, when the count of the counter is consistent with the target count corresponding to the charging or discharging of each column channel. The present invention in implementation not only has simple structure and a small scale circuit, but also low power consumption.
US11763711B2

A display apparatus can include a display area including pixel rows, the display area having an outer periphery including a curved section and a straight section; a non-display area surrounding the display area, the non-display area having an outer periphery including a curved section and a straight section; a gate driver disposed in the non-display area, the gate driver including gate blocks corresponding to the pixel rows; and a low potential power line disposed between the gate driver and the outer periphery of the non-display area, in which each of the gate blocks includes a plurality of stages.
US11763705B2

A flag demonstration apparatus which prevents flag furling is provided. The apparatus comprises a flagpole which further comprises a bottom portion and a top portion that removably fasten together and sandwich a lower swivel bracket. The apparatus also includes an upper bracket attached near the top of the top portion of the flagpole and is attached to at least one portion of a flag and the lower swivel bracket is attached to at least two portions of the flag. The lower swivel bracket allows the flag to rotate less than 360 degrees about the flagpole and also keeps at least a portion of the flag displayed, regardless of environmental conditions.
US11763699B1

Various examples described herein are directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for providing a tactile response. A document that includes visual data is received. Change data for the visual data that indicates changes in data values of the visual data from a previous time is received. The visual data is rendered. An indication that a section of the document is selected is received. The section includes a first visual data. A change of the first visual data is determined front the change data. A tactile response unit is controlled to provide a tactile response based on the change of the first visual data.
US11763697B2

A cue processor uses one or more sensors to obtain motion data for a user performing a physical task in an environment. A cueing law is based on a model determined from the motion data, for example a movement and skill model where the collected motion data are parsed into one or more movement units used to accomplish a range of outcomes. The cue processor generates a movement phase estimation to predict a movement phase and associated movement feature, and applies the cueing law to generate a cue signal. The cue signal is communicated to the user as a visual, audio or haptic stimulus, selected to target the feature for the user to achieve or improve a desired outcome.
US11763690B2

An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The controlling method according to an embodiment includes acquiring contents and storing the contents in a memory, identifying a first section of the contents related to a first behavior by analyzing the stored contents, outputting contents of the identified first section, acquiring a user image captured while the contents of the first section is output, identifying whether the first behavior is completed by analyzing the user image, and based on identifying that the user has completed the first behavior, outputting contents of a second section, the second section being a next section of the first section.
US11763689B2

Systems and methods are disclosure for using sensors to deliver educational content to vehicle users during critical events. One method comprises: receiving, by a first computing device having at least one processor and from a user device of a vehicle user via a wireless data connection, a notification of a critical event for a vehicle of the vehicle user and a vehicle identification of the vehicle; receiving, from the user device via the first wireless data connection, user input soliciting educational content to remedy the critical event; determining, based on the received user input, a first set of search parameters; for each of the search parameters in the first set of search parameters, selecting educational content for a first list of educational content from a second list of educational content; and displaying, on the user device, the first list of educational content based on the first set of search parameters.
US11763681B2

The present invention proposes an ECU and a lane departure warning system capable of improving safety of all traveling vehicles including a host vehicle by using an environment sensor to warn another vehicle about departure of the other vehicle from a lane. An ECU (13) detects the departure from the lane. The ECU (13) determines whether another vehicle (100) leaves the lane on the basis of a detection signal from an environment sensor (11), and visually or aurally warns the other vehicle (100) in the case where the other vehicle (100) leaves the lane.
US11763675B2

The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to perform an appropriate collision determination with respect to an obstacle on an inclined road. A result of an object recognition performed on the basis of an image captured by a camera, a result of an object recognition performed on the basis of a result of detection performed by a millimeter-wave radar, and a result of an object recognition performed on the basis of a result of detection performed by LiDAR are respectively detected; a result of the object recognition is selected depending on the environment around a vehicle; and whether there is a possibility of colliding with the object is determined on the basis of the selected result of the object recognition. The present disclosure is applicable to a vehicle-mounted system.
US11763671B2

The present invention relates to a stopper-type charging device and a driving method thereof, wherein the stopper-type charging device includes an emergency bell unit that is provided on a main body part of a stopper for a vehicle installed on a floor of a parking lot and operates to prevent crime in a surveillance blind spot in the parking lot, a light emitting unit that guides a vehicle parked in the parking lot to be parked in a parking section for charging, and operates as a flash to illuminate a periphery of the vehicle, and a sensor unit that detects a fire by detecting a flame of the vehicle being charged.
US11763670B2

A method of operating a vehicle, such as an autonomous vehicle, includes the steps of receiving a message from roadside infrastructure via an electronic receiver and providing, by a computer system in communication with said electronic receiver, instructions based on the message to automatically implement countermeasure behavior by a vehicle system. Additionally or alternatively, the method may include the steps of receiving a message from another vehicle via an electronic receiver and providing, by a computer system in communication with said electronic receiver, instructions based on the message to automatically implement countermeasure behavior by a vehicle system.
US11763667B2

A control device includes a control unit configured to execute controls of displaying, on a roadway, a first crosswalk toward a first side of a roadway and displaying, on the roadway, a second crosswalk toward a second side of the roadway, and concealing the first crosswalk from the first side toward the second side while a pedestrian is crossing the roadway from the first side to the second side through the first crosswalk and the second crosswalk and concealing the second crosswalk after the pedestrian has crossed the roadway. The second side is opposite to the first side.
US11763664B2

A programmable security system and method for protecting an item of merchandise includes a programming station, a programmable key and a security system. The programming station generates a security code and communicates the security code to a memory of the programmable key. The programmable key initially communicates the security code to a memory of the security device and subsequently operates the security device upon a matching of the security code in the memory of the security device with the security code in the memory of the programmable key. The programmable key may also transfer power via electrical contacts or inductive transfer from an internal battery to the security device to operate a lock mechanism. The security code may be communicated by wireless infrared (IR) systems, electrical contacts or inductive transfer. A timer inactivates the programmable key and/or the security device after a predetermine period of time. A counter inactivates the programmable key after a predetermined maximum number of activations.
US11763661B1

A vehicular safety device for monitoring the presence of a child or pet in a motorized vehicle. The device interfaces with the vehicle's power receptacle for detection of the on/off state of the vehicle. The operator is prompted to inform the device of the presence of the child or pet upon start of the engine of the vehicle through an auditory interface. When the engine of the vehicle is shut down, the device provides an audible reminder to the operator that a child or pet is present in the vehicle.
US11763658B2

A communicator in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a connector, a communication circuit, and a communication controller. The connector is electrically coupled to an electric working machine. The communication circuit performs wireless communication. The communication controller cyclically transmits operational information without specifying a recipient via the communication circuit in response to an operating mode of the communication controller being set to an operation-transmission mode. The operational information indicates an operating state of the electric working machine.
US11763654B2

A monitoring and signaling system is provided that may include at least one safety device for a vehicle which can be coupled to a seat for infants or to an item for the boot for pets or to a pet collar, configured to generate an output signal indicative of the presence of an infant or a pet on the seat or in the boot or of the fact that the pet wears the collar. The system may further include a first signaling device configured to emit first signals in sequence when the output signal indicates the presence of the infant or of the pet in the vehicle; and a second signaling device configured to emit second signals in sequence when coupled to the vehicle. The system may further include a mobile device configured to: receive pairs of signals each formed by a first and a second signal, make determinations based thereon, and generate, based on the detection, different monitoring signals.
US11763653B2

A method includes receiving first position data from at least one of a TOF sensor or a LIDAR. The first position data is representative of a position of a human within a hazardous environment. The method further includes receiving second position data associated with a plurality of wearable sensors associated with a plurality of personnel. The method further includes comparing the first position data to the second position data to identify a match between the first position data and the second position data. The method further includes sensing a signal to an alert device associated with the hazardous environment such that the alert device issues an alert in response to the first position data failings to match the second position data.
US11763652B2

There is provided a method of arranging a security alarm system on a window/door and framing. The system includes an object and a sensor which is capable of detecting the object within a predetermined range. The method includes positioning a first of the sensor and object on a first of the window/door and framing. The method includes opening the window/door to a threshold distance which facilitates ventilation and inhibits an intruder from passing through the window/door. The method includes positioning a second of the sensor and object along a second of the window/door and framing such that the sensor is able to detect the object as the window/door is opened up to but not past the threshold distance. There is also provided in combination, a window/door, framing extending about the window/door and a security alarm system coupled to the window/door and framing in the manner described above.
US11763651B2

Consistent with disclosed embodiments, systems, methods, and computer readable media for electronic security systems for retail establishments may be provided. Embodiments may include an electronic article surveillance (EAS) gate and at least one receiver configured to receive transmissions from wireless tags associated with products offered by a retail establishment. Embodiments may also include at least one processor configured to receive, from a device operated by a prospective purchaser, a tag ID associated with a specific product for prospective purchase; perform a lookup of the tag ID in a data structure to identify the specific product; initiate an electronic purchase transaction to debit an account associated with the prospective purchaser for purchase of the specific product; and disable an ability to initiate an alarm when the at least one receiver receives a transmission from a tag associated with the specific product in proximity to the EAS gate.
US11763650B2

Managing foreign RFID tags within a secured area involves use of a first RFID portal system to read tag data from an RFID tag present within a first portal zone. A processing device associated with the first RFID portal system is used to determine whether the RFID tag is entering the secured area. The determination is based on an evaluation of a direction of travel of the RFID tag through the first portal zone. Responsive to determining that the RFID tag is in fact entering the secured area, one or more operations are performed to cause a first tag value corresponding to the tag data to be added into a safe to exit (STE) list.
US11763646B2

A device including sensors and a processor. The sensors are configured to detect movements of a user. The processor is configured to categorize the movements of the user as a micro-movement or a macro-movement; quantify a number of the micro-movements; quantify a number of the macro-movements; determine based upon the number of micro-movements whether a body part of interest of a user is supported; and provide feedback to the user if the body part of interested is unsupported and continuing to monitor the body part of interest if the user is supported without providing any feedback.
US11763644B1

An emergency signaling system is disclosed. The system includes a receptacle and a painting device. The painting device is covered in a paint material and stored in the receptacle. The receptacle can be used to launch the painting device onto a surface, such as a roof, in the event that a user needs to signal a search and rescue team or anyone near their present location. The painting device, upon contact with a surface, creates a painted signal. The painted signal can have different shapes according to the shape of the painting device. The painting device can include weight members or flexible frame members to facilitate opening the painting device from a closed or folded configuration to a fully open configuration once the painting device has been launched from the receptacle.
US11763636B2

A system for peer-to-peer wagering on outcomes of a live sporting event. Users can select from a set of available wagers and set their own odds and terms, other users can then accept those odds and terms. The system may hold all involved user's money or credit in an escrow account until the actual outcome of the subject of the wager has been determined. Then the system handles the settlement of the wager, either directly or by communicating with a third party.
US11763633B2

A jackpot race component for a gaming system provided by an operator and played by a plurality of players includes a first timer for timing a time interval, the time interval having a start and an end time each being configured in response to an input by the operator. The first timer setting the start and latest end times of a race phase. A second timer initiates, in response to an input an accumulation phase during which a jackpot prize pot is accumulated. The accumulation phase starts at the same time as or after the beginning of the race phase. A random timer starts timing at or after the first timer at the start of the race phase and randomly triggers an end to the race phase and the accumulation phase before the latest end time set by the first timer. A pay-out phase occurs in response to the end of the race phase. The pay-out phase determining a manner of pay-out by assigning positions to the players, in response to an input, at the end of the race phase, and the gaming system paying out one or more prizes from the jackpot prize pot according to a predetermined pay-out schedule as a function of the manner of pay-out.
US11763631B2

A gaming system and method that provides one or more players with one or more pre-resumption opportunities prior to resuming the play of the skill-based game. The gaming system enables one or more players to affirmatively acknowledge, following a game play interruption, that they are ready to resume play of the skill-based game. Such an opportunity to indicate a readiness to resume the play of the skill-based game provides that the play of the skill-based game resumes when the player is ready and minimizes the affect of any game play interruption on the player's outcome of the skill-based game.
US11763630B2

A gaming machine is described herein. The gaming machine includes a primary display device, a player input interface, and a game controller. When executed by the game controller, the instructions cause the game controller to cause to be displayed a base game, identify a number of selected reels, and determine, for each reel, a reel symbol to be displayed after a spin of each reel. The instructions also cause the game controller to determine a game enhancement for the base game and cause to be displayed on each reel the reel symbol determined to be displayed on each reel. The instructions further cause the game controller to cause to be displayed an animation indicating the game enhancement will be provided, wherein the animation originates at a secondary display device and determine a game outcome based at least on the displayed reel symbols on each selected reel and the game enhancement.
US11763622B2

This application discloses a luggage vending machine, including a shelf, a communication controller and an electronic lock, the communication controller and the electronic lock are both installed on the shelf, and the communication controller and the electronic lock are electrically connected, the communication controller is used for Communicate and control the opening and closing of electronic locks used to lock luggage. The utility model has the following beneficial effects: by installing an electronic lock and a communication controller on the shelf, the electronic lock is used to lock the suitcase on the shelf, and at the same time, the communication controller is further used to control the opening and closing of the electronic lock. The automatic sale of luggage is convenient and fast.
US11763617B2

A gate for regulating access in a transit system is disclosed. The gate comprises a movable barrier, secured storage, an RFID card reader, a first processing unit that processes a set of digits from an RFID credential, generates and transmits a hash value of the set of digits, and transmits a first bin. The gate comprises a memory, having a higher capacity than the secured storage, and a second processing unit, which sends validity information for a plurality of second bins having larger number of digits than the first bin, the validity information indicates which of the plurality of second bins is valid, check if the hash value is member of first list. If the hash value is on the first list, opening of the movable barrier is regulated and if a second bin from the plurality of second bins corresponding to the RFID credential is invalid, opening is denied.
US11763612B2

A vehicle includes a plurality of controllers, a database in which priorities for switching to inactivation of the plurality of controllers are stored, and a main controller configured to identify whether a key of the vehicle is in off state, when the key of the vehicle is identified to be in off state, identify a communication state of the vehicle, when at least one communication state is identified among a first communication state, a second communication state, and a third communication state, select a controller corresponding to the identified communication state from the plurality of controllers, based on the identified communication state and the priorities stored in the database, the first communication state in which an active sate of communication being maintained due to a controller in error, the second communication state in which the active sate and an inactive state of communication being repeated due to the controller in error, the third communication state in which the active sate of communication being maintained due to a noise signal, and reset or cut off a power of the controller.
US11763611B2

The application discloses an electronic door lock with an unlocking monitoring function and a working method thereof, belonging to the technical field of intelligent locks, which comprises a lock body, a mechanical unlocking member connected to a deadbolt assembly, a main control board arranged in the lock body, and a micro switch electrically connected to the main control board. The mechanical unlocking member comprises a knob that is rotatably arranged on the lock body, and a paddle that is synchronously and coaxially driven by the knob. When the knob drives the deadbolt assembly to switch between the locked state and the unlocked state, the paddle can be rotated to trigger the micro switch. A wireless transmitting module for transmitting the trigger signal of the micro switch is integrated on the control board. The mechanical unlocking monitoring function is added.
US11763603B2

Certain aspects provide a method of generating a physical activity model, including: receiving, via a motion capture device, motion data corresponding to a plurality of key states associated with a physical activity sequence; for each respective key state in the plurality of key states: determining a plurality of joint positions associated with the respective key state; determining a plurality of body segment positions associated with the respective key state based on the plurality of joint positions; determining a plurality of inter-state differentiation variables for the respective key state; determining one or more state characteristic metrics for the respective key state; and determining a classifier for the respective key state based on the one or more state characteristic metrics; and defining a physical activity model based on the one or more state characteristic metrics and the classifier associated with each key state.
US11763601B2

Examples described herein generally relate to processing a first image captured by the first camera at a first time to determine a first set of multiple key points of a face in the first image, processing a second image captured by the second camera at a second time, that is equal to or within a threshold time of the first time, to determine a second set of the multiple key points on the face in the second image, determining a location of at least a portion of the multiple key points in a three-dimensional space based on a first location of each of the portion of the multiple key points in the first image and a second location of each of the portion of the multiple key points in the second image, and detecting whether the face is a valid three-dimensional face for facial recognition based at least in part on the location of at least the portion of the multiple key points in the three-dimensional space.
US11763596B2

An image capturing support apparatus 1 includes: a detection unit 2 configured to detect facial images that have facial areas corresponding to a face, from a plurality of captured images, respectively; a determination unit 3 configured to determine whether or not the amount of light is insufficient for the detected facial images, using the detected facial images; and a superimposition unit 4 configured to, when the amount of light is insufficient, adjust the size of each of the facial images, and superimpose the facial areas of the adjusted facial images on each other.
US11763594B2

A driver integrated circuit for fingerprint sensing, touch sensing and display driving and a driving method thereof are provided. The driver integrated circuit is adapted for driving a touch display panel with a fingerprint sensor. The driver integrated circuit includes a fingerprint sensing control circuit, a display driving circuit, and a display driving circuit. The fingerprint sensing control circuit drives the fingerprint sensor to perform a fingerprint sensing operation. The display driving circuit drives the touch display panel to perform a display operation. The touch sensing control circuit drives the touch display panel to perform a touch operation. The fingerprint sensing control circuit and the display driving circuit have a first direct communication therebetween so as to facilitate at least one of the fingerprint sensing operation and the display operation.
US11763592B2

An image processing device includes a camera interface connectable to a camera configured to capture a video of a worker in a work area, an output interface connectable to a display device that is viewable from the work area, a memory that stores task information about a task to be performed by the worker, and a processor configured to determine a position and a posture of the worker in the work area based on the captured video, determine whether the worker has performed the task properly based on the task information stored in the memory and the determined position and posture of the worker, upon determining that the worker has not performed the task properly, extract from the video a first part showing the task that has been performed by the worker, and control the output interface to output the first part to the display device.
US11763583B2

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and providing matching fonts by utilizing a glyph-based machine learning model. For example, the disclosed systems can generate a glyph image by arranging glyphs from a digital document according to an ordering rule. The disclosed systems can further identify target fonts as fonts that include the glyphs within the glyph image. The disclosed systems can further generate target glyph images by arranging glyphs of the target fonts according to the ordering rule. Based on the glyph image and the target glyph images, the disclosed systems can utilize a glyph-based machine learning model to generate and compare glyph image feature vectors. By comparing a glyph image feature vector with a target glyph image feature vector, the font matching system can identify one or more matching glyphs.
US11763582B2

Provided is an information processing apparatus that applies correction using a character recognition error pattern to a character recognition result of a document image, wherein the character recognition error pattern includes error pattern information on a character recognition result of a part where an error occurs in character recognition, correct pattern information applicable to the part where the error occurs, information on a frequency that the error occurs, and information on a state where the error occurs, and wherein the character recognition error pattern to be used in the correction is narrowed down based on the information on the frequency that the error occurs and the information on the state where the error occurs.
US11763577B2

Determining head orientation and/or position of a vehicle occupant includes determining a first detection range for head orientations and/or positions of a first imagining sensor located in the vehicle interior based on various head orientations and/or positions in relation to the location of the first sensor, determining the second detection range of the second imaging sensor for head orientations and/or positions based on various head orientations and/or positions in relation to the position of the second sensor, and, based on the head orientation and/or position of the vehicle occupant, determining the head orientation and/or position with that sensor that has a detection range in which the head orientation and/or position can be better determined than in the detection range of another sensor.
US11763565B2

Techniques related to automatically segmenting a video frame into fine grain object of interest and background regions using a ground truth segmentation of an object in a previous frame are discussed. Such techniques apply multiple levels of segmentation tracking and prediction based on color, shape, and motion of the segmentation to determine per-pixel object probabilities, and solve an energy summation model to generate a final segmentation for the video frame using the object probabilities.
US11763559B2

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for presenting and annotating virtual content. According to an example method, a virtual object is presented to a first user at a first position via a transmissive display of a wearable device. A first input is received from the first user. In response to receiving the first input, a virtual annotation is presented at a first displacement from the first position. A first data is transmitted to a second user, the first data associated with the virtual annotation and the first displacement. A second input is received from the second user. In response to receiving the second input, the virtual annotation is presented to the first user at a second displacement from the first position. Second data is transmitted to a remote server, the second data associated with the virtual object, the virtual annotation, the second displacement, and the first position.
US11763547B2

Aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring devices at enterprise locations using machine-learning models to protect enterprise-managed information and resources. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from one or more data source computer systems, passive monitoring data. Based on applying a machine-learning classification model to the passive monitoring data received from the one or more data source computer systems, the computing platform may determine to trigger a data capture process at an enterprise center. In response to determining to trigger the data capture process, the computing platform may initiate an active monitoring process to capture event data at the enterprise center. Thereafter, the computing platform may generate one or more alert messages based on the event data captured at the enterprise center. Then, the computing platform may send the one or more alert messages to one or more enterprise computer systems.
US11763545B2

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for efficiently, quickly, and flexibly generating and providing pixel-wise classification predictions utilizing early exit heads of a multi-exit pixel-level prediction neural network. For example, the disclosed systems utilize a multi-exit pixel-level prediction neural network to generate classification predictions for a digital image on the pixel level. The multi-exit pixel-level prediction neural network includes a specialized architecture with early exit heads having unique encoder-decoder architectures for generating pixel-wise classification predictions at different early exit stages. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems implement a spatial confidence-adaptive scheme to mask certain predicted pixels to prevent further processing of the masked pixels and thereby reduce computation.
US11763538B2

An image processing apparatus includes an area setter configured to set a target area in a first image among a plurality of captured images acquired by imaging at different time from each other, an area detector configured to detect a corresponding area relevant to the target area in a plurality of second images among the plurality of captured images, a focus state acquirer configured to acquire focus states of the target area and the corresponding area, and a classification processor configured to perform classification processing that classifies the plurality of captured images into a plurality of groups according to the focus states.
US11763536B2

A learning-based clothing animation method and system for highly efficient virtual try-on simulations is provided. Given a garment, the system preprocess a rich database of physically-based dressed character simulations, for multiple body shapes and animations. Then, using a database, the system trains a learning-based model of cloth drape and wrinkles, as a function of body shape and dynamics. A model according to embodiments separates global garment fit, due to body shape, from local garment wrinkles, due to both pose dynamics and body shape. A recurrent neural network is provided to regress garment wrinkles, and the system achieves highly plausible nonlinear effects, in contrast to the blending artifacts suffered by previous methods.
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A computer server system comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive, via the communications module and from a requesting device, a signal that includes a request to send a stored-value card to a recipient, the request identifying one or more parameters of the stored-value card; generate the stored-value card and a three-dimensional object representing the stored-value card according to the one or more parameters; and send, via the communications module and to a mobile device of the recipient, a signal that includes the three-dimensional object representing the stored-value card for display in augmented reality.