US11759994B2
An imprint apparatus for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, includes a mold holding unit including an actuator for moving mold, a force sensor detecting force generated by actuator, a position sensor measuring a position of mold, and a controlling unit controlling operation of mold holding unit. The controlling unit controls mold holding unit according to either a force imprint profile or a position imprint profile. The force imprint profile is for controlling movement of mold based on force generated by actuator and detected by force sensor. The position imprint profile is for controlling movement of mold based on position of mold measured by position sensor. When pattern of imprint material is formed on substrate, either force imprint profile or position imprint profile is selectable.
US11759991B2
In a production apparatus, a pass line for conveying a film is formed in parts of both belts wound on common rolls and in contact with each other across the film, a discharge port of a discharger is so provided that the molten resin reaches one first roll, out of a group of first rolls, on a side upstream of the pass line, and the common rolls include a cooling roll for cooling and solidifying the molten resin discharged from the discharge port and having reached the first roll.
US11759987B2
A screw driving device includes: a plasticization motor; a rotation drive shaft provided coaxially with a screw and configured to rotate the screw; and a transmission mechanism configured to decelerate rotation of the plasticization motor and transmit the rotation to the rotation drive shaft. The transmission mechanism includes: a speed reducer whose output shaft is coupled to the rotation drive shaft; a drive rotation member provided in the plasticization motor; a driven rotation member provided on an input shaft of the speed reducer; and one endless string-shaped force transmission member wound around the drive rotation member and the driven rotation member.
US11759986B2
A rotary core includes an undercut portion molding section for molding an undercut portion in a resin-molded article, and a seal portion abutting on a mold main body. In a side view viewed from a direction orthogonal to the direction in which a shaft member serving as the rotation center of the rotary core extends, a first imaginary line extending along the inner edge of the seal portion, and a second imaginary line extending from the rotation center to the first imaginary line and orthogonal to the first imaginary line are drawn. The seal portion includes a portion that is located on a lower side of the second imaginary line and is bent inward in the width direction as compared with a portion of the seal portion that is located on an upper side of the second imaginary line.
US11759983B2
Described herein is a process for preparing a foam (FA) with a Poisson's ratio in the range of from −0.5 to 0.3, the method including the steps of providing a foam (F1) with a flow resistance in the range of from 3000 to 8000 Pas/m, determined according to DIN EN 29053, and subjecting the foam (F1) to thermoforming including triaxial compression, wherein the foam (F1) is not reticulated prior to step (ii). Also described herein is the foam obtained or obtainable according to the process and the use of the foam as, for example, an energy absorbing device, preferably in protective gear, furniture, cushions, in cleaning devices with improved rinse-out behavior, in shoe soles, or as sealing, insulating or anchorage providing material for example used in earphones, ear plugs or dowels, or as acoustic material.
US11759981B2
A ventilation module is disclosed having a ventilation outlet channel including a gas flow inlet side and an opposite gas flow outlet side. The ventilation outlet channel is separated in the longitudinal direction to form at least two ventilation channel portions, such that the at least two ventilation channel portions are adjustable away from and towards one another transversely to the longitudinal extent of the ventilation outlet channel. The width of the ventilation outlet channel and thus the flow cross section can be increased or decreased.
US11759973B2
A pallet forming concrete mold assembly includes a bottom wall having a top side, a bottom side and a perimeter edge. The perimeter wall has a rectangular shape and the bottom wall has a length and width each is between 40.0 inches and 60.0 inches. A perimeter wall is attached to and extends upwardly from the perimeter edge. The perimeter wall includes a front wall, a rear wall, a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall. The top side of the bottom wall has a pair of raised sections extending from the front wall to the back wall. The raised sections form forklift slots in a concrete block formed by the bottom and perimeter walls. The raised sections are oriented parallel to each other.
US11759963B1
A portable environmentally friendly clipping tool that includes spring biased upper and lower hinged rigid members, removable clipping teeth, and side walls, forming an enclosed storage area for trapping clipped remains until the user finds a non-polluting location to dispose of the trapped clippings. Clipping removal is facilitated by raising a hinged side wall on the tool enabling the user to pour out the stored clippings from the tool. A pair of C-shaped walls within the tool are positioned in a way that during non-use, the lower portion of one C-shaped wall blocks the open portion of the second C-shaped wall. When the user pushes down on the upper rigid member, a clipping action can take place and the open portion of both C-shaped walls align, allowing clipped remains to migrate into the enclosed storage area of the clipper and be captured for later disposal.
US11759948B2
A robot includes a robot arm including a proximal-end-side arm and a first distal-end-side arm that is turnable with respect to the proximal-end-side arm and coupled further on a distal end side than the proximal-end-side arm. The proximal-end-side arm includes a first motor configured to drive the first distal-end-side arm, a first speed reducer configured to reduce rotating speed of the first motor and output a rotational force, a first pulley configured to transmit, to the first distal-end-side arm, the rotational force output from the first speed reducer, and a first belt configured to transmit, from the first speed reducer to the first pulley, the rotational force output from the first speed reducer.
US11759946B2
A vertical articulated robot includes a first joint axis portion including a first motor configured to rotationally drive a tool flange, and a second joint axis portion including a second motor configured to rotationally drive the first joint axis portion. The first motor includes a portion that overlaps the second motor in a direction orthogonal to both a direction in which a first rotation axis extends and a direction in which a second rotation axis extends.
US11759936B2
An offset nut driver (“driver”) is implemented which enables machine-generated rotational movement at an input drive to translate to an output spline, and thereby to a socket bit, with minimal user effort. Use of the driver displaces, to a power drill, the human strength element in loosening and tightening bolts. Gears interior to the driver translate the rotational movement from the input drive to the output spline. The input drive may be a hex input rod which can connect to a drill's receptacle, or chuck. The output mechanism may be an output spline to which a socket bit can securely connect. The socket bit can then engage with a nut or bolt for loosening or tightening, in which the rotational torque output by the socket bit is derived from the rotational force exerted against the input rod by, for example, a power drill.
US11759934B2
A hammer includes a handle, a head assembly affixed to the handle, and a claw assembly slidably disposed on the handle. The handle includes apertures interspaced linearly along the length of the handle. The head assembly includes a throat and a striking face. The claw assembly includes a claw, an annular sleeve slidably disposed around the handle for enabling linear adjustment of the claw assembly along the length of the handle, and a ratcheting lever coupled to the sleeve for adjusting the position of the claw relative to the head assembly during operation. The ratcheting lever includes a spring-biased locking pin for removably engaging any one of the apertures to selectively secure the claw assembly to the handle in a desired position and a depressible release arm for releasing the spring-biased locking pin from the apertures to enable the claw assembly to slide along the length of the handle.
US11759931B2
A nail drive device of electric nail gun includes a nailing rod and a rotary actuator that can output a specific rotation angle and can drive the nailing rod to move downward for nailing. Specifically, the rotary actuator includes a stator and a rotor surrounding it, between the stator and the rotor, even groups of electro-magnetic mutual action components are configured in pairs, to generate a tangential force to drive the rotor to rotate for a specific rotation angle, and to drive the nailing rod to move for a nailing stroke. The nailing stroke can be determined by the specific rotation angle. Thus, through the above configuration of the rotary actuator, the structure of the electric nail gun can be simplified.
US11759924B2
A torque capacity expandable device and method for a torque multiplier are introduced. The device includes a connection sleeve and a torque multiplier. The connection sleeve, fitted to a torque wrench and the torque multiplier and fastened, has a force-applied end corresponding in dimensions to a force-applying end of the torque wrench and has another end corresponding in dimensions to the force-applied end of the torque multiplier. An integral fastening mechanism is integrally fitted to or formed with each of the two ends of the torque multiplier. Its force-applied end fastening mechanism has the same dimensions as the force-applying end fastening mechanism of connection sleeve. Its force-applying end fastening mechanism has the same dimensions as the force-applied end fastening mechanism of a reaction arm disposed at the force-applying end fastening mechanism of torque multiplier.
US11759914B2
A vise assembly is disclosed. In one example, the vise assembly includes a vise body and a jaw pusher movably coupled to the vise body. The jaw pusher includes a jaw insert having a first top edge and a second top edge, where the first top edge is an outward extending radius edge. A jaw is provided having a jaw top and a jaw bottom, the jaw bottom including a recess for receiving the jaw insert, the recess including a ramped surface extending longitudinally along a top edge for receiving the jaw insert radius edge and wherein the positioned on the jaw pusher without the use of tools.
US11759913B2
A substrate polishing method capable of reducing an influence of variation in spectrum of reflected light from a substrate, such as a wafer, and determining an accurate film thickness is disclosed. The method includes: polishing a surface of a substrate by pressing the substrate against a polishing pad on a rotating polishing table; producing a spectrum of reflected light from the surface of the substrate each time the polishing table makes one rotation; creating a three-dimensional data containing a plurality of spectra arranged along polishing time; and determining a film thickness of the substrate based on the three-dimensional data.
US11759903B2
In a machine tool having a tool carrier (1) that comprises at least one receptacle (4) for a tool holder (3) for driven or stationary tools a tool change device is provided that comprises gripping means (370) for gripping the tool holder (3) at the housing (7) or at part (71) connected with the housing (7). In addition to the gripping means the tool change device comprises a device for actuating the fastening means that are configured for attachment of the tool holder at the tool carrier.
US11759900B2
A machining apparatus includes: a shuttle unit (3) that holds a differential case (10) and rotates the differential case (10); a pair of opposed right and left machining units (4); and a tool support (6) that supports a tool (40) for machining the differential case (10), in which the pair of right and left machining units (4) each include a slide mechanism dedicated for uniaxial sliding in right and left directions, the shuttle unit (3) is movable in up and down directions and front and back directions, a tool attached to each of the pair of right and left machining units (4) enables machining an end portion of an inner surface of the differential case (10) and a flange hole of the differential case (10), the end portion surrounding a through hole, and a cutting edge of the tool (40) supported by the tool support (6) enables spherically cutting the inner surface of the differential case (10) held and rotated by the shuttle unit (3).
US11759899B2
Disclosed herein is a tooling plate for conveying a plurality of work parts to be assembled on an assembly line, the tooling plate including a platform, a supporting element fixed on and protruding from a surface of the platform, and one or more interfacing elements configured to be attached in a removable way to the supporting element, and configured to support at least a portion of a work part from the plurality of work parts when the one or more interfacing elements is attached to the supporting element. A shape of the interfacing element matches a portion of a shape of the portion of the work part, so that the tooling plate can be configured to convey, successively, different sets of work parts by only changing interfacing elements on the supporting element, from one set to another set, without changing the platform.
US11759888B2
According to the present invention, a system (1; 1′) for processing at least one substrate (2) containing a dried fluid sample (21) is provided, the system (1; 1′) comprising a support (12) configured to position the substrate (2), a laser device (3) for directing a laser beam (31) to the substrate (2), configured to cut at least one area of the substrate (2) containing the dried fluid sample (21) by means of the laser beam (31), a container holder (4; 4′) configured to hold and position a container (5) for receiving the cut area, the container holder (4; 4′) being arranged below the substrate (2), and an extraction subsystem (6) for extracting fume and/or dust generated when laser cutting the substrate (2), wherein the extraction subsystem (6) consists of at least two extraction components (61, 62) sandwiching the substrate (2) there between. Furthermore, a method for automated processing at least one substrate (2) containing a dried fluid (21) sample by means of such a system (1; 1′) is provided.
US11759886B2
A laser system is configured for providing a laser line in a working plane for line illumination of an object. The laser line extends in a first direction over a significant length and in a second direction over a small extent. The laser system comprises a laser source for providing a laser beam as basis for an elongated input laser beam propagating along a propagation direction, and a homogenization and focussing unit for homogenizing the elongated laser beam to form the laser line. The laser system is in particular suitable for providing a laser line that can be stitched to another laser line of a respective further laser system.
US11759883B2
A friction stir welded assembly includes a first workpiece having an interior portion with opposed interior walls, a second workpiece having an interior portion with opposed interior walls, and an insert positioned within the interior portion of the first workpiece and the interior portion of the second workpiece. The insert extends between and abuts at least one of the opposed interior walls of the first workpiece and the opposed interior walls of the second workpiece and a friction stir weld is between the first workpiece to the second workpiece. A joining end of the first workpiece and a joining end of the second workpiece form a butt joint or a lap joint between the first and second workpieces, and the friction stir weld is a butt weld or a lap weld, respectively, between the first and second workpieces.
US11759875B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides an approach for repairing defects in a structure, located in difficult to reach area, by using a self-guiding and self-melting robotic thread. The approach can use an external guidance system to find the target location of the structure and deploy a robotic thread to the defective area. Portion of the robotic thread contains a filler material can have similar materials to the structure. After the system has determined the size, length and volume of the repair, the system calculates the required length of the robotic thread and guides the thread to the defective area. Once the robotic thread is in place, the filler material begins to melt via heat. The filler material, in a melted and pliable state, can flow into the defect area. Once cooled, the filler material can now support the structure.
US11759873B2
A method of assembling a gearcase cover assembly of a reciprocating saw. The method includes providing a gearcase cover with a cylindrical opening and a receiving portion, providing a shaft with a yoke affixed to the shaft, inserting a first end of the shaft into the cylindrical opening and rotating the shaft such that a second end of the shaft sits in the receiving portion.
US11759867B2
A cutting insert and a cutting tool which can suppress lowering of blade-edge positional accuracy while holding by a holder having a small thickness is enabled are provided. The cutting insert includes a first end surface, a second end surface, and a peripheral side surface connected to the first end surface and the second end surface and having a rake face, a flank, and a cutting edge formed in a connection region between the rake face and the flank, and a through hole penetrating the first end surface and the second end surface is formed. It is the cutting insert including a first contact surface substantially perpendicular to a center axis direction of the through hole and capable of contacting the holder, a second contact surface substantially in parallel with the center axis direction of the through hole, substantially perpendicular to a plane including the first contact surface and capable of contacting the holder, and a third contact surface inclined with respect to the center axis direction of the through hole and capable of contacting the holder, and a cutting tool including the cutting insert as above.
US11759865B2
A tool body in which a cutting insert can be replaced easily is provided. The tool body which fixes the indexable cutting insert includes an insert mounting seat which is provided on a first surface of the tool body, a clamp member which binds the cutting insert placed on the insert mounting seat, and an operating member which operates the clamp member. The operating member can lower the clamp member from the first surface toward a second surface of the tool body on an opposite side thereof to the first surface and can raise the clamp member from the second surface toward the first surface. The clamp member has a hook portion which is brought into contact with a diameter reducing portion formed on an inner peripheral surface of a mounting hole of the cutting insert in a state where the clamp member is lowered.
US11759859B2
Techniques for depowdering in additive fabrication are provided. According to some aspects, techniques are provided that separate powder from additively fabricated parts through liquid immersion of the parts. Motion of the liquid, such as liquid currents, may dislodge or otherwise move powder away from additively fabricated parts to which it is adhered or otherwise proximate to. The liquid may also provide a vehicle to carry away powder from the additively fabricated parts. Removed powder may be filtered or otherwise separated from the liquid to allow recirculation of the liquid to the parts and/or to enable re-use of the powder in subsequent additive fabrication processes. Techniques for depowdering through liquid immersion may be automated, thereby mitigating challenges associated with manual depowdering operations.
US11759856B2
A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object includes a structure shaping step (step S140) of shaping a structure with a shaping material including a metal powder or a ceramic powder, a support shaping step (step S130) of shaping a support T that supports a structure S with a support material including a resin, and a deresining step (step S210) of deresining the support T supporting the structure S.
US11759845B2
An assembly includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and a self-piercing rivet. The lower substrate defines a preformed interior cavity and a preformed exterior profile adjacent the interior cavity to define a variable thickness wall. The self-piercing rivet extends through the upper substrate and into the preformed interior cavity of the lower substrate.
US11759841B2
The disclosure relates to a method for producing a overlapping connection, in which at least two overlapping components are connected to one another via a folded flange, with a first edge of a first component being folded over a second edge of a second component to form the folded flange, along with a body component that includes such an overlapping connection for a vehicle and a stamping tool for such a body component. According to the disclosure at least one connection region is formed on the folded flange, in which the stamping tool stamps the first component through the second component at least one stamping point, with displaced material of the first component passing into the second component and producing a positive connection.
US11759838B2
A tool, such as a conduit bender, that includes a gear assembly for providing a mechanical advantage when bending a workpiece conduit. The gear assembly comprises a pinion gear rotatably coupled to a handle, the handle including a pin that can be selectively engaged with the pinion gear. The conduit bender also includes a shoe with teeth that protrude radially inward from a curved outer portion. When the conduit bender is in use, the teeth of the pinion gear engage with the teeth of the shoe.
US11759832B2
Proposed is a powder removing apparatus using a screw cylinder for a gas processing facility, in which the powder removing apparatus has a structure in which a scraper is coupled to the screw cylinder that allows a piston rod to be moved forward while being rotated in one direction and to be moved backward while being rotated in a reverse direction according to a supply direction of fluid, thereby allowing the powder adhered to an inner circumferential surface of a pipeline of the gas processing facility or an inner wall surface of the gas processing facility to be easily and efficiently removed. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the powder removing apparatus includes the screw cylinder and a scraper.
US11759825B2
A system for recycling planar objects including compressed mineral fiber material includes: a conveyor arranged to covey the planar objects through a number of stations at least including a thickness measurement station and a sound measurement station. The sound measurement station includes a sound reflecting surface arranged to back a first major surface of a planar object, a sound emitter arranged to emit sound towards the sound reflecting surface, a sound receiver arranged to receive sound reflected from the sound reflecting surface, and a converter arranged to determine a property related to sound absorption. A sorting station is arranged to sort the planar objects based on determined properties in to a plurality of fractions.
US11759823B2
A PMUT includes a substrate, a membrane, and a sacrificial layer. The substrate has a cavity penetrating the substrate. The membrane is disposed over the cavity and includes a first piezoelectric layer, a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a second piezoelectric layer. The first piezoelectric layer is disposed over the cavity and includes an anchor portion, where the anchor portion of the first piezoelectric layer is in direct contact with the substrate. The top and bottom electrodes are disposed over the first piezoelectric layer. The second piezoelectric layer is disposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The sacrificial layer is disposed between the substrate and the first piezoelectric layer, and a vertical projection of the sacrificial layer does not overlap a vertical projection of portions of the membrane disposed over the cavity.
US11759822B2
Embodiments include a primary short circuit (PSC) coupled to a primary side of a transformer and a dampening element, coupled to a transducer coupled to a secondary side of the transformer, configured to dampen a received signal during a portion of a reverberation period. The PSC and the dampening element may be activated substantially simultaneously. Activation of the PSC circuit mitigates a parallel resonance otherwise arising, in part, in the transducer, but, increases the received signal by a DC shift voltage. The dampening element dampens the DC shift voltage. The received signal may be dampened prior to amplification of the received signal by an amplifier. The dampening facilitates earlier and more precise measurement, during the reverberation period, of at least one operating characteristic for the PAS sensor. Another embodiment prevents the DC shift voltage by selectively activating the PSC within a determined time of a zero-crossing of a given signal.
US11759817B2
Disclosed is an ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizer. An atomizer shell, an atomization piece and a liquid guide structure are arranged in the atomizer shell. The liquid guide structure communicates with a liquid storage cavity in the atomizer shell. A heating body is arranged in the atomizer shell. Both of the atomization piece and the heating body are in contact with the liquid guide structure, and both of the heating body and an atomization surface of the atomization piece communicate with an airflow passage, and a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the heating body are respectively connected with one end and the other end of a power supply. The heating body can quickly heat the tobacco tar to approach to its atomization temperature, and also can transfer a part of heat to the atomization piece, so that the atomization piece atomizes the tobacco tar quickly, shortening the atomization time.
US11759813B2
An apparatus for supplying chemical liquid may include a chemical liquid supply head, a receiving member, a removing member and a supplying member. The chemical liquid supply head may provide a chemical liquid onto a substrate. The receiving member may receive a recycle chemical liquid discharged from the chemical liquid supply head, and the removing member may remove impurities remaining in the recycle chemical liquid received in the receiving member. The supplying member may provide the recycle chemical liquid from which the impurities are removed to the chemical liquid supply head.
US11759809B2
A device for dispensing a fluid substance (F) comprising a manually operated pump (2) coupled to a deformable bag (3), the deformable bag being housed inside a container (4); the container is formed of a collar (5) made of plastic coupled to a tubular element (6) formed from a paper- or cardboard-based material, the tubular element featuring a bottom (7), the collar (5) featuring ribs (N) made on a surface thereof which comes into contact with an internal wall of the tubular element (6).
US11759802B2
A garden sprinkler has an input base, an output member rotatably installed at the top of the input base, and a rotating member capable of driving the output member. The output Both sides of the output member are respectively equipped with a first outlet and a second outlet. The first outlet is equipped with a first sprinkler, and the second outlet is equipped with a second sprinkler and an adjusting sleeve. The second sprinkler is a side outlet and is screwed with the adjusting sleeve. The second sprinkler can be adjusted by the adjusting sleeve, which improves the convenience of sprinkling operation without multiple sprinkler heads.
US11759794B2
Provided is a centrifuge. In a centrifuge sample container (40) having a body part (41) and a bottom part (42), the body part (41) has two parallel flat surfaces, and includes an opening (44) having an elliptical shape from above view. The bottom part (42) is formed by a semi-cylindrical part (42a) and quarter spherical parts (42b) connected to the sides of the semi-cylindrical part. A height (H) of the sample container is greater than a length (L2) in the short axis direction of the opening, and a curvature radius (R1) of the outer surface of an arc part of the elliptical shape, a curvature radius (R2) of the outer surface of the semi-cylindrical part, and a curvature radius (R3) of the outer surface of the quarter spherical parts are equal. A flange part (43) that expands radially outward is formed on the opening (44) of the body part (41).
US11759785B2
A receptacle holder for supporting at least one fluid-containing receptacle includes a body and an RFID transponder. The body includes an electrically conductive portion defining a first recess configured to receive at least a first fluid-containing receptacle, and an electrically non-conductive portion attached to the electrically conductive portion. The RFID transponder is disposed on the electrically non-conductive portion of the body, and stores information about the receptacle holder. The receptacle holder can also include the first fluid-containing receptacle received within the first recess.
US11759781B2
Various embodiments of fluidic devices and methods of the present teaching can provide precision on-device loading of fluidic samples, and merging, mixing, and splitting of the fluidic samples, in illustrative embodiments as droplets, using pressures that can be provided by standard laboratory liquid handling equipment. Various embodiments of fluidic devices of the present teachings can provide on-device manipulation of accurate and precise fluidic volumes at the picoliter to nanoliter scale for each steps from fluidic sample loading to fluidic sample splitting. Various embodiments of fluidic elements of the present teachings, for example, but not limited by, various embodiments of fluidic traps of the present teachings, can have a constrained and measurable geometry, allowing for accurate and precise tuning of each fluidic sample volume throughout the on-device liquid handling process.
US11759778B2
The present disclosure provides an electrode plate, a microfluidic chip, and a method of manufacturing the electrode plate. In one embodiment, an electrode plate includes: a substrate, an electrode and a surface contact layer stacked in sequence, and a droplet inlet hole passing through the substrate, the electrode and the surface contact layer. The surface contact layer comprises a super-hydrophobic region and a hydrophilic region, and the droplet inlet hole is disposed in the hydrophilic region. The microfluidic chip includes: a first electrode plate formed by the abovementioned electrode plate, and a second electrode plate provided on a side of the first electrode plate close to the surface contact layer. The first electrode plate is provided opposite to the second electrode plate and a liquid channel is formed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate.
US11759777B2
Multi-component separation devices configured to separate components of a liquid sample by centrifugation are provided. Aspects of the separation devices include a container having a distal end and a proximal end and a buoy configured to be displaced along a longitudinal axis within the container where the buoy includes one or more sealed chambers. Also provided are methods of using the subject devices to separate components of a multi-component liquid sample such as whole blood, bone marrow aspirate or stromal vascular fraction as well as systems suitable for practicing the subject methods.
US11759776B2
Systems and methods for positive dispense verification. In one aspect, a system has a plurality of light emitters. The light from the emitters is directed toward a plurality of light detectors across a proximately horizontal plane. The liquid dispense device is positioned above the horizontal plane of light emission from the plurality of light emitters to the plurality of light detectors such that the dispensed liquid will travel through the horizontal plane defined by the emitted light and onto the container being inoculated. Each of the plurality of detectors is coupled to an amplifier. The amplifier generates a signal in response to an interrupt in the transmission of light from the light emitters to the light detectors when the light path is disrupted by the dispense of liquid confirming the liquid was dispensed onto the container.
US11759775B2
A device for extracting plasma from a fluid collection tube comprising: a tubular barrel having sidewall surrounding a lumen which extends between proximal and distal ends thereof, the tubular barrel forming a tip at a distal end; a barrel seal movingly seated within the lumen of the tubular barrel, the barrel seal closing and sealing the proximal end of the tubular barrel; a tube seal having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending therebetween, the proximal end having a frustoconical or chamfered face, the tube seal having an outer diameter sized to sealingly engage with an inner surface of the fluid collection tube, and an inner diameter sized to sealingly engage with an outer surface of the tip of the tubular barrel, the tube seal mounted on the tubular barrel such that the tip of the tubular barrel extends into the tube seal lumen.
US11759774B2
Methods for the removal of ionic contaminants from a hydrophilic organic solvent by a mixed bed of ion exchange resins are described. A mixed bed of ion exchange resins with gel-type strong-acid cationic ion exchange resin with a specific moisture holding capacity and gel-type anionic ion exchange resin is used in some embodiments of such methods.
US11759772B2
A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells, wherein a major component of the partition wall is cordierite, a porosity of the partition wall is 45 to 55%, an average pore diameter of the partition wall is 8 to 19 μm, a cumulative pore volume of the partition wall is such that a pore volume ratio of the pores having a pore diameter larger than a thickness of the partition wall relative to an overall pore volume of the partition wall is 3.0% or less, and a pore volume ratio of the pores having a pore diameter of 10 μm or less relative to the overall pore volume of the partition wall is 30% or more, and a pore diameter distribution of the partition wall is a unimodal distribution, or a multimodal distribution.
US11759750B2
The present disclosure relates to bundles of hollow fiber membranes and a process for their production. The bundles are used for the manufacture of filtration and/or diffusion devices, e.g., capillary dialyzers.
US11759741B2
A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells and a plugging portion, wherein the partition wall is composed of a material containing cordierite as a main component thereof, porosity of the partition wall measured by a mercury press-in method is 60 to 68%, an average pore diameter of the partition wall measured by a mercury press-in method is 13 to 18 μm, and in a pore diameter distribution indicating a cumulative pore volume of the partition wall measured by a mercury press-in method, with a pore diameter (μm) on an abscissa axis and a log differential pore volume (cm3/g) on an ordinate axis, a first peak including a maximum value of the log differential pore volume has a pore diameter value of 15 μm or less, the pore diameter value corresponding to a ⅓ value width of the maximum value.
US11759733B2
A filtration device, in particular a disposable filtration device, has a flow path in which a filter element and an integrated flow reducer are arranged one behind the other. The flow reducer is adapted to be brought to a first operating position, which permits a defined first volume flow rate, and at least to a second operating position, which permits a defined second volume flow rate which is smaller than the first volume flow rate.
US11759727B1
A method of extracting propionitrile from liquid chloropicrin includes providing a feed solution that constitutes liquid chloropicrin and a propionitrile solute dissolved therein. A liquid, water-based solvent that is immiscible with the feed solution is also provided. The feed solution and the solvent are intermixed such that the solvent absorbs and extracts at least a portion of the propionitrile solute from the feed solution. The feed solution is then separated from the solvent and extracted propionitrile solute to produce a liquid extract and a liquid raffinate, which liquid extract includes the water-based solvent and the propionitrile solute absorbed by the solvent, and which raffinate includes the feed solution from which propionitrile solute has-been extracted.
US11759723B2
An ultrafine bubble generating apparatus and an ultrafine bubble generating method capable of efficiently generating an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid with high purity are provided. In order to this, a heating element provided in a liquid is caused to generate heat, and film boiling is made on an interface between the liquid and the heating element. A film boiling bubble is generated by the film boiling, and ultrafine bubbles are thus generated near the film boiling bubble.
US11759722B2
A method of controlling a first figure configured to animate and a second figure configured to exhibit free motion in an amusement park ride includes determining when a field of view of a ride vehicle (RV) moving along a RV path of the ride is either directed away from a scene area of the ride or obstructed from the scene area, and responsive to such determination, causing a first mechanism associated with the first figure to move the first figure out of the scene area, and causing a second mechanism associated with the second figure to move the second figure into the scene area.
US11759711B2
A method for quasi-random placement of a virtual item in an XR space includes: accessing a previously generated spatial mapping mesh (SMM) of the XR space; compiling a record from the SMM of open spaces between surfaces of physical elements in the XR space, with corresponding positions and dimensions; selecting from the open spaces: a spawn position for a virtual character, and a random set of other positions, filtering the random set to form a subset. The method then performs a collision analysis to assign a score to each position in the subset partly based on accessibility to that position for the virtual character beginning from the spawn position; and places the virtual item at a position in the subset having a score as high or higher than all other positions in the subset. The method is carried out before user interaction with any virtual element in the XR space.
US11759691B2
The present invention is a tethered resistance swim training apparatus with a pulley that includes an electronic tachometer to measure the rotations of the wheel of the pulley and strain gauge to measure the force pulling on the body of the pulley. The pulley, also referred to as “smart pulley”, can be implemented in many tethered swim training apparatuses of different arrangements. With the tachometer and strain gauge the power and other performance metrics can be calculated while a swimmer is using the apparatus. A load cell or similar can be used in place of a strain gauge. The sensors may be connected via wired or wireless communications to a computer (tablet, laptop, personal computer, server, or the like) for processing of the signals and display on an electronic display.
US11759687B2
A method of selecting a golf club head for a specific user, includes: (a) receiving first data comprising impact location of each of a plurality of golf swings taken by the user using a test golf club; (b) generating an impact probability map specific to the user; (c) providing second data comprising correlations between striking face location and coefficient of restitution (COR) for each of a plurality of golf clubs; (d) calculating a user-specific expected COR value for each of the plurality of golf clubs based on the first data, the impact probability map, and the second data for each of the plurality of golf clubs; and (e) outputting and displaying golf club preference information based on the calculated user-specific expected COR.
US11759665B2
A firehose handle device that secures to a firehose and nozzle interface. The firehose handle device has two spaced apart handles oriented transverse to the firehose/nozzle coupling when secured thereto. In certain embodiments, the handles may be selectively adjustable relative to each other.
US11759660B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for reconstructing fluence map. The system may obtain a plurality of radiation tasks based on a radiotherapy plan. Each of the plurality of radiation tasks may include a radiation field corresponding to the radiation task. For each of the plurality of radiation tasks, the system may determine whether a shape change between a radiation field corresponding to the radiation task and a radiation field corresponding to a preceding radiation task exceeds a shape change threshold. The system may determine a fluence map corresponding to the radiation task based on a first determination result of whether the shape change between the radiation field corresponding to the radiation task and the radiation field corresponding to the preceding radiation task exceeds the shape change threshold.
US11759658B2
A reconstructed volume of a region of patient anatomy is processed to reduce motion artifacts in the reconstructed volume. Autosegmentation of high-contrast structures present in an initial reconstructed volume is performed to generate a 3D representation of the high-contrast structures. 2D mask projections are generated by performing forward projection on the 3D representation, where each 2D mask projection includes location information indicating pixels that correspond to the high-contrast structures during the forward projection process. The acquired 2D projections are modified via in-painting to generate corrected 2D projections, where the acquired 2D projections are modified using information from the 2D mask projections. For example, pixels in the acquired 2D projections that are associated with high-contrast moving structures are replaced with low-contrast pixels. These corrected 2D projections are used to produce an improved reconstructed volume with fewer and/or less visually prominent motion artifacts.
US11759653B2
Systems, devices, and methods for treating a skin of a patient with therapeutic laser light via imaging a first skin area of the patient to obtain at least a first image, processing the at least a first image of the first skin area with at least one processor to identify within the first skin area at least one or more target skin areas and a non-target skin area, generating a treatment map of the first skin area based on the identified one or more target skin areas and the non-target skin area, and treating at least a portion of the one or more target skin areas with therapeutic laser light based on the generated treatment map.
US11759650B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a method of normalizing cytokine levels in a blood stream of a subject is described. According to the method, an array of electromagnetic emitters is positioned proximal to the subject. An electromagnetic wave generator generates electromagnetic fields having a predetermined frequency. Cytokine levels are normalized in the blood stream of the subject by applying the electromagnetic fields to the subject through the electromagnetic emitters.
US11759644B2
Systems, apparatus, methods and non-transitory computer readable media facilitating telemetry data communication security between an implantable device and an external clinician device are provided. An implantable device can include a security component configured to generate security information based on reception of a clinician telemetry session request from the clinician device via a first telemetry communication protocol. The security information can include a session identifier and a first session key, and the clinician telemetry session request can include a clinician device identifier associated with the clinician device. The implantable device can further include a communication component configured to establish a clinician telemetry session with the clinician device using a second telemetry communication protocol based on determining that a connection request, received via the second telemetry communication protocol, was transmitted by the clinician device based on inclusion of the clinician device in the connection request.
US11759641B2
An implantable medical device for stimulating a human/animal heart, comprising a housing, a processor, a memory unit, a stimulation unit configured to stimulate the His bundle, and a detection unit configured to detect an electrical signal at the His bundle. The device performs: a) stimulating the His bundle with a stimulation pulse delivered by the stimulation unit; b) measuring an electric signal at the His bundle with the detection unit upon termination of a first period of time starting upon delivering of the stimulation pulse, wherein the first period of time is from 35 ms to 500 ms; c) measuring an impedance of the same heart with the detection unit upon termination of a second period of time starting upon delivering of the stimulation pulse, wherein the second period of time is equal to or longer than the first period of time and is from 50 ms to 500 ms.
US11759630B2
An insulative body of a medical electrical lead electrode assembly includes a pre-formed channel having a section extending at an angle to a longitudinal axis of the body. An electrode portion of a conductive component has an electrode contact surface facing outward from a first side of the body and a coupling portion embedded in the body. A conductor, which is coupled to the coupling portion of the component, is disposed in the channel.
US11759626B2
A therapy electrode system comprises a garment configured to be worn about a torso of a patient, a therapy electrode disposed in the garment and configured to deliver one or more electrical shocks to a body of the patient, a replaceable gel cartridge disposed on the therapy electrode and configured to release a conductive gel onto the patient's skin at an interface between the therapy electrode and the patient's skin prior to the delivery of the one or more electrical shocks to the body of the patient at the interface between the therapy electrode and the patient's skin, and a fluid pump in fluid communication with the replaceable gel cartridge.
US11759623B2
Techniques for calibrating a low frequency (LF) clock of an IMD are disclosed, wherein the IMD also includes a high frequency (HF) clock. This includes determining an average, or a surrogate thereof, of how many HF clock cycles of a HF clock signal (produced by the HF clock) occur per LF clock cycle of a predetermined number N of LF clock cycles of the LF clock signal (produced by the LF clock), wherein N is an integer that is at least 2. This also includes comparing the average or a surrogate thereof to a corresponding target value that the average or the surrogate thereof would be equal to if the frequency of the LF clock signal equaled a target frequency for the LF clock, wherein the corresponding target value need not be an integer. The LF clock is calibrated by adjusting the frequency thereof based on results of the comparing.
US11759622B2
Blood pump for percutaneous insertion into a heart's ventricle comprising an electrical motor for driving the blood pump, the electrical motor comprising at least tree motor winding units, wherein each motor winding unit is individually connectable to a power supply via two separate phase supply lines connected to the respective motor winding unit terminals. Motor controller for driving and controlling the electrical motor of the blood pump, wherein the motor controller comprises corresponding phase supply line driving units for each motor winding units of the electrical motor of the blood pump which phase supply line driving units are connected via the corresponding two-phase supply lines with the corresponding motor winding unit. Blood pump system comprising the blood pump and the motor controller. Control method for controlling the power supply to the motor winding units of the blood pump, wherein the method comprises: detecting a fault of one of the motor winding units, and in case of a detected faulty motor winding unit, switching off the corresponding phase supply line driving unit of the faulty motor winding unit and further operating the electrical motor by the remaining motor winding units, or, alternatively, adjusting driving parameters of the faulty motor winding unit and further operating the electrical motor by all motor winding units. Use of at least three independent motor winding units in an electrical motor for driving of a blood pump for percutaneous insertion, which motor winding units are individually connected to corresponding power supply via corresponding two separate phase supply lines connected to respective motor winding unit terminals of one of the at least three motor winding units.
US11759621B2
A cardiac pump is arranged to mimic triphasic operation. The pump uses a fluid line formed from flexible tubing, along with a reciprocating actuator arranged to move between a free orientation and an occluding orientation. This allows a portion of the fluid line to be selectively occluded during movement of the actuator, enabling blood or other fluids to be peristaltically forced fluid towards a fluid outlet. The direction of operation of the actuator, and the selection of appropriate occluding or free orientations, allows the pump to be operated in a triphasic manner.
US11759615B2
An access port for providing subcutaneous access to a patient is disclosed. In one embodiment, the port includes an internal body defining a fluid cavity that is accessible via a septum. A compliant outer cover including silicone is disposed about at least a portion of the body. A flange is included with the port body and is covered by the outer cover. The flange radially extends about a perimeter of the port body proximate the septum so as to impede penetration of a needle substantially into the outer cover in instances where the needle misses the septum. The flange can further include both an anchoring feature for securing the outer cover to the port body and an identification feature observable via x-ray imaging technology for conveying information indicative of at least one attribute of the access port. The outer cover provides a suitable surface for application of an antimicrobial/antithrombotic coating.
US11759614B2
A pellet delivery system is provided that comprises a needle having an inner surface defining a passageway. The needle has a first portion that extends along a longitudinal axis and a curved second portion comprising an opening that is in communication with the passageway. The second portion extends transverse to the longitudinal axis. A pellet is positioned in the passageway. A plunger is slidably positioned in the passageway. The plunger comprises a shaft having a rounded tip configured to push the pellet through the first and second portions and out of the opening without the pellet becoming stuck within the passageway or the opening. Implants, systems, constructs, instruments and methods are disclosed.
US11759611B2
An integrated catheter assembly includes a housing member, an outer lumen member extending from the housing member, and a needle member slidably or movably coupled to the housing member, wherein the needle member can be extended beyond a first port of the outer lumen member in a first position and concealed in the outer lumen member in a second position. The outer lumen member has a side port between its first and second ports such that when the needle is extended in the first position and inserted into an arteriovenous fistula, blood from the arteriovenous fistula flashes into the needle member, is diverted through a relief port of the needle member out the side port of the outer lumen member for delivery to a dialysis machine. The assembly further includes an inner lumen member that is disposable through the housing member to extend out from the same the outer lumen member to provide dialyzed blood from the machine. The assembly therefore receives and delivers blood through a single injection site.
US11759607B1
A multiple lumen central venous catheter with the lumens exit ports on the distal sides of the catheter; enclosed in a separate casing that has exit ports in the walls at its distal end; that allows the enclosed catheter to rotate in the casing, allowing the exit ports in the catheter to align or non-align to open and close the individual lumens at the distal end.
US11759601B2
A urodynamic investigation apparatus for receipt of urine from a bladder is provided. The apparatus is characterized by a tubular element, first and second fittings, and a sleeve element, for select passage of urine there through, within the tubular element. The tubular element is characterized by opposing first and second end portions, and a port. The fittings are adapted to be received by the opposing end portions of the tubular element so as to delimit an apparatus chamber. The sleeve element, suspended between the fittings within the chamber, has collapsed and open configurations. The collapsed configuration is indicative of a no urine flow condition, and the open configuration indicative of a urine flow condition, with the sleeve element urine flow condition being a function of pressure applied to the chamber via the port of the tubular element.
US11759599B2
Systems and methods are provided for a valve shut-off system of a medical device. In one embodiment, the valve shut-off system of the medical device includes a first pin movable between a first position where a valve is opened and a second position where the valve is closed, the first pin including a slot, and a second pin having a mating geometry with the slot of the first pin, the second pin adjustable between a locked position that holds the first pin in the first position and an unlocked position that enables movement of the first pin between the first position and the second position.
US11759595B2
A respiratory pressure therapy (RPT) device is disclosed for treatment of respiratory-related disorders. The RPT device includes a pressure generator, a pneumatic block, a chassis and a device outlet for delivering a supply of flow of gas to a patient interface. The RPT device also comprises an integrated humidifier including a water reservoir. An RPT device is also disclosed that includes a wireless data communication interface integrated with the housing and configured to connect to another device or a network.
US11759593B2
A ventilator adaptor for switching between ventilator devices while maintaining respiratory support to a patient is described. The ventilator adaptor has a first movable element with a first inlet and a second inlet, and a second movable element movably attached to the first movable element and with an outlet. The outlet has an inner diameter of 14.5-15.5 mm, preferably 15 mm, and the first inlet and the second inlet have an outer diameter of 14.5-15.5 mm, preferably 15 mm. The outlet is in fluid communication with the first inlet in a first position or with the second inlet in a second position by moving the second movable element relative to the first movable element thereby aligning the outlet with the first inlet or the second inlet. The outlet may be attached to an endotracheal tube in order to form a ventilation assembly.
US11759587B2
An air inhalation device for insertion within the nostrils, comprising: at least one hollow frusto-conical tube member having an air passageway; a fan; a motor; and a power source; wherein the said frusto-conical tube has a forward end which tapers to form a rearward end, and is fitted with a power driven fan for enhancing the inhalation and exhalation of air.
US11759581B2
A system for delivery of aerosol therapy includes a housing defining a chamber. The housing has a base, a top and a main body extending therebetween. An ambient air inlet is adjacent the base and is normally closed by an inlet valve. The housing has a patient port. Exhaled air is exhausted through valves in a mouthpiece or a face mask to prevent recirculation through the chamber which would adversely affect dose efficiencies. The housing has an aerosol port for receiving a vibrating mesh aerosol generating device. The aerosol port is located in a side of the main body of the housing for delivery of aerosol into the chamber between the inlet valve and the patient port. A boss extends upwardly from the base and is spaced-apart inwardly of the main body of the housing to define a reception space or well.
US11759577B2
A system for injecting includes a syringe body having proximal and distal ends, a syringe interior, and a syringe flange at the proximal end thereof. The system also includes an injectable fluid disposed in the syringe interior. The system further includes a finger flange coupled to the syringe flange. Moreover, the system includes a stopper member disposed in the syringe interior. In addition, the system includes a plunger ratchet member coupled to the stopper member. The system also includes a plunger tube disposed coaxially around at least a portion of the plunger ratchet member and operatively coupled thereto.
US11759574B2
An assembly comprising a drug delivery device and an add-on device adapted to be releasably mounted thereon, the drug delivery device comprising a rotatable dose setting member with an outer surface and at least one axially oriented drive groove. The add-on device comprises a drive portion adapted to be mounted in engagement with the dose setting member and comprises a drive structure adapted to engage a drive groove and being biased in a radially inwards direction. This arrangement allows the drive structure to rotationally slide on the dose setting member outer surface and into engagement with the drive groove(s).
US11759568B2
An injection device comprises an injector body having at least one indicator aperture; a medicament reservoir disposed within the injector body; a piston; and one or more status indicators. A movement of the piston expels a medicament out of the medicament reservoir, and operates to move at least one of the one or more status indicators relative to a corresponding indicator aperture.
US11759564B2
A drug delivery device for conducting a medical therapy includes a housing with an exit port opening, and an exit port assembly, where said exit port assembly includes a rigid exit port sealing holder and a soft exit port sealing, and provides both a fluid-tight closure of the exit port opening and a fluid-tight connection between the housing and the rigid exit port sealing holder.
US11759559B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an extra corporeal membrane oxygenation circuit, wherein a pump communicates blood from a patient to an oxygenator and thence back to the patient, comprising: (a) a medium diameter venous line configured to accept blood from the patient and communicate the blood to the pump; (b) a medium diameter arterial line configured to accept blood from the oxygenator and communicate the blood to the patient; (c) one or more shunts connected in a series, where each shunt comprises a medium diameter input connected to a medium diameter output, where the medium diameter output is configured to connect to a medium diameter input of a successive shunt; a small diameter outlet between the medium diameter input and the medium diameter output; and a stopcock connected to the small diameter output such that flow out of the small diameter outlet can be controlled by the stopcock; wherein a first of such shunts is connected to accept blood from the venous line in parallel with the pump and wherein a last of such shunts is connected to communicate blood to the arterial line.
US11759556B2
The present teachings generally include parabiotic dialysis systems and techniques. For example, the present disclosure includes parabiotic liver dialysis, e.g., for use in settings with limited resources. To this end, a parabiotic liver dialysis system may include a device having a semipermeable membrane with an average pore size that allows for the passage of albumin therethrough. In such a system, a first extracorporeal circuit may connect the device to the vascular system of a first animal (e.g., a liver patient), and a second extracorporeal circuit may connect the device to the vascular system of a second animal (e.g., a human with normal liver function), where the exchange of albumin therebetween is facilitated through the device. The present disclosure also includes various safety measures for parabiotic dialysis systems and techniques, such as biometric verification systems and techniques.
US11759550B2
Medical devices and methods for delivering fluid. The medical devices include one or more needles for delivering fluid. The methods may optionally include expanding an expandable member such as an inflatable member to expand an expandable scaffold outward toward a lumen wall. The devices may include one or both of one or more spine securing members or one or more needle alignment members.
US11759533B2
The present technology relates to compositions and methods for modulating expression of genes which include a target oligonucleotide sequence, such as repeats of a particular oligonucleotide sequence containing 3 to 10 nucleotides. In particular aspects, the present technology relates to agents having a formula A-L-B, wherein -L- is a linker; A- is a Brd4 binding moiety; and —B is a nucleic acid binding moiety, such as a polyamide or complementary oligonucleotide, that specifically binds to the target oligonucleotide sequence.
US11759523B2
The present invention provides capsular polysaccharides from Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes identified using NMR. The present invention further provides polysaccharide-protein conjugates in which capsular polysaccharides from one or more of these serotypes are conjugated to a carrier protein such as CRM197. Polysaccharide-protein conjugates from one or more of these serotypes may be included in multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines having polysaccharides from multiple additional Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes.
US11759521B2
The present disclosure relates to photo-immunoconjugate formulations comprising a nanoparticle carrier comprising first and second therapeutic agents coupled to the nanoparticle carrier, and a photosensitizer molecule coupled to the first therapeutic agent or the nanoparticle carrier, and methods of treating cancer via administration of the photo-immunoconjugate formulations.
US11759513B2
Attenuated G9P[6] rotavirus is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed that include an attenuated G9P[6] rotavirus, or a component thereof. These compositions can be used to induce an immune response, such as a protective immune response, to a rotavirus. The compositions can be used as vaccines, such as for children (infants), for example in a prime boost strategy.
US11759505B2
The present invention relates to a method for isolating Glu-plasminogen, said method comprising the anion exchange chromatography of blood plasma or a plasma fraction comprising Glu-plasminogen. Furthermore, the present invention relates to Glu-plasminogen obtainable from the method of the present invention and its use in a method for treating a patient suffering from or being at risk of developing a disorder selected from the group consisting of organ failure, a thrombotic event, arterial obstructive disease, microcirculation, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and a combination of two or more thereof.
US11759502B2
The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a first type of granules and a second type of granules, wherein said first type of granules comprises a salt of N-(8-(2-hydroxybenzoyl)amino)caprylic acid and no GLP-1 peptide, and wherein said second type of granules comprises a GLP-1 peptide and no salt of N-(8-(2-hydroxybenzoyl)amino)caprylic acid, as well as the intermediate granules, processes for the preparation of the granules and compositions, and use thereof in medicine.
US11759499B2
This application discloses ophthalmic formulations and methods for treating and preventing corneal haze and scarring with an hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) agent.
US11759491B2
The present invention provides improved solvents, methods, and systems for isolating purified cannabinoids from various sources. It has been found that C9 to C11 non-aromatic hydrocarbon solvents, and especially n-decane, work surprisingly well for crystallization of cannabinoids such as cannabidiol. Some variations provide a method of isolating cannabinoids from a cannabinoid-containing solution, comprising contacting the solution with a C9-C11 non-aromatic hydrocarbon solvent (e.g., n-decane) at a first temperature, to generate a mixture; cooling the mixture to precipitate cannabinoids; and isolating the precipitated cannabinoids. Other variations provide a method of isolating cannabinoids from a cannabinoid-containing solution, comprising contacting the solution with a C9-C11 non-aromatic hydrocarbon solvent (e.g., n-decane) at a first temperature below the solvent boiling point, to generate a mixture; subjecting the mixture to a second temperature that causes vaporization of the solvent, to precipitate at least some of the cannabinoids; and isolating the precipitated cannabinoids.
US11759489B2
The present invention provides a health functional food composition for promoting height growth comprising a Humulus japonicus extract or a Humulus japonicus crushed product as an active ingredient and a composition for promoting height growth comprising a watermelon/garlic concentrate in addition to a Humulus japonicus extract or a Humulus japonicus crushed product.
US11759487B2
The invention provides a method of increasing an amount of oral immunoglobulin A (IgA) and/or inhibiting oral pathogens in a subject in need thereof, which utilizes a composition including a therapeutically effective amount of probiotics as an effective ingredient. The probiotics include Lactobacillus plantarum LPL28, which can efficiently increase the amount of oral IgA and/or inhibit the oral pathogens, and thus have a potential to prevent teeth cavities and/or periodontal diseases.
US11759468B2
The present disclosure is directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising sildenafil or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and one or more pharmaceutical excipients or additives wherein the pharmaceutical compositions are in the form of liquid pharmaceutical compositions. The pharmaceutical compositions of the present disclosure are useful for the treatment of diseases or conditions which are treatable by administration of sildenafil or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof such as pulmonary arterial hypertension, erectile dysfunction, etc.
US11759465B2
The disclosure provides methods, treatments and materials for enhancing the effect of an adenosine A2 receptor agonist in the treatment, mitigation or prophylaxis of a disease or condition characterized by inotropic and/or lusitropic dysfunction, and/or enhancing adenosine A2 receptor function in the treatment, mitigation or prophylaxis of a disease or condition characterized by impaired adenosine A2 receptor function, comprising administration of an effective amount of a PDE1 inhibitor to a patient in need thereof, for example a patient suffering from heart failure.
US11759464B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for reducing the volume of menstrual blood loss in a patient, such as a human patient, for instance, that has uterine fibroids, by administration of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist. Suitable GnRH antagonists useful in conjunction with the compositions and methods described herein include thieno[3,4d]pyrimidine derivatives, such as 3-[2-fluoro-5-(2,3-difluoro-6-methoxybenzyloxy)-4-methoxypheny I]-2,4-dioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrothieno[3,4d]pyrimidine-5-carboxylic acid and the choline salt thereof.
US11759462B2
The present invention is directed to spirocyclic compounds which are inhibitors of tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), particularly isoform 1 (TPH1), that are useful in the treatment of diseases or disorders associated with peripheral serotonin including, for example, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, inflammatory, metabolic, and low bone mass diseases, as well as serotonin syndrome, and cancer.
US11759450B2
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to relates to substituted benzothiophene analogs which are useful as selective degraders of estrogen receptor, methods of making same, pharmaceutical compositions comprising same, and methods of treating one or more clinical conditions associated with estrogen receptor, such as a cancer, including breast cancer, or osteoporosis. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11759447B1
Described is a cannabinoid-terpenoid solution (CTS) and method of treating a disease state or condition in animals other than humans via cannabinoid-terpenoid therapy. The CTS includes a unique combination of cannabinoids, terpenoids (terpenes), and a lipophilic carrier to allow safely and effectively treat the animal.
US11759445B2
The present disclosure relates to use of Rivastigmine in the preparation of an anti-radiation medicament, and belongs to the field of medical technology. The present disclosure provides use of Rivastigmine in the preparation of an anti-radiation medicament. Researches show that Rivastigmine significantly promoted the proliferation of Lgr5+ stem cells receiving 10 Gy radiation (after being irradiated with 10 Gy radiation for 10 d, Lgr5+ stem cells cultured in a Rivastigmine-containing culture solution had an increment 14.2 times of that of the Lgr5+ stem cells cultured in a Rivastigmine-free culture solution). Rivastigmine also significantly reduced the mortality of mice after being irradiated with 10 Gy radiation (after receiving 10 Gy whole body irradiation, all the mice not intraperitoneally injected Rivastigmine died within 10 d; and for the mice intraperitoneally injected Rivastigmine, the survival rate of the mice was still greater than 40% 30 d later), and thus might have good radiation-proof effect.
US11759443B2
In embodiments, a method of treating a disease or condition caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus in a mammal is disclosed including administering to the mammal a composition comprising protocatechuic acid crystals. The mammal may be a human. The composition may include a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US11759437B2
The present invention describes a method of preventing, ameliorating and/or treating disorders or diseases associated with the integrated stress response (ISR) involving the p-eIF2α pathway arising from various cellular stresses such as oxidative stress, hypoxia and ER stress, chronic or prolonged bio-mechanical stress. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method which prevents or alleviates aberrant cell differentiation that is caused by the activation of the integrated stress response and thereby prevents or alleviates conditions, disorders or diseases resulting therefrom. In one embodiment, ISR-associated diseases subject to the present invention include but are not limited to skeletal disorders including disc degeneration, MCDS and other skeletal dysplasias, cancers, inflammatory diseases, diabetes, fibrosis, obesity and neurodegenerative diseases. In another embodiment, the present invention provides a method of using a p-eIF2α-modulator for the prevention or treatment of conditions, disorders or diseases described herein.
US11759431B2
An abuse deterrent and misuse deterrent transdermal patch comprising aversive agents incorporated in the backing layer of the patch. The aversive agents can exhibit biphasic or sustained kinetics of release with an immediate portion released rapidly and an extended portion released in a prolonged manner when exposed to a dissolution medium. The prolonged aversive agent release provides deterrence against extraction of drug from fresh and used patches and serves to prevent accidental misuse of used patches by children. The abuse deterrent and misuse deterrent patch systems can be used for transdermal delivery of therapeutically active agents and particularly those drugs that are highly prone to abuse such as opiate and opioid analgesics and stimulants.
US11759430B2
The present disclosure relates to an active substance carrier comprising a core-shell network structure formed using a biopolymer. In an aspect of the present disclosure, the core-shell network structure comprises a core-shell particle comprising: a core comprising prolamin; and a shell comprising pullulan and pectin, wherein the pullulan comprised in the shell surrounds the core and the pectin is located in the outermost layer of the shell, so that a network is formed between the core-shell particles. It can effectively facilitate the transdermal absorption of an active substance.
US11759428B2
The present invention relates to a stable pharmaceutical formulation comprising omeprazole, its enantiomer, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, and sodium bicarbonate, and a method for preparing the same. Specifically, the present invention provides a stable formulation by preventing omeprazole, its enantiomer, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, from coming in direct contact with sodium bicarbonate, to reduce the production of impurities.
US11759425B2
The present disclosure provides a dry powder composition of treprostinil prodrugs and a method of treating pulmonary hypertension (e.g., pulmonary arterial hypertension), portopulmonary hypertension, or pulmonary fibrosis in a patient in need thereof. The dry powder composition includes (a) from about 0.1 wt % to about 3 wt % of a compound of Formula (I): or an enantiomer, diastereomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, (b) from about 0.01 wt % to about 3 wt % of DSPE-PEG2000, (c) from about 10 wt % to about 50 wt % of leucine, and the balance being (d) a sugar selected from the group consisting of trehalose and mannitol. The entirety of (a), (b), (c), and (d) is 100 wt %, and R1 is tetradecyl, pentadecyl, hexadecyl, heptadecyl, or octadecyl. The method includes administering an effective amount of the dry powder composition to the lungs of the patient by inhalation via a dry powder inhaler. In certain compositions and methods provided herein, R1 is hexadecyl, e.g., linear hexadecyl.
US11759419B2
A water-dissolvable compressed oral nicotine lozenge is disclosed, the oral nicotine lozenge comprising a first module and a second module, the first and the second modules being fused by compression, the first module being a lozenge module comprising at least one sugar alcohol and the second module being an FDT-module comprising at least one sugar alcohol and nicotine. Also, a method of manufacturing a water-dissolvable compressed oral nicotine lozenge is disclosed.
US11759415B2
A cosmetic composition is provided. The cosmetic composition includes Astrocaryum vulgare oil and/or butter, which is useful in the production and/or protection against degradation of hyaluronic acid in the skin. Also provided are the process for the production of the cosmetic composition and related uses and methods.
US11759396B2
A medicine feeder includes: an outer rotary body on the outer side to be rotated about a vertical line; an inner inclined rotary body on the inner side to be rotated about an inclined line; and a sorting mechanism and a regulating mechanism operable to align solid medicine pieces carried from the top of the inner inclined rotary body onto an annular upper end surface of the outer rotary body through rotation of the inner inclined rotary body. An upper surface inclined portion of the inner inclined rotary body includes delivery portions sloping downward toward the outer side even at an elevated position and push-up portions not sloping downward toward the outer side, the delivery portions and the push-up portions being formed alternately in the circumferential direction. The push-up portions include projecting portions. The projecting portions are extended to the inner peripheral side of the delivery portions.
US11759392B2
An auricular acupuncture patch to which an energy and blood stimulating part is attached is disclosed. The auricular acupuncture patch according to the present invention is attached along the reflect point of the ear, thereby being effective for treating dizziness, headaches, gastritis, asthma, gastroduodenal ulcers, enteritis, abdominal pain, diarrhea, bowel dysfunction, menstrual irregularity, insomnia, migraines, phobias, nervous vomiting, high fever, skin pruritus, oligogalactia, indigestion, obesity, smoking, and the like, and enabling the replacement of a decorative part, which are formed on the auricular acupuncture patch having the energy and blood stimulating part attached thereto, so as to provide various aesthetic effectiveness and conveniences in replacement.
US11759389B2
A garment with prepositioned, definite sensory stimulating devices attached. These sensory stimulating devices include, but are not limited to, electrical stimulation, audio and physical stimulation such as localised force generation, compression, constriction, vibration, and surround sound. Predetermined and defined actuators allow the wearer to receive tissue, nerve and/or muscle stimulation and/or contraction so that the stimulation is precise as determined by its ability to conform to the scientific methodology of repeatability, reproducibility and reliability; this being due to consistency of actuator positioning in one or multiple locals on the human body. A personal surround sound can also be integrated to the garment to ensure the wearer is always in the optimal position relative the speakers. These actuators can be force generators within the garment for the wearer to feel impact or apparatus or electrodes included in the garment to locally constrict and increase pressure on the wearer.
US11759380B2
A hospital bed having foot egress, including a foot section with a pair of foot panels that can pivot upward and be locked into place to provide a support structure for standing and ambulation. Each of the pair of foot section panels can include a grab handle for assistance in standing. The foot end of the frame of the bed includes a retractable crossbar which supports the foot panels, and which can be reversibly retracted towards the middle of the bed frame and beneath the seat section of the bed to provide a clearing at the distal foot end of the bed for the patient to stand and exit the bed safely and efficiently.
US11759375B2
An absorbent article comprising a first and second plurality of elastics. The first plurality of elastics may be disposed in a front and a crotch region. The second plurality of elastics may be disposed in a back region and the crotch region. The first and second plurality of elastics may be linear and parallel with a transverse axis of the article.
US11759373B2
A method for producing a chassis web for a disposable pant article, the method including feeding a first continuous base web in a machine direction; attaching a continuous elastic waistband component to the first base web in an attachment area extending in the machine direction; attaching a second continuous base web to the first continuous base web and the continuous waistband component, covering at least the continuous waistband component, thereby forming a compound base web having first and second side edges, the attachment area being spaced apart from at least one of the first and second side edges of the compound base web; severing the compound base web and the attached waistband component by cutting; shifting positions of the first panel web and the second panel web in a cross machine direction; forming a coherent chassis web.
US11759371B2
A medical dressing is provided. The dressing has a central portion and a border portion, and comprises a backing layer, an adhesive body contact layer and a pad arranged in the central portion between the backing layer and the adhesive body contact layer. The pad is symmetric about a longitudinal center line and the dressing comprises a lobed portion on each side of the center line. The medical dressing comprises a gripping tab which is coplanar with the border portion and which projects outwardly from the border portion. The medical dressing may be used for pressure ulcer prevention, such as at the sacrum region of a human body.
US11759368B2
A wound therapy device and method includes a skin contacting element, a reactor, and a reactor housing element. The skin contacting element is configured for covering an associated tissue site, the reactor for creating a pressure condition at the associated tissue site upon actuation thereof, and the reactor housing element for accommodating the reactor. The skin contacting element has a skin contacting side and an interface side, which is opposite the skin contacting side. The reactor housing element has a lower affixing side and an upper side, which is opposite the lower affixing side.
US11759363B2
The vision protection apparatus of the present invention includes a wiper mechanism which allows a user to clear condensation from an inner surface of a lens without removing the vision protection apparatus.
US11759360B2
A method for forming an incision in an eye, the method including performing a first pass of a first laser beam along a path within an eye, wherein after completion of the first pass there exists a residual uncut layer at an anterior surface of a cornea of the eye. The method further including performing a second pass of a second laser beam only along a portion of the path that contains the residual uncut layer, wherein after completion of the second pass, the residual uncut layer is transformed into a full complete through surface incision.
US11759358B2
An ab externo automated laser treatment system for treating an eye in a subject, includes a non-contact laser source configured to generate a laser beam having at least one wavelength to treat the eye by directing the laser beam from a location spaced from the eye, wherein the at least one wavelength is a near-infrared wavelength in the range of about 0.5-2.2 μm, a laser scanner optically coupled to the non-contact laser source to receive the laser beam from the non-contact laser source and to scan the laser beam relative to the eye, and a processor, and memory including stored computer-readable instructions that, responsive to execution by the processor, cause the laser treatment system to direct the laser beam to a plurality of trans-scleral treatment locations to be irradiated in a predetermined treatment pattern on an external surface of the eye, wherein the trans-scleral treatment locations are 0-4 mm posterior to the corneolimbal junction, and wherein the laser beam is repetitively directed to the same irradiated trans-scleral treatment locations on the surface of the eye, and the trans-scleral treatment locations are irradiated at intervals sufficient to induce protective thermal preconditioning and therapeutic bio-stimulation of one or more of the trabecular meshwork and/or ciliary body without photocoagulation of the tissue of the eye. Trans-pupillary systems, patient interfaces, and methods are also disclosed.
US11759354B2
An enclosure or plenum that supports a looped pump tube is hingedly connected to a framed thin-walled heat exchange bag through which working fluid from an intravascular heat exchange catheter flows. The frame with bag can be inserted between cold plates to exchange heat with the working fluid flowing through the bag. With the framed bag between the plates, the looped pump tube from the enclosure or plenum is receivable in the raceway of a peristaltic pump, which pumps working fluid through the system.
US11759348B2
The invention relates to a device for hyperthermic treatment of itching, for example following insect bites, wherein during the treatment a treatment surface is regulated at a temperature of preferably between 42° C. and 56° C. for a period of 2 sec to 12 sec and a hardware-implemented temperature monitor limits the maximum temperature of the treatment surface and a safety fuse shuts off the device in the case of a short-circuit or uncontrolled continuous heating.
US11759338B2
Prosthesis devices can include sockets having adjustable features. In one example, a socket includes one or more panels that can move outwardly or inwardly relative to a receptacle portion of the socket. The panels can be moved by tightening a tensioning line.
US11759337B2
The present invention generally relates to a system and method for fine motor control of fingers on a prosthetic hand. In particular, the present disclosure describes a system and method for controlling the flexion or extension of one or more fingers of a prosthetic hand to reproduce a natural stroke such as for, e.g., writing, painting, brushing teeth, or eating. The systems and methods described herein use electromyographic (EMG) signals and, more particularly, combinations of electromyographic signals, from muscles in the forearm to activate one or more motors of the prosthetic hand that control the motion of the prosthetic fingers. The electromyographic signals may be used to cause fingers of a prosthetic hand to, for example, imitate a writing stroke while the fingers of the prosthetic hand hold a writing utensil. Additionally, the present invention describes electrode placement locations that maximize peak signal detected while maintaining a low base-line signal.
US11759336B2
A prosthetic foot comprising an internal keel (1) and an encapsulation material (2). The keel (1) is made of two parts (3,4), namely an elastic ankle (3) and an elastic blade (4), to ensure a behaviour of the prosthesis as close as possible to the biomechanics of a sound human foot (plantar flexion, dorsiflexion, inversion, eversion). The materials and design used for the keel (1) allow storing and releasing strain energy at the right phases of the gait cycle. Elastomeric foams act as safety features in specific areas to prevent keel overloading. The keel (1) is preferably encapsulated into two types of foam to fill internal space and as cosmetic feature as it has a human foot shape.
US11759328B2
Embodiments are directed to an expandable spacer for insertion between two adjacent bony structures or two adjacent joint surfaces, and more particularly relate to an expandable spacer for insertion into the void remaining in the intervertebral space. Embodiments may include an expandable spacer comprising a first endplate; a second endplate spaced from the first endplate; and one or more bags disposed between the first endplate and the second endplate that couple the first endplate to the second endplate. The one or more bags may be configured to receive a filler material to expand the expandable spacer from an initial position having a first height to an expanded position having a second height, wherein the second height is greater than the first height.
US11759320B2
Embodiments of a radially collapsible and expandable prosthetic heart valve are disclosed. A valve frame can have a tapered profile when mounted on a delivery shaft, with an inflow end portion having a smaller diameter than an outflow end portion. The valve can comprise generally V-shaped leaflets, reducing material within the inflow end of the frame. An outer skirt can be secured to the outside of the inflow end portion of the frame, the outer skirt having longitudinal slack when the valve is expanded and lying flat against the frame when the valve is collapsed. A diagonally woven inner skirt can elongate axially with the frame. Side tabs of adjacent leaflets can extend through and be secured to window frame portions of the frame to form commissures. The window frame portions can be depressed radially inward relative to surrounding frame portions when the valve is crimped onto a delivery shaft.
US11759318B2
This invention relates to the design and function of a device which allows for retrieval of a previously implanted valve prosthesis from a beating heart without extracorporeal circulation using a transcatheter retrieval system, including a guide component to facilitate the compression of the valve and retraction into a retrieval catheter, as well as an improved prosthetic transcatheter heart valve having one or more of: a series of radially extending tines having a loop terminus to improve sealing a deployed prosthetic mitral valve against hemodynamic leaking, a pre-compressible stent-in-stent design, or an articulating cuff attached to a covered stent-valve and a commissural sealing skirt structure attached to the underside of the articulating cuff.
US11759309B2
An implantable device for supporting an intraocular lens in an eye including a lens support structure having a central aperture; and one or more fixation arms coupled to the lens support structure and configured to locate and stabilize the device within the eye. Related tools, systems, and methods are provided.
US11759305B2
Devices, systems, and methods for improving airflow within an airway. One example embodiment includes a method for treating a subject. The method includes (1) placing an expandable object into one or more airways of the bronchial tree of the subject, (2) expanding the expandable object within at least one of the one or more airways such that at least a portion of a wall of the one or more airways is expanded, and (3) placing a stent in the airway such that a portion of the stent is adjacent to the portion of the wall of the one or more expanded airways.
US11759300B1
An electric toothbrush includes a handle provided with a liquid feeding port, a toothbrush head connected to the handle and provided with a liquid discharging port communicated to the liquid feeding port through a liquid transfer passageway, a pumping mechanism disposed at the liquid transfer passageway and used for providing a pumping force for the liquid transfer passageway so as to transfer liquid from the liquid feeding port to the liquid discharging port and spray the liquid, and a transmission mechanism disposed on the handle and connected to the toothbrush head to drive the toothbrush head have a reciprocating motion relative to the handle.
US11759299B2
To provide a dental stereolithography-type three-dimensional printing material in which the total preparing time required from modeling with using a 3D printer to a final curing is short, work efficiency is excellent, temporal shrinkage deformation of a dental three-dimensional modeled object is suppressed and a dimensional accuracy is excellent. The dental stereolithography-type three-dimensional printing material of the present invention comprises at least one or more (a) monofunctional acrylate monomer having an aromatic ring and (b) photopolymerization initiator, wherein an electronegativity difference between adjacent atoms which are bonded by covalent bond in all atoms constituting the (a) monofunctional acrylate monomer having an aromatic ring is less than 1.0.
US11759291B2
Provided herein are orthodontic systems and methods for automatically segmenting a person's teeth. Systems, methods and processes are provided to properly segment the teeth of a person's teeth from an image of the person's face showing at least some of the person's teeth (e.g., dental arch). Methods and systems are provided to automatically detect dental edges after a dental scan. Also described herein are methods and systems for generating a simulated image of the person's face from the final segmentation of the person's teeth in which the segmented teeth have been moved from their original position, including a new position based on an orthodontic treatment plan.
US11759290B2
Provided is a silicate glass, a method for preparing a silicate glass-ceramics by using the silicate glass, and a method for preparing a lithium disilicate glass-ceramics by using the silicate glass, and more particularly, to a method for preparing a glass-ceramics that has a nanosize of 0.2 to 0.5 μm and contains lithium disilicate and silicate crystalline phases. A nano lithium disilicate glass-ceramics containing a SiO2 crystalline phase includes: a glass composition including 70 to 85 wt % SiO2, 10 to 13 wt % Li2O, 3 to 7 wt % P2O5 working as a nuclei formation agent, 0 to 5 wt % Al2O3 for increasing a glass transition temperature and a softening point and enhancing chemical durability of glass, 0 to 2 wt % ZrO2, 0.5 to 3 wt % CaO for increasing a thermal expansion coefficient of the glass, 0.5 to 3 wt % Na2O, 0.5 to 3 wt % K2O, and 1 to 2 wt % colorants, and 0 to 2.0 wt % mixture of MgO, ZnO, F, and La2O3.
US11759271B2
The console-based surgical system includes a footswitch having a footswitch connector line and an input visual indicator having a light emitter. The console-based surgical system includes a surgical console including instrument ports for coupling to and transmitting an energization signal to a surgical instrument and a footswitch port for coupling to and receiving a signal from the footswitch. Each instrument port includes an instrument visual indicator and the footswitch port includes a footswitch visual indicator. The indicators include a light emitter and a ring-shaped light guide. The surgical console includes a controller, which associates the footswitch port with an instrument port and activates the light emitter of the input visual indicator, the footswitch visual indicator, and the instrument visual indicator of the associated instrument port to emit a matching colored light. The controller receives a signal from the footswitch and generates and transmits an energization signal to the associated instrument port to actuate a function of the surgical instrument coupled to the associated instrument port.
US11759261B2
The disclosed method encompasses pre-registering an anatomical body part with a coordinate system used by an augmented reality device (such as augmented reality glasses) for outputting (e.g. displaying or projecting) augmentation information. An example of the augmentation information is the position (in the real image captured by the augmented reality device) of a fine registration area on the anatomical body part which a user is supposed to identify for fine registration of the anatomical body part with a tracking coordinate system used by a medical position tracking system. The disclosed method is usable in a medical environment such as for surgery or radiotherapy.
US11759257B2
A microwave ablation antenna assembly (10) including a coaxial cable (14) terminating in a radiating section (16), a first tubular member (18) circumscribing the coaxial cable (14) and spaced therefrom to permit fluid flow therebetween, and a second tubular member (20) circumscribing the first tubular member (18) and spaced therefrom to permit fluid flow therebetween. The microwave ablation antenna assembly (10) further includes a hub (26) configured to receive the coaxial cable (14), first tubular member (18), and second tubular member (20), the hub (26) including a fluid inflow chamber (36) and a fluid outflow chamber (38) and an integrated hub divider (40) and hub cap (28) separating the fluid inflow chamber (36) from the fluid outflow chamber (38) and prohibiting fluid flow between the inflow chamber (36) and outflow chamber (38) except via the spacing between the coaxial cable (14) and the first tubular member (18) and between the first tubular member (18) and the second tubular member (20).
US11759256B2
A microstrip impedance transformer that permits efficient (i.e. low loss) coupling of a microwave feed line (e.g. a conventional 50Ω coaxial cable) to an instrument cable, where the instrument cable has a lower impedance (e.g. in the range 12 to 14Ω) and includes an internal passageway. The microstrip impedance transformer is configured to perform impedance matching between the microwave feed line and the instrument cable in a manner that does not adversely affect a separate feed, e.g. for delivering fluid, into the internal passageway.
US11759253B2
Methods for using a surgical device integrating a suction mechanism with a coagulation mechanism for improving lesion creation capabilities. The device comprises an elongate member having an insulative covering attached about means for coagulating soft tissue with at least one diagnostic element coupled to an energy transfer element of the device. Openings through the covering expose regions of the coagulation-causing elements and are coupled to lumens in the elongate member which are routed to a vacuum source and a fluid source to passively transport fluid along the contacted soft tissue surface in order to push the maximum temperature deeper into tissue.
US11759252B2
In one embodiment, a medical system includes a medical instrument includes an elongated shaft having a distal end, at least one cutting element disposed at a distal end of the shaft, a position-tracking transducer disposed at the distal end of the shaft, and electrically insulated from the shaft and the at least one cutting element, and at least one metal coagulation electrode disposed at least partially over the position-tracking transducer, which electrically isolates the at least one metal coagulation electrode from the shaft, a signal generator coupled to apply an electrical current to the at least one metal coagulation electrode, and processing circuitry configured to receive signals generated by the position-tracking transducer, and track a location of the distal end responsively to the received signals.
US11759243B2
A bi-directional fixating transvertebral (BDFT) screw/cage apparatus is provided. The BDFT apparatus includes an intervertebral cage including a plurality of internal angled screw guides, a plurality of screw members, and a cage indentation adjacent to the screw guides that independently or supplemented by other screw locking mechanisms prevents the screw members from pulling out of the internal angled screw guides. The internal angled screw guides orient a first screw member superiorly and a second screw member inferiorly. The intervertebral cage is adapted for posterior lumbar intervertebral placement, anterior lumbar intervertebral placement, anterio-lateral thoracic intervertebral placement, or anterior cervical intervertebral placement.
US11759229B2
Rotational atherectomy devices and systems can remove or reduce stenotic lesions in blood vessels by rotating an abrasive element within the vessel. The abrasive element can be attached to a distal portion of an elongate flexible drive shaft that extends from a handle assembly. In particular embodiments, the handle assembly includes a compressed gas driven turbine member that drives rotation of the drive shaft. The turbine member can be rotatably attached to a carriage that is longitudinally translatable in relation to a housing of the handle assembly. The handle assembly can include a latch mechanism that when actuated allows the carriage to translate to a proximal-most position. While the carriage is in the proximal-most position, an open pathway is created so that a guidewire can be slidably passed through the handle assembly and a lumen of the drive shaft.
US11759224B2
A surgical instrument system comprising a first motor, a second motor, and a third motor is disclosed. The surgical instrument system comprises a first handle comprising a first number of controls, a second handle comprising a second number of controls, and a shaft assembly. The shaft assembly is attachable to the first handle in a first orientation in order to engage one of the motors. The shaft assembly is attachable to the second handle in a second orientation to engage a different motor. The surgical instrument system is configured to perform a different function of an end effector in the first orientation and the second orientation.
US11759215B2
A surgical positioning system including a rotation guide slide and a rotation guide pointer configured to be coupled to the rotation guide slide. The rotation guide pointer includes a base and a pointer extension. The base includes protrusion and a hole extending through the base and the protrusion where the protrusion is sized and configured to be received within a channel such that the rotation guide pointer can translate parallel to a plane defined by the first side of the rotation guide slide. The hole is sized and configured to receive a screw to fix the position of the rotation guide pointer relative to the rotation guide slide, with the protrusion configured to expand when the screw is advanced in the hole.
US11759210B1
To achieve in vivo repair of severed mammalian nerve tissue, a system can be employed to induce distraction neurogenesis. At least a portion of the system can be anchored at an injury site, such as between distal and proximal nerve ends. The system can be attached to the proximal nerve end and can place the nerve under micro-tension for an extended period of treatment. The system may also deliver medication or treatment to encourage neurogenesis and to reduce pain in the subject receiving treatment. After the course of treatment, the device can be removed from the injury site, and the nerve ends rejoined.
US11759209B2
A tissue gripping device is formed from a shape-memory material, and has a base section, a first arm, and a second arm disposed opposite the first arm, each arm having a first end coupled to the base section and a free end extending from the base section. The arms of the tissue gripping device are configured to resiliently flex toward a relaxed configuration in a distal direction as the tissue gripping device is moved from a pre-deployed configuration toward a deployed configuration. The tissue gripping device is usable in a method for gripping tissue. The method includes positioning the tissue gripping device near target tissue and moving the tissue gripping device from a pre-deployed configuration toward a deployed configuration in order to grip the target tissue.
US11759208B2
A surgical instrument has a staple cartridge housing a plurality of staples and an anvil configured to capture tissue therebetween. The surgical instrument also has a firing assembly configured to deploy the plurality of staples into the captured tissue during a firing sequence, and a handle that includes an electric motor operably coupled to the firing assembly, wherein the electric motor is configured to motivate the firing assembly to deploy the plurality of staples into the captured tissue during the firing sequence, and a power pack. The power pack includes rechargeable battery cells configured to power the electric motor, at least one battery-cell health indicator, and an electronic control circuit configured to assess whether a subset of rechargeable battery cells is damaged during the firing sequence based on at least one measurement performed by the at least one battery-cell health indicator.
US11759203B2
A surgical instrument comprised of a stapling end effector having a staple-applying assembly with opposing stapling surfaces defining a closure distance therebetween, wherein at least one stapling surface is movable, and a handle connected to the stapling end effector and comprising a staple-firing assembly that causes the staple-applying assembly to staple tissue between the stapling surfaces. The handle further comprises a power source, electric motor, and closure assembly that has a drive part movable by the motor, detection mechanism, a controller. The drive part is connected to the stapling end effector. When the motor is supplied with power, the drive part advances the movable stapling surface towards the opposing stapling surface. The detection mechanism detects a position of the drive part along the drive-part axis and the controller is configured to prevent stapling unless the drive part is at a position corresponding to a closure distance within a pre-defined range.
US11759202B2
A staple cartridge comprising an implantable adjunct is disclosed.
US11759183B2
The present disclosure provides an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound imaging apparatus, and a control method thereof that can efficiently and quickly determine whether a disinfectant remains in an ultrasound probe or whether the ultrasound is operating normally without changing the structure of an ultrasound imaging device. The ultrasound imaging apparatus of an embodiment includes: a display provided on the main body; a main body including at least one slot connected to the connector; and a controller configured to output a warning message to the display when the connector and the slot are connected and the current flowing from the ultrasound probe is out of a predetermined reference range, and the controller is composed of at least one processor included in the main body.
US11759181B2
To provide a simpler implementation in which setting information is shared among a plurality of medical image capture apparatuses while maintaining intrinsic information each of the apparatuses has, in first memory in a first ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus UL1 are stored first data including first setting information set in the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus UL1, and backup data for first intrinsic information included in the first data; in second memory in a second ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus UL2 is stored second data including second setting information set in the second ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus UL2; and once the second data is input via a network, a first processor rewrites the first data stored in the first memory into the second data, reads the first intrinsic information in the backup data, and rewrites the second intrinsic information into which the first intrinsic information has been rewritten, into the first intrinsic information in the backup data.
US11759165B2
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate moving speed information indicating a moving speed of an ultrasound probe, on the basis of a predetermined number of pieces of medical image data among a plurality of pieces of medical image data in a time series obtained from an ultrasound scan performed by the ultrasound probe. The processing circuitry is configured to cause a display to display the moving speed information.
US11759164B2
An X-ray detector integral with an automatic exposure control (AEC) device can include an X-ray detection part configured to detect X-rays irradiated from an X-ray source and generate X-ray image data; and an automatic exposure detection board located below the X-ray detection part and configured to generate an X-ray sensing signal for automatic exposure control based on residual X-rays which have passed by or through the X-ray detection part.
US11759162B2
The present disclosure is related to removing scatter from a SPECT scan by utilizing a radiative transfer equation (RTE) method. An attenuation map and emission map are acquired for generating scatter sources maps and scatter on detectors using the RTE method. The estimated scatter on detectors can be removed to produce an image of a SPECT scan with less scatter. Both first-order and multiple-order scatter can be estimated and removed. Additionally, scatter caused by multiple tracers can be determined and removed.
US11759148B2
A multimodal sensing system comprises a plurality of sensors placed proximate to a body part. The sensing system receives, using a plurality of sensors, a plurality of signals related to at least one of a movement and a pose of the body part. The sensing system then extrapolates information regarding the type of movement or pose and at least one characteristic of the type a movement or pose.
US11759146B2
The clinical diagnosis and monitoring of patients with neurological conditions may be established through behavioral examinations, assessments or evaluations, or neuroimaging scans. The system and methods described herein diagnose the cognitive function of a subject by measuring the neural response of the subject to one or more naturalistic sensory stimuli. The system measures the subject's sensory evoked response to the naturalistic sensory stimuli by computing the statistical comparison between the subject's neural signal and either the raw stimulus signal or the stimulus' signal envelope. A latency value, or other signal feature, is extracted from the subject's sensory evoked response and a diagnosis of the subject's cognitive function is then made based on the identified latency value or other extracted signal feature.
US11759134B2
Systems and methods for detecting deceptive intent of a subject include observing eye movements of the subject and correlating the observed movements to known baseline neurophysiological indicators of deception. A detection system may record eye movement data from the subject, compare the eye movement data to a data model comprising threshold eye movement data samples, and from the comparison make a determination whether or not the subject is lying. The detection system may create an alert if deception is detected. The eye movements detected include saccadic and intersaccadic parameters such as intersaccadic drift velocity. Measurements may be collected in situ with a field testing device, such as a non-invasive, non-contact device attached to the subject's computing device and configured to non-obtrusively record the eye movement data.
US11759129B2
A noninvasive glucometer and a blood glucose detection method are provided. The noninvasive glucometer includes a light source, a spectrometer and detecting space into which an object to be detected intervenes; the detecting space is connected with the light source and the spectrometer respectively, so that a spectrum emitted by the light source can generate incident light entering the spectrometer after passing through the object to be detected. The spectrometer includes: an optical modulation layer configured to perform light modulation on the incident light to obtain a modulated spectrum; a photoelectric detection layer located below the optical modulation layer, and configured to receive the modulated spectrum and provide differential responses with respect to the modulated spectrum; and a signal processing circuit layer located below the photoelectric detection layer and configured to reconstruct the differential responses to obtain an original spectrum.
US11759116B2
In some examples, a system includes processing circuitry configured to generate a laser speckle contrast signal based on a received signal indicative of detected light, wherein the detected light is scatted by tissue from a coherent light source. The processing circuitry may also determine, from the laser speckle contrast signal, a flow value and determine, from the laser speckle contrast signal, a waveform metric. Based on the flow value and the waveform metric, the processing circuitry may determine a blood flow metric for the tissue and output a representation of the blood flow metric.
US11759114B2
An implantable extravascular pressure sensing system includes a cuff including a first brace portion affixed to a second brace portion and defining a longitudinal axis therebetween. The first brace portion defines a fluid chamber, the fluid chamber defining a recessed aperture. A first lateral restraint and a second lateral restraint are disposed between the first brace and the second brace, the first lateral restraint and the second lateral restraint being configured to be displaceable in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. A diaphragm is coupled to the fluid chamber and sealing the recessed aperture. A fluid is disposed within the fluid chamber for exhibiting a hydraulic pressure in communication with the diaphragm. A pressure sensor is coupled to the first brace portion, the pressure sensor being configured to measure a change in the hydraulic pressure when a force is imparted on the diaphragm.
US11759109B2
A method of automating the collection, association, and coordination of multiple medical data sources using a coordinating service application, computer, database, and/or server system to manage devices, examinations, and people involved in the medical examination and treatment process. In an embodiment, the method comprises authenticating a user for a premises, a device, or a device group, validating particular use of the device based on user credentials or type of device or device group, associating a medical examination with a patient or a medical examination schedule, associating medical examination data from a device or device group with a related medical examination session, routing medical examination data to a computer, database, or server, and pairing medical examination session data with a medical interpretation, clinical testing results, diagnoses, and/or other recorded information.
US11759107B2
A microfluidic strain sensing device for monitoring intraocular pressure. The device has a contact lens and a closed microfluidic network embedded with the contact lens. The network has a volume that is sensitive to an applied strain. The network distinguishes: (i) a gas reservoir containing a gas, (ii) a liquid reservoir containing a liquid that changes volume when the strain is applied, and (iii) a sensing channel able to hold the liquid within the sensing channel. The sensing channel connects the gas reservoir on one end and connects the liquid reservoir on another end. The sensing channel establishes a liquid-gas equilibrium pressure interface and equilibrium within the sensing channel, which would fluidically change as a response to radius of curvature variations on a cornea, or as a response to mechanical stretching and release of the cornea. The liquid-gas equilibrium pressure interface and equilibrium are used for measuring the intraocular pressure.
US11759105B2
An illumination system for producing a spatially distributed illumination pattern for measuring the cornea of an eye and, in particular, for determining the topography of the eye. In so doing, the system facilitates distance-independent measurements. The illumination system includes an illumination unit, an optical element for collimating the illumination light and a unit for producing a spatially distributed illumination pattern in the form of a fraxicon. In particular, the illumination unit includes a plurality of illumination modules which are arranged such that each illumination module illuminates part of the fraxicon, and consequently a full-area illumination is facilitated. The system for producing a spatially distributed illumination pattern serves to determine the topography of the cornea of an eye. Here, the system is designed as a compact module, and so it can be easily combined with other measurement systems, without interfering with the beam paths thereof.
US11759099B2
An optical scanning imaging/projection apparatus includes a light source that outputs illumination light and projection light in the visible range, an optical scanner that scans the illumination light and the projection light, which are output from the light source, along a predetermined scanning trajectory, a switch that switches the output from the light source so that the illumination light and the projection light are alternately output, an optical detector that detects observation light generated by a subject irradiated with the illumination light, a storage that stores data in which an intensity of the detected observation light detected is associated with information indicating a detection position on the scanning trajectory, and a projection light controller that controls, on the basis of the data stored in the storage unit, an intensity of the projection light to be applied to each position on the scanning trajectory.
US11759086B2
A household dishwasher includes a washing compartment, an activatable unit arranged in the washing compartment, a control device configured to actuate the activatable unit, an optical sensor configured to acquire an optical sensor signal of the washing compartment, and a communication unit for bidirectional communication with a remote server. The communication unit transmits the acquired optical sensor signal to the remote server and receives a control command from the remote server for actuating the activatable unit and to forward the received control command to the control device.
US11759085B2
A floor cleaning system and a method of cleaning a floor are provided. The cleaning system includes a flat headed mop. The system also includes a frame and at least one compartment removably coupled to the frame. A wringing assembly is fluidly coupled to the at least one compartment, the wringing assembly comprising a fixed extractor element and at least one roller movable from a first position when the mop head is being inserted to a second position when the mop head is being withdrawn.
US11759076B2
A dust collector has a well-balanced weight. The dust collector includes a body housing, a motor located inside the body housing, a fan rotatable by the motor, and a battery mount located inside the body housing and frontward from the motor.
US11759073B2
A multi-cyclone dust collecting device according to the present disclosure comprises: a primary cyclone formed to primarily separate contaminants from introduced contaminant-containing air; and a plurality of second cyclones which are installed in the primary cyclone so as to separate fine dust from air discharged from the primary cyclone, and each of which has a plurality of introduction ports and one discharge port, wherein the plurality of introduction ports arranged on each of the plurality of secondary cyclones protrude outward from a body of each of the plurality of secondary cyclones and are formed in tangential directions to the outer circumferential surface of the each of the plurality of secondary cyclones.
US11759071B2
Apparatus and method for receiving and holding debris in a collection chamber of a vacuum cleaner. The collection chamber has an inlet opening through which debris-entrained air enters the collection chamber. When the vacuum cleaner is off, the cover prevents debris from leaving the collection chamber through the inlet opening. The wall of the collection chamber moves when negative pressure is applied to the collection chamber, and the wall movement moves the cover from the inlet opening, allowing the debris-entrained air to enter the collection chamber. In some embodiments, the moving part of the wall is an air filter.
US11759067B2
A hose device may include a flexible hose device body having a first end configured to be attached to a cyclone and a second end with a free opening. The hose device may also include a plurality of weights affixed between the first end and the second end. When subjected to suction forces from a vacuum of the cyclone, the second end may be sucked upwards such that the plurality of weights hingedly swing toward the first end and the hose device body is in a retracted configuration. When released from the suction forces of the cyclone, the plurality of weights hingedly swing away from the first end and the hose device body extends downwards into an extended configuration by the gravity forces acting upon the weights, in the absence of the suction forces, to expand a size of the free opening.
US11759059B2
A foldable bath tub includes a base, a rim, and a basin wall disposed between and interconnecting the base and the rim. The bottom wall has an upwardly extending crotch support. The basin wall includes at least one crease. The basin wall is configured to be positioned in one of a folded condition in which the basin wall is folded into itself at the at least one crease an extended condition in which the basin wall is configured to receive an associated child. Where in the extended condition of the basin wall a distance from the base to the at least one crease increases along a length direction of the bath tub from a first end of the bath tub to a second end of the bath tub.
US11759058B2
A shaker device can include a cap configured to be resiliently fit around at least a portion of a container to seal an opening of the container and to engage the cap to the container to hold the cap to the container. The shaker device can include a mixing stalk attached to the cap and configured to hang into the container when the cap is sealing the opening of the container.
US11759056B2
An attachment for use with a food processing system includes a sealable body including a wall and a processing chamber, a chamber opening formed in said sealable body, and a vacuum passage arranged in fluid communication with said chamber opening. The vacuum passage is associated with at least one of said wall and said processing chamber of said sealable body.
US11759052B2
A movable rack assembly may include an input shaft, a driven gear, an adjustable rack, an interference plate, and a contact tab. The input shaft may extend along an input axis. The input shaft may include a worm gear segment disposed along the input axis between a first end and a second end. The driven gear may be enmeshed with the worm gear segment, define a maximum outer circumference, and be rotatable about a driven axis nonparallel to the input axis. The interference plate may be fixed to the driven gear. The interference plate may include a radial arm extending past the maximum outer circumference of the driven gear. The contact tab may extend from the input shaft and be axially offset from the worm gear segment in selective engagement with the radial arm at a predefined travel limit of the driven gear to halt rotation at the input shaft.
US11759047B2
The mixing apparatus includes a first container, wherein the first container comprises: a first port; and a mixing chamber. The mixing apparatus further includes a second container where the second container is adapted to receive the first container, and a seal disposed between the first container and the second container. In addition, the mixing apparatus includes a channel between the first port and the mixing chamber, where the channel is defined by the seal and the first container. In some examples, the seal includes: a first seal portion; and a transition seal portion, the transition portion includes a seal split; and an air intake channel.
US11759044B2
A coffee brewing system and method that includes a brew chamber that holds a brew solution during a brew cycle and dispenses the brew solution; a water system that dispenses water into the brew chamber; a content sensing system that measures the brew solution contents added to the brew chamber; a temperature control system with a heating element and a temperature sensor; at least one recirculating processing loop with a particle monitor system, wherein the recirculating processing loop circulates brew solution extracted from the brew chamber; and a control system that is communicatively coupled to the content sensing system, the temperature control system and the particle monitor system during a brew cycle, wherein the control system controls a brew cycle based on a selected a specified taste profile.
US11759043B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for estimating a state of an object to be heated based on sound which is generated when the object to be heated is heated, and providing the estimated information to other devices in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment through a 5G communication network. The heating apparatus may include a housing having a receiving space therein, a heating member disposed within the housing, a power supplier for supplying power to the heating member, a top plate disposed on the top of the housing to support the object to be heated, a sound sensor disposed on the bottom of the top plate, and a controller for predicting the state of the object to be heated by using a deep neural network model that has been trained through machine learning based on a sound signal received from the sound sensor.
US11759041B2
There is a self-tapping curtain rod bracket with spaced prongs terminating with tips. The tips and prongs are used to penetrate and create holes in a wall. They extend through the holes and engage the backside of the wall. A wall support extends from the spaced prongs along the frontside of the wall to provide support. An arm extends away from the wall and has a cradle to support a curtain rod. The wall support also has an arm support, and the spaced prongs also includes a mount support. The mount support being located between the arm support and the arm.
US11759033B1
A portable flashlight thermos cup with a charging function includes: a flashlight thermos cup body; a lighting mechanism on the flashlight thermos cup body; and a thermal energy conversion power generation mechanism on the flashlight thermos cup body that is electrically connected to the lighting mechanism and converts thermal energy into electrical energy; a cup body; and a plastic anti-ironing part that detaches from the cup body. The flashlight cup uses thermoelectric power generation to export the heat of hot water through metal connectors and dissipates heat through heat dissipation metal sheets to generate temperature differences. The thermoelectric power generation sheet converts thermal energy into electric energy and stores the electric energy in the battery. The battery can also be charged from outside sources and used for lighting or charging mobile power supplies. The portable flashlight thermos cup is environmentally friendly and used for outdoor emergencies.
US11759028B2
A play yard can be locked in an unfolded position via a latch mechanism or unlocked by the latch mechanism to fold to a folded position, by means of lifting a central member and bringing the rail members, the upper support members, the lower support members, and the connecting members to rotate toward the center of the play yard. A spring-loaded engaging member disposed on the rail member can have engagement with the bracket so that the play yard can be stably retained in the folded position. When the engaging member is operated to disengage from the bracket, the rail members, the upper support members, the lower support members, and the connecting members rotate away from the center of the play yard all the way to the unfolded position until the connecting members can be locked by the latch mechanism, which retains the play yard in the unfolded position.
US11759026B1
A child crib arrangement includes a pair of crib sidewalls (14, 16) and a pair of crib end walls (18, 20). A bottom panel (22) extends horizontally and in intermediate relation between the crib walls. A transparent side panel (272) includes a lower side panel end surface (296) that is releasably engaged in a horizontally elongated slot (130). The transparent side panel further includes at least one turned portion (292, 294) that includes a respective aperture (304, 306). A portion of a top rail (84) extends through the aperture. At least one transparent end panel (274) is in operative attached connection with a crib end wall. The transparent end panel may be in interengaging relation with the side panel to provide resistance to relative movement of the side panel and the end panel.
US11759024B2
A bed roll guard apparatus includes a base sheet having an end portion with an elastic band configured to be secured to a mattress. A first longitudinal pocket of the apparatus includes a first longitudinal pocket inner end coupled to the base sheet and a first longitudinal pocket outer end coupled to the base sheet and different in length than the first longitudinal pocket inner end. The second longitudinal pocket of the apparatus includes a second longitudinal pocket inner end coupled to the base sheet and a second longitudinal pocket outer end coupled to the base sheet and different in length than the second longitudinal pocket inner end. The first and second longitudinal pockets define, respectively, first and second bolster receptacle spaces between the respective first and second longitudinal pockets and the base sheet. First and second bolsters are received at the first and second bolster receptacle spaces, respectively.
US11759023B2
Provided is a three-dimensional wave generating device and a multifunctional motion bed having the same. A safety device prevents a driven pulley and/or a driven pulley to which an eccentric shaft is coupled from being separated from a coupling shaft. Therefore, operation stability is secured while noise caused by separation or unstable coupling of the driven pulley and/or eccentric shaft in a three-dimensional wave generating device is prevented from occurring, and when a functional motion bed to which the three-dimensional wave generating device is applied is provided, the user can feel a three-dimensional wave more effectively in bed.
US11759018B2
A chair has a metal base, a matrix of metal tubes having a common outside and an inside diameter, welded orthogonal to the metal base, extending vertically, and a matrix of posts matching the matrix of metal tubes, the posts bored for a portion of a length of each post, with each post engaged over one of the metal tubes. The chair is characterized in that one row of posts along one edge of the metal base comprises posts of a height greater than other posts, and forms a backrest for the chair, and in that the remaining matrix of posts, of a lesser height than the posts forming the backrest, are of a common height, and form a seat surface for the chair.
US11759015B2
A dynamic furniture system includes a first frame portion; a set of rollers mounted to the first frame portion; a second frame portion including one or more rockers having a roller-interface surface having a curved profile; wherein the set of rollers interface with the roller-interface surface of the rockers such that the second frame portion is moveable relative to the first frame portion; a set of one or more electromagnets mounted to or integrated with the first frame portion or the second frame portion; a set of one or more magnetically-interactive elements mounted to or integrated with a different one of the first frame portion or the second frame portion; and an electronic control system configured to vary a parameter of electrical energy supplied to the set of electromagnets over time to induce back and forth motion of one of the first frame portion or the second frame portion.
US11759001B1
A backpack frame system having a frame element; and a coupling link including a frame link portion and an accessory link portion, wherein the accessory link portion includes at least one attachment portion, wherein the frame link portion is attached or coupled to the frame element, wherein the frame link portion includes a plurality of spaced apart frame link recess tabs separated by frame link spaces, wherein the accessory link portion includes a plurality of spaced apart accessory link protrusion tabs separated by accessory link spaces, wherein corresponding accessory link protrusion tabs may be inserted within a corresponding recess, and wherein the accessory link portion may be at least partially rotated relative to the frame link portion to engage corresponding accessory link protrusion tabs and frame link recess tabs.
US11759000B2
A backpack includes an upper cross member having a first end and a second end, and a lower cross member offset vertically from the upper cross member and having a third end and a fourth end. The frame includes a first rail connected to the upper cross member at the first end and the lower cross member inwards of the third end, and a second rail fixed to the upper cross member inwards from the first end and the lower cross member at the third end.
US11758996B2
A method of compensating for a refractive error, including manipulating eyelashes to project into a line of sight of an eye at least when an eyelid from which the eyelashes extend is partially closed or when the eye is moved relative to the eyelid. The method may further include manipulating at least one of spacing, orientation, direction, contour or shape of the eyelashes to create an optical effect that improves visual acuity when the eyelashes project into the line of sight and training an individual whose eyelashes are manipulated to position the eyelid from which the eyelashes extend, the eye or both the eyelid and the eye from which the eyelashes extend to achieve relative positioning of the eye and the eyelid to obtain the optical effect that improves visual acuity when desired.
US11758994B2
A storage container includes a rigid bottom, a first side wall, a second side wall, a third side wall, a fourth side wall and a top, wherein the first, second, third and fourth side walls each comprise primarily fabric. The top defines an opening to an interior of the storage container. A rigid exterior frame includes a first side wall frame portion connected to the first side wall, a second side wall frame portion connected to the second side wall, a first top frame portion, and a second top frame portion, the first top frame portion interconnecting the first side wall frame portion and the second side wall frame portion, the second top frame portion interconnecting the first side wall frame portion and the second side wall frame portion.
US11758982B2
A latching system used for a rotary closure of a shoe.
US11758980B2
A shoelace protector assembly for protecting an aglet on a shoelace includes a first housing that has a first slot integrated into the first housing to insertably receive an aglet on a shoelace. A hinge is hingedly coupled to the first housing, and the hinge is biased into an open position. A second housing is provided, and a second slot is integrated into the second housing. The second housing is coupled to the hinge, such that the second housing is hingedly retained on the first housing. The second housing is positionable in a closed position, having the second slot and the first slot form a well to enclose the aglet of the shoelace.
US11758964B2
A cycling helmet includes an outer shell and a closed cell foam layer adjacent to the outer shell. The cycling helmet also includes an inner liner adjacent to the closed cell foam layer. The cycling helmet further includes an insert of energy absorbing material adjacent to the inner liner. The insert is configured to move in multiple directions in response to an impact to the cycling helmet.
US11758951B2
Shaping garments including one or more slimming elastic bands are disclosed. In some embodiments, shaping garments include a first horizontal elastic band and a second diagonal elastic band positioned to reshape the inner and outer upper legs creating a slimmer appearance, while also lifting the buttocks.
US11758939B2
Disclosed are cellulose acetate tows, bales, and filter rods having from greater than 9 to less than 12.5 denier per filament and from 20,000 to 40,000 total denier, for use in smoking devices, including aerosol-generating devices such as an electrically heated cigarette.
US11758936B2
A smoking article may include a cigarette incorporated within an electrically powered aerosol generating device that acts as a holder for that cigarette. The smoking article possesses at least one form of tobacco. The smoking article also possesses a mouth-end piece that is used by the smoker to inhale components of tobacco that are generated by the action of heat upon components of the cigarette. A representative smoking article possesses an outer housing incorporating a source of electrical power (e.g., a battery), a sensing mechanism for powering the device at least during periods of draw, and a heating device (e.g., at least one electrical resistance heating element) for forming a thermally generated aerosol that incorporates components of tobacco. During use, the cigarette is positioned within the device, and after use, the used cigarette is removed from the device and replaced with another cigarette.
US11758933B2
Disclosed herein are compounds having structural Formula (I), or salts thereof. These compounds are useful as sweet tasting agents and/or sweetness enhancers. Also disclosed are compositions comprising the present compounds and methods of increasing the sweet taste of ingestible compositions. Furthermore, methods for preparing the compounds are also disclosed.
US11758931B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions useful for the production of slaughter-free meat products, and the characterizations of the same. The slaughter-free meat products contain several points of distinction when compared to conventional meat procured by harvesting the tissue of a dead animal. Such points of distinction include, but are not limited to, significantly reduced or substantially no: steroid hormones, antibiotics, or microbial contamination; lower fat content; no vasculature; and extended shelf life both at room temperature and when refrigerated.
US11758929B2
A powdered pre-operative beverage composition has one or more carbohydrates and L-citrulline. The composition can further have a CNS stimulant, a sweetener, citric acid, L-theanine, zinc sulfate, sodium selenite, Vitamin A, and at least one flavor enhancing agent. The composition remains clear when mixed with water. The composition, when mixed with water has an osmolarity of about 265 milliosmole to about 300 milliosmole and a pH about 3.7 to about 4.5. A total energy available from the one or more carbohydrates in one serving of the composition is at least about 200 calories.
US11758926B2
A method of preparing a feed ration for an animal includes storing a cut crop material in an accumulation having an oxygen barrier. The cut crop material is fermented within the accumulation to form a silage material. A nutritive value of the silage material is determined with a nutrition sensor. A desired amount of maceration of the silage material is determined based on the determined nutritive value of the silage material. The silage material is then macerated with a mechanical macerator to achieve the desired amount of maceration. The macerated silage material is then combined with other feed materials to define the feed ration, and may then be fed to the animal.
US11758920B1
A sealed pressurized food dispensing system with self-cleaning features that can include a food processing apparatus that includes a cylinder having an inlet for receiving a food ingredient; a faceplate coupled to the cylinder, that defines a dispense bore and a bypass passage having a first open end; a blocking cap coupled to the faceplate to block the dispensing of product from within the cylinder; and a pump having an inlet fluidly coupled to a connection element and an outlet fluidly coupled to the inlet of the cylinder, where connection of the connection element to the source of cleaning fluid will result in the pumping of cleaning fluid into the food dispensing cylinder, though the cylinder into the blocking cap, and through the blocking cap into the bypass passage.
US11758911B2
The present invention relates to a multilayer film, especially to a multilayer thermoplastic film, which may be used for food packaging, wherein the multilayer film according to the present invention may be provided, on its inner side, with a food additive, particularly with a flavoring and/or coloring and/or an aroma producing food additive (such as e.g. a liquid smoke), which food additive is then released and transferred onto the surface of a foodstuff encased in the multilayer film during cooking and/or processing of the foodstuff.
US11758909B2
The present disclosure relates to a nonwoven polyamide structure having antimicrobial properties comprising: nonwoven polyamide fibers comprising less than 4000 ppm zinc dispersed within the nonwoven polyamide fibers; and less than 2000 ppm phosphorus. The fibers have an average fiber diameter of less than 25 microns; and the polyamide structure demonstrates a Staphylococcus Aureus reduction of at least 90%, as measured by ISO 20743-13.
US11758903B2
A moving wing waterfowl or migratory bird decoy including a decoy body constructed of a predetermined material with exterior ornamentation to simulate a live waterfowl or migratory bird, the decoy body being arranged in a predetermined orientation to simulate a waterfowl or migratory bird, the decoy body having a top and a bottom. The decoy has at least one decoy wing connected to the decoy body, the decoy wing being constructed and arranged to simulate the wing of a waterfowl or migratory bird. The decoy body is constructed and arranged of a particular plastic material to hyper-realistically resemble a waterfowl or migratory bird. The control and power module is plug and play software controllable. The decoy is mountable on a male type member post via a female type receptacle on the decoy body. The decoy has a biased stabilizer cord that also mimics the legs of the waterfowl or migratory bird.
US11758902B2
A weight retraction device for use with a waterfowl decoy includes a housing having a spool rotatably coupled thereto. A weight is attached to a line that is wound around the spool. Rotation of the spool in a first rotational direction causing an unwinding of the line from the spool to cause the weight to extend away from the housing while rotation of the spool in a second rotational direction causing a rewinding of the line back onto the spool to cause the weight to retract back towards the housing. A power spring is configured to urge the spool to rotate in the second rotational direction. A lock release mechanism is configured to normally be in a locked configuration for preventing an undesired rotation of the spool in the second rotational direction. A manual actuation of the lock release mechanism releases the locked configuration of the lock release mechanism.
US11758900B2
A rodent barrier system includes a plurality of panels joined together into an enclosure surrounding a motor vehicle and preventing access to the vehicle by small rodents. The system includes a number of relatively flexible panels that can be bent to define corners of the enclosure. Each of the panels has a smooth outer surface that resists scaling by rodents. The panels also include attachment structures that aid in joining the panels together.
US11758889B2
An artificial bait having a housing in the shape of an insect or animal, a power source arranged in the housing, a controller arranged in the housing, a hook. The housing including shape memory alloy (SMA) in the form of one or more SMA wires, which are operatively arranged with one or more spring wires to cause one or more body parts of the housing to move.
US11758881B1
A pet bathing enclosure including a water manifold assembly, a shower system assembly, a spray system assembly, and an enclosure assembly is disclosed. These assemblies in conjunction with one another provide a simple solution to bathing a user's pet. The water manifold assembly includes a hose intake and serves as a mounting point for the control knobs of the spray system and shower system. The shower system includes a hose with shower head that can be held in a user's hand to direct water flow to desired locations. The spray assembly includes interconnected water flow lines with water output spouts lining the water flow lines. Thereby spraying the pet with water while in the enclosure assembly. The spray assembly is mounted to the inner perimeter of the enclosure assembly. The enclosure assembly includes drainage along the bottom edge to allow for excess water to drain out while bathing the pet.
US11758880B2
An object supplying assembly includes a storage tank having first and second spaces communicating with each other, a rotating member disposed in the second space and including a recess, a driving module, and a partition board including a partition opening misaligned with the first space. An object can enter the recess from the first space. The rotating member rotates, the object is brought by the rotating member and turns around with the recess. When the recess is aligned with a position of the partition opening, the object is allowed to drop and pass through the partition opening. An object casting assembly includes a housing, an impeller rotatably disposed within the housing and including a plurality of blades, and a driver. Accommodating portions are formed among the blades. When the impeller is driven by the driver and rotates, the accommodating portions face a casting opening of the housing by turns.
US11758873B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line FDR-A818-0431. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FDR-A818-0431 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FDR-A818-0431 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11758872B2
A Petunia plant designated KLEPH20513 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of Petunia KLEPH20513, plants of Petunia KLEPH20513, to plant parts of Petunia KLEPH20513, and methods for producing a plant by crossing Petunia KLEPH20513 with itself or with another variety. Embodiments also relate to Petunia varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from Petunia KLEPH20513, methods for producing other Petunia lines or plant parts derived from Petunia KLEPH20513, and the Petunia plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid Petunia seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing Petunia KLEPH20513 with another Petunia variety or another plant type.
US11758871B2
The invention provides seed and plants of pea line SV5795QE. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of pea line SV5795QE and to methods for producing a pea plant produced by crossing a plant of pea line SV5795QE with itself or with another pea plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of pea line SV5795QE, including the seed, pod, and gametes of such plants.
US11758870B2
A soybean cultivar designated 09020446 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 09020446, to the plants of soybean cultivar 09020446, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 09020446, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 09020446. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 09020446. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 09020446, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 09020446 with another soybean cultivar.
US11758865B1
A novel maize variety designated X13R120 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13R120 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13R120 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X13R120, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13R120 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13R120 and methods of using maize variety X13R120 are disclosed.
US11758863B2
The invention relates to the field of Portulaca umbracticola, specifically, the variety designated ‘DAPORUMDBL’. The variety ‘DAPORUMDBL’ is characterized by its unique full flowers with extra petals in the flower center. Plants exhibit low fertility with very low seed production and scant pollen. The present invention relates to plant parts, including cells and any propagative material of the new variety ‘DAPORUMDBL’, and use of any of the plant parts for reproducing the new variety ‘DAPORUMDBL’. The present invention relates to methods using any plant parts of ‘DAPORUMDBL’ for the purpose of deriving additional new Portulaca varieties. The present invention relates to seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing ‘DAPORUMDBL’ with any other Portulaca variety or other plant. The present invention also relates to methods to produce new varieties of Portulaca umbracticola and ornamental plants using the variety ‘DAPORUMDBL’ and applying plant breeding techniques.
US11758859B2
This invention discloses a modular aeroponics assembly. The assembly comprises base section and a planter section atop the base section. The planter section comprises modular drawers which hold planter pods. The base section comprises a reservoir configured to hold water and nutrients. A plurality of full complete modular drawer assemblies are stacked one top the other to form a single rack assembly. A plurality of such single rack assemblies are stacked side by side to form a multi-rack assembly. Planter pods, which hold plants, are aligned along an axis which is angularly displaced, operatively outwards, about a vertical axis. Noise dampeners are provided just adjacent to each corresponding planter pod. Use of incline geometry, in conjunction with noise dampeners, substantially eliminates noise, wastage, and inefficiencies caused due to water falling upon water and/or water hitting solid.
US11758858B2
An apparatus for cultivating plants includes a cabinet having a cultivation space, a temperature control device provided in the cabinet to adjust a temperature of the cultivation space, a door configured to open and close the cultivation space, a cultivation shelf provided in the cabinet and configured to seat a seed package, a lighting device provided in the cabinet to radiate light onto the cultivation shelf, and a water supply pipe provided in the cabinet to supply water to the cultivation shelf. The cultivation shelf includes a shelf tray that supports the seed package, a shelf base provided under the shelf tray to accommodate the water supplied from the water supply pipe, and a shutter provided to be openable on the seat. The water accommodated into the shelf base is introduced to the inside of the seat by passing through the shutter when the shutter is opened.
US11758845B2
The disclosure relates to agricultural systems. The systems have stalk sensor assemblies and/or data visualization systems. The stalk sensor assemblies are configured for assessing the size and other characteristics about crops, such as corn and other grains entering an agricultural implement, such as a harvester. The stalk sensor assemblies may use an estimation of the stalk perimeter to establish stalk size and therefore further features about the crop. The visualization system utilizes data from the stalk sensor assemblies to calculate and display relevant information about the crop.
US11758842B2
A work vehicle includes a mower connected to an abdomen of a running machine body via lifting links, a lifting interlocking link mechanism provided below the machine body for moving the mower up/down, and a link stopper connected to an adjustment dial and acting on the lifting interlocking link mechanism to change a cutting height of the mower. The adjustment dial is arranged on a seat support panel that supports an operator seat, and the link stopper, connected to the adjustment dial by a wire, is arranged below the machine body. A lifting lever for raising/lowering the mower is provided on one side of the left and right sides of the machine body, and a parking lever is arranged on the seat support panel on the other side. The adjustment dial is arranged between the parking lever and fenders covering rear wheels.
US11758841B2
A mower includes a frame, at least one cutting unit, and a lifting unit. The lifting unit is connected to the at least one cutting unit and includes a yoke assembly, a first arm assembly, a second arm assembly, and a third arm assembly. The yoke assembly is connected to the cutting unit. The first arm assembly is pivotably mounted to the vehicle frame about a first pivot axis. The second arm assembly is pivotably mounted to the first arm assembly about a second pivot axis and to the yoke assembly about a third pivot axis with the second pivot axis and third pivot axis being non-parallel to the first pivot axis. The third arm assembly includes a first end pivotally connected to the frame and a second end pivotally connected to the second arm assembly.
US11758833B2
A work vehicle is presented with which it is possible to prevent an operator from being mislead in cases where the positioning status frequently changes. This work vehicle is provided with: a positioning unit that receives a positioning signal from a satellite positioning system, and measures the work vehicle position on the basis of the positioning signal; a control unit that determines the positioning accuracy on the basis of the positioning status of the positioning unit, and permits autonomous travel when the positioning accuracy is at least a prescribed accuracy; and a notification unit that executes, in accordance with a control performed by the control unit, a first notification indicating that the positioning accuracy is a first accuracy that is at least a prescribed accuracy and a second notification indicating that the positioning accuracy is a second accuracy that is at least a prescribed accuracy. If conditions for transitioning the positioning accuracy from the first accuracy to the second accuracy are satisfied within a first prescribed time since execution of the first notification in accordance with transitioning the positioning accuracy to the first accuracy, execution of the first notification is continued until the elapse of a second prescribed time, and after the second prescribed time has elapsed, the first notification is ended and the second notification is executed.
US11765983B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of forming an inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate, forming a trench in the IMD layer, forming a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer in the trench, forming a metal layer on the SAF layer, planarizing the metal layer and the SAF layer to form a metal interconnection, and forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the metal interconnection.
US11765982B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate; forming a metal interconnection in the first IMD layer; forming a bottom electrode layer and a pinned layer on the first IMD layer; forming a sacrificial layer on the pinned layer; patterning the sacrificial layer, the pinned layer, and the bottom electrode layer to form a first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ); forming a second IMD layer around the first MTJ; and removing the sacrificial layer.
US11765979B2
A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric element body, a first external electrode disposed on a first main surface of the piezoelectric element body, and a second external electrode disposed on a second main surface of the piezoelectric element body. A vibration member includes an electrically conductive third main surface and a fourth main surface opposing the third main surface. The vibration member is disposed such that the third main surface opposes the first external electrode. A protective layer covers the piezoelectric element. The protective layer includes a first resin layer and a second resin layer. The first resin layer covers the piezoelectric element body and the second external electrode. The second resin layer is disposed between the first external electrode and the third main surface and joins the first external electrode and the third main surface. The first resin layer is smaller in hardness than the second resin layer.
US11765978B2
An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate that includes first and second main surfaces, an IDT electrode on the first main surface, a support having a rectangular or substantially rectangular frame shape and including a cavity, first and second sides, and a first corner portion connected to the first and second sides, and the support being provided on the first main surface such that the cavity surrounds the IDT electrode, and a cover on the support and covering the cavity. A straight or substantially straight grinding trace is provided on the second main surface. The grinding trace leads to the first corner portion as viewed in plan. One of an angle between the first side and the grinding trace and an angle between the second side and the grinding trace as viewed in plan is about 9.5° or less.
US11765975B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first thermoelectric conduction leg, disposed on the substrate, and doped with a first type of dopant; a second thermoelectric conduction leg, disposed on the substrate, and doped with a second type of dopant, wherein the first and second thermoelectric conduction legs are spatially spaced from each other but disposed along a common row on the substrate; and a first intermediate thermoelectric conduction structure, disposed on a first end of the second thermoelectric conduction leg, and doped with the first type of dopant.
US11765974B2
A thermoelectric power generation device includes: a high-temperature plate having an upper face; a low-temperature plate having a lower face; a thermoelectric module disposed between the upper face and the lower face; a sealing portion disposed between the upper and lower faces, the sealing portion sealing the thermoelectric module at a circumferential portion of the upper face and a circumferential portion of the lower face; a first positioning portion disposed at the circumferential portion of the upper face; and a second positioning portion disposed at the circumferential portion of the lower face. The first positioning portion positions the sealing portion at the circumferential portion of the upper face, and the second positioning portion positions the sealing portion at the circumferential portion of the lower face.
US11765973B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes at least one heterocyclic compound of Formula 1: The organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound of the present embodiments may have a low driving voltage, high efficiency, and a long lifespan.
US11765970B2
An OLED is disclosed whose emissive layer has a first host and an emitter, where the emitter is a phosphorescent metal complex that is a Pt(II) or Pd(II) complex having a square planar coordinating geometry or has the formula of M(L1)x(L2)y(L3)z, where EH1T, the T1 triplet energy of the first host, is higher than EET, the T1 triplet energy of the emitter, where EET is at least 2.50 eV, where the LUMO energy of the first host is higher than the HOMO energy of the emitter, where the absolute value of the difference between the HOMO energy of the emitter and the LUMO energy of the first host is ΔE1, where a≤ΔE1−EET≤b; and where a≥0.05 eV, and b≤0.60 eV.
US11765962B2
A stretchable display device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a first substrate including an active area, a non-active area adjacent to the active area, and a pad area extending from a side of the non-active area; a plurality of second substrates are spaced apart from each other on the first substrate; and connecting lines electrically connecting pads disposed on the second substrates adjacent to each other of the plurality of second substrates. The plurality of second substrates includes a first set disposed in the non-active area, a second set disposed in the active area and a third set disposed in the pad area. Accordingly, a stretchable display device according to an aspect of the present disclosure may stretch throughout not only the active area, but also the non-active area and the pad area.
US11765961B2
The present disclosure provides a mask plate and a fabricating method thereof. The mask plate includes a patterning layer having a plurality of openings; a bonding region at a periphery of the patterning region and including a bonding part configured to be bonded to an external frame; and a transition region between the patterning region and the bonding region and including a transition part, the transition part adjoining the patterning layer and the bonding part, respectively; a thickness of the patterning layer is less than a thickness of the bonding part; and a thickness of a portion of the transition part adjoining the patterning layer is less than a thickness of a portion of the transition part adjoining the bonding part. The mask plate of the present disclosure can alleviate problem that the patterning layer is thin and easy to deform and has improved flatness of the patterning layer.
US11765958B2
A display device includes a substrate; a barrier layer above a first surface of the substrate; a protective film below a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface; an adhesive member between the substrate and the protective film; and an optical sensor below a second surface of the protective film opposite a first surface of the protective film that faces the second surface of the substrate.
US11765957B2
A display device includes: a display panel comprising a light emitting area and a non-light-emitting area; an input sensor on the display panel; and an anti-reflective layer on the input sensor, the input sensor comprising: a sensing electrode on the display panel and having a first opening defined therethrough to correspond to the light emitting area; a first insulating layer between the sensing electrode and the display panel and having a second opening defined therethrough to correspond to the first opening; and a second insulating layer comprising a first portion inside at least the first opening and the second opening, wherein one of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer comprises an organic material, the other of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer comprises an inorganic material, and the first opening has a substantially same shape as the second opening in a plan view.
US11765944B2
A display panel, comprising a first display portion and at least one curved second display portion disposed on at least one side of the first display portion. The display panel further comprises: an array substrate; and a planarization layer, an anode layer, a pixel definition layer, a light-emitting layer, a cathode layer and an encapsulation layer sequentially disposed on the array substrate. The planarization layer comprises a plurality of first surfaces and a plurality of second surfaces, each of the plurality of second surfaces comprises a first end arranged close to the first display portion and a second end arranged away from of the first display portion, a vertical distance between the first end and a bottom of the planarization layer is less than a vertical distance between the second end and the bottom of the planarization layer.
US11765943B2
Provided are an array substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, a display device, and a mask plate. The array substrate includes a pixel defining layer having a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening passing through the pixel defining layer. Every two of the first to third openings are adjacent to each other. The pixel defining layer includes first to third opening denning portions. At least one of the ratio of the slope angle of a portion of the first opening defining portion located between the first opening and the second opening to the slope angle of the third opening defining portion, and the ratio of the slope angle of a portion of the second opening defining portion located between the first opening and the second opening to the slope angle of the third opening defining portion is from 0.8 to 1.25.
US11765942B2
A display device and a manufacturing method of the display device are provided. The display device includes a substrate; a pixel definition layer disposed on the substrate and having a plurality of pixel openings; a surface-active nanolayer disposed on a surface of the substrate and on a surface extending to the pixel definition layer, wherein the surface-active nanolayer covers a plurality of nanoparticles; and a light-emitting layer disposed in the plurality of pixel openings.
US11765939B2
A display device includes a substrate; an active pattern disposed on the substrate; a first insulating layer; a first conductive layer disposed on the first insulating layer and having a driving gate electrode; a second insulating layer; a second conductive layer disposed on the second insulating layer and having a first storage electrode; a third insulating layer; a third conductive layer disposed on the third insulating layer and having a second storage electrode; and a light-emitting element disposed on the third conductive layer, wherein the second storage electrode overlaps the first storage electrode via the third insulating layer to form a first capacitor, the first storage electrode overlaps the driving gate electrode via the second insulating layer to form a second capacitor, and the driving gate electrode, the first storage electrode, and the second storage electrode at least partially overlap each other.
US11765936B2
A display device according to an embodiment includes: a first conductive layer that is disposed on a substrate; a transistor that is disposed on the substrate; and a light emitting element that is electrically connected to the transistor, wherein the transistor includes a semiconductor layer that at least partially overlaps the first conductive layer and is disposed on the first conductive layer, and a gate electrode that is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first region that does not overlap the first conductive layer, a third region that overlaps the first conductive layer, and a second region that is disposed between the first region and the third region and traverses an edge of the first conductive layer. The first width of the semiconductor layer in the first region is smaller than a second width of the semiconductor layer in the second region.
US11765933B2
A silicon-based OLED display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a silicon-based base and a device layer arranged on the silicon-based base. The silicon-based base includes a drive circuit layer. The drive circuit layer includes a drive circuit, an electrical connection bonding area, and a storage unit storing compensation voltage of each MOSFET of the drive circuit. An orthographic projection of the drive circuit on the silicon-based base, an orthographic projection of the storage unit on the silicon-based base, and an orthographic projection of the electrical connection binding area on the silicon-based base do not overlap with each other.
US11765927B2
There is provided a semiconductor device having a semiconductor element and a protective film that is disposed above the semiconductor element and contains silicon atoms and nitrogen atoms, wherein the protective film has an average number of nitrogen atoms bonded to one silicon atom of less than or equal to 1.35.
US11765926B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a thin film encapsulation structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The thin film encapsulation structure includes a laminated layer for encapsulating a member to be encapsulated located on a substrate, the laminated layer including an organic layer and an inorganic layer alternately stacked, wherein an outermost layer of the laminated layer is the inorganic layer, the organic layer having an inner surface facing the member, an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, and an end surface located between the inner and outer surface and extending over a region, at a periphery of the member, of the substrate, a restriction layer, for positioning the organic layer, located between the end surface of the organic layer and a surface of the substrate, wherein the organic layer has one of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity and the restriction layer has the other of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity.
US11765922B2
A display panel comprises includes: a base substrate; a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer on a side of the base substrate; a light-emitting layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and a carrier functional layer located at least one of between the first electrode layer and the light-emitting layer, and between the second electrode layer and the light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer has a plurality of light-emitting portions with different emergent light wavebands; and the carrier functional layer has a plurality of carrier functional portions corresponding to the plurality of light-emitting portions, the plurality of carrier functional portions having molecular chains, which is formed by cross-linking of monomers containing functional groups under light irradiation.
US11765920B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device that can alleviate or avoid the occurrence of pixel crosstalk problems due to lateral conduction of the charge generation layer. An organic electroluminescent display panel is provided which comprises: a substrate; an anode layer and a pixel defining layer over the substrate, the pixel defining layer defining pixel units, wherein a recess is provided in the pixel defining layer between adjacent pixel units; a stack of organic electroluminescent units over the anode layer and the pixel defining layer, the stack comprising at least two organic electroluminescent units and a charge generation layer disposed between organic electroluminescent units which are adjacent to each other; a cathode layer over the stack, wherein the corresponding charge generation layers of the adjacent pixel units are disconnected at the recesses, and wherein the cathode layer is continuous at the recess.
US11765915B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a memory region and a logic region. A first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate. A first conductive structure and a second conductive structure are respectively formed in the first dielectric layer on the memory region and the logic region. A memory cell is formed on the first dielectric layer and directly contacts a top surface of the first conductive structure. A first cap layer continuously covers a top surface and a sidewall of the memory cell and directly contacts a top surface of the second conductive structure. A second dielectric layer is formed on the first cap layer. A third conductive structure penetrates through the second dielectric layer and the first cap layer to contact the memory cell.
US11765914B2
A memory cell including a two-terminal re-writeable non-volatile memory element having at least two layers of conductive metal oxide (CMO), which, in turn, can include a first layer of CMO including mobile oxygen ions, and a second layer of CMO formed in contact with the first layer of CMO to cooperate with the first layer of CMO to form an ion obstruction barrier. The ion obstruction barrier is configured to inhibit transport or diffusion of a subset of mobile ion to enhance, among other things, memory effects and cycling endurance of memory cells. At least one layer of an insulating metal oxide that is an electrolyte to the mobile oxygen ions and configured as a tunnel barrier is formed in contact with the second layer of CMO.
US11765911B2
A spin-orbit-torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device includes a SOT MRAM cell containing a first two terminal selector element, a nonmagnetic metallic assist plate, and a magnetic tunnel junction located between the first two terminal selector element and the nonmagnetic metallic assist plate, and a circuit selection element selected from a transistor or a second two terminal selector element electrically connected to the nonmagnetic metallic assist plate of the SOT MRAM cell.
US11765910B2
The disclosed technology relates to a selector device for a memory array, and a method of forming the selector device. In some embodiments, the selector device comprises a first electrode layer embedded in an oxide; a second electrode layer arranged above the first electrode layer and separated from the first electrode layer by the oxide; and a semiconductor material forming a semiconductor layer on the top surface of the second electrode layer, and extending through the second electrode layer and the oxide onto the top surface of the first electrode layer, wherein the semiconductor material contacts the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. In some embodiments, the selector device helps to solve the sneak path problem in the memory array it is inserted into.
US11765906B2
A memory device includes a plurality of first memory cells disposed along a vertical direction. Each of the plurality of first memory cells includes a portion of a first channel segment that extends along the vertical direction and has a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The first and second sidewalls of the first channel segment facing toward and away from a first lateral direction, respectively. Each of the plurality of first memory cells includes a portion of a first ferroelectric segment that also extends along the vertical direction and is in contact with the first sidewall of the first channel segment. A width of the first ferroelectric segment along a second lateral direction is different from a width of the first channel segment along the second lateral direction. The second lateral direction is perpendicular to the first lateral direction.
US11765905B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a peripheral circuit structure including peripheral circuits integrated on a semiconductor substrate in a first region and a first keypad disposed in a second region; a stack provided on the first region of the peripheral circuit structure, the stack including a plurality of first conductive lines extending in a first direction and are vertically stacked; an upper insulating layer covering the stack; an interconnection layer provided on the upper insulating layer; a penetration plug spaced apart from the stack and is provided to penetrate the upper insulating layer to connect the interconnection layer to the peripheral circuits of the peripheral circuit structure; a molding structure provided on the second region of the peripheral circuit structure and spaced apart from the stack in the first direction; and a penetration structure provided to penetrate the molding structure and vertically overlap with the first keypad.
US11765898B2
Embodiments of three-dimensional memory device architectures and fabrication methods therefore are disclosed. In an example, the memory device includes a substrate having a first layer stack on it. The first layer stack includes alternating conductor and insulator layers. A second layer stack is disposed over the first layer stack where the second layer stack also includes alternating conductor and insulator layers. One or more vertical structures extend through the first layers stack. A conductive material is disposed on a top surface of the one or more vertical structures. One or more second vertical structures extend through the second layer stack and through a portion of the conductive material.
US11765895B2
A semiconductor device includes: a stacked structure comprising a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of conductive layers, wherein the dielectric layers are alternately stacked with the conductive layers; a groove formed for each conductive layer by recessing the conductive layer to the inside of the stacked structure; and an isolation structure formed through the stacked structure so as to isolate the stacked structure into a first block and a second block. The isolation structure comprises a first isolation structure and a second isolation structure adjacent to the first isolation structure with a gap provided between the first and second isolation structures, and one end of the first isolation structure and the other end of the second isolation structure, which face each other, have a vortex shape when viewed from above.
US11765892B2
In an embodiment, a method includes forming a multi-layer stack including alternating layers of an isolation material and a semiconductor material, patterning the multi-layer stack to form a first channel structure in a first region of the multi-layer stack, where the first channel structure includes the semiconductor material, depositing a memory film layer over the first channel structure, etching a first trench extending through a second region of the multi-layer stack to form a first dummy bit line and a first dummy source line in the second region, where the first dummy bit line and first dummy source line each include the semiconductor material, and replacing the semiconductor material of the first dummy bit line and the first dummy source line with a conductive material to form a first bit line and a first source line.
US11765891B2
A one-time programmable (OTP) memory cell includes a substrate having a first conductivity type and having an active area surrounded by an isolation region, a transistor disposed on the active area, and a capacitor disposed on the active area and electrically coupled to the transistor. The capacitor comprises a diffusion region of a second conductivity type in the substrate, a metallic film in direct contact with the active area, a capacitor dielectric layer on the metallic film, and a metal gate surrounded by the capacitor dielectric layer. The diffusion region and the metallic film constitute a capacitor bottom plate.
US11765883B2
The present application provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor die. The method includes forming dielectric layers on a substrate; forming decoupling capacitors in the dielectric layers; forming first and second bonding pads on the dielectric layers, wherein the first bonding pads are coupled to a power supply voltage, the second bonding pads are coupled to a reference voltage, a group of the decoupling capacitors are located under one of the first bonding pads, first terminals of the group of the decoupling capacitors are electrically connected to the one of the first bonding pads, second terminals of the group of the decoupling capacitors are routed to one of the second bonding pads; and forming bond metals on the first and second bonding pads, wherein the decoupling capacitors are overlapped with the first and second bonding pads, and laterally surround portions of the dielectric layers overlapped with the bond metals.
US11765877B2
A component mounting system includes a component mounter group, a storage container, a loader, a host computer, and a production management computer. The host computer prepares jobs for each product based on a production plan for producing multiple types of products in which predetermined various types of components are mounted on a mounting target and sets a job in the jobs so prepared that satisfies a specified determination condition as a determined job. The production management computer shares the determined job with the host computer, makes a processing preparation for the determined job and thereafter causes the loader to unload and/or load component supply devices based on the results of the processing preparation for the determined job.
US11765872B2
A housing (121) having an electromagnetic shielding property includes a resin molded body (101), which is a cured product of a thermosetting resin composition, and a plating layer (103) provided on a surface of the resin molded body (101) (cured product), in which the plating layer (103) includes a Cu layer (first plating layer (105)), and a thickness of the Cu layer (first plating layer (105)) is 2 μm or more and 30 μm or less.
US11765870B2
A software-defined infrastructure can identify and remediate an airflow deficiency scenario on a rack device. A rack device manager can be configured to discover rack devices and create a representation of their physical locations. The rack device manager can also be configured to periodically retrieve airflow metrics of the rack devices to calculate an estimated airflow for each rack device. The rack device manager can use the estimated airflows and the airflow metrics to generate a rack device classifier for each rack device. Using these rack device classifiers, the rack device manager can detect when rack devices are experiencing airflow deficiencies and attempt to automatically remediate such deficiencies.
US11765867B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a cooling system for data center based on a hyperbola cooling tower. The cooling system includes a compressor, a condenser, a primary fluorine pump, a secondary fluorine pump, a throttling apparatus, an evaporator, and a server. The server is configured to receive data information uploaded from the compressor, the condenser, the primary fluorine pump, the secondary fluorine pump, the throttling apparatus, and the evaporator, calculates the operation frequency of the compressor based on the data information, and control the condenser, the primary fluorine pump, the secondary fluorine pump and the throttling apparatus to transport the refrigerant to the evaporator.
US11765865B2
Electronic rack and data center thermal management systems are disclosed. An electronic rack system includes a heat exchange system and the electronic rack having a plurality of servers containing heat-generating components. The heat exchange system includes a filter and a pump to circulate filtered cooling fluid to the electronic rack, via an internal cooling loop. An external cooling loop provides a backup cooling fluid supply to the electronic rack to function as a redundant system for the heat exchange system. The external cooling loop includes an external cooling fluid pump and filter, and is coupled to the internal cooling fluid supply via a valve. The cooling fluid in the internal cooling fluid loop, and its associated filter, are of a higher quality than the cooling fluid and filter of the external cooling fluid loop. In one embodiment, the external cooling loop filter is a high quality filtration system.
US11765850B2
An assistant installation device, including a base, a carrier, and a handle, is provided. The base is adapted to be placed on a first object. The carrier is slidably disposed on the base and is adapted to carry a second object. The handle is connected to the base and the carrier. The handle is adapted to drive the carrier to move relative to the base, so that an assembling portion of the second object corresponds to an assembling portion of the first object.
US11765846B2
Disclosed are device display screen protectors comprising a first strengthened substrate sized to cover a display screen of an electronic device, the first strengthened substrate having a central tension value in the range greater than 0 MPa and less than 20 MPa, a surface having a Knoop lateral cracking scratch threshold of at least 3 N.
US11765834B2
An electronic module including an electronic panel, a circuit unit, a support film, and a connection portion. The circuit unit includes a circuit film electrically connected to the electronic panel and a circuit chip mounted on the circuit film. The support film is attached to the circuit film. The connection portion is attached to the support film and covers the circuit chip.
US11765832B2
A printed circuit board includes an electronic component including a first land, a printed wiring board including a resist portion and a second land, and a connecting portion interconnecting the first land and the second land. An opening larger than the first land in plan view from the electronic component side is defined in the resist portion. In plan view from the electronic component side, the first land is disposed inside the opening, the second land including a body portion disposed inside the opening and a protruding portion protruding from the body portion, the body portion being disposed further on an inside than an outer edge of the first land, and at least part of the protruding portion protruding further to an outside than the first land.
US11765827B2
A multilayer printed circuit board is provided having a first dielectric layer and a first plating resist selectively positioned in the first dielectric layer. A second plating resist may be selectively positioned in the first dielectric layer or a second dielectric layer, the second plating resist separate from the first plating resist. A through hole extends through the first dielectric layer, the first plating resist, and the second plating resist. An interior surface of the through hole is plated with a conductive material except along a length between the first plating resist and the second plating resist. This forms a partitioned plated through hole having a first via segment electrically isolated from a second via segment.
US11765826B2
Electronic substrates, contact pads for electronic substrates, and related methods are disclosed. Electronic substrates may include an electrically conductive layer that forms at least one contact pad and at least one metal trace on a non-conductive layer. The contact pads are arranged with greater thicknesses or heights above the non-conductive layer than the metal traces. Dielectric layers are disclosed that cover the metal traces while leaving top surfaces of the contact pads exposed. Top surfaces of the dielectric layers may be arranged to be coplanar with top surfaces of the contact pads to provide electronic substrates having generally planar top faces. Bottom faces of electronic substrates may include mounting pads that are coplanar with additional dielectric layers. Methods are disclosed that include forming dielectric layers to cover contact pads and metal traces, and removing surface portions of the dielectric layers until the contact pads are accessible through the dielectric layers.
US11765824B2
A laminated ceramic sintered body board for an electronic device includes a ceramic sintered body board and a flattening film that is provided on an upper surface of the ceramic sintered body board and contains a thermally conductive filler, and the flattening film contains a thermally conductive filler.
US11765798B2
An imaging system for a high-heat cooking appliance, including a camera system including an optical sensor, a lens, and a set of light emitters; and a camera cooling mechanism thermally connected to the camera system.
US11765792B2
The disclosure relates to a PTC heating module for heating a fluid and a method for producing such a PTC heating module. The PTC heating module includes a plurality of PTC thermistors having main surfaces disposed opposite to one another and spaced apart relative to one another in a thickness direction. The PTC thermistors are arranged between two contact plates next to one another transversely to the thickness direction and spaced apart relative to one another. The main surfaces of the PTC thermistors are electrically contacted with a contact surface of the two contact plates. At least one dielectric function element is arranged between the two contact plates and laterally sealingly engages about the respective PTC thermistors to at least partially fill a hollow space between the two contact plates and facilitate enlarging a creepage distance between the two contact plates within the hollow space.
US11765789B1
The disclosure herein describes intelligently managing distribution of tests to user devices. Device data is obtained from a user device via a network connection and a usage prediction model associated with the user device is generated based on the device data. Predicted usage context data of the user device is determined based on the usage prediction model. A test scheduled to be performed using distributed testing is identified based on the test including test requirements that are satisfied by the device data and the predicted usage context data of the user device. Test instructions of the identified test are sent to the user device. Based on the test instructions causing the user device to automatically execute the identified test, test results are received from the user device. As a result, the testing platform enables performance of distributed testing across user devices with minimal interaction with users of the user devices.
US11765783B2
Embodiments include methods in a wireless device. Such methods include, while the wireless device is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) inactive state with respect to a wireless communication network, determining that a Radio Access Network Notification Area Update (RNAU) is needed. Such methods include evaluating whether there is any cause, other than the determined need for the RNAU, for resuming an RRC connected state with the wireless communication network and transmitting, to the wireless communication network, an RRC Resume Request message comprising a cause indicator indicating a cause for resuming the RRC connected state. The cause indicator indicates an RNAU when there is no cause for resuming the RRC connected state other than the determined need for the RNAU and otherwise indicates a cause other than an RNAU. Other embodiments include wireless devices configured to perform such methods and computer-readable media that store instructions embodying such methods.
US11765782B2
A system for monitoring and resolving issues associated with network connectivity. A first device may connect to an access point to communicatively couple with other computing devices on a network, such as a remote device. The first device and/or the remote device may monitor, in real-time, a health of network connection to provide one or more recommendations for resolving connectivity issues and/or instructing a second device to establish a connection with the first device. The connection may permit the first device to communicatively couple to the remote device via the second device.
US11765774B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing random access (RA) in 5G New Radio (NR) systems, including New Radio in unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) systems. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a configuration for physical random access channel (PRACH) resources. The WTRU may determine whether to use a first type of PRACH transmission or a second type of PRACH transmission. For the first type of PRACH transmission, the WTRU may select a PRACH resource, without performing listen-before-talk (LBT), immediately following reception of an synchronization signal block (SSB). For the second type of PRACH transmission, the WTRU may randomly select the PRACH resource associated with the SSB, and perform a first LBT on the selected PRACH resource. The WTRU may transmit a PRACH preamble in the selected PRACH resource. The WTRU may perform a second LBT for random access response (RAR) reception for hidden node detection.
US11765771B2
Fallback procedures for user equipments (UEs) are described that provide efficient fallback to a four-step random access procedure from a two-step random access procedure. For example, after transmitting a first message of a two-step random access procedure, a UE may start a fallback timer or counter and monitor for a second message of the two-step random access procedure for the duration of the fallback timer or counter. At the expiration of the fallback timer or counter, the UE may fall back to a four-step random access procedure. In some cases, the UE may transmit multiple repetitions of the first message and monitor for responses after transmitting the repetitions or after each repetition. Additionally, or alternatively, the base station may transmit an explicit signal to the UE that may signal to the UE to perform a fallback procedure at a beginning or middle of a random access procedure.
US11765767B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for early termination of multi-user enhanced distributed channel access parameter application for one or more stations or devices. In various implementations, referred to as un-solicited or solicited termination, the multi-user enhanced distributed channel access timeout period may be terminated early by an access point device, or by a non-access point station or device, respectively.
US11765745B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting information that indicates a change in system information. One method includes determining a change corresponding to system information occurring after a first modification period boundary. The method includes transmitting information in downlink control information that indicates the change corresponding to the system information. The information is transmitted before a second modification period boundary, and the change comprises a modification to a master information block, a modification to a system information block, a modification to scheduling information, or some combination thereof.
US11765741B2
A radio communication method, and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining, in a second scheduling period based on a first candidate downlink control channel, a second candidate downlink control channel from a control resource set corresponding to the second scheduling period, the first candidate downlink control channel and the second candidate downlink control channel comprise the same downlink control information, a correspondence exists between a first aggregation level of the first candidate downlink control channel and a second aggregation level of the second candidate downlink control channel, and an offset exists between a sequence number of the second candidate downlink control channel and a sequence number of the first candidate downlink control channel; and combining and decoding the first candidate downlink control channel and the second candidate downlink control channel.
US11765739B2
In methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications, a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) block including DCI for a set of transport blocks scheduled for the UE, the DCI including a set of fields. The UE may decode the DCI block to obtain the DCI for the set of transport blocks, where at least two fields of the downlink control information are jointly decoded according to an encoding scheme, and where each possible output of the encoding scheme corresponds to a jointly valid combination of the at least two fields. The UE may receive the set of transport blocks from a base station based on the DCI.
US11765735B2
Provided is a method for designing downlink control channel for satisfying requirement of the different usage scenarios from each other in a next-generation/5G radio access network which has been discussed in the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP). In particular, a method of a base station may be provided for transmitting/receiving data in a next-generation radio access network. The method may include configuring a time domain scheduling unit made up of at least one OFDM symbol for each user equipment, allocating a downlink data channel transmission resource with the time domain scheduling unit for a first user equipment, and puncturing a part of the downlink data channel transmission resource for the first user equipment and allocating the punctured resource to the downlink data channel transmission resource for a second user equipment.
US11765734B2
Wireless communication systems and methods related to utilizing two-stage grants for uplink communications with discontinuous reception (DRX) operations are provided. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) receive, from a base station (BS), a first downlink control information (DCI) message scheduling an uplink (UL) data transmission, the first DCI message indicating a first value for an UL schedule timing indicator. The UE activates a timer based at least in part on the first value of the UL schedule timing indicator. The UE monitors a downlink control channel based at least in part on the timer. The UE receives, from the BS, a second DCI message indicating UL schedule timing for the UL data transmission based at least in part on the monitoring.
US11765732B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to communicate with a base station on different channels or messages with different processing timelines. In order to prevent a collision between processing communications associated with the different length TTIs, the UE may drop one or more communications on corresponding channels with longer processing timelines to receive and/or process the transmission on the channel with a shorter processing timeline. Additionally, the UE may transmit uplink control information (UCI) for the one or more dropped communications, where the UCI may include hybrid access request (HARQ) acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) feedback, channel quality indicator (CQI), precoding matrix indicator (PMI), rank indicator (RI), etc. If a downlink transmission is dropped, the UE may transmit a NAK message. Alternatively, if an uplink transmission is dropped, the UE may transmit at least a portion of the UCI.
US11765730B2
A terminal is disclosed that includes a transmitter that transmits uplink data and uplink control information using an uplink shared channel. The terminal further includes a processor that determines, based on a bandwidth allocated to the uplink shared channel, one or more resource elements, where the one or more resource elements have a frequency interval and are used for mapping the uplink control information. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is also disclosed.
US11765728B2
This disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless sidelink resource allocation for a user equipment (UE) assisted by an anchor UE. Various mechanisms are disclosed for handling releasing of the anchor UE initiated by either the anchor UE or the assisted UE, and for handling sidelink resources already allocated to the UE by the anchor UE prior to the release. Additional mechanisms are disclosed for using an anchor UE to assist in allocating sidelink resources to multiple UEs configurable in a shared manner or non-shared manner.
US11765726B2
Provided are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method capable of improving downlink and uplink throughput even when performing dynamic symbol allocation. In the device and the method, BS and MS share a table correlating a basic TF as a combination of parameters such as TB size used for transmitting only user data, an allocation RB quantity, a modulation method, and an encoding ratio, with a derived TF having user data of different TB size by combining L1/L2 control information. Even when multiplexing L1/L2 control information, Index corresponding to the basic TF is reported from BS to MS.
US11765723B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication relay may receive, via a first wireless link with a base station, a scheduling request that identifies scheduling information for scheduling transmission or reception of data via a second wireless link with a network node. The wireless communication relay may transmit, via the second wireless link, a scheduling command in accordance with the scheduling information. The wireless communication relay may transmit or receive, via the second wireless link, the data in accordance with the scheduling information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11765722B2
Embodiments include methods, performed by a user equipment (UE), for receiving downlink (DL) data from a serving cell in a wireless network. Such methods include determining whether a total number of coded bits for all transport blocks (TBs) scheduled for the UE, by the wireless network in the serving cell during a plurality of consecutive symbols, is greater than a limited-buffer rate-matching (LBRM) threshold. The LBRM threshold is based on a maximum number of transmission layers, X, associated with the UE for the serving cell. Such methods also include receiving and decoding a plurality of TBs, comprising one or more DL data messages, when the total number of coded bits for all TBs (including the plurality of TBs) scheduled for the UE is not greater than the LBRM threshold. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by network nodes, and UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.
US11765710B2
A method and apparatus for controlling transmit power in a wireless local area network (WLAN). For example, a station may receive, from an access point (AP), a beacon frame that includes a field indicating a maximum transmission power for at least one of a plurality of operational bandwidth that the AP supports. The station may determine a transmission power for a signal to be transmitted to the AP based on the at least one of the plurality of operational bandwidths indicated in the received beacon. The station may then transmit the signal at the determined transmission power.
US11765701B1
A method and system for dynamically reconfiguring an air interface that defines a continuum of frames each divided into a sequence of transmission time intervals (TTIs). The air interface is initially configured according to a first radio access technology (RAT). The base station then detects that at least a threshold extent of wireless client devices (WCDs) served by the base station on the air interface support operation according to a second RAT. And in response, the base station reconfigures the air interface so that certain TTIs per frame instead operate on a second RAT, with the remaining TTIs per frame still operating on the first RAT. The base station then serves WCDs that support the second RAT in the TTIs now configured according to the second RAT, while continuing to serve other WCDs according to the first RAT in the remaining TTIs configured according to the first RAT.
US11765698B2
An electronic device that communicates with a second electronic device is described. During operation, an electronic device communicates first messages with the second electronic device in time slots corresponding to first channels in a first band of frequencies using a peer-to-peer communication protocol (such as neighbor awareness networking or NaN), where, in a given time slot, a given first channel in the first band of frequencies is used in the communication of the first messages. Moreover, the electronic device communicates second messages with the second electronic device in the time slots corresponding to second channels in a second band of frequencies using the peer-to-peer communication protocol, where, in the given time slot, a given second channel in the second band of frequencies is used in the communication of the second messages. Note that the communicating of the first messages and the second messages may at least partially overlap in time.
US11765697B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus by which a terminal transmits an uplink channel in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: performing a process for repeatedly transmitting a first uplink channel; performing a process for repeatedly transmitting a second uplink channel, the time for transmitting the second uplink channel being later than the time for transmitting the first uplink channel; and checking whether the transmission of the second uplink channel has been allocated to start before the section of the repeated transmission of the first uplink channel ends, wherein, if the transmission of the second uplink channel has been allocated to start before the section of the repeated transmission of the first uplink channel ends and if predetermined conditions are met, the transmission of the first uplink channel is abandoned in the entire section of the repeated transmission or in the section where the transmission of the first uplink channel and the transmission of the second uplink channel overlap.
US11765676B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Methods and apparatuses for supporting a plurality of PDU sessions are provided.
US11765672B2
A base station, a user equipment and methods are provided for establishing access in a base station for a user equipment and for performing measurement in a user equipment in a radio communication system. The method includes transmitting a plurality of synchronization signal blocks at different frequencies within a wideband carrier from the base station, wherein each synchronization signal block is associated with each one cell supported by the base station. An indication is received in the base station, that a user equipment supports wideband operation. A first cell signal is transmitted from the base station to the user equipment, which first cell signal provides information identifying the cells available within the wideband carrier.
US11765664B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a cell that comprise: first parameters indicating: configuration of SRSs of the cell; whether a first accumulated power control adjustment for the SRSs is enabled; and second parameters. The second parameters indicate: configuration of an uplink data channel of the cell; and whether a second accumulated power control adjustment for the uplink data channel is enabled. A first transmission power is determined for the SRSs based on the first accumulated power control adjustment and a first power control command. The SRSs are transmitted, via the cell, with the first transmission power. A second transmission power is determined for the uplink data channel of the cell based on the second accumulated power control adjustment and a second power control command. One or more transport blocks are transmitted, via the uplink data channel of the cell, with the second transmission power.
US11765662B2
The present disclosure relates to a physical downlink control signaling detection method, a device, and a computer readable storage medium, pertaining to the technical field of communications. The method comprises: determining a transmission position of wake-up signaling; and receiving, according to the transmission position of the wake-up signaling, the wake-up signaling transmitted by a base station, the wake-up signaling indicating whether a terminal is to detect physical downlink control signaling within a pre-determined time window.
US11765656B2
A method for adjusting discontinuous reception (DRX) behavior of a user equipment (UE) to conserve energy use includes exposing a DRX application programming interface (API) that enables DRX parameters to be changed and defining a conflict resolution policy that controls when requests to change the DRX parameters should be granted. The method also includes receiving, via the DRX API, a request from an application to change a DRX parameter for the UE. The UE is in wireless communication with a base station, and the application is configured to send data to the UE via a mobile network that comprises the base station. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the conflict resolution policy, that the request should be granted and sending a command to the base station that causes the base station to communicate a new value of the DRX parameter to the UE.
US11765654B2
To maximize power saving in a radio access network comprising cells, an optimal action amongst actions comprising switching on one or more cells, switching off one or more cells, and doing nothing is determined using a trained model, which maximizes a long term reward on tradeoff between throughput and power, the trained model taking as input a load estimate. The trained model may be updated online using measurement results on load, throughput and power consumption.
US11765642B2
Mobile ad hoc Network (MANET) includes a first node of a plurality of nodes which self-assigns a role as a part of a network-spanning backbone upon a determination by the first node that one or more criteria have been satisfied. The first node uses the network-spanning backbone to facilitate a first-tier control plane communication service within the MANET. The first node also communicates within the MANET using a second-tier control plane communication service separate from the first-tier control plane communication service. The second-tier control plane communication service is used by the first node when communicating exclusively with neighbor nodes that are a 1-hop distance from the first node.
US11765640B2
A wireless communication system includes three or more wireless communication apparatuses and a control apparatus, wherein the control apparatus includes a setting unit configured to determine, for each of a plurality of paths from a first one of the wireless communication apparatuses to a second one of the wireless communication apparatuses, a total product value being a result of computing a total product of arrival probabilities of radio frames of respective radio sections constituting the path and a search unit configured to select a path, among the plurality of paths, with the number of transmission times of the radio frame for each of the paths being a predetermined number of times or smaller and the total product value being a predetermined threshold or more.
US11765637B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) configured to receive a configuration defining a dedicated radio resource assignment for a travel path, wherein the dedicated radio resource assignment comprises dedicated resources assigned to the WTRU in a plurality of cells and specifies a time interval when the resources will be dedicated to the WTRU in each of the plurality of cells; determine a first time has been reached and utilize dedicated resources in a first cell based on reaching the first time; and determine a second time has been reached and utilize dedicated resources in a second cell based on reaching the second time.
US11765626B2
The present application is at least directed to an apparatus in a network including a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon for obtaining a resource for accessing a target cell in the network. The apparatus includes a processor, operably coupled to the non-transitory memory, configured to execute the instructions of detecting plural beams associated with the target cell. The processor also executes the instructions of determining one or more of the plural detected beams meeting a threshold for performing random access. The processor also executes the instructions of evaluating if a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource is associated with the one or more determined beams meeting the threshold. The processor further executes the instructions of selecting one of the evaluated beams exhibiting a reference signal received power (RSRP) above a predetermined value. The processor even further executes the instructions of picking the PRACH resource associated with the selected beam.
US11765621B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing differential treatment to user traffic involving optimized reporting of start and stop traffic. The systems and method can include detecting, at a user plane function, an initiation of a type of traffic being performed at the user plane function, providing, by the user plane function, a start event trigger of the type of traffic detected by the user plane function to a session management function, and receiving, at the user plane function, a policy associated with the type of traffic from the session management function, the policy including instructions preventing submissions of subsequent event triggers to the session management function until an end of the type of traffic, the subsequent event triggers being associated with the type of traffic detected by the user plane function.
US11765617B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and program products to provision a user plane (UP) security policy at a granularity level that is per data radio bearer (DRB) within a protocol data unit (PDU) session or per quality of service (QoS) flow within one or more DRB of the PDU session.
US11765612B2
A method of wireless communication receives multiple beams from a base station. The method also simultaneously reports a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for multiple beams with a single channel measurement resource (CMR) and a single interference measurement resource (IMR). The single IMR is configured for multiple interference sources. A method of wireless communication by a base station configures a UE with a group of interference sources. The base station also configures the UE with an interference measurement resource associated with the group of interference sources.
US11765604B2
The disclosed system obtains an indication of a configuration update to perform on a component of a network and an indication of the component associated with the network. The configuration update is performed in multiple stages, including a pre-check stage, a configuration stage, and a verification stage. In the pre-check stage, the system obtains a parameter and an expected value of the parameter associated with the component. The system determines whether the component satisfies the expected value of the parameter by obtaining a value of the parameter associated with the component and comparing the obtained value to the expected value. Upon determining that the component satisfies the expected value of the parameter, the system performs the configuration stage. Upon performing the configuration update, the system performs the verification stage by testing whether the component is functioning. Upon determining that the component is functioning, the system provides the configuration update to UEs.
US11765594B2
This document discusses, among other things, a wireless personal-area network (PAN) underlying a cellular wide-area network (WAN). The PAN includes a wearable user equipment (UE-W) and a user equipment aggregation node (UE-AN). The UE-W includes processing circuitry to process data for communication with a network of the WAN through the UE-AN, and radio interface circuitry to communicate with the UE-AN through a first air interface. The UE-AN includes processing to process data for communication between the network of the WAN and the UE-W, and radio interface circuitry to communicate with the network of the WAN through the first air interface and with the UE-W through a second air interface. The UE-W and the UE-AN can share a network credential, appearing as a single device to the WAN.
US11765585B2
The embodiments set forth a technique for securely identifying relevant computing devices that are nearby. The technique can be implemented at a first computing device, and include the steps of (1) receiving, from a second computing device, an advertisement packet that includes: (i) a network address that is associated with the second computing device, and (ii) a hash value that is calculated using the network address and an encryption key that is associated with the second computing device, and (2) for each known encryption key in a plurality of known encryption keys that are accessible to the first computing device: (i) calculating a temporary hash value using the network address and the known encryption key, and (ii) in response to identifying that the temporary hash value and the hash value match: carrying out an operation associated with the second computing device.
US11765581B2
Presented herein are techniques to provide for the ability to optimize the caching of Fast Transition (FT) hierarchical keys based on a derived or statically defined neighbor relationship between wireless wide area (WWA) access network nodes and wireless local area (WLA) access network nodes and also user equipment (UE) mobility triggers in the WWA access network. In one example, a method may include instructing a UE to report detection of a WLA access network and based, at least in part, on obtaining a notification via a WWA access node indicating UE detection of the WLA access network, identifying WLA access nodes that neighbor the WWA access node. The method may further include generating FT key material for the UE and communicating a portion of the FT key material to the WLA access nodes that neighbor the WWA access node to facilitate authenticating the UE to the WLA access network.
US11765574B2
A method, device, computer readable storage medium and integrated circuit for providing user equipment (UE) capability information to a network. The method includes receiving a request from a network for radio access capabilities of the UE, determining a first plurality of band combinations that the UE is capable of utilizing for communications with the network, determining a number of band combinations that are to be included with a message generated in response to the request, ordering the plurality of band combinations into a prioritized order of band combinations based on at least one priority factor, generating the message that includes the radio access capabilities, wherein the message includes a second plurality of band combinations that are based on the prioritized order and the number of band combinations that are to be included with a message and transmitting the message to the network.
US11765554B2
Systems and methods relating to scheduling and transmitting/receiving a segmented Single-Cell Multicast Control Channel (SC-MCCH) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device to receive a plurality of SC-MCCH segments comprises obtaining information regarding segmentation of a SC-MCCH into a plurality of SC-MCCH segments and receiving, from a network node, separate transmissions for the plurality of SC-MCCH segments in accordance with the information regarding segmentation of the SC-MCCH. By segmenting the SC-MCCH in this manner, increasing the maximum Transport Block Size (TBS) or defining a higher TBS size for SC-MCCH can be avoided.
US11765549B2
A method for performing contact tracing. An analysis system performing the method receives geo-temporal data comprising location data points for various wireless terminals, including the wireless terminals being used by people diagnosed as having a specified disease and the wireless terminals of others, one of whom having possibly infected those diagnosed with the disease. Based on filtering the geo-temporal data, the analysis system generates relatively-condensed mobility profiles that are representative of each person's locations and movements, and analyzes the mobility profiles. Through careful selections of various parameters based on the disease that is being analyzed, the mobility profiles are used instead of the relatively large amounts of geo-temporal data, to represent users of wireless terminals and to determine their interactions in regard to disease transmission.
US11765544B2
Certain embodiments are directed to techniques (e.g., a device, a method, a memory or non-transitory computer readable medium storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) for passive beacon communication techniques. Transmitting devices (e.g., beacons) can transmit advertising messages using a first wireless protocol to provide timing for ranging messages for one of more ranging messages over a second protocol (e.g., UWB). One or more receiving devices can determine using signal strength if the devices are within a threshold range to perform communication techniques. Various ranging communications techniques can be used to determine a range between the receiving device and transmitting device. Other techniques can be used to passively calculate the angle of arrival for transmitter signals. The angle of arrival information can be used for precise position locating for the receiving device or to indicate interest in information provided by the one or more transmitting devices.
US11765539B2
An audio personalisation method for a user, to reproduce an area-based or volumetric sound source, includes the steps of, for a head related transfer function ‘HRTF’ associated with the user, smoothing HRTF coefficients relating to peaks and notches in the HRTF's spectral response, responsive to the size of the area or volume of the sound source; filtering the sound source using the smoothed HRTF for the notional position of the sound source; and outputting the filtered sound source signal for playback to the user.
US11765536B2
There is provided encoding and decoding methods for representing spatial audio that is a combination of directional sound and diffuse sound. An exemplary encoding method includes inter alia creating a single- or multi-channel downmix audio signal by downmixing input audio signals from a plurality of microphones in an audio capture unit capturing the spatial audio; determining first metadata parameters associated with the downmix audio signal, wherein the first metadata parameters are indicative of one or more of: a relative time delay value, a gain value, and a phase value associated with each input audio signal; and combining the created downmix audio signal and the first metadata parameters into a representation of the spatial audio.
US11765521B2
An earpiece includes: a first end; a second end opposite from the first end; a first channel extending from a first location that is closer to the first end than to the second end, to a second location that is closer to the second end than to the first end; and a first diaphragm, wherein the first diaphragm has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the first surface of the diaphragm configured to be in fluid communication with a lumen in the first channel, wherein the first diaphragm extends in a direction that is parallel to, or that forms an acute angle with, a longitudinal axis of the first channel.
US11765512B2
The present invention provides an acoustic device including a frame, a magnetic circuit system and a vibration system. The magnetic circuit system includes a lower plate and a magnet assembly having a magnetic gap. The vibration system includes a diaphragm and a voice coil at least partially located in the magnetic gap. The frame includes a lower cover and a frame side wall. The vibration system is supported on the frame side wall. The lower plate includes a plate body spaced apart from the lower cover and a support wall bending and extending from the plate body toward the lower cover. The magnet assembly is supported and fixed on a surface of the plate body distal to the lower cover. The support wall abuts against and is fixed on the lower cover.
US11765511B2
Provided is a speaker, including: a connector and a magnetic circuit unit and a vibration system that are fixed to the connector. The vibration system includes a first diaphragm fixed to the connector and a voice coil driving the first diaphragm to vibrate and sound. The magnetic circuit unit includes a magnet assembly providing driving force to the voice coil and a mounting member fixing the magnet assembly. A bending portion is formed by bending from an edge of the mounting member toward the first diaphragm, and the bending portion is fixedly connected to the connector. With this structure, the first diaphragm is fixedly connected to the mounting member, so as to strengthen the overall strength of the speaker and prevent the deformation of the speaker in its vibrating direction, thereby improving the quality of the speaker.
US11765509B1
Provided is an MEMS device, including: a substrate having back cavity passing thererthrough; a diaphragm connected to the substrate and covers the back cavity, the diaphragm includes first and second membranes, and accommodating space formed therebetween; a counter electrode; and support loop members arranged concentrically. Opposite ends of the support loop member are connected to the first and second membranes. The support loop members are arranged at intervals. Each support loop member has first sections concentrically arranged as a loop member at intervals. A first notch is formed between two adjacent first sections. In at least one support loop member, the first section has second sections concentrically arranged as a loop member at intervals. A second notch is formed between two adjacent second sections. By a larger first section, distance between adjacent first sections is larger, the technical problem that large number of slots required for counter electrode is solved.
US11765508B2
A wearable electronic device includes an anterior pendant and a posterior pendant. A first neck strap couples a first side of the anterior pendant to the posterior pendant, while a second neck strap couples a second side of the anterior pendant to the posterior pendant. The posterior pendant includes a first single channel posterior audio output delivering a left channel audio signal through a first port and a second single channel posterior audio output delivering a right channel audio signal from a second port. The anterior pendant has a single channel anterior audio output delivering a combined left channel audio signal and right channel audio signal to pull the stereo image defined by the combined acoustic signals toward the anterior pendant.
US11765505B2
A correction method of acoustic characteristics of a plurality of speakers installed in a room, the correction method groups speakers, among the plurality of speakers, having identical attachment condition to the above-mentioned room, measures each of output characteristics of the grouped speakers, calculates an average characteristic of the output characteristics of the grouped speakers, and corrects each of the output characteristics of the grouped speakers based on the average characteristic.
US11765503B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated active noise-canceling wireless Bluetooth headphone, which comprises a housing assembly, primary and secondary magnet sets, primary and secondary magnetic conductive sheet sets, an integrated circuit board assembly, a bracket and a tuning net. The primary and secondary magnet sets, the primary and secondary magnetic conductive sheet sets, the integrated circuit board assembly and the bracket are sequentially laminated in the housing assembly; the tuning net is arranged on an outer surface above the housing assembly; the integrated circuit board assembly is integrated; the periphery of the integrated circuit board assembly is exposed outside the housing assembly; a noise-canceling speaker module interface is embedded in the exposed part of the integrated circuit board and electrically connected with the integrated circuit board; and a light-sensing in-ear detector is surface-mounted on the integrated circuit board.
US11765495B2
A wireless earbud including an outer housing, an internal assembly, and an inner housing. The outer housing and the inner housing may couple together to form a water tight enclosure for the internal assembly. The internal assembly may include components that carry out a function of the wireless earbud, such as printed circuit boards, network interfaces, batteries, loudspeakers, and so forth. The outer housing may also include a proximity sensor for receiving touch and/or antenna(s) for communicatively coupling the wireless earbud to other electronic devices. Additionally, the inner housing may include a charging module for the wireless earbud.
US11765492B2
A display apparatus may include: a display panel configured to display an image, a supporting member configured to support the display panel, a coupling member in the supporting member, and at least one sound-generating device coupled to the display panel by the coupling member, the at least one sound-generating device being configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound.
US11765491B2
A display device comprises a display, a rear side member, and a plurality of speaker units. The speaker units each have a speaker main body having first and second surfaces that are attachable to the rear side member and are parallel to each other and a side surface that connects the first surface and the second surface, and at least one sound emitting portion displaced from a center of the side surface on the side surface. When the speaker main body is inverted from a first state in which the first surface is fixed to the rear side member to a second state in which the second surface is fixed to the rear side member, the at least one sound emitting portion in the first state and the at least one sound emitting portion in the second state are arranged to be symmetrical with respect to an axis of inversion.
US11765490B2
The presentation of sensor network information can be provided to a user via a customized dashboard web interface. The dashboard web interface can be based on customized transformation and alert functions that can be applied to one or more sensor channels of data produced from sensors at a monitored location. The customized alerts can provide real-time monitoring of targeted conditions at the monitored location.
US11765485B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a driving unit and a plurality of pixels. The pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion unit, a second photoelectric conversion unit, a charge-voltage conversion unit, a first transfer transistor, a second transfer transistor, a reset transistor, a microlens configured to condense incident light to the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit, and an output unit. The driving unit performs a first operation including a first reset operation and a first readout operation, and a second operation including a second reset operation and a second readout operation.
US11765477B2
There is provided an imaging device, an electronic apparatus including an imaging device, and an automotive vehicle including an electronic apparatus including an imaging device, including: a first substrate including a first set of photoelectric conversion units; a second substrate including a second set of photoelectric conversion units; and an insulating layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; where the insulating layer has a capability to reflect a first wavelength range of light and transmit a second wavelength range of light that is longer than the first wavelength range of light.
US11765473B2
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixel blocks and a connection unit. The plurality of pixel blocks includes: a diffusion unit to which an electric charge resulting from photoelectric conversion is transferred; and a transistor containing a source electrically connected with the diffusion unit. The connection unit is electrically connected with a drain of the transistor included in each of the plurality of pixel blocks.
US11765472B2
A system and methods for implementing a transflective mirror as a rolling shutter sensor. The method includes. The method includes a controller setting a current state of an obfuscator to a transmissive state at a first point in time, the first point in time being a time when all pixels of an imaging sensor are in an active state. An imaging sensor then obtains an image of an object in a field of view of the imaging sensor. The image is obtained at a time when the obfuscator is in the transmissive state. The controller then sets the current state of the obfuscator to an obfuscative state at a point in time before a single pixel of the plurality of pixels is switched to an inactive state, wherein the active state of a pixel is a state in which a pixel is an active optical detector, and the inactive state is a state in which a pixel is not an active optical detector.
US11765469B2
An image capturing apparatus including a mounting part capable of attaching/detaching a device obtains, if a device mounted in the mounting part has a function of executing analysis processing for data obtained by the image capturing apparatus, from the device, information of a setting concerning processing to be executed by the image capturing apparatus to cause the device to execute the analysis processing for the data, executes, based on the obtained information of the setting, the processing to be executed by the image capturing apparatus, and performs output based on a result of the analysis processing and a result of the processing.
US11765458B2
An image blur correction device is configured to correct a blur of an imaging apparatus that includes an image sensor that images a subject through an imaging optical system. An image blur correction device includes an acceleration sensor that detects accelerations in two directions, an angular velocity sensor that detects an angular velocity of the imaging apparatus around a rotation axis parallel to the optical axis, a rotational acceleration component calculator that calculates rotational acceleration components which are generated by rotation of the imaging apparatus around the rotation axis based on an output of the angular velocity sensor, and a blur corrector that corrects blurs of the imaging apparatus based on the rotational acceleration components and the accelerations. The blur corrector corrects the blurs based on a member of the imaging apparatus that is used for an imaging of the imaging apparatus.
US11765447B2
Provided are an image sensor with one or more image receivers for image combining, and an imaging system and method therefor. The image sensor includes an image sensor array to generate first image data for a first image; a receiver to receive, into the image sensor, second image data for a second image; an image combination circuit coupled to the image sensor array and the receiver to receive the first image data and the second image data and combine the first image data and the second image data into combined image data for a single combined image, according to one or more image combination criteria, and at least one of the first image data and the second image data; and a transmitter coupled to the image combination circuit to transmit the combined image data for the combined image from the image sensor.
US11765441B1
An audio/video playback device is provided, which includes a communication interface and a processor. The communication interface is configured to receive a digital broadcast signal. The processor is configured to obtain SLS (Service Layer Signaling) from a broadcast stream of the digital broadcast signal, wherein the SLS includes a first field and a second field. The processor compares first metadata in the first field and second metadata in the second field, and includes one or more identifiers which correspond to each other in the first metadata and the second metadata into a first list. The processor displays a candidate menu on the audio/video playback device according to the first list.
US11765433B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving program content and data describing program content from a content source, and automatically identifying, based on user preferences of a first user, one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content. Product-related metadata associated with the program content is identified. The product-related metadata including data relating to the one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content. The program content is communicated to a display device for presentation to a first user in a first portion of the display device, and the product-related metadata is communicated to a second display device for presentation to a second user substantially simultaneously with the presentation of the program content in the first display device. A user commentary is received from the second device, the user commentary generated by the second user and associated with the program content or product-related metadata.
US11765432B2
Systems and methods are described herein for adjusting the priority of media assets scheduled to be recorded to reflect the current behavior and interests of the user. For example, a household with young children may have scheduled recordings for the DVR with a wide variety of television shows of different genres (e.g., Children's Shows, Sports Games, and Crime Procedurals) and as the children grow up, the preference may gradually shift towards other types of shows. As this shift of interest happens over time, it can be difficult or impossible for the user to change the priority of each of the media assets of the scheduled recordings each time the interests of the user changes an incremental amount.
US11765428B2
The present invention discloses a method for real time dynamic responsive/adapting/adjusting video in real-time to required/defined display size. The method comrading the steps of: Identifying size requirements Receiving/uploading instructions/policy for changing/adapting the video based on required display size; Changing/cropping video based on pre-defined rules or dynamic rules when changing display size requirement.
US11765426B2
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) identifying, by a playback device, a media device based on a control message received from the media device by way of an audio and/or video interface, where the media device provides media content to the playback device; (ii) providing, by the playback device, replacement media content for display; (iii) determining, by the playback device, that while the playback device is displaying the replacement media content a remote control transmitted an instruction to the identified media device; (iv) determining, by the playback device, a playback-modification action corresponding to the instruction and the identified media device; and (v) modifying, by the playback device, playback of the replacement media content in accordance with the playback-modification action.
US11765421B2
In some embodiments, a method receives a manifest presentation description for a media presentation. The manifest presentation description includes an opportunity that requires resolution to determine supplemental content for the opportunity. A request to resolve the opportunity is sent where information for the supplemental content that is received from the request is inserted in an instance of the media presentation description. The method stores the information for the supplemental content in association with an identifier for the opportunity. An update to the manifest presentation description is received where the update includes the opportunity. The method retrieves the information for the supplemental content that was stored in association with the identifier for the opportunity and inserts the information for the supplemental content into the instance of the update to the manifest presentation description.
US11765420B2
A television and system and method for providing a remote control device are disclosed. In one embodiment of the television, the television includes a processor, a memory, a tuner, a panel, and an audio driver therein in an interconnected architecture. The television may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device, such as a proximate wireless-enabled interactive handheld device having a touch screen display, whereby formatted parallel audiovisual experience instructions, including virtual buttons, may be transmitted to the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device for display on the touch screen display to create an experience parallel to the experience on the television. The television receives and processes virtual remote control functionality input instructions from the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device to control amenities associated with the television.
US11765401B2
A gateway device and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, multiple wireless transceivers are located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a processor and memory. To improve convenience, the gateway device may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Virtual remote control functionality for various amenities may then be provided. To improve safety, the gateway device may be incorporated into a geolocation and safety network.
US11765389B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may include the steps of: deriving the position of the final significant coefficient in the current block and transform coefficients for the current block on the basis of residual information; determining whether the index of a sub-block including the final significant coefficient is 0 and whether the position of the final significant coefficient in the sub-block is greater than 0; determining whether a significant coefficient exists in a second area excluding a first area at the upper left end of the current block; and parsing an LFNST index from a bitstream when the position of the final significant coefficient is determined to be greater than 0 in the sub-block in which the index is 0, and the significant coefficient does not exist in the second area.
US11765386B2
Disclosed herein is a method of decoding an image. The method includes generating an inter prediction block by performing inter prediction with respect to a current block, generating an intra prediction block by performing intra prediction with respect to the current block, determining a first weight and a second weight, and generating a final prediction block by respectively applying the first weight and the second weight to the inter prediction block and the intra prediction block. The generating of the intra prediction block includes generating the intra prediction block using a predefined intra prediction mode.
US11765383B2
The present disclosure relates to video encoding and decoding, and in particular to determining motion information for a current block using a history-based motion vector predictor, HMVP, list. The HMVP list is constructed, with said list being an ordered list of N HMVP candidates Hk, k=0, . . . , N−1, which are associated with motion information of N preceding blocks of the frame and precede the current block. Each HMVP candidate has motion information including elements of one or more motion vectors, MVs, one or more reference picture indices corresponding to the MVs, and one or more bi-prediction weight indices. One or more HMVP candidates from the HMVP list are added into a motion information candidate list for the current block; and the motion information is derived based on the motion information candidate list.
US11765378B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method for obtaining a motion vector, including: determining a reference block of a to-be-processed block, wherein the reference block and the to-be-processed block have a preset temporal or spatial correlation, the reference block is obtained based on a prediction block of the reference block determined by a refined initial motion vector, the refined initial motion vector is obtained based on an initial motion vector and one or more preset motion vector offsets, and the initial motion vector is obtained based on a predicted motion vector of the reference block; and using the initial motion vector as a predicted motion vector of the to-be-processed block.
US11765376B2
A pruning method of neural network based video coding of a current block of a picture of a video sequence is performed by at least one processor and includes categorizing parameters of a neural network into groups, setting a first index to indicate that a first group of the groups is to be pruned, and a second index to indicate that a second group of the groups is not to be pruned, and transmitting, to a decoder, the set first index and the set second index. Based on the transmitted first index and the transmitted second index, the current block is processed using the parameters of which the first group of the groups is pruned.
US11765362B2
A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane.
US11765361B2
Methods for performing palette coding of video data may include: determining whether a luma component of a coding unit (CU) and chroma components of the CU are coded jointly or separately in a palette mode; and in response to the luma component and the chroma components being coded separately in the palette mode, determining a maximum separate palette-table size for the CU; determining a maximum separate palette-predictor size for the CU; and predicting the CU based on the maximum separate palette-table size and the maximum separate palette-predictor size.
US11765344B2
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform parsing at least one video parameter set comprising at least one syntax element indicating whether at least one layer in the scalable bitstream is one of a dependent layer of the scalable bitstream and an independent layer of the scalable bitstream, coding a picture in the dependent layer by parsing and interpreting an inter-layer reference picture list, and coding a picture in an independent layer without parsing and interpreting the inter-layer reference picture list.
US11765336B2
Viewpoint-related information is associated with a captured image, a plurality of viewpoint images, or a synthesized image, the captured image being generated by capturing an image of a subject with a single image sensor through a plurality of monocular optical systems with optical paths independent of each other, the plurality of viewpoint images being extracted from the captured image and having each of the plurality of monocular optical systems as a viewpoint, the synthesized image being obtained by synthesizing the plurality of viewpoint images respectively corresponding to the plurality of monocular optical systems, and the viewpoint-related information being used to specify a region of the plurality of viewpoint images in the captured image. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, image-capturing apparatus, electronic devices, interchangeable lenses or camera systems in which a plurality of monocular lenses is extended, information processing methods, programs, or the like.
US11765331B2
An immersive display and a method of operating the immersive display to provide information relating to an object. The method includes receiving information from an input device of the immersive display or coupled to the immersive display, detecting an object based on the information received from the input device, and displaying a representation of the object on images displayed on a display of the immersive display such that attributes of the representation distinguish the representation from the images displayed on the display, wherein the representation is displayed at a location on the display that corresponds with a location of the object.
US11765321B2
An intelligent video surveillance system is disclosed which performs real-time analytics on a live video stream. The system includes a training database populated with frames of actual video of objects of interest taken in a relevant environment. A subset of the frames include bounding boxes and/or bounding polygons which can be augmented. The training database also includes classification/annotation of data/labels relevant to the object of interest, a person carrying the object of interest, and/or the background or environment. The training database is searchable by the classification/annotation of data/labels.
US11765320B2
According to a general aspect, a method can include receiving a photo of a virtual conference participant, and a depth map based on the photo, and generating a plurality of synthesized images based on the photo. The plurality of synthesized images can have respective simulated gaze directions of the virtual conference participant. The method can also include receiving, during a virtual conference, an indication of a current gaze direction of the virtual conference participant. The method can further include animating, in a display of the virtual conference, an avatar corresponding with the virtual conference participant. The avatar can be based on the photo. Animating the avatar can be based on the photo, the depth map and at least one synthesized image of the plurality of synthesized images, the at least one synthesized image corresponding with the current gaze direction.
US11765319B2
A system for secured video conferencing via virtual rooms, wherein the system comprises a first data processing system associated with a first user, wherein the first data processing system comprises a first processor module, configured to create a virtual room and a virtual lounge associated with the virtual room and create a unique virtual address for the virtual room created for the first user. The system further includes a second data processing system associated with a second user which is configured to receive the unique virtual address associated with the virtual room from the second user. The system further includes a server, wherein the server may be configured to host the virtual room created by the first data processing system and establish a secured connection between the first data processing system and the second data processing system when requested by the second user.
US11765310B2
An entertainment device provides multiple users with the ability to simultaneously select and place various still or video images or animations over a video transmission provided to a television from a cable box, antenna, video streaming device, or other video supply device for personal entertainment purposes. The image overlay can be provided in real-time or substantially in real-time, such as with minimal delay. The entertainment device may further provide the ability to overlay audio onto, or replace entirely, the audio signal supplied with the video signal. The entertainment device may be provided, for instance, as a stand-alone unit, or may be integrated into a cable box or other video supply device (i.e., dvd player, blu-ray player, cell phone, tablet, computer, streaming device, etc.).
US11765309B2
Video capture of a subject, including: capturing video data of the subject using a first camera; capturing infrared (IR) video data of the subject using a second camera linked to the first camera, in such a manner that the first and second camera share the same field of view, wherein the second camera is sensitive to IR light for capturing the IP video data of the subject; illuminating the subject with at least one IR light source; and processing the video data from the first camera and the IR video data from the second camera to identify an outline of the illuminated subject in the video data using the IR video data.
US11765304B2
There is provided a printing apparatus including an obtaining unit configured to obtain print data in which in imposition image data in which one or more images are imposed in a print region, a code for identifying each image in the imposition image data is embedded; a determination unit configured to determine an ink color to be used to print the code by excluding an ink color satisfying a predetermined condition from candidates for the ink color to be used to print the code; and a print control unit configured to print the code based on the print data obtained by the obtaining unit using a plurality of nozzle arrays for the ink color determined by the determination unit.
US11765283B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: when receiving an image forming instruction issued to an image forming apparatus, transmit image data and processing information to a server, the processing information including access information regarding access to the information processing apparatus and information for forming an image represented by the image data, and store the image data into the information processing apparatus; and perform control for transmitting the image data to the image forming apparatus in response to transmission of the image data being requested from the image forming apparatus.
US11765282B2
A data collection apparatus includes a connecting unit, a storing unit, and a controller. The connecting unit is able to be connected through communication with a limited number of terminal apparatuses. The storing unit stores priority levels regarding connection with the terminal apparatuses. The controller allows, in a case where the number of terminal apparatuses that are present in a region in which the data collection apparatus is able to be connected through communication with a terminal apparatus via the connecting unit is larger than the limited number, a terminal apparatus that is not connected through communication with the connecting unit and has a higher priority level to be connected with the connecting unit, in place of a terminal apparatus that has already been connected through communication with the connecting unit and has a lower priority level, in accordance with the stored priority levels.
US11765281B2
An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program for relatively easily creating an album similar to an example album are provided. A page of an example album is displayed in a page display region, and one example image among images pasted on the page is displayed in an example image display region. An image similar to the example image is displayed in a selected image region. In a case where a decision button is clicked, the image is pasted at a position at which the example image is pasted. Similarly, an album is created by finding images similar to example images and the like pasted in an image pasting region. The album similar to the example album is created.
US11765275B2
In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.
US11765274B2
Implementations relate to determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining an identifier of a target entity, the identifier usable by a first call device to initiate a call between the first call device and the target entity. A hold duration is determined that is an estimated amount of time before the call is matched to a human agent when the call is initiated at a particular time that is prospective to a current time. The hold duration is determined based on previous calls between one or more call devices and the target entity. The hold duration is provided for display by the first call device prior to the initiation of the call between the first call device and the target entity.
US11765273B1
Data analysis, filter, and presentation techniques are described for an example call management system. An example method for a data management system includes receiving, from a user device, an account identifier of a first person, receiving, from the user device, a first message related to a topic of conversation to be discussed during a telephone call with the first person, determining, based on the account identifier and within a pre-determined time period, a presence of a set of data that describes conversation(s) from prior telephone call(s)/chat(s) with the first person, and sending, to a computer, at least some data from the set of data and a second message that indicates that the telephone call is mapped to a second person, where the computer is configured to display on a screen the second message and a presentation option that presents the at least some data via the computer.
US11765267B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for searching and labeling the content of voice conversations. An Engagement Intelligence Platform (EIP) analyzes conversation transcripts to find states and information for each of the states (e.g., interest rate quoted and value of the interest rate). An annotator User Interface (IU) is provided for performing queries, such as, “Find calls were the agent asked the customer for their name and the customer did not answer;” “Find calls where the customer objected after the interest rate for the loan was quoted, “Find calls where the agent asked for consent for recording the call, but no customer confirmation was received.” The EIP analyzes the conversation and labels (e.g., “tags”) the text where the conversation associated with the label took place, such as, “An interest rate was provided.” The labels are customizable, so each client can define its own labels based on business needs.
US11765266B2
A computer-implemented method of for optimizing cellular network performance including identifying a plurality of voice call records stored on an application server in a first type of cellular network. The method includes analyzing call data associated with the plurality of voice call records, and identifying a set of fall back voice call records. The call data for each voice call record of the set of fall back voice call records includes a fall back indicator indicating that each voice call was initiated using a second type of cellular network. The method includes analyzing cause codes in the call data associated with the set of fall back voice call records and determining, based on the cause codes, a value for at least one KPI associated with the second type of cellular network.
US11765264B2
Some embodiments include an ambiguated application that can perform first functions, e.g., a communication application functions, when the ambiguated application is in a first state, and perform second functions, e.g., game functions, when the ambiguated application is in a second state. The ambiguated application in the first state and the ambiguated application in the second state share a same graphic user interface (GUI). When a functional object of the GUI is selected, the ambiguated application performs a first function if the ambiguated application is in a first state. In addition, when the same functional object of the GUI is selected, the ambiguated application performs a second function if the ambiguated application is in a second state.
US11765254B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker configured to monitor, e.g., via filters, for certain protocol state transitions/changes or host hardware resource transitions/changes when a host processor in the control plane that performs such monitoring functions is unavailable or overloaded. The filters, in some embodiments, are pre-computed/computed by the host processor and transmitted to the protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker. The protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker may be used to implement a fast upgrade operation as well as load sharing and or load balancing operation with control plane associated components.
US11765251B1
A system for effectively addressing the fast-producer and slow-consumer problem for persistent hybrid cloud caches. In particular, the system and associated methods ensure the integrity of data stored by persistent caches by utilizing a plurality of journals, including a user journal and a cloud journal. The user journal records operations conducted by users of the system in records. Before the records are transferred to a cloud storage system, the records are transferred to the cloud journal, which may he configured to he larger than the user journal. Once a record is transferred from the user journal to the cloud journal, the record may be released from the user journal, thereby increasing capacity of the user journal for subsequent operations to be recorded. Each record may then be transferred to the cloud storage system from the cloud journal, which may then cause each record to be released from the cloud journal.
US11765249B2
Improving developer efficiency and application quality, including: collecting, for an executing application, information describing the usage of the application; identifying one or more unencountered conditions that the application is configured to handle; identifying one or more encountered conditions that the application is not configured to handle; and presenting information describing the unencountered conditions that the application is configured to handle and the encountered conditions that the application is not configured to handle.
US11765246B2
A method for identifying respective networked devices in a social communications network, which networked devices communicate messages relevant to an article. The messages may include posts, shares, likes, votes, ranks, and other comments. A server of the social communications network maintains a respective identity (e.g., user name or handle) for each connected networked device, respectively, of the social communications network. The server includes an API for requests. The method includes receiving a search item from a data communications network, collecting articles related to the search item from each of the at least one source of articles of the data communications network, storing in a database, for each respective one of the article from the step of collecting, a respective unique identifier representing the article, comparing the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item, compiling a result set of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing, communicatively detecting the share count of the messages of the social communications network related to the result set, deriving a score based collectively on all of the share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of networked devices of the social communications network for the search item, calling the API of the server intermediating communications among the networked devices of the social communications network, receiving the identities of the networked devices of the social communications network; and storing the identities in a database in a storage.
US11765245B2
An electronic device and a service discovery method in the electronic device are provided. The device includes at least one communication module, a processor operatively connected with the at least one communication module, and a memory operatively connected with the at least one communication module and the processor. The memory may store instructions configured to, when executed, enable the processor to configure a neighbor awareness network (NAN) cluster communicating with a plurality of external electronic devices based on a first communication protocol, through the at least one communication module, identify a service target device among the plurality of external electronic devices, while operating with the plurality of external electronic devices based on the first communication, and allow at least one external electronic device, except for the service target device among the plurality of external electronic devices, to deactivate at least one function related to the first communication protocol.
US11765241B1
Aspects of the present application correspond to processing of requests for user attribute information. One or more computing devices can transmit request associated with access to an identified location that include at least one captured information associated with an identified user. A user attribute information request processing service processes the requests based on location profile according to verified attribute information associated with the captured information. The user attribute information request processing service then generates a processing result responsive to the request, such as identifying financial rate information based on the verified attribute information.
US11765234B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes housing, a touch screen display, a microphone, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores a software program including a user interface supporting the control of at least one external device based on a user account, and the memory stores at least one instruction that, when executed, causes the processor to receive a first user input for connecting the electronic device to a first external device, to receive a second user input corresponding to a request for performing at least part of a task by using the first external device, to receive a first response including a sequence of states from the second external device to perform, by the first external device, the at least part of the task depending on the sequence.
US11765229B2
In a method of operating network-based storage devices, a first storage device having a first local key among a plurality of storage devices is set as a first main storage device. The storage devices are connected to each other through a network. A volume of at least a part of the plurality of storage devices is set and managed by the first storage device based on a first control signal received from an external host device. A second local key is received by the first storage device from a second storage device having the second local key among the plurality of storage devices. The first local key and the second local key are transmitted by the first storage device to the external host device.
US11765214B2
A group communications platform facilitates that sharing of an application environment with other users. The platform may receive a request to initiate a group session for a local user and a remote user. An out-of-process network connection with a system communication channel between a local computing device associated with the local user and a remote computing device associated with the remote user may be established for the group session. A system call may be received from a local instance of a first application on the local computing device to transfer local data to a remote instance of the first application on the remote computing device via the out-of-process network connection. The local data may be transferred to the remote instance of the first application on the remote computing device via the out-of-process network connection and the system communication channel. The local data may include state data of the local instance of the first application for updating a state of the remote instance of the first application.
US11765205B2
An Omni-channel security manager is provided. The Omni-channel security manager is configured to: receive selections for domain/channel specific security applications and deploy security agents to end-point devices. The security agents interact with the Omni-channel security manager to install, initiate, manage, and monitor the domain/channel specific security applications on the end-point devices.
US11765203B2
A plant control system and communication method are capable of immediately dealing with wrong address settings created due to a human error during the execution of an opening procedure. In the plant control system, a higher-level device and a plurality of communication terminal devices are connected to each other through a communication path. Prior to the start of communication, a communication opening process of sequentially transmitting a call signal from the higher-level device to the terminal devices and acknowledging response signals therefrom is executed, which is followed by sequentially transmitting a call signal from the higher-level device to the terminal devices and receiving response signals from the terminal devices. The communication terminal devices compare addresses of the response signals returned from the other terminal devices to the higher-level device against an address set for local terminal devices. If a duplicate address exists, communication from the local terminal device is locked.
US11765202B2
In one embodiment, a controller in a network may receive an injected command to be executed by an application from an application monitoring agent operating in the network. The injected command may be intercepted by the application monitoring agent prior to execution of the injected command by the application. The controller may then use a security algorithm to determine whether the injected command is malicious. If it is determined that the injected command is not malicious, the controller may enable the application to execute the injected command. Conversely, if it is determined that the injected command is malicious, the controller may prevent the application from executing the injected command.
US11765190B2
Methods and devices are provided for determining a service associated with an unclassified traffic flow in a computer network. Classification information for a plurality of classified traffic flows in the computer network are obtained that indicate an association between each of the classified flows and a service. A primary cluster analysis is performed on the plurality of classified flows and the unclassified flow to associate the unclassified flow to a group of classified flows having a common service. The association between the unclassified flow and the common service is provided to a network security management system.
US11765188B2
An apparatus includes multiple ports, packet communication processing circuitry coupled to the ports, and a processor that is configured to receive, from the packet communication processing circuitry, metadata that is indicative of a temporal pattern of control messages communicated via one or more of the ports, and to identify a network attack by applying anomaly detection to the temporal pattern of the control messages.
US11765186B2
An unauthorized activity detection method in an onboard network system. The detection method includes determining whether or not a message sent out onto the network is an attack message, saving information relating to the attack message in at least one memory in a case where the message is an attack message, identifying a communication pattern from information relating to the attack message, and determining whether or not the message matches a communication pattern. The determination of whether an attack message and determination of whether matching a communication pattern are executed on each of a plurality of messages received from the network. In the determining of whether an attack message executed on a message received after executing of determining of whether matching a communication pattern, results of the determination of whether an attack message that has already be executed are used.
US11765182B2
A system for location-aware authentication is configured to receive an authentication request associated with an identifier of a user for accessing an application and retrieves user information associated with the identifier and the application. The system then determines that the user information includes a geofence and information associated with a device of the user. Based on the geofence and the device information, the system sends a geolocation data request to the device, causing the device to gather and send the device's current geolocation data to the computing system. A data structure is generated to store data related to the device's current geolocation and sent to the application, which in turn causes the application to grant or deny the authentication request.
US11765178B2
Disclosed embodiments provide for control of an external display by a client device. In one aspect, a system includes at least one electronic hardware processor and an electronic hardware memory, operably connected to the at least one electronic hardware processor, and storing instructions that configure the at least one electronic hardware processor to transmit a barcode to a first client device, establish an authenticated session with a second client device, receive an indication of the barcode from the second client device via the authenticated session, receive input from the second client device indicating a selection of content, access the selected content via the authenticated session, and transmit the selected content to the first client device based on the barcode received from the second client device.
US11765173B2
Techniques for managing redundant or overlapping access rules are provided. Access rules are determined for evaluation. Performance metrics for the access rules prior to implementation and post implementation are determined. Overlapping access rules are identified. Performance of the overlapping access rules are evaluated to determine actions to be applied to the overlapping access rules. Recommended actions and adjustments can be automatically provided by the system based on the performance analysis.
US11765168B2
A system for information interaction includes: an electronic tag configured to present a two-dimensional code; a binding relationship existing between a first terminal and the two-dimensional code; a second terminal configured to: scan the two-dimensional code, generate login request information, send the login request information to the information interaction platform, the login request information including identifier information of the second terminal; receive content presentation information corresponding to the two-dimensional code returned by the information interaction platform, according to the identifier information, and perform information interaction with the first terminal according to a communication manner selected from the content presentation information; and an information interaction platform configured to receive the login request information, authorize and authenticate the second terminal according to the identifier information, and send the content presentation information to the second terminal according to authorization and authentication results.
US11765159B1
Embodiments are directed to connection revocation in overlay networks. An overlay network may be employed to provide secure tunnels between clients and resources. In response to a privilege evaluation event, performing further actions, including: determining sessions associated with the secure tunnels; determining users and a portion of the resources based on the sessions such that each determined user and each determined resource are associated with a same session; comparing privilege information associated with each determined user with privilege requirements associated with each determined resource. In response to determining one or more mismatches of the privilege information and the privilege requirements based on the comparison, performing further actions, including: determining revocable sessions based on the mismatches; providing revoke messages to agents such that the agents close connections associated with the revocable sessions.
US11765137B2
The present invention makes it possible to improve confidentiality. A communication terminal stores a session key shared with other communication terminals (S3). The communication terminal makes a pair of an index generated by using the session key for a character string relating to a message and a message identifier, and transmits it to a server apparatus (S4). The server apparatus stores the pair of the index and the message identifier (S5). The communication terminal generates, when the session key is updated, a re-encryption key with a session key before update and a session key after update (S8). The server apparatus updates, by using the re-encryption key, the stored index to an index generated by using the session key after update (S9). The communication terminal encrypts a search keyword with the session key to generate a search query (S10). The server apparatus extracts a message identifier of which the index matches the search query (S11).
US11765135B1
A method including configuring a VPN server to receive, from a user device during an established VPN connection between the VPN server and the user device, a data request for the VPN server to retrieve data of interest from a host device; configuring the VPN server to utilize a first exit internet protocol (IP) address to transmit a query for retrieving the data of interest to the host device during the established VPN connection; configuring the VPN server to determine, based on transmitting the query, that the first exit IP address is blocked by the host device; and configuring the VPN server to utilize, based on determining that the first exit IP address is blocked, a second exit IP address to retransmit the query for retrieving the data of interest to the host device during the established VPN connection is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11765130B2
Systems and methods for implementing a micro firewall in a mobile application are provided here. Firewall logic can be injected or provided to a mobile application. The firewall logic can provide one or more rules for processing network traffic from application programming interfaces (APIs) of the mobile application. The mobile application having the firewall logic can be made available for installation on a mobile device. The mobile application having the firewall logic can be provided or installed on to a mobile device. During execution of the mobile application, the firewall logic of the mobile application can hook a plurality of API calls of the mobile application relevant to network traffic. The firewall logic can apply one or more rules of the firewall logic to process network traffic corresponding to an API call of the plurality of API calls of the mobile application.
US11765129B2
A system generates network perimeter for an organization based on the connection data. The system builds a model, for example, a machine learning based model configured to receive a network zone as input and output a score indicating security of the network zone. The system receives information describing connection requests received from client devices associated with the organization. The system adjusts parameters of the machine learning based model based on information describing the connection requests. The adjusting of the machine learning based model improves the accuracy of prediction based on the information describing the connection requests. The system determines a network perimeter for the organization using the machine learning based model. The network perimeter may be used for implementing a network policy for the organization based on the determined network perimeter.
US11765128B2
A Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server includes a memory storing computer-readable instructions, and a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to determine a media access control (MAC) address associated with a client, determine the MAC address associated with the client is a randomized MAC address, and assign an IP address the client from a DHCP IP server pool. The processor assigns an IP address to the client from a DHCP IP server pool using one of identifying, in a DHCP server table, at least one host name of the client and assigning a previously assigned IP address to the at least one host name of the client, and when the host name of the client is not available, assigning the IP address using a first lease with a first duration shorter than a default lease duration used for non-randomized MAC addresses.
US11765127B1
Network address configuration in distributed node networks can be performed and managed. A network management component (NMC) can determine a group of hooks, and an order of respective hooks of the group in a network address management stack, that can be utilized to configure a network address on an interface associated with a group of nodes based on characteristics associated with a node or interface configuration system. NMC can execute the group of hooks in order at runtime to facilitate configuration of the network address on the interface. NMC can execute respective threads of a hook stack in parallel for respective network addresses. NMC can modify a hook(s) in a hook group in response to a change in characteristics associated with the node or interface configuration system. NMC can determine another group of hooks and hook order that can be executed to remove the network address from the interface.
US11765123B1
A technology is provided for delivering a data object to a device. Data delivery instructions to distribute a data object to a device may be received at a delivery service and indicate a storage location of the data object, a messaging topic, and a size of data receivable by the device. The data object is then divided into blocks corresponding to the size of data receivable by the device. A messaging topic is identified to which the device is subscribed via a messaging service. The blocks are sent to the device using the messaging topic and a network protocol available to the device.
US11765116B2
A method includes: accessing a corpus of emails sent from a email account prior to the initial time period; correlating sequences of words, in the corpus of emails, with language signals; aggregating the language signals into a sender model that represents combinations of language signals characteristic of language in emails sent from the email account; later, accessing a email outbound from the email account and directed to a recipient; scanning the email for the set of language signals; correlating sequences of words in the email with language signals; calculating a similarity score for the email based on the subset of language signals detected in the email and the sender model; and, in response to the similarity score falling below a threshold similarity, flagging the email as suspicious and redirecting the email away from the recipient.
US11765115B2
A system and method for recommending emojis to send by a messaging application includes receiving user biosignals from at least one sensor, receiving context information from at least one context source, and selecting, using a rule-based heuristic state selector, a list of plausible user states from possible heuristic states in a heuristic state table based on the received user biosignals and received context information. A state predictor determines, from at least the list of plausible user states and a user model of emojis previously sent in different user states, a list of user states and probabilities that the user will send an emoji for each user state given the context information. The recommended emojis are displayed for selection for sending by the messaging application in order from the highest to the lowest probabilities that the user will send the recommended emojis based on a selected plausible user state.
US11765112B2
Disclosed are various approaches for dynamically creating content to present to a user based on an identified intent, or other context, associated with a message (e.g., email). A message that is received from a message server can be analyzed to identify the message content within the message prior to distributing to the recipient client device. Trained intent identification models can be applied to the identified message content to determine an intent, or other type of context, associated with the message. Upon identifying the intent, the message header can be modified to include the intent prior to forwarding the message to the recipient client device. The client device can then display a user interface including the message and a user interface element corresponding to a third-party service. The user interface element can be dynamically generated to include an action component that upon selection, triggers an action associated with the intent.
US11765106B2
An information management system may store information related to tasks to be performed by workers in an organization. Workers in the organization may communicate with the information management system using email messages. The information management system may not require a login or authentication procedure, and workers may interact with the information management system without the need to log in to the information management system. The information management system may receive an email message from a worker that indicates a request for a report. The information management system may determine whether to transmit the report to the worker based on whether the worker is appropriately registered with the information management system, and/or whether the worker has administrative privileges. The information management system, in response to a positive determination, may transmit the report to the email address from which the requesting email message was sent.
US11765095B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for processing network traffic data units. The methods and systems may include functionality for generating a first network traffic data unit comprising an indication that the first network traffic unit should be delayed for a time before re-transmission to a client device; and transmitting the first network traffic data unit to a first edge device.
US11765089B2
Systems and methods for dynamic service-based load balancing in an SD-WAN are provided. According to one embodiment, a subnet assigned to a client device by a hub network of the SD-WAN and one or more attributes of a path or a route to a group of clients within the subnet are received by a first process of an SD-WAN controller via a dynamic routing protocol. A tagged subnet is generated by the first process by tagging the subnet with a route tag corresponding to the one or more attributes. The first process informs the SD-WAN of the tagged subnet by communicating the tagged subnet to a second process of the SD-WAN controller via an inter-process communication mechanism. Responsive to receipt of the tagged subnet, the second process translates an SD-WAN service rule defined with reference to the route tag to an SD-WAN service rule defined with reference to the subnet.
US11765086B2
Embodiments include radio transmitters, receivers and methods of operation for enhanced bandwidth utilisation. The transmitter hashes received data blocks to produce indices associated with the received data blocks. The data blocks and associated indices are stored in memory and transmitted. If the received data blocks have previously been stored, the indices are transmitted instead of the data blocks. The receiver stores the received data blocks and associated indices in memory, and outputs the received data blocks. When the receiver receives indices instead of data blocks, it accesses the memory to look up and retrieve the associated data blocks, and outputs the retrieved data blocks.
US11765085B2
Virtual machine environments are provided in the switches that form a network, with the virtual machines executing network services previously performed by dedicated appliances. The virtual machines can be executed on a single multi-core processor in combination with normal switch functions or on dedicated services processor boards. Packet processors analyze incoming packets and add a services tag containing services entries to any packets. Each switch reviews the services tag and performs any network services resident on that switch. This allows services to be deployed at the optimal locations in the network. The network services may be deployed by use of drag and drop operations. A topology view is presented, along with network services that may be deployed. Services may be selected and dragged to a single switch or multiple switches. The management tool deploys the network services software, with virtual machines being instantiated on the switches as needed.
US11765080B2
Techniques are described for communications in an L2 virtual network. In an example, the L2 virtual network includes a plurality of L2 compute instances hosted on a set of host machines and a plurality of L2 virtual network interfaces and L2 virtual switches hosted on a set of network virtualization devices. An L2 virtual network interface emulates an L2 port of the L2 virtual network. Span port information applicable to the L2 port is sent to a network virtualization device that hosts the L2 virtual network interface.
US11765071B2
A method for facilitating a flow from a sending end to a receiving end by multi-path transmission is introduced. The method is applied to a network controller of a software-defined network. The software-defined network includes a plurality of switches. The switches execute packet forwarding from the sending end to the receiving end. The method includes: executing, by the network controller, operations, so as for a flow from the sending end to reach the receiving end by multi-path transmission using a plurality of network paths, so as to enable the multi-path transmission to be transparent to the sending end and the receiving end. The network controller is, according to the method, configured to facilitate a transmission mechanism for multi-path stochastic switching or a transmission mechanism for multi-path stochastic switching with network coding, so as to enable multi-path transmission of the packets in one single flow and thus enhance transmission performance.
US11765068B2
According to one method, the method occurs at a first impairment device comprising at least one programmable data plane processor. The method includes receiving, via an application programming interface (API) and from a test controller, command and control instructions for configuring a packet processing pipeline for facilitating traffic impairments; configuring, using the command and control instructions, the packet processing pipeline implemented using the at least one programmable data plane processor; and applying, via the packet processing pipeline, at least one impairment to one or more test packets for testing a system under test (SUT).
US11765063B2
A computing system may comprise a monitoring server system, a target server system, and client devices that may be connected via one or more networks. The monitoring server system may identify client devices to perform a test on the target server system, and may send a payload with instructions for performing the test to the clients. The client devices may determine that the payload is authentic and execute the instructions in the payload, as part of a non-malicious botnet, to perform the test on the target server system. The monitoring server system may receive client-side results from the client devices, and server-side results from the target server system. The monitoring server system may generate a report based on the received results. The report may indicate one or more issues, points of failure and/or recommendations for mitigating the issues and/or points of failure.
US11765059B2
System and methods for enabling SD-WAN functionality to respond to Ethernet level OAM-related events are provided. According to an embodiment, a Software-Defined Network Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) module of a network device operating as both an SD-WAN node and a Maintenance Entity Group Endpoint (MEP) receives Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) information via one of multiple OAM-enabled links of the network device. The SD-WAN module determines based on the OAM information, an event associated with the OAM network relating to one or more of service availability, Quality of Service (QoS), and service configuration, and based on the determined event, updates routing information to determine how to route application traffic over the OAM-enabled links.
US11765044B2
A system for simulating network configurations includes data processing hardware and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The memory hardware stores instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations includes receiving one or more parameter changes for a production network model of a network. The operations also include generating a simulation network model including the one or more parameter changes. Another operation includes analyzing the simulated network flow within the simulation network model. The operations also include generating a report including an impact of the parameter changes on the network. The operations may also include receiving a production network log including a recorded workflow for the production network model and simulating the production workflow of the production network log within the simulation network model to generate a simulated network log.
US11765017B2
A method to access a device may include obtaining, at a first device, data over a short-range wireless network from a second device. The data may originate at a remote system that sends the data to the second device through a network connection over a wide area network. The method may also include in response to a fault at the second device, obtaining, at the first device from the remote system, a maintenance command for the second device. The maintenance command may be obtained by the first device over an analog voice network. The method may also include directing, from the first device to the second device, the maintenance command over the short-range wireless network to enable the second device to perform the maintenance command.
US11765016B2
A vehicle is provided that includes Ethernet controllers that operate first electronic devices and perform communication using scalable service-oriented middleware on Ethernet/internet protocol (SOME/IP). An Ethernet switch generates a communication path between the Ethernet controllers and executes communication between the Ethernet controllers based on the generated path. A plurality of CAN controllers operate second electronic devices and perform CAN communication. A gateway then executes the CAN communication with the CAN controllers, executes communication with the Ethernet switch, and transmits CAN diagnostic information of the CAN controller to the Ethernet switch.
US11765013B2
Provided are a method for a terminal transmitting uplink control information (UCI)through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. A transmission power to be applied to the uplink control channel is determined on the basis of a value subordinate to a PUCCH format, and at least one type of UCI is transmitted from the physical uplink control channel by using the transmission power that is determined, wherein when the PUCCH format is PUCCH format 3, and the at least one type of UCI includes acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement(ACK/NACK) and periodic channel state information (CSI), the value subordinate to the PUCCH format is determined on the basis of the number of bits of the ACK/NACK and the number of bits of the periodic CSI.
US11765007B2
A signal specification identification apparatus includes processing circuitry that estimates the transmission rate of a received signal, performs sampling frequency conversion on the received signal, calculates a probability corresponding to each of a plurality of candidates for a specification of the received signal, selects a candidate using the respective probabilities, and calculates reliability corresponding to a selected candidate, determines whether to output the selected candidate as an identification result or perform the sampling frequency conversion again, based on the reliability, and changes a parameter indicating the ratio of the sampling frequency conversion when it is determined that the sampling frequency conversion is to be performed again. Processing is repeated until the processing circuitry determines that the selected candidate as the identification result is to be output.
US11764992B2
Various embodiments describe methods, systems, and devices for deploying an application associated with a user-selected container on a home-network router. Exemplary implementations may include receiving, at the home-network router from a remote server, container acquisition data including configuration information and rules for downloading the user-selected container. Also, initiating, by the home-network router, operation of application logic of the user-selected container in response to downloading the user-selected container from a remote container registry. Further, updating, by the home-network router, a reverse proxy maintained in the home-network router through application logic, wherein the reverse proxy is configured to forward requests from operation of the user-selected container to one or more remote servers; transmitting, from the home-network router to a remote computing device, a notification that the application associated with the user-selected container is deployed.
US11764991B2
A building system for identity management of a building, the building system including one or more storage devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request to determine whether an entity has a privilege and determine whether the entity has the privilege by querying, based on the request, a graph database to identity information of the graph database that indicates whether the entity has the privilege, wherein the graph database stores nodes representing at least one of users, equipment, events, or spaces of the building, wherein the graph database stores edges between the nodes representing relationships between the users, equipment, events, or spaces. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate a response including a determination whether the entity has the privilege.
US11764987B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.
US11764985B2
In an approach for improving the virtual meeting user experience, a processor detects a user disengaging from a virtual meeting having at least two participants for a pre-set period of time or for a pre-set percentage of a total allotted time of a pre-scheduled virtual meeting. A processor retrieves data from a database. A processor prepares a summary that is tailored to a profile of the user and that covers a portion of the virtual meeting during which the user was disengaged. A processor detects the user reconnecting to the virtual meeting. A processor determines whether the user will review the summary before rejoining the virtual meeting. Responsive to determining the user will review the summary before rejoining the virtual meeting, a processor prompts the user with a set of default user preferences to review the summary. A processor outputs the summary to the user.
US11764984B2
A method for teleconferencing is provided. The method acquires voices of at least three participants who attend a teleconference from each of individual conference terminals of the participants and generates voice data including volume information from the acquired voices. The method also acquires video of the participants during the teleconference from each individual conference terminal and generates video data. The method displays seating information indicating seatings associated with the participants in a virtual space for each of the conference terminals of the participants. The method determines a destination of the voice data of the participants for each of the conference terminals of the participants in accordance with the voice data and the video data of the participants as well as the seating information. The method transmits the voice data of the participants from the conference terminals of the participants to destinations determined for the voice data of the participants.
US11764978B2
A method and system for certificate management for services in a container orchestrator. The method includes requesting a certificate for a service from a cloud certificate manager, in response to detecting a request from a control plane of the container orchestrator for the certificate for the service, receiving the certificate from the cloud certificate manager, storing the certificate in a secret storage, and returning the location of the secret storage to a requester of the certificate.
US11764969B2
A key server may establish an initial media access security (MACsec) connectivity association (CA) between a set of devices on a communication network of a power system. The key server may identify a device in the set of devices on the initial CA as a suspect device. The key server may communicate a new connectivity association key (CAK) of an independent CA to one or more other devices in the set of devices to cause the one or more other devices to join an independent CA without the suspect device.
US11764966B2
A method of performing out-of-band user authentication includes, by a service electronic device associated with a service a request to initiate a session of the service, generating an authentication token, encrypting the authentication token to generate an encrypted authentication token, and transmitting the encrypted authentication token to the electronic device.
US11764965B2
Techniques of authenticating a first device of a user to a second device are disclosed. The method enables the second device to perform authentication using a biometric template stored on the first device and a biometric measurement. Homomorphic encryption may be used by the first device to encrypt the biometric template and the second device to determine an encrypted similarity metric between the biometric template and the biometric measurement. The second device can also determine an encrypted code using an authentication function and the encrypted similarity metric. The second device sends the encrypted code and the encrypted similarity metric to be decrypted by the first device. The second device can receive a response from the first device, indicating whether a decrypted similarity metric exceeds a threshold; and whether the decrypted code matches a test code. The second device can then authenticate the user based on the response.
US11764964B2
Each tenant of a secure web gateway (SWG) is issued a secret key. A user accesses a unique secret key derived from the tenant's secret key and loads the secret key into an application which generates time-based one time passwords (TOTPs). When the SWG receives a connection request from a client and cannot decrypt the network traffic, the SWG challenges the client request and indicates an authentication scheme to be used. The client obtains user credentials, constructs a response to the challenge based on the authentication scheme, and issues a connection request to the SWG which indicates the response. The SWG determines an expected response based on a locally generated TOTP and the secret key of the corresponding tenant. If the expected response matches the provided response, the SWG authenticates the user, allows the connection request, and whitelists the client for a period longer than the lifetime of the TOTP.
US11764963B2
Communications methods and apparatus for providing and/or adding STIR/SHAKEN Diversion Information to requests. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: receiving at a second communications network a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Invite request from a first communications network, the SIP Invite request being directed to a first SIP address corresponding to a first user equipment device located within the second communications network, the SIP Invite request including a SIP Identity shaken header and one or more SIP Identity div headers; determining at the second communications network whether or not the received SIP Invite request was previously diverted by the second communications network to another network; and when the SIP Invite request is determined to have been previously diverted by the second communications network to another network, processing the SIP Invite request at the second communications network as a previously received and diverted SIP Invite request.
US11764956B2
Provided is a system that includes at least one processor programmed or configured to provision a client device for access to an online source of information, transmit a private encryption key of a public/private encryption key pair to a software agent of the client device, receive a first hash value from the software agent, wherein the first hash value is generated using the private encryption key, receive a second hash value from the software agent, determine whether to allow access to the online source of information by the software agent based on the first hash value and the second hash value received from the software agent, process a request to access the online source of information involving the software agent, and store a data record associated with a data transaction involving the online source of information in a data structure. Methods and computer program products are also provided.
US11764953B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). An example method includes transmitting a first portion of an electronic communication to a client device over a non-PQC communications channel. The example method further includes transmitting a second portion of the electronic communication to the client device over a PQC communications channel. In some instances, the first portion of the electronic communication may comprise overhead data, and the second portion of the electronic communication may comprise payload data.
US11764948B1
A cryptography service provides an interface layer between an application and a cryptographic device, such as a hardware security module, trusted platform module, or cryptoprocessor that includes non-exportable tamper-resistant memory. A translation layer is provided between the customer application and the load-balancing service that accepts requests from the client application in a first protocol, such as KMIP, and converts the requests into a second protocol that is compatible with the cryptographic device. Results that are returned from the cryptographic device are translated and returned in accordance with the first protocol. In an embodiment, the cryptographic devices may be arranged in a cluster configuration where each cryptographic device stores a matching set of cryptographic keys, and a load-balancing service acts as an interface to the cluster of cryptographic devices.
US11764940B2
A system and method for secure searching in a semi-trusted environment by comparing first and second data (query and target data). A first data provider may map first secret data to a first plurality of tokens using a token codebook, concatenate the first plurality of tokens to generate a first token signature, and homomorphically encrypt the first token signature. A second data provider may map second data to a second plurality of tokens using the token codebook, concatenate the second plurality of tokens to generate a second token signature, and compare the homomorphically encrypted first token signature and an unencrypted or homomorphically encrypted second token signature to generate a homomorphically encrypted comparison. A trusted party may decrypt the homomorphically encrypted comparison, using a secret homomorphic decryption key, to determine if the token signatures match or not respectively indicating the search query is found or not in the target data.
US11764936B2
A wireless device can flexibly switch between different frequency-division duplexing (FDD) modes including one or more half-duplex (HD) FDD modes and a full-duplex (FD) FDD mode in wireless communication. The wireless device can intelligently switch between the FDD modes to meeting different requirements of power consumption, traffic latency, and/or coverage enhancement.
US11764933B2
An information transmission method, a terminal, and a network device are provided, and the method includes: acquiring a non-overlapped candidate Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) occasion in a time domain transmission unit; determining, according to the candidate PDSCH occasion, a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) codebook corresponding to the time domain transmission unit; transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook. Wherein, at least one candidate PDSCH occasion in the time domain transmission unit corresponds to at least two pieces of HARQ-ACK information.
US11764919B2
A device may include a transceiver configured to access a communication network including a primary cell and a secondary cell, and a device controller configured to receive, on the secondary cell, scheduling information for the primary cell, and monitor a common search space for the primary cell. The device controller may be configured to selectively monitor the common search space for broadcast information. The device controller may be configured to selectively monitor the common search space based on a type of the common search space on the primary cell. A method may include scheduling, by a first scheduling mechanism, a primary cell, wherein the first scheduling mechanism comprises scheduling the primary cell by a secondary cell, scheduling, by a second scheduling mechanism, the primary cell, and deactivating the secondary cell based on switching from the first scheduling mechanism to the second scheduling mechanism. The second scheduling mechanism may include self-scheduling.
US11764913B2
A method for estimating jitter of a clock-signal-under-test includes generating a phase-adjusted clock signal based on an input clock signal and a feedback clock signal using a frequency-divided clock signal. The method includes generating N digital time codes for each phase adjustment of P phase adjustments of the phase-adjusted clock signal using a reference clock signal. Each digital time code of the N digital time codes corresponds to a first edge of a clock signal based on the phase-adjusted clock signal. P is a first integer greater than zero and N is a second integer greater than zero. The method includes generating a jitter estimate using an estimated standard deviation of a distribution of edges of the clock signal based on the N digital time codes for each of the P phase adjustments.
US11764910B2
The invention relates to a transmitting device for performing an initial and one or more retransmissions of data via a sidelink interface. A receiver and processor perform a resource sensing procedure to acquire information about radio resources usable for the device to transmit data at a later point in time. The processor performs an autonomous radio resource allocation to select time-frequency radio resources within a transmission window to be used for performing a first transmission of the data, based on information acquired by the resource sensing procedure. The processor determines a data transmission timing pattern, that indicates a transmission timing for performing one or more transmissions of data. A transmitter performs the first data transmission using the selected time-frequency radio resources and performs the data retransmissions at the transmission timing defined by the determined data transmission timing pattern with respect to the first data transmission.
US11764905B2
Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) retransmissions based on User Equipment (UE) cooperation involves a first UE receiving a transmission comprising a data block that is destined for a second UE, and transmitting the data block toward the second UE according to a data block retransmission mechanism to enable the second UE to identify the data block transmitted from the first UE as being one of a plurality of concurrent transmissions of the data block according to the data block retransmission mechanism. The concurrent transmissions of the data block are processable by the second UE in combination to determine a reception status of the data block.
US11764902B2
Various example embodiments for supporting forward error correction (FEC) in a communication system are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting FEC in a communication system may include the selection of a FEC setting for a communication channel from a transmitter to a receiver, e.g., the selection of a FEC setting for a communication channel, the selection of a FEC setting for a data burst sent over a communication channel, the selection of a FEC setting for a portion of a data burst sent over a communication channel, switching between FEC settings for different portions of a data burst over a communication channel, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof.
US11764890B2
A networked system is provided for transporting digital media packets, such as audio and video. The network includes network devices interconnected to send and receive packets. Each network device can receive and transmit media signals from media devices. A master clock generates a system time signal that the network devices use, together with a network time protocol to generate a local clock signal synchronised to the system time signal for both rate and offset. The local clock signal governs both the rate and offset of the received or transmitted media signals. The system, which can be implemented using conventional network equipment enables media signals to be transported to meet quality and timing requirements for high quality audio and video reproduction.
US11764888B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and testing. In some aspects, a device may receive information identifying a mount orientation of a wireless communication device, wherein the mount orientation indicates an orientation of a coordinate system of the wireless communication device relative to a coordinate system of a positioner. The device may capture measurement information at each position of a set of positions of the wireless communication device, wherein the set of positions comprises positions of the wireless communication device as the wireless communication device is rotated around an axis by the positioner, and wherein the measurement information is captured based at least in part on the mount orientation. The device may provide information identifying the measurement information. Some techniques and apparatuses described herein may use the measurement information to generate a codebook for beam generation. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11764887B2
A wireless communication device that supports a first wireless communication system and belongs to a first network to perform relay operation therein, the device including: a reception unit that receives first notification information from downstream side of the wireless communication device; an interference classification unit that classifies interference detected in a plurality of channels into first interference of the wireless communication device that supports a first wireless communication system and belongs to a first network or second interference that is different from the first interference; a control unit that generates second notification information including at least one of information on the first interference and information on the second interference on the basis of the first notification information and the interference classification result; and a transmission unit that transmits the second information to the upstream side.
US11764885B2
Systems and methods for localizing individuals in a region using wireless signals in accordance with embodiments are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for localizing individuals in a region between wireless devices of a system. The method receives wireless signal strength data for signals transmitted along signal paths between several wireless playback devices transmitting on a wireless channel during synchronous playback of media content by the several wireless playback devices and determines a first signal strength for each of several portions of the wireless channel. The method calculates, for each signal path between each of the several wireless playback devices, a difference in the determined first signal strength from a second signal strength for each of the several subcarriers, and determines, based on the calculated differences, a state for a set of one or more individuals in the region.
US11764879B2
According to one aspect disclosed herein, there is provided an optical wireless charging and data transmission system (100), the system comprising: a plurality of transmitter nodes (102,2020) operable to perform a first function of emitting a beam of light (104) to charge a receiver device (106) and a second function of emitting a beam of light (206) to transmit data to the receiver device (106); and a controller (108) configured, for each of the transmitter nodes, to perform a selection by selecting between performing the first function and the second function; wherein the controller is configured to perform the selection for each of the plurality of transmitter nodes based on one or more properties of the system comprising the spatial configuration of the system (100) and one or more properties of the receiver device (106) comprising the location of the receiver device relative to the system, by selecting a first transmitter node (202) of the plurality of transmitter nodes (102, 202) for transmitting data to the receiver device (106) and selecting a second transmitter node (102) of the plurality of transmitter nodes for charging the receiver device (106).
US11764877B2
An optic signal receiver is provided that comprises an optic signal detection unit an estimation unit, and a feedback control unit to provide a detector control signal. The optic signal detection unit comprises an adaptive optic module, a mode splitting module and a signal detection module, wherein the adaptive optic module is to modify a received optic input signal under control of the detector control signal into a multi-mode optic output signal, the mode splitting module is configured to branch the multi-mode optic output signal off into multiple reduced mode optic signals and the signal detection module is configured to issue a detection signal, the signal detection module comprising a plurality of signal detection sections that are each configured to measure an intensity of a respective one of the reduced mode optic signals and to provide a respective indicator indicative of the measured intensity as a component of the detection signal. The feedback control unit is configured to minimize a difference between the detection signal and a detection reference signal with the detector control signal. The estimation unit is configured to issue a further input signal to the feedback control unit based on a model of the optic signal detection unit.
US11764875B2
Techniques for managing gain equalization error in optical communication systems are provided. For example, a multi-stage gain correction filter may be configured to at least correct gain equalization error produced by filters with insufficient resolution, for example, conventional non-reflective gain correction technology used in the optical communication systems. The multi-stage filter may include at least a broadband gain correction filter to correct gain equalization error in most of the transmission bandwidth and a narrow band gain correction filter to correction error in a narrow region of the bandwidth. One or more of the multi-stage filters may be implemented in the repeaters of the system (which may be referred to as hybrid GFFs) or may be included in a standalone body (which may be referred to as hybrid GEFs).
US11764874B2
A method for processing low-rate service data, an apparatus, and a system, where the method includes: mapping low-rate service data into a newly defined low-rate data frame, where a rate of the low-rate data frame matches a rate of the low-rate service data, the data frame includes an overhead area and a payload area, the payload area is used to carry the low-rate service data, a rate of the payload area in the low-rate data frame is not less than the rate of the low-rate service data, and the rate of the low-rate service data is less than 1 Gbps; mapping the low-rate data frame into one or more slots in another data frame, where a rate of the slot is not greater than 100 Mbps; mapping the other data frame into an optical transport unit (OTU) frame; and sending the OTU frame.
US11764871B2
A conformance testing method including: obtaining a testing symbol pattern in an optical signal; performing equalization compensation on the testing symbol pattern; generating a testing eye pattern; calculating a value of a first parameter based on the testing eye pattern and a noise enhancement coefficient, where the first parameter is used to determine a transmitter dispersion eye pattern closure degree of the optical transmitter; and when the value of the first parameter is less than or equal to a preset threshold, determining that conformance testing on the optical signal succeeds.
US11764870B2
An optical signal monitor, including: a storage that holds a threshold value set for each of determination areas having a bandwidth set in accordance with an average grid of dummy light; a measurement section that sequentially measures an optical intensity of an inputted wavelength-multiplexed optical signal with respect to each of measurement areas obtained by dividing the determination area into areas with a bandwidth sufficiently smaller than a grid width of a monitoring-target optical signal composing the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal, and output measured values; and a section that determines that dummy light corresponding to the determination area needs introducing if each of measured values in the determination area is smaller than a threshold value, and, determines that dummy light corresponding to the determination area does not need introducing if at least one of the measured values in the determination area is equal to or larger than the threshold value.
US11764866B2
Satellite communication systems and methods are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a satellite communication system includes a user terminal and a gateway. The user terminal includes a terminal antenna and a terminal controller. The terminal antenna enables the user terminal to communicate via each of a first satellite and a second satellite. The gateway includes a gateway antenna and a gateway controller. The gateway antenna enables the gateway to communicate with the user terminal via each of the first satellite and the second satellite. At least one of the terminal controller and the gateway controller is configured to adjust a queue management policy during a handover operation from the first satellite to the second satellite.
US11764862B2
A controller is configured to control the adaptive notch filter and to execute a search technique (e.g., artificial intelligence (AI) search technique) to converge on filter coefficients and to recursively adjust the filter coefficients of the adaptive notch filter in real time to adaptively adjust one or more filter characteristics (e.g., maximum notch depth or attenuation, bandwidth of notch, or general magnitude versus frequency response of notch).
US11764851B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for determining, by a user equipment (UE), an evaluation time period based on a number of a plurality of reference signals that are quasi-co-located (QCL) within one or more measurement windows; measuring, by the UE, a signal quality value of one or more of reference signals within the evaluation time period; and determining, by the UE, whether the signal quality value of one or more of reference signals within the evaluation time period crosses an evaluation threshold.
US11764850B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method of wireless communication includes determining, at a wireless device, a subset of antenna elements of a plurality of antenna elements to be used to communicate with a network entity in a second communication direction. The plurality of antenna elements is used to communicate with the network entity in a first communication direction. The method further includes transmitting, from the wireless device to the network entity, a message indicating that the subset of antenna elements is to be used to communicate in the second communication direction. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11764848B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining, on the basis of not receiving information on a channel occupancy duration from a base station, channel state information based on a plurality of CSI-reference signals (CSI-RSs) which are all overlapped with, on a time domain, at least one from among a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and an aperiodic CSI-RS; and transmitting the channel state information to the base station, wherein durations corresponding to the PDSCH and the aperiodic CSI-RS are consecutive time durations on the time domain.
US11764847B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for radio frequency (RF) sensing in wireless communication systems. In some implementations, a transmitter device transmits sounding sequences configured for channel estimation over a wireless channel to a receiver device. The transmitter device also transmits or receives non-sounding frames associated with a channel report of the receiver device. The transmitter device transmits a frame soliciting the channel report from the receiver device. The transmitter device receives the channel report, which may include channel state information (CSI) of the wireless channel responsive to at least the sounding sequences. Some types of channel reports may take longer to generate than other types of channel reports. Transmitting or receiving the non-sounding frames during the time period may prevent other devices from accessing the wireless channel when the receiver device needs additional time to generate a certain type of channel report.
US11764846B2
Provided are channel state information reporting method and apparatus, and channel state information receiving method and apparatus. The channel state information reporting method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a second communication node; and determining, according to a first type reporting configuration signaling associated with the reference signal, at least one of a first type channel state information set or a second type channel state information set, and reporting the at least one of the first type channel state information set or the second type channel state information set to the second communication node. The first type channel state information set includes at least one of a reference signal resource index, a reference signal resource set index, a reference signal resource setting index, a reporting configuration index, a reference signal port group index, a reference signal port group set index, a port index, or rank indicator information. The second type channel state information set comprises at least one of precoding matrix indicator information, channel quality indicator information, an amplitude coefficient, a phase coefficient, or a reference signal received power.
US11764844B2
A method performed by a first wireless device (121) is provided. The method comprises transmitting (503) a radio signal towards the at least one second wireless device indicating that the first wireless device is, or that the at least one second wireless device has an option to be, responsible for beamforming of transmissions over the direct D2D communication link. The method also comprises receiving (505) information from the at least one second wireless device indicating which of the first wireless device or the at least one second wireless device is to be responsible for beamforming of transmissions over the direct D2D communication link. Further, the method comprises configuring (506), based on the received information, which of the first wireless device or the at least one second wireless device is to be responsible for beamforming of transmissions over the direct D2D communication link.
US11764841B2
A wireless communication device includes: a plurality of transmitting antennas; a modulation unit that generates a transmission signal transmitted from each of the transmitting antennas by performing frequency-shift keying on a carrier wave on the basis of transmission data; and a mapping unit that is provided in a preceding stage of the modulation unit and allocates carrier waves different from each other to the plurality of transmitting antennas such that a plurality of transmission signals each transmitted from one of the plurality of transmitting antennas are orthogonal to each other.
US11764837B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an antenna module, a memory, and a processor controlling to identify a first beam set among a plurality of beam sets stored in the memory, perform beamforming based on the identified first beam set through the antenna module, determine whether a beam pattern is changed, based on, at least, a prediction value of a reception signal strength set corresponding to the first beam set and a measurement value of a signal received through the antenna module, and change a setting related to a reception beam if the beam pattern is determined to be changed.
US11764835B2
A communication device may include a millimeter wave (mm-wave) antenna array having antenna elements, a mm-wave element (e.g. lens), and one or more transceivers (e.g. first and second transceivers). The mm-wave lens may be configured to adjust the first beam and the second beam as the first and second beams pass through the mm-wave lens. The first transceiver can selectively couple to the antenna elements, the first transceiver being configured to drive a first selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a beam from the selected first antenna element. The second transceiver may selectively couple to the antenna elements, the second transceiver being configured to drive a second selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a second beam from the selected second antenna element.
US11764834B2
Described herein is a method and apparatus for a multi-beam digital system including a frequency reference device having an output for providing a frequency reference signal; a fanout device connected to the frequency reference device and configured to generate n frequency reference signals from the frequency reference signal output from the frequency reference device, having n outputs configured to output the n frequency reference signals, respectively, where n is a positive integer; n local clock domain devices configured to synchronize the n frequency reference signals and distribute reference and clock signals having deterministic phase and phase/data alignment; and n beamforming devices connected to the n local clock domain devices, respectively, and configured to form a user-definable beam, and having n input configured to receive n radio frequency (RF) signals, and n outputs for transmitting n RF signals.
US11764822B2
Radio transceiver control interfaces are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a semiconductor die includes a group of transmitters and a group of receivers that operate as a transceiver. Additionally, a group of common pins are used to control settings of both the transmitters and receivers. In one example, data received on the common pins can be used to establish enable settings for each of the transmitters and receivers. Thus, rather than using a one-to-one correspondence between a pin and the setting of a particular transmitter or receiver, a mapping is used between the common pins and the settings of the transmitters and receivers.
US11764821B2
A case assembly is provided having a mobile phone case and storage case that is designed to securely hold a mobile phone and an epinephrine injection pen concurrently. The case assembly includes the mobile phone case which is configured to securely contain a mobile phone therein. The mobile phone case includes a viewing region which allows an operator to view a screen of the mobile phone. The storage case is coupled to the mobile phone case and is configured to securely contain and allow access to an epinephrine injector pen. The mobile phone case is selectively moveable relative to the storage case between an open position and a closed position. The opening in the storage case is covered when the mobile phone case is in the closed position, and the opening in the storage case is open when the mobile phone case is in the open position.
US11764819B2
A wireless antenna module includes a power supply case configured to accommodate a power supply, and at least one module body connected to the power supply. A casing wherein at least a wireless antenna and a controller are provided in the casing. The controller includes an operation unit configured to exchange information at least with another device. A mounting mechanism mounts the module body to a device.
US11764812B2
Embodiments disclose an encoding method and a communications device. The method includes: obtaining and encoding a to-be-encoded information bit sequence based on a binary vector P1 of a first code, to obtain and output an encoded bit sequence, where P1 is determined based on a binary vector P2 of a second code and a binary vector P3 of a third code, P1, P2, and P3 indicate an information bit and a frozen bit of the first code, the second code and the third code respectively, a code length of the first code, the second code and the third code is n1, n2 and n3 respectively, a quantity of information bits of the first code, the second code and the third code is k1, k2 and k3 respectively, n1=n2*n3, and k1=k2*k3. Therefore, parallel decoding can be performed, helping reduce a decoding delay.
US11764811B2
A communication device includes interleaver circuitry that receives, from a host device, a first encoded data stream comprised of a plurality of symbols encoded with a first type of error correction code and interleaves the plurality of symbols of the first encoded data stream into symbol sections each including a predetermined number of symbols encoded with the first type of error correction code. Encoder circuitry encodes the first encoded data stream in accordance with a second type of error correction code different from the first type of error correction code by generating, for each of the symbol sections, an error code block corresponding to the symbols in the symbol section and outputs a second encoded data stream including the first encoded data stream and the error code block.
US11764810B2
A decoding system, a decoding controller, and a decoding control method are provided. In the decoding system, a decoding controller is disposed between two adjacent decoders. The decoding controller determines whether to perform turn-off based on a non-turn-off indication received by a previous-stage decoder, a turn-off indication output by the previous-stage decoder, and historical turn-off probability statistics. This is equivalent to adding a buffer zone between the two adjacent decoders.
US11764809B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a decoding module, configured to receive M first codewords from at least one peer device, where each first codeword includes first service data with a K-unit length and an error correction code with an R-unit length, where the decoding module is further configured to decode the M first codewords to obtain M second codewords, where a length of each second codeword is a sum of the K-unit length and the R-unit length, each second codeword includes second service data with the K-unit length and error correction information, the second service data is error-corrected first service data; and a classification and statistics collection module, configured to determine a bit error rate of the first service data based on the error correction information.
US11764805B2
A method of encoding input data includes receiving the input data that includes a plurality of input words including a first input word and a second input word, generating a plurality of converted words including a first converted word and a second converted word, the first converted word being based at least on the first input word, the second converted word being based on the first converted word and the second input word, identifying a key value based on the plurality of converted words, and generating a plurality of coded words based on the key value and the plurality of converted words.
US11764802B1
A digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to generate a first current based on most significant bits of a multi-bit code received from a time-to-digital converter (TDC) of a digital phase-locked loop (PLL). The DCO circuit further includes a sigma-delta modulator (SDM) to modulate least significant bits of the multi-bit code into a set of digital bits based on a first frequency of a feedback clock of the DPLL. The set of digital bits is to cause the DAC to generate a second current. The DCO circuit further includes a ring oscillator coupled to the DAC, the ring oscillator to generate an alternating-current (AC) output signal having a second frequency corresponding to a combination of the first current and the second current.
US11764799B2
Example embodiments relate to time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters and conversion methods thereof. One embodiment includes a slope analog-to-digital converter. The slope analog-to-digital converter includes a sample and hold stage configured to sample an analog input signal at a sampling frequency. The slope analog-to-digital converter also includes a comparator downstream to the sample and hold stage configured to compare the analog input signal to a slope signal. Further, the slope analog-to-digital converter includes a digital logic configured to receive a counter value corresponding to a voltage level of the slope signal and to sample the counter value based upon the comparison, thereby generating a digital representation of the analog input signal based upon the comparison. The slope signal is asynchronous to the sampling frequency.
US11764796B2
Vapor cells may include a body including a cavity within the body. A first substrate bonded to a second substrate at an interface within the body, at least one of the first substrate, the second substrate, or an interfacial material between the first and second substrates may define at least one recess or pore in a surface. A smallest dimension of the at least one recess or pore may be about 500 microns or less, as measured in a direction parallel to at least one surface of the first substrate partially defining the cavity.
US11764794B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for aligning a phase of a ring oscillator and removing jitter. An oscillator includes a resistor bank array, an operational amplifier, a first and second transistor, and a realignment circuit. The resistor bank array has a plurality of resistors configured to generate a first signal. The operational amplifier is coupled to a PLL circuit and is configured to compare a voltage of the PLL circuit with a voltage of the resistor bank array. The first transistor is coupled between the operational amplifier and a ring oscillator. The first transistor is configured to generate a second signal to control a frequency of the ring oscillator during a realignment state. The realignment circuit is coupled to the first transistor and the ring oscillator. The realignment circuit is configured to generate a realignment signal to align the ring oscillator with a first clock signal.
US11764790B1
A new class of logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates. Input signals in the form of digital signals are driven to non-linear input capacitors on their respective first terminals. The second terminals of the non-linear input capacitors are coupled a summing node which provides a majority function of the inputs. In the multi-input majority or minority gates, the non-linear charge response from the non-linear input capacitors results in output voltages close to or at rail-to-rail voltage levels. In some examples, the nodes of the non-linear input capacitors are conditioned once in a while to preserve function of the multi-input majority gates.
US11764784B2
A semiconductor device includes an input, a level shifter, an output, and a switch module. The input is configured to receive an input signal in a first voltage domain. The level shifter is connected to the input and is configured to shift the input signal from the first voltage domain to a second voltage domain. The switch module is configured to connect one of the input and the level shifter to the output. A method of mitigating a delay between input and output signals of the semiconductor device is also disclosed.
US11764782B2
There is described a motor vehicle control device (10) with a control unit (12), which includes a movable control element (14), and an electrode carrier (20) which comprises at least two electrodes (24) associated to the control element (14), which are contacted electrically and together with the control unit (12) form a common capacitor (38).
US11764778B2
Switch drive circuits include galvanically isolated switch circuits with power transfer from the switch driver input side to the switch side. A switch drive circuit uses a single transformer to transfer control signals to a secondary side for control of the switch along with power to a secondary side circuit to drive the switch in response to the control signals. By detecting the control signal first before drawing current, the effects of leakage inductance in the transformer are reduced.
US11764777B2
The present invention relates to a new type of current driving circuit, which has high linearity during low current driving, comprising: a voltage-current conversion unit for converting an input voltage into a current; a digital analog converter (DAC) connected to an output terminal of the voltage-current conversion unit and for generating and outputting a voltage corresponding to an applied digital code; a field effect transistor having a first electrode connected to a load and a second electrode connected to a node connected to a resistor, and for allowing a current to flow to the load in response to a voltage applied to a gate; an amplifier for receiving the voltage output from the digital analog converter and a voltage generated by the resistor, generating a voltage for controlling such that a current flows from the field effect transistor, and applying same to the gate; a current supply source for supplying to the first electrode a current required for operating the field effect transistor in a saturation region; and a control unit for controlling the field effect transistor to operate in the saturation region, by activating the current supply source, if the field effect transistor operates in a region lower than a threshold voltage.
US11764776B2
A drive circuit configured to drive a load. The drive circuit comprises a transformer. The transformer comprises a transformer primary comprising one or more primary windings connected to arms that pass through a magnetic material. The transformer also comprises a transformer secondary comprising secondary windings connected to planar secondary conductors which pass through the inside of the arms. The drive circuit also comprises a voltage source configured to apply a voltage across the transformer primary.
US11764774B2
An apparatus comprises a power source connected to a buffer capacitor. The apparatus comprises a first switch connected between the buffer capacitor and a driven switch. The buffer capacitor is charged by the power source when the first switch is turned off. The apparatus comprises a comparator. The comparator monitors the charging of the buffer capacitor. In response to the buffer capacitor reaching a threshold amount of charge, the comparator turns on the first switch to initiate a charge redistribution of charge from the buffer capacitor to the driven switch.
US11764770B2
A clock selector circuit receives a first input clock signal (CLK1) having a first frequency, and a second input clock signal (CLK2) having a second frequency. A phase difference detector is configured to detect when a phase difference occurs, over time, between the first input clock signal (CLK1) and the second input clock signal (CLK2), determined using when a clock edge crosses zero, and to signal this zero crossing to switching circuitry. The switching circuitry is configured, in response to receiving a zero-crossing signal from the phase difference detector, to detect an edge of opposite type to the predetermined type in the first input clock signal (CLK1) or in the second input clock signal (CLK2), and, in response to detecting said edge of opposite type, to switch an output clock signal (CLK_OUT) between the first input clock signal (CLK1) and the second input clock signal (CLK2).
US11764769B1
A control circuit and method for detecting a glitch signal on a bus are provided. The control circuit includes: input ends, respectively receiving a data signal and a clock signal from the bus; a counter, for calculating a time or a number of times in a low level period of the clock signal; a comparator, receiving an output of the time counted by the counter and a threshold value, and generating a comparison result by comparing the time and the threshold value; and an error detector, coupled to the comparator to receive the comparison result, and generating an error flag. When the comparison result indicates that there is a level change during the low level period of the clock signal, the error detector generates an error flag.
US11764765B2
A receiver circuit may include a first stage and a second stage. The first stage may include a first inverter circuit to generate a first signal based on an input signal and a second inverter circuit to generate a second signal based on the input signal. The second stage may determine a logic state of the input signal by combining the first signal generated by the first inverter circuit and the second signal generated by the second inverter circuit.
US11764761B2
A pure digital ring oscillator with constant power consumption as oscillation frequency is adjusted. Circuit topology includes a multiplexer implemented in NAND gates and a delay element positioned after a path selection NAND gate of that multiplexer such that delay element transistors may not toggle if the non-delaying signal path is selected. Assuming a delay element oscillation frequency f and a total capacitance C, and also assuming a plurality N of delay gates each characterized by a propagation delay t1 and a capacitance C1 such that C=C1*N, the ring oscillator of the present invention is characterized by a C value that is proportional to N and an f value that is inversely proportional to N. Furthermore, each of the N delay gates as well as the input and output gates of the multiplexer are characterized by a common capacitance-to-propagation delay ratio=C1/t1.
US11764753B2
An elastic wave device includes a plate-shaped elastic wave element and a resin structure including a high elastic modulus resin portion and low elastic modulus resin portions. The low elastic modulus resin portions are provided in regions of side surfaces of an elastic wave element substrate, which extend from end portions at an IDT electrode formation surface side and do not reach a surface at a side opposite to an IDT electrode formation surface, and a remaining resin portion of a portion of the resin structure, which contacts with the side surfaces of the elastic wave element substrate, is the high elastic modulus resin portion.
US11764750B2
Devices and processes for preparing devices are described for a bulk acoustic wave resonator. A stack includes a first electrode that is coupled to a first side of a piezoelectric layer and a second electrode that is coupled to a second side of the piezoelectric layer. The stack is configured to resonate in response to an electrical signal applied between the first electrode and the second electrode. A cavity frame is coupled to the first electrode and to the substrate. The cavity frame forms a perimeter around a cavity. Optionally, a heat dissipating frame is formed and coupled to the second electrode. The cavity frame and/or the heat dissipating frame improve the thermal stability of the bulk acoustic resonator.
US11764746B2
A stacked composite filter device includes a stacked body having a first region and a second region that are different from each other. A first filter includes a first inductor and has a first pass band is arranged in the first region. A second filter includes a second inductor and has a second pass band on a lower frequency side than the first pass band is arranged in the second region. A first conductive structure extends in a stacking direction of the stacked body and includes one end grounded that is arranged in an area that is in the first region and adjacent to the second region. The other end of the first conductive structure is connected to the first inductor.
US11764743B2
Voltage-to-current converters that include two current mirrors are disclosed. In an example voltage-to-current converter each current mirror is a complementary current mirror in that one of its input and output transistors is a P-type transistor and the other one is an N-type transistor. Such voltage-to-current converters may be implemented using bipolar technology, CMOS technology, or a combination of bipolar and CMOS technologies, and may be made sufficiently compact and accurate while operating at sufficiently low voltages and consuming limited power.
US11764736B2
The present invention discloses a bias compensation circuit. The bias compensation circuit includes a detecting circuit, including a diode-connected transistor circuit, with a first end for receiving a first current, and a second end coupled to a first reference voltage end; and a first diode circuit, with a first end for receiving a second current, and a second end coupled to the first reference voltage end; wherein the detecting circuit provides a first voltage level according to the diode-connected transistor circuit, and provides a second voltage level according to the first diode circuit; a voltage-current converting circuit, coupled to the detecting circuit, for generating a first reference current according to the first voltage level and the second voltage level; and a bias circuit, coupled to the voltage-current converting circuit, for receiving the first reference current, to provide a bias voltage level according to the first reference current.
US11764735B2
A biosensor for an analyte monitoring system. In one embodiment, the biosensor includes a cascode common source transimpedance amplifier circuit, an analog to digital converter, and an output circuit. The cascode common source transimpedance amplifier circuit is configured to receive an electrical current generated by an electrochemical reaction of an analyte on a test strip. The cascode common source transimpedance amplifier circuit is also configured to convert the electrical current to an analog voltage signal. The analog to digital converter is configured to convert the analog voltage signal to a digital voltage signal. The output circuit is configured to transmit a signal indicating a measured level of the analyte based on the digital voltage signal.
US11764731B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device comprising a first capacitor and a quartz crystal coupled in series between a first node and a second node; an inverter coupled between the first and second nodes; a first variable capacitor coupled between the first node and a third node; and a second variable capacitor coupled between the second node and the third node.
US11764720B2
A three-phase brushless motor control device uses one shunt resistor disposed on a bus of an inverter as a drive circuit driving a three-phase brushless motor and acquires a two-phase current of the three-phase brushless motor at a predetermined timing to vector-control the three-phase brushless motor. At this time, in accordance with a duration in which the two-phase current cannot be accurately acquired, the control device varies an acquisition timing of the two-phase current or varies a period during which the three-phase brushless motor is vector-controlled.
US11764717B2
A linear motor system includes: a stator including first to tenth coils; a mover including a permanent magnet; a switcher that switches one or more power supply target coils; and first to tenth amplifiers provided in one-to-one correspondence with first to tenth coils. One or more amplifiers that serve as new one or more power supply target amplifiers immediately after the switching calculate Δθ (t0), which is a position deviation at time t=t0, based on Δθ (t0)=Δθ (t0−td)+A−B, where A is a difference between an instructed position at time t=t0 and an instructed position at time t=t0−td, and B is a difference between an actual position at time t=t0 and an actual position at time t=t0−td, and supply power to the power supply target coils by the position deviation Δθ (t0).
US11764706B2
The present application provides a power generator, a suspension, a vehicle, an apparatus and a method for producing a power generator. Among them, the power generator comprises a cylinder body, a moving member, and a piezoelectric conversion unit. The moving member and the cylinder body jointly defines a variable cavity. The piezoelectric conversion unit is located in the variable cavity, and the piezoelectric conversion unit is configured to deform when the moving member is in relative motion with respect to the cylinder body move and changes the size of the variable cavity, for generating electric energy. Due to the fact that the piezoelectric conversion unit is arranged in the variable cavity, the moving member is in relative motion with respect to the cylinder body to make the piezoelectric conversion unit generate electric energy, thus effectively utilizing the energy generated by the target members in the vibration process.
US11764704B2
A piezoelectric resonator includes a vibrating part having a pair of principal surfaces in an obverse-reverse relationship, and a side surface configured to couple the pair of principal surfaces to each other, and a protruding part which is provided to the vibrating part, and is configured to transmit a drive force generated by a vibration of the vibrating part to a driven part, wherein the vibrating part has a pair of vibrating plates including a first vibrating plate and a second vibrating plate stacked on one another in afirst direction in which the pair of principal surfaces are arranged side by side, the first vibrating plate has a flexural vibrating piezoelectric element configured to flexurally vibrate the vibrating part in a third direction perpendicular to a second direction in which the driven part and the protruding part are arranged side by side in a plan view of the principal surfaces, either one or both of the first vibrating plate and the second vibrating plate have a stretching vibrating piezoelectric element configured to make the vibrating part perform a stretching vibration in the second direction, and the side surface is provided with a plurality of terminals electrically coupled to the flexural vibrating piezoelectric element and the stretching vibrating piezoelectric element.
US11764703B1
A power conversion method for an AC direct grid-connected type battery energy storage system is provided. The AC direct grid-connected type battery energy storage system includes at least one energy storage module, each energy storage module includes A, B and C three phase units composed of upper bridge arms and/or lower bridge arms, each bridge arm includes series-connected full-controlled battery modules and an inductor connected in series. High-voltage terminals of all the upper bridge arms of the energy storage module are connected to form a positive DC bus, and low-voltage terminals of all the lower bridge arms of the energy storage module are connected to form a negative DC bus. A low-voltage terminal of the upper bridge arm and a high-voltage terminal of the lower bridge arm of each phase unit are connected to form an AC terminal of the phase unit to connect with an external AC system.
US11764694B2
A configurable control loop arrangement for forming a control loop of a DC-DC converter that is configured to generate a control signal to control the DC-DC converter, the configurable control loop arrangement comprising: a digital-to-analog converter; a comparator; a timer configured to provide a timing-signal for controlling one or more of: the comparator in the determination of the comparison signal; the application of the comparison signal to a configurable-event-generation-logic-module; and the operation of the configurable-event-generation-logic-module; wherein the configurable-event-generation-logic-module comprises a flip-flop circuit, and wherein the configurable-event-generation-logic-module, when implemented in the control loop, is configured to provide for generation of the control signal based on the comparison signal, the timing-signal and a selected mode of the flip-flop circuit, and wherein the control signal is for application to one or more switches of the DC-DC converter.
US11764682B2
A buck converter includes a quick response circuit, a compensator coupled to an output node, an interleaving logic circuit coupled to the compensator, a plurality of on-time generators, a plurality of OR gates coupled to the corresponding on-time generator, a plurality of power stages coupled to the corresponding OR gates, a plurality of inductors and an output capacitor. Each on-time generator is coupled to the interleaving logic circuit, an input node and the output node. The quick response circuit includes a voltage droop sensor coupled to the output node, a load frequency sensor coupled to the output node, a quick response signal generator coupled to the voltage droop sensor, a maximum quick response signal generator coupled to the voltage droop sensor and the load frequency sensor, an AND gate coupled to the quick response signal generator, the maximum quick response signal generator and the plurality of OR gates.
US11764678B2
A constant on time converter control circuit and a constant on time converter are provided. The constant on time converter control circuit comprises an error amplifier, a voltage to current converter, and an initial current source. The error amplifier is for receiving a reference voltage signal and a feedback voltage signal and outputting a compensated voltage signal. The voltage to current converter receives the compensated voltage signal and outputs a converted current signal. The initial current source provides an initial current signal. The initial current signal and the converted current signal form a new reference voltage signal. A constant on time OFF time comparator receives the new reference voltage signal and the feedback voltage signal and outputs a control signal. The control signal affects the turning on and turning off of electronic switches to produce an output voltage of a constant on time converter.
US11764677B2
A control circuit for a switching converter having a main power switch, the control circuit including: a voltage generation circuit configured to be connected with a common connection terminal of the main power switch and an inductor to receive a drain-source voltage of the main power switch, and to generate a first voltage according to the drain-source voltage; a valley detection circuit configured to generate a valley detection signal according to the first voltage when the drain-source voltage resonates to a valley; and where the control circuit is configured to turn on the main power switch according to the valley detection signal.
US11764668B2
An apparatus includes a control device configured to serve as a principal controlling agent in an electric power conversion device incorporating a switching circuit configured to be a bidirectional inverter. The control device is configured to subtract, from a reference signal that is determined in accordance with an operation mode of the electric power conversion device, a multiplied signal obtained by multiplying a control-target current of the switching circuit by a prescribed coefficient to generate, based on a result of the subtraction, a control signal for controlling the bidirectional inverter.
US11764658B2
An electric motor and a method for manufacturing an electric motor capable of improving rotation balance of an armature and realizing effective brake braking with a simple configuration are provided. In an electric motor including an armature core having a plurality of teeth and teeth within a yoke, a winding wound between the slots, and a commutator having and a plurality of segments to which the winding is connected, the winding has a main winding that applies a rotational force to the armature core and a brake winding that applies a braking force to the armature core, and an H bridge circuit is built between the winding and a power supply, and the main winding and the brake winding of the winding are disposed at positions for adjusting balance when the armature core rotates.
US11764650B2
The present disclosure discloses a feeding apparatus, which includes a motor, a driving unit, and a noise reduction module. The noise reduction module includes an audio receiving unit and a control unit. The audio receiving unit receives the sound generated by the feeding apparatus when the motor is running. The control unit is electronically connected to the driving unit and the audio receiving unit. The control unit sequentially supplies a plurality of motor drive data to the driving unit to drive the motor to run. The control unit sequentially receives a plurality of sound signals corresponding to those motor drive data from the audio receiving unit. The control unit analyzes the sound signals and selects one of the sound signals as an optimized sound signal. The control unit stores the motor drive data corresponding to the optimized sound signal as a setting motor drive data.
US11764648B2
A diode pack housing for a rotating rectifier assembly can include a body having an interior surface defining an interior cavity open on a first end and configured to contain a diode pack and a plurality of bus bar channels defined axially on or in the inner surface in the interior cavity. The plurality of bus bar channels can be five or less bus bar channels.
US11764646B2
A fluid pump includes a pump casing, a motor connected to the pump casing, and an impeller driven by the motor. The motor includes a housing and a stator arranged in the casing. The housing is made of a non-magnetic material. The stator includes a stator iron core and a plurality of windings wound on the stator iron core. The motor further includes a sleeve having a cylindrical main body and a flange extending radially outwards from one end of the main body and fixed to the housing. An annular space is jointly bounded by the sleeve and the housing to accommodate the stator. A part of inner surface of the housing and a part of bottom surface of the flange facing the annular space are coated with a metal coating for electromagnetic wave shielding.
US11764645B2
An electrical power generating apparatus for generating electrical power using a generator connected directly or indirectly to a flywheel is disclosed. The apparatus comprises platforms, protrusions, generators, flywheels and other components. The platforms are configured to be laid on a surface and easily allow an object, e.g., a vehicle to traverse over the platforms. Each protrusion is configured to move downward and upward through apertures located in a top portion of the platform. The protrusions interact with reset members. The protrusions move in a linear/angle downward/downward-upward motion when the object pushes/strikes/depresses the protrusions. Each protrusion is connected in an operative manner to a shaft via a gear, and/or to a lever which is connected in an operative manner to shaft, thereby rotating the shaft by converting linear motion to rotational motion. A generator, flywheel, and gearbox can be coupled to the shaft.
US11764643B2
A gravitational atmospheric solar pump is provided. The gravitational atmospheric solar pump has a (preferably) cylindrical tube which is placed in a vertical orientation. Air enters the cylindrical tube at the top of the tube and travels downward exiting the opening at the bottom of the tube. An air flow initiator, such as a fan, creates the pressure needed to move the air downward. Blades located within the tube are rotated by the moving air. The pump captures energy by converting the motion of the blades to electricity through a connection to a generator. Throughout the tube, the air remains at a generally consistent density and temperature. The tube represents an open-air system, and air discharged at the bottom of the tube is returned to a higher elevation using solar energy separate from the energy requirements of the apparatus.
US11764641B2
A terminal box assembly for use with an electric motor assembly having a housing includes an annular adaptor fixedly coupled to the housing, a mounting hub extending from the housing and positioned within the adaptor, and an annular terminal box rotatably coupled to the adaptor. The terminal box includes a baseplate having a central opening defined therein and configured to receive the mounting hub therethrough. The terminal box assembly also includes a mounting bracket coupled to the mounting hub and positioned within the terminal box such that the baseplate is positioned between the mounting bracket and the adaptor. At least one fastener is inserted through an opening in the mounting bracket and is configured to selectively engage the base plate to compress the terminal box and the adaptor together.
