US11793385B2
An autonomous mobile cleaning robot can include an outer shell and a bumper. The outer shell can include a rim extending around at least a portion of a periphery of the outer shell and can include a first feature connected to the rim. The bumper can be connected to the outer shell and can movable with respect to the outer shell when the bumper is connected to the outer shell. The bumper can include a second feature connected to the inner surface.
US11793381B2
A cyclone module for a vacuum cleaner includes a primary separator, a bulk collection chamber, at least one secondary separator, and a fines collection chamber. First and second doors are provided for closing debris outlets at the bottom ends of the bulk and fines collection chambers, respectively. The fines collection chamber is elevated within the bulk collection chamber, with the second door spaced above the first door.
US11793373B2
An example of a robotic cleaner, consistent with the present disclosure, may include a body, an agitator chamber defined in the body, a suction motor fluidly coupled to the agitator chamber and configured to cause air to flow into the agitator chamber, and at least one air jet assembly coupled to the body, the air jet assembly being configured to generate an air jet, the air jet being configured to urge debris toward the agitator chamber.
US11793361B1
An apparatus includes a base; a reservoir connected to the base and configured to hold a fluid; a first vessel having a first volume and configured to be removably connected to the base; a connection configured to deliver the fluid from the reservoir to at least the first vessel; and a second vessel. The second vessel is configured to be disposed at least partially within the first vessel; configured to be removably secured to the first vessel; includes an aperture that allows for fluid communication between the second vessel and the first vessel; and has a second volume that is less than the first volume.
US11793358B2
Formulation and dispenser systems create dairy based toppings for beverages. The dispensers include a container, valve, and an actuator for the valve. The formulations include a liquid product and a propellant. The liquid product includes a certain percentage of milkfat provided, for example, by heavy cream, skim milk, nonfat dry milk, sweeteners, and an emulsifier. The propellant is nitrous oxide or nitrogen.
US11793352B2
A conveyor toaster includes a conveyor assembly with a bracket and a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt rotates about first and second gears. A drive motor operates to move the conveyor belt about the first and second gears. A platen is configured to be heated and is positioned relative to the conveyor belt. A mounting bracket is connected to the bracket of the conveyor assembly. Movement of the mounting bracket changes the position of the conveyor assembly relative to the platen.
US11793351B2
A frothing device (1) to froth milk, comprising a boiler (2) for producing vapor; a pump (11) for producing pressurized air; air-vapor delivering means (4) to deliver air and vapor to the milk (18); the boiler (2) and the air pump (11) are connected to a tank (6) for separately feeding vapor and air to the mixing tank (6); the tank is connected to the mentioned air-vapor delivering means (4) to deliver air and vapor to the beverage.
US11793350B2
A device for emulsifying liquid or solid products, in particular food products such as milk or ice cream, including a pump having at least one suction duct adapted for sucking a product to be emulsified and an emulsifying gas, and a delivery duct adapted for dispensing an emulsion obtained starting from the product to be emulsified and from the emulsifying gas, where the pump has a double worm screw arranged between the suction duct and the delivery duct, the double worm screw being adapted for emulsifying the product and the gas to obtain the emulsion and to push the product, the gas and/or the emulsion with a flow substantially parallel to the axis of the screws of the double worm screw from the suction duct to the delivery duct. Moreover, the device comprises cooling means associated with the pump in an area comprised between the suction duct and the delivery duct and adapted for cooling the product, the gas and/or the emulsion present in the area of the pump comprised between the suction duct and the delivery duct.
US11793347B2
A coffee brewing system includes a brew vessel adapted to receive water and ground coffee to produce and store a brewed beverage. The brew vessel includes a filter and a magnet stirrer in the lower portion of the brew vessel. The magnet stirrer creates a water vortex for brewing the coffee. The used coffee grounds are allowed to settle on the filter creating a bed of used coffee grounds and the coffee is then filtered through both the bed of used coffee grounds and the filter and collected in a coffee storage container.
US11793335B2
Interconnectable table or dinnerware articles each include an integrated rim element for releasably interconnecting the dinnerware. The rim element is a small local extension of a rim and takes the form of a U-shaped grip or slide element with an upper and a lower radial lip length L1, L2 and a thickness T. The upper lip and lower lip form a mouth opening with a width D for sideways sliding over the rim of a central dinner plate, wherein the rim element has a circular width B. On an inner side the rim element of an outer dinnerware item has a concave shape fitting exactly into the convex shape of the rim of the supporting central dinner plate. Both the upper radial lip and the lower radial lip of the rim element have an upstanding curvature that corresponds with the curvature of the rim of the central dinner plate.
US11793327B2
A foldable, portable co-sleeper bassinet or apparatus is described. The bassinet, in some embodiments, is transformable into two different configurations, by collapsing or extending the walls of the apparatus. For example, the co-sleeper apparatus may include collapsible wall panels that, when collapsed, enable an easy, lying-down open position, but which can extend back up to a walled position to secure a baby in the bassinet.
US11793323B2
Compressible mattress assemblies for bed in a box applications consist of a first polymeric foam layer and a second polymeric foam layer, wherein the first polymeric foam layer has a thickness less than the second polymeric foam layer and has a property and/or a foam material that is different from the second polymeric foam layer. In other embodiments, the compressible mattress assemblies consist of a pocketed microcoil array intermediate the first and second polymeric foam layers.
US11793320B2
A pocket spring mattress for use in a bedding or seating product is disclosed. The mattress comprises a plurality of interconnected coil springs enclosed in continuous covers forming strings of pockets accommodating the coil springs. Adjacent coil springs within each string are spaced apart by an interjacent separation distance, said separation distance exceeding at least 20 percent of the diameter of the largest one of the spiral turns of the adjacent coil springs. Further, the pocket spring mattress further comprises a cushioning pad located above the upper end of each coil spring, wherein the covers provides first compartments enclosing the coil springs, and second compartments enclosing the cushioning pads, said first and second compartments being separated from each other. The cushioning pads each have a length extension in the longitudinal direction of the strings exceeding the diameter of the largest one of the spiral turns of the corresponding coil spring.
US11793319B2
A three-layered topper for a bedding or seating product has a first piece of foam, a second piece of foam and a pocketed spring comfort layer therebetween. The pocketed spring comfort layer has individually pocketed mini coil springs. At least one of the foam pieces may be infused with metallic particles to improve thermal conductivity. Alternatively, at least one of the foam pieces may be infused with microencapsulated phase change materials to improve heat absorption. At least one of the foam pieces may have a coating to further improve thermal conductivity or heat absorption.
US11793312B2
An electromotive adjusting device for adjusting the inclination of a seat part of an item of seating furniture includes a mounting bracket for connecting to a body element of the item of seating furniture and a motor and transmission unit embodied as a drive unit. A mounting element secures the seat part of the item of seating furniture. The motor and transmission unit includes a rotatable drive element and is securely fixed to the at least one mounting bracket.
US11793308B2
A seismic isolation system includes at least one adjustable foot attached to a container. The at least one adjustable foot has a height at least sufficient to support the container such that the container does not touch a surface on which the container rests. The seismic isolation system further includes a sliding pad affixed to a portion of the at least one adjustable foot facing the surface. The sliding pad is configured to provide a coefficient of static and kinetic friction between the sliding pad and the surface that prevents relative movement of the sliding pad and the surface in normal operation and allows the sliding pad to move relative to the surface during a seismic event.
US11793307B2
A wine cabinet, whose façade is equipped with a door, has an interior volume having shelves. Each shelf is movable between two positions. Each shelf is equipped with reception spaces for a plurality of bottles, electronic detectors of the presence of a bottle and electronic devices of visualization of the presence. The power supply of those electronic detectors and electronic devices of visualization comes from a single centralized supply in the cabinet and supplies two vertical conductors placed inside a wall of the cabinet. Each shelf is electrically connected via a connecting cable flexible connect to vertical conductors. The connection shall be arranged at the level of the shelf on the inner face of the wall, the connecting cable having a sufficient length to ensure the connection when the shelf is deployed. Each shelf is equipped with elastic keeping the cable permanently stretched, whatever the position of the shelf.
US11793300B2
An oral care implement (100) having a head (120). The head (120) has a support structure (130) and a monolithic cleaning unit (140) that is coupled to the support structure (130). The head (120) has a side surface (123) that includes a first lateral portion (124) and a second lateral portion (125). The monolithic cleaning unit (140) includes a base portion (141) that is coupled to the support structure (130) and a plurality of bristles (150) extending from the base portion (141). The plurality of bristles (150) include a plurality of first peripheral bristles (171) positioned adjacent to the first lateral portion (124) of the head (120), a plurality of second peripheral bristles (172) positioned adjacent to the second lateral portion (125) of the head (120), and a plurality of central bristles (175). The first and second peripheral bristles (171,172) all extend obliquely from the front surface (121) of the head (120) and the central bristles (175) extend perpendicularly from the front surface (121) of the head (120).
US11793299B2
A shed hair collection device includes a substantially planar mat and a gel pad. The mat has multiple substantially cylindrical protuberances with multiple nubs extending therefrom. A gel pad has multiple apertures attached to the mat such that each of the protuberances extends through one of the apertures. A shed hair collection device includes a hairbrush and a gel screen removably attached thereto. The hairbrush has a head with bristles and a handle. The gel screen has multiple apertures encircling the bristles. A shed hair collection device includes a silicone gel pad with multiple apertures and at least one loop formed at the perimeter. The silicone gel pad installs on a hairbrush head with bristles extending through the apertures.
US11793296B2
Systems and techniques for a beauty creation platform are discussed herein. A beauty product configuration user interface may be generated. The beauty product configuration user interface includes a first display area and a second display area. A set of selectable product user interface elements may be displayed in the second display area. The beauty product configuration user interface includes a first display area and a second display area. A set of selectable product user interface elements may be displayed in the second display area. A selection may be received of a selectable product user interface element of the set of selectable product user interface elements. In response to receipt of the selection, a visual representation of a configurable product represented by the selected product user interface element may be displayed in the first display area.
US11793294B2
A device for discharging a substance has a device housing equipped with a movable support in order to act on the substance, and a rotary handle for moving the support between a lower starting position and an upper extended position of the support. The rotary handle forms a spindle part together with a spindle. The spindle part passes through a housing base, and is locked to the housing base and is sealed. A locking protrusion engages into a locking recess of the spindle part, and a seal protrusion sealingly rests against a circumferential surface of the spindle part. The locking recess of the spindle part is formed axially below the circumferential surface which interacts with the seal protrusion. The seal protrusion is formed on a sleeve section of the device housing, and a sleeve section seal edge is sealingly surrounded by the spindle part in a U-shaped manner.
US11793289B2
An artificial nail tip having a plurality of smile line guidelines embedded on the surface of the artificial nail tip, which allows a user or a nail professional to easily create smile lines of varying depths on the artificial nail tip is described.
US11793287B2
A stroller caddy is provided. The stroller caddy includes a smaller removable secondary caddy that is nested within a larger primary caddy. Each of the primary and secondary caddy includes straps for independently connecting each caddy to the handlebars of an infant stroller. When nested, the secondary caddy is connected to the primary caddy near the top opening of the primary caddy. A top panel of the secondary caddy provides beverage and cell phone receptacles. A top flap is provided to cover the top opening. The primary caddy serves as a diaper bag that can be carried like a backpack. The front panel of the primary caddy unzips on both sides to provide access from the front to a cabinet-like main compartment having one or more adjustable shelves. The front panel unfolds again to provide a sanitary and private baby-changing surface.
US11793283B1
The present invention relates to a card holder including a card holder body. The card holder body includes a first card clamping plate and a second card clamping plate, and a connecting device is arranged between the first card clamping plate and the second card clamping plate to connect the first card clamping plate and the second card clamping plate; the connecting device causes a relative displacement in a vertical direction between the first card clamping plate and the second card clamping plate to form a freely retractable internal space, thereby accommodating a plurality of cards; and the connecting device includes two connecting members rotationally connected through a shaft, and a first elastic member connected with each connecting member. The first elastic member provides an elastic restoring force for the first card clamping plate and the second card clamping plate to respectively restore to an initial position.
US11793282B2
A jewelry article (10, 110, 210) with an ornamental element (11) comprises a ring nut (12) with an internal seat (13) provided at one end of the ring nut with a first opening (14) for introduction of the ornamental element (11) and at an opposite end with a second opening (15) from which the ornamental element (11) emerges. A closing cap (16) closes the first opening (14) after the introduction of the ornamental element (11) into the seat (13). The closing cap (16) comprises a first peripherally threaded disk (18) and a second disk (19) with a face (24) which is intended to form an external closing surface of the first opening (14) of the ring nut. The two disks (18, 19) are fixed to each other. Fixing may be performed by means of fastening pins (26).
US11793277B2
A cleat adapter assembly is provided for a cycling shoe. The cleat adapter assembly basically includes a first connecting portion, a second connecting portion and an adjuster. The first connecting portion is configured to be connected to a cleat. The second connecting portion is adjustably connected to the first connecting portion. The adjuster is configured to adjust a relative position between the first connecting portion and the second connection portion.
US11793269B2
A footwear sole structure may include a plurality of discrete hexagonally-shaped sole elements defined by a plurality of sipes. The sipes may include a plurality of sipes that extend in a transverse direction across the sole structure and a plurality of sipes that extend in an oblique direction relative to the transverse sipes. A plurality of sipes may also subdivide the hexagonally-shaped sole elements into one or more diamond-shaped sole element portions. The sole structure may include additional features such as non-hexagonal sole elements and lugs distributed across a bottom surface of the sole structure.
US11793266B2
An article of footwear can include provisions for improving the operation and use of various systems associated with the article. A control device included in the article can be configured to allow manual control of a system by a user. A lockout feature that can disable manual control may be included. During periods of competitive activity, the manual controls may be disabled to allow a user wearing the article to engage in different activities without inadvertent activation of a system. In some cases, the control device and lookout feature can be used in conjunction with a motorized tensioning system.
US11793261B2
A surgical helmet assembly (30) to be worn by a user during surgical operations. The surgical helmet assembly includes a frame assembly (40) having a helmet shell (42) to be worn over the user's head. A fan (44) is coupled to the helmet shell to circulate air around the helmet shell. A headband assembly (78) is coupled to the helmet shell to secure the surgical helmet assembly to the head of the user. The surgical helmet assembly further includes an adjustment assembly (100) to adjust a sagittal fit of the helmet shell and the headband assembly to the head of the user while keeping a center of mass of the frame assembly in close proximity to the head of the user. The surgical helmet assembly further includes another adjustment assembly (118) concentric to the first adjustment assembly to adjust a circumferential fit of the headband assembly to the head of the user.
US11793258B1
Systems and methods facilitate automated manufacture of fabric articles. In an example operation, a first fabric portion is mounted in a first frame, and a second fabric portion is mounted in a second frame. The first and second frames with the corresponding fabric portions are transported to a sequence of stations at which one or more operations are performed on the first and/or second fabric portion. The operations include applying an adhesive to one of the fabric portions, and then joining the first and second fabric portions by bringing the first and second frames together. The operations include cutting the joined first and second fabric portions to create corresponding joined first and second components of a fabric article.
US11793256B2
The present invention relates to methods of fitting for pre-fabricated compression garments via digital imaging of a wearer body part and measurement of body part circumferences and, optionally, lengths therefrom. The present invention also relates to methods of generating a shape description derived from digital imaging of a patient body part or body area of interest and use of such shape description. Such shape description includes geometric information from which measurement information can optionally be derived. Included herein are methods for diagnosing and monitoring edema and other conditions in patients using shape descriptions acquired from a patient in need of such diagnosis and monitoring. The invention also includes use of the generated shape descriptions to make compression garments specifically configured for a patient's body part or body area. Compression garments generated from the generated shape descriptions are also included herein.
US11793250B2
Implementations described herein include surgical helmet assemblies that have a helmet enclosure shaped to encircle a head of a user. The helmet enclosure retains a fan and includes a brow bar portion at a front of the helmet enclosure that is shaped to extend along a brow or a forehead of the user and having a light positioned therein. The helmet enclosure also includes a stabilizer extending downward from the helmet enclosure in front of the ears of a user, a face shield that is transparent and coupleable to at least the brow bar portion, a headband shaped to extend across an occiput region of the user's head, and a surgical garment for covering at least the head and shoulders of a user in use. The brow bar portion includes vents disposed therein to direct airflow pushed through the helmet enclosure from the fan onto the user. The face shield is coupleable to the helmet enclosure by one or more of a hook and loop fastener on the helmet enclosure or the stabilizer and a post protruding from the brow bar portion.
US11793248B2
A garment includes: a plurality of distinct regions, each region corresponding to a body part or type of body part of a wearer when worn; and a plurality of visual indicia, each of the visual indicia having at least one unique visual characteristic. Each of the plurality of visual indicia is located at a corresponding one of the plurality of distinct regions. At least one secondary visual characteristic of each of the indicia is associated with the corresponding distinct region.
US11793234B2
A hookah device (202) which attaches to a hookah (246). The hookah device (202) comprises a plurality of ultrasonic mist generator devices (201) for generating a mist for inhalation by a user. The hookah device (202) comprises a driver device (202) which controls the mist generator devices (201) to maximize the efficiency of mist generation by the mist generator devices (201) and optimize mist output from the hookah device (202).
US11793228B2
A kit for molding and storing malleable foodstuff includes (a) a molding tube; (b) a plunger slidable within the molding tube for tamping foodstuff received therein to form a shaped food article corresponding in shape to an interior of the molding tube; and (c) at least one storage tube sized and shaped for storing the shaped food article therein with reduced surface area contact relative to the molding tube.
US11793224B2
Beverage compositions and methods of preparing the same are provided herein. The beverage compositions can include calcium supplied from a calcium carbonate source including aragonite and a liquid component, such as water, a juice, a milk, and a combination thereof. Calcium components including aragonite particles and at least one additive agent as well as sweetener components including aragonite particles and at least one sweetener are also provided herein.
US11793220B2
A food with an extended shelf-life and a method of extending shelf-life of food is provided herein. The extended shelf-life is provided by treating the food with at least one shelf-life extender selected from a group consisting of an isothiocyanate, a non-aromatic cyclic ketone, a boronic acid, a ligand and their precursors.
US11793217B1
The present invention provides a method of heat treating undenatured collagen to reduce microbial load comprising the subjection of said collagen to a temperature of at least 40° C. for a time of at least 2 seconds in a manner sufficient to reduce microbial content without denaturing more than 20% of the collagen protein.
US11793210B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a composition for use in forming films or coatings that prevent damage in foodstuffs, including plants, fruits, and vegetables. The disclosed compositions comprise a cellulose nanomaterial and can further comprise a nanoscale mineral compound and one or more additional components. Also disclosed are films or coatings made using the disclosed compositions, as well as methods for making the disclosed compositions and methods for using the disclosed compositions.
US11793208B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for the reduction of microbial contamination of animal carcasses, including fowl, and food products with carbonic acid-based compositions.
US11793204B2
A BVP8 protein for killing tetranychid mites and use thereof are provided. The protein is as set forth in SEQ ID NO. 2. The BVP8 protein has a median lethal concentration of 12.98 μg/mL against Tetranychus urticae, 33.45 μg/mL against Panonychus citri, and 26.32 μg/mL against Tetranychus cinnabarinus, and shows an inhibitory effect against the hatching and cleavage of Tetranychus urticae eggs, with the egg cleavage rate of 75.86% after 72 h. The protein provides a new option for the preparation of a novel miticide.
US11793201B2
A species of Burkholderia sp with no known pathogenicity to vertebrates but with pesticidal activity (e.g., plants, insects, fungi, weeds and nematodes) is provided. Also provided are natural products derived from a culture of said species and methods of controlling pests using said natural products.
US11793195B2
Herbicidal compositions for reducing off-site movement or drift of herbicides are described. The herbicidal compositions can include a drift retardant agent (DRA) along with at least one auxin herbicide and an emulsifying agent, such as an alkylpolysaccharide, a phosphate ester, an alkoxylated castor oil, or a combination thereof. Methods of making such composition are also described.
US11793189B1
A mouse trap has a trigger with a socket and has a latch having a spherical enlargement at its distal end. The spherical enlargement engages the socket of the trigger to form a ball and socket structure when the mouse trap is armed.
US11793184B1
A fishing rod holder device may include a cradle for cradling a portion of the fishing rod and defining a channel for receiving the portion of the rod, a saddle on the cradle and being configured to engage a portion of the reel of a fishing rod assembly when the rod of the fishing rod assembly is positioned in the cradle, and a rod retaining structure on the cradle and being configured to removably secure the rod of the fishing rod assembly in the cradle. The rod retaining structure may have a blocking condition and a releasing condition. The blocking condition may be characterized by the rod retaining structure blocking movement of a rod out of the channel, and the releasing condition may be characterized by the rod retaining structure permitting movement of the rod out of the channel.
US11793177B2
The present invention concerns non-human animals with cells having a genome that is lacking the entire E3 ubiquitin ligase (Ube3a) gene (including all isoforms and alternative promoters). These animals are useful for modeling Angelman Syndrome. The invention also includes methods for assessing the effect of an agent, such as potential therapeutics, on an animal model by exposing the animal or cells, tissues, or organs isolated therefrom, to an agent of interest.
US11793176B2
Arc modular light devices, systems, and methods. In at least one exemplary embodiment of a module system of the present disclosure, the module system comprises a plurality of LED modules, each LED module comprising an outer housing, a light source positioned within the outer housing, and a lens positioned so that light from the light source can be emitted through the lens; and a plate configured to couple to each of the plurality of LED modules; wherein the module system is configured to focus light from the LED modules inward when the plate has a concave curvature; and wherein the module system is configured to spread light from the LED modules outward when the plate has a convex curvature.
US11793172B1
An insect separating apparatus may include a sensor positioned to detect one or more insects when present within a test chamber. For example, the sensor may emit signals into the test chamber and receive reflected signals indicative of Doppler shifts caused by movement of the one or more insects. Based on information from the sensor, a computing device may determine a characteristic of the one or more insects in the chamber, such as a wing beat frequency, sex, or other characteristic. The computing device may instruct different responses based on the characteristic determined, such as activating an air mover to divert detected mosquitos out of the test chamber in response to the determined characteristics matching those of female mosquitos, or deactivating or maintaining the air mover in an inactive condition in response to the determined characteristics matching those of male mosquitos, for example, to allow passage through the chamber into a collection receptacle.
US11793171B2
Apparatus to enable an elongate leash to coil, when not in use, around an animal's neck while attached to the animal's collar includes retainers each including a polarized magnet and first and second parts that have an at least partly separated state that enables placement of the leash between the parts at any one of a plurality of different, user-selectable locations along a length of the leash and an engaged state in which the parts are fixed to the leash at a user-selected location along the length of the leash. The retainers are configured, with respect to the polarity of the magnets therein, to enable them to magnetically couple to one another and provide the leash with a coiled state around the animal's neck. The leash has an extended, use state in which the magnets in the retainers are not magnetically coupled to one another.
US11793167B2
An information handling and alarm system provided to help pet owners care for and find lost pets.
US11793160B2
A pet water dispenser may include a water tank having an upper opening, a pump installed inside the water tank, a water supply pipe connected to the pump to transfer water, and a water supply plate having a water supply hole through which water is supplied from the water supply pipe. The water supply plate may include a plate body inclined upward from the water supply hole to an edge of the water supply plate. Water ejected from the water supply hole may form a ring or a water wall that pets may consume from all angles around the pet water dispenser.
US11793157B2
A floor assembly for livestock handling equipment features a pair frame members lying in a longitudinal direction and spaced apart from one another in a lateral direction transverse to said longitudinal direction, and at least one support tray connected to the frame members and spanning therebetween in the lateral direction. At least one mat is supported atop the support tray(s). The mat is made of rubber or other resilient material for improved footing and comfort of the livestock. The topside of each mat is flush with a topside of the frame members to provide an even floor surface across the full area floor area. The mat(s) are removable for cleaning, and open gaps around the support tray(s) are provided for drainage. Non-welded attachment enables convenient removal and replacement of the support trays in the event of rust or other damage.
US11793133B2
The present invention relates to plants of the genus Catharanthus containing a genetic resistance to Phytophthora. In particular, the present invention relates to a Catharanthus roseus plant containing a genetic resistance to the F and S isolates of P. nicotianae.
US11793127B2
A drip emitter has a flexible membrane for regulating a flow of liquid exiting the emitter. The membrane, in a non-stressed or non-flexed state into a regulating chamber of the emitter, includes a non-planar portion.
US11793121B2
An installation that has a plurality of conduits hung by pairs of steel cables connected to rotary shafts such that the rotation of the same causes some conduits to ascend and others to descend, allowing the same to be situated at different heights. The rotary shafts from which the cables of the conduits hang are actuated by reducers actuated by a chain-and-sprocket drive that is actuated by a main shaft connected to a motor reducer.
US11793119B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method, in which Synecoculture (registered trademark) can be assisted. An ecosystem object indicating an ecosystem constituent configuring an ecosystem of an agricultural field in which a plurality of types of vegetation are mixed up and a task object indicating a task performed with respect to the ecosystem constituent are acquired, and the ecosystem object is subjected to augmented reality (AR) display in a position in a predetermined background space, corresponding to a real position of the ecosystem constituent, and the task object is subjected to AR display in the background space. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a case or the like where information of assisting Synecoculture (registered trademark) is provided.
US11793112B2
A system for sensing harvested crop levels within a crop tank of an agricultural harvester includes a tank cover section movable between an open position and a covered position relative to an opening of the crop tank. The system includes a sensor array including crop level sensors configured to capture data indicative of a crop level of harvested crop. The sensor array is supported, at least in part, relative to the crop tank such that the sensor array is configured to have a first orientation when the tank cover section is in the covered position and a second orientation when the tank cover section is in the open position. The sensor array defines a first vertical dimension when the sensor array is disposed in the first orientation that is less than a second vertical dimension defined by the sensor array when the sensor array is disposed in the second orientation.
US11793097B1
A quick-attachment system may be used for attaching an agricultural planter to a strip till. A frame is initially installed on a strip till and may remain permanently attached to the strip till so that the strip till may be separately used in normal operation with the frame attached but without a planter attached. For combination tilling and planting operations, a planter may be attached by completing a three-point hitch attachment to the frame so that a tractor may be used to pull the combination of strip till and planter. Hydraulic cylinders connected to the frame and to the planter may be used to lift and lower the planter relative to the strip till.
US11800825B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment comprises a memory cell array configured from a plurality of row lines and column lines that intersect one another, and from a plurality of memory cells disposed at each of intersections of the row lines and column lines and each including a variable resistance element. Where a number of the row lines is assumed to be N, a number of the column lines is assumed to be M, and a ratio of a cell current flowing in the one of the memory cells when a voltage that is half of the select voltage is applied to the one of the memory cells to a cell current flowing in the one of the memory cells when the select voltage is applied to the one of the memory cells is assumed to be k, a relationship M2<2×N×k is satisfied.
US11800822B2
A memory device includes a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure, an inner spacer, and an outer spacer. The MTJ structure is over the bottom electrode. The bottom electrode has a top surface extending past opposite sidewalls of the MTJ structure. The inner spacer contacts the top surface of the bottom electrode and one of the opposite sidewalls of the MTJ structure. The outer spacer contacts an outer sidewall of the inner spacer. The outer spacer protrudes from a top surface of the inner spacer by a step height.
US11800820B2
A method for programming a phase change memory including a first layer of a phase change material capable of switching between a crystalline and an amorphous state and vice versa, the method including applying a programming current through the first layer so that an evolution of the areal density of this current as a function of time t decreases from a first level, between a first time and a second time, following a first evolution in time respecting, or being close to J 0 ( t ) = K t where K is a constant.
US11800813B2
Methods and apparatus for providing a high isolation current sensor. In embodiments, a current sensor includes a leadframe having a current conductor first portion and a second portion, a magnetic field sensing element positioned in relation to the current conductor for detecting a magnetic generated by current flow through the current conductor, and a die supported by at least a portion of the first and/or second portions of the leadframe, wherein the first portion of the lead frame includes an isolation region aligned with a first edge of the die. In embodiments, a current sensor includes SOI processing and features to enhance active layer isolation.
US11800803B2
A hybrid structure for a surface acoustic wave device comprises a useful layer of piezoelectric material having a first free surface and a second surface disposed on a support substrate that has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the useful layer, wherein the useful layer comprises an area of nanocavities.
US11800802B2
A radiation device or the like has a structure for selectively converting thermal energy into an electromagnetic wave. The radiation device has a conductor layer, a semiconductor layer, and a plurality of conductor disks. The plurality of conductor disks are arranged on the semiconductor layer so that the same arrangement pattern is constituted in each of a plurality of unit constituent regions each having a rectangular shape with a side of 4.5 to 5.5 μm. The arrangement pattern of individual unit components includes nine conductor disks so as to correspond to a 3×3 matrix, and the nine conductor disks include four or more kinds of conductor disks having diameters different from each other. As a result, a two-dimensional periodic structure of the arrangement pattern is formed on the semiconductor layer.
US11800800B1
Provided are a compound capable of improving luminous efficiency, stability and lifespan of an organic electronic element employing the same, an organic electronic element employing the same, and an electronic device thereof.
US11800796B2
The present invention relates to a luminescent material for delayed fluorescence and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By using the luminescent material for delayed fluorescence according to the present invention, an organic electroluminescent device having long lifespan, low driving voltage, excellent color purity, and significantly improved luminous efficiency such as current efficiency is provided.
US11800789B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US11800788B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light-emitting device including the same: Y2, ring A2, R1 to R8, R13 to R20, and d2 in Formula 1 may be each independently the same as described in the specification.
US11800787B2
The invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescence devices, containing said metal complexes.
US11800786B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a polycyclic compound, wherein the polycyclic compound includes a boron atom, a first aromatic ring and a second aromatic ring, which are each directly connected with the boron atom, an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, which is directly connected with the boron atom, a third aromatic ring, which is directly connected with the oxygen atom or the sulfur atom, a first linker connecting the first aromatic ring and the second aromatic ring, and a second linker connecting the second aromatic ring and the third aromatic ring, thereby showing long-life characteristics and excellent color reproducibility.
US11800784B2
The present disclosure relates to novel two-dimensional halide perovskite materials, and the method of making and using the two-dimensional halide perovskite materials.
US11800783B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a stretchable display device, and a method for manufacturing an array substrate. The array substrate includes: a display area; a circuit area configured to provide an electrical signal to the display area; and a protection area including a plurality of island-shaped protection blocks, a plurality of first connection bridges and a plurality of second connection bridges, wherein each of the plurality of first connection bridges is configured to connect two adjacent island-shaped protection blocks of the plurality of island-shaped protection blocks, and the plurality of second connection bridges are configured to connect the protection area and the circuit area, and wherein the plurality of first connection bridges include a first flexible substrate, and the plurality of second connection bridges include a second flexible substrate.
US11800777B2
The present application relates to a display device. The display device includes a flexible display panel including display and back surfaces in a thickness direction thereof; a supporting back film located on the back surface, and including a bendable area and fixed areas located at opposite sides of the bendable area in a first direction; and an adhesive part located between the fixed area and the back surface, and adhered to the fixed area and the back surface; and a flexible supporting part located between the bendable area and the back surface, and being in contact with the bendable area and the back surface. The flexible supporting part is in direct contact with the back surface of the flexible display panel.
US11800765B2
A stretchable display device includes a stretchable substrate including a plurality of island areas that are separated from each other and a hinge area connecting the plurality of island areas, a plurality of display units respectively located in each of the plurality of island areas, a wiring part connecting the plurality of display units and located at the hinge area, and an insulating layer between the stretchable substrate and the plurality of display units. The insulating layer includes an opening overlapping the hinge area.
US11800759B2
An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes a respective first anode electrically connected to a respective first light emitting element in a respective first subpixel; a respective second anode electrically connected to a respective second light emitting element in a respective second subpixel; a respective third anode electrically connected to a respective third light emitting element in a respective third subpixel; and a respective fourth anode electrically connected to a respective fourth light emitting element in a respective fourth subpixel. An orthographic projection of the respective third anode on a base substrate substantially covers an orthographic projection of the first initialization connecting line on the base substrate, and covers an orthographic projection of at least portion of the respective third voltage supply line on the base substrate.
US11800748B2
A display device includes: scan lines extending in a first direction; first data lines, second data lines, and third data lines extending in a second direction; a first driving unit connected to the scan lines and the first data lines; a first light emitting unit connected to the first driving unit; a second driving unit connected to the scan lines and the second data lines; a second light emitting unit connected to the second driving unit; a third driving unit connected to the scan lines and the second data lines; and a third light emitting unit connected to the third driving unit. The first light emitting unit overlaps the second driving unit or the third driving unit, the second light emitting unit overlaps the first driving unit or the third driving unit, and the third light emitting unit overlaps the first driving unit or the second driving unit.
US11800734B2
A light-emitting apparatus with low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting apparatus including a first light-emitting device and a first color conversion layer. The first light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer positioned between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a layer including a material with a refractive index lower than or equal to 1.75 at 467 nm. The first color conversion layer includes a first substance capable of emission by absorbing light. Light emitted from the first light-emitting device enters the first color conversion layer.
US11800718B2
A semiconductor memory device is provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a via above a substrate, a dielectric layer over the via, a first source/drain feature above the dielectric layer, a first channel feature above the first source/drain feature, a second source/drain feature above the first channel feature, and a gate line laterally spaced apart from the first source/drain feature, the first channel feature and the second source/drain feature. The gate line passes through the dielectric layer and is on the via.
US11800714B2
A semiconductor device includes: a gate structure including conductive layers and insulating layers, which are alternately stacked; a channel layer penetrating the gate structure; memory patterns respectively located between the channel layer and the conductive layers; air gaps located between the memory patterns; and a sealing layer including first parts respectively including the air gaps and a second part extending between the memory patterns.
US11800713B2
A semiconductor device includes: a gate structure including conductive layers and insulating layers, which are alternately stacked; a channel layer penetrating the gate structure; memory patterns respectively located between the channel layer and the conductive layers; a blocking layer including first parts located between the memory patterns and the conductive layers, and second parts extending between the memory patterns and protruding toward the insulating layers to the inside of the gate structure; and air gaps including a first region located in the second parts and a second region located between the memory patterns.
US11800704B2
A memory device and a manufacturing method for the same are provided. The memory device includes a stacked body structure and a staircase structure. The stacked body structure includes a first sub-stacked body structure and a second sub-stacked body structure. The staircase structure is electrically connected to the stacked body structure. The staircase structure includes a first sub-staircase structure and a second sub-staircase structure. Each of the first sub-staircase structure and the second sub-staircase structure includes a first staircase portion and a second staircase portion. The first sub-stacked body structure and the second sub-stacked body structure are respectively connected to the first staircase portion of the first sub-staircase structure and the first staircase portion of the second sub-staircase structure.
US11800701B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate including a cell region and a core/peripheral region around the cell region, forming a gate insulating film on the substrate of the core/peripheral region, forming a first conductive film of a first conductive type on the gate insulating film, forming a diffusion blocking film within the first conductive film, the diffusion blocking film being spaced apart from the gate insulating film in a vertical direction, after forming the diffusion blocking film, forming an impurity pattern including impurities within the first conductive film, diffusing the impurities through a heat treatment process to form a second conductive film of a second conductive type and forming a metal gate electrode on the second conductive film, wherein the diffusion blocking film includes helium (He) and/or argon (Ar).
US11800697B2
A memory structure is provided. The memory structure includes a first channel body, a first source region, a first drain region, a first gate structure and a second gate structure. The first source region has a first conductivity and connects to a first end of the first channel body. The first drain region has a second conductivity and connects to a second end of the first channel body separated from the first end. The first gate structure is disposed adjacent to the first channel body and between the first end and the second end. The second gate structure disposed adjacent to the first channel body and between the first end and the second end.
US11800692B2
A system for cooling a plurality of processors in a data center is disclosed. The cooling system includes a refrigeration system having a compressor for compressing a carbon dioxide (CO2) working fluid, an air cooled heat exchanger downstream from the compressor and located out-of-doors for cooling the working fluid, an expansion device downstream from the heat exchanger, a cooling device located within the data center in which the working fluid is expanded to cool the processors by circulating the cooled air around the processors, and a return line for the return of the working fluid from the cooling device to the compressor.
US11800690B1
A system to create a dehydrating environment from the waste cooling air from a data center including a drying room above the data center. Waste cooling air dries moisture laden product in the drying room and is returned to the data center. Also, a system to distribute waste cooling air from a data center. The system includes a reservoir tank and a local tank for waste cooling air. Both tanks include insulated walls that assist in maintaining a temperature within the reservoir tank. A reservoir tank blower conveys waste cooling air from the data center into the reservoir tank and pressurizes the interior of the reservoir tank. Pressurized waste cooling air from the data center is delivered from the local tank through the blower when a blower valve is opened.
US11800683B2
An immersion cooling system includes a sealed tank having a chamber. A circulating layer and a working layer are respectively formed by first and second working liquids filled in the chamber and are contiguous to each other. The boiling point of the second working liquid is higher than that of the first working liquid. The density of the second working liquid is lower than that of the first working liquid. The first and second working liquids do not dissolve in each other. A circulating cooling module includes a circulating pipeline having first and second ports located in the chamber. The circulating pipeline also has a heat absorbing section and a condensation section located between the first and second ports. The heat absorbing section is located in the working layer. The first working liquid flows into the circulating pipeline from the first port and circulates in the circulating pipeline.
US11800680B2
A system for managing liquid leakage comprises a fluid module, which includes a supply fluid connector to receive cooling fluid from a rack manifold coupled to an external fluid source and to supply the cooling fluid to an information technology (IT) load of the server chassis, and a return fluid connector to receive cooling fluid from the IT load of the server chassis and to return the cooling fluid to the rack manifold and then to the external fluid source, forming a fluid loop, packaged with different energy storage units. When a liquid leakage is detected by a sensor in the server chassis, an electromagnetic unit coupled to the supply and return fluid connectors causes the first fluid connector to be pushed away from the rack manifold to disconnect the fluid loop on a supply side, and causes the return fluid connector to be disconnected from the rack manifold on a return side after a predetermined period of time after the supply fluid connector has been disconnected.
US11800679B2
A heat sink provides a pump body, a pump cover, a pump module, a guide plate and a water block. The pump body is an integrally formed shell seat and forms a first chamber, a second chamber and an insulation gap. The pump cover covers the first chamber. The guide plate is combined in the second chamber and forms a heat exchange chamber. The water block includes a bottom plate and fins. The bottom plate covers the heat exchange chamber, and the fins are disposed in the heat exchange chamber. Therefore, the heat can be prevented from being transferred from the water block to the pump module.
US11800677B2
A power adapter includes a housing, a circuit board component, and a heat dissipation air duct. The housing has an air inlet and an air outlet, the circuit board component is located inside the housing, the heat dissipation air duct is located in the housing and/or a spacing area between the housing and the circuit board component, the heat dissipation air duct surrounds the circuit board component and is connected to the air inlet and the air outlet, and the heat dissipation air duct is configured to dissipate heat from the housing and/or the circuit board component.
US11800666B2
An electronic module assembly is provided. The electronic module assembly may include one or more processors mounted to a laminate, a top frame mounted to the laminate and surrounding the one or more processors, and a removable lid covering the one or more processors. The removable lid includes latches arranged along a perimeter of the removable lid, the latches engage with a lip of the top frame and secure the removable lid to the module assembly, and the removable lid can only be removed from the module assembly by releasing all of the latches.
US11800655B2
Provided is a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display device. The LED display device includes: a rectangle framework, including a frame, a first transverse beam and a second transverse beam arranged inside the frame at intervals, an adapter plate assembly, including a fixed plate mounted at a strip-like gap and an adapter plate detachably arranged on a rear side of the fixed plate, the fixed plate being provided with a lock, a display module, mounted on a front side of the rectangle framework through a magnetic attraction structure, a rear side of the display module being provided with a first strip-shaped lock hole, wherein, the lock includes a rotary shaft rotatably arranged on the fixed plate and a first lock tongue arranged on the rotary shaft, the first lock tongue is able to go through the first strip-shaped lock hole and has a first unlocking position corresponding to the first strip-shaped lock hole and a first locking position that is staggered with the first strip-shaped lock hole, and the adapter plate fits the display module through a connector in a plugging-in manner. The technical solution of the application effectively solves a problem that a display module in a related art falls due to separation from a box body.
US11800654B2
A device includes a first sealing member, a second sealing member, a first circuit member and a second circuit member. The first sealing member basically includes a first film formed with an opening and includes a frame film. At least one of the first circuit member and the second circuit member includes an exposed portion and a seal portion which surrounds the exposed portion. The frame film has a film-seal portion and a circuit-seal portion. The film-seal portion is bonded to the first film to surround the opening. The circuit-seal portion is bonded to the seal portion to surround the exposes portion. The device is formed with a closed space which is enclosed by the first sealing member and the second sealing member. The exposed portion is exposed to the outer space located outside the device.
US11800647B1
A system and method for a logic device is disclosed. A plurality of nanotracks are disposed over a substrate, along a first axis, with at least a left nanotrack, a right nanotrack and a middle nanotrack disposed between the left nanotrack and the right nanotrack. At least one connector nanotrack is disposed to connect two adjacent nanotracks. An input value is defined at a first end of the plurality of nanotracks by selectively nucleating a skyrmion at the first end. Presence of the skyrmion is indicative of a first value and absence of the skyrmion indictive of a second value. The nucleated skyrmion moves towards the second end of the nanotrack when a charge current is passed along the first axis. The presence of the skyrmion sensed at the second end of the middle nanotrack indicates an output value of the first value.
US11800640B1
A printed circuit board (PCB) has a tridimensional (3D) dielectric substrate having opposite sides and made of fiber-reinforced polymer. Each side comprises channels and pockets formed by molding a dielectric laminate, and the channels and pockets define a layout for conductive traces and pads of the PCB. The channels and pockets in a same side of the 3D dielectric substrate have a uniform depth. Side walls of the channels and pockets have a draft angle in a range of greater than 0 degrees to about 5 degrees. The conductive traces and pads are formed into the channels and pockets by electrolytic metallization. In addition, the outer surface of conductive traces and pads are flush with the sides of the 3D dielectric substrate.
US11800639B2
A flexible circuit board and an electronic device including a flexible circuit board are provided. The flexible circuit board may include a substrate having a bending area and a non-bending area, a wiring pattern layer provided on the bending area and the non-bending area, a plating layer provided on the wiring pattern layer and including an open area in an area corresponding to the bending area, and a protective layer that directly contacts one surface of the wiring pattern layer exposed at the open area and a side surface of the plating layer. The protective layer may have a larger thickness than a thickness of the plating layer.
US11800633B2
An inductor and a power module are respectively provided. The inductor includes an insulating body and a conductive body. The insulating body has a top surface and a bottom surface. The conductive body includes two pin parts and a heat dissipation part. A portion of each of the pin parts is exposed outside the bottom surface. The portions of the two pin parts exposed outside the insulating body are configured to fix to a circuit board. The heat dissipation part is connected to the two pin parts, the heat dissipation part is exposed outside the top surface, and the heat dissipation part is configured to connect to an external heat dissipation member. When the inductor is fixed to the circuit board through the two pin parts exposed outside the bottom surface, the two pin parts and the bottom surface jointly define an accommodating space for accommodating a chip.
US11800622B2
Disclosed is a lighting control method and a lighting control device for a light source having LEDs, and a lighting device and includes acquiring the number of LEDs and a control curve for controlling changes in brightness and color of the light emitted from each LED over time, the control curve defines the same brightness cycle and color cycle for each LED, the brightness cycle indicates a brightness period and a brightness curve of the change in brightness over time within each period, determining a time offset on the control curve according to the number of LEDs and the brightness change period, determining the starting timings of the remaining LEDs on the control curve according to the starting timing of the first LED and the time offset, and controlling each LED from the starting timing on the control curve, to emit light according to the brightness and color determined.
US11800618B2
A lighting device including an LED light source, wherein the LED light source includes a first LED strand for generating a first light with a first correlated color temperature and a second LED strand for generating a second light with a second color temperature different from the first color temperature. The lighting device further comprises control electronics with a controllable LED driver for driving the LED light source, wherein the control electronics comprise a switch for switching between the first LED strand and the second LED strand so that either the first LED strand or the second LED strand is activated depending on the switch position. A lighting system comprising the lighting device is further disclosed.
US11800615B2
A method of driving a light-emitting device includes driving the light-emitting device having a light-emitting element and a light-emitting part that contains two or more types of phosphors adapted to be excited by light emitted from the light-emitting element, the two or more types of phosphors having respectively different afterglow characteristics. The driving of the light-emitting device includes supplying a current to the light-emitting element during a conducting period including a maximum current supply period in which a maximum current in the conducting period is supplied to the light-emitting element, and subsequent to the maximum current supply period, a current reduction period in which the current supplied to the light-emitting element is reduced continuously or stepwise from the maximum current.
US11800600B2
An information handling system supports multi-radio and multi-antenna wireless communication by routing coaxial cables between the radios and antennas through a cable clip of a conductive material coupled to system ground and interfaced with the coaxial cable ground sheath through an opening formed in the coaxial cable outer casing. A current source of the radio frequency applies a current in phase with the radio signal to the coaxial cable outer casing to suppress crosstalk with coaxial cables of different frequencies.
US11800599B2
An operation method performed by a remote terminal in a communication system includes: receiving a discovery signal from each of one or more neighboring terminals; performing a measurement operation on the discovery signal; determining at least one candidate terminal from among the one or more neighboring terminals based on a result of the measurement operation; selecting a relay terminal within the at least one candidate terminal; and performing a sidelink setup procedure with the relay terminal.
US11800597B2
User data compression method and apparatus for preventing data loss in wireless communication system
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) is provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for preventing data loss.
US11800594B2
A network device receives, from a user equipment (UE), a Next Generation Mobile network attach request, wherein the Next Generation Mobile network attach request includes a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) network attach request. The network device initiates attachment procedures, in response to receipt of the Next Generation Mobile network attach request and the VoLTE network attach request, to attach the UP to the Next Generation Mobile network and to a VoLTE network, and initiates establishment of a connection between the Next Generation Mobile network and the UE.
US11800583B1
A communication system includes a first device and a plurality of second devices, and each of the second devices includes a pairing processing unit, a device information storage unit, and a data control unit. The pairing processing unit performs a pairing process including an authentication process with the first device by using device-specific information of the second device. The device information storage unit stores device information including pairing authentication information. The pairing processing unit performs, by using device-specific information of another second device the pairing process between the first device and the another second device, and stores the pairing authentication information in the device information storage unit. The data control unit transmits the pairing authentication information to the another second device. The data control unit of the another second device stores the received pairing authentication information in the device information storage unit.
US11800578B2
Presented herein is a method that may include obtaining, by a session management node associated with a data session of a user equipment, an indication that an error has occurred at an endpoint of a first tunnel of the data session for the user equipment, the data session having a plurality of flows associated with the first tunnel and a second tunnel; transmitting, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a request to modify resources for a first plurality of flows associated with the first tunnel; obtaining, from the AMF, a response including an indication of a new tunnel assigned to the first plurality of flows; and transmitting a request to a user plane function (UPF) including an identifier associated with the new tunnel for the first plurality of flows to facilitate transmitting data associated with the first plurality of flows over the new tunnel.
US11800566B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive RACH configuration information on a downlink carrier of a first set of carriers, wherein the RACH configuration information pertains to the first set of carriers and to a second set of carriers; and selectively perform a RACH procedure with regard to the first set of carriers or the second set of carriers based at least in part on the RACH configuration information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11800565B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication method for simultaneous data transmission and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, a wireless communication method in which a plurality of terminals simultaneously transmit data for improving a data throughput in a high density environment, and a wireless communication terminal using the same. To this end, the present invention provides a wireless communication method for a terminal including transmitting a trigger frame indicating simultaneous uplink data transmission of multi-users, receiving uplink data transmitted by a plurality of terminals in response to the trigger frame, and transmitting a block acknowledgement for the plurality of terminals having transmitted the uplink data, and a wireless communication terminal using the same.
US11800562B2
A communication device may use a channel access procedure to determine channel availability for signal transmission. The communication device may select a channel access procedure, among a plurality of channel access procedures, based on a beam indication from a base station and a transmission beam to be used for the signal transmission.
US11800560B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, particularly, provides: a method for receiving a first downlink channel including downlink allocation information, receiving, on the basis of the downlink allocation information, a second downlink channel including data, and transmitting a response to the reception of the second downlink channel through an uplink channel by performing channel sensing for one or more symbol candidates configured for uplink transmission; and an apparatus therefor.
US11800556B2
An information transmission method, a network device, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: receiving a preamble; receiving an uplink signal on a target multiple access resource; determining a target terminal based on the uplink signal; and determining target uplink information of the target terminal based on a target multiple access MA signature, where the target multiple access resource is determined based on the preamble, and/or the target MA signature is determined based on the preamble.
US11800548B2
According to certain embodiments, a method is disclosed for use in a wireless device. The method comprises transmitting uplink data to a network node. The uplink data is transmitted according to a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration obtained from the network node. The uplink data is transmitted without transmitting padding when no data is available for transmission. The method further comprises retransmitting the uplink data to the network node until receiving an indication to transmit new uplink data. The indication is received from the network node via a control channel.
US11800543B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method in a V2X system, a terminal device, and a network device, capable of improving the reliability of sidelink data transmission in the V2X system. The communication method in the V2X system includes: transmitting, by a terminal device, a channel occupancy ratio of the terminal device to a network device.
US11800536B2
A method of wireless communication including a base station transmitting a preamble including information indicating a sector identifier and an antenna port value. The base station further transmits a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence and the location of the pilot sequence are based on the sector identifier and on the antenna port value. A base station configured to perform the method is also disclosed. A corresponding subscriber station configured to receive the preamble and pilot sequence is also disclosed, as well as a subscriber station method.
US11800527B2
Various embodiments herein provide techniques for control resource set (CORESET) configuration and PDCCH design for system operating above 52.6 GHz carrier frequency. Embodiments provide detailed design for the CORESET structure to support multiple precoders for a PDCCH. The DFT size of control could be different from DFT size of data. Additionally, embodiments provide techniques for channel multiplexing of control and data transmission for system operating above 52.6 GHz carrier frequency. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11800518B2
Aspects described herein relate to physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) limits for multiple cells scheduling one cell in fifth generation new radio (5G NR). In an example, the aspects may include determining a PDCCH limit corresponding to at least one of a number of blind detections (BDs) and a number of control channel elements (CCEs) used for decoding PDCCH candidates for a first cell that schedules a second cell, and at least a third cell that schedules the second cell, wherein the third cell is the same cell as the second cell or the third cell is different from the second cell; and receiving one or more PDCCH transmissions from the first cell and the third cell based on the PDCCH limit.
US11800510B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver configured for transmitting/receiving a wireless signal; and a processor configured for controlling an operation of the wireless communication terminal. The transceiver receives a first frame indicating that there is data to be transmitted from a base wireless communication terminal to a plurality of wireless communication terminals including the wireless communication terminal and receives data based on the first frame. The base wireless communication terminal is any one wireless communication terminal different from the plurality of wireless communication terminals.
US11800509B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a first node for wireless communication. The first node first performs a monitoring on first-type signalings, in which K1 first-type signalings are detected; and then transmits a first radio signal in a first time-frequency resource set; each of the K1 first-type signalings is associated to the first time-frequency resource set; a first signaling is a last first-type signaling of the K1 first-type signaling; the first radio signal is used for determining the receiving of first-type signaling(s) associated to the first time-frequency resource set before the first signaling; or is used for determining the decoding of bit blocks scheduled by the K1 first-type signalings. With the above-mentioned designs, the present disclosure manages to address missed detection of sidelink scheduling signaling caused when a data receiver sends NACK-only feedback in V2X, thereby further improving the entire system performance.
US11800504B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for beamforming parameter adaptation techniques. In one aspect, a first wireless device may receive a capability message from at least a second wireless device in a wireless communications system, the capability message indicating a default operating frequency of the second wireless device, a default operating frequency priority of the second wireless device, or both. That is, the second wireless device may transmit the capability message. The first wireless device may transmit, and at least the second wireless device may receive, an indication of the one or more codebook parameters. The one or more codebook parameters may indicate a default operating frequency for the wireless communications system. The first wireless device and the second wireless device may communicate with at least the second wireless device in accordance with the one or more codebook parameters.
US11800492B2
A communication method, comprising: transmitting from a base station to a mobile station a first message which includes resource information corresponding to one or more resource pools, wherein the resource information identifies at least one sub-frame and at least one resource block within the at least one sub-frame, transmitting to the mobile station an indicator of one or more designated resource pools and designated resources from within the one or more designated resource pools such that the mobile station is permitted to communicate with a wireless device in communication with the mobile station via a wireless link using the one or more designated resources within the one or more designated resource pools.
US11800478B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may identify a scaling factor associated with determining a periodicity of backhaul physical random access channel (PRACH) resources. The wireless communication device may determine, based at least in part on the scaling factor, the periodicity of the backhaul PRACH resources. The periodicity of the backhaul PRACH resources may be extended as compared to a periodicity of access PRACH resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11800476B2
Low-cost time synchronization associated wireless Battery Management System (BMS) and a host controller are described herein. The time synchronization techniques described herein are low-cost because of the use of existing communicating lines without using adding additional dedicated lines or wires for synchronization. Moreover, the time synchronization techniques described herein may be implemented without complex circuitry.
US11800474B2
Methods and apparatuses for determining asynchronization between a first clock used by a first node (N1) and a second clock used by a second node (N2). A sequence of time differences is measured based on a sequence of signals periodically sent by the second node (N2) and received by the first node (N1), wherein each time difference of a signal is between a respective transmission timestamp in accordance with the second clock and a respective receiving timestamp in accordance with the first clock; and at least one of a relative phase offset or a relative frequency offset between the first and the second clock is estimated based on the sequence of time differences.
US11800473B2
A method of a first UE comprises: determining a sidelink synchronization identity (SL-SID) and a set of resources; generating at least one sidelink synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (S-SSB) based on the SL-SID and the set of resources, wherein each S-SSB of the at least one S-SSB includes first two symbols for a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS) and second two symbols for a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS); generating a first sequence corresponding to the S-PSS, wherein the first sequence is determined based on a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulated M-sequence with a 127 of sequence length and a low cross-correlation with a PSS; generating a second sequence corresponding to the S-SSS, wherein the second sequence is determined based on a BPSK modulated Gold-sequence with a 127 of sequence length; and transmitting, the at least one S-SSB over sidelink channels established with the second UE.
US11800464B2
System and method for temperature-calibration of a crystal oscillator (XO) in a mobile device. A temperature-calibration status of the XO is determined and a trigger condition related to temperature-calibration of the XO is detected. If the temperature-calibration status of the XO is not fully temperature-calibrated or if the XO has not been previously temperature-calibrated, a temperature-calibration session is initiated by an XO manager based on the condition, wherein a receiver is configured to receive signals and temperature-calibration of the XO is performed in a background mode based on the received signals. The condition based triggering ensures that the XO is temperature-calibrated prior to launch of any position based or global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) based applications on the mobile device. The trigger condition can include first use or power-on, charging, presence in an outdoor environment, variation in operating temperature, pre-specified time, and/or user input pertaining to the mobile device.
US11800462B2
A power control method, a network device, and a terminal are provided. The power control method includes configuring a power control parameter for a resource in an uplink beam management resource set used for an uplink beam management procedure; and sending the power control parameter to a terminal, so that the terminal sends the resource in the uplink beam management resource set according to the power control parameter.
US11800454B2
Wireless battery management system, node for wireless communication, and method of transmitting data
The present disclosure relates to a wireless battery management system which ensures stability when obtaining battery data through wireless communication. The battery management system includes a manager node operating a primary channel and a secondary channel based on wireless communication and obtaining battery data from a monitor node by using the primary channel or the secondary channel and a monitor node connected to a battery module to collect battery data including one or more of a current, a voltage, a temperature, and self-diagnosis data of the battery module, transmit the collected battery data to the manager node through the primary channel, and when the transmission of the battery data through the primary channel fails, transmit the battery data to the manager node through the secondary channel.
US11800453B2
An electronic device comprises a display, a memory, a wireless communication circuit supporting a Wi-Fi Direct protocol, and a processor operatively connected to the display, the memory, and the wireless communication circuit, wherein the processor may be configured to create, through the wireless communication circuit, a first group on the basis of a first channel attribute with an external electronic device, the first channel attribute including at least one of a frequency band or a bandwidth, detect an occurrence of an event associated with a power save, transmit, through the wireless communication circuit, a first request message to the external electronic device that requests to change the first channel attribute to a second channel attribute at least partially different from the first channel attribute, receive, through the wireless communication circuit, a first response message from the external electronic device, store profiles of the first group in the memory, and create a second group on the basis of the external electronic device and the second channel attribute by using profiles of the first group and a connection method of a persistent group defined in the Wi-Fi Direct protocol.
US11800452B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for applying a common power saving behavior across multiple sets of frequency resources (e.g., component carriers (CCs) and/or bandwidth parts (BWPs)). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes obtaining signaling, from a network entity, indicating a common power saving behavior and applying the common power saving behavior on multiple sets of frequency resources.
US11800444B2
An asset tracking system that has a master notification unit, a reader relay unit in communication with the master notification unit, and a tag configured to be coupled to an asset. When the reader relay unit identifies a tag, the reader relay unit sends a signal to the master notification unit providing both a tag identifier and a reader relay unit identifier.
US11800438B2
An electronic device is disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, at least one wireless communication circuit configured to perform Wi-Fi wireless communication with at least one access point (AP) and/or at least one external electronic device, a processor operatively connected to the display and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to cause the electronic device to: execute Wi-Fi scanning and receive a first signal from the at least one AP by the wireless communication circuit, receive a second signal from the at least one external electronic device by the wireless communication circuit, the second signal including information related to the at least one AP, determine a wireless communication channel state of the AP based at least partially on the first signal and the second signal, and control the display to display a graphic user interface (GUI) including an object indicating the determined wireless communication channel state.
US11800432B2
A first base station receives a first request to notify a change of a closed access group (CAG) area of a wireless device. The first base station determines the change of the CAG area of the wireless device, and sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF) and based on the determining, a location report message indicating the change of the CAG area of the wireless device.
US11800426B2
Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive, from one or more first sensors and one or more second sensors, first operational states of fixed broadband network nodes and second operational states of wireless network nodes, respectively. The computing system might analyze the received first and second operational states, might determine an optimal network pathway and/or an optimal network backhaul pathway, and might establish the optimal network pathway and/or the optimal network backhaul pathway, through a determined combination of fixed and wireless network nodes, thereby implementing the combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services.
US11800422B2
In one embodiment, an earthbound transceiver in a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite network establishes a connection with a first LEO satellite from a first set of LEO satellites. The first set of LEO satellites are distributed across a first plurality of orbits including first neighboring LEO satellites of the first LEO satellite, and the first neighboring LEO satellites have a fixed or semi-fixed position relative to the first LEO satellite. The earthbound transceiver determines first signal strength values associated with the first set of LEO satellites and second signal strength values associated with a second set of LEO satellites. The earthbound transceiver then periodically compares the first signal strength values to the second signal strength values. At an optimal handoff time, the earthbound transceiver initiates the handoff operation from the first LEO satellite to a second LEO satellite from the second set of LEO satellites.
US11800416B2
Example wireless communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes a terminal initiates a reestablishment procedure when a handover procedure of the terminal fails. When a base station reselected by the terminal is a base station (that is, a target base station) to which the terminal is handed over in a handover procedure, and because a key of the base station is updated in the handover procedure, the base station includes key derivation information in a reestablishment message to be sent to the terminal. Therefore, the terminal can update a key of the terminal based on the key derivation information, so that the key of the terminal can be consistent with the key of the base station.
US11800411B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to an access and mobility function (AMF), a registration request message for moving to a first public land mobile network (PLMN) from a second PLMN, receiving, from the AMF, a registration accept message including first single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) corresponding to the first PLMN of the AMF, determining whether second S-NSSAI associated with a protocol data unit (PDU) session established for the UE matches to the first S-NSSAI, wherein the second S-NSSAI corresponds to the second PLMN, and locally updating the PDU session based on a result of the determining.
US11800406B2
Systems, methods, and devices can be used to perform service-aware utilization of shared wireless resources. In various instances, a quality metric (e.g., a Bit Error Rate (BER)) of a shared wireless resource is determined. Requested services can be provided based at least partly on the quality metric and the type of services being requested. For example, when the quality metric exceeds a threshold and the requested services are for Quality of Service (QoS)-sensitive services (e.g., Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) services), the services can be provided at least partially via a licensed wireless resource. However, when the quality metric does not exceed the threshold, and/or the requested services are for non-QoS-sensitive services (e.g., non-GBR services), the services can be provided via the shared wireless resource.
US11800405B2
An electronic device discussed herein may include radio frequency communication circuitry for communication on a radio frequency network according to a communication configuration, a processor, and memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform operations including receiving, a first muting configuration indicating when the radio frequency communication circuitry is to communicate using a first type of communication on a first frequency band and when the radio frequency communication circuitry is to communicate using a second type of communication on a second frequency band, where the first frequency band may overlap with the second frequency band. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform operations including transmitting or receiving a data packet using the radio frequency communication circuitry according to the communication configuration.
US11800395B2
There is disclosed a method in a first network node operating in a split bearer environment, the first network node being communicatively connected with a second network node via an internode interface. The method comprises obtaining, by the first network node, expected queuing times of packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) packet data units (PDUs) at the first network node and at the second network node. The method comprises determining, by the first network node and according to the estimated expected queuing times, forwarding of a flow of PDCP PDUs destined for a User Equipment (UE).
US11800378B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises determining a free space path loss distance at a frequency of a transmitter; determining a morphology class for a geographic location of the transmitter; determining a scaling factor P corresponding to the determined morphology class; determining a circular analysis region based upon the scaling factor P; and generating a contour.
US11800373B2
A system and method for 3D propagation modelling for planning of a radio network, is disclosed. In the present invention, automatic tuning of propagation path loss parameters of a Continuous Wave (CW) based 3D propagation model for LOS (line of sight) and NLOS (non-line of sight) radio transmissions in a first geographical area, is performed. Further, in the present invention, 3D propagation models for remaining geographies having similar geographical area and clutter types as the first geographical area, are generated without performing any drive test while compensating the propagation path loss parameters of the generated model using periodically measured user equipment (UE) data. The generated 3D models may be updated dynamically as the 3D models are developed based on UE data updated from time to time.
US11800362B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for estimating performance of a radio link in a wireless communication systems using historical information. Disclosed methods generally includes determining receipt of historical information from a network, and estimating the performance of a radio link based on at least one selected from the group consisting of determining historical information was not received, and comparing received historical information to information available at the UE.
US11800361B2
The technology includes a method performed by a security system of a 5G network to thwart a cyberattack. The security system is instantiated to monitor and control network traffic at a perimeter of the 5G network in accordance with a security model based on a vulnerability parameter, a risk parameter, and a threat parameter. The security system can process the network traffic with the security model to output a vulnerability-risk-threat (VRT) score that characterizes the network traffic in relation to the parameters. Based on the VRT score, the system redirects the network traffic to a containment area that mimics an intended destination or related process of the network traffic to induce malicious VRT traffic. When malicious VRT traffic is detected, the security system can, for example, prevent the network traffic from being communicated the 5G network.
US11800357B2
A wireless communications system that creates a mobile overlay to a portion of an existing wireless communications network includes an intelligent network access controller with a processor and a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing a program of machine instructions, the controller coupled to radio frequency hardware. The processor executes the machine instructions to control the radio frequency hardware to establish a mobile local control area in the portion of the existing wireless communications network, the mobile local control area having a defined boundary established through latitude, longitude, and altitude reference points describing the boundary; detect the presence of a wireless communications device within the boundary; compel the device to register with the controller by compelling the device to provide to the controller a location update of the device and device identifying information; lock the device to the controller; and deny the device access to the wireless communications network.
US11800353B2
A locking apparatus according to an embodiment includes an approach detector, a signal transmitter, a measurer, and a controller. The approach detector detects an approach of a user carrying a terminal. The signal transmitter transmits a key authentication signal for authenticating a pre-shared digital key to the terminal using first short-range wireless communication when the approach of the user is detected. The measurer connects a session by generating a security channel with the terminal using second short-range wireless communication and measuring at least one of a distance to and an angle with respect to the terminal when the digital key is authenticated through the key authentication signal. The controller determines whether or not to unlock an access facility in accordance with at least one of the distance to and the angle with respect to the terminal.
US11800351B2
Exemplary methods for facilitating secure communication between a mobile network subscriber and various service providers (SPs), the subscriber being associated with a plurality of entities comprising any combination of devices and profiles. Some embodiments can include: obtaining a security identifier associated with the subscriber; based on the security identifier, establishing an identity hierarchy comprising the plurality of entities associated with the subscriber; based on the security identifier, establishing consents for SPs to access data generated by the entities of the identity hierarchy; in response to a request comprising the security identifier, receiving a public key usable to encrypt data for sending to a particular SP, the data being decryptable using a corresponding secret key associated with an established consent for the particular SP; and encrypting the data using the public key and the identity hierarchy. Embodiments also include subscriber devices and server apparatus configurable to perform the exemplary methods.
US11800343B2
Emergency monitoring application mobility management is provided. A portion of battery power on a mobile device is reserved for an emergency monitoring application between defined boundaries of a certain area based on analysis of a profile identifying battery consumption of each respective application running on the mobile device. A dedicated logical communication channel is established with the mobile device that the emergency monitoring application connects to in a detected emergency situation between the defined boundaries of the certain area. The dedicated logical communication channel is utilized to shut down a number of applications running on the mobile device during the detected emergency situation so that the reserved portion of battery power is retained to run the emergency monitoring application on the mobile device between the defined boundaries of the certain area during the detected emergency situation.
US11800339B2
A communication system may include a first radio frequency (RF) device configured to generate a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisement responsive to an input event, transmit the BLE advertisement in a BLE advertisement burst comprising a number of transmissions in at least one BLE advertising channel, and discontinue transmission of the BLE advertisement after transmission of the BLE advertisement burst. The system may further include a second RF device configured to scan for the BLE advertisement in the at least one BLE advertising channel, and communicate with the first RF device over a BLE data channel responsive to receiving the BLE advertisement.
US11800324B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for improved data transmission and tracking of data transmitted utilizing wireless networks. Wirelessly transmitted enhanced signal waves, such as enhanced radio signal waves, are commonly transmitted within a particular defined or target geographic area. Data associated with particular content embodied by particular enhanced signal waves may be transmitted and received by a specially configured signal processor, such that the specially configured signal processor may extract such additional data and cause outputting of such additional data via a separate, connected device. In the example context of radio transmissions, embodiments provide for receiving an enhanced radio transmission signal including radio transmission content and enhanced external display data, such embodiments extracting the enhanced external display data and forwarding the enhanced external display data to a deliverables connected client device to cause rendering, via the deliverables connected client device, of a deliverables display interface based at least in part on the enhanced external display data.
US11800299B2
A MEMS transducer system has a transducer configured to convert a received signal into an output signal for forwarding by a transducer output port, and an integrated circuit having an IC input in communication with the transducer output port. The IC input is configured to receive an IC input signal produced as a function of the output signal. The system also has a dividing element coupled between the IC input and the transducer output port. The dividing element is configured to selectively attenuate one or more signals into the IC input to at least in part produce the IC input signal. Other implementations may couple a feedback loop to the ground of the transducer (similar to bootstrapping), or pick off voltages at specific portions of the transducer.
US11800297B2
A MEMS sensor includes a through hole to allow communication with an external environment, such as to send or receive acoustic signals or to be exposed to the ambient environment. In addition to the information that is being measured, light energy may also enter the environment of the sensor via the through hole, causing short-term or long-term effects on measurements or system components. A light mitigating structure is formed on or attached to a lid of the MEMS die to absorb or selectively reflect the received light in a manner that limits effects on the measurements or interest and system components.
US11800294B2
The invention relates to a MEMS transducer comprising a vibratable membrane for generating or receiving pressure waves in a fluid in a vertical direction, wherein the vibratable membrane is supported by a carrier and the vibratable membrane exhibits two or more vertical sections which are formed parallel to the vertical direction and comprise at least one layer of actuator material. The end of the vibratable membrane is preferably connected to an electrode, such that the two or more vertical sections can be induced to vibrate horizontally by driving the at least one electrode, or such that an electrical signal can be generated at the at least one electrode when the two or more vertical sections are induced to vibrate horizontally.
US11800280B2
Embodiments include an audio system comprising a speaker array comprising a plurality of drivers arranged in a first planar configuration; a microphone array comprising a plurality of transducers arranged in a second planar configuration; and a beamformer communicatively coupled to the speaker array and the microphone array, the beamformer configured to: generate an individual speaker output signal for each of the drivers in the speaker array based on one or more input audio signals received from an audio source, and generate a microphone output signal for the microphone array based on one or more microphone signals captured by one or more of the transducers. Embodiments also include a method performed by one or more processors coupled to a microphone array having a plurality of transducers and a speaker array having a plurality of drivers.
US11800277B1
Example techniques may involve controlling a passive radiator. An implementation may include a device receiving, via a network interface, audio content and generating an audio signal representing the audio content. Generating the audio signal involves modifying portions of the audio content to limit excursion of the speaker driver to less than an excursion limit when a forward prediction model indicates that the portions of the audio content are predicted to cause the speaker driver to move beyond the excursion limit. While playing back the generated audio signal via the audio stage, the device detects, via a sensor, clipping of the speaker driver and generates a feedback signal based on the detected clipping of the speaker driver. The device adjusts the forward prediction model based on the generated feedback signal.
US11800263B2
Provided are a method of bandwidth allocation for transmitting mobile data and a network device. The bandwidth allocation method includes receiving a cooperative transport interface (CTI) message including a traffic pattern corresponding to a CTI pattern identification (ID) from a distributed unit (DU) of a mobile network, and allocating a bandwidth for transmitting mobile data based on the traffic pattern included in the CTI message.
US11800259B2
A biological monitoring device includes a sensor included in a sensor device, performing a detection process of detecting a medical condition of a patient, and performing a process of generating first detection data indicating a result of the detection process, a generation unit realized by the sensor device, indicating contents related to the detection process, and performing a process of generating second detection data having a smaller data volume than the first detection data, on the basis of the first detection data, and a communication unit realized by the sensor device, and performing a process of transmitting the second detection data to a terminal associated with the patient.
US11800258B2
Methods and systems are directed to enabling CNN operation close to an image sensor and facilitating CNN inference near the image sensor. The system includes, in part, a digital image sensor and a plurality of processing layers that include, in part, an attention-based preprocessing layer (APL), an inference computation layer (ICL), and a fully connected layer. The digital image sensor can include, in part, a plurality of regions and each region can be processed by region processing units disposed in the APL/ICL in parallel. Each region processing unit disposed in the APL can include, in part, an attention module that determines whether the corresponding region is a relevant region. The region processing units disposed in the APL transmit only relevant data to corresponding region processing units in the ICL and only activate the corresponding region processing units in the ICL for relevant regions. The ICL can include, in part, two convolution layers.
US11800255B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: pixels disposed in a matrix of pixel rows and pixel columns; control wires provided for the pixel rows or the pixel columns, and each connected to at least two pixels out of the pixels, the at least two pixels being included in one of the pixel rows or the pixel columns for which the control wire is provided; drive circuits that are provided for the control wires, each include buffer elements in at least two stages, and each output a control signal to one of the control wires for which the drive circuit is provided, the buffer elements in the at least two stages being connected in series; and a first wire that short-circuits output wires of the buffer elements in one of the at least two stages in at least two of the plurality of drive circuits.
US11800253B2
An imaging device includes: a first pad portion that is connected to a voltage supply line in an aperture pixel region, and to which a reference voltage from outside of the semiconductor substrate is supplied; and a second pad portion that is connected to the voltage supply line in the light-shielded pixel region, and to which the reference voltage from outside of the semiconductor substrate is supplied, the second pad portion being separated from the first pad portion.
US11800251B2
There is provided a light receiving device including: a pixel including a first tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, and a second tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first comparison circuit configured to compare a first detection signal detected by the first tap and a reference signal; a second comparison circuit configured to compare a second detection signal detected by the second tap and the reference signal; a first zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a first zero reset signal that is supplied to the first comparison circuit when the first comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation; and a second zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a second zero reset signal that is supplied to the second comparison circuit when the second comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation.
US11800245B2
An image pickup apparatus capable of keeping a focus on a subject even when a moving direction of the subject changes in time series is provided. The image pickup apparatus comprising at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as following units, an image pickup unit configured to pick up a subject image formed by an image pickup optical system and generate image data, a subject detecting unit configured to detect a subject included in the image data generated by the image pickup unit and obtain a subject detection result, a focus detection unit configured to obtain a focus detection result of a focus detection area, which is set based on the subject detection result, and a control unit configured to perform a predictive calculation, which predicts a position of the subject detected by the subject detecting unit at a time after a predetermined period of time has elapsed from a focus detection time, and perform focus control of the image pickup optical system. The control unit changes at least one of a subject position prediction condition and a focus control condition according to time-series changes in the subject detection result obtained by the subject detecting unit and the focus detection result obtained by the focus detection unit.
US11800243B2
An image pickup apparatus capable of preventing an idle capacity from running short during consecutive photographing without increasing a storage capacity of a storage device that temporarily retains data is provided. The image pickup apparatus comprising an image pickup unit configured to continuously perform image pickup and obtain raw data, a storage unit configured to temporarily store the raw data, a developing unit configured to develop the raw data, and a control unit configured to control so as to omit a part or all of a development processing of the raw data performed by the developing unit based on a usage status of the storage unit or a similarity degree between images of the raw data.
US11800242B2
Systems and techniques are provided for processing one or more frames. For example, a process can include obtaining a first plurality of frames associated with a first settings domain from an image capture system, wherein the first plurality of frames is captured prior to obtaining a capture input. The process can include obtaining a reference frame associated with a second settings domain from the image capture system, wherein the reference frame is captured proximate to obtaining the capture input. The process can include obtaining a second plurality of frames associated with the second settings domain from the image capture system, wherein the second plurality of frames is captured after the reference frame. The process can include, based on the reference frame, transforming at least a portion of the first plurality of frames to generate a transformed plurality of frames associated with the second settings domain.
US11800240B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a display and a processor configured to obtain a low-frequency variation amount based on low-frequency information corresponding to a first frame and low-frequency information corresponding to a second frame, obtain a high-frequency variation amount based on high-frequency information corresponding to the first frame and high-frequency information corresponding to the second frame, obtain a weight based on a difference between the low-frequency variation amount and the high-frequency variation amount, apply the weight to a high-frequency frame corresponding to the second frame, obtain an output frame corresponding to the second frame, based on the second frame and a high-frequency frame to which the weight is applied, and control the display to display the obtained output frame.
US11800238B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, methods may include receiving an image from an image sensor; applying a filter to the image to obtain a low-frequency component image and a high-frequency component image; determining a first enhanced image based on a weighted sum of the low-frequency component image and the high-frequency component image, where the high-frequency component image is weighted more than the low-frequency component image; determining a second enhanced image based on the first enhanced image and a tone mapping; and storing, displaying, or transmitting an output image based on the second enhanced image.
US11800220B2
The accessory apparatus includes an accessory communicator providing a notification channel (RTS), a first data communication channel (DCL) and a second data communication channel (DCL). The accessory controller transmits, in a transmission request receiving state of receiving a transmission request from an image-capturing apparatus through the notification channel, accessory data to the image-capturing apparatus through the first data communication channel, and receives camera data transmitted through the second data communication channel from the image-capturing apparatus in response to receiving the accessory data. The accessory controller stops, in the transmission request receiving state and during transmission of the accessory data to the image-capturing apparatus, in response to becoming a non-transmission request receiving state, transmitting the accessory data to the image-capturing apparatus.
US11800219B2
A radiation imaging system comprises a radiation imaging apparatus having a plurality of imaging modes, and a control apparatus configured to control imaging of a radiation image with respect to the radiation imaging apparatus. The radiation imaging system comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain information with respect to a communication state between the radiation imaging apparatus and the control apparatus; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit of at least one of the radiation imaging apparatus and the control apparatus to display information indicating a margin in the communication state based on an imaging mode of the radiation imaging apparatus and the information with respect to the communication state.
US11800217B2
Multimedia data processing method and apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring first multimedia data; performing multi-dimensional analysis on the first multimedia data to obtain multimedia dimensional information; and performing video photographing according to the multimedia dimension information to obtain second multimedia data. The present application solves the technical problem of a poor video imitation photographing effect because information of imitation photographing video cannot be acquired in the prior art.
US11800214B2
A system for visibility in an atmospheric suit includes a camera arranged to view an environment outside the atmospheric suit and a display device to display an image obtained by the camera. An input device obtains input from a wearer of the atmospheric suit. A controller changes a feature of the camera based on the input. The image obtained by the camera and displayed by the display device is modified based on the feature.
US11800208B2
An image sensor converts an optical image formed by an imaging optical system to video signals. A heat dissipation section discharges heat generated in an image sensor to the outside. The imaging optical system, the image sensor, the heat dissipation section, and a battery chamber are arranged on an extension line of an axis of the system in the mentioned order. The battery chamber has an upper surface tilted forward in a direction in which the image sensor is disposed with respect to the axis by a predetermined angle. A projected shadow of a portion, close to the heat dissipation section, of an upper end portion of the battery chamber, which is projected from an upper surface side of the image capturing apparatus, overlaps the heat dissipation section.
US11800196B1
A transmission method includes generating one or more frames for content transfer using IP (Internet Protocol) packets, and transmitting the one or more generated frames by broadcast. Each of the one or more frames contains a plurality of second transfer units, each of the plurality of second transfer units contains one or more first transfer units, and each of the one or more first transfer units contains at least one of the IP packets. An object IP packet of the IP packets which is stored in a first transfer unit positioned at a head in the one or more frames contains reference clock information that indicates time for reproduction of the content in data structure different from data structure of an MMT (MPEG Media Transport) packet, and header compression processing on the object IP packet is omitted.
US11800195B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for displaying recommendations that are temporally relevant to activities of a user and are contextually relevant to a portion of viewed media. This may be accomplished by a media guidance application identifying activities a user has planned, as well as respective times for which each of the plurality of activities was planned to be performed by the user. The media guidance application may filter the activities by determining which of the first plurality of activities has a corresponding respective time that is within a threshold period of time. The media guidance application may then identify characteristics of each filtered activity and of a media asset that the user is consuming at the present moment, and may compute whether the characteristics match. If the characteristics match, the media guidance application may generate for display a recommendation relating to the respective activity.
US11800186B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining image information via a communication network from equipment of a video producer; analyzing the image information to identify video content segments, to detect one or more objects, and/or to determine a tonality of at least one of the video content segments; obtaining preferences regarding editing the video content segments; editing the video content segments in accordance with the preferences using an algorithm executing on a processing system; generating an edited video based on the editing; providing the edited video to equipment of audience members, generating success metrics for the edited video; and modifying the algorithm in accordance with the success metrics. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11800184B2
Systems, methods, and devices for managing media storage and delivery, including obtaining information about a three-dimensional (3D) scene; obtaining, from the information, a parameter indicating that viewport adaptation is enabled; rendering the 3D scene, wherein the 3D scene includes at least one two-dimensional (2D) video to be reproduced within the 3D scene; obtaining a current viewport of a user; determining whether the at least one 2D video is inside of a range of the current viewport; and adjusting a bitrate of the at least one 2D video based on a result of the determining.
US11800183B2
The present disclosure provides a method for a source device to establish a connection with a sink device, and an apparatus related thereto. According to the present disclosure, a method for a source device to establish a connection with a sink device comprising: receiving, from the sink device, first capability information of the sink device related to a specific operation; transmitting, to the sink device, support version information on a version of capability information of the sink device readable by the source device; and receiving, from the sink device, second capability information of the sink device related to the specific operation based on the support version information, wherein a version of the second capability information is configured based on the support version information.
US11800179B2
A digital media system is configured to provide modified concurrent video streams to a client device. A plurality of concurrent video streams is accessed. The plurality of concurrent video streams includes a first concurrent video stream. It is detected that the first concurrent video stream is selected for display in a primary window among a set of windows to be displayed on a display screen. A second concurrent video stream is generated based on the first concurrent video stream. The plurality of concurrent video streams is modified by adding the generated second concurrent video stream to the plurality of concurrent video streams. The modified plurality of concurrent video streams is provided to a device configured to display the modified plurality of concurrent video streams concurrently together in corresponding different windows among the set of windows.
US11800169B2
A system for using metadata from a video signal to associate advertisements therewith, comprising (i) a segmentation system to divide the video signal into video clips, (ii) a digitizing system for digitizing the video clips, (iii) a feature extraction system for extracting audio and video features from each video clip, associating each audio feature with respective video clips, associating each video feature with respective video clips, and saving the audio and video features into an associated metadata file, (iv) a web interface to the feature extraction system for receiving the video clips, and (v) a database, wherein video signals and associated metadata files are stored and indexed, wherein the associated metadata file is provided when a video player requests the corresponding video signal, enabling selection of a relevant advertisement for presentment in conjunction with respective video clips based on the associated audio and video features of the respective video clip.
US11800163B2
Described herein is a novel approach for coarse-grained user geolocation leveraging widely-deployed content delivery networks (CDNs). This method relies on the fact that CDN providers deploy a number of edge servers that are geographically distributed across the world. Many of these edge servers are assigned with unique identifiers that are tied to their location, which can be retrieved by inspecting HTTP responses headers served by these edge servers. As a result, a website can infer coarse-grained user location by asking a user to send an HTTP request to an arbitrary domain that is known being served by a CDN, and inspecting the corresponding responses.
US11800160B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, devices, and computer-readable media to transcode a video. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a video that includes a plurality of tracks. The method further includes determining whether a partial transcoded file is available that corresponds to the video. The method further includes, if the partial transcoded file is available, obtaining a timestamp associated with the partial transcoded file, transcoding a portion of the video that begins at the timestamp associated with the partial transcoded file, and combining the partial transcoded file and the transcoded portion of the video to generate an output video. The method further includes, if the partial transcoded file is not available, transcoding the video from a start of the video using the transcoder to obtain a plurality of output tracks and combining the plurality of output tracks to obtain the output video.
US11800155B2
A method includes performing a conversion between a block of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that whether a syntax element identifying a deblocking offset for a chroma component of the video is included in a video region level is determined based on a colour format of the video.
US11800153B2
Methods, devices and systems for configuring different access units in scalable video coding are described. In one example aspect, a method of video processing include performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more pictures in one or more video layers and a bitstream of a video, wherein the bitstream comprises a coded video sequence that includes one or more access units, and wherein the bitstream further comprises a first syntax element indicating whether an access unit includes a picture for each video layer making up the coded video sequence.
US11800150B2
A method for decoding video includes creating a first list of motion vectors from at least one neighboring block in a current frame of the video and creating a second list of motion vectors from at least one previous block in a temporally earlier frame of the video. A third list of motion vectors is created based upon the first list and the second list. Based upon receiving a motion vector competition control parameter selecting one of the motion vectors from the third list, wherein the second list of motion vectors is further based upon a flooring function.
US11800149B2
A method of video encoding includes determining that a coded video bitstream conforms to one of a Main 10 still picture profile or a Main 4:4:4 10 still picture profile and generating profile information that indicates that each of the image slices is to be intra coded and indicates the one of the Main 10 still picture profile or the Main 4:4:4 10 still picture profile. The method further includes constraining only one picture to be included in the coded video bitstream according to the one of the Main 10 still picture profile or the Main 4:4:4 10 still picture profile. The method also includes performing intra prediction on each of the image slices, and encoding the picture based on the intra prediction and according to the one of the Main 10 still picture profile or the Main 4:4:4 10 still picture profile to form the coded video bitstream.
US11800143B2
Disclosed herein is a method for adaptive bidirectional optical flow estimation for inter-screen prediction compensation during video encoding. The method aims to reduce complexity and/or cost of bidirectional optical flow (BIO) at a pixel level or a subblock level.
US11800142B2
Disclosed herein is a method for adaptive bidirectional optical flow estimation for inter-screen prediction compensation during video encoding. The method aims to reduce complexity and/or cost of bidirectional optical flow (BIO) at a pixel level or a subblock level.
US11800115B2
A method including: extracting a set of video features representing properties of a video segment; generating a set of bitrate-resolution pairs based on the set of video features, each bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs defining a bitrate and defining a resolution estimated to maximize a quality score characterizing the video segment encoded at the bitrate; accessing a distribution of audience bandwidths; selecting a top bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs; selecting a bottom bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs; selecting a subset of bitrate-resolution pairs in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs based on the distribution of audience bandwidths, the subset of bitrate-resolution pairs defining bitrates less than the top bitrate and greater than the bottom bitrate; and generating an encoding ladder for the video segment comprising the top bitrate-resolution pair, the bottom bitrate-resolution pair, and the subset of bitrate-resolution pairs.
US11800102B2
Low-latency video coding methods and apparatuses include receiving input data associated with a current Intra slice composed of Coding Tree Units (CTU), where each CTU includes luma and chroma Coding Tree Blocks (CTBs), partitioning each CTB into non-overlapping pipeline units, and encoding or decoding the CTUs in the current Intra slices by performing processing of chroma pipeline units after beginning processing of luma pipeline units in at least one pipeline stage. Each of the pipeline units is processed by one pipeline stage after another pipeline stage, and different pipeline stages process different pipeline units simultaneously. The pipeline stage in the low-latency video coding methods and apparatuses simultaneously processes one luma pipeline unit and at least one previous chroma pipeline unit within one pipeline unit time interval.
US11800101B2
Methods and systems for decoding a picture. A method includes receiving a coded video stream including a picture partitioned into first sub-picture units, the first sub-picture units including one first sub-picture unit, and an additional first sub-picture unit including a first ordered second sub-picture unit, from among second sub-picture units of the additional first sub-picture unit, and a last ordered second sub-picture unit, from among the second sub-picture units of the additional first sub-picture unit. The method further including decoding the picture, the decoding including obtaining index values of the first ordered second sub-picture unit and the last ordered second sub-picture unit of the additional first sub-picture unit, without the coded video stream explicitly signaling any of the index values and a difference value between the index values of the first ordered second sub-picture unit and the last ordered second sub-picture unit to the at least one processor.
US11800090B2
A method of video processing includes making a first determination about whether a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) tool is enabled for a conversion between a current block of a current picture of a video and a coded representation of the video; making a second determination, based on the first determination, about whether or how to clip a motion vector according to a bounding block for reference sample padding in a reference picture used for determining a prediction block for the current block according to a rule, and performing the conversion based on the first determination and the second determination. By using the DMVR tool, an encoded motion vector from the coded representation is refined prior to using for determining the prediction block.
US11800088B2
In some embodiments, a method performs a first calculation to select an anchor point based on a first reference block in a first reference frame and a second reference block in a second reference frame. The first reference frame is selected as the anchor point. A third reference block in the second reference frame is selected based on the first reference frame being selected as the anchor point. The method performs a second calculation to select the anchor point based on the first reference block in the first reference frame and the third reference block in the second reference frame and determines whether to use the first reference block and the third reference block as a prediction for a current block based on the second calculation.
US11800084B2
Disclosed are a method and an input device for inputting information such as user commands to a computer a person wearing a virtual retinal display device that allows the person to concurrently see the real world.
US11800082B2
A virtual 3D display for a motor vehicle includes a substrate and a flexible display positioned on the substrate. The flexible display has two foldable sections and a main section. The main section provides a shared viewing area and each of the foldable sections provides a first and a second independent viewing area.
US11800081B2
A camera module including a lighting unit configured to output an incident light signal to be emitted to an object, a lens unit configured to concentrate a reflected light signal reflected from the object, an image sensor unit configured to generate electric signals from the reflected light signal concentrated by the lens unit, a tilting unit configured to shift an optical path of at least one of the incident light signal and the reflected light signal for each image frame in units of subpixels of the image sensor unit, and an image control unit configured to extract depth information of the object using a phase difference between the incident light signal and the reflected light signal. The image control unit includes an image controller configured to extract the depth information having a higher resolution than a plurality of subframes generated using the electric signals on the basis of the subframes.
US11800076B2
Methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for haze reduction are provided. The disclosed technology can include generating feature vectors based on an input image including points. The feature vectors can correspond to feature windows associated with features of different portions of the points. Based on the feature vectors and a machine-learned model, a haze thickness map can be generated. The haze thickness map can be associated with an estimate of haze thickness at each of the points. Further, the machine-learned model can estimate haze thickness associated with the features. A refined haze thickness map can be generated based on the haze thickness map and a guided filter. A dehazed image can be generated based on application of the refined haze thickness map to the input image. Furthermore, a color corrected dehazed image can be generated based on performance of color correction operations on the dehazed image.
US11800075B2
An asymmetric image transmission method and an electronic device thereof are provided. The asymmetric image transmission method is applicable to transmission of an image signal from a transmitter to a receiver and includes: modifying, by the transmitter, a first image pixel length in the image signal that conforms to a four-byte mode to a second image pixel length of a three-byte mode; transmitting a plurality of image pixels of the second image pixel length in the three-byte mode respectively through three transmission lanes of a transmission interface; and modifying, by the receiver, the second image pixel length of the image pixels to the first image pixel length of the four-byte mode to obtain the image signal.
US11800070B2
A control method for a projector includes coupling a projector to another projector, transmitting first instruction information representing a start of setting of stack projection using the projector and the other projector to the other projector by the projector, setting a first projection range indicating a range in which the projector projects an image for the stack projection, and transmitting second instruction information representing adjustment to make a second projection range indicating a range in which the other projector projects an image coincide with the first projection range to the other projector by the projector.
US11800060B1
Providing a video conference for multiple participants includes choosing between at least one physical conference space and at least one virtual conference space, a first one of the participants inviting a second one of the participants to the video conference, the second one of the participants joining the video conference, and conducting the video conference by showing the participants in a same conference space in real time. The conference space may be a physical location of one of the participants or may be a virtual conference space. The participants may switch between the at least one physical conference space and the at least one virtual conference space during the video conference. The first one of the participants may invite the second one of the participants by sending a link. At least one of the participants may see the first participant and the second participant interacting in the conference space.
US11800059B2
An electronic device is described. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes instructions for: while presenting an extended reality environment, receiving, by the first electronic device, a request to present a virtual representation of a remote participant of a communication session, where the first electronic device is connected to the communication session; obtaining a capability of the remote participant of the communication session; and in response to receiving the request to present the virtual representation of the remote participant of the communication session, presenting the virtual representation of the remote participant of the communication session based on the obtained capability of the remote participant of the communication session.
US11800053B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of information display, and specifically to a method, device, computer readable storage medium, and electronic device for video frame interpolation. The method comprises: obtaining, based on two input frames, two initial optical flow maps corresponding to the two input frames; optimizing the initial optical flow maps to obtain target optical flow maps; obtaining an interpolation frame kernel, two depth maps and two context feature maps based on the two input frames; obtaining an output frame using a frame synthesis method based on the target optical flow maps, the depth maps, the context feature maps, and the interpolation frame kernel.
US11800048B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein generally relate to methods and video system components that have integrated background differentiation capabilities that allow for background replacement and/or background modification. In some embodiments, undesired portions of video data generated in a video environment are separated from desired portions of the video data by taking advantage of the illumination and decay of the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, provided from an illuminator, over a distance. Due to the decay of intensity with distance, the electromagnetic radiation reflected from the undesired background has a lower intensity when received by the sensor than the electromagnetic radiation reflected from the desired foreground. The difference in the detected intensity at the one or more wavelengths can then be used to separate and/or modify the undesired background from the desired foreground for use in a video feed.
US11800047B2
One image to serve as a main image is selected among a plurality of images and a continuous period length for which a selected image is continued as the main image is set in accordance with an image classification to which the selected image corresponds among a plurality of image classifications.
US11800042B2
A video processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium, which relates to the field of video recognition and understanding and deep learning, are disclosed. The method may include: during video play, for to-be-processed audio data, which has not been played, determined according to a predetermined policy, performing the following processing: extracting a word/phrase meeting a predetermined requirement from text content corresponding to the audio data, as a tag of the audio data; determining a special effect animation corresponding to the audio data according to the tag; and superimposing the special effect animation on a corresponding video picture for display when the audio data begins to be played.
US11800041B2
The disclosure relates to an image processing method. The method may include: obtaining an image frame obtained through photographing and performing background separation on the image frame to obtain a subject frame and a background frame; obtaining a plurality of target background frames based on the background frame, in which the plurality of target background frames contain the same background content, and sizes of the background content in the plurality of target background frames are inconsistent; and synthesizing a target subject frame and the plurality of target background frames respectively to obtain a plurality of target image frames, and encoding the plurality of obtained target image frames into a video file, in which the target subject frame is one frame of an image in the subject frame.
US11800034B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program executable by an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with a device including a first element and a second element, the second element being configured to receive power from a power source, and the first element being configured to receive the power from the power source via the second element. The program includes instructions that when executed by a processor of the information processing apparatus cause the information processing apparatus to control the second element such that the second element is maintained in a power state in which the second element supplies the power to the first element.
US11800021B2
Three dimension (3D) model generation systems and methods are operable to generate 3D model data corresponding to images of a physical object of interest that are viewed in a presenting media content event. An exemplary embodiment receives a user request that is associated with an interest by the user to obtain a 3D model of a physical object of interest that is being shown in a scene of a currently presenting media content event. A plurality of video image frames are selected from the scene. Then, 3D model data of the physical object of interest is generated based on at least the selected video image frames of the scene.
US11800020B2
There are provided an image processing device and an image processing method capable of efficiently specifying an abnormal sound in case of the occurrence of malfunction that is an important element to clarify the cause of the malfunction. The image processing device includes acquisition means, playing means, changing means, and determination means. The acquisition means acquires a plurality of kinds of sound data indicating sounds different from each other. The playing means plays one kind of sound data from the sound data. The changing means changes the one sound data to another kind of sound data. The determination means determines one kind of sound data from the sound data.
US11800016B2
An adaptive cloud conversation platform capable of making automated decisions regarding when and how to establish ongoing communications with consumers so as to maximize the relationship between the consumer and a given brand. The system has a connection management services layer which determines what communications should be established and how they should be established, an initiation management services layer which determines when communications should be established, and a user management services layer which stores information about consumers and brands for determination of when and how communications should be established. Certain of these services have machine learning algorithms incorporated into them trained to perform analyses of the particular type of operation handled by that service. The outputs of each service can be used as inputs to other services, such that a network of machine learnings algorithms is created which determines when and how to establish ongoing communications with consumers.
US11800014B2
A computer-implemented method for analyzing call interactions in an interactions database by a Proactive Fraud Exposure (PFE) engine is provided herein. The computer-implemented method may generate a voiceprint for each call interaction; (ii) use a machine learning technique to group the call interactions into one or more clusters based on respective voiceprints in the voiceprints database; (iii) store the one or more clusters; and (iv) rank and classifying the one or more clusters to yield a list of potential fraudsters. The computer-implemented method may further transmit the list of potential fraudsters to a user to enable the user to review said list of potential fraudsters and to add fraudsters from the list to a watchlist database.
US11800006B2
The present disclosure provides details of a system and method for detecting and monitoring a contraband device including communication devices by utilizing a combination of mobile devices, fixed monitoring devices, and a contraband monitoring center. The mobile devices include smart phones or tablets that are borrowed, rented, or purchased by an inmate from a correctional facility. These mobile devices are configured to detect, monitor, and intervene in the communications of target devices. Further, the mobile devices are configured to communicate with fixed monitoring devices located throughout the correctional facility in performing intervention operations. The contraband monitoring center may also be utilized in the coordination, monitoring, and intervention of target devices.
US11800005B2
A cell phone topper for attachment to a cell phone or smart phone can capture the attention of subjects in public settings and social settings, for photography and for other purposes such as marketing and advertising. It is intended to hold the attention of the subject long enough to get a good picture, that is, long enough for the photographer to perform one or more of the following: frame the subject, adjust the focus, adjust lighting, adjust magnification, and select flash settings. The cell phone topper which includes an attachment having a support portion and a lighted sign having indicia, A further embodiment includes an attachment having a support portion and an animated moving portion.
US11799991B2
Provided is a relay device including: a relay unit configured to perform a relay process for a frame transmitted and received between a plurality of function units; and a relay management unit. The relay unit receives, from a function unit, a target frame which is transmitted and received according to a predetermined communication protocol and includes information with which a request source of a service is identifiable and information with which a content of the requested service is identifiable, and the relay unit outputs the received target frame to the relay management unit. The relay management unit performs determination regarding setting change in the relay process of the relay unit, on the basis of the information included in the target frame received from the relay unit, and outputs the target frame to the relay unit or discards the target frame, according to a result of the determination.
US11799989B2
Embodiments of the apparatus for modifying packet headers relate to a use of bit vectors to allow expansion and collapse of protocol headers within packets for enabling flexible modification. A rewrite engine expands each protocol header into a generic format and applies various commands to modify the generalized protocol header. The rewrite engine maintains a bit vector for the generalized protocol header with each bit in the bit vector representing a byte of the generalized protocol header. A bit marked as 0 in the bit vector corresponds to an invalid byte, while a bit marked as 1 in the bit vector corresponds to a valid byte. The rewrite engine uses the bit vector to remove all the invalid bytes after all commands have been operated on the generalized protocol header to thereby form a new protocol header.
US11799984B2
According to one general aspect, a method of executing a web application installed on an apparatus may include executing, via a processor included by the apparatus, a web browser. The method may include loading, via the web browser, the web application. In some embodiments, the web application may include a manifest and at least a portion of a web site and wherein the web application was packaged as an installable entity. The method may further include managing, by the web browser, the execution of the web application. The method may include accessing, via the web browser, from a local storage medium one or more portions of the web site included by the web application. In some embodiments, the one or more portions of the web site may have been stored in the local storage medium when the web application was installed.
US11799981B2
Information is collected about a user, e.g., the user's interests, from the user's interaction with digital messaging content. Information collected about the user can be used to identify an interest of the user. The identified interest(s) can be used to select content to be presented to the user. By way of a non-limiting example, information collected in response to the user clicking on a link in an electronic mail, email, message can be used to identify one or more content items to be presented to the user. By way of yet another non-limiting example, the identified content item(s) can comprise advertising content, news articles, etc.
US11799977B2
Systems and methods are described herein for detecting information that indicates that a user will be traveling from a first geographic location to a second geographic location, and responsively accessing a playlist indicated by a profile of the user that indicates a plurality of streaming media that the user intends to consume. Control circuitry may then compare data corresponding to each streaming media of the plurality of streaming media to a database to determine whether each streaming media of the plurality of streaming media is accessible to the user at the second geographic location, and may determine that a subset of the plurality of media is not accessible to the user at the second geographic location. In response to determining that the subset is not accessible to the user at the second geographic location, the control circuitry may download each media of the subset.
US11799976B2
A needs-matching navigator system and social network facilitator appurtenances including, for a large user plurality, software driven modules residing on electronic communications enabled platforms and devices. Beyond altruistically enhancing flourishing life horizons and life quality metrics, the modules facilitate (A) knowing respective user bias, profile, perspective, wellbeing orientation, and privacy preference; (B) understanding user needs description and wellbeing criteria; (C) finding answer and solutions to the needs by user biased projecting the description onto electronically stored knowledge-bases; (D) matching the user to the answers and solutions; and preferably (E) creating an instant electronic communications interactive community for the respective user, by inverse projecting large subsets of the answers and solutions back onto the large plurality of users; according to said users' profiles and needs descriptions. This navigable community may be classified into spontaneous castes; having various degrees of relevant understanding, expertise, experience, and/or curiosity about these answer and/or solution projections.
US11799972B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for offloading session management processing into a forwarding plane. In some examples, a subscriber is coupled to a network endpoint through a session manager during a network session of the subscriber in a network environment. A session manager offloading system of the session manager can be maintained in a vector packet processing system in a forwarding plane of the network environment. The session manager offloading system can be configured to offload processing from the session manager into the forwarding plane. Further, at least a portion of subscriber traffic in a stream between the subscriber and the network endpoint through the session manager can be intercepted. Subsequently, the at least the portion of the subscribed traffic that is intercepted can be processed at the session manager offloading system as part of offloading the processing from the session manager into the forwarding plane.
US11799963B1
A method for managing a data protection module includes: obtaining client metadata of a client environment data protection module (CEDPM); analyzing the client metadata to extract relevant data; inferring at least a period of time a first user of the CEDPM spent to initiate performing a task, a number of steps taken by the first user to initiate performing the task, and a number of attempts made by the first user to initiate performing the task; obtaining at least an ease of use score, an automation efficiency score, and a success score for a product feature; obtaining a maturity rating for the product feature based on the scores; determining that the maturity rating for the product feature is less than a predetermined maturity rating; and sending a recommendation to a second user of a vendor environment (VE) data protection module to manage the maturity rating for the product feature.
US11799958B2
The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for a content management system that can be highly flexible to the needs of its subjects. The present technology permits any object to be shared by providing a robust and flexible access control list mechanism. The present technology utilizes a data structure that is highly efficient that both minimizes the amount of information that needs to be written into any database, but also allows for fast reads and writes of information from authoritative tables that are a source of truth for the content management system, while allowing for maintenance of indexes containing more refined data that allow for efficient retrieval of certain information that would normally need to be calculated when it is needed.
US11799951B1
The techniques disclosed herein prevent data spillage in multi-tenant services via request and response containerization with provenance checks. When a web request is received on behalf of a tenant, a request container is created and initialized with identifying information extracted from the request. Derived identifiers that can be verified as being associated with the tenant may be added to the request container. A response container for accumulating data obtained while processing the request is then created. The request and response containers are passed throughout the call path that processes the request. Identifying information passed to data access operations is obtained from the request container, while results of data access operations are stored in the response container. Before generating a web response using data from the response container, the response container is verified to contain data associated with the appropriate request.
US11799942B2
A terminal device including: a controller; and a communicator that performs Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication with a communication destination, wherein the controller starts processes for respectively establishing a first connection for using HTTP/3 and a second connection for using HTTP/2, and proceeds with communication using the HTTP/3 through the communicator if the first connection is successfully established.
US11799941B2
A system and method for handling connection pool sizing with heterogeneous concurrency. The method includes executing, by a processing device of a client device, a connection pool to manage persistent connections for the client device. The method includes executing, by the processing device, an application to cause the application to send a request to the connection pool for a first persistent connection of a first connection type to the remote server. The method includes determining an available capacity of the connection pool to provide, to the application, the first persistent connection of the first connection type to the remote server. The method includes establishing, by the connection pool, the first persistent connection of the first connection type to the remote server. The method includes granting, by the connection pool to the application, access to the first persistent connection of the first connection type to the remote server.
US11799933B1
System and methods for pre-fetching data are provided. In one embodiment, an electronic device includes communications circuitry communicatively coupled to a data provider system over a network to obtain streaming data for completion of tasks. The electronic device also includes pre-fetch circuitry that identifies a dead zone in the network; calculates a pre-fetch data size amount based at least in part upon a size of the dead zone; and requests the pre-fetch data size amount of the data, to mitigate lost streaming ability in the dead zone.
US11799931B2
A server system receives an indication of a media content item from a device and determines a first set of values that correspond to characteristics of the indicated media content item. The method further includes analyzing a defined set of media content items to identify a proxy content item. The identified proxy media content item has a second set of values that meets similarity criteria for the first set of values. The method includes generating, from the defined set of media content items, a result set of media content items that are associated with the proxy media content item. The method also includes determining a result set of users of the media content provider associated with the result set of media content items and transmitting, to the device of the user, information associated with the result set of users of the media content provider.
US11799924B2
In some embodiments, a method for generating customized products in collaboration with live designers is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving, at a computer collaboration computer, a request, from a first user interface that executes on a first user device associated with a first user, for assistance in collaborating on an interactive design; wherein the request comprises collaboration parameters; in response to receiving the request, automatically determining one or more designer profiles, each designer profile satisfying one or more of the collaboration parameters; in response to selecting a particular designer profile from the one or more designer profiles: automatically enabling a collaboration on the interactive design between the first user and a second user who has the particular designer profile; wherein the collaboration between the first user and the second user comprises automatically generating and updating product description data having a plurality of key-values pairs associated with the interactive design.
US11799922B2
An anchoring network device of a telecommunications network can receive a first initiation request of a communication session and determine a second request indicating a different media capability than the first request. A network gateway can modify packets of the session, e.g., by transcoding between the capabilities. In some examples, the anchoring device can determine that a codec list of the initiation request corresponds to a rewrite rule. The device can apply the rewrite rule to the request to provide a second request listing a second, different codec. In some examples, the anchoring device can determine if there is a common media capability between the first initiation request and a predetermined exclusion list. If not, the second request can include at least one capability not in the first request, e.g., an Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) Channel-Aware-mode (ChAw) codec.
US11799917B2
A system, a method, and a computer program remediate a risk of a computing resource located in a computer network that has a plurality of other computing resource assets each having an associated risk. Data associated with a first computing resource is received, and a first risk framework is selected from among a plurality of risk frameworks. A risk score is calculated based on the received data and the selected first risk framework, and a first risk rating is determined based on the risk score. The first risk rating is compared against a zone risk rating to determine whether the first risk rating is greater than the zone risk rating, and the first risk rating is replaced by the zone risk rating when the zone risk rating is greater than the first risk rating. The cybersecurity risk of the first computing resource is remediated according to the first risk rating.
US11799916B2
A method of operating a user equipment, UE, includes establishing a radio resource control, RRC, connection with a base station, following establishment of the RRC connection, sending an indication of a security capability of the UE to the base station, receiving a non-access stratum, NAS, message, from the base station, wherein the NAS message identifies a selected security algorithm, and generating the access stratum security key to be used with the selected security algorithm.
US11799915B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for endpoint-based security. An apparatus includes a network module that is configured to receive, at an end user device, a request for content from a network source. An apparatus includes a policy module that is configured to compare a network source of requested content against a policy that is stored on an end user device prior to the content being allowed on the end user device. An apparatus includes an action module that is configured to segment network traffic associated with a request for content from a network source, based on a comparison of the network source against a policy, between at least one of directly accessing the content from the network source and indirectly accessing the content via a remote cloud device by rerouting the network traffic from an end user device to the remote cloud device.
US11799913B2
An example method comprises receiving, by a secure content system, an email from a sender to a recipient, scanning the contents of the email, evaluating the contents of the email based on a plurality of security rules, storing the sensitive data within a secure storage, generating a replacement email including a security link and not including at least the sensitive data, the security link providing a requester access to the sensitive data providing that a security function is satisfied, sending the replacement email including the security link to the recipient, receiving a request to access the sensitive data, the request being related to the security function challenging the requester using the security function, receiving, from the requester, a response to the security function, determining if the security function is satisfied by the response, and if the security function is satisfied, providing access to the sensitive data to the requester.
US11799906B2
The present disclose describes systems and methods for creating a simulated phishing campaign for a user based on at least a history of the user with respect to simulated phishing campaigns. A database may be configured to store simulated phishing campaign history of a user, the simulated phishing campaign history comprising information on events associated with the user during one or more previous simulated phishing campaigns, A campaign controller may identify the simulated phishing campaign history of the user from the database, determine based at least on the simulated phishing campaign history of the user, a model from a plurality of models for creating a simulated phishing campaign directed to the user; and create, responsive to the determination, the simulated phishing campaign using the model.
US11799896B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a vulnerability management module are provided. A receiver receives a request for dynamically scanning vulnerability of a target computing device based on testable vulnerability criteria extracted from a database. A processor dynamically executes the testable vulnerability criteria from the SCCM based on the received request; creates a static SCCM advertisement with a dynamic pre/post validation check capability based on a result of the dynamically executing the testable vulnerability criteria; reports a success or a failure of the static SCCM advertisement related to the testable vulnerability criteria to indicate whether a vulnerability exists within the target computing device; and automatically remediates the vulnerability when it is determined that the vulnerability exists within the target computing device.
US11799893B2
Computer system security is often implemented using rules-based systems (e.g., allow traffic to this network port, deny it for those network ports; user A is allowed access to these files, but not those files). In enterprises, multiple such systems may be deployed, but fail to be able to intelligently handle anomalies that may technically be permissible but in reality represents a high possibility that there is an underlying threat or problem. The present disclosure describes the ability to build adaptive models using machine learning techniques that integrate data from multiple different domains (e.g. user identity domain, system device domain) and allow for automated decision making and mitigation actions that can provide greater effectiveness than previous systems allowed.
US11799892B2
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and database activity monitor devices that deploy a monitoring proxy into a virtual private cloud (VPC) network hosted by a first public cloud network following detection in the VPC network of a new database associated with an entity. The monitoring proxy is configured to obtain and report the activity data based on a first database type of the cloud database. A determination is made when at least one security check defined in at least one security policy is violated based on an analysis of the activity data. An alert is automatically output via a communication network, when the determination indicates the security check is violated. One or more interactive dashboards are generated and output based on the activity data. The interactive dashboards comprise a historical database activity report for the entity.
US11799891B2
A computer-implemented method of detecting abnormal events in a telecommunication system can include a training phase and a production phase. The training phase can include recording data events in a log file during the execution of the system and creating a standard for the data events representing a properly working environment of the telecommunication system by applying a training procedure. The production phase can include receiving at least one new data event and determining whether the at least one new data event is a normal event that matches the standard or not. If the at least one new data event matches the standard, it can be used for updating the standard. If the at least one new data event does not match the standard, it can be classified and reported as at least one an abnormal event.
US11799888B2
A network topology analysis and validation system and technique are provided. In some implementations, the system may obtain information in real-time mode or as an off-line data set. The information being representative of a defined network topology type for a computer network and communication connections for devices within the computer network. The computer network analysis may be performed on a subnet of a larger network. A communication topology of the computer network may be compared with the expected (defined) network topology using bipartite and bi-colorization techniques to classify nodes of the computer network. After classification, anomalous communication connections (not in conformance with a standard for the defined network topology) may be identified and colored for presentation to a system administrator. Anomalous communication connections may initiate an alert, event, or alarm, via a system administration monitoring system for real-time notification.
US11799870B2
A system for managing multiple-domain access credentials of a user enabled to access a plurality of domains. The system includes a credential management server wherein access credentials of the user are separately present for each of the domains, each of the access credentials including the access level of the user for each of the domains, a service device for interfacing the credential management server and at least a network server in turn including applications and resources related to at least a domain. The service device is configured to send to the credential management server an access request to a specific domain, and the credential management server is configured to send to the service device the access credentials of the user for all the domains; consequently the service device is configured to send to the network server an access request to the specific domain, and the network server is configured to allow the user access such applications and resources of the specific domain based on the access level of the user.
US11799864B2
A method is performed to regulate access to electronic content based on content usage telemetry data. A first computer receives, from a second computer system, a request for access to electronic content. The first computer system determines, based on an access profile associated with the second computer system, that the second computer system is authorized to access the electronic content. A first authorization message indicating that the second computer system is authorized to access the electronic content is transmitted from the first computer system to the second computer system. The first computer system receives, from the second computer system, content usage telemetry data including data items indicating metrics of use of the electronic content by the second computer system. The first computer system modifies the access profile of the second computer system based on the content usage telemetry data.
US11799857B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for evaluating software posture as a condition of zero trust access. The present technology provides a client-side validation agent and a validation service which in tandem can capture and evaluate data representative of parameters associated with an application executing on a user device. The validation service can validate the application to a networked service, and in turn the networked service can permit communication to the application running on the user device.
US11799856B2
This disclosure describes techniques for identifying an application (e.g., accessing application) that is attempting to access a resource. In some examples, access may be managed by an authentication service. When an access request is received at the authentication service from an application on a client device, the authentication service may ask the application to communicate with an identification agent on the client device. The identification agent may perform one or more tests to discover the identity of the application. In some cases, the identification agent may send the identity of the application to the authentication service. The authentication service may then allow or deny access by the accessing application to the resource based at least in part on the discovered identity.
US11799852B2
A wireless earpiece system, method, and one or more wireless earpieces for communications between one or more wireless earpieces and a wireless dongle. The one or more wireless earpieces are associated with the wireless dongle. Biometric readings of a user are performed using the wireless earpieces. Content is communicated between the one or more wireless earpieces and the wireless dongle in response to determining the user is authorized to communicate with the wireless dongle based on the biometric readings. The wireless dongle is physically connected to a report of a system.
US11799849B2
A platform for delivering secure web applications to a client browser. A software plug-in is provided configured for integration into a web browser. The plug-in includes: a request hook that intercepts web browser requests associated with a secure web application; a request processing system that redirects an request to access the secure web application to a network service, and then redirects subsequent HTTP requests to interact with the secure web application to the network service; and a package manager that receives a text-based data package from a customer domain server in response to the initial request and renders the secure web application in the web browser, and receives an updated text-based data package from the customer domain server in response to the subsequent HTTP request and renders updates to secure web application in the web browser.
US11799845B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are presented for an aggregation platform portal. A hardware computing device is configured to aggregate a user's data from a first plurality of third-party service providers over a data network for the user to access through a second plurality of third-party service providers. A portal module is configured to monitor electronic credentials of a user used by a hardware computing device to download the user's data and to detect similar electronic credentials for the same third-party service provider from a first plurality being used for multiple third-party service providers from a second plurality. A graphical user interface is configured to display a listing of multiple third-party service providers with user interface elements allowing a user to revoke authorization of aggregation of data from one or more third-party service providers and/or to update electronic credentials for one or more of multiple third-party service providers.
US11799833B2
A request for an optimal virtual private network (VPN) server for a user device is received. The optimal VPN server is selected from a set of VPN servers. For each of the VPN servers, respective numerical weights are calculated based on respective conditions. A respective penalty score is calculated for each of the VPN servers based on the respective numerical weights. The optimal VPN server for the user device is identified based on the respective penalty scores. An internet protocol (IP) address of the optimal VPN server is transmitted to the user device.
US11799831B2
A method of separating identity IPs for identification of applications from the locator IPs for identifying the route is provided. A virtual service layer (VSL) protocol stack uses the IP addresses assigned by network administrators to the application endpoints to support the TCP/IP stack as the identity IP addresses that are not published to the underlay network for routing. On the other hand, the VSL stack uses the IP addresses assigned by the underlay network to the VSL enabled endpoints and VSL enabled routers as the locator IP addresses for routing packets. The VSL stack formats application flow packets with identity headers as identity packet and encapsulates identity packet with the locator header to route the packet. The separation of the identity and locator identifications are used to eliminate the network middleboxes and provide firewall, load balancing, connectivity, SD-WAN, and WAN-optimization, as a part of the communication protocol.
US11799824B2
Some embodiments provide a method that, at a first domain name system (DNS) cluster of a set of DNS clusters, receives a DNS request from a client. The first DNS cluster identifies, based on an identifier of the client in the DNS request, a home DNS cluster of the client. The method forwards the DNS request to the home DNS cluster. The home DNS cluster supplies a DNS response to the client. Identifying the home DNS cluster, in some embodiments, includes performing a hash on the identifier of the client. Supplying the DNS response, in some embodiments, includes receiving a virtual IP (VIP) address associated with one of a plurality of sets of application servers to the client and providing the received VIP address to the client in the DNS response.
US11799823B2
Disclosed is a domain engineering analysis solution that determines relevance of a domain name to a brand name in which a domain name, brand name, and identification of a substring of the domain name may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a domain engineering analyzer. A list of features may be determined. The list of features may include a lexicon, or a set of key-value pairs that encode information about terms included as substrings in the domain name. Determining the features may include obtaining a language model for each term, analyzing a cluster of language models closest to the obtained language model, and determining and scoring a relevance of each term to the brand name. The determined relevance and score of each term may be provided to a client. This relevance analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process.
US11799820B2
A mobile-side IP address is translated into an intranet-side MAC address, and an IP address for an intranet is acquired. The present invention provides a network system for transferring a packet, including: a first network that controls transfer of data at a first layer; a second network that is connected to the first network and controls transfer of data at a second layer different from the first layer; and a translation device that translates an address between networks, in which the translation device translates the address of the first layer of the first network attached to data transferred from the first network to the second network into the address of the second layer of the second network.
US11799819B2
One or more non-transitory storage media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause performance of a method of enhancing online contents based on digital alliance data are disclosed. The method comprising receiving from a web server a webpage at a first user device associated with a first user and a first user account managed by a communication data management server; extracting a type of data of a plurality types of data from a body or metadata of the webpage; and determining that the type of data matches certain data regarding an organization. The method further comprises updating the webpage with specific data related to one or more members or contacts of an alliance network of the first user account that are associated with the organization; and causing displaying the updated webpage by the first user device.
US11799818B2
A method is performed at a backend server. The server receives a to-be-processed interaction message from a user interface of a social network platform. The server performs intention classification on the to-be-processed interaction message, to obtain an intention classification result of the to-be-processed interaction message. The server performs semantic analysis on the to-be-processed interaction message when the intention classification result comprises a mini program intention, to determine a message keyword of the to-be-processed interaction message. The server determines a program identifier of a target mini program corresponding to the to-be-processed interaction message according to the message keyword. The server transmits a message processing result based on the program identifier of the target mini program.
US11799814B1
Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for sidebar communication threads forked from, or related to, a principal thread. Messages in the sidebar communication thread may include a history of the principal thread, including one or more messages from the principal thread, and may include a proposed principal thread message that is the subject of the sidebar thread discussion. The sidebar thread may also include sidebar thread messages that carries the conversation of the sidebar thread participants. Once a termination condition is reached for the sidebar thread, the sidebar thread terminates and either the proposed principal thread message (as potentially modified by participants of the sidebar thread) becomes an accepted principal thread message and it is posted to the principal thread as if it was sent by the sidebar initiator or no message is posted (e.g., the proposed principal thread message is rejected).
US11799813B2
A communication support server includes: a message content analysis unit configured to analyze a content of a message transmitted from a first terminal device used by a first user and/or a second terminal device used by a second user; an assistance necessity determination unit configured to determine whether assistance related to input of another message is necessary for the first user or the second user in accordance with the content of the message analyzed by the message content analysis unit; and an assist message generation unit configured to generate an assist message to be transmitted only to the first terminal device or the second terminal device in accordance with the content of the message analyzed, if the assistance necessity determination unit determines that assistance is necessary.
US11799807B2
A mail processing method and apparatus, a device, a medium, a computer program product, and a computer program provided in the present disclosure, where the method includes: receiving a to-be-sent mail; obtaining, if it is identified that the to-be-sent mail includes an instant messaging group identifier, a group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier; and taking the group mail address as a recipient address and performing a sending operation on the to-be-sent mail. In the present disclosure, in a case of receiving, by a mail server, a mail sent by a mail client, if it is identified that the recipient includes an instant messaging group name, the mail is sent to a group address corresponding to the group name, which improves functional integration of email and IM software, thereby providing richer collaborative office functions.
US11799804B2
A chat bot capable of seamlessly acquiring, in response to user input in a chat session, information necessary for an appropriate chat scenario for assisting the user from an external system and dynamically generating a chat scenario. Accordingly, the chat bot control device includes an external data acquisition unit for acquiring, in a chat session between a user and a chat bot, chat scenario creation data for generating a chat scenario from a predetermined external system based on a first input from the user; a scenario generation unit for generating, based on the chat scenario creation data, a first chat scenario that specifies transitions of a dialogue between the user and the chat bot using predetermined scenario conversion logic that defines a chat scenario generation pattern; and a scenario execution unit for executing the first chat scenario in the chat session.
US11799796B1
Systems and techniques are disclosed for generating a session identifier to be used when implementing changes in a complex system that facilitates identification and retrieval of data indicating the scope and impact of the changes. An execution identifier for a set of operations and a service identifier for a service performing the operations may be used as a basis for the session identifier. The session identifier may be provided to computing resources on which operations are performed and logged by the computing resources along with the results of the operations. This activity data associated with the particular set of operations can be retrieved using the session identifier to determine the scope and impact of the operations on the system.
US11799793B2
Systems and techniques, including special messages and state machines, are described that configures an intermediate site to dynamically trigger creation of and removal of a dynamic conduit between two sites based on usage that is tracked at the sites. The intermediate site providing WAN-to-WAN forwarding between the two sites, monitors throughput statistics on each local WAN link (LWL) associated with the two sites. If traffic between the two sites passes a configured first threshold or if LWL usage passes a configured second threshold, the intermediate site sends a message to the two sites to set up a dynamic conduit directly coupling the two sites. Busy lists are used to keep track of eligible site pairs. Once a dynamic conduit is set up between two sites, a grow technique tests the dynamic conduit increasing communication flows between the two sites each configured sampling period before putting the conduit in normal use.
US11799792B2
MPDU transmission method and device for a multi-link system, MPDU reception method and device for a multi-link system, a storage medium, a transmitter and a receiver are provided. The MPDU transmission method includes: determining a frame sequence number space which includes a plurality of frame sequence numbers and is defined based on a triplet
US11799791B1
A method including determining, by a first device communicating meshnet data via a meshnet connection with a second device in a mesh network, occurrence of a downgrade triggering event indicating that the first device and the second device are to communicate the meshnet data via a relay connection; transmitting, by the first device to the second device based on determining the occurrence of the downgrade triggering event, a downgrade message; determining, by the first device communicating the meshnet data via the relay connection, occurrence of an upgrade triggering event indicating that the first device and the second device are to communicate the meshnet data via a new meshnet connection; and transmitting, by the first device to the second device based on determining the occurrence of the upgrade triggering event, an upgrade message is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11799789B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which UEs may communicate with satellites and base stations or gateways in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). Due to the large distances between transmitting devices and receiving devices in a NTN, timing adjustments to account for propagation delay communications links via a satellite may include a propagation delay between a UE and a satellite, a propagation delay between a base station and a satellite, as well as a variation in the propagation delays due to movement of the satellite. In accordance with various techniques discussed herein, a UE may account for variation in propagation delay, in addition to determined propagation delay, when determining an uplink timing for uplink communications via a satellite.
US11799782B2
Techniques are disclosed for processing data packets and implementing policies in a software defined network (SDN) of a virtual computing environment. At least two SDN appliances are configured to disaggregate enforcement of policies of the SDN from hosts of the virtual computing environment. The hosts are implemented on servers communicatively coupled to network interfaces of the SDN appliance. The servers host a plurality of virtual machines. The servers are communicatively coupled to network interfaces of at least two top-of-rack switches (ToRs). The SDN appliance comprises a plurality of smart network interface cards (sNICs) configured to implement functionality of the SDN appliance. The sNICs have a floating network interface configured to provide a virtual port connection to an endpoint within a virtual network of the virtual computing environment.
US11799778B1
A network device may receive a packet and may determine whether a next header of the packet is an Internet protocol (IP) header, an Internet control message protocol (ICMP) header, or a segment routing header. The network device may determine, when the next header of the packet is the IP header, whether policy processing of the packet is set to ultimate segment decapsulation and may discard the packet when the policy processing of the packet is not set to ultimate segment decapsulation. The network device may decapsulate an outer header of the packet when the policy processing of the packet is set to ultimate segment decapsulation and may process the packet after decapsulating the outer header of the packet, to generate a processed packet. The network device may forward the processed packet toward a destination.
US11799774B2
This disclosure discloses a method, device, and system for determining a route leak. The method includes: receiving, by a network monitoring device managing a first autonomous system, an extended BMP packet sent by a first border node of the first autonomous system and an extended BMP packet sent by a second border node of the first autonomous system. The method includes determining, based on the extended BMP packet sent by the first border node and the extended BMP packet sent by the second border node of the first autonomous system, a receiving relationship of a route prefix received by the first border node from the second autonomous system, and a sending relationship of the route prefix sent by the second border node to a third autonomous system. The method further includes determining, based on the receiving relationship and the sending relationship, whether the route prefix is leaked.
US11799769B2
A packet processing method includes a first network device receiving a first Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) packet including a first BIER header. When the first BIER packet is a packet sent to a second network device, and in response to determining that the second network device is an edge node device in a BIER communication network and does not support BIER packet forwarding, the first network device determines a target label used for a reverse path forwarding (RPF) check, updates the first BIER packet to obtain a second BIER packet, where the second BIER packet includes the target label but does not include the first BIER header, and sends the second BIER packet to the second network device.
US11799763B2
A server detects a failure of an outbound path based on at least a measure of forward progress made on a connection between the server and an end point. In response to the failure, the server generates a hash value based at least on an identifying value of the connection and a failure counter associated with the measure of forward progress made on the connection. The server then selects a next outbound path for the packet flow based on at least the hash value generated in response to the failure. The server also sends the packet flow over the next outbound path to the end point.
US11799755B2
Systems and methods are provided for management of network segments that cross geographic regions and/or other types of network divisions in a cloud-based network environment. Gateway may manage traffic across regions using routing metadata that includes a segment identifier. The gateways may also signal their routes across regions based on segment data, and implement the signaled routes using segment-based routing policies. Route selection may be performed using optimization data.
US11799749B1
A disclosed method may include (1) receiving, at a node within a network, an MPLS echo request from an additional node adjacent to the node, (2) determining that a FEC query is included in a FEC stack of the MPLS echo request and then, in response to determining that the FEC query is included in the FEC stack of the MPLS echo request, (3) determining at least one FEC that corresponds to a label included in a label stack of the MPLS echo request, and then (4) notifying the additional node of the FEC that corresponds to the label included in the label stack by sending, to the additional node, an MPLS echo reply that identifies the FEC that corresponds to the label. Various other systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11799747B2
A method for link bandwidth management in a computer network, the method including: monitoring link traffic flow for a predetermined amount of time; measuring throughput of the link traffic flow; estimating the bandwidth based on the throughput; and calibrating at least one shaper based on the estimated bandwidth. a system for link bandwidth management in a computer network, the system including: a learning module configured to monitor link traffic flow for a predetermined amount of time; an analysis module configured to measuring throughput of the link traffic flow and estimate the bandwidth based on the throughput; and a calibration module configured to calibrate at least one shaper based on the estimated bandwidth.
US11799745B2
Method and system for capturing summaries of data flows in an electronic, packet-switched communication network, the method comprising: receiving, from a node of the communication network, packet flow data; obtaining a subset of the packet flow parameters (IP src, IP dst, port src, port dst, protocol), based on the packet flow data; obtaining a packet flow statistic, based on the packet flow data; updating a collection of stored packet flow summaries, based on a subset of the packet flow parameters and the packet flow statistic. The stored packet flow summaries are arranged as nodes in a tree data structure.
US11799739B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing a VM vector representative of resources that are to be consumed by the VM within the cloud computing environment, comparing the VM vector to each physical node vector in a set of physical node vectors to determine a distance, each physical node vector representative of resources available by a respective physical node, and selecting a physical node from a set of physical nodes based on a respective distance between the VM vector and a physical node vector representative of the physical node, and in response, automatically: deploying the VM to the physical node within the cloud computing environment at least partially by installing the VM on the physical node for execution thereon.
US11799735B2
An information aggregation method includes receiving an aggregation resource creation request, determining an identifier of an aggregated resource and an aggregation manner according to the aggregation resource creation request, creating an aggregation resource according to the determined identifier of the aggregated resource and the determined aggregation manner, where an attribute of the aggregation resource includes the identifier of the aggregated resource and the aggregation manner, and performing information aggregation according to the created aggregation resource.
US11799734B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for determining future user actions using time-based featurization of clickstream data. A server captures clickstream data corresponding to web browsing sessions and converts the clickstream data into tokens by identifying each unique URL and parsing each unique URL into tokens. The server generates a frequency matrix based upon the tokens, and generates a latent feature vector for each URL in the session based upon the frequency matrix. The server merges the latent feature vectors and the clickstream data into an aggregate clickstream vector set for a user. The server assigns time-decayed weight values to each latent feature vector in the aggregate clickstream vector set. The server combines the time-decayed latent feature vectors to generate a clickstream embedding for the user, and executes a machine learning model using the clickstream embedding to generate one or more predicted actions of the user.
US11799731B2
Described are examples for providing management of a virtual wide area network (vWAN) based on operator policies. A network orchestrator presents, to a network operator, a representation of the vWAN including virtual network entities associated with respective geographic locations and virtual connections between the virtual network entities. The network orchestrator receives a policy for the virtual wide area network from the network operator via the representation, the policy to be implemented at one or more of the virtual connections. The network orchestrator translates the policy for the virtual wide area network into a configuration of an underlying wide area network (WAN). The underlying WAN a plurality of geographically distributed physical computing resources in geographic regions corresponding to the virtual network entities and connections there between.
US11799730B1
A network device determines when multiple users each connect to a network using one or more devices. The network device obtains device or network-related parameters associated with the one or more devices and generates profiling vectors for each of the multiple users, that connects to the network using the one or more devices, to produce multiple profiling vectors. The network device clusters the multiple profiling vectors to identify cluster centers associated with a plurality of user groups, and determines first users of the multiple users for, or with, whom to perform certain actions or activities based on the first users' with one or more of the plurality of user groups. The network device performs the certain actions or activities with respect to the determined first users.
US11799726B2
Some embodiments provide a method for distributing a service rule that is to be enforced across a first set of sites and that is defined by reference to a group identifier that identifies a group of machines. The method distributes the service rule to each site in the first set of sites. The method identifies at least one site in the first set of sites that is not in a second set of sites that has already received a definition of the group. The method distributes the group definition to each identified site in the first set of sites that has not already received the definition of the group.
US11799725B2
Various example embodiments for supporting intent-based networking within a communication network are presented herein. Various example embodiments for supporting intent-based networking within a communication network may be configured to support a management system configured to support various network deployment scenarios, including greenfield deployment scenarios for enabling customers to deploy and activate new networks, brownfield deployment scenarios for enabling customers to apply intent-based networking to existing networks based on intelligent reconstruction of the original intent(s) of the network and configuration of the network to ensure satisfaction of the original intent(s) of the network, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof.
US11799724B2
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for generating a virtual Internet-of-things device on the basis of an Internet-of-things model. The method may include: obtaining a first number of Internet-of-things models for an Internet-of-things solution; subjecting a variable in the first number of Internet-of-things models to variable attribute expansion to add an extended variable attribute to the variable, wherein the variable subjected to variable attribute expansion is capable of data simulation; configuring variable link relations and variable link processing rules for the extended Internet-of-things models to obtain an Internet-of-things model configuration file; and obtaining a second number of virtual Internet-of-things devices on the basis of a virtual physical network device architecture by using the Internet-of-things model configuration file. The variable link relations include variable link relations between variables in the same Internet-of-things model and/or variable link relations between variables in different Internet-of-things models.
US11799717B1
Secure workspace servicing can be coordinated. A host agent on a user computing device can include a servicing manager plugin that is configured to interface with a workspace agent running in one or more secure workspaces deployed on the user computing device. The workspace agent can periodically report a status of the respective secure workspace to the servicing manager plugin. The servicing manager plugin can use the reported status to categorize each secure workspace in a critical workspace cluster or a non-critical workspace cluster. When the host agent received a servicing policy, the servicing manager plugin can coordinate the servicing of the secure workspaces using the critical and non-critical workspace clusters.
US11799714B2
In some examples, a system includes a plurality of electronic devices each comprising a respective management processor and a baseboard management controller (BMC). A management processor of a cluster of management processors is a primary management processor to act as a management controller for the plurality of electronic devices. The management controller interacts with the BMC in a respective electronic device to perform management of the respective electronic device. The cluster of management processors performs failover responsive to a fault of the primary management processor to select another management processor of the cluster of the management processors as the management controller.
US11799711B2
Lightweight, dynamic mechanisms are provided to support service layer interworking and resource extensibility. For example, one mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a new service layer (SL) resource definition registration procedure that allows for specifying custom attributes of service layer resources to represent third party technology resources. A second mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a new SL data model mapping registration procedure to map service layer resources to third party data models and to provide a new interworked retargeting indicator to the service layer. Further, a third mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a SL generic interworking procedure to intelligently retarget requests toward interworked resources based on the interworked retargeting indicator provided by the data model mapping.
US11799709B2
Systems and methods are described herein for inserting supplemental content into a QAM signal. A unicast QAM signal between a server and a client device for delivery of content is established. The QAM signal has a particular frequency corresponding to the channel on which it will be transmitted to the client device. A request or other signal may be received from the client device requesting that supplemental content be inserted into the QAM signal. A portion of the bandwidth of the QAM signal is allocated for the supplemental content. The supplemental content is transcoded into a supplemental QAM signal in the particular frequency. The supplemental content may be packetized content such as internet protocol-based content and may be retrieved from a server or database. The supplemental QAM signal is then inserted into the unicast QAM signal using the allocated portion of the bandwidth.
US11799704B2
Communication systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention utilize modulation on zeros. Carrier frequency offsets (CFO) can result in an unknown rotation of all zeros of a received signal's z-transform. Therefore, a binary MOCZ scheme (BMOCZ) can be utilized in which the modulated binary data is encoded using a cycling register code (e.g. CPC or ACPC), enabling receivers to determine cyclic shifts in the BMOCZ symbol resulting from a CFO. Receivers in accordance with several embodiments of the invention include decoders capable of decoding information bits from received discrete-time baseband signals by: estimating a timing offset for the received signal; determining a plurality of zeros of a z-transform of the received symbol; identifying zeros from the plurality of zeros that encode received bits by correcting fractional rotations resulting from the CFO; and decoding information bits based upon the received bits using a cycling register code.
US11799699B2
The present disclosure is related to an optical encoder which is configured to provide precise coding reference data by feature recognition technology. To apply the present disclosure, it is not necessary to provide particular dense patterns on a working surface. The precise coding reference data can be generated by detecting surface features of the working surface.
US11799694B2
A wireless device or network node determines an evaluation period that is common to at least a portion of reference signal resources in a set of reference signal resources that are transmitted by the network node, with at least one of the reference signal resources in the set being of a different type or configuration than another of the reference signal resources in the set.
US11799693B2
A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. An electronic device for a user equipment in a wireless communication system, including a processing circuit configured to receive, from a base station, channel state information reference signal with a set of reception filters, perform channel estimation on a downlink channel from the base station to the user equipment, select, from the set of reception filters, one or more particular reception filters corresponding to respective channel estimation results that satisfy a first predetermined condition, and signal, from the user equipment to the base station, sounding reference signal with one or more particular transmission filters, wherein the one or more particular transmission filters and one or more particular reception filters are reciprocal respectively.
US11799671B2
Digital certificates are signed by a server's private key and installed at lock controllers that restrict access to physical resources. The server's public key is distributed to lock controllers and to wireless mobile devices operated by users who are given access to primary locks which secure access to physical resources, and secondary locks, which retain the primary locks within operable vicinity to the physical resources. Additionally, tertiary locks may secure access to internal components of the primary or secondary locks. When a wireless mobile device enters the vicinity of a lock controller, the digital certificate of the lock controller is used as the basis for encrypted communications between the wireless mobile device and the lock controller. Wireless mobile devices may be used to gather evidence of integrity of the locks after use. Lock controllers may be powered by energy harvesting devices.
US11799668B2
Method of certification including receiving user data at a device of a certifying entity. The method includes generating a salt that is unique. The method includes hashing the data combined with the salt to create a generated hashed data. The method includes generating a certification record based on signing the generated hashed data using a private key of the certifying entity to create a signed certification of the data. The method includes hashing the certification record. The method includes transmitting the hashed certification record to a blockchain for storing. The method includes receiving a certification tx-ID of the hashed certification record. The method includes generating a certification data block including the certification record and the certification tx-ID. The method includes storing the certification data block to a side chain.
US11799661B1
The present disclosure relates to a carbon capture adapter that may attach to high air flow systems. A carbon capture adapter may utilize the air flow foundations of a high air flow system to allow for capture of unfiltered ambient air, allowing for carbon removal and the scrubbing of the unfiltered ambient air. The carbon capture adapter may comprise of carbon sensors that may detect carbon levels of the air before and after the carbon has been scrubbed or removed from the ambient air. The carbon capture adapter may capture and transform the carbon into secondary substances that may be useful unto itself, even further limiting waste and environmental damage. The carbon capture adapter will have all inputs, outputs, processes, and flows that meet all aspects of a closed loop system that is specifically designed for CCS.
US11799657B2
There is described a system and method for performing biometric authentication, preferably voice biometric authentication. The system has a host device such as a mobile phone and a coupled headset device. The headset device is arranged to receive audio, and to cryptographically protect the audio before transmission to the host device for verification and biometric authentication.
US11799650B2
The invention relates to a method and system for key distribution and encryption/decryption. An encryption key (Kenc) is derived in a terminal. The encryption key is applied by the terminal for encrypting at least a part of data included in an application message for an application server transmitted over a network. The terminal and the network both have access to a first key (K1). The terminal and the server both have access to a second key (K2). The encryption key is derived at the terminal using the first key and the second key. The first key or the derivative thereof is received at the server. The encryption key for decrypting the application message encrypted by the terminal is derived in the server using the shared second key and the received first key of the derivative thereof.
US11799643B2
A device participates in a cyclical collaboration system. The device receives a request from a third party. A request value is determined that is associated with the request. A first random number is determined based on the first request value. The first random number is provided to a downstream device. A second random number is received that is generated by a upstream device. A first encrypted request value is determined based on the first request value, the first random number, and the second random number. The first encrypted request value is provided to a multiple party encryption subsystem. Encrypted request values generated by other participants of the cyclical collaboration network are received from the multiple party encryption subsystem. A validation score is determined based on the first encrypted request values and the encrypted request values received from the multiple party encryption subsystem.
US11799642B2
A device generates a biometric public key for an individual based on both the individual's biometric data and a secret S, in a manner that verifiably characterizes both while tending to prevent recovery of either. The biometric data has a Sparse Representation and is encoded in a manner to include a component of noise, such that it is challenging to identify which locations are actually encoded features. Accordingly, the biometric data are encoded as a vector by choosing marker at locations where features are present and, where features are not present, choosing noisy data. The noisy data may be chaff bit values selected collectively from a group of (a) random values and (b) independent and identically distributed values. The biometric public key may be later used to authenticate a subject purporting to be the individual, using a computing facility that need not rely on a hardware root of trust.
US11799637B2
There may be provided a computer-implemented method. It may be implemented at least in part using a blockchain network such as, for example, the Bitcoin network. The computer-implemented method includes: i) encrypting a plaintext message to a cryptographic public key in accordance with an identity-based encryption scheme using at least a congress public key to generate an encrypted message, wherein the congress public key is associated with members of a congress, respective members of the congress having access to private key shares usable in a threshold decryption scheme in which at least a threshold of private key shares are sufficient to derive a decryption key through the combination of partial contributions to the decryption key on behalf of the congress; ii) generating, using at least a cryptographic private key corresponding to the cryptographic public key, a digital signature over a first set of instructions to perform cryptographic operations upon an occurrence of an event; and iii) broadcasting one or more transactions to a proof-of-work blockchain network, the one or more transactions comprising the encrypted message, the cryptographic public key, at least the first set of instructions, and a second set of instructions to the members of the congress to cooperate to: in response to reaching a consensus on the event occurring and contingent upon the digital signature being authentic, deploy a ghost chain to perform the first set of instructions, wherein performing the first set of instructions includes at least deriving the decryption key from the cryptographic key and a plurality of private key shares that satisfies the threshold, the decryption key being sufficient cryptographic material to obtain the plaintext message from the encrypted message.
US11799634B2
IoT frameworks require flexible and scalable communication and security schemes that can be deployed on devices of low computational capabilities and memory (e.g., resource-constrained devices). A system is provided including a mesh network of resource-constrained devices creating a self-organizing and collaborative communication topology between the devices, and an attribute-based encryption security scheme integrated with the mesh network that enables the resource-constrained devices to communicate securely in unsecured channels by defining an access policy that can only be satisfied by the authorized resource-constrained devices. In order to integrate the attribute-based encryption scheme with the mesh network of resource-constrained devices, a serializer and deserializer are provided that prepare all communications to go through the attribute-based encryption scheme by converting all data and metadata into a suitable format for transmission over the network.
US11799625B2
According to certain embodiments, a method (500) by a wireless device (110) includes receiving information relating to a Narrowband Secondary Synchronization Signal (NSSS) transmit diversity scheme. The information indicates a number of NSSS occasions that use different NSSS transmit diversity configurations. Based on the NSSS transmit diversity scheme, at least one measurement is performed across NSSS occasions.
US11799621B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for transmitting and determining timing information, a storage medium, and a processor. The transmitting method includes: carrying timing information by using a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), where the timing information is used to indicate a terminal to determine a time domain location; and transmitting the DMRS carrying the timing information to the terminal.
US11799604B2
Techniques for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may support techniques for adapting a number of tracking references signal symbols. For example, a UE may receive an indication of a set of tracking reference signal symbols. The set of tracking reference signal symbols may include one or more subset of tracking reference signal symbols. Each of the one or more subset of tracking reference signal symbols may include at least two or more tracking reference signal symbols. The UE may determine a number of tracking reference signal symbols based on the received indication, and measure a tracking reference signal based on the adjusted number of tracking reference signal symbols.
US11799600B2
Systems, methods and instrumentalities are disclosed for beam-based PDCCH Transmission in NR. Control resource sets may be assigned for multi-beam control transmission. A PDCCH may be transmitted with multiple beams. CCEs may be mapped for multi-beam transmission. DCI may support multi-dimensional transmission with primary and secondary dimensions. Search space may support multi-beam, multi-TRP transmission.
US11799595B2
A packet retransmission method and apparatus includes, when a WLAN chip fails to send a packet, if a quantity of times for instructing, by a processor, the WLAN chip to send the packet is less than a limit quantity of times for a packet type of the packet, reinstructing, by the processor, the WLAN chip to send the packet, where the packet type is one of a plurality of packet types, and limit quantities of times for at least two of the plurality of packet types are different from each other.
US11799571B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a machine-readable medium with executable instructions that facilitate performance of operations by a processor including receiving a registration for a trajectory of a satellite; estimating a zone of occupancy at a future time for the satellite; determining an interference of the satellite from the zone of occupancy at the future time; determining a deconfliction for minimizing or eliminating the interference; and sending the deconfliction to a controller of the satellite. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11799564B2
An approach is described for a method for a base station in a fifth generation (5G) wireless communication or a new radio (NR) system that includes the following steps. The method includes determining base initial seeds and a time parameter. The method further includes generating actual initial seeds based on the base initial seeds and the time parameter; generating a Pseudo-Noise (PN) sequence based on one of the actual initial seeds; and generating a remote interference management reference signal (RIM-RS) sequence based on the PN sequence. The method further includes transmitting the RIM-RS sequence to a remote base station.
US11799555B2
A multi-channel light emitting module includes a base, at least one light emitting unit provided on the base, an optical modulation chip provided on the base, and an optical transmission component. The optical modulation chip includes an encapsulation structure and a thin film lithium niobate (LiNbOx) modulator provided in the encapsulation structure. The thin film LiNbOx modulator is optically coupled with the at least one light emitting unit, and the light emitting unit is provided outside the encapsulation structure. The optical transmission component is optically coupled with the thin film LiNbOx modulator.
US11799551B2
An optical transmission and reception system includes an optical transmitter that converts an electrical data signal into an optical signal and transmits the optical signal; and an optical receiver that receives the optical signal input from the optical transmitter via an optical transmission line and converts the optical signal into the data signal. The optical transmitter includes a first compensator that compensates for a loss generated in the optical transmitter based on a first coefficient and a second coefficient, and the optical receiver includes a second compensator that compensates for a loss generated in the optical transmission line based on a third coefficient.
US11799550B2
An analog signal processor includes a sampling unit configured to (i) filter, in the frequency domain, a received time domain analog signal into a low-frequency end of a corresponding frequency spectrum, (ii) sample the filtered analog signal at a frequency substantially higher than the low-frequency end, and (iii) spread quantization noise over an expanded Nyquist zone of the corresponding frequency spectrum. The processor further includes a noise shaping unit configured to shape the spread quantization noise out of the low-frequency end of the corresponding frequency spectrum such that the filtered analog signal and the shaped quantization noise are substantially separated in the frequency domain, and a quantization unit configured to apply delta-sigma modulation to the filtered analog signal using at least one quantization bit, and output a digitized bit stream that substantially follows the amplitude of the received time domain analog signal.
US11799549B2
An express mesh satellite network includes a plurality of satellites arranged in a constellation, each including a plurality of coherent optical modems, wherein the plurality of satellites are configured in a topology based on traffic sources and sinks on the ground where the topology includes express links where satellites are directly connected in space by the coherent optical modems based on the traffic sources and sinks. The plurality of satellites are configured to become a node in the topology when in an associated affinity area having a ground link or requiring a relay function.
US11799548B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus used to reduce the estimated field of uncertainty of satellite positions in space. This reduced field of uncertainty estimate reduces link acquisition time of satellites as they establish inter-satellite optical links between each other. The method and apparatus reduces the estimated field of uncertainty by combining estimated field of uncertainty generated by multiple independent sources. The method further includes combining estimated field of uncertainty generated using existing field of uncertainty techniques with estimated filed of uncertainty created by a machine vision detection and location module. This machine vision detection and location module generates an estimated field of uncertainty that is a result of executing of one or more algorithms to process digital imagery data provided by a passive digital camera.
US11799542B2
A satellite system may have a constellation of communications satellites that provides services to users with electronic devices such as portable electronic devices and home and office equipment. A network operations center may use gateways to communicate with the satellite constellation. The satellite constellation may include sets of satellites with different orbits such as circular orbits with different inclinations, sets of satellites with elliptic orbits, sets of satellites with circular orbits of different altitudes including low earth orbits, medium earth orbits, and/or geosynchronous orbits, and/or sets of satellites with other orbits. The satellite orbits of the satellites in the satellite constellation may be selected to provide coverage to desired user population concentrations at different locations on the earth without using an excessive number of satellites.
US11799540B2
A system includes control circuitry that obtains data from a repeater device of a network of repeater devices. A plurality of signal propagation indicators is determined, and a three-dimensional representation of a geographical area is generated based on the obtained data and the determined plurality of signal propagation indicators. The obtained data includes information of movement of a plurality of objects in the geographical area. A location and movement of a plurality of user devices is tracked and a beamforming scheme is selected for one or more repeater devices based on the generated three-dimensional representation and the movement of the plurality of objects. An out-of-band control of operations of the network of repeater devices is executed based on the generated three-dimensional representation, the selected beamforming scheme, the movement of the plurality of objects, and the tracked location and movement of the plurality of user devices.
US11799531B2
A method of wireless communication by a UE (user equipment) includes receiving group-common downlink control information (DCI) indicating coverage-enhancements including channel state information (CSI) report settings for a group of UEs and/or PDCCH repetition. The method also includes reporting CSI in accordance with the coverage-enhanced CSI report settings, which may include report repetition. A method of wireless communication by a base station includes transmitting group-common downlink control information (DCI) indicating coverage-enhanced channel state information (CSI) report settings and/or PDCCH repetition for a group of UEs. The method also includes receiving CSI reports from the group of UEs in accordance with the group-common DCI.
US11799522B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal transmission method, network device, and terminal device. The method includes: determining a first time-frequency resource; obtaining a second time-frequency resource and a third time-frequency resource based on the first time-frequency resource and a preset rule, where the third time-frequency resource includes at least one resource element (RE) at a predefined location in the first time-frequency resource, the second time-frequency resource includes a resource other than the third time-frequency resource in the first time-frequency resource, the preset rule indicates the predefined location, the second time-frequency resource is used to carry a beamformed control channel, and the third time-frequency resource is used to carry a reference signal of the beamformed control channel.
US11799517B2
A circuit for a communication device and a method for switching a communication device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes activating at least one first antenna and at least one second antenna of a near-field communication (NFC) device for switching the NFC device between first field detection phases and second card detection phases.
US11799512B2
When signals are simultaneously received from K transmission-side apparatuses by a receiving antenna, and repetition is performed by the K transmission-side apparatuses, an information processing apparatus is configured to: in order to obtain a transmitted reference signal x(k,n) transmitted from a transmission-side apparatus k (k=1, . . . , K) by the n-th reference signal transmission in the repetition, acquire a phase rotation amount φ(g,n) given to a transmitted reference signal x(k) and assigned to a group g to which the transmission-side apparatus k belongs and transmit the phase rotation amount φ(g,n) to the transmission-side apparatus k. The phase rotation amount φ(g,n) is acquired so that received reference signals from transmission-side apparatuses not belonging to the group g are cancelled when a phase rotation amount opposite to the phase rotation amount φ(g,n) is given to a received reference signal r(n), and the first to N-th received reference signals in the repetition are added.
US11799509B2
Embodiments of apparatus and method for calibration of a transceiver (including a transmitter and a receiver) are disclosed. In an example, a method for transmitter quadrature (or IQ) mismatch and receiver quadrature (or IQ) mismatch calibration can include controlling the transmitter to send a first transmit signal to the receiver with a delay between an output of the transmitter and an input of the receiver. The method can also include controlling the transmitter to send a second transmit signal to the receiver without the delay between the output of the transmitter and the input of the receiver. The method can further include obtaining compensation coefficients of the transceiver based on the sending of the first transmit signal and the sending of the second transmit signal.
US11799505B2
Techniques are disclosed for configuring a broadband antenna system. An example electronic device includes a first antenna operating at a first frequency range and coupled to a first transceiver via a first signal path comprising a first indirect feed. The electronic device also includes a second antenna operating at a second frequency range and coupled to a second transceiver via a second signal path comprising a second indirect feed, wherein the first frequency range is lower than the first frequency range. The electronic device also includes a third antenna operating at the second frequency range and coupled to a third transceiver via a second signal path comprising a third indirect feed. Additionally, the first antenna is coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna by a capacitive coupling element.
US11799503B2
A semiconductor device including a radio-frequency amplifier circuit and a band selection switch are mounted on or in a module substrate. An output matching circuit includes at least one passive element disposed on or in the module substrate. The output matching circuit is coupled between the radio-frequency amplifier circuit and the band selection switch. The semiconductor device includes a first member having a semiconductor portion made of an elemental semiconductor and a second member joined to the first member in surface contact with the first member. The radio-frequency amplifier circuit including a semiconductor element made of a compound semiconductor is formed at the second member. The semiconductor device is disposed in close proximity to the output matching circuit in plan view. The output matching circuit is disposed in close proximity to the band selection switch.
US11799502B2
A radio frequency circuit for concurrent comprises a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a low noise amplifier and a plurality of switches. The first power amplifier is configured to amplify signals of a first frequency band. The second power amplifier is configured to amplify signals of at least one of a second frequency band and a third frequency band, where the first frequency band is disposed between the second and the third frequency bands. The low noise amplifier is configured to amplify signals of the first, the second, and the third frequency bands. The plurality of switches is configured to route the signals through at least one of the first power amplifier, the second power amplifier, and the low noise amplifier.
US11799501B2
A coverage extension antenna system includes a signal booster or a DAS. The signal booster or DAS includes a set of demodulators that convert incoming signals to baseband, and includes a set of modulators that modulate the baseband signals before transmitting the modulated signals to a base station or terminal equipment.
US11799493B2
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and an operation method thereof are provided. The ADC includes: a comparator which compares a signal input through a first input terminal and a signal input through a second input terminal, and outputs an output value according to the comparison result. A successive approximation register receives the output value of the comparator, sets digital signal values from a most significant bit to a least significant bit, and outputs the digital signal values. A digital-to-analog converter receives the digital signal values, and converts it into an analog signal based on a reference voltage Vref, and outputs it to the second input terminal. A noise component is added to the input signal and to the analog signal Vdac′.
US11799491B1
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry. The ADC circuitry may include a sampling switch coupled to a bootstrap circuit. The bootstrap circuit may include a bootstrap capacitor, a first transistor coupled between an input of the sampling switch and a bottom plate terminal of the bootstrap capacitor, a second transistor coupled between the bottom plate terminal of the bootstrap capacitor and ground, and a resistor or transistor that is disposed between the first transistor and the bottom plate terminal of the bootstrap capacitor and that is configured to boost the input impedance of the bootstrap circuit.
US11799484B2
Techniques to improve detection and security of images, including formation and detection of matrix-based images. A histogram may be used to determine a most prevalent plurality of colors associated with an environment. A related plurality of colors may be determined based on the most prevalent plurality of colors. A matrix barcode may be generated based on the related plurality of colors and an ultraviolet layer.
US11799483B2
A cell logic structure for a battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting multi-mode system, a battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting multi-mode system, a method of operating a cell logic structure for a battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting multi-mode system, and a method of operating battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting multi-mode system. The cell gate structure comprises a CMOS gate circuit; a header circuit coupled to the CMOS gate circuit and comprising first and second header transistors for coupling in parallel between a supply voltage and the CMOS gate circuit; and a footer circuit coupled to the CMOS gate circuit and comprising first and second footer transistors for coupling in parallel between the CMOS gate circuit and a ground voltage; wherein the header and footer circuits are configured for switching between different operation modes of the multi-mode system, the different operation modes chosen from a range from a normal mode in which feedback paths from an output of the CMOS gate circuit to the gate of the second header transistor and to the gate of the second footer transistor are substantially or fully disabled for full swing in the output voltage of the CMOS gate circuit, and a leakage suppression mode in which the feedback paths are substantially or fully enabled.
US11799477B2
A rocker switch includes a rocker switch housing and a first magnet sensor. The rocker switch further includes a button rotatably mounted to the rocker switch housing about a first axis. The rocker switch also includes a magnet holder in contact with the button and rotatably mounted to the rocker switch housing about a second axis different from the first axis. The magnet holder holds a first magnet having a first polarity and a second magnet having a second polarity different from the first polarity. When the button is in a first button position, the button biases the magnet holder to a first magnet holder position, in which the first magnet is proximate to the magnet sensor. When the button is in a second button position, the button biases the magnet holder to a second magnet holder position, in which the second magnet is proximate to the magnet sensor.
US11799476B2
Technology directed to capacitive touch-sensing channels, including a capacitive-sensing converter based on a sigma-delta modulator, is described. One sigma-delta modulator includes a comparator, a first integrator coupled to receive an incoming signal from the input node and to provide a first output signal, a second integrator, coupled in parallel to the first integrator, to receive the incoming signal and to provide a second output signal, and switching circuitry. The switching circuitry is configured to selectively couple the first integrator between the input node and the comparator to provide the first output signal to the comparator or selectively couple the second integrator between the input node and the comparator to provide the second output signal to the comparator.
US11799475B2
A semiconductor device and a method for controlling body bias thereof capable of properly controlling body bias of a transistor even in a case where process variation occurs are provided. Operation speeds of ring oscillators ROSCn and ROSCp respectively change due to an influence of process variation at an NMOS transistor MN side and a PMOS transistor MP side. Speed/bias data represent a correspondence relationship between the operation speeds of the ring oscillators ROSCn and ROSCp and set values V1n and V1p of body biases VBN and VBP. A body bias controller receives speed values Sn and Sp measured for the ring oscillators ROSCn and ROSCp to which the body biases VBN and VBP based on default values are respectively applied, and obtains the set values V1n and V1p on the basis of the speed/bias data.
US11799474B1
A relay circuit may include a solid state relay switch, coupled to an external voltage line and to an charging capacitor; and a solid state relay control circuit, coupled between the charging capacitor and the solid state relay switch. The solid state relay control circuit may be arranged to: turn the solid state relay switch to an OFF state when a capacitor voltage of the charging capacitor falls below a low threshold value; and change the solid state relay switch from the OFF state to an ON state when the capacitor voltage increases above a high threshold value.
US11799473B1
A closed-loop inductor current emulating circuit is provided. An emulation controller circuit generates an emulating signal according to a current flowing through a first terminal of a low-side switch of a power converter. When the emulation controller circuit outputs the emulating signal to a charging and discharging circuit, the charging and discharging circuit outputs a charging and discharging signal to a first terminal of a capacitor according to the emulating signal. When the emulation controller circuit outputs the emulating signal to a control terminal of the capacitor to adjust a capacitance of the capacitor, the charging and discharging circuit outputs a charging and discharging signal to the first terminal of the capacitor according to one or both of an input voltage and an output voltage of the power converter.
US11799468B2
Detection transistor MNd flows a detection current IdN to a current path CP1n when an output voltage Vo generated in a load terminal PN1 is than a ground voltage GND. A current mirror circuit CMp1 transfers the detection current IdN flowing in the current path CP1n to a current path CP2a. Detecting resistor element Rd1 converts a mirror current I2a flowing in the current path CP2a to a detection voltage Vd1. A control transistor MNc1 is turned on when the converted detection voltage Vd1 is higher than a predetermined value. Then, the output transistor QO is controlled to be off while the control transistor MNc1 is on.
US11799463B2
A duty adjustment circuit, and a delay locked loop circuit and a semiconductor memory device including the same are provided. The duty adjustment circuit includes a pulse generator configured to generate a pulse signal at a constant pulse width regardless of a frequency of a reference clock signal, based on frequency information, a code generator configured to generate a first predetermined number of delayed pulse signals by delaying the pulse signal, as a first code in response to the pulse signal, and a duty adjuster configured to receive a delay clock signal, and generate a duty correction clock signal by adjusting a slope of rising transition and a slope of falling transition of the delay clock signal in response to the first code and a second code.
US11799459B2
An oscillator circuit includes a first comparator that outputs a first signal indicative of a comparison result between an input potential and a threshold, a second comparator that outputs a second signal indicative of a comparison result between an input potential and the threshold, a RS flip-flop circuit that receives the first signal and the second signal and outputs first and second oscillation signals, a first charge/discharge unit that charges and discharges a first capacitor based on the first oscillation signal, a second charge/discharge unit that charges and discharges a second capacitor based on the second oscillation signal, a first dummy switch controlled to be on and off according to the second oscillation signal and adding a predetermined capacity to a first node, and a second dummy switch controlled to be on and off according to the first oscillation signal and adding a predetermined capacity to a second node.
US11799458B2
A pulse-based flip flop circuit includes a pulse generator generating a pulse signal and an inverted pulse signal, a scan hold buffer holding a scan input signal for a delay time, and a latch circuit including an intermediate node receiving either a data signal or the scan input signal responsive to a scan enable signal, the pulse signal and the inverted pulse signal. The pulse generator circuit includes a direct path providing a clock signal as a direct path input to a NAND circuit; a delay path including a number of plural stages that delay the clock signal and provide a delayed clock signal as a delay path input to the NAND circuit that performs a NAND operation on the direct path and delay path inputs to generate the inverted pulse signal; and a feedback path providing the pulse signal to a first stage among the stages of the delay path.
US11799445B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave device that includes a multi-layer interdigital transducer electrode. The acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer and an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer. The interdigital transducer electrode includes a first interdigital transducer electrode layer positioned between a second interdigital transducer electrode layer and the piezoelectric layer. The second interdigital transducer electrode layer can include aluminum and having a thickness of at least 200 nanometers. The acoustic wave device can include a temperature compensation layer arranged such that the interdigital transducer electrode is positioned between the piezoelectric layer and at least a portion of the temperature compensation layer. Related filters, modules, wireless communication devices, and methods are disclosed.
US11799442B2
A manufacturing method of a mounting structure, the method including: a step of preparing a mounting member including a first circuit member and a plurality of second circuit members placed on the first circuit member, the mounting member having a space between the first circuit member and the second circuit member; a step of preparing a laminate sheet including a first thermal-conductive layer and a second thermal-conductive layer, the first thermal-conductive layer disposed at least on one outermost side; a disposing step of disposing the laminate sheet on the mounting member such that the first thermal-conductive layer faces the second circuit members; and a sealing step of pressing the laminate sheet against the first circuit member and heating the laminate sheet, to seal the second circuit members so as to maintain the space, and to cure the laminate sheet. The first thermal-conductive layer after curing has a coefficient of thermal conductivity in a thickness direction at room temperature being equal to or greater than that in a principal surface direction, and the second thermal-conductive layer after curing has a coefficient of thermal conductivity in a principal surface direction at room temperature being greater than that in a thickness direction.
US11799437B2
A radio frequency (RF) device and a multi-band matching circuit thereof are provided. The multi-band matching circuit includes an inductance circuit, a first capacitance circuit, an inductor, and a second capacitance circuit. A first terminal of the inductance circuit is coupled to a RF signal input terminal of the multi-band matching circuit. A first terminal of the first capacitance circuit is coupled to a second terminal of the inductance circuit. A first terminal of the inductor and a first terminal of the second capacitance circuit are coupled to a second terminal of the first capacitance circuit. A second terminal of the inductor is coupled to a first reference voltage. A second terminal of the second capacitance circuit is coupled to a second reference voltage. The second capacitance circuit is controlled by a single-bit control signal to change a capacitance value of the second capacitance circuit.
US11799430B2
A novel comparison circuit, a novel amplifier circuit, a novel battery control circuit, a novel battery protection circuit, a power storage device, a semiconductor device, an electric device, and the like are provided. In a semiconductor device, one of a source and a drain of a first transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of a second transistor and one of a source and a drain of a third transistor; the other of the source and the drain of the third transistor is electrically connected to a first output terminal; and the other of the source and the drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to a second output terminal. The semiconductor device has a function of outputting a comparison result of a signal supplied to a gate of the second transistor and a signal supplied to a gate of the third transistor, from the first output terminal and the second output terminal; and a function of changing the potential output from the first output terminal in accordance with the potential applied to a back gate of the first transistor.
US11799429B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for operating transceiver circuitry to transmit or receive signals on various frequency ranges. To do so, a transmitter or a receiver of the transceiver circuitry is selectively coupled to or uncoupled from an antenna of the transceiver circuitry. Additionally, radio frequency filters may be individually or collectively coupled to and/or uncoupled from the antenna to filter different frequencies in the transmitting or receiving signals.
US11799425B2
The invention relates to a mixer for generating an analog output signal XOUT from an analog input signal XIN using a mixing signal having a mixing frequency fMIX, the mixer comprising: a scaler being configured to sample the analog input signal XIN at a plurality of discrete points in time k with a sampling frequency fS to obtain a sampled analog input signal XIN[k] having a continuous signal value, and to generate the analog output signal XOUT having a continuous signal value by scaling the sampled analog input signal XIN[k] on the basis of a plurality of scaling coefficients A[k], wherein the scaling coefficients A[k] are a time-discrete representation of the mixing signal.
US11799419B2
In a detection condition determining method, a control center obtains a working parameter value of a target photovoltaic device in a first time length closest to a current time point, where the working parameter value of the target photovoltaic device may be provided for the control center by a photovoltaic inverter coupled to the target photovoltaic device. The control center detects the target photovoltaic device in response to the control center determining, based on the working parameter value, that an environmental parameter value of the target photovoltaic device meets an environmental parameter threshold. Using the method helps reduce operation and maintenance costs of a photovoltaic power station.
US11799418B2
This application discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for obtaining electronic layout applied to photovoltaic array in the field of equipment installation management. According to the method, the electronic device identifies each first area in a target picture to obtain position information and a module identifier of at least one photovoltaic module in each first area, and may directly obtain an electronic layout based on the position information and the module identifier of each photovoltaic module. In this way, a product identifier of each converter does not need to be manually obtained, and a photovoltaic module does not need to be manually added to the electronic layout. This reduces labor time consumption and improves efficiency of obtaining the electronic layout.
US11799408B2
To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can suppress that the control accuracy of current is deteriorated, when switching from the all phase short circuit state to the switching control. A controller for AC rotary electric machine calculates voltage command values based on current command values and current detection values; carries out switching between a switching control that turns on and off plural switching devices provided in the inverter based on the voltage command values, and all phase short circuit control that turns on and off the plural switching devices so that the plural-phase windings are short-circuited mutually; and when switching from the all the phase short circuit control to the switching control, sets the current command values to switching current values which are current values corresponding to currents which flow in executing the all phase short circuit control.
US11799396B2
A method for manufacturing an electromechanical actuator includes providing a primary stack of layers comprising a monocrystalline layer, providing a secondary stack of layers, and forming, in the etching layer, at least three pads. The method further includes encapsulating the three pads by a first encapsulation layer, assembling the primary stack of layers with the secondary stack of layers, removing the first substrate, and forming a movable electrode in the monocrystalline layer.
US11799395B2
An actuator is provided, including a plurality of conducting layers and a plurality of electret layers. The electret layers are respectively sandwiched between the conducting layers, and form gaps between the conducting layers. Directions of preset electric fields of the adjacent electret layers are opposite, and the adjacent conducting layers are respectively electrically connected to a first voltage end and a second voltage end to receive a driving voltage.
US11799392B2
The invention discloses a module energy store converter system (10) comprising the following: at least one converter arm (12) comprising a plurality of standard modules (14) connected in series, and at least one extra-low voltage module (ELV module) (40), wherein the standard modules (14) and the ELV module can be connected such that inputs (48) of a transducer (46) of the ELV module can be optionally connected to the storage element (26) of an adjacent standard module (14) serially and/or anti-serially, or the transducer (46) can be decoupled from the storage element (26), and/or the inputs (48) of the transducer (46) can be optionally connected to the storage element of an adjacent standard module (14) in parallel, or the transducer (46) can be decoupled from the storage element (26).
US11799389B2
A power module includes a printed circuit board, a magnetic element, a secondary side switching circuit and at least two groups of external terminals. The magnetic element is disposed on the printed circuit board. The magnetic element includes at least one primary winding and plural secondary windings. The secondary side switching circuit includes a plurality of secondary switching units. Each secondary switching unit includes a plurality of switches connected in parallel. The switches of each secondary switching unit are evenly distributed on a first surface and a second surface of the printed circuit board. The switches of the secondary switching unit on the first surface and the second surface of the printed circuit board are at least partially overlapped with each other. The at least two groups of external terminals are disposed on the second surface of the printed circuit board, and electrically connected with the secondary side switching circuit.
US11799388B2
A drive system includes a first converter and at least one second converter. The first converter has, inside its housing, a first rectifier whose DC-voltage-side terminal is connected, e.g., directly connected, to the DC-voltage-side terminal of a first inverter of the first converter. A first capacitance is connected in parallel with the DC-voltage-side terminal of the first inverter. The second converter, or each second converter, has, inside its housing, a second rectifier whose DC-voltage-side terminal is connected via inductivities, i.e., for example, restrictors, to the DC-voltage-side terminal of a second inverter of the second converter. A second capacitance is connected in parallel with the DC-voltage-side terminal of the second inverter, and the DC-voltage-side terminal of the first inverter is connected via first inductivities to the DC-voltage-side terminal of the second inverter.
US11799385B1
A synchronous quadrature current compensator and synchronous average harmonic current compensator efficiently control harmonic current flow between isolated bridges of a clocked bidirectional resonant power converter. The synchronous average harmonic current compensator controls on a superposition of low frequency and switching current across nodes of a current controlled bridge to track commanded line current and harmonically linearize dynamic coupling admittance to a voltage controlled bridge. A difference amplifier attenuates the low frequency and reactive part of a bridge current signal to the quadrature current compensator. An error amplifier sums a synchronously modulated quadrature current signal, used to estimate transmitted harmonic current, to track a safely limited quadrature current command reference by generating a duty cycle. A line is inductively connected to the voltage controlled bridge or the current controlled bridge, with the other bridge driven with a duty cycle to command harmonic current flow between bridges.
US11799384B2
A power converter with co-packaged secondary field effect transistors (FETs) are described. The power converter can include a first circuit, a transformer connected to an output of the first circuit, and a second circuit connected to an output of the transformer. The second circuit can include an inductor, a first FET coupled between the transformer and the inductor, and a second FET coupled between the first FET and ground. The first FET and the second FET can be co-packaged as a single package.
US11799382B2
It may be desirable to limit the switching frequency of a pulse frequency modulated (PFM) resonant converter, however certain load conditions and/or startup condition require high switching frequencies to regulate an output voltage. The disclosed resonant converter can limit a maximum switching frequency while regulating an output voltage by shifting from PFM to phase-difference modulation based on a load condition. The appropriate modulation can be applied based on a comparison between a charge-control signal and a load-control signal.
US11799378B1
Multiphase series capacitor DC-DC converters are provided, including: a power stage circuit configured to convert an input DC voltage into a stable DC voltage required by a load, where the power stage circuit includes inductors of two or more phases, and there is a phase difference with a preset interval between inductor currents of phases for alternately charging the load in sequence, and a bidirectional switch is provided between inductors of every two adjacent phases, where when the bidirectional switch is turned on, the inductors of the corresponding two phases charge the load simultaneously; and a load transient response circuit configured to, when a load transient positive step occurs, control one or more bidirectional switches to be turned on to make inductors of two or more corresponding phases charge the load simultaneously. Control methods of such converters are also provided, which can realize fast response to load transient changes.
US11799365B2
A sensing apparatus includes a first sensor unit including a first hall sensor and a second hall sensor, wherein the first hall sensor outputs two first output values having different phases from each other, and the second hall sensor outputs two second output values having different phases from each other; a second sensor unit outputs a third position detection value of a rotor; and a control unit that compares a first position detection value of the rotor, which is on the basis of the first output values, with a second position detection value of the rotor, which is on the basis of the second output values, and compares at least one of the first position detection value of the rotor and the second position detection value of the rotor, with the third position detection value of the rotor outputted from the second sensor unit.
US11799362B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a system for cooling an electric motor. The cooling system includes a primary coolant passage through a rotor shaft linked to a plurality of secondary passages though lamination stacks of a rotor configured to receive coolant at a central region of the lamination stacks.
US11799361B2
This disclosure relates to thermal management for an electric machine, such as an electric motor, of an electrified vehicle. An example assembly includes a stator having a core and a jacket at least partially surrounding the core. The jacket radially encloses a slot and is configured to permit fluid to flow within the slot from a first face of the stator to a second face of the stator. The assembly further includes a first end cover covering the first face of the stator. The first end cover has an inlet port and is configured to direct fluid from the inlet into the slot. Further, the assembly includes a second end cover covering the second face of the stator and configured to direct fluid that exits the slot.
US11799351B2
The present invention may provide a motor including a housing, a stator disposed in the housing, a rotor disposed in the stator, a shaft coupled to the rotor, and a busbar disposed above the stator, wherein the stator includes a stator core, a coil, and an insulator disposed between the coil and the stator, the busbar includes a busbar body and a plurality of terminals disposed in the busbar body, and at least a part of the busbar body and at least a part of the terminals are disposed to overlap the insulator in a radial direction.
US11799348B2
Disclosed is a step actuator. The step actuator includes a housing; a stator installed in the housing; a rotor positioned radially inward from the stator, the rotor rotating and protruding from one side of the housing; a bearing installed at one side of the housing so as to be coupled with the rotor; a bearing cover coupled with one side of the housing to restrain movement of the bearing; a screw member coupled with the rotor to linearly move according to rotation of the rotor; and a mounting member coupled to the bearing cover to support the screw member.
US11799345B2
A stator has a core, an insulating member that covers the core, windings that are wound around the insulating member, and conductive members that supply drive power to the windings. The conductive member has a joining part that contacts a lower surface of the insulating member, an insertion part that rises axially upward from one end of the joining part, and a board connection part that descends axially downward from the other end of the joining part. The insertion part penetrates through the insulating member and protrudes at the top of the stator, where it is connected to a coil end. The board connection part is fixed, by a method such as press-fitting, to a circuit board on which a Hall element or the like is mounted.
US11799337B2
A rotating electric machine including a rotor including a rotor core arranged coaxially with a stator core via an air gap formed between the stator core and the rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnet groups each forming one magnetic pole, A flux barrier is formed between one set of permanent magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction in each permanent magnet group forming one magnetic pole. A pair of ribs is formed of regions of the rotor core between the flux barrier and the one set of permanent magnets. A first slit is formed in a region of the rotor core on the air gap side in a radial direction of the each permanent magnet group, and an end portion of the first slit on the flux barrier side is positioned between extension lines of the pair of ribs.
US11799334B2
A power tool including a housing and a motor assembly positioned within the housing. The motor assembly includes a stator with winding slots that receive stator windings and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor body with a first slot positioned a first distance from a center of the rotor body, a second slot positioned a second distance from the center of the rotor body, and a third slot positioned a third distance from the center of the rotor body. The first slot, the second slot, and the third slot are curved about a common center. The rotor further includes a first magnet positioned within the first slot, a second magnet positioned within the second slot, and a third magnet positioned within the third slot.
US11799323B2
A wireless power reception device and a wireless communication method thereby are provided. The wireless communication method by the wireless power reception device may comprise the steps of: receiving a wireless power signal from a wireless power transmission device; measuring the strength of the wireless power signal; modulating the amplitude of the wireless power signal according to the measured strength of the wireless power signal; and performing communication with the wireless power transmission device by using the signal having the amplitude modulated.
US11799318B2
Aspects of the disclosure include a power device having a first input configured to be coupled to a main power source, a second input configured to be coupled to a back-up power source, an output configured to be coupled to a load, the load being configured to perform a procedure, and at least one controller configured to determine a required energy for the load to perform the procedure, estimate an amount of available energy predicted to be available to the power device during the procedure, the available energy being derived from at least the back-up power source, determine whether the amount of available energy predicted to be available is equal to or greater than the required energy, and prevent power from being provided at the output responsive to determining that the amount of available energy predicted to be available is less than the required energy.
US11799313B2
Proposed is a power conversion device, the device including: a power generation unit for converting kinetic energy generated by an engine of a vehicle into electrical energy; a storage unit including a first battery and a second battery for storing the electrical energy generated by the power generation unit; a load unit for operating by receiving the electrical energy stored in the storage unit; a power conversion unit for controlling supply of power from the first battery and the second battery to the load unit according to a conversion control signal; and a charging unit for charging at least one of the first battery and the second battery on the basis of the electrical energy according to a charging control signal, wherein, when a vehicle state is in start-up ON, the power conversion unit connects the first battery and the load unit.
US11799310B2
An X-capacitor discharge method applied to a switched-mode power supply, wherein the switched-mode power supply comprises an X-capacitor, a rectifier circuit and a switching circuit; the X-capacitor discharge method comprises: arranging a first diode, wherein an anode of the first diode is connected to a first end of the X-capacitor, and a cathode of the first diode is configured as a first node; when it is detected that a voltage of the first node is higher than a first voltage threshold, pulling down the first node through a first sampling current, and performing a timing; and if a time for which the voltage of the first node continues to be higher than the first voltage threshold reaches a first threshold time, pulling down the first node through a first pull-down current. An X-capacitor discharge circuit applied to the switched-mode power supply is provided.
US11799308B2
The present invention provides a system of providing a control service for a TVWS-based hybrid energy storage apparatus in which DC power generated based on solar power is charged into a hybrid solar energy storage device including a plurality of supercapacitors, batteries, supercapacitor modules and battery modules, and the power is supplied to a plurality of loads using the charged power. The system includes: a data collection unit configured to collect storage voltage data for the respective supercapacitors, batteries, supercapacitor modules, and battery modules in the hybrid energy storage apparatus and power consumption data of each load; a central control unit configured to transmit the data collected by the data collection unit through a TVWS channel; a TVWS gateway connected to the hybrid energy storage apparatus through the TVWS channel to receive the data collected by the data collection unit and transmit the data through a wireless communication network; and a control server which is connected to the TVWS gateway to receive the data, and based on the received data, generate control data for the hybrid energy storage apparatus related to amounts of power charge and discharge of the respective supercapacitors and batteries and power consumption data of each of the loads to provide the data to a manager side device.
US11799285B2
A method for starting a photovoltaic rapid shutdown system, an application apparatus and a system are provided. In this method, the inverter system controls a voltage of a direct current bus in the photovoltaic rapid shutdown system. The photovoltaic module breaker makes determination based on a detected output voltage of the photovoltaic module breaker. In a case that the change characteristics of the voltage of the direct current bus connected to the photovoltaic module breaker meets the predetermined turn-on condition, the photovoltaic module breaker controls itself to be turned on. Therefore, the photovoltaic module breaker can determine whether the photovoltaic module breaker receives a turn-on signal only based on its own voltage acquisition device without an additional receiving apparatus.
US11799284B2
The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus for controlling temperature of component of power source separation circuit in which a temperature detection circuit may be implemented in a circuit that uses a power source different from a power source used by the control microcomputer, may directly measure a temperature of a circuit component, and may deliver a protective signal to the control microcomputer using a comparator and an insulating phototransistor, thereby implementing a protective operation.
US11799280B1
Aircraft ground power cable management and monitoring systems and methods including arc fault protection. Disclosed systems are especially well-suited for high power systems such as 400 Hz aircraft ground power supply systems and cable assemblies.
US11799279B2
A ground fault sensing circuit system includes a current transformer having a first winding and a second winding on opposite halves of the current transformer, outputting first and second signals, each winding coupled to a processor that determines information about respective currents in conductors monitored by the current transformer, based on a combination of the first and second signals. In another embodiment, the current transformer has a third winding wrapped continuously around both halves of the current transformer, overlapped with the first and second windings, the third winding outputting a third signal coupled to the processor, which determines information about respective currents in conductors monitored by the current transformer, based on a combination of the first, second, and third signals.
US11799275B2
The present disclosure provides an assembly having a plurality of cable trays, a first cable tray of the plurality of cable trays including a bottom and a set of upright sides extending between a first end and a second end, and a barb and a barb opening along each upright side of the set of upright sides. The barb may extend from an end of the barb opening, wherein a portion of the opening of a first cable tray of the two or more cable trays extends beyond, and remains uncovered by, a second end of a second cable tray of the plurality of cable trays when the first and second cable trays are connected.
US11799265B2
A light-emitting module includes a substrate, a surface light-emitting element, and an optical waveguide. The surface light-emitting element includes light sources and is attached to the substrate. The optical waveguide is attached to the surface light-emitting element in a state in which the optical waveguide covers the light sources. The optical waveguide extends in an axial direction with a refractive index distribution in a radial direction. The optical waveguide condenses light beams emitted from the surface light-emitting element.
US11799264B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a laser frequency modulation method and device, a storage medium, and a laser device. The method includes: obtaining the current sweep mode of the laser device in a timing manner; when the current sweep mode is the single-band sweep mode, controlling the laser device to perform continuous sweeping on the preset band; and when the current sweep mode is the multi-band switching mode, obtaining the next band for the laser device to perform sweeping, and controlling the laser device to switch from the band to the next band.
US11799263B2
An electro-optic modulator (EOM) for altering an optical path length of an optical field is described. The EOM comprises first and second Brewster-angle cut nonlinear crystals having a first and second optical axis. The optical axes are orientated relative to each other such that when an optical field propagates through the nonlinear crystals it experiences no overall deviation. The nonlinear crystals are also arranged to be opposite handed relative to the optical field. The EOM has the advantage that its optical losses are lower when compared with those EOMs known in the art. In addition, the EOM can be inserted into, or removed from, an optical system without any deviation being imparted onto the optical field. This reduces the levels of skill and effort required on the part of an operator. The described method and apparatus for mounting the nonlinear crystals also suppresses problematic piezo-electric resonances within the nonlinear crystals.
US11799259B2
A cable cutter and crimper is provided including an anvil having an anvil cutting edge. A blade is pivotally coupled to the anvil and includes a blade cutting edge. A clevis is coupled to the anvil and includes arms extending on opposite sides of an actuator screw. A pivot nut is threadably coupled to the actuator screw and pivotally coupled to the blade. Rotation of the actuator screw in a first rotational direction causes the pivot nut to translate along the actuator screw in a first translation direction, resulting in the blade cutting edge moving away from the anvil cutting edge. Rotation of the actuator screw in a second rotational direction causes the pivot nut to translate along the actuator screw in a second translation direction, resulting in the blade pivoting relative to the anvil to move the blade cutting edge toward the anvil cutting edge.
US11799258B2
A rotary electronic component capable of reducing an abrasion and a metal fatigue of a slider and extending a rotation life time compared to the conventional technology. A rotary electronic component is provided with a buffer member between a sliding portion of a slider and a rotor. Thus, the sliding portion is energized toward the annular electrode with a proper elastic force and the sliding portion is held. Because of this, vibration of the sliding portion is suppressed and metal fatigue of the slider can be reduced. Furthermore, since the lubricant is impregnated into the buffer member and a part of the buffer member is in contact with the annular electrode, the lubricant can be applied on the annular electrode. Consequently, the sliding portion slides smoothly and the abrasion of the contact portion can be further reduced. In addition, since the buffer member functions to wipe the surface of the annular electrode, foreign substances such as dust on the annular electrode are collected. Thus, harmful effect to the contact portion by the foreign substances can be prevented. By the above described configurations, the rotary electronic component of the present invention can obtain the extended life time and high operation reliability.
US11799255B2
A receptacle socket assembly for lighting equipment comprising: a receptacle having a front side for receiving contacts of a control module, said receptacle housing a plurality of receptacle contacts, each receptacle contact being provided, at a front end, with a front contact portion for being electrically connected with a contact of a control module, and, at a rear end, with a rear contact portion; a wire connector having a front side and a rear side, said wire connector housing a plurality of connector contacts, each connector contact being provided, at a rear end, with a wire receiving contact for receiving and fixing a wire end and, at a front end, with a front contact portion; wherein the rear side of the receptacle and the front side of the wire connector are configured such that the wire connector is removably pluggable in the rear side of the receptacle.
US11799254B2
Provided are a charging adapter device and an installing method of a charging adapter device. The charging adapter device includes a connector, and the connector includes a housing and a terminal. The charging adapter device further includes an adapter plate and two pins. The adapter plate is arranged in the housing and electrically connected to the terminal. The two pins are separately electrically connected to the adapter plate such that the two pins are electrically conductive with the connector through the adapter plate. The charging adapter device achieves the convenience of charging for the product. The installing method of the charging adapter device improves the installation efficiency of the charging adapter device.
US11799253B2
An electronic apparatus according to various embodiments comprises: a receptacle including a plurality of GND pins, a first CC pin, and a second CC pin and to which a first USB-type plug is insertable; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: determine whether an external apparatus is connected and the external apparatus supports high-speed charging, by using at least one of the first CC pin and the second CC pin; determine whether the external apparatus supports an audio signal output, by using at least one of the plurality of GND pins, when the external apparatus is determined to support the high-speed charging; and transmit and receive at least one of data or electricity to and from the external apparatus, on the basis of whether the external apparatus supports the high-speed charging and the audio signal output. In addition, other embodiments are possible.
US11799252B2
A high-performance single barrel power connector for receiving electric power may be capable of receiving more than 330 W up to approximately 600 W of power. The V+ pin and V− pin may each be configured with a large plurality of contact points for connecting to a power plug. A connector body retaining the V+ pin and V− pin may configured with openings to expose more of the V+ pin and V− pin to air and allow the V+ pin and V− pin to extend out of the power connector for convective and conductive heat transfer. A shell having a high thermal conductivity may be connected to the V− pin and V− pin and further connected to a bracket for increased heat transfer away from the V+ and V− pins.
US11799244B2
The present disclosure provides a connector with shielding elastic piece and a connector assembly. The connector with shielding elastic piece comprises a housing and an outer shielding elastic piece. The housing comprises an opening. One end of the outer shielding elastic piece is secured to an outer wall of the housing. The outer shielding elastic piece extends in a direction away from the opening and comprises a first contacting bump and a second contacting bump. The second contacting bump is disposed at one side of the first contacting bump away from the opening. The first contacting bump extends along the outer wall. The extending direction of the second contacting bump and the extending direction of the first contacting bump form an angle.
US11799241B2
An electrical connector includes a housing formed in a single piece and including a recess, a compression spring disposed in the recess, and a position assurance element having a head disposed in the recess and inserted through a first end of the compression spring. The compression spring is unloaded in a plugged-in position of the electrical connector into a mating connector and opposes plugging of the electrical connector into the mating connector in a loaded state. The first end of the compression spring exerts a force only on the position assurance element, the position assurance element exerts a force on the one-piece housing, and a second end of the compression spring opposite the first end along a longitudinal axis of the compression spring exerts a force only on the recess of the housing.
US11799240B2
The present disclosure provides an electrical connector comprising first and second connector housings configured to be coupled and uncoupled from one another via a mate assist mechanism comprising a lever. The lever is configured to be positioned, when the first and second connector housings are in an uncoupled state or the second connector housing is absent, at a pre-lock position, whereby a blocking element of the lever is configured to cooperate with a blocking surface of the first connector housing, the electrical connector comprising a lever seal and a panel seal.
US11799220B2
A redriver chip comprising: pre-stage transmission pin sets, pre-stage reception pin sets, post-stage transmission pin sets, post-stage reception pin sets and selectors. The pre-stage transmission pin sets and the pre-stage reception pin sets are disposed in alternating arrangement, and the post-stage transmission pin sets and the post-stage reception pin sets are disposed in alternating arrangement. The amount of the post-stage transmission pin sets is an integral multiple of the amount of pre-stage reception pin sets, and the amount of the pre-stage reception pin sets is an integral multiple of the pre-stage transmission pin sets. Each of the selectors is connected to one of the pre-stage reception pin sets and integral multiple amount of the post-stage transmission pin sets, or is connected to one of the pre-stage transmission pin sets and integral multiple amount of the post-stage reception pin sets.
US11799211B2
Multiband guiding structures for antennas and methods for using the same are described. In one embodiment, an antenna comprises: an antenna aperture with radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements; and a center-fed, multi-band wave guiding structure coupled to the antenna aperture to receive a feed wave in two different frequency bands and propagate the feed wave to the RF radiating antenna elements of the antenna aperture.
US11799209B2
A lensed antenna system is provided. The lensed antenna system include a first column of radiating elements having a first longitudinal axis and a first azimuth single, and, optionally, a second column of radiating elements having a second longitudinal axis and a second azimuth angle, and a radio frequency lens. The radio frequency lens has a third longitudinal axis. The radio frequency lens is disposed such that the longitudinal axes of the first and second columns of radiating elements are aligned with the longitudinal axis of the radio frequency lens, and such that the azimuth angels of the beams produced by the columns of radiating elements are directed at the radio frequency lens. The multiple beam antenna system further includes a radome housing the columns of radiating elements and the radio frequency lens. There may be more or fewer than two columns of radiating elements.
US11799207B2
An antenna configured to receive radiation at global navigation satellite system (GNSS) frequencies includes a substrate, a frontside patch arranged on a front side of the substrate, and a metamaterial ground plane. The metamaterial ground plane includes a plurality of backside patches and a cavity. The plurality of backside patches include a center backside patch surrounded in a radial direction by a plurality of intermediate backside patches. The center backside patch and the plurality of intermediate backside patches are arranged in a pattern that provides circular symmetry with respect to a center of the antenna. The cavity is coupled to the substrate, and the plurality of intermediate backside patches are electrically isolated from the cavity.
US11799198B2
An electronic device includes a first component carrier with a first stack having at least one first electrically conductive layer structure forming an antenna structure and at least one first electrically insulating layer structure; at least one electronic component, and a second component carrier having at least one second electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one second electrically insulating layer structure. The second component carrier further includes a heat removal structure. The first component carrier and the second component carrier are connected so that the antenna structure is positioned at one side of the electronic device for emitting and/or receiving electromagnetic radiation and the heat removal structure is positioned at an opposing other side of the electronic device.
US11799187B2
In one aspect, an apparatus is described that includes a transparent pane having a first surface and a second surface. An electrochromic device is arranged over the second surface that includes a first conductive layer adjacent the second surface, a second conductive layer, and an electrochromic layer between the first and the second conductive layers. The apparatus further includes at least one conductive antenna structure arranged over the second surface.
US11799178B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid injection device for injection of electrolytic solution into a bag-shaped film exterior containing a generation element.
US11799175B2
A power supply device disclosed by the present specification includes: a first power storage element group that has a pair of first external terminals having different polarities, and includes a plurality of power storage elements; and a second power storage element group that has a pair of second external terminals having different polarities, and includes a plurality of power storage elements. The first power storage element group and the second power storage element group are arranged adjacent to each other in a front-rear direction, the first external terminals are provided at the front edge on the second power storage element group side of the first power storage element group, and the second external terminals 48 are arranged to be adjacent to the first external terminals at a rear edge on the first power storage element group side of the second power storage element group.
US11799174B2
This application provides a battery module including a first battery sequence, a second battery sequence, a first output electrode component, a second output electrode component, and a busbar assembly. The first batteries include a first electrode terminal, and the second batteries include a second electrode terminal. The busbar assembly includes first, second, and third busbar components. The first busbar component is connected to the first electrode terminal, the second busbar component is connected to the second electrode terminal, and the third busbar component connects the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal. The first output electrode component is connected to the first electrode terminal. The second output electrode component is connected to the second electrode terminal. The first battery connected to the first output electrode component and the second battery connected to the second output electrode component are located at the same end of the battery module.
US11799171B2
An all-solid secondary battery including: a cathode including a cathode active material layer; an anode including an anode active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer including a sulfide solid electrolyte between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer, wherein an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of an interface between the cathode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer is about 1 micrometer or less, and a relative density of the solid electrolyte layer is about 80% or more.
US11799163B2
The present invention relates to a battery cell carrying box in which battery cells are housed and which has a flame discharge port to discharge a flame when a certain battery cell housed in the carrying box burns, such that it is possible to prevent the flame from being propagated to adjacent battery cells and prevent the flame from being propagated to adjacent carrying boxes.
US11799159B2
A battery pack includes: battery cells, each including end portions in a height direction thereof; a case accommodating the battery cells and a cooling fluid; and first and second holder plates coupled to the case to face each other along the case such that the end portions of the battery cells are insertable therethrough, an accommodation space being defined between the first and second holder plates to accommodate the cooling fluid, and the case, the battery cells, and the first and second holder plates have heights in the height direction that satisfy the condition: a height between the first and second holder plates
US11799158B2
A rechargeable lithium-ion button cell battery having a sealed housing includes a top flat plate and a round or oval cup sealed by laser at the rim of top plate whereas connecting the opening end of the cup sidewall. The top plate has a centered sandwiched structure including two outer plates at upper and lower position, that clamping one inner pin-like conductive plate by its flange, insulated by a gasket. The upper plate of the outer plates has an asymmetric shape to its center line, which allows asymmetric sealing force applied on the inner pin-like plate flange to act as a safety vent. Inside the sealed housing the anode and cathode electrodes are either spiral wound or stacked with separator to be a round or oval roll, one electrode is connected to the cup, the other electrode is connected to the inner pin-like conductive plate of the top plate.
US11799148B2
A battery module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of secondary battery cells; and a housing member including a cooling plate member, and a heat conductive member provided between the secondary battery cells and the cooling plate member to form a heat path for transferring heat from the secondary battery cells to the cooling plate member, the housing member having the plurality of secondary battery cells accommodated therein, wherein the heat conductive member is comprised such that a portion of the heat conductive member in contact with a secondary battery cell that is supercooled has a lower thermal conductivity than a remaining portion of the heat conductive member.
US11799146B2
In an embodiment, an energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of energy storage devices arranged in a first direction and a pair of insulators extending in the first direction along the plurality of energy storage devices and arranged at an interval from each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and each of the plurality of energy storage devices has an outer surface facing a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, and each of the pair of insulators has a space forming part extending from a position on the outer surface in the first direction and the third direction, and forming a space between a facing surface, on which the energy storage apparatus is installed, and the outer surface.
US11799143B2
A battery pack including at least one battery cell including a first surface and a second surface forming opposite ends along a height direction thereof, and an outer circumferential surface connecting the first surface and the second surface; and a flexible circuit board configured to obtain state information of the at least one battery cell, the flexible circuit board including a corrugated main body at least partially surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the at least one battery cell, and branch portions extending from the main body onto the first surface or the second surface of the at least one battery cell.
US11799134B2
A secondary battery includes a battery case, an electrode body, and a collector member connecting the battery case and the electrode body. A positive electrode includes an insulation layer provided so as to be adjacent to a positive electrode active material layer. The collector members include first portions, and second portions continuous to the first portions and bent relative to the first portions. The first portions are fixed to the battery case. The second portions are connected, at ends thereof opposite to the bent portions, to collector regions, respectively. The collector members further include ribs connected, at the bent portions, to the first portions and the second portions, respectively.
US11799133B2
An additive, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous solvent including a propyl propionate, and a compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
US11799130B2
An electrolyte including a dinitrile compound, a trinitrile compound, and propyl propionate. Based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the weight percentage of the dinitrile compound is X, the weight percentage of the trinitrile compound is Y, and the weight percentage of the propyl propionate is Z; where about 2 wt %≤(X+Y)≤about 11 wt %, about 0.1≤(X/Y)≤about 8, and about 0.01≤(Y/Z)≤about 0.3. The dinitrile compound comprises a compound of Formula (5): N—R2—(O—R3)n—O—R4—CN (5). The electrolyte is capable of effectively inhibiting the increase in DC internal resistance of an electrochemical device so that the electrochemical device has excellent cycle and storage performance.
US11799118B2
A fuel cell system includes a reformer, fuel cell stacks, and an exhaust-gas combustor. The reformer has a tubular shape extending in an axial direction and reforms raw fuel into combustion gas. The fuel cell stacks generate electric power from the fuel gas and oxidant gas. The fuel cell stacks are arranged radially outward of the reformer in a circumferential direction to face the reformer in a radial direction. The exhaust-gas combustor burns fuel gas that is not used and included in exhaust gas from the fuel cell stacks. The exhaust-gas combustor is arranged radially inward of the reformer to face the reformer in the radial direction. Each fuel cell stack includes flat plate type cells stacked in the radial direction. This achieves downsizing of the fuel cell system.
US11799117B2
Flow batteries can include a first half-cell containing a first aqueous electrolyte solution. a second half-cell containing a second aqueous electrolyte solution, and a separator disposed between the first half-cell and the second half-cell. The first aqueous electrolyte solution contains a first redox-active material, and the second aqueous electrolyte solution contains a second redox-active material. At least one of the first redox-active material and the second redox-active material is a nitroxide compound or a salt thereof. Particular nitroxide compounds can include a doubly bonded oxygen contained in a ring bearing the nitroxide group, a doubly bonded oxygen appended to a ring bearing the nitroxide group, sulfate or phosphate groups appended to a ring bearing the nitroxide group, various heterocyclic rings bearing the nitroxide group, or acyclic nitroxide compounds.
US11799115B2
A non-catalytic microcombustion based FFC for the direct use of hydrocarbons for power generation. The potential for high FFC performance (450 mW·cm−2 power density and 50% fuel utilization) in propane/air microcombustion exhaust was demonstrated. The micro flow reactor was used as a fuel reformer for equivalence ratios from 1-5.5. Soot formation in the micro flow reactor was not observed at equivalence ratios from 1 to 5.5 and maximum wall temperatures ranging from 750 to 900° C. H2 and CO concentrations in the exhaust were found to have a strong temperature dependence that varies with the maximum wall temperature and the local flame temperature.
US11799111B2
To provide a battery or a membrane electrode assembly having high durability. A battery (100) having a multilayer structure containing layers of a pair of electrodes (1), the battery (100) including a reinforcing material (20) provided in one or more layers or between layers.
US11799094B2
The invention relates to a graphite micro-crystalline carbon coating for metal bipolar plates of fuel cells and an application thereof. The graphite micro-crystalline carbon coating is a graphite-like coating deposited on the surface of a metal bipolar plate, includes, by weight, 5%-50% of graphite micro-crystals, and has good compactness. Based on conventional magnetron sputtering technologies, the energy of deposited particles is changed by changing a target sputtering power source, the intensity of a sputtering magnetic field and the deposition temperature of the coating to change the structure of the carbon coating, so that the carbon coating with high conductivity, corrosion resistance, and stability is prepared. Compared with the prior art, under a precondition where the preparation cost of the coating is not increased, the contact resistance of the metal bipolar plate of a fuel cell and a gas diffusion layer can be reduced, and the corrosion resistance of the carbon coating in an acidic environment of the fuel cell and the conductive stability of the carbon coating after a long-time test can be improved, which is of great significance for promoting the commercialization of fuel cells.
US11799090B2
Provided a gas diffusion layer for fuel cells, the gas diffusion layer including: a carbon substrate; and a microporous layer formed on the carbon substrate, wherein the microporous layer comprises first carbon particles having a partially graphitized structure and a water-repellent binder resin binding the first carbon particles, and the microporous layer further comprises a cerium compound, a nitrogen-doped cerium compound, nitrogen-doped second carbon particles having a partially graphitized or non-graphitized structure, or a mixture of two or more, as a radical scavenger capable of removing hydrogen peroxide generated at a fuel cell open circuit potential or a higher potential. In the membrane electrode assembly and the fuel cell each employing the gas diffusion layer having excellent durability according to one or more embodiments, chemical or electrochemical degradation may be effectively prevented over a long period of time, and thus excellent electrochemical performance may be obtained over a long period of time. This leads to an extended lifetime of the fuel cell.
US11799089B2
The present disclosure relates to antioxidant for a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell electrode catalyst, which includes cerium hydrogen phosphate (HCe2(PO4)3(H2O)) in the form of a nanofiber, and an electrode and a membrane-electrode assembly including the same. The electrode for a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell of the present disclosure, wherein the antioxidant is dispersed, can improve the mechanical strength of an electrode catalyst layer and can minimize deterioration of chemical durability even after long-term operation. And, a fuel cell including the same can exhibit high output performance and can operate stably even after long-term operation.
US11799088B2
A cathode configured for use within a fuel cell system is provided. The cathode includes a cathode substrate. The cathode further includes a coating disposed upon the cathode substrate and including a fluorocarbon polymer additive configured for sintering at a temperature of less than 200° C. The fluorocarbon polymer additive may be mixed with a catalyst ink coating or may be applied separately as a topcoat layer.
US11799086B2
The present invention provides a slurry composition comprising an electrochemically active material and/or an electrically conductive agent, and a binder comprising a polymer comprising a fluoropolymer dispersed in an organic medium; wherein the organic medium has an evaporation rate less than 10 g/min m2, at the dissolution temperature of the fluoropolymer dispersed in the organic medium. The present invention also provides electrodes and electrical storage devices.
US11799081B2
A positive electrode material including a first positive electrode active material represented by Formula 1 and a second positive electrode active material represented by Formula 2, a positive electrode including the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the positive electrode are provided. The positive electrode material has a bimodal particle size distribution including large diameter particles and small diameter particles, and the difference in average particle diameter (D50) between the large diameter particles and the small diameter particles is 3 μm or greater.
US11799078B2
A composite cathode active material and a cathode and a lithium battery including the composite cathode active material. The composite cathode active material has a core including a plurality of primary particles including a nickel-containing first lithium transition metal oxide having a layered crystal structure; a grain boundary disposed between adjacent primary particles of the plurality of primary particles; and a shell on the core, the shell including a second lithium transition metal oxide having a spinel crystal structure, wherein the grain boundary includes a first composition having a spinel crystal structure.
US11799073B2
An electrode structure includes: a base layer including a first active material; a plurality of active material plates, a plate of the plurality of active material plates including opposing side walls and a lower wall, wherein the lower wall is disposed on the base layer, wherein adjacent plates of the plurality of active material plates are spaced apart from each other, and wherein an active material plate of the plurality of active material plates includes a second active material; and a channel between adjacent plates of the plurality of active material plates, wherein the channel includes a first channel region defined by adjacent side walls of the adjacent plates, and a second channel region connected to the first channel region and defined by a lower wall of the adjacent plates and the base layer.
US11799071B2
A positive electrode active material includes a lithium transition metal oxide, in which a cobalt content in the lithium transition metal oxide is less than a manganese content, wherein at least one of nickel, cobalt, and manganese in the lithium transition metal oxide has a concentration gradient that gradually changes from a center of a particle to a surface thereof, the positive electrode active material is in the form of a secondary particle formed by agglomeration of primary particles, and a ratio in which angles between c-axis directions, which are measured at at least 8 points on a surface of the positive electrode active material by TEM analysis, and a growth direction of the particle at the measuring point satisfy 85° to 95° is 60% or more.
US11799061B2
A method of making a display structure comprises providing a display substrate having a display surface, disposing components on and in contact with the display surface, uniformly blanket coating the display surface with a curable layer of uncured light-absorbing material, and curing the curable layer of uncured light-absorbing material to provide a layer of cured light-absorbing material so that the components project from the layer of cured light-absorbing material without having pattern-wise etched the layer of cured light-absorbing material after the light-absorbing material has been cured. The uniform blanket coating has a thickness greater than a thickness of the component, disposing the components comprises printing the components through the uniform blanket coating such that the components protrude from the uniform blanket coating, or the component is coated with a de-wetting material.
US11799046B2
To improve detection efficiency in a solid-state imaging element including a SPAD in which an electrode and wiring are placed in a central portion. A solid-state imaging element includes a photodiode and a light collecting section. The photodiode includes a light receiving surface and an electrode placed on the light receiving surface, and that outputs an electrical signal in accordance with light incident on the light receiving surface in a state where a voltage exceeding a breakdown voltage is applied to the electrode. The light collecting section causes light from a subject to be collected in the light receiving surface other than a region where the electrode is placed.
US11799040B2
A solar cell including: a substrate having front and back surfaces, the back surface includes first, second and gap regions, the first and second regions are staggered and spaced from each other in a first direction, and each gap region is provided between one first region and one second region adjacent thereto by recessing toward interior of the substrate; a first conductive layer formed over the first region; a second conductive layer formed over the second region, the second conductive layer has a conductivity type opposite to the first conductive layer; a first electrode forming electrical contact with the first conductive layer; a second electrode forming electrical contact with the second conductive layer; and a boundary region between the gap region and the first and/or second conductive layer adjacent thereto, and a line-pattern concave and convex texture structure is formed on the back surface corresponding to the boundary region.
US11799038B2
A semiconductor structure includes a capacitor structure comprising an active region comprising opposing field edges parallel to a first horizontal direction and a gate region comprising opposing gate edges parallel to a second horizontal direction transverse to the first horizontal direction. The semiconductor structure also comprises a first dielectric material adjacent at least one of the opposing field edges or the opposing gate edges and a second dielectric material adjacent the active area and abutting portions of the first dielectric material. A height of the second dielectric material in a vertical direction may be less than the height of the first dielectric material. Semiconductor devices and related methods are also disclosed.
US11799033B2
To provide an oxide semiconductor film having stable electric conductivity and a highly reliable semiconductor device having stable electric characteristics by using the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film contains indium (In), gallium (Ga), and zinc (Zn) and includes a c-axis-aligned crystalline region aligned in the direction parallel to a normal vector of a surface where the oxide semiconductor film is formed. Further, the composition of the c-axis-aligned crystalline region is represented by In1+δGa1−δO3(ZnO)m (0<δ<1 and m=1 to 3 are satisfied), and the composition of the entire oxide semiconductor film including the c-axis-aligned crystalline region is represented by InxGayO3(ZnO)m (0
US11799032B2
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, and a first conductive layer. The first insulating layer is provided over the semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer is provided over the first insulating layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first region that overlaps with the first conductive layer and the first insulating layer, a second region that does not overlap with the first conductive layer and overlaps with the first insulating layer, and a third region that overlaps with neither the first conductive layer nor the first insulating layer. The semiconductor layer contains a metal oxide. The second region and the third region contain a first element. The first element is one or more elements selected from boron, phosphorus, aluminum, and magnesium. The first element exists in a state of being bonded to oxygen.
US11799030B2
A device includes a substrate, gate stacks, source/drain (S/D) features over the substrate, S/D contacts over the S/D features, and one or more dielectric layers over the gate stacks and the S/D contacts. A via structure penetrates the one or more dielectric layers and electrically contacts one of the gate stacks and the S/D contacts. And a ferroelectric (FE) stack is over the via structure and directly contacting the via structure, wherein the FE stack includes an FE feature and a top electrode over the FE feature.
US11799020B1
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and operating diodes. In one aspect, an electrical circuit includes: (1) a diode component having a particular energy band gap; (2) an electrical source electrically coupled to the diode component and configured to bias the diode component in a particular state; and (3) a heating component thermally coupled to a junction of the diode component and configured to selectively supply heat corresponding to the particular energy band gap.
US11799018B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate; and a fin structure disposed on the substrate. The fin structure includes a channel region, a source region, and a drain region. The channel region is located between the source region and the drain region. The channel region includes a first nanowire and a second nanowire above the first nanowire. The first nanowire contains first threshold-voltage adjustment ions, and the second nanowire contains second threshold-voltage adjustment ions. A first opening is formed between the first nanowire and the substrate, and between the source region and the drain region, and a second opening is formed between the first nanowire and the second nanowire, and between the source region and the drain region. The first threshold-voltage adjustment ions are different from the second threshold-voltage adjustment ions in type, concentration, or a combination thereof.
US11799016B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes depositing an amorphous layer on a substrate, masking a portion of the amorphous layer, removing a portion of the amorphous layer to form a first channel into the amorphous layer, depositing a semiconductor layer onto the substrate layer, and removing at least a portion of a defect region of the semiconductor layer to form a second channel.
US11799015B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, a method includes forming a plurality of fins and forming a plurality of gate structures over the plurality of fins. A dielectric material structure is formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of gate structures. A portion of a first of the plurality of gate structures is removed to expose a first portion of each of the plurality of fins, and a portion of a second of the plurality of gate structures is removed to expose a second portion of each of the plurality of fins. The exposed first portion of each of the plurality of fins is removed, but the exposed second portion of each of the plurality of fins is not removed.
US11799012B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of first forming a silicon layer on a substrate and then forming a metal silicon nitride layer on the silicon layer, in which the metal silicon nitride layer includes a bottom portion, a middle portion, and a top portion and a concentration of silicon in the top portion is greater than a concentration of silicon in the middle portion. Next, a conductive layer is formed on the metal silicon nitride layer and the conductive layer, the metal silicon nitride layer, and the silicon layer are patterned to form a gate structure.
US11799010B2
Provided are transistors including an electride electrode. The transistor includes a substrate, a source region and a drain region doped with ions of different polarity from the substrate in a surface of the substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode including an electride material on the source region and the drain region, a gate insulating layer surrounding the source electrode and a drain electrode on the substrate, and a gate electrode between the source electrode and the drain electrode on the substrate. The source electrode and the drain electrode have an ohmic contact with the substrate.
US11799008B2
A semiconductor device includes a first doped region in a substrate, wherein the first doped region has a first dopant type. The semiconductor device further includes a second doped region in the substrate, wherein the second doped region has a second dopant type opposite the first dopant type. The semiconductor device further includes a silicide structure on the substrate, wherein the silicide structure includes a main body and a silicide extension. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of first gate structures on the substrate, wherein a space between adjacent gate structures of the plurality of first gate structures includes a first area and a second area, the silicide extension extends into the first area, the first doped region is in the substrate below the first area, and the second doped region is in the substrate below the second area.
US11799007B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device that includes a well region with a substrate. A source region and a drain region are arranged within the substrate on opposite sides of the well region. A gate electrode is arranged over the well region, has a bottom surface arranged below a topmost surface of the substrate, and extends between the source and drain regions. A trench isolation structure surrounds the source region, the drain region, and the gate electrode. A gate dielectric structure separates the gate electrode from the well region, the source, region, the drain region, and the trench isolation structure. The gate electrode structure has a central portion and a corner portion. The central portion has a first thickness, and the corner portion has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness.
US11799001B2
A transistor and an interconnect structure disposed over the transistor. The interconnect structure includes a first dielectric layer, a first conductive feature in the first dielectric layer, a first etch stop layer (ESL) disposed over the first dielectric layer and the first conductive feature, a dielectric feature disposed in the first ESL, an electrode disposed over the dielectric feature, and a second ESL disposed on the first ESL and the electrode.
US11798996B2
A method includes performing a first etching process on a backside of a substrate to expose a dummy contact structure, performing a first deposition process to deposit a first dielectric layer around the dummy contract structure, performing a second deposition process to deposit an oxide layer on the first dielectric layer, removing the dummy contract structure to form a trench, depositing a sacrificial layer on sidewalls of the trench, depositing a second dielectric layer on the sacrificial layer, filling the trench with a conductive material, and removing the sacrificial layer to form an air spacer between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer.
US11798989B2
Transistor structures and methods of forming transistor structures are provided. The transistor structures include alternating layers of a first epitaxial material and a second epitaxial material. In some embodiments, one of the first epitaxial material and the second epitaxial material may be removed for one of an n-type or p-type transistor. A bottommost layer of the first epitaxial material and the second epitaxial material maybe be removed, and sidewalls of one of the first epitaxial material and the second epitaxial material may be indented or recessed.
US11798984B2
A method includes depositing a first dielectric layer in an opening, the first dielectric layer comprising a semiconductor element and a non-semiconductor element. The method further includes depositing a semiconductor layer on the first dielectric layer, the semiconductor layer comprising a first element that is the same as the semiconductor element. The method further includes introducing a second element to the semiconductor layer wherein the second element is the same as the non-semiconductor element. The method further includes applying a thermal annealing process to the semiconductor layer to change the semiconductor layer into a second dielectric layer.
US11798983B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure, a source region, a drain region, a doped region, and a channel region. The gate structure is disposed in the substrate, and the source region and drain regions being a first conductivity type respectively disposed at two sides of the gate structure. The doped region being a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type is disposed below and separated from the gate structure, the source region, and drain region, the doped region. The channel region is disposed between the doped region and the gate structure and in contact with the doped region, and a dopant concentration of the channel region is less than a dopant concentration of the doped region.
US11798974B2
A display apparatus including a circuit board and a plurality of pixels arranged on the circuit board, in which at least one of the pixels includes a first light emitting device and a second light emitting device spaced apart from each other in a lateral direction, the first light emitting device includes a first LED stack configured to generate light having a first peak wavelength; and the second light emitting device includes a second LED stack configured to generate light having a second peak wavelength, and a third LED stack disposed on the second LED stack and configured to generate light having a third peak wavelength.
US11798973B2
A depth sensor includes a first pixel including a plurality of first photo transistors each receiving a first photo gate signal, a second pixel including a plurality of second photo transistors each receiving a second photo gate signal, a third pixel including a plurality of third photo transistors each receiving a third photo gate signal, a fourth pixel including a plurality of fourth photo transistors each receiving a fourth photo gate signal, and a photoelectric conversion element shared by first to fourth photo transistors of the plurality of first to fourth photo transistors.
US11798971B2
Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device including: a laminated semiconductor chip configured to be obtained by bonding two or more semiconductor chip sections to each other and be obtained by bonding at least a first semiconductor chip section in which a pixel array and a multilayer wiring layer are formed and a second semiconductor chip section in which a logic circuit and a multilayer wiring layer are formed to each other in such a manner that the multilayer wiring layers are opposed to each other and are electrically connected to each other; and a light blocking layer configured to be formed by an electrically-conductive film of the same layer as a layer of a connected interconnect of one or both of the first and second semiconductor chip sections near bonding between the first and second semiconductor chip sections. The solid-state imaging device is a back-illuminated solid-state imaging device.
US11798968B2
The present technology relates to an image pickup device and electronic apparatus that enables suppression of dark current. There are included: a photoelectric conversion unit configured to perform a photoelectric conversion; a trench engraved in a semiconductor substrate; a negative fixed charge film having an oxide film, a nitrogen film, and an oxide film on a side wall of the trench; and an electrode film formed in the fixed charge film. The oxide film configuring the fixed charge film includes silicon monoxide (SiO), and the nitrogen film includes silicon nitride (SiN). The nitrogen film configuring the fixed charge film can also include a polysilicon film or a high dielectric constant film (high-k film). The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor.
US11798965B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging device capable of reducing bonding defects when two substrates are bonded to each other, and a method for manufacturing the solid-state imaging device. The solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate including a first electrode formed with a metal, and a second substrate that is a substrate bonded to the first substrate, the second substrate including a second electrode formed with a metal, the second electrode being bonded to the first electrode. In at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate, a diffusion preventing layer of the metal is formed for a layer formed with the metal filling a hole portion, the metal forming the electrodes.
US11798963B2
An image sensor includes a substrate including an active pixel region and an inactive pixel region, having a smaller area than the active pixel region; a plurality of active pixels in the active pixel region, each of the plurality of active pixels including a first transfer transistor, a first reset transistor, a first driving transistor, and a first selection transistor; and a plurality of inactive pixels in the inactive pixel region, each of the plurality of inactive pixels including a second transfer transistor, a second reset transistor, a second driving transistor, a second selection transistor, and a switch transistor connected to a node between the second driving transistor and the second select transistor. The plurality of switch transistors, included in the plurality of inactive pixels, are connected to each other by a connection wiring.
US11798960B2
A time-of-flight imaging device comprises an image sensor comprising a pixel array including a plurality of pixel circuits, respective ones of the plurality of pixel circuits including a first tap output configured to output a first tap signal, and a second tap output configured to output a second tap signal; and a signal processing circuit including a time-of-flight processing circuit configured to perform at least one logical operation on the first tap signal and the second tap signal based on a mode of the signal processing circuit, and a counter configured to output a digital signal based on an output of the time-of-flight processing circuit.
US11798958B2
The manufacturing method of the driving backplane includes following steps. A first flexible base is formed on a surface of a rigid substrate. At least one type of conductive pattern is formed on a surface of the first flexible base. At least one type of first via is provided in the rigid substrate. At least one type of second via is provided in the first flexible base by using the rigid substrate as a mask and a conductive pillar is formed in the at least one type of second via, so that the conductive pillars are connected to respective types of conductive pattern in one-to-one correspondence. At least one type of driving chip is correspondingly bonded to the conductive pillar formed in the at least one type of second via from a side of the first flexible base away from the at least one type of conductive pattern.
US11798957B2
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate, a display panel, and a large glass panel. The array substrate includes a test structure. The test structure includes a substrate, and a first conductive layer, an insulating layer, a second conductive layer, and a passivation layer sequentially stacked on the substrate. The passivation layer is provided with at least one first groove, at least one second groove, and one third groove. An opening size of the third groove is greater than opening sizes of the at least one first groove and the at least one second groove. The first groove penetrates through the passivation layer and extends to the first conductive layer. The second groove penetrates through the passivation layer and extends to the second conductive layer. The third groove penetrates through the passivation layer and extends to the first conductive layer or the second conductive layer.
US11798955B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a reference voltage supply line disposed in the non-display area and transmitting a reference voltage, and a driving voltage supply line disposed in the non-display area and transmitting a driving voltage. The reference voltage supply line includes a straight line part extending in a first direction and a curved line part extending from the straight line part to be bent, and the curved line part of the reference voltage supply line is disposed along a periphery of the display area.
US11798942B2
A semiconductor device and method includes: forming a first fin and a second fin on a substrate; forming a dummy gate material over the first fin and the second fin; forming a recess in the dummy gate material between the first fin and the second fin; forming a sacrificial oxide on sidewalls of the dummy gate material in the recess; filling an insulation material between the sacrificial oxide on the sidewalls of the dummy gate material in the recess; removing the dummy gate material and the sacrificial oxide; and forming a first replacement gate over the first fin and a second replacement gate over the second fin.
US11798933B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second standard cells having respective semiconductor elements and first interconnection lines electrically connected to the semiconductor elements, on a substrate. A routing structure is provided, which is disposed on the first and second standard cells. The routing structure includes second interconnection lines electrically connected to the first interconnection lines. The first interconnection lines include a first power transmission line, which is configured to supply power to a semiconductor element, and a first signal transmission line electrically coupled to a semiconductor element. The second interconnection lines include: (i) a second power transmission line electrically connected to the first power transmission line and extending by a first length, (ii) a second signal transmission line electrically connected to the first signal transmission line, and (iii) a staple line electrically connected to the first power transmission line, extending on a boundary between the first and second standard cells, and extending by a second length, less than the first length.
US11798927B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a pixel area; and a pixel in the pixel area, the pixel including a first sub-light emitting area, a second sub-light emitting area, and a peripheral area surrounding the first and second sub-light emitting areas. The pixel may include: a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode that are spaced from each other; a plurality of light emitting elements in the first and second sub-light emitting areas; a bank in the peripheral area and including a first opening corresponding to the first sub-light emitting area and a second opening corresponding to the second sub-light emitting area; and an intermediate bank between the first sub-light emitting area and the second sub-light emitting area and partially overlapping the second and third electrodes in a plan view.
US11798922B2
An electronic device including a driving circuit substrate, a plurality of light emitting units, and a first passivation layer is provided. The driving circuit substrate includes a plurality of active elements, the light emitting units are disposed on the driving circuit substrate, wherein each of the light emitting units is electrically connected to the corresponding active element. The first passivation layer covers the light emitting units. One of the active elements provides a first current to the corresponding light emitting element, such that the lighting efficiency of the light emitting units is ranged from 70% to 100%.
US11798919B2
Disclosed are a transfer carrier and a manufacturing method thereof, and a method for transferring a light-emitting diode chip. The transfer carrier includes: a substrate having a plurality of via holes penetrating a thickness of the substrate, the substrate having a first surface and second surface which are opposite to each other; and thermoplastic structures filling corresponding ones of the via holes, one end of the thermoplastic structures protruding from the second surface of the substrate, and the other end covering a surrounding area on the first surface, of the corresponding via holes.
US11798914B2
Embodiments of die-to-die bonding schemes of three-dimensional (3D) memory devices are provided. In an example, a method for bonding includes dicing one or more device wafers to obtain a plurality of dies, placing at least one first die of the plurality of dies onto a first carrier wafer and at least one second die of the plurality of dies onto a second carrier wafer, and bonding the at least one first die each with a respective second die. The at least one first die and the at least one second die each are functional. In some embodiments, the method also includes removing, respectively, the first carrier wafer and the second carrier wafer to form a plurality of bonded semiconductor devices each having one of the first dies and the respective second die.
US11798913B2
A metal-dielectric bonding method includes providing a first semiconductor structure and a second semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes: a first semiconductor layer including a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor device, a first dielectric layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a first metal layer on the first dielectric layer, the first metal layer having a metal bonding surface. The metal bonding surface is planarized and a plasma treatment is applied thereto. The second semiconductor structure includes a second semiconductor layer including a pixel wafer, and a second dielectric layer on the second semiconductor layer, the second dielectric layer having a dielectric bonding surface. The dielectric bonding surface is planarized and a plasma treatment is applied thereto. The first and second semiconductor structures are bonded together by bonding the metal bonding surface with the dielectric bonding surface.
US11798911B1
A force sensor for determining a bonding force during wire bonding operations includes: a piezoelectric sensing element mounted in an ultrasonic transducer of an ultrasonic wire bonding device, the piezoelectric sensing element including a first portion and a second portion, and first and second opposing surfaces, wherein the first surface of the first portion has a positive electrode and the second surface of the first portion has a negative electrode respectively, and the first surface of the second portion has a negative electrode and the second surface of the second portion has a positive electrode respectively.
US11798910B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor structure including an interconnect structure disposed over a semiconductor substrate. A lower metal line is disposed at a first height over the semiconductor substrate and extends through a first interlayer dielectric layer. A second interlayer dielectric layer is disposed at a second height over the semiconductor substrate and comprises a first dielectric material. An upper metal line is disposed at a third height over the semiconductor substrate. A via is disposed at the second height. The via extends between the lower metal line and the upper metal line. A protective dielectric structure is disposed at the second height. The protective dielectric structure comprises a protective dielectric material and is disposed along a first set of opposing sidewalls of the via, the protective dielectric material differing from the first dielectric material.
US11798905B2
The semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises; a semiconductor element having one surface with a plurality of electrode pads; an electrode structure including a plurality of metal terminals and a sealing resin. The plurality of metal terminals being disposed in a region along a circumference of the one surface. The sealing resin holding the plurality of metal terminals and being disposed on the one surface of the semiconductor element. The electrode structure includes a first surface opposed to the one surface of the semiconductor element, a second surface positioned in an opposite side of the first surface, and a third surface positioned between the first surface and the second surface. Each of the plurality of metal terminals is exposed from the sealing resin in at least a part of the second surface and at least a part of the third surface.
US11798899B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a stacked semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor material disposed over a base semiconductor substrate. The base semiconductor substrate has a first coefficient of thermal expansion and the semiconductor material has a second coefficient of thermal expansion that is different than the first coefficient of thermal expansion. The stacked semiconductor substrate includes one or more sidewalls defining a crack stop ring trench that continuously extends in a closed path between a central region of the stacked semiconductor substrate and a peripheral region of the stacked semiconductor substrate surrounding the central region. The peripheral region of the stacked semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of cracks and the central region is substantially devoid of cracks.
US11798890B2
An assembly structure includes a core-computing section and a sub-computing section. The core-computing section has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The core-computing section includes at least one conductive via electrically connecting the first surface and the second surface. The sub-computing section has a first surface stacked on the first surface of the core-computing section and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The sub-computing section includes at least one conductive via electrically connecting the first surface and the second surface. The assembly structure includes a first signal transmission path and a second signal transmission path. The first signal transmission path is between the at least one conductive via of the sub-computing section and the at least one conductive via of the core-computing section. The second signal transmission path is between the second surface of the sub-computing section and the at least one conductive via of the sub-computing section.
US11798886B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer, a first insulating film, and a conductive film. The semiconductor layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate. A first trench reaching the semiconductor substrate is formed within the semiconductor layer. The first insulating film is formed on the inner side surface of the first trench such that a portion of the semiconductor substrate is exposed in the first trench. The conductive film is electrically connected with the semiconductor substrate and formed on the inner side surface of the first trench through the first insulating film. In plan view, a first length of the first trench in an extending direction of the first trench is greater than a second length of the first trench in a width direction perpendicular to the extending direction, and equal to or less than 30 μm.
US11798884B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an active region including a channel region and a source/drain region and extending along a first direction, and a source/drain contact structure over the source/drain region. The source/drain contact structure includes a base portion extending lengthwise along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a via portion over the base portion. The via portion tapers away from the base portion.
US11798882B2
A semiconductor package comprises a lead frame, a low side metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), an E-fuse MOSFET, a high side MOSFET, a metal connection, a gate driver, an E-fuse IC, and a molding encapsulation. A buck converter comprises a smart power stage (SPS) network and an E-fuse solution network. The SPS network comprises a high side switch, a low side switch, and a gate driver. A drain of the low side switch is coupled to a source of the high side switch via a switch node. The gate driver is coupled to a gate of the high side switch and a gate of the low side switch. The E-fuse solution network comprises a sense resistor, an E-fuse switch, an E-fuse integrated circuit (IC), and an SD circuit.
US11798870B2
There is provided a semiconductor device including: a conductive support including a first die pad and a second die pad having a potential different from a potential of the first die pad; a first semiconductor element mounted on the first die pad; a second semiconductor element mounted on the second die pad; and a sealing resin that covers the first semiconductor element, the second semiconductor element, and at least a portion of the conductive support.
US11798855B2
An electronic module comprises a substrate including a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, the second surface including a first region and a second region surrounding the first region, an electronic device attached to the first surface, a component attached to the first region of the second surface, a lid member positioned to face the electronic device, and a frame member attached to the substrate to support the lid member. A first member and a second member having a higher thermal conductivity than the first member are disposed at least on the second surface. At least a part of the second member is positioned to face the second region. At least a part of the first member is positioned between the second member and the component.
US11798851B2
Semiconductor devices, and methods of forming the same, include forming a stack of channel layers, including an upper device region and a lower device region. The upper device region is separated from the lower device region by a dielectric spacer layer. A first work function metal layer is formed on the channel layers in the lower device region. A height of the first work function metal layer does not rise above the dielectric spacer layer. A second work function metal layer is formed on the channel layers in the upper device region.
US11798839B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure for reducing capacitive coupling between adjacent conductive features. The semiconductor structure includes a base layer, a plurality of conductive lines, a plurality of dielectric pillars, and a sealing layer having a plurality of sealing caps. The conductive lines are disposed on the base layer. The dielectric pillars are disposed on the base layer and separated from the conductive layer. The sealing caps are disposed between the conductive lines and the dielectric pillars, wherein the sealing caps are in contact with the conductive lines and the dielectric pillars, and separated from the base layer.
US11798837B2
Methods for forming openings in conductive layers and using the same are described. An example method includes: forming a conductive layer; forming a first hard mask on the conductive layer; forming a second hard mask on the first hard mask; providing an opening through the first and second masks; and removing a surface of the conductive layer under the opening. The first hard mask may have hardness greater than hardness of the second hard mask.
US11798836B2
A semiconductor isolation structure includes a silicon-on-insulator wafer, a first deep trench isolation structure and a second deep trench isolation structure. The silicon-on-insulator wafer includes a semiconductor substrate, a buried insulation layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor layer disposed on the buried insulation layer. The semiconductor layer has a functional region. The first deep trench isolation structure penetrates the semiconductor layer and the buried insulation layer, and surrounds the functional region. The second deep trench isolation structure penetrates semiconductor layer and the buried insulation layer, and surrounds the first deep trench isolation structure.
US11798827B2
Systems and methods for semiconductor adaptive testing using inline defect part average testing are configured to receive a plurality of inline defect part average testing (I-PAT) scores from an I-PAT system, where the plurality of I-PAT scores is generated by the I-PAT system based on semiconductor die data for a plurality of semiconductor dies, where the semiconductor die data includes characterization measurements for the plurality of semiconductor dies, where each I-PAT score of the plurality of I-PAT scores represents a weighted defectivity determined by the I-PAT system based on a characterization measurement of a corresponding semiconductor die of the plurality of semiconductor dies; apply one or more rules to the plurality of I-PAT scores during a dynamic decision-making process; and generate one or more adaptive tests for at least one semiconductor die of the plurality of semiconductor dies based on the dynamic decision-making process.
US11798818B2
The present invention provides a container for containing a plate to be used to remove particles in a processing apparatus for processing a substrate, comprising: a charging unit configured to charge the stored plate, wherein the charging unit includes a contactor configured to be in contact with the plate, and is configured to charge the plate by supplying electric charges to the plate via the contactor and then separating the contactor from the plate.
US11798811B2
Disclosed are methods for etching a silicon-containing film to form a patterned structure, methods for reinforcing and/or strengthening and/or minimizing damage of a patterned mask layer while forming a patterned structure and methods for increasing etch resistance of a patterned mask layer in a process of forming a patterned structure. The methods include using an activated iodine-containing etching compound having the formula CnHxFyIz, wherein 4≤n≤10, 0≤x≤21, 0≤y≤21, and 1≤z≤4 as an etching gas. The activated iodine-containing etching compound produces iodine ions, which are implanted into the patterned hardmask layer, thereby strengthening the patterned mask layer.
US11798809B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing are presented wherein a gate dielectric is treated within an analog region of a semiconductor substrate. The gate dielectric may be treated with a plasma exposure and/or an annealing process in order to form a recovered region of the gate dielectric. A separate gate dielectric is formed within a logic region of the semiconductor substrate, and a first gate electrode and second gate electrode are formed over the gate dielectrics.
US11798808B1
A method of Atomic Precision Advanced Manufacturing (APAM) is provided, in which a substrate is doped from a dopant precursor gas. The method involves covering a surface of the substrate with a hard mask, selectively removing material from the hard mask such that selected areas of the substrate surface are laid bare, exposing the laid-bare areas to the dopant precursor gas, and heating the substrate so as to incorporate dopant from the dopant precursor gas into the substrate surface.
US11798807B2
A process for producing an electrical contact with a first metal layer and at least one second metal layer on a silicon carbide substrate includes removing at least some of the carbon residue by a cleaning process, to clean the first metal layer. The first metal layer and/or the at least one second metal layer may be generated by sputtering deposition.
US11798805B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor substrate are provided. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a bonding layer that bonds a semiconductor thin film to a bonding layer region on a portion of a first substrate with a force weaker than covalent bonding, forming the semiconductor thin film in the bonding layer region and a non-bonding layer region other than the bonding layer region, separating the semiconductor thin film from the first substrate by bonding an organic layer included in a pick-up substrate different from the first substrate to the semiconductor thin film, removing the bonding layer adhered to a peeled surface of the semiconductor thin film separated from the first substrate, and bonding the semiconductor thin film from which the bonding layer has been removed to a second substrate different from the first substrate.
US11798804B2
A method and apparatus for material deposition onto a sample to form a protective layer composed of at least two materials that have been formulated and arranged according to the material properties of the sample.
US11798801B2
A wafer-cleaning apparatus includes an inner pin that supports a wafer. The wafer-cleaning apparatus further includes a nozzle disposed above the inner pin, a light source disposed under the inner pin, a window disposed between the light source and the wafer, and a window protector disposed between the wafer and the window. The nozzle supplies a chemical liquid to the wafer and the inner pin distributes a portion of the chemical liquid on an upper surface of the wafer by rotating the wafer. The window protector receives a portion of the chemical liquid that flows out of the wafer and the light source supplies the light to the wafer through the window protector and the window.
US11798800B2
A solvent recycle system minimizes chemical consumption used in various semiconductor processes. The solvent is recycled from a nozzle bath via the addition of buffer tank to connect the bath and circulation pumps. Improvements to the bath design further maintain solvent cleanness by preventing intrusion of particles and overflow conditions in the bath.
US11798795B2
A matrix-derived peak information acquisition unit (31) creates a peak list that summarizes various ions derived from a matrix and their theoretical m/z values based on a result of analysis of a sample of only a matrix, and stores the peak list in a matrix-derived peak information storage unit (32). When an actually-measured mass spectrum of a target sample is obtained, a mass calibration reference peak detection unit (33) uses a peak list corresponding to a matrix used for analysis to identify an ion peak derived from a matrix appearing in the actually-measured mass spectrum. A mass calibration information calculation unit (35) obtains mass calibration information from an actually-measured m/z value and a theoretical m/z value of the identified peak, and a mass calibration processing unit (37) uses the mass calibration information to correct an m/z value of a peak derived from a target compound on the actually-measured mass spectrum. In this manner, accurate mass calibration can be performed without using a standard substance or even in a case where an ion derived from a standard substance cannot be observed with sufficient intensity.
US11798780B2
The scanning charged particle beam microscope according to the present application is characterized in that, in acquiring an image of the FOV (field of view), interspaced beam irradiation points are set, and then, a deflector is controlled so that a charged particle beam scan is performed faster when the charged particle beam irradiates a position on the sample between each of the irradiation points than when the charged particle beam irradiates a position on the sample corresponding to each of the irradiation points (a position on the sample corresponding to each pixel detecting a signal). This allows the effects from a micro-domain electrification occurring within the FOV to be mitigated or controlled.
US11798764B1
An underarm gang operated vacuum break switch (underarm switch) has an electrically live portion under a mounting arm, which provides advantages over the standard vacuum break switch, which have the electrically live portion above the mounting arm. Because the non-electrified mounting arm is above the electrified portion, the underarm switch is safer for perching birds and other wildlife. The nature of the underarm switch also provides other benefits including a disconnect blade that when opened creates a visual gap to ensure electrical discontinuity along with a safety locking arm tied to deactivating the underarm switch. Adding to the safety measures is a visual indicator that shows an electrician when the switch is live and safe to open the disconnect blade. Other safety measures include a shock absorber assembly and inertia slowing mass protecting electrical contacts within the vacuum break switch from failing.
US11798760B2
Aspects of the invention relate to a keyboard key structure, a light guide for the keyboard key structure, and a computer key mechanism. The keyboard key structure can include a substrate; a key switch where the bottom of the key switch is configured to be coupled to the substrate; a keycap including a transparent region; a light guide coupled to the side of the key switch, the light guide comprising: a bottom surface and a top surface that is wider than and parallel to the bottom surface; a light emitting element coupled to the substrate and configured under the bottom surface of the light guide such that the light emitting element, the light guide, and the transparent region of the key cap are in a collinear arrangement.
US11798753B2
A handset for controlling a surgical operating table, the handset having a three-dimensional physical representation of a tabletop of a surgical operating table, the physical representation of the tabletop comprising a back section, a seat section and one or more leg sections, wherein at least one of the sections includes a respective sensor arranged to sense a force or movement applied to a surface of the respective section by a touch applied to the surface, and a control system within the handset which is connected to the sensor, the control system being arranged to generate an output control signal for transmission to the surgical operating table to be controlled in response to an input command of an applied force or applied movement sensed by the respective sensor. Methods of controlling a tabletop of a surgical operating table using the handset are also disclosed.
US11798750B2
An arc suppressing circuit configured to suppress arcing across a power contactor coupled to an alternating current (AC) power source having a predetermined number of phases, each contact of the power contactor corresponding to one of the predetermined number of phases includes a number of dual unidirectional arc suppressors equal to the predetermined number of phases of the AC power source. Each dual unidirectional arc suppressor includes a first phase-specific arc suppressor configured to suppress arcing across the associated contacts in a positive domain, a a second phase-specific arc suppressor configured to suppress arcing across the associated contacts in a negative domain, and a coil lock controller, configured to be coupled between a contact coil driver of the power contactor, configured to detect an output condition from the contact coil driver and inhibit operation of the first and second phase-specific arc suppressors over a predetermined time.
US11798749B2
A filter circuit device includes: first and second core members forming first and second through holes, respectively; a first conductor passing through the first and second through holes; a second conductor passing through the first and second through holes; a capacitor; a first terminal configured to electrically connect the first conductor with the capacitor; and a second terminal configured to electrically connect the second conductor with the capacitor. The first conductor from the first through hole to the second through hole and the second conductor from the first through hole to the second through hole have an opposing part between the first conductor and the second conductor. The first terminal presses an opposite surface of the first conductor, so as to be in contact with the first conductor. The second terminal presses an opposite surface of the second conductor, so as to be in contact with the second conductor.
US11798743B2
An electronic device includes chip components, a case, conductive terminals, and a fuse. The chip components each include a terminal electrode. The case includes accommodation recesses for accommodating the chip components. The conductive terminals are fixed to the case and respectively connected to the terminal electrodes of the chip components. The fuse electrically connects the chip components.
US11798738B2
A magnetic powder includes a core portion containing a soft magnetic material, a foundation layer that is provided at a surface of the core portion, that contains an oxide of the soft magnetic material, and that has an average thickness of 0.1 nm or more and less than 10 nm, and an insulating layer that is provided at a surface of the foundation layer, and that contains an organosiloxane compound as a main material, wherein the organosiloxane compound has a C/Si atomic ratio of 0.01 or more and 2.00 or less.
US11798736B2
A conductor arrangement for an inductive power transfer wherein a conductor is arranged so as to form at least a first subwinding and a second subwinding that are arranged next to one another, such that at least one conductor segment of each of the first and second subwinding run alongside one another in a first conductor bundle of the conductor arrangement. In the first conductor bundle, the first subwinding and the second subwinding are connected to one another via a first connecting conductor segment that crosses at least one further conductor segment of the conductor arrangement. A system for an inductive power transfer having at least two respective conductor arrangements, and a method for manufacturing a conductor arrangement are also disclosed.
US11798734B2
A wireless charging mouse pad, including: a fiber layer; a first colloid adhered to a surface of the fiber layer; a second colloid provided on another surface of the fiber layer; and a first soft layer provided on the second colloid. The invention further relates to a manufacture process of a wireless charging mouse pad, the wireless charging mouse pad is flexible and may be furled to reduce its volume, so that the space occupied may be decreased and the wireless charging mouse pad may be convenient to carry.
US11798729B2
A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion, a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, and a fourth wire that are wound around the winding core portion. A winding portion is formed by winding the respective first to fourth wires around the winding core portion. The winding portion includes a twisted wire portion in which the first wire, the second wire, the third wire, and the fourth wire are collectively twisted.
US11798721B2
A superconducting electromagnet and method for manufacturing, using, monitoring, and controlling same are disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a superconducting electromagnet that includes a superconductor tape including: a first unslotted end; a second unslotted end; and a longitudinally slotted section provided between the first unslotted end and the second unslotted end. The longitudinally slotted section includes a first longitudinal part and a second longitudinal part. The first longitudinal part is provided in a wound manner thereby defining a first coil. The second longitudinal part is provided in a wound manner thereby defining a second coil. These and other embodiments achieve persistent current operation of the superconducting electromagnet without the need for solder joints within the magnet coil itself, which can result in improved stability and reduced power consumption.
US11798711B2
A composite insulator includes an insulating elongated core, a protective layer surrounding the elongated core, the protective layer including an outer surface with a shed profile and an adhesive primer layer disposed between the elongated core and the protective layer for adhering the protective layer to the elongated core, the adhesive primer layer including a coupling agent and particles of a low resistivity material. The method for producing a composite insulator includes preparing a first solution including a solvent, a coupling agent and particles of a low resistivity material, applying the first solution on at least a part of an envelope surface of an insulating elongated core and thus forming one or more first adhesive primer layers and applying a protective layer onto the first adhesive primer layer on the elongated core, wherein the protective layer includes an outer surface with a shed profile.
US11798708B2
A multicore cable includes a plurality of sheathed wires, and a second cover layer covering an outer periphery of the plurality of sheathed wires, wherein the sheathed wire includes a conductor, and a first cover layer covering the conductor, the first cover layer is a crosslinked fluoroelastomer or a crosslinked fluororesin, and the second cover layer is a crosslinked fluoroelastomer.
US11798703B2
A radiation powered device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a semiconductor disposed between the first and second electrodes, and a radioactive source configured to generate a flow of electrons through the semiconductor between the first and second electrodes, wherein the semiconductor comprises diamond material, wherein the radioactive source is embedded within the diamond material, wherein the radioactive source comprises a beta-emitting radioisotope, and atoms of the radioisotope are either substitutionally or interstitially integrated into the diamond material, wherein the diamond material comprises a plurality of regions in the form of layers within a continuous crystal lattice of the diamond material, and wherein at least one layer of the diamond material comprises the radioactive source and at least one layer of the diamond material does not comprise the radioactive source.
US11798701B2
Compositions comprising high levels of high specific activity copper-64, and process for preparing said compositions. The compositions comprise from about 2 Ci to about 15 Ci of copper-64 and have specific activities up to about 3800 mCi copper-64 per microgram of copper. The processes for preparing said compositions comprise bombarding a nickel-64 target with a low energy, high current proton beam, and purifying the copper-64 from other metals by a process comprising ion exchange chromatography or a process comprising a combination of extraction chromatography and ion exchange chromatography.
US11798691B2
A system is for infectious disease notification. The system includes at least one processor, configured to use a machine learning monitoring algorithm, trained on a large number of EMR datasets of patients, to calculate a probability for an infectious disease from a provided EMR dataset and compare the probability of the provided EMR dataset calculated with a known value. In training of the monitoring algorithm, the value represents whether there was an onset of an infectious disease or not and the monitoring algorithm is designed to adjust parameters of the monitoring algorithm. And in evaluating a notification, the value is a threshold value and the system is designed to output a notification upon the probability being greater than the threshold value.
US11798688B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for rapid generation of simulations of a patient's spinal morphology that enable pre-operative viewing of a patient's condition and to assist surgeons in determining the best corrective procedure and with any of the selection, augmentation or manufacture of spinal devices based on the patient specific simulated condition. The simulation is generated by morphing a generic spine model with a three-dimensional curve representation of the patient's particular spinal morphology derived from existing images of the patient's condition. Other anatomical structures in the patient's skeletal system are likewise simulated by morphing a generic normal skeletal model, as applicable, particularly those skeletal entities that are connected directly or indirectly to the spinal column.
US11798685B2
Devices, systems and methods for monitoring glycemic levels in a patient, by calculate a plurality of blood glucose values from a plurality of blood samples taken, calculating a quantile of the blood glucose values taken over a period of days; and creating a Lorenz plot for the blood glucose values in the quantile.
US11798673B2
A wearable device assembly has a housing supporting a controller, display and indicator system thereon. The controller has at least one sensor wherein activity of a user wearing the device is detected. The controller selectively illuminates the indicator system to indicate a level of activity of the user.
US11798671B2
In one implementation, an insulin delivery system using an on-body network includes an insulin delivery device that is adapted to administer dosages of insulin to a patient; a controller that is adapted to control operation of the insulin delivery device, to establish a first network connection in which the controller acts in a central role, and to establish a second network connection in which the controller acts in a peripheral role; one or more peripheral devices that are adapted to generate patient data related to blood glucose levels and to transmit the patient data wirelessly over the first network connection, the peripheral devices acting in a peripheral role over the first network connection; and a mobile application installed on a mobile computing device that is programmed to communicate with the controller over the second network connection, the mobile application communicating in a central role over the second network connection.
US11798670B2
Provided are computer implemented method and systems for providing and monitoring patient compliance with a patient healthcare treatment plan. The method includes receiving, from a healthcare provider over a network, application features for generating a patient application including patient instructions for using a medical therapy, and generating an application for a patient. The application includes at least an input for the user to input data for use in evaluating patient compliance with a treatment plan. In addition, the method includes receiving, from the healthcare provider over the network, a prescription for the application for the patient, and activating the application after the patient receives training on use of the application. The method also may include receiving patient compliance data from the application over the network based on the input.
US11798665B2
Certain embodiments are directed to a method, system, or apparatus, such as a medical imaging device. The method can include retrieving data from a worksheet or form repository server. The data can include one or more fields of a customized worksheet or form. The one or more fields can be based on at least one of an identification of a user, a location of the medical imaging device, or a medical department using the medical imaging device. The method can also include recreating the customized worksheet or form at the medical imaging device based on the received data, and displaying the recreated customized worksheet or form on a graphical user interface connected to the medical imaging device. In addition, the method can include producing a medical image via the medical imaging device, and automatically forwarding the customized worksheet or form and the medical image to a billable workflow or an educational workflow.
US11798661B2
A method is provided for lowering blood pressure in a subject in need thereof by administering a dihydropyridine-type calcium channel blocker pharmaceutical composition to a subject qualified for over-the-counter access to the dihydropyridine-type calcium channel blocker pharmaceutical composition. In some embodiments, the dihydropyridine-type calcium channel blocker pharmaceutical composition includes isradipine, nifedipine, or nisoldipine. In some embodiments, the dihydropyridine-type calcium channel blocker pharmaceutical composition includes 3-O-ethyl 5-O-methyl 2-(2-aminoethoxymethyl)-4-(2-chlorophenyl)-6-methyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11798653B2
Methods for determining treatments for cancer patients are disclosed.
US11798652B2
A system for identifying and ameliorating body degradations, the system comprising a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to receive biological extraction data. Computing device may generate, as a function of a degradation machine-learning model and the biological extraction data, a degradation profile. Computing device may calculate a biological degradation function that is a mathematical function that describes the change in rate of degradation over time corresponding to the user. Computing device may identify, using a degradation imbalance machine-learning process and the degradation profile, a degradation imbalance. Computing device may determine, as a function of the degradation imbalance machine-learning process and the degradation imbalance, a degradation antidote strategy to decrease the rate of biological degradation of a user by performing a simulation. Computing device may display to a user the degradation antidote strategy and a degradation prevention instruction set for a user to alter degradation rates.
US11798647B2
Apparatus might include an array of memory cells and a controller for access of the array of memory cells. The controller might be configured to cause the apparatus to apply a sense voltage level to a control gate of a memory cell of the array of memory cells, generate N determinations whether the memory cell is deemed to activate or deactivate while applying the sense voltage level, wherein N is an integer value greater than or equal to three, deem the memory cell to have a threshold voltage in a first range of threshold voltages lower than the sense voltage level in response to a majority of the N determinations indicating activation of the memory cell, and deem the memory cell to have a threshold voltage in a second range of threshold voltages higher than the sense voltage level in response to a majority of the N determinations indicating activation of the memory cell.
US11798636B2
Methods, systems, and devices for an improved power supply for a memory device are described. An apparatus may include a memory device, one or more voltage detectors, and one or more voltage converters. A voltage detector may generate an output indicating whether a voltage at a first pin of the apparatus satisfies a threshold. A voltage converter may be coupled with the voltage detector and may be configured to selectively output a second voltage depending on the output of the voltage detector. Circuitry within the memory device may be coupled with one or more voltage detectors and one or more voltage converters and configured to select a supply voltage for another component of the memory device from among the first voltage (e.g., received from the first pin) and the second voltage (e.g., selectively generated and output by the voltage converter) based on the output from the voltage detector.
US11798632B2
A write line circuit includes a power supply node configured to carry a power supply voltage level, a reference node configured to carry a reference voltage level, an output node, first and second switching devices coupled in series between the output node and the power supply node, and a third switching device directly coupled to each of the output node and the reference node. The first switching device is configured to selectively couple the output node to the second switching device responsive to a first data signal, the second switching device is configured to selectively couple the first switching device to the power supply node responsive to a second data signal, and the third switching device is configured to selectively couple the output node to the reference node responsive to the first data signal.
US11798629B2
Each of memory blocks of a nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell region including first metal pads, first memory cells of a first portion of pillar, and second memory cells of a second portion of the pillar, and a peripheral circuit region including second metal pads, a row decoder, and a page buffer. When performing program operations based on consecutive addresses at a memory block selected from the memory blocks, the nonvolatile memory device sequentially completes first program operations of non-adjacent memory cells not adjacent to a boundary of the first portion and the second portion from among the first and second memory cells and then completes a second program operation of an adjacent memory cell adjacent to the boundary. The peripheral circuit region is vertically connected to the memory cell region by the first metal pads and the second metal pads directly.
