US11805188B2
Techniques for hub and spoke publish-subscribe are described herein. In some examples, an outgoing-data database comprising addresses of remote device hubs on respective remote devices is maintained. First data is received from a first process operating on the device. The first data is sent to a first remote hub associated with a first remote device and associated with an entry in the outgoing-data database. An incoming-data database is maintained to associate processes operating on the device with data to which the processes subscribe. Second data is received from a second device hub associated with a second device. It is determined—by reference to the incoming-data database—that the second data is data subscribed-to by a second process operating on the device. The second data is sent to the second process.
US11805182B2
A first server can generate user profiles and receive requests from user devices for enrollment in a first server-managed system that includes user groups. The first server can provide a unique key to a user device during an enrolment process based on a user group the user device is assigned to. The first server can include an enrollment notification for the user device in a first notification transmitted to a messaging service. The messaging service can transmit a second notification to the user device, and the user device can request a user profile from a second server based on second server access information included in the second notification. The second server can use the unique key to access user profile information which it transmits to the user device based on the request. The user device can access the user profile from the profile information using the unique key.
US11805180B2
Native activity tracking using credential and authentication management in scalable data networks is described, including detecting a request from an extension installed on a browser to access a data network, initiating another request from the extension to a server to retrieve authentication data to access the data network, transferring from the server to the extension the authentication data and an instruction to the extension to generate a further request, transmitting the further request to the data network from the browser, the request comprising the authentication data from the server without manual input of the authentication data, presenting an overlay on the browser, the overlay being configured to indicate a login status associated with the data network, and storing one or more portions of data transferred between the data network and the browser, the storing being performed by the extension if access to the data network has been provided to the browser in response to the request.
US11805159B2
Methods and systems for verbal polling during a conference call discussion are provided. A graphical user interface (UI) is provided to participants of a video conference call. The UI enables one of the participants to verbally provide a question for polling of one or more additional participants of the participants. An indication that a first participant is to provide a verbal question is received via the UI. The verbal question provided by the first participant is recorded. An indication that the first participant has finished providing the verbal question is received via the UI. A determination is made that the verbal question is to be used for polling of second participants of the video conference call. A textual form of the verbal question is provided to the one or more second participants of the video conference call in the UI.
US11805156B2
The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) communication system or a sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The disclosure provides rendering of fisheye 360 degree video contents, including fisheye circular image videos. A method of a transmitting device is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a receiving device, a Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer message for negotiation of parameter associated with a fisheye image, and receiving, from the receiving device, a fisheye SDP answer message including second fisheye image related information generated based on first fisheye image related information included in the SDP offer message. wherein the first fisheye image related information includes first maximum packing information indicating a maximum number of fisheye images that is available to be packed into one stream.
US11805147B2
The present describes simulating a threat-actor executing an attack execution operation. According to one aspect of the subject matter described in this disclosure, a method for generating a domain-specific language (DSL) simulant is disclosed. The method may comprise determining, a framework based on an attack repository, determining a first primitive based on the framework, and determining a second primitive based on the framework. In one implementation, the first primitive and the second primitive are fundamental structures or constructs within a DSL. The method further comprises combining the first primitive and the second primitive into a DSL simulant. In one implementation, the DSL simulant is executed to simulate a threat-actor executing an attack execution operation.
US11805145B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to determining a defense surface change command to be applied to a defense surface. An organizational threat profile is stored and a baseline exposure score for threats is generated. The baseline exposure score is weighted based on at least the organizational threat profile to generate a prioritized exposure score. A defense surface change command is generated based on at least the prioritized exposure score, which is transmitted to hardware or software components, and an updated prioritized exposure score for the one or more hardware or software components is generated.
US11805144B1
Security related anomalies in the data related to network entities are identified, and a risk score is assigned to each entity based on the anomalies. Visualization data is generated for a color-coded interactive visualization. Generating the visualization data includes assigning each entity to a separate polygon to be displayed concurrently on a display screen; selecting a size of each polygon to indicate one of: a number of security related anomalies associated with the entity, or a risk level assigned to the entity, where the risk level is based on the risk score of the entity, and selecting a color of each polygon to indicate the other one of: the number of security related anomalies associated with the entity, or the risk level assigned to the entity; and causing, the color-coded interactive visualization to be displayed on a display device based on the visualization data.
US11805143B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for detecting anomalies in computer network traffic with fewer false positives and without the need for time-consuming and unreliable historical baselines. Upon detection, traffic anomalies can be processed to determine valuable network insights, including health of interfaces, devices and network services, as well as to provide timely alerts in the event of attack.
US11805142B2
A communication system including an operational network including a host and a learning and detection server, and a staging network including a host of the same type as the host, a test execution server, and a learning and detection server. The test execution server performs a communication test by transmitting test communication in a normal state to the host and receiving communication performed by the host. The learning and detection server learns the communication of the host, generates an initial model for detecting an anomalous communication of the host, and transmits the initial model to the learning and detection server. The learning and detection server learns the communication of the host and generates a model for detecting an anomalous communication of the host, while monitoring the communication of the host using the initial model received from the learning and detection server.
US11805135B2
Embodiments provide for distributed transaction-based provenance tracking of agricultural data, secured access to authorized user accounts, auditability of the data, and transactional oversight of the data when exchanged between user accounts. A distributed ledger network including a primary node and a plurality of secondary nodes can store transactions generated based on various operations on or associated with agricultural data, including the certification of select portions of agricultural data collected by a data collection device, commands received from client devices associated with user accounts purchasing or licensing the agricultural data, and detected attempts to access the agricultural data, among other things. The primary node provides a variety of security features that can ensure that the agricultural data is protected, remains auditable by tracking the provenance of the agricultural data, and cannot be subjected to unauthorized sale, each feature having ironclad reliability based on immutable transactions stored on a distributed ledger.
US11805130B1
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable secure data aggregation in an aggregation database. The aggregation database has an aggregation database schema configured to communicate with entity-specific databases via entity-specific secure connections. The aggregation database receives, from the entity-specific databases, user profiles having an entity identifier identifying an entity, and a metric associated with a user. Groups associated with the user profiles are determined based on the metric associated with each user profile. The user profiles are ranked within each group for a ranking across the entity-specific databases based on the metric. A percentile rank in each group across the entity-specific databases is determined for each user profile. Each user profile is modified to include the percentile rank and are returned to each entity-specific database without other user profiles not associated with each respective entity-specific database.
US11805128B2
Disclosed is a method and authentication server for authentication of users requesting access to a restricted data resource from a communication device. Communication between the communication device and the authentication server passes via an access server, and the RADIUS protocol is used for the communication between the authentication server and the access server. After validating password and username entered by a user, the authentication server sends a request to the communication device to enter an authentication device ID. When receiving an entered authentication device ID, the authentication server performs authentication of the user based on a second authentication procedure using the received authentication device ID and when the second authentication procedure is successful, the user is granted access to the restricted data resource. The user can therefore decide which of a plurality of different authentication devices to use.
US11805112B2
This disclosure describes techniques for performing enhanced authentication of a device based on physical and logical proximity of the device to one or more other authenticated devices. An example method includes performing, at a first time, a first authentication of a first device or a first user of the first device and determining that the first device is connected to at least one second device in a communication session. The at least one second device or at least one second user of the at least one second device are authenticated. The example method further includes determining a reauthentication interval based on the first device being connected to the at least one second device in the communication session and initiating, at a second time that is after the first time by the reauthentication interval, a second authentication of the first device or the first user of the first device.
US11805110B2
Provided is a method for transmitting data packets over a network from a sender to a receiver via a communication link consisting of at least one transmission section, via which the data packet is transmitted from a sender node to a receiver node, the method having the following steps for at least one transmission section: first security information, which includes information about a cryptographic protective function used in the transmission of the data packet via an adjacent transmission section, is assigned to the data packet by the sender node, the data packet having the assigned security information is transmitted to the receiver node of the transmission section, the security information is checked in the receiver node against a preset guideline, and at least one measure is provided in accordance with the result of the check.
US11805095B2
A system provides for event-driven redirection of IP service flows and receives, by a DHCP server, an add event corresponding to a specified MAC address; provides a new DHCP lease for the specified address; transmits, by the DHCP server and to an Internet gateway, new instructions comprising one or more of a new IP address, subnet mask, and specified DNS servers; and, through DNS services and routing, redirects all network traffic originating from the Internet gateway to a specified destination. Some embodiments receive a remove event corresponding to the specified address; provide a second new DHCP lease for the specified address; transmit to an Internet gateway, second new instructions comprising one or more of a second new IP address, second subnet mask, and second specified DNS servers; and, through DNS services and routing, direct all network traffic originating from the Internet gateway back to unfettered, but monitored, Internet access.
US11805092B2
Methods and systems for performing a Mapping of Address and Port using translation (MAP-T) data plane verification. A method for performing a MAP-T data plane verification includes initiating, by a diagnostic server provisioned with at least MAP-T diagnostic rules, a MAP-T diagnostic on a border relay provisioned with MAP-T rules, generating, by the diagnostic server, a diagnostic packet per the MAP-T diagnostic rules, sending, by the diagnostic server, the diagnostic packet to the border relay, performing, by the border relay, a translation on the diagnostic packet per the provisioned MAP-T rules, analyzing, by the diagnostic server to generate a report, at least a translation accuracy of a received translated diagnostic packet, and configuring at least one device based on a received report.
US11805089B2
Conversation slipstream propagation can include using machine learning to construct a conversations graph representing conversations conducted over an electronic communications network by a plurality of participants and collected from one or more messaging platforms. A conversation slipstream comprising one or more communications extracted from the conversations can be generated in response to receiving a secondary communication over the electronic communications network. Each of the one or more communications extracted is represented by a sub-graph of the conversations graph, each sub-graph corresponding to a graph of the secondary communication. The conversation slipstream can be presented to at least one participant to the secondary communication.
US11805085B2
A fifth generation (5G) network can provide Rich Communication Services (RCS) between multiple user equipment (UE) of different device types and/or different operating systems. An RCS server in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) can be used to format data associated with a chat between UEs having different operating systems. The RCS server can initiate, establish, maintain, format, augment, or otherwise determine a rich communication chat message between the UEs over the 5G network.
US11805077B2
A method and apparatus of a network element that processes control plane data in a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element receives control plane data and determines a class of the control plane data. In addition, the network element marks the control plane data based on at least on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the class of the control plane data. Furthermore, the network element queues the control plane data.
US11805068B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to conditionally delaying fulfillment of client update requests in order to preserve network bandwidth and other resources that may be consumed when an ecosystem of linked assistant devices are repeatedly pinging servers for updates. In some implementations, a server device can delay and/or bypass fulfillment of a client request based on one or more indications that certain requested data is currently, or is expected to be, expired. For example, a user that is modifying assistant settings via a cellular device can cause an update notification to be pushed to several other assistant devices before the user finishes editing the assistant settings. Implementations herein can limit fulfillment of update requests from the client devices according to certain criteria—such as whether the user is continuing to modify the assistant settings from their cellular device.
US11805065B2
Packets are differentiated based on their traffic class. A traffic class is allocated bandwidth for transmission. One or more core or thread can be allocated to process packets of a traffic class for transmission based on allocated bandwidth for that traffic class. If multiple traffic classes are allocated bandwidth, and a traffic class underutilizes allocated bandwidth or a traffic class is allocated insufficient bandwidth, then allocated bandwidth can be adjusted for a future transmission time slot. For example, a higher priority traffic class with excess bandwidth can share the excess bandwidth with a next highest priority traffic class for use to allocate packets for transmission for the same time slot. In the same or another example, bandwidth allocated to a traffic class depends on an extent of insufficient allocation or underutilization of allocated bandwidth such that a traffic class with insufficient allocated bandwidth in one or more prior time slot can be provided more bandwidth in a current time slot and a traffic class with underutilization of allocated bandwidth can be provided with less allocated bandwidth for a current time slot.
US11805063B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node may receive, from a second wireless node, a round-trip time timing advance indicator, wherein the round-trip time timing advance indicator is different from a timing advance indicator used for an uplink transmission timing advance message. In some aspects, the first wireless node may synchronize a timing configuration of the first wireless node to at least one of the second wireless node or a third wireless node based at least in part on the round-trip time timing advance indicator. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11805056B2
The disclosure herein describes a system, which provides service switching in a datacenter environment. The system can include a service switching gateway, which can identify a service tag associated with a received packet. During operation, the service switching gateway determines a source client, a requested service, or both for the packet based on the service tag, identifies a corresponding service portal based on the service tag, and forwards the packet toward the service portal. The service switching gateway can optionally maintain a mapping between the service tag and one or more of: a source client, a required service, the service portal, and a tunnel encapsulation. The service switching gateway can encapsulate the packet based on an encapsulation mechanism supported by the service portal and forward the packet based on the mapping.
US11805054B1
A method of routing data packets for a router is provided. The router includes a software network address translator (NAT) and a hardware NAT. The method includes routing, by the software NAT, a first data packet based on a routing rule stored in the software NAT, wherein the software NAT has a routing rule removing function to remove the routing rule stored in the software NAT; sending, by the software NAT, the routing rule to the hardware NAT; storing the routing rule, by the hardware NAT, in the hardware NAT; and routing, by the hardware NAT instead of the software NAT, a second data packet based on the routing rule stored in the hardware NAT. The routing rule removing function of the software NAT for the routing rule stored in the software NAT is disabled.
US11805036B2
Some embodiments provide a method for detecting a failure of a layer 2 (L2) bump-in-the-wire service at a device. In some embodiments, the device sends heartbeat signals to a second device connected to L2 service nodes in order to detect failure of the L2 service (e.g., a failure of all the service nodes). In some embodiments, the heartbeat signals are unidirectional heartbeat signals (e.g., a unidirectional bidirectional-forwarding-detection (BFD) session) sent from each device to the other. The heartbeat signals, in some embodiments, use a broadcast MAC address in order to reach the current active L2 service node in the case of a failover (i.e., an active service node failing and a standby service node becoming the new active service node). The unidirectional heartbeat signals are also used, in some embodiments, to decrease the time between a failover and data messages being forwarded to the new active service node.
US11805032B2
A deployable customer self-service (CSS) system is described. The deployable CSS includes a user interface, a web portal configured to load and display the user interface, a service configured to provide data to the user interface based on a system of record or third party service, and an integration connector for connecting the service to the system of record or third party service such that the service is agnostic to the format of the system of record or third party service.
US11805029B2
A method is performed at one or more entities configured to configure and provide assurance for a service enabled on a network. The service is configured as a collection of subservices on network devices of the network. A definition of the service is decomposed into a subservice dependency graph that indicates the subservices and dependencies between the subservices that collectively implement the service. Based on the subservice dependency graph, the subservices are configured to record and report subservice metrics indicative of subservice health states of the subservices. The subservice metrics are obtained from the subservices, and the subservice health states of the subservices are determined based on the subservice metrics. A health state of the service is determined based on the subservice health states. One or more of the subservices are reconfigured based on the health state of the service.
US11805026B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for utilizing training sequences on a replica lane are described. A transmitter is coupled to a receiver via a communication channel with a plurality of lanes. One of the lanes is a replica lane used for tracking the drift in the optimal sampling point due to temperature variations, power supply variations, or other factors. While data is sent on the data lanes, test patterns are sent on the replica lane to determine if the optimal sampling point for the replica lane has drifted since a previous test. If the optimal sampling point has drifted for the replica lane, adjustments are made to the sampling point of the replica lane and to the sampling points of the data lanes.
US11805023B2
A cloud-based IoT device virtualization network system includes: a cloud-based virtual server which, in response to registration requests received from multiple IoT devices, creates virtual sensing objects and virtual actuating objects for the IoT devices including various sensors and actuators, and creates a virtual object list and a mapping table presenting information about the connections between the IoT devices and the virtual objects and stores the created table and list therein; a client terminal including a client application stored therein which receives the virtual object list from the virtual server, sets connection relations between the virtual objects on the basis of the virtual object list, and transmits the settings to the virtual server; and a controller formed in the cloud to operate connectivity between the virtual sensing objects and the virtual actuating objects according to the connection settings of the client application.
US11805011B2
In one example, a network management system discovers a plurality of network devices behind a network address translation device, such as a firewall. The network management system may receive a model of a seed network device, generate a first activation configuration and commit the first activation configuration on the seed network device. The network management system may connect to the seed network device and discover neighboring devices from information in the seed network device. The network management system may connect to the neighboring devices, automatically create a model of the neighboring network devices, generate s activation configurations for the neighboring network devices and commit the activation configurations on the neighboring network devices. The network management system may iterative perform these steps until it discovers all the discoverable network devices behind the network address translation device.
US11805004B2
A monitoring device for troubleshooting events in a datacenter network identifies a first network event for a time period, and provides an initial display page, one or more additional display pages, selectable display objects, and a representation of the first network event. The device generates a dynamic troubleshooting path for the first network event to track a user navigation between display pages, a manipulation of the one or more selectable display objects, and a last-current display page, and also provides an indication of a second network event associated with higher resolution priority relative to the first network event. Retrieving the dynamic troubleshooting path causes the interface to present the last-current display page, apply the manipulation of the one or more selectable display objects, and load the user navigation between the initial dashboard display page and the one or more additional display pages in a cache.
US11804996B2
Systems and methods providing guard bands for resource blocks of full duplex slot configured bandwidth parts (BWPs) are described. One or more guard bands of an intra-cell guard band allocation with respect to a full duplex BWP configuration may be determined using a full duplex guard band message containing information regarding guard bands between RB sets of a BWP when used in a full duplex slot configuration. Additionally or alternatively, one or more guard bands of an intra-cell guard band allocation with respect to a full duplex BWP configuration may be determined using half duplex guard band messages containing information regarding guard bands between RB sets of a BWP when used in a corresponding half duplex slot duplex configuration. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11804981B2
The present application relates to a method and apparatus for intelligent wireless protocol optimization including storing, in a memory, a first customer key and a second customer key, receiving, by a processor, a secret key, decrypting, by the processor, the secret key using a first customer key to extract a master key, provisioning, by the processor, an electronic control unit in response to the master key, and deleting, by the processor, the second customer key in response to the provisioning of electronic control unit in response to the master key.
US11804967B2
Computer systems and methods for verifying a route taken by a communication are disclosed. In one implementation, a device for verifying a route taken by a communication may include one or more processors configured to obtain a communication transmitted by a source entity. The communication may include data and digital signatures, and each of the digital signatures may be generated based on at least the data. Further, the digital signatures may include a digital signature associated with the source entity, and a set of digital signatures associated with at least a subset of intermediate entities on a route taken by the communication. The one or more processors may be further configured to verify the digital signatures included in the communication, verify whether the entities associated with the digital signatures form an expected route for the communication, and process the data.
US11804956B2
Embodiments provide methods, and systems for cryptographic keys exchange where the method can include receiving, by a server system, a client public key being part of a client asymmetric key pair from a client device; sending, by the server system, a server public key being part of a server asymmetric key pair to the client device; generating, by the server system, a random value master key and sending the random value master key encrypted using the client public key to the client device; and generating, by the server system, an initial unique session key and sending the initial unique session key encrypted under the random value master key to the client device. A unique session key from the set of the unique session keys is used by the client device to encrypt a session data for transmission to the server system per session.
US11804955B1
Embodiments of an automatic key delivery system and methods of use are described. One computerized method utilizing an automatic key delivery system includes operations of establishing, by a first network device, a communication session with a second network device, transmitting first content to the second network device during the communication session, wherein the first content is encrypted with a first encryption format, and transmitting second content to the second network device during the communication session, wherein the second content is encrypted with a second encryption format. The computerized method may further includes operations of receiving, from the second network device, third content during the communication session, wherein the third content is encrypted with the first encryption format, and decrypting the third content using a first cryptographic key corresponding to the first encryption format.
US11804954B2
Media, system, and method for providing encryption key management to an automated workflow within a group-based communication system. The automated workflow is encrypted using an organization-specific encryption key and is stored in a data store. Responsive to a triggering event, the encrypted workflow is retrieved from the data store to be decrypted and a corresponding decryption key is retrieved from a key store. The decrypted workflow performs a series of steps responsive to determining that a trigger condition has been met. The steps may be associated with at least one of sending a form and sending a message to a user within the group-based communication system.
US11804948B2
Systems and methods are provided for enabling reliable signaling in the presence of strong phase noise and frequency offset. To this end, a method is provided comprising receiving, at a receiver, a communication signal, including data, from a transmitter via a communication channel, and jointly tracking and jointly correcting phase noise errors and frequency errors in the communication signal with a joint detector using an iterative feedback correction process between an output decoder of the receiver and the joint detector.
US11804941B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor receiving trigger information from a base wireless communication terminal using the transceiver, and transmits an Aggregate-MAC Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) to the base wireless communication terminal based on the trigger information.
US11804924B2
A search space blind detection method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: a terminal receives indication information that corresponds to a first search space set and that is sent by a network device, where the indication information is used to indicate one or more search space groups, one search space group includes at least two search spaces having an association relationship, and at least one search space in one search space group belongs to the first search space set; and then, the terminal determines, based on the indication information, a quantity of blind detection times corresponding to the first search space set. The quantity of blind detection times corresponding to the first search space set is determined by considering an association relationship between a plurality of search spaces.
US11804922B2
In one aspect, an MME throttles (or otherwise controls) the amount or frequency of UL data that a UE transmits in the control plane, such as by communicating to the UE rate control information (e.g., a throttling factor or throttling delay). For instance, the MME may throttle NAS messages with user data (i.e., NAS Data PDUs) sent using control plane CIoT EPS optimization by adding a throttling factor and/or a throttling delay in a NAS message sent to the UE.
US11804919B2
Two or more modules communicate over a common control network including receiving by a message packet having data defined by a signal level at defined bit quanta of a bit, the defined bit quanta being less than every bit quanta of a bit, and the communication device samples bit quanta other than the defined bit quanta. The module receives signal disturbances and decodes the signal disturbances as having a value different from an expected value of the certain bit. In another form, the module uses a first counter based on a clock local to the communication device and a second counter having a higher sampling rate than the first counter. Here, the module receives over the control network a synchronizing portion of a message and counts clock ticks of the second counter over a portion of the message to determine a clock rate for a module that transmitted the message.
US11804910B1
A transmitter is configured to transmit data to a receiver over a communications network. The transmitter includes a memory for storing computer-executable instructions and a processor in operable communication with the memory. The processor is configured to (i) collect spectrum data of a spectral band over a first sampling interval, and (ii) store the collected spectrum data in the memory. The transmitter further includes a common path distortion (CPD) detection unit configured to (i) sample the collected spectrum data, over a second sampling interval less than the first sampling interval, for a plurality of sub-bands within the spectral band, (ii) analyze the spectral band and each sub-band for indications of common path distortion, and (iii) inject a test signal configured for detection at a headend of the communications network. The transmitter further includes a modem portion configured to operably communicate with the headend and the receiver.
US11804909B2
A method of communication includes notify, by an optical line terminal (OLT), an optical network unit (ONU) a first time period assigned to a first power saving operation and a second time period assigned to a second power saving operation, and perform, by the OLT, the second power saving operation for a receiver of the OLT during the second time period and the first power saving operation for a transmitter of the OLT during the first time period.
US11804900B2
The present disclosure aims to make it possible to simultaneously establish communication between many freely-selected radio terminals without using a complex relay network or a plurality of radio relays. The present disclosure is a communication network system including: a plurality of optical-radio converters 521-1 to 521-n that convert a radio signal and an optical fiber radio signal into each other; and a path controller that is connected to the plurality of optical-radio converters 521-1 to 521-n through optical fiber transmission lines 531-1 to 531-n, receives input of an optical fiber radio signal transmitted from any optical-radio converter of the plurality of optical-radio converters 521-1 to 521-n from the optical fiber transmission line connected to the optical-radio converter, and outputs the optical fiber radio signal to the optical fiber transmission line connected to a set optical-radio converter of the plurality of optical-radio converters 521-1 to 521-n.
US11804899B2
A vehicle communication system includes an optical cable, a centralized hub device, and an antenna hub device. The centralized hub device is connected to a first end of the optical cable and is configured to receive radio frequency (RF) signals from multiple end devices. The centralized hub device is configured to convert the RF signals to respective optical carrier signals and transmit the optical carrier signals along the optical cable at different, non-overlapping wavelength bands of a combined optical signal. The antenna hub device is connected to a second end of the optical cable. The antenna hub device is configured to receive the combined optical signal and to convert the optical carrier signals thereof to RF signals, amplify the RF signals, and transmit the RF signals to one or more antennas.
US11804897B2
An uplink transmission band and a downlink transmission band that are allocated to each of a plurality of users are determined based on allocation information indicating allocation of a frequency bandwidth available to each of the plurality of users, and are output as uplink transmission band allocation information and downlink transmission band allocation information, respectively. Based on the downlink transmission band allocation information, downlink signals output from a plurality of wireless control devices toward a plurality of wireless devices for each of the plurality of users, and the uplink transmission band allocation information are multiplexed, and the multiplexed signal is demultiplexed into downlink signals for each of the plurality of users and the uplink transmission band allocation information. Based on the demultiplexed uplink transmission band allocation information, the uplink transmission band allocated to each of the plurality of users is changed, and uplink signals output from the plurality of wireless devices toward the plurality of wireless control devices for each of the plurality of users are multiplexed according to the changed uplink transmission band and then, the multiplexed signal is demultiplexed into the uplink signals for each of the plurality of users.
US11804888B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. The electronic apparatus for wireless communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control to carry out carrier aggregation communication with a base station by means of at least a first cell and a second cell. The processing circuit is further configured to perform control to send first information for beam failure recovery of the second cell to the base station by means of the first cell.
US11804878B2
An access point (AP) includes circuitry, which, in operation, generates a frame that includes joint transmission (JT) data and a JT identity that uniquely identifies the JT data. The access point further includes a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the frame to one or more APs that jointly transmit the JT data to a communication apparatus.
US11804873B1
A transmission system includes a first device and a second device remote from the first device. The first device transmits electrical energy to a transmission line during a power provision phase, generates and transmits data symbols to the transmission line during a downstream transmission phase, and receives data symbols from the transmission line during an upstream transmission phase. The second device receives the energy from the transmission line during the power provision phase, receives the data symbols from the transmission line during the downstream transmission phase, and generates and transmits the data symbols to the transmission line during the upstream transmission phase, and the second device generates and transmits data symbols by shorting or disconnecting the transmission line. A method of transmitting electrical energy from the local device to the remote device, and communicating data symbols between the local and remote devices is also disclosed.
US11804870B2
In a broadband wireless communication system, a spread spectrum signal is intentionally overlapped with an OFDM signal, in a time domain, a frequency domain, or both. The OFDM signal, which inherently has a high spectral efficiency, is used for carrying broadband data or control information. The spread spectrum signal, which is designed to have a high spread gain for overcoming severe interference, is used for facilitating system functions such as initial random access, channel probing, or short messaging. Methods and techniques are devised to ensure that the mutual interference between the overlapped signals is minimized to have insignificant impact on either signal and that both signals are detectable with expected performance by a receiver.
US11804862B2
In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes: a first radio frequency (RF) circuit configured to receive and process a first RF signal having a sub-gigahertz (GHz) frequency to output a first lower frequency signal and to transmit RF signals having the sub-GHz frequency; a second RF circuit configured to receive and process a second RF signal having a frequency of at least substantially 2.4 GHz to output a second lower frequency signal and to transmit RF signals at the at least substantially 2.4 GHz; shared analog circuitry coupled to the first RF circuit and the second RF circuit, the shared analog circuitry to receive at least one of the first RF signal or the second RF signal and output a digital output signal; and a digital circuit coupled to the shared analog circuit, the digital circuit to recover message information from the digital output signal.
US11804849B2
An infinite impulse response filter includes a plurality of lower order filter stages and a random number generator circuit. The plurality of lower order filter stages include a first filter stage coupled to a second filter stage. The random number generator circuit includes a first output coupled to the first filter stage and a second output coupled to the second filter stage. The random number generator circuit is configured to generate the same random value at both the first output and the second output. The infinite impulse response filter is an nth-order filter. The respective order of each of the lower order filter stages is less than n.
US11804844B2
A device includes a programmable logic fabric. The programmable logic fabric includes a first area, wherein a first persona is configured to be programmed in the first area. The programmable logic fabric also includes a second area, wherein a second persona is configured to be programmed in the second area in a second persona programming time. The device is configured to be controlled by a host to switch from running the first persona to running the second persona in a time less than the second persona programming time.
US11804836B1
The present disclosure provides designs and techniques to improve turn “off” times of a bootstrapped switch, maximizing the total “on” time of the bootstrapped switch. The techniques described herein provide a protection device coupled to the bootstrapped switch. The protection device may be controlled by an input voltage to the bootstrapped switch during a boosting phase and may be controlled by a constant voltage during a non-boosting phase. The techniques for reducing turn “off” times are particularly useful in high-speed applications, such as high-speed, low-voltage analog-to-digital converters.
US11804834B2
An electromagnetic interference regulator by use of capacitive parameters of the field-effect transistor for detecting the induced voltage and the induced current of the field-effect transistor to determine whether the operating frequency of the field-effect transistor is within the preset special management frequency of electromagnetic interference. When the basic frequency and the multiplied frequency exceed the limit, the content of the external capacitor unit can be adjusted to assist the products using field-effect transistors to maintain excellent electromagnetic interference adjustment capabilities under various loads, thereby optimizing the characteristics of electromagnetic interference.
US11804830B2
A clock filter device for finding an optimal cut-off frequency of a clock filter through a controller to achieve an effective clock filtering is illustrated. Further, in the calibration mode, a reference clock that has not passed the clock filter and a reference clock that has passed the clock filter make a first counter and a second counter count respectively. After the first counter counts to a specific value, a count value of the second counter is obtained. The count values of the first counter and the second counter are compared to each other to determine whether the two values are approximate or not. When the two values are not approximate, the previous cut-off frequency of the clock filter is taken as the optimal cut-off frequency. Therefore, the clock filter can adopt the optimal cut-off frequency in a working mode to effectively filter out the noise an input clock.
US11804828B2
Aspects of the invention include receiving, by a controller, an indication of a chip initialization for a duty cycle correction (DCC) circuit, wherein the duty cycle correction circuit includes a main path including a main multiplexer (MUX) having a first input and a main driver circuit, a replica path including a replica MUX having a second input and a replica driver circuit, a selection MUX connected to the main path and the replica path, operating the selection MUX, during a period for the chip initialization, to select the main path as an input to the selection MUX, inputting a pre-defined data pattern to the main path, comparing an output of the selection MUX with the pre-defined data pattern to determine duty cycle issue, and generating an adjustment vector based on the determined duty cycle issue.
US11804827B2
A method for validating operation of a driver integrated circuit includes providing a signal using an output node. The signal is provided using multiple set points in response to a change in state of an input signal. Each set point corresponds to a different phase of a multi-phase transition of the signal. The method includes providing a timer value at an end of a phase of the multi-phase transition and determining whether the signal is in a target signal range of the phase based on the timer value at the end of the phase, a predetermined value defining the target signal range of the phase, and a predetermined time limit for the phase. A current through the output node may be provided using the multiple set points, and a voltage on the output node may have the multi-phase transition.
US11804826B2
A semiconductor device includes a first functional block configured to provide a first predetermined function, a second functional block configured to provide a second predetermined function, a first capacitive device, a second capacitive device, a first coupling path, a first switch device and a second switch device. The first capacitive device is disposed physically proximate the first functional block. The second capacitive device is disposed physically proximate the second functional block. The first coupling path includes at least a first connection node connecting to the first functional block. The first switch device is controlled to selectively connect the first capacitive device to the first connection node. The second switch device is controlled to selectively connect the second capacitive device to the second functional block or a second connection node. The second connection node is disposed on the first coupling path and connecting to the first connection node.
US11804824B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a filter. The filter generally includes a series resonator coupled between a first port of the filter and a second port of the filter, and a shunt resonator coupled between a node of the filter and a reference potential node of the filter, the node being coupled between the first port and the second port. The shunt resonator typically includes a first piezoelectric substrate, a first plurality of reflectors disposed above the first piezoelectric substrate, and a first plurality of interdigital transducers (IDTs) disposed above the first piezoelectric substrate and between the first plurality of reflectors, wherein the shunt resonator is configured as a dual mode structure (DMS).
US11804822B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a surface acoustic wave resonator. The surface acoustic wave resonator includes a piezoelectric substrate, interdigital transducer electrodes formed on an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a dielectric temperature compensation layer formed on the piezoelectric substrate to cover the interdigital transducer electrodes, and a dielectric passivation layer over the temperature compensation layer. The passivation layer may include an oxide layer configured to have a sound velocity greater than that of the temperature compensation layer to suppress a transverse signal transmission.
US11804821B2
The present disclosure provides a high frequency surface acoustic wave resonator and a method for making the same. The high frequency surface acoustic wave resonator includes: a high wave velocity supporting substrate, a piezoelectric film disposed on a top surface of the high wave velocity supporting substrate, and a top electrode disposed on a top surface of the piezoelectric film; a velocity of a body wave propagating in the high wave velocity supporting substrate is greater than a velocity of a target elastic wave propagating in the piezoelectric film. The conductivity of the high wave velocity supporting substrate is greater than 1E3 Ω·cm. The high frequency surface acoustic wave resonator and the method for making the same of the present disclosure solve the problem that the operating frequency of the traditional surface acoustic wave resonator is low.
US11804813B2
This application relates to Class D amplifier circuits. A modulator controls a Class D output stage based on a modulator input signal (Dm) to generate an output signal (Vout) which is representative of an input signal (Din). An error block, which may comprise an ADC, generates an error signal (ε) from the output signal and the input signal. In various embodiments the extent to which the error signal (ε) contributes to the modulator input signal (Dm) is variable based on an indication of the amplitude of the input signal (Din). The error signal may be received at a first input of a signal selector block. The input signal may be received at a second input of the signal selector block. The signal selector block may be operable in first and second modes of operation, wherein in the first mode the modulator input signal is based at least in part on the error signal; and in the second mode the modulator input signal is based on the digital input signal and is independent of the error signal. The error signal can be used to reduce distortion at high signal levels but is not used at low signal levels and so the noise floor at low signal levels does not depend on the component of the error block.
US11804812B2
A method of operating a radio receiver device comprises receiving a plurality of signals with a plurality of corresponding frequencies; applying respective gains to each of the plurality of signals; and storing the gain applied to each signal and its corresponding frequency. The method comprises subsequently receiving a further signal with a further frequency; and applying a further gain to the further signal. The further gain is determined using at least one of the stored gains according to a difference between the further frequency and at least one of the plurality of corresponding frequencies.
US11804810B2
Mechanisms for controlling an audio level of an HDMI audio system are provided, the mechanisms comprising: causing audio data to be presented by an HDMI audio system at a current system volume level; receiving a requested volume level from a second screen device; and controlling a system volume level by: (a) determining the current system volume level; (b) determining a change in volume based on a difference between the requested volume level and the current system volume level; (c) determining a direction in which to cause the system volume level to change; (d) sending a volume control message to the system using a consumer electronic control bus connected to the system indicating whether to increase or decrease the system volume level based on the determined direction of system volume change; and (e) repeating (a)-(d) until the current system volume level reaches a predetermined value.
US11804807B2
An RF generation system is provided for an electromagnetic cooking device having a cavity. The system includes: a signal generator for generating an input RF signal; an RF feed configured to introduce electromagnetic radiation into the cavity and to receive reflected electromagnetic radiation from the cavity; and a high-power amplifier coupled between the signal generator and the RF feed. The high-power amplifier including an amplifying stage configured to output a signal that is amplified in power, and a circulator for directing the amplified output signal to the RF feed and for redirecting any reflected radiation received from the RF feed to a dummy load. The system further includes a hardware protection component for detecting backward power in the reflected radiation and for reducing power supplied to the amplifying stage if the backward power exceeds a power threshold within a time scale that prevents damage to the circulator.
US11804804B2
One embodiment is a reconfigurable mixer topology for selectively implementing one of a harmonic rejection mixer (HRM) and a subharmonic mixer (SHM), the reconfigurable mixer topology comprising a mixer core comprising a plurality of differential mixers each having a first clock input and a second clock input; a clock generator for generating a plurality of clock signals each having a different phase; and a clock distributor for distributing the plurality of clock signals to the first and second clock inputs of the differential mixers in accordance with a designated operation of the reconfigurable mixer as an HRM or an SHM.
US11804800B2
A motor current protecting circuit is provided. A voltage calculating circuit determines whether or not each of low-side switches is fully turned on and then determines whether or not a voltage difference between a first terminal and a second terminal of each of the low-side switches being fully turned on is larger than or equal to a zero value. The voltage calculating circuit adds up the voltage differences each of which is larger than or equal to the zero value to output a voltage signal. A control circuit controls a driver circuit to switch the low-side switches and high-side switches according to the voltage signal.
US11804795B2
This application relates to a motor controller applied to an electric vehicle, a microprocessor in the motor controller, and a sampling trigger method applied to the microprocessor. The sampling trigger method includes: a signal generation module generates an exciting fundamental wave signal to drive the resolver to work; a signal processing module determines an exciting symbol based on the exciting fundamental wave signal, where the exciting symbol includes alternate high-level signals and low-level signals, and the signal processing module further determines a zero crossing point signal of the exciting fundamental wave signal based on the exciting symbol; and a phase shift processing module performs phase shift processing on the zero crossing point signal to obtain a sampling trigger signal, to trigger the microprocessor to sample the resolver feedback signal. In this solution, fewer peripheral circuits of a chip are used, thereby improving a product integration degree.
US11804792B2
Systems and methods for generating mechanical and/or electrical energy are presented. A system generates mechanical energy by using direct current to cause a plurality of rotors to rotate within and/or around a plurality of stators and generate electrical energy by using the rotation of the rotors within and/or around the stators to generate an electromagnetic field. Sensors provide information about the rotors and the stators to a control system which sends commands to alter various properties and conditions for the rotors and stators.
US11804791B2
There is provided a vibrational energy harvester comprising: a frame, a flexure assembly coupled to the frame, the flexure assembly comprising a flexure configured to flex in a first direction relative to the frame and a mass fixed to the flexure, wherein when the mass is displaced in the first direction from a rest position, the flexure provides a restoring force on the mass to bring the mass back to the rest position, and a transduction assembly configured to convert movement of the mass and flexure into electrical energy, wherein the frame comprises a cavity positioned so that, if the mass is displaced in the first direction beyond a threshold distance, a portion of the flexure assembly extends into the cavity so that compression or restriction of fluid in the cavity applies an additional force on the flexure assembly.
US11804790B2
A brushless electric motor is disclosed. A group of permanent magnets are physically attached to a group of piezoelectric actuators which push them toward or pull them away from a second group of permanent magnets when the piezoelectric actuators are electrically activated. The second group of permanent magnets may also be pushed and pulled with a second group of piezoelectric actuators. Alternate configurations using electromagnets are also disclosed. A novel configuration for the groups of electromagnets which maximizes efficiency in a piezoelectrically actuated motor is also disclosed.
US11804776B2
A programmable switch converter controller for a power stage with a switch, an inductor, and a diode, includes a pulse-width modulator. The pulse-width modulator is configured to: generate an on-time interval (Ton) that is fixed or proportional to a demand signal proportional to a load adapted to be coupled to an output of the power stage; generate an off-time interval (Toff) that is inversely proportional to the product of a voltage across the inductor while the switch is off and a demand signal proportional to the load; initiate Ton when Toff elapses; and initiate Ton responsive to an external trigger signal.
US11804773B2
A dead time controller includes a phase detector, a filter circuit and an amplifying circuit. The phase detector generates a detection signal by detecting a phase difference between a first driving control signal applied to a first power transistor and a second driving control signal applied to a second power transistor, the detection signal being associated with a dead time corresponding to an overlapped deactivation interval between the first and second driving control signals. The filter circuit generates a DC voltage signal by filtering and averaging the detection signal based on a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal. The PWM signal is generated by performing a PWM on an output voltage provided at an output node coupled to a second terminal of the inductor. The amplifying circuit generates an amplified voltage signal having a voltage level proportional to the dead time by amplifying the DC voltage signal.
US11804771B2
A customizable power conversion system (1000) is configured to operate with multiple alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power sources (1001,1003) and supplies multiple AC and DC loads (1018,1020,1022,1024). The customizable power conversion system is also configured to be assembled from a plurality of customizable power converters (1004,1006,1008,1010,1012), each of which is configured to function as a building block of the customizable power conversion system. More particularly, each customizable power converter may be configured as any DC/DC, DC/AC, AC/DC, or AC/AC converter, such as any of i) an inverter, ii) a DC/DC converter for use with a photovoltaic (PV) array (or string of PV arrays), and iii) a DC/DC converter for use with an energy storage element (e.g., a battery or battery string).
US11804767B2
The invention relates to a magnetic coupling element (100) with a magnetic bearing function. The magnetic coupling element (100) has a drive-side coupling magnet (109) arranged on a drive shaft (106), and also an output-side coupling magnet (115) arranged on an output shaft (112), the output-side coupling magnet (115) being magnetically coupled to the drive-side coupling magnet (109), and finally a bearing magnet ring (118) which is non-rotatably mounted with respect to the drive-side or output-side coupling magnet (109) or (115), a bearing magnet portion (133, 136) of the bearing magnet ring (118) having the same polarity as a coupling magnet portion (127, 130) opposite the bearing magnet portion (136).
US11804766B2
A linear head module includes a plurality of linear units each having an output member, and a housing. The linear unit has a mover and a stator. The stator has an output-side bearing holder and a counter-output-side bearing holder. The housing has: a main body portion integrally including an output-side surface portion, a counter-output-side surface portion, and a coupling portion that couples the output-side surface portion and the counter-output-side surface portion; a flange facing the output-side surface portion; and a bracket facing the counter-output-side surface portion.
US11804763B2
In an axial gap motor including a rotor and a stator placed apart in a direction of a rotation axis with respect to the rotor, the stator is formed by combination of a plurality of divided pieces containing cores and yokes in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis. A first end portion in the circumferential direction of a first divided piece as one of the divided pieces has a convex portion projecting in the circumferential direction and a second end portion of a second divided piece in contact with the first end portion has a concave portion fitted with the convex portion, and the convex portion is provided in a position apart from a side portion of the first divided piece along the circumferential direction in a radial direction.
US11804759B1
In an aspect of the present disclosure is an electric aircraft motor with a fully welded rotor. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface. The rotor includes a cylindrical portion and spokes welded to the cylindrical portion. In another aspect of the present disclosure is a method for manufacturing a fully welded rotor.
US11804758B2
An electric motor stator includes a magnetic circuit having a plurality of radial polar protuberances. The stator has, for all or some of said protuberances, a set of conductive zones in the general shape of a U, disposed around the protuberance, and the ends of each of the conductive zones are located in the vicinity of a common plane. The stator also has at least one connection component including a plurality of conductive tracks connected to distinct ends of said conductive zones, so as to define a DC electric circuit forming a winding around one or more radial polar protuberances.
US11804757B2
The cold pressure welding apparatus includes a first holding part capable of sandwiching a first flat conductor, a second holding part disposed opposite to the first holding part and capable of sandwiching a second flat conductor, and a drive part for moving the first holding part and the second holding part. The drive part can move the first holding part and the second holding part between a first direction separated position and a close position along a first direction. The drive part can move the first holding part and the second holding part between a second direction separated position and a sandwiching position along a second direction.
US11804750B2
The motor includes a sealing material (dry body of a liquid gasket 41) interposed between a joint surface 3b of a motor housing 3 and a joint surface of an inverter housing, and an O-ring 39. The O-ring 39 is interposed between the motor housing 3 and the inverter housing and disposed so as to surround the communication port 3a1 of the refrigerant flow path 3a. The motor housing 3 includes a groove 3d disposed between the sealing material and the O-ring 39 on the joint surface 3b in a surface direction of the joint surface 3b.
US11804749B2
A stator of the present disclosure includes a stator core, a stator coil wound around the stator core, and a busbar module electrically connected to the stator coil and fixed to a coil end portion formed on one end side of the stator core. The busbar module includes a module body that holds a conductive member, a hole that penetrates the module body, and a bridge portion that extends from a part of the inner peripheral surface of the hole to another part of the inner peripheral surface so as to divide an inside of the hole into a plurality of opening regions and is fixed to the coil end portion with an adhesive introduced into the hole and cured therein. In the stator, the busbar module is fixed more firmly to the coil end formed on one end side of the stator core with the adhesive.
US11804743B2
A rotor (1) of an axial-flux electromagnetic machine having a body comprising an internal hub (2) concentric to the axis of rotation (7). Branches (3) extend radially in relation to the axis of rotation (7) from the internal hub (2) toward a binding band (8) which forms an external circular rim of the rotor (1). In each space defined between two adjacent branches (3) there is a magnet structure (10) comprising a plurality of magnets (4). The body is constituted by a plurality of stacked layers of composite containing fibers bonded by a resin. The fibers of each layer are oriented in a different predetermined direction (F1, F2) for two adjacent and stacked layers. In addition, a covering skin is located on each of two opposite faces of the rotor body, made up of a plurality of stacked layers of composite containing fibers bonded by a resin.
US11804741B2
A motor includes a rotor fixed to a rotary shaft, a stator arranged so as to surround the rotor with a gap from the rotor in a radial direction orthogonal to an axis direction of the rotary shaft, and a case accommodating the rotor and the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores made from a soft magnetic material, and a rotor fixing member that fixes the rotor cores. The stator includes a plurality of stator cores made from a soft magnetic material, a stator fixing member that fixes the stator cores, and coils wound around the stator cores, respectively. The motor includes at least two sets of the rotor and the stator, and the sets are stacked in an axis direction of the rotary shaft.
US11804730B2
A energy storage system includes a power supply device, a main battery and a backup battery, and a power supply method of the energy storage system includes: when the power supply device works normally, a load is powered and the backup battery is floatingly charged by the power supply device, and the main battery is in standby mode; when the power supply device stops supplying power, the load will be powered by the backup battery, and meanwhile, the main battery will be triggered to switch from the standby mode to a backup mode to start supplying power to the load; when an output power of the main battery is equal to a power of the load, an output power of the backup battery is zero and the backup battery is in a bypass state.
US11804727B2
A system for providing redundant electric power to at least one vehicle component is disclosed. The system includes at least one power management unit connectable to a vehicle power network; and one or more storage units coupled to the at least one power management unit for receiving electric power to be stored in the one or more storage units. The at least one vehicle component is connectable to at least two of the storage units to enable a redundant electric power supply.
US11804722B2
The present disclosure provides a battery pack power supply system and a battery pack power supply method. The battery pack power supply system comprises: a first battery set and a second battery set; a switch control circuit connected with electronic switches, to control the first battery set and the second battery set to be connected in series or in parallel; and a main control chip connected with the first battery set, the second battery set, and the switch control circuit, respectively, to control the electronic switches to be open or closed to discharge the first battery set and the second battery set; a wake-up circuit connected with the main control chip, to wake up the entire battery pack power supply system; a USB circuit connected with the first battery set, the second battery set, and the main control chip, respectively, to output power for charging an external device under the control of the main control chip; and a self-locking circuit connected with the switch control circuit, to disable the electronic switches when the switch control circuit is prohibited.
US11804718B2
A control system includes a plurality of subsystems each operative to perform a unique vehicle function, a plurality of electronic controllers each operative to individually control at least one of the plurality of subsystems, wherein a number of subsystems is greater than a number of controllers, and a plurality of switching devices each operative to selectively connect any one of the plurality of subsystems to any one of the plurality of electronic controllers.
US11804717B2
Systems and methods for coordinating distributed energy storage in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a power distribution network, including a set of nodes, wherein a node includes a controllable load, an uncontrollable load, and a local controller, a substation connected to each node in the set of nodes by a set of distribution lines, and a global controller including a processor, a memory, and a communications device, wherein the global controller obtains load parameters from at least one node, calculates coordination parameters for each node based on the obtained load parameters, and asynchronously provides the coordination parameters to each of the nodes in the set of nodes, and wherein each node independently obtains coordination parameters, and controls the operation of its controllable load using the local controller based on the coordination parameters and a local load profile describing at least the uncontrollable load.
US11804712B2
Systems and methods for improving load energy forecasting in the presence of distributed energy resources in which a revised load forecast is calculated based on forecasted meteorological conditions data, forecasted wind and solar energy, forecasted load data, time data and time-series variables determined based on an analysis of the historical data. In exemplary embodiments, the revised load forecast is provided to energy management computer systems to enable appropriate levels of generation of conventional and renewable energy generation within the electric power grid.
US11804710B2
The aim of the invention is to detect an arc in an assembly for transmitting a direct voltage. This aim is achieved by a communication transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, the secondary winding being connected to a transmitting device, which is designed to impress a communication signal onto the secondary winding of the communication transformer, and the primary winding being connected to one of the direct voltage lines in order to feed a communication signal transformed by the communication transformer to one of the direct voltage lines. In order to detect, in the assembly, the arc signal caused by an arc, the secondary winding is connected to an arc detection unit, which is designed to detect an arc signal transformed by the communication transformer.
US11804699B2
An interlocking arrangement for switching devices for blocking the operation of the switching device when a feeder door is open, including a feeder assembly with an interlock and a racking screw interlock assembly. The feeder assembly includes a switching device mounted on a feeder base plate of the feeder assembly and mechanically connected with an interlock slider by a locking clutch cable. The racking screw interlock assembly is mounted to the feeder channel by an interlock base plate, the racking screw interlock assembly including an interlock base plate to accommodate the locking clutch cable. The interlock slider is slidably mounted on the baseplate by a plurality of step screws and slots provided on the base plate.
US11804697B2
A laser system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first solid-state laser device, a wavelength conversion system, an excimer amplifier, and a control unit. The first solid-state laser device includes a first multiple semiconductor laser system, a first semiconductor optical amplifier, and a first fiber amplifier. The first multiple semiconductor laser system includes a plurality of first semiconductor lasers configured to perform continuous wave oscillation in a single longitudinal mode with different wavelengths, a first spectrum monitor, and a first beam combiner. The control unit controls an oscillation wavelength and light intensity of each line of a first multiline spectrum generated by the first semiconductor lasers to obtain an excimer laser beam having at least a target center wavelength or a target spectral line width instructed by an external device.
US11804689B2
A sensing method for in-situ non-perturbing measurement of characteristics of laser beams at the exit of the laser beam delivery fiber tips include measuring power of a laser beam transmitted through delivery fiber tip in fiber-optics systems. A sensing devices for in-situ non-perturbing sensing and control of multiple characteristics of laser light transmitted through light delivery fiber tips includes a fiber-tip coupler comprised of a shell with enclosed delivery fiber having a specially designed angle-cleaved endcap and one or several tap fibers that are specially arranged and assembled at back side of the endcap and other variations. Methods and system architectures for in-situ non-perturbing control of characteristics of laser beams at the exit of the laser beam delivery fiber tips include fiber-tip couplers and sensing modules that receive laser light from tap fibers, and systems for optical processing to enhance light characteristics suitable for in-situ measurement.
US11804687B2
An opening and closing drive mechanism allows the ring-shaped claw portions on the outer peripheries of the opening rollers to press against the base end portion of the exposed braid via the opening and closing blocks, in this state, the rotation body is rotated by the rotation drive mechanism, and the opening rollers attached to the opening and closing blocks revolve around the outer periphery of the braid, so that the tip end side of the exposed braid is opened outward in a radial direction.
US11804685B1
The present disclosure provides crimping pliers with quick replaceable jaws, comprising: a crimping pliers body and a jaw; the crimping pliers body comprises a handle; the clamping end of the handle is provided with a groove, the groove is equipped with a fixed block, a guide block and a button, the central section of the button is rotated on the fixed block and one end is used to clamp the front end face of the jaw; the fixed block is provided with a blind hole, and a push-eject spring is placed inside the blind hole; the end of the push-eject spring is in contact with the rear end face of the jaw; the jaw uses the clamping force of button to compress push-eject spring, and simultaneously is in contact with the guide block, the fixed block and the inner wall of the groove.
US11804679B2
An energy module is disclosed. The energy module includes a hand-switch circuit, a surgical instrument interface coupled to the hand-switch circuit, and a control circuit coupled to the surgical instrument interface and the hand-switch circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the hand-switch circuit to communicate with a surgical instrument coupled to the hand-switch circuit using a plurality of communication protocols over a single wire. The control circuit is configured to control the hand-switch circuit to supply power to the instrument over the single wire.
US11804675B2
A plug connector includes a metal housing, an insulation body received in the metal housing, the insulation body having an insertion slot, a signal terminal disposed in the insulation body, a power terminal disposed in the insulation body, and a metal sheet. The metal sheet is disposed in the insertion slot. The signal terminal and the power terminal are separated from each other by the metal sheet.
US11804673B2
An electrical connector includes a body portion, a connecting wire, an electrically connecting portion, a locking element and a pressing element. The body portion has a first and a second end portion opposite to the first end. The connecting wire is located at the first end portion. The electrically connecting portion is located at the second end portion. The locking element is located in the electrically connecting portion and has an abutting end and a fastening end. The abutting end is located in the body portion, and the fastening end is located outside of the body portion. The pressing element is movably disposed on the body portion. Two ends of the pressing element are a pressing portion and a driving portion, respectively. The pressing portion is adjacently configured to the first end portion. The driving portion is to contact the abutting end.
US11804662B2
A telecommunications antenna comprising a plurality of unit cells each including at least one radiator which transmits RF energy within a bandwidth range which is a multiple of another radiator. The radiators are proximal to each other such that a resonant condition may be induced into the at least one radiator upon activation of the other radiator. At least one of the radiators is segmented into capacitively-connected radiator elements to suppress a resonance response therein upon activation of the other of the radiator.
US11804659B2
Provided are an electromagnetic-wave absorbing composition that can favorably absorb electromagnetic waves of high frequencies in or above a millimeter-wave band and that can be applied to a desired portion in the form of a paste, and an easily deformable electromagnetic-wave absorber having flexibility. The electromagnetic-wave absorbing composition includes a rubber binder, a filler made of a particulate carbon material, and a magnetic iron oxide that magnetically resonates in a frequency band in or above a millimeter-wave band as an electromagnetic-wave absorbing material. The electromagnetic-wave absorber includes a rubber binder 1b, a filler 1c made of a particulate carbon material, and a magnetic iron oxide that magnetically resonates in a frequency band in or above a millimeter-wave band as an electromagnetic-wave absorbing material 1a, and is a nonresonant-type electromagnetic-wave absorber that is not provided with a reflective layer for reflecting incident electromagnetic waves.
US11804653B2
An antenna device includes a case, a first antenna and a second antenna in the case, the second antenna including a capacitance loading element. The capacitance loading element includes an inclined portion which extends from a front-upper side toward a rear-lower side at a front side of the capacitance loading element. The first antenna is provided in a front side with respect to the inclined portion.
US11804649B2
An antenna system for a vehicle includes a plurality of antenna sets provided on or in proximity to a dielectric arranged on front and rear sides or on right and left sides of the vehicle, or arranged on both thereof, wherein a first antenna set includes first and second antennas, a second antenna set includes third and fourth antennas, a third antenna set includes fifth and sixth antennas, a fourth antenna set includes seventh and eighth antennas, each of the first, third, fifth, and seventh antennas has a higher antenna gain for transmitting and receiving a horizontally polarized wave than transmitting and receiving a vertically polarized wave, and each of the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth antennas has a higher antenna gain for transmitting and receiving the vertically polarized wave than transmitting and receiving the horizontally polarized wave.
US11804648B2
A back cover with an antenna element includes a cover body having a main portion, and an antenna element. A periphery of the main portion protrudes frontward to form a peripheral wall. The cover body is further equipped with a magnetic part. The antenna element is assembled in the cover body. The antenna element has a base portion, a connecting portion, a first extension portion and a second extension portion extended upward from the base portion. The first extension portion is disposed adjacent to one side of the peripheral wall of the cover body. The second extension portion is adjacent to the first extension portion. A length of the first extension portion is longer than a length of the second extension portion. A connecting portion is connected between the first extension portion and a top end of the second extension portion.
US11804645B2
Multi-sided antenna modules employing antennas on multiple sides of a package substrate for enhanced antenna coverage, and related antenna module fabrication methods. The multi-sided antenna module includes an integrated circuit (IC) die(s) disposed on a first side of the package substrate. The multi-sided antenna module further includes first and second substrate antenna layers disposed on respective first and second sides of the package substrate. The first substrate antenna layer includes a first antenna(s) disposed on the first side of the package substrate adjacent to the IC die(s). The second substrate antenna layer includes a second antenna(s) disposed on the second side of the package substrate opposite of the first side of the package substrate. In this manner, the multi-sided antenna module, including antennas on multiple sides of the package substrate, provides antenna coverage that extends from both sides of the package substrate to provide multiple directions of coverage.
US11804644B2
An antenna device, applied to an electronic device and the antenna device includes: an antenna unit, configured to transmit and receive signals; a rotation unit, connected to the antenna unit, and configured to rotate the antenna unit when the electronic device is powered on, record a signal strength in preset angle for each rotation and generate an angle and signal strength mapping table, and further configured to rotate the antenna unit to a position with a strongest signal according to the angle and signal strength mapping table, which realizes automatic adjustment of antenna direction to optimize antenna performance.
US11804640B2
Battery parts, such as battery terminals, and associated systems and methods for making the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a battery part includes a body having a base portion and a lug portion extending from the base portion. The battery part can further include a light-curable sealing material at least partially covering an exterior surface of the base portion. The sealing material is configured to seal an interface between the battery part and the material of a battery container when the base portion is embedded in the battery container material.
US11804638B2
A packaged solid-state battery that includes a solid-state battery having a top surface, a bottom surface, and side surfaces connecting the top surface to the bottom surface; a supporting substrate supporting the bottom surface of the solid-state battery; an insulating cover layer covering at least the top surface and the side surfaces of the solid-state battery; and an inorganic cover film on the insulating cover layer.
US11804637B2
The present application relates to a battery module, comprising a first type of battery cells and a second type of battery cells electrically connected at least in series, wherein the first type of battery cells and the second type of battery cells are battery cells with different chemical systems, the first type of battery cells comprises N first battery cells, the second type of battery cells comprises M second battery cells, N and M are positive integers, the first battery cell comprises a first separator and a first electrolyte, the second battery cell comprises a second separator and a second electrolyte, a kinetic characteristic factor x1 of the first battery cell is: x1=1000×(ε1×r1)/(τ1×t1×θ1), a kinetic characteristic factor x2 of the second battery cell is: x2=1000×(ε2×r2)/(τ2×t2×θ2), and x1 and x2 satisfy: 0.01≤x1/x2≤160.
US11804636B2
One aspect of the present application provides an electrode assembly, including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator disposed therebetween. The first electrode plate and the second electrode plate are wound or stacked to form the electrode assembly. Wherein the electrode assembly further includes a first electrode tab disposed on the first electrode plate, and an insulating layer including a first portion disposed on the first electrode plate. And, no second electrode plate is disposed between the first portion and the first electrode tab. The present application also provides a battery. The present application intends to at least improve the safety performance of the battery.
US11804633B2
A degassing unit to be connected fluid-tightly to a pressure compensation opening of an electronics housing has a base body with gas passage opening. A semipermeable membrane, fastened fluid-tightly to a membrane carrier, allows gaseous media to pass from an environment into the electronics housing and in reverse but prevents passage of liquid media and solids. In normal operation, the membrane covers the gas passage opening. An axial seal circumferentially extends about the gas passage opening. The membrane carrier is moveable relative to the base body and, in normal operation, is pressed by axial force seal-tightly against the axial seal. The membrane carrier, when a predetermined pressure difference between housing interior and environment is surpassed, lifts off the base body to release an emergency degassing opening surrounding the membrane. The axial seal is a lip seal and made of a material softer than a material of the membrane carrier.
US11804631B2
As an adhesive for the lamination of metal foil and a resin film, an adhesive that can stably exhibit good adhesiveness and moreover can provide a laminate having better electrolytic solution resistance and heat resistance is provided. An adhesive comprising a polyolefin resin (A) having a carboxyl group; and polyisocyanate compounds (B), wherein the polyisocyanate compounds (B) comprise a polymer of a saturated aliphatic polyisocyanate (B1), a polymer of a saturated alicyclic polyisocyanate (B2), and a polymer of an aromatic polyisocyanate (B3).
US11804629B2
The disclosure relates a battery technology field, and in particular, relates to a battery pack. The battery pack includes a battery array and a liquid cooling tube. The battery array includes at least two batteries, and the batteries are arranged in a first direction. The liquid cooling tube is disposed on a surface of the battery array and is configured to dissipate heat for the batteries. The liquid cooling tube includes cooling portions, and the cooling portions are portions of an orthographic projection of the liquid cooling tube on the battery array. Orthographic projections of the cooling portions on the battery array are cooling regions. In the battery array, at least one of the batteries is located outside a range of the cooling portions.
US11804627B2
Provided are a battery, a power consumption device, a method for producing a battery, and a device. The battery includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged along a first direction and a thermal management component extending along the first direction and being connected to a first wall of each battery cell among the plurality of battery cells, the thermal management component including a pair of heat conducting plates that are oppositely arranged along a second direction and a flow passage located between the pair of heat conducting plates, the flow passage being configured to accommodate a fluid to adjust temperatures of the battery cell, and the second direction being vertical to the first wall, where in the second direction, a thickness D of the heat conducting plate and a size H of the flow passage satisfy: 0.01≤D/H≤25. Technical solutions of embodiments of the present application could enhance performance of batteries.
US11804625B2
A lithium-ion battery thermal management system and method based on PCM and mutually embedded fins. The thermal management system includes a battery box, a lithium-ion battery pack and a temperature detection unit are arranged in the battery box; the lithium-ion battery pack at least includes two cells, the periphery of each cell is wrapped by a battery inner shell and a battery outer shell, and PCM is filled between the battery inner shell and the battery outer shell; a plurality of fins are arranged on the battery outer shell on the opposite sides of the two adjacent cells, the fins are arranged at intervals, the fins on the opposite sides of the two adjacent cells are arranged in a staggered manner, and heat-conducting plates are connected between each fin and the battery inner shell.
US11804624B2
A battery module having a plurality of battery cells (2), in particular lithium-ion battery cells (20), which are each electrically conductively interconnected with one another in series and/or in parallel, and a switching device (3), which has a first terminal (31) and a second terminal (32), wherein a first connecting element (41) of electrically conductive design electrically conductively connects the first terminal (31) to a voltage tap (5) of a battery cell (2, 21) arranged at an end and a second connecting element (42) of electrically conductive design electrically conductively connects the second terminal (32) to a voltage tap (6) of the battery module (1), wherein the first connecting element (41) and/or the second connecting element (42) are received in a thermally conductive manner in a receptacle (7, 71, 72) of the housing (10) of the battery module (1).
US11804622B2
The cost of hardware and the cost of calculation are reduced in the case where a plurality of assembled batteries are used. The amount of change in the voltage of each battery constituting an assembled battery is sequentially measured with a voltage monitor and abnormality is detected from the correlation between the amounts of changes in the voltages of batteries at the same period. Furthermore, abnormality is detected on the basis of the amounts of changes up to the previous step. Inference is made by a reference parameter acquisition system using an IIR filter or an FIR filter.
US11804616B2
Discussed is a battery pack manufacturing apparatus and method, and more particularly, a battery pack manufacturing apparatus allowing automatic production and having a minimized manufacturing defect rate. The battery pack manufacturing apparatus manufactures a battery pack having a pack housing and a battery module, and includes a lifting mechanism having a frame configured to mount the pack housing and a moving unit configured to move the frame so that the battery module is inserted into an inner space of the pack housing; and a module support configured to support the battery module.
US11804612B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a fuel cell system (100), having a fuel cell stack (20) with a plurality of fuel cells (110) each having at least one cathode portion (K) and at least one anode portion (A), a compressor (10) for conveying air into the cathode portions (K), a pressure-sustaining valve (40), and a control device (50), the at least one cathode portion (K) being arranged downstream of and in fluid communication with the compressor (10) and upstream of and in fluid communication with the pressure-sustaining valve (40), the fuel cell system (100) having a high-pressure region (HDB) between the compressor (10) and the pressure-sustaining valve (40). The invention further relates to a control device (50) and to a fuel cell system (100).
US11804611B2
A fuel cell module is configured or operated, or both, such that after a shut down procedure a fuel cell stack is discharged and has its cathode electrodes at least partially blanketed with nitrogen during at least some periods of time. If the fuel cell module is restarted in this condition, electrochemical reactions are limited and do not quickly re-charge the fuel cell stack. To decrease start up time, air is moved into the cathode electrodes before the stack is re-charged. The air may be provided by a pump, fan or blower driven by a battery or by the flow or pressure of stored hydrogen. For example, an additional fan or an operating blower may be driven by a battery until the fuel cell stack is able to supply sufficient current to drive the operating blower for normal operation.
US11804608B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell. The fuel cell includes an anode having an anode inlet configured to receive anode feed gas, and an anode outlet configured to output anode exhaust. The fuel cell further includes a cathode having a cathode inlet and a cathode outlet. The fuel cell system further includes an anode blower configured to receive the anode exhaust and output a higher-pressure anode exhaust. The fuel cell system further includes an anode blower recycle line configured to receive a portion of the higher-pressure anode exhaust downstream from the anode blower and to output the portion of the higher-pressure anode exhaust upstream from the anode blower. The fuel cell system further includes a first valve disposed in the blower recycle line, the first valve configured to open when the anode of the fuel cell is under-pressurized.
US11804607B2
A method for operating a propulsion system for an aircraft, the propulsion system including a gas turbine engine and a fuel cell assembly, the fuel cell assembly including a fuel cell stack having a solid oxide fuel cell defining an outlet positioned to remove output products from the solid oxide fuel cell during operation, the method including: operating the fuel cell assembly to provide output products to a combustor of a combustion section of the gas turbine engine; and operating the fuel cell assembly, the gas turbine engine, or both such that a pressure within an anode of the solid oxide fuel cell is less than a pressure within a cathode of the solid oxide fuel cell, is less than a pressure within a combustion chamber of the gas turbine engine, or both while operating the gas turbine engine.
US11804606B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a gas diffusion electrode that is less likely to cause damage to an electrolyte membrane or the like due to fluff in an outer peripheral portion during production of a membrane electrode assembly. The present invention provides a gas diffusion electrode including a conductive porous substrate containing carbon fibers and a microporous layer formed on a surface of the conductive porous substrate, in which the gas diffusion electrode satisfies at least one of the following (1) and (2): (1) the number of carbon fibers protruding from an edge portion by 20 μm or more when viewed from a plane surface is less than 1.0 number/cm with respect to a length of the edge portion; and (2) the number of carbon fibers that are inclined at an angle of 30° or more in an in-plane direction of the gas diffusion electrode and have lengths of 10 μm or more when viewed from a side surface of the edge portion is less than 1.0 number/cm with respect to the length of the edge portion.
US11804604B2
The present application relates to the field of battery, in particular to a positive electrode piece, an electrochemical device and an apparatus. The positive electrode piece of the present application includes a current collector and an electrode active material layer arranged on at least one surface of the current collector, where the current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer arranged on at least one surface of the support layer. The thickness D2 of one side of the conductive layer D2 satisfies 30 nm≤D2≤3 μm, the material of the conductive layer is aluminum or aluminum alloy, and the density of the conductive layer is 2.5 g/cm3 to 2.8 g/cm3, and a primer layer containing a conductive material and a binder is also arranged between the current collector and the electrode active material layer.
US11804599B2
A crystalline precursor compound for manufacturing a lithium transition metal based oxide powder usable as an active positive electrode material in lithium-ion batteries, the precursor having a general formula Li1−a((Niz(Ni0.5Mn0.5)yCox)1−kAk)1+aO2, wherein A comprises at least one element of the group consisting of: Mg, Al, Ca, Si, B, W, Zr, Ti, Nb, Ba, and Sr, with 0.05≤x≤0.40, 0.25≤z≤0.85, x+y+z=1, 0≤k≤0.10, and 0≤a≤0.053, wherein said crystalline precursor powder has a crystalline size L, expressed in nm, with 15≤L≤36.
US11804595B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to electrochemical cells having pre-lithiated semi-solid electrodes, and particularly to semi-solid electrodes that are pre-lithiated during the mixing of the semi-solid electrode slurry such that a solid-electrolyte interface (SEI) layer is formed in the semi-solid electrode before the electrochemical cell formation. In some embodiments, a semi-solid electrode includes about 20% to about 90% by volume of an active material, about 0% to about 25% by volume of a conductive material, about 10% to about 70% by volume of a liquid electrolyte, and lithium (as lithium metal, a lithium-containing material, and/or a lithium metal equivalent) in an amount sufficient to substantially pre-lithiate the active material. The lithium metal is configured to form a solid-electrolyte interface (SEI) layer on a surface of the active material before an initial charging cycle of an electrochemical cell that includes the semi-solid electrode.
US11804581B2
A wavelength conversion wheel includes a turnable disc, a wavelength conversion layer, a pressure ring, an anodized layer and a balance weight. The turnable disc has an inner ring portion and a ring-shaped irradiation portion. The ring-shaped irradiation portion is connected to an outer edge of the inner ring portion. The ring-shaped irradiation portion includes a wavelength conversion region. The wavelength conversion layer is disposed on the wavelength conversion region. The pressure ring presses against the inner ring portion and has a first surface facing away the turnable disc. The anodized layer is disposed on the first surface. The balance weight is disposed on the anodized layer, wherein the surface roughness of the anodized layer is 1 μm to 10 μm. The wavelength conversion wheel of the invention has better reliability. A projection device with the wavelength conversion wheel is further provided.
US11804579B2
In an embodiment a method for manufacturing an optoelectronic semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor body having an active region configured to generate electromagnetic radiation and a coupling-out surface along a main radiation direction, forming a mask layer having a plurality of recesses on the coupling-out surface on the semiconductor body, depositing metallic separators in the recesses and applying a wavelength conversion element to the coupling-out surface of the semiconductor body such that the metallic separators are at least partially embedded therein.
US11804565B2
A high efficiency configuration for a solar cell module comprises solar cells arranged in an overlapping shingled manner and conductively bonded to each other in their overlapping regions to form super cells, which may be arranged to efficiently use the area of the solar module. Rear surface electrical connections between solar cells in electrically parallel super cells provide alternative current paths (i.e., detours) through the solar module around damaged, shaded, or otherwise underperforming solar cells.
US11804559B2
A solar cell module according to the present disclosure includes a photoelectric converter, a collector electrode electrically connected to the photoelectric converter, and a wiring material (3) electrically connected to the collector electrode, wherein the collector electrode includes: a first electrode film (9A) formed on a photoelectric converter side; and a second electrode film (9B) formed on at least a wiring material side of the first electrode film (9A) so that part of a surface of the first electrode film (9A) on the wiring material side is exposed, and wherein the collector electrode and the wiring material (3) are electrically connected to each other with solder (11) connected to the part of the surface of the first electrode film (9A) exposed from the second electrode film (9B) and to a surface of the second electrode film (9B).
US11804546B2
The present disclosure provides many different embodiments of an IC device. The IC device includes a gate stack disposed over a surface of a substrate and a spacer disposed along a sidewall of the gate stack. The spacer has a tapered edge that faces the surface of the substrate while tapering toward the gate stack. Therefore the tapered edge has an angle with respect to the surface of the substrate.
US11804538B2
A method of forming a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a first III-V compound layer and a second III-V compound layer disposed on the first III-V compound layer and is different from the first III-V compound layer in composition. A source feature and a drain feature are disposed on the second III-V compound layer. A p-type layer is disposed on a portion of the second III-V compound layer between the source feature and the drain feature. A gate electrode is disposed on the p-type layer. A capping layer is disposed on the second III-V compound layer.
US11804532B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first superlattice structure and a second superlattice structure over the substrate, a gate stack that surrounds a channel region of each of the first superlattice structures and the second superlattice structure, and source/drain structures on opposite sides of the gate stack contacting sidewalls of the first superlattice structure and the second superlattice structure. The second superlattice structure is disposed over the first superlattice structure. Each of the first superlattice structures and the second superlattice structure includes vertically stacked alternating first nanosheets of a first semiconductor material and second nanosheets of a second semiconductor material that is different from the first semiconductor material.
US11804520B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer made of a wide bandgap semiconductor and including a gate trench; a gate insulating film formed on the gate trench; and a gate electrode embedded in the gate trench to be opposed to the semiconductor layer through the gate insulating film. The semiconductor layer includes a first conductivity type source region; a second conductivity type body region; a first conductivity type drift region; a second conductivity type first breakdown voltage holding region; a source trench passing through the first conductivity type source region and the second conductivity type body region from the front surface and reaching a drain region; and a second conductivity type second breakdown voltage region selectively formed on an edge portion of the source trench where the sidewall and the bottom wall thereof intersect with each other in a parallel region of the source trench.
US11804515B2
In an embodiment, a circuit includes: a transformer defining an inductive footprint within a first layer; a grounded shield bounded by the inductive footprint within a second layer separate from the first layer; and a circuit component bounded by the inductive footprint within a third layer separate from the second layer, wherein: the circuit component is coupled with the transformer through the second layer, and the third layer is separated from the first layer by the second layer.
US11804508B2
A sensor, a manufacturing method thereof, and a photoelectric conversion device are provided. The sensor includes a first gate disposed on a second insulating layer, wherein a position of the first gate corresponds to a position of a first active layer and a material of the first gate is a metal material; a second gate disposed on the second insulating layer or between a second active layer and a base substrate, wherein a position of the second active layer corresponds to a position of the second gate.
US11804503B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes: a substrate; a photoelectric conversion element provided on the substrate; a first protective layer provided on the photoelectric conversion element; and a second protective layer provided above the substrate and surrounding the photoelectric conversion element and the first protective layer, the second protective layer being lower in water vapor transmittance than the first protective layer. The second protective layer has an upper end positioned above an upper end of the first protective layer.
US11804493B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area in which a peripheral circuit is provided. The peripheral circuit includes a test area, a bonding area, and a cutting area. The test area is provided with a test signal line for providing a test signal. The bonding area is adjacent to the display area, and the bonding area and the test area are electrically connected through signal leads. The cutting area is disposed between the test area and the bonding area. After a cutting process is completed in the cutting area, a cutting opening is formed on each signal lead. A position of the cutting opening of at least one signal lead is different from positions of the cutting openings of other signal leads in height along an extending direction of the signal leads.
US11804481B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to electrostatic discharge (ESD) devices and methods of manufacture. The structure (ESD device) includes: a bipolar transistor comprising a collector region, an emitter region and a base region; and a lateral ballasting resistance comprising semiconductor material adjacent to the collector region.
US11804479B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for routing traffic through vertically stacked semiconductor dies are disclosed. A first semiconductor die has a second die stacked vertically on top of it in a three-dimensional integrated circuit. The first die includes a through silicon via (TSV) interconnect that does not traverse the first die. The first die includes one or more metal layers above the TSV, which connect to a bonding pad interface through a bonding pad via. If the signals transferred through the TSV of the first die are shared by the second die, then the second die includes a TSV aligned with the bonding pad interface of the first die. If these signals are not shared by the second die, then the second die includes an insulated portion of a wafer backside aligned with the bonding pad interface.
US11804475B2
A first package is bonded to a first substrate with first external connections and second external connections. The second external connections are formed using materials that are different than the first external connections in order to provide a thermal pathway from the first package. In a particular embodiment the first external connections are solder balls and the second external connections are copper blocks.
US11804470B2
Embodiments include semiconductor packages and methods to form the semiconductor packages. A semiconductor package includes a plurality of first dies on a substrate, an encapsulation layer over the first dies and the substrate, an interface layer over the first dies and the encapsulation layer, and a passive heat spreader on the interface layer, wherein the interface layer thermally couples the first dies to the passive heat spreader. The passive heat spreader includes a silicon (Si) or a silicon carbide (SiC). The interface layer includes a silicon nitride (SiN) material, a silicon monoxide (SiO) material, a silicon carbon nitride (SiCN) material, or a thermal adhesive material. The semiconductor package may include a plurality of second dies and the substrate on a package substrate, a thermal interface material (TIM) over the second dies, the passive heat spreader, and the package substrate, and a heat spreader over the TIM and the package substrate.
US11804468B2
A jig for manufacturing a semiconductor package includes a bottom piece and an upper piece. The bottom piece includes a base, a support plate, and at least one elastic connector. The support plate is located in a central region of the base. The at least one elastic connector is interposed between the support plate and the base. The upper piece includes a cap and outer flanges. The cap overlays the support plate when the upper piece is disposed on the bottom piece. The outer flanges are disposed at edges of the cap, connected with the cap. The outer flanges contact the base of the bottom piece when the upper piece is disposed on the bottom piece. The cap includes an opening which is a through hole. When the upper piece is disposed on the bottom piece, a vertical projection of the opening falls entirely on the support plate.
US11804467B2
A radiative heat collective bonder or gangbonder for packaging a semiconductor die stack is provided. The bonder generally includes a shroud positioned at least partially around the die stack and a radiative heat source positioned inward of the shroud and configured to emit a radiative heat flux in a direction away from the shroud. The bonder may further include a bondhead configured to contact the backside of the topmost die in the die stack and optionally include another bondhead configured to contact a substrate beneath the die stack. The radiative heat source may be configured to direct the radiative heat flux to at least a portion of the die stack to reduce a vertical temperature gradient in the die stack. One or both of the bondheads may be configured to concurrently direct a conductive heat flux into the die stack.
US11804464B2
A semiconductor device includes a wiring board; a first semiconductor chip including a first surface, a second surface, and a connection bump on the first surface, the first semiconductor chip coupled to the wiring board through the connection bump; a resin layer covering the connection bump between the first semiconductor chip and the wiring board, an upper surface of the resin layer parallel to the second surface of the first semiconductor chip; and a second semiconductor chip including a third surface, a fourth surface, and an adhesive layer on the third surface, the second semiconductor chip adhering to the second surface of the first semiconductor chip and the upper surface of the resin layer through the adhesive layer. The upper surface of the resin layer projects outside a portion of at least an outer edge of the second semiconductor chip when viewed from the top.
US11804453B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead frame, a conductive member, a resin composition and a sealing resin. The semiconductor element has an element front surface and an element back surface facing away in a first direction. The semiconductor element is mounted on the lead frame. The conductive member is bonded to the lead frame, electrically connecting the semiconductor element and the lead frame. The resin composition covers a bonded region where the conductive member and lead frame are bonded while exposing part of the element front surface. The sealing resin covers part of the leadframe, the semiconductor element, and the resin composition. The resin composition has a greater bonding strength with the lead frame than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and lead frame and a greater bonding strength with the conductive member than a bonding strength between the sealing resin and conductive member.
US11804446B2
Provided is a semiconductor device capable of improving the divisibility of a wafer by concentrating crack stress by disposing notch patterns on a scribe line of a wafer, by locally removing a metal thin film in a scribe line and propagating a dividing energy in a vertical direction of a die surface. A semiconductor device includes: die regions spaced apart from each other in a wafer, scribe line regions disposed between neighboring ones of the die regions and covered with a metal material layer, and one or more open areas disposed in each of the scribe line regions and formed by locally removing the metal material layer, wherein each of the open areas includes one or more notch patterns indicating a direction in which the scribe line region is extended.
US11804445B2
A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a first chip structure including a substrate and an interconnect layer over the substrate. The chip package structure includes a second chip structure over the interconnect layer. The chip package structure includes a first conductive bump connected between the interconnect layer and the second chip structure. The chip package structure includes a conductive pillar over the interconnect layer. The chip package structure includes a molding layer over the interconnect layer and surrounding the second chip structure, the first conductive bump, and the conductive pillar. The chip package structure includes a second conductive bump over a first surface of the conductive pillar. The first surface faces away from the first chip structure.
US11804434B2
An integrated circuit apparatus and a power distribution network thereof are provided. The power distribution network includes a top wiring layer, a bottom wiring layer, and a first conductive path. The top wiring layer includes a first top trace and a second top trace extending along a first direction. The bottom wiring layer includes a first bottom trace extending along a second direction. The first bottom trace has an electric potential equal to that of the first top trace, but different from that of the second top trace. The first conductive path connected between the first top and bottom traces includes a first upper conductive structure and a first lower conductive structure that are located directly under the first top trace and the second top trace, respectively. A signal wire preselected region is defined between the first upper conductive structure and the first bottom trace.
US11804432B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a metal structure above the first main surface. The metal structure has a periphery region that includes a transition section along which the metal structure transitions from a first thickness to a second thickness less than the first thickness. A polymer-based insulating material contacts and covers at least the periphery region of the metal structure. A thickness of the polymer-based insulating material begins to increase on a first main surface of the metal structure that faces away from the semiconductor substrate and continues to increase in a direction towards the transition section. An average slope of a surface of the polymer-based insulating material which faces away from the semiconductor substrate, as measured with respect to the first main surface of the metal structure, is less than 60 degrees along the periphery region of the metal structure.
US11804424B2
A semiconductor device includes a carrier, a first external contact, a second external contact, and a semiconductor die. The semiconductor die has a first main face, a second main face opposite to the first main face, a first contact pad disposed on the first main face, a second contact pad disposed on the second main face, a third contact pad disposed on the second main face, and a vertical transistor. The semiconductor die is disposed with the first main face on the carrier. A clip connects the second contact pad to the second external contact. A first bond wire is connected between the third contact pad and the first external contact. The first bond wire is disposed at least partially under the clip.
US11804422B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a plurality of leads that each includes a lead body portion which has a mounting portion which includes an upper surface whereon a semiconductor chip is bonded, and a lead connecting portion for external connection which projects downward from a lower surface of the lead body portion, a first sealing resin that seals a space that is defined by each lead body portion and each lead connecting portion of the plurality of leads in a region below the upper surface of each lead body portion of the plurality of leads, and a second sealing resin that seals the semiconductor chip in a region above the upper surface of each lead body portion of the plurality of leads.
US11804413B1
A semiconductor stack, including a carrier and a semiconductor device arranged above the carrier; non-releasable interconnections electrically and mechanically connecting the semiconductor device and the carrier; a first contact on at least one of the carrier or the semiconductor device: a second contact on at least one of the carrier or the semiconductor device; an electrical connection structure electrically conductively coupling the first contact and the second contact with each other via at least one non-releasable interconnection of the non-releasable interconnections; and wherein the electrical connection structure comprises a plurality of test diode circuits integrated in at least one of the carrier and the semiconductor device, wherein each of the test diode circuits comprises one or more diodes.
US11804411B2
A method for securing and verifying semiconductor wafers during fabrication includes receiving a semiconductor wafer after a layer of features has been patterned thereon. At least one security mark is formed at one or more locations embedded within a backside of the semiconductor wafer by implanting an inert species at the one or more locations. At a subsequent point in fabrication and/or after fabrication of the semiconductor wafer has completed the backside of the wafer is inspected for detection of the at least one security mark. If the at least one security mark is not detected at an expected location within the backside of the semiconductor wafer a determination is made that the semiconductor wafer has been compromised.
US11804410B2
A method for evaluation of thin film non-uniform stress using high order wafer warpage, the steps including measuring a net wafer warpage across a wafer area due to thin film deposition, fitting a two dimensional low-order polynomial to the wafer warpage measurements and subtracting the low-order polynomial from the net wafer warpage across the wafer area.
US11804399B2
Vacuum clamping device for clamping workpieces, in particular for clamping flat substrates, such as wafers for example, comprising a base plate having a suction surface, wherein a plurality of suction openings are formed in the suction surface of the base plate, wherein the base plate can be connected to at least one negative-pressure device via at least one suction line, characterized in that the suction openings are arranged in a peripheral region of the suction surface of the base plate.
US11804397B2
A method includes transferring multiple discrete components from a first substrate to a second substrate, including illuminating multiple regions on a top surface of a dynamic release layer, the dynamic release layer adhering the multiple discrete components to the first substrate, each of the irradiated regions being aligned with a corresponding one of the discrete components. The illuminating induces a plastic deformation in each of the irradiated regions of the dynamic release layer. The plastic deformation causes at least some of the discrete components to be concurrently released from the first substrate.
US11804386B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for liquid-treating a substrate. An apparatus for treating a substrate includes a liquid treatment chamber that supplies a liquid onto the substrate to liquid-treat the substrate, a drying chamber that removes the remained liquid on the substrate, and a transfer unit that transfers the substrate between the liquid treatment chamber and the drying chamber, wherein the transfer unit includes a hand that supports the substrate, and a weight measuring unit that measures a weight of the remained liquid on the substrate. A weight of a remained liquid on a substrate may be measured by measuring a weight of the substrate while the substrate is transferred.
US11804383B2
A method for producing a metal-ceramic substrate with a plurality of electrically conductive vias includes: attaching a first metal layer in a planar manner to a first surface side of a ceramic layer; after attaching the first metal layer, introducing a copper hydroxide or copper acetate brine into a plurality of holes in the ceramic layer delimiting a via, to form an assembly; converting the copper hydroxide or copper acetate brine into copper oxide; subjecting the assembly to a high-temperature step above 500° C. in which the copper oxide forms a copper body in the plurality of holes; and after converting the copper hydroxide or copper acetate brine into the copper oxide, attaching a second metal layer in a planar manner to a second surface side of the ceramic layer opposite the first surface side. The copper body produces an electrically conductive connection between the first and the second metal layers.
US11804368B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a plasma processing chamber; a substrate support disposed in the plasma processing chamber; an edge ring disposed on the substrate support to surround a substrate on the substrate support; an actuator configured to vertically move the edge ring; a gas supply configured to supply a cleaning gas into the plasma processing chamber; a power source configured to supply a power to the substrate support; and a controller configured to: (a) maintain the edge ring at a first position spaced apart from the substrate support; and (b) supply a power to the substrate support while supplying the cleaning gas into the plasma processing chamber to generate a local plasma in a gap between the edge ring maintained at the first position and the substrate support, thereby cleaning the edge ring and the substrate support.
US11804367B2
Provided is plasma processing equipment comprising a substrate support, a focus ring disposed along an edge of the upper surface of the substrate support and including a fluid hole passing through a main body, an insulating ring surrounding an outer sidewall of the substrate support and including an inner side surface facing the outer sidewall of the substrate support, an outer side surface, and an upper surface connecting the inner and outer side surfaces, and including upper and lower end portions having different heights, and a connection end portion connecting the upper and lower end portions, a liner surrounding the outer side surface of the insulating ring and a baffle disposed on an upper surface of the liner, wherein a fluid passing through the fluid hole flows along the upper surface, and the baffle generates a pressure difference of the fluid between the upper and lower end portions.
US11804365B2
There is provided is a technique that includes: a process chamber in which at least one substrate is processed; and at least one buffer chamber in which plasma is formed, wherein the at least one buffer chamber includes at least two application electrodes of different lengths to which high frequency electric power is applied, and a reference electrode subjected to a reference potential.
US11804360B2
The present invention quickly calculates values of optimal excitation parameters which are set in lenses in multiple stages. A multi charged particle beam adjustment method includes forming a multi charged particle beam, calculating, for each of lenses in two or more stages disposed corresponding to object lenses in two or more stages, a first rate of change and a second rate of change in response to change in at least an excitation parameter, the first rate of change being a rate of change in a demagnification level of a beam image of the multi charged particle beam, the second rate of change being a rate of change in a rotation level of the beam image, and calculating a first amount of correction to the excitation parameter of each of the lenses based on an amount of correction to the demagnification level and the rotation level of the beam image, the first rate of change, and the second rate of change.
US11804356B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising: a first electrically conductive layer; a second electrically conductive layer; a plurality of optics element s between the first electrically conductive layer and the second electrically conductive layer, wherein the plurality of optics elements are configured to influence a plurality of beams of charged particles; a third electrically conductive layer between the first electrically conductive layer and the second electrically conductive layer; and an electrically insulating layer physically connected to the optics elements, wherein the electrically insulating layer is configured to electrically insulate the optics elements from the first electrically conductive layer, and the second electrically conductive layer.
US11804352B2
The present invention provides a fuse that has a stable fusing characteristic and is easily manufactured. A fuse 600 includes: a fuse element 100 that is provided between a pair of terminal parts 110 and has a plurality of fuse parts 120; and a casing 200 for housing the fuse parts 120, wherein the fuse element 100 includes a first flat surface 140 and a second flat surface 150 which are shaped bent along a longitudinal direction P of the fuse element 100 and which extend in a linear manner along the longitudinal direction P, wherein the first flat surface 140 and the second flat surface 150 are provided with the plurality of fuse parts 120, and wherein the first flat surface 140 and the second flat surface 150 are contiguous to one other via a bent section 131.
US11804351B1
A high breaking capacity fuse including an electrically insulating fuse body, a fusible element extending through the fuse body, an electrically conductive first terminal connected to a first end of the fusible element, an electrically conductive second terminal connected to a second end of the fusible element, and a first fire extinguishing pad and a second fire extinguishing disposed within the fuse body and sandwiching the fusible element therebetween, each of the first and second fire extinguishing pads formed of a polymeric substrate and a plurality of microcapsules embedded in the polymeric substrate, the plurality of microcapsules filled with an arc-quenching liquid.
US11804350B2
A fusible switch disconnect device includes a housing adapted to receive at least one fuse therein, and a switchable contact for connecting the fuse to circuitry. A tripping mechanism and control circuitry are provided to move the switchable contact to an open position in response to a predetermined electrical condition.
US11804344B2
Provided is a drive structure for a high-voltage direct-current relay, the drive structure comprising: a retaining frame, a stopper piece, a movable spring piece, and an elastic member. The retaining frame comprises two retaining side arms, a support plate, and a drive rod. The two retaining side arms are disposed at two sides of the support plate, and the drive rod is connected to a bottom portion of the support plate. The stopper piece has one end connected to a terminal end of one of the retaining side arms, and the other end connected to a terminal end of the other retaining side arm. The elastic member has one end pressing against the support plate and the other end pressing against the movable spring piece, the movable spring piece presses against the stopper piece, and the stopper piece is provided with an arc isolation portion. The drive structure for a high-voltage direct-current relay has an bottom-up assembly manner, in which the elastic member, the movable spring piece, and the stopper piece are stacked sequentially, and the stopper piece is connected to and retained by the two retaining side arms, thereby realizing a simple and fast assembly process, and increasing assembly efficiency of high-voltage direct-current relays. In addition, the arc isolation portion has an effect of isolating arcs, thereby improving a service life of high-voltage direct-current relays despite reverse arcs.
US11804341B2
The present invention provides a keycap, method for manufacturing a keycap, and keyswitch. The keycap comprises an inner keycap member, an outer keycap member, and a character layer. The inner keycap member comprises an inner body and an inner sidewall. The inner sidewall is disposed on the periphery of the inner body. The outer keycap member is disposed on the inner keycap member. The outer keycap member comprises an outer body and an outer sidewall. The outer sidewall is disposed on the periphery of the outer body. The outer body is corresponding to the inner body. The outer sidewall corresponds to the inner sidewall. The character layer is disposed between the inner keycap member and the outer keycap member. The character layer comprises a character pattern disposed between the outer body and the inner body.
US11804340B2
Embodiments of this application provide an input apparatus and an electronic device including the input apparatus. The input apparatus includes a top cover, where at least one trench is disposed in a first area of the top cover; a base, where at least one slot group is disposed in a second area of the base, and projections of the second area and the first area in a pressing or tapping direction overlap; a tactile switch, including a force-bearing surface and disposed on the top cover or the base; and at least one connecting rod, disposed between the top cover and the base, where the connecting rod includes a main rod and a side rod group, the main rod is rotatably nested in a corresponding trench, and each side rod in the side rod group is slidably nested in a corresponding slot in the slot group.
US11804331B2
A multilayer electronic component includes: a body including dielectric layers; side margin portions disposed on side surfaces of the body, respectively; and external electrodes disposed on end surfaces of the body, respectively. The body includes a capacitance forming portion including internal electrodes disposed alternately with the dielectric layers and cover portions disposed on upper and lower surfaces of the capacitance forming portion, respectively. Ga2/Ga1 is 0.8 or more and less than 1.0 and Ga2/Gc1 is 0.8 or more and less than 1.0. a1 is a central portion of the capacitance forming portion, a2 is a boundary portion between the capacitance forming portion and the cover portion in the capacitance forming portion, and c1 is a boundary portion between the capacitance forming portion and the cover portion in the cover portion. Ga1, Ga2, and Gc1 are average sizes of dielectric grains at a1, a2, and c1, respectively.
US11804317B2
Provided is a soft magnetic metal powder including a plurality of soft magnetic metal particles. Each of the soft magnetic metal particles includes a metal particle and an oxidized part covering the metal particle. The metal particle includes at least Fe. The oxidized part includes an oxide of at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Si, and B, and at least one kind of element of Ca and Mg. A concentration of Ca or Mg in the metal particle and the oxidized part is maximum in the oxidized part. An average value of a maximum value of the concentration of Ca or Mg in the oxidized part is 0.2 atom % or more.
US11804313B2
Provided is silver powder including silver particles having closed pores inside the particles, wherein when cross sections of the silver particles are observed at a magnification of 10,000, an average of numbers of the pores having Heywood diameters of 200 nm or greater relative to an area of the cross sections is 0.01 pores/μm2 or less, and wherein when the cross sections of the silver particles are observed at a magnification of 40,000, an average of numbers of the pores having Heywood diameters of 10 nm or greater but less than 30 nm relative to the area of the cross sections is 25 pores/μm2 or more.
US11804307B2
Systems and methods for selecting a treatment regimen for a particular patient are provided. The treatment regimen is selected using a first data store including a first plurality of patient records for a first plurality of patients, and a second data store including efficacy rates of a plurality of treatment regimens against a plurality of infections and infection-causing pathogens. The system, or a user of the system, identifies a first infection of the particular patient and a first treatment regimen to be prescribed to treat the first infection. A second plurality of patient records is generated by identifying, in the first plurality of patient records of the first data store, patient records associated with diagnosis or treatment of the first infection. The second plurality of patient records are appended with efficacy rates for the first infection from the second data store. Systems and methods of the present disclosure can use these appended records to generate a dynamic model configured to determine a likelihood estimation that the first treatment regimen is an appropriate treatment regimen to treat the first infection.
US11804305B2
A fabrication system and method for prosthetic appliances employs imaging of a contralateral skeletal structure for designing a matched, patient specific replacement appliance based on the patient's own skeletal structure. Many skeletal structures are disposed on opposed sides, i.e. left and right sides. A contralateral bone or skeletal member often accurately depicts the individual bone shape of a particular patient more accurately than a generalized approximation. A scan such as a CT or MRI is segmented to apportion a skeletal member for replacement and reconstructed into a 3D (3 dimensional) model. The 3D model is inverted to define the contralateral side, and augmented for surgical connection features and comparison with an anatomic ideal to mitigate imperfections. 3D printing and/or additive manufacturing techniques are invoked with biocompatible materials to render the replacement prosthetic appliance based on the model.
US11804302B2
A sensitivity index model for predicting the sensitivity of an entity to a potential future disruption can be trained using a process that includes dividing a population of entities for which data attributes are available into matched pairs in a first sub-population and a second sup-population based on matching propensity scores for the entities using supervised machine learning, modeling outcomes for the two sub-populations, using the resultant models to calculate expected performances of the entities under differing conditions, and generating the sensitivity index model using supervised learning techniques based on quantification of differences between the calculated expected performances for the entities.
US11804301B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for managing hot flashes and/or menopause symptoms. An example system includes sensor circuitry and logic circuitry. The sensor circuitry obtains a physical measurement associated with a user and communicates the physical measurement. The logic circuitry generates a predictive model that indicates a probability of the user having a hot flash at a date and time based on a plurality of input parameters, revises the probability based on the physical measurement using the predictive model, and communicates data indicative of an action in response to the revised probability being outside a threshold, such as providing cooling relief.
US11804295B2
A method may include identifying a shift associated with a clinician by applying a machine learning model trained to identify, based on a series of transaction records associated with the clinician, one or more shifts associated with the clinician. The clinician may be identified as likely to engage in a hazardous behavior based at least on the shift associated with the clinician. In response to determining that the clinician as likely to engage in the hazardous behavior, activating a protective workflow. The protective workflow may be configured to prevent the clinician from engaging in the hazardous behavior as well as to collect evidence associated with the hazardous behavior. Related methods and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US11804291B2
Systems and methods are presented herein for providing a user with a recommendation for physical activity related to media content. The user may activate a recommendation application setting on a user equipment device. The user may select a media asset for presentation on a user equipment device. The system may analyze data associated with the media asset and perform deep video analysis of the frames of the media asset to identify events in the media asset. The system may identify the content type of each respective segment of the media asset and may identify respective activities performed in each segment by a primary character. The system may determine a respective activity to recommend to the user for reach respective segment of the media asset. The application may then determine a segment is being displayed for a user and generate an overlay representing a physical activity for the user to perform.
US11804286B2
Systems and methods are provided for controlling dissemination of genomic data. One embodiment is a system that stores genomic data. The genomic data for each individual lists genetic variants determined to exist within that individual. The system receives an access request for a segment of genomic data for an individual, analyzes an authentication token within the request, authenticates the request as belonging to an account for a user based on the authentication token, and reviews authorization directives for the individual that indicate how predefined portions of genomic data are shared. The system also transmits the segment of genomic data in response to determining that the authorization directives permit the account to access the segment of genomic data, and prevents transmission of the segment of genomic data in response to determining that the authorization directives do not permit the account to access the segment of genomic data.
US11804282B1
Grouping vectors describing functional interactions between compounds and reagents into clusters identifies groups of similar compounds, and may identify drug targets, pathways of action, deleterious toxicities, immune stimulation and evasion potential, or other information regarding interactions between compounds and reagents.
US11804278B2
A memory system includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory controller includes a core processor and a built-in self-repair (BISR) logic circuit. The core processor includes a register file with a plurality of register values corresponding to a plurality of repair commands. The BISR logic circuit receives at least one of the plurality of register values from the core processor and converts the at least one of the plurality of register values into at least one of the repair commands to output the least one of the repair commands to the memory device. The core processor transmits the at least one of the plurality of register values to the BISR logic circuit in response to a firmware instruction that is output from an external firmware coupled to the memory controller.
US11804275B1
Shift register elements of a phase-mode bit-addressable sensing register sample varied AC or DC bias values provided to operational RQL circuitry on the RQL IC via clock resonators or DC bias lines. The shift register can be constructed of phase-mode D flip-flops and JTLs as data and clock lines. A method of using the sensing register includes shifting in a data bit pattern while a bias parameter (e.g., AC amplitude, DC value, or phase) is set to a nominal value; stopping the logical clock that controls the shifting of values through the sensing register, varying the bias parameter value, inputting one assertion SFQ pulse or reciprocal pulse pair into the logical clock, restoring the bias parameter to the nominal value, restarting the logical clock to shift out an output data bit pattern, and observing the output data bit pattern to determine the effect of the bias parameter value change.
US11804263B2
A semiconductor device may include a word line, a bit line crossing the word line, and a memory cell coupled to the word line and the bit line to receive an electrical signal to control the memory cell and including a switching material layer and an oxidation-reduction reversible material layer that is in contact with the switching material layer to allow for either oxidation reaction or reduction reaction to occur in response to different amplitudes and different polarities of the electrical signal, wherein the oxidation-reduction reversible material layer and the switching material layer responds to a first threshold voltage and a first polarity of the electrical signal to generate an oxidation interface between the switching material layer and the oxidation-reduction reversible material layer, and responds to a second threshold voltage and a second polarity of the electrical signal to reduce the generation of the oxidation interface.
US11804262B2
A machine memory includes multiple memory cells. Word lines, each with at least one word line driver, are coupled to the memory cells along rows. The word line drivers of at least some adjacent pairs of the word lines are coupled together by a pull-down transistor, in a manner that reduces read disturb of the memory cells.
US11804261B2
This document describes apparatuses and techniques for termination for single-ended (SE) mode operation of a memory device. In various aspects, a termination circuit can terminate an unused signal line of a differential pair to a ground or power rail using a switch element when operating in the SE mode. The termination circuit may also disconnect the unused signal line from a first input of a differential amplifier and connect a reference voltage to the first input of the differential amplifier. Based on the reference voltage, the differential amplifier amplifies an SE signal received using another signal line of the differential pair at a second input of the differential amplifier to provide a clock signal for memory operations. Thus, the termination circuit may reduce an amount by which noise associated with the unused signal line affects the differential amplifier when the memory device operates in SE mode.
US11804259B2
Memory devices, controllers and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes storage cells that are each formed with a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor having a floating body. Data is stored as charge in the floating body. A transfer interface receives a read command to access data stored in a first group of the storage cells. Sensing circuitry detects the data stored in the first group of storage cells. The transfer interface selectively performs a writeback operation of the sensed data associated with the read command.
US11804254B2
Provided are a memory device and a method of refreshing the memory device regardless of a refresh rate multiplier for a temperature. In response to a refresh command at each base refresh rate (tREFi) based on a measured temperature, a memory device refreshes M memory cell rows at room temperature, refreshes 2M memory cell rows at a high temperature, and refreshes (½)M memory cell rows at a low temperature. The memory device refreshes (n+1)*M memory cell rows at a base refresh rate tREFi in response to a refresh command applied after n skipped base refresh rates, and refreshes (n+1)*M memory cell rows at a base refresh rate tREFi in response to a pulling-in refresh command.
US11804250B2
Row activation operations within a memory component are carried out with respect to subrows instead of complete storage rows to reduce power consumption. Further, instead of activating subrows in response to row commands, subrow activation operations are deferred until receipt of column commands that specify the column operation to be performed and the subrow to be activated.
US11804246B2
The subject disclosure relates to techniques for automatically editing multimedia content and in particular, to producing expert quality multimedia compositions that match musical transitions with visual transitions and effects. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving image content items, receiving a cut vector including at least a first-cut time and a second-cut time, and automatically mixing the image content items to produce an edited multimedia sequence, wherein a begin time of the edited multimedia sequence corresponds with the first-cut time, and an end time of the edited multimedia sequence corresponds with the second-cut time. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11804245B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: storing into a storage device a video data file; examining video file data defining the video data file, wherein the examining includes determining a relevancy of a section of the video data file; reducing a size of file data defining the section of the video data file in dependence on the determining the relevancy of the section of the video data file; storing a reduced-size version of the video data file into the storage device, the reduced-size version of the video data file having a reduced size relative to the video data file by performance of the reducing the size of file data defining the section of the video data file in dependence on the determining the relevancy of the section of the video data file.
US11804244B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a controlled object, a controller which controls a motion of the controlled object, and loop shaping filters each connected in parallel to the controller. During a determination of coefficients of the loop shaping filters using a transfer function from outputs of the loop shaping filters to before an input of a disturbance affecting the controlled object, the first set of coefficients of each the loop shaping filter is determined by reflecting a frequency response of the other loop shaping filters, and the determined first sets of coefficients of the loop shaping filters are set to the loop shaping filters, respectively.
US11804242B2
A read head is disclosed wherein a Spin Hall Effect (SHE) layer is formed on a free layer (FL) in a sensor and between the FL and top shield (S2). Preferably, the sensor has a seed layer, an AP2 reference layer, antiferromagnetic coupling layer, AP1 reference layer, and a tunnel barrier sequentially formed on a bottom shield (S1). When the stripe heights of the FL and SHE layer are equal, a two terminal configuration is employed where a current flows between one side of the SHE layer to a center portion thereof and then to S1, or vice versa. As a result, a second spin torque is generated by the SHE layer on the FL that opposes a first spin torque from the AP1 reference layer on the FL.
US11804241B2
An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The controlling method includes, based on an audio signal being received through a microphone, determining whether a user is on a public transport; detecting whether the audio signal includes a voice signal output through an acoustic device of the public transport; determining whether the voice signal from the acoustic device includes a voice signal for guiding at least one stop from among a plurality of stops; and outputting information on the at least one stop.
US11804240B2
Methods and systems for identifying human activity in a building. An illustrative method includes storing one or more room sound profiles for a room in a building based at least in part on background audio captured in the room without a presence of humans in the room. Background noise filters are generated for the room based on the room sound profiles. Real time audio may be captured from the room and filtered with at least one of the background noise filters. The filtered real time audio may be analyzed to identify one or more sounds associated with human activity in the room. A situation report may be generated based at least in part on the identified one or more sounds associated with human activity in the room and transmitted for use by a user.
US11804229B2
An apparatus for providing a processed audio signal representation on the basis of input audio signal representation configured to apply an un-windowing, in order to provide the processed audio signal representation on the basis of the input audio signal representation. The apparatus is configured to adapt the un-windowing in dependence on one or more signal characteristics and/or in dependence on one or more processing parameters used for a provision of the input audio signal representation.
US11804226B2
A method includes providing audio signals of an interaction between a plurality of human speakers, the speakers speaking into electronic devices to record the audio signals. The audio signals, which are optionally combined, include agent audio and subject audio. The method further includes automatically processing the audio signals to generate a speaker separated natural language transcript of the interaction from the audio signals. For each identified question, a subject response is identified. From the agent text, it is determined whether the question asked by the at least one agent is an open question or a closed question. A decision engine is used to determine the veracity of the subject response and the subject response is flagged if the indicia of the likelihood of deception in the subject response exceeds a predetermined value.
US11804222B2
An electronic device with a microphone, a speaker, a processor, and a power tool battery pack connectable to and powering the speaker and the processor. The electronic device has software that can cause the processor to perform operations which can cause the electronic device to operate in first and second modes. While the electronic device is operating in the first mode, the device can generate first audio data representing user speech captured by the microphone which can be analyzed by the electronic device or a remote server. The electronic device can switch from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode, where the electronic device can receive, second audio data from another electronic device. The electronic device can then output, using the speaker, audible content represented by the second audio data.
US11804191B2
A method is provided for adjusting a viewing angle for a dark state of a display panel, and the method includes steps of: obtaining a first brightness change of a to-be-tested panel at a first viewing angle under a condition of a first voltage difference; obtaining a second brightness change of the to-be-tested panel at a second viewing angle under the condition of the first voltage difference; obtaining a ratio of the second brightness change to the first brightness change; and comparing the ratio of the second brightness change to the first brightness change with a first threshold to determine whether the first voltage difference is a selection voltage of the display panel.
US11804190B2
An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid and first (B), second (Y), third (R) and fourth (W) particles dispersed in the fluid and having differing colors. The first (B) and third (R) particles bear charges of one polarity and the second (Y) and fourth (W) particles bear charges of the opposite polarity, The first particles (B) have a greater zeta potential than the third particles (R), and the second particles (Y) have a greater zeta potential than the fourth particles (W). One of the particles (W) is white, one of the non-white particles (B) is partially light-transmissive, and the remaining two non-white particles are light-reflective. To display the color of a mixture of the first (B) and second (Y) particles at a viewing surface, the medium is driven to display the second particles (Y) at the viewing surface, then a first driving voltage is applied for a first period to drive the second (Y) and fourth (W) particles towards the viewing surface, then a second driving voltage, of opposite polarity to and lower magnitude than, the first voltage, is applied for a second period less than the first period, and finally the applications of the two driving voltages are repeated.
US11804182B2
A first pixel electrode electrically connected to a first transistor, a second pixel electrode electrically connected to a second transistor, a first light-emitting layer formed over the first pixel electrode and overlapping the first pixel electrode, a second light-emitting layer formed over the second pixel electrode and overlapping the second pixel electrode are provided, the first light-emitting layer includes a quantum-dot light-emitting that emits light of a first color, and the second light-emitting layer includes an organic light-emitting layer that emits light of a second color different from the first color.
US11804178B2
A display substrate of the present disclosure includes a display region including sub-pixels, data lines, and gate lines; and a circuit region including a first sub-region and a second sub-region opposite to each other at two sides of the display region along a first direction. The first sub-region is provided with a plurality of multiplexing unit groups, each of which includes at least one multiplexing unit. The second sub-region is provided with a plurality of testing unit groups, each of which includes at least one testing unit. The circuit region is further provided with a plurality of driving unit groups, each of which includes at least one driving unit. The driving unit groups and the multiplexing unit groups are alternately arranged along an extending direction of the first sub-region in the first sub-region.
US11804177B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor; a compensation module including a first transistor, a compensation transistor for compensating a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, a second transistor, and a storage capacitor connected in series between a source or a drain of the compensation transistor and a gate of the driving transistor; and a data writing module including a data writing transistor connected to an upper plate of the storage capacitor, to improve display effect.
US11804167B2
A display driver integrated circuit (IC) includes a logic module sequentially issuing read commands including a first read command, a second read command succeeding the first read command, and a third read command succeeding the second read command, and memory modules connected in series with each other. A first memory module is connected to the logic module and is the closest memory module to the logic module. The first memory module receives the read commands, provide the first read command to a first memory of the first memory module, read first image data from the first memory in response to the first read command, and provide the first image data and first remaining read commands among the read commands to a second memory module which is connected to the first memory module and farther than the first memory module from the logic module.
US11804161B1
Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes a first light-transmitting group, a first non-display area, and a display area; and a plurality of pixel driving circuits and a plurality of drive signal lines. The first non-display area surrounds the first light-transmitting group, the display area surrounds the first non-display area, and the first light-transmitting group includes at least two first light-transmitting areas arranged along a first direction. The plurality of pixel driving circuits is in the display area, a pixel driving circuit of the plurality of pixel driving circuits includes a data writing module, and a drive signal line of the plurality of drive signal lines is electrically connected to a control terminal of the data writing module.
US11804160B2
A display apparatus includes an integral integrated circuit and a display panel. The integral integrated circuit includes a gate channel which outputs a gate primitive signal and a data channel which outputs a data voltage. The display panel includes a level shifter which amplifies the gate primitive signal to generate a gate signal. The display panel is configured to display an image based on the gate signal and the data voltage. The display panel includes a first gate line extending in a first direction and a second gate line extending in a second direction. The second direction is different from the first direction. The second gate line is connected to the first gate line. The level shifter is connected to the second gate line.
US11804156B2
A first substrate of an electro-optical device is provided with a temperature detection circuit including a temperature detection element, and a first wiring line and a second wiring line of the temperature detection element are electrically connected to a first terminal and a second terminal, respectively. Between the first terminal and the second terminal, a third terminal that is not electrically connected to the temperature detection element is provided. Thus, through detection of a current at the time of applying a ground potential from a first probe and a second probe of an inspection device to the first terminal and the second terminal and applying a predetermined voltage from a third probe to the third terminal, insulation between the first terminal and the second terminal can be inspected.
US11804150B2
Simulated tissue structures and methods of making them are disclosed. An elastic first material is placed in tension. An elastic second material is adhered to the first material while the first material is in tension. The adhered second material and the first material in tension forms a first shape of the simulated tissue structure. Tension on the first material is released. In releasing the tension of the first material, a force is exerted on the adhered second material bring the combination of the first material and the second material into a second shape. The first shape is maintained by a mold or mandrel and the second shape is the desired shape of the simulated tissue structure.
US11804141B2
Aerial vehicles are assigned to routes within a transportation network based on a state of charge, state of power, and/or state of health for the aerial vehicle. Such aspects can be modeled based on one or more statistical models and/or machine-learned models, among other examples. As another example, an energy budget is used to ensure that the state of charge, state of power, and/or state of health of the aerial vehicle during and/or after traveling the route remains within the energy budget. A payload is assigned to a route and an associated aerial vehicle, thereby generating an itinerary. In examples, the itinerary is validated by the aerial vehicle to ensure that the aerial vehicle is capable of traveling the route with the payload. In examples where the aerial vehicle rejects the itinerary, the itinerary is assigned to another aerial vehicle and a new itinerary is identified for the aerial vehicle.
US11804136B1
A method is provided for managing and tracking scouting tasks to obtain map information using a fleet of autonomous vehicles. For instance, the method includes defining a scouting quest to obtain the map information. The scouting quest includes a plurality of objectives. Each objective is associated with a geographic location from which sensor data is to be captured. The method also includes receiving a first update message from an autonomous vehicle of the fleet. The update message identifies a location of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes assigning at least one of the objectives to the autonomous vehicle based on the location of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes sending instructions to the autonomous vehicle in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to complete the at least one objective and after sending, tracking a status of the scouting quest.
US11804134B2
A control device includes: a communication unit that receives input data from a terminal device of a first member who is a member of a first family staying in a vehicle, the input data indicating a family composition and a family stress for the first family; and a control unit that searches a database in which data indicating the family composition and the family stress for each of a plurality of families staying in individual vehicles is registered, using the input data received by the communication unit as a search key, selects a second family from the families based on a search result obtained, and causes the communication unit to transmit notification data that notifies the first member of information for establishing a relationship with a second member who is a member of the second family selected.
US11804130B2
Implementations of the present specification provide a vehicle identification method and apparatus, a primary device, and a secondary device. In the vehicle identification method, after sending a low-frequency signal, the primary device receives a response signal sent by the secondary device for the low-frequency signal, and communicates with the secondary device to obtain identity information of a vehicle on which the secondary device is located, so that the vehicle can be identified. The response signal is sent from the secondary device after the secondary device receives the low-frequency signal and detects that the signal strength of the low-frequency signal is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold, and the signal strength of the low-frequency signal rapidly attenuates as the distance increases, so that the primary device can determine the location of the vehicle on which the secondary device is located solely based on the received response signal.
US11804129B2
This disclosure is generally directed to detecting stalking of an individual who is traveling in a connected vehicle. In an example method, a first individual traveling in a first connected vehicle may enter into a personal device (a smartphone, for example), a request to perform a surveillance operation. The personal device may respond to the request by communicating with a cloud computer. The personal device and/or the cloud computer may obtain data from a vehicle computer of the first connected vehicle and/or from a vehicle computer of a second connected vehicle and evaluate the data to detect a travel pattern of a second individual traveling in either the first connected vehicle or the second connected vehicle. The travel pattern of the second individual is then evaluated to determine whether the second individual is stalking the first individual. A report of the surveillance procedure may be provided to the first individual.
US11804128B2
According to one aspect, a host vehicle (HV) equipped with a system for target classification may include a communication unit receiving a first message from a remote vehicle (RV) at a first time. The communication unit may receive a second message from the RV at a second time. An operation unit may append the path history position trail information of the first message with the path history position trail information of the second message based on an overlap between the path history position trail information of the first message and the second message to determine an overall path history position trail for the RV and calculate a lane level position offset between the HV and the RV based on the overall path history position trail for the RV and a current position of the HV and a result of lane change detection module of the HV about the HV and RV lane changes.
US11804126B2
One example method of operation may include receiving potential emergency event communications from one or more emergency monitoring entities targeting a potential emergency location, comparing the potential emergency event communications to one or more emergency event thresholds, determining a level of severity of the potential emergency event, and transmitting one or more notifications to one or more emergency response entities based on the one or more emergency events thresholds being exceeded and the level of severity.
US11804103B2
Described is a method of detecting the use of automation to place wagers on a play by play wagering platform by a user's account by identifying correlations within the user's historical wager data exceeding a threshold indicating that automation is being used to place wagers using the user's account an invalidating wagers placed by the user's account.
US11804095B2
A vending machine has an interactive customer experience. Some embodiments of the vending machine include a transparent front wall with a plurality of display units located behind the front wall. Each of the display units may contain an example of a product available for vending. Based on input received from a customer and other information, the vending machine may provide a recommendation for a product or products to select for purchase. The vending machine may highlight the recommendation by selectively illuminating the product display units that contain the recommended products.
US11804093B2
A medium storage device includes: a safe having, at a rear portion, an entrance for replenishment and recovery to which a transit cassette is connectable; an identification unit serving to identify whether a medium is a normal medium or a rejection medium; a temporary holding unit configured to temporarily accommodate a medium; a recycle cassette configured to accommodate the medium identified as the normal medium; a conveyance path configured to convey the medium between the identification unit, the temporary holding unit, and the recycle cassette; a control unit configured to control the conveyance path such that the medium replenished from the transit cassette is conveyed to the temporary holding unit, the medium conveyed to the temporary holding unit is conveyed to the identification unit, and the medium identified as the normal medium in the identification unit is conveyed to the recycle cassette.
US11804091B2
A cloud door lock control system identifies time varied 2D codes and images. A cloud device transmits the encryption codes of doors to be opened, the time periods for opening the doors, and the user's encryption codes to the mobile phone. The mobile phone stores these values in a memory. A mobile phone APP receives these values and encrypts them by using a specific encrypting code. The encoding way for the encoding unit is time varied. When the cloud device receives the QR code from a card reader, it is decoded and is compared with those stored in the cloud device to determine whether the door is necessary to be opened. The cloud device stores mobile phone holder's images which is transferred to the APP. The mobile phone holder's image is displayable on the mobile phone for determining whether the mobile phone holder is acceptable to pass through the door.
US11804088B2
A mobile body delivers a package to a designated destination by autonomous traveling. When the mobile body arrives at the destination, door status information including opening/closing status of an entrance door of the destination is acquired, and it is determined whether the entrance door of the destination has been opened based on the acquired door status information. When the entrance door has been opened, a delivery of the package to the destination is authenticated, and a locking device for regulating the delivery of the package from the mobile body is unlocked.
US11804077B2
A generic gesture detecting method executed by a generic gesture detecting device includes steps of: receiving a current sensing signal from a sensing unit; generating a current image according to the current sensing signal; determining whether the current image is similar with a stored image stored in a memory unit; when the current image is similar with the stored image, detecting the current image and the stored image to be a gesture signal; when the current image is different from the stored image, storing the current image into the memory unit, and returning to the step of receiving a current sensing signal. Since the generic gesture detecting device can automatically detect the gesture signal, the user may not need to enable a detecting time period before implementing a command motion. Therefore, the user can make the command motion without enabling the detecting time period, and the convenience can be increased.
US11804074B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for recognizing facial expressions based on adversarial elimination. First, a facial expression recognition network is built based on a deep convolutional neural network. On a natural facial expression data set, the facial expression recognition network is trained through a loss function to make facial expression features easier to distinguish. Then some key features of input images are actively eliminated by using an improved confrontation elimination method to generate a new data set to train new networks with different weight distributions and feature extraction capabilities, forcing the network to perform expression classification discrimination based on more features, which reduces the influence of interference factors such as occlusion on the network recognition accuracy rate, and improving the robustness of the facial expression recognition network. Finally, the final expression classification predicted results are obtained by using network integration and a relative majority voting method.
US11804073B2
Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for generating biometric image data. In one example, a system accesses a set of images stored on a mobile computing device. The system identifies one or more faces depicted in the set of images and generates a set of face images from the set of images. The system determines a set of positions of a set of facial features depicted within the set of face images and generates a set of biometric reference maps based on the set of positions. The system transmits the set of face images to a reference server and stores the set of biometric reference maps on the mobile computing device.
US11804071B2
Technologies are provided herein for selecting one or more subimages to be processed from a plurality of images received. A subset of images is identified, from the plurality of images received, that include a face image. The face image is assessed to generate assessment information regarding one or more of a size of the face image, a pose of the face in the face image, sharpness of the face image, and contrast quality of the face image. Each aspect of the assessment information is compared with corresponding criteria and, as a result of determining that the assessment information satisfies the criteria, facial recognition processing is performed on the face image.
US11804061B2
Devices and optical sensor modules are provided for on-screen optical sensing of fingerprints or other patterns by interleaving optical sensors with display pixels across a display panel for using a top surface above the display panel over the entire display surface as an optical sensing surface.
US11804060B1
A pair of input images acquired using a first modality and a second modality is processed using a multi-classifier trained to determine classification data indicative of whether the pair is normal or abnormal. A pair may be deemed abnormal if one or both input images are obscured or inconsistent with one another. Training data comprising normal and abnormal images are used to train the multi-classifier. During training, the multi-classifier uses an objective function that includes cross entropy loss, distance loss, and discrepancy loss to process the training data. During use, the trained multi-classifier processes a pair of input images. If the resulting classification data indicates the pair of input images are normal, the pair of input images may be processed to assert an identity.
US11804055B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry performs ledger sheet recognition on ledger sheet image data, and refers to an association information storage area storing association information representing an output order of a plurality of item values of each of a plurality of item names. The plurality of item values are acquired based on the ledger sheet recognition. The circuitry further generates output data in which the plurality of item values of the each of the plurality of item names are arranged in the output order represented by the association information. The circuitry further outputs the generated output data.
US11804053B2
An image recognition method and a terminal, where the method includes obtaining, by the terminal, an image file comprising a target object, recognizing, by the terminal, the target object based on an image recognition model in the terminal to obtain object category information of the target object, and storing, by the terminal, the object category information as first label information of the target object. Hence, image recognition efficiency of the terminal can be improved, and privacy of a terminal user can be effectively protected.
US11804052B2
A method for setting a target flight path of an aircraft in a physical environment, the method includes: displaying a virtual three-dimensional model corresponding to the physical environment; setting a start point in the virtual three-dimensional model according to a user input indicative of a position of the start point; continuously tracking a trajectory of a physical object moved in a space corresponding to the virtual three-dimensional model while displaying within the virtual three-dimensional model a continuous path corresponding to the trajectory of the physical object from the start point; setting an end point of the continuous path in the virtual three-dimensional model according to a user input indicative of a position of the end point; and generating the target flight path of the aircraft in the physical environment based on the continuous path from the start point to the end point in the virtual three-dimensional model.
US11804051B2
A server includes a communications interface; and a processor connected with the communications interface, the processor configured to: receive, from each of a plurality of capture nodes: (i) an initial point cloud depicting a portion of a capture volume, and (ii) boundary values corresponding to the initial point cloud; generate a bounding box from the boundary values received from the capture nodes; select respective portions of each initial point cloud based on the bounding box; and combine the selected portions to generate a combined point cloud.
US11804045B2
To present a region which is not fully monitored, provided is a monitoring device comprising a detection means, an estimation means, a determination means, and a presentation means. The detection means detects a person from an image. The estimation means estimates a region which is being viewed by the person who is detected by the detection means. On the basis of the region estimated by the estimation means, the determination means determines a region which requires special attention within a monitoring area. The presentation means presents information indicating the region which requires special attention determined by the determination means.
US11804038B1
Two or more aerial vehicles, such as drones, can each include one or more cameras for capturing surveying or other image data within a field of view. Some of the image data, as well as other data, can be stored and pre-processed on the vehicles, including via onboard edge computing devices. The image and/or other data can be analyzed by a remote system or service, which has additional computing resources, and used to determine the occurrence or existence of an anomaly, such as a seismic event or structure identified in the field of view. The anomaly determination may be based on a disparity, involving a distance between cameras, the cameras' focal length, and a perpendicular distance from a point between cameras to a surface or subsurface point.
US11804034B2
A computer-implemented method of training a machine learnable function, such as an image classifier or image feature extractor. When applying such machine learnable functions in autonomous driving and similar application areas, generalizability may be important. To improve generalizability, the machine learnable function is rewarded for responding predictably at a layer of the machine learnable function to a set of differences between input observations. This is done by means of a regularization objective included in the objective function used to train the machine learnable function. The regularization objective rewards a mutual statistical dependence between representations of input observations at the given layer, given a difference label indicating a difference between the input observations.
US11804024B2
A passive flash system for illuminating images being captured on a user device while maintaining preview of the content being captured. The passive flash system can display a portion of a screen in as an elevated brightness element that is brighter than the content being captured. The elevated brightness element can surround or overlap the content being captured to passively increase the lighting of the imaged environment.
US11804010B2
In one embodiment, a computing system instructs, at a first time, a camera having a plurality of pixel sensors to use the plurality of pixel sensors to capture a first image of an environment comprising an object. The computing system predicts, using at least the first image, a projection of the object appearing in a virtual image plane associated with a predicted camera pose at a second time. The computing system determines, based on the predicted projection of the object, a first region of pixels and a second region of pixels. The computing system generates pixel-activation instructions for the first region of pixels and the second region of pixels. The computing system instructs the camera to capture a second image of the environment at the second time according to the pixel-activation instructions. The pixel-activation instructions are configured to cause a first subset of the plurality of pixel sensors to sample the first region of pixels and a second subset of the plurality of pixel sensors to sample the second region of pixels. The first subset of the plurality of pixel sensors used for sampling the first region of pixels is more dense than the second subset of the plurality of pixel sensors used for sampling the second region of pixels. The computing system tracks, based on the second image, the object at the second time.
US11804009B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing data conversion on sensor data to obtain modified sensor data that is formatted/structured appropriately for downstream processes that rely on the sensor data as input. The sensor data can include point cloud data captured by a LiDAR, for example. A grid structure and corresponding grid characteristics can be determined and the sensor data can be converted to grid-based sensor data by associating the grid structure and its characteristics with the sensor data. Generating the grid-based sensor data can include reformatting the point cloud data to superimpose the grid structure and its grid characteristics onto the point cloud data. Various downstream processing that cannot feasibly be performed on the raw sensor data can then be performed efficiently on the modified grid-based sensor data by virtue of the grid structure imbuing the sensor data with spatial proximity information.
US11804003B2
High quality image rendering can be achieved in part by using inverse transform sampling to direct sampling toward regions of greater importance, such as regions with higher brightness values, to reduce noise and improve convergence. Inverse transform sampling can be achieved more efficiently by reformulating as a ray-tracing problem, using tree traversal units that can be accelerated. A geometric mesh can be generated based on a set of cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) for various rows and columns of pixels in a texture, and individual rays can be traced against this mesh, with those rays having a higher probability of intersection at a point with greater importance, such as a higher brightness value. A probability distribution function to be used for importance sampling can be derived by analyzing partial derivatives of the CDF geometry at the intersection location.
US11803994B2
Disclosed is a system for encoding and/or rendering animations without temporal or spatial restrictions. The system may encode an animation as a point cloud with first data points having a first time value and different positional and non-positional values, and second data points having a second time value and different positional and non-positional values. Rendering the animation may include generating and presenting a first image for the first time value of the animation based on the positional and non-positional values of the first data points, and generating and presenting a second image for the second time value of the animation by changing a visualization at a first position in the first image based on the positional values of a data point from the second data points corresponding to the first position and the data point non-positional values differing from the visualization.
US11803992B2
A venue system of a client device can submit a location request to a server, which returns multiple venues that are near the client device. The client device can use one or more machine learning schemes (e.g., convolutional neural networks) to determine that the client device is located in one of specific venues of the possible venues. The venue system can further select imagery for presentation based on the venue selection. The presentation may be published as ephemeral message on a network platform.
US11803966B2
A computer-implemented method is for evaluating a CT data set of a coronary region of a patient regarding perivascular tissue of at least one target blood vessel. In an embodiment, the computer-implemented method automatically determines a centerline of at least the at least one target blood vessel in the CT data set; defines a region of interest as including at least one defined outer region radius around an extension interval of the centerline, the outer region radius being relatively larger than a radius of the at least one target blood vessel; and calculates at least one quantitative value from CT data in the region of interest.
US11803963B2
A method of analyzing images of a biological specimen using a computational model is described, the method including processing a cell image of the biological specimen and a phase contrast image of the biological specimen using the computational model to generate an output data. The cell image is a composite of a first brightfield image of the biological specimen at a first focal plane and a second brightfield image of the biological specimen at a second focal plane. The method also includes performing a comparison of the output data and a reference data and refining the computational model based on the comparison of the output data and the reference data. The method also includes thereafter processing additional image pairs according to the computational model to further refine the computational model based on comparisons of additional output data generated by the computational model to additional reference data.
US11803955B1
Multimodal systems are provided for managing safety in an industrial environment. The system comprises: (a) a computer vision component for generating a first output data; (b) a real-time locating component for generating a second output data about an object within the industrial environment and a mobile tag device deployed to the object; (c) a LIDAR component for generating a third output data; and (d) an edge computing device connected to the computer vision component, the real-time locating component and the LIDAR component via a local network, and is configured to: (i) receive a data stream including the first output data, the second output data and the third output data, (ii) process the data stream using a machine learning algorithm trained model to generate a safety related result and feedback data, and (iii) deliver the feedback data to the object via the mobile tag device.
US11803953B2
A quality improvement method for an image sensor array includes collecting in-line optical inspection data of the image sensor, collecting end of line electrical data of the image sensor, creating defect maps and obtaining x-y coordinates of the optical inspection data and the electrical data, correlating the defect maps to generate correlated defects, classifying the images of the correlated defects, and generating root cause statistics of the classified correlated defects.
US11803951B2
A high-resolution microendoscope system includes a light source, a fiber optic bundle configured to transmit light from the light source to a sample, a disc configured to receive light returned from the sample, the disc having spaced apart segments, the spaced-apart segments being at least one of openings and transparent portions, a first camera configured to capture a first image based at least in part on light passing through the disc, and a second camera configured to capture a second image based at least in part on light reflected from the disc.
US11803948B2
Methods and systems for the display management of HDR video signals are presented. The mapping is based on tone mapping and color volume mapping which map an input signal with an input dynamic range and color volume to a target display with a target dynamic range and color volume. Both a global tone-mapping and precision-mapping methods using pyramid filtering are presented.
US11803946B2
The exemplary embodiments relate to converting Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) content to High Dynamic Range (HDR) content using a machine learning system. In some embodiments, the neural network is trained to convert an input SDR image into an HDR image using the encoded representation of a training SDR image and a training HDR image. In other embodiments, the neural network is trained to convert an input SDR image into an HDR image using a predefined set of color grading actions and the training images.
US11803944B2
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are provided for image cleanup. In some embodiments, there is provide a method which may include subsampling a first image to a first level image of a multiscale transform; performing, based on a machine learning model, an identification of a foreground portion of the first level image and a background portion of the first level image; generating, based on the identification of the foreground portion and the background portion, a first mask; upscaling the first mask to a resolution corresponding to the first image depicting the foreground item; applying the upscaled first mask to the first image to form a second image depicting the foreground item; and providing the second image depicting the foreground item to a publication system. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11803943B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods to correct for edge-position error associated with brightness levels of an associated back screen in a video extensometer system. In some examples, to correct for edge-position error, a processing system is configured to execute an edge detection algorithm to measure and/or calculate a difference between a perceived edge-position and a reference edge-position associated with an amount of error, and calculate a correction term to address the error. The correction term can be added to the result of the edge detection algorithm in case of white-to black transition, and subtracted in case of black-to-white transition to correct for the error.
US11803937B2
In an embodiment a method for panoramic video playback is disclosed. The method includes determining, by a client, that a new time point to play a video in a panoramic video is indicated, matching, by the client, the new time point and a time range of each of at least one interest point included in the panoramic video and before the time point and the time range of each of at least one interest point in the panoramic video is matched, obtaining, by the client from a server, description information of each of the at least one interest point in the panoramic video, wherein the description information includes the time range of the interest point and an area of the interest point. When the client finds that the new time point falls within a time range of an interest point the client determines a user's field of view in which an area of the matched interest point is viewable.
US11803935B2
Techniques to improve performance of matrix multiply operations are described in which a compute kernel can specify one or more element-wise operations to perform on output of the compute kernel before the output is transferred to higher levels of a processor memory hierarchy.
US11803925B1
A system and method for procedure selection for dispute resolution according to a plurality of factors, wherein the factors include but are not limited to characteristics of the people (or parties) involved, the nature of the dispute and its context, and the goals of the parties involved. Optionally the characteristics of the parties are determined according to their goals.
US11803882B2
A system receives value data to generate a value data object based on input received from a user. The input may include indications of priorities, descriptors, and descriptions related to known and unknown properties. The system uses the generated value data object and associated value gap score to generate property valuation prompts. The valuation prompts are utilized by the user to input evaluation data. Based on the evaluation data and the value data object, the user generates a value score for each visited property.
US11803875B2
The present disclosure provides a system for utilization of an advertisement fraud data to blacklist or whitelist one or more entities. The system includes a first step of collecting the advertisement fraud data associated with online advertisement and commerce fraud. The system includes another step of creating a blacklist of one or more entities from the collected advertisement fraud data. The system includes another step of blocking the one or more entities present in the created blacklist in real-time. The system includes another step of generating a whitelist of one or more entities from the created blacklist of the one or more entities. The system includes yet another step of optimizing the blacklist of the one or more entities in real-time.
US11803862B1
Systems and methods for voice-initiated transaction transfer are provided. A voice-initiated transaction transfer system includes an interactive voice response service that provides an initial voice-initiated transaction with a user and determines an intended transaction of the voice-initiated transaction. The system also includes an app administration service that receives an indication of the intended transaction from the interactive voice response service and triggers provision of a push notification to at least one app running on at least one electronic device associated with the user. The push notification includes an indication of a deep dive view to be presented on the app. The deep dive view includes a particular transaction screen of the app associated with the intended transaction.
US11803857B2
A method for recording chargebacks in blockchain transactions includes: storing a blockchain comprised of a plurality of blocks, each block being comprised of a block header and data values, where each data value includes a unique transaction identifier and data corresponding to a processed payment transaction; receiving a chargeback request including a specific transaction identifier corresponding to a unique transaction identifier included in a data value in the blockchain; generating a first transaction data value comprising the specific transaction identifier, a first new unique transaction identifier, and data indicating that a chargeback is requested for the corresponding payment transaction; transmitting the first transaction data value to a blockchain node; generating a second transaction data value comprising the specific transaction identifier, a second new unique transaction identifier, and data indicating a resolution for the chargeback for the corresponding payment transaction; and transmitting the second transaction data value to a blockchain node.
US11803856B1
A system and computer-readable storage medium perform a method for contextual inferring capacity for triggering a financial transaction by monitoring, via user device(s), objective contextual data of location, temporal, and volitional transaction information associated with an authorized user of a financial system. Subjective contextual data of personal calendar events, physiological data, and pacing of user interactions with the user device(s) is monitored. The objective and subjective contextual data is analyzed to create scenario(s) correlated with performing a volitional transaction. If not predictive a volitional transaction, a layer of security protocol is added for authentication prior to executing the volitional transaction. In response to determining that the current context is predictive of a volitional transaction, a determination is made whether the subjective contextual data satisfies criterion for incapacity to perform a volitional transaction. In response to determining incapacity to perform the volitional transaction, access to the financial system is limited.
US11803844B2
Methods and systems are presented for providing a framework for facilitating multi-party computation within a sharding environment. After a blockchain is divided into multiple shard chains, a multi-party computation system obtains attributes associated with a first shard chain. The attributes may represent characteristics of the first shard chain, characteristics of transactions recorded in the first shard chain, and characteristics of the computer nodes configured to manage the first shard chain. Based on the attributes, the multi-party computation system determines a multi-party computation scheme that specifies a minimum threshold number of nodes required to participate in a transaction validation process and at least one required node required to participate in the transaction validation process for the first shard chain. The multi-party computation system configures the computer nodes configured to manage the first shard chain to perform the transaction validation process according to the multi-party computation scheme.
US11803835B2
Systems and methods are provided for displaying account information. The systems and methods may include a portable smart display device in short-range communication with a mobile device. The smart display device may be configured to provide a user with quick and easy yet secure access to account information, without the need for multi-step login and verification processes. The smart display device may be sized to fit within a wallet and within quick, easy reach of a user. The smart display device may receive up-to-date account information from the mobile device, and display the account information on-demand upon detecting an activation event, thereby providing an enjoyable user experience and a useful tool for quickly informing the user of their financial situation.
US11803829B2
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for enabling merchant devices to interoperate with one another in a more robust manner, such that overall operation and efficiency within a merchant establishment is improved. For instance, the techniques described herein may enable the intelligent routing of requests between devices within the merchant establishment based on real-time locations of the devices, which devices are associated with which orders, and the like.
US11803826B2
A financial institution and a payment initiator may exchange public keys to enable the secure exchange of data. A business wishing to collect payment can provide its account information to the payment initiator. A customer wishing to pay can instruct the payment initiator to encrypt the business's account information along with details for a particular invoice and transmit the information to the financial institution. The financial institution can decrypt the information and initiate a transfer of money from the customer to the business. The financial institution may present the information about the transaction to the customer for modification or confirmation before initiating the transfer. The information may be sent from the payment initiator to the financial institution via the customer. After the payment has been initiated by the financial institution, a confirmation may be sent to the customer, the payment initiator, the business, or any suitable combination thereof.
US11803817B2
Systems and methods include monitoring users logging into a collaboration service for a corresponding online meeting; and assigning a plurality of the users to a virtual waiting room, separate from any corresponding online meeting, in advance of their corresponding online meeting to enable collaboration in the virtual waiting room. The systems and methods can further include notifying the plurality of users when their corresponding online meeting has started for the plurality of users to leave the virtual waiting room.
US11803816B2
Disclosed are various approaches for workflow service email integration. In some examples, an email application executed on a client device receives an email message that includes a workflow micro application. The workflow micro application has a workflow information component, and evaluation component, and a workflow actions component. The evaluation component identifies a presence or an absence of a management software development kit (SDK) on the client device. The email application renders a user interface that shows or hides a workflow actions interface area based on the presence or absence of the management SDK.
US11803813B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for consolidating credit profiles for co-applicants of a joint loan application. For example, a method may include: obtaining a first model score associated with the first applicant; receiving an address of the first applicant; obtaining a second model score associated with the second applicant; receiving an address of the second applicant; determining that the address of the first applicant and the address of the second applicant are the same; aggregating the first model score and the second model score to generate a joint model score for the first and second applicants based on the determination that the address of the first applicant and the address of the second applicant are the same; and generating the joint application for the first and second applicants at least based on the joint model score.
US11803806B2
Systems and methods for dynamic routing of delivery resources for delivery of items from a pickup location on or near a first planned route to a delivery location on or near a second planned route. Methods can include identifying a first route and a second route based on the pickup and delivery locations, selecting one of a predetermined plurality of transfer nodes based on the locations of the first and second routes, and sending instructions to resources traveling along the first and second routes to meet and transfer the items at the selected transfer node.
US11803805B2
For each order in a supply chain, order details are accessed. A disposition of each load of each order, the disposition comprising a plurality of expected milestones and a plurality of actual milestones. Each load is identified as either completed or projected based on the disposition of the load. An inventory readiness metric for each load is determined based on the disposition of the load. An inventory readiness root cause for each load is determined based on the disposition of the load. Load data for each load is stored in a supply chain data store. The load data comprising the disposition of the load, the inventory readiness metric for the load, and the inventory readiness root cause for the load. Queries about the supply chain are responded to using the load data.
US11803804B2
Methods and systems for recipient-assisted recharging during delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed herein. During a UAV transport task, a UAV determines that the UAV has arrived at a delivery location specified by a first flight leg of the transport task. The UAV responsively initiates a notification process indicating that a recipient-assisted recharging process should be initiated at or near the delivery location. When the UAV determines that the recipient-assisted recharging process has recharged a battery of the UAV to a target level, and also determines that a non-returnable portion of the payload has been removed from the UAV while a returnable portion of the payload is coupled to or held by the UAV, the UAV initiates a second flight segment of the transport task.
US11803802B2
An autonomous vehicle for delivery of items can detect its location and the location of targets on item receptacles in order to position the vehicle at a receptacle. The vehicle, in an autonomous mode, can automatically travel between delivery points along a delivery route. A presence sensor on the vehicle can detect ingress and egress from the vehicle to determine when the vehicle is ready to travel to the next delivery point.
US11803799B2
The present disclosure is for a system and a method for processing requests for custom paper products and estimating costs associated with manufacturing the custom paper products. Specifically, the present invention is an inventory management, yield and cost estimation system and method for use by a paper converting company. The system and method involves determining the output requirements of a custom paper product, determining the available inventory which can be converted into the custom paper products, the available machines and an appropriate converting process to perform the converting and estimating the yield, production time and production cost associated with a given set up for making the custom paper products.
US11803795B2
A work assist device includes a work burden degree evaluation unit, an improvement measures storage, a simulation unit, and an improvement measures determination unit. The work burden degree evaluation unit evaluates a work burden degree indicating a degree of burden imposed on an operator due to work from operator information and production facility information. The operator information is information related to the operator performing the work in cooperation with a production facility. The improvement measures storage stores improvement measures for improving the work burden degree. The simulation unit performs simulation of estimating an estimated improvement effect indicating a degree of improvement of the work burden degree when the improvement measures are applied. The improvement measures determination unit determines application improvement measures to be applied to at least one of the operator and the production facility from the improvement measures, based on the estimated improvement effect.
US11803793B2
A system and method are disclosed herein. The system includes one or more processors and a memory having programming instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the one or more processors, performs operations. The operations include retrieving historical account activity. The operations further include constructing a training data set that includes the historical inflow data, the historical outflow data, and known forecast information from the historical account activity. The operations further include generating a combined prediction model configured to forecast future inflow activity and future outflow activity. The operations further include receiving current inflow activity, current outflow activity, and current balance information for a user. The operations further include generating a predicted account balance by forecasting, by the prediction model, a future inflow and a future outflow and constructing the predicted account balance based on the future inflow, the future outflow, and the current balance information.
US11803791B2
An electronic construction collaboration system for managing a construction project is provided. The electronic construction collaboration system includes an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sub-system including a contract engine configured to generate at least one project contract including a contract data set and ERP metadata corresponding to Building Information Modeling (BIM) metadata included in a structural object of a construction project model in a BIM sub-system and an interconnection engine configured to associatively link the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata and send the contract data set to the BIM sub-system in response to associatively linking the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata.
US11803767B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision making by directing the emission of computer-generated health-care related recommendations towards contexts in which the recipient will likely find the recommendations salient and will likely welcome them and act upon them. ‘Uptake’ of computer-generated recommendations for diagnostic tests or therapeutic interventions is thereby substantially increased, and ‘alert fatigue’ is substantially decreased. Embodiments of our technology overcome certain drawbacks associated with the prior art by providing a means for ascertaining which decision-support recommendations are likely to be favorably considered by the recipient and acted-upon (recommendation ‘uptake’). System and method embodiments for providing a predicted probability of user uptake of a context-specific system-generated recommendation patient are disclosed herein and for applying that information to decide whether or not to emit the relevant recommendation.
US11803765B2
A method includes creating one or more first policy shims to be applied to a ML/AI module, applying the one or more first policy shims to an input or an output of the ML/AI module and executing the ML/AI module on a data set in response to the applying step. The one or more first policy shims includes an input policy shim and an output policy shim and the applying step includes applying the input policy shim to the data set prior to the executing step and applying the output policy shim to an output of the executing step.
US11803759B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are described to determine locations of objects using images including digital representations of those objects. In at least one embodiment, a gaze of one or more occupants of a vehicle is determined independently of a location of one or more sensors used to detect those occupants.
US11803754B2
A spinal surgery training process includes the steps of capturing a plurality of 2D images for each of a plurality of spines, generating a curve of each spine from the respective 2D images based on locations of select vertebrae in each of the spines, grouping the spines into one of a number of groups based on similarity to produce groups of spines having similarities, performing the capturing, generating, determining and grouping steps at least once prior to surgery and at least once after surgery to produce pre-operative groups and their resultant post-operative groups, and assigning surgical methods and a probability to each of the post-operative groups indicating the probability that a spinal shape of the post-operative group can be achieved using the surgical methods. An outcome prediction process for determining surgical methods can be implemented once the training process is complete.
US11803751B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a text summarization neural network. One of the methods includes pre-training the text summarization neural network including learning values of a plurality of network parameters through self-supervised learning using unlabeled data comprising unlabeled first texts, the pre-training including: obtaining an unlabeled first text comprising a plurality of segments; selecting one or more of the plurality of segments; processing a masked first text that excludes the one or more selected segments to generate a prediction of the one or more selected segments; and determining, based on a difference between the prediction and the one or more selected segments, an update to the current values of the plurality of network parameters; adapting the pre-trained text summarization neural network for a specific text summarization task using labeled data comprising second texts and respective summaries of the second texts.
US11803750B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.
US11803746B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for neural programming. One of the methods includes processing a current neural network input using a core recurrent neural network to generate a neural network output; determining, from the neural network output, whether or not to end a currently invoked program and to return to a calling program from the set of programs; determining, from the neural network output, a next program to be called; determining, from the neural network output, contents of arguments to the next program to be called; receiving a representation of a current state of the environment; and generating a next neural network input from an embedding for the next program to be called and the representation of the current state of the environment.
US11803744B2
Disclosed is a neural network learning apparatus for deep learning and a method thereof. A neural network learning apparatus for deep learning according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an input interface, a memory, and a learning processor for applying a Gradient Descent algorithm to a neural network model, and the learning processor may transform a cumulative change function of the gradient for an error function into an inverse square root function in the Gradient Descent algorithm, and operate an inverse square root approximate value by using a Newton-Raphson method for the transformed inverse square root function. The neural network learning apparatus for deep learning of the present disclosure may be connected or converged with an Artificial Intelligence module, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a robot, an Augmented Reality (AR) apparatus, a Virtual Reality (VR), or a 5G network service-related apparatus, etc.
US11803743B2
A building system for training a prediction model with augmented training data. The building system comprising one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain a first training data set comprising data values associated with a data point of the building system and with a plurality of time-steps and energy values associated with consumption of the building system at each of the plurality of time-steps; generate an augmented training data set comprising a second training data set, the second training data set comprising the energy values and the data values of the first training data set but with a data value replaced with a predetermined value at a time-step of the plurality of time-steps; and generate a prediction model by training the prediction model.
US11803741B2
Provided herein is an integrated circuit including, in some embodiments, a special-purpose host processor, a neuromorphic co-processor, and a communications interface between the host processor and the co-processor configured to transmit information therebetween. The special-purpose host processor can be operable as a stand-alone processor. The neuromorphic co-processor may include an artificial neural network. The co-processor is configured to enhance special-purpose processing of the host processor through an artificial neural network. In such embodiments, the host processor is a pattern identifier processor configured to transmit one or more detected patterns to the co-processor over a communications interface. The co-processor is configured to transmit the recognized patterns to the host processor.
US11803735B2
The present disclosure discloses a neural network processing module, in which a mapping unit is configured to receive an input neuron and a weight, and then process the input neuron and/or the weight to obtain a processed input neuron and a processed weight; and an operation unit is configured to perform an artificial neural network operation on the processed input neuron and the processed weight. Examples of the present disclosure may reduce additional overhead of the device, reduce the amount of access, and improve efficiency of the neural network operation.
US11803734B2
Methods, devices, systems, and instructions for adaptive quantization in an artificial neural network (ANN) calculate a distribution of ANN information; select a quantization function from a set of quantization functions based on the distribution; apply the quantization function to the ANN information to generate quantized ANN information; load the quantized ANN information into the ANN; and generate an output based on the quantized ANN information. Some examples recalculate the distribution of ANN information and reselect the quantization function from the set of quantization functions based on the resampled distribution if the output does not sufficiently correlate with a known correct output. In some examples, the ANN information includes a set of training data. In some examples, the ANN information includes a plurality of link weights.
US11803729B2
A light-emitting diode has an anode terminal coupled to a node of application of a power supply voltage by a first transistor and a cathode terminal coupled to a node of application of a reference voltage by a second transistor. A microcontroller includes a digital-to-analog converter and a comparator, with the comparator having a first input coupled to one of the anode and cathode terminals of the diode and a second input configured to receive an output voltage of the converter. An output signal of the comparator controls one of the first and second transistors to turn off when the comparator detects an operating condition where current flow in the light-emitting diode exceeds maximum current limit (such as with the light-emitting diode operating in an exponential operating area.
US11803728B2
An acoustic biometric touch scanner device and method is disclosed. In one aspect, an acoustic fingerprint sensing device includes an array of ultrasonic transducers configured to transmit an ultrasound signal having a frequency in a range from 50 megahertz (MHz) to 500 MHz. The acoustic fingerprint ultrasonic transducers include a piezoelectric film. The acoustic fingerprint sensing device further includes a receiving surface configured to receive a finger. The acoustic fingerprint sensing device further includes a processor configured to generate an image of at least a portion of a fingerprint of the finger based on a reflection of the ultrasound signal from the finger.
US11803725B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for radiolocation using backscatter RFID tags and a special-purpose reader that produces a stepped-frequency continuous wave (SFCW) radio frequency (RF) interrogation signal comprising N carrier frequencies. A backscattered interrogation signal from a backscatter RFID tag is down-converted using at least a portion of the generated SFCW RF interrogation signal. Received signal phases (RSP) corresponding to the N carrier frequencies are determined. Received signal strength (RSS) may be determined to improve performance. A distance between the RFID reader and the backscatter RFID tag may be estimated based on at least a summation of differences between RSPs corresponding to adjacent carrier frequencies.
US11803723B2
The present disclosure provides various embodiments of systems and methods of tracking information pertaining to assets, such as but not limited to, voting systems and other voting equipment used in an election (i.e., election equipment). In the present disclosure, a low-power electronic display tag (such as an electronic paper tag, or “e-paper” tag) is affixed to an asset to track information pertaining to that asset. Unlike conventional applications that utilize low-power electronic display tags (such as, e.g., asset tracking and ESL applications), the information displayed on the electronic display tag described herein is collected and dynamically updated by the asset being tracked.
US11803719B1
Incremental magnification is used to decode optical patterns, such a barcodes, in a scene. A first image of a scene is acquired using a first magnification of a camera, wherein the first image comprises a barcode. The barcode cannot be decoded. The magnification of the camera is increased by a predetermined magnification from the first magnification to a second magnification. A second image is acquired of the scene, including the barcode. The barcode is decoded after acquiring the second image.
US11803707B2
A system and method for auto-populating an electronic transaction process is provided. The system comprises at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the at least one processor configure the processor to obtain a scanned payee identifier from an optical character recognition scan of a digital bill document, compare the scanned payee identifier with a set of stored payee identifiers to obtain at least one first identifier match, determine a score for each of the at least one identifier match, and select the stored payee identifier associated with a highest score. The method comprises obtaining a scanned payee identifier from an optical character recognition scan of a digital bill document, comparing the scanned payee identifier with a set of stored payee identifiers to obtain at least one first identifier match, determining a score for each of the at least one identifier match, and selecting the stored payee identifier associated with a highest score.
US11803706B2
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for extracting structure and headers from a body of text. This computational extraction is based on the visual and logical similarities between portions of text. Boilerplate is removed from chunks of text making up potential headers and the cleaned result is compared against other potential headers and the remainder of the body of text.
US11803705B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processor. The memory stores a trouble category into which a trouble occurring in a product is classified and a design-element category into which a design element causing the trouble and included in the product is classified in mutual association and store a design-element category into which a design element included in a product is classified and a design-requirement category into which a design requirement of the design element is classified in association with each other. The processor receives designation of a first design-element category by user, determines a design-requirement category corresponding to the received first design-element category by referencing to the memory, determines a second design-element category corresponding to the determined design-requirement category and different from the first design-element category, determine a trouble category associated with the determined second design-element category, and notify the user of information indicating the determined trouble category.
US11803704B2
Techniques are described herein that are capable of intelligently updating a collaboration site or a template that may be used to create a new collaboration site. The collaboration site or the template may be updated to include new features based on (e.g., based at least in part on) a likelihood that the new features will be valuable to users. The likelihood that new features will be valuable to the users may be determined (e.g., derived) using heuristics, machine learning, intelligent user experiences, and/or an understanding of user behavior gathered by a service that provides the collaboration site or the template. The likelihood may be compared to a likelihood threshold to determine whether the collaboration site or the template is to be updated. In accordance with this example, the update may be made if the likelihood is greater than or equal to the likelihood threshold.
US11803702B1
A system configures, executes, and monitors document workflows executing using workflow engines executing on cloud platforms. The system generates a platform independent document workflow specification that describes a document workflow configured for execution on any of a plurality of workflow engines, each workflow engine executing on a cloud platform. The system compiles the platform independent document workflow specification to generate a platform specific document workflow specification configured for execution on a target workflow engine executing on a target cloud platform. A document workflow orchestration runtime executes and monitors the execution of the platform specific document workflow specification.
US11803701B2
A method of evolving web pages or forms to better accord with usability metrics involves generating a heat map encoding of user interaction with a web page or electronic form, transforming the heat map with a machine neural network or other machine learning algorithm into at least one visual element placement prioritization for the web page or electronic form, and applying the visual element placement prioritization to modify a layout of the web page or electronic form.
US11803700B2
Embodiments relate to a document parser module that can receive a document template from a producing entity, parse the template, and generate a mapping between the template and identifiers of the transaction entity. Using the mapping and parsed information, a document generator module may generate a document that includes the required identifier data and meets the submission standards of the producing entity. A configuration file may be saved so that a document can be generated and submitted every reporting period with little or no additional modification by the transaction entity.
US11803695B1
Systems and methods are described for generating dynamic web clippings. A web clipping service can obtain from a client computing device metadata for a dynamic web clipping, which includes an identifier of a web document and state information of a web browser that has rendered the web document on the client computing device, the state information enabling replication of a browsing session of the client computing device. The web clipping service can use the metadata to recreate the browsing session of the client device on the web clipping service, and capture an image of the web document as rendered within he recreated browsing session. The web clipping service can then provide the image of the web document as the dynamic web clipping.
US11803688B2
A secondary device for a sensor and/or information system, including a display and a control unit, is proposed. Predetermined interpretation instructions are stored in the control unit. The control unit is configured to wirelessly receive a display instruction containing at least one interpretation information and at least one text information. The control unit is configured to generate a graphic presentation containing the text information using the stored interpretation instructions on the basis of the interpretation information of the display instruction, and to display the graphic presentation by means of the display. Furthermore, a sensor and/or information system and a method of operating a sensor and/or information system are proposed.
US11803675B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure are directed to rendering audiovisual (AN) simulation of a disaster situation at a facility by artificially simulating the disaster situation. The disaster situation uses a 3D model of the environment associated with the facility. Embodiments of the disclosed system continuously collect data relating to reactions of one or more users to the simulation model. Upon analyzing the reactions of one or more users to the simulation model, the system provides AN indicators such as an avatar, a virtual teacher, or a virtual user to provide information for responding to the disaster situation. In some embodiments, the simulation model can be customized based on one or more factors, such as an age of the one or users, a skillset of the one or more users, a geographical location of the facility.
US11803673B2
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
US11803670B2
A computer terminal arranged to allow a user to produce a fragrance or flavour composition, the terminal comprising a processor, a database connection to a database storing ingredients, an output connection to an output device configured to produce a sample of the composition, a display and a user input means; wherein the processor is configured to: accept selection via the user input means of ingredients from the database; add pictograms representing the selected ingredients to an olfactive design space on the display, wherein the size of the pictogram for each selected ingredient represents that selected ingredient's olfactive contribution to the composition; convert for each selected ingredient, its olfactive contribution to a corresponding quantity of the ingredient; and, when the user requests a sample of the composition via the input means, to instruct the output device to dispense the corresponding quantity of the selected ingredients.
US11803668B2
In various examples, an integrated circuit includes first and second portions operating within separate domains. The second portion has an interface that connects the first and second portions. The second portion selectively locks the interface to prevent communication with the first portion over the interface, and selectively unlocks the interface to allow communication with the first portion over the interface.
US11803666B2
Described are various embodiments of a hardware security module, hardwired port interconnection matrix, and embedded communication channel resources operable on selected hardware port-specific data communicated via this matrix.
US11803664B2
Technologies are shown for storing a data object in a distributed application architecture. Critical data in the data object is stored in an object data block on a blockchain. Noncritical data elements in the data object are stored in data block files at an address on a distributed file system, where the addresses are stored in the data block. The object data block is retrieved from the blockchain. The noncritical elements are retrieved from the file system using the address in the data block. The critical and noncritical elements are combined into a reassembled data object. The critical and noncritical data elements can be differentiated in a data definition for the data object or algorithmically analyzing data in the data object. Metadata for the data object can be stored in the object data block and utilized to combine the critical and noncritical elements into the reassembled data object.
US11803663B2
Disclosed is a multi-region data center connectivity solution for seamless integration between multi-region data center users and content. The solution supports user pinning (e.g., users and their personal content can be pinned to a particular geographical location/data center); protects personal content (e.g., personal content uploaded by a user is stored in that user's pinned geographical location/data center); and enables data sharing between multi-region data center users in a manner that is seamless and transparent to end users, while respecting user privacy, complying with data sovereignty requirements, and maintaining system anonymity.
US11803661B1
A computer-implemented system and method for facilitating document information security is provided. A request for documents is received and documents of different formats that satisfy the request are obtained from one or more sources. Source information is extracted from each obtained document. Each obtained document is converted to a common format and the source information is embedded within the common format for that document. At least a portion of text having sensitive data is identified within one or more of the obtained documents. The sensitive data is redacted by highlighting the text portion with a semi-transparent indicator. The highlighted text portion is obfuscated upon approval of the redacted sensitive data by changing the semi-transparent indicator to an opaque indicator. The redaction information is overlayed on the opaque indicator and the obtained documents are provided in response to the request.
US11803654B2
A block chain defining authority and access to confidential data may not be encrypted, and the access to the block chain can be regulated by the block chain itself and an access control server operating in an enterprise information technology (IT) environment. To incorporate authority defined in multiple sources, such as the block chain and the access control server, a token can be created containing multiple layers of permissions, i.e. constraints, coming from multiple sources. Each additional permission attenuates the authority granted by the token. When a processor controlling the access to the block chain receives the token, the processor can check the validity of the token and the authority granted by the token to determine whether the requester is authorized to access at least a portion of the block chain.
US11803649B2
A method for fast access to a data resource in a blockchain network is provided. The method includes opening a dedicated socket in a server to receive a datum from a data source and authenticating a signature of the data source to verify that the data source is a reliable data source. The method also includes storing the data in a dedicated memory space in the server, allowing a blockchain application to access the data in the dedicated memory space using a function that has accessibility to the dedicated memory space, and writing the data in a blockchain block when a block producer reads the data from the blockchain application. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US11803643B2
Examples described herein provide a hardware-software interface solution reads the boot code in segments into a buffer. A given boot code segment is stored in the buffer. A second buffer can be written-to with another boot code segment while the boot code segment in the buffer is read-from. A central processing unit (CPU) socket provides coordination such that one or more CPU sockets have copied the segment before permitting the segment to be overwritten in the buffer.
US11803639B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to integrity monitoring of a computing system using a kernel that can update its own code. Trust of state information is verified. Kernel code and module code are loaded into memory that is accessible to a device separate from a processor that loads the kernel code and module code. A measurement module is verified and loaded into memory. The state information can correspond to multiple symbols. The measurement module can measure the state information corresponding to each of the respective symbols to generate a set of initial measurements. The set of initial measurements can be provided to a device for integrity monitoring. The device is to compare a current measurement with an initial measurement to determine if a potential violation occurred. The device is to use a representation of a jump table to determine whether the potential violation is a violation.
US11803632B1
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for providing verified application access. An example method includes an access request for a first user device associated with a first user profile and determining an application associated with the access request. The example method further includes generating an evaluation element that includes testable content associated with the determined application and determining of the evaluation element by the first user device. In response to completion of the evaluation element by the first user device, the method includes providing access to the application for the first user device. The method also may include modifying the testable content of the evaluation element based upon one or more user parameters of the first user profile received from a user parameter database.
US11803625B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to utilizing a steganographically encoded image with an offline and/or online verification or authentication protocol. A method for using the steganographic image can include: receiving or utilizing a steganographic image associated with a user at a third-party device, the steganographically encoded image including an identification of a user steganographically encoded with a fingerprint template of the user, and authenticating the user using the steganographically encoded image.
US11803618B2
A method and apparatus are provided that analyzing sequence-to-sequence data, such as sequence-to-sequence speech data or sequence-to-sequence machine translation data for example, by minimum Bayes risk (MBR) training a sequence-to-sequence model and within introduction of applications of softmax smoothing to an N-best generation of the MBR training of the sequence-to-sequence model.
US11803613B2
An information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to classify a plurality of partial waveform patterns that characterize a plurality of time series data into a plurality of classes based on the plurality of time series data classified into the plurality of classes, update shapes of the partial waveform patterns by fitting the partial waveform patterns to the time series data of the corresponding class, and reclassify the plurality of time series data into the plurality of classes based on the updated partial waveform patterns and difficulty levels that represent degrees of difficulty of classification and interpretation of the time series data.
US11803609B2
In general, the technology relates to navigation control in a web application that includes receiving an event of a navigation trigger in a first page of a web application, and obtaining, in response to the event, an expression for the navigation trigger. The technology further includes gathering data from a first data source specified by the expression. The technology further includes evaluating the expression using the data to select a second page from a set of possible target pages, where each of the possible target pages is separately pre-stored in a data repository. The technology further includes presenting the second page.
US11803607B2
A method of aggregating displays of performances into an aggregate site on a network is provided. The aggregated performances originate from at least one performance site on a network. The method includes the steps of selecting a performance criterion; observing at least one performance originating from at least one performance site on a network, the performance being associated with a link; determining when at least one performance meets the performance criterion; establishing an aggregation link to the link associated with the performance meeting the performance criterion; and providing the aggregation link to an aggregate site on a network such that the performance is accessible on the aggregate site.
US11803604B2
A method includes receiving a search query, identifying a document based on the search query, and providing a search result based on the document. The search result includes, for example, an image associated with the document, an excerpt from the document that is associated with the search query, and links to other excerpts in the document that are associated with the search query. The method may also include providing other information associated with the document.
US11803602B2
A method for independent event or location based search, with steps of receiving, from a user, at least one of calendar data and geo-location data and analyzing the at least one of the calendar data and the geo-location data. Then determining, using the at least one of the analyzed the calendar data and the geo-location data, without instructions from the user, an event or location based search request and searching semi-private metadata and semi-private correlated metadata related to the user with the event or location based search request to determine an event-location result. Lastly, providing to the user the event-location result.
US11803600B2
A source content processor receives content from a crawler and calls a text mining engine. The text mining engine mines the content and provides metadata about the content. The source content processor applies a source content filtering rule to the content utilizing the metadata from the text mining engine. The source content filtering rule is previously built based on at least one of a named entity, a category, or a sentiment. The source content processor determines whether to persist the content according to a result from applying the source content filtering rule to the content and either stores the content in a data store or deletes the contents from the data ingestion pipeline such that the content is not persisted anywhere. Embodiments disclosed herein can significantly reduce the amount of irrelevant content through the data ingestion pipeline, prior to data persistence.
US11803595B1
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for data analysis. An example method may comprise receiving a data stream comprising a plurality of records. A record of said plurality of records may comprise a plurality of attributes. The method may further comprise classifying each of said plurality of attributes as a dimension or a measure. The method may further comprise dividing said plurality of records into a plurality of time periods. The method may further comprise, for a time period of said plurality of time periods, generating one or more segments of records. Each segment of the one or more segments may comprise records having a combination of dimensions with unique values as compared to other segments of said one or more segments. The method may further comprise applying an algorithm to said one or more segments to generate an output. The method may further comprise displaying, on a graphical user interface, a graphical representation of said output to a user.
US11803594B2
An information display method and an apparatus are described wherein a terminal obtains a first operation entered by a user. The terminal further obtains at least one key character based on the first operation. The terminal further determines that characteristic information associated with the key character is stored, and displays target information associated with the characteristic information. The target information is information that is in a set of information associated with the key character and that is associated with the characteristic information. The method can improve information display precision.
US11803593B2
A system for receiving and propagating efficient search updates includes one or more processors configured to receive, from a first external system via a network, a first entity change request to modify data in an entity associated with the first external system. The first entity change request is saved in an entity store. The received entity change request is pushed from the entity store to an event publisher for forwarding to a streaming service. The first entity change request is classified and forwarded, from the streaming service, to a search index database. The search index is then updated based on the classified entity change request.
US11803585B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for searching for an image and a related storage medium. The method includes obtaining reference keypoint data of a reference person in a reference image, and searching, based on the reference keypoint data, a set of candidate images for at least one target image containing at least one candidate person that has a pose similar to the reference person.
US11803573B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for data storage and retrieval from a computer memory. A computing device may store a first hierarchical data structure having a first sequence of sub-data structures and a second hierarchical data structure having a second sequence of sub-data structures in memory. The computing device may link the first hierarchical data structure and the second hierarchical data structure together. The computing device may link the first hierarchical data structure and the second hierarchical data structure by inserting an identifier of a sub-data structure of the second sequence in the first sequence.
US11803569B2
Systems and methods for managing access to data stored in a distributed manner across different zones of a multi-zone computing platform involve maintaining a global representation of all data stored within the multi-zone computing platform. After receiving a request on behalf of a user to access given data, a first zone of the multi-zone computing platform (i) obtains, from the global representation, information indicating a particular zone where the given data is stored, (ii) validates the request, and (iii) if the validation is successful, processes the request. If the given data is stored at the first zone, the first zone retrieves the given data for provision to the user. If the given data is stored at a second zone, the first zone issues a request to the second zone to validate the request, and if the validation is successful, retrieve the given data for provision to the user.
US11803554B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs for generating and using a hash table configured to improve mapping of reads are disclosed that include obtaining a first seed of K nucleotides from a reference sequence, generating a seed extension tree having a nodes, wherein each node of the nodes corresponds to (i) an extended seed that is an extension of the first seed and has a nucleotide length of K* and (ii) one or more locations, in a seed extension table, that include data describing reference sequence locations that match the extended seed, and for each node: storing interval information at a location of the hash table that corresponds to an index key for the extended seed, wherein the interval information references one or more locations in the seed extension table that include reference sequence locations that match the extended seed associated with the node.
US11803550B2
Techniques and solutions are described that can be used to determine data subsets of a data set that may be responsive to a query. In one aspect, imprints are created for the data subsets, where an imprint indicates whether, for a plurality of bins, a data subset contains values within respective bins. The bins are defined at least in part using data for a set of queries. In another aspect, at least one bin of a plurality of bins is designated to be associated with values of the data set satisfying a threshold frequency. In a further aspect, imprints are created for a plurality of bins, where an imprint indicates whether the plurality of data subsets comprise a value for a given bin. A query imprint can be compared with the data subset imprints or bin imprints to determine data subsets that may be responsive to an associated query.
US11803544B2
A method for execution by at least one processor of a database system includes storing a plurality of column values for a first column of a plurality of rows. Each of a set of missing data-based conditions for the first column are indexed via an indexing scheme. A subset of the set of missing data-based conditions that satisfy a query predicate of a query are identified. An IO pipeline for access of the first column based on the query predicate and further based on the subset of the set of missing data-based conditions is generated. The IO pipeline is applied in conjunction with execution of the query by applying at least one index element to identify a proper subset of the plurality of rows based on index data of the indexing scheme, and by generating a query resultant based on the proper subset.
US11803541B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting primitive-based query generation are described. A database system may receive a natural language query associated with a subset of data sets stored at the database system, determine a set of tokens included in the natural language query, and label one or more tokens of the set of tokens with one or more primitives from a set of supported primitives associated with the subset of data sets. The database system may determine a set of higher order concepts corresponding to query operations, query conditions, or both based on the one or more labeled tokens. The database system may train a neural network to learn a grammatical structure of the natural language query and generate a database query for querying the database system based on the one or more labeled tokens, the set of higher order concepts, and the neural network.
US11803514B2
In an example embodiment, a solution is used to provide for a highly efficient image dispatch system for container-based in-memory databases in a database-as-a-service framework that provides storage and bandwidth cost savings and introduces advanced features of container techniques. This solution makes best use of the advantages of the concurrent and distributed capabilities of in-memory databases in a database-as-a-service framework. A container operator manager provides operators for various uses, such as the “diff” operator and the “merge” operator. A dispatch manager acts as a centralized service for diff content maintenance, patch publication and management of dispatch worker nodes. A patch worker on each node has the capabilities to execute the specified patching and validation between the images located on each side of the in-memory database in the database-as-a-service framework.
US11803513B2
A size associated with a first content file is determined to be less than a threshold size. In response to determining that the size associated with the first content file is less than the threshold size, a combined metadata structure is updated at least in part by combining metadata of the first content file with metadata of a second content file in the combined metadata structure. A snapshot tree is updated to reference a first portion of the combined metadata structure corresponding to the first content file and to reference a second portion of the combined metadata structure corresponding to the second content file.
US11803510B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving snapshot data for a node within a data center; determining one or more candidate labels for one or more software applications running on the node, utilizing the snapshot data; implementing a validation of the one or more candidate labels to determine one or more validated labels; and training a machine learning model, utilizing the one or more validated labels and the snapshot data.
US11803482B2
Process dedicated in-memory translation lookaside buffers (TLBs) (mTLBs) for augmenting a memory management unit (MMU) TLB for translating virtual addresses (VAs) to physical addresses (PA) in a processor-based system is disclosed. In disclosed examples, a dedicated in-memory TLB is supported in system memory for each process so that one process's cached page table entries do not displace another process's cached page table entries. When a process is scheduled to execute in a central processing unit (CPU), the in-memory TLB address stored for such process can be used by page table walker circuit in the CPU MMU to access the dedicated in-memory TLB for executing the process to perform VA to PA translations in the event of a TLB miss to the MMU TLB. If a TLB miss occurs to the in-memory TLB, the page table walker circuit can walk the page table in the MMU.
US11803478B1
A system for efficiently configuring bindings based on a dependency graph is described. The system may generate or access a graph comprising a set of nodes. Each node may represent a binding and is associated with a component property of a component hierarchy corresponding to a hierarchical structure of a data model. Each node of the graph may be connected to at least one other node with an edge representing a dependency in the hierarchical structure of the data model. The system may receive a request to generate a view associated with the set of bindings. The system may determine an order to load the set of bindings based on the graph, and may load the set of bindings based on the determined order.
US11803476B2
An apparatus to facilitate data prefetching is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cache, one or more execution units (EUs) to execute program code, prefetch logic to maintain tracking information of memory instructions in the program code that trigger a cache miss and compiler logic to receive the tracking information, insert one or more pre-fetch instructions in updated program code to prefetch data from a memory for execution of one or more of the memory instructions that triggered a cache miss and download the updated program code for execution by the one or more EUs.
US11803472B2
Integrated circuits (ICs) employ subsystem shared cache memory for facilitating extension of low-power island (LPI) memory. An LPI subsystem and primary subsystems access a memory subsystem on a first access interface in a first power mode and the LPI subsystem accesses the memory subsystem by a second access interface in the low power mode. In the first power mode, the primary subsystems and the LPI subsystem may send a subsystem memory access request including a virtual memory address to a subsystem memory interface of the memory subsystem to access either data stored in an external memory or a version of the data stored in a shared memory circuit. In the low-power mode, the LPI subsystem sends an LPI memory access request including a direct memory address to an LPI memory interface of the memory subsystem to access the shared memory circuit to extend the LPI memory.
US11803471B2
An integrated circuit (IC) including a plurality of processor cores, a plurality of graphics processing units, a plurality of peripheral circuits, and a plurality of memory controllers is configured to support scaling of the system using a unified memory architecture. For example, the IC may include an interconnect fabric configured to provide communication between the one or more memory controller circuits and the processor cores, graphics processing units, and peripheral devices; and an off-chip interconnect coupled to the interconnect fabric and configured to couple the interconnect fabric to a corresponding interconnect fabric on another instance of the integrated circuit, wherein the interconnect fabric and the off-chip interconnect provide an interface that transparently connects the one or more memory controller circuits, the processor cores, graphics processing units, and peripheral devices in either a single instance of the integrated circuit or two or more instances of the integrated circuit.
US11803467B1
An apparatus including a plurality of page circuits and a common request circuit. The page circuits may each be implemented within a respective memory bank controller of a memory bank set and store an address and determine a page hit status. The common request circuit may be implemented within the memory bank set and store client requests and issue a command corresponding to the client requests in response to the page hit status and an order of storage of the client requests. The page circuits may comprise half a storage depth of the common request circuit. The common request circuit may be shared between each of the memory bank controllers of the memory bank set. The memory bank controllers may control access to a random access memory. The address, the client requests and the page hit status may enable buffering to provide a preview of upcoming client requests.
US11803466B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for implementing dynamic codeless logging in an integration platform system. An integration platform may provide a declaratively-configurable asset pre-configured to implement a logging functionality associated with a log point, package the declaratively-configurable asset within an integration application, and receive a selection of the log point associated with the declaratively-configurable asset. In addition, the integration application may generate log information corresponding to the log point based on the selection of the log point and the logging functionality. Further, the integration platform may present the log information within a graphical user interface.
US11803462B1
An automatic SDK testing case generation system includes a computer software application for automatically generating optimized test cases. The automatic SDK testing case generation system categorizes candidate APIs presented by an SDK to be tested. The categories conform to an API call category sequence. The system iterates through API calling paths, which conform to the API call category sequence, to generate optimized subsets of test cases. The combination of the optimized subsets of test cases forms the final set of test cases for being used to test the SDK.
US11803460B1
Techniques for defining a cloud Application Program Interface (API) event logging policy are described. A request is received to generate an organization-level event logging policy for an organization including a plurality of accounts within the cloud computing environment. Responsive to one or more inputs received through a provided graphical user interface, an organization-level event logging policy is generated defining conditions for logging cloud API events for one or more cloud APIs provided within the cloud computing environment. The organization-level event logging policy is applied to log cloud API events generated by the plurality of accounts. At least one cloud API event log entry is written to a data repository within the cloud computing environment, as specified by the organization-level event logging policy.
US11803458B2
Probabilistic models may be used in a deterministic workflow for robotic process automation (RPA). Machine learning (ML) introduces a probabilistic framework where the outcome is not deterministic, and therefore, the steps are not deterministic. Deterministic workflows may be mixed with probabilistic workflows, or probabilistic activities may be inserted into deterministic workflows, in order to create more dynamic workflows. A supervisor system may be used to monitor an ML model and raise an alarm, disable an RPA robot, bypass an RPA robot, or roll back to a previous version of the ML model when an error is detected by a data drift detector, a concept drift detector, or both.
US11803449B2
A method and system for maintaining live database data across hybrid storage. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail accessing live backup database data in part residing on local storage and in part residing on remote storage. That is, on occasion, available local storage capacity may fall short of the required free storage space to accommodate the full restoration or recovery of a given database. Accordingly, to overcome this shortfall, the disclosed method and system detect and cycle the recovery of frequently accessed asset (or database) data files, of the given database, from remote storage onto local storage.
US11803446B2
A storage device, and a method for operating a storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device includes storage media, and the method includes: determining, by the storage device, that the storage device is in a first fault state from which recovery is possible by power cycling the storage device or by formatting the storage media; determining, by the storage device, that the storage device is in a second fault state from which partial recovery is possible by operating the storage device with reduced performance, with reduced capacity, or in a read-only mode; and operating the storage device with reduced performance, with reduced capacity, or in the read-only mode.
US11803436B2
A storage device and a storage system including the same are provided. The storage device includes a nonvolatile memory with a valid page and a free page; a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of the nonvolatile memory; and a storage controller configured to implement: a patrol read module configured to read valid data stored in the valid page and identify a number of errors in the read valid data according to a set time period, and a retention module configured to, based on the temperature or the number of errors, read the valid data stored in the valid page, and write the valid data to the free page while controlling a threshold voltage distribution width corresponding to a value of the valid data written to the free page.
US11803432B1
In an embodiment, a data platform creates an application in a data-provider account. The application includes one or more APIs corresponding to one or more underlying code blocks. The data platform shares provider data with the application in the data-provider account, and also installs, in a data-consumer account, an application instance of the application. The application instance includes one or more APIs corresponding to the one or more APIs in the application in the data-provider account. The data platform shares consumer data with the application instance in the data-consumer account, and invokes one or more of the APIs of the application instance to execute respective associated underlying code blocks, which are not visible to the data-consumer account. The data platform also saves output of the one or more respective associated underlying code blocks locally within the data-consumer account.
US11803428B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for feature based application programming interface (API) federation are disclosed. In some examples, a federated API manager may receive user input indicating source APIs including features for data processing. The federated API manager may identify elements forming one or more patterns from the features based on federation protocols. The federated API manager may identify federated operations based on the identified elements and federation operation rules. The federated API manager may generate a federated API schema based on the federated operation rules, and the federated API schema may expose the federated operations.
US11803424B2
Systems described herein may allow for the intelligent configuration of containers onto virtualized resources. Different configurations may be generated based on the simulation of alternate placements of containers onto nodes, where the placement of a particular container onto a particular node may serve as a root for several branches which may themselves simulate the placement of additional containers on the node (in addition to the container(s) indicated in the root). Once a set of configurations are generated, a particular configuration may be selected according to determined selection parameters and/or intelligent selection techniques.
US11803417B2
The system uses the non-repudiatory persistence of blockchain technology to store all task statuses and results across the distributed computer network in an immutable blockchain database. Coupled with the resiliency of the stored data, the system may determine a sequence of processing tasks for a given processing request and use the sequence to detect and/or predict failures. Accordingly, in the event of a detected system failure, the system may recover the results prior to the failure, minimizing disruptions to processing the request and improving hardware resiliency.
US11803411B2
An illustrative “Live Synchronization” feature in a data storage management system can reduce the downtime that arises in failover situations. The illustrative Live Sync embodiment uses backup data to create and maintain a ready (or “warm”) virtualized computing platform comprising one or more virtual machines (“VMs”) that are configured and ready to be activated and take over data processing from another data processing platform operating in the production environment. The “warm” computing platform awaits activation as a failover solution for the production system(s) and can be co-located at the production data center, or configured at a remote or disaster recovery site, which in some embodiments is configured “in the cloud.” Both local and remote illustrative embodiments are discussed herein. An “incremental forever” approach can be combined with deduplication and synthetic full backups to speed up data transfer and update the disaster recovery sites.
US11803404B2
The present disclosure relates to a deep learning algorithm compiling method and a device and a related product, the product comprising a controller unit, and the controller unit comprising: an instruction cache unit, an instruction processing unit, and a queue-storing unit. The instruction cache unit is configured to store computation instructions associated with artificial neural network operations. The instruction processing unit is configured to parse the computation instructions to obtain a plurality of operation instructions. The queue-storing unit is configured to store an instruction queue, which comprises: a plurality of operation instructions or computation instructions to be executed according to the front-to-rear sequence of the queue. By means of the described method, the present disclosure may improve the operation efficiency of the related product when carrying out neural network model operations.
US11803401B1
A research assistant system may include a research tool and components and a user interface to discover and evidence answers to complex research questions. The research tools may include components to iteratively perform steps in a research process, including searching, analyzing, connecting, aggregating, synthesizing, and chaining together evidence from a diverse set of knowledge sources. The system may receive an input query and perform a semantic search for key concepts in a text corpus. A semantic parser may interpret the search results. The system may aggregate and synthesize information from interpreted results. The system may rank and score the aggregated results data and present data on the user interface. The user interface may include prompts to iteratively guide user input to explore evidentiary chains and connect research concepts to produce research results annotated by evidence passages.
US11803397B2
Use of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) models is disclosed to determine sequences of user interactions with computing systems, extract common processes, and generate robotic process automation (RPA) robots. The AI/ML model may be trained to recognize matching n-grams of user interactions and/or a beneficial end state. Recorded real user interactions may be analyzed, and matching sequences may be implemented as corresponding activities in an RPA workflow.
US11803391B2
Devices and techniques for threads in a programmable atomic unit to self-schedule are described herein. When it is determined that an instruction will not complete within a threshold prior to insertion into a pipeline of the processor, a thread identifier (ID) can be passed with the instruction. Here, the thread ID corresponds to a thread of the instruction. When a response to completion of the instruction is received that includes the thread ID, the thread is rescheduled using the thread ID in the response.
US11803385B2
An array processor includes processor element arrays (PEAs) distributed in rows and columns. The PEAs are configured to perform operations on parameter values. A first sequencer received a first direct memory access (DMA) instruction that includes a request to read data from at least one address in memory. A texture address (TA) engine requests the data from the memory based on the at least one address and a texture data (TD) engine provides the data to the PEAs. The PEAs provide first synchronization signals to the TD engine to indicate availability of registers for receiving the data. The TD engine provides second synchronization signals to the first sequencer in response to receiving acknowledgments that the PEAs have consumed the data.
US11803374B2
Refactoring a monolithic computer application can include transforming textual input into context-aware tokens represented by machine-processable data structures, the textual input acquired from text associated with a computer application having a monolithic architecture for implementing one or more application processes. Based on co-occurrence frequencies among the context aware tokens, one or more groupings of context-aware tokens can be determined. An association between each grouping and a code construct can be determined. Invocation sequences based on time series analyses of computer-generated usage data generated in response to execution of the one or more application processes can be generated, each invocation sequence linking two or more code constructs based on a time series analysis linking groupings that correspond to the linked code constructs. A recommendation for refactoring the computer application into a plurality of microservices can be generated, each microservice corresponding to one or more invocation sequences.
US11803368B2
A system and method for updating a customer cluster includes receiving first data from a group of customers intended to receive an update, identifying a subset of customers from the group of customers based on the first data for receiving a canary version of the update, facilitating installation of the canary version of the update on each of the subset of customers, receiving second data from each of the subset of customers upon installation of the canary version of the update, predicting whether the subset of customers that receive the canary version is to increase or decrease based on the second data, and adjusting a number of customers in the subset of customers for receiving the canary version of the update based on the prediction.
US11803362B2
In an example embodiment, the concept of effective application availability is introduced. In a data center, there may be a minimum amount of a particular resource that is needed to continue proper functioning of an application. This may be termed a safe application availability limit. The safe application availability limit may be obtained or determined using a safe application availability limit rule. An effective application availability may be calculated by taking a current application availability and subtracting it by an availability loss from a requested operation. The effective application availability may then be compared to the safe application availability limit in order to determine whether to permit the operation to be performed at the requested time, or whether to request that the operation be attempted again at some later time.
US11803358B1
Embodiments provide an adaptive issue type identification platform for automatically determining an issue type in an enterprise-level software development issue-tracking application. Embodiments include receiving a request to generate an issue data object, causing initializing of the issue data object in a data store, causing display of an issue management capability selection interface, and receiving issue capability selection input in response to user engagement with the issue management capability selection interface. In response to receiving the issue capability selection input, the adaptive issue type identification platform fetches an operational capability set from a capability registry based on the issue capability selection input, causes the association of the operational capability set to the issue data object at the data store, determines an issue type identifier for the issue data object based on the operational capability set, and updates metadata associated with the issue data object to include the issue type identifier.
US11803356B1
A system and method for creating and tracking software requirements associated with a product offering. An electronic template is employed in connection with the system and method. The electronic template is configured to be associated with a product type, where the product type is associated with a plurality of software requirements. The electronic template comprises a plurality of fields where the fields comprise software requirement type fields. Each software requirement type field is associated with a software requirement content field. The electronic template is configured to receive data in the software requirement type fields and the software requirement content fields. A database is employed and configured to store the data received in the software requirement type fields and the software requirement content fields in accordance with the configuration of the template.
US11803348B1
An electronic device may include control circuitry that allows a user to listen to audio playing from an external speaker in the environment from the user's personal speaker device such as a pair of headphones, earbuds, or a personal loudspeaker. In response to receiving user input, the control circuitry may gather audio input from the environment with a microphone. The control circuitry may process the detected audio input to identify what audio track is currently playing from the external speaker and to determine which part of the audio track is currently playing. The control circuitry may then start playing the identified audio track from the user's personal speaker device in sync with the audio track playing from the external speaker. The electronic device may search music streaming platforms, public radio station information, and other public music content sources to anticipate and buffer upcoming songs.
US11803347B2
An image display system causes a plurality of image display devices having different device characteristics to respectively display images. The image display system includes an external light detection device that detects external light and an image adjustment device that performs adjustment to make at least one of contrast, chromaticity, and luminance continuous between the images displayed on the plurality of image display devices, the adjustment being performed based on the device characteristics and the detected external light.
US11803344B2
Display assemblies, systems, and methods for remote monitoring of display assemblies are provided. The display assemblies each include a network connection device in electronic communication with a controller in electronic communication with one or more electronic displays and components for operation. A monitoring center receives data from the display assemblies regarding operation, associates different customer identifiers with different portions of the received data, receives a particular customer identifier from a customer device, and electronically identifies the portions of the data associated with the particular customer identifier for transmission to the customer device.
US11803341B2
Techniques are described for auditing print content during printer redirection in a virtual desktop. The ability to audit redirected print content allows an organization to pre-define certain sensitive data and to track whether print redirection requests in the virtual desktop environment contain any such sensitive data. If such sensitive data is contained in a printer redirection request, a file is generated containing information about the sensitive data, as well as a watermark that encodes information about the printer redirection request, such the user identifier of the user who initiated the print request and a timestamp of when the print request occurred. The generated file is transmitted to one or more registered recipients.
US11803333B1
Read Fused Groups with uniform resource allocation. In one example, a data storage device including an electronic processor that, when executing the Uniform Read Fused Group scheme, is configured to receive information indicating each zone of a plurality of Zone Namespace (ZNS) zones is assigned to one of a plurality of Read Fused Groups (RFGs), assign a portion of a plurality of resources of a memory to the plurality of ZNS zones, control all of the plurality of concurrency units to process a first resource of the plurality of resources assigned to a first Read Fused Group (RFG) of the plurality of RFGs. The first resource is assigned to a first zone of the plurality of ZNS zones, the first zone is assigned to the first RFG, and the electronic processor is one of the plurality concurrency units.
US11803326B2
A memory comprising a memory array, including a plurality of blocks, and control circuits comprising logic to execute operations is provided. The operations include decoding a read setup burst command identifying (i) an address of a first read setup block in a set of read setup blocks and (ii) a number of read setup blocks, as candidates for read setup operations. The operations further including, in response to the decoding of the read setup burst command, performing a read setup burst operation on a plurality of read setup blocks of the set of read setup blocks.
US11803321B2
A method can include receiving, by a first controller component of a memory sub-system, a read operation, responsive to receiving the read operation, interrupting, by the first controller component, one or more program operations being performed by the memory sub-system, receiving, by the first controller component, a control sequence from a second controller component, wherein the control sequence is based on context data associated with the interrupted one or more program operations, and performing, by the first controller component, the control sequence by copying data of the interrupted one or more program operations from a first memory location to a second memory location of a memory component associated with the memory sub-system, and performing the read operation.
US11803312B2
A data storage device and a selecting bad data block method thereof which includes: writing data to a sample block; reading written data of the sample block as read data; comparing the read data and the written data of each data column in sample block, and calculating a number of error bits in each chunk accordingly; selecting a column with the largest number of error bits in a chunk with the largest number of error bits as a bad data column; and recording the sample block as a bad data block when determining that the number of error bits in the chunk is greater than or equal to the first threshold value and the number of bad columns in the chunk is greater than or equal to the second threshold value.
US11803311B2
Methods and apparatuses to control digital data transfer via a memory channel between a memory module and a processor are disclosed. At least one of the memory module or the processor coalesces a plurality of short data words into multicast coalesced block data comprising a single data block for transfer via the memory channel. Each of the plurality of short data words pertains to one of at least two partitioned memory submodules in the memory module. The multicast coalesced block data is communicated over the memory channel.
US11803301B2
A virtual object control method includes: displaying, in response to a virtual object in a virtual scene being in a first movement state, at least two switch controls including a target switch control in an interface of the virtual scene, and a switching control other than the target switch control, the switching control being a control copy of the target switch control, and a display position of the control copy being different from a display position of the target switch control; and controlling, in response to a state switching operation triggered based on the control copy, the virtual object to be switched from the first movement state to a second movement state.
US11803290B2
The present disclosure is directed to input suggestion. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive, from a first application executed by one or more computing devices, data indicating information that has been presented by and/or input into the first application; generate, based at least in part on the received data, one or more suggested candidate inputs for a second application executed by the computing device(s); provide, in association with the second application, an interface comprising one or more options to select at least one suggested candidate input of the suggested candidate input(s); and responsive to receiving data indicating a selection of a particular suggested candidate input of the suggested candidate input(s) via the interface, communicate, to the second application, data indicating the particular suggested candidate input.
US11803287B2
A computer-implemented method for switching from a first 3D view of a 3D scene to a second 3D view of the 3D scene including obtaining the first 3D view displayed from a plane of a locked viewpoint of the 3D scene, detecting a continuous user interaction including a slide a first and second location on the plane. The method further comprises computing a distance traveled by the slide, comparing the computed distance with a predetermined distance, and if the computed distance is greater than the predetermined distance, a switch from the first 3D view to the second 3D view is performed.
US11803278B2
Provided is a display device including a display panel and an input sensing unit. The input sensing unit includes at least one insulation layer, an electrode, and an auxiliary electrode. The electrode includes sensor parts including a metal and having a mesh shape and connection parts connecting adjacent sensor parts of the sensor parts to each other. The auxiliary electrode overlaps the sensor parts, is connected to the sensor parts, and includes transparent conductive oxide.
US11803269B2
A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a plurality of touch electrodes in a touch control area and a plurality of touch signal lines in a peripheral area. A respective one of the plurality of touch signal lines comprises a double-layer structure in a double-layer region and a single-layer structure in a single-layer region. The double-layer region and the single-layer region are in a first sub-area of the peripheral area where the plurality of touch signal lines connect to an integrated circuit. A plurality of adjacent double-laver structures in the double-layer region are respectively connected to a plurality of adjacent single-layer structures in the single-layer region. At least two of the plurality of adjacent single-layer structures are respectively in a first layer and a second layer. The touch control structure further comprises a touch insulating layer between the first layer and the second layer.
US11803268B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module which can communicate with an electronic pen, and a processor, wherein the processor may determine the state of the electronic device, determine the state of the electronic pen, and, when the state of the electronic pen is determined that the electronic pen is attached to the electronic device and an input from the electronic pen is received through the communication module, perform a function related to the electronic pen based on the determined state of the electronic device.
US11803267B2
In a touch display panel and a touch display device, a shielding pattern including the common electrode (COM) used as the touch electrode (TE) is disposed between a touch line (TL) and a data line (DL), and the touch line (TL) and the data line (DL) are arranged so as not to overlap each other in a boundary area between shielding patterns. The parasitic capacitance between the touch line (TL) and the data line (DL) can be reduced to improve the performance of touch sensing. In addition, the arrangement of the touch lines (TL) and data lines (DL) in the boundary area between shielding patterns is repeated at regular intervals to prevent an image abnormality.
US11803264B2
A display is provided. A display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate an active element layer disposed on the first substrate, and a sealing member coupling the first substrate and the second substrate, and a touch member disposed on the display panel and including a touch signal line and a touch antistatic line, wherein the touch antistatic line is disposed outside the touch signal line and at least partially overlaps the sealing member, and the touch antistatic line has light transmittance higher than light transmittance of the touch signal line.
US11803261B2
A display device includes a display panel, a sensing structure, a sensing signal transfer film, and a side surface connection electrode structure. The display panel includes a first surface on which an image is displayed, a second surface facing the first surface, and first and second side surfaces connecting the first surface to the second surface. The sensing structure includes a sensing electrode disposed on the first surface of the display panel. The sensing signal transfer film is disposed on the second surface of the display panel. The side surface connection electrode structure is disposed at parts of an upper surface and a side surface of the sensing structure and parts of the first side surface and the second surface of the display panel and electrically connects the sensing electrode and the sensing signal transfer film.
US11803256B2
A display device includes a display layer, a plurality of touch electrodes, a light shield, and a code pattern. The display layer includes a plurality of light emission areas for emitting light. The plurality of touch electrodes are disposed on the display layer to sense a touch and surround the plurality of light emission areas. The light-shield is disposed on a portion of the plurality of touch electrodes. The code pattern is determined by a planar shape of the light-shield to have position information. The light-shield absorbs light of a specific wavelength, and another portion of the touch electrodes, which is not overlapped with the light-shield, reflects light of the specific wavelength.
US11803255B2
The method disclosed herein includes determining a user interaction pattern with respect to a digital marker, the user interaction pattern based at least in part on user interaction with a capacitive sensor of a computing device, determining a geometric characteristic of the digital marker, and generating a predicted digital marking position of the digital marker on a digital medium of the computing device based at least in part on the determined geometric characteristic of the digital marker and the determined user interaction pattern.
US11803239B2
Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two users of eyewear devices to perform a shared group task. During a shared group task session, each eyewear displays the same image. An eye tracker in each eyewear detects a portion of the image the respective user is gazing at. Each eyewear generates an indication of the portion of the respective image each eyewear user is gazing at. The indication is shared with the other eyewear, and the eyewear display indicates the portion of the image the other eyewear user is gazing at. This allows each eyewear user to see what the other user is gazing at when collaborating and visually observing the same image.
US11803236B2
A mirror comprises a mirror surface, a display device, an imaging and distance measuring device and a processor; the imaging and distance measuring device is used to acquire a first user image stream, detect a distance between a user and the mirror surface; the processor is configured to determine, from the first user image stream and the distance, a coordinate of a target position at which the user is gazing in a preset coordinate system, and to zoom in the first user image stream, with a position corresponding to the position coordinate in the first user image stream as the center, and to obtain a second user image stream; the display device is configured to display at least a portion of a central region of the second user image stream; the central region is centered on a location corresponding to the position coordinates in the second user image stream.
US11803234B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device. A portable eyewear device includes a processor, a memory, and a display projected onto at least one lens assembly. The memory has programming stored therein that, when executed by the processor, captures information depicting an environment surrounding the device and identifies a match between objects in that information and predetermined objects in previously obtained information for the same environment. When the position of the eyewear device reaches a preselected location with respect to the matched objects, a physical output is provided to produce the immersive experience. The physical output changes as the position of the eyewear device moves to maintain the immersive experience.
US11803220B2
An information processing apparatus includes: at least one device; a first processor configured to control the at least one device; a second processor configured to verify validity of a program to be executed by the first processor, and to allow the first processor to execute the program when the program is determined to be valid; and a control circuit configured to control supply of power to the at least one device. The second processor starts the verification of the program in response to the information processing apparatus being powered on. The first processor starts the execution of the program at least based on a first control signal indicating that the program is determined to be valid. The control circuit starts the supply of the power to the at least one device before the determination that the program is valid.
US11803219B2
A power converter circuit included in a computer system may include a phase circuit and a sample circuit. The phase circuit compares a voltage level of the regulated power supply node to a reference voltage to generate a demand current that is used to adjust the voltage level of the regulated power supply node. The phase circuit also digitizes the demand current and stores the resultant bit stream in a memory circuit. The sample circuit generates timestamp information that points to particular storage locations in the memory circuit that correspond to trigger events, allowing the operation of the power converter circuit to be analyzed during different circumstances as well as to adjust operating parameters of the power converter circuit.
US11803216B2
A computing system includes an array of compute module racks, each compute module rack containing a plurality of compute modules and each compute module being accessible by extracting the compute module rack out of the array of compute module racks. A liquid distribution infrastructure comprising liquid coolant supply lines and return lines is arranged in a first plane adjacent to the array of compute module racks and coupled to each of the vertical racks to provide liquid cooling for the plurality of compute module racks. A power distribution infrastructure comprising power supply lines is arranged in a second plane adjacent to the array of compute module racks and coupled to each of the compute module racks. An optical interconnection infrastructure comprising optical fiber cables is arranged in a third plane adjacent to the array of compute module racks and coupled to each of the compute module racks.
US11803215B2
A detachable display and operating module for a field device with an energy storage device, an energy supply interface and a radio interface for wireless communication with the field device.
US11803211B2
A display device is provided, including: a housing body, a first shaft, a first roller, a flexible display screen, a main board, and a flexible circuit board. When the display device is in use, the entire flexible display screen is stretched to an exterior of the housing body. When the display device is idle, the flexible display screen is rolled up to be spirally sleeved on the roller. Therefore, a size of the display device can be reduced, and portability of the display device is improved.
US11803193B1
The present disclosure provides a method of automatic docking a pool cleaning robot, a pool cleaning robot, an electronic device and a computer storage medium. In the method, a pool cleaning robot is placed into a pool; when a docking instruction is received, a closest pool wall relative to the pool cleaning robot is determined; and the pool cleaning robot is enabled to move towards the closest pool wall.
US11803190B2
Provided are a cleaning robot and a method of controlling the same, and more specifically, a cleaning robot provided to detect an obstacle in various directions and a method of controlling the same. The cleaning robot includes a light emitter configured to radiate light, a plurality of light receivers configured to receive a radiation of the light in a predetermined direction among radiations of the light reflected from an obstacle when the radiated light is reflected from the obstacle, a support plate to which the light emitter and the light receiver are fixed and which is rotatably provided, and a controller configured to detect the obstacle on the basis of output signals transmitted from the light emitter and the plurality of light receivers and rotation information of the support plate.
US11803183B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle for maneuvering a passenger to a destination autonomously. The vehicle includes one or more computing devices and a set of user input buttons for communicating requests to stop the vehicle and to initiate a trip to the destination with the one or more computing devices. The set of user input buttons consisting essentially of a dual-purpose button and an emergency stopping button different from the dual-purpose button configured to stop the vehicle. The dual-purpose button has a first purpose for communicating a request to initiate the trip to the destination and a second purpose for communicating a request to pull the vehicle over and stop the vehicle. The vehicle has no steering wheel and no user inputs for the steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle other than the set of user input buttons.
US11803181B2
A navigation system for remote control movement of modular vehicle subassemblies (MVSs) through a plurality of assembly zones of a vehicle assembly facility includes a predefined primary pathway configured for the MVSs to move along during assembly of top hats on the MVSs, a plurality of sensors, a plurality of zone controllers, and a central management system with a navigation algorithm. The plurality of sensors are configured to transmit at least one of proximity data and visual data on the MVSs moving through the plurality of assembly zones to the plurality of zone controllers. The central management system is configured to be in communication with each of the plurality of zone controllers and the navigation algorithm is configured to receive the at least one of proximity data and visual data and calculate movement instructions for remote control movement of the MVSs moving through the plurality of assembly zones.
US11803180B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for determining diagnostic coverage for achieving functional safety. A diagnostic coverage determination system employs an optimized process for efficiently determining a diagnostic coverage level of an electronic circuit. The diagnostic coverage determination system generates an optimized netlist that includes a reduced number of nodes by applying one or more node reduction techniques. The diagnostic coverage is determined based on the optimized netlist, thereby reducing the number of nodes that are injected with faults.
US11803177B1
An anomaly data detecting method performed by a computing device having at least one processor includes acquiring first time-series data, dividing the first time-series data into a plurality of sub time-series data, adjusting scales of variable values included in at least one sub time-series data among the plurality of sub time-series data and determining whether the first time-series data is abnormal by inputting scaled first time-series data to a neural network based detection model.
US11803168B2
A distributed control system may include a main processing unit, a distributed control module, and a controllable component. The distributed control module may be configured to receive a nominal command reference from the main processing unit, determine a series of cumulating command references based at least in part on the nominal command reference; and output a series of cumulating control commands to the controllable component. The series of cumulating control commands may be based at least in part on the series of cumulating command references.
US11803159B2
An electronic timepiece that shortens the time from starting to completing indicator position detection. The electronic timepiece 1 an indicator 11; an actuator 12 that drives the indicator 11; a light emitter 21; a photodetector 22 that detects light emitted from the light emitter 21 selectively when when the indicator 11 is at a reference position; and a control circuit 35 that executes a first mode to drive the indicator 11 continuously in one direction until the indicator 11 is detected while the light emitter 21 is emitting, and a second mode to alternately drive the indicator 11 and drive the light emitter 21 to emit to detect the indicator 11 at the reference position after the photodetector 22 detects light in the first mode and the indicator 11 has past the reference position.
US11803152B2
An image forming apparatus includes a communication portion arranged inside a cover covering an image forming portion in the main body of the apparatus and including an antenna surface for use in establishing near field communication. The cover includes a stacking portion in its upper section. The stacking portion is configured to receive a recording medium with an image thereon, the recording medium being discharged outside the main body of the apparatus. The antenna surface faces a region of the upper section of the cover downstream in a direction of discharging the recording medium. The antenna surface at least partially faces a region of the upper section of the cover outside the stacking portion in a direction perpendicular to the direction of discharging the recording medium. The communication portion is capable of communicating with another communication portion using near field communication.
US11803142B1
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a forming unit, a heating unit, a temperature sensor, and a driving unit. The forming unit is configured to attach toner to a recording medium to form an image on the recording medium. The heating unit is configured to heat the toner that is attached to the recording medium by the forming unit to fix the image to the recording medium. The temperature sensor is configured to detect a temperature of the heating unit. The vibration unit is configured to apply vibration to the temperature sensor in a waiting period in which the image formation by the forming unit is not executed and the heating control by the heating unit is executed.
US11803135B2
A transfer device includes a plurality of photoconductors, a belt, a plurality of primary transfer rollers and control circuitry. The plurality of primary transfer rollers is disposed for the plurality of photoconductors, respectively. The plurality of primary transfer rollers brings the belt into contact with or separate the belt from the plurality of photoconductors. The control circuitry causes at least one of the plurality of primary transfer rollers to press against a corresponding at least one of the plurality of photoconductors to shift a printing mode.
US11803133B2
Examples described herein relate to a print particle refill device consistent with the disclosure. For instance, a print particle refill device may comprise a cap disk to form a barrier between the print particle refill device and a receptacle, a first liner adjacent to the cap disk to seal print particles in the print particle refill device, and an actuating liner to wipe print particles, when present, from the receptacle.
US11803123B2
A photosensitive resin composition comprising (A) a cardo-based resin comprising a repeating unit represented by chemical formula 1 (comprising chemical formula 4); (B) a reactive unsaturated compound; (C) a pigment; (D) an initiator; and (E) a solvent, and a light blocking layer using the same having improved adhesiveness or adhesion are provided.
US11803118B2
Methods and apparatus leverage dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma to treat samples for surface modification prior to photomask application and for photomask cleaning. In some embodiments, a method of treating a surface with AP plasma includes igniting plasma over an ignition plate where the AP plasma is formed by one or more plasma heads of an AP plasma reactor positioned above the ignition plate, monitoring characteristics of the AP plasma with an optical emission spectrometer (OES) sensor to determine if stable AP plasma is obtained and, if so, moving the AP reactor over a central opening of an assistant plate where the central opening contains a sample under treatment and where the assistant plate reduces AP plasma arcing on the sample during treatment. The AP reactor scans back and forth over the central opening of the assistant plate while maintaining stabilized AP plasma to treat the sample.
US11803113B2
The invention provides a light source module including a substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements, a buffer element, and a cover plate. The substrate has a plurality of accommodation grooves. The light emitting elements are respectively disposed in the accommodation grooves. Each light emitting element has a light emitting portion and a bottom portion connected to each other. The light emitting portion is located on the bottom portion, and the bottom portion has an edge. The buffer element is pressed against the edges of the bottom portions of the light emitting elements. The cover plate is combined with the substrate and is pressed against the buffer element. The cover plate has a plurality of first openings. These first openings respectively expose the light emitting elements. The invention also provides a projection apparatus has above-mentioned light source module.
US11803109B2
A projection method, which is executed by a projection device, for projecting drawing data for a building onto a projection plane of the building under construction includes: measuring a distance from each of three or more points which are not aligned in a straight line and are on either of two non-parallel straight lines on the projection plane to the projection device using a distance meter included in the projection device; and projecting the drawing data onto a projection position on the projection plane which is determined based on the distance measured and the angle of the distance meter at the time at which the distance is measured.
US11803099B2
A camera module includes: a housing; a carrier disposed inside the housing and movable in an optical axis direction; and a lens module disposed inside the carrier and movable in directions perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and configured to implement optical image stabilization. The lens module includes a frame disposed on the carrier, and a lens holder disposed on the frame and having a lens barrel. The frame is configured to be supported by a first ball member interposed between the frame and the carrier on a side surface of the carrier parallel to the optical axis direction.
US11803092B2
It is an object to provide a liquid crystal display device which has excellent viewing angle characteristics and higher quality. The present invention has a pixel including a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first liquid crystal element, and a second liquid crystal element. A pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a signal line through the first switch. The pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element through the second switch and the first resistor. The pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a Cs line through the third switch and the second resistor. A common electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a common electrode of the second liquid crystal element.
US11803091B2
A display device includes a display region, a peripheral region, a first substrate, a second substrate having a side surface, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, a side light source device mounted on a front surface of the first substrate and arranged at a position facing the side surface of the second substrate, and a light reflection film formed on either a side with a back surface of the first substrate or a side with a front surface of the second substrate. The light reflection film covers the entire display region.
US11803082B2
A backlight unit comprising a printed circuit board; a plurality of light sources at a surface of the printed circuit board, the plurality of light sources to emit light; and a reflective sheet, arranged above the plurality of light sources, having differing transmittance on the basis of incident angle of the light from the plurality of light sources, respectively, wherein the reflective sheet is provided with at least one gap between two adjacent light sources from among the plurality of light sources.
US11803079B2
The present invention provides a quantum dot display panel, a quantum dot display device, and a preparation method thereof. The quantum dot display panel includes an array substrate, a color film substrate, and a liquid crystal disposed between the array substrate and the color film substrate, wherein the color film substrate includes a cover plate, a light-cutoff layer, a quantum dot pixel layer, a blocking layer, a reflection layer, a coating layer, a built-in polarizing layer, an isolation unit, and a polyimide (PI) layer.
US11803077B2
A device includes a liquid crystal (“LC”) layer having a gradient refractive index distribution. The device also includes an electrode layer coupled to the LC layer. The electrode layer includes a plurality of electrodes separated by one or more gaps masked by a light shielding material.
US11803073B2
A display substrate has first and second conductive layers separated from one another by an insulation layer. The first and second conductive layers are used to integrally form on the display substrate, pixel units in a relatively central display area of the substrate and integrated gate driving circuitry as well as associated wirings thereof in one or more peripheral areas. The first and second conductive layers are covered by a first protection layer made of a first electrically insulative material. A second and supplementing protection layer is provided on top of the first protection layer. The supplementing protection layer (buffer layer) is formed of a material different from that of the first protection layer so as to provide supplemental resistance against corrosive chemical agents and supplemental resistance against formation of cracks. In one class of embodiments, the supplementing protection layer is made of a same material as used form at least one of an alignment layer, sealing layer and spacer layer of the display substrate.
US11803071B2
The present application provides a display panel. The display panel includes a display region and a bonding test region. The display panel includes a base substrate which is provided with a plurality of first test terminals. The bonding test region includes a sealant-blanked sub region and sealant-coated sub regions. Each of the first test terminals is located in the sealant-coated sub region, and the base substrate and each of the first test terminals are provided with a sealing glue layer covering each of the first test terminals.
US11803069B2
In one embodiment, an eyewear frame for a user includes at least a front portion with two side portions; two speakers, one in each side portion; a connection region at one side portion, with an electrical connector having two conductive pads to connect to corresponding conductive contacts of a counterpart connector; a rechargeable battery; a microphone in the frame; and wireless communication circuitry in the frame. The connection region can be provided at an inside surface of one of the side portions. The eyewear frame can also include a touch-sensitive input surface on the eyewear frame configured to provide an input to the frame to perform a function. Another embodiment includes a headset at least with a touch-sensitive input surface and an electrical connector having a conductive pad to connect to a corresponding conductive contact of a counterpart connector.
US11803067B2
Systems and method for generating real images via retroreflection are provided. An image source may project light beams, which are received at a beam splitter. The beam splitter, positioned between a retroreflector and a viewing area, may reflect the light beams toward the retroreflector. In turn, the light beams may be reflected back from the retroreflector and toward and through the beam splitter to generate a real image that appears to a viewer to be floating in the viewing area. A controller may control the image source to adjust the real image based on a control parameter detected by at least one sensor.
US11803066B2
A beam-splitting element and a projection device provide an image with good uniformity. The beam-splitting element has first and second regions, and the beam-splitting element includes first and second pattern films. The first pattern film is located on the second region and allows a light beam with an emission wavelength within a first waveband range to penetrate. The second pattern film is located on the second region and reflects the light beam with the emission wavelength within the first waveband range. The first and second pattern films are not overlapped with each other, and the first and second pattern films form a beam-splitting pattern together on the second region. A ratio of an area of the first pattern film occupied in the second region is between 30% and 70%. The beam-splitting element of the invention provides an image projected from the projection device with good uniformity.
US11803058B1
Eyewear with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience of eyewear devices for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. To compensate for blindness, the camera-based compensation uses eyewear cameras to communicate a video feed, and a microphone to provide an optional audio feed, to a remote operator of a remote device to responsively assist the user to complete a task. For example, the user may want audio advice on how to navigate a crowded scene or unknown obstacle. The camera-based compensation is configured to receive instructions from the remote operator to navigate, such as by receiving audio instructions.
US11803057B2
An optical device includes a light source section configured to emit light; a converging reflector configured to converge and reflect the light from the light source section to an irradiation surface having a curvature; and a position detector configured to detect a light-receptive position of the light reflected from the irradiation surface.
US11803054B2
Augmented reality glasses include near eye displays the include sources of imagewise amplitude modulated light optical coupled to spatial phase modulators or active zone plate modulators and optically coupled to eye coupling optics. The sources of imagewise amplitude modulated light can include emissive 2D display panels or light sources coupled to imagewise amplitude modulators. The eye coupling optics can include volume holographic diffraction gratings.
US11803053B2
A display control device that controls a display state of a virtual image to be overlapped on an overlapping target in front of a passenger of the vehicle includes: a display image generator that generates a guide display object image formed by a combination of a plurality of image elements overlapped and displayed along a travel route to notify a passenger of the travel route of the vehicle; and an abandonment determination unit that determines whether each of the image elements is disposed out of a displayable range of the virtual image. When one of the image elements is disposed out of the displayable range, the display image generator displays a part of the image elements as the guide display object image, which is disposed along the travel route just before the one of the image elements that is determined to be out of the displayable range.
US11803052B2
A head-mounted eye tracking system including an optical combiner, an eye tracker and a signal processor is provided. The optical combiner includes an optical coupler. The eye tracker is at least partially disposed on the optical combiner and is suitable for sensing an eyeball movement of a wearer. The eye tracker includes a plurality of light-emitting devices and a plurality of sensing devices. The plurality of light-emitting devices are suitable for emitting tracking beams. The plurality of sensing devices are suitable for receiving the tracking beams reflected by the eyeball of the wearer. The signal processor is signally connected to the eye tracker.
US11803048B2
A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes a first light source for producing visible light and a MEMS scanner in which a single tiltable mirror is integrated. A light spot, which is generated by the lighting device at a distance from the latter, can be moved by a scanning movement of the mirror. A control apparatus is provided in the lighting device and can be used to operate the lighting device in a first mode of operation. The control apparatus is further configured to operate the lighting device in a second mode of operation. Moreover, a sensor apparatus is provided, such that in the second mode of operation, the apparatus detects as sensor data light radiation which originates from the surroundings of the motor vehicle and which is incident on the mirror. The control apparatus carries out object recognition by way of evaluation of the sensor data.
US11803046B2
An apparatus and method for simultaneous imaging and execution of contact-free directed hydrodynamic flow in a specimen. The apparatus includes a laser adapted to dynamically heat the specimen, a microscope with an objective adapted to image at least a part of the specimen and to guide a light beam of the laser into and/or onto the specimen to heat at least one specified location of the specimen, means for manipulating the specified location, and a sample chamber for the specimen that is accessible for imaging radiation and the light beam to allow simultaneous imaging and manipulation of the sample via the objective.
US11803043B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for dynamically shaped focal surface with a scanning microscope. A microscope (e.g., a scanning confocal microscope) may use a scanning element to scan an illumination beam to generate a focal region. The scanning element may include multiple degrees of freedom, such as rotation and translation along orthogonal axes. For example, if the illumination beam is a line focus, rotation along a first axis and translation along a second orthogonal axis may sweep the line focus across a focal surface which is substantially flat and normal to the second axis. In some embodiments, the microscope may be a dual-axis handheld microscope, where a single objective in a handheld housing is used to both direct the scanned illumination beam and receive the collected light.
US11803041B2
The invention provides a prism module and a folded lens. The prism module includes a housing having an accommodation cavity, a prism assembly, a rotation shaft for rotationally connecting the prism assembly and the housing, a driving assembly for driving the prism assembly to rotate around the rotation shaft and a restoring assembly for resetting the prism assembly. The restoring assembly includes a first magnet and a second magnet. The first magnet is fixed on the prism assembly, and the second magnet is fixed on the housing and is set opposite to the first magnet with distance. The prism module of the invention can realize the resetting of the prism assembly, with small space occupation and convenient for assembly.
US11803040B2
Disclosed is a camera optical lens, including nine lenses, and the nine lenses from an object side to an image side are: a first lens with a negative refractive power, a second lens with a positive refractive power, a third lens with a negative refractive power, a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, a sixth lens with a positive refractive power, a seventh lens with a negative refractive power, an eighth lens with a positive refractive power and an ninth lens with a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies: −5.50≤f1/f≤−2.00; 3.00≤d11/d12≤12.00. The camera optical lens has good optical performance, and meets the design requirements of a large aperture, wide-angle and ultra-thin.
US11803033B2
Disclosed is a camera optical lens, comprising, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; the camera optical lens satisfies: −5.00≤f1/f≤−3.00; −1.50≤f5/f≤−1.00; 1.20≤(R7+R8)/(R7−R8)≤3.00; and 8.00≤d7/d8≤14.00; where, f denotes a focus length of the camera optical lens; f1 and f5 denotes focus length of the first and fifth lens respectively; R7 and R 8 denote central curvature radii of an object side surface and an image side surface of the fourth lens respectively; d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens; and d8 denotes an on-axis distance from the image side surface of the fourth lens to an object side surface of the fifth lens.
US11803022B2
A method for manufacturing a circuit board structure with a waveguide is provided. The method includes: providing a plate including a top wall and sidewalls disposed on the top wall, an opening being defined between ends of two adjacent sidewalls away from the top wall; forming a conductive layer on the plate to obtain a conductive plate; providing a circuit board, the circuit board comprising an outer circuit layer; mounting the conductive plate on the outer circuit layer, causing the outer circuit layer to be disposed on the opening. The two adjacent sidewalls, the top wall between the two adjacent sidewalls, and the circuit board between the two adjacent sidewalls cooperatively constitutes a tube body of the waveguide, and the conductive layer and the outer circuit layer on an inner surface of the tube body cooperatively constitute a shielding of the waveguide.
US11803021B2
Opto-electronic packages and methods for making opto-electronic packages are disclosed, including a method comprising forming an opto-electronic circuit on a first surface of a substrate of a lower package assembly, the first surface of the substrate having a first bonding pattern configured to provide a hermetic seal, the first bonding pattern extending around the opto-electronic circuit; positioning a bottom of a ring frame onto the first bonding pattern so as to surround the opto-electronic circuit with the ring frame; hermetically sealing a bottom of the ring frame to the first bonding pattern of the first surface of the substrate of the lower package assembly subsequent to the formation of the opto-electronic circuit on the first surface of the substrate; and hermetically sealing a top of the ring frame to form a hermetically sealed opto-electronic package.
US11803011B1
An optical switch has latched switch states and includes optical fibers that are laterally joined together to define an optical switching portion. At least one phase change material (PCM) layer is on the optical switching portion so that a phase of the PCM layer determines a latched switch state from among the latched switch states.
US11803010B2
Structures for an optical coupler and methods of fabricating a structure for an optical coupler. The structure includes a first waveguide core having a first tapered section and a second waveguide core having a second tapered section positioned adjacent to the first tapered section of the first waveguide core. The second tapered section is positioned with a lateral offset in a lateral direction relative to the first tapered section. The second tapered section is positioned with a vertical offset in a vertical direction relative to the first tapered section.
US11803008B2
An optical device includes a waveguide configured to guide light, a taper integrated with the waveguide on a substrate configured for optical coupling, and an attenuator to degrade unwanted optical signal from the taper. The attenuator extends along one side of the taper, and includes one of a conductive structure, a doped structure and a refractive structure.
US11803005B1
A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a back plate and a light plate arranged on the back plate. A cavity is defined between the back plate and the light plate. The backlight module further includes a heat radiation material layer that is arranged in the cavity and attached to the side of the light plate facing the back plate. A gap is defined between the heat radiation material layer and the back plate.
US11802996B2
A lens system for infrared (IR) imaging, including a molded first lens element and an aberration correction second lens element. The first lens element is made of chalcogenide glass and has a first and second surface, one of the first and second surfaces of the first lens element being a diffractive surface. The second lens element has a first and second surface, one of the first and second surfaces being a planar surface and neither of the first and second surfaces being a diffractive surface. The second lens element is of a different material than the second lens element.
US11802994B2
An easy-cleaning coating, an easy cleaning coating having anti-fogging properties, and an easy-cleaning, anti-reflective coating.
US11802991B2
System and method for probabilistic estimation and display of atmospheric gas data at a global scale
System and method for estimating how an atmospheric gas is distributed. A server receives prior data related to historical and/or theoretical global patterns of the gas, as well as measurements of the concentration and/or emission of the gas. The server passes the data and measurements to a database for storage and/or to at least one processor, which applies statistical inference methods to estimate a probability distribution of gas concentration and emission within the region. In one embodiment, the entire atmosphere is divided into numerous regions, and gas distributions are evaluated in each region, to thereby produce an estimated distribution covering the atmosphere. In some embodiments, the regions are divisions of an equirectangular projection of the Earth's surface and have a length and width of 0.025°.
US11802989B2
Methods and systems for generating heterogeneity indices for reservoirs is provided. The method includes generating a geological model based on physical locations of a plurality of wells in a reservoir, wherein the geological model provides: graphical representations corresponding to the physical locations of the plurality of wells, a plurality of pseudo locations of pseudo wells in the reservoir, and graphical representations corresponding to the pseudo locations of the pseudo wells, determining reservoir properties associated with the pseudo locations of the pseudo wells in the reservoir, determining vertical heterogeneity indices associated with each location of the pseudo locations of the pseudo wells in the reservoir, determining using an interpolation operation associated with the vertical heterogeneity indices, lateral heterogeneity indices associated with each pseudo location of the pseudo locations of the pseudo wells, and generating for display a heterogeneity property model based on the vertical heterogeneity indices and the lateral heterogeneity indices.
US11802988B2
A method for inspecting at least one vehicle with an inspection system, the inspection system and the at least one vehicle being configured to move relative to one another during an inspection of at least one part of the vehicle, the method including controlling, by a controller, an inspection dose of inspection radiation generated by a radiation source such that, during the inspection of the at least one part of the vehicle by the inspection radiation, the inspection dose remains substantially equal to a predetermined inspection dose, wherein controlling the inspection dose includes the controller obtaining information representative of a speed of the relative movement of the system and the vehicle during the inspection of the at least one part of the vehicle, and the controller controlling the radiation source, based on the obtained information.
US11802983B2
Systems and methods relate to borehole seismic studies. Traditionally, borehole seismic studies are conducted using geophones. Seismic acquisition can be performed using fiber optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). Because DAS measures dynamic relative displacement over a gauge length, which is different from particle velocity, DAS data can be converted into an equivalent geophone output response. Operations include converting DAS data into distributed velocity, and then, converting the velocity output into an equivalent geophone response. Various aspects include separating the data into interleaving subsets, integrating each subset along the spatial coordinates, selecting a window width over which the median of each subset will be calculated and subtracted from the data, performing a spatial average or low-pass filtering over contiguous values, performing a time-domain low-pass filtering, and performing the velocity-to-geophone conversion operation.
US11802982B2
The present invention provides a system that can enable measurement of prompt and delayed radiation doses. Some embodiments provide a high dynamic range in dose and dose rate. Some embodiments can determine the direction of greatest dose and direction of lower radiation dose and dose rate. Embodiments include variations as well for individual and small group survival enhancement such as directional systems, packaging to meet harsh environmental conditions and nuclear survivability, low power, large-area dose and dose rate, rate mapping, data storage and exfiltration.
US11802975B2
A navigation satellite system reception apparatus includes a navigation satellite signal reception unit that calculates a first reception position, and a control unit that calculates an initial value of the first reception position and an orbit position of each of four or more navigation satellites, calculates, based on the calculated first reception position, the calculated orbit position, and time information from the first navigation satellite signals, arrival time of each of the first navigation satellite signals, extracts, based on the calculated arrival time, a second navigation satellite signal, calculates, based on the extracted second navigation satellite signal, a second reception position, recursively performs, by using the calculated second reception position, a calculation process of the arrival time and an extraction process of the second navigation satellite signal, and performs, based on a second navigation satellite signal extracted at end of recursive processing, the positioning process or the time synchronization process.
US11802970B2
This document describes techniques and systems to alternate power-level scanning for ToF lidar systems. The described lidar system transmits an initial signal having a first power level of an alternating pattern of power levels. The initial signal is associated with an initial pixel of consecutive pixels. The lidar system then transmits a subsequent signal, which is associated with a subsequent pixel of the consecutive pixels, having a second power level. The transmission of the initial signal and the subsequent signal with the alternating pattern of power levels limits a total power level emitted by the lidar system during a time interval to comply with safety regulations. The alternating pattern of power levels also permits the lidar system to switch between a long-detection range and a short-detection range for consecutive pixels.
US11802966B2
The present invention relates to a tracker and a surveying apparatus comprising the tracker, which improve the reliability of tracking a target. The tracker comprises a first imaging region having a plurality of pixels for taking a first image of a scene including the target; a second imaging region having a plurality of pixels for taking a second image of a scene including the target; a control unit to receive a timing signal indicating a time duration during which an illumination illuminating the target in the scene is switched on and off, control the first imaging region to take the first image of the scene when the timing signal indicates that the illumination unit is switched on, and control the second imaging region to take the second image when the illumination is switched off; and a read out unit configured to read out the first image from the first imaging region and the second image from the second imaging region and to obtain a difference image.
US11802962B2
A method for multipath error compensation comprises an unstructured light source (142) illuminating a scene during a plurality of consecutive time frames. A structured light source (144) illuminates the scene concurrently, the illumination by the structured source (144) occurring during predetermined frames of the plurality of consecutive time frames. An array of photodetectors (102) each generate a set of signals in response to irradiation with light reflected from the scene according to an indirect time of flight calculation technique to yield a plurality of sets of signals. An error estimate is derived (130) from the plurality of sets of signals generated during a selected time frame of the plurality of consecutive time frames when structured illumination takes place and another time frame temporally about the selected time frame when both structured and unstructured illumination takes place. The error estimate is applied in a range calculation with respect to the scene.
US11802961B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement lateral-bin monitoring for radar target detection. In particular, a radar system, which is mounted to a moving platform, divides a region of interest that is associated with at least one side of the moving platform into multiple lateral bins. The radar system maps locations of detections to the lateral bins, and monitors respective quantities of consecutive frames in which detections occur within the lateral bins. The radar system determines that at least one object is present within one of the lateral bins responsive to a quantity of consecutive frames having detections within the lateral bin being equal to or greater than a threshold. By waiting for a lateral bin to have detections across multiple consecutive frames, the radar system can minimize the false-alarm rate without reducing sensitivity.
US11802951B2
Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display, a communication module, at least one microphone, at least one speaker, a processor operatively coupled to the display, the communication module, the microphone, and the speaker, and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store instructions, when executed, causing the processor to transmit, through the speaker, a first audio sound including first information, receive, through the microphone, a second audio sound including second information responding to the first information from a first external electronic device, transmit, through the speaker, a third audio sound including third information for acquiring a distance to the first external electronic device after receiving the second audio sound, and receive, through the microphone, a fourth audio sound including fourth information responding to the third information from the first external electronic device.
US11802947B1
Embodiments herein describe using a moveable component on a vehicle to calibrate a sensor (e.g., a LIDAR sensor). While a LIDAR sensor can be calibrated using a specially designed configuration component mounted on a vehicle, this increases the cost of manufacturing the vehicle and complexity for identifying a suitable location for the calibration component. Rather than adding a new component, embodiments herein use a moveable component already part of the design of the vehicle as a calibration component. That is, the embodiments herein use components that are primarily used for a different purpose to also perform LIDAR calibration, such as a wheel or a robotic arm.
US11802924B2
An intelligent liquid helium-free whole-body magnetic resonance imaging superconducting magnet system, comprising: a vacuum container, provided with a main magnetic field superconducting coil in a radially inner side position therein, and a shielding superconducting coil in a radially outer side position therein, and a heat pipe gas tank is arranged in a vacant area between the main magnetic field superconducting coil and the shielding superconducting coil; a liquid helium reservoir, communicated with a liquid-gas storage tank, and connected with the main magnetic field superconducting coil or the shielding superconducting coil via a helium self-oscillation heat pipe; a refrigerator, fixed on the vacuum container through a thermal conduction component auto-pluggable component; the first thermal conduction component connected with the refrigerator is in close contact with the thermal radiation screen assembly, and the second thermal conduction component connected with the refrigerator is in close contact with the liquid helium reservoir.
US11802910B1
A probe apparatus for testing a semiconductor device is provided. The testing device includes a socket having a cavity for accommodating a device under test (DUT), and a cover disposed on the socket. The socket includes a thermal conductive material. The cover includes a plate, a circuit board attached to the plate, and an opening penetrating the plate and the circuit board, exposing the cavity of the socket.
US11802902B2
An underwater storage tank having a flexible multilayer tank containing a working liquid is provided. The flexible multilayer tank has at least one internal electrical insulating layer in contact with the working fluid, at least one external electrical insulating layer in contact with sea water, and at least one intermediate electric conductive layer sealed between the at least one internal electrical insulating layer and the at least one external electrical insulating layer. At least one first electrical connection means is connected to the at least one intermediate electric conductive layer, the least one first electrical connection means being electrically connectable to an electrical grounded measurement instrument to assess physical integrity of the flexible multilayer tank.
US11802897B2
An insulation impedance detection method includes: An inverter injects a first common-mode voltage into an alternating current side, where the first common-mode voltage is divided by an alternating current grounding insulation impedance of an alternating current cable and a direct current grounding insulation impedance of a photovoltaic unit. The inverter can obtain an impedance value of the alternating current grounding insulation impedance based on the first common-mode voltage, a voltage divided by the alternating current grounding insulation impedance for the first common-mode voltage (a second common-mode voltage on the alternating current grounding insulation impedance), and an impedance value of the direct current grounding insulation impedance. The alternating current grounding insulation impedance is detected by using a necessary device, namely, the inverter in a photovoltaic power generation system. In this way, an additional detection device is not mounted, which reduces costs and complexity of alternating current grounding insulation impedance detection.
US11802873B2
Provided herein is a method for predicting the probability of having or developing a non-fusion, wherein said method comprises determining the frequency of a subpopulation of CD8+ T cells selected from CD8+CD57+, CD8+CD28− and CD8+CD57+CD28− in a sample obtained from a patient. Also provided herein is a system for predicting the probability of having or developing a non-fusion.
US11802871B2
An immunofixation electrophoresis applicator system and method deposits antisera in spaced apart locations on a substrate where the antisera is deposited as an elongated bead in a first direction and retained against migration in a direction transverse to said first direction at least by surface tension.
US11802869B2
Certain aspects relate to systems and usage techniques for modular lateral flow assay reader devices that can receive a number of different modules having a barcode scanning input device and optional network connectivity capabilities. A barcode scanning module can provide a simple input method that reduces errors compared to manual data entry. A network connectivity module can enable transmission of test results over a public network for standardizing, tracking and electronically connecting test results from assay reader devices located throughout a network. Such devices can programmatically implement a simplified workflow whereby pressing a single button readies the device for imaging, analyzing, and data storage/transmission and, in some implementations, configures the device to operate in one of a plurality of device operation modes.
US11802858B2
In various embodiments, rapid, sensitive detection of molecular hydrogen is achieved by receiving sample gas that includes ambient water vapor and hydrogen, passing the sample gas through a gas dryer, chemically converting hydrogen in the sample gas to water vapor to produce converted sample gas, measuring water vapor in the converted sample gas to produce a water vapor signal, separating the water vapor signal in the time domain into an ambient water vapor signal and a hydrogen-derived water vapor signal, wherein the gas dryer dampens variation in the ambient water vapor signal, and outputting a hydrogen signal that describes molecular hydrogen in the sample gas that is based on the hydrogen-derived water vapor signal.
US11802849B2
Disclosed is a photoionization gas sensor including an ultraviolet generating module having a first substrate, a second substrate, and a third substrate sequentially coupled in a vertical direction, and configured to generate ultraviolet by applying an electric field to a noble gas filling a first cavity, the first cavity formed in a central portion of the second substrate, and a measuring module configured to collect an electrical signal, the electrical signal being generated such that an electric field is applied to a passage, through which gas ionized by ultraviolet passes, so as to allow the ionized gas to come into contact with an electrode, thereby having a small volume and being operated at a low voltage.
US11802845B2
Determination of Ground Thermal Conductivity (TC) in the field of Geothermal Heat Pumps (GHPs). The invention provides a simple mathematical approach using minimal terms with apparatus not dependent on stable electric power generation.
US11802841B2
The invention is to provide a defect detection device capable of using a compact optical system to detect a plurality of types of defects with high sensitivity and high speed. The defect detection device includes an irradiation system that irradiates light onto an object to be inspected; an optical system that forms scattered light produced by a light irradiation into an image; a microlens array disposed at an image plane of the optical system; an imaging element that is disposed at a position offset from the imaging plane of the optical system and that images light that passes through the microlens array; a mask image storage unit that stores a plurality of mask images generated for each type of defect or each defect direction; and a calculation unit that carries out mask processing on an image obtained from the imaging element using the plurality of mask images and carries out defect detection processing.
US11802839B2
Color quantification of chemical test pads and titration of analytes can be performed under different lighting conditions. In one embodiment, the lighting condition is estimated under which a digital image is captured and utilized to select a set of reference colors from which the quantified color is compared to determine the titration. In another embodiment, a plurality of comparisons are made with different lighting conditions with the result having the highest confidence level being selected to determine the titration.
US11802837B2
Methods and systems are provided for using optical interferometry in the context of material modification processes such as surgical laser, sintering, and welding applications. An imaging optical source that produces imaging light. A feedback controller controls at least one processing parameter of the material modification process based on an interferometry output generated using the imaging light. A method of processing interferograms is provided based on homodyne filtering. A method of generating a record of a material modification process using an interferometry output is provided.
US11802835B2
This invention relates to the preparation of N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine (“glyphosate”) from N-(phosphonomethyl)iminodiacetic acid (“PMIDA”), and more particularly to methods for control of the conversion of PMIDA, for the identification of reaction end points relating to PMIDA conversion and the preparation of glyphosate products having controlled PMIDA content.
US11802834B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to methods of predicting neutral detergent fiber digestibility (NDFD) properties of a feedstuff sample. A method of predicting neutral detergent fiber digestibility (NDFD) properties of a feedstuff sample includes collecting a near-infrared spectrum of the feedstuff sample to provide NIR data of the feedstuff sample. The method also includes predicting NDFD of the sample at an elapsed time, NDFD rate of the sample, and/or NDFD extent of the sample from the NIR data using a NIR/NDFD calibration model. Various embodiments provide a method of developing the NIR/NDFD calibration model using in vitro gas production (IVGP). Various embodiments provide a method of predicting digestibility of the feedstuff sample for an animal at a rumen passage rate (eNDF).
US11802829B2
Photoreflectance (PR) spectroscopy system and method for accumulating separately a “pump on” light beam and a “pump off light beam reflecting off a sample. The system comprises: (a) a probe source for producing a probe beam, the probe beam is used for measuring spectral reflectivity of a sample, (b) a pump source for producing a pump beam, (c) at least one spectrometer, (d) a first modulation device to allow the pump beam to alternatingly modulate the spectral reflectivity of the sample, so that, a light beam reflecting from the sample is alternatingly a “pump on” light beam and a “pump off light beam, (e) a second modulation device in a path of the light beam reflecting off the sample to alternatingly direct the “pump on” light beam and the “pump off light beam to the at least one spectrometer, and (f) a computer.
US11802828B2
A corrosion resistance test method for a coated metal material that includes a metal base and a surface treatment film, includes the steps of: disposing one or more water-containing material holders each holding a water-containing material to be in contact with the surface treatment film and one or more electrodes to be in contact with the water-containing material, and electrically connecting, with an external circuit, between the one electrode and the metal base, or between the electrodes; and supplying a current between the one electrode and the metal base, or between at least one of the electrodes and at least one of the other electrodes, as an anode and a cathode, to bring corrosion of the coated metal material to progress. The water-containing material has a viscosity at 65° C. of 10 mPa·s or more to 40 mPa·s or less.
US11802827B2
A single stage high pressure mercury injection capillary pressure measurement apparatus includes a sample sub-assembly, a transducer sub-assembly, a hydraulic intensifier, and a gas cylinder. The sample sub-assembly includes a casing having walls defining an interior volume, a penetrometer arranged in the casing, the penetrometer having walls defining a sample volume, an annular space defined between the walls of the casing and the walls of the penetrometer, and a common chamber fluidly connected to the annular space by a fluid line and to the sample volume of the penetrometer by a tubing. The transducer sub-assembly is fluidly connected to the sample sub-assembly via the common chamber and includes a plurality of high-pressure transducers a plurality of low-pressure transducers. The hydraulic intensifier is fluidly connected to the common chamber and is configured to apply a high pressure to the annular space.
US11802825B2
A measurement method of simply and quickly measuring platelet aggregation, is provided. The measurement method is a platelet aggregation analysis method, including: a step of adding a platelet-inducing substance and a calcium salt to a platelet-containing specimen; a step of stirring the platelet-containing specimen; and a step of acquiring measurement data of an electrical characteristic and/or viscoelasticity of the platelet-containing specimen.
US11802822B2
The invention provides a method for preparing an expanded biological specimen suitable for microscopic analysis. Expanding the biological sample can be achieved by anchoring biomolecules to a polymer network and swelling, or expanding, the polymer network, thereby moving the biomolecules apart as further described below. As the biomolecules are anchored to the polymer network isotropic expansion of the polymer network retains the spatial orientation of the biomolecules resulting in an expanded, or enlarged, biological specimen.
US11802819B2
The invention relates to a method for sample preparation on a spectrometric sample support, comprising the steps of: (i) providing the sample support with an arrangement of individual liquid droplets, for example of washing liquid or nutrient solution, each of which has microorganism sediments enclosed in it; (ii) locating a plate of an absorbent material containing cotton fibers, for example, above the sample support; (iii) lowering the plate vertically onto the sample support in such a way that microorganism sediments and plate come into contact, whereby the droplets of liquid are absorbed into the absorbent material; (iv) lifting the plate, which is locally enriched with droplet liquid, off the sample support, thereby exposing the microorganism sediments that are depleted of liquid; and (v) preparing the exposed microorganism sediments for spectrometric measurement, by means of infrared spectrometry or MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometry, for example.
US11802798B2
A temperature sensor is described having a measuring resistor, a printed circuit board onto which the measuring resistor is soldered, a cover plate which is fastened onto the printed circuit board, the cover plate having a recess in which the measuring resistor sits.
US11802793B2
An optical detector includes: a light-receiving element that is operated in a Geiger mode by application of a service voltage higher than a breakdown voltage and outputs a pulse signal in accordance with reception of light; a voltage setting unit that is capable of selectively applying any one of the service voltage and a test voltage lower than the breakdown voltage to the light-receiving element; and an abnormality determination unit that performs an abnormality determination process of determining that the light-receiving element is abnormal when the number of pulse signals output from the light-receiving element operated under the test voltage is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and determining that the light-receiving element is normal when the number of pulse signals is smaller than the threshold.
US11802791B2
A method of optical device metrology is provided. The method includes providing a first type of light into a first optical device during a first time period; measuring a quantity of the first type of light transmitted from a first location on the top surface or the bottom surface during the first time period; coating at least a portion of an edge of the one or more edges with a first coating of optically absorbent material during a second time period that occurs after the first time period; providing the first type of light into the first optical device during a third time period that occurs after the second time period; and measuring a quantity of the first type of light transmitted from the first location on the top surface or the bottom surface during the third time period.
US11802776B2
A cross-regional travel recommendation method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, which relates to the fields of intelligent transportation and deep learning. A specific implementation solution is: acquiring a travel request of a user, the travel request comprising a start point and an end point which are located in different regions; extracting user features according to the travel request of the user; and recommending at least one travel plan to the user according to the user features and a pre-trained cross-regional travel recommendation model. The technical solutions can make up for the deficiency of the existing technology, provide a cross-regional travel plan recommendation under a large-space scale and a multimodal environment through a pre-trained cross-regional travel recommendation model and user features extracted based on a travel request of a user, and can satisfy a cross-regional travel request of the user, and is highly practical.
US11802775B2
A method is disclosed for determining and displaying an area comprising a plurality of locations that can be reached by a person or vehicle from a departure node or current position while still reaching a destination node or home location given the initial value at the departure node or current position of a parameter that constrains the distance travelable by the person or vehicle. The method may be implemented on a mobile device such as a portable navigation device and/or on a server or computer, or may be provided as a computer program product.
US11802774B2
Methods and systems for determining an action for a vehicle. The system includes an electronic controller configured to determine a planned route of the vehicle, determine local astronomical data based upon the planned route, compare the local astronomical data to the planned route of the vehicle to determine a probability of completion of the planned route, and if the probability of completion is below a threshold, generate a command indicating an action for the vehicle.
US11802750B2
A safety apparatus for a grenade launcher assembly which provides a dual-way ammunition feed, recognizes the direction automatically without the importance of which direction the user opens the handle in order to prevent the direction selector or movement from reversing and which does not permit opening to the other unselected side for the filling-off phase.
US11802744B2
An exhaust heat recovery boiler includes: a duct casing in which exhaust gas flows; a tubular extending portion extending upward from the duct casing; a heat exchanger tube located in the duct casing; a hammering rod connected to the heat exchanger tube in the duct casing and passing through an inside of the extending portion, the hammering rod including an upper part projecting to an outside of the extending portion; and an annular sleeve attached to the upper part of the hammering rod through a packing. The extending portion includes an upper flat surface which is located at an upper end of the extending portion, realizes a seal between the upper flat surface and a lower surface of the sleeve, and is annular and flat.
US11802739B2
A cooling assembly includes a housing defining a fluid chamber, wick structures arranged on an interior surface of the fluid chamber such that one or more flow channels are present therebetween, and a divider. The divider includes an outer frame comprising a first side and a second side and one or more bridging supports extending between and connecting the first side and the second side of the outer frame. The one or more bridging supports are aligned with the one or more flow channels between the wick structures. Each one of the one or more bridging supports define a plurality of vapor flow paths extending therethrough. The one or more bridging supports further define a plurality of vapor spaces between the one or more bridging supports that are aligned with the wick structures. The plurality of vapor flow paths are fluidly coupled to the vapor spaces.
US11802737B2
A heat exchange array arranged to be used in a heat exchange unit and further arranged to recover energy from an exhaust gas, comprising: a first heat exchange tube and a second heat exchange tube, each arranged to carry a heat exchange medium and further each comprising a series of external fins; and wherein the first heat exchange tube comprises a left-handed helically coiled tube having an first elastic stress, and the second heat exchange coil comprises a right-handed helically coiled tube having a second elastic stress, and wherein the first and second heat exchange tubes are interconnected such that the first elastic stress opposes the second elastic stress.
US11802734B2
A thermal management system includes a plurality of thermal management assemblies. Each of the thermal management assemblies has a monolithic foil structure having a body with an external surface and a differently shaped and opposing internal surface. The external surface forms an outer profile and the internal surface forming an internal conduit with the outer profile and the internal conduit having different shapes. The monolithic foil structure is configured to physically isolate a first fluid flowing along the external surface from a second fluid flowing in the internal conduit. The body is configured to transfer thermal energy between the first fluid flowing along the external surface and the second fluid flowing in the internal conduit.
US11802732B2
A method of generating a loaded layout in a vacuum furnace corresponding to an actual layout in the vacuum furnace during operation of the vacuum furnace may comprise receiving, via a processor, a visual data of a loading process of the vacuum furnace from a camera; comparing, via the processor, the visual data to a predetermined maximum capacity layout for the vacuum furnace; and arranging, via the processor, the visual data into the loaded layout in response to comparing the visual data.
US11802729B2
A refrigerator is provided having at least one internal refrigerated compartment in which a plurality of refrigeration zones are provided, wherein an environment in each refrigeration zone may be independently controlled using a user interface configured to receive a zone selection input from a user indicating one of the plurality of refrigeration zones in which the user desires to adjust the environment; a plurality of lights provided in the internal refrigerated compartment and disposed proximate to each of the plurality of refrigeration zones, wherein groups of the plurality of lights may be separately controlled for visually identifying each of the refrigeration zones; and a controller configured to receive a zone selection input from the user interface, identify a group of the plurality of lights that are disposed proximate the selected refrigeration zone, and control the identified group of the plurality of lights to visually confirm the selected refrigeration zone.
US11802727B2
An ice maker includes a water system that delivers water from a water reservoir to an ice formation device. A mount can hold one or both of a fitting of a water level sensor and a water pump in relation to the water reservoir. For example, the mount can include integral features that lock with the fitting to mount the fitting on the ice maker at a sensing position. The mount can include integral features that form a bayonet connection with a portion of the pump. A vertical support wall can included integrated features for supporting the mount in relation to the water reservoir.
US11802725B2
The air-conditioning apparatus includes the plurality of heat source apparatuses; a plurality of indoor units each including an indoor heat exchanger and each configured to perform one of cooling and heating operations; a relay device connected to the heat source apparatuses by a high pressure pipe and a low pressure pipe and configured to distribute refrigerant flowing therein from the heat source apparatuses to the plurality of indoor units; and a controller configured to control operations of the heat source apparatuses. The relay device includes a relay device temperature detecting unit configured to detect a temperature of the refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe. During the heating main operation, the controller changes an opening degree of each of the outdoor side expansion devices based on the temperature detected by the relay device temperature detecting unit.
US11802724B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes outdoor units each including a compressor and outdoor heat exchanger, refrigerant flowing through the outdoor units; an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger, a heat medium flowing through the indoor unit; relay devices to which the outdoor units are connected, and to which the indoor unit is connected, each relay device includes a heat medium heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant and the heat medium; and a controller. The controller controls action of the outdoor units, the indoor unit, and the relay devices. The controller determines necessity for a defrosting operation; responsive the defrosting operation being necessary, compares an indoor unit total load with an outdoor unit total capacity; and controls an operating frequency of the compressor of an outdoor unit other than the outdoor unit on which the defrosting operation is to be performed to increase the outdoor unit total capacity.
US11802721B2
A heat source unit of a refrigerant cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a pipe, and a fixing member. The compressor includes two or three connection portions of a first connection portion connecting a suction pipe, a second connection portion connecting a discharge pipe, and a third connection portion connecting an injection pipe. The pipe includes a vertical portion. At least a part of the vertical portion extends vertically from each of the two or three connection portions. The fixing member fixes at least two of the vertical portions of two or three of the pipes of the suction pipe, the discharge pipe, and the injection pipe. Each of the connection portions of the pipes fixed by the fixing member is located on a first straight line as seen in a top view.
US11802709B2
Systems and methods for intelligent operation and control of primitive infrared (IR) controlled devices and appliances that requires little or no modification of existing devices and appliances or their controllers. Systems and methods for converting conventional infrared (IR) remote controls of primitive IR controlled infrared (IR) controlled devices and appliances to networked and smart remote controls are described which enable the upgraded smart remote control to act as a for ductless HVAC appliances, flat-screen televisions, media players such as DVD and Blu-ray disc players, and other primitive infrared (IR) controlled devices. The technology presented enables one or multiple users to control, monitor, and manage their primitive infrared (IR) controlled devices and appliances smartly using a custom smartphone application linked to the upgraded smart thermostat remote.
US11802694B2
An electric range is provided in which a lower surface of a base plate, on an upper end of which a working coil is placed, may be supported by at least one elastic supporter disposed at an upper end of at least one air guide along a widthwise direction of the base plate, thereby preventing bending of the base plate and maintaining a constant gap between an object to be heated and the working coil.
US11802692B2
An improved method and system for treating flue gases from a natural gas furnace are provided. The method and system include an acidic gas trap (AGT) adsorber which enables the continuous adsorption and storage of SOx, NOx redox, and formic acid/CO/HC/CH4 oxidation, with a negligible pressure drop. The AGT adsorber includes a catalyst coating having a nanotube structure (e.g., a uniform nanostructure forest coating) or a uniform porous nanostructure of various low-cost oxides through scalable low temperature solution processes, including oxides of Ti, Cu, Ba, Mn, Zr, Zn, Sr, Ca, Li, K, Na, Al, or Ce.
US11802686B2
Reverse steam generator for a lead-cooled fast reactor. The reverse steam generator comprises a cylindrical body with a bundle of heat exchange tubes located inside, the ends of the heat exchange tubes being fixed in tube sheets with intermediate support grids; inlet and outlet spherical chambers for supplying liquid metal coolant; a lower branch pipe for inlet water; and an upper branch pipe for a steam outlet. The cylindrical body is arranged horizontally and is curved in a Z-shape with a difference in height. The bundle of heat exchange tubes is also made in a Z-shape, repeating the bend of the cylindrical body.
US11802674B2
A lighting device is provided for a motor vehicle. The lighting device comprises at least one imaging component with at least one active surface, on which imaging elements for the generation of pixels of a light distribution are arranged matrix-like. The lighting device further comprises a light-guiding optics having at least one entry surface and one exit surface. During operation of the lighting device, the light emanating from the at least one active surface enters the light-guiding optics through the at least one entry surface and exits the light-guiding optics through the exit surface. The exit surface has a different shape and/or a different size than the at least one active surface, and/or a plurality of active surfaces and only one exit surface or a plurality of adjacent exit surfaces are provided.
US11802669B1
The present invention discloses an LED straight tube lamp with an end face switch for a tone adjustment and a power adjustment, which belongs to the technical field of LED lamps, comprising a lamp tube, wherein an inside of the lamp tube is provided with a light source board, one end of the lamp tube is provided with a first plug, another end of the lamp tube is provided with a second plug, the first plug is provided with a first driving board, the second plug is provided with a second driving board, both the first driving board and the second driving board are connected to the light source board, a switch is provided on the second driver board, an end face of the second plug is provided with an oblique groove, and an interior of the oblique groove is provided with a notch for extending a handle of the switch. In the present invention, the handle of the switch is arranged at the end face of the second plug, and an end of the handle of the switch is flush with the end face of the second plug. There is no need to increase the length of the second plug. The length of the whole lamp is not affected. The increase of material cost is avoided. The oblique groove arranged on the end face of the second plug of the present invention makes it easy to toggle the handle of the switch.
US11802659B1
A ceiling electrical box can include a housing and a bracket. The housing is defined by a rear wall at a first end, at least one sidewall, and an opening at a second end and includes a first emboss tab, a second emboss tab, a pair of screw holes, a pair of first bores, and a pair of second bores. The bracket includes a first portion, a second portion, a pair of first threaded apertures, and a pair of second threaded apertures. The bracket can include a third portion and a fourth portion extending on a first plane of the first portion. The ceiling electrical box can also include a pair of first fasteners to attach the housing to the bracket and a pair of second fasteners to engage the bracket through the housing, the second fasteners configured to receive a fixture plate for a ceiling fixture.
US11802658B1
An engagement structure of a connection system contains: a holder, a movable fixer, an actuation protrusion, a connection rod, and an adjustment member. The holder includes a first connecting segment, a first positioning groove, a receiving groove, a rotation space, two coupling orifices, and a locating orifice. The movable fixer includes a sliding portion, a defining portion, a guide groove, a through hole, a second connecting segment, a second positioning groove, and a locking chamber defined between the first positioning groove and the second positioning groove. The actuation protrusion includes a rotatable joining segment, a trench, two first accommodation orifices, two second accommodation orifices, two spaced distances, and a driving segment. The connection rod includes a rotary knob, a threaded section, a rotatable connecting orifice, and a trough. Also, the adjustment member includes a screwing section and a notch.
US11802657B2
A display device includes a screen, a screen support and a fixing module. The screen support is pivotally connected to the screen, and the screen support includes a first end and a second end. The fixing module is detachably connected to the screen support and includes a first sub-component and a second sub-component. The first sub-component has a first surface and a second surface, and the first sub-component is selectively connected to one of the first end and the second end. The second sub-component has a third surface and a fourth surface, and the second sub-component is configured for clamping a board. One of the first surface and the second surface of the first sub-component and one of the third surface and the fourth surface of the second sub-component are detachably connected.
US11802656B2
A display apparatus including a display module and a support module configured to support the display module, wherein the support module includes: a fixed frame configured to support the display module and a link structure disposed between the fixed frame and the display module and configured to rotate the display module through at least a six-bar link structure, so that the display module is easily detachably attached to the fixed frame, thereby shortening a time for an operation of replacing, repairing, or installation of the display module.
US11802654B1
A hanging bracket for screen enclosures includes a main body having a first end with a first protrusion, a second end, a curved section, and an elongated arm having a first end with a second protrusion. Each of the protrusions include a shape and a size that is positionable within the opening of a spline channel in a screen enclosure frame. In the assembled orientation the main body and the arm are secured together to form a V-shaped member having the first protrusion and the second protrusion extending outward and locked within the spline channels. A plurality of apertures is provided along the main body for receiving hooks to suspend secondary items from the bracket.
US11802650B2
The present disclosure relates generally to duct liner insulation products for curvilinear ducts, and more specifically relates to methods and materials to universally fit duct liner insulation for lining oval ducts in air conditioning, heating, and ventilating (HVAC) systems. A duct liner insulation for a curvilinear duct is provided that includes an insulation layer configured to line an interior surface of a curvilinear duct when installed within the curvilinear duct. The duct liner insulation also includes an elastically deformable layer configured to compress the insulation layer against the interior surface of the curvilinear duct when installed within the curvilinear duct such that the insulation layer extends substantially uniformly around an inner periphery of the curvilinear duct.
US11802645B2
A flow management system includes an expandable device configured for attachment to a wall surface of a conduit and being adjustable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration, an electric actuator in fluid communication with the expandable device, and a control module. The control module is configured to control the electric actuator to flow a current to the expandable device to expand the expandable device for compacting a flow blockage within the conduit to create a channel adjacent the flow blockage and to terminate a flow of the current to the expandable device to collapse the expandable device for opening the channel to a fluid flow within the conduit.
US11802635B2
An electromagnetic valve includes: a solenoid having a plunger movably supported along an axis O1 direction; a flow path member having a fluid passage flow path and a valve element housing portion; and a valve element in a columnar shape that is disposed in the valve element housing portion, is movable along the axis O1 direction together with the plunger, and can switch between an open state and a closed state. The flow path member has an abutment portion that abuts on the valve element in the valve element housing portion, and a biasing member that biases the valve element. The valve element has an enlarged-diameter portion on the radially outer side. The enlarged-diameter portion has an opposing surface portion opposing the abutment portion at least in the axis O1 direction. The opposing surface portion is in contact with the abutment portion in the open state.
