US11817473B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; and plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal charges obtained by photoelectric conversion in the plural photodiodes are formed in depths corresponding to the respective photodiodes.
US11817468B2
An image sensing device includes a pixel array including a (2×2) array that includes two first pixels, a second pixel, and a third pixel, wherein the first to third pixels have a pixel area and include first to third optical filters that are configured to transmit light of different colors, respectively, and wherein the second pixel or the third pixel includes a grid structure located along a boundary of the second pixel or the third pixel, and wherein the first pixel includes a red optical filter and has a first light reception area that is greater than a second light reception area of the second pixel or a third light reception area of the third pixel.
US11817465B2
Image sensors are provided. The image sensors may include a substrate including first, second, third and fourth regions, a first photoelectric conversion element in the first region, a second photoelectric conversion element in the second region, a third photoelectric conversion element in the third region, a fourth photoelectric conversion element in the fourth region, a first microlens at least partially overlapping both the first and second photoelectric conversion elements, and a second microlens at least partially overlapping both the third and fourth photoelectric conversion elements. The image sensors may also include a floating diffusion region and first, second and third pixel transistors configured to perform different functions from each other. Each of the first, second and third pixel transistors may be disposed in at least one of first, second, third and fourth pixel regions. The first pixel transistor may include multiple first pixel transistors.
US11817452B2
A method disclosed includes the following operations as below: forming at least one capacitor between multiple interposing conductors and multiple gates; and forming multiple interposing connectors connected to the interposing conductors. One of the interposing conductors is interposed between two adjacent gates of the gates. In a plain view, the interposing connectors are separate from the gates.
US11817450B2
Apparatus and methods relating to heterolithic microwave integrated circuits HMICs are described. An HMIC can include different semiconductor devices formed from different semiconductor systems in different regions of a same substrate. An HMIC can also include bulk regions of low-loss electrically-insulating material extending through the substrate and located between the different semiconductor regions. Passive RF circuit elements can be formed on the low-loss electrically-insulating material.
US11817440B2
A display apparatus includes a support substrate, a plurality of light emitting structures regularly arranged on the support substrate, and a wavelength conversion part disposed on the plurality of light emitting structures. The wavelength conversion part includes light transmitting portions and blocking portions, the light transmitting portions being disposed on the light emitting structures, respectively, and each of the light transmitting portions including a phosphor for converting a wavelength of light emitted from the corresponding light emitting structure. The support substrate includes a plurality of conductive patterns electrically connected to the light emitting structures, and the light emitting structures are coupled to the plurality of conductive patterns.
US11817436B2
An apparatus for a common cooling solution for multiple packages of a common height, including: a first die package; a second die package having a same height as the first die package; and a cooling element thermally coupled to the first die package and the second die package by a planar surface of the cooling element.
US11817434B2
A display comprises a transparent polymer support, an array of light emitters embedded in the support, and a redistribution layer. Each light emitter comprises electrode contacts that are substantially coplanar with a back surface of the support and emits light through a front surface of the support opposite the back surface when provided with power through the electrode contacts. The redistribution layer comprises a dielectric layer that is disposed on and in contact with the support back surface and distribution contacts that extend through the dielectric layer. Each of the distribution contacts is electrically connected to an electrode contact and is at least partially exposed.
US11817424B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower semiconductor chip having a first surface and a second surface, an upper semiconductor chip on the first surface, a first insulating layer between the first surface and the upper semiconductor chip, a second insulating layer between the first insulating layer and the upper semiconductor chip, and a connection structure penetrating the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer and being connected to the lower semiconductor chip and the upper semiconductor chip. The connection structure includes a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion, which are respectively disposed in the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A width of the second connecting portion is greater than a width of the first connecting portion. A thickness of the second connecting portion is greater than a thickness of the first connecting portion.
US11817422B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor element, a first connection terminal formed on a lower surface of the first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element mounted on the lower surface of the first semiconductor element so that the second semiconductor element partially overlaps the first semiconductor element in plan view, a second connection terminal formed on a lower surface of the second semiconductor element, and a wiring substrate on which the first and second semiconductor elements are mounted. The wiring substrate includes first and second connection pads electrically connected to the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal, respectively. The semiconductor device further includes a third connection terminal formed on the first connection pad and electrically connected to the first connection terminal. One of the first connection terminal and the third connection terminal is a metal post, and the other is a solder ball.
US11817399B2
A device includes a semiconductor chip, a molding compound, an insulating structure, an under-bump-metallurgy (UBM), a conductive ball, and a protection layer. The molding compound laterally surrounds the semiconductor chip. The insulating structure is over the semiconductor chip and the molding compound. The UBM is over the insulating structure and is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip. The conductive ball is in contact with the UBM. The protection layer extends from the UBM to the molding compound.
US11817393B2
Semiconductor die assemblies with decomposable materials, and associated methods and systems are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly includes a memory controller die carrying one or more memory dies attached to its first side. The semiconductor die assembly also includes a biodegradable structure attached to its second side opposite to the first side. The biodegradable structure includes a conductive material and an insulating material, both of which are biodegradable and disintegrate in a wet process. The biodegradable structure can be configured to couple the memory controller die with an interface die. In this manner, when the biodegradable structure disintegrates (e.g., dissolve) in the wet process, the memory controller carrying the memory dies can be separated from the interface die to reclaim the memory controller with the memory dies and the interface die.
US11817390B2
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic component may include a substrate having a first face and an opposing second face, wherein the substrate includes a through-substrate via (TSV); a first mold material region at the first face, wherein the first mold material region includes a first through-mold via (TMV) conductively coupled to the TSV; and a second mold material region at the second face, wherein the second mold material region includes a second TMV conductively coupled to the TSV.
US11817389B2
A semiconductor device structure includes a memory element disposed within an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer. A contact is disposed within the ILD in contact with the memory element and includes a first metal. A logic element is disposed within the ILD and comprises a second metal that is different than the first metal. A method of forming the semiconductor structure includes forming at least one memory element within an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer. A contact that includes a first metal is formed in contact with the memory element. At least one logic element is formed in the ILD layer, where the logic element includes a second metal that is different than the first metal.
US11817386B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing an electrical fuse (e-fuse) device. The method includes forming a mask layer over a semiconductor substrate, and etching the semiconductor substrate by using the mask layer as a mask to form a fuse link over a semiconductor base. The method also includes epitaxially growing a first bottom anode/cathode region and a second bottom anode/cathode region over the semiconductor base and adjacent to a bottom portion of the fuse link. The fuse link is between the first bottom anode/cathode region and the second anode/cathode region. The method further includes epitaxially growing a top anode/cathode region to replace the mask layer.
US11817373B2
A semiconductor arrangement and method of forming the semiconductor arrangement are provided. The semiconductor arrangement includes a device having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. A first through substrate via (TSV) structure extends between the first surface and the second surface in a first region of the device. A second TSV structure extends between the first surface and the second surface in a second region of the device. The first TSV structure has a first cross-sectional area. The second TSV structure has a second cross-sectional area greater than the first cross-sectional area.
US11817360B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The chip scale package semiconductor device comprises: a semiconductor die having a first major surface and an opposing second major surface, the semiconductor die comprising at least two terminals arranged on the second major surface; a carrier comprising a first major surface and an opposing second major surface, wherein the first major surface of the semiconductor die is mounted on the opposing second major surface of the carrier; and a molding material partially encapsulating the semiconductor die and the carrier, wherein the first major surface of the carrier extends and is exposed through molding material, and the at least two terminals are exposed through molding material on a second side of the device.
US11817353B2
At least one bipolar transistor and at least one variable capacitance diode are jointly produced by a method on a common substrate.
US11817340B2
A power supply comprises at least one waveform generator that produces a clamp waveform responsive to a clamp signal, and at least one amplifier that amplifies and provides the clamp waveform to an electrostatic chuck. An advisor module receives parameter values for parameters affecting operation of the power supply, uses a neural network to determine whether the parameter values are consistent with trained parameter values, and continuously and automatically modifies weighting of inputs to the neural network when any parameter values are inconsistent with the trained parameter values. A controller provides the clamp signal to the waveform generator, receives reports from the advisor module, and adjusts the clamp signal or provides a status report when any parameter values are inconsistent with the trained parameter values.
US11817325B2
A system substrate package, a system package, and methods of forming the same are described herein. The system substrate package includes an integrated substrate with multiple discrete interconnect structures. In embodiments the multiple discrete interconnect structures are placed and encapsulated and have a gap formed between the multiple discrete interconnect structures. The system substrate package reduces package warpage and mitigates board level reliability issues.
US11817321B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a plurality of plasma processing chambers, a process gas supply line that supplies a plasma processing gas to the plasma processing chambers, a first additive gas supply line that supplies an additive gas to the plasma processing chambers, an exhaust space shared by the plurality of plasma processing chambers, and a controller. The controller determines a first plasma processing chamber group and a second plasma processing chamber group. The first plasma processing chamber group includes one or more plasma processing chambers, each of which performs the plasma processing and the second plasma processing chamber group includes one or more plasma processing chambers, each of which does not perform the plasma processing. The controller causes the additive gas to be supplied to the one or more plasma processing chambers of the second plasma processing chamber group from the first additive gas supply line.
US11817312B2
A method, apparatus and system for processing a wafer in a plasma chamber system, which includes at least a plasma generating element and a biasing electrode, include generating a plasma in the plasma chamber system by applying a source RF source power to the plasma generating element for a first period of time of a pulse period of the RF source power, after the expiration of the first period of time, removing the source RF source power, after a delay after the removal of the RF source power, applying an RF bias signal to the biasing electrode for a second period of time to bias the generated plasma towards the wafer, and after the expiration of the second period of time, removing the RF bias signal from the biasing electrode before a next pulse period of the RF source power. The generated plasma biased toward the wafer is used to process the wafer.
US11817310B2
A bevel portion treatment agent composition of the present invention is a bevel portion treatment agent composition containing a silylating agent, which is used for treating a bevel portion of a wafer, in which a surface modification index Y and a surface modification index Z measured by a predetermined procedure have a characteristic of satisfying 0.5≤Y/Z≤1.0.
US11817309B2
Provided are: a method of producing heated ozone water, the method capable of producing heated ozone water having an extremely high ozone concentration by suppressing a reduction in the ozone concentration in high-concentration heated ozone water; heated ozone water; and a semiconductor wafer-cleaning liquid using the heated ozone water. A method of producing heated ozone water obtained by dissolving ozone in pure water, the method being characterized by including: adjusting a pH of the pure water to 3 or less by adding acid to the pure water; to obtain an acid water, dissolving an ozone gas in the acid water; and heating the pure water, the acid water or the ozone water, to 60° C. or more.
US11817308B2
A display panel and a manufacturing method of the display panel are provided. The display panel includes: a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a driving circuit disposed opposite to the first substrate and adjacent to a side of the second substrate, and a color resist layer disposed opposite to the driving circuit and adjacent to a side of the first substrate; wherein the color resist layer includes colorized color resist layers and a colorized quantum dot layer, and the driving circuit is a bottom-emission type light-emitting-diode (LED) driving circuit.
US11817296B2
A radio frequency sensor assembly includes a sensor casing disposed around a central hole, the sensor casing including a first conductive cover and a second conductive cover. The assembly includes a cavity disposed around the central hole and includes a dielectric material, the cavity being bounded by a first major outer surface and a second major outer surface along a radial direction from a center of the central hole, where the first conductive cover is electrically coupled to the second conductive cover through a coupling region beyond the second major outer surface of the cavity, and electrically insulated from the second conductive cover by the cavity and the central hole. The assembly includes a current sensor electrically insulated from the sensor casing and including a current pickup disposed symmetrically around the central hole, the current pickup being disposed within the cavity and being insulated from the sensor casing.
US11817290B2
A method for electron microscopy comprises: adjusting at least one of an electron beam and an image beam in such a way that off-axial aberrations inflicted on at least one of the electron beam and the image beam are minimized, the adjusting performed by using a beam adjusting component to obtain at least one modified image beam, wherein the adjusting comprises applying both shifting and tilting to at least one of the electron beam and the image beam and wherein the amount of tilting of at least one of the electron beam and the image beam depends on the amount of shifting of at least one of the electron beam and the image beam respectively and wherein the amount of tilting is computed based on at least one of coma and astigmatism introduced as a consequence of the shift.
US11817285B2
This disclosure relates to ingress-tolerant input devices comprising sliders. Aspects of the disclosure relate to an ingress-tolerant switch assembly for operating an electronic device in an ingress-protected manner. The switch assembly is at least partially disposed on an outer surface of an enclosure of the electronic device and generally includes a spring, a magnet coupled to the spring, and a slider coupled to the magnet. A spring force of the spring is overcome by a user moving the slider relative to the enclosure such that the slider moves the magnet into proximity of the magnetic sensor to cause the magnetic sensor to generate a sensor signal for performing a function of the electronic device.
US11817282B2
Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter (AFCI), Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) or AF/GF circuit breakers which may optionally have relatively small or compact bodies that have shaped neutral busbars and/or load terminals with an arm that extends through a window of a current transformer in a circuit breaker housing. The neutral busbar and/or load terminal can have a rigid or semi-rigid shaped body with a first segment that extends through the window of the current transformer and a second segment that extends behind the first segment about a printed circuit board. A plug-on, pigtail or bolt-on neutral can engage an electrical pad of the neutral busbar.
US11817281B2
A method of detecting welded contacts in a relay. The method includes performing, at a first point in time, the applying of a drive to the activation coil to conduct a coil current through the activation coil, the coil current increasing to a first current level, the first current level being less than a pull-in current of the relay; responsive to the coil current reaching the first current level, turning off the drive to the activation coil to discharge the coil current at a first clamping voltage; and measuring a first discharge time corresponding to a first inductance from the turning off of the drive to the activation coil to the coil current reaching a second current level, the second current level being less than the first current level. These operations are repeated at a second point in time to obtain a second inductance. Comparison of the first inductance and second inductance determines whether a difference between the first and second inductances exceeds a comparison criterion.
US11817280B2
A circuit breaker device includes a bimetallic overcurrent protection element which is configured to be placed in series with an integrated replaceable fuse. The replaceable fuse may be faster-acting than the bimetallic overcurrent protection element, and may be higher-rated than the bimetallic overcurrent protection element. The circuit breaker device may include an electrically isolated terminal stud having a height sufficient to retain the replaceable fuse thereon, the electrically isolated terminal stud not directly connected to the bimetallic overcurrent protection element, so that current can only flow through the bimetallic overcurrent protection element when a replaceable fuse comprising an intact fuse element is supported on the electrically isolated terminal stud.
US11817274B2
A composition of matter having the following chemical structure: [ H x O ( x - 1 ) 2 ] Z y wherein x is and odd integer ≥3; y is an integer between 1 and 20; and Z is one of a monoatomic ion from Groups 14 through 17 having a charge value between −1 and −3 or a polyatomic ion having a charge between −1 and −3.
US11817263B2
An electronic component includes a laminate in which first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes are alternately laminated in a lamination direction with dielectric layers interposed therebetween, the laminate including a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to each other in the lamination direction, a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to each other in a width direction, and a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other in a length direction, a first external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate and electrically connected to the first internal electrodes, a second external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate and electrically connected to the second internal electrodes, and side margin portions each including a dielectric including Ca, Zr, and Ti.
US11817261B2
An ink includes a boron-doped nanodiamond having a specific surface area of 110 m2/g or greater, and electrical conductivity at 20° C. of 5.0×10−3 S/cm or greater.
US11817260B2
An integrated energy storage device is provided that includes a supercapacitor and a battery surrounding the supercapacitor. The battery forms a shell around an exterior surface of the supercapacitor. The battery includes a first anode, a first cathode, and an electrolyte disposed between the first anode and the first cathode. The supercapacitor includes a second anode, a second cathode, and a separator disposed between the second anode and the second cathode.
US11817256B2
A noise reduction device for a transformer is proposed. In this device, a blocking means or a connection support means is installed in a winding installed in an inner space of an enclosure in order to remove vibration and noise generated in the enclosure of the transformer. In a low voltage winding and a high voltage winding constituting the winding, when a current is applied, a magnetic flux flow is generated, thereby generating electromagnetic force. The electromagnetic force is transmitted to surfaces of the enclosure through insulating oil or the like inside the enclosure, causing vibration and noise. In order to cancel and eliminate the electromagnetic force, the blocking means or the connection support means is used. According to the disclosure, the electromagnetic force is canceled, thereby reducing the noise and vibration.
US11817253B2
A coil module is provided, including a second coil mechanism. The second coil mechanism includes a third coil assembly and a second base corresponding to the third coil assembly. The second base has a positioning assembly corresponding to a first coil mechanism.
US11817251B2
An electronic component includes an internal electrode and an external electrode electrically connected thereto. The external electrode includes a conductive base having a porous structure and a resin filled in voids in the porous structure of the conductive base. The electronic component further includes a connection layer disposed between the internal electrode and the external electrode.
US11817250B2
A broadside coupled coplanar inductor device includes first and second coplanar inductors in which the conductors of the first and second coplanar inductors are broadside coupled. The conductors are located one above the other at a first distance and the return paths are located to the side of the respective first and second conductor signal paths at a second distance. One or both of the dimensions of the first and second first distances is defined so as to maximize a mutual inductance between the conductors. First and second driver circuit apply voltages across each conductor. The input pulse width modulation signals applied to the first and second driver circuits are 180 degrees out of phase.
US11817243B2
The invention relates to an inductive component having a planar conductive track structure. The planar conductive track structure is surrounded along a predetermined section by a ferromagnetic core. For targeted control of the current flow inside the planar conductive track structure and, in particular, of the current density in the cross-section of the planar conductive track structure, gaps are provided in a targeted manner in the ferromagnetic core. The gaps in the ferromagnetic core are arranged in regions above and/or below the planar conductive track structure.
US11817238B2
The present invention provides a magnetic movement path control device including: a magnetic force moving unit including a permanent magnet generating a permanent magnetic force, a first pole piece attached to a first surface of the permanent magnet, and a second pole piece attached to a second surface of the permanent magnet; a first outer pole piece in contact with the magnetic force moving unit to form a magnetic path; a second outer pole piece in contact with the magnetic force moving unit to form a magnetic path different from the magnetic path formed by the first outer pole piece; and a magnetic path control member releasing or generating the magnetic path by allowing the magnetic force moving unit to come into contact with the first outer pole piece and be spaced apart from or come in contact with the second outer pole piece, wherein the magnetic force moving unit moves between a first position where at least one of the first pole piece and the second pole piece is in contact with the first outer pole piece and the second pole piece is spaced apart from the second outer pole piece to drop a target object and a second position where at least one of the first pole piece and the second pole piece is in contact with the first outer pole piece and the second pole piece is in contact with the second outer pole piece to lift the target object.
US11817233B2
An image pickup apparatus includes, between a first unit including an image pickup device and a second unit including a video processing circuit, a waveguide path through which a millimeter wave or a submillimeter wave is transmitted, the second unit includes a millimeter-wave carrier-wave generation circuit and a demodulator configured to regenerate, from a millimeter-wave modulated wave generated by the first unit and received through the waveguide path, a video signal generated by the image pickup device, and the first unit includes a processing-transmission circuit configured to receive a millimeter-wave carrier wave through the waveguide path, generate a millimeter-wave modulated wave by superimposing the video signal generated by the image pickup device on the millimeter-wave carrier wave, and transmit the millimeter-wave modulated wave toward the waveguide path.
US11817232B2
An electrically conductive, flexible, strain resilient product is produced by mixing metal coated carbon nanotube networks with a liquid polymeric resin to produce a liquid mixture, and the mixture is cured to produce the product. The networks may include welded junctions between nanotubes formed by depositing and melting metal nanoparticles on the nanotubes to form the metal coating. After the mixing step the liquid mixture may be deposited on a flexible substrate in the form of an electrical circuit. The mixing step may further include mixing the composite with a volatile solvent to produce a selected viscosity. Then, a three-dimensional printer may be used to print the product, such as an electrical circuit, on a substrate. The product is cured in an atmosphere that absorbs the solvent. The conductivity of the mixture may be adjusted by adjusting the weight percentage of the metal coated carbon nanotube networks from 50% to 90%, but a preferred range is between 75% and 85%.
US11817225B2
Nuclear propulsion fission reactor structure has an active core region including fuel element structures, a reflector with rotatable neutron absorber structures (such as drum absorbers), and a core former conformal mating the outer surface of the fuel element structures to the reflector. Fuel element structures are arranged abutting nearest neighbor fuel element structures in a tri-pitch design. Cladding bodies defining coolant channels are inserted into and joined to lower and upper core plates to from a continuous structure that is a first portion of the containment structure. The body of the fuel element has a structure with a shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, such as a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) in a gyroid structure. The nuclear propulsion fission reactor structure can be incorporated into a nuclear thermal propulsion engine for propulsion applications, such as space propulsion.
US11817220B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reconstructing and simulating neocortical microcircuitry. In one aspect, a method includes providing a model of neural tissue, the model including different types of neural cells and dynamic synaptic interconnections between the neural cells, changing a parameter in the model; and identifying a change in a computational state of the model of the neural tissue responsive to the change in the parameter. The change in the parameter can, e.g., change behavior of neural cells of at least one type, change interconnectivity between neural cells, or target a location within a volume in the model that interacts with multiple types of neural cells.
US11817219B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing cardiovascular disease and treatment effectiveness based on adipose tissue. One method includes identifying a vascular bed of interest in a patient's vasculature; receiving a medical image of the patient's identified vascular bed of interest; identifying adipose tissue in the received medical image; receiving a geometric vascular model comprising a representation of the patient's identified vascular bed of interest; and computing an inflammation index associated with the geometric vascular model, using the identified adipose tissue.
US11817213B2
A computer-implemented method is for coordinating a plurality of remote control units on performance of a plurality of prioritized working steps. The method includes receiving a first provisional sequence of the plurality of working steps, at least one remote control unit configured to perform the working step being assigned to at least one working step; receiving an item of information about a status of the at least one assigned remote control unit; prioritizing the plurality of working steps; determining a prioritized sequence of the plurality of working steps based upon the prioritization; providing the prioritized sequence of the plurality of working steps; providing a start signal for the assigned remote control unit for performing the at least one working step of the plurality of working steps. The start signal is here configured to initiate performance of the working step by the assigned remote control unit.
US11817204B2
Embodiments discussed herein facilitate determination of whether lesions are benign or malignant. One example embodiment is a method, comprising: accessing medical imaging scan(s) that are each associated with distinct angle(s) and each comprise a segmented region of interest (ROI) of that medical imaging scan comprising a lesion associated with a first region and a second region; providing the first region(s) of the medical imaging scan(s) to trained first deep learning (DL) model(s) of an ensemble and the second region(s) of the medical imaging scan(s) to trained second DL model(s) of the ensemble; and receiving, from the ensemble of DL models, an indication of whether the lesion is a benign architectural distortion (AD) or a malignant AD.
US11817203B2
Ultrasound image devices, systems, and methods are provided. A clinical condition detection system, comprising a communication device in communication with an ultrasound imaging device and configured to receive a sequence of ultrasound image frames representative of a subject body across a time period; and a processor in communication with the communication device and configured to classify the sequence of ultrasound image frames into a first set of clinical characteristics by applying a first predictive network to the sequence of ultrasound image frames to produce a set of classification vectors representing the first set of clinical characteristics; and identify a clinical condition of the subject body by applying a second predictive network to the set of classification vectors.
US11817194B2
There is provided a smart control system including a host, at least one sensor and an informing device. The host identifies the activity of a specific member according to the detection result of the at least one sensor, and informs the specific member to take medicine on time or avoid eating specific ingredients using the informing device.
US11817189B1
Methods and systems for analyzing data are described. In one embodiment, a method comprises a processor receiving a data analysis algorithm over a network and executing the data analysis algorithm, the data analysis algorithm analyzing data stored in a database using machine learning to identify a database organizational format, the data analysis algorithm identifying one or more locations for a set of data stored on the database based on identifying the database organizational format, the data analysis algorithm parsing the set of data to identify whether any entries in the database associated with the set of data includes a particular value, and the data analysis algorithm communicating over the network at least a first number of entries in the database that include the particular value and a second number of entries in the database that do not include the particular value.
US11817188B2
A method is provided for lowering blood sugar in a subject in need thereof by administering a biguanide anti-hyperglycemic pharmaceutical composition to a subject qualified for over-the-counter access to the biguanide anti-hyperglycemic pharmaceutical composition. In some embodiments, the biguanide anti-hyperglycemic pharmaceutical composition includes N,N-dimethylimidodicarbonimidic diamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In some embodiments, the biguanide anti-hyperglycemic pharmaceutical composition includes metformin hydrochloride.
US11817177B2
The present disclosure provides a method for enriching for multiple genomic regions using a first bait set that selectively hybridizes to a first set of genomic regions of a nucleic acid sample and a second bait set that selectively hybridizes to a second set of genomic regions of the nucleic acid sample. These bait set panels can selectively enrich for one or more nucleosome-associated regions of a genome, said nucleosome-associated regions comprising genomic regions having one or more genomic base positions with differential nucleosomal occupancy, wherein the differential nucleosomal occupancy is characteristic of a cell or tissue type of origin or disease state.
US11817173B2
Systems and methods are provided herein that implement and utilize temporal state machines and other temporal computational/memory circuits. For example, a temporal state machine is provided that comprises a temporal computational unit comprising at least one circuit to perform a time-domain operation, and a temporal memory unit. Both the temporal computational unit and temporal memory unit can operate using solely, or partially, time-encoded wavefronts. The computation unit accesses time-encoded wavefronts from the memory and can output and write time-encoded wavefronts back to the memory.
US11817168B2
Methods, systems, and devices for environmental condition tracking for a memory system are described. A memory system may include one or more sensors (e.g., temperature sensors) for identifying a temperature of a memory device. For example, the sensor(s) may identify a first temperature of the memory device when performing a write operation on a memory cell and may identify a second temperature of the memory device when performing a read operation on the memory cell. The memory system may determine a performance characteristic of the memory device based on a correlation between the first temperature and the second temperature and may transmit the performance characteristic to a server.
US11817167B2
A memory chip may include: a plurality of memory banks; a data storage configured to store access information indicative of access operations for one or more segments of the plurality of memory banks; and a refresh controller configured to perform a refresh operation of the one or more segments based, at least in part, on the stored access information.
US11817155B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a memory cell array and a control circuit. The control circuit executes a first reading operation and a second reading operation. The first reading operation is an operation of reading a threshold voltage set in the selected memory cell by setting a voltage between a control gate electrode and source of the selected memory cell to a first value. The second reading operation is an operation of reading a threshold voltage set in the selected memory cell by setting a voltage between the control gate electrode and source of the selected memory cell to a second value lower than the first value. When executing the second reading operation, the control circuit keeps a voltage of the control gate electrode of the selected memory cell to 0 or a positive value.
US11817151B2
A system includes a memory device and a processing device coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to perform operations including maintaining a counter to track a number of memory access operations performed on a range of consecutive wordlines in a block of the memory device. The operations further include determining that the number of memory access operations performed on the range of consecutive wordlines satisfies a threshold criterion. The operations further include, responsive to the number of memory access operations performed on the range of consecutive wordlines satisfying the threshold criterion, causing a memory management operation to be performed at each wordline of the range of consecutive wordlines in the block of the memory device.
US11817139B2
A memory device includes a plurality of circuit layers, a plurality of first conductive through via structures and a plurality of bitlines. The circuit layers are disposed one above another, and each circuit layer includes one or more memory cell arrays. The first conductive through via structures penetrates though the circuit layers. Each of the bitlines includes a plurality of bitline segments disposed on the circuit layers respectively. The bitline segments are electrically connected through one of the first conductive through via structures. Each bitline segment is coupled to a plurality of memory cells of a memory cell array of a circuit layer where the bitline segment is disposed.
US11817134B2
This magnetic recording head includes a main magnetic pole, a write shield, and an element. The element has a first portion, a second portion, and a non-magnetic conductive layer disposed therebetween. The element has a first current path connecting the main magnetic pole and the non-magnetic conductive layer to each other, and a second current path connecting the write shield and the non-magnetic conductive layer to each other.
US11817132B2
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing with a bottom wall, magnetic disks supported on a hub of a motor, a printed circuit board provided on an outer surface of the bottom wall, and a wiring board attached on the outer surface of the bottom wall. The bottom wall includes a recess formed in the outer surface, a step located on border between the outer surface and the recess, and through holes opened to the recess. The wiring board includes one end portion disposed in the recess and connection pads on the one end portion, connected to lead wires of a coil. An adhesive is filled into the recess and the through holes, and covers the one end and a solder joint and seals the through holes.
US11817129B2
An apparatus for processing media content includes at least one hardware processor coupled to at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions that when executed cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations. The operations include generating three-dimensional (3D) representations of media elements present in one or more two-dimensional (2D) images representing a 2D scene with the media content. A 3D volume representation of the 2D scene is generated based on aggregating the 3D representations. A 3D void space associated with the 2D scene is segmented into a plurality of 3D void segments. The segmenting is based on the 3D volume representation. A 3D media element is inserted into at least one 3D void segment of the plurality of 3D void segments. The one or more 2D images are modified to include the at least one 3D void segment with the 3D media element.
US11817128B2
A music data editing device includes: a music data player configured to play music data to which a unit section for playing a music piece is assigned; a unit section recorder configured to record the music data of every unit section in time series, the music data being currently played; and a unit section reader configured to read the unit section recorded by the unit section recorder.
US11817124B2
A method of recovering data from one or more failed data sectors includes estimating a reader offset position from a first or a second read attempt of the one or more failed data sectors at a current set of channel parameters and basing the estimated reader offset position on, at least in part, a position error signal generated during the first or second read attempt. At least one read is performed on the one or more failed data sectors at the estimated reader offset position to obtain one or more samples. The one or more samples are processed to obtain a processed sample. Iterative outer code recovery is performed on the processed sample.
US11817115B2
Methods and systems for deessing of speech signals are described. A deesser of a speech processing system includes an analyzer configured to receive a full spectral envelope for each time frame of a speech signal presented to the speech processing system, and to analyze the full spectral envelope to identify frequency content for deessing. The deesser also includes a compressor configured to receive results from the analyzer and to spectrally weight the speech signal as a function of results of the analyzer. The analyzer can be configured to calculate a psychoacoustic measure from the full spectral envelope, and may be further configured to detect sibilant sounds of the speech signal using the psychoacoustic measure. The psychoacoustic measure can include, for example, a measure of sharpness, and the analyzer may be further configured to calculate deesser weights based on the measure of sharpness. An example application includes in-car communications.
US11817114B2
Some implementations involve receiving a content stream that includes audio data, determining a content type corresponding to the content stream and determining, based at least in part on the content type, a noise compensation method. Some examples involve performing the noise compensation method on the audio data to produce noise-compensated audio data, rendering the noise-compensated audio data for reproduction via a set of audio reproduction transducers of the audio environment, to produce rendered audio signals, and providing the rendered audio signals to at least some audio reproduction transducers of the audio environment.
US11817112B2
A method, a device, a computer readable medium and an electronic apparatus for speech signal processing are disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring sound source position information and at least two channels of sound signals from a microphone array; suppressing, according to the sound source position information, a sound signal from the sound source direction in the at least two channels of sound signals, to obtain a noise reference signal of the microphone array; acquiring, according to the sound source position information, a sound signal from the sound source direction in the at least two channels of sound signals, to obtain a speech reference signal; removing, based on the noise reference signal, a residual noise signal in the speech reference signal to obtain a desired speech signal.
US11817098B1
Systems and methods for detecting demographic bias in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Corpuses of transcriptions from different demographic groups are analyzed, where one of the groups is known to be susceptible to bias and another group is known not to be susceptible to bias. A difference between the transcription accuracy for the first group and a transcription accuracy for a second group is measured. ASR accuracy for each group is measured and compared to each other using both statistics-based and practicality-based methodologies to determine whether a given ASR system or model exhibits a meaningful level of bias. Based on the statistical significance and the practical significance, an alert including a recommendation to adjust the ASR model is generated.
US11817095B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring a plurality of conversations within a monitored space to generate a conversation data set; processing the conversation data set using machine learning to: define a system-directed command for an ACI system, and associate one or more conversational contexts with the system-directed command; detecting the occurrence of a specific conversational context within the monitored space, wherein the specific conversational context is included in the one or more conversational contexts associated with the system-directed command; and executing, in whole or in part, functionality associated with the system-directed command in response to detecting the occurrence of the specific conversational context without requiring the utterance of the system-directed command and/or a wake-up word/phrase.
US11817081B2
A learning device calculates an image feature using a model (image encoder) that receives an image and outputs the image feature obtained by mapping the image into a latent space. The learning device calculates an audio feature using a model (audio encoder) that receives a speech in a predetermined language and outputs the audio feature obtained by mapping the speech into the latent space, and that includes a neural network provided with a self-attention mechanism. The learning device updates parameters of the models used by an image feature calculation unit and an audio feature calculation unit such that the image feature of a first image is similar to the audio feature of a speech corresponding to the first image.
US11817080B2
Processor(s) of a client device can: receive audio data that captures a spoken utterance of a user of the client device; process, using an on-device speech recognition model, the audio data to generate a predicted textual segment that is a prediction of the spoken utterance; cause at least part of the predicted textual segment to be rendered (e.g., visually and/or audibly); receive further user interface input that is a correction of the predicted textual segment to an alternate textual segment; and generate a gradient based on comparing at least part of the predicted output to ground truth output that corresponds to the alternate textual segment. The gradient is used, by processor(s) of the client device, to update weights of the on-device speech recognition model and/or is transmitted to a remote system for use in remote updating of global weights of a global speech recognition model.
US11817077B2
A noise reduction system is provided. The noise reduction system may include a sub-band noise sensor, a plurality of sub-band noise reduction modules, and an output module. The sub-band noise sensor may be configured to detect a noise and generate a plurality of sub-band noise signals in response to the detected noise. Each of the plurality of sub-band noise signals may have a distinctive sub-band of the frequency band of the noise. Each of the sub-band noise reduction modules may be configured to receive one of the sub-band noise signals from the sub-band noise sensor and generate a sub-band noise correction signal for reducing the received sub-band noise signal. The output module may be configured to receive the sub-band noise correction signals and output a noise correction signal for reducing the noise based on the sub-band noise correction signals.
US11817072B2
Systems and methods for onboard, real-time pickup blending for electric guitars/basses may utilize every possible tonal combination that double coil pickups can offer. The industry standard pickup toggle switch may be removed from electric guitar/bass instruments. Instead of a user being limited to only using one pickup at a time to be selected, the user may mix in any combination of the pickups (top, bottom, or both) at any time. Accordingly, multiple pickups can be on at the same time and/or the user may blend in (or out) any percentage of any of the pickups that the user wishes to create a large combination of tones.
US11817071B2
Described herein are methods for coordinating movement of a group of people, comprising: receiving numerical coordinates for each count of a drill for each person in a group of people, wherein the numerical coordinates indicate a location on a field for each person; receiving a starting count for each of the one or more sets and a number of counts in each of the one or more sets for each person; combining the numerical coordinates with the start count and the number of counts for each of the one or more sets; deriving human readable coordinates for each count of the drill for each person, wherein the human readable coordinates indicate the location on the field for each person; and transmitting the human readable coordinates to one or more receiving devices each associated with one person in the group of people.
US11817068B1
Harmonicas with the blow reeds forming a repeating pentatonic scale and the draw reeds forming a repeating pentatonic scale to facilitate ease of playability and musicality when playing pentatonic scales.
US11817067B2
A display driving circuit for driving a display panel, including a first memory configured to store main image data received from outside of the display driving circuit; a second memory configured to store first additional image data in a normal mode, and to store second additional image data in an Always On Display (AOD) mode having lower power consumption than the normal mode; a normal mode controller configured to operate in the normal mode according to the first additional image data stored in the second memory; and an AOD mode controller configured to operate in the AOD mode according to the main image data stored in the first memory and the second additional image data stored in the second memory.
US11817060B2
The present application provides a display panel and a display method thereof. The display method includes following steps: obtaining a real-time display frequency of a liquid crystal panel in response to a display operation of the display panel; and regulating backlight brightness of a backlight module according to the real-time display frequency, such that display brightness of the display panel is maintained within a target brightness range.
US11817059B2
The present disclosure relates to an electroluminescent display device and a method for sensing electrical characteristics thereof, and the electroluminescent display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels including a sensing pixel and a non-sensing pixel connected to each data line, the plurality of pixels sharing one sensing line, a sensing circuit configured to sense an electrical characteristic value of the sensing pixel based on a sensing voltage applied to the shared sensing line, and a feedback unit configured to apply a feedback voltage according to the sensing voltage applied to the shared sensing line to the data line of the non-sensing pixel.
US11817052B2
Disclosed are an organic light-emitting display panel and a display method thereof. The temperature of the organic light-emitting display panel can be detected in a pre-set detection period by arranging a temperature detection and compensation module, when it is determined that the temperature of the organic light-emitting display panel is not within a pre-set temperature range, a temperature compensation voltage corresponding to the organic light-emitting display panel is determined according to the detected temperature of the organic light-emitting display panel; and when each light-emitting device emits light, the determined temperature compensation voltage is applied to an anode of the light-emitting device that emits light so as to carry out voltage compensation on an anode voltage of the light-emitting device.
US11817050B2
A display system including a host processor and a display driver integrated circuit may be provided. The host processor may generate a clock signal that swings swinging between a high level and a low level, generate and output a first synchronization signal based on the clock signal, generate a wakeup interrupt by measuring a frame update period of a display panel, generates frame data based on the first synchronization signal by enabling an image providing path based on the wakeup interrupt, and output the frame data for every frame update period. The display driver integrated circuit may receive the first synchronization signal and the frame data from the host processor, and control the display panel such that a frame image corresponding to the frame data is displayed on the display panel based on the first synchronization signal without storing the frame data.
US11817049B2
A display panel and a spliced display are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting elements, a driving circuit, and an optical sensor. The substrate includes a through hole, and the through hole includes a hole. The plurality of the light-emitting elements are disposed on the substrate. The through hole is located in a region between two of the plurality of the light-emitting elements. The driving circuit is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of the light-emitting elements. The optical sensor is disposed corresponding to the through hole and receives sensing light through the hole. The width W of the hole meets the equation of H≤W
US11817046B2
A display device includes a light-emitting diode including a first conductivity-type semiconductor, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor; a first voltage line to which a first voltage is applied; a second voltage line to which a second voltage is applied; a first transistor including a source electrode electrically connected to the first voltage line and a drain electrode electrically connected to a first electrode of the light-emitting diode and to the first conductivity-type semiconductor; a second transistor including a drain electrode electrically connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor and a source electrode electrically connected to a data line to apply a data signal; a capacitor electrically connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor and the first electrode; and a third transistor including a source electrode electrically connected to the second voltage line and a drain electrode electrically connected to the first electrode.
US11817040B2
A flat-panel display comprises a display substrate, an array of pixels distributed in rows and columns over the display substrate, the array having a column-control side, and column controller disposed on the column-control side of the array providing column data to the array of pixels through column-data lines. In some embodiments, rows of pixels in the array of pixels form row groups and each column of pixels in a row group receives column data through a separate column-data line. In some embodiments, each pixel in each column of pixels in the array of pixels is serially connected and each pixel in the array of pixels comprises a token-passing circuit for passing a token through the serially connected column of pixels.
US11817039B2
A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels provided to the substrate, a plurality of first light emitting elements provided to each of the pixels and configured to output visible light, a pixel circuit provided to the substrate and configured to supply a drive signal to each of the first light emitting elements, and a second light emitting element provided to the pixel circuit and configured to output infrared light.
US11817038B2
To make a display device inconspicuous. A display system includes a base and a display device attached to the base. The display device includes a plurality of inorganic light emitters arrayed in a matrix with a row-column configuration and a surface layer. The surface layer is provided in a traveling direction of light emitted from the inorganic light emitters with respect to the inorganic light emitters and includes a plurality of transmission parts and a blocking part. The transmission parts are provided in a matrix with a row-column configuration so as to overlap the inorganic light emitters when viewed from the traveling direction of the light and allow the light from the inorganic light emitters to pass therethrough. The blocking part blocks the light from the inorganic light emitters. The inorganic light emitters are provided overlapping the transmission parts provided to the surface layer.
US11817034B2
A display substrate includes: a base substrate; a first conductive pattern arranged on the base substrate; a first insulation layer arranged at a side of the first conductive pattern away from the base substrate; a second conductive pattern arranged at a side of the first insulation layer away from the base substrate; a second insulation layer arranged at a side of the second conductive pattern away from the base substrate; and a third conductive pattern arranged at a side of the second insulation layer away from the base substrate. The third conductive pattern and the first conductive pattern together serve as a first electrode plate of the capacitor, and the second conductive pattern serves as a second electrode plate of the capacitor.
US11817033B2
A display method includes using the processor to adjust an image signal according to a user distance between a user and the display device detected by the distance detector; and sending the adjusted image signal to the display panel, thereby causing the display panel to display an image, wherein if the user distance is in a first distance range, the image is displayed by a first proportion of the pixels of each of the blocks; and if the user distance is in a second distance range, the image is displayed by a second proportion of the pixels of each of the blocks, wherein the second distance range is less than the first distance range, and the second proportion is greater than the first proportion.
US11817029B2
Screen saver controller, display device including the same, and method of driving the display device
A screen saver controller including a load calculator configured to generate load data of an image represented by input image data, a maximum gray level calculator configured to generate maximum gray level data of the image represented by the input image data, and a screen saver data generator configured to determine a gain of a screen saver mode based on the load data and the maximum gray level data when the screen saver mode is operated and to generate screen saver data based on the input image data and the gain.
US11817028B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and in particular, to a gate driving structure, an array substrate and a display device. The gate driving structure may include: a base substrate; a shift register, formed on the base substrate, and including a plurality of thin film transistors and at least one capacitor, the capacitor being coupled to the thin film transistor; and a signal wiring group, formed on the base substrate, and including a plurality of signal wirings spaced apart from each other, the signal wiring being coupled to the thin film transistor. An orthographic projection of the capacitor on the base substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the signal wiring group on the base substrate.
US11817027B2
The present disclosure relates to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for driving a display device, and more particularly, to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for speeding up data communication in a display device.
US11817023B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate including a display region and a peripheral region located on at least one side of the display region. The display region is provided with a plurality of sub-pixels, and at least one of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a light-emitting element and a pixel circuit for driving the light-emitting element. The peripheral region includes a detection region, and the detection region is provided with at least one detection electrode which is electrically connected with a first electrode of the light-emitting element and the pixel circuit through a detection lead wire, to detect electrical performance of the light-emitting element through the detection electrode in a detection stage.
US11817014B2
Systems and methods for automated custom training of a scoring model are disclosed herein. The method include: receiving a plurality of responses received from a plurality of students in response to providing of a prompt; identifying an evaluation model relevant to the provided prompt, which evaluation model can be a machine learning model trained to output a score relevant to at least portions of a response; generating a training indicator that provides a graphical depiction of the degree to which the identified evaluation model is trained; determining a training status of the model; receiving at least one evaluation input when the model is identified as insufficiently trained; updating training of the evaluation model based on the at least one received evaluation input; and controlling the training indicator to reflect the degree to which the evaluation model is trained subsequent to the updating of the training of the evaluation model.
US11817011B2
Digital teaching content ordering includes receiving, by a data processing system, digital teaching content and any corresponding annotations and content heuristic(s) from a teacher or other presenter, the digital teaching content including text and/or image(s). The data processing system monitors student gaze of the digital teaching content during a class and can cognitively skip some of the digital teaching content during the class based on the monitored student gaze and content heuristic(s). The system can also cognitively modify the digital teaching content outside of class based, in part, on the monitoring and the content heuristic(s). A hypergraph of the digital teaching content may also be received, the cognitively skipping being further based on the hypergraph, and the cognitively modifying being further based on a heat map built using the hypergraph and the student gaze.
US11816999B2
Detection means of an unmanned aerial vehicle control system is configured to detect an object existing at a location at which at least one of landing or takeoff of an unmanned aerial vehicle is to be performed. Type identification means is configured to identify a type of the object based on a result of detection by the detection means. Restriction means is configured to restrict at least one of landing or takeoff of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the type identified by the type identification means.
US11816990B2
A moving-object detection apparatus for a vehicle includes first and second detectors and a moving-object detector. The first and the second detectors are configured to scan rear-side and front-side regions of the vehicle to detect first and second targets as reference targets, respectively. The moving-object detector is configured to detect a movement of a moving object on the basis of the detected first and second targets. The moving object is determined with the first and the second targets. The moving-object detector includes an interpolation-region setting unit, an estimation-trajectory setting unit, and a target checking unit. The interpolation-region setting unit is configured to set a first interpolation region and set a second interpolation region. The estimation-trajectory setting unit is configured to set an estimation trajectory on a time axis. The target checking unit is configured to check a matching degree between the estimation trajectory and the second target.
US11816986B2
A method for increasing the traffic flow density at a traffic light intersection is disclosed in which vehicles driving straight ahead and vehicles turning left may pass the traffic light intersection simultaneously, wherein the vehicles driving straight ahead are partly equipped vehicles having a Car2X communication, an automatic longitudinal control and a control unit. To increase the traffic flow density, the number of waiting vehicles turning left is transmitted to the equipped vehicles driving straight ahead. Time gaps between the vehicles driving straight ahead is set in dependence upon the number of vehicles turning left by the control unit and the automatic longitudinal control, such that a first share of the time gaps are safety time gaps, which respectively correspond to the required safety distance, and the second share of the time gaps are critical time gaps, which permit at least one vehicle turning left to turn collision-free.
US11816976B2
A hand held personal care device 1 has a main housing 2 arranged to be held by hand, and an operative unit 3 connected to the main FIG. 1 housing 2 and adapted for carrying out a personal care operation to a body part of a user. The main housing 2 has a main axis of extension 36 and accommodates a light indicator 4 for indicating an operational condition of the personal care device 1. The light indicator 4 has a light emitting surface 6, that extends circumferentially around the main housing 2 as a closed-loop surface about the main axis of extension 36, and a light guiding wall 31 of which at least a portion, including the closed-loop surface, extends as a closed-loop wall portion 40 about the main axis of extension.
US11816975B2
A system includes a processing device and memory device storing instructions that result in accessing a first dataset including aerial imagery data and infrared data, accessing a second dataset including property boundary data, and identifying property boundaries associated with a geographic area. A plurality of models is applied to the datasets to identify and compute information of interest. Based on the first dataset and constrained by the property boundaries, a building detection model can be applied to identify a building, and a vegetation detection model can be applied to identify one or more areas of vegetation. An estimated distance can be determined between each of the areas of vegetation and the building as separation data, which can be compared to a defensible space guideline to determine a defensible space adherence score. A wildfire risk map can be generated, including the defensible space adherence score associated with the geographic area.
US11816954B2
In one embodiment, a gaming system, method, and device may have a memory having a plurality of power management rules and a processor configured to receive a power status information from another device, retrieve at least one power management rule from the memory, and configure a power state of the gaming device or its peripheral device based on the power status information and the at least one power management rule.
US11816952B2
The management and control device uses the information acquired from the measurement device to detect a total bet amount of the chips placed on the bet area of the game table by the game participants, and uses the information acquired from the card shoe and the measurement device to detect a winning or losing amount for the game organizer. A sales balance management part compares a sales profit ratio that is a ratio of the winning or losing amount for the game organizer to the total bet amount with a theoretical profit ratio or a previous average profit ratio, and outputs a comparison result.
US11816950B2
Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines for a gaming cabinet configuration. In particular, the gaming systems, methods and machines may incorporate gaming cabinets that include one or more curved or arcuate screens, one or more candles integrated into the gaming cabinet, and/or one or more diffuse lighting elements to provide lighting features or effects.
US11816948B2
Methods and systems for transferring restricted distribution medical products to an over-the-counter general sales environment are provided. Methods and systems of dispensing non-prescription, behind-the-counter medical products from a vending machine in a general sales location are also provided. In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for dispensing a medical product from a vending machine in a general sales location based, at least in part, on biometric data collected from the purchaser and, in some instances, based on self-selection and/or de-selection criteria, is provided. Further, methods and systems of switching prescription medical products to non-prescription, over-the-counter medical products are provided.
US11816938B2
An information presentation system includes an electric vehicle, the electric vehicle including an electrical storage device and being configured to perform either or both of external charging in which the electrical storage device is charged with electric power supplied from an outside of the electric vehicle and external power feeding in which electric power is supplied from the electrical storage device to the outside, wherein: a user of the electric vehicle is evaluated using information acquired from the electric vehicle; an evaluation result is sent to the user that has been evaluated; and the evaluation result includes either or both of first evaluation information indicating how high a score of the user for the external charging is and second evaluation information indicating how high a score of the user for the external power feeding is.
US11816935B2
Predicting a future needed repair and/or maintenance activity for an aircraft system such as a cabin air compressor detects a fault signal from the aircraft system, the fault signal being indicative of a fault in the aircraft system. The fault signal is logged into a machine learning computer system. A root cause of a fault signal is determined and the root cause of the fault signal is logged into the computer system. A repair of the root cause of the fault signal is determined and the repair of the root cause of the fault signal is logged into the computer system. The root cause of the fault signal and the repair of the root cause of the fault signal are merged, creating a classification of a future fault signal, a future root cause of the future fault signal and future repair of the future root cause.
US11816923B2
An apparatus for face image candidate determination for authentication, including a storage and at least one processor wherein the storage stores a reference face image in association with an attribute of the image for each registered person and a score threshold value for each combination of attributes of face images to be collated. The processor configured to: acquire a face image of a person to be determined as a face image for determination, determine an attribute of the face image, collate the reference face image with the face image and calculates a score indicating a degree of matching, and select a reference face image satisfying the score threshold value as a face image candidate for authentication and selects the face image candidate and the score thereof as authentication information of the face image for determination.
US11816920B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a fingerprint identification apparatus and an electronic device, which can simplify an optical path laminated structure and processing process, thereby improving efficiency of mass production. The fingerprint identification apparatus includes: a fingerprint sensor chip; an infrared radiation cut filter layer provided above the fingerprint sensor chip; a light blocking layer provided on an upper surface of the infrared radiation cut filter layer by means of coating film, the light blocking layer being provided with a first hole array, and cross sections of holes in the first hole array being inverse trapezoid; a light transmitting dielectric layer including first color filter units, the first color filter units being formed in part of the holes in the first hole array to cover the part of the holes; and a microlens array provided above the light transmitting dielectric layer.
US11816915B2
The human body 3D key point detection method includes: acquiring a to-be-detected image, the to-be-detected image including first human body image data; inputting the to-be-detected image into a key point extraction model to acquire N first 3D heatmaps of N human body 3D key points in the first human body image data, each first 3D heatmap representing a Gaussian distribution of one human body 3D key point in first human body image data in a predetermined space, where N is a positive integer; and determining coordinate information about the N human body 3D key points in the first human body image data based on the N first 3D heatmaps.
US11816913B2
This disclosure relates to a method and system for extracting information from images of one or more templatized documents. A knowledge graph with a fixed schema based on background knowledge is used to capture spatial and semantic relationships of entities present in scanned document and an adaptive lattice-based approach based on formal concepts analysis (FCA) is used to determine a similarity metric that utilizes both spatial and semantic information to determine if the structure of the scanned document image adheres to any of the known document templates. If a known document template whose structure is closely matching the structure of the scanned document is detected, then an inductive rule learning based approach is used to learn symbolic rules to extract information present in scanned document image and if a new document template is detected, then future scanned document images belonging to new document template are automatically processed using the learnt rules.
US11816911B2
An automated communication design analysis and construction system that includes one or more intelligent communication design servers, comprising: a normalization module that converts communication content files for different recipients to normalized intermediate format files; an objects identification and quantification module that identifies text objects and image objects in the normalized intermediate format files; a cross-recipient group analysis module configured to identify static global objects that are invariant between recipients, data variables, and variable global objects that vary between recipients in the normalized intermediate format files; and an intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine that can construct standard communication design files based on the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects. A data storage stores the communication content files and the standard communication design files. A communication resource allocation server sends the standard communication design files to one or more product fulfillment centers.
US11816895B2
A target detection method is provided for a computing device. The method includes obtaining a current frame and a previous key frame corresponding to the current frame in a video frame sequence, determining a flow feature map and a flow field between the previous key frame and the current frame, obtaining, in response to determining the current frame is a non-key frame according to the flow feature map, a key frame feature corresponding to the previous key frame, and performing affine transformation on the key frame feature according to the flow field to obtain an image feature corresponding to the current frame, and performing target detection on the current frame according to the image feature to obtain a target detection result of the current frame.
US11816893B1
Various embodiments include methods, apparatuses, systems, and computing devices that are configured to: (1) receive media of a processing region of an industrial process, where the processing region comprises at least one object, the media comprises a plurality of media elements, and each of the media elements comprises a field of view of the at least one object; (2) identify based on an area of interest, a set of pixels, wherein the field of view comprises the area of interest; (3) for each media element of the plurality of media elements: (a) extract an attribute value from each pixel of the set of pixels found in the media element, and (b) construct a respective array comprising each attribute value; (4) combine each of the respective arrays in a data structure; and (5) analyze the data structure to provide data on a processing parameter associated with the industrial process.
US11816892B2
Embodiments are directed to a smart camera device that analyzes independent video streams.
US11816885B1
A technique for assessing development condition of a property is provided that determines development condition for an individual property or properties of interest using image or other sensor data from one or more unmanned aerial vehicles taken over the development process. A property condition output may be generated to indicate a condition of the property or properties.
US11816882B2
An image identification device can be trained to identify classes with high accuracy even in cases with a small number of learning images. Using a first loss function for outputting a value that is smaller the greater a similarity is between the belongingness probability of each class for the image output by the image identification device and a given teacher belongingness probability of the image, and a second loss function for, in a case in which the image input into the image identification device is an actual image, outputting a value that is smaller the smaller the estimated authenticity probability, which expresses how artificial the input image is, output by the image identification device is and for, in a case in which the image input into the image identification device is an artificial image, outputting a value that is smaller the greater the estimated authenticity probability output by the image identification device is, iterative learning of a parameter of the image identification device is executed to reduce the value of the first loss function and the value of the second loss function.
US11816880B2
A face recognition method includes: obtaining a first feature image that describes a face feature of a target face image and a first feature vector corresponding to the first feature image; obtaining a first feature value that represents a degree of difference between a face feature in the first feature image and that in the target face image; obtaining a similarity between the target face image and a template face image according to the first feature vector, the first feature value, and a second feature vector and a second feature value corresponding to a second feature image of the template face image, the second feature value describing a degree of difference between a face feature in the second feature image and that in the template face image; and determining, when the similarity is greater than a preset threshold, that the target face image matches the template face image.
US11816878B1
A method and an image processing system for detecting an object in an image are described. A set of line segments are detected in the image. A subset of the line segments is identified based on a projection space orientation that defines a projection space. Each one of the line segments of the subset of line segments is projected into the projection space to obtain a set of projected line segments, where each projected line segment of the set of projected line segments is represented by a respective set of projection parameters. A determination is performed, in the projection space, based on the sets of projection parameters and a shape criterion that characterizes the object, of whether the image includes an instance of the object. In response to determining that the image includes the instance of the object, the instance of the object is output.
US11816877B2
This application discloses a method and apparatus for object detection in an image, a vehicle, and a robot. The method for object detection in an image is performed by a computing device. The method includes determining an image feature of an image; determining a correlation of pixels in the image based on the image feature; updating the image feature of the image based on the correlation to obtain an updated image feature; and determining an object detection result in the image according to the updated image feature.
US11816875B2
A method for estimating and presenting a passenger flow, a system, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: performing two-level scene classification on received on-site video data transmitted by a camera; configuring a passenger flow analysis algorithm corresponding to a scene according to a scene classification result; and analyzing a video frame according to the passenger flow analysis algorithm, outputting a passenger flow calculation result, determining, according to the passenger flow calculation result, a crowdedness level of a passenger flow at a location corresponding to the camera, and respectively transmitting the crowdedness level of the passenger flow to a first terminal and a second terminal for display of the crowdedness level of the passenger flow.
US11816868B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for point cloud coding. The method includes receiving, from a bitstream, data corresponding to a point cloud; obtaining from the data a first prediction residual of a first component from among a plurality of components of an attribute associated with the point cloud; reconstructing the first prediction residual; determining a predicted second prediction residual based on the reconstructed first prediction residual and at least one model parameter; obtaining a second prediction residual of a second component from among the plurality of components based on the predicted second prediction residual; reconstructing the second prediction residual; and decoding the data corresponding to the point cloud based on the reconstructed first prediction residual and the reconstructed second prediction residual.
US11816862B2
A head-up display device as a vehicle display device projects display light onto a front windshield of a vehicle, displays a virtual image by reflected display light, on the front windshield, so as to be superimposed on a real scene transparent through the front windshield, captures an image of a driver of the vehicle by projecting infrared light onto the driver, and detects the positions of the eyes of the driver based on the captured image. A control unit detects the position of a feature point of the face of the driver in the captured image and stores a positional relationship with the detected positions of the eyes, and, when it is difficult to detect the positions of the eyes in die captured image, estimates a viewpoint position of the driver based on the position of the feature point detected at this time and the positional relationship stored beforehand.
US11816860B2
A detection device for detecting human-body orientation includes a camera and a processing device. The camera is configured to capture a human-body image. The processing device is configured to cut a human head contour image in the human-body image to obtain an input image, and input the input image to a classifier. The classifier outputs a plurality of human-body orientation probabilities for the input image. The processing device finds the highest human-body orientation probability, and determines whether the highest human-body orientation probability is above the accuracy threshold. In response to the highest human-body orientation probability being above the accuracy threshold, the processing device regards the human-body orientation corresponding to the highest human-body orientation probability as the determined human-body orientation.
US11816856B2
A system for determining the absolute position of a first object with respect to a second object includes a scalar element attached to the first object and a measuring device attached to the second object. The scalar element comprises a series of coded regions. The coded region represents a number designating a position along an axis of the scalar element. The measuring device includes a two-dimensional optical sensor array configured to capture an image of a portion of the scalar element. The system also includes a processor configured to receive the image and determine an absolute position of the first object with respect to the second object based on at least one coded region of the series of coded regions.
US11816853B2
Various embodiments provide systems, methods, devices, and instructions for performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) that involve initializing a SLAM process using images from as few as two different poses of a camera within a physical environment. Some embodiments may achieve this by disregarding errors in matching corresponding features depicted in image frames captured by an image sensor of a mobile computing device, and by updating the SLAM process in a way that causes the minimization process to converge to global minima rather than fall into a local minimum.
US11816845B1
Measuring the speed of rotation or reciprocation of a mechanical component using one or more cameras
Present embodiments pertain to systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing and reporting rotational or reciprocating movements and speed of rotation or reciprocation in mechanical structures, machines, and machine components, through the use of an acquired video recording representing a plurality of cycles of motion, by measuring intensity values of a subset of pixels contained in a region of interest within the video recording in a plurality of frames of the video recording, thereby calculating a speed of rotation or reciprocation of the structure, machine or machine component.
US11816843B2
A method for segmenting a camouflaged object image based on distraction mining is disclosed. PFNet successively includes a multi-layer feature extractor, a positioning module, and a focusing module. The multi-layer feature extractor uses a traditional feature extraction network to obtain different levels of contextual features; the positioning module first uses RGB feature information to initially determine the position of the camouflaged object in the image; the focusing module mines the information and removes the distraction information based on the image RGB feature information and preliminary position information, and finally determines the boundary of the camouflaged object step by step. The method of the present invention introduces the concept of distraction information into the problem of segmentation of the camouflaged object and develops a new information exploration and distraction information removal strategy to help the segmentation of the camouflaged object image.
US11816842B2
Image processing methods, devices, and storage media are provided. One of the image processing methods includes: obtaining an image comprising a target object; inputting the image into a mask prediction model to obtain a first mask image corresponding to the target object in the image; inputting the first mask image and the image comprising the target object into a mask quality unification model to obtain a second mask image, wherein the mask quality unification model is configured to adjust a fineness associated with the first mask image to a target fineness to obtain the second mask image, and wherein the second mask image has image semantic information consistent with image semantic information of the image comprising the target object; and inputting the image comprising the target object and the second mask image into a target image obtaining model to obtain a target image corresponding to the target object.
US11816833B2
The present invention relates to a method for reconstructing an image and an apparatus using the same Particularly, according to the method of the present invention, when a series of first slice images of a subject are inputted in a computing device, the computing device generates, from the first slice images, second slice images having a second slice thickness different from a first thickness, which is the slice thickness of the first slice image, and provides the generated second slice images.
US11816832B2
Devices, systems, and methods obtain scan data that were generated by scanning a scanned region, wherein the scan data include groups of scan data that were captured at respective angles; generate partial reconstructions of at least a part of the scanned region, wherein each partial reconstruction of the partial reconstructions is generated based on a respective one or more groups of the groups of scan data, and wherein a collective scanning range of the respective one or more groups is less than the angular scanning range; input the partial reconstructions into a machine-learning model, which generates one or more motion-compensated reconstructions of the at least part of the scanned region based on the partial reconstructions; calculate a respective edge entropy of each of the one or more motion-compensated reconstructions of the at least part of the scanned region; and adjust the machine-learning model based on the respective edge entropies.
US11816815B2
A computer-implemented method for provision of a correction algorithm for an x-ray image that was recorded with an x-ray source emitting an x-ray radiation field, a filter facility spatially modulating an x-ray radiation dose, and an x-ray detector is provided. The correction algorithm includes a trained first processing function that, from first input data that includes at least one first physical parameter describing the x-ray radiation field and/or the measurement and at least one second physical parameter describing the spatial modulation of the filter facility, determines first output data. The first output data includes a mask for brightness compensation with regard to the spatial modulation of the filter facility in the x-ray image. The method includes providing first training data, providing an autoencoder for masks, and training of the autoencoder using the first training data. The method also includes determining an assignment rule, and providing the trained first processing function.
US11816809B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating dynamic assistance to a user in an augmented reality (AR) environment of an AR device. During operation, the system detects a first element of an object using an object detector, wherein the object is associated with a task and the first element is associated with a step of the task. The system then determines an orientation and an alignment of the first element in the physical world of the user, and an overlay for the first element. The overlay can distinctly highlight one or more regions of the first element and indicate how the first element fits in the object. The system then applies the overlay to the one or more regions of the first element at the determined orientation in the AR environment.
US11816806B2
The proposed approach is a system and method that allows a user to calculate a 3D model for each of his or her feet using a simple reference object and a mobile computing device with one or more cameras and/or one or more sensors. The mobile computing device moves around the user's feet to scan and/or capture data of his or her feet via the camera and/or the sensors. The captured sensor data is then processed by the mobile computing device to create two sets of 3D (data) point sets (also referred to as “point clouds”). These point clouds are then matched to a 3D model of an average foot to establish a correspondence between the point clouds and the 3D model. Once the correspondence is established, the mobile computing device is configured to fit one or more morphable models to the user's feet.
US11816804B2
Disclosed are a method and a system of recommending an accommodation for tourists using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and augmented reality. A method of recommending an accommodation for tourists using multi-criteria decision making and augmented reality, which is performed by a server device includes: selecting a recommendation target accommodation based on a current location of a user; selecting a plurality of recommended accommodations by MCDM based on user information including pre-registered preference information among the recommendation target accommodations; and providing an augmented reality interface displaying information on a recommended accommodation to a user terminal.
US11816798B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that refine a first 3D surface representation (e.g., a 3D point cloud or a 3D mesh) using a second 3D surface representation that includes a 3D geometric primitive. In some implementations, a first 3D surface representation of a physical environment is obtained including points at 3D locations determined based on data generated by a first sensor. In some implementations, a second 3D surface representation corresponding to at least a portion of the physical environment is obtained that includes at least one 3D geometric primitive. In some implementations, a determination whether to adjust the 3D locations of at least one point of the points of the first 3D surface representation is made based on the 3D geometric primitive, and the 3D locations of the at least one point is adjusted to align with the geometric primitive based on the determination.
US11816796B2
Stimulation simulation method, server and computer program using brain model of brain lesion patient
Provided is a stimulation simulation method, server and, computer program using a brain model of a brain lesion patient. The stimulation simulation method using a brain model of a brain lesion patient according to various embodiments of the present invention is a stimulation simulation method using a brain model of a brain lesion patient performed by a computing device, the method includes: collecting brain images of the brain lesion patient; generating the brain model for the brain lesion patient by using the collected brain images; and simulating stimulation to the brain of the brain lesion patient by using the generated brain model.
US11816793B2
A geospatial modeling system may include a memory and a processor cooperating therewith to: (a) generate a three-dimensional (3D) geospatial model including geospatial voxels based upon a plurality of geospatial images; (b) select an isolated geospatial image from among the plurality of geospatial images; (c) determine a reference geospatial image from the 3D geospatial model using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and based upon the isolated geospatial image; (d) align the isolated geospatial image and the reference geospatial image to generate a predictively registered image; (e) update the 3D geospatial model based upon the predictively registered image; and (f) iteratively repeat (b)-(e) for successive isolated geospatial images.
US11816782B2
Systems can identify visible surfaces for pixels in an image (portion) to be rendered. A sampling pattern of ray directions is applied to the pixels, so that the sampling pattern of ray directions repeats, and with respect to any pixel, the same ray direction can be found in the same relative position, with respect to that pixel, as for other pixels. Rays are emitted from visible surfaces in the respective ray direction supplied from the sampling pattern. Ray intersections can cause shaders to execute and contribute results to a sample buffer. With respect to shading of a given pixel, ray results from a selected subset of the pixels are used; the subset is selected by identifying a set of pixels, collectively from which rays were traced for the ray directions in the pattern, and requiring that surfaces from which rays were traced for those pixels satisfy a similarity criteria.
US11816781B2
A processor shares path tracing data across sampling locations to amortize computations across space and time. The processor maps a group of sampling locations of a frame that are adjacent to each other in world-space to a cell of a hash table. Each cell of the hash table stores a list of reservoirs that are each associated with a ray that intersects the group of sampling locations from world-space. The processor resamples the reservoirs at the hash table by combining and re-using reservoirs across neighboring sampling locations and corresponding sampling locations of the previous frame to select a set of samples mapped to the cell. The processor then performs resampling of the selected set of samples to obtain a representative light sample to determine a value for the cell and renders the frame based on the value of the cell.
US11816774B2
A system and method for monitoring performance of an industrial process includes an input port for receiving signals representative of one or more performance parameters generated by the industrial process, a user interface including a display and a controller that is operably coupled with the input port and the user interface. The controller is configured to repeatedly receive signals over time via the input port representative of the one or more performance parameters of the industrial process and to generate a plurality of snapshots, wherein each snapshot includes a graphical representation of the one or more performance parameters of the industrial process at a corresponding time. The controller is configured to generate an animatable heat map including two or more of the plurality of snapshots arranged temporally and to display the animatable heat map on the display.
US11816773B2
Example methods for generating an animated character in dance poses to music may include generating, by at least one processor, a music input signal based on an acoustic signal associated with the music, and receiving, by the at least one processor, a model output signal from an encoding neural network. A current generated pose data is generated using a decoding neural network, the current generated pose data being based on previous generated pose data of a previous generated pose, the music input signal, and the model output signal. An animated character is generated based on a current generated pose data; and the animated character caused to be displayed by a display device.
US11816771B2
System and methods are provided for augmented reality displays for medical and physiological monitoring. Augmented reality user interfaces are virtually pinned to a physical device, a location, or to a patient. An augmented reality position determination process determines the presentation of user interfaces relative to reference positions and reference objects. Detection of gestures causes the augmented reality users interfaces to be updated, such as pinning a user interface to a device, location, or patient. Looking away from an augmented reality user interface causes the user interface to minimize or disappear in an augmented reality display. An augmented reality gesture detection process determines gestures based on captured image data and computer vision techniques performed on the image data.
US11816769B2
A computing apparatus of an insight interfacing system receives from a user a request for a dataset comprising a plurality of subspaces of a multi-dimensional data structure. Insights are received based on the received request then presented on a display device. Also, a chart may be presented based on the received request. The computing apparatus receives a selection of at least a portion of the presented one or more insights or a portion of the chart, then receives contextual insights based on the selected portion and presents the contextual insights on the display device.
US11816766B2
A super-resolution X-ray shadowgraph system includes an X-ray source, a sample stage, an X-ray detector and an image reconstruction device, which are arranged in sequence. Geometric centers of the X-ray source, the sample stage and the X-ray detector are collinear. The geometric center of the sample stage is provided with a through hole for placing a testing sample, the X-ray source is used for providing X-rays, and the X-rays penetrate the sample stage to form an image on the X-ray detector. The image reconstruction device is used for acquiring the image and performing an image reconstruction on the image to obtain a new image. The shadowgraph system and the imaging method therefor can overcome a deficiency of a lower resolution of the image limited by a size of the source, thereafter obtaining a clear shadowgraph with a high resolution.
US11816748B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate contextual comparison of semantics in conditions of different policies are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a comparison component that contextually compares semantics of conditions in policy data of different policies based on a feature of at least one entity. The computer executable components further comprise a contextualization component that employs a model to provide a contextual explanation of how a first condition in first policy data of a first policy is semantically different from a second condition in second policy data of a second policy based on the feature of the at least one entity.
US11816745B2
An interactive system and method allows customers to electronically place and pay for menu orders without wait staff intervention at food service establishments and which processes orders. The invention has at least one ordering device with data input, a display, and wireless communications, and one or more computer servers for processing menu orders and payments. The ordering devices and computer servers cooperatively utilize means for adding a menu item to an order from a list or entering a code; means for wirelessly transmitting orders to food preparation areas; means on a terminal and a mobile device to use cashless payment mediums; means for identifying the dining party leader; means for consolidating a customer's reward points; means for offering discounts and accepting coupons; means for pre-ordering menu items; means for reserving seating; means for accessing the internet from a terminal; and means for splitting orders for batch processing.
US11816740B2
Systems and methods for intellectual property (IP) asset protection are disclosed. For example, by analyzing characteristic information associated with a user, along with feedback from one or more potential insurers, the system may determine various terms of an insurance policy for protecting the user against claims of IP infringement. The policy may provide for financial reimbursement for costs incurred while taking active measures to mitigate losses and/or defend against such claims. In addition, the system may analyze the characteristic information to identify various users having a low exposure of an infringement claim being asserted. The identified users may be actively targeted to acquire an IP protection policy.
US11816725B2
The method for managing the rental of vehicles (1), comprising at least one step of collecting at least one point of data relating to the vehicle (1), one step of transferring said data to a rental vehicle management center (4), and one step of sending at least one instruction from the management center (4) to the vehicle, characterized in that it also comprises at least one step of collecting and sending at least one point of data relating to the user of the vehicle (1) to the management center (4) and one step of sending the user a final updated rate according to the data received by the management center (4). The invention also relates to a device for implementing the invention.
US11816720B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for ranking of search results. In some examples, a query may be received. A first ranked list of content items may be determined for the query ranked based on a first optimization objective. A second ranked list of the content items may be determined for the query ranked based on a second optimization objective. A first rank product may be determined for a first content item based at least in part on multiplication of a rank of the first content item in the first ranked list with a rank of the first content item in the second ranked list. A third ranked list of the content items may be determined based at least in part on the first rank product. At least a portion of the third ranked list of the content items may be displayed on a display.
US11816715B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for cloud computing engineering, solar PV (SPV) or solar PV with storage (SPV/S) system configuration, pricing, quoting, advertising messaging, sales lead generation, and content marketing.
US11816708B2
An electronic data review session is conducted between a host and a user needing to review specific accurate performance data that assists in mitigating the risks in hiring a musical act or artist for a performance in their venue. An established agreement between the host and client that supports the sharing the artist's performance data, bi-directionally, through an electronic communication interface using protocols of the World Wide Web is established between the host and the client and provides the client with access to web pages which are displayed on the client's computer using a standard web browser. In response to client applied filters, a subset of relevant, accurate performance data is displayed on web pages and served by the host to the client that may include data that was provided by the client or other clients.
US11816707B2
Disclosed systems and methods provide an augmented environment that facilitates a donation to a charity. A system may receive organization data including data associated with a plurality of charitable organizations. The system may also receive (i) environmental data including an image of an object, and (ii) location data indicating the image location. Further, the system may identify the object and determine one or more qualifying charities associated with the object. The system may augment the environmental data by adding enhanced content such as an identification of the qualifying charity, transmit the enhanced content to a mobile device for display, and initiate a transfer of funds from a user account to a charity financial account associated with the qualifying charity.
US11816702B2
Integrated systems and method for integrated management of advertising campaigns are provided. The system provides a user device with access to a centralized transaction platform server based on authentication information provided by the user device, which is verified by one or more integrated third party systems utilized by the one or more users. The system receives data regarding inventory from the one or more integrated third party systems, wherein the data is received via an application programming interface (API). The system aggregates a collection of available inventory based on the data regarding the inventory from the one or more integrated third party system. The system filters the aggregated collection of available inventory based on one or more categories of the inventory. The system generates, on a graphical user interface, a custom display based on a received criteria that matches the one or more categories of the inventory.
US11816700B2
A mobile media projector system is provided with a chassis, configured for attachment to a mobile platform, having a screen deployment mechanism. A viewing screen is selectively deployable when the mobile platform is parked in a stationary geographic location. An imaging projector subsystem projects an image onto the deployed viewing screen. Typically, the chassis is configured for attachment to an automotive vehicle with a roof, and the viewing screen is deployed over an exterior surface of the automotive vehicle. The system may include a WLAN and/or WPAN access point. A targeting application may select the geographic location from a group of stationary geographic locations, each having a weighted value. A second mobile media projector system includes a chassis configured for attachment to a roof of an automobile having a side mirror. An image projected onto the side mirror is reflected onto a surface such as the automobile door.
US11816699B1
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products are described for providing temporally relevant targeted content items. A set of user data is used to determine current user interests as indicated by one or more recent events. Content items relevant to those events are identified and ranked based on a time that the corresponding event occurred. One or more of the top ranked content items can be delivered to a user.
US11816696B2
Machine-learning based multi-step engagement strategy modification is described. Rather than rely heavily on human involvement to manage content delivery over the course of a campaign, the described learning-based engagement system modifies a multi-step engagement strategy, originally created by an engagement-system user, by leveraging machine-learning models. In particular, these leveraged machine-learning models are trained using data describing user interactions with delivered content as those interactions occur over the course of the campaign. Initially, the learning-based engagement system obtains a multi-step engagement strategy created by an engagement-system user. As the multi-step engagement strategy is deployed, the learning-based engagement system randomly adjusts aspects of the sequence of deliveries for some users. Based on data describing the interactions of recipients with deliveries served according to both the user-created and random multi-step engagement strategies, the machine-learning models generate a modified multi-step engagement strategy.
US11816694B2
The embodiments set forth techniques for managing advertisement attributions. A first technique can be implemented by an “app store” application, and include the steps of (1) receiving, from a first user application, a request to view a second user application, where the request includes a set of digitally-signed parameters that are specific to an advertising campaign (provided by an advertisement network) for the second user application that is presented by the first user application. In turn, and in response to identifying that the second user application satisfies at least one criterion, the app store application provides the set of digitally-signed parameters to an advertisement metrics manager that: (i) verifies the set of digitally-signed parameters, and (ii) indicates, to the advertisement network, that business logic should be carried out in association with the first user application and the second user application. A second technique for managing advertisement attributions is also disclosed.
US11816689B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an economic development system, which enables individuals within a community to efficiently identify and express their interests in one or more economic propositions. The economic development system comprises an application which allows users to uniquely interface with the one or more economic propositions. Users of the economic development system are able to efficiently identify and express support or disapprove for one or more economic propositions. A plurality of engagement mechanisms is provided by the economic development system to assist users in democratizing their interests. The economic development system also allows for crowdfunding of economic propositions and further provides valuable statistical data which can be utilized by developers, business owners, and local municipalities to implement one or more economic propositions.
US11816683B2
A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards providing advertisement insertions at a point of consumption into digital content, such as broadcast television content. A content provider may initially mark the content for advertisement insertion, and create a metadata file indicating constraints, targets, expirations, or the like. A downstream user employs a plug-in component and provides an initial user profile, in part, to access the content with advertisements. As the content is played, and an advertising marker is encountered, fast forwarding or other skipping features are disabled, and an advertisement stream is spliced into the content stream. The advertisement stream is determined based on the user profile and/or other metadata. Moreover, the advertisement stream may be obtained over a network such that advertisements may be refreshed even years after the content has been acquired by the user. In one embodiment, the advertisement consumption may be tracked and reported.
US11816678B2
Systems and methods are disclosed providing user emotion information to a customer service provider. For example, a method may include: transmitting, to a user device over a communication network, application data enabling the user device to perform a functionality usable by a user of the user device, the user device including a camera; receiving, from the user device over the communication network, user feedback data indicative of a characteristic of image data of the user obtained by the camera during usage of the functionality by the user; inputting the value of the facial expression parameter into a machine learning model to determine an assessment of an emotional state of the user during the usage of the functionality; and providing the assessment to the customer service provider.
US11816668B2
Arrangements for facial recognition and processing are provided. In some aspects, a request to process a transaction may be received. In response to the request, image data of the user may be captured. The image data may be analyzed using one or more facial recognition techniques. If the user cannot be identified, payment information may be requested from the user. If the user can be identified, the user may be identified and user profile data associated with the user may be retrieved. In some examples, the user profile data may include user contact information, user device identifying information, and the like. User device data may be extracted from the user profile data and a notification including an instruction to initiate payment processing may be generated. The notification may then be transmitted to the user device identified from the extracted data and the instruction may be executed to initiate payment processing.
US11816666B2
Systems and methods for secure payment processing are disclosed. An issuer vault generates payment items, which correspond to consumer account information and which replicate the structure of the account information but do not include consumers' actual account number. The payment items, rather than the actual account information, are communicated to on-line and mobile payment services for use by consumers in payment transactions. When a consumer uses a payment item in a payment transaction and the transaction undergoes authorization processing, the payment authorization network uses the payment item to request and receive the actual account information from the issuer vault. The authorization network uses the actual account information for the limited use of authorizing the transaction. Once the transaction has been authorized using the actual account information, the processing of the transaction continues using the payment item information rather than the actual account information.
US11816663B2
A currency management system excels in security, and includes legal tender as a management target. A transaction information management device (TIMD) receives first transaction (Tr) information from a user terminal, and an account information management device receives second Tr information from the TIMD. The (TIMD) receives third Tr information from the account information management device, and a currency information management device receives fourth Tr information from the TIMD. The TIMD receives fifth Tr information from the currency information management device, and the TIMD sends sixth Tr information to a user terminal. The TIMD stores in the transaction information management device the first to sixth Tr information; and the account information management device and the currency information management device receive the first to sixth Tr information from the TIMD, and store the information in the account information management device and currency information management device respectively.
US11816659B2
A system including: a processor; and a memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, controls the processor to: receive a receipt request for a transaction from a remote device, the receipt request comprising a merchant identifier, a transaction amount, and a transaction date and time; query the receipt database for a receipt record corresponding to the transaction based on the merchant identifier, the transaction amount, and the transaction date and time, the query being conducted without the benefit of sensitive information; in response to identifying a receipt record corresponding to the transaction, retrieve the receipt record corresponding to the transaction from the receipt database; and output for transmission the receipt record to the remote device.
US11816653B2
Various methods are provided for facilitating access to linked information to GPS or short-range wireless equipped devices. One example method may comprise receiving, via a network, an indication of an interaction between a primary device and a third-party device, the indication comprising at least a first element and a second element, the first element indicative of user identification information and the second element indicative of at least one of a location or a bounded region, determining, as a function of at least the first element and the second element, a data object that upon validation is configured for use a subsequent interaction, and transmitting, to a mobile device, an electronic communication comprising an indication, configured for rendering on the mobile device, of the data object.
US11816652B2
A host establishes an up-to-date, an automated, secure, and Peer-Two-Peer (PSP) communication session with a peripheral. During the communication session, the host controls serialization, prioritization, and delivery of messages being passed. Each message providing command instructions and/or information for processing between the host and the peripheral.
US11816650B2
A system for credit card reader mode management includes: a point-of sale (POS) terminal, that accepts login credentials via a magnetic stripe card, displays menu items, adds selected menu items to an order, and accepts payment instruments for the order, the POS terminal including: a first card reader, that reads first cards when enabled; a second card reader, that reads second cards when enabled; and a dual reader controller, that determines one or more workflow states of the POS terminal, and controls modes of the first and second card readers; and a backend server, that receives messages transmitted by the POS terminal including payment information obtained by the POS terminal, and that employs the payment information to process one of more transactions with one or more financial institutions to complete the payment for the order, and that notifies the POS terminal that the payment for the order is complete.
US11816642B2
Methods and systems for using blockchain digital currency are provided herein. The methods and systems comprise a blockchain digital currency that is created and utilized on a permission-based network of financial institutions. The blockchain digital currency is created by a central authority and minted into circulation by banks within the network, and is backed by reserves of real world currency of any country. The digital currency can be used for any type of financial transaction, and the system provides security, trust, traceability and a detailed audit trail for all transactions.
US11816634B2
A mobile smart container system comprises a housing, an access component configured to secure access to a compartment within the housing when in a closed position, a communication interface configured to wirelessly receive a request to access the compartment, a perceivable output device, an electromechanical latch configured to engage with the access component to releasably lock the access component in the closed position, and a processor. The processor receives and authenticates the request to access the compartment and, in response to receiving and authenticating the request, activates the electromechanical latch to unlock the access component to make the compartment accessible, and outputs, upon actuation of the electromechanical latch, an alert via the perceivable output device to identify the smart container system.
US11816633B2
Given information identifying a user who is not logged into a system, the user is provided a guest order status of one or more pharmacy orders; the guest order status masks sensitive information of the user.
US11816628B2
An electronic indication of a nil pick is received. Item information associated with the desired product, sales data concerning the desired product, supply chain information associated with the desired product, and a perpetual inventory (PI) value of the desired product are stored. An adjustment to the PI of the desired product is blocked when a predetermined event occurs at the retail store, or when information that contradicts the validity of the nil pick is received from the retail store. When the adjustment to the PI of the desired product is not blocked, an amount of the adjustment is determined based upon one or more of: the item information associated with the product, the sales data concerning the product, and the supply chain information associated with the desired product.
US11816621B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to intelligent bot performance tracking and analysis. A computing platform may receive a work queue of items to be processed using a bot. The computing platform may receive, in real-time with processing of the work queue using the bot, metadata associated with the work queue. Based on the metadata, the computing platform may assign, in real-time, a value metric associated with completion of each item in the work queue. Based on the assigned value metric, the computing platform may identify a robotic process automation cost associated with processing the work queue via the bot. The computing platform may compare, the robotic process automation cost to a cost to process the work queue via another operation, and determine a performance metric for the bot based on the comparison. The computing platform may dynamically generate and transmit, in real-time, an indication of the determined bot performance metric.
US11816609B2
Computerized systems and methods are provided for automatically detecting an indication that a task has been completed and associated user interface functionality. These systems and methods improve existing technologies by automatically detecting indications that tasks have been completed via new logic or rules and improving the functionality and computing resource consumption relative to existing machine learning models. These systems also improve the way computers operate by reducing computing resource consumption, such as memory, network latency, I/O, and the like.
US11816603B2
Systems and methods of generating active notifications for users of a networked computer system using transportation service prediction are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system uses a prediction model to generate a transportation service prediction for a user based on an identification of the user, location data for the user, prediction time data, and historical user data for instances of the user using the transportation, and then causes a notification to be displayed on a computing device of the user based on the transportation service prediction, with the notification indicating a recommended use of the transportation service in association with the place for the time of day and the day of the week, and the notification comprising a selectable user interface element configured to enable the user to submit an electronic request for the recommended use of the transportation service.
US11816595B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing system solves a combinatorial optimization problem. The information processing system includes an Ising machine and a host unit. The Ising machine is hardware configured to perform a search process for searching for the ground state of an Ising model that represents the combinatorial optimization problem. The host unit is hardware connected to the Ising machine via an interface and configured to control the Ising machine. In the search process, for each of a plurality of Ising spins, the Ising machine alternately repeats an auxiliary variable update process for updating an auxiliary variable by a main variable and a main variable update process for updating the main variable by the auxiliary variable multiple times. Prior to the search process, the host unit transmits, to the Ising machine, an initial value of the auxiliary variable corresponding to each of the plurality of Ising spins.
US11816592B2
In the disclosure of the present innovation the system utilizes artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics for practical and robust digital democracy applications to dynamically predict the most important states to survey in a process. In the present invention, beneficiaries are surveyed about their preferences over various options in these surveyed states. In the current invention, when a state that has not been surveyed occurs, Bayesian methods are used to dynamically predict what a user's ballot would have looked like if that state had been surveyed and Bayesian prediction is then tested, and if the result is found to be robust then a decision is reached using voting logic and economic theory. In the system of the current invention, if the results are not robust, then the process is rerun to determine the most important states to survey.
US11816590B2
A method, system, and computer program product for predicting abnormal operation of at least one component of a machine is provided. Real time monitoring data from an operating machine is received and monitoring features that are informative of likely abnormal operation are extracted and/or calculated. The monitoring features are applied to a prediction matrix that outputs probabilities of abnormal operation within one or more prediction time horizons. If the output probabilities exceed a threshold probability, then an alert can be output. Maintenance can be automatically scheduled in response to the alert.
US11816586B2
A method for event identification including receiving event information pertaining to events occurring with respect to a computing environment, each event having a measurement metric; evaluating by a probability function the measurement metric for each event to determine when the measurement metric is above a predetermined probability threshold or below a probability threshold wherein above a probability threshold or below a probability threshold is classified as alarm data; processing the alarm data through a decision tree to determine based on historical data when the alarm data is significant or when the alarm data is not significant and to reduce the number of alarm data to a predetermined number of significant alarm data; and displaying the predetermined number of significant alarm data to a user.
US11816584B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to model feature classification, analysis, and updating for analyzing one or more risk determination model(s). Embodiments include an improved apparatus configured to generate an actionable feature data object subset of a risk model feature set for a risk determination model, for example using an actionable determination model. The apparatus may provide the actionable feature data object subset for rendering to an interface of a client device. The apparatus may additionally or alternatively be configured to utilize user feedback, provided either directly or identified by the apparatus based on user interactions, to update the actionable determination model. The apparatus may additionally or alternatively be configured to maintain and utilize linked claim data object(s) for use in rendering a linked claim scores analysis interface that provides additional insight regarding the risk level of a particular entity.
US11816577B2
Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that generate augmented training data for machine-learned models via application of one or more augmentation techniques to audiographic images that visually represent audio signals. In particular, the present disclosure provides a number of novel augmentation operations which can be performed directly upon the audiographic image (e.g., as opposed to the raw audio data) to generate augmented training data that results in improved model performance. As an example, the audiographic images can be or include one or more spectrograms or filter bank sequences.
US11816573B1
Techniques are described for producing machine learning models to generate findings associated with user experiences with products and/or services. In some embodiments, a training process receives a set of findings from one or more user experience tests, where a finding includes a summary and a set of one or more references supporting the summary. The training process further identifies a supplemental set of one or more references that were not included in the initial finding to support the summary. The training process trains a machine learning model, such as a neural or generative language model, based on the first set of one or more references and the second set of one or more references to generate summaries from a subset of sampled references based at least in part on the first set of one or more references and the second set of one or more references.
US11816572B2
A machine learning hardware accelerator architecture and associated techniques are disclosed. The architecture features multiple memory banks of very wide SRAM that may be concurrently accessed by a large number of parallel operational units. Each operational unit supports an instruction set specific to machine learning, including optimizations for performing tensor operations and convolutions. Optimized addressing, an optimized shift reader and variations on a multicast network that permutes and copies data and associates with an operational unit that support those operations are also disclosed.
US11816563B2
A method of storing a sparse weight matrix for a trained artificial neural network in a circuit including a series of clusters. The method includes partitioning the sparse weight matrix into at least one first sub-block and at least one second sub-block. The first sub-block includes only zero-value weights and the second sub-block includes non-zero value weights. The method also includes assigning the non-zero value weights in the at least one second sub-block to at least one cluster of the series of clusters of the circuit. The circuit is configured to perform matrix-vector-multiplication (MVM) between the non-zero value weights of the at least one second sub-block and an input vector during an inference process utilizing the artificial neural network. The sub-blocks containing all zero elements are power gated, thereby reducing overall energy consumption for inference.
US11816556B1
A method for predicting an air quality index (AQI) based on a fusion model proposes a differential fusion seasonal prediction model (DF-SPM) based on a random forest (RF) model and a convolutional neural network (CNN)-long short-term memory (LSTM)-attention (CLA) model. This method uses the optimal threshold interval (OTI) search algorithm to search and learn the OTI of four seasons during the prediction process, and obtains the final prediction results according to the predicted values of RF model and CLA model. The fusion model combines the prediction advantages of two independent models, and fully considers the seasonal and periodic characteristics of AQI, so as to accurately search OTI in different time periods with the seasonal scale, so as to achieve higher prediction accuracy. The OTI strategy of fusion model is superior to the single threshold strategy, which can extract the historical fluctuation characteristics of AQI and achieve higher prediction accuracy.
US11816552B2
Methods and systems for neural network processing include configuring a physical network topology for a network that includes hardware nodes in accordance with a neural network topology, one of which is designated as a master node with any other nodes in the network being designated as slave nodes. One or more virtual neurons are configured at each of the hardware nodes by the master node to create a neural network having the neural network topology. Each virtual neuron has a neuron function and logical network connection information that establishes weighted connections between different virtual neurons. A neural network processing function is executed using the neural network.
US11816544B2
The present disclosure provides a composite machine learning system for a transaction labeling service. A transaction labeling service receives at least one descriptive string describing a transaction associated with a user. The service identifies a preliminary grouping from a generalized scheme. The service extracts a set of N-grams from the descriptive string and converts the N-grams and the preliminary grouping into a set of features. A machine learning model determines a label from a labeling scheme for the transaction based on the features. User input related to the label includes an accuracy indicator and a reliability indicator. If the reliability indicator satisfies a reliability condition, a set of training data for the machine learning model is updated based on the descriptive string and the label. The machine learning model is then trained against the updated set of training data.
US11816538B2
This disclosure relates to methods of constructing efficient quantum circuits for Clifford loaders and variations of these methods following a similar scheme.
US11816532B2
Methods for receiving a request to process, on a hardware circuit, a neural network comprising a first convolutional neural network layer having a stride greater than one, and in response, generating instructions that cause the hardware circuit to, during processing of an input tensor, generate a layer output tensor equivalent to an output of the first convolutional neural network layer by processing the input tensor using a second convolutional neural network layer having a stride equal to one but that is otherwise equivalent to the first convolutional neural network layer to generate a first tensor, zeroing out elements of the first tensor that would not have been generated if the second convolutional neural network layer had the stride of the first convolutional neural network layer to generate a second tensor, and performing max pooling on the second tensor to generate the layer output tensor.
US11816525B2
A method for wirelessly receiving and transmitting electromagnetic radiation and to an electronic device thereof, the method including the steps of, wirelessly receiving a first electromagnetic radiation, and storing energy of the received first electromagnetic radiation in an energy storage. Determining, from the amount of energy stored, whether energy stored in the energy storage should be provided to a demodulator and a comparator and/or to a modulator and a transmitter such that they are switched. Demodulating the second electromagnetic radiation so that a first signal is generated. Comparing the first signal with a set of signals. Wirelessly receiving a third electromagnetic radiation. Modulating the third electromagnetic radiation into a fourth electromagnetic radiation by using two different modulations, thereby modifying data contained in the third electromagnetic radiation, and wirelessly transmitting the fourth electromagnetic radiation.
US11816519B2
A code display medium includes a code image display portion which arranges a plurality of code images side by side in a circumferential direction around an axis of screw fastening and which displays the plurality of code images so as to be optically readable, each of the plurality of code images including identification information for identifying at least one of a fastening material for the screw fastening and/or an object to be fastened by the screw fastening and a fixing portion which fixes the code image display portion to a position that is on the object to be fastened and that can be simultaneously captured with the fastening material in a state where the screw fastening is performed.
US11816509B2
Disclosed are aspects of workload selection and placement in systems that include graphics processing units (GPUs) that are virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled. In some aspects, workloads are assigned to virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU)-enabled graphics processing units (GPUs) based on a variety of vGPU placement models. A number of vGPU placement neural networks are trained to maximize a composite efficiency metric based on workload data and GPU data for the plurality of vGPU placement models. A combined neural network selector is generated using the vGPU placement neural networks, and utilized to assign a workload to a vGPU-enabled GPU.
US11816503B2
A resource management system in a data center one or more data storage resource providers and a transaction server. The transaction server is configured to receive, from a client, a request for read and/or write access for a data storage resource, the request comprising one or more specifications, to provide, to the one or more data storage resource providers, at least a portion of the request, and to receive, from the one or more data storage resource providers, respective responses to the request, the responses respectively comprising one or more allocation options. The transaction server is further configured to select one of the one or more allocation options for registration, and register the selected allocation option with a data manager. At least one of the one or more data storage providers is configured to provide the data storage resource in accordance with the registered allocation option.
US11816493B2
A markup language is provided. The markup language describes the composition of automata networks. For example, the markup language uses elements that represent automata processing resources. These resources may include at least one of a state transition element, a counter element, and a Boolean element as respective automata processing resources.
US11816488B2
There is provided methods and devices for dynamically simplifying processor instructions. A method includes receiving, at a computing device, processor instructions and determining, by the computing device, if instruction simplification is enabled for an instruction being processed. The method further includes determining, by the computing device, from an instruction simplification table if the instruction is capable of being simplified and scheduling, by the computing device, a simplified instruction based on the determination from the instruction simplification table. A device includes a processor, and a non-transient computer readable memory having stored thereon instructions which when executed by the processor configure the device to execute the methods disclosed herein.
US11816484B2
In an embodiment, dynamically-generated code may be supported in the system by ensuring that the code either remains executing within a predefined region of memory or exits to one of a set of valid exit addresses. Software embodiments are described in which the dynamically-generated code is scanned prior to permitting execution of the dynamically-generated code to ensure that various criteria are met including exclusion of certain disallowed instructions and control of branch target addresses. Hardware embodiments are described in which the dynamically-generated code is permitted to executed but is monitored to ensure that the execution criteria are met.
US11816478B1
Disclosed herein are techniques for reducing a size of a delta file. Techniques include receiving change code representing a change to device code installed on a device; receiving the device code; identifying, by parsing the change code or a code structure representing the change code, a first function represented by the change code; identifying, by parsing the device code or a code structure representing the device code, a second function represented by the device code; identifying a plurality of subfunctions based on the first and second functions; determining sub-changes to at least some of the plurality of subfunctions, the sub changes being associated with a change to the second function; and generating the delta file comprising object change elements, the object change elements being configured to effect the sub-changes to the device code.
US11816474B1
Systems and methods for generating dynamically updated metadata using real-time artificial intelligence models. For example, the system may receive a first metadata tag requirement for first metadata of a first media asset. The system may determine a first metadata field for the first metadata based on the first metadata tag requirement. The system may determine a first content population function for the first metadata field. The system may generate the first metadata with the first content population function. The system may generate the first media asset with the first metadata.
US11816471B2
Device, device initialisation and method of installing a delta update of executable code on a device
A device, device initialisation and method of installing a delta update of executable code on a device, the method comprising: generating an unrelocation table based upon a symbol table and a relocation table associated with relocatable code by: identifying an entry in the relocation table that references a symbol in the symbol table; and storing in the unrelocation table the relocated address of the identified entry in the relocation table; generating a first executable program code based upon the symbol table, the relocation table, and the relocatable code; and storing the first executable program code and the unrelocation table on the device.
US11816466B2
An embodiment electronic device includes a memory containing a plurality of copies of firmware of the device.
US11816465B2
Devices, systems and methods for tracking and upgrading firmware in intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) are provided. The devices, systems and methods provide for tracking firmware versions of at least one or a fleet of IEDs, e.g., electronic power or revenue meters, notifying a user that an update to an existing firmware is available and providing the ability to automatically upload the current or latest version of the firmware to all IEDs.
US11816461B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to a method that includes receiving, by a particular computer system included in an enterprise computer system, deployment instructions, from a user, for a particular version of a machine-learning model. One or more versions of the machine-learning model may be stored in a database. The particular computer system may select, based on the deployment instructions, a destination within the enterprise computer system for deploying the particular version. The selected destination may provide access to a particular data set. The particular computer system may schedule a deployment of the particular version from the database to the selected destination. The deployed version of the machine-learning model may operate on the particular data set. Performance data associated with operation of the deployed version of the machine-learning model is collected.
US11816459B2
Disclosed is a user interface (UI) Platform system for converting graphical user interface (GUI) design elements into API-integratable computer code (including native code) and logic, comprising a software tool, the software tool comprising a computer processor, a computer readable non-transitory storage medium coupled with the computer processor, and the computer readable non-transitory storage medium having a software algorithm adapted to accept at least a first graphic file representing at least a portion of a GUI defined for a known receiving device.
US11816442B2
Machine classifiers in accordance with embodiments of the invention capture long-term temporal dependencies in the dialogue data better than the existing RNN-based architectures. Additionally, machine classifiers may model the joint distribution of the context and response as opposed to the conditional distribution of the response given the context as employed in sequence-to-sequence frameworks. Machine classifiers in accordance with embodiments further append random paddings before and/or after the input data to reduce the syntactic redundancy in the input data, thereby improving the performance of the machine classifiers for a variety of dialogue-related tasks. The random padding of the input data may further provide regularization during the training of the machine classifier and/or reduce exposure bias. In a variety of embodiments, the input data may be encoded based on subword tokenization.
US11816440B2
The disclosed embodiments describe methods, systems, and apparatuses for determining user intent. A method is disclosed comprising obtaining a session text of a user; calculating, by the processor, a feature vector based on the session text; determining probabilities that the session text belongs to a plurality of intent labels, the probabilities calculated using a multi-level hierarchal intent classification model, the intent labels assigned to levels in the multi-level hierarchal intent classification model; and assigning a user intent to the session text based on the probabilities.
US11816436B2
Techniques are described for automated summarization of extracted insight data. Insight data, for instance, is summarized via headlines that include content describing insight data, such as text, images, animations, and so forth. In at least some implementations, headlines are generated in response to trigger events, such as time-based and/or user behavioral events that indicate that headlines are to be generated. Further, headlines are selected to cause insight data represented by the headlines to be presented. Implementations include headline ranking to rank and present headlines based on their relevance to different metrics, and headline deduplication to identify and/or remove duplicate headlines.
US11816430B2
A document extraction system executed by a processor, may process documents using manual and automated systems. The document extraction system may efficiently route tasks to the manual and automated systems based on a predicted probability that the results generated by the automated system meet some baseline level of accuracy. To increase document processing speed, documents having a high likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to an automated system. To ensure a baseline level of accuracy, documents having a smaller likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to a manual system.
US11816427B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for automated data classification error correction through machine learning. Embodiments include receiving a set of predicted labels corresponding to a set of consecutive text strings that appear in a particular order in a document, including: a first text string corresponding to a first predicted label; a second text string that follows the first text string in the particular order and corresponds to a second predicted label; and a third text string that follows the second text string in the particular order and corresponds to a third predicted label. Embodiments include providing inputs to a machine learning model based on: the third text string; the second text string; the second predicted label; and the first predicted label. Embodiments include determining a corrected third label for the third text string based on an output provided by the machine learning model in response to the inputs.
US11816420B2
An automated template and logic generator retrieves a codified user experience design having persona and outcome metadata and a finite state machine. An aggregation engine walks the finite state machine, identifies objects in each state, and selects components that correspond with the objects from a component library. Actions associated with the components are identified, and used to identify API calls that are required to be made to implement the actions. Corresponding APIs are aggregated to create a back-end for front-end (BFF) layer for the codified user experience definition. A pattern is created for a front-end layer for the codified user experience design based on the FSM. A code generator builds components to the objects of the codified user experience design to generate precompiled code, which is packaged with a node.js layer to allow local runtime. The generated precompiled code is versioned and placed in the user experience design repository.
US11816413B2
Systems and methods for context aware circuit design are described herein. A method includes: identifying at least one cell to be designed into a circuit; identifying at least one context parameter having an impact to layout dependent effect of the circuit; generating, for each cell and for each context parameter, a plurality of abutment environments associated with the cell; estimating, for each cell and each context parameter, a sensitivity of at least one electrical property of the cell to the context parameter by generating a plurality of electrical property values of the cell under the plurality of abutment environments; and determining whether each context parameter is a key context parameter for a static analysis of the circuit, based on the sensitivity of the at least one electrical property of each cell and based on at least one predetermined threshold.
US11816412B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit structure is provided. The method includes: providing a logic cell structure including a first input node, a second input node, and a pulling network connected to a reference voltage and an output node, wherein the pulling network includes a plurality of transistor segments; determining a delay associated with at least one of the first input node and the second input node; and connecting the plurality of transistor segments to the first input node, the second input node and the output node based at least in part on the determined delay.
US11816408B1
A computer-aided design (CAD) tool is provided for logic optimization and synthesis. The CAD tool executes a process that involves optimizing power, performance, and area (PPA) of a logic circuit by minimizing a number of CMOS gates, and majority and/or minority gates in the circuit and its depth. The CAD tool implements a methodology of optimizing logic synthesis based on a mix of standard cell libraries (such as AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, Multiplexer, full adder, half adder, etc.) and varying input majority and minority gates (where the number of inputs in the minority and majority gates could vary as odd numbers from 3 and above). The standard cell libraries cells may contain minority and/or majority gates.
US11816404B2
Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo integration are simple numerical recipes for solving complicated integration problems, such as valuating financial derivatives or synthesizing photorealistic images by light transport simulation. A drawback of a straightforward application of (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration is the relatively slow convergence rate that manifests as high error of Monte Carlo estimators. Neural control variates may be used to reduce error in parametric (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration—providing more accurate solutions in less time. A neural network system has sufficient approximation power for estimating integrals and is efficient to evaluate. The efficiency results from the use of a first neural network that infers the integral of the control variate and using normalizing flows to model a shape of the control variate.
US11816401B2
A method of obtaining a model of a sub-surface region, the model comprising a three dimensional matrix of sub-surface material property values. The method comprises providing a first approximation of said model, and performing simulations using the model to generate (i) a reference upgoing energy wave data set d0, where the acquisition parameters used in the simulation are a set of known acquisition parameters, and (ii) a plurality of perturbed upgoing energy wave data sets d0 where the acquisition parameters are obtained by randomly perturbing said set of known acquisition parameters. The method further comprises forming a matrix D, the columns of which are the differences di−d0 between the ith perturbed data set and the reference data set, applying an analysis to the matrix D to describe the matrix using a set of vectors, and selecting the most important vectors from said set of vectors to obtain a subset of vectors that describe said matrix D to an approximation. An iterative procedure is performed to improve said first approximation of said model, or a further approximation model, wherein, at each step of the procedure, a model update Δm is determined, the model update being that model update that minimises a measure of the data misfit between said upgoing energy wave data set drec and a data set simulated using the updated model, said measure using said subset of vectors to account for uncertainty in the upgoing energy wave data set drec.
US11816400B2
The disclosure describes various aspects of techniques for optimal fault-tolerant implementations of controlled-Za gates and Heisenberg interactions. Improvements in the implementation of the controlled-Za gate can be made by using a clean ancilla and in-circuit measurement. Various examples are described that depend on whether the implementation is with or without measurement and feedforward. The implementation of the Heisenberg interaction can leverage the improved controlled-Za gate implementation. These implementations can cut down significantly the implementation costs associated with fault-tolerant quantum computing systems.
US11816398B2
A plugin can allow for tracking objects within a computer-aided design (“CAD”) application. In one example, the user can select an object or family of objects to track. The plugin can set a parameter of the tracker to match that of the selected object(s). The tracker can be joined to the selected object to form a new assembly, such as by embedding the tracker within the object. A user can define areas, such as rooms or floors, within the layout. The plugin can poll the trackers, which report which areas the corresponding object is within. The plugin can compile this information and display quantities of object types per area.
US11816393B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, determining that a requirement exists to output a system response. In response to determining that a requirement exists to output a system response, (i) setting a system response volume for a first speaker associated with a first networked device and (ii) outputting a system response at the set system response volume via the first speaker associated with the first networked device.
US11816392B2
Embodiments disclosed herein extending an audio track by joining similar portions. Audio features (e.g., spectral features, modulation features) may be extracted from the audio track. The audio track may be segmented, e.g., based on the audio features, and each segment may be slid through the audio track using a timestep. In each timestep, the sliding segment may be compared to the underlying portion of the audio track and a similarity score (e.g., a cross-correlation) may be generated. A self-similarity matrix may be generated based on the comparisons involving all the segments. The self-similarity matrix may be analyzed for peak values and segments corresponding to the peak values may be joined to extend the audio track. The embodiments may be applied to any kind of audio including music, ambient noise, speech, etc.
US11816388B2
Systems, devices, and methods for visual displays are described. Such visual displays may be used in a retail environment to provide interactive presentations to customers. The visual displays may include a display panel, a visual source, and a controller. The display panel may present images and/or video to a user, in which the images and/or video are generated by the visual source. The controller may determine the types of images and/or video to be presented based upon communications received from a user via a communication device or a user kiosk. The display panel may be a variable height and may be offset from the floor or a shelf by a variable distance. A plurality of display panels may be arranged on a display floor to provide retail experiences to customers and/or may be received by one or more docks placed in the display floor.
US11816385B2
A cabinet and a method for controlling a cabinet constituting a modular display apparatus are provided. The cabinet constituting a modular display apparatus includes a plurality of display modules; a first interface; a second interface configured to be connected to a first cabinet adjacent to the cabinet; a memory configured to store at least one test image; and a processor configured to, based on a detection that a test device is connected to the first interface, control the plurality of display modules to display the at least one test image, and control the second interface to transmit the at least one test image to the first cabinet to be displayed on the first cabinet.
US11816377B1
Provided is an industrial printing system that performs peer-to-peer distributed processing according to paper settings and imposition settings for production printing. A plurality of print servers performs distributed processing of a job. Each print server includes a storage unit, a job changing unit, and a processing management unit. The storage unit stores resource information related to paper setting and imposition setting of the plurality of print servers. The job changing unit changes the job suitable to other print server selected from the plurality of print servers based on the resource information stored in the storage unit. The processing management unit transmits the job changed by the job changing unit to the other print server and requests processing.
US11816369B2
A chip, a chip set, an electrical parameter detection method, a consumable, and an image forming apparatus are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The chip is capable of being installed on the consumable; and the consumable is capable of being detachably installed on the image forming apparatus. The chip includes an installation detecting terminal; a chip controller configured to control the installation detecting terminal to output a low level after the chip is powered on; and a storage unit configured to store a time control parameter, where the time control parameter is configured to control a time point for the installation detecting terminal to output the low level. The above configuration can realize that the signal conflict between a plurality of chips is not generated when detecting whether the plurality of chips is in a desired contact with the image forming apparatus.
US11816366B2
The method includes determining, by using a first information processing device, whether a cartridge mounted in the specified image forming apparatus needs replacing. The method further includes attaching a label to the newly shipped cartridge capable of using in each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses or to a packing box packing the newly shipped cartridge. The label indicates specific information associated with identification information of the specified image forming apparatus in which the determining determines that the cartridge needs replacing. The specific information is retrieved from a database in which the identification information is associated with the specific information. The identification information identifies the each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The specific information specifies the each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses.
US11816359B2
Methods and systems for solid state drives are provided, including assigning a first namespace to a first instance of a storage operating system and a second instance of the storage operating system for enabling read access to a first portion of a flash storage system by the first instance, and read and write access to the second instance; allocating a second namespace to the first instance for exclusive read and write access within a second portion of the flash storage system; generating, by the first instance, a request for the second instance to transfer a data object from the second portion owned by the first instance to the first portion; storing, by the second instance, the data object at the first portion; and updating metadata of the data object at the second portion, the metadata indicating a storage location at the second portion where the data object is stored.
US11816356B2
An illustrative method includes a storage management system ingesting a data item into a unified storage system via a storage system interface among a plurality of storage system interfaces associated with the unified storage system, determining, in response to the ingesting of the data item into the unified storage system, an operation based on the data item, and providing a notification of the operation to an orchestration system configured to manage an execution of the operation by a computing system associated with the unified storage system. In certain embodiments, the unified storage system may be implemented as compute-aware storage system such as a container orchestrator-aware storage system.
US11816354B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to establishing persistent cache memory as a write tier. An input/output (IO) workload of a storage array can be analyzed. One or more write data portions of the IO workload can be stored in a persistent memory region of one or more disks of the storage array.
US11816353B2
Technology is disclosed herein for managing parity data in non-volatile memory. As user data is programming into respective groups of non-volatile memory cells, the system accumulates parity data. The system may accumulate XOR parity based on successive bitwise XOR operations of user data. After programming is complete, the system performs a post-program read test of the data stored into each respective group of memory cells. The system re-calculates the parity data such that the parity data is no longer based on the user data that was stored in any group of memory cells for which the post-program read test failed. For example, the system will perform an additional bitwise XOR between the accumulated XOR parity data with the user data that was stored in the group of memory cells for which the post-program read test failed. The parity data is programmed to a group of memory cells.
US11816352B2
A processor circuit sends a read request. A clock signal of the processor circuit corresponds to a first counting value. A memory circuit stores data and sends a data strobe signal in response to the read request. The data strobe signal corresponds to a second counting value. The processor circuit includes a selector circuit and a feedback circuit. The selector circuit selects and outputs a flag signal from a plurality of flag control signals according to the second counting value. The feedback circuit generates an enable signal according to a set signal associated with the first counting value, the flag signal associated with the second counting value, and a data strobe gate signal, and generates the data strobe gate signal according to the enable signal and the data strobe signal. The processor circuit reads the data according to the data strobe gate signal.
US11816348B2
Techniques are provided for persistent hole reservation. For example, hole reservation flags of operations targeting a first storage object of a first node are replicated into replication operations targeting a second storage object of a second node during a transition operation to transition the first storage object and the second storage object from an asynchronous replication state to a synchronous replication state. In another example, the second storage object is grown to a size of a replication punch hole operation that failed due to targeting a file block number greater than an end of size of the second storage object.
US11816345B2
A memory sub-system can determine a block granularity for an input/output (I/O) data stream received from a host system. The memory sub-system can determine that the block granularity is different than a memory block granularity of a first memory region in a first namespace of the one or more memory devices, where the first memory region is to store the I/O data stream. The memory sub-system can accumulate blocks from the I/O data stream in a second memory region in a second namespace of the one or more memory devices. Responsive to a capacity of the accumulated blocks in the second memory region satisfying a threshold criterion, the memory sub-system can migrate the accumulated plurality of blocks from the second memory region to the first memory region.
US11816344B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller manages at least one storage area that is obtained by logically dividing a storage space of the nonvolatile memory. One or more storage areas in the at least one storage area store one or more data pieces, respectively. The controller manages first information on one or more times in which integrity of the one or more data pieces have been confirmed last, respectively.
US11816342B2
A method includes sending, from an application layer, a chunk size setting to an erasure coding layer. The method further includes receiving, at the application layer, user data. The method further includes aligning, at the application layer, the user data based on the chunk size setting. The method further includes sending the aligned user data to the erasure coding layer. The method further includes partitioning, at the erasure coding layer, the aligned user data into a first data chunk and a second data chunk. The method further includes generating, at the erasure coding layer, a parity chunk based on the first data chunk and the second data chunk. The method further includes sending, from the erasure coding layer, the first data chunk, the second data chunk, and the parity chunk to a storage system.
US11816340B2
Techniques are provided for increasing resiliency of IO operations to network interruptions. One method comprises, in response to a failure of a given IO operation on a first path between at least one initiator of a host device and at least one storage target of a storage volume of a distributed storage system, resending the given IO operation on a second path between the at least one initiator and the at least one storage target; and, in response to a completion of the given IO operation on a given one of the first path and the second path, initiating a remapping of the storage volume. The remapping of the storage volume may comprise unmapping the storage volume and mapping the storage volume. One or more IO operations having an older generation number than the generation number of the storage volume may be discarded.
US11816338B2
A data storage device that provides priority-based internal data movement includes a controller communicatively coupled to volatile memory and to non-volatile memory circuits, where the controller is configured to queue requests in a plurality of queues in the volatile memory, where each of the requests is associated with one of a plurality of internal data movement command types. The controller is also configured to select one of the plurality of queues based on a prioritization of the plurality of internal data movement command types. The controller is also configured to determine that the selected queue includes at least one request of the associated internal data movement command type. The controller is also configured to issue the at least one request from the selected queue to at least one of the non-volatile memory circuits.
US11816312B2
Techniques to facilitate interactions with industrial devices in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a realtime communication connection is established through a common gateway platform to an industrial controller. A realtime notification message is received comprising industrial data and display instructions encoded into a text string generated by the industrial controller, the display instructions comprising display properties for the industrial data that specify how to display the industrial data on a computing device. The text string is processed to generate and render a display of the industrial data for display on the computing device according to the display properties provided in the display instructions.
US11816311B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automatic detection of the need for a breakout virtual meeting is provided. The present invention may include receiving a computerized version of a real-time conversation between a plurality of participants of a virtual meeting. The present invention may also include determining whether a breakout virtual meeting is necessary among a subset of the plurality of participants of the virtual meeting. The present invention may further include, in response to determining that the breakout virtual meeting is necessary, automatically transmitting an alert indicating that the breakout virtual meeting is necessary among the subset of the plurality of participants of the virtual meeting.
US11816309B2
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) comprises a development interface that affords a user a great deal of control over the editing tools, workspace canvases, and project information rendered at a given time. The industrial IDE system automatically filters the tools, panels, and information available for selection based on a current project development task, such that a focused subset of editing tools relevant to a current development task or context are made available for selection while other tools are hidden. The development interface also allows the user to selectively render or hide selected tools or information from among the relevant, filtered set of tools. This can reduce or eliminate unnecessary clutter and aid in quickly and easily locating and selecting a desired editing function. The IDE's development interface can also conform to a structured organization of workspace canvases and panels that facilitates intuitive workflow.
US11816308B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting web browser tab navigation are described. A device (e.g., a user device) may initiate, via a web browser and in a first tab of a set of tabs of the web browser, a video conference session of a video conference application. The device may render a visual component in a user interface of the video conference session that indicates enablement of tab navigation functionality for the video conference application. In some examples, enablement of the tab navigation functionality may be based on an extension being installed in the web browser. The device may then receive an input via the visual component to visually distinguish the first tab for a duration of the video conference session, and cause for display a visual marker associated with the first tab for the duration of the video conference session based on receiving the input.
US11816305B2
Embodiments of this disclosure include an interface display method and apparatus. The method may include displaying a multi-task floating window in front of a user interface of the terminal and displaying a task floating window set in response to receiving a trigger signal corresponding to the multi-task floating window. The task floating window set may include at least one single-task floating window. One single-task floating window may be corresponding to one task. The method may further include receiving a selection instruction corresponding to a first single-task floating window in the task floating window set and displaying a user interface of a first task corresponding to the first single-task floating window.
US11816302B2
Techniques for rendering a user interface may include: receiving a view area height and width, a first integer denoting a count of objects to be displayed, a minimum row height, and a minimum object width; determining a maximum allowed number of columns in accordance with the view area width and minimum object width; determining a current number of rows in accordance with the view area height, a current number of columns, the minimum row height, and the first integer; determining whether the current number of rows and columns denote an optimized layout of the objects, wherein the optimized layout is in accordance with a plurality of conditions; and responsive to determining the current number of rows and columns denote an optimized layout, rendering the plurality of objects in a view area in accordance with the current number of rows and columns.
US11816299B2
A foldable display device includes a display panel including a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area, and a folding area disposed between the first and second non-folding areas and a digitizer including a first sensing portion, a second sensing portion spaced apart from the first sensing portion in the folding area, and a connection portion extending from one end of the first sensing portion to one end of the second sensing portion. The connection portion includes a first portion extending from the first sensing portion, a second portion extending from the second sensing portion, one or more third portions disposed between the first and second portions and including first and second areas facing each other and a third area disposed between the first and second areas, and a fourth portion disposed between the first and third portions, between the second and third portions, or between two third portions adjacent to each other.
US11816292B2
A pen state detection circuit that is connected to a touch sensor of a capacitance type and adapted to detect a state of an electronic pen in accordance with an output signal from the touch sensor. The touch sensor includes sensor electrodes disposed in a planar manner, and the electronic pen includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The pen state detection circuit includes a processor configured to sequentially and repeatedly: acquire first and second coordinate values in a sensor coordinate system, the coordinate system being defined on a detection surface of the touch sensor, the first coordinate values indicating a projected position of the first electrode, the second coordinate values indicating a projected position of the second electrode; calculate an inclination value indicative of an inclination of the electronic pen from the acquired first and second coordinate values in accordance with calculation rules; and output the inclination value.
US11816288B2
A method includes: displaying, an image on a display by sequentially displaying a plurality of frames of the image, the plurality of frames including a first frame and second frame; performing a first noise sampling scan at a plurality of frequencies at a first time location within a first frame; determining a first frequency from the plurality of frequencies with the lowest noise; performing a first mutual sensing scan at the first frequency; performing, a second noise sampling scan at the plurality of frequencies at a second time location within a second frame of the plurality of frames, the second time location being a different frame location than the first time location; determining a second frequency from the plurality of frequencies with the lowest noise, the second frequency being different from the first frequency; and performing, a second mutual sensing scan at the second frequency.
US11816286B2
Techniques for providing multi-user multi-touch projected capacitive touch sensors are disclosed herein. Some embodiments may include a method that includes receiving a first sense signal from a first sensing array, the first sensing array configured to provide the first sense signal indicating a first touch on a first touch surface of a touch substrate as well as receiving a second sense signal from a second sensing array, the second sensing array configured to provide the second sense signal indicating a second touch on a second touch surface of a second touch substrate occurring concurrently to the first touch. The method may further include determining whether the first touch and the second touch share at least one anti-ghost. The method may also include associating the first touch and the second touch with a common touch entity in response to determining that the first touch and the second touch share the at least one anti-ghost.
US11816282B2
A touch display device is disclosed. By arranging a part of a touch routing line for a driving of a touch electrode on an active area and electrically connecting the touch routing line to an auxiliary routing pattern that overlaps the touch routing line, an area where the touch routing line is disposed and a load of the touch routing line can be reduced.
US11816277B2
Provided are touch display panel and touch display device. The touch display panel includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a light-emitting component located within the display area, an encapsulation layer covering the light-emitting component and at least part of the non-display area, a touch layer located at a side of the encapsulation layer away from the light-emitting component and including multiple touch electrodes, and multiple touch wires directly electrically connected to the touch electrodes and extending to the non-display area. The non-display area includes a first area and a second area, at least part of film layers within the first area are formed with a through hole and/or a groove, the touch wires extend along a surface of the first area and extend into the second area. The second area is located at a side of the first area away from the display area.
US11816274B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device, a touch input device, and a touch input system, where the display device comprises: a display unit including a plurality of light emitting areas; a plurality of touch electrodes disposed between the plurality of light emitting areas and configured to sense a touch; a plurality of grid patterns separated from the plurality of touch electrodes in a preset shape or formed integrally with the plurality of touch electrodes; and a plurality of code patterns formed in a preset code shape in some areas of a front surface corresponding to the plurality of touch electrodes, wherein the plurality of grid patterns comprise grid reference points of intersecting grid reference lines, and are respectively formed at positions corresponding to the grid reference points.
US11816272B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and utilizing a touchpoint attribution attention neural network to identify and measure performance of touchpoints in digital content campaigns. For example, a deep learning attribution system trains a touchpoint attribution attention neural network using touchpoint sequences, which include user interactions with content via one or more digital media channels. In one or more embodiments, the deep learning attribution system utilizes the trained touchpoint attribution attention neural network to determine touchpoint attributions of touchpoints in a target touchpoint sequence. In addition, the deep learning attribution system can utilize the trained touchpoint attribution attention neural network to generate conversion predictions for target touchpoint sequences and to provide targeted digital content over specific digital media channels to client devices of individual users.
US11816265B1
In some implementations, an extended reality (XR) device may generate a first event in a virtual environment, wherein the first event is associated with a first difficulty level. The XR device may detect vital information of a user associated with the XR device, wherein the vital information is associated with the first event. The XR device may determine whether the vital information satisfies a threshold. The XR device may transmit, to a server, an indication that indicates whether the vital information satisfies the threshold. The XR device may receive, from the server, virtual environment information, wherein the virtual environment information is based on whether the vital information satisfies the threshold. The XR device may generate, based on the virtual environment information, a second event in the virtual environment, wherein the second event is associated with a second difficulty level.
US11816252B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for managing control of a security processor in a supply chain are described. In some embodiments, a security processor may include: a core; and a memory coupled to the core, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the core, cause the security processor to: store a first public key usable to initiate a first secure boot process and unusable to initiate a second secure boot process; store a second public key usable to initiate the second secure boot process and unusable to initiate the first secure boot process; and in response to a first change of control or ownership of the security processor, render the first public key unusable to initiate the first secure boot process.
US11816251B2
A method for managing data asset in a data bank is provided, including: acquiring a confirmation authentication request, wherein the confirmation authentication request includes a data asset to be confirmed, characteristic information of the data asset and characteristic information of a data provider uploaded by the data provider; performing a confirmation verification on the data asset through a confirmation blockchain based on the data asset, the characteristic information of the data asset and the characteristic information of the data provider in response to the confirmation authentication request; storing confirmation information corresponding to the data asset into the confirmation blockchain after it is determined that the data asset has passed the confirmation verification; inserting identification data for tracing a data owner into the data asset, obtaining and storing the data asset having the identification data.
US11816246B2
Modeling techniques to classify data sets containing personal identifiable information (PII) comprising identifiers are provided. In one technique, multiple data sets are identified, each data set containing identifiers that were generated by a computer system and that qualify as PII of a known identifier (ID) type. For each of the multiple data sets, a model is generated based on that data set and added to a set of models. A target data set that contains identifiers that were generated by the computer system and that qualify as PII of an unknown ID type is identified. A target model is generated based on the target data set. For at least one model in the set of models, a similarity operation of that model and the target model is performed. Based on the similarity operation, it is determined whether to associate the ID type of that model with the target data set.
US11816239B2
Techniques described herein can allow users to share cached results of an original query with other users while protecting sensitive information. The techniques described herein can check whether the other users have access to the underlying data queried before allowing those users to see the stored query results. That is, the system may perform privilege checks on the shared users before giving them access to the stored query results but without having to re-run the original query.
US11816236B1
Techniques and apparatus for managing remote attestation of infrastructure components based on a customer controlled dynamic attestation policy are described. One technique includes receiving a user-specified configuration for managing remote attestation of infrastructure component(s) hosted in a cloud computing environment. The user-specified configuration indicates information related to managing the life-cycle of the infrastructure component(s). For example, the user-specified configuration can indicate attributes associated with the infrastructure component(s), criteria for validating an attestation policy for the infrastructure component(s), criteria for rotating an attestation policy for the infrastructure component(s), etc. An attestation policy for each infrastructure component is generated, based on the user-specified configuration. The attestation policy for each infrastructure component indicates which of the attributes to use during remote attestation of the infrastructure component. Remote attestation of at least one infrastructure component is performed in accordance with the attestation policy associated with the infrastructure component.
US11816232B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may calculate and inform a consumer of company privacy scores corresponding to companies with which the consumer has a corresponding account, or for a company associated with a website that a consumer may visit. A consumer privacy score may also be determined, based on the company privacy scores. The company privacy scores may be based on a calculation including elements of a privacy practice of the corresponding company and elements of a privacy policy of the corresponding company.
US11816226B2
A request to train a neural-network model is received, as are a first offer to supply encrypted training data and a second offer to train the model. After determining that the offers satisfy the request, a model provider told to train the model. If they model performs in accordance with a quality metric, it is sent to a model user.
US11816225B2
System, apparatus, device, method and/or computer program product are disclosed for detecting the authenticity of an image file transferred from a device to a server based on an image authenticity detection configuration determined by a server application. A device application is operated by a device, and a server application is operated by a server. The device application sends, to the server application, user data, device data, or environment data. The server application determines an image authenticity detection configuration to indicate one or more parameters to be used by the device to generate a first image file, and authorized changes to be made to the first image file to generate a second image file. The device application sends the second image file to the server application. The server application detects whether the received second image file contains changes matching authorized changes indicated by the image authenticity detection configuration.
US11816218B2
Example methods are provided to use a guest monitoring mode (GMM) module in a hypervisor to monitor for attempts to maliciously modify operating system (OS) kernel objects in a virtualized computing environment. A created OS kernel object is migrated to a memory space where the GMM module can detect an attempt to modify the OS kernel object. The GMM module uses reference information to determine whether the modification is authorized by trusted OS kernel code or is being attempted by malicious code.
US11816215B2
Systems and methods for archive scanning are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes: selecting an archive; reading a metadata representing a plurality of files within the archive; reading a plurality of hash strings from the archive; comparing the plurality of hash strings with a database of hash strings; and determining, based on the comparing, if the plurality of files within the archive represent a security threat based on the plurality of hash strings.
US11816214B2
A system/process/computer program product for building multi-representational learning models for static analysis of source code includes receiving training data, wherein the training data includes a set of source code files for training a multi-representational learning (MRL) model for classifying malicious source code and benign source code based on a static analysis; generating a first feature vector based on a set of characters extracted from the set of source code files; generating a second feature vector based on a set of tokens extracted from the set of source code files; and performing an ensemble of the first feature vector and the second feature vector to form a target feature vector for classifying malicious source code and benign source code based on the static analysis.
US11816197B2
Disclosed is user authentication. A user authentication method includes receiving a plurality of images including at least one object, extracting biological information from the plurality of images, performing user authentication based on a difference between the extracted biological information and biological information of a user stored in a memory, and updating a parameter of a learning model for the user authentication when a result of the execution of the user authentication satisfies a preset condition. The mobile terminal and the AI system of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a drone (or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to 5G service, etc.
US11816194B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods for providing an option (e.g., a selectable option) to initiate a secure operation (e.g., a secure operation), such methods using a computer system and an external device.
US11816193B2
In one example, a server obtains a plurality of code modules configured to identify issues in one or more network devices of a target network. Based on the plurality of code modules, the server generates a fingerprinting process configured to produce a fingerprint that includes a plurality of key-value pairs. Each key of the plurality of key-value pairs is a unique key that corresponds to select data associated with raw data obtained from the one or more network devices. Each value of the plurality of key-value pairs represents information regarding the select data. Based further on the plurality of code modules, the server generates an analysis model that is uniquely compatible with the fingerprinting process. The analysis model is configured to identify the issues in the one or more network devices based on the key-value pairs.
US11816186B2
Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for evaluation and visualization of machine learning data drift. A method can include receiving a series of data indicating accuracy and confidence associated with classification of respective batches of input samples, and dynamically displaying, on the GUI, a concurrent plot of the accuracy and confidence as the series of data are received.
US11816179B2
A method, software tool, and system for generating realistic synthetic ride-requests associated with a mobility or transportation service, including: utilizing a generative adversarial network, learning the spatial-temporal distribution of a plurality of real ride-requests; and, utilizing the generative adversarial network and based on the learning step, generating one or more synthetic source and destination ride-request geolocations that retain a statistical distribution of the plurality of real ride-requests. The generative adversarial network is a Wasserstein generative adversarial network.
US11816178B2
Techniques regarding root cause analyses based on time series data are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise maintenance component that can detect a cause of failure for a mechanical system by employing a greedy hill climbing process to perform a polynomial number of conditional independence tests to determine a Granger causality between variables from time series data of the mechanical system given a conditioning set.
US11816174B2
A search system performs item searches using morphed images. Given two or more input images of objects, the search system uses a generative model to generate one or more morphed images. Each morphed image shows an object of the object type of the input images. Additionally, the object in each morphed image combines visual characteristics of the objects in the input images. The morphed images may be presented to a user, who may select a particular morphed image for searching. A search is performed using a morphed image to identify items that are visually similar to the object in the morphed image. Search results for the items identified from the search are returned for presentation.
US11816172B2
This application describes a data processing method, a server, and a computer storage medium. In a method, a real-time data stream is collected. The real-time data stream includes a plurality of usage data for a plurality of content. Each of the plurality of usage data is associated with (i) content identification information of a respective one of the plurality of content and (ii) a time stamp of the respective usage data and indicating one of a plurality of user actions that is performed on the respective one of the plurality of content. Further, each of the plurality of user actions is associated with an action weight. A user status queue is generated according to the plurality of usage data and the associated content identification information. A user status feature is determined. Recommended information is determined according to the user status feature and is sent to a user terminal.
US11816170B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for dynamically generating a search set for use in a search application, such as a search engine, and using the search set to navigate collections of archived content. A request for user interface data is received from a client device in response to the client device attempting to access a domain. The domain may be parsed to identify a search category corresponding to one of the categories stored in a data store. Subcategories and search collections that are associated with the search category are identified and user interface data may be generated that cause at least a portion of the subcategories and search collections associated with a search component to be rendered in a display of the client device. The search component is configured to use a selected one of the at least a portion of the subcategories to narrow a search conducted using the search component by generating a narrowing search query.
US11816164B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced processing of time series data via parallelization of instructions. An example method includes receiving a query indicating time series datasets and operations to be performed on the time series datasets. Nodes associated with the query are identified, with each node associated with a time series dataset. Nodes associated with operations to be performed are generated. The nodes are assembled into query tree, with parent nodes of the query tree indicating operations that are to be applied to children nodes. Instructions for processing the query tree are generated. At least a subset of the instructions is provided to one or more compute systems for processing in parallel. Results are received, and presented in a user interface.
US11816163B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a system for improved transactional mainframes, the system comprising a processor, a database, an application programming interface (API) module, and a transaction import module. The API module can be configured to: receive transaction data comprising a transaction type, a user identifier, one or more transaction card identifiers, and one or more fields associated with the transaction card identifiers; validate the transaction data using one or more of the stored validation rules associated with the one or more transaction card identifiers; generate one or more transaction cards; and store the transaction data and transaction cards to the database. The transaction import module can be configured to submit the transaction cards to the mainframe, view the status of submitted records, and enable retrying of transaction cards that failed to process.
US11816162B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for search query language identification. One method comprises generating a seed dictionary comprising a plurality of labeled dictionary terms and receiving a plurality of unlabeled sample query terms. The plurality of unlabeled sample query terms are compared to the plurality of labeled dictionary terms at a first time, and a first set of labeled sample query terms are generated by labeling at least a subset of the plurality of unlabeled sample query terms based on the first comparison. Remaining unlabeled sample query terms are then compared with the first set of labeled sample query terms at a second time, and a second set of labeled sample query terms are generated by labeling the remaining unlabeled sample query terms based on the second comparison. The first and second sets of labeled sample query terms are provided to a machine learning model configured for query language prediction.
US11816155B2
Users of a database management engine may generate fillable digital documents by mapping interface elements onto form documents. When a user maps interface elements onto a form document, the user may accidentally overlap two or more interface elements. To rectify this, the database management engine may modify the position of one of interface elements based on a set of positioning rules. In addition, the database management engine may identify and suggest mappings to users based on similar documents that have been previously mapped. The database management engine identifies similar documents using information about the document, the user, and the mapping itself. The mapping associated with the most similar document may be provided to the user as a suggested mapping. The database management engine converts the form document and finalized mapping into a fillable digital document. The fillable digital document is sent to recipients, who complete the fillable digital document.
US11816152B2
In a computer-implemented method for performing intent-based search of media files, a search query for searching media files of a library of media files is received from an electronic device. The search query includes a user-entered search term and additional search information related to an intent of a user. The library of media files is searched for media files according to the search query. Search results are returned to the electronic device, the search results including a listing of media files satisfying the user-entered search term and prioritized according to the additional search information related to the intent of the user.
US11816149B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling thereof are provided. A method for controlling an electronic device according to the disclosure includes obtaining a plurality of images for performing clustering, obtaining a plurality of target areas corresponding to each of the plurality of images, obtaining a plurality of feature vectors corresponding to the plurality of target areas, obtaining a plurality of central nodes corresponding to the plurality of feature vectors, obtaining neighbor nodes associated with each of the plurality of central nodes, obtaining a subgraph based on the plurality of central nodes and the neighbor nodes, identifying the connection probabilities between the plurality of central nodes of the subgraph and the neighbor nodes of each of the plurality of central nodes based on a graph convolutional network, and clustering the plurality of target areas based on the identified connection probabilities.
US11816147B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards providing contextual tags for an image based on a contextual analysis of associated images captured in the same environment as the image. To determine contextual tags, content tags can be determined for images. The determined content tags can be associated with categories based on a contextual classification of the content tags. These associated content tags can then be designated as contextual tags for a respective category. To associate these contextual tags with the images, the images can be iterated through based on how the images relate to the contextual tags. For instance, when an image is associated with a category, the contextual tags classified into that category can be assigned to that image.
US11816138B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for parsing unstructured data with neural networks. In one implementation, a system for parsing unstructured data may include at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to: receive unstructured data; apply a classifier to the unstructured data to identify a type of the unstructured data; based on the identification, select a corresponding neural network; apply the selected neural network to the unstructured data to obtain structured data; and output the structured data.
US11816127B2
A quality determination method, system, and computer program product that includes performing a dimensionality reduction on a high-dimensional dataset to form a dimensional-reduced dataset and determining, using a machine learning tool executed on a computing device, a quality of the dimensional-reduced dataset via a review of an extracted feature extracted from the dimensional-reduced dataset.
US11816107B2
A pruning index is generated for a source table organized into a set of batch units. The source table comprises a column of semi-structured data. The pruning index comprises a set of filters that index distinct values in each column of the source table. Rather than reassembling an entire tree structure of the semi-structured data prior to indexing, the generating of the pruning index comprises traversing a reassembly hook object that represents a first portion of the semi-structured data that is subcolumnarized and traversing a residual object that represents a second portion of the semi-structured data that is not subcolumnarized. The reassembly hook object is traversed to identify values corresponding to the first portion of the semi-structured data and the residual object is traversed to identify values corresponding to the second portion. The pruning index is stored with an association with the source table.
US11816105B2
A computer-implemented method for enhancing and utilizing user data derived from digital interactions includes receiving user submission data comprising records generated by input into a client side application interface by a first user on a first computing device and transmitted from the first computing device to the aggregation point via at least one of a data transmission service and a data transmission provider. The method includes generating a first dataset associated with the first user, generating a data model based on data in the first dataset and one or more correlations based on attributes in the first dataset, and generating a modeled dataset based on the data model.
US11816102B2
Techniques described herein allow for accurate translation of natural language (NL) queries to declarative language. A syntactic dependency parsing tree is generated for an NL query, which is used to map tokens in the query to logical data model concepts. Relationship-type mappings are completed based on relationship constraints. Final mappings are identified for any relationship tokens that are associated with multiple candidate mappings by identifying which candidate mappings have the lowest cost metrics. An NL query-specific query graph is generated based on the mapping data for the NL query and the logical data model. The query graph represents an NL query-specific version of the logical data model where grammatical dependencies between NL query words are translated to the query graph. A query graph is annotated with information, from the mapping data, that is not represented paths in the query graph. The query graph is used generate a computer-executable translation of the NL query.
US11816090B2
Implementations retrieve a first event that published to a first source of events responsive to updating, deleting, or inserting a first record in a database object that stores records relating to consent. The first event is processed. Processing the first event includes storing in an attribute of a second event an identifier for a second record that relates to the first record and that is in a second database object that stores records relating to consent. If the first record was inserted or updated, processing the first event includes storing in an attribute of the second event one or more identifiers and respective values of fields of the first record based on attributes of the first event.
US11816089B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for selective use of Internet-of-Things (IoT) data in data analytics systems. Implementations include receiving IoT data from an IoT device, determining that hardening is to be applied to the IoT data, comparing a timestamp of the IoT data to a hardening value, and in response to comparing, selectively using the IoT data in one or more uses by the data analytics system.
US11816088B2
A node includes storage that stores a portion of high accessibility data corresponding to a shard that is divided into revisions. The portion of the high accessibility data is managed based on an activity state model including a writing state, a resolving state, a metadata update state, and a reading state. The node further includes a repository manager that obtains a cross-shard read request for the high accessibility data; makes a determination that the portion of the high accessibility data is not in the reading state; in response to the determination, adds the cross-shard read request to a delayed action queue at the revision of a last delayed action in the delayed action queue; and after processing the last delayed action in the delayed action queue and while in the resolving state: converts the cross-shard read request to a read request; and processes the read request.
US11816084B2
Anchor tree cross-merge within a distributed storage system. A computer system identifies a data structure that includes (i) a root anchor tree and (ii) an ordered set of anchor trees that are ordered based on their creation, such that a last anchor tree of the ordered set of anchor trees is most-recently created. The data structure stores index data for a set of objects stored in a non-volatile storage. The computer system creates a new anchor tree in the ordered set of anchor trees. The computer system identifies, from a set of delta tables, index data representing one or more objects that are stored on the non-volatile storage. The computer system merges the index data representing the one or more objects into the new anchor tree.
US11816074B2
Systems and methods for virtual image testing. An example method may comprise receiving, by a messaging application, an identifier of a file residing a file system. Configuring a file serving process to respond to content requests specifying the file. Transmitting, by the messaging application, a notification comprising a uniform resource locator derived from the file identifier.
US11816073B1
Database commands may be asynchronously forwarded between nodes of a database system. A read-only node may receive a request, such as a read request or write request, and determine that the request should be forwarded to a read-only node for performance. A thread that handles the request may forward the request to the read-only node and register a call-back event for a response to the request and be made available to perform other work. When the response from the read-write node is received, the call-back event may be triggered and return a response to the request using the same or different thread.
US11816061B2
A system includes a processing device that includes a vector arithmetic logic unit comprising a plurality of arithmetic logic units (ALUs), and a first processor core operatively coupled to the vector arithmetic logic unit, the processing device to receive a first vector instruction from the first processor core, wherein the first vector instruction specifies at least one first input vector having a first vector length, identify a first subset of the ALUs in view of the first vector length and one or more allocation criteria, execute, using the first subset of the set of ALUs, one or more first ALU operations specified by the first vector instruction, wherein the vector arithmetic logic unit executes the first ALU operations in parallel with one or more second ALU operations specified by a second vector instruction received from a second processor core.
US11816060B2
An UART interface circuit is provided in the invention. The UART interface circuit is configured in an electronic device. The UART interface circuit includes a baud-rate generating circuit, a control circuit, and a receiving circuit. The baud-rate generating circuit is configured to generate a baud rate and a start-bit cycle. The control circuit obtains the wakeup stable time from the wakeup time circuit of the electronic device and obtains the start-bit cycle from the baud-rate generating circuit. The receiving circuit is configured to capture data from the start bit or the first data bit of UART data. When the electronic device is woken up by the UART data, the control circuit compares the start-bit cycle with the wakeup stable time to direct the receiving circuit to start capturing data from the start bit or the first data bit of the UART data.
US11816058B2
A method, apparatus, and device for dynamically modifying a PCH PCIE root port where an onboard VGA is located, and a readable storage medium. The current item may be determined at a PEI phase by reading a GPIO interface, and a target PCH PCIE root port used by the item is further determined; then configuration information is acquired, and a target onboard VGA is found and initialized; because a video bridge configuration file defined in an SDL file is saved in a structure of a temporary file when code is compiled, in the method, the value of a target member of the structure is modified as the port number of the target PCH PCIE root port at a DXE phase, so that a video bridge is switched to the target PCH PCIE root port.
US11816057B2
A user space driver for input/output traffic distribution and packet processing is provided. A device can establish a driver in user space with access to a memory mapped region shared with a kernel of the device. The driver can access a packet stored to the memory mapped region by a network interface of the device responsive to receipt of the packet. The driver can provide the packet to a selected application of a plurality of applications for processing by the selected application.
US11816056B1
Techniques are described for controlling a sensing state of a device. In an example, a controller of the device receives, at a first time, first input data indicating a first request to disable a sensor of the device. The controller causes the sensor to be disabled and stores first data indicating that the sensor is disabled. The device can also include a processor. The controller sends, to the processor, first output data that causes the processor to read the first data from the controller. At a second time, the controller receives second input data indicating a second request for an operation of the device. The controller stores second data associated with the second request and sends, to the processor, second output data that causes the processor to read the second data from the controller.
US11816050B2
A semiconductor device is configured so that two or more master devices access a slave device via a bus. The semiconductor device includes: a priority generation circuit that generates a priority based on a transfer amount between a specific master device and a specific slave device; and an arbitration circuit that performs an arbitration based on the priority when competition of the accesses occurs.
US11816044B2
Apparatus identifies a set of M output memory addresses from a larger set of N input memory addresses containing at least one non-unique memory address. A comparator block performs comparisons of memory addresses from a set of N input memory addresses to generate a binary classification dataset that identifies a subset of addresses from the set of input addresses, where each address in the subset identified by the binary classification dataset is unique within that subset. Combination logic units receive a predetermined selection of bits of the binary classification dataset and sort its received predetermined selection of bits into an intermediary binary string in which the bits are ordered into a first group identifying addresses belonging to the identified subset, and a second group identifying addresses not belonging to the identified subset. Output generating logic selects between bits belonging to different intermediary binary strings to generate a binary output identifying a set of output memory addresses containing at least one address in the identified subset.
US11816020B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to the execution of queries in an online manner. For example, in some embodiments, a server system may include a distributed computing system that, in turn, includes a distributed storage system operable to store transaction data associated with a plurality of users, and a distributed computing engine operable to perform distributed processing jobs based on the transaction data. In various embodiments, the server system preemptively creates a compute session on the distributed computing engine, where the compute session provides access to various functionalities of the distributed computing engine. The distributed computing engine may then use these preemptively created compute sessions to execute queries (e.g., for end users of the server system) against the transaction data and return the results dataset to the requesting users in an online manner.
US11816014B2
A tracing controller may utilize a binary execution trace mechanism to trace execution of compiled application machine code. The tracing controller may initiate hardware tracing to gather control-flow hardware traces of a method executing on a processor configured to generate hardware tracing information. The controller may generate a profile based on the hardware tracing information and initiate re-compiling or re-optimizing of the method in response to determining that the new profile differs from the previous profile. The controller may repeatedly profile and re-optimize a method until profiles for the method stabilize. Profiling and hardware tracing of an application may be selectively enabled or disabled allowing the controller to respond to later phase changes in application execution by re-optimizing, thereby potentially improving overall application performance.
US11816010B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for releasing an application feature in incremental stages while monitoring the application for anomalies. The feature includes a package of code and an action setting. The methods in some implementations include identifying active devices on which the application has been installed, monitoring the application according to a set of metrics, activating the feature by changing its action setting for a first segment of the active devices, pausing the feature if an anomaly is detected among the set of metrics, and generating a repair ticket. As long as no anomaly is detected, the activating step proceeds for subsequent segments of the active devices, iteratively, until the release is completed. A feature rank may be used to process and release a plurality of features in order of priority.
US11816000B2
A data access recovery apparatus includes: a transceiver; a memory; and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and the memory and configured to: receive a request to restore backed-up unstructured data files associated with the request; send active data files, of the backed-up unstructured data files, to a data-access server in response to receiving the request; receive an indication of a particular data file of the backed-up unstructured data files; and send, in response to receiving the indication, the particular data file to the data-access server before the particular data file would be sent, if at all, absent receiving the indication.
US11815990B2
A method for determining a faulty computing core in a multi-core processor and an electronic device are provided. The method is applied to an electronic device configured with a multi-core processor. The multi-core processor is integrated with a plurality of computing cores, the plurality of computing cores are independent of each other, and the plurality of computing cores include a first computing core. The method includes: determining a computing core corresponding to each of N running exceptions, where the running exception is caused by an exception that occurs when any computing core in the plurality of computing cores executes the program instructions (301); and when a quantity of running exceptions corresponding to the first computing core in the N running exceptions is greater than or equal to M, determining that the first computing core is a faulty computing core, where M is a preset value (303).
US11815989B2
Automated methods and systems for identifying problems associated with objects of a data center are described. Automated methods and systems are performed by an operations management server. For each object, the server determines a baseline distribution from historical events that are associated with a normal operational state of an object. The server determines a runtime distribution of runtime events that are associated with the object and detected in a runtime window of the object. The management server monitors runtime performance of the object while the object is running in the datacenter. When a performance problem is detected, the management server determines a root cause of a performance problem based on the baseline distribution and the runtime distribution and displays an alert in a graphical user interface of a display.
US11815982B2
An operating method of a nonvolatile memory device for programming multi-page data, the operating method including: receiving the multi-page data from a memory controller; programming first page data among the multi-page data to first memory cells connected to a word line adjacent to a selected word line; reading previous page data previously stored in second memory cells connected to the selected word line based on a first sensing value and a second sensing value after programming the first page data; calculating a first fail bit number by comparing first bits of the previous page data read based on the first sensing value to second bits of the previous page data read based on the second sensing value; and programming the previous page data read from the second memory cells and second page data among the multi-page data to the second memory cells based on the first fail bit number.
US11815980B2
An electronic device includes a memory; a first processor; a second processor for which power consumption is lower than power consumption of the first processor; a communicator that communicates with an external device; and a switch that switches a connection destination of the communicator to the first processor or the second processor. The second processor is configured to, in a case in which a condition for transitioning to a power suppression state that is an operating state in which power consumption is suppressed is satisfied, connect the communicator by the switch. The first processor is configured to, in a case in which a condition for transitioning to a normal state that is a normal operating state is satisfied, connect the communicator by the switch.
US11815972B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for configuring cold redundancy of a power source. The method includes determining an efficient range and an inefficient range of an efficiency-load curve of a power supply unit (PSU), wherein the efficiency-load curve is acquired by testing the PSU in advance. If the PSU operates in the efficient range when voltage of the PSU is before a preconfigured power source configuration point, or if the PSU operates in the inefficient range when the voltage of the PSU is after the preconfigured power source configuration point, the method includes recalculating the preconfigured power source configuration point. If neither, then the method includes determining that the preconfigured power source configuration point is a power source configuration point, wherein the power source configuration point is a voltage value at which a standby PSU is switched to a power supply PSU when cold redundancy is configured.
US11815968B2
A stylus for a touchscreen may comprise a barrel extending in a longitudinal direction, the barrel comprising a first end comprising an opening and a second end, the first end and the second end being, in the longitudinal direction, opposite to one another, and a first part and a second part, the first part including the first end and the second part including the second end, a first electronic tip received at least in part in the barrel and configured to have at least an in-use configuration in which the first electronic tip protrudes from the first part of the barrel through the opening, and an energy harvesting device comprising at least two of an energy harvesting element, a transducer, or an energy storage device.
US11815965B2
Disclosed is a cooler according to various embodiments of the disclosure. The cooler may have an electronic device mounted thereon, which includes a front surface on which a display area is formed and a rear surface opposite the front surface. The cooler may include a housing including a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a third surface that surrounds an interior space between the first surface and the second surface, the first surface including a seating area on which the rear surface of the electronic device is seated and a recess area spaced apart from the rear surface of the electronic device by a predetermined gap, and a fan disposed in the interior space of the housing and including a rotary shaft formed in a direction toward the first surface from the second surface.
US11815964B2
An antenna structure of an embodiment of the present invention includes a film antenna including a dielectric layer and an antenna electrode layer formed on an upper surface of the dielectric layer, and a flexible circuit board including a power supply wiring electrically connected to the antenna electrode layer. A bonding region is defined by a region in which the antenna electrode layer and the power supply wiring are overlapped with each other in a planar direction, and the bonding region has a length of 1.5 mm or less. Signal efficiency and radiation reliability may be improved by adjusting a length of the bonding region.
US11815963B2
An electronic device comprises: a hinge structure which is arranged in an internal space of a hinge cover and includes a first hinge plate having a first opening and a second hinge plate having a second opening; a first housing connected to the first hinge plate; a second housing connected to the second hinge plate; a flexible display arranged to be supported by the first housing and the second housing; and a wiring member which electrically connects a first electrical structure of the first housing to a second electrical structure of the second housing through the internal space of the hinge cover, wherein the wiring member comprises: a bendable portion; a first fixing portion which is disposed on the first opening of the first hinge plate from the bendable portion so as to be exposable; a second fixing portion which is disposed on the second opening of the second hinge plate from the bendable portion so as to be exposable; at least one first reinforcing member which is fixed on the first fixing portion and is arranged to be supported by the first hinge plate between the first hinge plate and the first housing; and at least one second reinforcing member which is fixed on the second fixing portion and is arranged to be supported by the second hinge plate between the second hinge plate and the second housing.
US11815960B2
A flexible display apparatus including: a first film including a first surface and a second surface that are opposite each other, and a first groove formed in the first surface, the first film having a first rigidity; a third film on the second surface of the first film; a fourth film facing the third film; an emission display unit between and encapsulated by the third film and the fourth film; and a second film on the fourth film and facing the first film, the second film having a second rigidity that is less than the first rigidity.
US11815949B2
A display device includes a housing including first and second edge areas; a panel assembly between a window and the housing; a first waterproof member corresponding to the first edge area; a second waterproof member corresponding to the second edge area and disconnected from the first waterproof member; and a first sealing member in contact with the first and second waterproof members, the panel assembly, the window and the housing. The panel assembly includes a plurality of members each protruded further than an end of the first waterproof member to respectively define first edges. Each first edge is in contact with the first sealing member, and protruded distances of the first edges from the end of the first waterproof member increase as a cross-sectional distance from the plurality of members to the window decreases to form a stepped shape of the panel assembly at the first edges.
US11815944B2
Systems and methods for securing firmware function calls are discussed. More particularly, mechanisms for reducing the chance of tampering and information disclosure attacks against firmware function calls implemented in SMM/MM are described. Data may be passed to and from a calling entity to platform firmware via a communication channel where both the data and the means of decrypting the data are protected from potential snooping OS applications, drivers or DMA-enabled hardware devices.
US11815943B1
A computer system for executing a processing graph including: (A) access a graph definition of the processing graph from a nodes database, the graph definition identifies nodes and edges, each edge connects a pair of nodes, each node represents a component of computation performed by at least one program referenced by that node; (B) constructing the processing graph in the memory; (C) traversing the processing graph to visit and process each node in the processing graph; (D) upon visiting a first node of the processing graph, accessing a first node definition of the first node from the nodes database, the first node definition identifies a first program; (E) executing the first program to generate a first output; and (F) passing the first output to a parent node of the first node, the parent node uses the first output during processing of the parent node.
US11815933B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to image based media type selection are described. Memory systems can include multiple types of memory media (e.g., volatile and/or non-volatile). Determinations of which memory media types to write image data to can be made and the data can be written (e.g., stored) in the determined type of memory media. A determined memory media type can be based on attributes of the data. In an example, a method can include receiving, by a memory system that comprises a plurality of memory media types, initial image data from an image sensor coupled to the memory system, identifying one or more attributes of the initial image data, determining a type of memory media to write the initial image data to based on the identified attributes of the initial image data , and selecting, based at least in part on the determined type of memory media, a first memory type of the plurality of memory media types to write the initial image data.
US11815928B2
A supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a regulated voltage node and an output transistor having a source terminal, a gate terminal, and a drain terminal. The source terminal is coupled to the regulated voltage node. The supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a first current generator coupled between a first node and a first power supply node. The supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a second current generator coupled between the first node and a second power supply node. The supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a feedback circuit coupled to the first current generator and the second current generator and is configured to adjust a voltage on the first node based on a reference voltage and a voltage level on the regulated voltage node. The supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a diode coupled between the drain terminal and the first power supply node and a resistor coupled between the gate terminal and the first node.
US11815920B2
A gas flow control system for delivering a plurality of gas flows. The gas flow control system has a gas flow path extending from a gas inlet to first and second gas outlets. First and second flow restrictors are operably coupled to the gas flow path. First and second valves are operably coupled to the gas flow path such that when both first and second valves are in a fully open state, flows of gas from the first and second gas outlets are split according to the impedances of the first and second flow restrictors.
US11815918B2
A preselection valve is for a hydraulic valve assembly with a switching element, a pressure input line, a first pressure output line and a first load pressure line with a load pressure inlet and output. The switching element is switchable from neutral to a first switching position. The pressure input line is connected to the first pressure output line in the first position. The preselection valve has a second and third load pressure line and a load pressure increasing device. The second load pressure line branches off the pressure input line upstream of the switching element. The load pressure increasing device is connected to the third load pressure line, which connects the pressure increasing device to the first load pressure line. The second load pressure line is connected to the pressure increasing device in the first switching position and the second load pressure line is blocked in the neutral position.
US11815907B2
Systems and methods for controlling a path of a bale wrapping machine are disclosed. The systems and methods encompass automatically controlling a path traveled by a bale wrapping machine along a selected route as wrapped bales are deposited on the ground. The bale wrapping machine may use geospatial positioning information to control a steering system of the bale wrapping machine in order to track the selected route.
US11815905B2
Vehicles, systems, and methods for navigating or tracking the navigation of a materials handling vehicle along a surface that may include a camera and vehicle functions to match two-dimensional image information from camera data associated with the input image of overhead features with a plurality of global target locations of a warehouse map to generate a plurality of candidate optical targets, an optical target associated with each global target location and a code; filter the targets to determine a candidate optical target; decode the target to identify the associated code; identify an optical target associated with the identified code; determine a camera metric relative to the identified optical target and the position and orientation of the identified optical target in the warehouse map; calculate a vehicle pose based on the camera metric; and navigate the materials handling vehicle utilizing the vehicle pose.
US11815900B1
A system, including a mobile robot, including: at least one charging contact; a battery; a first signal receiver, and a second signal receiver, and a recharging station, including: at least one charging contact for connecting with the at least one charging contact of the mobile robot; a power supply electrically coupled with the at least one charging contact; a first signal emitter emitting a first signal; and a second signal emitter emitting a second signal, wherein: the mobile robot aligns with the recharging station based on the signals received by the first signal receiver and the second signal receiver of the mobile robot; and the mobile robot is positioned to drive in a forward direction and dock with the recharging station when the first signal receiver detects the first signal and the second signal receiver detects the second signal simultaneously.
US11815895B2
A method of using an intelligent, multi-function robot having and using internal Artificial Intelligence and functioning autonomously when not connected to external Artificial Intelligence, comprising the steps of: during a pre-initialization process or an initialization process prior to autonomous operation of the robot downloading from a server when the robot is online the functionality and data required for the robot to perform a particular task; during autonomous operation of the robot, the robot not using said external server or said external Artificial Intelligence; running software natively on the robot itself and the hardware processing the software is on the robot itself, and wherein data stored on the robot consists only of that necessary for performing preconfigured functions; limiting on board hardware processing power consists only of that necessary for performing the preconfigured functions; and adapting said robot for autonomous movement within a defined premises.
US11815890B2
A control assembly for an aircraft system according to an example of the present disclosure includes a multi-core processor that has a plurality of cores coupled to a communications module and to an arbitration module. The communications module is operable to communicate information between the plurality of cores and one or more aircraft modules. The plurality of cores include first and second cores operable to concurrently execute a first discrete set of software instructions to generate respective instances of an output. The arbitration module is operable to communicate each and every one of the respective instances to control the one or more aircraft modules. A method of operating an aircraft system is also disclosed.
US11815886B2
A system comprises a ship having one or more maneuvering units for controlling the speed and direction of the ship. The ship comprises a ship control unit configured to send signals to the one or more maneuvering units to maneuver the ship and a transmitter-receiver connected to the control unit and configured to transmit and receive information. The system comprises a remote-control center remote from the ship. The remote-control center comprises a transmitter-receiver 16 configured to receive situation information of the ship. The remote-control center comprises a remote-control unit configured to determine pilot-control information for maneuvering the ship based on the situation information and configured to transmit the pilot-control information to the ship via the transmitter-receiver of the remote-control center. The transmitter-receiver of the ship is configured to receive the pilot-control information. The ship control unit is configured to send signals, based on the pilot-control information, to the one or more maneuvering units of the ship to maneuver the ship.
US11815883B2
A conveyance system includes a plurality of conveyance robots, a storage unit, a stability information acquisition unit, a selection unit, and a system controller, which serves as a controller. The plurality of conveyance robots convey a wagon that accommodates a conveyed object. The storage unit stores robot information regarding features that the plurality of respective conveyance robots include. The stability information acquisition unit acquires stability information regarding stability when the conveyed object is conveyed. The selection unit selects one of the plurality of conveyance robots based on the robot information and the stability information that have been acquired. The system controller instructs the one conveyance robot that has been selected to convey the conveyed object.
US11815881B2
Mechanisms can be designed to manage non-contact forces to reduce energy consumption and/or to control interactions between the parts. Management of non-contact forces is especially useful in micro-scale and nano-scale mechanisms, where van der Waals attraction between parts of the mechanism may be significant to the operation of the mechanism.
US11815864B2
Methods and systems that manage building code compliance are provided. A smart or interconnected home may be populated with multiple smart or other devices that are in wired or wireless communication with a central controller. The smart devices may be covered by an insurance policy, such as a homeowners, renters, or personal articles insurance policy. The controller may receive building code compliance information associated with the smart devices, and may update an inventory list to include the building code compliance information. The controller may detect that one or more devices do not comply with building code requirements. The controller may transmit a notification to a customer about possible corrective actions to remedy non-compliant conditions and to facilitate building code compliance. The smart devices may be associated with appliances, electronics, wiring, pipes, ducts, or other equipment or personal belongings. Insurance discounts may be provided based upon the building code compliance functionality.
US11815854B2
An optical master is created by using a nanoimprint alignment layer to pattern a liquid crystal layer. The nanoimprint alignment layer and the liquid crystal layer constitute the optical master. The optical master is positioned above a photo-alignment layer. The optical master is illuminated and light propagating through the nanoimprinted alignment layer and the liquid crystal layer is diffracted and subsequently strikes the photo-alignment layer. The incident diffracted light causes the pattern in the liquid crystal layer to be transferred to the photo-alignment layer. A second liquid crystal layer is deposited onto the patterned photo-alignment layer, which subsequently is used to align the molecules of the second liquid crystal layer. The second liquid crystal layer in the patterned photo-alignment layer may be utilized as a replica optical master, or as a diffractive optical element for directing light in optical devices such as augmented reality display devices.
US11815853B2
An optical device includes an optical component (e.g., a polarization volume hologram, a geometric phase device, or a polarization-insensitive diffractive optical element) having a uniform thickness and configured to modify a wavefront of a light beam that includes light in two or more wavelengths visible to human eyes, where the optical component has a chromatic aberration between the two or more wavelengths. The optical device also includes a metasurface on the optical component. The metasurface includes a plurality of nanostructures configured to modify respective phases of incident light at a plurality of regions of the metasurface, where the plurality of nanostructures is configured to, at each region of the plurality of regions, add a respective phase delay for each of the two or more wavelengths to correct the chromatic aberration between the two or more wavelengths.
US11815849B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member capable of suppressing the environmental fluctuation in the electrical characteristics. The present invention provides the electrophotographic photosensitive member in which the surface layer contains the compound having the specific structure.
US11815848B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording material, a forming device storage space storing the image forming device, a temperature adjustment space where a temperature adjustment device adjusts temperature, and a supply unit that supplies air in the temperature adjustment space into the forming device storage space.
US11815841B2
An image forming apparatus includes an upper ejection roller and a lower ejection roller that are disposed vertically side by side in an apparatus body and transport a recording material, a relay section that is disposed at an upper part of the apparatus body and further transports the recording material transported from the lower ejection roller and that places the recording material transported from the upper ejection roller on an upper surface of the relay section, a post-processing section that is disposed on a side surface of the apparatus body, receives the recording material via the relay section, and performs post-processing, and a controller that performs a control such that the recording material is transported from the upper ejection roller to the upper surface of the relay section in a case where the recording material is a long sheet.
US11815829B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first moving member moving between a first position which is a position not in contact with a recording material and a second position which is a position in contact with the recording material, and a second moving member positioned in a third position in a state where an attachable/detachable unit is not attached to an apparatus main body and in a fourth position in a state where the attachable/detachable unit is attached to the apparatus main body. An optical sensor includes a light-emitting portion and a light-receiving portion, and a flag member moves between a transmission position and a light-shielding position and moves in conjunction with movement of the first moving member from the first position to the second position and with a movement of the second moving member from the third position to the fourth position.
US11815821B2
An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) source includes a module vessel and a scrubber system. The scrubber system may include a plurality of gutters in the module vessel. The plurality of gutters may include a first gutter and a second gutter. The second gutter may be lower than the first gutter in the module vessel. A unit volume of the second gutter is larger than a unit volume of the first gutter.
US11815820B2
A method of determining representative patterns for training a machine learning model to predict optical proximity corrections. The method includes obtaining a design layout including a set of groups of patterns, each group of patterns includes one or more sub-groups; determining a set of representative patterns of the set of groups of patterns, a representative pattern being a sub-group whose instances appear in the set of groups of patterns; obtaining, via simulating an optical proximity correction process using the set of representative patterns, optical proximity correction data associated with the set of representative patterns; and training a machine learning model to predict optical proximity corrections for the design layout based on the set of representative patterns and the set of optical proximity correction data.
US11815819B2
A system and methods for Advance Process Control (APC) in semiconductor manufacturing include: for each of a plurality of waiter sites, receiving a pre-process set of scatterometric training data, measured before implementation of a processing step, receiving a corresponding post-process set of scatterometric training data measured after implementation of the process step, and receiving a set of process control knob training data indicative of process control knob settings applied during implementation of the process step; and generating a machine learning model correlating variations in the pre-process sets of scatterometric training data and the corresponding process control knob training data with the corresponding post-process sets of scatterometric training data, to train the machine learning model to recommend changes to process control knob settings to compensate for variations in the pre-process scatterometric data.
US11815818B2
Methods for patterning a substrate are described. A substrate is scanned using a spatial light modulator with a plurality of exposures timed according to a non-crystalline shot pattern. Lithography systems for performing the substrate patterning method and non-transitory computer-readable medium for executing the patterning method are also described.
US11815815B2
Provided is a resist underlayer film-forming composition for forming resist underlayer film usable as hard mask and removable by wet etching process using chemical solution such as sulfuric acid/hydrogen peroxide. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography includes a component (A) and component (B), the component (A) includes a hydrolyzable silane, hydrolysis product thereof, or hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, the hydrolyzable silane includes hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1): R1aR2bSi(R3)4−(a+b) (where R1 is organic group of Formula (2): and is bonded to silicon atom through a Si—C bond; R3 is an alkoxy group, acyloxy group, or halogen group; is an integer of 1; b is an integer of 0 to 2; and a+b is an integer of 1 to 3), and the component (B) is cross-linkable compound having ring structure having alkoxymethyl group or hydroxymethyl group, cross-linkable compound having epoxy group or blocked isocyanate group.
US11815807B2
Provided is a reflective mask blank with which it is possible to further reduce the shadowing effect of a reflective mask, and also possible to form a fine and highly accurate phase-shift pattern. A reflective mask blank having, in the following order on a substrate, a multilayer reflective film and a phase-shift film that shifts the phase of EUV light, said reflective mask blank characterized in that: the phase-shift film has a first layer and a second layer; the first layer comprises a material that contains at least one element from among tantalum (Ta) and chromium (Cr); and the second layer comprises a metal-containing material that contains ruthenium (Ru) and at least one element from among chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), and rhenium (Re).
US11815799B2
Provided are an information processing apparatus and an information processing method, an imaging apparatus, a mobile device, and a computer program that performs processing for controlling exposure of an in-vehicle camera. The information processing apparatus includes: a recognition unit that recognizes an image after an output signal of an image sensor is processed by a processing unit; and a control unit that controls at least one of imaging operation of the image sensor or processing operation in the processing unit on the basis of a recognition result of the recognition unit. The image sensor is mounted on a vehicle and used, and the recognition unit image-recognizes at least a surrounding vehicle or a road surface. Then, the control unit controls detection or development processing of the region of the surrounding vehicle or the road surface in the image.
US11815798B2
A camera module includes a movable element; a lens coupled to the movable element; a first substrate fixed to the bottom surface of the movable element; an image sensor disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed below the first substrate; and a wire for connecting the second substrate to the movable element. At least a part of the wire is made of a shape memory alloy.
US11815793B2
An electronic apparatus includes a chassis unit, a movable section rotatably held by the chassis unit, and a circuit board assembly on which circuit components including a tall electronic component are mounted. The chassis unit includes a pan driving unit that drives the movable section, and a pan position detection unit that detects an amount of rotation of the movable section. The chassis unit and the circuit board assembly are arranged such that they are opposed to each other in a first direction perpendicular to an installation surface of the electronic apparatus. The tall electronic component is mounted on a mounting surface, opposed to the chassis unit, of the circuit board assembly, and mounted at a location where in a projection view in the first direction, the tall electronic component does not overlap the pan driving unit and the panning detection unit.
US11815790B2
Folded cameras comprising a movable lens having a lens optical axis and positioned in an optical path between an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, wherein the OPFE folds light from a first direction to a second direction, the second direction being substantially along the lens optical axis, and an actuator for controlled lens movement, the actuator including or being attached to a shield partially surrounding the lens, the shield having an opening positioned and dimensioned to enable installation of the lens into the shield from an insertion direction substantially parallel to the first direction. A folded camera disclosed herein may be included together with an upright camera in a dual-camera.
US11815789B2
Introduced here are light sources for flash photography configured to produce high-fidelity white light that is tunable over a broader range of correlated color temperatures (CCTs) than conventional flash technologies. The light source can include multiple independently controllable color channels representing illuminants (e.g., light-emitting diodes) of different colors with varying degrees of saturation. Operating collectively, the multiple color channels can produce a high spectral quality white light corresponding to different CCTs (e.g., “warm” white light having a red hue, “cool” white light having a blue hue). Operating independently, these same color channels can be pre-flashed in a variety of prescribed sequences to probe the spectral characteristics of a scene, thereby allowing for an enhanced, spectrally matched white flash as well as collecting per-pixel reflectivity data that can be later used in during post processing of the captured image.
US11815786B2
A blade open-close device retains a blade at a predetermined position under an external load. A blade open-close device includes a base, a cover plate covering part of the base, a blade between the base and the cover plate, a driving actuator that moves the blade in X-direction, and a stopper actuator located adjacent to the driving actuator in X-direction to restrict an operation of the driving actuator. The driving actuator includes a rotor magnet rotatably located adjacent to a yoke and a driving lever including a connecting part connected to the blade. The stopper actuator includes a rotor magnet rotatably located adjacent to a yoke and a stopper lever including a restrictor movable onto a path of the driving lever in the driving actuator.
US11815785B2
A wavelength conversion optical element using a nonlinear optical effect of a device structure in which wavelength conversion efficiency rises as targeted when the length of a waveguide is increased is provided. The element adopts a waveguide structure using lithium niobate of a second-order nonlinear optical material. Wavelength conversion regions are formed to correspond to two linear waveguides extending in parallel to each other on a plane of the planar structure and correspond to the lengths of the two linear waveguides. One end side of the linear waveguide is an incident side of excitation light and one end side of the linear waveguide is an emission side of wavelength converted light. The linear waveguides excluding the incident side and the emission side are joined by a bent waveguide. Second-order nonlinear optical media forming the linear waveguides have polarization inversion structures in which directions of spontaneous polarization are periodically inverted with respect to a propagation direction of light.
US11815784B2
A nonlinear crystal grating assembly including two integral nonlinear crystal grating structures having inverted crystal axes and having parallel spaced-apart mesas with predetermined mesa widths arranged such that, when assembled in an interdigitated configuration, the mesas of the two grating structures form an alternating grating pattern that is aligned with a propagation direction of input light, thereby creating a periodic structure for quasi-phase-matching (QPM). The nonlinear crystal grating structures are formed using strontium tetraborate, lithium triborate or another nonlinear crystal material. The nonlinear crystal grating assembly is utilized in a laser assembly in which fundamental wavelengths are doubled and/or summed using intermediate frequency conversion stages, and then a final frequency converting stage utilizes the nonlinear crystal grating assembly to double or sum one or more intermediate light beam frequencies to generate laser output light at high power and photon energy levels. A method and inspection system are also described.
US11815783B2
A difference frequency generation optical transmitter and sum frequency generation optical receiver operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range for use in free space optical satellite communications are described. By using mid-infrared light, the transmitter/receiver can mitigate atmospheric scintillation, scattering, and other non-ideal optical effects in the communication channel. This is achieved through the use of nonlinear optical crystals designed for difference frequency generation in the case of the transmitter and sum frequency generation for the receiver. High-speed modulated communication signals can thus be frequency converted to the mid-infrared wavelength range by a relatively low cost, compact and high-power optical communication system.
US11815780B2
An integrated Mach-Zehnder Interferometer comprising: an upper arm and a lower arm; and a differential thermo-optic phase shifter comprising a first heating element and a second heating element collocated with the upper arm and the lower arm, respectively, the first heating element having a first resistance and the second heating element having a second resistance, an upper pad electrically connected to the first heating element, the upper pad being adapted to receive a first voltage, a lower pad electrically connected to the second heating element, the lower pad being adapted to receive a second voltage, and a common pad electrically connected to the first heating element and the second heating element, the common pad being adapted to receive a third voltage; wherein, when the first, the second, and the third voltages are applied to the upper, the lower, and the common pads, respectively, a phase shift difference is thermally produced.
US11815779B2
In one embodiment, an electrochromic device includes a single active layer configured to be alternately placed in a light-transmitting state in which relatively large amounts of light can be transmitted through the active layer and a light-blocking state in which relatively small amounts of light can be transmitted through the active layer, wherein the device comprises no other layers of material that contribute to transitioning between the two states.
US11815777B2
Disclosed is an electronically-controlled automatic light-shading device, comprising a first glass substrate, a light-shading coating, a polarizing element and a second glass substrate. An image module and a photosensitive element adjacent thereto are embedded in the first glass substrate. The first glass substrate has a first surface on the opposite side to an external light source. The light-shielding coating is applied on the first surface. The polarizing element is disposed on the light-shielding coating. The second glass substrate has a second surface facing the first surface. A plurality of spacers in contact with the polarizing element are disposed on the second surface, and an optical fiber element is disposed in each spacer.
US11815776B2
Provided are an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a first base; a switch array layer including transistors; a pixel electrode layer including pixel electrodes, each of which being connected to a drain electrode of a pixel electrode through a via; and a color resist array layer including color resists, each of which includes a first edge and a second edge opposite to each other in a first direction. First and second recesses are formed at first and second edges; for two color resists adjacent in the first direction, the first recess of one color resist is opposite to the second recess of the other color resist; and projections of the first and second recesses overlap at least partially with a projection of the via in a second direction, and the second direction is parallel to a thickness direction of the array substrate.
US11815775B2
The display apparatus includes a data generation circuit, a source driver circuit, and a pixel. The source driver circuit is electrically connected to the pixel through first and second wirings. The pixel includes a display device that is a liquid crystal device, a potential of one electrode of the display device can be a potential of the first wiring, and a potential of the other electrode of the display device can be a potential of the second wiring. The image data generation circuit has a function of generating digital image data including first and second data. One of the first and second wirings is made to have a potential corresponding to first data, and the other of the first and second wirings is made to have a potential corresponding to the second data. The potential of the first wiring and the potential of the second wiring are interchanged.
US11815773B2
A display device has a frame region in a displaying region. The frame region includes a first scan line, and a first signal line and a second signal line adjacent to each other. The first signal line has a first wide section, and the first signal line intersects the first scan line at the first wide section in plan view. The first scan line has a second wide section. The second signal line has a pair of third wide sections, and the second signal line intersects the second wide section of the first scan line at the pair of third wide sections in plan view. The first wide section of the first signal line is opposite to the second signal line between the pair of third wide sections without being opposite to the pair of third wide sections.
US11815770B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a plurality of pixels on the first substrate, a first light shielding layer on the first substrate, a second substrate, and a second light shielding layer on the second substrate. The first light shielding layer extends in the first direction, the second light shielding layer extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and apertures of the plurality of pixels are defined by the first light shielding layer and the second light shielding layer.
US11815766B2
This application provides an alignment film transfer printing plate including a substrate, a first dot arranged on the substrate, and a plurality of second dots arranged around the first dot. A height of each of the second dots in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate is less than or equal to a height of the first dot in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, a blocking portion is formed on an end of the first dot away from the substrate, and an area of an end surface of each of the second dots away from the substrate is less than an area of an end surface of the blocking portion away from the substrate.
US11815741B2
An image capturing lens system includes a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power, a seventh lens having positive refractive power, and an eighth lens having refractive power. The first to eighth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side. The first lens and the fourth lens are formed of a glass material. The second lens, the third lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, the seventh lens, and the eighth lens are formed of a plastic material.
US11815728B2
A roadway access hole drill for cutting a square or rectangular access hole in a roadway having a first saw opposing a second saw and a third saw opposing a fourth saw. A method of cutting a microtrench in which the buried utility is exposed by opening a square or rectangular access hole in a roadway above the buried utility using the roadway access hole drill that is controlled by a computer system connected to an under-roadway detection unit that detects a buried utility and stops movement of the drill to avoid damaging the buried utility.
US11815724B1
A new boot for a fiber optic connector has a ribbed back portion, a center portion, and a forward extending portion that can be used to insert and remove the fiber optic connector to receptacle. The ribbed back portion has grasping elements and is connected to the center portion. The center portion is removably connected to a crimp body that is in turn connected to the connector housing. The front extension is connected to the fiber optic connector and also provides a keying feature depending on the side of the fiber optic connector on which it is installed.
US11815722B2
Reversible optical connectors, and associated devices and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a connector for a communication cable includes a housing comprising a cavity, and a first plug and a second plug coupled to a distal portion of the housing. The first and second plugs are connected to the housing such that the first and second plugs are independently rotatable with respect to the housing. The connector further includes a latch actuator coupled to the housing and configured to disengage one or more latches from an outlet. By rotating the plugs 180 degrees and turning the connector over, the relative arrangement or position of the two plugs can be switched or reversed. The plugs can be rotated or reversed without completely disassembling the connector, in some embodiments. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure can improve workflows for a user or operator that in a high-density networking setting.
US11815716B2
An arrayed waveguide grating device includes an input coupler configured to receive a light signal and split the light signal into a plurality of output light signals. The device also includes a plurality of waveguides optically connected to the input coupler, each waveguide having a plurality of waveguide portions having respective sensitivities to variance in one or more parameters associated with operating of the optical arrayed grating device. Lengths of the respective portions are determined such that each waveguide applies a respective phase shift to the output light signal that propagates through the waveguide and the plurality of waveguides have at least substantially same change in phase shift with respective changes in the one or more parameters associated with operation of the device. An output coupler is optically connected to the plurality of waveguides to map respective light signals output from the plurality of waveguides to respective focal positions.
US11815713B2
A multicore optical fiber includes two or more cores, a common interior cladding surrounding the two or more cores, and a common exterior cladding surrounding the common interior cladding. The common exterior cladding has a lower relative refractive index than the common interior cladding and reduces tunneling losses from the cores. The reduced tunneling loss allows placement of cores closer to the edge of the fiber, thus providing multicore optical fibers having higher core count for a given fiber diameter. Separation between cores is controlled to minimize crosstalk.
US11815710B1
A backlight module is disclosed and includes: a backplate divided into a border region and a middle region surrounded by the border region, the middle region including a hollow portion; a light guide plate arranged on the backplate and including a light incident side and a light exit side; an optical film arranged on the light exit side; a light bar fixing plate arranged in the hollow portion of the backplate and connected with the backplate; and at least two light bars fixed onto the light bar fixing plate, where light emitting surfaces of the at least two light bars are disposed to face away from each other and perpendicular to the light exit side. The light produced by the at least two light bars enters the light guide plate through the light incident side, and exits the light guide plate from the light exit side.
US11815709B2
An optical device has a light-transmitting substrate, an optical coupling-out configuration, and an optical arrangement. The light-transmitting substrate has at least two major surfaces and guides light by internal reflection between the major surfaces. The optical coupling-out configuration couples the light, guided by internal reflection, out of the light-transmitting substrate toward an eye of a viewer. The optical arrangement is associated with at least one of the two major surfaces, and has a first optical element and a second optical element. The optical elements are optically coupled to each other to define an interface region associated with at least a portion of the coupling-out configuration. The interface region deflects light rays that emanate from an external scene that are incident to the optical arrangement at a given range of incident angles.
US11815707B2
The present disclosure provides a display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The display device includes: a display panel; and polarizing structures and light absorbing structures located on a light emitting side of the display panel. A plurality of groove structures are formed between the polarizing structures, and each of the light absorbing structures is located in the groove structures.
US11815702B2
According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a substrate that has a detection region; a plurality of photodiodes provided in the detection region; a plurality of lenses provided so as to overlap the respective photodiodes; and a plurality of dummy lenses that are provided in a peripheral region between an outer perimeter of the detection region and edges of the substrate and are provided so as not to overlap the photodiodes.
US11815701B2
A unitary multi-optic system has two or more co-molded individual optics molded such that each individual optic is adjacent at least one other individual optic, each individual optic configured to be illuminated with a respective individual radiation source. An optical-blocking barrier is integrally molded with the individual optics and configured to prevent transmission of undesired source emissions between the two or more co-molded individual optics.
US11815698B2
Provided are a laser combining apparatus and a display device. The laser combining apparatus includes a first group of light sources including first light source arrays, a second group of light sources including second light source arrays, a reflection apparatus including first and second reflection strips, a light converging apparatus and a light collection apparatus. Each first reflection strip reflects light emitted from at least one first light source array, each second reflection strip reflects light emitted from at least one second light source array, and light emitted from each first reflection strip and light emitted from each second reflection strip are also guided to the light converging apparatus. The light converging apparatus converges the light emitted from the first reflection strips and the second reflection strips to the light collection apparatus. The light collection apparatus collects the light converged by the light converging apparatus and then emitting same.
US11815695B2
An image display system includes a wearable device including a display configured to display an image in a field of vision of a user and a first sensor configured to detect an absolute movement of the display, and a mobile terminal including a second sensor configured to detect an absolute movement of the vehicle. The image display system further includes an image controller including a computer installed in the mobile terminal to display a subject image on the display in an AR display mode. The image controller is configured to determine a display position of the subject image on the display based at least on the absolute movement of the display detected by the first sensor and the absolute movement of the vehicle detected by the second sensor.
US11815686B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a first camera configured to capture a frontal external environment of the electronic device, a second camera oriented opposite to the first camera and configured to capture gaze directions of a user's left eye and right eye, a first display panel corresponding to the left eye, a second display panel corresponding to the right eye, a memory, and a processor that implements the method, including: identifying, using the second camera, a dominant eye and a non-dominant eye among the left eye and right eye, identifying a dominant display panel from among the first and second display panels corresponding to the dominant eye, and a non-dominant display panel from among the first and second display panels corresponding to the non-dominant eye, and changing settings of the dominant display panel to be different from settings of the non-dominant display panel.
US11815682B2
A combiner assembly for a ceiling mounted projection head up display system for an aircraft cabin has an optical combiner (10), and a support mechanism (30, 32, 35) for supporting the optical combiner to be movable between an operational position and a stowage position, above the user, and laterally displaced, and facing an underside of the projector assembly by means of a lateral component of movement and a rotation component to reach the stowage position under the projector assembly (20). Such a two axis movement can make better use of limited headroom in cabins such as those of small aircraft, by enabling a stowage location offset to one side of the line of sight, while providing sufficient clearance from the user's head and from cabin structure, during the movement and/or when in the storage position.
US11815674B2
A dual tube night vision device comprises a pair of independently pivoting night-vision monoculars connected to a bridge member. Each night-vision monocular is attached to the bridge member by a rotating arm and comprises a pod containing an image intensifier tube. Each arm allows the attached night-vision monocular to move through a rotational travel path, between a stowed position and a deployed position. The dual tube night vision device is configured to detect when the night-vision monoculars are, individually or collectively, moved to a stowed position and then temporarily cut off power to the stowed monocular(s) to increase battery runtime. Power is automatically restored, individually or simultaneously, to the night-vision monoculars when they are rotated back to the deployed positions. The dual tube night vision device uses one or more accelerometers to detect when the night-vision monoculars, individually or collectively, are in the stowed position or the deployed position.
US11815672B2
An observation device includes: first objective lenses arranged in a row so as to be parallel to one another; second objective lenses arranged in a row so as to be parallel to one another; and image capturing elements for capturing first images formed by the first objective lenses and second images formed by the second objective lenses, respectively, wherein each of the objective lenses is a magnifying objective lens, a first axis of light incident on the first objective lenses and a second axis of light incident on the second objective lenses are parallel to one another, fields of view of the first objective lenses and fields of view of the second objective lenses are arranged alternately in a row on an observation line, and the first images and the second images are arranged in a row in image-forming regions that are disposed at positions different from each other.
US11815670B2
An optical scanning microscope includes an illumination system (160) and an objective lens (134) operable together to provide the excitation radiation (152, 154) in a focal volume (124) at sufficient intensity to cause emission of emission radiation from a sample in the focal volume. The objective lens (134) is scanned by an objective scanner (130, 132). In this example an x-y transducer (xyXD) (130) is connected to a kinematic flexure mechanism (132) which acts as a scanning lens mount. The kinematic flexure mechanism is operable to scan the objective in two dimensions transverse with respect to the objective's optical axis so as to scan the emitting focal volume in corresponding dimensions. The kinematic flexure mechanism may be a unitary 3D-printed member.
US11815669B2
A lens includes a first surface, a second surface opposed to the first surface, a first outer circumferential part disposed at an outer circumferential side of the first surface, a second outer circumferential part disposed at an outer circumferential side of the second surface, three or more first reference parts provided to the first outer circumferential part, three or more second reference parts provided to the second outer circumferential part, and a first reference surface disposed at an outer circumferential side of the first outer circumferential part and the second outer circumferential part. The first surface and the second surface have a common design axis. A first imaginary plane including the first reference parts and a second imaginary plane including the second reference parts are perpendicular to the design axis respectively. The first reference surface extends in parallel to the design axis.
US11815662B2
An optical image lens assembly includes nine lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element, an eighth lens element and a ninth lens element. Each of the nine lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The image-side surface of the ninth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof and has at least one inflection point.
US11815652B2
Described herein is environmental sensors, sensor units, sensor systems and/or sensing methods. In particular, an agricultural or horticultural environment multi-sensor unit comprising a plurality of environmental sensors, including at least: an incident light sensor, a temperature sensor, a carbon dioxide sensor and a relative humidity sensor. The sensor unit may also comprise a wireless communication interface, the multi-sensor unit being configured to transmit data from the environmental sensors via the wireless communications interface.
US11815647B1
A gravity inversion method and system based on a meshfree method. The method includes: selecting an appropriate method of constructing an approximate function, and forming a hybrid radial basis function; using an appropriate evaluation method to select suitable parameters of the hybrid radial basis function; selecting a construction form of an equation; and weighting a distance norm of the hybrid radial basis function on the basis of the tendency and morphology of an ore body in the prior information; loading known underground density information and constructing an equation set; solving the equation set, and using a coefficient matrix created with an acquired coefficient vector in combination with a global background grid to obtain a global estimated density distribution; loading observation data and performing inversion by using a preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCGM) with the estimated density distribution as a constraint; and obtaining an underground density distribution and completing the inversion.
US11815630B2
Systems, devices, and methods for performing remote sensing using WMA. Embodiments include modulating an interrogation signal, transmitting the interrogation signal to a remote vibrating target, and receiving, at a first port of a WMA interferometer, a reflected signal. Embodiments also include splitting, by a first beam splitter, the reflected signal into first and second portions propagating down first and second waveguides, delaying, by a delay element, a phase of the reflected signal, and spatially phase shifting the reflected signal. Embodiments may further include splitting, by a second beam splitter, the first and second portions of the reflected signal into third and fourth portions propagating down the first and second waveguides, detecting an intensity difference between a first lobe and a second lobe of the third portion of the reflected signal, and calculating a Doppler frequency based on the intensity difference.
US11815621B2
A radar system is provided that includes a receive channel configured to receive a reflected signal and to generate a first digital intermediate frequency (IF) signal based on the reflected signal, a reference receive channel configured to receive a reflected signal and to generate a second digital IF signal based on the reflected signal, and digital mismatch compensation circuitry coupled to receive the first digital IF signal and the second digital IF signal, the digital mismatch compensation circuitry configured to process the first digital IF signal and the second digital IF signal to compensate for mismatches between the receive channel and the reference receive channel.
US11815620B2
A digitally modulated radar, DMR, transmitter module is disclosed comprising: a sequence generator, configured to generate a repeating digital sequence signal based on a relatively low-frequency clock signal; a mixer configured to combine the digital sequence signal with at least one phase-delayed copy of the digital sequence signal, to provide a combined signal; and a modulator configured to modulate a relatively high-frequency carrier signal, in dependence on the combined signal, to provide a modulated signal. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11815612B2
It is provided a method comprising the steps of: obtaining a first sample point and a second sample point; transforming the first sample point and the second sample point by setting the I value of a first transformed sample point to the Q value of the obtained first sample point, setting the Q value of the first transformed sample point to the inverse of the I value of the obtained first sample point, setting the I value of a second transformed sample point to the inverse of the Q value of the obtained second sample point, setting the Q value of the second transformed sample point to the I value of the obtained second sample point; determining the phase difference between the first sample point and the second sample point; and determining the position of the mobile key device based on the phase differences.
US11815610B2
A device includes a memory location adapted to store data, a GPS device adapted to generate information representing a location of the device, a motion detector adapted to determine when the device experiences a predetermined movement, and one or more directional indicators adapted to display a selected direction. The device also includes a processor that performs the following steps: obtain from the GPS device first location data representing a first location, and store the first location data in the memory location. Subsequently, in response to a determination that the device has experienced the predetermined movement, the processor retrieves the first location data from the memory location, obtains from the GPS device second location data representing a second location, determines a direction from the second location to the first location, and causes the one or more directional indicators to indicate the direction.
US11815604B2
The present application discloses a passive nano-antenna array receiver and a three-dimensional imaging system. The passive nano-antenna array receiver includes a receiving lens, a passive nano-antenna array at a receiving end, a focusing lens assembly, and an optical receiver; the receiving lens is configured to receive incident light and focus the incident light to the passive nano-antenna array at the receiving end; the passive nano-antenna array at the receiving end is configured to deflect an angle of a light beam output by the receiving lens, so that an optical axis of the outgoing light is perpendicular to the passive nano-antenna array at the receiving end; the focusing lens assembly is configured to focus the outgoing light output by the passive nano-antenna array at the receiving end to the optical receiver; the optical receiver is configured to convert a received optical signal into an electrical signal.
US11815601B2
A method includes receiving a trajectory dataset including a plurality of geospatial points forming a point cloud and acquired along a trajectory wherein for each of the plurality of geospatial points there is a defined an x-coordinate, a y-coordinate and a z-coordinate and at least one mapping device orientation attribute, segmenting the trajectory dataset into a plurality of segments, determining at least one relative constraint for each of the plurality of segments and utilizing, for each of the plurality of segments, at least one of the determined relative constraints to determine a relative position of at least two of the plurality of segments.
US11815592B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for managing a UAV control operation that includes: periodically receiving a request for transmission of UAV assistance information from a network entity and establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the network entity. In response to the received request, the method further includes determining a triggering of at least one event corresponding to an initiation of a UAV control operation and transmitting UAV assistance information to the network entity in an RRC connected state based on the determined triggering of the at least one event. The method further includes receiving a control message from the network entity in response to the transmitted UAV assistance information. The control message includes information related to an execution of the UAV control operation. Thereafter, the method further includes executing the UAV control operation based on the information included in the received control message.
US11815587B2
A method for targeting an object of point-to-point transmission. The method comprises obtaining an image comprising image data and selecting an area of the image wherein the area comprises image data representing the object to be targeted. The method further comprises steering a transmission beam of an antenna array in a direction corresponding to the selected area in response to the selection and transmitting a signal using the steered transmission beam of the antenna array. Corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11815577B2
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) placed in an examination volume of a MR device (1). The method comprises the steps of: —generating MR signals by subjecting the object to an imaging sequence, —acquiring MR signal profiles in a Cartesian k-space sampling scheme, wherein each MR signal profile is acquired in the presence of a temporally constant magnetic field gradient along a readout direction and a sinusoidally modulated magnetic field gradient along a phase encoding direction, and—reconstructing an MR image from the acquired MR signal profiles taking the modulation scheme of the magnetic field gradients into account. The invention proposes that the frequency of the sinusoidal modulation of the magnetic field gradient is varied during acquisition of each MR signal profile. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device for carrying out this method as well as to a computer program to be run on a MR device.
US11815575B2
A MRI device including a main field unit for establishing a main magnetic field (MF) in an imaging region, a gradient coil assembly for generating a gradient field in the imaging region, a RF arrangement for sending excitation signals to and receiving MR signals from the imaging region, a field camera for determining MF information in the imaging region, the field camera comprising multiple MF sensors arranged at measurement positions enclosing the imaging region, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive sensor data for each measurement positions, from the sensor data, calculate the MF information for the imaging region, and implement a calibration and/or correction measure depending on the MF information. The field camera may be a vector-field camera acquiring vector-valued sensor data describing the MF at each measurement positions three-dimensionally. The controller may determine the MF information to three dimensionally describe the MF in the imaging region.
US11815565B2
System for perceiving operating state of large power transformer based on vibro-acoustic integration
The present disclosure provides a system for perceiving an operating state of a large power transformer based on vibro-acoustic integration, including a perception layer, a network layer, and a diagnostic layer, where the perception layer is used for monitoring, in real time, a state parameter for a coupling vibration signal and an acoustic signal of each of a transformer core, a winding, a clamp and a housing, a state parameter of each of a vibration signal and an acoustic signal during a gear position change of an on-load tap changer (OLTC), and preliminarily diagnosing and analyzing monitored data. The system can monitor the operating state of the OLTC online for a long time, flexibly configure the sensor channel and the sensor type according to different application requirements, automatically acquire and identify the gear position change, and correctly identify and process a gear position corresponding to the monitoring signal.
US11815563B2
A multicore cable inspection method of specifying a correspondence relationship among ends of insulated electric wires exposed from both ends of a multicore cable, the method including: inputting, by capacitance coupling, an inspection signal to the end of the insulated wire to be inspected among the ends of the insulated wires exposed at the one end of the multicore cable; inputting, by the capacitive coupling, each of first and second signals, each of which has a phase different from the inspection signal, to the ends of the two insulated wires other than the insulated wire to be inspected; measuring a voltage of an output signal outputted from the capacitive coupling from each end of the insulated wires exposed at the other end of the multicore cable; and specifying the other-side end of the insulated wire to be inspected. At this time, an amplitude of a signal obtained by adding the inspection signal and the first and second signals is smaller than that of the inspection signal.
US11815549B2
An electronic component handler includes a tray having a pocket in which an IC device is placed, and a first device transport head that holds and transports the IC device to the pocket, wherein the first device transport head includes a light emitting portion that emits a light to the pocket, a light focusing portion that adjusts a spot diameter of the light emitted by the light emitting portion, and a light receiving portion that receives the light reflected by the pocket.
US11815546B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a fixing device and fixing method for chip test and a chip tester. The fixing device for chip test includes: a carrier with a fixing chamber for fixing a chip formed inside, a plurality of adjustors being disposed on sidewalls of the fixing chamber and configured to be extended or retracted to adjust a position of the chip in two orthogonal directions within a horizontal plane; and a top cover configured to cooperate with the carrier to fix the chip in a vertical direction, wherein at least one adjustable pressing cover is disposed at a bottom of the top cover, so as to autonomously adjust a pressing force applied to the chip by the pressing cover in the vertical direction. The present application is suitable for fixing chips with various overall dimensions, and can adaptively adjust a pressing force.
US11815533B2
A current sensor system for accurately measuring an AC electrical current having frequencies up to 2 kHz, the system comprising: an electrical conductor (e.g. busbar) for conducting said AC current thereby creating a first magnetic field; a magnetic sensor device for measuring a magnetic field component or gradient; an object (e.g. a metal plate) having an electrically conductive surface arranged in the vicinity of said conductor for allowing eddy currents to flow in said surface, thereby creating a second magnetic field which is superimposed with the first magnetic field; wherein the magnetic sensor device is configured for determining the current as a signal or value proportional to the measured component or gradient. The metal plate may have an opening. The current sensor system may further comprise a shielding.
US11815532B2
The described techniques address issues associated with coreless current sensors by implementing a current sensor solution that may use as few as two, two-dimensional (2D) linear sensors. The discussed techniques provide a coreless current sensor solution that is independent of the sensor position with respect to a current-carrying conductor. An algorithm is also described for auto-calibration of sensor position with respect to a current-carrying conductor to calculate the current flowing through the conductor. The calculation of current may be performed independent of the position of the current-carrying conductor with respect to the sensor, and thus the disclosed techniques provide additional advantages regarding installation flexibility without sacrificing measurement accuracy.
US11815521B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to devices and system that can be used to fill a sample cell. In some examples, the system can be configured with a pressure device configured to provide a negative pressure to accelerate filling of the cell with the sample. In some embodiments, the negative pressure can be used to fill a flow cell at a selected fill rate.
US11815517B2
Provided herein are antigenic molecules that can be used to generate antibodies capable of binding to a vitamin D derivative, such as 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and/or 25-hydroxyvitamin D3, or a 25-hydroxyvitamin D analog, such as a vitamin D-C22 immunogenic molecule or compound. Antibodies produced using these antigenic molecules, and related antigenic compounds, are also described. In addition, disclosed herein are methods for detecting vitamin D deficiency in a subject, methods for treating a subject suspected of having a vitamin D deficiency, methods for monitoring progression of vitamin D deficiency in a subject, and methods for monitoring treatment of vitamin D deficiency in a subject in need thereof. The methods involve the detection or quantification of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3. Also provided are methods and reagents for the detection or quantification of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3, methods for stabilizing vitamin D analogs, and methods for separating 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3 from vitamin D binding protein in a biological sample.
US11815511B2
A time-resolved fluorescence kit for synchronously detecting 4,15-diacetoxyscirpenol, deoxynivalenol and T-2 toxin. The kit includes an immunochromatography time-resolved fluorescence test strip and a sample reaction bottle containing freeze-dried products of europium-labeled monoclonal antibodies of toxins, where the immunochromatography time-resolved fluorescence test strip includes a liner, where a water absorption pad, a detection pad and a sample pad are sequentially attached to one side of the liner from top to bottom, adjacent pads are connected in an overlapping manner at a joint, the detection pad uses a nitrocellulose membrane as a base pad, a transverse quality control line and detection lines are arranged on the nitrocellulose membrane from top to bottom, the quality control line is coated with a rabbit antimouse polyclonal antibody, the three detection lines are located below the quality control line, and the detection lines each are coated with a toxin-protein conjugate.
US11815508B2
The present invention provides methods of predicting cell sensitivity or resistance to a therapeutic agent.
US11815488B2
The present disclosure provides methods of improving the resolution of analytes by in electrophoretic separations using a gel by incorporating into the gel an effective amount of one or more tri- or tetra-hydroxyl quaternary ammonium compounds, or a mixture of such compounds.
US11815480B2
An X-ray fluorescence analyzer comprises an X-ray tube for emitting incident X-rays in the direction of a first optical axis. A slurry handling unit is configured to maintain a constant distance between a sample of slurry and the X-ray tube. A first crystal diffractor is located in a first direction from the slurry handling unit, and configured to separate a predefined first wavelength range from fluorescent X-rays that propagate into the first direction. It is configured to direct the fluorescent X-rays in the separated predefined first wavelength range to a first radiation detector. The input power rating of said X-ray tube is at least 400 watts. The first crystal diffractor comprises a pyrolytic graphite crystal. The optical path between said X-ray tube and the slurry handling unit is direct with no diffractor therebetween.
US11815478B2
Through-tubing, cased-hole sealed material density can be evaluated using gamma ray measurements. Density evaluation comprises detecting, by at least one detector positioned within a casing of a wellbore including a sealing material positioned between the casing and a subsurface formation, electromagnetic radiation generated in response to nuclear radiation being emitted outward toward the subsurface formation, determining an electromagnetic radiation count based on the detected electromagnetic radiation, selecting at least one of a first reference material having a density that is less than a density of the sealing material and a second reference material having a density that is greater than the density of the sealing material, adjusting the electromagnetic radiation count based on the density of the at least one of the first reference material and the second reference material, and determining a density of the sealing material based on the adjusted electromagnetic radiation count.
US11815476B2
Crystallographic information of crystalline sample can be determined from one or more three-dimensional diffraction pattern datasets generated based on diffraction patterns collected from multiple crystals. The crystals for diffraction pattern acquisition may be selected based on a sample image. At a location of each selected crystal, multiple diffraction patterns of the crystal are acquired at different angles of incidence by tilting the electron beam, wherein the sample is not rotated while the electron beam is directed at the selected crystal.
US11815473B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising: a source configured to emit charged particles, an optical system and a stage; wherein the stage is configured to support a sample thereon and configured to move the sample by a first distance in a first direction; wherein the optical system is configured to form probe spots on the sample with the charged particles; wherein the optical system is configured to move the probe spots by the first distance in the first direction and by a second distance in a second direction, simultaneously, while the stage moves the sample by the first distance in the first direction; wherein the optical system is configured to move the probe spots by the first distance less a width of one of the probe spots in an opposite direction of the first direction, after the stage moves the sample by the first distance in the first direction.
US11815468B2
An image restoration apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a mask image generated by masking, by a mask region, a predetermined region of an article image in which an article is imaged; and an image output unit that outputs a restored image corresponding to the mask image acquired by the image acquisition unit by using a restorer pre-trained by machine learning so as to output the restored image, which is restored from the mask image to reproduce the article image in a pseudo manner, according to an input of the mask image.
US11815464B2
A colorimetric sensor for detecting an analyte of interest in a fluid sample includes a lamellar photonic material having alternating layers of a first polymer layer and a second polymer layer. Each first polymer layer can be a molecularly imprinted polymer defining a cavity shaped to receive an analyte of interest. The photonic material is configured such that, when an analyte contacts the photonic material and becomes disposed within a cavity of the molecularly imprinted polymer, a refractive property of the photonic material changes, causing a detectable color change in the sensor.
US11815461B2
A portable apparatus for analyzing a plant specimen. A housing assembly defines a sensing volume and controls entry of ambient light into the sensing volume when the housing is closed. A specimen support positions a plant specimen within the sensing volume whereby light emitted from at least one light emitter is incident upon the plant specimen. An image sensor senses light from the at least one light emitter that has been incident on the plant specimen. A processor analyzes data obtained from the light sensor to assess one or more properties of the plant specimen. There may be more than one light emitter, e.g., a halogen lamp and LED array, and the apparatus may acquire images under more than one lighting condition. The apparatus may include a mechanism for moving the plant specimen relative to the optical path to take images at multiple regions of interest on the specimen.
US11815454B2
A method of transforming Monte Carlo (MC) simulations for diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) may include obtaining, by a DRS device, MC simulated DRS measurements using a pre-defined number of photons; pre-processing, by the DRS device, the MC simulated DRS measurements to obtain normalized DRS measurements; correcting, by the DRS device, non-monotonicity of the normalized DRS measurements to obtain monotonic DRS measurements; converting, by the DRS device, the monotonic DRS measurements to a logarithmic domain to obtain logarithmic DRS measurements; performing, by the DRS device, curve fitting on the logarithmic DRS measurements in the logarithmic domain to obtain curve-fitted logarithmic DRS measurements; and transforming, by the DRS device, the curve-fitted logarithmic DRS measurements to a non-logarithmic domain to obtain transformed MC simulated DRS measurements.
US11815450B2
Disclosed are a system and method for active stabilization of parasitic fringes in optical spectrometers, wherein the spectrometer obtains the transmission spectrum, and a signal processor extracts the etalon drift from the spectral signatures of parasitic fringes. The disclosed approach improves spectrometer accuracy, minimizes drift, and increases time between calibrations.
US11815446B2
A quality check module for characterizing a specimen and/or a specimen container. The quality check module includes an imaging location within the quality check module configured to receive a specimen container containing a specimen, one or more cameras located at one or more viewpoints adjacent to the imaging location, and one or more spectrally-switchable light source including a light panel assembly located adjacent the imaging location and configured to provide lighting for the one or more cameras, the spectrally-switchable light source configured to be operatively switchable between multiple different spectra. Methods of imaging a specimen and/or specimen container and specimen, and specimen testing apparatus including a quality check module adapted to carry out the method are described herein, as are other aspects.
US11815440B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a substrate (105a) comprising a sample reception area (110) and a sensing area (111). The method comprises the steps of: 1) applying a sample on the sample reception area; 2) rotating the substrate around a predetermined axis; 3) during rotation, at least part of the liquid travels from the sample reception area to the sensing area due to capillary forces acting between the liquid and the substrate; and 4) removing the wave of particles and liquid formed at one end of the substrate. The sensing area is closer to the predetermined axis than the sample reception area. The sample comprises a liquid part and particles suspended therein.
US11815431B2
The present invention provides a gas detector for detecting a volatile organic compound (VOC) gas. The gas detector comprises at least one transducer comprising at least one nanowire comprising an arene compound to capture a VOC gas. An electronic characteristic of the transducer changes when a VOC gas is captured by the arene compound. The present invention also provides a mobile device; a nanowire; a nanowire matrix; a transducer; a use of a gas detector; a method of detecting a VOC gas; and a method of manufacturing a gas detector.
US11815427B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for recursive modifications are provided. An example imaging system includes a first infrared (IR) imaging device that generates first IR image data of a first field of view of the first IR imaging device at a first time and a computing device operably connected with the first IR imaging device. The computing device receives the first IR image data from the first IR imaging device and determines a first set of pixels and a second set of pixels from amongst a plurality of pixels associated with the first IR image data. The computing device further determines a first modification protocol for the first set of pixels and determines a second modification protocol for the second set of pixels. In response, the computing device generates a recursive modification input based upon the first and second modification protocols.
US11815423B1
Piston press system and test method for predicting roll service life of high-pressure grinding rolls
A piston press system and a test method using the same are used for predicting the roll service life of high-pressure grinding rolls. The method is based on the same comminution mechanism of inter-particle layers compression as the heavy equipment high-pressure grinding rolls to simulate the grinding process of the studded high-pressure grinding roll, realizing that the coverage area of studs accounts for 16% to 20% of the compression surface by disposing tungsten carbide upper studs and lower studs, better restoring the simulation process and effectively realizing the roll service life prediction of the heavy equipment high-pressure roller mill with a small quantity of materials.
US11815421B2
An objective is to provide an acoustic mode propagation speed measurement method and an acoustic mode propagation speed measurement device capable of measuring a propagation speed of an acoustic mode without cutting or processing an optical fiber wire. According to the present invention, an acoustic mode propagation speed measurement method includes: acquiring a frequency shift spectrum of Brillouin scattered light generated in an optical fiber; fitting the frequency shift spectrum using a Gauss function; acquiring a spectral full-width at half maximum w from a fitted curve using the Gauss function; and calculating a propagation speed VA of an acoustic mode of the optical fiber by substituting the acquired spectral full-width at half maximum w into a linear function of the spectral full-width at half maximum w and the propagation speed VA of the acoustic mode.
US11815414B2
A pressure sensor device includes a semiconductor die having a die surface that includes a pressure sensitive area; and a bond wire bonded to a first peripheral region of the die surface and extends over the die surface to a second peripheral region of the die surface, wherein the pressure sensitive area is interposed between the second peripheral region and the first peripheral region, wherein the bond wire comprises a crossing portion that overlaps an area of the die surface, and wherein the crossing portion extends over the pressure sensitive area that is interposed between the first and the second peripheral regions.
US11815412B2
A force sensor includes an annular diaphragm that includes an inner perimeter and an outer perimeter; the diaphragm has an outer annular portion having a tapered thickness that increases with decreasing radial distance from the outer perimeter; the diaphragm has an inner annular portion having a tapered thickness that increases with decreasing radial distance from the inner perimeter; a first strain gauge at the outer annular portion; and a second strain gauge at the inner annular portion.
US11815408B2
The present disclosure relates to a temperature sensing device having a plurality of thermocouple arrangements, each of the thermocouple arrangements having a forward conductor and a plurality of return conductors electrically connected with the forward conductor, the return conductors having a different conductive material than the respectively associated forward conductor, electrical junctions or groups of electrical junctions of the return conductors to the respectively associated forward conductor being arranged at different longitudinal positions of the respectively associated forward conductor, and consecutive longitudinal positions of the electrical junctions or of groups of the electrical junctions of all thermocouple arrangements in the longitudinal direction of all forward conductors alternating between different forward conductors. Further, the present disclosure relates to a method of producing a temperature sensing device.
US11815405B2
A photonic device has a substrate with one or more optical resonators having a first resonant frequency response relative to temperature and a different second resonant frequency response relative to temperature. A first waveguide optically couples a first light beam having a first frequency to a first optical resonator and a second waveguide optically couples a second light beam having a second frequency to a second optical resonator. An optical shifter may shift an optical characteristic of the second light beam. A detector converts output light from the photonic device into an electric signal having a characteristic indicative of a physical condition, such as temperature, of the photonic device. In some cases, output light from the one or more optical resonators is combined and a temperature of the photonic device is determined from a beat frequency in the combined light. One or more multimode optical resonators may be used.
US11815403B2
A low thermal conductivity fixed thermocouple with a heat sink package specifically designed for electrically heated vacuum furnaces having an overall cylindrical hot zone diameter of 36 inches or less, and preferably containing all metal reflective radiation shields or graphite felt insulation packages that experience high conductive losses in the low temperature ranges during vacuum heating which result in large discrepancies between the furnace temperature readings and the actual workload temperature.
US11815399B2
A wavelength-swept light source is configured to generate light to be measured that is wavelength-swept coherent light with a wavelength periodically changed. The light to be measured is separated into a measurement section and a reference section that have different optical path lengths, and is then coupled in an interference section to generate interfering light. An analyzer performs a Fourier transform of interference signals of the interfering light, and acquires an actual measured noise floor value for each of the optical path length differences based on a point spread function. An estimated coherence time is determined so that an actual measured amplitude value of the noise floor value and a calculated amplitude value coincide with each other. Linewidth of the light emitted from the coherent light source is measured based on the estimated coherence time.
US11815391B2
A light sensing module and a display apparatus are provided. The light sensing module includes a circuit board and a light sensing device, wherein the circuit board includes a mounting region and a device region surrounding the mounting region, an encapsulation layer is disposed on the device region, and a light sensing device, a light sensing hole and a barrier structure are provided on the mounting region, a vertical projection of the light sensing device on the mounting region at least partially overlaps with a vertical projection of the light sensing hole on the mounting region, and the barrier structure is disposed around the periphery of the light sensing hole, and separates the encapsulation layer from the light sensing hole.
US11815379B2
An electromagnetic flowmeter for measuring flow of fluid flowing in a conduit of the electromagnetic flowmeter, wherein the electromagnetic flowmeter includes: a coil attached to an inner surface of the conduit; a movable magnetic ring having segments of magnetic materials that is magnetically coupled with the coil to generate an electromagnetic field to interact with the fluid flowing through the conduit wherein the conduit is provided with an insulating liner. A pair of electrodes mounted on the conduit for measuring potential difference generated by the interaction of the electromagnetic field in the fluid. Wherein the segments of magnetic materials are having varying magnetic properties arranged to have an orderly varying electromagnetic field in the conduit adjustable by rotating the movable magnetic ring. The movable magnetic ring is positioned between the at least one coil and the insulating liner.
US11815377B2
A vortex flowmeter for measuring a flow rate of a fluid. The meter includes a flowtube, a bluff body, and a vortex sensor. The bluff body, which is positioned in the flowtube, sheds vortices in the fluid when the fluid flows through the flowtube and the vortex sensor detects the vortices and generates a vortex signal representing the detected vortices. A pressure sensor arrangement is configured to detect a differential pressure in the fluid between a first location upstream of at least a portion of the bluff body and a second location downstream of at least a portion of the bluff body and generate a differential pressure signal representing the pressure differential between the two locations. The flowmeter determines the fluid flow rate based on the pressure differential.
US11815369B2
The differential capacitor device includes a differential capacitor sensing component, a calibration capacitor assembly and two output terminals. The differential capacitive sensing element has a common point terminal, a first non-common point terminal and a second non-common point terminal, and the common point terminal is configured to receive an input voltage. The calibration capacitor assembly has a first calibration capacitor and a second calibration capacitor, one terminal of the calibration capacitor assembly is coupled to the first non-common point terminal and the second non-common point terminal, and the other terminal of the calibration capacitor assembly is configured to receive a first calibration voltage and a second calibration voltage. The two output terminals are respectively coupled to the first non-common point terminal and the second non-common point terminal to output a first signal and a second signal.
US11815367B2
A battery-free rotation detecting device includes a rotating carrier, a first magnetic element, a second magnetic element and at least one detection coil set. The rotating carrier can be assembled with a rotating element. The first magnetic element is disposed to the rotating carrier, and the second magnetic element is also disposed to the rotating carrier but spaced from the first magnetic element. The at least one detection coil set is located between the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element. The rotating carrier can be driven by the rotating element so as further to rotate the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element synchronously. The at least one detection coil set generates an electrical signal upon when a change of the magnetic field between the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element is detected.
US11815359B2
A travel service system makes it possible for a driver to pick up a passenger quickly and accurately. The system obtains map information including real-scene picture information, determines a geographic coordinate, obtains a real-scene picture of the geographic coordinate, and analyzes the real-scene picture to identify a salient object in the real-scene picture. A preferable target position is determined on the basis of the identified salient object. The identified salient object and the preferable target position on the real-scene picture are marked. The real-scene picture with the marked salient object and the preferable marked target position are sent to a receiving terminal.
US11815352B2
A downhole borehole imaging tool and methods for determining a borehole size includes a magnetoresistive system and a hub moveably coupled to a fixed tool string. The hub includes a magnet. The magnetoresistive system includes magnetoresistive sensors disposed within the fixed tool string and segregated from the magnet. During operation, a routine scan of all sensors measures, for example, the output voltage V, angle θ of magnetic field, and temperature. Measurements from each sensor may then be characterized to account for temperature and input voltages variation of the sensors. The most accurate measurement can be used to derive the position of the hub 44 using the previous baseline parameters stored in the tool.
US11815341B2
A firearm projectile is provided to promote a yaw effect on material entry by the projectile and to enhance wound channel formation on entered material. The firearm projectile comprises an elongated body, having a surface formed as a surface of revolution. It further consists of an ovoid forward portion and a cylindrical rear portion.
US11815339B2
The invention relates to a protective shield that can be worn by one person. This shield encloses this person's entire upper body and is made of bullet-resistant or fragment-resistant material. The protection shield consists of two concentric hollow semi-cylindrical or conical halves. The first half has slightly smaller outer dimensions than the second half and includes belts or straps, such that the wearer can carry this first half on his back like a backpack. The second larger half is rotatably mounted on the outside of this first half and can hold 180 rotated degrees about a vertical axis of rotation. The protection shield can also include more than two concentric hollow semi-cylindrical or conical halves.
US11815336B2
The invention relates to a protective clothing unit, in particular a textile protective clothing unit, preferably a protective clothing unit having protection against splinters and/or fragments and/or having a ballistic protective function. The invention further relates to a use of said protective clothing unit.
US11815334B2
The present disclosure is directed to a reticle for an optical sight of a projectile launching device. A reticle of the present disclosure is graduated in angular measurement and operationally configured as an exact firing solution using ballistic data and operationally configured for target auto ranging, bullet drop compensation and target auto leading at one or more incremental distances. A reticle of the present disclosure is also operationally configured for use with one or more firearm/ammo combinations zeroed at one or more distances.
US11815332B2
An adjustable firearm sight includes a body made of a flexible and resilient material. The body includes an elevation arm connected to the body and extending proximally therefrom to a sight portion, where the elevation arm and the body comprise a monolithic structure. A cam body below the elevation arm has a cam surface in contact with a bottom surface of the elevation arm, where the cam body is rotatable to change a vertical position of the sight portion. Also disclosed is a front sight assembly where a sight element is disposed in a longitudinal bore through a sight body. A proximal end of the longitudinal bore has a reduced size. At a distal end, a retention pin is disposed in a retention bore that extends transversely to and intersects the longitudinal bore such that the retention pin occupies the longitudinal bore to retain the sight element.
US11815314B2
An integrated vapor chamber includes an outer shell and a plurality of composite capillary structures. The outer shell includes a flat casing and a plurality of partitions integrally formed. The flat shell includes a chamber, and the partitions are disposed in the chamber to separate the chamber into a plurality of flow channels. Each composite capillary structure is extended along each flow channel and distributed in the chamber. The composite capillary structure includes a metal mesh and a plurality of sintered powder uniformly sintered in the metal mesh. Furthermore, this disclosure also discloses a manufacturing method of the integrated vapor chamber. Therefore, the manufacturing method of the thin vapor chamber is simplified to improve the yield rate.
US11815312B2
A rapid thermal processing method and a rapid thermal processing device are provided. The rapid thermal processing method includes the following operations. A wafer is provided. A first heating operation is performed on the wafer to heat the wafer to a first temperature. The wafer is controlled to start rotating. The first temperature is maintained for a first predetermined time. A second heating operation is performed on the wafer to heat the wafer from the first temperature to a second temperature, and the second temperature is maintained for a second predetermined time. A third heating operation is performed on the wafer to heat the wafer from the second temperature to a third temperature, and the third temperature is maintained for a third predetermined time.
US11815310B2
A hydrocarbon recovery system is integrated with a fluff transfer system. The hydrocarbon recovery system is configured for contacting a wet polymer fluff with a purge gas to provide a purged polymer fluff and an overhead stream, and separating a solids stream, a recovered hydrocarbon stream, and a recovered purge gas from the overhead stream. The polymer fluff transfer system is configured to receive the purged polymer fluff from the hydrocarbon recovery system and transport the purged polymer fluff in the fluff transfer system via circulation of a fluff transfer gas. The hydrocarbon recovery system and the fluff transfer system are integrated by utilizing fluff transfer gas from the fluff transfer system as the purge gas in the hydrocarbon recovery system and/or by utilizing at least a portion of the recovered purge gas from the hydrocarbon recovery system in the fluff transfer system as the fluff transfer gas.
US11815304B2
A refrigerator including: a main body forming a storage compartment and a door provided to open and close the storage compartment, wherein the door includes a door frame, a cover arranged in front of the door frame and including a cover fixer, and a door panel arranged in front of the cover, the door panel including a first fixer and a second fixer on a rear surface of the door panel. When the door panel is coupled to a front side of the cover, the first fixer is coupled to the door frame and the second fixer is coupled to the cover.
US11815302B2
A refrigerator includes a storage compartment and an air sanitation device mounted on a top wall of the storage compartment. The air sanitation device includes: a housing having an upper wall, a lower wall, and a peripheral wall connecting the upper wall to the lower wall; an air channel disposed in the housing and has an air inlet and an air outlet; a fan disposed in the air channel to force air to enter the air channel from the air inlet and leave the air channel from the air outlet; and an air detection device and/or an air purification device disposed in the air channel. The air outlet is disposed on the peripheral wall, and the air channel is configured in such a way that the air is discharged out of the air outlet obliquely downward.
US11815299B2
A refrigeration apparatus based on a molecular sieve, including a first molecular sieve device, a second molecular sieve device, a reversing valve, and a balancing valve, wherein an air flow alternately passes through the first molecular sieve device and the second molecular sieve device through the reversing valve, and then flows back through the balancing valve, so that the first molecular sieve device and the second molecular sieve device are regenerated. The first molecular sieve device and the second molecular sieve device are capable of separating a refrigerant from a depressurization gas, and the refrigerant is condensed after reaching a certain concentration to become a liquid refrigerant, and then enters an evaporator again for refrigeration.
US11815289B1
An attic ventilation system including a fan assembly, a power source assembly and an attic assembly is disclosed herein. The fan assembly includes fan blades, a fan housing and a motor, the fan housing covers the fan blades. The motor makes the blades rotate. The fan housing is attached to a window frame of an attic assembly by support bars. The power source assembly includes a solar panel attached to a support frame. The support frame is attached to the window frame by top support bars and bottom support bars. The top support bars are larger than the bottom support bars. The solar panel has an inclination to face a sun path. The solar panel supplies power energy to the motor. The fan assembly blows fresh air to an interior of an attic assembly.
US11815288B2
A humidification and air cleaning apparatus is provided, in which a shield prevents water, discharged from an upper nozzle, from being scattered upward, thereby preventing droplets from being scattered to a discharge port which is open to as upper side of a water tank.
US11815281B2
An air-conditioning device includes: a heat medium cycle circuit including: a pump, a plurality of indoor heat exchangers, and a plurality of flow control devices configured to control a flow rate of the heat medium through the heat medium cycle circuit; a heat-source-side device configured to heat or cool the heat medium; and a controller that includes a determination processing unit to determine whether the heat medium is caused to pass through the plurality of indoor heat exchangers where heat exchange is stopped, a selection processing unit to select, based on a determination from the determination processing unit, an indoor heat exchanger through which the heat medium is caused to pass from the plurality of indoor heat exchangers where heat exchange is stopped, and an instruction processing unit to instruct a release of a flow control device that corresponds to the indoor heat exchanger selected.
US11815279B2
Described herein is an electric motor assembly for an environmental control system. The electric motor assembly includes a fan configured to rotate to circulate air within a controlled environment chamber of the environmental control system, and an electric motor coupled to the fan and configured to rotate the fan. The electric motor includes a motor controller configured to receive a braking control signal from a sensor associated with the controlled environment chamber. The braking control signal indicates an entrance to the controlled environment chamber is about to be opened. The motor controller is also configured to initiate braking the electric motor in response to receiving the braking control signal.
US11815276B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for controlling an air conditioner, and a computer storage medium, and relates to the technical field of intelligent household appliances. The method includes acquiring a current physical characteristic parameter of an air conditioner user in a current sampling timeframe; and adjusting either or both of a current set temperature and a current compressor frequency of the air conditioner according to the current physical characteristic parameter and current energy consumption of the air conditioner when the current physical characteristic parameter falls within a set range of parameters in sleep. Therefore, energy conservation and a comfortable user experience are compatible, thereby providing more functions for the control of the air conditioner in the sleep mode.
US11815275B2
A portable electronic device includes a signal control module, an information display module, a temperature and humidity sensing module, and a gas detection module. The information display module is configured for providing a plurality of information display images. The gas detection module is configured for detecting a gas concentration of a predetermined gas to obtain a gas concentration value. One of the information display images has a temperature and humidity coordinate graph, and a plurality of comfortability distribution areas shown on the temperature and humidity coordinate graph, an ambient temperature value and an ambient humidity value that are obtained by the temperature and humidity sensing module serve as a temperature and humidity indicator shown on one of the comfortability distribution areas, and the gas concentration value that is obtained by the gas detection module serves as a comfortability indicator shown on one of the comfortability distribution areas.
US11815267B2
A combustor liner for a gas turbine has a cold side liner segment, and a hot side liner segment, with a baffle cavity between the cold side liner segment and the hot side liner segment. At least one cooling airflow dispersing member is arranged within the baffle cavity. The at least one cooling airflow dispersing member includes a main cavity portion, and at least one peripheral cavity portion surrounding the main cavity portion. The main cavity portion includes a main cavity inlet side having a cooling airflow opening, a main cavity outlet side having plurality of hot side cooling airflow openings, and at least one peripheral cavity outlet flow passage providing fluid communication between the main cavity portion and the at least one peripheral cavity portion. The at least one peripheral cavity portion includes a peripheral cavity outlet side having a plurality of hot side cooling airflow openings.
US11815266B2
A combustor nozzle, a combustor, and a gas turbine including the same are proposed. The combustor nozzle includes a nozzle module. The nozzle module includes a fuel supply pipe supplying fuel from the front side to the rear side, a fuel plenum having an internal fuel flow path through which the fuel flows and communicating with the fuel supply pipe, an air inlet formed in front of the fuel plenum, a plurality of tubes disposed through a rear side of the fuel plenum, wherein a front end of each tube communicates with the air inlet, and a fuel port communicating with the fuel flow path is formed on a lateral side of each tube, and a swirler provided with a plurality of swirling guides disposed obliquely in axial and circumferential directions on an inner circumferential surface of each of the plurality of tubes to swirl fluid, with a central portion thereof opened when viewed from the axial direction of the tube.
US11815253B2
An LED light source module includes a circuit board, solid-state light emitting elements arranged on the circuit board, a heatsink disposed in contact with the circuit board and having a channel formed inside, through which refrigerant flows, and a switching unit configured to switch a flow direction of refrigerant through the channel to an opposite direction.
US11815251B1
Disclosed herein is a smart lighting device equipped with a user interface capable of gesture recognition, the smart lighting device including: a main body provided with a light-emitting diode (LED) lighting unit; a sensing unit embedded in the main body, and configured to detect a gesture of a user's hand and to generate sensing information for the gesture; an integrated control unit embedded in the main body, and configured to control individual units so that a setting adjustment for any one of control modes, including at least any one of a brightness setting, color temperature setting, and timer setting of the LED lighting unit and ON/OFF control, corresponding to the sensing information can be made based on previously stored control information; and a power supply unit configured to supply an operating voltage so that the LED lighting unit, the sensing unit, and the integrated control unit can operate.
US11815240B1
An optical lens includes a front lens part and a rear lens part disposed rearward of the front lens portion. The rear lens part has a rear end, a light entry portion that is concaved forwardly from the rear end and that is adapted to receive incidence of light rays, and a reflective portion that extends forwardly from the rear end and that surrounds the light entry portion. The reflective portion has two first reflective surfaces respectively disposed on top and bottom sides of the light entry portion, two second reflective surfaces respectively disposed at left and right sides of the light entry portion, and a plurality of third reflective surfaces each disposed between one of the first reflective surfaces and one of the second reflective surfaces. The first, second, and third reflective surfaces together form a discontinuous stepped surface around the light entry portion.
US11815210B2
A coupling for coupling one or more hoses to a cleaning machine including at least one connector for the connecting of a hose to be cleaned with a pillar and at least one pillar for the connection of the connector with a cleaning machine, wherein the pillar includes a longitudinal hollow body with at least two open ends including; a longitudinal guidance part, situated towards a first end; and a second end opposite to the first end in longitudinal direction; wherein the guidance part is provided with a thickening for the fixing of the connector to the guidance part, which thickening includes a first slope facing the first end, which slope has an angle with the guidance part between 5 and 45 degrees; and includes a second slope facing the second end, which slope has an angle with the guidance part between 30 and 60 degrees.
US11815207B2
An adapter for mounting a cable hanger on a mounting structure includes a body having a base and a neck, the base having a hollow cavity and including a mounting hole with an overhanging rim, the neck including a threaded bore, the adapter being formed of a polymeric material.
US11815204B2
The invention refers to a joint for hydraulic connection, including: an upstream body; a downstream body; and a joining device with screw, extended along a hinging axis, which crosses in succession the upstream body and the downstream body rotatably coupling them with respect to said hinging axis; being further provided an adhesive interposed between thread and counter-thread of the joining device.
US11815199B2
In certain embodiments, a hose includes an inner tube, a filler material, and an outer cover. The inner tube has a cross-sectional shape and includes a cavity for transporting a substance. The filler material is provided around an outer periphery of the inner tube. The filler material includes a self-sealing material or a self-healing material. The outer cover is provided around an outer periphery of the filler material such that the filler material is between the outer cover and the inner tube. The outer cover has a D-shaped cross-sectional shape.
US11815197B2
A cable manager includes a backbone assembly and at least one side wall extending from the backbone assembly. The at least one side wall optionally includes one or more cable finger units. The backbone assembly includes a spine member having an extruded construction. The spine member includes one or more channels extending substantially an entire length thereof to facilitate easy attachment, removal and/or repositioning of a structure relative to the spine member. The cable manager optionally includes an accessory rod, a half-spool assembly, a cable finger accessory, a strap/buckle accessory, and/or a door assembly having an interference-free hinge set.
US11815195B1
A utility control system that includes a switch control unit for selectively controlling a utility. The switch control unit may include a visual indicator configured to illuminate a first color when a switch selection mechanism is in a first position to indicate the on state of the utility and a illuminate a second color when the switch selection mechanism is in a second position to indicate the off state of the utility. Control of the utility may be accomplished through generating low-voltage pulses that cause a latching solenoid to latch to a first state or a second state. The utility system may also be provided as a retrofitting kit for a light switch.
US11815191B2
A choke valve includes a choke body and a choke trim disposed within the choke body. The choke trim also includes an insert defining a plurality of positive beans and a plate defining an aperture. The plate is configured to contact and to rotate relative to the insert to cover and uncover the plurality of positive beans to adjust a fluid flow through the choke valve.
US11815189B2
Fluid channel sealing devices, frangible seals, fluid circuits, associated controllers and methods of using the same are provided for controlling fluid distribution using a reconfigurable blocking element having first and second portions to establish a first configuration free of any open channels such that fluid is prevented from flowing through the channel and a second configuration where the first and second portions are separated to establish an open channel and allow fluid to pass.
US11815187B2
The invention relates to a 3-port valve for passing fluids therethrough, having a valve body, a port, a first sub-port and a second sub-port, with the port being adjoined by a main line which ends in a connecting region, said first sub-port having a first sub-port line that is connected to the connecting region, said second sub-port having a second sub-port line that is connected to the connecting region, with at least one valve member being arranged in the connecting region, which valve member can be displaced along a valve member axis between an opening position and a closed position thereof in the connecting region, so that, in a first valve position, the port is fluidically connected to the first sub-port, in a second valve position, the port is fluidically connected to the second sub-port, in a third valve position, the port is fluidically connected to both the first and second sub-ports, in a fourth valve position, the port is fluidically connected neither to the first sub-port nor to the second sub-port. The invention is characterized in that the valve body is formed from a high-tempered steel, or other suitable material, with the valve body being produced from a solid ingot and with the connecting region, the main port, the first sub-port line and the second sub-port line having been machined into the steel ingot. Heat transfer medium lines for passing a HTM therethrough are also machined into the same valve body to regulate the temperature of the fluid. Simultaneously or alternatively, electric heating cartridge receptacles may be machined into the valve body ingot.
US11815186B2
A valve assembly has a stationary valve body and a valve member that is movable relative to the valve body at least from a closed position, in which the valve member cooperates with a valve seat to completely obstruct a fluid path formed through the valve body, to an open position, which allows fluid to flow through the fluid path. The valve member has a disc- or ball-shaped rigid component that is overmolded with a flexible component and at least partially encompasses the rigid component in a circumferential direction to form a ring gasket section.
US11815185B2
A mechanical seal assembly adapted for arrangement around a rotating shaft of a pump has first and second seals. Both include primary and mating rings, biasing mechanisms and annular flexible sealing membranes. The two seals can have different seal balances or different biasing forces (or both) to allow the second seal to run dry for extended periods.
US11815165B2
A powertrain for an electric vehicle includes: a planetary gear including a first rotating element, a second rotating element, and a third rotating element, where the first rotating element is connected to a first shaft, the second rotating element is connected to a second shaft, and the third rotating element is selectively connected to a transmission housing; a first motor supplying power to the first shaft at all times; and a second motor selectively supplying power to the first shaft and the second shaft. Two rotating elements among the first, second, third rotating elements of the planetary gear are selectively connected to integrally rotate the entire planetary gear.
US11815164B2
Disclosed is a configurable seamless shift gearbox (100, 506). Configurable seamless shift gearbox comprises input shaft (102, 508) and output shaft (104, 510); gear arrangement (106) engaged between input and output shafts, configured to drive torque from input to output shaft. Gear arrangement comprises first gear member (202), second gear member (108), third gear member (118), and fourth gear member (110A, 110B) that rotationally arranges third gear member thereon; first clutch (112) configured to variably engage and disengage with fourth gear member to transfer input torque from input shaft to gear arrangement; and second clutch (114) configured to variably engage and disengage with second gear member to transfer input torque from gear arrangement to output shaft, wherein first and second clutch selectively engage and disengage with fourth and second gear member, respectively, at same time to enable variable gear ratios for providing a seamless torque from input to output shaft.
US11815162B2
A reducer includes a reduction unit configured to reduce an input torque, and an output unit configured to be supplied with a preset reduction torque through the reduction unit and to transfer an output torque to the outside. The reduction unit includes an input shaft configured to be supplied with the input torque, a cycloidal disc arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the input shaft in an eccentrically rotatable manner, a tooth-type protrusion being formed along a circumference of an edge of the cycloidal disc, a hollow housing configured to accommodate the cycloidal disc and including a plurality of inner pins arranged to be spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other along a circumference of an inner circumferential surface of the hollow housing in a manner that possibly comes into contact with the tooth-type protrusion on the cycloidal disc, and a plurality of rolling pins coupled to the cycloidal disc and having a cylindrical structure.
US11815160B2
A gearbox comprises a differential gear train. The differential gear train comprises a ring gear assembly, a sun gear assembly, and a planetary carrier assembly connected to a planetary gear mechanism. The planetary carrier assembly comprises side plates. The side plates combine with gears to form high-pressure volume units and low-pressure volume units, and a throttle channel is connected between two volume units. The high-pressure volume unit is constructed in a meshing zone of the gears. All high-pressure volume units are connected and communicated with each other by means of a high-pressure oil channel on the planetary carrier assembly. The gearbox can reduce the volume of the high-pressure volume unit, simplify the structure and process, and improve the transmission efficiency and reliability.
US11815158B2
The present invention relates to a core wire for a frictional power-transmission belt, the core wire including a Lang lay cord, having a total fineness of 300 to 1000 tex, and including a rubber component adhered to at least a part of a surface of the core wire, in which the Lang lay cord comprises a first-twisted yarn, and in which the first-twisted yarn comprises a carbon fiber.
US11815152B2
Motor dampening provisions are described. Incorporation and use of the motor dampener(s) in a rotary type drain cleaning machine enables elimination of a clutch in the machine. Also described are clutch-free drive systems using the motor dampener(s). Also described are torque countering members that are used in conjunction with the motor dampener(s).
US11815149B2
An elastomeric bushing comprises an inner sleeve, an elastomeric bumper disposed around and directly engaging the inner sleeve, and an outer sleeve disposed around the inner sleeve and the elastomeric bumper. The outer sleeve is spaced apart from the inner sleeve and directly engages the elastomeric bumper. The inner sleeve includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion axially spaced apart from one another. The outer sleeve includes a radially inwardly extending indentation axially positioned between the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The indentation traps a first portion of the elastomeric bumper between the first protrusion and a first surface of the indentation and also traps a second portion of the elastomeric bumper between the second protrusion and a second surface of the indentation.
US11815142B2
This disclosure relates to a magnetorheological (MR) brake. The MR brake includes a rotor constructed at least partially of a ferromagnetic material, and a housing that supports the rotor such that the rotor and the housing are rotatable relative to each other about an axis, wherein the housing and rotor are configured such that a fluid gap is defined between the housing and the rotor, and wherein portions of the housing adjacent the rotor are constructed at least partially of a ferromagnetic material. An MR fluid is disposed in the fluid gap. A current-carrying coil is excitable to generate a magnetic field within ferromagnetic portions of the rotor and the housing and acts on the MR fluid. At least one element constructed of a material having low magnetic permeability is configured route the lines of magnetic flux through surrounding higher permeability material on opposite sides of the fluid gap.
US11815135B2
A friction clutch mechanism includes a diaphragm spring, a pressure plate having a peripheral fulcrum acting against a first face of the diaphragm spring, and a pair of axially opposed intermediate fulcrums supported by a clutch cover and acting on the opposite faces of the diaphragm spring along a radially intermediate portion thereof. The friction clutch mechanism has an additional elastic element, operatively associated with a first intermediate fulcrum of the pair of axially opposed intermediate fulcrums, and axially and elastically compressible in response to a deflection of the diaphragm spring towards an open friction condition. The additional elastic element has a radially innermost annular portion resting on one or more bearing surfaces supported by the clutch cover, and a radially outermost annular portion that cantilevers and has a protrusion circumferentially extended and axially projecting towards the first face of the diaphragm spring to serve as the first intermediate fulcrum.
US11815132B2
An insertion system for inserting a bushing assembly into a housing opening in a structural member comprising a brace assembly, an actuator assembly, and a drive plate. The brace assembly comprises a brace rod, an anchor member defining an anchor member recess, and a brace nut. The actuator assembly comprises an actuator housing defining an actuator housing opening and a drive member defining a drive member opening. The drive plate defines a drive plate recess. The anchor member acts on the structural member and the brace nut acts on the actuator assembly. Operation of the actuator assembly displaces the drive plate. Displacement of the drive plate displaces the bushing assembly into the housing opening.
US11815129B2
Disclosed is a needle roller bearing, in particular for use in supporting a bottom roller in a spinning machine. The needle roller bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring which are arranged such that the inner ring and the outer ring are rotatable relatively to each other around a bearing rotation axis. A rolling chamber is defined between the inner ring and the outer ring, in which a plurality of needle rollers are arranged. A solid lubricant is disposed in the rolling chamber of the needle roller bearing.
US11815127B2
Disclosed is a welded member for plated steel plate having excellent weld zone porosity resistance and fatigue properties and a method of manufacturing the same. The welded member for plated steel plate having excellent weld zone porosity resistance and fatigue properties according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a weld metal portion formed by arc welding and overlapping a first member and a laminated second member so as to partially overlap the first member, wherein the toe angle (θ) of the weld metal portion is 45° or less, and the first member and the second member are plated steel plates.
US11815119B2
Disclosed is a perforated wall system, having a perforated wall which includes a front side and a rear side and multiple openings in the perforated wall and at least one fastening element for fastening to the perforated wall. The fastening element includes an element body and a locking element provided on the element body for the releasable connection of the fastening element to the perforated wall at an opening in the perforated wall. The locking element projects through the opening in the perforated wall for the fastening of the fastening element.
US11815109B2
A regeneration device includes: a regeneration valve that controls the flow rate of an operating fluid being drained from one port of a cylinder; a non-return valve that allows a regenerative flow of the operating fluid from the regeneration valve to the other port of the cylinder and blocks an opposite flow of the operating fluid; and an exhaust valve that controls the flow rate of the operating fluid output from the regeneration valve being drained to a tank. The regeneration valve controls the flow rate independently of the exhaust valve.
US11815099B2
A fan assembly including a base arranged to support the fan assembly on a surface, an air flow generator that is arranged to generate an air flow, and an air outlet that is arranged to emit at least a portion of the air flow from the fan assembly is provided. The air outlet is arranged to be oscillated relative to the base. The fan assembly further includes a controller that is arranged to control the oscillation of the air outlet relative to the base. The controller is arranged to vary an oscillation speed of the air outlet for each oscillation.
US11815097B2
The invention relates to a pump device having a pump (8) and an energy supply device (5, 18), wherein the pump has a conveying element (9, 11) which conveys a fluid by means of supplied energy, wherein the pump has a transport state and an operating state, and wherein at least one first element (9, 9a, 10, 10′, 11) of the pump has a different shape and/or size in the transport state than in the operating state. The operating safety of such a pump device is increased by a detection device (12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29) which detects whether at least the first element is in the operating state with respect to shape and/or size by means of a sensor.
US11815096B2
A pump unit includes a rough-vacuum pump and a Roots vacuum pump connected in series and upstream of the rough-vacuum pump in the direction of flow of the pumped gases. The Roots vacuum pump has three pumping stages in which the rotors are designed to be driven simultaneously in rotation by a motor of the Roots vacuum pump. A ratio of the flow rate generated by the first pumping stage of the rough-vacuum pump in the direction of flow of the pumped gases over the flow rate generated by the last pumping stage of the rough-vacuum pump is less than or equal to four.
US11815092B2
Problem: To provide a fluid transfer device that can solve an issue of pulsation that occurs when a liquid material is discharged from a nozzle by eccentrically rotating a male-screw-shaped rotor within a stator having a female-screw-shaped insertion hole, an application device including the fluid transfer device, and an application method. Solution: A fluid transfer device 1 includes: an outer cylinder 10; a stator 11 that has a female-screw-shaped insertion hole 12 as a through-hole and is provided on an inner periphery of the outer cylinder; and a male-screw-shaped rotor 20 that is connected to a rotor driving part and eccentrically rotates in contact with an inner periphery of the stator. In the fluid transfer device 1 capable of transferring a fluid in a transport path formed by the stator 11 and the rotor 20, by rotating the rotor 20 inserted through the insertion hole 12, contact force with the rotor 20 at an inlet portion and an outlet portion of the stator 11 is smaller than contact force with the rotor 20 at a central portion of the stator 11.
US11815057B2
The present invention provides a fuel injector capable of suppressing separation of a fuel flow in an injection port during fuel injection. A fuel injector (30) includes plural injection ports (31a to 31f), each of which injects the fuel into an internal combustion engine (10). The plural injection ports (31a to 31f) are provided in plural on a first circle with a first radius (R1) and on a second circle with a larger second radius (R2) than the first radius (R1), and includes: a first injection port (31a), a center of an opening of which is provided on the first circle; and a second injection port (31c), a center of an opening of which is provided on the second circle on an opposite side of a tangent of the first circle, which passes the center of the opening of the first injection port, from a center axis (CF1) of the fuel injector (30). When seen in a cross section on the shortest line connecting the center of the first injection port (31a) and the center of the second injection port (31c), a first angle (θ1) defined by a center axis (CF2) of the first injection port (31a) and the center axis (CF1) of the fuel injector (30) is larger than a second angle (θ2) defined by a center axis (CF3) of the second injection port (31c) and the center axis (CF1) of the fuel injector (30).
US11815053B2
The invention provides a fuel treatment system for cracking hydrocarbons in fuel for combustion engines. The system comprises a primary ducting component having an exhaust gas inlet zone, and a secondary ducting component which includes a fuel enrichment component and a processing chamber. The processing chamber may have an outlet zone connectable to the combustion engine. The inlet zone of the primary ducting component and the outlet zone of the processing chamber may be configured in a heat exchange relationship with each other and in a counter-current gas flow direction with respect to each other. During operation of the system, heat from hottest volumes of the exhaust gas flowing in a furthest upstream portion of the ducting arrangement may be transferred to fuel-enriched exhaust gas flowing in a furthest downstream portion of the processing chamber. The system may include turbulence-inducing formations, including vortex-inducing formations configured in accordance with mathematical sequences such as the Fibonacci sequence.
US11815047B2
A compressor adapted for use in for a gas turbine engine includes a diffuser and a housing. The diffuser is arranged circumferentially around an axis and includes a fore plate, an aft plate spaced apart axially from the fore plate to define a flow path therebetween, and a plurality of vanes that extend between the fore plate and the aft plate. The housing is arranged circumferentially about the axis and located adjacent the diffuser.
US11815040B2
An engine system has an internal combustion engine, a turbocharger provided with a compressor and with a turbine; and a supply line, which supplied air to the engine through said compressor; the supply line has a supplementary compression stage, which is distinct from the compressor and is controlled in combination with and adjustment of the turbine, in order to limit the back pressure of the exhaust gases flowing out of the engine; in particular, said compression stage is defined by an ejector.
US11815039B1
A rotary oil-electricity hybrid engine is an engine with a brand new structure, taking an inner rotor connected with a power output shaft as an example, the rotary oil-electricity hybrid engine is structurally characterized in that: an annular cavity is formed by an outer rotor cylinder and an inner rotor shaft core, an outer rotor blade and an inner rotor blade divide the annular cavity into a combustion chamber and a buffer chamber, and an outer rotor and an inner rotor rotate in the same direction with a changing angle difference within a round angle; and the rotary oil-electricity hybrid engine is operationally characterized in that: gas in the combustion chamber is emptied during cold start, and a numerical control motor is linked with a bump of a limiting ring to enable the inner and outer rotors to mesh, rotate at a constant speed and reach a high rotating speed.
US11815037B2
A method and system for operating a two-stroke engine includes a fuel system comprising a fuel pressure sensor, fuel temperature sensor and a fuel injector and a controller in communication with the fuel pressure sensor and fuel temperature sensor. The controller controls the fuel injector with a fuel pulsewidth determined by determining a beginning time of a window for measuring fuel pressure, determining an ending time of the window, measuring fuel pressure between the beginning time and the ending time, determining a fuel pulsewidth based on the fuel pressure and fuel temperature and injecting fuel into the two-stroke engine in response to a desired fuel mass.
US11815034B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for supplying fuel to a turbomachine. In some embodiments, the system includes a pump, a hydromechanical group, a drive device positioned to drive the pump, and a branch comprising actuators for controlling variable geometry. In some embodiments, the system regulates a fuel flow rate based at least in part on a flow rate set point value. In some embodiments, the system may include a flow rate sensor. A flow rate loop may be arranged to determine a pressure set point value at the outlet of the pump according to the flow rate set point value and a measurement supplied by the flow rate sensor. In some embodiments, a pressure sensor may be positioned in the fuel circuit at the outlet of the pump. In further embodiments, a pressure loop may control the speed of the drive device based at least on a difference between a pressure measurement supplied by the pressure sensor and the pressure set point value.
US11815032B2
A controller for a gas turbine arranged to supply a load is described. The gas turbine includes a fuel supply arranged to supply fuel at a fuel flow rate to a combustor. The fuel supply includes a first fuel supply and a second fuel supply. The controller is arranged to control a proportion of the fuel flow rate supplied via the first fuel supply based, at least in part, on the fuel flow rate. A gas turbine includes such a controller and a method controls such a gas turbine.
US11815028B2
Turbines for an aircraft include a supply device of compressed air configured to supply compressed air to the aircraft, a cooling system of the compressed air supplied to the aircraft, having a scoop configured to collect cooling air in a flow duct of a secondary flow, and a management system configured to be supplied with the cooling air collected from the flow duct and configured to control radial clearances between a turbine casing and turbine rotor vanes tips. The management system is supplied with cooling air by the scoop of the cooling system.
US11815025B2
A fuel nozzle for a combustor may include a primary fuel passage having a primary fuel outlet. A secondary fuel passage having a secondary fuel outlet. A valve located within the secondary fuel passage. The valve may include a stationary hub having a plurality of first angled surfaces. The valve may include a movable sleeve having a plurality of second angled surfaces. Each of the plurality of first angled surfaces aligns axially with a respective one of the plurality of second angled surfaces to define a slot therebetween. The valve is movable between a plurality of positions to open, to close, or to partially open the slots.
US11815022B2
A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section that provides first and second compressor stages that are configured to respectively provide first and second cooling fluids. The first compressor stage has a higher pressure than the second compressor stage. The gas turbine engine further includes a component that has platform with an internal cooling passage fed by first and second inlets that respectively receive fluid from the first and second cooling sources. The second inlet is downstream from the first inlet.
US11815018B2
A box-shaped air intake silencer with vertical baffles for a gas turbine system. The box-shaped silencer has a silencer housing having opposing ends with a first end closed and a second end opened to permit passage of air. Opposing sidewalls extend between the first end and the second end with each of the sidewalls operative to receive a perpendicular flow of intake air. A silencer having vertically, spaced baffles are disposed within the housing. A first end of the baffles face the first end of the housing and a second end of the baffles faces the second end of the housing. Each of the baffles extend horizontally between the first end and the second end of the housing. The baffles receive the perpendicular flow of intake air proximate the first end of the housing and direct the intake air towards the second end of the housing for passage therethrough.
US11815011B2
An HHO gas second fuel is produced in a pressure-resistant container and distributed at a low volumetric rate at multiple locations about the internal combustion engine.
US11815005B2
A passive prechamber spark plug for use in a combustion chamber of a vehicle engine includes an upper prechamber having an upper opening where the upper prechamber is connectable to the combustion chamber via the upper opening. An air ignition spark is formable via an upper air spark gap. A central electrode is disposed in an upper region of the upper prechamber where a base of the upper prechamber opposite the upper region is an insulator. An electrically conductive element or a slot is guided by the insulator continuously from the upper prechamber into a lower region under the base and the lower region is either a lower prechamber or is arrangeable directly in the combustion chamber. An earth electrode is disposed in the lower region such that a lower air-surface gap spark gap is formed between the earth electrode and the electrically conductive element or the slot.
US11815002B2
Methods and systems are provided for model-based determination of a temperature distribution of an exhaust aftertreatment system of a vehicle. A power demand from a first component of the aftertreatment system is measure, a heat transfer into the first component of the aftertreatment system based on power demand of the first component and a configurable emissivity value of the exhaust gas is determined, and the temperature of the first component based on the calculated heat transfer is calculated.
US11814996B2
A method (200) for operating an exhaust-gas catalytic converter (130) with central coordination of heating measures that are intended to heat the exhaust-gas catalytic converter (130) to a temperature level at which the reactions to be catalyzed take place with an adequate reaction rate (so-called catalytic converter window). Through the central coordination of the heating measures on the basis of defined heating strategies, in which in each case one or more of the available heating measures are combined with one another in an expedient manner, the required outlay in terms of control can be considerably reduced, and mutual interference of the heating measures can be avoided.
US11814977B1
A flange arrangement of a gas turbine engine includes a first flange of a first component, and a second flange of a second component axially offset from the first flange along an engine central longitudinal axis. The first flange is secured to the second flange. One or more flange flowpaths are defined between the first flange and the second flange to convey a flange airflow from an interior of the second component thereby thermally conditioning the flange arrangement. The flange airflow is driven through the one or more flange flowpaths by a pressure differential.
US11814974B2
A tip shroud, comprising a plurality of tip shoes encircling a rotor assembly, in a turbine may deform due to thermal gradients experienced during operation of the turbine. Accordingly, a tip shoe is disclosed that utilizes an internal cooling cavity to supply coolant throughout the interior of the tip shoe, as well as to the slash faces of the tip shoe. In addition, features are described that increase the surface area exposed to the coolant, while remaining suitable for additive manufacturing.
US11814968B2
A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure may include, among other things, a fan section including a fan having a plurality of fan blades and including an outer housing surrounding the fan blades to establish a bypass duct, a geared architecture, a first spool including a first shaft that interconnects a first compressor and a fan drive turbine, the fan drive turbine driving the fan through the geared architecture. The gas turbine engine is rated to provide an amount of thrust at ground idle, and the gas turbine engine is rated to provide an amount of thrust at maximum takeoff. A thrust ratio is defined as a ratio of the amount of thrust at ground idle divided by the amount of thrust at maximum takeoff. The thrust ratio can be less than or equal to 0.050.
US11814967B2
A turbine for a turbomachine has a first rotor and a second rotor configured to pivot about an axis in two opposite directions of rotation. The first rotor includes a radially outer drum from which blades extend radially inwards. The turbine has cooling means attached relative to the outer drum. The cooling means include a support plate with at least one first orifice and a calibration plate that is attached to the support plate and located radially inside the support plate. The calibration plate has at least one second calibration orifice facing the outer drum to allow the passage of cooling air radially from the outside to the inside through the first and second orifices.
US11814956B2
A technique facilitates fluid analysis in situ at a downhole location. According to an embodiment, a sample of fluid, e.g. oil, is obtained from a reservoir at the downhole location in a borehole. A downhole sampling system is used to determine contamination of the sample of fluid and to determine other selected characteristics of the sample. The data obtained is then processed to determine a true phase transition property of a native fluid in the sample of fluid. The sample analysis may be performed at selected stations along the borehole during, for example, a well cleanup operation. The immediate analysis of fluid samples downhole facilitates rapid development of an understanding of fluid characteristics in the reservoir, thus enabling an improved oil recovery strategy.
US11814951B2
An apparatus for determining properties of fluid flowing into a well includes an inflow channel providing a path for fluid to a pipe, a heater arranged to heat at least part of the fluid in the inflow channel, and a temperature sensor arranged to measure the temperature of the fluid in the inflow channel.
US11814942B2
Apparatus and methods for optimizing a stick-slip algorithm for controlling a driver of a drill string. A method may include commencing operation of a control system for controlling the driver. The control system may have a processor and a memory storing a computer program code, which may include the stick-slip algorithm. The operating control system may receive a plurality of different numerical parameters, and for each of the different numerical parameters, incorporate the numerical parameter into the stick-slip algorithm and execute the stick-slip algorithm to determine a control command that causes the driver to rotate the drill string to perform drilling operations while reducing amplitude of rotational waves travelling along the drill string.
US11814940B2
Systems and methods for supplying primary fuel and secondary fuel to an internal combustion engine may include supplying a first amount of the primary fuel and a second amount of the secondary fuel to the internal combustion engine. The system may include a first manifold to provide primary fuel to the internal combustion engine, and a primary valve associated with the first manifold to provide fluid flow between a primary fuel source and the internal combustion engine. A second manifold may provide secondary fuel to the internal combustion engine, and a fuel pump and/or a secondary valve may provide fluid flow between a secondary fuel source and the internal combustion engine. A controller may determine a total power load, the first amount of primary fuel, and the second amount of secondary fuel to supply to the internal combustion engine to meet the total power load.
US11814935B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for increasing accuracy of firing perforating charges in an oil well casing. In one implementation, a body of an orientation device has a first portion and a second portion. An opening extends through a center of the body from a first lateral surface to a second lateral surface, and the opening is configured to receive a perforating gun string. An outer perimeter surface extends about the center of the body from the first lateral surface to the second lateral surface. The outer perimeter surface has a first shape associated with the first portion and a second shape associated with the second portion. The second shape forms a base portion configured to maintain the perforating gun string in an orientation by preventing rotation of the perforating gun string. The orientation corresponds to a predetermined perforating charge direction of the perforating gun string.
US11814930B2
A wash tool comprises a mandrel with a central annulus and one or more lateral bores and one or more ring-shaped rotary hubs positioned about the mandrel adjacent to the one or more lateral bores. The rotary hubs comprise lateral bores perpendicular to the lateral bores of the mandrel such that pressurized fluid introduced to the central annulus of the mandrel impacts the inner surface of the rotary hubs and forces them to rotate, delivering pressurized fluid to the inner surface of a wellbore or tubular. The wash tool is modular and can be attached to a top sub or bottom sub, and may be used with or without a wireline. When used with a wireline, the wireline is insulated from the wash fluid by means of a tie-back and multiple seals.
