US11827129B2
In a method for locking an adjustment device of a motor vehicle seat, a usage situation and/or danger situation is detected. In response to the detected usage situation and/or danger situation, a locking action for the adjustment device is selected, and the selected locking action for the adjustment device is executed.
US11827121B2
The invention relates to a device for attaching a seat assembly in a vehicle, wherein the device comprises a carriage and a floor rail, wherein the carriage can be fixed on the floor rail, wherein the floor rail has a longitudinal slot with a support section limiting the longitudinal slot, wherein a locking assembly having a locking element adjustably accommodated on the carriage is provided for fixing the carriage attached to the floor rail. According to the invention, the locking assembly comprises multiple recesses in at least one rail longitudinal wall of the floor rail, wherein the locking element has a latch section and a contact section in such a way that, with the fixing of the carriage, the latch section engages into a recess in the rail longitudinal wall and the contact section comes into contact with the inner side of the support section.
US11827117B2
Presented are intelligent charging systems for transferring energy to and from motor vehicles, methods for making/operating such systems, and vehicles with V2V and V2G energy transfer capabilities. A method for operating an intelligent charging system includes a system controller receiving, from a user interface of a user, a request to schedule a transfer of electricity to the user. The system controller broadcasts to a crowdsourced set of service providers a solicitation for energy transfer bids for completing the user's transfer request. After receiving multiple bid submissions for completing the transfer request from multiple service providers, the system controller selects an optimized one of the bid submissions using a multi-criteria selection strategy. The multi-criteria selection strategy includes a joint utility maximization function and/or a trade-off Pareto solution. The system controller transmits to the service provider associated with the optimized bid submission a task allocation with instructions to provide the transfer request.
US11827106B2
A power distribution unit (PDU) for use with an electrically powered accessory is disclosed. The PDU includes at least one power input configured to receive electrical power from an electrical supply equipment and/or a second power source. The PDU also includes an accessory power interface configured to provide power to the electrically powered accessory. The PDU further includes a vehicle power interface configured to provide power to a vehicle electrical system of the vehicle. Also the PDU includes at least one switch configured to selectively connect the at least one power input to a power bus, and selectively connect the power bus to at least one of the accessory power interface and the vehicle power interface. The PDU also includes a controller configured to control the at least one switch to provide power to the electrically powered accessory and/or the vehicle electrical storage device of the vehicle electrical system.
US11827105B2
A wheeled vehicle includes a vehicle body, a vibration absorbing element, an auxiliary arm, a wheel, and a driving member. The vehicle body includes a fixing plate. The housing connected to the fixing plate. The vibration absorbing element includes a first end and a second end. The first end is fixed to the housing. The auxiliary arm includes a connecting end and a free end. The connecting end is connected to the housing. The free end is configured to swing relative to the connecting end. The free end is fixed to the second end. The wheel includes an axle, and the axle is rotationally connected to the free end. The driving member is fixed to the housing and configured to drive the wheel.
US11827093B2
A throttle assembly (26) for a vehicle (20) having a handlebar (22) with a grip (36) extending along a grip axis (GA). A housing (42) is adapted for attachment to the handlebar (22) adjacent to the grip (36) and defines a housing axis (UA) adapted to be substantially parallel to the grip axis (GA). A link (48) is slidably supported by the housing (42) between a first link end (48A) and a second link end (48B). A thumb trigger (44) is coupled to the first link end (48A) and moves with the link (48) between first and second trigger positions (44A, 44B). A track mechanism (50) operatively attached to the housing (42) and to the second link end (48B) of the link (48) guides the link (48) along a curvilinear path (54A) such that movement of the thumb trigger (44) to the second trigger position (44B) slides the thumb trigger (44) away from the housing (42) with the thumb trigger (44) traversing the housing axis (UA) during at least a portion of the movement between the first and second trigger positions (44A, 44B).
US11827073B2
A suspension assembly for a commercial vehicle includes a first linkage, an air spring, a carriage, and a second linkage. The first linkage is pivotally coupled at a first end with a structural member of a frame. The structural member extends downwards from the frame. The air spring is coupled with the frame and a second end of the first linkage. The air spring drives the first linkage to pivot about the first end relative to the structural member. The carriage is pivotally coupled with the first linkage at a position between the first end and the second end of the first linkage. The second linkage is pivotally coupled at a first end with the structural member, and pivotally coupled with the carriage at a second end. The structural member, the first linkage, the second linkage, and the carriage define a four-bar linkage.
US11827072B2
A vehicle suspension assembly includes a trailing axle carried by a frame of the assembly. The frame can retract to a retracted state from an extended state and extend from the retracted state to the extended state. The retraction and extension can occur along a longitudinal axis of the frame. An operator can pivotally raise and lower a free end of frame in the retracted or extended state along an arcuate path when the vehicle suspension assembly connects to a vehicle.
US11827071B1
A rubber bump stop composed of at least two components (“Durobumps”) and used as a suspension product is disclosed that greatly extends suspension life of the vehicle and increases vehicle stability in rough terrain or harsh driving conditions. Preferably, the rubber bump stop has at least four components and include cast in place metal hardware for use in fastening to the vehicle.
US11827070B2
A mounting apparatus for vehicle suspension ball joints that are firmly affixed for operation, are easily adjustable in a generally vertical direction for precise tuning of suspension geometry for dynamic performance in multiple axes using an array of cylindrical shims tuned to match fastener distance and height with a socket that has mounting bolts that engage a scalloped cap.
US11827067B1
A reinforcing structure for suspension, includes: a spring seat coupled to a torsion beam and a trailing arm, and configured for supporting a spring; and a shock absorber bracket coupled to the spring seat and the trailing arm, and configured for supporting a shock absorber for damping vibrations of the spring, wherein the shock absorber bracket includes, a side coupling portion coupled to the trailing arm, wherein the side coupling portion is coupled to a side surface of the trailing arm in a width direction (Y) of a vehicle body in a state of being inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to each of a longitudinal direction (X) and a height direction (Z) of the vehicle body.
US11827065B2
A system is disclosed herein including a tow vehicle including and a trailer. The tow vehicle includes a bed having a first surface and an opposing second surface and a receiver assembly coupled to the bed, the receiver assembly extending through the first surface and the second surface. The receiver assembly includes a hollow cylinder having a first end and a second end, the first end of the hollow cylinder coupled to the bed of the tow vehicle and a ball receiver having a semi-spherical shape, the ball receiver coupled to the second end of the hollow cylinder. The trailer includes a deck, a neck coupled to the deck and a trailer coupler coupled to the neck. The trailer coupler includes a trailer ball configured to engage the receiver assembly of the tow vehicle.
US11827064B2
A pneumatic tire having a carcass and a belt reinforcing structure, the belt reinforcing structure comprising: a zigzag belt reinforcing structure formed of a strip of reinforcement cords, the strip of reinforcement cords being inclined at 5 to 30 degrees relative to the centerplane of the tire extending in alternation to turnaround points at each lateral edge, wherein the strip of cords is formed from two different cords made of different materials.
US11827048B2
A marker nib for applying ink to a surface may comprise an applicator having a writing tip configured to contact the surface to apply ink thereto, and a transporter configured to transport ink received from a reservoir to the applicator, the applicator being configured to increase its ink flow rate at the writing tip when pressure is applied thereto.
US11827039B2
An arrangement includes a receipt printer for printing a receipt arranged in a housing. The housing includes a pivoting lid which in an open state allows access to the receipt printer and in a closed state prevents access to the receipt printer. The lid has an opening through which a receipt printed by the receipt printer can be output in the closed state. The arrangement has a receipt output unit which in the closed state is arranged in the opening of the lid opposite to the receipt printer, at least a first receipt guiding unit and at least a first elastically deformable element for spring-mounting at least one component of the first receipt guiding unit. The receipt printer has a second receipt guiding unit. The first receipt guiding unit is engaged with the second receipt guiding unit when the lid is moved from the open state into the closed state.
US11827038B2
A nail printing apparatus includes a print head that prints an image on a nail, a finger rest that is a rest on which a finger is placed and that is movable in a height direction, and a sensor that is arranged at a position above the finger rest as well as below the print head in the height direction and that is movable in a movement direction and capable of detecting a nail within a detection range. A control unit controls height adjustment in which the sensor is moved in the movement direction so that a first position of a nail area is included in the detection range of the sensor and then the finger rest is moved upward until the sensor detects the nail.
US11827033B2
An ink jet recording method for recording an image uses an ink jet recording apparatus that includes an aqueous ink, a first ink storage portion that stores the aqueous ink, a second ink storage portion that stores the aqueous ink without impregnating it into an absorbent, and a recording head. The second ink storage portion and the recording head compose therein an ink flow path through which the aqueous ink is supplied, a filter that partitions an upstream side and a downstream side of the ink flow path is arranged, and a ratio (A/B) of volume A (mL) of the ink flow path to the upstream side and volume B (mL) of the ink flow path on the downstream side is 5 or more, the aqueous ink contains a coloring material, a nonionic surfactant, and a first water-soluble organic solvent having a relative dielectric constant of 30.0 or less.
US11827023B2
There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus. A print head includes a nozzle that discharges a liquid. A recovery unit includes a cap that caps the nozzle and a pump that suctions a liquid from the nozzle via the cap, and discharges to a waste liquid tank that accommodates a waste liquid of suctioned liquid. A control unit causes the recovery unit to execute at least one of a first recovery operation, in which the suction pump is driven at a first driving amount, or a second recovery operation, in which the pump is driven at a second driving amount smaller than the first driving amount, based on an amount of waste liquid discharged to the waste liquid tank.
US11827019B2
A liquid ejecting head including a flow path forming substrate in which a pressure chamber in communication with a nozzle is formed, a diaphragm formed on the flow path forming substrate, and a piezoelectric actuator including a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode that are formed on the diaphragm. In the liquid ejecting head, a center portion of the diaphragm is not provided with an active portion, which is a portion where the piezoelectric layer is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a protective film that covers the diaphragm is formed in the center portion, and compressive stress of the protective film is larger than that of the diaphragm.
US11827016B2
The control section sets, as a first flow rate, a flow rate of the liquid, which is circulated by the circulating mechanism, per unit time, during an ejection operation of ejecting the liquid from the liquid ejecting head. The control section sets, as a second flow rate greater than the first flow rate, a flow rate of the liquid, which is circulated by the circulating mechanism, per unit time, during a recovery operation of recovering a state of the liquid ejecting head.
US11827014B2
A printing system includes a discharging unit, a mounting unit, a post-process unit, a relay unit, and a control unit. The discharging unit discharges sheets. The mounting unit is provided to an apparatus body, and sheets are mounted on the mounting unit. The post-process unit performs a post-process on sheets. The relay unit is provided to the apparatus body, is configured to transport sheets to the post-process unit, and includes a lower path member. The lower path member is configured to be switched between a first state in which the lower path member serves as part of a relay path from the discharging unit to the post-process unit and a second state in which the lower path member opens the relay path. The control unit, when the lower path member is in the second state, makes sheets be discharged from the discharging unit to the mounting unit.
US11827009B2
Apparatus and method for the screen printing manufacture of a layer of silicone material. The method and apparatus provide for the deposition of a layer of silicone material having a controllable thickness and shape profile as determined by a template forming part of a screen printing assembly. The present apparatus and method provide a fully controlled automated or semi-automated manufacturing process enabling the deposition of a silicone layer onto a substrate layer serving as a conveyor to transport the silicone layer between different units of the process line including a heating/curing unit, a drying unit and a lamination unit.
US11827007B2
A system for abating noise emanating from a kitchen electric appliance includes a base of a predetermined size, comprising a first instance of a noise reflecting material, so that said base is disposed underneath, supporting, and contiguous to said kitchen electric appliance, and a sleeve of a predetermined size, including a second instance of a noise reflecting material, one or more layers of at least one noise absorbing material, one closed end, and one open end, so that said one open end slides over said kitchen electric appliance and is contiguous to said base. Said noise is effectively abated by reverberating between said first instance of said noise reflecting material and said second instance of said noise reflecting material and is attenuated by said one or more layers of said at least one noise absorbing material.
US11827003B2
Disclosed, among other things, are ways to manufacture reduced density thermoplastics using rapid solid-state foaming and machines useful for the saturation of plastic. In one embodiment, a foaming process may involve saturating a semi-crystalline polymer such as Polylactic Acid (PLA) with high levels of gas, and then heating, which may produce a reduced density plastic having high levels of crystallinity. In another embodiment, a foaming process may produce layered structures in reduced density plastics with or without integral skins. In another embodiment, a foaming process may produce deep draw structures in reduced density plastics with or without integral skins. In yet another embodiment, a foaming process may utilize additives, blends, or fillers, for example. In yet another embodiment, a foaming process may involve saturating a semi-crystalline polymer such as Polylactic Acid (PLA) with high levels of gas, and then heating, which may produce a reduced density plastic having high levels of crystallinity.
US11827000B2
Disclosed in the present invention is an auxiliary marking tape laying vehicle for laser scanning of the morphology of a long-span bridge, the laying vehicle comprising a laying portion, a guiding portion and a power transmission portion, wherein the laying portion is fixed on the top of the laying vehicle, a roller is provided on the top of the laying portion, the guiding portion is provided at the bottom of the laying vehicle, the power transmission portion is fixed outside the laying vehicle, a scroll is provided above the guiding portion, the surface of the marking tape in contact with the bridge is a rubber magnetic layer, and the other surface of the marking tape is provided with bulged reflection angles, which are used as teeth to make one end of the marking tape be connected with the roller through the teeth, and to make the other end of the marking tape be connected with the scroll through the teeth. The marking tape is installed at the bottom of the beam of the long-span bridge, and a plurality of bulges formed by the reflection angles of the marking tape are used to provide more reflection surfaces for the laser, to reduce the reflection angle, to improve the reflection effect, and then to improve the efficiency and accuracy of a three-dimensional laser scanner.
US11826998B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display product preparation, and in particular discloses a flexible display panel lamination device which is used for laminating a to-be-laminated flexible display panel onto a cover plate, and includes a base and an elastic lamination part arranged on the base. The elastic lamination part is provided with a first surface for bearing the to-be-laminated flexible display panel and a second surface opposite to the first surface; the second surface is symmetrically provided with two supporting protruding ribs; the two supporting protruding ribs are respectively fixed in two fixation grooves formed on the base; a gap is formed between a portion, located between the two supporting protruding ribs, of the second surface of the elastic lamination part and the base; and a portion, close to the edge, of the second surface of the elastic lamination part is supported on the base.
US11826993B2
A thermally conductive curing process adds conductive additives to create pathways for dissipating heat during a curing process, thereby reducing the cure time, increasing the output capability, and reducing cost. Conductive particles or short fibers can be dispersed throughout the resin system or composite fiber layers in pre-impregnated or RTM-processed composite material. By disposing conductive particles or short fibers in a resin as part of the curing process, heat generated during the curing process can dissipate more quickly from any type of composite, especially thick composites. Conductive additive examples include multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), graphene/graphite powder, buckyballs, short fibrous particulate, nano-clays, nano-particles, and other suitable materials.
US11826989B2
Multi-layer substrates comprising a top surface layer of pulp fibers, a bottom surface layer of pulp fibers, and a melted thermoplastic material layer between the pulp fiber layers, where the thermoplastic material comprises polyethylene or has a tan delta value of 0.2 to 0.4 within the temperature range of 100° F. to 350° F. The multi-layer substrate can include a cleaning composition loaded onto the multi-layer substrate, where a fluid pathway through the melted thermoplastic material allows the cleaning composition to travel from the top surface layer to the bottom surface layer. The multi-layer substrate may be void of chemical adhesives, where adhesion between the top surface layer and the thermoplastic layer, and between the bottom surface layer and the thermoplastic layer is instead provided by the thermoplastic material itself, which bonds to groups of fibers in the pulp fibers top and bottom surface layers that are in contact with the thermoplastic material as it melts.
US11826987B2
A laminated glazing has a first glass ply having first and second surfaces, a second glass ply having third and fourth surfaces, an obscuration band around at least a portion of the glazing periphery, the obscuration band having a sensor window and comprising first and second obscuration layers, the first obscuration layer adhered to at least a portion of the periphery of the first/second surface and comprising a first sensor window portion having a first sensor window portion optical distortion, the second obscuration layer adhered to at least a portion of the periphery of the third/fourth surface and comprising a second sensor window portion having a second sensor window portion optical distortion. first and second sensor window portion optical distortions are each controlled so the absolute magnitude of the optical distortion of the sensor window is lower than the absolute magnitude of the first and second sensor window optical distortions.
US11826979B2
A machine for making corrugated paperboard boxes form corrugated paperboard sheets includes a slotter device with a blade that forms slots in the corrugated paperboard sheet. The machine can handle various sizes and configurations of corrugated paperboard sheets and can determine if the blade of the slotter device has a suitable length to form slots in each of the various corrugated paperboard sheets, using parameters including a circumferential length (N) of the slotter cylinder and dimensions (E, F, G) of the corrugated paperboard sheet.
US11826965B2
Disclosed herein are methods for fabricating a composite structure by forming, via additive manufacturing, a solid-phase component; positioning the solid-phase component and a reinforcement into a mold cavity; and consolidating, in the mold cavity, the solid-phase component, the reinforcement, and a liquid-phase component to form the composite structure.
US11826964B2
The method of metal-thermoplastic resin direct bonding is characterized by comprising a first step for irradiating a surface of the metal material with a pulse laser under an oxidizing atmosphere to form a surface modification region, a second step for causing the thermoplastic resin material to abut against the surface modification region to form a bonding interface, and a third step for heating up the bonding interface by laser irradiation to achieve bonding, the first step including forming metal oxide particle clusters obtained when metal oxide particles having a particle diameter of 5-500 nm to be continuously bonded at the surface modification region, so that the maximum height (Sz) of a surface of the metal oxide particle clusters is 50 nm-3 μm.
US11826953B2
3-D build jobs having surrogate supports, 3-D printers using surrogate supports, and techniques to support vulnerable regions of build pieces using surrogate supports are disclosed. The surrogate supports are generated in a first material configuration and are offset via a gap from the vulnerable regions. The gap comprises a second material configuration, such as loose or partially fused powder on which the build piece can be supported during 3-D printing. In alternative embodiments, the gap instead includes thin manual ties or a solid body using material that is stronger but more amenable to breaking off without damaging the build piece. Post-processing steps are dramatically reduced as the surrogate supports and gaps facilitate virtually error-free separation from the build piece. In an embodiment, the surrogate supports include a support structure extending to a fixed base underneath, the fixed base being a build plate or a global surrogate.
US11826951B2
A three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting method and system are disclosed. The method includes disposing/immersing a printing platform or surface into a first bioink, such as a bioink resin, curing one or more layer of the first bioink resin onto the printing platform or surface, and removing the printing platform or surface from the first bioink resin. The process is repeated with a second bioink resin such that the second bioink resin is cured on top of the one or more layer of first bioink resin, and can be further repeated with a third or even fourth bioink resin. By varying constituents of one or more or each bioink resin (such as living cell type or polymer), complex, multilayered tissues can be engineered. A system capable of performing the method is also disclosed.
US11826936B2
In an aspect, a mold stack may comprise two adjacent components, one at least partially defining a vent adjustable between a molding configuration and a cleaning configuration. A junction of the components may be adjustable between a molding configuration, wherein mating faces contact one another to define a parting line, and a cleaning configuration, wherein mating faces are separated to create a molding cavity extension therebetween and an auxiliary melt barrier prevents uncontrolled flashing from the extension.
US11826935B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a lens element (2), in particular for illumination purposes, in particular for producing a headlight lens (2) for a vehicle headlight, in particular for a motor vehicle headlight (1).
US11826932B2
A system for producing foams for prosthetics and orthotics include a heated housing that stores monomer containers, temperature-controlled hoses separately coupled with the containers and configured to receive monomers from the containers, a dispensing gun assembly fluidly coupled with the containers by the hoses, and a computer controller configured to control a dispensing time period during which the monomers are dispensed from the containers and through the hoses to the dispensing gun assembly and dispensed out of the dispensing gun assembly as a polymer foam. The controller is configured to stop dispensing of the polymer foam out of the dispensing gun assembly upon expiration of the dispensing time period.
US11826922B2
A coupling assembly is provided which includes a coupling element and a retaining member. One of the coupling element and the retaining member includes at least one cam element and another of the coupling element and the retaining member includes at least one notch. Both the cam element and the notch have two oppositely sloped surfaces. In a coupled position of the coupling assembly, the cam element and the notch only contact each other at two sides through the sloped surfaces at the position of a contact portion at a base of the cam element and an associated contact portion of the notch at an open side of the notch.
US11826913B2
A control system includes: a controller configured to operate one or more robots in a real space based on an operation program; and circuitry configured to: operate one or more virtual robots based on the operation program in a virtual space, the one or more virtual robots corresponding to the one or more robots respectively; cause the controller to suspend an operation based on the operation program by the one or more robots; simulate a suspended state of the real space after suspension of the operation by the one or more robots, in the virtual space; and resume at least a part of the operation by the one or more virtual robots based on the operation program, in the virtual space in which the suspended state of the real space has been simulated.
US11826909B2
A driving mechanism that relatively displaces first and second links includes a motor, a reduction gear, and a torque sensor including a hollow portion, wherein the reduction gear includes an input shaft that is rotated by drive of the motor, the torque sensor is arranged between the reduction gear and the first link, and the input shaft penetrates through the hollow portion of the torque sensor.
US11826907B1
A robotic joint system is provided that facilitates efficient movement of a ground-contacting robotic system, such as during a gait cycle. The robotic joint system can comprise a first support member, a second support member, and a joint assembly rotatably coupling the first support member to the second support member about an axis of rotation. The joint assembly can comprise a passive actuation system coupled between the first and second support members. The passive actuation system can comprise a passive actuator operable to store energy and to release energy to apply a torque to the joint assembly and the first and second support members, and a length adapter coupled to the passive actuator operable to selectively direct the output of the stored energy of the passive actuator.
US11826889B2
A fastener-driving tool has a housing including a combustion chamber, where the combustion chamber generates combustion for driving a fastener, and a processor associated with the housing and in communication with the combustion chamber. The processor is configured to cause an initial combustion in the combustion chamber and cause a fastener to be driven when a first actuation event and a second actuation event occur, and is configured to cause at least one subsequent combustion in the combustion chamber and cause at least one additional fastener to be driven when only the first actuation event occurs.
US11826880B2
The disclosure discloses a double-station wheel deburring device consisting of two major systems. One is a wheel double-station exchange system responsible for feeding and discharging of two wheels, switching between a first working table and a second working table, switching between an upper station and a lower station, and rotation of the wheels. The other is a cutter feeding system responsible for feeding of a rim deburring blade, a riser deburring blade and brushes. The device can simultaneously remove burrs on outer rims, risers and valve holes of two wheels. Through the interactive double-station working tables, the feeding and discharging operation and the deburring operation are simultaneously carried out at separate stations. The device can be applied to deburring of wheels of different specifications. The disclosure also discloses a double-station wheel deburring method.
US11826879B2
There is provided a cutting machine for cutting a wafer using a cutting blade. The cutting machine includes a shape storage section, a shape measurement unit, a determination section, and an end face correction device. The shape storage section stores a cross-sectional shape of a support surface, which a mount of a cutting unit has, in an axial direction of a spindle. The shape measurement unit contactlessly measures the cross-sectional shape of the support surface in the axial direction of the spindle. Through a comparison between the cross-sectional shape stored in the shape storage section and the cross-sectional shape measured by the shape measurement unit, the determination section determines whether or not the support surface needs a correction. The end face correction device corrects a shape of the support surface.
US11826872B2
A chemical mechanical polishing system includes a polishing a port to dispense polishing liquid onto a polishing pad and a liquid flow controller to control a flow rate of the polishing liquid to the port, a temperature control system to control a temperature of the polishing pad, and a control system. The control system is configured to obtain a baseline removal rate, a baseline temperature and a baseline polishing liquid flow rate. A function is stored relating removal rate to polishing liquid flow rate and temperature. The function is used to determine a reduced polishing liquid flow rate and an adjusted temperature such that a resulting removal rate is not below the baseline removal rate. The liquid flow controller is controlled to dispense the polishing liquid at the reduced polishing liquid flow rate and control the temperature control system so that the polishing process reaches the adjusted temperature.
US11826850B2
An assembly that may include a press that may form an indentation within a tab, a roller assembly including a rolling element that may compress a first tab portion of the tab that extends from the indentation against a busbar, and a welding device that may weld the first tab portion of the tab to the busbar.
US11826848B2
A resistance welding control system includes a pair of electrodes, a driving mechanism, and a control device. The control device includes a detector, a determining unit, and a stop controller. The detector is configured to detect a position of a first electrode of the pair of electrodes and a distance from the first electrode to a second electrode of the pair of electrodes in the approaching-separating direction while electricity is being passed between the first and second electrodes. The determining unit is configured to make a determination as to whether predetermined variation has occurred in the position or the distance. The predetermined variation indicates that a temperature of the member to be welded is at a feature point temperature. The stop controller is configured to stop the electricity passed between the first and second electrodes on the basis of a result of the determination.
US11826847B2
In some aspects, methods for preserving a usable life of a plasma arc electrode consumable installed in a plasma arc torch can include measuring a characteristic of an electrical signal being provided to the torch to generate a plasma arc between the torch and a workpiece to be processed; monitoring the characteristic during operation of the torch over a time period; comparing the characteristic to a threshold value; and, responsive to determining that a measured characteristic meets and/or exceeds the threshold value, initiating an arc extinguishing sequence to preserve the life of the electrode.
US11826844B2
A ballscrew thread forming tap including a complete thread portion and a leading portion is to be screwed into a prepared hole provided in a workpiece so as to cause an inner circumferential surface of the prepared hole to be plastically deformed for thereby forming a ballscrew thread corresponding to an external thread provided in the complete thread portion. A screw thread of the external thread has a leading flank and a trailing flank, which are to be positioned on a front side of the trailing flank and on a rear side of the leading flank, respectively, when the ballscrew thread forming tap is screwed into the prepared hole. The screw thread is formed such that, in the leading portion, an indentation depth into the workpiece made by the leading flank is smaller than an indentation depth into the workpiece made by the trailing flank.
US11826834B1
A cutting tool, including a cutting edge portion composed of a cubic boron nitride sintered material, wherein the cutting edge portion has: a flank face; a rake face contiguous to the flank face; and a cutting edge positioned on a ridgeline of the flank face and the rake face, an arithmetical mean height Sa of the flank face is 0.5 μm or more and 3.0 μm or less, the Sa is measured in accordance with ISO25178-2:2012, and an oxygen concentration of the flank face is 10 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less.
US11826833B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods of making bimetallic metal alloys of composition for example, Rh/Pd; Rh/Pt; Rh/Ag; Rh/Au; Rh/Ru; Rh/Co; Rh/Ir; Rh/Ni; Ir/Pd; Ir/Pt; Ir/Ag; Ir/Au; Pd/Ni; Pd/Pt; Pd/Ag; Pd/Au; Pt/Ni; Pt/Ag; Pt/Au; Ni/Ag; Ni/Au; or Ag/Au prepared using microwave irradiation.
US11826826B2
A three-dimensional shaping apparatus includes a shaping table, a layer forming section that forms a powder layer at the shaping table, a first head that ejects a liquid containing a binder to a shaping region from a first nozzle, a second head that ejects a liquid containing ceramic particles to a boundary region with respect to the shaping region from a second nozzle, and a control unit that controls movement of the first head and the second head with respect to the shaping table and driving of the first head and the second head by applying a voltage, wherein the control unit performs control so as to cause the first head to execute a first flushing operation and to cause the second head to execute a second flushing operation under a flushing condition different from that for the first flushing operation.
US11826822B2
In various embodiments, three-dimensional layered metallic parts are substantially free of gaps between successive layers, are substantially free of cracks, and have densities no less than 97% of the theoretical density of the metallic material.
US11826818B2
A boron steel high pressure cartridge case and method of manufacturing the same is provided. The method includes cold forming a cartridge case into a drawn blank or a tubular component; annealing the cartridge case using a belt furnace, flame furnace, induction furnace, or a batch furnace; performing a machine ejector slot and trim on the cartridge case; forming the shoulder and neck of the cartridge case; performing a heat treatment of the cartridge case; and tempering the cartridge case. The cartridge case is fabricated of boron steel including ≤1.0% boron.
US11826812B2
A tight space pilot, tight space pilot assembly, and related method includes a tight space pilot that can be installed into a die without fasteners, fastener apertures, or added blocks for mounting. The tight space pilot assembly includes ejectors that are retained by the pilot and a retaining ring that holds the tight space pilot in place in a die member.
US11826795B2
Provided is a method for cleaning a rolling bearing and a rolling bearing cleaning device capable of cleaning a rolling bearing easily in a short time. The method for cleaning a rolling bearing including a plurality of rolling elements and a race provided with a race groove along which the rolling elements roll involves arranging a cleaning liquid in a pressurized state on one side in an axial direction of the rolling bearing across a whole circumference thereof with respect to a gap between the rolling elements and the race groove, and cleaning the rolling bearing by passing the cleaning liquid through the gap from one side in the axial direction toward the gap on the other side thereof.
US11826794B2
A substrate cleaning apparatus includes: a support part configured to support a substrate by bring into contact with a rear surface of the substrate; an annular member disposed to surround a periphery of the substrate supported on the support part and including an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane in a diametrical direction of the annular member; a rotation part configured to rotate the support part and the annular member; a first supply part configured to supply a cleaning liquid toward the rear surface of the substrate supported on the support part; and a second supply part configured to supply the cleaning liquid toward the inclined surface.
US11826793B2
A collapsible containment berm having a floor and a peripheral sidewall, a plurality of brace assemblies integrally carried on an external surface of the sidewall and on an adjacent underside surface of the floor, each brace assembly comprising a rigid sidewall support member connected to the external surface of the sidewall and oriented upright when deployed, a rigid buttress member having a first end and an opposite second end, and hingedly connected to an upper end of the sidewall support member that allows the buttress member to arc toward or away from the sidewall, a rigid floor member hingedly connected at the third end to the other end of the buttress member, and a sleeve connected to the underside of the floor and adapted to receive the floor member. The floor member slides in and out of the sleeve and moves the buttress member in and out of a bracing position with respect to the sidewall.
US11826782B1
A hydraulic vibration generation device or hydraulic motor is provided. The device includes a manifold having an inner volume with a pressure chamber extending into the inner volume, a fluid inlet orifice and a fluid outlet orifice. The device further includes a vibration generating member having a grooved drive and an off-center weight and retaining plates. The inner volume receives the vibration generating member within the inner volume. The vibration generating member rotates and generates vibration in response to hydraulic fluid flowing into the manifold through the inlet orifice and directed through the pressure chamber, relieves pressure upon exiting the pressure chamber and out of the manifold through the outlet orifice. Also provided a hydraulic motor with a same manifold and pressure chamber, but with a power generating member having the same groove drive without and off-center weight. Rotation of the power generating member generates power.
US11826779B2
Wet-on-wet coating processes are provided to produce multilayer articles. First and second coating materials are sequentially applied on to a structured substrate surface to form a skin layer directly over the structured substrate surface and a bulk layer over the skin layer. The conformability of the skin layer can be adjusted to provide desired surface and bulk properties.
US11826778B2
A pharmaceutical packaging including a silicone-free lubricating film of crosslinked organic molecules, and a method for producing same.
US11826769B2
A shower system including a mount, a moveable handshower, and a magnetic coupler between the mount and the handshower.
US11826768B2
A system for applying material to a part includes an application nozzle attached to a distal end of a robotic arm, a sensor coupled to the distal end of the robotic arm, an actuator mechanically coupled to the application nozzle, and a controller in communication with the actuator and configured to receive data from the sensor and detect a feature of the substrate. The robotic arm is configured to hold the application nozzle in a fixed position and/or traverse a predefined path such that the application nozzle traverses a predefined global bead path across and spaced apart from a substrate. The controller is configured to direct the actuator to move the application nozzle independent of the distal end of the robotic arm such that a bead of material flowing out of the application nozzle is applied to the substrate along a feature-relative bead path.
US11826764B2
An adapter frame for mounting onto a base, in particular a suction device, a system box and/or a roller board, and for receiving a particle collecting container for a cyclone pre-separator, where the adapter frame includes a rectangular underside and adapter frame peripheral walls extending upwards from the underside, and lower adapter frame couplers, designed to provide a releasable, vertically tension-proof coupling to the base when the adapter frame is positioned on the base. The adapter frame on its upper side has a container receptacle for receiving the particle collecting container, the horizontal inner contour of which tapers towards the underside, so that the container receptacle is able to receive and horizontally stabilise a particle collecting container having an outer contour tapering downwards.
US11826760B2
A fluidic handling unit includes a baseplate, a fluidic inlet block, a fluidic outlet block, a pump in fluidic communication with the fluidic inlet block and the fluidic outlet block, a carrier control board in electrical communication with the pump, and a flow cell carrier comprising a microfluidic flow cell receiving area, wherein the flow cell carrier is configured to receive and retain the fluidic handling unit. A bottom surface of the fluidic handling unit is configured to complementary mate with a top surface of the flow cell carrier, or wherein a bottom surface of the flow cell carrier is configured to complementarily mate with a top surface of the fluidic handling unit.
US11826748B2
An ion exchange membrane is provided which includes an ion exchange polymer that is partially cross-linked. The partially cross-linked ion exchange polymer will be more stable and will not be washed out over time. The ion exchange polymer may be UV or chemically cross-linked, wherein a cross-linking compound is added to the ion exchange polymer either before or after coupling to a support material. A support material may be made of, or be coated with, a cross-linking compound and the support material may initiate cross-linking proximal to the support material. The support material may be made of a material that chemically bonds with the ionomer.
US11826741B2
A method of producing a catalytic carbon fiber may include: oxidizing a virgin carbon fiber to produce an oxidized carbon fiber; reacting the oxidized carbon fiber with a polyamine compound to produce an amine modified carbon fiber; and reacting the amine modified carbon fiber with an organometallic macrocycle to produce the catalytic carbon fiber.
US11826728B2
This disclosure provides compositions and methods directed to thermally stable catalyst systems, which display stable physical properties and/or stable catalytic properties after thermal pretreatment at a temperature in the range of about 600° C. to about 1000° C. The catalyst systems include metal particles which contain a stable metal and a catalytic metal deposited on a porous support. Embodiments of the disclosure include catalyst systems that can be used in high temperature applications such as the hybrid sulfur cycle. The hybrid sulfur cyclic is an elevated temperature and high acid reaction that may be conducted using concentrated sulfuric acid heated to 800° C. Embodiments of the disclosure can provide thermally stable catalysts and methods to produce thermally stable catalysts that remain active for at least 80 hours' exposure to these harsh conditions.
US11826727B2
A calcium silicate based nickel catalyst and a preparation method and application thereof are provided. The method includes: leaching a silicon based solid waste with an alkali agent to obtain a silicate leaching solution; adding the silicate leaching solution and a nitrate solution corresponding to a lanthanum metal dropwise to a calcium hydroxide suspension for a first precipitation reaction, and subjecting a precipitate produced by the reaction to filtration, drying and calcination to obtain a modified calcium silicate support; and dispersing the modified calcium silicate support in an anhydrous alcohol solvent to obtain a mixed suspension, adding an alcohol solution of a nickel salt dropwise to the mixed suspension for a second precipitation reaction, conducting heating and stirring until alcohols in the anhydrous alcohol solvent and the alcohol solution of a nickel salt are volatilized, and conducting drying and calcination to obtain the modified calcium silicate based nickel catalyst.
US11826724B2
The invention concerns biocompatible polymer systems comprising at least one polymer with a plurality of pores, said polymer comprising either polyol or zwitterionic groups designed to adsorb endotoxins and other inflammatory mediator molecules. The inventions are in the field of porous polymeric sorbents, also in the field of broadly reducing endotoxins in blood and blood products that can cause endotoxemia, additionally, in the field of broadly removing endotoxins by perfusion or hemoperfusion.
US11826723B2
The invention relates to a belt drier arrangement for drying an aqueous polymer gel and for comminuting the dried polymer gel to give dried polymer particles, comprising: a drier setup for drying an aqueous polymer gel, a comminuting arrangement downstream of the drier setup relative to the product flow direction, for comminuting the dried polymer gel to give dried polymer particles. In accordance with the invention the comminuting arrangement comprises at least a first comminutor and a second comminutor, each having a rotatable shaft with functional tools, the second comminutor being disposed downstream of the first comminutor relative to the product flow direction.
US11826718B2
Systems and methods for eliminating carbon dioxide and capturing solid carbon are disclosed. By eliminating carbon dioxide gas, e.g., from an effluent exhaust stream of a fossil fuel fired electric power production facility, the inventive concepts presented herein represent an environmentally-clean solution that permanently eliminates greenhouse gases while at the same time producing captured solid carbon products that are useful in various applications including advanced composite material synthesis (e.g., carbon fiber, 3D graphene) and energy storage (e.g., battery technology). Capture of solid carbon during the disclosed process for eliminating greenhouse gasses avoids the inefficiencies and risks associated with conventional carbon dioxide sequestration. Colocation of the disclosed reactor with a fossil fuel fired power production facility brings to bear an environmentally beneficial, and financially viable approach for permanently capturing vast amounts of solid carbon from carbon dioxide gas and other greenhouse gases that would otherwise be released into Earth's biosphere.
US11826717B2
The present invention provides a microwave pyrolysis reactor (1) comprising an inner pipe element (2), a microwave distribution element (3) and a housing (4), wherein the inner pipe element (2) is made of a microwave transparent material and comprises a first open end (5) and a second open end (6); the microwave distribution element (3) is made of a material not transparent to microwaves and is arranged around the inner pipe element (2), and comprises at least one opening (8) for allowing passage of microwaves into the inner pipe element (2); the housing (4) comprises a first inner surface enclosing a first annular space (9) around the microwave distribution element (3) and a port (13) for a microwave waveguide (14) in communication with the first annular space; and wherein the microwave distribution element is in thermal conductive contact with a heat exchange system for removal of heat from the microwave pyrolysis reactor during use.
US11826712B2
A method and apparatus for obtaining a product chemistry from a solid block is provided. The product is housed within a dispenser, which utilizes a liquid and a gas to erode the block and produce a concentrate solution. The liquid and gas characteristics can be adjusted in the field to achieve a predetermined concentrate level in the solution. The introduction of air into the dispenser saves water, while producing higher concentrate levels.
US11826707B2
An isolation chip for separating and isolating target particles from a bioliquid sample includes a reagent reservoir, a first filtration membrane, a second filtration membrane, a first chamber, and a second chamber. The reagent reservoir includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall. The first filtration membrane is disposed at an upper portion of the first sidewall. The reagent reservoir defines a first window at a lower portion of the first sidewall. The second filtration membrane is disposed at the second sidewall. The first chamber is connected to the reagent reservoir through the first filtration membrane. The second chamber is connected to the reagent reservoir through the second filtration membrane. A device and a method for detecting the target particles are further provided.
US11826700B2
Systems and methods use bimetallic alloy particles for converting hydrogen sulfide (H2S) to hydrogen (H2) and sulfur (S), typically during multiple operations. In a first operation, metal alloy composite particles can be converted to a composite metal sulfide. In a second operation, composite metal sulfide from the first operation can be regenerated back to the metal alloy composite particle using an inert gas stream. Pure, or substantially pure, sulfur can also be generated during the second operation.
US11826699B2
Embodiments may include a hydrogen sulfide scrubber system that includes a charging chamber, a reaction vessel, and a treated gas trap. Embodiments may include a mobile vehicle, vessel, or platform that includes a mobile vehicle, vessel, or platform with a mounted hydrogen sulfide scrubber system. The hydrogen sulfide scrubber system is configured as previously described. Embodiments may include a method of using a hydrogen sulfide scrubber system.
US11826689B2
An air cleaner arrangement is shown. The air cleaner arrangement includes a serviceable filter cartridge. A preferred filter cartridge positionable within an air cleaner arrangement, is depicted.
US11826688B2
A filter device is provided with a filter housing and a filter element arranged in the filter housing. The filter element is provided with an annular filter medium body that has an inflow side. The filter housing has a dirt collecting region in flow communication with the inflow side of the annular filter medium body. The dirt collecting region has an annular circumferentially extending configuration. A flow-tight separation element is arranged at or adjacent to the annular filter medium body. The dirt collecting region adjoins the flow-tight separation element. An inflow region is positioned at the inflow side of the annular filter medium body and immediately adjoins the dirt collecting region. The dirt collecting region has a radial extension relative to a longitudinal axis of the annular filter medium body, and the radial extension of the dirt collecting region is larger than a radial extension of the inflow region.
US11826679B2
A filter for treating a fluid in a heating and/or cooling system includes: a first body, hollow and substantially cylindrical in shape, and a second body, wherein the first body and second body are mutually and sealingly connected, so as to internally have a chamber, and wherein the hollow first body is provided with a first mouth and a second mouth respectively having a first duct and a second duct allowing the fluid to enter and/or exit the chamber. A filtering element for treating the fluid is housed at least partially in the chamber, in particular the filtering element includes at least one magnetic element The filter includes a shut-off element having an outer wall provided with a channel and an opening, the shut-off element being housed in the first body in such a way that it can rotate about a longitudinal axis in the first body and alternately switch from a first position to a second position.
US11826676B2
According to some embodiments, a flocculated material, product and method for making the product are provided including providing a methanotrophic material having an amount of 2.68% Total Suspended Solids (TSS); treating the methanotrophic material with phosphoric acid; providing a lime solution in an amount of 0.0212 M; combining the treated methanotrophic material with the lime to increase a pH of the solution and to precipitate calcium phosphate; generating a flocculated material by flocculating the combined lime and treated methanotrophic material. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11826673B2
A method for extracting compounds, including stable natural cannabinoid acids, from plant material, utilizing terpenes as a saturant is described. The invention includes the excitation of the plant material and terpene solvent with microwave, ultrasound, sonication, heat input, and physical agitation or combinations thereof. The invention particularly covers the process as it relates to the extraction of THC-A, CBG-A, and CBD-A and their derivatives from cannabis and hemp for the use in products for medical and recreational use. The combinations of terpene saturant, plant material strain and process variables can be tuned in order to dial in the final resultant product for several variables including but not limited to terpene content, THC-A, CBG-A or CBD-A potency, ratios of THC-A, CBD-A, CBG-A and their derivatives, or flavor profile.
US11826667B1
The roller coaster with separable cars and multiple paths is a mechanical structure. The roller coaster with separable cars and multiple paths incorporates a plurality of trolleys, a track structure, and a control structure. The control structure controls the motion of the plurality of trolleys through the track structure. Each individual trolley selected from the plurality of trolleys travels along the track structure either as a train or as in individual trolley. Each individual trolley can both separate from the train and rejoin the train as the individual trolley travels through the track structure. The track structure is a multipath structure. The track structure forms a circuit. The track structure forms the path that guides each the plurality of trolleys through the circuit formed by the track structure. Each individual trolley can take an individual path selected from the multipath structure of the track structure.
US11826662B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the computer field, and disclose a ballistic trajectory display method, apparatus, and device in a virtual environment, and a readable medium. The method includes receiving a first shooting signal of a first type of ammunition transmitted by a first terminal The method may further include transmitting an ammunition creating instruction to the first terminal and a second terminal simultaneously according to the first shooting signal. The method may further include transmitting a first display instruction to the first terminal and the second terminal simultaneously in a case of determining that the first type of ammunition hits a target.
US11826649B2
An image rendering method includes acquiring a water wave map corresponding to a target water body region, and acquiring a normal map corresponding to the target water body region in a next image frame based on the water wave map corresponding to the target water body region in the current image frame. The method further includes rendering a water wave effect on the target water body region in the next image frame based on the normal map. The method further includes performing attenuation processing on the water wave map corresponding to the target water body region where the dynamic object is located in the current image frame based on a water wave diffusion attenuation matrix corresponding to the dynamic object to obtain an attenuated water wave map when the dynamic object moves in water.
US11826647B2
Gaming systems that provide a tile selection and award determination sequence for a gaming environment.
US11826645B2
The disclosure relates to facilitating collaboration between multiple players in an online game to achieve a goal in the game. Achievement of the goal may result in provision of an award related to the goal to one or more of the multiple players and/or to one or more affiliations associated with the multiple player. The goal may comprise a predetermined set of tasks required to be completed by more than one player, or may just comprise a predetermined set of tasks that may be completed by one or more players. Responsive to achieving the goal, the award may be provided to one or more recipients. The recipients may comprise, for example, players that initiated the completion of the goal, one or more players who provided the most input to the goal, one or more affiliations associated with respective one or more players involved in achieving the goal, and/or other entities.
US11826644B2
Methods and systems are provided for processing operations of a game to be played via a mobile device is provided. The method includes establishing a connection with the mobile device to play the game. The method includes receiving controller input from the mobile device; the controller input being from the mobile device to perform an action in the game. The method includes determining a correction value required to perform the action. The method includes applying the correction value to the controller input to increase an accuracy of the controller input when performing the action. In this way, when correction values are applied to the controller input from the mobile device of a user playing a game, the accuracy of the control input is increased so that the user can achieve the intended action in the game.
US11826643B2
A method of cloud gaming is disclosed. The method including receiving an encoded video frame at a client, wherein a server executes an application to generate a rendered video frame which is then encoded at an encoder at the server as the encoded video frame, wherein the encoded video frame includes one or more encoded slices that are compressed. The method including decoding the one or more encoded slices at a decoder of the client to generate one or more decoded slices. The method including rendering the one or more decoded slices for display at the client. The method including begin displaying the one or more decoded slices that are rendered before fully receiving the one or more encoded slices at the client.
US11826638B2
This disclosure describes systems, devices, apparatuses, and methods of adjusting a resistance of user-input device. In particular configurations, the device includes a shaft configured to couple to a user element, such as a joystick, a brake coupled to the shaft at a planar element of the shaft, and a piezoelectric element coupled to the brake. The piezoelectric element may be configured to apply different forces to the brake to adjust a resistance to movement of the shaft by the user. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11826637B2
This application discloses mobile device accessories that can be used to facilitate mobile gaming. Systems of the inventive subject matter have two grips and a middle portion that make it easier for users to hold a mobile device. The middle portion can include wireless charging capabilities to transfer power to a mobile device having wireless charging capabilities. Embodiments include a battery pack that can be swapped, and battery packs can additionally include wireless charging capabilities. Systems of the inventive subject matter improve mobile gaming by reducing reliance on batteries that are built in to mobile devices and improving easy-of-use through wireless charging.
US11826636B2
The invention provides a mobile device configured, for example, with a depth sensing element for real-time environment mapping and tracking abilities, including object-aware mapping, using on-device AI. 3D environment mapping on the device (e.g. scene reconstruction), at least enables access control events, effects experiences (e.g. tracking facial expressions and movements) and AR interaction and rendering (e.g. highly immersive applications and deploying environments of the same) so as to change how a user experiences and interacts with these devices. Both using basic and advanced elements.
US11826632B2
A method for manufacturing individualized protective gear such as pads based on a body scan, and the resulting pads, are disclosed herein. A body scan is taken of a wearer-defined area for a desired set of pads. The scan is converted to a mesh model. The mesh model is used to define a first surface of the pad shell and then translationally or orthogonally offset to provide a second surface of the pad shell. The mesh is also flattened to provide a liner for the pad. The shell may be manufactured using additive printing technology. The shell and the liner are then attached, such as by adhesive.
US11826631B2
A headgear apparatus is disclosed comprising a molded headgear apparatus which includes a cushioned core component to provide impact resistance during an activity. The headgear is configured to be low-profile to reduce the loss of vision caused by thick headgear which extends away from the face. The headgear may be molded to the facial contour of the user to provide complete protection from cuts, scrapes, swelling, and impact encountered in impact sports, such as martial arts, football, or other sports wherein impact to the head region is possible.
US11826628B2
Virtual and augmented reality sports training environments are disclosed. A user interacts with virtual players in a simulated environment of a virtual reality sporting event. In some embodiments, the user's actions and decisions are monitored by the simulated environment. The environment evaluates the user's performance, and provides performance feedback based on the user's decisions and timing. In one application, real life pitchers and their pitching data are tracked and replicated in a simulated pitching environment. A team of users may practice against a simulation of a pitcher they are about to compete against, swinging at pitches that they would see in a real game. Such environments may maximize effective practice time for users, and help develop better players with improved decision-making skills. Some embodiments include various pitch recognition training, which may be against replicated real-life pitchers.
US11826627B2
The present invention provides a putting guide capable of correcting a posture when putting, checking a contact angle between a putter and a golf ball, correcting a posture of an exerciser during a putting practice, and checking a focusing point that the exerciser watches. The putting guide for putting practice includes a hitting part, a rod part connected to the hitting part, and a front part formed on an end of the rod part.
US11826624B2
A method of stabilizing a cornhole board on a support surface, comprising providing a cornhole board including an inclined board have a front, a rear, and a top with a target hole, one or more rear supports that support the rear of the inclined board at a height above the front of the board, and one or front supports that support the front of the inclined board; providing one or more stabilizing units for the one or more front supports that support the front of the inclined board and the one or more rear supports that support the rear of the inclined board, wherein the one or more one or more stabilizing units include one or more adhesion members that adhere to and stabilize the cornhole board relative to the support surface.
US11826621B2
A putter with a putter head that has a rear hollow cavity enclosed within the putter head body to help move the center of gravity forward and a shaft axis that intersects the center of gravity of the putter head within a predetermined range is disclosed. The putter head may have a heel counterweight to move the center of the gravity of the putter head to the desired direction. The hollow cavity in the putter head may extend from a heel region to the toe region of the putter head. In some examples, the hollow cavity may comprise a plurality of hollow cavities or may be a single cavity located in the heel region or the toe region.
US11826619B2
Golf club heads with trench features are described herein. Other embodiments and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US11826616B2
A remote-controlled retriever for collecting a ball on a sports playing surface and for controllably releasing the ball includes a front end ball collector having two spaced-apart blades defining a ball collection space. Each blade includes a passive or an active detent for retaining the collected ball in the collection space until a programmed or manually-directed release toward a target location such as a tennis baseline. The retriever includes a processor-controller for controlling and directing the retriever during a retrieval session.
US11826615B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a cured product of a golf ball rubber composition imparting excellent durability. The present invention provides a cured product of a golf ball rubber composition cured from a golf ball rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and/or a metal salt thereof as a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking initiator, wherein the cured product of the golf ball rubber composition satisfies the following mathematical formula (1): Y<(0.1×X)−1.30 (1) in the formula (1), Y represents an effective crosslinking density of the cured product of the rubber composition (mmol/cc), and X represents an amount of the component (b) with respect to 100 parts by mass of (a) the base rubber (parts by mass).
US11826613B2
In one embodiment, a method is disclosed. The method includes, while the patient uses the treatment apparatus, controlling, based on a treatment plan for a patient, a treatment apparatus. The method includes receiving, by a processing device, data from an electronic device, wherein the data comprises one of a position of a body part of the patient or a force exerted by the body part. The method includes storing, via the processing device, the data for the patient in a computer-readable medium. The method includes causing, via a processing device, presentation of a user interface on a patient interface. The user interface comprises an adjustment confirmation control, and the adjustment confirmation control is configured to solicit a response regarding the patient's comfort level with the one of the position of the body part or the force exerted by the body part.
US11826606B2
Examples of an exercise mat having a three-dimensional surface texture and methods for making same are disclosed. The exercise mat may have a first malleable layer formed from a polyurethane material with an elastic fabric material attached to a lower surface thereof. A second layer may be attached to the elastic fabric material of the first layer. The second layer may be formed from a thermoplastic elastomer material and may have the three-dimensional surface texture formed on an upper surface thereof to which the first layer conforms. The exercise mat may also include a third rubber layer attached to the second layer.
US11826601B1
A cable actuation system configured to apply a force to a person is disclosed herein. The cable actuation system includes a cable having a first end and a second end, the second end being oppositely disposed relative to the first end, and the first end of the cable configured to be coupled to a person; an actuator operatively coupled to the second end of the cable, the actuator configured to apply a force to the cable; and a control system operatively coupled to the actuator, the control system configured to determine the force being applied to the cable by the actuator, and the control system configured to apply a controlled force to the person by means of the actuator based upon feedback from the force applied to the cable.
US11826594B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for remotely controlling and monitoring water supply systems in buildings. A system can include a sensor to continuously detect building conditions, an electromechanical device to control a water valve located along a water supply for the building, a user computing device to display information about the building conditions, and a computer system to: continuously receive building condition information from the sensor, determine, based on the information, that an emergency has been detected, generate and transmit first instructions that cause the electromechanical device to turn off the water valve, generate and transmit second instructions that cause the user computing device to present information about the emergency in a graphical user interface (GUI) display, receive user input to control the electromechanical device, and generate and return third instructions to control the electromechanical device based on the user input and/or the continuously received sensor information.
US11826593B2
The present application provides a fire-fighting apparatus, a box assembly, a battery, a power consumption apparatus, and a method for preparing a battery. The fire-fighting apparatus includes: a pipe, a gas release mechanism, and a blocking structure. The pipe has an air inlet end and an air outlet end, and the air inlet end is configured to be connected to the battery, so that a combustible gas generated in the battery during thermal runaway events is capable of entering the pipe from the box via the air inlet end and being discharged from the pipe via the air outlet end; and the gas release mechanism is configured to be connected to the pipe and release a fire-fighting gas into the pipe when thermal runaway occurs in the battery; and the blocking structure is configured to block the combustible gas and the fire-fighting gas and change a flow direction.
US11826590B2
An integrated manifold system combines in a single, compact, unitary assembly a one-piece, machined manifold for connecting air supply cylinders with a first stage regulator and recharge port. The manifold body has at least one bottle port configured to removably receive a bottle of pressurized air, a first stage regulator chamber, a quick disconnect fitting port, an air channel in fluid communication with the at least one bottle port and the first stage regulator chamber, and an outlet channel in fluid communication with the first stage regulator chamber.
US11826588B2
Methods and apparatuses related to harnesses are provided. An example harness may include: a first leg strap comprising a first elongated member, a lower strap comprising a second elongated member, and an upper strap comprising a third elongated member.
US11826585B2
A dual-mode ultrasound system provides real-time imaging and therapy delivery using a transducer array. The system may use various imaging modes to provide image data that may be used to select control points within an imaging field of view. The control points along with the image data may be used to solve an optimization problem to achieve desired focusing gains at one or more of the control points. The optimized solution may be used to produce excitation waveforms to generate new image data. The focusing gains may be evaluated and the optimization problem may be iterated until desired focusing gains are achieved. Virtual arrays may be defined and cascaded to provide flexibility in solving the optimization problem.
US11826582B2
Devices, systems and method that allow for delivery of therapeutic radiation beams of differing sizes or shapes during a radiation treatment are provided herein. Such devices can include a rotatable collimator body having multiple collimator channels of differing size or shape defined therein, the channels extending through the collimator body substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The collimator body can include markers thereon to facilitate detection of an alignment position by a sensor of a control system to allow the collimator body to be rapidly and accurately moved between alignment positions to facilitate delivery of differing therapy beams during a treatment.
US11826579B2
A system and method for applying a low strength, low frequency magnetic field therapy to biological tissues. A coil is excited with a low frequency oscillating current, e.g., 10-1000 Hz. The coil is, e.g., 5-200 turns, having a diameter of 2-20 mm, and produces a magnetic field strength of about 0.01-5 mTelsa at a distance of 1 cm from the coil, or a cover over the coil, into the tissue. The current is preferably controlled by a smartphone or other programmable device controlled by a downloadable app in accordance with a PEMF program which may be separately downloaded or updated, and may be provided through an audio jack. Alternately, a digital interface and/or wireless interface may control the current. An app on the smartphone may be used to control the frequency, amplitude/envelope modulation, waveform, duration, etc. of the oscillation. The coil may be in mineral housing with a simple filter, and TRRS-type audio jack.
US11826575B2
A method for controlling an adaptive pacing therapy that includes utilizing one or more processors to perform measuring an atrial-ventricular (AV) interval corresponding to an interval between an atrial paced (Ap) event or an atrial sensed (As) event and a sensed ventricular (Vs) event, setting an AV delay based on the AV interval, and measuring an S1 heart sound characteristic of interest (COI) while utilizing the AV delay in connection with delivering a pacing therapy by the IMD. The one or more processors also perform adjusting the AV delay, repeating the measuring, and adjusting to obtain a collection of S1 heart sound COIs and corresponding AV delays, selecting one of the AV delays, that corresponds to a select one of the S1 heart sound COIs, as a resultant AV delay, and managing the pacing therapy, utilized by the IMD, based on the resultant AV delay.
US11826571B2
A closed loop control system automatically ensures that an output of a device is constant. The system can receive an input to set a fixed value for a variable (e.g., a current, a heart rate, a tissue perfusion, an ion level, etc.), and this variable can be delivered to a feedback component. The system can also include the device to deliver the variable to a load. The feedback component can be coupled to the delivery device to sample the output of the delivery device at different times. Based on the sampling, the feedback component can vary a property of the delivery device related to the delivery of the variable to the load to ensure that the variable remains constant at the fixed value. In some instances, the system can be implemented as a stimulator that delivers the constant current of a current source and has a low output impedance of a voltage source.
US11826556B2
The present disclosure relates to an injector device comprising: a housing having a distal end and a proximal end; a medicament cartridge disposed within the housing; a needle unit comprising a needle, the needle unit being disposed in the distal end of the housing; and a button disposed in the proximal end of the housing, the button being configured to move the cartridge onto the needle unit to fluidly connect the needle with the cartridge when, in use, the button is pressed from an initial position into a depressed position.
US11826554B2
A medicament delivery device is presented having a drive configured to act on a medicament container for expelling a medicament; a holder configured to hold said drive in a pre-tensioned state; an activator configured to interact with said holder for releasing said drive from the pre-tensioned state; wherein the device further includes a feedback mechanism configured to interact both with said holder and with said drive for generating an audible and/or tactile and/or visual signal indicating that the medicament has been completely expelled.
US11826545B2
The present invention relates to an optical blood detector system that rapidly detects the presence of blood due to a blood leak in a system. The blood detector system contains a reusable blood sensor that is able to accurately detect the presence of blood in, for example, an extracorporeal blood treatment system by optically sensing light from a sensing region and determining if the light came from a leaked blood. The blood sensor may be responsive to reflected light or light emitted from blood due to bio-fluorescence excited by a light source in the blood detector system. The blood detector system can be placed against absorbent material adjacent to an intravenous needle injection site and quickly detect any blood wicked into the absorbent material. The blood detector system can eliminate the need for medical personnel to continuously inspect numerous patients visually for potentially fatal blood leaks due to needle dislodgement.
US11826532B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to drug-coated balloon catheters for treating strictures in body lumens and methods of using the same. A drug-coated balloon catheter for delivering a therapeutic agent to a target site of a body lumen stricture includes an elongated balloon having a main diameter. The balloon catheter includes a coating layer overlying an exterior surface of the balloon. The coating layer includes one or more water-soluble additives and an initial drug load of a therapeutic agent.
US11826529B2
A medical instrument includes a shaft, a distal-end assembly and a puller-wire. The shaft is configured for insertion into a body of a patient. The distal-end assembly, which is coupled to the shaft, includes a telescopic assembly, configured to elongate so as to collapse the distal-end assembly, and to compress so as to expand the distal-end assembly. The distal-end assembly further includes an elastic element, coupled to self-elongate and thus elongate the telescopic assembly. The distal-end assembly also includes an inflatable balloon, which is coupled to the telescopic assembly and is configured to collapse by the telescopic assembly elongating, and to expand by the telescopic assembly compressing. The puller-wire runs through the shaft and is connected to a distal end of the telescopic assembly, and is configured, when pulled, to compress the telescopic assembly.
US11826527B2
A safety needle assembly includes a housing and a cannula hub connected within a side wall of the housing, a needle connected to the cannula and extending from the cannula hub outward from a proximal end of the housing, and a spring connected with the housing. The assembly includes a barrel connected with the spring and at least partially contained within the housing to least partially cover the cannula hub. The barrel is configured for moving, sliding, traveling, activating, relocating, or transitioning from a first mode in which the barrel is securely retracted and locked at least partially within the housing and the needle extends through an aperture of the barrel and the proximal end of the housing, to a second mode in which the barrel extends from the proximal end and beyond the needle.
US11826524B2
Deflectable catheters, hemostasis valves, and materials for the same are disclosed. The deflectable catheters and hemostasis valves can be made at least partially, if not entirely, from a fluoroelastomer and ePTFE combination. A deflectable region of the catheters can be articulated to form simple and/or complex curves.
US11826520B2
The objectives for the designs presented herein can be for a variably flexible and kink-resistant catheter for vascular applications. The designs benefit from good compressive and tensile stiffness. A braided wire support structure can be disposed around an inner liner and an outer layer having a plurality of outer jackets of variable durometer. A metallic reinforcing layer can be cut from a hypotube and be used as the primary structure for catheter stiffness, reducing the reliance on and number of jackets to transition stiffness changes along the length of the catheter. The metallic reinforcing layer can have one or more ribbon cut segments and one or more axial hole patterns laser cut into the hypotube to progressively evolve the stiffness from proximally regions with more column stiffness and distal regions with greater lateral flexibility. The polymer jackets can be reflowed to bond the structure together.
US11826519B2
An integrated catheter assembly includes a housing member, an outer lumen member extending from the housing member, and a needle member having a needle slidably or movably coupled to the housing member, wherein the needle can be extended beyond the outer lumen. Once a flash of blood is confirmed the needle member is uncoupled from the housing member and removed from within the patent's vein or artery. An inner lumen member having an elongated member housing an inner lumen is then connected to the housing member. The integrated catheter assembly therefore receives and delivers blood through a single injection site.
US11826512B2
A ventilator, including an enclosure; a tubing configured to receive an input gas; a flow outlet airline in fluid communication with the tubing, wherein the flow outlet airline includes an airline outlet, and the flow outlet airline is configured to supply an output gas to a user via the airline outlet; a breath detection airline including an airline inlet, wherein the airline inlet is separated from the airline outlet of the flow outlet airline, and the breath detection airline is configured to receive breathing gas from the user during exhalation by the user via the airline inlet; a pressure sensor in direct fluid communication with the breath detection airline, wherein the pressure sensor is configured to measure breathing pressure from the user, and the pressure sensor is configured to generate sensor data indicative of breathing by the user.
US11826508B2
An interface for positive pressure therapy includes a mask assembly. The mask assembly includes a mask seal that is adapted to underlie the nose. The mask seal extends up the lateral sides of the nose. The mask seal has a primary seal below the nose and a secondary seal alongside the nose. The mask seal includes a rolling hinge that permits one portion of the mask seal to deform relative to another portion of the mask seal. In one configuration, the portion of the mask seal that underlies the nose is configured to deform relative to a lower portion of the mask seal.
US11826503B2
Systems relate to a reusable console system that can be used with a plurality of different types of disposable cassettes. The cassettes may be structured for different therapies, different fluid volumes, among others, or a combination thereof. The disposable cassette may include a plurality of fluid circuits. Each circuit may include a pump chamber disposed along the path. The disposable cassette and the panel of a console may be configured to mate so that each of the one or more actuators of the console align with a pump chamber of the disposable cassette. The console may be configured to control a flow of the fluid in the path in the cassette when the disposable cassette is mated on the panel. Because the console can be mated with different cassettes, the system can efficiently and accurately deliver different medical fluid therapies and/or different patient populations (e.g., pediatric and adult).
US11826493B2
The present disclosure provides antimicrobial coating compositions that are used to form residual antimicrobial coatings on medical implements and medical devices including the components of medical equipment such as CPAP/BiPAP machines. Antimicrobial coating compositions comprise at least one of an organosilane (R1O)3Si—R2—Z, an organic amine R9R10R11N, a titanium (IV) species, a 1,2-diol, an α-hydroxy acid, a β-hydroxy acid, and an organosilane grafted parylene polymer, wherein R1 is H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl, R2 is a bivalent linker, Z is a nucleophile, leaving group, or quaternary nitrogen substituent, and R9, R10, and R11 are independently H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl or cyclic.
US11826492B2
Generally, the invention is in relation to the field of drug delivery devices to augment standard radiation therapy and methods of making and using same. Specifically, this technology utilizes a controlled release of drug from a coated balloon for local intratumoral drug delivery to breast tissue to supplement or replace standard radiation therapy.
US11826485B2
One aspect of the present invention generally relates to methods of sealing a wound or tissue plane or filling a void splace. In a preferred embodiment, the wound is an ophthalmic, pleural or dural wound. In certain instances, the compositions used to seal the wound or tissue plane comprises a polyalkyleneimine. In a preferred embodiment, the polyalkyleneimine is polyethyleneimine. Treatment of the polyethyleneimine with a cross-linking reagent causes the polyethyleneimine polymers to polymerize forming a seal. In certain instances, the cross-linking reagent is a polyethylene glycol having reactive terminal groups. In certain instances, the reactive terminal groups are activated esters, such as N-hydroxy succinimide ester. In certain instances, the reactive terminal groups are isocyanates. In certain instances, the polyethyleneimine has a lysine, cysteine, isocysteine or other nucleophilic group attached to the periphery of the polymer. In certain instances, the polyethyleneimine is mixed with a second polymer, such as a polyethylene glycol containing nucleophilic groups. In certain instances, the compositions used to seal the wound or tissue plane are formed by reacting a polyalkyleneimine bearing electrophilic groups with a cross-linking reagent containing nucleophilic groups. In certain instances, the electrophilic groups on the polyalkyleneimine are activated esters, such as N-hydroxy succinimide ester. In certain instances, the compositions used to seal the wound or tissue plane are formed by reacting a polyalkyleneimine bearing photopolymerizable groups with ultraviolet or visible light. Compositions used to seal the wound which contain PEI or a derivative of PEI are found to adhere tightly to the tissue. Other aspects of the present invention relate to methods of filling a void of a patient or adhering tissue. In certain instances, the methods use a polyalkyleneimine. In a preferred embodiment, the polyalkyleneimine is polyethyleneimine. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a polymeric composition formed by exposing a polyalkyleneimine to an activated polyalkylene glycol. In certain instances, the composition is attached to mammalian tissue.
US11826472B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical dosage forms, for example to a tamper resistant dosage form including an opioid analgesic, and processes of manufacture, uses, and methods of treatment thereof.
US11826465B2
A method of making a pharmaceutical composition for delivery to the lower respiratory tract via nebulization within a sterile diluent includes mixing dry powder ingredients including a beta agonist or anticholinergic and one or more additional ingredients to formulate a dry powder mixture for mixing with the sterile diluent.
US11826461B2
The present invention discloses a nano-armored single cell product, comprising a liposome and probiotics encapsulated by the liposome, wherein the probiotics are fermented to produce gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) that alleviates the activation of an inflammatory response in substantia nigra inducedin a MPTP induced PD model, thus mitigating an inflammatory injury to dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra and having a neuroprotective effect; encapsulation of the probiotics by the liposome can protect the probiotics from strong acids and digestive enzymes in gastric acid.
US11826457B2
In some embodiments, soothing redness correction formulations are provided. In other embodiments, formulations to treat skin discoloration via a multi-modal approach are provided in some embodiments in which select ingredients work together to effectively brighten skin and treat hyperpigmentation. In yet other embodiments, certain formulations are renewal formulations adapted to treat the eye area to, for example, reduce laxity, puffiness, wrinkles and/or dark circles around the eye.
US11826443B2
This invention relates according to a solid cosmetic composition for makeup or treatment comprising: —a continuous fatty phase comprising at least one silicone polyamide, at least one non-volatile polar hydrocarbon-based oil and at least one polar wax of which the melting point is less than or equal to 90° C.; and—an aqueous phase dispersed in the continuous fatty phase, said silicone polyamide representing at most 9% by weight with respect to the total weight of said composition, and said wax representing at least 7% by weight with respect to the total weight of said composition.
US11826434B2
The invention in some aspects relates to isolated nucleic acids, compositions, and kits useful for identifying adeno-associated viruses in cells. In some aspects, the invention provides kits and methods for producing somatic transgenic animal models using recombinant AAV (rAAV) to an animal having at least one transgene that expresses a small interfering nucleic acid or at least one binding site for a miRNA.
US11826433B2
The disclosure relates, in some aspects, to compositions and methods for enhanced delivery of a transgene to the central nervous system (CNS) of a subject. In some embodiments, the transgene is delivered by recombinant AAV (rAAV). In some embodiments, the method of enhancing transgene delivery comprises administering a blood brain barrier (BBB)-crossing molecule (e.g., K16ApoE) and an rAAV comprising a transgene to a subject.
US11826428B2
The present specification discloses solid solution pharmaceutical compositions comprising hard fats, liquid lipids, and one or more cannabidiols, including a phytocannabinoid, an endocannabinoid, a synthetic cannabinoid, or a combination thereof, methods of preparing such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and uses of treating a chronic inflammation and/or an inflammatory disease in an individual using such pharmaceutical compositions.
US11826416B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the use of different self-amplifying RNA molecules to enhance immune responses, for example immune responses following prophylactic vaccination or therapeutic administration. Some embodiments relate to compositions and methods for inducing an immune response in a subject using prime-boost immunization regimens.
US11826410B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11826398B2
Disclosed herein are α-sheet peptides and their use for treating a bacterial infection and/or limiting bacterial biofilm formation.
US11826392B2
A purification method of fungal cell wall composition includes following steps: (1) taking a residue of a fungus fruiting body underwent extraction process for obtaining extract thereof, wherein the extract contains terpenoids, sterols, polysaccharides, or a combination thereof, and the residue contains the cell wall of the fruiting body; (2) placing the residue into an aqueous percarbonate solution to form a mixture liquid, which is reacted at a first temperature for decolorizing the residue, wherein the concentration of the aqueous percarbonate solution ranges from 5 to 20% (w/v), and the first temperature ranges from 15 to 40° C.; (3) after the decolorization process, raising the temperature of the mixture liquid to a second temperature for the mixture liquid to react, so as to digest and decompose the residue, wherein the second temperature ranges from 80 to 100° C.; and (4) filtering the treated mixture liquid to obtain a purified product.
US11826390B2
The subject invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting viral infections. Preferred embodiments of the invention provide pharmaceutical compositions, and the methods of using the same, comprising a strain of Lactobacillus fermentum bacterium, or bioactive extracts thereof.
US11826389B2
Compositions and methods for treating or reducing the severity of occurrence of a parasitic worm or helminth infection in a subject are described. The methods include administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising isolated native, bioactive nematicidal crystals formed from a single type of nematicidal crystal protein. The isolated native, bioactive nematicidal crystals are substantially free of any bacterial spores or host bacterial proteins, other than nematicidal crystal protein in the form of a crystal. Methods for making isolated native, bioactive nematicidal crystals are also described. The crystal proteins may be full length, truncated, variant, or sub-variant Cry proteins. Examples of crystal proteins include Cry5B, Cry21, Cry14A, Cry6A, and Cry13A.
US11826384B2
Disclosed are methods of making a genetically modified immune cell for modifying a tumor microenvironment (TME) and methods of modifying a tumor microenvironment (TME). In some embodiments, the method can include delivering a first vector to an immune cell, wherein the first vector comprises a nucleic acid encoding a protein that induces T-cell proliferation, promotes persistence and activation of endogenous or adoptively transferred NK or T cells and/or induces production of an interleukin, an interferon, a PD-1 checkpoint binding protein, HMGB1, MyD88, a cytokine or a chemokine. Methods of modulating the suppression of the immune response in a tumor microenvironment, minimizing the proliferation of tumor and suppressive cells, and increasing the efficiency of an anti-cancer therapy, anti-infection therapy, antibacterial therapy, anti-viral therapy, or anti-tumoral therapy are also provided.
US11826378B2
The present invention is directed to the use of one or more SGLT-2 inhibitors or pharmaceutically acceptable forms thereof for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of one or more cardiac diseases in feline animals.
US11826362B2
Methods and compositions for reducing symptoms of mental concentration dysfunction, mood dysfunction, and/or stress-related dysfunction. In various examples, the methods include selecting a subject experiencing a symptom of mental concentration dysfunction, mood dysfunction, and/or stress-related dysfunction and providing for consumption by the subject, a nicotinamide composition formulated to reduce a frequency and/or severity of the symptom. The nicotinamide composition includes a first component and a second component. In some examples, the first component includes nicotinamide (NAM), nicotinamide riboside, or nicotinamide mononucleotide and the second component includes one or more salts that provide a choline cation and a succinate anion (2−). In certain examples, the molar ratio of the choline cation:succinate anion (2−):first component is between 2:1:0.01 and 2:1:1.
US11826361B2
The invention provides a method of treating a subject afflicted with a dystonia, comprising periodically administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising an amount of pridopidine effective to treat the subject.
US11826355B1
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising antioxidant drugs in the form of eye drops for treatment of age-related cataract, and methods thereof, are disclosed.
US11826332B2
In some aspects, provided herein are antimicrobial compositions comprising partially esterified polygalacturonic acid and certain fatty acids (e.g., caprylic acid). In some embodiments, the antimicrobial composition may be administered (e.g., topically or orally) to a subject, such as a human patient to treat an infection (e.g., an infection comprising a biofilm). In some aspects, improved catheters are provided.
US11826328B2
Provided are novel prodrugs of treprostinil, as well as methods of making and methods of using these prodrugs.
US11826322B2
The invention relates to a pre-filled syringe, an auto-injector device comprising such pre-filled syringe, a method of administering a pharmaceutical composition with such auto-injector device, and a manufacturing method for such auto-injector device. The pre-filled syringe comprises a container and a needle. The container is filled with a pharmaceutical composition comprising epinephrine, a buffer, and water. The buffer is configured to buffer in a pH range between 3 and 4. The needle is adhered to the container by means of a urethane acrylate or urethane methacrylate acrylic light cure adhesive, which is configured to provide a pull out resistance of the needle relative to the container which is between 30 N to 100 N, preferably between 50 N to 70 N, more preferably greater than 60 N after 90 days exposure to the pharmaceutical composition at 40° C. and 75% relative humidity (RH). In an example, the pharmaceutical composition is for the treatment of an anaphylactic event.
US11826318B2
This disclosure provides mixtures of beta-cyclodextrin molecules substituted at one or more hydroxyl positions by hydroxypropyl groups, the mixture optionally including unsubstituted beta-cyclodextrin molecules, for use as a pharmaceutically active ingredient; methods of making such mixtures; methods of qualifying such mixtures for use in a pharmaceutical composition suitable for intrathecal or intracerebroventricular administration; pharmaceutical compositions suitable for intrathecal or intracerebroventricular administration comprising such mixtures; and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of Niemann-Pick disease Type C.
US11826316B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising 3-aminoisoxazolopyridine compounds of the Formula I having IDO1 and/or TDO inhibitory activity are described, where W is CR1, N or N-oxide; X is CR2, N or N-oxide; Y is CR3, N or N-oxide; Z is CR4, N or N-oxide; and at least one of W, X, Y, and Z is N or N-oxide; and R9 and R10 are as defined. Also described are methods of using such compounds in the treatment of various conditions, such as cancer.
US11826314B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and apparatuses for a medication adherence apparatus and methods of use. A method of adhering to medical prescription requirements combines sensors and hardware to record a cap state including an orientation, temperature, time stamp, and location of a cap device to enhance a patient's adherence to medical prescription when operably coupled with a computing device.
US11826313B2
A programmable pill dispensing device, system, and methods are provided. A programmable pill dispensing device may be used to automatedly dispense a pill, such as a prescription medication, at a programmed predetermined time.
US11826302B2
A self-aligning, self-drawing coupler for coupling body assemblies together improves usability of a wearable robotic device. A self-contained removable actuator cassette improves the ease of manufacture and of replacing parts in the field. A tensioning retention system designed for one handed operation makes donning and doffing a wearable robotic device easier. A two-stage attachment system increases the range of sizes a wearable robotic device will fit. A removable, integrated ankle-foot orthotic system makes donning and doffing a wearable robotic device easier. An infinitely adjustable, integrated ankle-foot orthotic system increases the range of sizes a wearable robotic device will fit. A manually-removable hip-wing attachment system makes field changes easier, and protecting such a system from inadvertent disengagement during operation increases safety.
US11826297B2
A patient transport apparatus comprising a support frame, a base, a bracket coupled to the support frame and comprising a channel being non-linear, a frame assembly coupled between the support frame and the base and comprising a slidable member disposed in the channel, the slidable member being moveable between a plurality of different positions in the channel to place the support frame in a plurality of different poses relative to the base. The patient transport apparatus also comprises a sensor configured to detect the slidable member in the channel and produce a reading, as well as a controller coupled to the sensor and configured to receive the reading from the sensor, determine the position of the slidable member in the channel based on the reading, and determine the pose of the support frame relative to the base based on the determined position of the slidable member.
US11826276B2
A drainable pouch including an outlet closure and securement system is provided. The outlet closure and securement system include at least one tab and a cover including at least one slot. The drainable pouch is closed by folding up an outlet portion, wherein the folded up outlet portion is secured to and hidden behind the cover when the at least one tab is received in the at least one slot.
US11826269B2
A prosthetic ankle includes a pair of prosthetic members movably coupled together to allow movement of the pair of prosthetic members with respect to one another. A hydraulic actuator or damper including hydraulic fluid in a hydraulic chamber is coupled to one of the pair of prosthetic members. A hydraulic piston is movably disposed in the hydraulic chamber and coupled to another of the pair of prosthetic members. A hydraulic flow channel is fluidly coupled between opposite sides of the chamber to allow hydraulic fluid to move between the opposite sides of the chamber as the hydraulic piston moves therein. A voice coil valve is coupled to the hydraulic flow channel to vary resistance to flow of hydraulic fluid through the flow channel, and thus movement of the piston in the chamber, and thus influencing a rate of movement of the pair of prosthetic members with respect to one another.
US11826265B2
A bellows shaped spinal implant, comprising an upper plate, a lower plate and a bellows shaped shell extending between and joining the upper and lower plates. The bellows shaped shell is formed of titanium or an alloy comprising titanium and includes a wall extending therearound that defines a hollow interior. The wall has a thickness in the range of 0.5 mm to 1.0 mm to provide for radiographic imaging through the wall. The wall is angled or curved inwardly or outwardly between the upper and lower plates to provide stiffness mimicking the stiffness properties of a similarly sized polyetheretherketone (PEEK) implant. The upper and lower plates each comprise porous contact regions including a three-dimensional gyroid lattice structure defined by a plurality of struts and pores in communication with the hollow interior. The outer surfaces of at least a portion of the struts may comprise a laser ablated textured surface.
US11826255B2
A valve planning tool comprising: (a) a stem having a distal end and a proximal end, (b) an anchor indicator located at the distal end, and (c) a balloon located proximal of the anchor indicator, the balloon including: (i) a retracted state and (ii) a deployed state; wherein the balloon is inflatable from the retracted state to the deployed state and the balloon is substantially non-compliant so that the balloon is only inflatable to one size.
US11826254B2
An apparatus for deploying a tissue anchor is disclosed. The apparatus includes a catheter tube having a proximal end and a distal end defining the catheter's length, where the distal end has an anchor housing configured to hold a tissue anchor before deployment; and a pusher wire positioned within the catheter tube and extending through the length of the catheter tube. The apparatus is configured to provide a pushing force on the pusher wire from the proximal end of the catheter tube, thus displacing the pusher wire in a distal direction to the pusher wire's fully extended anchor deployment position which in turn deploys the tissue anchor from the anchor housing in the distal direction by pushing the tissue anchor in the distal direction.
US11826240B2
A polymer composition comprising an organic polymer and a mica containing effect pigment, e.g., a pearlescent pigment comprising mica, well suited for producing molded articles, in particular, for molding articles comprising thin sections and or delicate features, such as a hollow interior defined by a thin wall or structural features susceptible to tear or other damage and the like, is provided as are a method for preparing molded articles comprising the polymer composition and articles comprising the polymer composition, including, for example, an article used to deliver a medical or personal care component such as a tampon applicator, and a method for preparing molded articles comprising the polymer composition. Optionally, articles of the present disclosure have a varying translucency or opacity about a dimension of the article.
US11826236B2
The present invention relates to a dressing having a lateral (x) and a longitudinal (y) extension. The dressing comprises a backing layer, a wound pad contoured by a pair of lateral edges extending in parallel to each other in the lateral direction, and an adhesive layer having a wound facing surface and a non-wound facing surface. The wound pad is arranged between the backing layer and the adhesive layer, and the backing layer extends beyond the periphery of the wound pad to define a border portion along the contour of the wound pad. A release liner is releasably attached to the wound facing surface of the adhesive layer. The release liner is divided by a first dividing line extending in the lateral direction of the dressing to form at least a first removable portion, and a second removable portion, wherein the first and the second portions overlap along the first dividing line to form a first grip member.
US11826235B2
Provided are buffered adhesive compositions comprising a high molecular weight non-neutralized polymeric acid and a high molecular weight partially neutralized polymeric acid and products such as wound dressings and ostomy skin barriers incorporating the compositions.
US11826231B2
The present invention provides system for shaping at least a foam portion of an earpiece, the system including a sizer configured to receive at least the foam portion of the earpiece such that at least the foam portion of the earpiece is reduced in size before being placed into an ear of a user, wherein the sizer includes a hollow structure having an open first end and a second end, wherein the first end has a first cross-sectional area, wherein the second end has a second cross-sectional area, and wherein the first cross-sectional area is larger than the second cross-sectional area.
US11826227B2
A valve delivery system and valve delivery method are disclosed. The valve delivery system includes an inner shaft extending along a longitudinal axis and an elongated tension member to continuously circumferentially coil around a prosthetic valve disposed on the inner shaft to form a sheath portion to releasably contain the prosthetic valve on the inner shaft in a compressed state, the elongated tension member extending from the sheath portion along the longitudinal axis of the inner shaft.
US11826225B2
An apparatus for intraoral scanning comprises an elongate handheld wand comprising a probe at a distal end, one or more light projectors, and two or more cameras. Each light projector comprises at least one light source configured to generate light and a pattern generating optical element configured to generate a pattern of light when the light is transmitted through the pattern generating optical element. Each camera comprises a camera sensor and one or more lenses and is configured to capture a plurality of images that depict at least a portion of the projected pattern of light on an intraoral surface, wherein each camera is configured to focus at an object focal plane that is located between about 1 mm and about 30 mm from a lens of the one or more lenses that is farthest from the camera sensor.
US11826219B2
A dual aligner assembly including a plurality of aligners, including a first aligner and a second aligner. The first aligner has a first shape corresponding to a set of target tooth positions and applies an orthodontic force against a set of target teeth. The first orthodontic force generates movement of the set of target teeth to the set of target tooth positions. The second aligner has a second shape corresponding to a combination of current tooth positions of the set of target teeth, the set of target tooth positions, and a thickness of the first aligner. The second aligner partially encloses the first aligner and provides an anchor for at least a portion of the first aligner. Via the anchor, a combination of the first aligner and the second aligner provides an orthodontic force that prevents the set of target teeth from moving to unwanted tooth positions during orthodontic treatment.
US11826216B2
An exemplary dental composite blade includes a mounting portion and a tool portion. The tool portion may extend between a proximal end and a distal end along an arcuate tool path defined within a transverse plane. The tool portion further includes a proximal section adjacent the proximal end, a distal section adjacent the distal end, an intermediate section between the proximal and distal sections, and first and second lateral edges disposed on opposing sides of the transverse plane. The lateral edges are each preferably convex at the proximal section with respect to the transverse plane, and concave at the intermediate section with respect to the transverse plane. The mounting portion may include an elongated mounting slot for receiving a blade retention element of a blade holder. Particular embodiments of the dental composite blade may include one or more securement flaps for auxiliary engagement of the blade holder.
US11826213B2
A method for producing a guide rail having the steps of: (A) generating or providing a virtual 3D model of a dental prosthesis with at least one virtual model of a machined prosthetic tooth to be arranged in a prosthesis base; (B) calculating a volume to be removed from a prefabricated prosthetic tooth; (C) generating a virtual model of a guide rail which is fixed to a mount for fastening the prefabricated prosthetic tooth such that the guide rail enables guidance of a milling head and/or a cutting tool of known dimensions, in such a manner that the volume to be removed from the prefabricated prosthetic tooth is traversed with the milling head; and (D) producing a physical guide rail on the basis of the virtual model of the guide rail using a CAM method. Also disclosed are an apparatus for implementing the method, a method for basally shortening prosthetic teeth, and a method for producing a dental prosthesis with such a method for producing a guide rail. The invention further relates to a guide rail produced with such a method and to a dental prosthesis produced with such a method for producing a dental prosthesis.
US11826206B2
Lighting devices are disclosed for use with handheld surgical instruments, along with holsters for supporting surgical instruments with lighting devices thereon and kits containing surgical instruments and lighting devices.
US11826205B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an ultrasound imaging method and system, the method may include transmitting a plurality of plane wave ultrasound beams to a scan target and acquiring corresponding plane wave echo signals; transmitting focused ultrasound beams to the scan target and acquiring corresponding focused beam echo signals; acquiring a plurality of velocity components of a target point in the scan target using the plane wave echo signals, and acquiring velocity vectors of the target point according to the plurality of velocity components; acquiring an ultrasound image of the scan target using the focused beam echo signals; and displaying the velocity vector and the ultrasound image.
US11826201B2
Clinical assessment devices, systems, and methods are provided. A clinical assessment system, comprising a processor in communication with an imaging device, wherein the processor is configured to receive, from the imaging device, a sequence of image frames representative of a contrast agent perfused subjects tissue across a time period; classify the sequence of image frames into a plurality of first tissue classes and a plurality of second tissue classes based on a spatiotemporal correlation among the sequence of image frames by applying a predictive network to the sequence of image frames to produce a probability distribution for the plurality of first tissue classes and the plurality of second tissue classes; and output, to a display in communication with the processor, the probability distribution for the plurality of first tissue classes and the plurality of second tissue classes.
US11826197B2
The present discussion relates to structures and devices to facilitate application of an ultrasound therapy beam to a target anatomic region in a replicable manner. In certain aspects, adjustable positioning structures are described that allow a general probe positioning structure to be configured for a specific patient in a manner that allows the device to be used repeatedly to target the anatomic region, even when in non-clinical settings. In other aspects, a probe positioning structure is fabricated that is specific to a respective patient anatomy, such that use of the probe positioning structure provides repeatable targeting of the target anatomic region, even when in non-clinical settings.
US11826184B2
Disclosed is an equipment for receiving surgical materials and/or liquid products for a surgical procedure. The equipment includes: a tray with a top face; and a tight surface film intended to be removably attached to the top face of the tray in order to form a sterile upper surface that is intended to receive the surgical materials and/or liquid products. The top face of the tray includes at least one recess, and the tight surface film, attached to the tray, forms at least one pocket extending inside the at least one recess and adapted to receive at least one of the surgical materials and/or liquid products.
US11826182B2
A medical supplies cabinet is disclosed. The cabinet comprises a housing presenting a medical supplies storage zone at where there is provided at least one medical supplies receptacle. The receptacle(s) is/are of a shape and configuration to be able to at least partly receive and hold at least one medical item. A sensor is associated with the receptacle(s). The sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of the presence and/or absence, or removal of the medical item in/from the receptacle.
US11826180B2
A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically monitoring for possible infection or other physical health concerns, such as from Covid-19. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The method and system automatically uses and/or learns user location and activity patterns and determines and infection risk or illness-based deviation that can be communicated as a warning to community members.
US11826171B2
A catheter assembly or other elongate tubular device for use in establishing vascular or other access within the body of a patient is disclosed. The catheter assembly is equipped with one or more sensors that enable monitoring of one or more physiological aspects of the patient or physical aspect of the catheter assembly itself when the catheter assembly is disposed within the patient. Such aspects include central venous pressure, body temperature, ECG heart signals, oxygen levels, ultrasound data, glucose, etc. The catheter assembly includes the ability to wirelessly transmit or otherwise forward data relating to the detected physiological parameters to another location, such as a patient electronic medical record, smartphone or other mobile device, nurse station, etc. Catheter assemblies configured to detect the frequency of catheter flushing, flushing quality, etc., are also disclosed.
US11826163B2
Systems, methods and/or devices for optimizing a patient's insulin dosage regimen over time, comprising at least a first memory for storing data inputs corresponding at least to one or more components in a patient's present insulin dosage regimen, and data inputs corresponding at least to the patient's blood-glucose-level measurements determined at a plurality of times, and a processor operatively connected to the at least first memory. The processor is programmed at least to determine from the data inputs corresponding to the patient's blood-glucose-level measurements determined at a plurality of times whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient's present insulin dosage regimen. Also disclosed are systems, methods and/or devices for treating a patient's diabetes by providing treatment guidance, wherein the patient's current glycemic state is determined relative to a desired balance point; and determining from at least one of a plurality of the data corresponding to the patient's blood glucose-level measurements whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient's present insulin dosage regimen to get closer to the patient's desired balance point; wherein the desired balance point is the patient's lowest blood glucose-level within a predetermined range achievable before increasing the frequency of hypoglycemic events above a predetermined threshold.
US11826158B2
A system and associated method for computerized rotational head impulse test (crHIT) to assess the semicircular canals of the human vestibular system clinically in patients with balance disorders. The system utilizes a rotary chair combined with a head mounted VOG system with head tracking sensors. The crHIT protocol uses the same physiologic principles as the known video head impulse test (vHIT). The crHIT utilizes whole-body rotation via the chair to yield a persistent controlled, repeatable, comfortable, reliable stimulus can be delivered while recording eye movements with video-oculogaphy.
US11826157B2
Embodiments of a method for removal and replacement of artifacts in electrophysiological data from muscular activity in the gastrointestinal tract of a patient are disclosed. The approach includes setting an artifact identification threshold based on the parameters of the data, assessing the full extent of the artifact in time, and replacing the values with ones that are neutral in the time series and minimizing the effect on a power spectrum of the data. More particularly, the method includes steps of identifying artifacts within the raw time series data, eliminating the identified artifacts, and replacing the artifacts with any of interpolated points or constant value points to create a clean time series data set representing valid gastrointestinal tract EMG signals.
US11826154B2
A method for identifying and treating a neural pathway associated with chronic pain via nerve stimulation and brain wave monitoring of a mammalian brain is described. The method includes positioning a probe to stimulate a target nerve, wherein the target nerve is suspected of being a source of chronic pain; delivering a first nerve stimulation from the probe to the target nerve, wherein the first nerve stimulation is sufficient to elicit a chronic pain response in the brain; and monitoring for evoked potential activity in the brain as a result of the first nerve stimulation. The method can also include delivering second and third nerve stimulations to confirm the correct identification of the neural pathway and to treat the chronic pain, respectively. A system and apparatus for performing a procedure to identify and treat a nerve that is the source of chronic pain are also described.
US11826153B2
A medical device is configured to detect an atrial tachyarrhythmia episode. The device senses a cardiac signal, identifies R-waves in the cardiac signal attendant ventricular depolarizations and determines classification factors from the R-waves identified over a predetermined time period. The device classifies the predetermined time period as one of unclassified, atrial tachyarrhythmia and non-atrial tachyarrhythmia by comparing the determined classification factors to classification criteria. A classification criterion is adjusted from a first classification criterion to a second classification criterion after at least one time period being classified as atrial tachyarrhythmia. An atrial tachyarrhythmia episode is detected by the device in response to at least one subsequent time period being classified as atrial tachyarrhythmia based on the adjusted classification criterion.
US11826151B2
A system and method for physiological data classification for use in facilitating diagnosis is provided. A physiological monitor includes a feedback button and physiological data obtained via the physiological monitor is stored in a database. The physiological data is divided into segments and one or more data segments are classified as noise. A determination is made that at least one of the data segments classified as noise includes a marker indicating a press of the feedback button on the physiological monitor. A set of the physiological data including and surrounding the physiological data occurring during the press of the feedback button is identified within the data segment classified as noise. The identified set of physiological data is provided with the data segments classified as valid for analysis.
US11826148B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to determine one or more sensing zones on a body surface for electrocardiographic mapping of a region of interest associated with the heart. The sensing zone can be utilized to facilitate acquisition, processing and mapping of electrical activity for the corresponding region of interest. In other examples, an application-specific arrangement of electrodes can also be provided based on the sensing zone that is determined for the region of interest.
US11826133B2
A method for identifying brain-state dependent functional areas of unitary pooled activity (FAUPAs) using a statistical model that does not require a priori knowledge of the activity-induced ideal response signal time course is provided. A system for identifying a functional network in a brain of a living object includes a FAUPA identifier configured to identify FAUPAs by analyzing a plurality of images of the brain over a predetermined period. The plurality of images include a plurality of voxels, and the FAUPA identifier analyzes each voxel of the plurality of voxels in relation to one or more surrounding voxels of each voxel until each voxel of the plurality of voxels is evaluated. A brain network identification module configured to construct the functional network based on the identified FAUPAs that are functionally connected. A display module configured to display images of the brain depicting the FAUPAs included in the functional network.
US11826125B2
The present application relates to a device, system, and method for determining patient body temperature based on a multi-modal wearable biosensor applied to the surface of the body that measures multiple physiological, physical, and skin-surface/microclimatic thermal parameters, derives additional instantaneous parameters, learns contextual parameters based on temporal dynamics, and employs ensemble model fusion method to estimate core body temperature.
US11826119B2
A system and method is provided for transmitting signals ultrasonically among a network of implantable and wearable biological devices. The devices includes one or more implantable nodes, which include a sensing and/or actuating unit, at least one gateway node, and at least one access point node. Ultrasonic signals can be transmitted through the body by the implantable nodes to and from the gateway node, for transmission to and from the access point node. The access point node can be connected to the Internet. In this manner, remote instructions can be transmitted to the implantable nodes and data obtained at the implantable nodes can be transmitted to remote sites.
US11826115B2
A method performed by a surgical robotic system that includes a seat that is arranged for a user to sit and a display column that includes at least one display for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) surgical presentation. The method includes receiving an indication that the user has manually adjusted the seat and in response, determining, while the user is sitting on the seat, a position of the user's eyes, determining a configuration for the display column based on the determined position of the user's eyes, and adjusting the display column by actuating one or more actuators of the display column according to the determined configuration.
US11826106B2
Embodiments include a system for providing blood flow information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system including a touchscreen. The at least one computer system may be configured to display, on the touchscreen, a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of an anatomical structure of the patient based on patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may also be configured to receive a first input relating to a first location on the touchscreen indicated by at least one pointing object controlled by a user, and the first location on the touchscreen may indicate a first location on the displayed three-dimensional model. The at least one computer system may be further configured to display first information on the touchscreen, and the first information may indicate a blood flow characteristic at the first location.
US11826104B2
A gonioscopic attachment can attach to a gonioscope and can include atraumatic retention elements that are configured to engage an eye to retain the gonioscope relative to the eye. The gonioscopic attachment can be configured to position the gonioscope so that at least a portion of the concave distal surface of the gonioscopic optical element is spaced apart from the eye, and/or so that the curvature of the distal surface is angularly offset from the curvature of the eye. The gonioscope can include a fixation point configured to be visible to the subject when the gonioscope is positioned on the eye. In some embodiments, the retention elements can be incorporated directly into the gonioscope. A coupling mechanism can couple the gonioscope to a lid speculum. The gonioscope can include a light pipe, which can be configured to directly light into the eye.
US11826100B2
Disclosed is a binocular optoelectronic device wearable by a user for measuring a light sensitivity threshold of the user, including: a diffuser configured to face eyes of the user; at least one light source for emitting light toward the diffuser. The diffuser includes predetermined parameters allowing to provide a quasi-homogeneous light diffusion to at least one eye of the user from light emitted by the at least one light source.
US11826098B2
A system and methods for the treatment of amblyopia are described. The system includes a display system capable of in delivering a second image to a second eye of a patient and a first image to a first eye of a patient. The system also includes a controller in capable of delaying the delivery of the second image to the second eye of the patent. The controller is configured to receive the second image and the first image. The controller is also configured to identify a delay factor associated with the second image. The controller is also configured to provide the first image to the display system for viewing by the first eye of the patient. The controller is also configured such that after a delay determined by the delay factor, the controller provides the second image to the display system for viewing by the second eye of the patient.
US11826097B2
Articles of manufacture, including terminations of or attachments to optical fibers are configured to substantially prevent axial emission and redirect radially most if not all light emanating from optical fibers. In that, a termination may include a fiber cap of a unitary construction of a tube and an optical element disposed to face a sealed end of the tube and dividing a hollow of the tube and having a conical surface, or an optical element dividing the hollow and complemented by a cone. An example of termination includes an optical fiber element having an up-tapered end with a maximum taper-diameter exceeding the core-diameter and ending at a conical element with an apex angle from about 70° to about 100°. Articles of manufacture additionally including mounting contraptions cooperating such terminations with cannulae to form an attachment to a laser system. Methods for transmitting light through such articles of manufacture.
US11826091B2
A bipolar surgical instrument having a front region (3) with at least four coagulation elements (6, 7, 8, 9) entered in the slots at the at least four corners of a rectangle or at least four quarters of a circle of the insulation body (22) for coagulating and one cutting element at the centre of insulating body for cutting the tissue and/or vessel in the body, thereby having an at least five electrode arrangement for handling and treating the tissue and/or vessel. The cutting element (10) can be at least one blade or at least one needle and it can be fixed or moved longitudinally in an advanced position or retracted position.
US11826090B2
A bipolar forceps includes a mechanical forceps including first and second shafts each having a jaw member extending from a distal end thereof and a handle disposed at a proximal end thereof for effecting movement of the jaw members relative to one another about a pivot. A disposable housing is configured to releasably couple to at least one of the shafts and an electrode assembly is associated with the disposable housing. The electrode assembly includes electrodes releasably coupleable to the jaw members. At least one of the electrodes includes a knife channel configured to receive a knife blade therethrough to cut tissue grasped between the jaw members. A switch is configured to initiate delivery of electrosurgical energy from the source of electrosurgical energy to the electrodes. An actuation mechanism is configured to selectively advance the knife blade through the knife channel to cut tissue.
US11826083B2
The disclosure relates to medical devices and methods of manufacturing medical devices. An intramedullary rod includes a head member, a shaft member partially disposed within a distal recess of the head member, and an outer body member disposed circumferentially around the shaft member and a portion of the head member. Medical device systems and methods of manufacturing medical devices are also described.
US11826081B2
A system for performing surgical repair of the spine includes a distractor and a permanently implanted bone plate system. A surgical repair methodology is also disclosed that employs an implanted bone plate system with a substantially void internal volume which is attached to adjacent vertebrae subsequent to the distraction and adjustment of curvature of the vertebrae and prior to the excision of disc and/or end plate tissue through the bone plate. The device further facilitates the subsequent delivery of an interbody repair device for the purpose of either fusion or dynamic stabilization, such as by disc arthroplasty. The plate may be permanently implanted, such as when a fusion between the attached vertebral bodies is desired, but it need not be permanently implanted.
US11826056B2
A surgical system including a machining tool aimed at being manually displaced by an operator, a lockable unit including at least two linked and manually displaceable elements aimed at being manually arranged according to a least one calculated locked configuration, a sensor unit including at least one sensor aimed at following, in real time, a real time configuration of the lockable unit within an anatomical reference system, where the at least two elements of the lockable unit cooperate with lockable element, the lockable element being configured to be activated by a control unit when the real time configuration of the lockable unit corresponds to the at least one locked configuration recorded inside the control unit.
US11826041B2
A barbed rod device is provided for tissue closure and approximation. The device includes two or more subassemblies. Each subassembly includes a receiver having a central opening and centerline axis, a plurality of barbs extending radially outward from the receiver, and a linking rod extending from the receiver along the centerline axis of the receiver. The linking rod includes a locking end opposite the receiver. The locking end of a first subassembly is configured to engage the receiver of a second subassembly.
US11826036B2
A retractor member includes a body portion extending along a longitudinal axis and being at least partially defined by a first lateral perimeter edge and a second lateral perimeter edge that each extends parallel to the longitudinal axis. The body portion additionally includes an upper surface and a lower surface that each extends between the first lateral perimeter edge and the second lateral perimeter edge. A first lateral support portion is coupled to the body portion at a first location at or adjacent to the first lateral perimeter edge, and a second lateral support portion is coupled to the body portion at a second location at or adjacent to the second lateral perimeter edge. A first coupling portion is disposed at a top end portion of the first lateral support portion and a second coupling portion is disposed at a top end portion of the second lateral support portion.
US11826027B2
The present description relates to a sample collection device comprising a receptacle and a closure member configured to seal the receptacle. Within the closure member is provided a reservoir configured to contain a stabilization fluid capable of preserving and stabilizing a collected sample. The reservoir includes an outlet which is sealed by a sealing member. The sealing member may be openable to allow communication, or mixture, between the contents of the reservoir and the contents of the receptacle. The closure member may also include a peel foil on the end of the closure member having the outlet to ensure sterility of and to avoid tampering with the outlet and the reservoir. The method includes collecting a sample from the user using the sample collection device, mixing the sample with the stabilization fluid, and analyzing the sample thus collected.
US11826023B2
An endoscope having an outer sheath, a handle, an optical window, and an optical module. The outer sheath includes a lumen extending between a proximal end and a distal end thereof. The handle is mounted at the proximal end of the outer sheath and includes an external data connector. The optical window is removably and sealingly mounted at the distal end of the outer sheath. The optical module is removably disposed within the distal end of the outer sheath and includes an integrated image sensor, an optical lens, and an optical module connector. The optical module connector is configured for selective disconnection from and reconnection to a mating line connector in electrical communication with the external data connector of the handle. The optical module and the outer sheath further include one or more alignment features configured to ensure correct radial and axial positioning.
US11826007B2
A hand vacuum cleaner has a dual first stage cyclones.
US11826006B2
A cleaner including: a main body having a first connection flow path which is formed in an outside thereof; and a nozzle having a suction port through which air is introduced: wherein the nozzle comprises: a case in which the suction port and a second connection flow path are formed, the second connection flow path which is hooked to the first connection flow path, a push button able to linearly move through one surface of the case in a predetermined pressing direction; and a detachment unit mounted in the case to be rotated about a rotating shaft positioned in a direction parallel to the pressing direction, and interlocked with the push button to release hook coupling of the first connection flow path and the second connection flow path when rotating.
US11826003B2
A household dishwasher includes a washing chamber, a control apparatus for running a washing program from a number of washing programs, a metering system having a supply unit for receiving an individual dose of a first cleaning agent and supplying the individual dose into the washing chamber at a metering point in time while running the washing program, and an automatic metering apparatus for automatically metering a plurality of metering quantities from a supply of a second cleaning agent in the form of a solid material into the washing chamber at the metering point in time, and a sensor apparatus configured to detect a state of the metering system and to emit a sensor signal depending on the detected state of the metering system. The control apparatus runs the washing program depending on the sensor signal.
US11825996B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing including an upright handle assembly and a base mounted to the upright handle assembly. The surface cleaning apparatus is further provided with a fluid delivery system comprising a fluid dispenser configured to dispense fluid and at least one wiper to remove excess liquid from a brushroll.
US11825986B2
A grill including a first platen assembly, an second platen assembly movable with respect to the first platen assembly, a motor operable to move the second platen assembly with respect to the first platen assembly, and a control operable to measure movement of the second platen assembly with respect to the first platen assembly while the motor is off.
US11825985B2
A cooking appliance, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, a plurality of electric heating elements, and a heat shield. The cabinet may define a cooking chamber and an exhaust path downstream therefrom to direct vapor from the cabinet. The plurality of electric heating elements may be mounted within the cabinet. The heat shield may be mounted within the cabinet. The heat shield may extend along a shield plane from a first end to a second end. The heat shield may define a plurality of vent channels spaced apart along the shield plane from the first end to the second end. The plurality of vent channels may be disposed in fluid communication between the cooking chamber and the exhaust path.
US11825984B2
A protective liner for cookware has a main body with a bottom portion and a top portion. A rim extends laterally inwardly from the top portion of the main body, and a lip extends upwardly from the rim. A recess is disposed in the main body. The main body and the rim are configured to fit adjacent a top edge of a cookware apparatus during use. The recess is adapted to fit around a handle of the cookware apparatus, and the lip is configured to receive a lid corresponding with the top edge of the cookware apparatus. The protective liner reduces a user's risk of suffering a burn in use.
US11825983B2
A milk-frothing apparatus for preparing high quality micro-foamed milk for coffee drinks consistently and at high volume. A machine having one or more steaming stations includes an elevator at each station with an elevator-mounted steaming wand have a precise angle at the discharge end. The elevator-mounted steaming wand is configured to travel from an upward stowed status to a downward deployed status to insert the discharge end of the elevator-mounted steaming wand into milk inside a pitcher precisely located on the machine. A steam boiler is hydraulically coupled to the elevator-mounted steam wand via flexible tubing and an infrared sensor monitors the temperature of the pitcher during a downward deployed status. An LCD screen with operator controls and displays oriented to coincide spatially with the elevator indicate different operational settings selected by the user and related to machine operation.
US11825972B2
The present invention relates generally to a new and improved package receptacle for receiving one or more delivered parcels or packages. The receptacle is comprised of a gas-piston supported lid, a cable that allows the receptacle to be secured to a structure, a lock that allows only authorized users to access the contents of the package receptacle and a plurality of anti-theft mechanisms. The package receptacle is easily collapsible for easy transportation between locations.
US11825971B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to an apparatus comprising a receiving device (200) configured to receive a package (1) delivered via an airborne drone (100). The receiving device (200) includes a receptacle (201), an optical scanner (208), a transceiver (207), and at least one light emitter (204) in operative connection with a computer (203). The optical scanner (208) is operative to read optical indicia that includes a delivery code. The transceiver (207) is operative to receive a signal that includes a verification code and an encrypted one time code from the drone (100). If the verification code has a predetermined relationship with the delivery information, the computer (203) is operative to decrypt the one time code and to transmit an encrypted optical signal through the at least one light emitter (204) whereby the drone (100) is enabled to identify the receiving device (200) and to position the package (1) therein.
US11825962B2
A cooler includes a cabinet having an interior volume for storing a beverage container containing a beverage and a door for providing access to the interior volume of the cabinet. The cooler further includes a lock configured to maintain door in a closed position when the lock is engaged. The cooler includes a cooling unit configured to maintain the cabinet at a predetermined temperature and a temperature sensor arranged within the cabinet that detects a temperature within the cabinet. A control unit is in communication with the cooling unit and the temperature sensor, and the control unit is configured to control the cooling unit to maintain a temperature within the cabinet at a predetermined temperature as determined by the temperature sensor. The control unit may be configured to lock the door until a temperature within the cabinet is at the predetermined temperature.
US11825950B2
Sofa frame and assembled sofa, comprising back boards, side boards connected to back boards, and face board connected to side boards; said side boards are relatively configured on the two sides of the back board; the two sides of the face board are respectively connected to the side boards on both sides; said face board comprises at least two folding blocks and hinges connected to the folding blocks. In the above-mentioned sofa frame, as hinges are used to connect adjacent folding blocks, the face board becomes a folding structure. Thus, during transportation, the folded face board occupies less space to reduce transportation cost.
US11825948B1
A furniture article includes a first panel and a second panel. The panels are positioned adjacent each other, having one or more panel fasteners therebetween. The panel fasteners include embedded magnets. The panels are positioned relative to a working surface, and are positioned such that each of the panel fasteners is hidden from view.
US11825942B2
A collapsible platform assembly includes an upper platform having a perimeter wall, a top surface, and a plurality of pivoting support legs, and a lower platform having a perimeter wall, a top surface, and a plurality of pivoting support legs. A connector assembly connects the lower platform to the upper platform. The connector assembly is configured to provide adjustability of the collapsible platform assembly between a deployed configuration with the upper and lower platforms separated and a collapsed configuration with the top surface of the lower platform nesting within the perimeter wall of the upper platform. When deployed, the collapsible platform assembly provides two elevated platforms that can support a user to reach high areas. When collapsed, the platform assembly reduces in size with the lower platform nesting within the upper platform for compact storage and easy transport.
US11825939B1
A folding table includes a tabletop, a left folding mechanism, a left table leg, a right folding mechanism and a right table leg. The folding table is foldable by coordination of the tabletop, the left folding mechanism, the left table leg, the right folding mechanism and the right table leg. Once folded, the tabletop envelops the left folding mechanism, the left table leg, the right folding mechanism and the right table leg, such that the folding table appears as a long stripe shape and has a rectangular cross section, providing effects of a minimal occupied space and ease of portability when folded, and better stability and a bearing ability when unfolded.
US11825928B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of recommending cosmetics based on a melanin index and a hemoglobin index and a device thereof, and more particularly to a method for implementing quantification and standardization based on hemoglobin and melanin indexes from personal color consulting, which conventionally done offline based on a color index (Lab index) and has high result variability depending on personal experience or knowledge of a consultant and recommending cosmetics based on the quantification and standardization. The method includes measuring a hemoglobin index and a melanin index of skin and providing a measured value, classifying the measured hemoglobin index and melanin index of the skin into one of a plurality of categories based on a predetermined reference, and recommending cosmetics suitable for a color or condition of the skin corresponding to the measured and classified hemoglobin index and the melanin index of the skin, wherein a category of the color of the skin is classified into 4 seasonal categories including a spring type, a summer type, an autumn type, and a winter type.
US11825927B2
A pot for a cosmetic product including a base topped by a substantially cylindrical neck defining an opening, and a lid equipped with a seal having top and bottom surfaces. The neck of the pot has a rim with an inner periphery having a shoulder forming a concave surface. The bottom surface of the seal includes a flexible annular lip that has a convex shape on an outer peripheral wall which, when the lid is tightened on the base, matches the concave surface over at least a portion of the height of the shoulder and presses sealingly against the rim around the entire inner periphery of same to sealingly close the pot. The flexibility of the seal and the shape of the lip thereof, which complements that of the rim, allow it to be deformed to be able to compensate for dimensional irregularities during at manufacture ensuring tight sealing.
US11825916B2
Buffing of a footwear component allows for an alteration of the component surface to achieve an intended surface for aesthetics and/or manufacturing purposes. The buffing is performed in a system having a vision module, a sidewall buffing module, an up surface buffing module, and a down surface buffing module. Each of the buffing modules are adapted for the unique shape and sizes of a footwear component to effectively and automatically buff the footwear component.
US11825914B2
Systems and apparatus related to automated tightening of a footwear platform including a footwear lacing apparatus are discussed. In an example, a footwear lacing apparatus can include a housing structure, a spool, and a drive mechanism. The housing structure can include a top section and a bottom section. The spool can include a superior surface, a lace spool under the superior surface and a spool shaft with a keyed connection pin. The spool can also be integrated into the top section of the housing structure. The drive mechanism can couple with the spool via the keyed connection pin on the spool shaft. The drive mechanism can be adapted to rotate the spool to tighten or loosen a lace cable integrated into the footwear.
US11825905B2
Foot support systems include a fluid flow control system that facilitates movement of fluid into, out of, and/or within a sole structure and/or article of footwear, e.g., to change and/or control pressure in fluid filled bladder(s). Aspects of this technology may relate to one or more of: (a) footwear structures in which such systems are incorporated; (b) valve stem based fluid flow transfer systems; (c) solenoid based fluid flow transfer systems; (d) user input button features; (e) air filter features; (f) fluid tube to fluid distributor connection features; (g) fluid distributor to footwear connection features; (h) valve position sensor features; (i) valve transmission features; (j) pressure control algorithm features; (k) electronic communication features; (l) system sealing features; and/or (m) pressure sensor mounting features.
US11825899B2
An adjustable brim for use with a hat, such as a baseball-style hat includes a sheath having a rounded shape for positioning around the hat and including a channel, a body, a tightening device positioned within the channel of the sheath, and a fastener positioned on the tightening device for adjusting the size of the sheath. The body includes an inner edge, an outer edge opposite the inner edge, an outer surface, and an inner surface opposite the outer surface, and the inner edge of the body is connected to the sheath.
US11825897B2
A component for establishing electrical contact between at least one functional element and a textile or the like. The component includes a main body, which accommodates at least one electrical component and/or one functional element, and includes connection elements for establishing electrical contact with electrically conductive regions of the textile or the like.
US11825894B1
A reinforced support device suitable for the protection of a hand and its digits from impacts, particularly those found in contact sports. The support device providing an outer skeleton and/or selected reinforcement portion(s), protects the digits of the hand and permits flexion of the fingers and/or thumb. The reinforcement portions can be of various shapes, sizes, materials, and weights. They may also be connected in various ways to one another.
US11825893B2
An ambidextrous or hand-specific glove including a wrist region, a palm region, and a digit region. The glove may be fabricated of nitrile rubber that is free of or essentially free of zinc, sulfur and accelerators to reduce allergic reactions in populations required to frequently wear protective gloves. A band region that partially or fully encircles a user's finger knuckles may be provided for easier finger bending. Texturing may be provided on glove surfaces that are used to grip articles. The fingertip regions on the front surface of the index and middle finger regions may be un-textured or smooth to enable a user to take a patient's pulse. These fingertip regions may be of reduced or smaller diameter and circumference so as to pull the glove material tightly around the tips of the user's finger and thereby applying pressure thereto so that even a faint pulse in a patient may be detected.
US11825886B2
Systems and apparatus related to adaptive support garments including adaptive support structures, lacing systems, and an adaptive engine are discussed. In an example, an adaptive support garment can include a textile-based support structure, an adaptive support structure and an adaptive engine is described. The textile-based support structure is configured to support a portion of anatomy of a wearer. The adaptive support structure is integrated into the textile-based support structure and configured to adjust a portion of the textile-based support structure. The adaptive engine is coupled to the adaptive support structure to activate adjustment of the portion of the textile-based support structure.
US11825875B2
A container for storing and transporting elongated objects, such as smoker's articles, or other small objects, which container has a container lid or closure and a container receptacle. The container lid is mounted on the receptacle for pivoting movement relative thereto and is openable to provide full access to the interior of the container and the object stored therein, and is closable to prevent access thereto. The container incorporates a child-resistant opening mechanism, and a seal which cooperates between the container lid and the receptacle in the closed position of the container lid to prevent odors from escaping the container interior, to preserve freshness of objects stored in the interior of the container and/or to seal the container interior from moisture or other contaminants.
US11825874B2
A cigar cutter has a housing into which a moveable actuator assembly extends. A rotatable cutter blade is located in a hollow space of the housing, the cutter blade rotating in the hollow space under the control of the moveable actuator assembly. A receptacle adjacent the rotatable cutter blade receives the tip of a cigar, and rotation of the cutter blade in the hollow space severs the cigar tip from the remainder of the cigar. The residue formed by the severed tip is then discarded. A hemispherical-shaped cut is created at the tip of the cigar.
US11825871B2
A method and a device for detecting plastic foreign objects with low chromaticity difference in shredded tobacco through online pulse spectral imaging are provided. The method includes three steps: negative pressure thin-layer loading of shredded tobacco, pulse line-scanning identification of shredded tobacco, and positive pressure online elimination of foreign objects. Loose shredded tobacco is formed into a fixed and continuous thin layer on a surface of a conveying cylinder under the effect of a negative pressure adsorption force. The surface of the conveying cylinder is coded by areas. An LED linear array light source containing characteristic wavelengths of plastics with low chromaticity difference emits optical pulses, and a line-scanning camera is used to obtain characteristic signals of the plastic foreign objects with low chromaticity difference efficiently in real time.
US11825870B2
Disclosed is an article for use with apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The article comprises smokable material, such as tobacco, and a heater for heating the smokable material. The heater comprises heating material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field. The heating material has a Curie point temperature that is less than the combustion temperature of the smokable material.
US11825861B2
The present disclosure discloses methods for preparing plant-based protein compositions, such as a pea protein isolate, comprising alkaline phosphate salts, wherein the compositions exhibit greatly improved solubility. The high solubility of these plant-based protein isolate compositions greatly facilitates the manufacture of food and beverage products containing plant-based protein.
US11825857B2
The present invention discloses a method for batch production of espresso coffee by preparing ground coffee and water mixture in a pressure chamber, degassing the ground coffee in the pressure chamber, extracting an initial brew from the degassed ground coffee via pressure, and producing a final brew (large batch of espresso coffee) from the initial brew.
US11825855B2
A processing line for harvesting hearts from viscera packages taken out from poultry carcasses. An apparatus with an infeed section below a conveying track to mechanically grip the viscera package. The infeed section is equipped to transfer the viscera package from which the gizzard is removed to a processing section. An outfeed section that follows the processing section, which outfeed section is arranged to make the heart as separated from the viscera package available at an outlet for the heart.
US11825854B2
The present invention is a fixed-quantity meat slicer for chilled meat, comprising a meat loading part having a loading groove on which meat is loaded; a meat pressing part which is disposed on the upper side of the meat loading part, and which presses the meat in a vertical direction during downward movement; a horizontal driving part disposed at one side of the meat loading part so as to press the meat in a horizontal direction; a flange disposed on the other side of the meat loading part so as to form an outlet through which the meat is exposed to the outside according to the forward movement of the horizontal driving part; a restriction cover which is hinge-driven so as to open or close the outlet of the flange, and which prevents the forward movement of the meat when the outlet is closed; a cutter for cutting the meat that moves forward out of the outlet of the flange; and an input part for inputting meat cutting information.
US11825850B2
Pesticidal proteins exhibiting toxic activity against Lepidopteran pest species are disclosed, and include, but are not limited to, TIC4029, TIC4029_1, and TIC4029_8. DNA constructs are provided which contain a recombinant nucleic acid sequence encoding one or more of the disclosed pesticidal proteins. Transgenic plants, plant cells, seed, and plant parts resistant to Lepidopteran infestation are provided which contain recombinant nucleic acid sequences encoding pesticidal proteins of the TIC4029 class. Methods for detecting the presence of the recombinant nucleic acid sequences or the proteins of the TIC4029 class in a biological sample, and methods of controlling Lepidopteran species pests using any of the TIC4029, TIC4029_1, and TIC4029_8 pesticidal proteins are also provided.
US11825840B2
Herbicidal compositions for reducing off-site movement or drift of herbicides are described. The herbicidal compositions can include an auxin herbicide, an oil or an ester of the oil, and a polymeric emulsifying agent, such as glycerol ethoxylate-polyricinoleate, glycerol ethoxylate-poly-(12-hydroxystearate), polyethylene glycol (PEG)-polyricinoleate, PEG-poly-(12-hydroxystearate), and a combination thereof. Methods of making such compositions and methods of making such polymeric emulsifying agents are also described.
US11825838B2
The invention relates, inter alia, to compounds of general formula (I). The invention also relates to methods for synthesizing the compounds of formula (I). The compounds according to the invention are in particular suitable for controlling insects, arachnids and nematodes in agricultural applications and for controlling ectoparasites in veterinary medicine.
US11825832B2
A waterfowl decoy deployment system includes a thrust device and a hub coupled to the thrust device. The waterfowl decoy deployment system also includes a plurality of arms coupled to the hub such that the plurality of arms extend radially outward from the hub. The thrust device is configured to rotate about an axis to induce a substantially circular motion to the hub and the plurality of arms.
US11825828B2
An underwater device for subduing underwater invasive species includes a translucent or transparent fixture having a TiO2 coating on at least one side of the fixture and a light source positioned to expose the coating with light having sufficient intensity and selected range of frequencies to activate the photocatalytic TiO2 coated fixture.
US11825825B1
An adjustable tension kite holding and release apparatus, which has an apparatus head, and an apparatus body having an adjustable thumbscrew coupled to the apparatus body, and first and second ring grippers having first and second bumps providing a ring gripping mechanism at a distal end of the apparatus body. The ring gripping mechanism holding a releasable ring, running a fishing line through the releasable ring, tightening the adjustable thumbscrew such that the ring gripping mechanism applies tension to the releasable ring, and increasing or decreasing the tension based on an estimated force desired to release the releasable ring.
US11825823B2
A fishing line guide attached to a rod body of a fishing rod is provided. The fishing line guide includes a guide ring through which a fishing line passes, a frame supporting the guide ring, and an attachment portion coupled to the frame and attached to the rod body. The frame has, at a lower end thereof, an attachment foot extending along a longitudinal direction of the rod body. The attachment portion is coupled to the attachment foot and is composed of a resin material. The attachment portion has a through bore to which the rod body is fitted, and a fitting hole to which the attachment foot is fitted. The fitting hole is spaced apart along the longitudinal direction from one end surface of the attachment portion and is formed at an outside of the through bore separately from the through bore in a radial direction.
US11825816B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for controlling a camera to observe aquaculture feeding behavior. In some implementations, a method includes moving a camera to a first position, obtaining an image captured by the camera at the first position, determining a feeding observation mode, and based on the feeding observation mode and analysis of the image, determining a second position to move the camera.
US11825814B2
A system for external fish parasites monitoring in aquaculture, the system comprising: —a camera (52) suitable to be submerged in a sea pen suitable for containing comprising fish, the camera being arranged for capturing images of the fish; and—an electronic image processing system (86) configured for identifying external fish parasites on the fish by analyzing the captured images, wherein: —a ranging detector (54) configured for detecting the presence of fish and measuring a distance from the detector to the fish is mounted adjacent to the camera (52); and—an electronic control system (12) is arranged to control a focus of the camera (52) on the basis of the measured distance and to trigger the camera (52) when a fish has been detected within a predetermined distance range.
US11825804B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01083877. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01083877. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01083877 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01083877 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11825803B2
A soybean cultivar designated 08140870 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 08140870, to the plants of soybean cultivar 08140870, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 08140870, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 08140870. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 08140870. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 08140870, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 08140870 with another soybean cultivar.
US11825790B2
Provided is a canola variety designated 19GG0885L and seed, plants and plant parts thereof produced from a cross of inbred varieties. Methods for producing a canola variety comprise crossing canola variety 19GG0885L with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 19GG0885L through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Canola variety, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, plant parts and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of canola variety are disclosed.
US11825779B2
System and method for analysis of current and voltage levels within a center pivot irrigation system
The present invention provides a system and method for analyzing drive tower current and voltage levels to determine drive wheel status. In accordance with a first preferred embodiment, the system of the present invention includes a machine analysis module which analyzes data from electrical sensing systems, GPS sensors, and gyroscopic sensors. According to a further preferred embodiment, the machine analysis module applies a current/voltage sensing algorithm which analyzes the status of the first and second drive wheels based on detected operating currents/voltages of selected motors.
US11825774B2
A baler system is operable to determine an initial quantity of a preservative stored in a tank and define an application rate of the preservative to be applied per bale during a harvest operation. A number of bales to be formed during the harvest operation may be estimated, and a determination made on whether or not the initial quantity of the preservative at the defined application rate is sufficient to treat the estimated number of bales to be formed during the harvest operation. When a controller determines that the initial quantity of the preservative is not sufficient to treat the estimated number of bales to be formed during the harvest operation, the controller may send a notification to a system manager requesting additional preservative be delivered to the baler implement. The status of the preservative may be continuously monitored and updated throughout the harvest operation.
US11825770B1
A clutch assembly includes: a drive hub having a spline configured to couple to a gearbox; a clutch housing coupled to the drive hub and having an end face defining an opening therein; a clutch hub disposed within the clutch housing and having a portion that extends out of the opening, the clutch hub being rotatable with respect to the clutch housing during a slip condition; a primary seal disposed between the clutch housing and the clutch hub; a quantity of purging compound disposed between the clutch housing and the clutch hub; and an end washer coupled to the clutch hub and facing the end face, the end washer and the end face defining a purge gap therebetween such that rotation of the clutch hub relative to the clutch housing causes some of the purging compound to eject from the clutch housing through the purge gap.
US11825769B2
A conditioning roller assembly includes two conditioning rollers which are rotatably mounted on associated bearing arrangements, and a holder which includes a first holder component and a second holder component that are connected together by a hinge and a spring arrangement for providing a pre-tensioning of the conditioning rollers. The first holder component is releasably connected to the first bearing arrangement, the second holder component is releasably connected to the second bearing arrangement, and the conditioning rollers, with the bearing arrangements, are detachable in each case from the components without the holder being disassembled.
US11825767B2
A cutting unit (1) that has a cutter bar (6) that is operated rigidly or flexibly, depending on the harvest conditions, which can be operated in at least two different operating modes, wherein the cutting unit (1) includes a first sensor assembly (1) disposed on the cutting unit (1) that can be deactivated, which is for operating the cutting unit (1) in a first operating mode, and a second sensor assembly (17) for operating the cutting unit (1) in a second operating mode, wherein, when switching between the at least two operating states, the first sensor assembly (13) or the second sensor assembly (17) is activated without interruption in operation, to execute a distance determination, depending on the selected operating mode.
US11825764B2
A collection device has a chute supported below the calibration opening on pneumatic delivery lines through which seed can be dispensed during calibration of a seed meter below a seed tank of an agricultural air seeder implement. The chute has a top opening at a top side in alignment with the calibration opening thereabove so as to receive seed discharged through the calibration opening into the chute through the top opening and a bottom that slopes downwardly to one end locating a discharge opening through which collected seed is dispensed. The chute is supported on bag mounts of the implement from which a flexible calibration bag is otherwise suspended. A gate is operably associated with the discharge opening.
US11825763B2
A system and method that automatically monitors product use, such as the type and amount of agricultural and/or horticultural product stored in and dispensed from a cartridge over time and/or by geographic location. Monitored data are stored in memory such as a tag on the cartridge and may be transmitted to a server for storage, aggregation, and analysis. The cartridge may be authenticated before being authorized for use for the benefit of a current user in dispensing the product. The cartridge may be refilled after confirmation of authorization codes on the cartridge and refilling equipment tags. The cartridge may be calibrated automatically based on the bulk density or other parameter of the product in the cartridge. Data may be aggregated from a plurality of cartridges automatically. As-applied data from individual cartridges may be used to verify, independent of operator input, treated area coverage and product application rate.
US11832535B2
2D heterostructures comprising Bi2Se3/MoS2, Bi2Se3/MoSe2, Bi2Se3/WS2, Bi2Se3/MoSe2. 2xS2x, or mixtures thereof in which oxygen is intercalated between the layers at selected positions provide high density storage devices, sensors, and display devices. The properties of the 2D heterostructures can be configured utilizing abeam of electromagnetic waves or particles in an oxygen controlled atmosphere.
US11832534B2
Methods of forming variable-resistance devices include forming a variable-resistance layer between a first terminal and a second terminal from a material that varies in resistance based on an oxygen concentration. An electrolyte layer is formed over the variable-resistance layer from a material that is stable at room temperature and that conducts oxygen ions in accordance with an applied voltage. A conductive gate layer is formed over the electrolyte layer.
US11832531B2
A spin-orbit torque magnetization rotational element includes: a first insulating layer with first and second openings; a first conductive portion formed inside the first opening; a second conductive portion formed inside the second opening; a spin-orbit torque wiring located in a first direction and extends in a second direction over the first and second conductive portions; and a first ferromagnetic layer located on the side opposite to the first insulating layer in the spin-orbit torque wiring, wherein the first conductive portion includes a first surface facing the spin-orbit torque wiring, a second surface facing the first surface and is located at a position farther from the spin-orbit torque wiring than the first surface, and a side surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, and the side surface includes a continuous major surface and a third surface inclined or curved and is discontinuous with respect to the major surface.
US11832530B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-bit memory cell, an analog-to-digital converter, a device and a method. The multi-bit memory cell comprises: a spin-orbit coupling layer and a plurality of magnetic tunnel junctions disposed on the spin-orbit coupling layer, the plurality of magnetic tunnel junctions comprising a plurality of first magnetic tunnel junctions; the plurality of first magnetic tunnel junctions are sequentially arranged along a length direction of the spin-orbit coupling layer, and critical currents of reversals of the magnetizations of free layers of the plurality of first magnetic tunnel junctions are progressively increased or decreased in sequence along the length direction. The present disclosure provides a multi-bit memory unit with simple manufacturing process and structure.
US11832526B2
A spin-orbit-torque magnetization rotational element includes: a ferromagnetic metal layer, a magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic metal layer being configured to change; a spin-orbit torque wiring which extends in the first direction intersecting a lamination direction of the ferromagnetic metal layer and is joined to the ferromagnetic metal layer; and two via wires, each of which extends in a direction intersecting the spin-orbit torque wiring from a surface of the spin-orbit torque wiring opposite to a side with the ferromagnetic metal layer and is connected to a semiconductor circuit, wherein a via-to-via distance between the two via wires in the first direction is shorter than a width of the ferromagnetic metal layer in the first direction.
US11832518B2
A woven structure includes thermoelectric ribbons interwoven with thread. Each thermoelectric ribbon includes a folded matrix of thermoelectric elements, the matrix having an insulating substrate that supports plural rows of thermoelectric elements, a plurality of conductive elements, and two terminals. The conductive elements form a series connection of the thermoelectric elements between the two terminals. A set of first conductive elements have a first temperature and a set of second conductive contacts have a second temperature lower than the first temperature when a first current flows in a first direction between the first matrix terminal and the second matrix terminal. The folded matrix is configured to form spaced-apart alternating stacks of the first conductive contacts and second conductive contacts. Each length of the yard or thread is interwoven such that it passes alternately under stacks of first conductive contacts and over stacks of second conductive contacts.
US11832513B2
The present application relates to triarylamine compounds of a defined formula. The present application further relates to processes for preparing the compounds, to the use of the compounds in electronic devices, and to electronic devices comprising the compounds.
US11832511B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, an organic light-emitting device including the organometallic compound, and a diagnostic composition including the organometallic compound are provided: M1(L11)n11(L12)n12 Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, L11 may be a ligand represented by Formula 1-1, and the other substituents may be understood by referring to the descriptions thereof provided in the detailed description:
US11832508B2
The present invention relates to an electroluminescence device having high luminous efficiency (for example, external quantum efficiency) and high durability and causing little chromaticity shift after device deterioration. The present invention also relates to an organic electroluminescence device material comprising a substrate having thereon a pair of electrode and at least one organic layer between the electrodes, the organic layer containing a light emitting layer, wherein the light emitting layer contains a metal complex having a group represented by formula (I).
US11832502B2
A display panel includes a substrate including a first region, a second region, a non-display area that surrounds the first region and the second region, and a display area that surrounds the non-display area; a plurality of pixels arranged on the display area; a plurality of dummy pixels arranged on the non-display area and emitting no light; and a plurality of signal lines configured to electrically connect the plurality of pixels to the plurality of dummy pixels. Some of the plurality of dummy pixels are arranged between the first region and the second region.
US11832498B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display substrate includes a base and a plurality of sub-pixel structures on the base, the sub-pixel structure includes: a first protrusion including a photoelectric sensing device and a second protrusion including a color filter layer, a protrusion height of the first protrusion relative to the base being smaller than that of the second protrusion relative to the base; a planarization layer on the first and second protrusions, and in contact with the first and second protrusions, a material wettability of the planarization layer with respect to the surface of the first protrusion being greater than that with respect to the surface of the second protrusion; and a white organic light-emitting diode on the planarization layer, and emitting light towards the first and second protrusions.
US11832489B2
A light-emitting device includes: a plurality of first electrodes respectively disposed in a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel; a second electrode facing the plurality of first electrodes; a first emission layer disposed in the first subpixel to emit a first-color light; a second emission layer disposed in the second subpixel to emit a second-color light; a first layer disposed between the second electrode and each of the first emission layer and the second emission layer, and integrated with the first subpixel, the second subpixel, and the third subpixel; a hole transport region disposed between the plurality of first electrodes and each of the first layer, the first emission layer, and the second emission layer; a first auxiliary layer disposed between the hole transport region and the first emission layer; and a first intermediate layer disposed between the first auxiliary layer and the first emission layer.
US11832482B2
A double-sided emissive transparent organic light-emitting diode display and method of manufacturing the same are provided. A double-sided emissive transparent organic light-emitting diode display includes: a substrate, a plurality of pixel areas, each including, on the substrate: a light transmitting area, and a light-emitting area, the light-emitting area including: a bottom light-emitting area including a bottom-emissive organic light-emitting diode, and a top light-emitting area including: a top-emissive organic light-emitting diode, a plurality of bottom driving elements under the top-emissive organic light-emitting diode, the bottom driving elements being configured to drive the bottom-emissive organic light-emitting diode, and a plurality of top driving elements under the top-emissive organic light-emitting diode, the top driving elements being configured to drive the top-emissive organic light-emitting diode.
US11832479B2
A display device a substrate; first display elements arranged in a first area on the substrate; first pixel circuits arranged in the first area on the substrate and connected to the first display elements; second display elements arranged in a second area on the substrate; and second pixel circuits arranged in a third area on the substrate and connected to the second display elements. The second pixel circuits connected to the second display elements arranged in a column are arranged in a plurality of columns in the third area.
US11832472B2
The aim is to improve the bending resistance a display device. The display device in one embodiment includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface and a curved part between the first surface and the second surface, a display element arranged on the first surface, a conducting layer connected with the display element and extending to the second surface from the first surface via the curved part, a plurality of protective layers having a lower ductility than the substrate and arranged in the substrate side and/or opposite side to the substrate side with respect to the conducting layer and along the curved part, wherein each of the plurality of protective layers spreading over the curved part, to a certain region of the first surface side from the curved part, and to a certain region of the second side from the curved part.
US11832470B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes an organic electroluminescence element, and a protective layer that protects the organic electroluminescence element, wherein the protective layer includes a first insulating film, a second insulating film, a third insulating film, a fourth insulating film, and a fifth insulating film, a density of the second insulating film is higher than a density of each of the first insulating film, the third insulating film, and the fifth insulating film, a density of the fourth insulating film is higher than the density of each of the first insulating film, the third insulating film, and the fifth insulating film, and each of the first insulating film, the second insulating film, the third insulating film, the fourth insulating film, and the fifth insulating film includes an inorganic material including silicon and nitrogen.
US11832467B2
A light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and interlayer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a first emission layer and a second emission layer, the first emission layer includes a first dopant, wherein the second dopant is an electron-trapping dopant, and the second emission layer includes a third dopant and a fourth dopant, wherein the fourth dopant is a hole-trapping dopant.
US11832464B2
A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a first element and a second element. The first element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first optical functional layer. The first optical functional layer includes a region interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first optical functional layer includes a first layer and a layer containing a first light-emitting material. The second element includes a third electrode, the second electrode, and a second optical functional layer. The second optical functional layer includes a region interposed between the third electrode and the second electrode. The second optical functional layer includes the first layer and a layer containing a photoelectric conversion material. The first layer includes a region interposed between the layer containing the first light-emitting material and the second electrode and a region interposed between the layer containing the photoelectric conversion material and the second electrode. The layer containing the photoelectric conversion material contains an organic high molecular material.
US11832460B2
The present invention relates to a working electrode (1a) for a photovoltaic device, comprising a light absorbing layer (3) and a conductive layer (6) arranged in electrical contact with the light absorbing layer (3), and the light absorbing layer (3) comprises a light absorbing photovoltaic material consisting of a plurality of dye molecules. The light absorbing layer (3) is formed by a layer of a plurality of clusters (7), whereby each cluster (7) is formed by dye molecules and each dye molecule in the cluster (7) is bonded to its adjacent dye molecules.
US11832459B2
The invention relates to methods for producing a light-absorbing material with a perovskite-like structure, and can be used to form a light-absorbing layer in the production of photovoltaic cells for saving the materials and increasing the allowable size of converters. These advantages are achieved by forming a uniform layer of component B on the substrate, preparing a mixture of reagents that react with component B under predetermined conditions, and a reaction inhibitor that suppresses this reaction under these conditions; the prepared mixture is applied in stoichiometric amount or greater than stoichiometric on the layer of component B and the reaction inhibitor is removed from the mixture, ensuring activation of the chemical reaction between the mixture of reagents and component B to form films of perovskite-like material.
US11832458B2
A carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNFET), that has a channel formed of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), includes a layered deposit of a nonstoichiometric doping oxide (NDO), such as HfOX, where the concentration of the NDO varies through the thickness of the layer(s). An n-type metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) CNFET made in this manner can achieve similar ON-current, OFF-current, and/or threshold voltage magnitudes to a corresponding p-type metal-oxide semiconductor (PMOS) CNFET. Such an NMOS and PMOS can be used to achieve a symmetric complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) CNFET design.
US11832453B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body above a substrate. The stacked body includes a first stacked region in which a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer are alternately stacked and a second stacked region in which a conductive layer and the first insulating layer are alternately stacked. The semiconductor storage device includes a memory pillar that extends through the second stacked region of the stacked body in a stacking direction. The second insulating layer comprising a first insulating material within the first stacked region and a second insulating material on ends of the second insulating layer in a direction intersecting to the stacking direction.
US11832452B2
A semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer and a memory device. The second dielectric layer includes a first layer and a second layer. The memory device includes a first conductive structure under the first dielectric layer, a second conductive structure over the second dielectric layer, and a memory cell between the first and the second dielectric layers. The memory cell includes a bottom electrode via, a bottom electrode over the bottom electrode via, a top electrode over the bottom electrode, a top electrode via over the top electrode, and a MTJ between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The second layer of the second dielectric layer surrounds sidewalls of the top electrode via entirely. The first layer of the second dielectric layer surrounds sidewalls of the bottom electrode entirely, sidewalls of the MTJ entirely, and sidewalls of the top electrode entirely.
US11832448B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a semiconductor substrate having sidewalls that define a recess within an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of upper electrode segments are arranged over the semiconductor substrate and are vertically separated from the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate by a first dielectric layer. A lower electrode segment is arranged directly between the sidewalls of the semiconductor substrate and directly between adjacent ones of the plurality of upper electrode segments. A second dielectric layer is arranged directly between the sidewalls of the semiconductor substrate and the lower electrode segment and also directly between the plurality of upper electrode segments and the lower electrode segment.
US11832435B2
A method of fabricating the semiconductor device includes forming a bit line structure over a substrate, forming a spacer structure on a sidewall of the bit line structure, partially removing an upper portion of the spacer structure to form a slope on the spacer structure slanting to the bit line structure, forming a landing pad material to cover the spacer structure and contact the slope, and removing at least a portion of the landing pad material to form a landing pad against the slope.
US11832433B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to array and peripheral area masking. An example method comprises concurrently forming an array active area mask in an array active area and a peripheral component active area. The method further comprises forming a peripheral component active area mask in the peripheral component active area. The method further comprises concurrently forming etch stop spacers using the array active area mask in the array active area and the peripheral component active area. The method further comprises etching a portion of the peripheral component active area to open peripheral component conductive contact vias using the peripheral component active area mask together with the formed etch stop spacers in order to reduce over-etch of an opening to a device well while increasing surface area opening to a peripheral component conductive contact.
US11832424B2
Provided is an electronic module including a housing case for housing a relay, a heat transfer sheet placed on one wall portion of the housing case, a bus bar that is connected to the relay and is partially in contact with the heat transfer sheet, and a pressing portion that presses the bus bar against the heat transfer sheet.
US11832418B2
A liquid cooling head includes a chassis, an inlet channel, a thermally-conducting structure, a liquid gathering structure, a drain channel and a pump set. The chassis includes a lower chamber and an upper chamber communicated with the lower chamber through a connection opening. The inlet channel is disposed on one side of the chassis, and communicated with the upper chamber for radiating the heat of the working fluid away. The thermally-conducting structure is disposed in the lower chamber for gathering the working fluid passed through the thermally-conducting structure. The drain channel is disposed on one side of the chassis to be communicated with the lower chamber. The pump set for pushing the working fluid in the lower chamber to discharge the working fluid outwards from the drain channel.
US11832412B1
Embodiments are directed toward a mounting device for circuit boards. The mounting device preferably includes a first standoff and a first track. The first standoff is preferably configured to receive a circuit board. The first track is preferably be configured to receive the first standoff. The first standoff is preferably configured to move relative to the first track in two dimensions to facilitate receiving different circuit boards having different sizes or dimensions.
US11832401B2
A head-mounted display includes a main body having a housing defining at least a portion of an exterior of the head mounted display; a built-in display disposed in the housing; a wearing band extending from the main body to a rear side and having a shape enclosing a head of a user as a whole; a right-side extending section configured to make up a right-side part of the wearing band; a left-side extending section configured to make up a left-side part of the wearing band; and a frame which is separate from the housing and constitutes at least a portion of a rear part of the main body, where the frame has left and right openings for receiving left and right lenses, respectively, and a recessed section for accommodating a user's nose when the head-mounted display is worn.
US11832398B2
An apparatus for encapsulating at least one electronic component disposed on a printed circuit board may include a liquid-tight enclosure that surrounds the electronic component and that is fixed with respect to the electronic component and the circuit board, and an encapsulating material disposed inside the enclosure and encapsulating the electronic component. The enclosure may include at least one sidewall and a top. The at least one sidewall may include a rigid material, a lower edge that is proximal to the printed circuit board, an upper edge that is distal from the circuit board, and a height above the circuit board that is no more than 0.003 inches greater than a height of the electronic component above the circuit board. The top may include a solid surface disposed on the upper edge of the at least one sidewall, where the at least one sidewall and the top form the enclosure.
US11832389B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a display, a first circuit board disposed under the display, a first component and a second component disposed on one surface of the first circuit board, the first and second components each having different heights, a first interposer surrounding at least one side surface of the first component and disposed in a first region of the first circuit board, the first interposer part having a first height, a second interposer part surrounding at least one side surface of the second component and disposed in a second region of the first circuit board, the second interposer part having a second height different from the first height, a first second circuit board, at least a portion of which is spaced apart from the first region of the first circuit board, the first second circuit board including a first first portion bonded to the first interposer part, and a second second circuit board, at least a portion of which is spaced apart from the second region of the first circuit board, the second second circuit board including a first second portion bonded to the second interposer and spaced apart from the first second circuit board by a specified gap.
US11832375B2
A flattening structure of a flexible screen (100), and a display device. The flattening structure includes a flexible screen storage device (200), a storage blocking member (300), and an elastic assembly (400), the flexible screen storage device (200) includes a housing (201) and a flexible screen reel (202) arranged in the housing (201); one end of the flexible screen (100) is connected to the flexible screen reel (202) and capable of being wound on the flexible screen reel (202), and the other end of the flexible screen (100) is connected to the storage blocking member (300) by means of the elastic assembly (400).
US11832361B2
The invention relates generally to lighting devices and, more particularly, to low electromagnetic interference (EMI) lighting devices with variable light output levels.
US11832357B2
A method of forming a heater assembly of an e-vaping device includes bending a wire to form a first lobe and bending the wire to form a second lobe. The first lobe and the second lobe form a generally sinuously-shaped heater having a first set of lobes and a second set of lobe. A first apex of the first lobe is generally opposite a second apex of the second lobe. The method may also include curling the first set of lobes towards the second set of lobes to form a heater having a substantially tubular form. The heater defines an opening there through.
US11832343B1
A system, method, and computer program are provided for protecting against unintentional deletion of an eSIM from a mobile device. In use, deletion of an eSIM from a mobile device is detected. Additionally, definitions of predefined scenarios indicative of unintentional deletions of eSIMs are accessed. Further, the detected deletion is analyzed, using the definitions, to determine that the detected deletion is unintentional. Still yet, a proactive care action is caused to be performed to address the unintentional deletion of the eSIM from the mobile device.
US11832342B2
An embodiment emergency call sending apparatus includes a telematics module configured to send an emergency call when an accident occurs, and an emergency call complementing module configured to monitor whether an emergency call transmission executed by the telematics module succeeds or fails, search for an available network near a vehicle, access the available network when the emergency call transmission fails, and control a complement of the emergency call transmission.
US11832339B2
A network node (300a) receives, over an interface between the network node (300a) and a further network node (300b), a message comprising paired user equipment (UE) identifiers for UE identification over the interface to the network node (300a) and further network node (300b), respectively. Responsive to determining that the identifier for UE identification to the network node (300a) uniquely identifies a UE (150) to the network node (300a), the network node (300a) validates the message irrespective of whether the identifier for UE identification to the further network node (300b) uniquely identifies the UE (150) to the further network node (300b).
US11832338B2
Billions of low-cost autonomous sensors and actuators are expected to join 5G and 6G networks. Most of them will use DRX (discontinuous reception) to save power. However, if an incoming message arrives while the device is in sleep-mode, a complex process is required for the device to obtain its message. Instead, a fast, lean polling method is provided, in which the base station can inform the user devices periodically of their messages on hold, using an encoded matrix of bits, one bit per user device in the network. When a user device wakes up and receives the matrix, it can determine, according to its bit position, whether it has messages waiting. If so, the user device can then transmit a very brief signal in an allocated reply region, at a specific location corresponding to its bit position in the matrix, thereby requesting the message or messages on hold.
US11832335B2
Methods, systems, and devices for dynamically configuring connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) configurations supporting network power modes are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first control signaling configuring the UE with multiple C-DRX configurations, each C-DRX configuration of the multiple C-DRX configurations corresponding to a respective network power mode. In some examples, the UE may receive a second control signaling including an identifier indicating a C-DRX configuration, of the multiple C-DRX configurations, corresponding to a first network power mode (e.g., an enhanced network power savings mode) at a base station, where the first network power mode may indicated a set of features active at the base station. The UE may communicate with the base station in accordance with the indicated C-DRX configuration and based on the first network power mode.
US11832330B2
A beam failure in a full-duplex communication scenario may be detected based on a reference signal measurement. For example, a user equipment (UE) may measure a downlink reference signal transmitted by a base station and/or an uplink reference signal transmitted by the UE and derive a quality parameter based on one or both of these measurements. If the quality parameter indicates a beam failure, the UE may generate an indication that one or more of the beams monitored by the UE have failed.
US11832325B2
In a wireless local area network system, a transmitting multi-link device (MLD) includes at least one transmitting station (STA). The transmitting STA generates a multi-link (ML) element and transmits the ML element. The ML element includes a common information field and information related to each transmitting STA. The information related to each transmitting STA includes a first link identifier (ID) field and a first link information field that includes information related to a transmitting STA operating in a link related to the first link field. The first link information field includes information commonly related to all transmitting STAs included in the transmitting MLD based on the first link ID field having a first value.
US11832324B2
Device-to-Device (D2D) communications in hybrid networks are provided by identifying a first dual-mode endpoint seeking to communicate with a second dual-mode endpoint via a D2D communications session; identifying a first communications pattern of network resource usage for the first Radio Access Technology (RAT) and a second communications pattern of network resource usage for the second RAT in the heterogeneous wireless network environment; assigning the D2D communications session to the first RAT based on the first communication pattern and the second communication pattern; and in response to detecting network resource usage changes in the first RAT, transitioning the D2D communications session to the second RAT. In some embodiments, the D2D communications session is assigned to the first RAT using a shared frequency regulated by a band access controller that is reserved as a static resource for D2D communication while high-priority signals are absent from the shared frequency.
US11832322B2
Embodiments of this application provide a wireless backhaul communication processing method and a related device. In the method, after determining to add a secondary access device for a wireless backhaul device, a first network side device sends capability indication information about the wireless backhaul device to the secondary access device, so that the wireless backhaul device establishes a radio link to the secondary access device.
US11832314B2
A random access method for a terminal with the processor and the memory to access a low earth orbit satellite network formed by multiple low earth orbit satellites (LEO SAT) includes: the stage where a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithm is applied for a pre-set time to decide which one between the first and the second actions should be performed at every access cycle, and to perform the random access to the low earth orbit satellite network based on the above decision while learning it; and the stage where, according to the learning result of the DRL algorithm performed for above pre-set time, it decides which of the first and the second actions should be chosen when attempting to access the low earth orbit satellite network at a new access cycle and then to perform the random access to the low earth orbit satellite network according to the above choice.
US11832313B2
A wireless LAN system according to the present disclosure includes: a wireless LAN base station (AP); and a plurality of wireless LAN terminals (STA) that perform uplink multi-user communication with the wireless LAN base station (AP). The wireless LAN base station (AP) transmits a trigger frame to allocate a predetermined resource unit, the trigger frame including a terminal ID that specifies a wireless LAN terminal (STA) before association among the plurality of wireless LAN terminals (STA), to the plurality of wireless LAN terminals (STA). The wireless LAN terminal before the association (STA) selects, when the terminal ID that specifies the wireless LAN terminal before the association (STA) is included in the trigger frame, the predetermined resource unit and transmits uplink data to the wireless LAN base station (AP).
US11832308B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of a terminal for performing a random access procedure is provided. The method includes transmitting a random access preamble associated with a random access procedure to a base station, receiving a random access response including information on a backoff parameter value from the base station, identifying a scaling factor for backoff based on a priority of the random access procedure or an event which triggers the random access procedure, determining a random backoff time based on the scaling factor and the backoff parameter value, and transmitting a subsequent random access preamble after the random backoff time to the base station.
US11832293B2
The present application discloses a data transmission method and device, the method includes determining whether one or more timers related to survival time corresponding to a specific bearer are running; performing special processing on the specific bearer when the one or at least one of the more timers is running; the special processing includes when organizing a MAC PDU, processing the specific bearer in one or a combination of following manners, and/or activating a PDCP duplication for the specific bearer: manner 1: temporarily increasing a priority of the specific bearer; manner 2: temporarily canceling a priority restriction on a logical channel of the specific bearer, allowing use resources that reduce time latency and improve reliability; manner 3: temporarily starting repetition transmission, and performing automatic repetition transmission of a data packet of the specific bearer on an adjacent scheduled resource device.
US11832288B2
A communication control device includes: a selection unit that selects, on the basis of a protection target range which is set to the air above a communication device of a second wireless system on the basis of a position of the communication device of the second wireless system which secondarily uses a frequency resource primarily used by a first wireless system, a communication device of the first wireless system as a target for calculating interference applied by the communication device of the second wireless system.
US11832275B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving uplink feedback information in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal may comprise receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a base station, the DCI including resource allocation information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); receiving data #n from the base station through the PDSCH indicated by the DCI; generating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook including an HARQ response bit #n for the data #n and an HARQ response bit #n−1 for data #n−1 received from the base station before the data #n; and transmitting the HARQ codebook to the base station. Therefore, the performance of the communication system can be improved.
US11832268B2
In some aspects, a method of wireless communication includes receiving control information by a UE from a base station. The control information indicates one or more first frequency resources of a BWP that are associated with a first communication type and further indicates one or more second frequency resources of the BWP that are associated with a second communication type. The method further includes, based on a first data type of first data corresponding to the first communication type and further based on a second data type of second data corresponding to the second communication type, performing a wireless communication with the base station using the one or more first frequency resources to communicate the first data and using the one or more second frequency resources to communicate the second data.
US11832261B2
Methods and apparatus for providing a demapping system to demap uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes detecting a processing type associated with a received uplink transmission, and when the detected processing type is a first processing type then performing the following operations: removing resource elements containing reference signals from the uplink transmission; layer demapping remaining resource elements of the uplink transmission into two or more layers; soft-demapping the two or more layers to produce soft-demapped data. The method also includes descrambling the soft-demapped data to produce descrambled data, and processing the descrambled data to generate uplink control information (UCI).
US11832252B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that help reducing transmission overhead related to sidelink control information (SCI). For example, when a transmitter UE has established a sidelink communication with a receiver UE, the transmitter UE may schedule with at least one semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) process at a first time interval. The transmitter UE may sense whether a resource is available for transmissions to the receiver UE based on decoding an SCI, such as an SCI 0-1 message. The SCI is transmitted at a second time interval that is greater than the first time interval. For example, the second time interval may be a multiple of the first time interval of the at least one SPS process. The second time interval may be flexible and may be increased to reduce the number of SCI messages transmitted in certain time periods in order to reduce communication overhead.
US11832248B2
Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. The solution comprises operating a radio access network, where the radio access network comprises two or more resource tiers, each tier having different latency/timing requirements. The resource allocation for the radio access network is realised (200) with two or more control loops, where each control loop is configured to allocate resources with different latency requirements, and control resources between the tiers. Resources of the inmost tier are controlled (202) by an inmost control loop with lowest latency resource allocation, and resources of the outer tiers are controlled (204) by one or more outer control loops for less latency critical resource allocation, each outer control loop having less critical latency requirement compared to loops closer to the inmost loop.
US11832244B2
In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink (UL) grant (e.g., dynamic UL grant, UL configured grant (CG)) from a network, but may decide to skip the UL grant altogether or not transmit any user plane data on the UL grant. In such instances, the UE may maintain or expedite expiration associated with one or more timers (e.g., discontinuous reception (DRX) and bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timers, secondary cell (SCell) deactivation timer, etc.). The UE may also maintain or expedite expiration associated with one or more timers if it receives downlink (DL) transmission (e.g., DL semi-persistent scheduling (SPS)) from the network that includes no user plane data.
US11832240B2
The present disclosure provides a method for sidelink communication, including: performing operation on scheduling information in a first bandwidth part, wherein the scheduling information is used for scheduling data in a second bandwidth part; and performing operation on the data in the second bandwidth part.
US11832239B2
Provided are a resource selection method for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) operation of a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method comprises: monitoring physical sidelink control channels (PSCCHs) for other terminals in a first subframe; and transmitting, in a second subframe, a V2X message by using a resource which is not overlapped with a resource scheduled by the PSCCH for another terminal.
US11832233B2
Provided is signaling transmitting and receiving methods, device, network-side device, terminal and storage medium. The signaling transmitting method includes: determining a first parameter set and/or a second parameter set for N resource groups; and transmitting an indication signaling, the indication signaling carries indication information for indicating the first parameter set and/or the second parameter set. The signaling receiving method includes: receiving an indication signaling transmitted by a network-side device. The indication signaling carries indication information for indicating a first parameter set and/or a second parameter set determined by the network-side device for N resource groups. The first parameter set is a Physical Downlink Shared Channel Resource Element (PDSCH RE) mapping set. The second parameter set is a Quasi-Co-Location (QCL) parameter set. N is a positive integer greater than 1.
US11832230B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for the pairing of an inter-band carrier with a time division duplex (TDD) carrier. If the paired band is a frequency division duplex (FDD) band, then base stations and mobile devices may transmit and receive additional thin control channels on FDD carriers to enable full duplex operations. If the paired band is a TDD band, then a conjugate or inverse carrier may be used such that full duplex, or a close approximation thereto, is achieved. With the introduction of a paired channel and fast control channels, rapid uplink/downlink switching may be achieved for TDD carriers efficiently and effectively. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11832228B2
The embodiments herein relate to timing advance offset for uplink/downlink switching in New Radio (NR). In one embodiment, there proposes a method in a wireless communication device, comprising: determining a timing advance (TA) offset for uplink/downlink switching, wherein the TA offset is at least based on the time offset requirement for uplink/downlink switching in different scenarios used in communication between the wireless communication device and a network node; applying the determined TA offset in the uplink communication from the wireless communication device to the network node. With embodiments herein, uplink/downlink switching time for NR is defined.
US11832223B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for managing scheduling of wireless communications. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, one or more configurations indicating a plurality of minimum scheduling offset values; receiving, from the base station, a signal indicating one of the minimum scheduling offset values as an updated value to be used for communications with the base station and a type of scheduling; determining a delay based on the type of scheduling; and after the reception of the signal, using the updated value for communications with the base station based on the determined delay.
US11832210B2
An illustrative location management system 1) determines base station location data representing locations of first, second, and third first base station facilities, wherein the location of the first base station facility is determined based on user equipment (UE) location data representing at least three different locations of one or more mobile UE devices communicatively coupled to the first based station facility and signal data representing information from signals communicated between the first base station facility and the one or more mobile UE devices by way of the wireless communication network; and 2) determines, based on the base station location data and on signal data representing information from signals communicated between an additional mobile UE device and the first, second, and third base station facilities, a location of the additional mobile UE device.
US11832209B2
A terminal device comprising circuitry configured to detect a value of a parameter which is variable in response to a variation in vertical position of the terminal device; receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a reference value of the parameter, a reference value of a vertical position at which the reference value of the parameter is associated, and a valid duration information of the reference value of the parameter, the reference value of the parameter being defined relative to a first reference vertical position; and determine a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the first reference vertical position.
US11832207B2
Device locationing using a beacon of a battery pack is described herein. A battery pack may determine that a user device is connected to the battery. The battery pack may determine, based on a power output of the battery, that the user device is inactive. The battery pack may cause, based on determining that the user device is inactive, the beacon to emit a beaconing signal that is associated with locating the user device and/or the battery pack.
US11832202B2
This application provides a clock state detection method and apparatus, applied to the field of communications technologies, to detect clock states of M base stations. The method includes: receiving detection results of M base stations, where the detection result of each of the M base stations is used to indicate whether the base station receives a detection sequence sent by each of N neighboring stations of the base station, the N neighboring stations belong to the M base stations, both M and N are integers greater than or equal to 1, and N is less than M; and determining clock states of the M base stations based on the detection results of the M base stations.
US11832200B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a synchronization signal in a wireless communication system supporting NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method for transmitting and receiving a synchronization signal may include: receiving, from a base station, a narrowband synchronization signal; and performing a cell search procedure for the base station based on the narrowband synchronization signal, in which the narrowband synchronization signal may include a narrowband primary synchronization signal and a narrowband secondary synchronization signal, the narrowband primary synchronization signal and the narrowband secondary synchronization signal may be transmitted in different subframe, and the subframe in which the narrowband secondary synchronization signal is transmitted may be configured differently according to a type of a radio frame structure.
US11832197B2
Techniques for neighborhood management between WiFi and unlicensed spectrum radios. A wireless access point (AP), including a first radio, identifies a neighboring second radio operating using at least a portion of an unlicensed radio spectrum, based on a time that the AP receives a transmission from the second radio using a frequency within the unlicensed radio spectrum. Transmission between the first radio and the second radio is synchronized by identifying a clock offset between a first clock relating to the first radio and a second clock relating to the second radio.
US11832193B2
Disclosed are power control method and device, and method and device for determining target receiving power. The power control method includes: space domain resource information of a transmission is received; a power control parameter of the transmission is determined according to the space domain resource information of the transmission and an association between space domain resource information and power control parameter, where a number of at least one parameter of the power control parameter of the transmission is greater than 1; and a transmit power of the transmission is determined according to the power control parameter of the transmission. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the power control parameter is configured for one transmission, a number of at least one parameter of the configured power control parameter is greater than 1, and a beam scenario or a panel scenario or a multi-TRP scenario is supported.
US11832190B2
A method for control of data transmission in a wireless communication system includes receiving, by an application, from a modem, information indicative of a radio coverage condition, where a user equipment (UE) includes the application and the modem; based on the received information, determining that the UE is in an enhanced coverage state; and in response to the determining, controlling uplink data transmission by the modem to reduce power consumption of the UE.
US11832186B2
Some of the present implementations provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for receiving a power saving signal. The method receives, from a base station, a power saving signal comprising a minimum applicable K0 (K0min) that indicates a minimum scheduling offset restriction between a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel (PDCCH). The method determines an application delay based on a predefined value. The method then applies the minimum scheduling offset restriction after the application delay.
US11832177B2
A first bridge device, connected by a first wired link to a supplying device, and a second bridge device, connected by a second wired link to a consuming device, are interconnected via a wireless communication network and are able to be configured in: a nominal operating mode; an energy saving mode; or a stop mode. The first bridge device switches into stop mode following detection of deactivation of the first wired link, and switches into energy saving mode following detection of disconnection from the network of the second bridge device or when the second bridge device goes into energy saving mode or following detection of a low volume of bidirectional traffic. The second bridge device switches into stop mode following detection of deactivation of the second wired link, and switches into energy saving mode following detection of the consuming device being put into hibernation or following detection of disconnection of the network or detection of a low volume of bidirectional traffic.
US11832175B2
A second base station transmits a message to a first base station. Based on the second base station having a backhaul interface to a third base station, the message includes parameters of one or more cells of the third base station. The second base station transmits, to the first base station, a request to add the first base station as a secondary base station. The second base station receives, from the first base station and based on the message, a request of a change of the secondary base station from the first base station to the third base station.
US11832173B2
A data transmission method, a terminal, and an access-network network element are disclosed. An interface is disposed on a policy client of UE and an operating system or an application layer of the UE. The interface is used to provide the operating system or the application layer with a policy related to the operating system or the application layer, and collect, from the operating system or the application layer, information required for a report. In this way, a dedicated transport channel is implemented by a bottom layer of the UE, reports and policies are transmitted on the dedicated transport channel, and during implementation, a protocol is not coupled with the application layer or the operating system, so that the system is simple to implement.
US11832172B2
A method for mitigating spoofing attacks on an SEPP inter-PLMN forwarding interface includes obtaining, by a responding SEPP, a first SEPP identifier and/or a first PLMN identifier from at least one message received over an inter-PLMN control interface. The method further includes storing the first SEPP identifier and/or the first PLMN identifier in an identity cross-validation database. The method further includes obtaining, from at least one message received over an inter-PLMN forwarding interface a second SEPP identifier and/or a second PLMN identifier and performing a lookup in the identity cross-validation database using a lookup key comprising at least one of the second SEPP identifier and the second PLMN identifier, determining that a record corresponding to the lookup key is not present in the identity cross-validation database, and, in response, preventing the at least one message received over the inter-PLMN forwarding interface from entering a PLMN protected by the responding SEPP.
US11832166B2
In a case where a wireless signal is received by Wake Up Radio (WUR), processing of searching for a new connection destination of Primary Connectivity Radio (PCR) is started based on signal strength or signal quality of the wireless signal.
US11832165B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a state associated with a sensing procedure, for sensing availability of a resource, based at least in part on one or more state parameters. The UE may perform the sensing procedure to sense availability of the resource based at least in part on determining the state. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11832162B2
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network includes a transceiver configured to receive information indicative of one or more access classes of terminal devices which are permitted to exchange signals with the wireless telecommunications network, and a controller configured to update the received information to modify the one or more access classes of terminal devices which are permitted to exchange signals with the mobile telecommunications network, the received information being updated by the controller according to a predetermined function of time.
US11832160B2
A radio communication route enables communication from an originating ground station to a destination ground station via one of multiple randomly orbiting satellites with no active attitude control. The ground stations and satellites include multi-feed parabolic antennas for receiving radio signals from and transmitting radio signals in multiple directions. The satellites store an address of a destination ground station from which an initial information signal is transmitted and antenna information identifying the satellite antenna feed on which the initial information signal was received. Plural satellite antennas transmit linking information identifying the satellite to the originating ground station. Data transmissions received at the originating ground station that designate a particular destination are transmitted by the originating ground station using the antenna on which the linking information was received and the satellite retransmits the data transmission using the satellite antenna feed identified by the stored antenna information.
US11832158B2
A network node obtains a message to be transmitted as a public warning system notification to multiple UEs, via one or more SIBs, and obtains area information corresponding to the message. The area information indicates an area for which the message is relevant. The network node determines how many SIBs are needed for transmitting the area information and segments the message into a plurality of segments, based on how many SIBs are needed for transmitting the area information. The network node transmits the message and the area information via SIBs, such that a segment of the message is included in each SIB and such that each portion of the area information included in a SIB is accompanied by a segment of the message. A UE receives the SIBs and assembles the message and area information, displaying the message if it is relevant.
US11832156B2
A Bluetooth (BT) device includes a host processor and a BT controller coupled by a Host Controller Interface (HCI) including a Host Controller Transport Layer and a HCI Driver. The host processor implements an applications layer and includes HCI firmware for communicating via the Host Controller Transport Layer with the BT controller. The BT controller includes a processor coupled to a memory and to a transceiver, and a RF driver. The HCI firmware also includes HCI command code for a user to define a topology of the BT network including configuring the BT device in a current chain including a plurality of BT devices including configuring from which BT device it receives data from and which BT device it forwards data to. For communicating data across the BT network the BT device forwards the data without host processor involvement in at least resending the data back to its BT controller.
US11832155B1
Systems and methods are provided for consistent policy enforcement across networks. A subscription is provisioned at a first network with an initial service policy. The first network queries a second network for updated service policy information. In response to the query, updated service policy information for the subscription is received. The updated service policy information is determined by the second network based on a selection criteria attribute for the subscription satisfying selection criteria. The selection criteria attribute is unavailable at the first network. Service is provided to a device associated with the subscription in accordance with the updated service policy information.
US11832151B2
The subject matter described herein relates to wireless network discovery, management, the enabling of services, and economic exchanges in a cooperative manner by one or more federated sets of consumers, one or more access point providers, and one or more wireless service providers. Described herein are methods and apparatus for the discovery, classification, and management of wireless networks. The methods and apparatuses described herein may leverage two complementary elements impacting the performance of wireless LANs: (1) organization and management of the wireless access points (hot spots) from an ontology perspective, and (2) organization of mobile devices as a federation.
US11832143B2
A communication device and corresponding methods are provided. The device includes a display screen upon which information is displayed. A microprocessor configured to execute at least one notification program is provided that displays a notification descriptive of an access control request on the display screen. The at least one notification program is programmed to receive data indicative of an access control request and to receive data descriptive of the access control request. Additionally, the at least one notification program is further programmed to display a notification indicative of the access control request and comprising an explanation of the access control request based on the received descriptive data.
US11832142B2
Technologies for performing an automated application exchange negotiation in an operator network include an endpoint device, a mobile edge computing device, a core computing device, an application provider computing device, and a network operator computing device. The mobile edge computing device is configured to receive a request to access an application and/or service stored at the mobile edge computing device and/or the application provider computing device. The mobile edge computing device is further configured to initiate the automated application exchange negotiation between the application provider computing device and the network operator computing device to determine one or more terms of the negotiation, including one or more terms of a service level agreement (SLA). Other embodiments are described herein.
US11832138B2
A method performed by a first base station, is described. The first base station determines a change in one or more measurements to be performed by a UE. The measurements are associated with a first set of frequencies. The first base station also transmits a first message to a second base station comprising information regarding which frequencies in the first set are to be changed. The first base station and the second base station serve the UE. A method performed by the second base station is also described whereby the second base station receives the first message. In a method performed by the UE, the UE receives, from the first base station, a configuration message configured to specify the measurements to perform and a measurement gap configuration. The UE then takes the measurements based on the configuration message.
US11832137B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive handover information associated with one or more neighbor cells. The UE may identify that a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle associated with a first subscriber identity module (SIM) of the UE at least partially overlaps with a second DRX cycle associated with a second SIM of the UE. The UE may identify that at least one of the first DRX cycle or the second DRX cycle does not overlap with a third DRX cycle associated with a neighbor cell of the one or more neighbor cells. The UE may transmit, to the neighbor cell, a message associated with a handover of at least one of the first SIM or the second SIM to the neighbor cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11832134B2
An inter-communications-system moving method includes determining, by user equipment UE, whether a first session exists in a first communications system, where the first session is capable of being transferred from the first communications system to a second communications system; and sending, by the UE, a first message to a first core network device of the second communications system when determining that the first session exists, where the first message is used to establish a second session in the second communications system, and the second session corresponds to the first session.
US11832125B2
The present disclosure relates a method of transmitting a buffer status report by a terminal. The method may include i) receiving an RRC reconfiguration message including identification information, ii) identifying logic channels associated with the first base station and logic channels associated with the second base station, iii) triggering the buffer status report by identifying buffer statuses of the identified logic channels associated with the first base station and the second base station, and transmitting the buffer status reports to the first base station and the second base station.
US11832124B2
A method of controlling performance of a wireless device is performed by a node that is in electronic communication with a cellular network. The node includes a processor, a non-transitory memory, and a network interface. The method includes receiving a performance value characterizing a performance of a communication channel between a wireless device and a wireless access point. In some implementations, the wireless device and the cellular network are associated with different radio access technologies (RATs). The method includes determining whether the performance value breaches a performance criterion for the wireless device. The method includes adjusting a first amount of data transmitted to the wireless device from a base station of the cellular network and a second amount of data transmitted to the wireless device from the wireless access point. In some implementations, the combined first and second amounts of data satisfy the performance criterion for the wireless device.
US11832108B2
A lawful interception, LI, intercept access point, IAP, function (135) in a mobile connect, MC, identity gateway, ID GW, function (107) receives, from a LI administrative function, ADMF (108), a request for activation of LI for a target identity, A, during a specified LI time interval. A detection is made, during the LI time interval, that the ID GW function (107) has at least started an authentication and authorization procedure for a service that the target identity, A, has requested and as a consequence of the detection obtaining, from the ID GW function (107), personal data pertaining to the target identity, A, and providing the obtained personal data pertaining to the target identity, A, to a LI mediation and delivery 10 function MF/DF (132), for example via an X2 interface.
US11832103B2
A method of determining a response of a radio frequency wireless communication system to an adversarial attack is provided. Adversarial signals from an adversarial node are transmitted to confuse a target neural network of the communication system. An accuracy of classification of the incoming signals by the target neural network is determined.
US11832102B2
Various systems and methods for user-authorized onboarding of a device using a public authorization service are described herein. In an example, a 3-way authorization protocol is used to coordinate device onboarding among several Internet of Things (IoT) Fog users (e.g., devices in a common network topology or domain) with principles of least privilege. For instance, respective onboarding steps may be assigned for performance by different Fog ‘owners’ such as respective users and clients. Each owner may rely on a separate authorization protocol or user interaction to be notified of and to give approval for the specific onboarding actions(s) assigned. Further techniques for implementation and tracking such onboarding actions as part of an IoT network service are also disclosed.
US11832099B2
A method including registering an authority device for an account on an auth platform; receiving transaction request from an initiator to the auth platform; messaging the authority device with the transaction request; receiving an authority agent response from the authority device to the auth platform; if the authority agent response confirms the transaction, communicating a confirmed transaction to the initiator; and if the authority agent response denies the transaction, communicating a denied transaction to the initiator.
US11832087B2
A multi-channel signal encoding method includes determining a downmixed signal of a first channel signal and a second channel signal in a multi-channel signal, and reverberation gain parameters corresponding to different subbands of the first channel signal and the second channel signal, where the obtained reverberation gain parameters are belonging to at least two reverberation gain parameter groups. The method further includes selecting, from the at least two reverberation gain parameter groups, a target reverberation gain parameter group. The method further includes generating parameter indication information, where the parameter indication information indicates the target reverberation gain parameter group. The method further includes encoding reverberation gain parameters corresponding to the target reverberation gain parameter group, the parameter indication information, and the downmixed signal to obtain a bitstream.
US11832084B2
Embodiments relate to an audio system that performs equalization of audio signals based on one or more diffuse field head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) and device-specific data. User-specific data and device-specific data (i.e., transducer-specific data) are applied to an acoustic model to predict an acoustic response for a user. An equalization filter is then determined using the acoustic response and the one or more diffuse field HRTFs. The equalization filter is applied to a processed version of an audio signal to create a modified version of the audio signal. The modified version of the audio signal is presented to the user via a transducer array of the audio system. The audio system can further include a microphone assembly that reduces the Helmholtz resonance effect.
US11832080B2
An apparatus configured to: determine, for two or more microphone audio signals, a plurality of spatial audio parameters for providing spatial audio reproduction, wherein the plurality of spatial audio parameters are associated with respective frequency bands of at least two frequency bands of the two or more microphone audio signals; determine at least one coherence parameter associated with a sound field, wherein the sound field is associated with the two or more microphone audio signals; determine at least one audio signal based on the two or more microphone audio signals; and enable the spatial audio reproduction based on the plurality of spatial audio parameters, the at least one coherence parameter, and the at least one determined audio signal.
US11832078B2
An apparatus configured to: determine, for two or more speaker channel audio signals, at least one spatial audio parameter for providing spatial audio reproduction; determine, between the two or more speaker channel audio signals, at least one coherence parameter, wherein the at least one coherence parameter is configured to provide at least one inter-channel coherence information between the two or more speaker channel audio signals for respective ones of at least two frequency bands of the two or more speaker channel audio signals; determine at least one value based, at least partially, on the at least one coherence information, wherein the at least one value is configured to indicate at least one information associated with the at least one inter-channel coherence information; and transmit the at least one spatial audio parameter and the at least one determined value.
US11832077B2
A method performed a local device that is communicatively coupled with several remote devices, the method includes: receiving, from each remote device with which the local device is engaged in a communication session, an input audio stream; receiving, for each remote device, a set parameters; determining, for each input audio stream, whether the input audio stream is to be 1) rendered individually or 2) rendered as a mix of input audio streams based on the set of parameters; for each input audio stream that is determined to be rendered individually, spatial rendering the input audio stream as an individual virtual sound source that contains only that input audio stream; and for input audio streams that are determined to be rendered as the mix of input audio streams, spatial rendering the mix of input audio streams as a single virtual sound source that contains the mix of input audio streams.
US11832073B2
A system and method for providing improved content casting audio management. In particular, the disclosed technology enables a user to selectively direct the audio associated with cast video content to an alternate wireless audio device or system, such as a set of wireless headphones. The technology provides for the sensing of a user's utilization of a wireless audio device prior to the initiation of the casting, and responsively route the casted content audio to those same headphones. The technology also provides for querying a user as to their desire to utilize a wireless audio device prior to initiating content casting.
US11832063B2
An electronic device is configured for facilitating call communication with at least one hearing device is provided, Additionally, a method for call communication with at least one hearing device, and a hearing device is provided. The electronic device comprises a first interface for interconnecting with a call communication software, e.g. via a call protocol, and an interacting unit configured for interacting with the hearing device. The interacting unit is configured for obtaining an audio encryption key and transmitting/presenting the audio encryption key to the hearing device. The electronic device further comprises a transmission unit configured for broadcasting encrypted audio during a call facilitated by the call communication software, the audio being encrypted using the audio encryption key. The audio encryption key may be configured to be valid for a duration of the call.
US11832053B2
Embodiments include a microphone assembly comprising an array microphone and a housing configured to support the array microphone and sized and shaped to be mountable in a drop ceiling in place of at least one of a plurality of ceiling tiles included in the drop ceiling. A front face of the housing includes a sound-permeable screen having a size and shape that is substantially similar to the at least one of the plurality of ceiling tiles. Embodiments also include an array microphone system comprising a plurality of microphones arranged, on a substrate, in a number of concentric, nested rings of varying sizes around a central point of the substrate. Each ring comprises a subset of the plurality of microphones positioned at predetermined intervals along a circumference of the ring.
US11832043B2
Provided is a microphone, including a base having a back cavity, a diaphragm, a backplate electrode, and a backplate spaced from the diaphragm and defining an inner cavity jointly with the diaphragm. The diaphragm includes a vibration portion, a fixing portion, and a leak hole. The back cavity is communicated with the inner cavity through the leak hole. The backplate is provided with a first through hole. The inner cavity is communicated with outside through the first through hole. The backplate includes a backplate body and a backplate extension portion. The inner cavity includes a first inner cavity and a second inner cavity. The backplate extension portion is provided with a second through hole, and the second inner cavity is communicated with outside through the second through hole. A method for manufacturing the microphone is further provided. The technical solution has better drop performance.
US11832031B2
A projection system controlling method includes identifying a first correspondence, identifying a second correspondence, identifying a third correspondence between a plurality of pixels corresponding to an overlap region in an image projected by a first projector, accuracy of the third correspondence is higher than accuracy of the first correspondence, identifying a fourth correspondence between a plurality of pixels corresponding to the overlap region in an image projected by a second projector, accuracy of the fourth correspondence is higher than accuracy of the second correspondence, projecting an image onto a region different from the overlap region based on the first correspondence, projecting an image onto the overlap region based on the third correspondence, projecting an image onto a region different from the overlap region based on the second correspondence, and projecting an image onto the overlap region based on the fourth correspondence.
US11832021B2
A control apparatus for stitch imaging makes a first determination, or a second determination, and a display control unit configured to control a display of a display unit according to whether the determination made by the determination unit is the first determination or the second determination.
US11832016B2
The described technology is a technique related to a 3D tour photographing apparatus and method. The 3D tour photographing apparatus comprising: a camera module for photographing a plurality of images for generating an around-view image for a particular point, a location tracking module for detecting a location change or direction change of the camera module, a tilt unit for changing a position or angle between the camera module and the location tracking module, and a control module for deriving a movement path based on data provided from the location tracking module, and for mapping the plurality of images provided from the camera module onto the movement path.
US11832002B2
An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a measurement result of a number of luminance changes, based on an address event signal indicating an address of a pixel having changed in luminance and a time, and a control unit configured to cause a relationship between the time and the measurement result to be displayed. The control unit causes the measurement result to be displayed in accordance with a direction of the luminance changes.
US11831988B2
An imaging system for an aircraft is disclosed. A plurality of image sensors are attached, affixed, or secured to the aircraft. Each image sensor is configured to generate sensor-generated pixels based on an environment surrounding the aircraft. Each of the sensor-generated pixels is associated with respective pixel data including, position data, intensity data, time-of-acquisition data, sensor-type data, pointing angle data, latitude data, and longitude data. A controller generates a buffer image including synthetic-layer pixels, maps the sensor-generated pixels to the synthetic-layer pixels in the buffer image, fills a plurality of regions of the buffer image with the sensor-generated pixels, and presents the buffer image on a head-mounted display (HMD) to a user of the aircraft.
US11831986B2
Various embodiments include a camera with image sensor shifting capabilities and a flexure arrangement. In various embodiments, the flexure arrangement may include an upper flexure and a lower flexure. The upper flexure may include a suspension wire that extends between two sheets. The lower flexure may include one or more flexure arms that connect a moveable platform to a stationary platform.
US11831985B2
The present technology relates to a camera, a control method, and a program capable of improving image quality. An image sensor captures an image, and an encoding unit encodes the image. A control unit controls a bit rate to be allocated to encode the image in response to a shake of the camera. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a camera that captures and encodes an image.
US11831979B2
Image pickup apparatuses, control methods and storage mediums for use therewith are provided herein. At least one image pickup apparatus includes: a display unit that displays an image generated by an imaging unit; an image processing unit that extracts in-focus areas from a plurality of images different in in-focus position that are generated by the imaging unit and that composites the extracted areas; and a control unit. The control unit acquires, out of image magnifications corresponding to the plurality of images different in in-focus position, a reference image magnification, and the image processing unit corrects the image to be displayed on the display unit based on an image magnification corresponding to the image to be displayed on the display unit and the reference image magnification.
US11831970B2
An image pickup apparatus is capable of decreasing a space capacity occupied by component elements and being downsized compared to a case where an actuator is arranged independently of a supporting unit. The image pickup apparatus has an image pickup unit driven by the actuator, a base unit, and the supporting unit provided in a standing manner from the base unit and rotatably supports the image pickup unit. The actuator has a piezoelectric element and an oscillator including a transmission unit which transmits driving force caused by vibration excited by the piezoelectric element. The transmission unit is arranged in the supporting unit so that it is in pressure contact with the image pickup unit. The image pickup unit has a transmitted plane with which the transmission unit is brought into pressure contact, and the vibration excited by the oscillator causes the transmitted plane to move relatively to the oscillator.
US11831969B1
Small form factor cameras that may include one or more voice coil motor actuators, one or more springs and/or one or more motion damping mechanisms. Multiple cameras or camera modules may be positioned close together within a device. Multiple camera modules may be placed closely adjacent to one another by utilizing a recessed portion of the respective perimeters, such as by having one corner removed from rectangular perimeters. By aligning two such recessed portions two camera modules may be more placed more closely together, thereby reducing the distance between the apertures of the respective camera modules. Within asymmetric camera modules, individual components, such as magnets, coils, damping pins, gel pockets, etc., may be asymmetrically placed to correspond with, or in response to the reduced space resulting from the asymmetry of the camera module outline.
US11831962B2
A system and method for improving media delivery and display. By utilizing a memory buffer in a DVR or similar device, and broadcasting linear content at a rate other than 1×, services like video on demand or regular broadcasters can be more versatile. For example, viewers can start over without launching a separate VOD session. If part of the linear content requested is not in the buffer, a switched multicast stream can be sent with the proper section of content. Other receivers on the network may also receive the stream and buffer the content if the content is related to what a viewer is viewing.
US11831959B2
Media preferences for a user account (or for multiple user accounts) may be used to guide media playback. A server of a streaming audio service receives, from a first controller interface on a first mobile device, data representing a request to play back a first audio track on a playback device, the first controller interface associated with a first user account of the streaming audio service. In response, the server streams data representing the first audio track to the playback device for playback. While streaming, the server receives, from a second controller interface on a second mobile device, data representing a preference for the first audio track that the playback device is playing back, the second controller interface associated with a second user account of the streaming audio service. The server stores, in a preference database corresponding to the second user account, data representing the preference for the first audio track.
US11831957B2
A client device is configured to receive bookmarking data from a data processing and aggregating server, the bookmarking data referencing a specific point in a media content item playable from the client device. The client the bookmarking data and outputs a first signal which instructs a display device to display at least one bookmark that includes at least a user-selectable portion and a descriptive portion. Upon receiving an input signal at the client device from a user input device, the input signal indicating a user selection of a bookmark displayed by the display device, the client device outputs a second signal to the display device which instructs the display device to display a media content item from a specific point specified by the bookmarking data.
US11831953B2
An electronic apparatus is provided, and includes a communicator and a processor. The communicator communicates with external devices, including a first external device and a second external device different from the first external device, for controlling operation of the electronic apparatus. The processor, based on a media signal corresponding to a content being received, processes the media signal for playing the content, based on a first control signal being received from the first external device while the media signal is processed, performs an operation corresponding to the received first control signal, based on authentication information being received from the second external device while the media signal is processed, transmits information corresponding to the content to the second external device, and based on a second control signal being received from the first external device or the second external device, performs an operation corresponding to the received second control signal.
US11831952B2
A virtual set-top box (vSTB) for executing a middleware component, designed originally for use with the physical STB, including emulating hardware capabilities of the physical STB to process IPTV content received over a connection for presenting the IPTV content on a display of the electronic device.
US11831951B2
A display controlling method for a broadcast receiving apparatus allowed to receive IP simultaneous broadcasting of a 4K broadcasting service via a communication transmission line, in which simultaneous broadcasting of the 4K broadcasting service and a 2K broadcasting service is executed by a broadcasting wave, is configured to: receive and demodulate the 4K broadcasting service, and display a broadcasting program of the 4K broadcasting service; and select and execute one display switching process of first and second display switching processes in accordance with priority order in a case where a defect occurs in reception, demodulation, or display of the 4K broadcasting service, the 2K broadcasting service being received and demodulated to display a broadcasting program of the 2K broadcasting service in the first display switching process, the IP simultaneous broadcasting being received and demodulated to display a program of the IP simultaneous broadcasting in the second display switching process.
US11831946B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for effectively utilizing a standby mode of a set top box (STB). The techniques according to the present disclosure comprise detecting a standby mode of the STB and in response to detecting the standby mode of the STB, selectively toggling an audio decoder of the STB to an ON state or selectively maintaining an ON state of the audio decoder. Accordingly, the techniques according to the present disclosure enable audio only playback from the STB in the standby mode.
US11831943B2
The subject technology provides for synchronized playback of different media content streams. The disclosed techniques may include determining, while certain audio content is being outputted, whether a triggering event has occurred at a media device. Responsive to a determination that the triggering event has occurred, audio information including identification information and a current output status of the audio content may be obtained, and a visual content stream for visual content corresponding to the audio content may be obtained. At the media device, the visual content stream may be processed based on the audio information to determine a starting time point indicating a time point within the visual content from which to start outputting the visual content. The visual content may be outputted such that the output of the visual content begins at the starting time point and is synchronized in time with the audio content.
US11831930B2
In one aspect, a method includes while a first content-presentation device is performing a content-replacement operation in which the first content-presentation device outputs a replacement advertisement segment in place of an advertisement segment, determining, by a computing system, that the advertisement segment is not an expected modifiable advertisement segment. The method also includes in response to determining that the advertisement segment is not the expected modifiable advertisement segment, determining, by the computing system, that the advertisement segment is ineligible for replacement. The method also includes in response to determining that the advertisement segment is ineligible for replacement, causing, by the computing system, at least one content-presentation device to perform, at a subsequent content-replacement opportunity, a corrective content-replacement operation in which the at least one content-presentation device outputs the advertisement segment in place of a subsequent modifiable advertisement segment that the at least one content-presentation device is scheduled to receive.
US11831927B2
The disclosure provides a noise filter. The noise filter includes a motion estimation (ME) engine. The ME receives a current frame and a reference frame. The current frame comprising a current block and the reference frame includes a plurality of reference blocks. The ME engine generates final motion vectors. The current block comprises a plurality of current pixels. A motion compensation unit generates a motion compensated block based on the final motion vectors and the reference frame. The motion compensated block includes a plurality of motion compensated pixels. A weighted average filter multiplies each current pixel of the plurality of current pixels and a corresponding motion compensated pixel of the plurality of motion compensated pixels with a first weight and a second weight respectively. The weighted average filter generates a filtered block. A blockiness removal unit is coupled to the weighted average filter and removes artifacts in the filtered block.
US11831922B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding images. The image-decoding method comprises the steps of: receiving a bit stream including information regarding an NAL unit type; and checking whether or not the NAL unit in the bit stream is a reference picture based on said information regarding an NAL unit type and decoding the NAL unit. The information regarding an NAL unit type indicates whether the NAL unit is a reference reading picture or not a reference reading picture.
US11831921B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for processing visual media data are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between visual media data and a visual media file that includes one or more tracks that store one or more bitstreams of the visual media data according to a format rule; wherein the visual media file includes an operating point record and an operating point group box, and wherein the format rule specifies to include, for each operating point indicated in the visual media file, in the operating point record and the operating point group box, a first element indicative of a chroma format, a second element indictive of a bit depth information, a third element indicative of a maximum picture width, and/or a fourth element indicative of a maximum picture height.
US11831918B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: receiving image information including residual information for a current block; and generating residual samples of the current block on the basis of the residual information, wherein the residual information includes information on transform coefficients of the current block, and the residual samples are generated from the information on the transform coefficients on the basis of low-frequency non-separable transform (LFNST) index information.
US11831916B1
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method of decoding an image includes receiving a bitstream in which the image is encoded; obtaining index information for specifying a block division type of a current block in the image; and determining the block division type of the current block from a candidate group pre-defined in the decoding apparatus. The candidate group includes a plurality of candidate division types, including at least one of a non-division, a first quad-division, a second quad-division, a binary-division or a triple-division. The method also includes dividing the current block into a plurality of sub-blocks; and decoding each of the sub-blocks with reference to syntax information obtained from the bitstream.
US11831910B2
The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise reconstructing an intra prediction mode of a current block, determining a reference sample for intra prediction of the current block, and generating a prediction block of the current block by performing the intra prediction on the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode and the reference sample. The determining of the reference sample or the intra prediction may be performed on the basis of a shape of the current block.
US11831906B2
A method for image capture. The method includes generating, by disposing a light sensing device (112) at one or more locations in a scene (140), a direction of a visible light source (118) from each of the one or more locations in the scene (140), generating, based at least on the direction of the visible light source (118) and a pre-determined image capture criterion, a physical configuration of the image capture, wherein the physical configuration comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a target camera location (145b) and a target object location (144b) in the scene (140), and transmitting a command to a camera device (110) to capture an image of an object in the scene (140) based on the physical con-figuration of the image capture.
US11831899B2
Innovations in flexible reference picture management are described. For example, a video encoder and video decoder use a global reference picture set (“GRPS”) of reference pictures that remain in memory, and hence are available for use in video encoding/decoding, longer than conventional reference pictures. In particular, reference pictures of the GRPS remain available across random access boundaries. Or, as another example, a video encoder and video decoder clip a reference picture so that useful regions of the reference picture are retained in memory, while unhelpful or redundant regions of the reference picture are discarded. Reference picture clipping can reduce the amount of memory needed to store reference pictures or improve the utilization of available memory by providing better options for motion compensation. Or, as still another example, a video encoder and video decoder filter a reference picture to remove random noise (e.g., capture noise due to camera imperfections during capture).
US11831894B2
A method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising a plurality of video layers and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream comprises a plurality of output layer sets (OLSs), each of which comprises one or more of the plurality of video layers, and the bitstream conforms to a format rule, wherein the format rule specifies that, for a layer i, where i is an integer, the bitstream includes a set of first syntax element indicative of a first variable indicating whether the layer i is included in at least one of the plurality of OLSs.
US11831893B2
When a coding mode selected by an encoding controlling part 1 is an intra prediction mode, an intra prediction part 4 carries out an intra-frame prediction process using pixels adjacent to a partition Pin which is generated through a division by a block dividing part 2 or pixels adjacent to a higher layer partition Pin−1 to which the partition Pin belongs to generate a prediction image (Pin).
US11831890B2
An image encoding/decoding method of the present invention constructs a merge candidate list of a current block, derives motion information of the current block on the basis of the merge candidate list and a merge candidate index, and performs inter prediction on the current block on the basis of the derived motion information, wherein the merge candidate list can improve encoding/decoding efficiency by adaptively determining a plurality of merge candidates on the basis of the position or size of a merge estimation region (MER) to which the current block belongs.
US11831876B2
A method of visual media processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a buffer that stores reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; for a sample spatially located at location of the current video block relative to an upper-left position of a coding tree unit including the current video block and having a block vector, computing a corresponding reference in the buffer at a reference location, wherein the reference location is determined using the block vector and the location; and upon determining that the reference location lies outside the buffer, re-computing the reference location based at least in part on a location of the current video block relative to the coding tree unit including the current video block.
US11831873B2
An image processing device including an acquiring section configured to acquire quantization matrix parameters from an encoded stream in which the quantization matrix parameters defining a quantization matrix are set within a parameter set which is different from a sequence parameter set and a picture parameter set, a setting section configured to set, based on the quantization matrix parameters acquired by the acquiring section, a quantization matrix which is used when inversely quantizing data decoded from the encoded stream, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize the data decoded from the encoded stream using the quantization matrix set by the setting section.
US11831871B2
Apparatuses and methods for Intra Sub-Partitions (ISP) are provided. The method includes: obtaining information of ISP, and determining a size of a chroma transform block (TB) of the coding unit based on SubWidthC and SubHeightC when at least a first condition is fulfilled. The first condition includes the information of ISP indicates that ISP is used for splitting the luma coding block. SubWidthC and SubHeightC are variables depending on chroma format information. The chroma format information indicates a chroma format of a picture the coding unit belongs to. The method can apply to all chroma format. The chroma format includes at least one of: 4:2:0, or 4:2:2, or 4:4:4. An accurate and versatile way to determine the size of the chroma transform block for the ISP is achieved.
US11831854B2
An information processing apparatus acquires a first image obtained by imaging a real space. The information processing apparatus generates a display image by merging the first image into a second image representing a virtual space to be presented to a user wearing a head-mounted display (HMD), the display image being configured such that the first image has an inconspicuous border. The information processing apparatus displays the generated display image on the HMD.
US11831851B1
The present invention discloses a multiple camera sensor system and a method for any application and for a large number of different fields. The present invention is solving certain problems related to existing camera technology issues by introducing the possibility of getting several different camera inputs from the same source or moving shots/images without physically moving any cameras. It will minimize the physical presence of existing camera technology, size, weight and design and also to large extent avoid physical laws like gravity, vibrations, acceleration, retardation and speed. This may be implemented by means of a software virtually moving camera using multiple cameras sensors mounted consecutively along some attachment solution. This attachment solution may include e.g. tape or strips. The invention can be utilized in areas like industry and production support, medical appliances, AV production, Video Conferencing, Broadcast, Surveillance and Security among others.
US11831848B2
An information processing apparatus, accessible to a color expert who manages colors of an image to be printed in a plurality of printing devices and a plurality of operators each of whom is capable of operating at least the one printing device out of the plurality of printing device, registers a patch image to be printed by any of the plurality of printing devices and/or a color management setting information piece defining a condition for printing by the printing device in accordance with an instruction provided by the color expert, sets the patch image and/or the color management setting information piece accessible to the one or more operators, and in response to a request from any of the plurality of operators, permits access to the patch image and/or the color management setting information piece set accessible to the operator who has made the request.
US11831841B2
A method of printing an image using a printing system having first and second printheads supplied with a same ink. The method includes the steps of: allocating first lines of the image to the first printhead; allocating second lines of the image to the second printhead; dithering the first lines of the image using a selected first dither mask; dithering the second lines of the image using a selected second dither mask; printing the dithered first lines of the image using the first printhead; and printing the dithered second lines of the image using the second printhead. The first and second dither masks are selected based on a relative alignment of the first and second printheads.
US11831840B2
An information processing apparatus includes a storage device to store, for a plurality of sample media, for each of a plurality of applications, setting information relating to imaging of a medium or an image processing, and image information relating to a sample image generated according to the setting information, a communication device, and a processor to receive an input image from an image reading apparatus via the communication device, extract a predetermined number of sample media in a descending order of a similarity between a corresponding sample image and the input image, from among the plurality of sample media, based on the image information, identify the setting information for each of the plurality of applications for each of the extracted predetermined number of sample media, and output the identified setting information for each of the plurality of applications.
US11831834B2
An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a printing area and a non-printing area in image data, and an execution unit configured to execute first multiplexing processing by changing a U component in a YUV color space with respect to an area determined as a printing area in the image data and to execute second multiplexing processing by changing a Y component in a CMYK color space with respect to an area determined as a non-printing area in the image data.
US11831831B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading module provided with reading elements arranged in a direction of arrangement intersecting a direction of transportation of an original copy, and configured to read an image on the transported original copy. The apparatus also includes a background plate provided with a white background portion for shading correction, and a black background portion for cutting out the original copy and having lower brightness than brightness of the white background portion. An area of the black background portion is larger than an area of the white background portion, and the white background portion and the black background portion are arranged in the direction of arrangement.
US11831829B2
An image control apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus through a network includes one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more controllers are configured to receive, through a network, a shutdown instruction issued to the image forming apparatus, and determine whether the image forming apparatus is connected to a second network other than a first network through which the image forming apparatus is connected to the image control apparatus. When the one or more controllers determine that the image forming apparatus is connected to the second network other than the first network, the one or more controllers do not issue the shutdown instruction to the image forming apparatus even when the one or more controllers receive the shutdown instruction through the network.
US11831828B2
A printer includes: a board including a connector unit that includes at least a power supply connector into which a power cable is to be removably inserted; and a housing including: a housing main body that accommodates the board and includes a cable connection groove through which the power cable is inserted in an inserting and removing direction of the power cable; and a connector cover configured to cover the cable connection groove, wherein the connector cover includes: a cover main body including a power supply opening portion passing through the cover main body in the inserting and removing direction, and a first interface opening portion passing through the cover main body in the inserting and removing direction; and a first opening cover portion configured to cover at least a part of the first interface opening portion, wherein the first opening cover portion includes a first coupling portion configured to couple the first opening cover portion and the cover main body to each other.
US11831826B2
A scanner includes the following. A paper support guides an original document to a supplying port. An inverting unit inverts a front and a back of the original document fed through the supplying port. A reading unit reads the original document before being inverted. A discharging unit discharges the original document after being inverted. A portion of the original document is placed on a placement plate. A pressing unit presses the original document toward the placement plate at least at a downstream end portion in a discharging direction of the original document on the placement plate.
US11831825B2
A document scanner includes a casing and a document cover disposed above the casing. The casing includes a document glass and houses an image scanner. The document cover has one end portion and the other end portion opposite to the first end portion in a first direction and is configured to pivotally move about the one end portion between a closed position in which the other end portion covers the document glass and an open position in which the other end portion uncovers the document glass. The other end portion has an end surface that intersects, when the document cover is at the closed position, with an upper surface of the document glass. The end surface has an indication indicating a location to which an external device is to be brought into proximity to establish short-range wireless communication between the document scanner and the external device.
US11831824B1
The image processing apparatus obtains scanned images of each page obtained by scanning business forms including a plurality of pages or business forms of different types collectively, manages a division method associated with feature information on each of previous scanned images and the previous scanned images, analyzes, based on the feature information, whether any of the previous scanned images similar to a scanned image of the first page of the obtained scanned images exists, and divides, in a case where any of the previous scanned images similar to the scanned image of the first page exists, the obtained scanned images by a division method associated with the previous scanned image similar to the scanned image of the first page.
US11831821B2
An information processing apparatus capable of performing reception of an image in response to a transmission request issued before image accumulation while suppressing power consumption. The information processing apparatus transmits a request for transmitting an image to an image processing apparatus and monitors whether or not an image associated with the transmission request has been received. In response to receiving information indicating that there is no image associated with the transmission request, as a response to the transmission request, monitoring of whether or not an image associated with the transmission request has been received is started.
US11831809B2
Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a data-communications system including a networked contact center for which, in an example embodiment, a communication is received by a networked contact center. In determining whether to allow the communication to reach contact center resources, a contact rate value is examined. The contact rate value may represent an allowable quantity of contact within a time interval. For some example embodiments, a determination of whether the network contact center is to accept or reject the communication is made based on the contact rate value.
US11831804B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to generating a pre-call analysis for one or more users that are receiving and/or initializing a call with one or more other users, and/or prioritizing pre-call content according to whether security-related value was gleaned from provisioning certain pre-call content. One or more machine learning models can be employed for determining the pre-call content to be cached and/or presented prior to a user accepting a call from another user. Feedback provided before, during, and/or after the call can be used as a basis from which to prioritize certain content and/or sources of content when generating pre-call content for a subsequent call. Other information, such as contextual data (e.g., calendar entries, available peripheral devices, location, etc.) corresponding to the previous call and/or the subsequent call, can also be used as a basis from which to provide a pre-call analysis.
US11831799B2
The present disclosure generally relates to propagating context information from a first electronic device to a second electronic device. In one example, in response to detecting the second electronic device satisfies a distance criterion with respect to the first electronic device, the first electronic device determines whether propagation of the context to the second electronic device is permitted. If propagation of the context to the second electronic device is permitted and while the second electronic device satisfies the distance criterion with respect to the first electronic device, the context is transmitted to the second electronic device.
US11831795B2
A wireless transceiving device including a main body and at least one camera lens is provided. The camera lens is detachably connected to a connection part on the main body. The camera lens includes a barrel part, a first lens, a phase matching structure, a data storage device, and an electrical connection terminal. The data storage device is configured to store specification information. When the camera lens is connected to the connection part, a wireless transmitter is coupled to the data storage device through the electrical connection terminal and reads the specification information in the data storage device. The wireless transmitter controls a plurality of transmitting phases and a plurality of transmitting powers of a plurality of transmitted wave beams according to the specification information.
US11831794B1
A routing system of a call center determines a plurality of advisor clusters to be assigned to each of a plurality of lead records stored in a lead model database. The predictive machine learning model inputs lead model data and advisor model data into a clustering analysis. Various modeling data are extracted from source lead data, sales data, and advisor data, in which the advisor data has been flattened for modeling. The predictive machine learning model applies a combination of a clustering analysis, a cluster model, and an aggregate conversion model to lead model data and user model data. The clustering analysis utilizes unsupervised clustering and supervised clustering, and outputs a plurality of advisor clusters and sales conversion scores. The clustering analysis clusters each of the advisors into one of the plurality of advisor clusters based on degree of similarity of a clustering vector.
US11831787B2
Temporal key generation devices and methods are described. One such device of a first domain receives a “seed” to generate a private key associated with a public key for use in a second domain. The device uses the private key in cryptographic operations with the second domain. When the device loses power or is no longer connected to the second domain, the private key may be erased or no longer stored on the device.
US11831786B1
A system for establishing and maintaining a chain of trust can include a root of trust (RoT) executing a root trusted server that pushes authenticated code and data into memory of a given node in a plurality of nodes. The RoT can also record a memory address range of a static portion of the authenticated code and a corresponding static data in the given node and cause the given node to execute the authenticated code in response to the pushing to establish a trusted relationship between the trusted server of the RoT and the given node. The root trusted server also monitors the given node to ensure that the given node executes trusted operations. The authenticated code in the memory of the given node can include a trusted server that pushes authenticated code into memory of another node in the plurality of nodes.
US11831785B2
Embodiments describe systems and methods for analyzing digital certificates. A computer-implemented can include identifying a plurality of digital certificates, individual digital certificates of the plurality of digital certificates including respective internal information. External information associated with the individual digital certificates can be determined, the external information not contained within the respective digital certificate. The external information can be updated in a database with additional external information that is collected on a periodic basis. A query can be run against the database to identify one or more vulnerable digital certificates associated with a client based on the internal information and the external information. A notification can be sent to the client regarding the one or more vulnerable digital certificates.
US11831780B2
Secure protocols for external-facing authentication are provided for both user templates stored on their devices and the biometric measurement captured by external sensors of an access device. The protocols provide different levels of security, ranging from passive security with some leakage to active security with no leakage. A packing technique is also provided. Zero-knowledge techniques are used during enrollment to validate a norm of user templates and knowledge of the plaintext biometric template. Once enrolled, the verifier can sign the encrypted template for use in a later matching phase with an access device.
US11831779B2
Systems and methods of authenticating voice data using a ledger (blockchain). Examples include a scalable and seamless system that uses blockchain technologies to distribute trust of a conversation, authenticate persons in a conversation, track their characteristics and also to keep records of conversations. In some examples, smart phones, wearables, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices can be used to record and track conversations between individuals. These devices can each be used to create entries for the blockchain or a single device could be used to keep track of the entirety of the conversation. Fuzzy hashing may be used to compare newly created entries with previous entries on the ledger.
US11831773B1
A system for database restoration across service regions. The system includes data storage and backup data storage in the first region. The system includes a frontend for the database service configured to receive, from a client, a request to restore a database to the first region from backups stored in another backup data storage in a second region and to receive an authentication token for the request from the client. The system also includes a backup restore manager service for the first region configured to send, to another backup restore manager service implemented in the second region, a credential request for a second region credential authorizing retrieval of the one or more other backups from the second region. The backup restore manager service sends a backup restore request to retrieve the backups from the other backup data storage and loads the backups to restore the database in the first region.
US11831772B2
Provided by embodiments of the present application is a blockchain multi-party shared-governance-based system for maintaining domain name information, wherein a Root blockchain is formed by first network nodes where respective top-level domain registries are located, and domain name operation information needs to be confirmed by authoritative nodes among the first network nodes after a consensus process. Since the authoritative node is generated by means of voting by each first network node, each network node in the Root blockchain in the system participates in the consensus process for the domain name operation information. Through such a decentralized method for maintaining domain name information, the final state will not be affected by a mistake or an attack on one network node, resulting in higher security and better stability of the entire system compared to the centralized maintenance method. Furthermore, all the domain name operation information is stored in each first network node in the Root blockchain to prevent malicious tampering, and a reliable data source is provided for update of domain name.
US11831770B2
A relay service can relay messages between controllers and electronically controllable accessory devices that may be located remotely from the controllers. Relaying of messages by the relay service can be decoupled from any knowledge of the functionality of the accessory or the content of the messages. Device identification and relaying of messages can be managed using “relay aliases” that are meaningful only to the relay service and the endpoint devices (the controller and accessory). The endpoint devices can implement end-to-end security for messages transported by the relay service.
US11831769B2
A registration device (200) generates an encryption keyword by encrypting a keyword with a registration key, generates an index including the encryption keyword and identification information which identifies a corresponding ciphertext, generates a conversion key from the registration key and a search key, and registers a plurality of ciphertexts, the index, and the conversion key in a server device (400). A search device (300) generates a search query by encrypting a keyword, and transmits the search query to the server device (400). The server device (400) generates a re-encryption keyword by re-encrypting the search query with the registered conversion key, searches the registered index with the re-encryption keyword, acquires, from the index, the identification information if the encryption keyword is obtained as a search result, extracts a ciphertext identified by the identification information from the registered plurality of ciphertexts, and transmits the extracted ciphertext to the search device (300).
US11831768B2
A mechanism to share cryptographic material across entities that may not have a direct trust relationship between or among each other, or no network connectivity, or some combination thereof, but where participating entities do share a trust relationship (or trusted connection(s)) with a common entity, sometimes referred to herein as a “conduit” entity. This technique enables such entities to leverage their trust relationship with a common “conduit” entity to share cryptographic material between or among themselves.
US11831766B2
Methods and systems for improved generation of biometrics using biometrics and secure storage of biometrics are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes scanning and digitizing a plurality of biometrics to form a plurality of digitized biometrics. An encryption key for use in cryptographic applications may be generated based on the plurality of digitized biometrics. A biometrics encryption seed may be received and may be used to encrypt the plurality of digitized biometrics to generate a plurality of encrypted biometrics. The plurality of encrypted biometrics may then be stored.
US11831760B1
A secure module can be configured to: provide the trusted execution environment; and load secure-software for processing in the trusted execution environment to perform operations. The operations can include generating a private key and a corresponding public key; maintaining the private key in the trusted execution environment; receiving at least one attestation request from at least one attestation server; responding to the received attestation requests with attestation responses generated with the private key; initiating encrypted connections with client devices using the private key, the encrypted connections having an endpoint within the trusted execution environment such that contents of the encrypted connections are secure from observation and manipulation by other operations outside of the secure module and outside of the client devices; and communicating data with the client devices through the encrypted connections.
US11831759B1
A method including encrypting, by a multiuser device, a first folder based on utilizing a first symmetric key and a second folder based on utilizing a second symmetric key, the first folder and the second folder being stored on the multiuser device; encrypting, by the multiuser device, the first symmetric key based on utilizing a first assigned public key and the second symmetric key based on utilizing a second assigned public key; and providing access, by the multiuser device, to the encrypted first folder by decrypting the encrypted first symmetric key based on verifying first biometric information and to the encrypted second folder by decrypting the encrypted second symmetric key based on verifying second biometric information, the first biometric information being different from the second biometric information is disclosed. Various other aspects and techniques are contemplated.
US11831758B2
A system and method for securely encrypting and booting a headless appliance. A method includes providing the headless appliance with content stored in a memory, wherein the content is encrypted with a key, and wherein the key is separately stored on a remote computing device; booting the headless appliance and loading a fallback configuration; in response to a user device connecting to the headless appliance, directing the user device to a captive portal and capturing credentials of a user; forwarding the credentials to the remote computing device for verification by an identity provider; in response to the credentials being verified as a non-administrator, granting access to a public network for the user; and in response to the credentials being verified as an administrator, obtaining the key from the remote computing device to decrypt the content to provide access to a private network for the user.
US11831747B2
A receiver includes a feed-forward equalizer, a first detector, a jitter estimation circuit, and a jitter mitigation circuit. The feed-forward equalizer is configured to equalize channel gain of digitized samples of a received signal and to output equalized samples. The first detector is configured to detect symbols in the equalized samples. The jitter estimation circuit is configured to estimate jitter in the equalized samples by estimating a deviation in periodicity between pairs of the equalized samples. The jitter mitigation circuit comprises a linearized FIR filter configured to receive an input including the equalized samples or the detected symbols and to compensate inter symbol interference in the equalized samples due to the jitter as a function of the estimated jitter and an estimate of the inter symbol interference.
US11831743B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to packet header field extraction as defined by a high level language and implemented in a minimum number of hardware streaming parsing stages to speculatively extract header fields from among multiple possible header sequences. In an illustrative example, the number of stages may be determined from the longest possible header sequence in any received packet. For each possible header sequence, one or more headers may be assigned to each stage, for example, based on a parse graph. Each pipelined stage may resolve a correct header sequence, for example, by sequentially extracting length and transition information from an adjacent prior stage to determine offset of the next header. By speculatively extracting selected fields from every possible position in each pipeline stage, a correct value may be selected using sequential hardware streaming pipelines to substantially reduce parsing latency.
US11831740B2
The document describes systems and methods for handling local (legacy) devices. A local cloud gateway comprises a plurality of interface connectors of different types to physically connect a plurality of these legacy devices to the cloud, comprising a plurality of distant servers. Developments describe the step of extracting the functional messages out of messages stemming from local legacy devices (e.g. protocol translators), secure communications, logical representations of legacy devices in the cloud (“twins”), administration options, various user interfaces (e.g. buzzer) for seamless configuration and use, the use of one or more actuators (retroactions on the physical world), etc. Software and/or hardware embodiments are described.
US11831736B2
A caching entity may store a cached copy of a service layer resource. An original hosting entity may maintain a registry of the corresponding cached resources. Optionally, the original hosting entity may set cache parameters to govern the lifetime of the cache on a caching entity. The caching entity may keep storing the cached copy of the resource and the original hosting entity may obtain statistics about the cached resource. By knowing the statistics, e.g. how many times a resource is retrieved on each caching entity, the original hosting entity may better manage the resource.
US11831735B2
The present application discloses a method and a device for processing mini program data, which relates to the technical field of data processing and cloud computing. The method for processing mini program data is applied to a proxy server, and the specific implementation scheme is: obtaining a user data request of a developer server of a mini program, where the user data request is generated by the developer server according to a user request of a user terminal of the mini program; determining returned data according to the user data request, where the returned data of the proxy server is obtained through data synchronization between the proxy server and the developer server; and sending the returned data to the user terminal. In addition, the present application also discloses a proxy server and a developer server.
US11831719B2
A signal interface for a vehicle has a sensor unit and a main control unit connected via a wiring harness. The sensor unit includes a sensor chip configured to carry out a SENT protocol and has outlets for a supply voltage line, a data transmission line, and a ground connection. A voltage regulator and a filter with ESD/EMC protection are connected to the supply voltage line, where overvoltage protection is upstream of a data line filter and ESD/EMC protection is downstream of the data line filter. The main control unit includes a voltage regulator, ESD/EMC protection, and a module configured to switch off the ground supply in the event of a current derived from the overvoltage protection. A pull-up device and a transceiver are connected to the data transmission line. The control unit has separate sender and receiver paths for controlling the transceiver.
US11831717B2
A low-power wide area network supports IP communication between a wireless device and an IP application node. The LPWAN server provides the application node's IP address and a compression/decompression protocol to the device, which applies the protocol (i) to generate a compressed uplink IP header for wireless transmission to LPWAN radio gateway(s), where the compressed IP header is subsequently decompressed to form an uplink IP packet for transmission to the application node and (ii) to decompress a compressed downlink IP header received from a radio gateway, where the compressed IP header was generated from an uncompressed downlink IP header from the IP application node. The device can also segment large uplink IP packets and reassemble large downlink IP packets. In a LoRaWAN network, the join server facilitates arriving at a common compression/decompression protocol and assigns an IP address to the device to enable IP communication with an IP application client.
US11831714B2
Disclosed are techniques for programmatically mapping workloads for storage in different classes of a networked computer data storage environment, using a set of rules or data storage hints and properties of the workloads themselves. With the set of data storage hints, metadata sets are assigned to files of the incoming workloads to the networked computer data storage environment based on the properties of the workloads. Then, a target storage class is determined for each file of the workload from the plurality of storage classes present in the networked computer data storage environment. The workload files are then mapped to a logical bucket that is associated with the plurality of storage classes through a shared namespace, with the assigned metadata set for a file cueing the filesystem modules as to which storage class within the logical bucket to direct the various files of the workload to.
US11831709B1
Facilitating peer-to-peer cloud computing resource sharing utilizing a permissioned distributed ledger is provided. A request by a computational resource consumer for additional computational resources from a computational resource provider via a peer-to-peer decentralized network is detected. A computational resource exchange environment is generated to transfer the additional computational resources from the computational resource provider to the computational resource consumer in response to validating that the computational resource consumer is authorized to consume the additional computational resources and that the computational resource provider is authorized to transfer the additional computational resources to the computational resource consumer via the peer-to-peer decentralized network. The additional computational resources are transferred from the computational resource provider to the computational resource consumer for consumption via the computational resource exchange environment. The additional computational resources provided by the computational resource provider and the consumption of the additional computational resources by the computational resource consumer are anonymized.
US11831708B2
A distributed computation offloading method based on computation-network collaboration in a stochastic network is provided. The distributed computation offloading method includes: building a device revenue maximization problem model and a MEC server revenue maximization problem model based on a local computing model and an edge cloud computing model; building composite sets of scenarios for dwell time and waiting latency based on a random movement of a user and burst computation demands; compensating for a game strategy by using a posteriori recourse action and building a game-based stochastic programming model between the device and the MEC server; transforming a multi-stage stochastic regularization problem for both the device and the MEC server into a DEP problem by constructing a scenario tree, and solving the DEP problem to obtain an optimal task strategy for the offloading from the MEC server and an optimal offering strategy of the MEC server to the device.
US11831698B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing stream data according to a data streaming protocol under a multi-access edge computing. In particular, an IoT device, such as a video image sensing device, may capture stream data and generate inference data by applying a machine-learning model trained to infer data based on the captured stream data. The inference data represents the captured stream data in a reduced data size based on performing data analytics on the captured data. The IoT device formats the inference data according to the data streaming protocol. In contrast to video data compression, the data streaming protocol includes instructions for transmitting the reduced volume of inference data through a data analytics pipeline.
US11831687B2
A remote attestation system for a computer network includes an attestation operations subsystem configured to manage attestation procedures for the remote attestation system, and an attestation server pool including a plurality of attestation servers. The plurality of attestation servers is configured to perform attestation of at least one host in a data center. The system further includes an attestation state database configured to store a state of attestation of the at least one host, an attestation policy database configured to store at least one operator policy of the computer network, and an end-user service portal configured to provide access to the remote attestation system by users of the computer network.
US11831678B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for detecting autonomous programs is provided. A device, intermediary to a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers, can receive a first request from a first client of the plurality of clients to a server of the plurality of servers via a connection between the device and the first client. The device can include, into a response from the server to the first client, a uniform resource locator (URL) comprising one or more randomly generated characters within a predetermined character space. The device can determine that the first client has an autonomous program responsive to receiving a second request from the first client using the URL. The device can terminate, responsive to the determination, the connection to the first client.
US11831677B2
Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines is provided herein. A disclosed example includes involves: scanning, by executing a computer readable instruction with a processor, the virtual machines in the deployment environment to identify a service installed on any of the virtual machines; determining, by executing a computer readable instruction with the processor, the identified service corresponds to a service monitoring rule; determining, by executing a computer readable instruction with the processor, that a monitoring agent identified by the service monitoring rule is installed on the one or more virtual machines on which the service is installed; and configuring the monitoring agent, by executing a computer readable instruction with the processor, to monitor the service in accordance with the service monitoring rule on the at least one of the virtual machines on which the service is installed.
US11831676B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for preventing relay or replay attacks using time-stamped, localized footprint data. An access device may receive, from one or more beacon transmitters, a plurality of broadcast messages, each broadcast message, of the plurality of broadcast messages, comprising a timestamp and a unique identifier for a beacon transmitter, of the one or more beacon transmitters. The access device may store the timestamps and the unique identifiers. The access device may receive, from a user device, an access request comprising timestamps and unique identifiers corresponding to a subset of the broadcast messages received by the access device. The access device may verify that the stored timestamps and unique identifiers match the timestamps and unique identifiers received from the user device. Based on the verifying, the access device may authenticate the access request.
US11831674B2
Techniques and mechanisms for verifying integrity of components within a management component transport protocol (MCTP) server system to detect man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks and preventing data loss upon detection of MITM attacks. For example, a controller may perform an endpoint discovery process and authenticate endpoints within a rack server system. The controller may send requests to endpoints based on user actions and if no response is received from a particular endpoint, the controller may determine there is a MITM attack and block traffic to the particular endpoint. Additionally, the controller may periodically request measurements from endpoints that are related to the code and configuration area of the endpoints. If the received measurements from a particular endpoint do not match expected values, the controller may determine there is a MITM attack and block traffic to the particular endpoint.
US11831669B2
Techniques for evaluating cyber assets are disclosed. A system obtains, from data sources in an experimental environment, raw data generated in response to execution of a cyber asset. The system generates, from the raw data, at least one instance model corresponding to the data sources. The at least one instance model includes instances of concepts represented in a cyber impact ontology.
US11831663B2
Methods and apparatus for secure networking protocol optimization via NIC hardware offloading. Under a method, security offload entries are cached in a flow table or a security database offload table on a network interface coupled to a host that implements a host security database mapping flows to Security Association (SA) contexts. Each security offload entry includes information identify a flow and information, such as an offset value, to locate a corresponding entry for the flow in the host security database. Hardware descriptors for received packets that belong to flows with matching security offload entries are generated and marked with the information used to locate the corresponding entries in the host security database. The hardware descriptors are processed by software on the host and the location information is used to de-reference the location of applicable entries in the host security database.
US11831657B2
Techniques for enforcing trust policies for payload data transmitted through a data provisioning layer include: receiving, by a node in the data provisioning layer, payload data to be delivered to a recipient; obtaining, by the node, a trust policy indicating multiple attributes used to determine trustworthiness of payloads; determining, by the node, a set of values of the attributes associated with the payload data; generating, by the node, a trustworthiness opinion based at least on the trust policy and the set of values of the attributes; transmitting, by the node, the payload data and the trustworthiness opinion via the data provisioning layer toward the recipient; computing, by the recipient, a trustworthiness metric associated with the payload data based at least on the trustworthiness opinion; and determining, by the recipient, an action to take with respect to the payload data based at least on the trustworthiness metric.
US11831649B1
Embodiments are directed towards a system and method for a cloud-based front end that may abstract and enable access to the underlying cloud-hosted elements and objects that may be part of a multi-tenant application, such as a search application. Search objects may be employed to access indexed objects. An amount of indexed data accessible to a user may be based on an index storage limit selected by the user, such that data that exceeds the index storage limit may continue to be indexed. Also, one or more projects can be elastically scaled for a user to provide resources that may meet the specific needs of each project.
US11831648B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for authenticating requests to access one or more accounts over a network using authenticity evaluations of two or more automated decision engines are discussed. A login request for access to a user account may be submitted to multiple decision engines that each apply different rulesets for authenticating the login request, and output an evaluation of the authenticity of the login request. Based on evaluations from multiple automated decision engines, the login request may be allowed to proceed to validation of user identity and, if user identity is validated, access to the user account may be authorized. Based on the evaluations, the login attempt may also be rejected. One or more additional challenge question may be returned to the computing device used to request account access, and the login request allowed to proceed to validation of identity if the response to the challenge question is deemed acceptable.
US11831647B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for establishing communication with users based on biometric data. For example, in response to determining that a user has a particular biometric state, the media guidance application may present an option to contact another user that is associated with that biometric state.
US11831634B2
A technique for managing communications between a server and multiple clients includes configuring the server to support multiple sets of certificates for respective clients having respective root certificates. The technique further includes determining an indicator associated with a client root certificate during an initial handshake between a client and the server and providing the client with a server certificate associated with the indicator.
US11831631B2
Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for single sign-on (SSO) for mobile applications using direct brokering for identity authentication. In an embodiment, a method comprises: sending, by a mobile application operating on a mobile device, a request to an online service provider for access to a resource; receiving, by the mobile application, a redirect from the service provider to an identity service provider for authentication; and establishing, by a portion of binary code of the mobile application and using the redirect, a brokered authentication session with the identity service provider, the portion of binary code configured to operate as a broker for the mobile application for the authentication session, and to provide single sign-on (SSO) services to the mobile application and other mobile applications operating on the mobile device, the SSO services including services to access the resources and authorization to use the accessed resources.
US11831630B2
Systems and methods for accessing credentials from a blockchain are provided. A computing device requests for a server to process a transaction. In response to the request, the server transmits a server public key to the computing device. A key generator of the computing devices uses the user private key and the server public key to generate a user public key. The user public key includes permissions to access credentials that are stored on blockchain. The server receives the user public key and generates a request for credentials to blockchain. The request includes the user public key and the server private key. The blockchain receives the request and generates an identity token. The identity token includes credentials that are specified in the user public key. The blockchain transmits the identity token to the server and the server uses the identity token to processes the transaction.
US11831626B2
An information processing system includes a first device and a second device. The first device generates first encrypted data by applying a first encryption with respect to the original data stored in a shared storage area, and causing the first encrypted data to be stored in the shared storage area. The second device generates second encrypted data by applying a second encryption with respect to the first encrypted data stored in the shared storage area, and causes the second encrypted data to be stored in the shared storage area. The first device deletes the original data and the first encrypted data from the shared storage area.
US11831624B2
Software installed in the nodes in a communication network allows them to perform a “name server” function, which entails the management of a dynamic list of the client devices that are connected to the cloud, a “task” function, which entails the receipt and transmission of the packets, and an “authority” function, which entails the determination of the routes of the packets through the cloud. Each node is capable of performing only one function at a time. After completing a job, a node reverts to an undifferentiated, state awaiting its next performance request.
US11831621B2
A method including transmitting, by a first device included in a mesh network, a first public key associated with the first device; receiving, by the first device based at least in part on a determination that an external device is to be included in the mesh network, an external public key associated with the external device; and communicating, by the first device based at least in part on utilizing the external public key, with the external device to set up a meshnet connection associated with the mesh network. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11831620B2
A method including transmitting, by an external device not included in a mesh network, an external public key associated with the first device; receiving, by the external device based at least in part on a determination that the external device is to be included in the mesh network, a first public key associated with a first device included in the mesh network; and communicating, by the external device based at least in part on utilizing the first public key, with the first device to set up a meshnet connection associated with the mesh network. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11831617B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a proxy device, a document from a service provider in response to a request to the service provider from a client device. The proxy device injects into the document event monitoring code for monitoring user actions on the client device. The proxy device sends the document with the event monitoring code to the client device. The event monitoring code intercepts a user request for a file upload event using a client-side application on the client device. The proxy device receives a client request including file information regarding the file upload event from the event monitoring code. The proxy device determines whether the file upload event should be allowed or blocked based on the received file information and stored policy data.
US11831607B2
Traffic is received at an interface of a compute server. Identity information associated with the traffic is determined including an identifier of a customer to which the traffic is attributable. An egress policy configured for the first customer is used to determine whether the traffic is allowed to be transmitted to a destination where that destination is a resource of a second customer. If the traffic is allowed to be transmitted, the traffic and identity information is transmitted over a cross-customer GRE tunnel to a namespace of the second costumer on the compute server. An ingress policy configured for the second customer is used to determine whether the traffic is allowed to be transmitted to the destination, and if it is, then the traffic is transmitted.
US11831600B2
Connectivity is enabled between a first and second isolated network using a virtual traffic hub that includes a decision master node responsible for determining a routing action for a packet received at the hub. At the hub, a determination is made that a particular domain name system (DNS) message being directed to a first resource in the first isolated network is to include an indication of a second resource in the second isolated network. The second resource is assigned a network address within a private address range of the second isolated network, which overlaps with a private address range being used in the first isolated network. The hub causes a transformed version of the network address to be included in the DNS message delivered to the first resource.
US11831597B1
Systems and methods for out-of-band communications in the domain name system (DNS) are disclosed. Embodiments include a system for negotiating DNS services in the DNS. The system includes an in-band communication channel connecting a first party and a second party, and one or more out-of-band communication channels connecting the first party and the second party. The first party performs messaging for the DNS services with the second party using the in-band communication channel. Further, the first party advertises terms of the DNS service offered by the second party using the one or more out-of-band communication channels.
US11831595B2
A unique electronic communications account is generated and linked to a physical address of a user. A network of electronic mail addresses linked to physical addresses can be used for the transmission of information in electronic or physical form. Users can send information to a single recipient or multiple recipients by selecting the recipient or an area of recipients on a map generated by the system. A plurality of users can use a single e-mail address linked to a physical address through creation and storage of user profiles. Users can deactivate and transfer their unique electronic mail address upon relocation to a new physical address. The communication platform can overcome technical problems and limitations of electronic mail existing today. The communication platform can create a transparent global communication that can be achieved via an electronic communications account that can be created for every physical address in the world.
US11831591B2
Systems and methods including, in response to receiving the indication of the user interaction with the status update link: accessing email addressee graphical user interface (GUI) information; and transmitting, over the network, the email addressee response GUI information; receiving response information; identifying whether the user input is a first response type or a second response type; when the user input is the first response type, updating a first value; when the user input is the second response type, updating a second value; and displaying the first value and the second value.
US11831584B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes identifying a traffic condition associated with data to be transmitted between a network access device and at least one user equipment (UE); selecting, based at least in part on the traffic condition, a dynamic subframe type of a time-division duplex (TDD) subframe; and indicating the dynamic subframe type in a TDD header of the TDD subframe. Another method includes identifying, in a TDD header of a subframe, an indication of a dynamic subframe type of the TDD subframe; and transmitting data or receiving data in a data region of the TDD subframe based at least in part on the dynamic subframe type.
US11831575B2
An electronic device and method for wireless communication system, and a storage medium. In the method, reference signal are carried merely on a part of communication sources for channel estimation, channel states on the communication resources carrying the reference signal are estimated, and conditions of channel paths from a transmitter to a receiver are estimated by using the estimated channel states of the communication resources. Thereby, channel states on other communication resources from the transmitter to the receiver can be obtained from the estimated channel path conditions.
US11831571B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine a first set of parameters associated with a first transport block (TB) repetition of a TB and a second set of parameters associated with a second TB repetition of the TB; and determine a TB size of the TB based at least in part on the first set of parameters, the second set of parameters, or both the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11831564B2
Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for controlling and managing the identification and provisioning of resources within an on-demand center as well as the transfer of workload to the provisioned resources. One aspect involves creating a virtual private cluster within the on-demand center for the particular workload from a local environment. A method of managing resources between a local compute environment and an on-demand environment includes detecting an event associated with a local compute environment and based on the detected event, identifying information about the local environment, establishing communication with an on-demand compute environment and transmitting the information about the local environment to the on-demand compute environment, provisioning resources within the on-demand compute environment to substantially duplicate the local environment and transferring workload from the local-environment to the on-demand compute environment. The event can be a threshold or a triggering event within or outside of the local environment.
US11831558B2
The invention relates to a method for efficiently discarding data packets destined to a mobile station connected to both a master base station and a secondary base station. The master base station configures a secondary discard function in a lower layer of the secondary base station, based on the master discard function in the higher layer of the master base station. The master base station forwards the data packet from the higher layer to the lower of the secondary base station. The secondary discard function of the lower layer at the secondary base station discards the received data packet upon expiry of the secondary timer started by the lower layer upon reception of the data packet from the higher layer at the master base station.
US11831550B2
A network interface card with traffic shaping capabilities and methods of network traffic shaping with a network interface card are provided. The network interface card and method can shape traffic originating from one or more applications executing on a host network device. The applications can execute in a virtual machine or containerized computing environment. The network interface card and method can perform or include several traffic shaping mechanisms including, for example and without limitation, a delayed completion mechanism, a time-indexed data structure, a packet builder, and a memory manager.
US11831548B1
A node configured to operate in a network that operates one or more of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6), the node includes circuitry configured to determine a packet is to be sent to a second node in the network, with both the node and the second node utilizing Reduced Mode micro-Segment Identifiers (uSIDs), and include an identifier in an IPv6 header of the packet denoting a destination address of the packet includes uSIDs. The circuitry can be further configured to include the identifier responsive to a determination the second node supports the identifier.
US11831543B2
Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for flow control using a multiple flit interface. A credit return field is used in a credit-based flow control system to indicate that one or more credits are being returned to a sending device from a receiving device. Based on the number of credits available, the sending device determines whether to send device or wait until more credits are returned. The amount of buffer space used by the receiver to store the packet is determined by the number of transfer cycles used to receive the packet, not the number of flits comprising the packet. This is enabled by having the buffer be as wide as the bus. The receiver returns credits to the sender based on the number of buffer rows used to store the received packet, not the number of flits comprising the packet.
US11831541B2
A method of managing a computer network in a production environment is described. The method comprises: identifying the endpoints to be used on the computer network during a time period; and at least a predetermined time prior to the commencement of the time period, the method comprises: running a flow routing algorithm for the computer network having the identified endpoints.
US11831535B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for operating a distributed ledger network (100), the distributed ledger network (100) comprising a plurality of nodes (102a-102n, 104a-04m), the plurality of nodes comprising a group of nodes (104), wherein each node in the group of nodes (104) includes functionality for acting as a trusted third party node on a distributed ledger transaction, the method comprising: performing an operating performance test on one or more selected nodes (104a-104m) of the group of nodes (104), wherein the operating performance test comprises sending a plurality of test messages to each selected node (104a-104m) over a predetermined time period; receiving operating performance data associated with each selected node (104a-104m) in relation to the operating performance test; aggregating operating performance statistics for each selected node (104a-104m) based on the received operating performance responses; and indicating to the distributed ledger network (100) those selected nodes (104a-104m) satisfying one or more operating performance benchmark(s) for acting as a trusted third party for distributed ledger transactions over the distributed ledger network (100) based on the aggregated operating performance statistics.
US11831527B2
The present invention relates to a method for detecting anomalies in time series data produced by devices of an infrastructure in a network comprising, for each of the devices through computerized data processing means, retrieving a time series data for the device in the network, extracting a plurality of time series samples relating to respective time windows and having a predefined window size and a predefined stride, by sliding the time windows to overlap the time series data, supplying the time series samples as input to a Convolutional Autoencoder to define reconstructed time series values having a predefined percentile intervals, analysing the reconstructed time series values to identify anomalous behaviours of the time series data, signalling an anomaly of the device when at least one anomalous behaviour is identified.
US11831524B2
A state detection circuit compares a target connection with an immediate previous connection based on an identifier of an incoming packet and detects a post-transitional state of the target connection based on a control flag of the incoming packet and on a pre-transitional state of the target connection detected just before if the target connection is identical with the immediate previous connection; and a connection counting circuit increments or decrements the number of target connections only when the detected post-transitional state indicates a start or end of the target connection.
US11831523B2
A system and computer-implemented is provided for displaying a configurable metric relating to an environment in a graphical display along with a value of the metric calculated over a configurable time period. The metric is used to identify events of interest in the environment based on processing real time machine data from one or more sources. The configurable metric is selected and a corresponding value is calculated based on the events of interest over the configurable time period. The value of the metric may be continuously updated in real time based on receiving additional real-time machine data and displayed in a graphical interface as time progresses. Statistical trends in the value of the metric may also be determined over the configurable time period and displayed in the graphical interface as well as an indication if the value of the metric exceeds a configurable threshold value. Further, a selection of one or more thresholds for the value of the metric may be applied and an indication displayed indicating if the threshold(s) have been exceeded.
US11831518B2
Technologies are provided for providing a dashboard interface corresponding to one or more datacenter components for information originating from one or more proprietary applications. A selection of information corresponding to the one or more datacenter components is initially received. Upon receiving the selection, an application programming interface (API) call request is made, in real-time, for the information corresponding to the one or more datacenter components from the one or more proprietary applications. As the information corresponding to one or more datacenter components from the one or more proprietary applications is received, it is aggregated and provided within the dashboard interface.
US11831501B2
Techniques are described for generating a virtualized network function (VNF) descriptor (VNFD) indicative of resources for managing VNF components (VNFCs) across a plurality of virtualized infrastructure managers (VIMs) implemented in a virtualized computing environment configured in a user-specific configuration. A VNFD generator receives a solution description file (SDF) encoding user input pertaining to the user-specific configuration, and a VNFC descriptor encoding VNFC specific information. The SDF and VNFC descriptor are validated and translated to generate an abstracted VNFD that is independent of renderers implemented at the virtualized computing environment. The abstracted VNFD is translated to a VNFD that is specific to the renderers and VIM and VNFD-specific information at the virtualized computing environment.
US11831500B2
A tool is provided to configure an edge compute environment of a network. The edge compute configuration tool may generate a configuration process for instantiating an edge compute environment at an edge site of a network including configuring one or more of the components of the edge compute environment. The configuration process may be based on seeding data and/or information provided to the edge compute configuration tool via a user interface and/or from one or more databases associated with the network. The configuration process may further include generating automatically executed configuration instructions that communicate with the devices of the edge compute environment to configure operational processes of the devices, provision communication ports, establish one or more network addresses with the devices, etc. In some instances, the edge compute configuration tool may execute one or more micro-services to communicate with and control configuration of the devices of the edge compute environment.
US11831497B2
In general, certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and/or systems for self-configuration of an electronic device to a wireless network is provided, which includes a wireless communication interface, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs stored in the memory which comprise instructions for the wireless communication interface to send a plurality of multicast packets to a plurality of specific destination addresses. The plurality of multicast packets includes encoded messages in the plurality of specific destination addresses that allow a wireless connection device, with wireless capable hardware, to automatically configure itself to be able to access a wireless network. According to various embodiments, the wireless network may be a secure wireless network.
US11831490B1
Techniques are provided for performing information technology service management (ITSM) correlation for infrastructure environment functions such as management, operation, and remediation. Specifically, a processor may receive an incident identifier for an incident record corresponding to an incident encountered by the infrastructure environment. The processor may use the incident identifier to correlate incident data to data of different management services, e.g., change management and problem management. Specifically, the processor may correlate the incident data to change data, and the change data may be correlated to problem data. The processor may also correlate the incident data to other incident data, and the other incident data may be correlated to problem data. The problem data can be utilized to improve or remediate the incident of interest.
US11831487B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for diagnosing faulty components in networked computer systems. The method includes receiving a plurality of alerts associated with a fault in a networked computer system. The method also includes generating a graph of a network topology of the networked computer system. The method further includes associating each alert with a node of the graph to determine a set of nodes affected by the fault. The method further includes determining a common node of the graph having a plurality of edges connected to nodes affected by the fault. The method further includes determining a faulty component based on the common node, retrieving a set of records of operational changes to the networked computer system, and determining, based on the set of records and the faulty component, an operational change that caused the fault in the networked computer system.
US11831485B2
Providing selective peer-to-peer monitoring using MBeans by providing a federation of peer-to-peer network servers based on the MBeans, and enabling each of the peer-to-peer networks servers to selectively monitor data associated with at least a subset of the peer-to-peer network servers using at least one of the MBeans.
US11831480B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate receiving a reference symbol from at least one antenna. The reference symbol includes a portion of a first transmitted reference symbol and a portion of a second transmitted reference symbol. The first transmitted reference symbol includes a symbol and a cyclically shifted portion of the symbol having a cyclic shift length. The second transmitted reference symbol includes a cyclically shifted version of the first transmitted reference symbol that is cyclically shifted relative to the first transmitted reference symbol by the cyclic shift length. The reference symbol is processed. In certain embodiments, processing the reference symbol can account for (i) a frame offset between uplink symbols and downlink symbols and (ii) another timing offset between downlink transmission and uplink reception.
US11831475B1
Receivers and receiving methods having maximum likelihood sequence detection with pseudo partial response equalization. One illustrative receiver includes: a feedforward equalizer that produces an equalized receive signal by diminishing a receive signal's intersymbol interference; a decision element that derives initial symbol decisions from samples of the equalized receive signal; and a filter that applies a partial response to the equalized receive signal or to an equalization error signal to produce input for a maximum likelihood sequence detector (MLSD). The MLSD may be a reduced complexity detector that derives a final sequence of symbol decisions by evaluating state metrics only for each initial symbol decision and its competing symbol decision.
US11831474B2
A decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) samples an input signal with respect to a gamut of p reference-voltage levels to place the symbol represented by the input signal within a voltage region. The DFE derives a set of tentative decisions for the voltage region, the set excluding at least one of the possible values for the symbol under consideration. A feedback stage then selects a final decision from among the tentative decisions.
US11831470B2
A surface-launched acoustic wave sensor tag system for remotely sensing and/or providing identification information using sets of surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor tag devices is characterized by acoustic wave device embodiments that include coding and other diversity techniques to produce groups of sensors that interact minimally, reducing or alleviating code collision problems typical of prior art coded SAW sensors and tags, and specific device embodiments of said coded SAW sensor tags and systems. These sensor/tag devices operate in a system which consists of one or more uniquely identifiable sensor/tag devices and a wireless interrogator. The sensor device incorporates an antenna for receiving incident RF energy and re-radiating the tag identification information and the sensor measured parameter(s). Since there is no power source in or connected to the sensor, it is a passive sensor. The device is wirelessly interrogated by the interrogator.
US11831458B2
Disclosed embodiments are related to configuring and/or provisioning user equipment (UE) for Multicast-Broadcast Service (MBS). The present disclosure provides embodiments to allow a Fifth Generation System (5GS) to configure the MBS sessions based on Quality of Service (QoS) conditions of the receptions of MBS session of the UEs (subscribers). As such, the 5GS is able to provide differentiated QoS flows in the MBS session to UEs, which may have different service subscription in the 5GS and user subscriptions for MBS applications. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11831455B2
A meeting support system includes: an acquisition processor that acquires medium information corresponding to a communication medium installed in the meeting room by communication of the user terminal with the communication medium; and a permission processor that identifies a meeting in which a user is scheduled to participate acquired from the user terminal, on the basis of user information for identifying the user and the medium information acquired from the user terminal. The permission processor permits login to a meeting support application of the identified meeting.
US11831448B2
Embodiments of this application provide a communication processing method. A data volume report reported by a terminal device includes a data volume on one of at least two paths in a radio bearer in a duplication mode, so that signaling overheads in a data volume reporting process of the terminal device can be reduced.
US11831443B2
A wireless device receives a DCI indicating a first priority of a transport block and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback timing of a HARQ feedback of the transport block. The wireless device switches, after receiving the DCI and before the HARQ feedback timing, from a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part as an active bandwidth part. The wireless device transmits or drops the HARQ feedback based on whether or not the first priority of the transport block comprises a first value.
US11831415B2
A method includes receiving a first request associated with a first user account and comprising content of a first message and a first plurality of destination endpoints, and a second request associated with a second user account and comprising content of a second message and a second plurality of destination endpoints to receive the second message, generating a first list of routing options for delivering the first message to the first plurality of destination endpoints, and a second list of routing options for delivering the second message to the second plurality of destination endpoints, generating, based on the first list of routing options, one or more versions of the first message for delivery to the first plurality of endpoints, and generating, based on the second list of routing options, one or more versions of the second message for delivery to the second plurality of endpoints. The method further includes causing the one or more versions of the first message to be transmitted to the first plurality of destination endpoints, and the one or more versions of the second message to be transmitted to the second plurality of destination endpoints, and providing first access rate statistics collected by tracking access to the one or more versions of the first message by the first plurality of destination endpoints, and second access rate statistics collected by tracking access to the one or more versions of the second message by the second plurality of destination endpoints.
US11831412B2
Rapid channel failure detection and recovery in wireless communication networks is needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet channel standards. Thus, resilient wireless packet communications is provided using a physical layer link aggregation protocol with a hardware-assisted rapid channel failure detection algorithm and load balancing, preferably in combination. This functionality may be implemented in a Gigabit Ethernet data access card with an engine configured accordingly. In networks with various topologies, these features may be provided in combination with their existing protocols.
US11831399B2
Disclosed are an optical multiplexing and demultiplexing module having an automatic discovery function, comprising a signal transmission portion and a signal reception portion. The signal transmission portion transmits information about the optical multiplexing and demultiplexing module by modulating transmission power of a laser. The signal reception portion samples and decodes the received optical power signal to acquire information about the other optical multiplexing and demultiplexing modules borne thereon. In configuring a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system, the device of the present disclosure may simplify the complexity of manual configuration, improve the accuracy of configuration, reduce the cost and failure rate in a solution in which an individual transceiver is used as an automatic discovery function, and adapt to different connection modes. Thereby at a receiving terminal, a signal can not only be received by a demultiplexing input terminal but also be received by various multiplexing input terminals.
US11831392B1
A communication device comprising: a first unit having a first antenna, a second antenna, and a first signal transmitting and receiving circuitry; a second unit having a third antenna and a fourth antenna and wherein the second unit is located in proximity to the first unit; wherein the second unit is capable of receiving a first radio frequency (RF) signal at a first frequency, amplifying the first RF signal in a second unit low noise amplifier (LNA), and autonomously transmitting the first RF signal through a barrier to the first unit; and wherein the first unit is capable of transmitting signals at the first frequency to a wireless device. The communication device is capable of operating in a first mode by communicating with a terrestrial base station and in a second mode with a satellite.
US11831384B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit information identifying a panel or beam configuration associated with a set of carriers. The UE may communicate with a base station in accordance with the panel or beam configuration associated with the set of carriers. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11831367B2
A first communication device transmits a plurality of training signals to a second communication device via a communication channel. The first communication device receives feedback generated at the second communication device based on the plurality of training signals. The feedback includes steering matrix information for a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) tones and (ii) additional phase information corresponding to channel estimates obtained for the plurality of OFDM tone. The first communication device constructs, based on the steering matrix information, a plurality of steering matrices corresponding to the plurality of OFDM tones, and compensates, using the additional phase information, the plurality of steering matrices to reduce phase discontinuities between the OFDM tones. The first communication device steers, using the compensated steering matrices, at least one transmission via the communication channel to the second communication device.
US11831357B2
A method for limiting Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting from a User Equipment to a network node is provided where a User Equipment can transmit CQI reports to a network node, such as e.g. a base station, when the User Equipment is operating in low transmission and/or low reception activity mode. A limited CQI reporting is obtained by triggering the reporting according to one or more predefined rules, which to at least some extent depend on CQI specific information provided to the User Equipment from the network node. A User Equipment and a network node adapted to operate in accordance with the suggested method are also provided.
US11831355B2
An ultrasonic data transmission method, apparatus and system, a terminal device and a medium are provided. The method is applied to a transmitting terminal which includes at least two ultrasonic signal transmitting arrays. The method includes: a single-frequency ultrasonic coding signal of to-be-transmitted information corresponding to each ultrasonic signal transmitting array is respectively determined, ultrasonic codes of to-be-transmitted information corresponding to different ultrasonic signal transmitting arrays being different; and corresponding at least two single-frequency ultrasonic code signals are transmitted through the at least two ultrasonic signal transmitting arrays to a receiving terminal in a focusing mode, frequency bands of transmitting frequencies of different ultrasonic signal transmitting arrays being different.
US11831349B2
A serial signal detector and a differential signal detection method are provided. The serial signal detector includes a voltage comparison module and a hybrid logic filter. The voltage comparison module receives a differential signal, including a first shifted signal and a second shifted signal. The voltage comparison module includes a first comparator and a second comparator. Based on the first shifted signal, the second shifted signal, and a voltage threshold, the first and the second comparators respectively generate a first and a second comparison signals. The hybrid logic filter includes a controllable logic gate and a capacitor. The controllable logic gate performs a logic operation related to the first and the second comparison signals and generates a filtered and converted pulse accordingly. The controllable logic gate and the capacitor jointly perform a preliminary filtering operation to the filtered and converted pulse while the logic operation is being performed.
US11831344B2
A method for providing codewords, the method may include receiving by an input buffer, one or more chunks of data; calculating a location of relevant bits within one or more chunks of data; wherein the relevant bits comprise (a) variable length retrieval information used during a retrieval process of a first type codeword, or (b) a second type codeword; performing the retrieval process of the first type codeword and retrieving the first type codeword from a memory unit that stores only a fraction of a codebook, the codebook comprises first type codewords and second type codewords; determining whether the relevant bits comprises the second type codeword or not; and outputting the second type codeword or the first type codeword, based on the determination.
US11831341B2
A compressor includes a logic circuit having transistors of a first channel type to receive a plurality of bit signals, and transistors of a second channel type, different from the first channel type, to receive the plurality of bit signals. The transistors of the first channel type are configured to generate an XOR logic output based on the plurality of bit signals, and the transistors of the second channel type are configured to generate, substantially simultaneous with the generation of the XOR logic output, an XNOR logic output based on the plurality of bit signals. The compressor includes NAND gates to receive multiplicand and multiplier bit signals.
US11831338B2
Communication terminals, systems and methods are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a method for improving communication throughput when experiencing periodic blockages includes reading a plurality of data elements into an interleaver in one of a quasi-reverse order and a consecutive order, reading the plurality of data elements out of the interleaver in the other of the quasi-reverse order and the consecutive order, and. transmitting the plurality of data elements via a communication channel that experiences periodic blockages.
US11831335B2
A memory system includes a memory controller. The memory controller executes first calculation of obtaining a first degree to k-th degree error locator polynomials (1≤k
US11831331B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a segmenter configured to segment information bits into a plurality of blocks based on one of a plurality of preset reference values; an outer encoder configured to encode each of the plurality of blocks to generate first parity bits; and a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode each of the plurality of blocks and the first parity bits to generate an LDPC codeword including second parity bits, wherein the one of the preset reference values is determined depending on at least one of a code rate used to encode each of the plurality of blocks and the first parity bits and whether to perform repetition of at least a part of the LDPC codeword in the LDPC codeword.
US11831326B2
An analog-to-digital conversion system includes: a first conversion device configured to communicate with a first analog-to-digital converter configured to convert a first analog signal into a first digital signal; a second conversion device configured to communicate with a second analog-to-digital converter configured to convert a second analog signal into a second digital signal; a first reference low power supply; and a second reference low power supply. The first conversion device is configured to correct the first digital signal, based on a variation amount of a second reference low voltage or a second reference low current. The second conversion device is configured to correct the second digital signal, based on a variation amount of a first reference low voltage or a first reference low current.
