US11844294B2
A resistance access memory device includes a first electrode, a resistance change layer, formed on the first electrode, comprising a thin film containing BiX13 and and Bi2X2(3-x), and a second electrode formed on the resistance change layer, where X1 is a halogen element selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, I, and combinations thereof, X2 is a chalcogen element selected from the group consisting of S, Se, Te, and combinations thereof, and x is a real number of 0 or more and less than 3.
US11844293B2
A physical unclonable function device includes alternating regions of programable material and electrically conductive regions. The regions of programable material are configured to switch resistance upon receiving an electric pulse. An electric pulse applied between two outer electrically conductive regions of the alternating regions will switch the resistance of at least one region of programmable material. The alternating regions may include a plurality of the electrically conducting regions and a region of the programable material disposed between each of the plurality of electrically conductive regions. The resistance of each of the regions of programable material is selectively variable in at least a portion thereof as a result of the electric pulse flowing therethrough. The resistance value of the programable material region may be a readable value as a state of the device. The regions of programmable material may be formed of a phase change material or an oxide.
US11844288B2
An in-plane magnetized spin-orbit magnetic device is provided. The in-plane magnetized spin-orbit magnetic device includes a heavy metal layer, an upper electrode and a magnetic tunnel junction. The magnetic tunnel junction is disposed between the heavy metal layer and the upper electrode. The magnetic tunnel junction includes a free layer and a pinned layer. The free layer is disposed on the heavy metal layer, and the free layer has a first film plane area. The pinned layer is disposed on the free layer, and the pinned layer has a second film plane area. There is a preset angle between a long axis direction of a film plane shape of the free layer and a long axis direction of a film plane shape of the pinned layer, and the first film plane area is larger than the second film plane area.
US11844279B2
An apparatus for fabricating a piezoelectric transducer includes a base and a piezoelectric powder depositor to traverse the base and deposit a plurality of layers of piezoelectric powder on the base. The apparatus also includes an electrode disposed at an end of a boom of which is moveable to a selected location with respect to the base and a voltage source to apply a voltage to the electrode to establish an electric field between the electrode and base with sufficient strength to sinter and pole each layer of piezoelectric material and a controller having instructions to deposit the plurality of layers of the piezoelectric powder on the base and to control a position of the electrode and actuate the voltage source to the electrode to sinter and pole the layer of piezoelectric material at defined locations after each layer is deposited to form the piezoelectric transducer in a selected shape.
US11844276B2
The present invention relates to organic electroluminescent devices comprising a light-emitting layer B comprising a host material HB, a first thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) material EB, and a depopulation agent SB.
US11844274B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes oppositely disposed first electrode and second electrode, and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one among the organic layers includes a compound represented by Formula 1 below. Improved emission efficiency and color purity properties may be shown.
US11844270B2
Disclosed is a novel compound and an organic light-emitting device. The novel compound is represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, and when the novel compound is used as a material for a hole transport layer of an organic light emitting device, the novel compound allows the device to have lowered drive voltage, and improved efficiency and lifespan characteristics.
US11844261B2
The present application provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel and an electronic device. A projection of a touch electrode of the OLED display panel projected on a base substrate is at least partially overlapped with a projection of a support pillar projected on the base substrate. The support pillar includes at least one side surface. An angle between an upper top surface of the support pillar is less than or equal to 90 degrees, and/or an angle between the side surface and a lower bottom surface of the support pillar is greater than or equal to 90 degrees. A common electrode layer is disconnected at the support pillar. Accordingly, the present application improves a report rate for touch control and enhances touch sensitivity of the OLED display panel.
US11844215B2
Provided are a three-dimensional flash memory device supporting a bulk erase operation and a method of manufacturing the three-dimensional flash memory device. The three-dimensional flash memory device supporting a bulk erase operation includes: a string including a channel layer extending in one direction and a plurality of electrode layers stacked vertically with respect to the channel layer; an upper wiring layer on the string; at least one intermediate wiring layer arranged between the plurality of electrode layers through the channel layer in an intermediate region of the string; a lower wiring layer under the string; and at least one connector arranged in the at least one intermediate wiring layer and connecting, to each other, at least two channel layers divided by the at least one intermediate wiring layer.
US11844211B2
A semiconductor memory device comprising: a first semiconductor chip including an upper input/output pad, a second semiconductor chip including a lower input/output pad, and a substrate attachment film attaching the first and second semiconductor chips. The first and second semiconductor chips each include a first substrate including a first side facing the substrate attachment film and a second side, a mold structure including gate electrodes, a channel structure penetrating the mold structure and intersecting the gate electrodes, a second substrate including a third side facing the first side and a fourth side, a first circuit element on the third side of the second substrate, and a contact via penetrating the first substrate and connected to the first circuit element. The upper and lower input/output pads are on the second sides of the first and second semiconductor chip, respectively, and contact the contact vias of the first and second semiconductor chips.
US11844210B2
A storage device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided and relate to the technology field of storage. The storage device includes storage a first chip and a second chip. The first chip includes a storage array. The storage array includes at least one storage block. The second chip includes a logic control circuit. The logic control circuit includes a global bit line decoder. The global bit line decoder is electrically connected to the at least one storage block. An occupied area after the first chip and the second chip are stacked can be reduced by constructing the global bit line decoder block constituted by the global bit line decoder in the top view projection area of the second chip, thereby reducing plane occupied space of the storage device. This is beneficial for minimizing the size of the storage device.
US11844205B2
A semiconductor device includes: first and second active regions extending in a first direction and separated by a gap relative to a second direction; and gate structures correspondingly over the first and second active regions, the gate structures extending in the second direction; and for each active region, a portion of each of some but not all of the gate structures (gate extension) extending partially into the gap; and when viewing the gate structures as a group, the group having a notched profile relative to the second direction, where notches in the notched profile correspond to ones of the gate structures which are substantially free of extending into the gap.
US11844204B2
A process includes (a) providing a semiconductor substrate having a planar surface; (b) forming a plurality of thin-film layers above the planar surface of the semiconductor substrate, one on top of another, including among the thin-film layers first and second isolation layers, wherein a significantly greater concentration of a first dopant specie is provided in the first isolation layer than in the second isolation layer; (c) etching along a direction substantially orthogonal to the planar surface through the thin-films to create a trench having sidewalls that expose the thin-film layers; (d) depositing conformally a semiconductor material on the sidewalls of the trench; (e) annealing the first isolation layer at a predetermined temperature and a predetermined duration such that the first isolation layer act as a source of the first dopant specie which dopes a portion of the semiconductor material adjacent the first isolation layer; and (f) selectively etching the semiconductor material to remove the doped portion of the semiconductor material without removing the remainder of the semiconductor material.
US11844203B1
A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material.
US11844201B2
A radio wave absorber (1a) includes a resistive layer (20), an electrical conductor (30), and a dielectric layer (10). The resistive layer (20) includes indium tin oxide as a main component. The electrical conductor (30) reflects a radio wave. The dielectric layer (10) is disposed between the resistive layer (20) and the electrical conductor (30) in the thickness direction of the resistive layer (20). The dielectric layer (10) is formed of a polymer. The content of tin oxide in the indium tin oxide included in the resistive layer (20) is more than 0 weight % and less than 20 weight %. The number of hydrogen atoms included in the resistive layer (20) is 5% or more of the total number of indium atoms, tin atoms, oxygen atoms, and hydrogen atoms included in the resistive layer (20).
US11844200B2
An electronic module having at least two electronic components mounted on a substrate. The electronic components are covered by a dielectric material. The dielectric material has a recess between adjacent electronic components. The surface of the recess facing at least one electronic component is coated with a conductive layer while the opposite surface to that coated recess surface is substantially free of a conductive layer. Also disclosed is a process for making the above-specified electronic module.
US11844175B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a stretchable substrate having improved stretch uniformity according to various embodiments of the present disclosure in order to implement the above-described object. The method may include forming an auxetic including a plurality of unit structures, and attaching one or more elastic sheets to the auxetic and forming a stretchable substrate.
US11844172B2
An illumination system includes a gas containment vessel configured to contain a gas. The illumination system also includes one or more pump sources configured to generate one or more pump beams. The illumination system includes an ozone generation unit including one or more illumination sources. The one or more illumination sources are configured to generate a beam of illumination of an energy sufficient for converting a portion of diatomic oxygen (O2) contained within the gas containment vessel to triatomic oxygen (O3). One or more energy sources are configured to ignite the plasma within the gas contained within the gas containment vessel via absorption of energy of the one or more energy sources by a portion of the triatomic oxygen, wherein the plasma emits broadband radiation.
US11844169B2
A rotary-induction heat generator with direct current excitation for the heating of matter, an alternating magnetic field for the generation of inductive heat, is generated with a DC coil, a static magnetic field converted into an alternating magnetic field, wherein a DC coil is received by a magnetic ring (20), wherein the magnetic ring (20) is statically connected to the housing (17) of the rotary-induction heat generator (1), and wherein the static magnetic field (51) generated by the DC coil (29) is converted into an alternating magnetic field (52) by way of a a pole wheel (19), wherein the pole wheel (19) consists of an inner pole ring (53), an outer pole ring (54) and a pole ring carrier (21, 24), by which the static magnetic field (51) is converted into an alternating field (52) in an induction ring (18) axially adjacent to the pole wheel (32).
US11844166B2
A lighting relay panel may include lower-cost features or components related to improved safety and reliability. In some cases, the relay panel includes a power supply capable of protecting the panel from high-voltage and high-current transients. A microcontroller may determine a power interruption based on a zero-cross signal received from the power supply, and may also configure latching relays during the interruption. In some implementations, the relay panel includes a relay sense circuit that is capable of receiving actuation signals from multiple relays connected to different phases of a power signal, and the microcontroller may synchronize or repeat the actuations based on a signal from the relay sense circuit. The microcontroller may generate relay addresses based on the relay positions within the relay panel. In some cases, the relay panel may include isolation circuits that are capable of providing an isolated control signal having an improved voltage range.
US11844161B2
To more effectively perform staging using light and sound. A staging apparatus 1 is provided with a ball 2 in which a gas is contained, and an internal device 200 including a sound output unit 270 and a light-emitting unit 240 provided in the ball 2. In the internal device 200, sound is outputted from the sound output unit 270 when an operation of the ball 2 is sensed. The staging apparatus 1 preferably receives, from an external control device or the like, a synchronization signal for synchronizing the timing at which sound is output, and outputs sound at a timing that is in accordance with the synchronization signal.
US11844160B2
A monolithic bus slave circuit structure is provided, including: a monolithic integrated chip, a rectifier bridge, a first light circuit, a second light circuit, and a third light circuit. The monolithic integrated chip includes a bus voltage input pin, a ground pin, a first drive signal output pin, a second drive signal output pin, a third drive signal output pin, and a power output pin. Both the bus voltage input pin and the ground pin are connected to an output end of the rectifier bridge, two input ends of the rectifier bridge are connected to a positive line and an negative line of a bus respectively, the ground pin is grounded. The monolithic bus slave circuit structure realizes the intelligent constant current drive function and drive the light circuits with constant current in the voltage range of the whole bus, which does not depend on the parameters of the LEDs.
US11844157B2
The present disclosure relates to current control circuitry for controlling a current through a load, the current control circuitry comprising: amplifier circuitry; reference voltage generator circuitry configured to supply a fixed reference voltage to a first input of the amplifier circuitry; an output stage comprising: a control terminal coupled to an output of the amplifier circuitry; a current input terminal configured to be coupled to the load; a current output terminal; a clock-controlled variable resistance coupled to the current output terminal of the output stage, wherein a resistance of the variable resistance is based on a digital code input to the variable resistance; and a feedback path between the current output terminal of the output stage and a second terminal of the amplifier circuitry for providing a feedback voltage to a second input of the amplifier circuitry.
US11844155B2
A load control device for controlling power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load may comprise a thyristor, a gate current path, and a control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to control the gate current path to conduct a pulse of gate current through a gate terminal of the thyristor to render the thyristor conductive at a firing time during a half-cycle of the AC power source. The control circuit may operate in a first gate drive mode in which the control circuit renders the gate current path non-conductive after a pulse time period from the firing time. The control circuit may operate in a second gate drive mode in which the control circuit maintains the gate current path conductive after the pulse time period during the half-cycle.
US11844141B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a policy of a user equipment in a wireless communication system, and an operating method of a visited-policy control function (V-PCF) of a visited public land mobile network (PLMN) providing a policy for processing traffic of a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the operating method includes: transmitting an indicator requesting transmission or allowance of transmission of a visited user equipment route selection policy (V-URSP) of the V-PCF to a home-policy control function (H-PCF) of a home PLMN; receiving, from the H-PCF, an indicator indicating whether transmission of the V-URSP of the V-PCF is allowed; and receiving a home user equipment route selection policy (H-URSP) from the H-PCF.
US11844138B2
A wireless device receives: a value for a discontinuous reception (DRX) inactivity timer; and a semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI) radio network temporary identifier (RNTI). receive a first downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the SP-CSI RNTI is received. The SP-CSI RNTI indicates: activation of SP-CSI reporting; and no uplink grant for uplink packet transmission. The DRX inactivity timer is started based on the first DCI indicating the activation of the SP-CSI reporting. The DRX inactivity timer controls monitoring for DCIs of the SP-CSI RNTI. a transport block is transmitted based on receiving, while the DRX inactivity timer is running, a second DCI.
US11844134B1
A cell site maintenance system. The system comprises a plurality of data stores, a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a part replacement prediction application stored in memory. When executed by the processor the application extracts features based on data read from the data stores, executes a plurality of part machine learning models, where each part machine learning model analyses some of the extracted features by a multi-label classification model trained for a specific part associated with that part machine learning model and each part machine learning model outputs a probability that the associated part can fix the cell site associated with the trouble ticket, and, based on a probability output by a part machine learning model associated with a first part exceeding a predefined threshold, determining that the first part is to be pulled from a part inventory to make ready for a service truck.
US11844114B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises transmitting a first physical random access channel (PRACH), and receiving a random access response (RAR) on the basis thereof, wherein the first PRACH may be configured by a PRACH sequence of a particular length, which is mapped to 12 consecutive physical resource blocks (PRBs), being repetitively mapped multiple times in the frequency domain.
US11844113B2
Methods, devices and systems are provided for performing a random access (RA) procedure. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to receive RA resource sets, where each of the RA resource sets is associated with a node-B directional beam, select an RA resource set from among the RA resource sets, and initiate an RA procedure based on the selected RA resource set. The RA procedure may include selecting multiple preambles which include a preamble for each resource of a plurality of resources corresponding to the selected RA resource set. The WTRU may be configured to sequentially transmit the selected multiple preambles in sequential RA transmissions, and may be configured to receive, from a node-B, in response to the RA transmissions, at least one RA response (RAR), where each of the received at least one RAR corresponds to one of the transmitted multiple preambles.
US11844110B2
A terminal, as disclosed, includes a receiver that receives information about transmission conditions for an uplink (UL) channel or for a UL signal. The terminal further includes a processor that, when dual connectivity using a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology is configured and when a cell using frequency division duplexing (FDD) is configured for the first radio access technology, controls a transmission of the UL channel or of the UL signal in the cell using the FDD, based on the information about the transmission conditions and a UL or downlink (DL) configuration. A radio communication method and a base station are disclosed as well.
US11844106B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for managing data traffic in restricted target wake time (TWT) service periods (SPs). In some aspects, an access point (AP) receives a request frame from a wireless station (STA) associated with a client device via a peer-to-peer (P2P) link, the request frame indicating that the STA intends to exchange P2P communications with the client device during a r-TWT SP scheduled on a wireless medium. The AP obtains a transmission opportunity (TXOP) on the wireless medium during the r-TWT SP, the request frame identifying the client device. The AP transmits a trigger frame on the wireless medium responsive to obtaining the TXOP, the trigger frame allocating a portion of the obtained TXOP for P2P communications between the STA and the client device, wherein at least one of the response frame or the trigger frame indicates a Network Allocation Vector (NAV) exception for the client device.
US11844093B2
Provided is a method for a first device to perform sidelink communication with a second device. The method comprises: determining a first resource for a first sidelink transmission; receiving, from a third device, a SCI including information related to a second resource for a second sidelink transmission; determining to reselect the first resource, based on overlap of the first resource and the second resource and a relationship between a first priority value of the first sidelink transmission and a second priority value of the second sidelink transmission satisfying a pre-configured condition; and transmitting, to the second device, a first PSCCH related to the first sidelink transmission or a first PSSCH related to the first PSCCH, based on a third resource determined by reselecting the first resource, wherein the pre-configured condition includes a condition in which the first priority value is greater than the second priority value.
US11844080B2
A radio network device is operative to transmit uplink data on a physical uplink shared channel aggregating two or more contiguous slots. The device is further operative to transmit, in addition to the uplink data, Uplink Control Information (UCI) in at least one of the aggregated slots. The UCI may comprise a HARQ ACK/NACK. The UCI is configured in response to Downlink Control Information (DCI) received from a serving network node. The DCI also includes a UL scheduling grant for the physical uplink channel. The UCI may be configured in the physical uplink channel transmission in a variety of ways. Various amounts of frequency resource (e.g., subcarriers) may be allocated to UCI. The subcarriers may be non-contiguous. In slot aggregation, the UCI subcarriers may frequency hop from slot to slot. The UCI may be encoded differently in different slots, to facilitate early decoding by a receiver (which may, for example immediately prepare a re-transmission in the case of a NACK).
US11844076B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for receiving, by a relay user equipment (UE) from a remote UE, a remote UE radio resource control (RRC) message for establishing a relayed communication between the remote UE and a network entity via the relay UE; determining, by the relay UE, remote UE information associated with the remote UE for establishing a remote UE communication context between the relay UE and the network entity based on the remote UE RRC message; and transmitting, by the relay UE to the network entity, the remote UE RRC message and the remote UE information.
US11844070B2
Embodiments relate to the internet of things communications field, and provide a data transmission method, device, and system, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining a first parameter, a second parameter, a first gap threshold, and a second gap threshold; determining, based on the first parameter and the first gap threshold, whether a gap exists in transmission on a downlink control channel; sending downlink control information through the downlink control channel based on a determining result; determining, based on the second parameter and the second gap threshold, whether a gap exists in transmission on a downlink data channel; and sending a transport block through the downlink data channel based on a determining result.
US11844067B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may receive a control signal indicating a set of durations. A duration of the set of durations may be scheduled for uplink resources and additional resources including downlink resources, flexible resources, or both. The UE may further receive an indication of a slot format configuration permitting sidelink communications on the uplink resources during the duration scheduled for the uplink resources and the additional resources. Upon identifying that sidelink communications are permitted, the UE may transmit a sidelink transmission using the uplink resources and during the duration.
US11844065B2
Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes determining a configuration associated with sidelink for at least one communication; monitoring for at least one SCI after entering a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) on phase based on the configuration; receiving, from one or more other UEs, the at least one SCI during the sidelink DRX on phase for at least one communication; and determining an extension to the sidelink DRX on phase based on the at least one SCI scheduling at least one first resource for one or more transmissions.
US11844063B2
A packet processing apparatus includes a memory, a processor, a first gate, and a second gate. The memory stores a plurality of allocation patterns for allocating an upstream or downstream of a link direction for each subframe within a predetermined period. The processor obtains a periodicity pattern of a high-priority packet for each of time slots within the subframe. The first gate opens and closes, for each of the time slots within the subframe, output of the high-priority packet. The second gate opens and closes, for each of the time slots within the subframe, output of a low-priority packet. The processor sets gate states of the first gate and the second gate for a predetermined time slot within the subframe in the same link direction as the periodicity pattern to a priority state in which the high-priority packet is preferentially output according to the periodicity pattern.
US11844058B2
A user equipment and a method of wireless communication of the same are provided. The method includes receiving configuration information of a scheduled mode sidelink resource pool from a base station, the configuration information from the base station comprising at least one of a resource reservation interval, or a length of contiguous sub-channels, and performing sensing in the scheduled mode sidelink resource pool and reporting the sensing result, wherein the sensing result is associated with a set of available resources of the scheduled mode sidelink resource pool.
US11844053B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a channel quality information determining method, an apparatus, and a system. The method may include: a terminal device obtains a configured TBS, and/or determines channel quality information of each of K segments of frequency domain resources based on the configured TBS and/or a time domain resource range. A frequency domain resource of the terminal device may be divided into N segments, where both N and K are integers greater than or equal to 1, and K is less than or equal to N. In some embodiments, the configured TBS may be fully considered when the channel quality information is determined, so that a network device properly may determine, based on the channel quality information, a frequency domain resource used to transmit a data packet.
US11844051B2
The present disclosure provide a resource pool configuration method, a resource pool using method, a configuration device, and a terminal. The resource pool obtaining method is applied to a terminal, including: obtaining a first resource pool in at least one of the following manners: obtaining the predefined first resource pool; obtaining the preconfigured first resource pool; and obtaining the configured first resource pool.
US11844049B2
A terminal includes a controller and transmitter. The controller configured to select, based on a result of sensing, a radio resource for transmitting the signal. The transmitter configured to transmit a signal. When the controller detects a predetermined first event, the controller removes a radio resource belonging to a first reserved region from selection targets.
US11844047B2
A method of transmitting system information, a terminal and a network-side equipment are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, an SI change notification transmitted by a first network-side equipment; and receiving, by the terminal, SI transmitted by the first network-side equipment and corresponding to the SI change notification. And the SI change notification is carried in a DCI format corresponding to a PDCCH used for scheduling the paging message, or a DCI format corresponding to a PDCCH scrambled with C-RNTI.
US11844044B2
Techniques for communication by a user equipment (UE) are disclosed. Techniques can include determining a positioning state information (PSI) report to transmit, where the PSI report comprises positioning-related information, and selecting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource with which to transmit the PSI report, where the selected PUCCH resource comprises a number of resource blocks (RBS). Techniques can further include determining whether to transmit the PSI report using the selected PUCCH resource, based on: the number of RBS, a size of uplink control information (UCI) to be transmitted using the selected PUCCH resource, the selected PUCCH resource being configured with a capability to include both the PSI report and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK), or the selected PUCCH resource being configured to include only one or more PSI reports, and optionally one or more CSI reports, as a payload, or any combination thereof.
US11844043B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for near real time out of home audience measurement are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory; instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to at least: receive a first data transmission request at a first portable meter; send a second data transmission request from the first portable meter to a second portable meter; determine whether the first portable meter is capable of transmitting at least one data packet, based at least in part on an indication the second portable meter is capable of transmitting the at least one data packet; and in response to determining the first portable meter is capable of transmitting the at least one data packet, transmit the at least one data packet.
US11844037B2
Automated determination of a timing offset for DOCSIS time protocol to provide precision time protocol accuracy. A cable modem receives, from a cable modem termination system (CMTS), a message that includes a timestamp that is correlated to a primary reference clock. The cable modem determines a downstream travel time representative of a period of time between a generation of the timestamp by the CMTS and a first timing reference point of the cable modem. The cable modem accesses an internal delay time representative of a period of time for the timestamp to travel from the first timing reference point to a second timing reference point of the cable modem, and sets a precision time protocol (PTP) clock of the cable modem to a time equal to the timestamp incremented by the downstream travel time and the internal delay time.
US11844032B2
Wireless communications are described for controlling a transmission. A base station may cancel, delay, and/or request a retransmission of a message. The base station may send a control message to control a transmission in a communication network. A wireless device may cancel a transmission (e.g., based on a pre-emption indication), determine a transmission power for a transmission (e.g., based on a power control message), and/or determine a retransmission of a message (e.g., based on a repetition indication).
US11844031B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an component carrier management service is provided. The service may monitor data pertaining to a transmit power of an end device and a component carrier of a carrier aggregation. Based on the monitoring, the service may determine when the end device is at or near a maximum transmit power. The service may perform a mitigation procedure to prevent or minimize the end device shutting off a component carrier in a radio transmitter chain.
US11844029B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Examples may include a receiving wireless device located in a first geographic zone receiving multiple signals from one or more transmitting wireless devices. The receiving wireless device may determine based on the received signals that the one or more transmitting devices are located in a second geographic zone. The receiving wireless device may determine configured transmit power information for each of the signals received from the transmitting wireless devices located in the second geographic zone. The receiving wireless device may estimate a path loss of wireless communications between the first geographic zone and the second geographic zone based on the configured transmit powers received in the signals. The receiving wireless device may communicate within the second geographic location based on the estimated path loss between the first geographic region and the second geographic region.
US11844022B2
Systems and methods of use thereof for interconnecting a plurality of different electromechanical systems within an environment via Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN), such as Bluetooth Low Energy®. The system may include a primary system configured to include at least two states each corresponding to a signal, such as a 12V representing the ‘on’ state and a 0V signal to the ‘off’ state. The primary subsystem may include a signal determination device configured to determine the state of the primary subsystem and produce the corresponding signal, wherein the associated first communication device may transmit the produced signal over a WPAN to the second communication device associated with the accessory system. The accessory system may further include an accessory operation device configured to cause or inhibit a state change of the accessory subsystem based on the signal received by the second communication device.
US11844017B2
A method and a device for determining deployment information of a network are disclosed. The method for determining deployment information of a network includes: receiving, by a first network entity, a first message sent by a second network entity, where the first message carries first deployment information, and the first deployment information is deployment information of a network component; and determining, by the first network entity, second deployment information based on the first deployment information, where the second deployment information is deployment information of a network, and the network includes at least one network component. The foregoing solution can improve accuracy of determining deployment information of a network.
US11844014B2
A service request is received at a first service communication proxy element, wherein the service request is received from a service consumer and is a request to access at least one service of a service producer. The first service communication proxy element determines at least one target service producer based on the service request. The first service communication proxy element sends an access token request to an authorization entity, wherein the access token request is generated based on the determining step. The first service communication proxy element receives an access token response from the authorization entity, wherein the access token response comprises an access token. The first service communication proxy element may then send a service request with the access token to a second service communication proxy element, wherein the second service communication proxy element is associated with the target service producer. The method may apply to roaming and non-roaming scenarios.
US11844008B2
A method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station are provided for wireless communication. The UE receives a target radio signal in a first frequency-domain resource, transmits a first radio signal, monitors a second radio signal in a first time window, and monitors a third radio signal in a first time-domain resource in the first frequency-domain resource. A channel measurement for the target radio signal is used for triggering a transmission of the first radio signal; the first radio signal is used for determining a multiantenna related transmission of the third radio signal; the first radio signal is related to a multiantenna related reception of the third radio signal; the second radio signal is used for determining the first time-domain resource, or, the second radio signal is used for determining that the first radio signal is correctly received.
US11844001B2
Asset tracking systems and methods include one or more tracking devices that pair with one or more hub devices to transmit sensor data from a tracking device only to a paired hub device with a hub device state quality rating, and from the paired hub device to a network server, thereby reducing redundant communications and communication network usage.
US11844000B2
An information processing system includes a number of field devices provided in a plant and a mobile device that acquires data from the field devices. The mobile device includes a data management unit that manages the field devices that are grouped for each plant area and a processing unit that acquires data using wireless communication from, out of the field devices managed by the data management unit, the field devices provided in the plant area selected by user operation.
US11843999B2
One aspect provides a method performed by a network node implementing a network function repository function in a core network. A registration request message to register a CHF in a repository of network functions is received, the registration request message includes an indication of one or more sets of charging characteristics supported by the CHF and addressing information to reach the CHF. Each CHF in the repository is registered. A discovery request message including one or more search parameters for identifying a CHF, including at least an indication of a set of charging characteristics to be applied for the packet data connection is received. A CHF that supports the indicated set of charging characteristics is identified based on the one or more search parameters. A discovery response message comprising the addressing information to reach the identified CHF is transmitted.
US11843997B2
A device-to-device (D2D) communication application is stored in a memory of a first device, and has an application identifier (ApplicationID) configured to enable D2D communication between two or more devices in proximity. The first device is configured with a user identifier (UserID). A group associated with the D2D communication application can then be established, which includes the first device and one or more second devices, each having the D2D communication capability and an associated UserID, each of the devices exchanging their ApplicationID and UserID with other devices to establish the group. A role in the group is assigned to each device of the first device and one or more second devices, which defines functions for each device to establish the D2D communications. Based on the role of each device, a set of resources from the network are allocated to enable the D2D communication on the D2D communication channel.
US11843991B2
Motion-based management of a logistics container uses elements of a wireless node network including a container node associated with the logistics container and equipped with a motion sensor. The motion sensor detects a motion status (e.g., moving, stationary, accelerating, decelerating) for the logistics container. The container node compares the motion status to a prior motion status, and then identifies a changed motion condition for the logistics container based upon the comparison. In response to the changed motion condition, the container node alters a broadcast profile used by the container node in communicating with other nodes in the wireless node network. The container node may be deployed as an apparatus within a logistics container, be considered together with the logistics container as a motion sensing container node apparatus, and be considered with multiple package ID nodes as a motion-based management system for the logistics container.
US11843986B2
A beam measurement method is provided. A terminal obtains beam measurement result reporting configuration of a neighbor cell, and determines a reference signal configuration of beam measurement of the neighbor cell. The terminal performs the beam measurement on the reference signal of the neighbor cell based on the reference signal configuration of the beam measurement. The terminal reports a beam measurement result of the neighbor cell.
US11843985B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for enforcing limited mobility in a mobile network. For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive (e.g., receive from a network) a mapping of physical cell identifications (PCIs) to area identifications (AIDs). The WTRU may determine a first PCI associated with a first neighbor cell. The WTRU may determine, based on the first PCI and the PCIs to AIDs mapping, whether the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell. The WTRU may perform cell selection or reselection with the first neighbor cell as a cell selection or reselection candidate. The WTRU may perform cell selection or reselection based on the WTRU determining that the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell. The WTRU may determine that the WTRU is allowed to access the first neighbor cell based on the first PCI and the PCIs to AIDs mapping.
US11843980B2
An apparatus and a method are described by which, upon preparing a handover of a terminal device in a source cell, mobility information and at least one connected slice network slice identifier identifying at least one network slice used by the terminal device is added to a terminal device history of the terminal device, and the terminal device history is sent to a target cell for the handover.
US11843979B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for providing fallback assistance information to a RAN node. One apparatus includes a memory coupled to a processor, the processor configured to cause the apparatus to: receive a service request indicating a service for fallback, the service request associated with a UE, where the service for fallback corresponds to a different RAT or a different system generation; and transmit, to a network entity, an indication of a fallback requirement or a target system, or both, based on a service type associated with the service request or a network configuration, where the service type corresponds to a different RAT or a different system generation, where a handover or redirection is performed based on the transmitted indication.
US11843975B2
A radio access network (RAN) node (11) is configured to send, to another RAN node (12), first control information regarding at least one of one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) configured in a system bandwidth. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to inter-radio access network (RAN) node (e.g., inter-gNB) signaling enhanced to handle bandwidth parts.
US11843968B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of transmitting a packet by an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: receiving, from a first node, an indication indicating that a congestion problem occurs between the first node and a second node; if the packet is to be transmitted to other node via the first node, transmitting the packet to the first node; and if the packet is to be transmitted to the second node via the first node, transmitting the packet to a third node.
US11843959B2
The invention generally relates to a method and system for enabling low-latency data communication by aggregating a plurality of network interfaces, each network interface associated with a different network. The method and system measures in real-time, network performance capabilities associated with the networks via the respective network interfaces. The method and system then assigns two or more multi-threading processors in a multi-processor architecture configured to execute a plurality of threads for processing one or more data streams. The threading in each processor is interlinked with two or more network interfaces based on the measured network performance capabilities and network performance capability requirements of the one or more data streams, thereby enabling threading-based cooperation among multi-core processors in the multi-processor architecture and the plurality of network interfaces. The one or more data streams are then transmitted to the two or more network interfaces and thereon to the associated networks for transport.
US11843951B2
This disclosure relates to improved systems and methods for providing and using wearable electronic accessories. A wearable electronic necklace accessory can include a support structure that permits the wearable electronic accessory to be worn in a user's neck region. The wearable electronic necklace accessory can include an electronic pendant coupled to the support structure, the electronic pendant can comprise a housing that includes a first wall, a second wall, and one or more side walls configured to couple the first wall to the second wall. The wearable electronic necklace accessory can include a display device and an audio device positioned within the pendant housing and configured to output electronic media and audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11843946B2
There is provided a method that comprises receiving one or more unique passwords for identifying respective one or more user devices of the wireless local area network; associating the one or more unique passwords with the respective one or more user devices and storing the one or more unique passwords to a database; in response to receiving, at an access point of the wireless local area network, a connection request from a user device, requesting, from the user device, a unique password of the user device; and identifying the user device based on the unique password.
US11843945B2
A communication apparatus includes a first notification unit, a second notification unit, a reception unit, and a sharing unit. The first notification unit provides first information containing information unique to the communication apparatus and information on a predetermined channel for use in sharing a communication parameter for wireless communication with a different communication apparatus. The second notification unit provides second information containing the information unique to the communication apparatus but not containing information on the predetermined channel. When the first information is provided, the reception unit waits to receive a predetermined signal containing information corresponding to the information unique to the communication apparatus without shifting to another channel. When the second information is provided, the reception unit waits to receive the predetermined signal using a plurality of channels. When the predetermined signal is provided, the sharing unit shares the communication parameter with the different communication apparatus.
US11843938B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a first communication node operating in a wireless communications network. The first communication node adjusts a value of a Contention Window, CW, from a first value to a second value, the second value being a higher value than the first value, wherein adjusting the value is based on: one or more feedback timers having expired at a time of performing a sensing procedure in the absence of: a) a received uplink, UL, grant from a second communication node, or b) a downlink feedback from the second communication node for an Autonomous Uplink, AUL, transmission from the first communication node. Following adjusting the value, the first communication node initiates a sensing procedure performed prior to a transmission of an UL burst to the second communication node, wherein the sensing procedure uses the adjusted value of the CW.
US11843925B2
An adaptive filter and an echo cancellation apparatus and method using the same, utilize an adaptive delay diversity filter for coping with the situation in which variation in a time delay between a reference signal and a target signal of an adaptive filter is large. The adaptive delay diversity filter includes multiple sub-filters, each of which generates output through filtering by utilizing a signal, obtained by applying different time delay values to the reference signal, as a reference signal, and selects the best output value among generated output values of the multiple sub-filters, as an output value of the adaptive delay diversity filter. Further, the adaptive delay diversity filter includes a means for reducing a computational load.
US11843922B1
An audio system is described for calibrating one or more transducers for a user using the auditory steady state response (ASSR) of the user. The audio system presents an audio calibration signal to the user via a transducer array in the headset. The system measures electrical signals that are generated in the auditory cortex of the brain of the user in response to the presented audio calibration signal. The audio system determines an ASSR of the user based on the measured electrical signals. The audio system determines a value for one or more sound filter parameter based on the determined ASSR and a model. The audio system calibrates the transducer array using the determined sound filter parameters. The calibrated transducer array is used to present audio content to the user.
US11843917B2
A hearing aid configured to be worn at, and/or in, an ear of a user, comprises a forward path for processing sound from the environment of the user. The forward path comprises a) at least one first microphone providing at least one first electric input signal representing said sound as received at the respective at least one first microphones, said at least one first microphone being located away from a first ear canal of the user, b) an audio signal processor for processing said at least one first electric input signal, or a signal or signals originating therefrom, and for providing a processed signal, c) an output transducer for providing stimuli perceivable as sound to the user in dependence of said processed signal, and d) at least one second microphone connected to said audio signal processor, the at least one second microphone being configured to provide at least one second electric input signal representing said sound as received at the at least one second microphone, the at least one second microphone being located at or in said first ear canal of the user, and e) a feature extractor for extracting acoustic characteristics of said ear of the user from said at least one second electric input signal, or a signal originating therefrom. The hearing aid is configured to include said acoustic characteristics in the processed signal. The invention may e.g. provide improved sound localization in hearing aids.
US11843916B2
A system for selectively amplifying audio signals may include a wearable camera configured to capture a plurality of images from an environment of a user and a microphone configured to capture sounds from an environment of the user. The system may also include a processor programmed to: receive the plurality of images captured by the camera; identify a representation of at least one recognized individual in at least one of the plurality of images; receive audio signals representative of the sounds captured by the microphone; cause selective conditioning of at least one audio signal received by the microphone from a region associated with the at least one recognized individual; and cause transmission of the at least one conditioned audio signal to a hearing interface device configured to provide sound to an ear of the user.
US11843915B2
An active acoustic system includes a thin-film sheet having an array of piezoelectric microstructures embossed in the film. Each piezoelectric microstructure may act as a speaker and/or a microphone. A control circuit is configured to individually address the piezoelectric microstructures to provide a separate voltage signal to, or receive a separate voltage signal from, each piezoelectric microstructure.
US11843905B2
Provided is a technique for restraining the amount of information as a whole while securing, as appropriate, information contributive to determination that utilizes a sensor. This sensor device 200 comprises: a measurement unit 210 for repeatedly measuring first information and second information which is measured at time intervals longer than those for the first information; and an output unit 220 for outputting the first information and second information measured by the measurement unit 210. When the first information and the second information meet respective standards thereof, the output unit 220 outputs the second information at longer intervals.
US11843901B2
Described are methods and systems in which the censorship and supervision tasks normally performed by secured facility personnel are augmented or automated entirely by a Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System. In embodiments, the Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System performs voice biometrics, speech recognition, non-verbal audio classification, fingerprint and other biometric authentication, image object classification, facial recognition, body joint location determination analysis, and/or optical character recognition on the video visitation data. The Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation utilizes these various analysis techniques in concert to determine if all rules and regulations enforced by the jurisdiction operation the secured facility are being followed by the parties to the video visitation session.
US11843898B2
User interface (UI) tiles of conference participants are arranged in a UI of conferencing software according to relative locations of those conference participants within a conference room. Positional information and video data are obtained from one or more video capture devices located within a conference room. Relative locations of conference participants within the conference room are determined based on the positional information, such as by defining coordinates for the conference participants within a coordinate system based on the positional information and the video data and determining the relative locations based on the coordinates. Output configured to cause a client application to arrange UI tiles associated with the conference participants is generated according to the relative locations. The output is then transmitted to one or more client devices to cause a UI of conferencing software at each of those client devices to display the UI tiles in the specified arrangement.
US11843897B1
A user interface display is provided to a participant who is viewing an event via a communication system that provides videoconferencing. The communication system provides a composite video stream that includes a plurality of different video layers, each video layer providing a different portion of the composite video stream. The participant has a participant computer for allowing the participant to receive the composite video stream for display on the user interface display. A plurality of participants view the event via user interface displays of their respective participant computers. The layers include a participant layer that displays video streams of the participants, a foreground layer, an event layer that includes video of the event, an audience layer, a background layer, and an immersive layer.
US11843888B2
Provided is a photoelectric conversion device including: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged to form a plurality of columns; and a column circuit arranged corresponding to each of the plurality of columns of the pixel array. The column circuit includes a sample and hold unit and a plurality of lines including a line configured to supply a potential to the sample and hold unit. The plurality of lines is commonly connected or separated in the photoelectric conversion device.
US11843887B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, a comparator configured to compare an output signal of each of the plurality of pixels with a reference signal, and a counter of K bits (K is a natural number) configured to operate in parallel with operation of the comparator. The apparatus converts the output signal of each of the plurality of pixels into a digital signal using an output of the comparator and an output of the counter. The apparatus includes an addition unit configured to add a plurality of the digital signals. The addition unit includes a serial binary adder of M bits (M is a natural number less than K).
US11843886B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a first and second pixel regions. In the first pixel region, a photoelectric conversion unit, a floating diffusion region (FD), and a transferring transistor are provided. In the second pixel region, an amplifying transistor, and a resetting transistor are provided. A first element isolation portion is provided in the first pixel region, while a second element isolation portion is provided in the second pixel region. An amount of protrusion of an insulating film into a semiconductor substrate in the first element isolation portion is smaller, than that in the second element isolation portion.
US11843870B2
An image processing apparatus obtains a plurality of pieces of image data with different exposure amounts and then performs a level-conversion of the image data by applying input/output characteristics thereto. The apparatus encodes the image data whose level has been converted and decodes the encoded image data. The apparatus further applies inverse characteristics of the input/output characteristics to the decoded image data and then generates combined image data. In generating the combined image, the input/output characteristics are set in accordance with a combining ratio of each of the image data.
US11843865B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for generating a panoramic surround view image of a vehicle, comprising: acquiring actual original images of external environment of a first part and a second part of the vehicle hinged to each other; processing the actual original images to obtain respective actual independent surround view images of the first part and the second part; obtaining coordinates of respective hinge points of the first part and the second part; determining matched feature point pairs in the actual independent surround view images of the first part and the second pan; calculating a distance between two points in each matched feature point pair accordingly, and taking matched feature point pairs with the distance less than a preset first threshold as a successfully matched feature point pairs; and taking a rotation angle corresponding to the maximum number of the successfully matched feature point pairs as a candidate rotation angle of the first part relative to the second part. The present disclosure further provides a device for generating a panoramic surround view image of a vehicle and an intelligent vehicle.
US11843855B2
An electronic apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a remaining time representing a remaining usable time of the electronic apparatus; and a control unit configured to perform control to set any of a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode having power consumption of the electronic apparatus that is lower than power consumption of the electronic apparatus in the first mode, wherein the control unit performs processing to provide notification to prompt a user to switch from the first mode to the second mode in a case where the remaining time corresponding to the information acquired by the acquisition unit is less than a threshold and a predetermined condition for switching from the first mode to the second mode is satisfied in the first mode.
US11843846B2
An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive, from a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, at least one of information about designation of a subject by a user, information about automatic subject detection, and information about a manual operation on an image capturing lens by the user, a determination unit configured to determine a main image capturing apparatus and a sub image capturing apparatus from among the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, based on the information received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a result of the determination to the main image capturing apparatus and transmit subject information set in the main image capturing apparatus to the sub image capturing apparatus.
US11843834B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for providing recommendations to a user. A short-media viewing profile may be maintained for the user. The short-media viewing profile may be based on user's behavior while watching short-length media content. A long-media viewing profile may be maintained for the user. The long-media viewing profile may be based on user's behavior while watching long-length media content. In response to determining that the user is currently engaged in viewing short-length media content, a recommendation is provided to the user based on the short-media viewing profile. In response to determining that the user is currently engaged in viewing long-length media content, a recommendation is provided to the user based on the long-media viewing profile.
US11843822B2
A transmission apparatus includes a transmission unit. The transmission unit transmits a packet including divided image data as payload data, the divided image data being obtained by dividing image data having a predetermined frame frequency into a predetermined number of frames, the image data having the predetermined frame frequency being subjected to mixing processing for each frame, image data of a previous frame and/or a subsequent frame being selectively used in the mixing processing, and further transmits metadata including information regarding the mixing processing in association with image data of each frame.
US11843821B2
Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing additional information on content. An additional information providing method includes recognizing, by processing circuitry, a plurality of persons in a frame of a video during playback of the video, determining, by the processing circuitry, a user likeability of the plurality of persons, recognizing, by the processing circuitry, an object associated with a specific person among the plurality of persons based on the user likeability, the object being in the frame, and generating, by the processing circuitry, a screen containing additional information corresponding to the object.
US11843820B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for group-watching video streams. In one aspect the disclosed systems and methods may generate a multi-panel display of the viewers during viewing of the video streams. In another aspect, the systems and methods may capture and create one or more digital asset from viewer-generated content, such as a physical reaction, captured during the to the video stream. The system may generate the digital assets for subsequent use on social media.
US11843814B2
Signals of an immersive multimedia item are jointly considered for optimizing the quality of experience for the immersive multimedia item. During encoding, portions of available bitrate are allocated to the signals (e.g., a video signal and an audio signal) according to the overall contribution of those signals to the immersive experience for the immersive multimedia item. For example, in the spatial dimension, multimedia signals are processed to determine spatial regions of the immersive multimedia item to render using greater bitrate allocations, such as based on locations of audio content of interest, video content of interest, or both. In another example, in the temporal dimension, multimedia signals are processed in time intervals to adjust allocations of bitrate between the signals based on the relative importance of such signals during those time intervals. Other techniques for bitrate optimizations for immersive multimedia streaming are also described herein.
US11843801B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving an intra prediction mode for a current block; deriving reference samples located around the current block; generating a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode and the reference samples; and generating residual samples for the current block on the basis of the prediction sample, wherein the step of generating the prediction sample for the current block may comprise the steps of: deriving an interpolation filter, which is to be applied to the reference sample, on the basis of the prediction mode of the current block or the size of the current block; and generating the prediction sample by applying the derived interpolation filter to the reference sample.
US11843795B2
An inter prediction method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: selecting candidate units from among reconstructed neighbor units; creating a candidate unit set with respect to units to be decoded, using the selected candidate units; determining a reference unit from among the candidate units which constitute the created candidate unit set; and performing inter prediction on the units to be decoded, using the determined reference unit. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.
US11843784B2
Techniques related to video coding include multiple channel video coding with cross-channel referencing.
US11843779B2
A video decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including information about merge data of a current block; checking mh intra flag information for mh intra prediction which is included in the information about the merge data; checking information about a merge triangle prediction on the basis of a checking result that a value of the mh intra flag information is related to checking the information about the merge triangle prediction included in the information about the merge data; deriving prediction samples for the current block on the basis of a result of checking the information about the merge triangle prediction; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the prediction samples.
US11843773B2
A video decoding method according to an embodiment of the present invention may include determining a type of a filter to be applied to a first-layer picture which a second-layer picture as a decoding target refers to; determining a filtering target of the first-layer picture to which the filter is applied; filtering the filtering target based on the type of the filter; and adding the filtered first-layer picture to a second-layer reference picture list. Accordingly, the video decoding method and an apparatus using the same may reduce a prediction error in an upper layer and enhance encoding efficiency.
US11843754B2
When an image is recorded using an ink of a basic color and an ink of a specific color, if an amount of ink applied to a recording medium exceeds an amount receivable by the recording medium, the ink overflows and image quality deteriorates. At this time, ink overflowing can be prevented by reducing an application amount of ink, but color balance may vary. By preferentially reducing an application amount of the ink of the specific color among inks of a plurality of colors that are to be applied to a recording medium, a change in the color balance is suppressed and the ink overflowing is prevented.
US11843751B2
Processing of an electronic file using blockchain is performed in an image forming apparatus to decrease the number of apparatuses to be managed and reduce the management load.
US11843741B2
A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.
US11843736B2
An image forming apparatus having a voice notification function of giving a voice notification to a user includes a first setting unit configured to set whether to enable the voice notification function of notifying the user of an operation result of the image forming apparatus in a case where the operation result is normal, and a second setting unit configured to set whether to enable the voice notification function relating to the operation result of the image forming apparatus in a case where the operation result is an error.
US11843719B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to apparatuses and methods for analyzing customer-interaction metrics from digital voice data in a data-communication system. An example method includes accessing digital voice data indicative of transcribed audio conversations between a plurality of agents and customers of a remotely-situated client entity, the digital voice data including keywords and speech characteristic parameters associated with outcomes of the transcribed audio conversations. The method further includes analyzing the digital voice data to identify customer-interaction metrics including values of specific keywords and speech characteristic parameters of the digital voice data associated with particular outcomes and provide identification of particular agents for particular remotely-situated client entities that have customer-interaction metrics outside a threshold value to client data-communications server associated the particular agents, and adjusting the customer-interaction metrics using digital voice data of additional audio conversations.
US11843707B2
As part of a factory provisioning of an Information Handling System (IHS), a signed replaceable hardware certificate is stored that identifies any replaceable hardware components coupled to the IHS during the factory provisioning. Upon a transfer of control or ownership of the IHS, replaceable hardware components that are coupled to the IHS are detected, and the replaceable hardware certificate is utilized to validate that the identified replaceable hardware components detected as coupled to the IHS are the same replaceable hardware components coupled to the IHS during the factory provisioning. A security processor of the IHS may support boot code operations for generating additional replaceable hardware certificates that can be used to validate the integrity of any changes the replaceable hardware of the IHS, such as upon its next power cycle.
US11843706B1
Techniques are disclosed to automate TLS certificate rotation. For example, a certificate rotation event may be detected from a certificate management tool. The certificate rotation event may be associated with a first certificate and may indicate that the first certificate is to be updated with a second certificate. An application server that is running on a host and to which the first certificate is bound may be identified. A certificate identifier for the second certificate may be provided to one or more agents running on the host. A distribution service may obtain certificate information, e.g., a public key, a private key, or a certificate identifier for the second certificate, from the certificate rotation tool. Some or all of the certificate information for the second certificate may be obtained by the one or more agents running on the host. The one or more agents may instruct the application server to bind the second certificate. Binding may be accomplished by the application server establishing new connections using the second certificate.
US11843700B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between a contactless card, a client device, and one or more servers are provided. The contactless card may include one or more processors and memory, which may include one or more applets. The client device may include one or more processors and memory. The client device may be in data communication with the contactless card. One or more servers may be in data communication with the client device. A first set of information may be transmitted from the contactless card to the client device. The first set of information may include one or more links to activate the contactless card via a designated email program. Upon validation of the first set of information by the one or more servers, the contactless card may be activated.
US11843695B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a computer node in a network including a plurality of computer nodes, a plurality of data values from the plurality of computer nodes. Each computer node can create a data value based on a time that the computer node in the plurality of computer nodes takes to perform a function. The computer node can then provide the data values or derivatives thereof as random values to an entropy pool of random values. The computer node can then select a random value from the entropy pool and initiate use of the random value in an operation.
US11843687B2
Remote terminals are configured to generate ciphertexts from plaintext polynomials. Each ciphertext corresponds to a plaintext polynomial bound to a message space of a polynomial-based fully homomorphic cryptographic scheme. At least one server is configured to receive ciphertexts via a network from the plurality of remote terminals. The server performs a multiplication operation and an addition operation on the ciphertexts to obtain resultant ciphertexts. The multiplication operation includes performing a bitwise decomposition function on a ciphertext to obtain a bitwise decomposed ciphertext. The bitwise decomposition function maps a multi-bit data type to a sequence of bits. The multiplication operation further includes performing matrix multiplication on the bitwise decomposed ciphertext and a data element belonging to a set of data elements. Message filters, data search engines, and other applications are discussed.
US11843680B2
Methods and systems for cache optimization are described. Content items served to client devices of a content distribution network may be associated with a cache value. The cache value for a content item may cause a cache device to cache the content item for a period of time. The cache value for the content item may be updated based on increasing or decreasing popularity. The content item may be encoded at a plurality of bitrates, and cache values may vary across the plurality of bitrates such that multiple copies of the content item may each be cached for varying periods of time depending on a corresponding bitrate.
US11843678B2
An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a conversion proxy that is connected to devices corresponding to a plurality of types of unique standards, and further connected to a common platform server that performs data exchange with applications. The conversion proxy includes an acquisition unit that acquires ontology data described with a data structure corresponding to the unique standards, a device management unit that acquires and manages device information that is unique to devices corresponding to the unique standards, and a common exchange unit that creates a resource in which a data structure common to the plurality of types of unique standards and a data exchange interface corresponding to the unique standards are correlated, on the basis of the ontology data and the device information, and performs data exchange with the common platform server using the resource.
US11843675B2
A method for synchronizing an identity of a user between a network observer and a third party includes: reading, by the network observer, a connection request sent from the user to the third party, the connection request including a host field having a host part corresponding to the third party and a sub-host part corresponding to identification information of the user; and associating, by the network observer in a database, the identification information of the user derived from the sub-host part with the identity of the user and an identity of the third party.
US11843673B2
A method may include establishing, by a first service provider and via an application programming interface (API), an agreement with a second entity. The agreement may identify services that can be modified without submission of a new order. The method may also include receiving a first message requesting a change associated with a service and determining, by the first service provider, whether the requested change corresponds to a change that is permitted based on the agreement and whether resources are available in the first network to implement the requested change. The method may further include determining whether the requested change is accepted, sending a second message to the second entity that indicates whether the change is accepted and in response to determining that the change is accepted, automatically implementing the change to the service in the first network.
US11843668B2
Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method of coordinating among artificial reality links. In one approach, a system comprising a first console for executing an application for artificial reality may include a wireless communication interface and a processor. The processor may be configured to send, via the wireless communication interface, a first message comprising a first plurality of parameters and a first schedule for access to a shared wireless channel by the first console, receive, from a second console via the wireless communication interface, a second message comprising a second plurality of parameters and a second schedule for access to the shared wireless channel by the second console, update, responsive to the second message, the first plurality of parameters and the first schedule, and/or send, via the wireless communication interface, a third message comprising the updated first plurality of parameters and the updated first schedule.
US11843657B2
A distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple load balancer (LB) nodes according to a per-flow hashed multipath routing technique. For a given packet flow, the LB nodes randomly select a server node as a target for the packet flow from among multiple server nodes and send a connection request to the server node. A load balancer module on the server node makes the decision on whether to accept or reject the connection based on one or more metrics indicating a respective server's current load. If the module accepts the connection request, a connection is established between the server and the client. Otherwise, the load balancer nodes may select another server node and try again. The connections established between clients and servers pass through the load balancer nodes, but are not terminated at the load balancer nodes.
US11843647B2
Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to pairing a computer device, via a client application running on the computer device, with a meeting room application of a communication platform. The meeting room application is associated with an identified physical meeting space that has a designated meeting controller device. The meeting controller device has one or more virtual meeting controls that generate control input. The client application running on the paired computer device receives a selection to launch a meeting controller application at the paired computer device. The launched controller application running at the paired computer device send control input for an instance of a virtual meeting presented by the meeting room application for the identified physical meeting space.
US11843646B2
Systems and methods initialize distributed client device membership for new client devices joining a group-based communication channel established for content exchange among a plurality of distributed client device members. The systems and methods comprise aspects for executing a content analysis over the content of the one or more group-based communication channels to identify characterizing terms associated with each group-based communication channel. After the content analysis is performed, systems receive search parameters from a potential new member client device for a group-based communication server. Various systems and methods provide selected search results generated based at least in part on a determination that characterizing terms match one or more of the search parameters to the client device. Those selected results comprise a target that is executable by the client device to join the associated group-based communication channel.
US11843645B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
US11843635B2
A satellite communication system which supports encrypted DNS at the customer premise equipment terminal to provide the benefits of local DNS caching. Some implementations use Certificate Authority (CA)-signed Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates. Implementations may provide encrypted DNS service at the CPE, where the system installs CA-signed TLS certificate at the customer premise equipment (CPE) terminal. The same certificate can be used at multiple terminals using a wild-card certificate distributed by the satellite to provide value added services at a CPE as secure web services to off-the-shelf web clients and applications.
US11843634B2
Methods are described for protecting a cyber-physical system against a potential attacker of the system. The methods include a method of generating a plurality of examples for a training data set and training a system model using the training data set to generate a decoy configured to generate a synthetic output that mimics historical outputs generated by the system for a given historical system context. Also described is a method including receiving a system context of a cyber-physical system; receiving an inquiry into the system by a potential attacker; applying a system model to the system context and the inquiry; obtaining from the system model a synthetic output that mimics how a component of the system would respond to the inquiry given the system context; and providing the synthetic output to the potential attacker.
US11843632B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic.
US11843631B2
An endpoint in an enterprise network is monitored, and when a potential trigger for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is followed by an increase in network traffic from the endpoint to a high reputation network address, the endpoint is treated as a DDoS service bot and isolated from the network until remediation can be performed.
US11843622B1
Techniques are described for providing users of a data intake and query system with pre-trained ML models capable of identifying malicious threats (e.g., malware, botnets, ransomware, etc.) in users' computing environments based on an analysis of Domain Name System (DNS) log data collected from DNS servers in users' environments. DNS log data is ingested by a data intake and query system and processed to obtain searchable timestamped event data. This event data can then be used as input to ML models provided by a security ML application described herein to detect potential occurrences of malicious activity within users' computing environments.
US11843619B1
A method including determining, by the infrastructure device, a breach database including breach information indicating breached data that is compromised due to a data breach; calculating, by the infrastructure device, a hash of the breached data; calculating, by the user device, a hash of private data; transmitting, by the user device, the hash of the private data to the infrastructure device; comparing, by the infrastructure device, the hash of the private data with the hash of the breached data; and transmitting, by the infrastructure device to the user device based at least in part on a result of the comparison, a notification indicating whether the private data is breached due to the data breach is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11843617B2
Aspects discussed herein relate to the storage of data in graph databases and detecting fraudulent behavior in the stored data. Fraud detection systems may use graph databases to store data, allowing for querying the graph database to obtain data using a variety of graph semantics such as nodes, edges, and properties. Graph databases in accordance with embodiments of the invention may include account nodes and attribute nodes, where nodes of the same type are not directly linked to each other. When a particular node is updated, an updated node may be created with a higher version number than the existing node. Each node may include an indication of the node being associated with fraudulent activity. Fraud indicators may be calculated based on the relationships between the nodes and fraud indicators for the nodes.
US11843605B2
The present disclosure relates to traffic monitoring through one or more access control servers configured for (i) routing server resource request messages to resource server(s), (ii) extracting information identifying a target server resource from data packets corresponding to one or more received server resource request messages, and (iii) selectively transmitting the received server resource request message to a resource server. The security server(s) is configured to receive a server resource request message data extracted from a server resource request message and initiate a first security response, wherein the initiated first security response is dependent on analysis of the server resource request message data. Responsive to identifying an indicator of compromise or that an originating terminal corresponding to the server resource request is identified within a blacklist, the first security response comprises non-transmission of at least one server resource request message by the access control server to a resource server.
US11843603B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a processor included in an authorization server to execute a process, the process includes storing an association relationship between a plurality of users who are owners of data, and a consent portal with which each of the plurality of users performs user registration, when consent of a user to access to data of a first condition is asked for by a client, detecting a target user who is an owner of data that matches the first condition, extracting a consent portal with which the target user performs user registration, from the association relationship, and obtaining an intention of consent or non-consent to access to the data, from the target user by using the extracted consent portal, and controlling an access by the client to data in the resource server, in accordance with the obtained intention.
US11843602B2
A computing device may request service from a service provider, and authorization to receive the service may be based, at least in part, on a network access device that is providing the computing device with network access. The service provider may request a value from the computing device, and the value may be based on address information of the computing device and the network access device.
US11843601B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for securely establishing credential data for a computing device are disclosed. According to one example, a method includes assigning, by a credential manager, credential set data to a computing device and mapping the credential set data to a device identifier key associated with the computing device in a credential data store accessible by the credential manager. The method further includes receiving, from a provisioning service client, a credential set request message including the device identifier key by the credential manager in response to an activation of the computing device at a customer location site and sending, by the credential manager to the provisioning service client, the credential set data for authenticating the computing device at the customer location site.
US11843593B2
A method of providing access to digital resources using multiple user identities comprises receiving, from a client application, a first set of authentication tokens that authorize a user to acquire target data provided by a server application. The method further comprises receiving, from the client application, a second set of authentication tokens that authorize the same user to access a connected application. The method further comprises sending, to the server application, a first request to acquire the target data provided by the server application, the first request including the first set of authentication tokens and an identifier of the target data. The method further comprises receiving, from the server application, the target data. The method further comprises sending the target data from the application connector to the connected application in a second request that also includes the second set of authentication tokens.
US11843587B2
A system and method for securely computing an inference of two types of tree-based models, namely XGBoost and Random Forest, using secure multi-party computation protocol. The method includes computing a respective comparison result of each respective node of a plurality of nodes in a tree classifier. Each node has a respective threshold value. The respective comparison result is based on respective data associated with a data owner device being applied to a respective node having the respective threshold value. The method includes computing, based on the respective comparison result, a leaf value associated with the tree classifier, generating a share of the leaf value and transmitting, to the data owner device, a share of the leaf value. The data owner device computes, using a secure multi-party computation and between the model owner device and the data owner device, the leaf value for the respective data of the data owner.
US11843586B2
Disclosed is a method that includes training, at a client, a part of a deep learning network up to a split layer of the client. Based on an output of the split layer, the method includes completing, at a server, training of the deep learning network by forward propagating the output received at a split layer of the server to a last layer of the server. The server calculates a weighted loss function for the client at the last layer and stores the calculated loss function. After each respective client of a plurality of clients has a respective loss function stored, the server averages the plurality of respective weighted client loss functions and back propagates gradients based on the average loss value from the last layer of the server to the split layer of the server and transmits just the server split layer gradients to the respective clients.
US11843584B2
Computer implemented systems and methods are provided for securing data. In some embodiments, a system for securing data may comprise one or more processors configured to receive a request for data over a network. The one or more processors may be configured to identify one or more confidential portions of data within the requested data. The one or more processors may be further configured to transmit the confidential portions of data to a hardware device configured to secure the confidential portions of data, and receive the secured data from the hardware device.
US11843583B2
An intelligent electronic device (IED) of an electric distribution system includes processing circuitry and a memory having instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, are configured to cause the processing circuitry to perform operations that include receiving an indication to establish a media access control security (MACsec) communication link in accordance with a confidential mode configured to block access to communication traffic associated with the MACsec communication link, indicating that the MACsec communication link is to be established in accordance with the confidential mode, receiving establishment of the MACsec communication link in accordance with the confidential mode, and communicating data via the MACsec communication link.
US11843581B2
A method in a first virtual private network (VPN) server associated with clustering a plurality of VPN servers in a clustered network, the method including receiving, from a VPN service provider (VSP) control infrastructure, VPN data associated with a user device having an established VPN connection with the clustered network; and communicating, utilizing key information, the VPN data with the user device during the established VPN connection. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11843580B2
A method for automatically managing a platform firewall using a network function (NF) repository function (NRF) or service communication proxy (SCP) includes receiving message relating to registering, updating, or deregistering an NF profile in an NF profiles database separate from a platform firewall. The method further includes determining that the registering, updating, or deregistering of the NF profile requires a change to a firewall rules configuration of the platform firewall. The method further includes, in response to determining that the registering, updating, or deregistering of the NF profile requires a change to the firewall rules configuration of the platform firewall, automatically updating, by the NRF or SCP, the firewall rules configuration of the platform firewall.
US11843577B2
Systems and methods include obtaining a plurality of parameters associated with a host; determining a fingerprint of the host utilizing the plurality of parameters; and providing the fingerprint to cloud service for enrollment and management of the host in the cloud service. The cloud service can include microsegmentation of the host. The cloud service can include any of Internet access for the host and private resource access by the host.
US11843574B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a first plurality of media content items during a first time interval, identifying, from the first plurality of media content items, a first subset of media content items based on a first characteristic, and identifying, from the first subset of media content items, a second subset of media content items based on a second characteristic. The systems and methods are also provided for generating a first sequenced content collection including the first subset and the second subset and causing a first content collection interface to be displayed by the first computing device, the first content collection interface comprising the first sequenced content collection.
US11843563B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for activating a bandwidth part. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a control element from a base unit associated with an active serving cell. The first apparatus includes a processor that determines an ‘activation/deactivation’ status of a set of BWPs configured in the active serving cell using the control element. The processor selectively activates a first BWP from the set of BWPs in the active serving cell based on the determined activation/deactivation status.
US11843557B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device and communication method. An electronic device used in a first terminal device side is configured for acquiring configuration information of reference signals of a second cell from a first control device of a first cell, measuring the reference signals based on the configuration information and feeding back information indicating the space beams in the second cell interfering with the first terminal device to the first control device.
US11843554B2
A user equipment (UE) is disclosed including a receiver that receives at least a reference signal (RS) transmitted using a first beam from a transmission and reception point (TRP), using at least a second beam, and a processor that determines the first beam paired with the second beam based on reception quality of the RSs. The UE further includes a transmitter that transmits feedback information indicating the determined first beam. The second beam is an omni-directional beam. The receiver receives, from the TRP, reception (Rx) beam designation information indicating an Rx beam to receive the RSs, and the second beam is the Rx beam.
US11843549B1
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated resource prioritization using artificial intelligence techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining information pertaining to one or more user transactions, each user transaction involving one or more resources; obtaining information associated with the one or more resources, including resource demand-related information, resource supply-related information, and resource build-related information; prioritizing, in connection with one or more resource-related actions, the one or more user transactions and/or the one or more resources by processing, using one or more artificial intelligence techniques, at least a portion of the information pertaining to the one or more user transactions and at least a portion of the information associated with the one or more resources; and performing at least one automated action based at least in part on the prioritizing of the one or more user transactions and/or the one or more resources.
US11843548B1
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for resource scaling of microservice containers are provided herein. An example method includes determining a scaling value for at least one microservice of a plurality of microservices for a cluster of a container-based computing environment based on resource utilization information associated with incoming requests to the plurality of microservices and an amount of resources allocated to the cluster; in response to the at least one microservice exceeding the scaling value, reducing a number of resources utilized by the at least one microservice by storing one or more further incoming requests associated with the at least one microservice in a queue; and releasing one or more of the further incoming requests stored in the queue in response to determining that the one or more further incoming requests can be processed without the at least one microservice exceeding the scaling value.
US11843546B1
Methods and systems are described herein for determining resource usage metrics of cloud computing systems. The system may generate access tokens for an account associated with a certain resource class of resources. The system may receive requests comprising a corresponding access token request and a corresponding resource class identifier. The system may determine the corresponding resource class for each request. The system may generate aggregated resource data based on a corresponding quantity of each resource within the resource class and may determine, based on the aggregated resource data, a resource usage metric indicating a total amount of resources used by the cloud computing system.
US11843543B2
A method for alleviating flow congestion at forwarding elements is provided. The method receives traffic related data from a plurality of forwarding elements of a network, and based on the traffic related data, determines congestion at a first forwarding element of the plurality of forwarding elements caused by at least one flow passing through the first forwarding element at a first rate. The method calculates, based on a burst size of the at least one flow, a second rate for the at least one flow such that when the at least one flow passes through the first forwarding element at the second rate the congestion at the first forwarding element is alleviated. The method rate limits the at least one flow by passing the at least one flow through a flow rate manager at the calculated second rate before transmitting the at least one flow to the first forwarding element.
US11843541B2
Techniques for identifying network congestion and adapting network performance to relieve the network congestion are described. As described, a network element such as a switch reports network congestion indicators such as link level control frames to a network controller. The network controller uses the network congestion indicators reported from the network elements to identify congestion points, data traffic, and data flows experiencing congestion at a network level. The network controller then determines optimized control parameters for the network in order to reduce or alleviate the congestion at the congestion points.
US11843540B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed herein that enable an infrastructure service to route messages to various servers, even if the servers are not addressed by individual public network addresses. The infrastructure service distributed messages by processing a portion of the message through a hash function. By utilizing a reverse hash process, a server can determine a custom port number that will cause the hash algorithm to route a reply message directly to the selected server even when addressed to a communal address.
US11843532B2
Systems and methods are described herein for managing peering relationships and applying peering policy between service providers and content distribution networks. Aspects discussed herein relate to establishing secure peering connections between service providers to exchange application and/or network information. In some embodiments, an application peering manager may apply peering policy based on token information or other suitable information configured to uniquely identify an application and/or subscriber. In other embodiments, policy enforcement points or other elements residing within a network may be configured to accept and/or apply peering policy to application sessions.
US11843528B2
One or more lower-tier system monitoring components are installed and operated prior to installing a higher-tier system monitoring component. A lower-tier system may be an individual server, network device, or local area network. A higher-tier system may include an enterprise or organization wide network or service that includes at least a part of the lower-tier system. Once the higher-tier system monitoring component is installed, the higher-tier and lower-tier system monitoring components use an interface to operate with one another to form a single larger instance of an organization wide monitoring system. The combination of the higher-tier system monitoring component and the one or more lower-tier system operating components performs monitoring aspects of the overall information technology environment based at least in part on machine data produced and made searchable to provide monitoring results.
US11843518B2
This application discloses a network service processing method, a network service processing system, and a gateway device, to alleviate a problem that the gateway device cannot meet increasing additional function requirements. The gateway device identifies a type of a first intranet device, where the first intranet device belongs to an intranet connected to the gateway device. The gateway device obtains a first software package based on the type of the first intranet device, where the first software package is used to implement a first additional function. The gateway device sends a first indication message and the first software package to the first intranet device, where the first indication message is used to indicate the first intranet device to install the first software package and execute the first additional function.
US11843515B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for peer risk benchmarking. Customer data for a first network is obtained, wherein the customer data comprises a role of one or more network devices in the first network and a plurality of risk reports corresponding to the one or more network devices, and wherein each risk report is associated with a particular dimension of a plurality of dimensions of risk for the one or more network devices. A network profile image is generated by processing the plurality of risk reports. A generative adversarial network generates a synthetic network profile image from the network profile image, wherein the synthetic network profile image does not include the customer data. A second network is evaluated using the synthetic network profile image to identify differences between the first network and the second network.
US11843500B2
A system for secure transmission of business event notifications includes a memory, at least one processor, a service gateway configured to: publish application programming interfaces (APIs) for secure transmission of business event notifications, a notification server configured to: publish APIs for secure transmission of business event notifications corresponding to the APIs published by the service gateway, obtain a new business event to report, determine a partner to receive a notification of the new business event, transmit an event notification to the partner by way of the service gateway APIs, and register the event notification in a database.
US11843498B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for receiving a downlink signal by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method may include receiving a synchronization signal block (SSB) including a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH), and obtaining an indicator indicating a subcarrier spacing for the downlink channel from the PBCH, and receiving the downlink signal on the basis of the subcarrier spacing. The indicator may indicate a different subcarrier spacing according to a frequency band in which the UE operates.
US11843488B2
A signal processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires identification information associated with data obtained by decoding a reception signal that includes a signal included in a first layer and a signal included in a different layer and superimposed on the signal of the first layer in a power axis direction, the data being output to a post-stage processing unit, a decoding unit that decodes the signal of the different layer on the basis of a result of decoding of the signal of the first layer after the decoding of the signal of the first layer, and an output control unit that outputs data obtained by decoding the signal of the different layer to the post-stage processing unit without outputting data obtained by decoding the signal of the first layer to the post-stage processing unit, in a case where data identified by the identification information is data obtained by decoding the signal of the different layer.
US11843487B2
A receiver, which is compatible with a mobile industry processor interface (MIPI) C-PHY physical layer, includes a plurality of variable-gain amplifiers responsive to respective multi-level signals (e.g., 3-level signals), and a plurality of filters having variable cutoff frequencies. The plurality of filters are responsive to respective signals generated by the plurality of amplifiers. An array of comparators is provided, which is responsive to signals generated by the plurality of filters. A jitter detection circuit is provided, which is configured to set respective gains of the plurality of variable-gain amplifiers and respective cutoff frequencies of the plurality of filters (e.g., high-pass filters), in response to signals generated by the array of comparators.
US11843477B2
In an anomaly determination method for determining an anomaly in a received message, a plurality of messages which include messages that are periodic and each of which includes a first field having a fixed value and a second field having a variable value are each received as the received message, and one of a plurality of combinations to be used for determination each of which includes at least one of a plurality of anomaly determinations including an anomaly determination utilizing a reception timing based on the periodicity or the number of received messages, an anomaly determination utilizing the first field, and an anomaly determination utilizing the second field, is selected according to one or more criteria among available execution time of the anomaly determination method, a load amount, a data amount, and the number of messages.
US11843470B2
A system and method for chat-based studies utilizing a plurality of users may be provided, utilizing at least one chat room processor and a plurality of remote processors. The chat room processors may be configured to receive a chat room template, create a plurality of chat rooms based on the chat room template, assign participants to one chat rooms, provide instructions associated with the chat room when all participants are present, provide questions or prompts at times defined by the chat room template or when conditions defined by the chat room template are met, collect all messages received from each participant, and storing information that includes the message, a time stamp the message was sent and/or received, and at least one unique identification code associated with the participant sending the message. The remote processors are each configured to connect a participant to the system, receive and display instructions, receive and display questions or prompts, receive and display messages from other participants in the same chat room, receive input responsive to the first question or prompt after a message from another participant has been displayed, and send the input as a message to the chat room.
US11843467B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for slot aggregation configuration with user equipment (UE) assistance information. A method that may be performed by a UE may include transmitting, to a base station (BS), assistance information indicating a preferred repetition factor. The method generally includes receiving an indication from the BS of a repetition factor. The BS can determine the repetition factor for the UE based, at least in part, on the assistance information and indicate the determined repetition factor to the UE.
US11843464B2
A multi-band transmission method implemented by a receive end, where the method includes: receiving data packets in parallel from a transmit end using M frequency bands, where the data packets belong to a same traffic stream; receiving a BAR from the transmit end, where the BAR carries an SSN and requests a receiving state of a data packet from the transmit end on the mth frequency band; marking an mth state for an unreceived data packet whose SN is before the SSN; marking one or more unreceived data packets with a discarded state when determining the one or more unreceived data packets are marked with a first state, a second state, . . . , and an Mth state; determining whether there are data packets with consecutive SNs; and if yes, submitting a data packet that is in the received state and in the data packets with the consecutive SNs.
US11843459B2
The present disclosure provides an encoding and decoding device implementing an improved forward error correction (FEC) coding/decoding method. In particular, the encoding device is configured to encode a stream of data symbols using a spatially coupled code (e.g. staircase codes, braided block codes or continuously interleaved block codes), wherein at least one generalized error location (GEL) code is used as a component code of the spatially coupled code. Accordingly, the decoding device is configured to decode a sequence of encoded symbol blocks using a spatially coupled code, wherein at least one GEL code is used as a component code of the spatially coupled code. Thereby, a suitable spatially coupled FEC code that allows for very low-latency, high-throughput, high-rate applications with a low-complexity decoding procedure, and allows for mitigation of the error-floor, is designed.
US11843458B2
A control device for use in a broadcast system includes a broadcast controller that controls a broadcast transmitter of the broadcast system that broadcasts broadcast signals in a coverage area for reception by terminals including a broadcast receiver and a broadband receiver, and a broadband controller that controls a broadband server of a broadband system that provides redundancy data to terminals within the coverage area. The broadband controller is configured to control the provision of redundancy data by the broadband server for use by one or more terminals which use the redundancy data together with broadcast signals received via said broadcast system for recovering content received within the broadcast signals and/or provided via the broadband system.
US11843455B2
Systems and methods for monitoring network traffic. A server may receive data packets originated from a first remote computer system, the data packets having a destination of a second remote computer system. The server may determine a user of the first computer system and, based thereon, identify network traffic monitoring tools configured to connect to the server through respective distinct network addresses. The server may determine a routing path for the packets including a sequence of network addresses including the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools and a second network address corresponding to the second computer system. The second network address may be ordered after the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools in the sequence. The server may send, according to the routing path, the packets to the identified network traffic monitoring tools and the second computer system.
US11843454B2
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a DMRS port determining method and a communications apparatus, to resolve a problem that collisions occur on DMRS ports used by a large quantity of terminal devices to send uplink data and a random access effect is affected during 2-step random access. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, configuration information sent by a network device, where the configuration information includes DMRS configuration information and indication information of a DMRS port set, the DMRS configuration information is used to configure a plurality of DMRS ports, and the indication information of the DMRS port set is used to indicate one or more available DMRS ports in the plurality of DMRS ports; and determining, by the terminal device, a target DMRS port in the DMRS port set.
US11843446B2
A method of controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to access a network, applicable to a UAV control terminal, and comprising: acquiring, through a first communication circuit, information to be transmitted between the UAV and a mobile communication network; forwarding, to a second communication circuit, the information to be transmitted; and transmitting, through the second communication circuit, the information to be transmitted to an information receiving end comprising the UAV or a target base station of the mobile communication network; wherein the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit are of different types comprising a cellular communication circuit and a wireless local area network (WLAN) communication circuit. A UAV control terminal and a base station are further provided.
US11843440B2
Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB). The apparatus comprises a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry associates a first Beam Reference Signal (BRS) for a first Transmit (Tx) beam having a first beamwidth with one or more second BRSes for one or more respectively corresponding second Tx beams having a second beamwidth. The second circuitry generates a first BRS transmission carrying the first BRS, and generates one or more second BRS transmissions carrying the one or more respectively corresponding second BRSes. The third circuitry provides information regarding the first BRS and the second BRSes to the second circuitry.
US11843436B2
A method can include transmitting, by a user equipment to a base station, coherence information indicating, based on precoding to be performed in association with transmission, whether multiple transmission signals to be transmitted via multiple transmission ports will be coherent with each other, receiving, from the base station, a transmission indication message, the transmission indication message assigning uplink transmission resources and coherence information to the multiple transmission ports, and transmitting, to the base station via the assigned uplink transmission resources, the multiple transmission signals via the multiple transmission ports.
US11843432B2
A method in which a UE transmits an uplink signal, based on a codebook, in a wireless communication system includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) for determining a precoding matrix, which is applied to transmission of the uplink signal, from a base station; determining a precoding matrix that is applied to transmission of the uplink signal from a codebook subset related to transmission of the uplink signal, based on the DCI; and transmitting the uplink signal to the base station, based on the determined precoding matrix, in which, based on that differences of phase values applied to antenna ports for transmitting the uplink signal are changed in all pairs of antenna ports, the codebook subset includes at least one specific precoding matrix for full power transmission.
US11843425B2
Systems and methods for controlling a signal amplifier unit configured with an electronic communication device are disclosed. The signal bar level on the electronic communication device is determined, and the signal amplifier unit is turned on based on the determined signal bar level. The signal level of the signal amplifier unit may be measured, and attenuation may be added based on the measured signal level. The measured signal level may be compared to a target level.
US11843417B2
A programmable two-dimensional simultaneous multi-beam optically operated phased array receiver chip is manufactured based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and indium phosphide (InP) semiconductor manufacturing processes, including the SiN process. The InP-based semiconductor is used for preparing a laser array chip and a semiconductor optical amplifier array chip, the SiN is used for preparing an optical power divider, and the SOI semiconductor is used for preparing a silicon optical modulator, a germanium-silicon detector, an optical wavelength multiplexer, a true delay line, and other passive optical devices. The whole integration of the receiver chip is realized through heterogeneous integration of the InP-based chip and the SOI-based chip. Simultaneous multi-beam scanning can be realized through peripheral circuit programming control. The chip not only can realize two-dimensional multi-beam scanning, but also has strong expansibility, such that the chip can be used for ultra-wideband high-capacity wireless communication and simultaneous multi-target radar recognition systems.
US11843415B2
A submarine optical communication system includes a first submarine device and a second submarine device. The first submarine device includes a first monitoring circuit for monitoring an operation state of the first submarine device and a first optical signal adjusting circuit for adjusting an intensity of an optical signal in a first wavelength band based on a first monitoring result obtained by the first monitoring circuit and outputting the adjusted optical signal as an optical signal including the first monitoring result. The second submarine device includes a second monitoring circuit for monitoring an operation state of the second submarine device and a second optical signal adjusting circuit for adjusting an intensity of an optical signal in a second wavelength band based on a second monitoring result obtained by the first monitoring circuit and outputting the adjusted optical signal as an optical signal including the second monitoring result.
US11843410B2
Signal processing to compensate for gain control output spikes caused by steps in a digital step attenuator. A method includes receiving a changing power input signal at a receiver. The method includes determining that a change in power of the input signal will cause a step attenuator to change its attenuation in a step of a predetermined amount. The method further includes based on determining that the change in power of the input signal will cause a digital step attenuator to change its attenuation in a step of a predetermined amount, causing a variable attenuator to change its attenuation by an amount related to the predetermined amount at a time coinciding with a time when the step attenuator changes its attenuation by the predetermined amount. The method further includes outputting a gain-controlled output signal resulting from applying the step attenuator and the variable attenuator to the changing power input signal.
US11843408B2
Using information contained in clipped samples from analog-to-digital (ADC) conversion to improve receiver performance, by, for example, reducing the clipping distortion caused by ADCs due to its data resolution constraints. This provides an advantage over existing solutions, which perform suboptimally because the existing solution discard information in tire clipped samples.
US11843407B2
Systems, methods, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for removing any fixed frequency interfering signal from an input signal without introducing artifacts that are not part of the original signal of interest. An embodiment operates by using a virtual buffer with a length that matches a length of one cycle of an interfering signal. The embodiment extracts the interfering signal into the virtual buffer. For a sample in the next cycle of the interfering signal that corresponds to a virtual memory location for the virtual buffer, the embodiment can update one or more physical memory locations of the virtual buffer that are in the vicinity of the virtual memory location. This use of virtual buffer can remove any interfering signal without creating the artifacts associated with conventional notch filters.
US11843386B1
An integrated circuit can include latched comparator circuitry. The latched comparator circuitry may include first and second input transistors configured to receive an input signal, first and second cross-coupled inverting circuits, reset transistors, and a current pulse generator. The first and second inverting circuits may each include a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor. The first input transistor may be coupled between the pull-up and pull-down transistors in the first inverting circuit. The second input transistor may be coupled between the pull-up and pull-down transistors in the second inverting circuit. The reset transistors may be coupled in parallel with the pull-up transistors and may receive a clock signal. The current pulse generator may receive the clock signal and generate current pulse signals in response to detecting edges in the clock signal. Latched comparator circuitry configured and operated in this way can provide reduced clock kickback noise.
US11843380B2
The present disclosure relates to contactor, and device and method for controlling same. A control device for a contactor comprises a high side control unit, a first low side control unit, a second low side control unit, a freewheeling unit, and a controller. The high side control unit is configured to switch on or switch off the connection of the first magnetic unit and the second magnetic unit of the contactor with a power supply. The first low side control unit is configured to switch on or switch off the connection of the first magnetic unit with the reference voltage node. The second low side control unit is configured to switch on or switch off the connection of the second magnetic unit with the reference voltage node. The freewheeling unit is connected across a branch comprising a first magnetic unit and a first low side control unit and connected across a branch comprising a second magnetic unit and a second low side control unit. The controller is configured to control the operation of the high side control unit, the first low side control unit, and the second low side control unit. Embodiments of the present disclosure may enable intelligent control of contactors with simple control logic.
US11843379B2
The present invention provides a fractional frequency divider, wherein the fractional frequency divider includes a plurality of registers, a counter, a control signal generator and a clock gating circuit. Regarding the plurality of registers, at least a portion of the registers are set to have values The counter is configured to sequentially generate a plurality of counter values, wherein the plurality of counter values correspond to the at least a portion of the registers, respectively, and the plurality of counter values are generated repeatedly The control signal generator is configured to generate a control signal based on the received counter value and the value of the corresponding register. The clock gating circuit is configured to refer to the control signal to mask or not mask an input clock signal to generate an output clock signal.
US11843368B2
A method is provided for driving a half bridge circuit that includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The method includes generating an off-current during a plurality of turn-off switching events to control a gate voltage of the second transistor; measuring a transistor parameter of the second transistor during a first turn-off switching event during which the second transistor is transitioned to an off state, wherein the transistor parameter is indicative of an oscillation at the first transistor during a corresponding turn-on switching event during which the first transistor is transitioned to an on state; and activating a portion of the off-current for the second turn-off switching event, including regulating an interval length of the second portion for the second turn-off switching event based on the measured transistor parameter measured during the first turn-off switching event.
US11843363B2
An elastic wave filter device includes a ladder filter that includes series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators. In one series arm resonator in which the acoustic velocity in a first and second edge area is lower than in a central area, each first electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in the second edge area, and each second electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in the first edge area. In at least one of remaining series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonators, each first and second electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in both of the first and second edge areas.
US11843358B2
Provided are a gain compensation device and a bias circuit device. A compensation bias current is generated by the gain compensation device to compensate the gain deviation of power amplifier and improve stability of power amplifier. Through high-temperature compensation unit and low-temperature compensation unit in different gears, gain of power amplifier is compensated along with temperature changes, thereby improving feasibility of the gain compensation device. It takes small space, and the circuit only includes the circuits corresponding to high-temperature compensation unit and low-temperature compensation unit, so the circuit is relatively simple and beneficial to miniaturization. In the bias circuit device, based on an initial bias current provided by a bandgap reference, the gain compensation device is added to generate a compensation bias current, and the initial bias current and compensation bias current are superimposed, so that the gain of power amplifier is further compensated, which improves stability of power amplifier.
US11843333B2
A stator of a rotating electrical machine has a slot-less structure. The rotating electrical machine includes a controller. The controller determines a value of a q-axis command current in accordance with requirement information and an input command value for a controlled variable of the rotating electrical machine. The requirement information includes a relationship between values of the q-axis command current and corresponding command values for the controlled variable. The controller performs a task of correcting the value of the q-axis command current to thereby restrict temperature change in a magnet unit from having an influence on the relationship between the command values for the controlled variable and the corresponding values of the q-axis command current. The controller controls an inverter to thereby adjust a value of the q-axis current flowing through an armature winding member to the corrected value of the q-axis command current.
US11843330B2
A method for operating an electromechanical element, comprising the following steps: by controlling a first control section which is deformable by an electrical voltage by a first voltage signal generation of adjusting movements of a friction element which is arranged on the electromechanical element and which is provided for frictional contact with an element to be driven, controlling of a second control section which is deformable by an electrical voltage by a second voltage signal, which comprises a signal section, the frequency of which compared to the first voltage signal is by a factor, an actuator, a drive device with an actuator and a motor with a drive device and an element to be driven.
US11843324B2
A resonant inverter for a resonant converter, comprising a switch network and a resonant tank circuit. The switch network is controlled by a control circuit, which is responsive to a sampled electrical feedback parameter provided by the resonant tank circuit. The value of the sampled electrical feedback parameter or the time of sampling the electrical feedback parameter is modified in response to a measured time delay between the control circuit indicating a desire to change a switching state of the switch network, and the output of the switch network responding to this desire.
US11843322B2
The invention provides a power converter apparatus for converting an alternating current (AC) power input to a direct current (DC) power output. The apparatus comprises a plurality of n single-phase power converting circuits arranged in parallel, where n is equal to or greater than 2, wherein one of said n single-phase power converting circuits comprises a single-stage AC/DC converter module having an operating AC/DC converter; and each of a remaining n−1 of said single-phase power converting circuits comprises a two-stage converter module having an AC/DC converter as an input stage and a DC/DC transformer as an output stage.
US11843319B2
An LLC resonant converting apparatus determines to operate as a half-bridge LLC resonant converter or a full-bridge LLC resonant converter based on the magnitude of the input voltage. The present disclosure can solve the problem that the input voltage range of the LLC resonant converter is not wide enough.
US11843318B2
This application discloses a converter and a power adapter, to reduce an energy loss of the power adapter. The converter includes: a DC power supply, a primary power transistor, an auxiliary power transistor, a first capacitor, a transformer, and a control circuit. The first capacitor is connected in series to the transformer to form a series circuit, the series circuit is connected in parallel to a first terminal and a second terminal of the auxiliary power transistor. The control circuit is configured to: when an excitation current in the transformer is in a continuous state, regulate a target voltage to a preset voltage threshold, and control the primary power transistor to be turned on when first dead time ends, where the target voltage is a voltage between the first terminal of the primary power transistor and the ground.
US11843314B2
A PFC circuit includes: a boost inductor, an auxiliary winding, an auxiliary switch tube, a main switch tube, a clamping capacitor, a series resistor and a control module; the boost inductor and the auxiliary winding have mutual inductance, a first terminal of the auxiliary winding is connected to a first terminal of the auxiliary switch tube, a second terminal of the auxiliary switch tube is connected to a first terminal of the clamping capacitor, a second terminal of the clamping capacitor is connected to a first terminal of the series resistor, and a second terminal of the series resistor is connected to a second terminal of the auxiliary winding; the main switch tube is connected between the boost inductor and the ground; and the control module is respectively connected to a control terminal of the main switch tube and a control terminal of the auxiliary switch tube.
US11843306B2
A system having a damper with six or more indentations on alternating sides of the damper, where each indentation is open to an outer circumferential surface of the damper and extends over halfway through a width of the damper, and six or more slots, each slot open to an undulating inner circumferential surface of the damper and extending through the width of the damper.
US11843305B2
An apparatus includes a housing configured to receive at least a portion of an electric motor. The apparatus also includes a manifold disposed on an upper surface of the housing. The manifold includes a number of vertical jets configured to target one or more portions of the electric motor, the vertical jets includes multiple vias extending between (i) a cavity within the manifold and (ii) an interior portion of the housing. The cavity within the manifold is defined by (i) at least a portion of the upper surface of the housing, (ii) one or more side walls extending from the upper surface of the housing, and (iii) a cover lid coupled to the one or more side walls and configured to cover the cavity and the vias.
US11843302B2
A linear translator device, including: a first body; a second body; and a plurality of actuators; wherein each actuator includes a first part first part mounted to the first body and a second part is mounted to the second body, the first part includes a front end and a back end, the second part is configured to extend and retract parallel to the direction of motion; wherein the plurality of actuators are arranged so that the extending or retracting direction of the second part of one of the plurality of actuators is offset, parallel and opposite to that of another one of the plurality of actuators; and wherein at least a portion of the first part of the one of the plurality of actuators overlaps with a portion of the first part of the other one of the plurality of actuators in the direction of motion space.
US11843300B2
The disclosed linear motor includes a stator having a plurality of cores and coils that excite the plurality of cores, respectively, and a movable element having a permanent magnet and configured to move using electromagnetic force applied from the stator as driving force, each of the plurality of cores has an excitation unit wound with the coil and an acting unit configured to be magnetically coupled to the excitation unit and cause a magnetic flux applied from the excitation unit to work on the permanent magnet of the movable element, and the linear motor includes an airgap or a heat conduction reduction portion between the excitation unit and the acting unit, and the heat conduction reduction portion reduces heat conduction from the excitation unit to the acting unit more than in a case where the excitation unit and the acting unit are in direct contact with each other.
US11843298B2
An actuator includes a support body, a movable body, a connection body connected with the support body and the movable body and provided with at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity, and a magnetic drive mechanism structured to relatively move the movable body with respect to the support body. The connection body is disposed in a space in a radial direction between an inner side ring-shaped part provided in one of the movable body and the support body and an outer side ring-shaped part provided in the other of the movable body and the support body. The inner side ring-shaped part, the outer side ring-shaped part and the connection body structure a partition part which partitions an inside space of the case, and the partition part includes an air passage which is penetrated through the partition part in an axial line direction so that air resistance can be reduced.
US11843293B2
A multi-rotor electric machine having a stator, a first rotor magnetically coupled to the stator and a second rotor magnetically coupled to the stator is disclosed. A method of operating the electric machine comprises driving a gear via a first face of the gear using the first rotor and driving the gear via a second face of the gear using the second rotor.
US11843292B2
An object of the present invention is to suppress an outflow of varnish from a lower portion of a stator core by increasing a filling rate of varnish in a slot. Provided is a method for manufacturing a stator of a rotary electric machine. The stator has a coil and a stator core in which a slot that houses the coil is formed, and a resin member of which viscosity is low at a first temperature and the viscosity is high at a second temperature higher than the first temperature is filled in the slot from an injection side. The manufacturing method includes a first step of causing a temperature difference in the stator core such that the injection side becomes the first temperature and an opposite side of the injection side becomes the second temperature, and a second step of injecting the resin member from the injection side in a state in which the temperature difference is maintained.
US11843291B2
A multi-conductor winding for an electric machine includes a plurality of conductors having a substantially identical wire form with a plurality of end turns joining a plurality of slot segments. A first portion of the plurality of conductors is arranged in a first orientation and a second portion of the plurality of conductors is arranged in a second orientation that is a mirror image of the first orientation. The plurality of end turns of the plurality of conductors includes at least three distinct winding pitches.
US11843282B2
A rotor for an electric motor includes: a rotating element extending along an axis; and a retaining body formed of metal and configured to hold the rotating element from an outer peripheral side, where the retaining body includes: a plurality of annular members annularly surrounding an outer peripheral surface of the rotating element and arranged at intervals in the axis direction; and a plurality of connecting members arranged in a circumferential direction between the annular members adjacent to each other so as to connect the annular members. As a result, a path of eddy current is limited and the eddy current can be reduced.
US11843279B2
Provided is a vibration wave driving apparatus comprising: a vibration actuator; and a driven member configured to be driven by the vibration actuator, wherein the vibration actuator includes: a vibrator having an electric-mechanical energy conversion element and an elastic member to which the electric-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed; a pressurizing member configured to pressurize the vibrator; a contacting member configured to pressurizing-contact with the vibrator by pressurizing the vibrator by the pressurizing member and move relative to the vibrator; an outputting member configured to output a driving force to the driven member, the driving force generated by the relative-moving of the contacting member to the vibrator, and wherein the driven member includes an output transmission member configured to hold the outputting member in a direction of the relative-moving with a predetermined spring force.
US11843269B2
Apparatuses and methods for removing a defective energy storage cell from an energy storage array is described. An apparatus includes an energy storage array including a plurality of energy storage cells, and a cell removal circuit coupled to the energy storage array. The cell removal circuit is configured to prevent a defective energy storage cell of the plurality of energy storage cells from causing other energy storage cells of the plurality of energy storage cells to become defective. A method includes receiving power at a charging node of an energy storage array, the energy storage array including a plurality of energy storage cells. Responsive to failure of an energy storage cell of the plurality of energy storage cells, current is provided through the defective energy storage cell, and responsive to the defective energy storage cell becoming an open circuit, discontinuing provision of the current through the defective energy storage cell.
US11843262B2
An optical power supply converter (1) that photoelectrically converts light from optical fiber cables comprises a reflecting unit (3) including a concave reflecting mirror (6) made of a rotating paraboloid, a light receiving element (2) including a light receiving surface (2a) at the focus of the mirror (6) orthogonal to the rotation axis of the mirror (6), and a plurality of mounting portions (9) for mounting the emitting ends (OE) of the fiber cables. The seperation distance (s), the shift distance (h) and the divergence angle (θ) are set appropriately so as to concentrate all reflected light on the light receiving surface (2a).
US11843261B2
A power transmission device includes: a power transmission antenna including element antennas to radiate a radio wave and element modules each provided for a predetermine number of element antennas and including a phase shifter to change a phase of a transmission signal radiated as the radio wave and an amplifier to amplify the transmission signal; and an REV method phase controller to change the phase of the transmission signal by a phase shift amount obtained by adding an operation phase shift amount for executing the REV method and a direction change phase shift amount for changing a transmission direction, for an operating phase shifter being part of the phase shifters, such that operation of changing the phase shift amount of the operating phase shifters is repeated while changing the operating phase shifters in a state in which at least some element antennas radiate the radio wave.
US11843260B2
An RF signal generator wirelessly transferring power to a wireless device includes, in part, a multitude of generating elements generating a multitude of RF signals transmitted by a multitude of antennas, a wireless signal receiver, and a control unit controlling the phases and/or amplitudes of the RF signals in accordance with a signal received by the receiver. The signal received by the receiver includes, in part, information representative of the amount of RF power the first wireless device receives. The RF signal generator further includes, in part, a detector detecting an RF signal caused by scattering or reflection of the RF signal transmitted by the antennas. The control unit further controls the phase and/or amplitude of the RF signals in accordance with the signal detected by the detector.
US11843253B2
An energy system substantially converts the power input into an AC power signal that is substantially synchronized with a power signal of the power grid. The energy system is further operable in alternative modes, including in an on-grid mode and off-grid mode. In the on-grid mode, the energy system provides the synchronized AC power signal to the power grid. In the off-grid mode, the energy delivers at least a portion of the AC power signal to a grid load.
US11843250B2
A method for operating a microgrid electric power generation system includes delivering energy to an electric power bus at least partially from one or more kinetic generators electrically coupled to the electric power bus, controlling the one or more kinetic generators in response to a change in a load such that a magnitude of a voltage on the electric power bus remains within a predetermined voltage range, and controlling one or more combustion generators electrically coupled to the electric power bus based at least in part on an operating state of the one or more kinetic generators. The one or more kinetic generators are capable of (a) delivering energy stored therein to the electric power bus, and (b) storing energy in kinetic form.
US11843242B1
An automatic line integrity monitoring system may include a cable having a plurality of wires, and a controller configured to sequentially swap each wire of the cable from a main power supply to an auxiliary power supply. The controller further checks each wire for a current flow while the wire is connected to the auxiliary power supply, and, in response to the current flow satisfying a criterion, automatically disconnect the cable from the main power supply. The criterion may, for example, be an amperage threshold.
US11843241B2
An intelligent switch device and a power generation system are provided. The intelligent switch device includes a first power port, a second power port, a switch unit and a control unit. A first end of a switch unit is connected to a first power supply via a first power port, and a second end of the switch unit is connected to a second power supply via a second power port. The control unit is configured to control the switch unit to be turned on for a first time period when the first power supply is in abnormal condition, where the abnormal condition causes the switch unit to be tripped. The first time period is greater than or equal to a time period required for a device to respond to the abnormal condition.
US11843239B2
A field device includes: a current controller configured to operate with a first power supply voltage and output a control signal for controlling a current to be output to a transmission line; a current output unit configured to operate with a second power supply voltage different from the first power supply voltage, the current output unit being capable of outputting a current of a magnitude corresponding to the control signal output from the current controller to the transmission line; and an abnormality notification unit configured to output, to the current output unit, a first signal for causing the current output unit to output a burnout current indicating that an abnormality has occurred in a case in which an abnormality occurs in the first power supply voltage.
US11843237B2
The invention relates to a device for detecting an electric arc in an electronic assembly, having: a transmission unit for generating an output signal, and an evaluation unit for receiving the output signal, where the transmission unit and the evaluation unit are connected to one another, where the transmission unit comprises an oscillator unit that generates an output signal having a frequency and/or an amplitude, and where the evaluation unit is configured to detect deviations, caused by an arc, in the output signal from the transmission unit. There is in particular a provision to implement the oscillator unit by way of a modified Pierce oscillator having an inverter, where the quartz is replaced by a detector coil. The invention furthermore relates to an electronic assembly of a motor vehicle having an apparatus to be controlled, in particular having a heating apparatus and having said device, and to a method for detecting an electric arc in an electronic assembly.
US11843232B2
A sealing assembly for sealing a bundle of wires includes a first sheet formed of a sealant material, a second sheet disposed above the first sheet, and a third sheet disposed above the second sheet formed of the sealant material. The second sheet includes a thermally conductive material. When the bundle of wires is overlaid on the assembly in a first direction, and the assembly is wrapped in a second direction that is generally perpendicular to the first to thereby surround the wires, the second sheet facilitates enhanced thermal energy distribution of applied heat throughout the assembly to thereby more uniformly melt the sealant material and thereby fill voids between the wires.
US11843225B2
An example apparatus for charge neutralization includes: a first emitter nozzle; a power supply configured to supply a high frequency alternating current (AC) signal to the first emitter nozzle; control circuitry configured to: provide a polarity signal to the power supply to generate a DC offset signal, wherein a combination of the high frequency AC signal and the DC offset signal causes the power supply to output a positive ion generation pulse or a negative ion generation pulse; control the polarity signal to cause the power supply to provide a period of positive ion generation and a period of negative ion generation; determine a balance voltage at an output of the first emitter nozzle; and control the polarity signal to adjust a relative durations of the period of positive ion generation and the period of negative ion generation based on the balance voltage.
US11843220B2
A light emitting device includes: a first semiconductor laser element; a base portion including: a bottom portion including a first upper surface on which the first semiconductor laser element is disposed, and a frame portion surrounding the first semiconductor laser element, the frame portion including a second upper surface positioned above the first upper surface and a support portion positioned between the first upper surface and the second upper surface, the a support portion having a support area; a light reflecting member having a flat plate-shaped and contacting the support area, the light reflecting member being configured to reflect light from the first semiconductor laser element; and a lid portion bonded to the second upper surface.
US11843219B2
A fiber-based master optical power amplifier (MOPA) is configured to utilize a pump source that operates in pulse mode with the arrival time of the pump pulses coordinated with the arrival time of the input pulses. The width of the pump pulses is also controlled, thus providing a mechanism for controlling both the amount of pump energy injected into the fiber amplifier, as well as the overlap in time between the pump pulse and the seed pulse. As the pulse repetition interval (PRI) of the input seed pulse changes, the timing of the pump pulses and their width are also changed so that a “constant gain” environment is created within the amplifying medium, providing an essentially constant energy output pulse, regardless of differences in ASE generated during different PRIs.
US11843216B2
A crimp structure includes a crimp section having an insulated ferrule disposed inside an outer conductor of a shielded cable. The outer conductor and a ground contact placed on an outer periphery of the outer conductor are crimped.
US11843195B2
A conductor connection terminal with an insulating material housing having a conductor insertion opening for inserting an electrical conductor in a conductor insertion direction, with a busbar and a clamping spring, wherein the clamping spring has a clamping leg and wherein the clamping leg and the busbar form a clamping point for the electrical conductor to be clamped. The insulating material housing has a base side, wherein the base side is arranged adjacent to the side of the busbar facing away from the clamping point and wherein the base side has an opening, wherein on the side of the busbar facing away from the clamping point, two contact tabs protrude from the busbar, wherein the contact tabs are designed to contact a second electrical conductor between the contact tabs, wherein the second electrical conductor can be led through the opening of the base side between the contact tabs.
US11843189B2
A method for trimming an antenna applied on a carrier, the method including pressing a region of the carrier out from a carrier plane of the carrier, the region having a portion of the antenna and the region being selected according to a target property of the antenna, and removing at least a part of the portion of the antenna from the pressed-out region of the carrier.
US11843187B2
Technologies directed to overlaid shared aperture array with improved total efficiency are described. One RF structure includes a first antenna with a first set of antenna elements disposed on a first plane of a support structure and a second antenna with a second set of antenna elements disposed on a second plane of the support structure. A set of parasitic antenna elements are disposed on the first plane. Two adjacent antenna elements, including one from the first plurality of antenna elements and another one from the plurality of parasitic antenna elements, are separated by the second distance.
US11843181B2
An aviation antenna assembly may include a plurality of antenna elements, a directional control switch associated with each of the antenna elements to enable each of the antenna elements to transition between transmitting via a transmission via a transmit chain or receive via a receive chain, beam forming network elements disposed in the transmit chain and the receive chain, and an electronically controlled phased array stirring assembly operably coupled to the directional control switch of each of the antenna elements and to the beam forming network elements to perform electrical stirring with respect to signals in the transmit chain and the receive chain. The antenna elements, the directional control switch, the beam forming network elements, and the electronically controlled phased array stirring assembly of the antenna assembly are all disposed within a single radome attachable to an aircraft body.
US11843169B2
A multiple-antenna device including a printed circuit board, a first antenna formed into a first corner of the printed circuit board, a second antenna formed into a second corner of the printed circuit board, and a dual-band decoupler formed in the printed circuit board between the first antenna and the second antenna. The multiple-antenna device includes WLAN circuitry located on the printed circuit board between the first antenna and the decoupler. The first and second antennas have polarizations orthogonal to each other.
US11843162B2
A multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, radar system for detecting an object in a vicinity of an aerial vehicle, includes a first transmitter patch, a second transmitter patch, and a third transmitter patch. Each transmitter patch has, respectively, a first, second, and third plurality of transmitting antenna elements configured to transmit, respectively, a first, second and third plurality of transmission signals. The MIMO radar system further includes a plurality of receiving antenna elements, wherein each receiving antenna element is configured to receive the transmitted transmission signals after their reflection from the object. The MIMO radar system further includes a signal forming module, configured to generate the transmission signals and to provide the transmission signals to their respective transmitting antenna elements. The MIMO radar system further includes a digital processing module, configured to detect, based on the received transmission signals, characteristics of the object. A first direction between the first transmitter patch and the second transmitter patch is different from a second direction between the second transmitter patch and the third transmitter patch. Also, each transmitter patch includes multiple transmitting antenna elements in the first as well as in the second direction. With this, a virtual array of receiving antenna elements which extends the plurality of receiving antenna elements in the first and in the second direction in a gap-free and homogeneous way is achieved.
US11843157B2
An aspect of the present invention is to reduce return loss in a mode converter. A mode converter (10) includes an excitation pin (through via TV) configured to carry out mutual conversion between a waveguide mode of a post-wall waveguide (PW) and a waveguide mode of a microstrip line (MS). The mode conductor includes a pair of wide walls (conductor layers 12 and 13), in which first and second anti-pads (anti-pads 12c, 13c) are formed, respectively. The first and second anti-pads each have an inner edge including the excitation pin and each have an outer size (diameter D12) that is more than 5 times and less than 6 times as large as the diameter (DT) of the excitation pin.
US11843149B2
The present disclosure provides a fuel cell, comprising: an anode; a cathode; and a membrane electrode assembly disposed between the anode and the cathode. The anode may comprise a gas diffusion layer with one or more channels for directing a source material through the gas diffusion layer of the anode to facilitate processing of the source material to generate an electrical current. The one or more channels may comprise one or more features configured to enhance a diffusion of the source material through the gas diffusion layer of the anode. The source material may comprise hydrogen and nitrogen.
US11843146B2
A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell, a fuel gas supplier configured to supply fuel gas to an anode of the fuel cell, an oxidant gas supplier configured to supply oxidant gas to a cathode of the fuel cell, a humidity adjuster configured to adjust a relative humidity of the fuel gas and a relative humidity of the oxidant gas, and a controller, wherein the controller detects the relative humidity of the fuel gas at an anode inlet of the fuel cell, and the controller detects the relative humidity of the oxidant gas at a cathode outlet of the fuel cell, and wherein, based on detection results, the controller controls the humidity adjuster so that the relative humidity of the fuel gas at the anode inlet is higher than the relative humidity of the oxidant gas at the cathode outlet.
US11843142B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a first cooling line having first cooling water that passes via the fuel cell stack and circulates therein, a first radiator that cools the first cooling water, an air conditioning system that forms a heating loop with a first cooling line, a first cooling fan that blows exterior air to the first radiator, a first pump that pumps the first cooling water, a valve that switches a flow path of the first cooling water to the fuel cell stack or the first radiator, and a controller connected to the first cooling fan, the first pump, and the valve, and configured to detect a failure of the valve, control RPMs of the first pump and the first cooling fan to respective maximum levels, and control an RPM of a blower of the air conditioning system to a maximum level.
US11843133B2
An electrochemical cell includes a cylindrical housing that encloses an interior space having a first end face and a second end face that are interconnected by an annular shell, and a positive and a negative electrode are arranged in the interior of the housing, wherein the negative electrode is electrically connected, either directly or via a separate conductor, to the first end face to constitute a negative pole, and the positive electrode is electrically connected, either directly or via a separate conductor, to the second end face to constitute a positive pole, and a contact lug is fastened to the first or second end face of the housing.
US11843130B2
Methods and systems for welding contacts of a plurality of battery cells are provided. A method includes using a detector to perform a scan of the cell electrode contact area for each of the plurality of battery cells. Based upon the scan of each cell electrode contact area, a determination is made of whether one or more possible weld sites for each electrode contact area are viable for welding. In response to determining that one or more weld sites are viable, one or more of the viable weld sites are selected and a welder is used to weld at least one of the selected weld sites.
US11843121B2
Systems and methods for continuous lamination of battery electrodes may include a cathode, an electrolyte, and an anode, where the anode includes a current collector, a cathode, an electrolyte, and an anode, the anode comprising a polymeric adhesive layer coated onto the current collector, and an active material coated onto the polymeric adhesive layer such that the polymeric adhesive layer is arranged between the active material and the current collector, wherein the anode is subjected to a heat treatment to induce pyrolysis after application of the polymeric adhesive layer to the current collector and application of the active material to the polymeric adhesive layer, the heat being applied to the anode at a temperature between 500 and 850 degrees C.
US11843112B2
A novel composite material which includes silicon and carbon, the amount of silicon being 1-80 wt.-% and at least 90 wt.-% of the composite material being in a density range between a lower density threshold value p*1 and an upper density threshold value p*2. The density threshold values have the following relation: ρ*1,2=(1±δ)·ρ, wherein ρ is the mean density of the composite material and ±δ is the variation range between the upper density threshold value ρ*2 and the lower density threshold value ρ*1, the amount of δ being <0.10.
US11843110B2
Methods of making negative electrode materials for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions are provided. A surface of the electrode material formed of silicon, silicon-containing alloys, tin-containing alloys, or combinations thereof is treated with an oxidant at a first temperature of greater than or equal to about 100° C. to form a continuous intermediate layer comprising oxides. The method also includes pyrolyzing a carbon-containing precursor over the continuous intermediate layer at a second temperature of greater than or equal to about 600° C. to form a continuous carbon coating thereon. The intermediate layer oxides may be transformed to carbides. The continuous carbon coating comprises both graphitic carbon and amorphous carbon and may be a multilayered coating, where the inner layer predominantly includes amorphous carbon and the outer layer predominantly includes graphitic carbon.
US11843106B2
A solid-state ion conductor includes a compound of Formula (I): Li4+(b−a)y+cδ+(a−γ)xM13+x+yM23−yM″xO12X1cX21−c Formula (I) wherein, M1 is a cationic element having an oxidation state of +2 or +3; M2 is a cationic element having an oxidation state of +4 or +5; M″ is a cationic element having an oxidation state of γ, wherein γ is less than b; X1 is a cluster anion having an oxidation state of (−1-δ), wherein δ is 0 or 1; X2 is a halogen; 0
US11843091B2
A separator for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the separator, the separator including a porous substrate; and a coating layer on at least one surface of the porous substrate, wherein the coating layer includes organic filler particles, fluorine organic binder particles, and (meth)acryl organic binder particles, an average particle diameter of the organic filler particles is equal to or greater than an average particle diameter of the fluorine organic binder particles, and the fluorine organic binder particles are coated on the porous substrate as a part of the coating layer in an amount of less than about 0.1 g/m2 per surface.
US11843083B2
Monolithic LED chips are disclosed comprising a plurality of active regions on a submount, wherein the submount comprises integral electrically conductive interconnect elements in electrical contact with the active regions and electrically connecting at least some of the active regions in series. The submount also comprises an integral insulator element electrically insulating at least some of the interconnect elements and active regions from other elements of the submount. The active regions are mounted in close proximity to one another to minimize the visibility of the space during operation. The LED chips can also comprise layers structures and compositions that avow improved reliability under high current operation.
US11843079B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first light-emitting diode, an encapsulant and a first Fresnel lens. The first light emitting diode is located on the substrate. The encapsulant covers the first light emitting diode. The first Fresnel lens is located on the encapsulant and overlapping with the first light emitting diode. The width of the first Fresnel lens is 4 to 10 times the width of the first light emitting diode.
US11843078B2
The light emitting device includes: at least one light emitting element including a light-extracting surface and at least one lateral surface; a wavelength converting member including; a first upper surface and a second upper surface, a lower surface located at an opposite side from the first upper surface and the second upper surface, at least one first lateral surface connecting the second upper surface and the first upper surface, and at least one second lateral surface connecting the second upper surface and the lower surface, in which a thickness between the lower surface and the first upper surface is smaller than a thickness between the lower surface and the second upper surface, and the first upper surface is located at an opposite side from the light-extracting surface of a corresponding one of the at least one light emitting element, and the lower surface is located facing the light-extracting surface of the corresponding one of the at least one light emitting element; a covering member covering the at least one second lateral surface of the wavelength converting member and the at least one lateral surface of the light emitting element; and a light-shielding film covering the second upper surface of the wavelength converting member.
US11843077B2
A unit pixel includes a transparent substrate, a plurality of light emitting devices arranged on the transparent substrate, and an optical layer disposed between the light emitting devices and the transparent substrate and transmitting light emitted from the light emitting devices. The transparent substrate has a concavo-convex pattern on a surface facing the light emitting devices.
US11843073B2
A micro LED display device includes a display substrate. The display substrate has a first transfer area and a second transfer area adjacent to each other. Both the first transfer area and the second transfer area include a plurality of pixel areas. The pixel area of the first transfer area includes a first micro light-emitting element arranged in a straight line along a first direction. The pixel area of the second transfer area includes a second micro light-emitting element arranged in another straight line along the first direction. In the first direction, the first micro light-emitting element and the second micro light-emitting element are arranged in a staggered manner. A manufacturing method of a micro LED display device is also provided.
US11843072B2
Light emitting diodes (“LEDs”) with N-polarity and associated methods of manufacturing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for forming a light emitting diode on a substrate having a substrate material includes forming a nitrogen-rich environment at least proximate a surface of the substrate without forming a nitrodizing product of the substrate material on the surface of the substrate. The method also includes forming an LED structure with a nitrogen polarity on the surface of the substrate with a nitrogen-rich environment.
US11843065B2
Disclosed is a solar cell module including a first solar cell unit including a plurality of solar cells and a plurality of condensing layers, which are arranged alternately, a second solar cell unit including a plurality of solar cells and a plurality of condensing layers, which are arranged alternately, and each of the plurality of solar cells of the first solar cell unit and the second solar cell unit includes a first electrode disposed on one side thereof and a second electrode disposed on an opposite side thereof, whereby a visibility, by which the light passes through the solar cell module, is increased by including the plurality of solar cells and the plurality of condensing layers, through which a visual ray may pass.
US11843063B2
The present invention discloses a back contact solar cell comprising: a first conductive type semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a rear surface of a texturing structure; an oxide layer formed on the front surface of the substrate; at least one first conductive type semiconductor region and second conductive type semiconductor region alternatively formed at predetermined intervals on the rear surface of the substrate; an oxide layer formed on the remaining rear surface of the substrate except for the first conductive type semiconductor region and the second conductive type semiconductor region; and electrodes formed on each of the first conductive type semiconductor region and the second conductive type semiconductor region.
US11843056B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure may include a transistor structure, the transistor structure may include a gate region arranged over an upper surface of a substrate and extending substantially in a first direction that is perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate; a first source/drain region over the upper surface of the substrate; a second source/drain region over the upper surface of the substrate; and a channel region vertically extending in the first direction between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region, wherein the channel region comprises an oxide semiconductor material. Along the first direction, the gate region covers a sidewall of the channel region.
US11843048B2
Method of manufacturing MOSFET having a semiconductor base substrate with a super junction structure
A MOSFET includes: a semiconductor base substrate having an n-type column region and a p-type column region, the n-type column region and the p-type column region forming a super junction structure; and a gate electrode formed by way of a gate insulation film. Assuming a region of the semiconductor base substrate which provides a main operation of the MOSFET as an active region, a region of the semiconductor base substrate maintaining a withstand voltage of the MOSFET as an outer peripheral region, and a region of the semiconductor base substrate disposed between the active region and the outer peripheral region as an active connecting region, out of the active region, the active connecting region, and the outer peripheral region of the semiconductor base substrate, the crystal defects are formed only in the active region and the active connecting region.
US11843047B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated transistor device, including a first barrier layer arranged over a substrate. Further, an undoped layer may be arranged over the first barrier layer and have a n-channel device region laterally next to a p-channel device region. The n-channel device region of the undoped layer has a topmost surface that is above a topmost surface of the p-channel device region of the undoped layer. The integrated transistor device may further comprise a second barrier layer over the n-channel device region of the undoped layer. A first gate electrode is arranged over the second barrier layer, and a second gate electrode is arranged over the p-channel device region of the undoped layer.
US11843046B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a buffer layer, a carrier transit layer, a carrier supply layer, a gate, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The buffer layer is on a substrate. The carrier transit layer is on the buffer layer. The carrier supply layer is on the carrier transit layer. The gate is on the carrier supply layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are at two opposite sides of the gate, wherein each of the source electrode and the drain electrode includes a conductive layer and a conductive oxide layer stacked from bottom to top.
US11843038B2
Embodiments include a first set of fins having an emitter of a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) disposed over the first set of fins, a second set of fins having a base of the BJT disposed over the second set of fins, and a third set of fins having a collector of the BJT disposed over the third set of fins. A first gate structure is disposed over the first set of fins adjacent to the emitter. A second gate structure is disposed over the second set of fins adjacent to the base. A third gate structure is disposed over the third set of fins adjacent to the collector. The first gate structure, second gate structure, and third gate structure are physically and electrically separated.
US11843037B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a channel layer at least one of on or in the substrate, an insulation layer on the substrate, a ferroelectric layer on the insulation layer, a fixed charge layer on an interface between the insulation layer and the ferroelectric layer, the fixed charge layer including charges of a first polarity, and a gate on the ferroelectric layer.
US11843030B2
A fuse element, a semiconductor device, and a method for activating a backup unit are provided. The fuse element includes an active area, which includes a source region and a drain region beside the source region, a gate region disposed on the active area, and a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure surrounding the active area. In addition, the drain region includes a terminal configured to receive a stress voltage, such that a conductive path is established through the drain region to the source region.
US11843023B2
A member for a solid-state image pickup device having a bonding plane with no gaps and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The manufacturing method includes the steps of providing a first substrate provided with a photoelectric converter on its primary face and a first wiring structure, providing a second substrate provided with a part of a peripheral circuit on its primary face and a second wiring structure, and performing bonding so that the first substrate, the first wiring structure, the second wiring structure, and the second substrate are disposed in this order. In addition, at least one of an upper face of the first wiring structure and an upper face of the second wiring structure has a concave portion, and a conductive material forms a bottom face of the concave portion.
US11843021B2
The present invention provides an optical detection module, a method for manufacturing the same and an optical detection substrate. The optical detection module includes: a base substrate; a switch transistor on a side of the base substrate and including a gate electrode, an active layer, a first electrode and a second electrode; a photosensitive device for sensing light, on a side of the switch transistor away from the base substrate and including a power electrode, a photosensitive layer and an output electrode stacked in sequence, the output electrode being electrically connected to the first electrode of the switch transistor; a barrier on a side of the switch transistor away from the base substrate; and an insulation portion on the same layer as the output electrode and the barrier and connected between the output electrode and the barrier.
US11843009B2
Disclosed a photosensitive assembly, an imaging module, a smart terminal, and a method and a mould for manufacturing the photosensitive assembly. The photosensitive assembly comprises: a circuit board having a rectangular-shaped rigid board region and comprising a flexible board extension portion extending from the rigid board region, wherein the rigid board region has a lamination side and a non-lamination side, and the rigid board region has a lamination region on the lamination side; a photosensitive element mounted in the rigid board region of the circuit board; and a molded portion formed on the rigid board region, surrounding the photosensitive element, and extending towards the photosensitive element and coming into contact with the photosensitive element, the molded portion having an inner side surface, an outer side surface and a top surface, the molded portion not covering the lamination region of the rigid board region, and the top surface having a flat portion, wherein the top surface of a part of the molded portion on the lamination side has a descending portion, the descending portion is located between the flat portion and the outer side surface of the molded portion and is lower than the flat portion, and the outer side surface of a part of the molded portion on the non-lamination side is perpendicular to the flat portion.
US11843002B2
A transistor structure may include a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a substrate, and a semiconductor member. The semiconductor member overlaps the third electrode and includes a first semiconductor portion, a second semiconductor portion, and a third semiconductor portion. The first semiconductor portion directly contacts the first electrode, is directly connected to the third semiconductor portion, and is connected through the third semiconductor portion to the second semiconductor portion. The second semiconductor portion directly contacts the second electrode and is directly connected to the third semiconductor portion. A minimum distance between the first semiconductor portion and the substrate is unequal to a minimum distance between the second semiconductor portion and the substrate.
US11842978B1
A wire bonding system has a bonding tool and a wire guide for guiding a bonding wire to a tip of the bonding tool for conducting wire bonding operations. A wire biasing tool is located adjacent to the wire guide, and a rotary actuator is operatively connected to the wire biasing tool by a linkage mechanism. The rotary actuator is operable to move the wire biasing tool along a predetermined travel path to apply a biasing force onto a length of bonding wire extending from the tip of the bonding tool.
US11842977B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate which includes a substrate base and a plurality of wiring patterns, a lower semiconductor chip, and an upper semiconductor chip. The substrate base includes a chip-accommodating cavity and the plurality of wiring patterns include a plurality of bottom wiring patterns on a bottom surface of the substrate base and a plurality of top wiring patterns on a top surface of the substrate base. The lower semiconductor chip is disposed in the chip-accommodating cavity and is connected to the plurality of bottom wiring patterns through a plurality of lower bonding wires. The upper semiconductor chip includes a first portion which is attached to the lower semiconductor chip and a second portion which overhangs the lower semiconductor chip.
US11842975B2
An electronic device with a multi-layer contact and a system is disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first electrode terminal located on a first surface and a second surface electrode terminal located on a second surface, the first surface being opposite to the second surface, an electrical contact layer disposed directly on the first electrode terminal, a functional layer directly disposed on the electrical contact layer, an adhesion layer directly disposed on the functional layer, a solder layer directly disposed on the adhesion layer; and a protection layer directly disposed on the solder layer, wherein the semiconductor device is a power semiconductor device configured to provide a vertical current flow.
US11842972B2
A semiconductor device includes a wiring board, a semiconductor chip, and a connecting member provided between a surface of the wiring board and a functional surface of the semiconductor chip. The connecting member extends a distance between the wiring board surface and the functional surface. A sealing material seals a gap space between the wiring board and the semiconductor chip. An electrode is formed at the wiring board surface and arranged outside of an outer periphery of the sealing material. A lateral distance between an outer periphery of the semiconductor chip and the outer periphery of the sealing material is between 0.1 mm and a lateral distance from the outer periphery of the semiconductor chip to the electrode.
US11842969B2
An integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit comprises: a processing region configured to run one instruction from a plurality of instructions; a first temperature measuring region configured to measure a first temperature within the integrated circuit in response to the processing region running the one instruction; the processing region being configured to compare the measured first temperature with a predefined temperature at the first temperature measuring region when the processing region runs the one instruction and to trigger an event when the measured first temperature exceeds the predefined temperature by a threshold value.
US11842965B2
Nanostructure field-effect transistors (nano-FETs) including isolation layers formed between epitaxial source/drain regions and semiconductor substrates and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a power rail, a dielectric layer over the power rail, a first channel region over the dielectric layer, a second channel region over the first channel region, a gate stack over the first channel region and the second channel region, where the gate stack is further disposed between the first channel region and the second channel region and a first source/drain region adjacent the gate stack and electrically connected to the power rail.
US11842958B2
The present disclosure provides a multilayer wiring structure, including a plurality of dielectric layers, a plurality of conductive wiring layers interleaved with the plurality of dielectric layers, wherein the plurality of conductive wiring layers includes copper-phosphorous alloys (such as Cu3P).
US11842957B2
An amplifier module includes a module substrate with a mounting surface, a signal conducting layer, a ground layer, and a ground terminal pad at the mounting surface. A thermal dissipation structure extends through the module substrate. A ground contact of a power transistor die is coupled to a surface of the thermal dissipation structure. Encapsulant material covers the mounting surface of the module substrate and the power transistor die, and a surface of the encapsulant material defines a contact surface of the amplifier module. A ground terminal is embedded within the encapsulant material. The ground terminal has a proximal end coupled to the ground terminal pad, and a distal end exposed at the contact surface. The ground terminal is electrically coupled to the ground contact of the power transistor die through the ground terminal pad, the ground layer of the module substrate, and the thermal dissipation structure.
US11842950B2
A package module includes a connection structure including one or more redistribution layers, a semiconductor chip disposed on the connection structure and having a connection pad electrically connected to the one or more redistribution layers, a plurality of electronic components disposed on the connection structure and electrically connected to the one or more redistribution layers, one or more frames disposed on the connection structure, and an encapsulant disposed on the connection structure, and respectively covering at least portions of the semiconductor chip, the plurality of electronic components, and the one or more frames. At least a portion of an outer side surface of the encapsulant is coplanar on the same level as at least a portion of an outer side surface of at least one of the one or more frames.
US11842939B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced package, which includes a carrier, a thinned die over the carrier, a mold compound, and a heat extractor. The thinned die includes a device layer over the carrier and a dielectric layer over the device layer. The mold compound resides over the carrier, surrounds the thinned die, and extends beyond a top surface of the thinned die to define an opening within the mold compound and over the thinned die. The top surface of the thinned die is at a bottom of the opening. At least a portion of the heat extractor is inserted into the opening and in thermal contact with the thinned die. Herein the heat extractor is formed of a metal or an alloy.
US11842935B2
A method includes forming a reconstructed package substrate, which includes placing a plurality of substrate blocks over a carrier, encapsulating the plurality of substrate blocks in an encapsulant, planarizing the encapsulant and the plurality of substrate blocks to reveal redistribution lines in the plurality of substrate blocks, and forming a redistribution structure overlapping both of the plurality of substrate blocks and encapsulant. A package component is bonded over the reconstructed package substrate.
US11842933B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first semiconductor strip over a substrate, the first semiconductor strip including a first channel region; a second semiconductor strip over the substrate, the second semiconductor strip including a second channel region; a dielectric strip disposed between the first semiconductor strip and the second semiconductor strip, a width of the dielectric strip decreasing along a first direction extending away from the substrate, the dielectric strip including a void; and a gate structure extending along the first channel region, along the second channel region, and along a top surface and sidewalls of the dielectric strip.
US11842930B2
A method may include forming a mask layer on top of a first dielectric layer formed on a first source/drain and a second source/drain, and creating an opening in the mask layer and the first dielectric layer that exposes portions of the first source/drain and the second source/drain. The method may include filling the opening with a metal layer that covers the exposed portions of the first source/drain and the second source/drain, and forming a gap in the metal layer to create a first metal contact and a second metal contact. The first metal contact may electrically couple to the first source/drain and the second metal contact may electrically couple to the second source/drain. The gap may separate the first metal contact from the second metal contact by less than nineteen nanometers.
US11842926B2
This invention relates to a method of processing a substrate, having on one side a device area with a plurality of devices. The method includes attaching a first protective film to the one side of the substrate, so that at least a central area of a front surface of the first protective film is in direct contact with the one side of the substrate, and attaching a second protective film to the opposite side of the substrate. After attaching the second protective film, a laser beam is applied to the substrate from the opposite side of the substrate. The substrate and second protective film are transparent to the laser beam. The laser beam is applied to the substrate in a plurality of positions so as to form a plurality of modified regions in the substrate.
US11842925B2
The present application discloses method for fabricating a conductive feature and a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate; forming a recess in the substrate; conformally forming a first nucleation layer in the recess; performing a post-treatment to the first nucleation layer; and forming a first bulk layer on the first nucleation layer to fill the recess. The first nucleation layer and the first bulk layer configure the conductive feature. The first nucleation layer and the first bulk layer include tungsten. The post-treatment includes a borane-containing reducing agent.
US11842920B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a transistor. The transistor includes a semiconductive substrate, a gate structure, a pair of highly doped regions and a dielectric element. The semiconductive substrate has a top surface. The gate structure is over the top surface. The pair of highly doped regions is separated by the gate structure. The dielectric element is embedded in the semiconductive substrate. The dielectric element is laterally and vertically misaligned with the pair of highly doped regions.
US11842919B2
A method of microfabrication is provided. An initial stack of layers is formed over a semiconductor layer. The initial stack of layers can include a plurality of substacks separated from each other by one or more transition layers. One or more of the substacks include a sacrificial gate layer sandwiched between two first dielectric layers. Openings can be formed in the initial stack of layers so that the semiconductor layer is uncovered. The openings can be filled with vertical channel structures, where each vertical channel structure extends through a respective substack. The initial stack can be divided into separate stacks that include the vertical channel structures surrounded by the substacks and the transition layers. The one or more transition layers can be removed from the separate stacks to uncover transition points between neighboring vertical channel structures. Isolation structures can be formed at the transition points.
US11842918B2
A wafer chuck includes a base made of a ceramic containing silicon carbide. The base has an oxidation-treated layer, and a film made of diamond-like carbon (DLC) is formed on an outermost surface of the base.
US11842914B2
This composite sintered body is a ceramic composite sintered body which includes aluminum oxide which is a main phase, and silicon carbide which is a sub-phase, the composite sintered body including an interface layer which includes, as a forming material, a material other than the aluminum oxide and the silicon carbide, at an interface between a crystal grain of the aluminum oxide and a crystal grain of the silicon carbide in a grain boundary.
US11842907B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus and methods for semiconductor processing, more particularly, to a thermal process chamber. In one or more embodiments, a process chamber comprises a first window, a second window, a substrate support disposed between the first window and the second window, and a motorized rotatable radiant spot heating source disposed over the first window and configured to provide radiant energy through the first window.
US11842899B2
In a method of cutting a fine pattern, a line structure is formed on a substrate. The line structure extends in a first direction, and includes a pattern and a first mask. The pattern and the first mask include different materials. A sacrificial layer is formed on the substrate to cover the line structure. The sacrificial layer is partially etched to form a first opening partially overlapping the line structure in a vertical direction. A portion of the first mask, an upper portion of the pattern and/or a portion of the sacrificial layer under the first opening are partially etched using an etching gas having no etching selectivity among the pattern, the first mask and the sacrificial layer. A lower portion of the pattern under the upper portion thereof is removed to divide the pattern into a plurality of pieces spaced apart from each other in the first direction.
US11842898B2
Quality of a crystalline film is improved. In a method for manufacturing a panel, a polysilicon film is formed by emission of laser light to an amorphous silicon film 3A through a light-transmittable member 4 that can transmit the laser light.
US11842895B2
An SBD includes: a terminal well region formed to surround an active region; a field insulating film formed to cover part of the terminal well region; a surface electrode formed on a drift layer on an inner side in relation to the field insulating film and electrically connected to the terminal well region; a surface protection film covering an end portion on an outer side of the surface electrode; and a back surface electrode formed on a back surface of a single crystal substrate. An end portion of an outer side of the surface electrode in the corner portion of the terminal region is located on an inner side in relation to the end portion of the outer side of the surface electrode in a straight portion of a terminal region based on a position of an end portion of an outer side of the terminal well region.
US11842881B2
A measurement device that comprises a photoelectric conversion element and a signal processing part that receives, from the photoelectric conversion element, detected pulses that include dark pulses and signal pulses that are outputted in accordance with inputted photons. The signal processing part performs amplitude discrimination on the detected pulses on the basis of a pre-acquired dark pulse amplitude distribution for the photoelectric conversion element.
US11842873B2
A modified trip lever for a remote controlled miniature circuit breaker comprises a trip lever and a separate kicker lever, which perform alternate functions to either automatically open the main contacts in response to a trip event or alternately open or close the contacts under remote control. The kicker lever rotates clockwise on a pivot in response to an actuator receiving a remote control open signal, to open the contacts by forcing a transverse tab on the kicker lever against a blade carrying a moveable main contact aligned with a stationary main contact. The kicker lever rotates counterclockwise to close the contacts in response to the actuator receiving a remote control close signal. The trip lever mounted on the same pivot, is configured to automatically open the contacts in response to a trip event, by pushing against the back side of the tab of the kicker lever.
US11842872B2
A switching device includes: a triggering unit; an actuator coupled to the triggering unit; a switching mechanism coupled to the actuator; and an interface module. The interface module includes: a signal processing unit coupled to the triggering unit; an interface circuit coupled to a transmitting and receiving circuit of the signal processing unit; a power supply input for feeding a first supply voltage; and a voltage converter connected on an input side to the power supply input and a power outlet for issuing a second supply voltage. The power outlet is coupled to the signal processing unit and to the triggering unit.
US11842867B2
A multi-mode air compressor pressure switch is disclosed. A first mode of operation of the switch has a first range that includes a first cut-out pressure and a first cut-in pressure. A second mode of operation of the switch has a second range that includes a second cut-out pressure and a second cut-in pressure. The second range is smaller than the first range. The second mode of operation adds compressor output over the first mode of operation to extend operable time of a tool that is connected to a compressor that is controlled by the first mode and the second mode.
US11842860B2
An integrated electronic switch includes an input unit and a circuit board. The input unit is configured to receive a drive signal output by a user. A sensing module for sensing the drive signal transmitted from the input unit, and a control module electrically connected to the sensing module are disposed on the circuit board, where the sensing module and the control module are disposed on a first side surface of the circuit board.
US11842859B2
A tool for the removal or installation of a fuse includes a first tool arm and a second tool arm pivotally mounted to the first tool arm about an axis. A second fuse holder spreader finger section is movable away from a first fuse holder spreader finger section and a second fuse pusher finger section is movable toward a first fuse pusher finger section in response to a first handle section being moved toward a second handle section.
US11842856B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and internal electrodes and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the external electrodes include a first electrode layer disposed on the body and including Cu and glass, a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer and including Ni and Cu, and a third electrode layer disposed on the second electrode layer and including Ni and glass.
US11842852B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes first and second main surfaces opposite to each other in a thickness direction, first and second side surfaces opposite to each other in a width direction, first and second end surfaces opposite to each other in a longitudinal direction, an element body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers stacked in the thickness direction, and a pair of external electrodes on the first and second end surfaces and electrically connected to the internal electrode layers, in which the dielectric layers include, as a main component, a perovskite oxide including barium and titanium, and the dielectric layers include an inner portion that is in contact with the internal electrode layer and includes an interface layer including a non-perovskite oxide including tin, barium, and titanium.
US11842851B2
A dielectric composition includes a main phase and segregation phases each including RE (at least one rare earth element). The main phase includes a main component having a perovskite crystal structure of ABO3 (A is one or more selected from Ba, Sr, and Ca, and B is one or more selected from Ti, Zr, and Hf). The segregation phases are classified into first segregation phases whose atomic ratio of Si to RE is 0 or more and 0.20 or less and second segregation phases whose atomic ratio of Si to the RE is more than 0.20. 0≤S1/S2≤0.10 is satisfied on a cross section of the dielectric composition, where S1 is an area ratio of the first segregation phases, and S2 is an area ratio of the second segregation phases. An atomic ratio of Si to RE in the second segregation phases is 0.80 or less on average.
US11842849B2
A coaxial supercapacitor and method of manufacture such that the supercapacitor has an elongated shape resembling that of a wire and which can be bent to a desired shape and which can optionally be used in place of a wire for a given application while providing the benefits and characteristics of a supercapacitor. The supercapacitor can be manufactured without the necessity of complex manufacturing techniques.
US11842840B2
An inductive transducer apparatus for testing metallic objects using Pulsed Eddy Current topology. The Apparatus includes a transmitter coil, a receiver coil, and a hybrid core. The hybrid core has a high saturation point which allows the transducer to generate a strong initial magnetic field that may further induce strong eddy currents on the surface of the target capable of penetrating deep into metallic objects under inspection. The hybrid core also has a high permeability which enhances the transducer's sensitivity and allows to maintain high signal-to-noise-ratio and of the received signal associated with Eddy Current magnetic field decaying, thus enhancing the system's performance in environments where reliable quantitative analysis of flaws located deep underneath the surface of metal objects is required. A linearity compensation method may be applied to further enhance the performance of the system.
US11842832B2
A continuous method of manufacturing permanent magnets and the permanent magnets created thereby. A fine powder is created from a combination of magnetic metals. The powder (a metal alloy) is placed in a non-magnetic container of any desired shape which could be, for example, a tube. The metal alloy and tube are swaged while a magnetic field is applied. Once swaging is complete, the metal alloy and tube are sintered and then cooled. Instead of sintering, a bonding agent can mixed into the powder. Following cooling, the metal alloy is magnetized by placing it between poles of powerful electromagnets with the desired field direction. The process of the invention enables mass-produced, cost-effective PM products, which are more robust, easily assembled into products, enables new “wire like” shapes with arbitrary magnetization direction. The process enables mass production of permanent magnets of any desired cross section, produces permanent magnets continuously that may be cut to any length, and may, in an embodiment, result in directional magnets.
US11842828B2
Transparent conductive films comprising sparse metal conductive layers are processed after coating with an overcoat to lower the sheet resistance of the film. The sparse metal conductive layer can comprise a fused metal nanostructured network. A coating, such as a polymer overcoat or a polymer undercoat can noble metal ions that can further reduce the sheet resistance with the application of heat and optionally humidity. In particular, silver ions in a coating are demonstrated to provide important stabilization of sparse metal conductive layers, whether or not fused, upon the application of heat and humidity. A coating can further comprise a metal salt stabilization composition.
US11842821B2
A nuclear power plant includes a nuclear structure, a frontline support equipment, and a support structure. The nuclear structure includes, and is configured to protect from incurring damage due to a damaging event, at least one of a nuclear reactor or a nuclear fuel storage. The frontline support equipment is configured to perform a fundamental safety function. The support structure is spatially separate from the nuclear structure and includes an initiating support equipment configured to trigger the frontline support equipment to perform the fundamental safety function such that the fundamental safety function is performed independently of the initiating support equipment subsequent to the triggering. The support structure may be a non-protected structure that is not configured to protect the initiating support equipment from incurring damage due to the damaging event.
US11842814B2
A ventilator system includes a ventilation device, and is configured to operate in a passive mode configured to transmit ventilation data in response to requests from a ventilation management system, or an active mode configured to automatically transmit ventilation data as the data becomes available. The system receives ventilation system data associated with operation of the ventilation device, modifies one or more operating parameters of the ventilation device based on the received ventilation system data, receives ventilator data associated with the ventilator device, determines an alarm associated with the ventilator device or a patient based on the received ventilator data and, responsive to determining the alarm, sends the alarm to a beginning of a transmission queue for transmitting the ventilation data to the ventilation management system, wherein the alarm is communicated over the network prior to other ventilation data in the transmission queue.
US11842813B2
Embodiments of the present technology include a wearable physiological monitoring device, related algorithms and software that are tied to a portable electronic device for readout. The wearable device can perform real-time measurement of a number of physiological and environmental parameters including heart rate, pulse oximetry, respiration, movement, environmental particulate matter, moisture, temperature (e.g., ambient air and body temperatures) and geospatial location. Some embodiments may establish a physiological baseline for a patient by measuring the above parameters during a healthy state. Collected data can be wirelessly transmitted to a portable electronic device or monitoring and feedback platform where software will analyze the data and make assessments of the device wearer's health based upon the wearer's baseline.
US11842807B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wound management and treatment. This includes determining characteristics of a wound for a patient based on an image of the wound, including detecting the characteristics based on analyzing the image using a first ML model trained to detect wound characteristics from a captured image. The techniques further include identifying patient medical data including characteristics relating to a medical history for the patient, and predicting a first care plan for the patient based on providing the characteristics of the wound and the patient medical data to a second ML model. The second ML model is trained to predict the first care plan using prior wound care outcome data including a prior wound care outcomes relating to prior patients. The first care plan is configured to be used to treat the wound for the patient.
US11842798B2
A method for linking a natural product and gene cluster is disclosed. In some embodiments, monomers of natural products are predicted from a gene sequence. In other embodiments, monomers of natural products are predicted from a chemical structure of a natural product. In another embodiment, monomers predicted from gene sequences are aligned with monomers predicted from chemical structures.
US11842793B2
The present tools and methods for detecting, diagnosing, predicting, prognosticating, or treating a neurobehavioral phenotype in a subject. These tools and methods relates to a genotype and neurophenotype topography-based approach for analyzing brain neuroimaging and gene expression maps to identify drug targets associated with neurobehavioral phenotypes and, conversely, neurobehavioral phenotypes associated with potential drug targets, to develop rational design and application of pharmacological therapeutics for brain disorders, and to provide methods and tools for treatment of subjects in need of neurological therapy.
US11842786B1
A memory controller includes an interface and a processor. The interface communicates with a plurality of memory cells. The processor produces one or more readouts by reading a group of the memory cells using one or more Read Voltages (RVs). Based on the readouts, the processor calculates for a given RV among the RVs a sample of an error signal indicative of a deviation between the given RV and an optimal RV that results in a minimal number of errors in reading the memory cells in the group. The processor applies a filter to the sample of the error signal so as to produce an updated value of the given RV, the filter includes one or more filter taps storing data related to previous samples of the error signal, and reads a second group of the memory cells using the updated value of the given RV.
US11842781B2
A layout method includes: forming a layout structure of a memory array having first and second rows, each including a plurality of storage cells, wherein at least one of the storage cells includes a fuse; disposing a word line between the first and second rows; disposing a plurality of control electrodes across the word line for connecting the storage cells of the first row and the storage cells of the second row respectively; disposing a first cut layer on a first control electrode of the control electrodes located on a first side of the word line; and disposing a second cut layer on a second control electrode of the control electrodes located on a second side of the word line; wherein the first side of the word line is opposite to the second side of the word line.
US11842775B2
A memory device that dynamically adjusts the sense time to read an open block of a memory block is disclosed. The adjusted sense time is based upon various considerations, including the sense time of the closed block equivalent and the openness of the open block. This allows the memory device to maintain a fixed Vt as well as reduce failed bit count, i.e., read errors due to an insufficient sense time. Also, the dynamic adjustment of sense time can optimize system performance and increase efficiency.
US11842770B2
A processing unit, including a first circuit, and a first circuit element connected to the first circuit. The first circuit element is at least charged by the first circuit.
US11842769B2
At least one embodiment of the disclosure is directed to a memory circuit having a leakage current blocking mechanism and a memory device having the memory circuit. In an aspect, one embodiment of the disclosure describes a memory circuit which includes not limited to a memory array which includes a first memory cell connected to a first bit line and a second memory cell connected to a second bit line, a pre-charge circuit which is connected to the memory array and includes a first pre-charge device, and a programming circuit which is connected to the pre-charge circuit and comprises a programming transistor which has a higher drive capability than the first pre-charge device so as to drive the first bit line to a ground voltage in response to the first write operation, wherein in response to a first write operation on the first memory cell, a current flow exists between the programming circuit and the first pre-charge device.
US11842760B2
An integrated circuit (IC) memory controller is disclosed. The memory controller includes a receiver to receive a strobe signal and provide an internal strobe signal. An adjustable delay circuit delays an enable signal to generate a delayed enable signal. A gate circuit generates a gated strobe signal using the delayed enable signal that masks transitions of the internal strobe signal that occur prior to a valid region of the internal strobe signal. A sample circuit samples data using the gated strobe signal.
US11842758B2
According to an aspect there is provided a memory cell. The memory cell comprises: a first and a second electrode; a spin-orbit-torque, SOT, layer comprising a first and a second electrode contact portion arranged in contact with the first and the second electrode, respectively, and an intermediate portion between the first and second electrode contact portions; a first magnetic tunnel junction, MTJ, layer stack arranged in contact with the intermediate portion; and a second MTJ layer stack arranged in contact with the second electrode contact portion and directly above the second electrode. A memory device comprising such a memory cell and a method for writing to such a memory cell are also provided.
US11842755B2
A multilayer exchange spring recording media consists of a magnetically hard magnetic storage layer strongly exchange coupled to a softer nucleation host. The strong exchange coupling can be through a coupling layer or direct. The hard magnetic storage layer has a strong perpendicular anisotropy. The nucleation host consists of one or more ferromagnetic coupled layers. For a multilayer nucleation host the anisotropy increases from layer to layer. The anisotropy in the softest layer of the nucleation host can be two times smaller than that of the hard magnetic storage layer. The lateral exchange between the grains is small. The nucleation host decreases the coercive field significantly while keeping the energy barrier of the hard layer almost unchanged. The coercive field of the total structure depends on one over number of layers in the nucleation host. The invention proposes a recording media that overcomes the writeability problem of perpendicular recording media.
US11842745B2
In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of first images including at least a mouth-related portion of a human uttering a voice, wherein each first image has depth information; obtaining a noisy spectrogram including a first representation of the voice of the human; extracting a plurality of visual features using the first images, wherein one of the visual features is obtained using the depth information of a second image of the first images; extracting a plurality of audio features using the noisy spectrogram; determining a first spectrogram using the visual features and the audio features; subtracting the first spectrogram from the noisy spectrogram, to obtain a purified representation of the voice of the human; and outputting, by an I/O-related outputting device, a response using the purified representation of the voice of the human.
US11842737B2
Techniques are described herein for detecting and/or enrolling (or commissioning) new “hot commands” that are usable to cause an automated assistant to perform responsive action(s) without having to be first explicitly invoked. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be transitioned from a limited listening state into a full speech recognition state in response to a trigger event. While in the full speech recognition state, the automated assistant may receive and perform speech recognition processing on a spoken command from a user to generate a textual command. The textual command may be determined to satisfy a frequency threshold in a corpus of textual commands. Consequently, data indicative of the textual command may be enrolled as a hot command. Subsequent utterance of another textual command that is semantically consistent with the textual command may trigger performance of a responsive action by the automated assistant, without requiring explicit invocation.
US11842732B2
A voice command resolution apparatus, including a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: recognize a voice command of a user in an input sound, analyze a non-speech sound included in the input sound, and determine at least one target Internet of things (IoT) device related to execution of the voice command, based on an analysis result of the non-speech sound.
US11842729B1
In one implementation, a method of generating CGR content to accompany an audio file including audio data and lyric data based on semantic analysis of the audio data and the lyric data is performed by a device including a processor, non-transitory memory, a speaker, and a display. The method includes obtaining an audio file including audio data and lyric data associated with the audio data. The method includes performing natural language analysis of at least a portion of the lyric data to determine a plurality of candidate meanings of the portion of the lyric data. The method includes performing semantic analysis of the portion of the lyric data to determine a meaning of the portion of the lyric data by selecting, based on a corresponding portion of the audio data, one of the plurality of candidate meanings as the meaning of the portion of the lyric data. The method includes generating CGR content associated with the portion of the lyric data based on the meaning of the portion of the lyric data.
US11842727B2
Multi-modal natural language processing systems are provided. Some systems are context-aware systems that use multi-modal data to improve the accuracy of natural language understanding as it is applied to spoken language input. Machine learning architectures are provided that jointly model spoken language input (“utterances”) and information displayed on a visual display (“on-screen information”). Such machine learning architectures can improve upon, and solve problems inherent in, existing spoken language understanding systems that operate in multi-modal contexts.
US11842724B2
A method for training a dialogue learning model includes presenting, via a user interface of a computing device, an utterance and a list of actions based on the utterance. A selection of an action from the list of actions is received via the user interface. A designated span of the utterance is received via the user interface. The selected action and the designated span of the utterance is provided to a computing system for training the dialogue learning model.
US11842723B2
A device may receive audio data based on a capturing of sounds associated with a structure. The device may obtain a model associated with the structure. The model may have been trained to receive the audio data as input, determine a score that identifies a likelihood that a sound is present in the audio data, and identify the sound based on the score. The device may determine at least one parameter associated with the sound. The device may generate a metric based on the at least one parameter associated with the sound, and perform an action based on the metric.
US11842715B2
A vehicle noise cancellation system and method, operable for: receiving local contextual information affecting a soundwave present in a vehicle; receiving remote contextual information affecting the soundwave present in the vehicle; receiving vehicle occupant information; processing the local contextual information, the remote contextual information, and the vehicle occupant information to generate an augmented anti-soundwave; and delivering the augmented anti-soundwave to an occupant of the vehicle to mitigate the soundwave present in the vehicle. Delivering the augmented anti-soundwave to the occupant of the vehicle to mitigate the soundwave present in the vehicle may include delivering the first augmented anti-soundwave to an occupant present in the first zone of the vehicle and delivering the second augmented anti-soundwave to an occupant present in the second zone of the vehicle using a plurality of speakers.
US11842705B2
A display apparatus with low-power consumption is provided. The display apparatus includes an inverter circuit and a pixel having a function of adding data, and the inverter circuit has a function of inverting data supplied from a source driver. The inverter circuit has a function of inverting data supplied from a source driver. The pixel has a function of adding data supplied from the source driver and the inverter circuit. Accordingly, the pixel can generate a voltage several times higher than the output voltage of the source driver and can supply the voltage to a display device. With such a structure, the output voltage of the source driver can be lowered, so that a display apparatus with low power consumption can be achieved.
US11842704B2
A mainboard, display device, displaying method, and computer readable storage medium are provided. The mainboard has at least two display interfaces, a detecting circuit, and a processor. The at least two display interfaces are used for connecting to different displays. The detecting circuit is coupled to the at least two display interfaces, for detecting the electrical signal of the display. The processor is coupled to the detecting circuit, for determining information about the display connected to the display interface based on the electrical signal detected by the detecting circuit.
US11842696B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a current sensor connected to the display panel, a controller including a gray-data voltage storing block, a block load gain extracting block, a block load generating block, a final load generating block, a current control block and a data correction block, and a data driver providing data voltages to the plurality of pixels based on the output image data.
US11842695B2
A display device comprises a substrate, a data link line, a power link line, and a dummy pattern. The substrate includes a display area in which pixels are arranged and a non-display area outside the display area. The data link line is positioned in the non-display area to deliver a predetermined signal to the pixels. The power link line is spaced apart from the data link line at a predetermined distance in the non-display area and delivers a predetermined power to the pixels. The dummy pattern is positioned between the data link line and the power link line in the non-display area.
US11842689B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method of pixel circuit, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a light emitting device, a driving sub-circuit, an energy storage sub-circuit, a data writing sub-circuit and a pull-down sub-circuit; the data writing sub-circuit is configured to control a voltage signal on a data line to be written into a control end of the driving sub-circuit in response to a data writing control signal; a first end of the driving sub-circuit is electrically connected to a target node, a second end of the driving sub-circuit is electrically connected to a power supply voltage, and the driving sub-circuit is configured to control a conduction of the driving sub-circuit under a control of a voltage on a control end of the driving sub-circuit.
US11842687B1
A pixel driving circuit includes a light-emitting component, a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, a compensation capacitor, and first to third control assemblys. A control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal of the driving transistor are correspondingly connected to a point G, a point S and a point D. A first response terminal, a receiving terminal and an output terminal of the first control assembly are correspondingly connected to a first control line, a power line and the point S. A second response terminal, a ground terminal, a data signal terminal and first to third connection terminals of the second control assembly are correspondingly connected to a scan line, a ground line, a data line, the point G, a point Q and a first terminal of the storage capacitor. A second terminal of the storage capacitor is connected to the point S.
US11842681B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a display element layer on one surface of the substrate and including at least one light emitting element emitting light; and a pixel circuit portion on the display element layer and including at least one transistor electrically connected to the light emitting element, wherein the display element layer includes: a first electrode on the substrate and electrically connected to one end of the light emitting element; a second electrode on the substrate and electrically connected to the other end of the light emitting element; and an insulation layer on the substrate including the second electrode, and having a first opening exposing a portion of the second electrode, and wherein the second electrode is electrically connected to the transistor through the first opening.
US11842675B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, a data driving circuit for driving the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit for driving the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller for receiving a control signal and an image signal and controlling the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit such that an image is displayed on the display panel. The driving controller identifies a first region and a second region of an image to be displayed on the display panel based on the image signal and provides the data driving circuit with an image data signal obtained by compensating for the image signal to be provided to pixels adjacent to the second region among pixels corresponding to the first region as a compensation value.
US11842670B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory, a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC), a display, and a processor that generates an image frame, transmits the image frame to the DDIC, and controls the DDIC to drive the display based on the image frame. The DDIC outputs a first timing signal at a first frame period, outputs a second timing signal at a second frame period longer than the first frame period when the reception of the image frame is delayed, and outputs a third timing signal at a third frame period longer than the first frame period and shorter than the second frame period when the image frame is not received for a designated reference time after the second timing signal is output.
US11842666B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus including a first display, a second display, a lens array between the first display and the second display, a first polarization modulation array between the first display and the lens array, a second polarization modulation array between the lens array and the second display, a memory, and at least one processor configured to identify a first area having a luminance lower than a reference luminance in the second display, identify, to control a first luminance of the first area in the second display to be the reference luminance, a first polarization angle variation corresponding to a first area in the first polarization modulation array and a second polarization angle variation corresponding to a first area in the second polarization modulation array, control the first polarization modulation array based on the first polarization angle variation, and control the second polarization modulation array based on the second polarization angle variation.
US11842662B2
A light field near-eye display device and a light field near-eye display method are provided. The light field near-eye display device includes a processor, a display panel, and a lens module. The processor calculates new ray tracing data based on a current eye relief, preset eye relief data, and preset ray tracing data, and adjusts preset image data according to the new ray tracing data to generate adjusted image data. The display panel is coupled to the processor and emits an image beam according to the adjusted image data. The lens module includes a microlens array and is disposed between the display panel and a pupil. The image beam is incident to the pupil through the lens module and displays a light field image.
US11842659B2
A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a display unit having flexibility, at least one roller extending in a first direction to wind or unwind the display unit, a plurality of joints extending along an edge region of the display unit, and a housing in which the display unit, the roller, and the joints are accommodated and into/from which the display unit and the joints are inserted and withdrawn, wherein the display unit includes a display panel having flexibility and in which a display area displaying an image is changed as the display unit is wound around or unwound from the roller, a protective film disposed above the display panel, and a support panel disposed below the display panel.
US11842658B2
The present invention corresponds to a device for positioning elements along a support body, comprising a first plate with a groove on its perimeter and a second plate with a groove on its perimeter, the first plate is in contact with the second plate, wherein the groove of the first plate and the groove of the second plate are coincident, and in which the positioning elements are arranged between the grooves of the first plate and the second plate. Additionally, the first plate and second plate have fastening means allowing them to be fastened to the support body.
US11842655B2
A label stack assembly and method and system for preparing the label stack assembly is disclosed herein. The label stack assembly may be applied to a product in order to provide care instructions in multiple different languages. Individual pages of the label stack assembly may have separate content, such as translations of care instructions into multiple languages, and may be marked by tabs of various shapes, sizes, or styles that may protrude from an edge of the label stack assembly. Tabs may be marked with country codes indicating the translations or other information. The pages of the label stack assembly may be printed on both a front and a back side, such as may be desired, in order to minimize the number of pages used while maximizing the number of care instruction translations or other content pages.
US11842645B2
A method of communicating between a rotary wing platform and a ground terminal via a satellite. The method comprises, at the rotary wing platform, receiving a forward link signal transmitted by the satellite; on the basis of the received forward link signal, estimating at least one obstruction characteristic associated with obstruction of a signal transmission path between the rotary wing platform and the satellite by one or more blades of the rotary wing platform; determining a plurality of time periods during which the at least one obstruction characteristic indicates that the signal transmission path will not be obstructed by the one or more blades of the rotary wing platform; and transmitting to the satellite a bursted carrier return link signal comprising a plurality of bursts, wherein each burst in the plurality of bursts is transmitted during one of the determined time periods.
US11842643B2
A communication control apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an image capturing unit installed in a movable object. The communication control apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a risk area from the image. The communication control apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate location information of the risk area. The communication control apparatus includes a transmission control unit configured to control transmission of risk area information including the location information. The communication control apparatus includes a reception control unit configured to control reception of a response to the risk area information. The communication control apparatus includes an output control unit configured to control output of notification information based on the response.
US11842640B2
The present disclosure relates to a computing system comprising at least one computing device of at least one motor vehicle, and a cloud comprising at least one computing device, at least one application calculating output data from input data being implemented in a divided manner at least partially by the motor vehicle computing device and at least partially on the cloud side.
US11842624B2
A processor: transmits detection information detected by a first device and user information obtained by a second device to a network; determines that a first event occurred based on the detection information and the user information; determines content based on the first event; and notifies the user of the content by transmitting data indicating the content to the first or second device via the network after elapse of a given amount of time predetermined per event from an occurrence of the first event. The first event potentially causes a problem in at least one of a home, property, or physical body of the user, or a service expected by the user. The content is at least one of a product or service for addressing the problem, or insurance that provides compensation for damages incurred by the user if the problem were to actually occur.
US11842613B2
An intelligent entrance detection system is provided where, primarily, any authorized or unauthorized entry to an area of a residential (or small industrial) unit covered by a wireless network is automatically detected from active off-the-shelf devices in that area. After the detection, an identification algorithm is employed to verify if this entry is a legal or illegal action. Based on this verification, either the routine smart home system is activated or a hazardous monitoring period begins to further investigate the suspicious event. If the illegal entrance is confirmed during the hazardous monitoring period, the owner of the property is informed through an intruder alarm protocol. In this invention, all of the analytic and processing steps, including entrance detection, owner identification, and device-free authority verification are designed based on monitoring and quantification of changes in surrounding wireless signals originated by human or object movements within the sensing area.
US11842608B2
Gaming systems that provide an award digit covering and uncovering feature for a gaming environment, wherein when an award triggering event occurs, the part of the award provided to the player is based on which digits of the award are covered and which digits of the uncovered at the time of the occurrence of the award triggering event.
US11842607B2
Various embodiments that may generally relate to mobile gaming, location determination, mobile devices, authentication, and so on are described. Various methods are described. Various apparatus are described. Further embodiments are described.
US11842588B2
A method of providing a user access to an enclosure with an absence of voltage testing device (AVT) includes initiating an absence of voltage test, determining whether the user has appropriate authorization, and providing access to the enclosure.
US11842584B1
A system and method for verifying an aircraft component on an immutable sequential listing is presented. The system comprises a computing device configured to identify an aircraft component of a plurality of aircraft components, wherein each aircraft component of a plurality of aircraft components is associated with a component identifier and verify the aircraft component on an immutable sequential listing as a function of the component identifier.
US11842574B2
The application discloses a main-machine interaction method and system, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: an interaction end collects user information including biological sample information and preprocesses and filters the user information, and sends the preprocessed information to a central server; the central server assigns a biological recognition task and distributes the biological recognition task to a computing server; the computing server extracts biological characteristics from the biological sample information according to the biological recognition task, and returns obtained extraction results to the central server; the central server combines the extraction results to get a processing result; the processing result is returned to the interaction end; the interaction end responds to the processing result to complete a man-machine interaction with the user.
US11842571B2
The present disclosure provides for using multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) to recognize particular user activity, such as particular types of exercises and repetitions of such exercises. The IMUs may be located in consumer products, such as smartwatches and earbuds. Each IMU may include an accelerometer and a gyroscope, each with three axes of measurement, for a total of 12 raw measurement streams. A training image includes a plurality of subplots or tiles, each depicting a separate data stream. The training image is then used to train a machine learning model to recognize IMU data as corresponding to a particular type of exercise.
US11842564B2
Provided is an imaging system capable of stereo-photographing with both of visible and infrared images, and improving color reproducibility in visible-light-photographing. The imaging system includes two imaging sensors, and two DBPFs that have transmittance characteristics in a visible light band and a second wavelength band, are respectively provided correspondingly to the two imaging sensors, and serve as optical filters. The imaging system has: at least four kinds of filters, which have mutual different spectral transmission characteristics corresponding to wavelengths in the visible light band and whose transmissions in a second wavelength band approximate each other; and two color filters provided so as respectively correspond to the two imaging sensors. The imaging system measures a distance to a target based on two visible or infrared image signals.
US11842549B2
The disclosure provides a method and a system for muck truck management in a smart city based on Internet of Things. The method is performed by a management platform, including: obtaining construction site information, determining a target monitoring device of a target site based on the construction site information, obtaining muck truck monitoring data of the target site through the target monitoring device, and performing muck processing information analysis based on the muck truck monitoring data to generate muck truck management information.
US11842548B2
A parking space recognition system includes an external environment information acquiring device and a parking space candidate detecting device. The parking space candidate detecting device includes: a virtual line calculating unit configured to calculate a virtual line connecting road side ends of parking space lines adjacent to each other; an angle calculating unit configured to calculate an angle between the virtual line and one of the parking space lines; a parking type determining unit configured to determine a parking type; and a parking space candidate setting unit configured to set at least one provisional parking space in an area between the parking space lines based on positions of the parking space lines, and to set an available parking area among the provisional parking space to the parking space candidate.
US11842541B1
This invention classifies an action that appears in a video clip by receiving a video clip for analysis, applying a convolutional neural network mechanism (CNN) to the frames in the clip to generate a 4D embedding tensor for each frame in the clip, applying a multi-resolution convolutional neural network mechanism (CNN) to each of the frames in the clip to generate a sequence of reduced resolution blocks, computing a kinematic attention weight that estimates the amount of motion in the block, applying the attention weights to the embedding tensors for each frame in a clip, to generate a weighted embedding tensor, or context, that represents all the frames in the clip, at the resolution, combining the contexts across all resolutions to generate a multi-resolution context, performing a 3D pooling to obtain a 1D feature vector and classifying a primary action of the video clip based on the feature vector.
US11842540B2
Systems and techniques are provided for performing holistic video understanding. For example a process can include obtaining a first video and determining, using a machine learning model decision engine, a first machine learning model from a set of machine learning models to use for processing at least a portion of the first video. The first machine learning model can be determined based on one or more characteristics of at least the portion of the first video. The process can include processing at least the portion of the first video using the first machine learning model.
US11842538B2
A method comprising receiving a first set of aerial images of a geographic area, receiving locations of assets, determining a likely location of at least one asset within each image, creating one or more bounding boxes, encompassing the likely location of one or more assets within each of the images, providing any number of the images to a convolutional neural network to classify pixels, the classification of each of the pixels indicating if the pixels are part of one or more obstructions or are part of a different classification, determining at least one zone, the zone encompassing the at least one asset, determining a distance between at least one pixel part of an obstruction and the zone, generating a criticality score based on the distance, comparing the criticality score to a threshold, and providing an alert of a future hazardous condition based on the criticality score.
US11842526B2
An exemplified methods and systems provides a Volterra filter network architecture that employs a cascaded implementation and a plurality of kernels, a set of which is configured to execute an nth order filter, wherein the plurality of kernels of the nth order filters are repeatedly configured in a plurality of cascading layers of interconnected kernels to form a cascading hierarchical structure that approximates a high-order filter.
US11842524B2
A mechanism is provided for implementing an optical character recognition (OCR) error correction mechanism for correcting OCR errors. Responsive to receiving a document in which OCR has been performed, the mechanism assesses the document to identify a set of OCR errors generated by an OCR engine that performed the OCR using a set of visual embeddings. Responsive to identifying the set of OCR errors, the mechanism analyzes each character of a plurality of sentences within the document to generate a high-dimensional embedding for the characters of the plurality of sentences within the document. The mechanism then linguistically corrects each OCR error in the set of OCR error. The mechanism utilizes ground truth information and the set of visual embeddings to verify that character stream is linguistically correct. Responsive to verifying that the character stream is linguistically correct, the mechanism outputs an OCR error corrected document to a user.
US11842521B1
Disclosed is a system and associated methods for compressing data in a three-dimensional (“3D”) model. The system receives the constructs that form different shapes of a 3D object represented by the 3D model. The system selects a set of the constructs based on the set of constructs forming a particular shape that is compressible with a function. The system defines the function that generates an approximate shape for the particular shape formed by the set of constructs, and compresses the 3D model by replacing the set of constructs with the function. The system may tune the function so that the approximate shape matches the particular shape with more specificity, may define a noise pattern that approximates and applies the non-uniformity of the particular shape to the approximate shape, and may define a gradient pattern that approximates and applies the coloring of the set of constructs to the approximate shape.
US11842519B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire color information about an object and color information about a background in a first image captured by an image capturing apparatus, a storage unit configured to store the acquired color information about the object and the acquired color information about the background, an expansion unit configured to expand, in a three-dimensional color space, the color information about the object and the color information about the background stored in the storage unit, and an extraction unit configured to extract an area of the object from a second image captured by the image capturing apparatus, based on the respective pieces of the color information expanded by the expansion unit.
US11842515B2
Provided is an information processing device that includes a movement estimation unit that estimates position and posture movement by using corresponding-point information obtained based on image capturing, and a corresponding-point information selection unit that selects the corresponding-point information to be used by the movement estimation unit from among a plurality of pieces of corresponding-point information. The plurality of pieces of corresponding-point information includes first corresponding-point information obtained based on image capturing by a first camera set including a first camera and a second camera, and second corresponding-point information obtained based on image capturing by a second camera set including a third camera and a fourth camera. The first camera set has a wider view angle than that of the second camera set. The first camera set and the second camera set have image capturing ranges that are at least partially identical to each other.
US11842511B2
In order to enable, even when an increased number of workers become analysis targets, efficient analysis on work efficiency statuses of workers without putting a greater burden on an administrator to perform setting operations for the analysis, analytical information is produced by performing a joint position estimation based on respective frames of video recordings to estimate joint positions of a worker, performing a posture match determination based on results of the joint position estimation to determine whether or not to achieve a posture match between a posture of the worker in each frame of the video recordings and a predetermined reference body posture, and measuring, based on results of the posture match determination, a working time and a presence time of the worker used as analytical information on a work efficiency status of the worker.
US11842503B2
The invention relates to a device for superimposing known patterns, characteristic of a region, on (real) images of said region. The device comprises, a memory in which patterns are stored, which are representative of a selected region, of known position and orientation with relation to a common reference and processing means, for determining a pattern representative of the selected portion in the memory, on receipt of the designation of at least one portion of an observed image of the selected region, taken at a selected angle and at least one representative attribute of said region, taking account of the attribute selected, then superimposing the determined pattern on the selected portion of the image taking account of the selected angle.
US11842498B2
Systems and methods for anatomical structure segmentation in medical images using multiple anatomical structures, instructions and segmentation models.
US11842485B2
Methods and systems are provided for inferring thickness and volume of one or more object classes of interest in two-dimensional (2D) medical images, using deep neural networks. In an exemplary embodiment, a thickness of an object class of interest may be inferred by acquiring a 2D medical image, extracting features from the 2D medical image, mapping the features to a segmentation mask for an object class of interest using a first convolutional neural network (CNN), mapping the features to a thickness mask for the object class of interest using a second CNN, wherein the thickness mask indicates a thickness of the object class of interest at each pixel of a plurality of pixels of the 2D medical image; and determining a volume of the object class of interest based on the thickness mask and the segmentation mask.
US11842483B2
According to various embodiments, a system and method for processing an image of a biological specimen stained for a presence of at least one lymphocyte biomarker is disclosed. The system and method are configured to detect lymphocytes in the image and compute a foreground segmentation mask based on the lymphocytes detected within the image. Outlines of the detected lymphocytes are identified in the image by filtering the image with the computed foreground segmentation mask. A shape metric may be derived for each of the detected lymphocytes based on the identified lymphocytes outlines. The derived shape metric may be associated with location information for each of the detected lymphocytes and a value of each of the derived shape metric may be compared to a predetermined threshold value. A predictive cell motility label may be assigned to each of the detected lymphocytes based on the comparison.
US11842476B2
A system and method for monitoring a roadway by comparing captured images to image inconsistencies caused by lost or unnecessary motion and for minimizing lost or unnecessary motion of an axle of a vehicle and filtering erroneous pulses of an electrical signal to generate a trigger signal to capture images is presented. The system enables the minimization of image artifacts causing distortion in an image. The system can take images of a target, compute an object pixel size of the image to ensure calibration of longitudinal measurements, and calibrate the rotary encoder with the camera of the machine vision system. The system can enable calibration of the locomotive components in the field to compensate for the misalignment of the machine vision system and provide safe travels.
US11842475B2
According to one embodiment, a holding apparatus holds a moving body and changes a position of the moving body in a second direction perpendicular to a surface of a columnar body. The surface of the columnar body extends in the first direction. The moving body is movable along the first direction. The apparatus includes first and second holders separated from each other. The first holder includes first and second portions separated from each other, and a third portion. The second holder includes fourth and fifth portions separated from each other, and a sixth portion. The moving body is held by the first and second holders in a state in which the moving body is at a hold position. The hold position is where the moving body opposes the third and sixth portions and is between the first and second portions and between the fourth and fifth portions.
US11842468B2
This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that utilize image-guided model inversion of an image classifier with a discriminator. The disclosed systems utilize a neural network image classifier to encode features of an initial image and a target image. The disclosed system also reduces a feature distance between the features of the initial image and the features of the target image at a plurality of layers of the neural network image classifier by utilizing a feature distance regularizer. Additionally, the disclosed system reduces a patch difference between image patches of the initial image and image patches of the target image by utilizing a patch-based discriminator with a patch consistency regularizer. The disclosed system then generates a synthesized digital image based on the constrained feature set and constrained image patches of the initial image.
US11842464B2
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to generate mapping information of a defined area via analysis of visual data of images, including by using attribute information exchanged between paired or otherwise grouped images of multiple types to generate enhanced images, and for using the generated mapping information in further automated manners, including to use the generated mapping information for automated navigation and/or to display or otherwise present the generated mapping information. In some situations, the defined area includes an interior of a multi-room building, and the generated information includes at least one or more enhanced images and/or a partial floor plan and/or other modeled representation of the building, with the generating performed in some cases without having measured depth information about distances from the images' acquisition locations to walls or other objects in the surrounding building.
US11842459B2
A method is implemented at an electronic device for displaying output from an application. The electronic device includes a display module and an application. The application sends to the display module a request to display output on the fixed orientation display. The display module determines whether the application is able to scale the output from the application to fit the fixed orientation display. In accordance with a determination that the application is able to scale the output, the electronic device causes the application to receive information concerning the fixed orientation display from the display module and scale the output for display on the fixed orientation display according to the information. In accordance with a determination that the application is not able to scale the output, the display module scales the output received from the application, thereby enabling the output of the application to be displayed on the fixed orientation display.
US11842445B1
A method for representing a visualization of assets includes receiving a request for a transfer of assets from an electronic computing device having augmented reality (AR) capabilities or virtual reality (VR) capabilities. The request includes a source account, a destination account, and a transfer amount. An image data is generated, which is representative of the transfer amount being transferred from the source account to the destination account. The image data is sent to an image generator of the electronic computing device to be displayed.
US11842443B2
The disclosure describes one or more embodiments of systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify vertex positions of a 3D-object mesh to align the vertices with discontinuities indicated by a sharpness map for a displacement map. For example, the disclosed systems access a sharpness map that encodes discontinuities of a displacement map to preserve sharp features. During sharp tessellation, for a given vertex of the 3D-object mesh, the disclosed systems iterate over neighboring vertices to search for a nearest intersection between one of the incident edges of the vertex and neighboring vertices and a discontinuity line from the sharpness map. Then, the vertex is moved within a threshold distance of the nearest discontinuity line intersection along the incident edge. The disclosed systems similarly reposition other vertices of the 3D-object mesh to generate a modified 3D-object mesh that includes vertices that align with discontinuities present in a displacement map.
US11842442B2
In one embodiment, one or more computing systems may access a plurality of images corresponding to a portion of a face of a user. The plurality of images is captured from different viewpoints by a plurality of cameras coupled to an artificial-reality system worn by the user. The one or more computing systems may synthesize, using a machine-learning model, to generate a synthesized image corresponding to the portion of the face of the user. The one or more computing systems may access a three-dimensional (3D) facial model representative of the face of the user and generate a texture image by projecting the synthesized image onto the 3D facial model from a specific camera pose. The one or more computing systems may cause an output image of a facial representation of the user to be rendered using at least the 3D facial model and the texture image.
US11842428B2
A cemetery geospatial mapping system and methods are provided for interactive map-based searching of cemetery properties. The cemetery geospatial mapping system comprises a mapping tools system that includes a component systems package. The component systems package comprises a mapping system that enables end-users to add GPS coordinates to cemetery property records, automates mapping and overlaying of the cemetery properties onto satellite imagery, and enables the end-users to visually interact with information associated with the cemetery properties. A dynamic pricing system uses machine-learning algorithms to analyze data so as to provide the end-users with an optimal price recommendation for each property and unit of inventory. The dynamic pricing system maximizes profits based on predefined characteristics associated with the properties and units of inventory. A host site is stored on an application server system and accessible to the end-users by way of a communications network, such as the Internet.
US11842426B2
The disclosure discloses methods for determining fitting model for a signal, reconstructing a signal and devices thereof. The determination method may comprise the following steps: segmenting a sampled signal based on collected characteristic information of the signal to obtain a plurality of signal segments; fitting sampling points in the plurality of signal segments using a plurality of fitting models; acquiring fitted values for a parameter of interest in each signal segment based on fitting results; comparing each of the fitted values for the parameter of interest under each of the fitting models with an acquired measurement value for the parameter of interest, and determining a final fitting model for reconstructing the signal among the plurality of the fitting models based on comparison results. In the technical solution provided in the disclosure, the accuracy of the signal reconstruction result and precision of the signal reconstruction may be improved.
US11842425B2
The present disclosure provides an interaction method, an interaction apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium, which relate to the technical field of image processing. The method includes: displaying a background image; displaying an initial picture of a target visual effect at a preset position of the background image; controlling the target visual effect to gradually change from the initial picture to a target picture in response to a visual effect change instruction triggered by a user; and adjusting a filter effect of the background image to allow the filter effect of the background image to gradually change from a first filter effect to a second filter effect during a change of the target visual effect.
US11842424B2
Disclosed is an image sensing device including a plurality of current cells whose total number to be used is adjusted based on a plurality of enable signals, and which are sequentially controlled based on a reset signal and a plurality of selection signals; a current-voltage conversion circuit suitable for converting a plurality of unit currents, which are supplied from current cells used among the plurality of current cells, into a ramp signal; and a first control circuit suitable for generating the plurality of enable signals based on a maximum conversion code value corresponding to a slope of the ramp signal.
US11842421B1
The present disclosure provides a watermark embedding method including following steps. Values of predetermined grayscale program are respectively multiplied by a value of time series data to generate grayscale information of a watermark signal. In a first time period and a second time period included in each of continuous cycles, phases of the time series data are opposite and averages values of the predetermined grayscale program are the same, and a sum of the grayscale information of the watermark signal in the first time period and the second time period is zero. The watermark signal is embedded into a first local dimming signal by the processing circuit to generate a second local dimming signal to control light intensities of local dimming zones according to the second local dimming data with the watermark information.
US11842412B2
An aggregated distribution system includes an HVAC controller, a battery controller, and an aggregated data management engine. The aggregated data management engine is configured to retrieve an HVAC energy usage profile and retrieve a battery energy usage profile. The aggregated distribution system also includes distribution engine configured to forward a first set of HVAC dual variables and forward a first set of battery dual variables to a first neighboring unit of the aggregated distribution system, receive one or more additional sets of HVAC dual variables and one or more additional sets of battery dual variables from one or more neighboring units of the aggregated distribution system, update the HVAC energy usage profile with the one or more additional sets of HVAC dual vehicles and update the battery energy usage profile with the one or more additional sets of battery dual vehicles.
US11842407B2
A parametric instrument having a cost and a payout is administered relating to business interruption of an instrument holder. Administration includes measuring economic activity in a plurality of commerce zones using objective data over a period of time, and determining conditions of whether the economic activity in one of the plurality of commerce zones drops by a predefined percentage relative to others of the plurality of commerce zones, whether the economic activity drop is unpredictable, and whether the economic activity drop is sustained over a predefined period of time. When the conditions are satisfied, the payout is automatically paid to the instrument holder.
US11842398B2
A system and a method automatically enable unconstrained inputs of data including a price that relate to a proposed new or modified trade orders between counterparties for submission to an electronic trading system that enforces constraints on the inputs relating to the proposed trades that can be submitted by the counterparties.
US11842392B2
A method for employing adaptive credit decisions in relation to extension of a loan to a user may include receiving user information associated with the user and transaction information associated with a transaction of the user with respect to a product or service offered by a vendor, employing a first credit decision model to execute a first credit extension decision with respect to a first type of financing option based on the user information and the transaction information, employing a second credit decision model to execute a second credit extension decision with respect to a second type of financing option based on the user information and the transaction information, and determining, based on the first and second credit extension decisions, whether to extend a credit offer to the user when the user proceeds to checkout for the transaction.
US11842391B2
Systems and methods for activity risk management are disclosed. A system for activity risk management may include a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute instructions to perform operations including: accessing document data associated with at least one of a transaction or an individual; normalizing the document data; classifying the normalized document data; extracting model input data from the classified document data; applying a machine learning model to the extracted model input data to score the document data, the machine learning model having been trained to generate a favorability output indicating a favorability of the transaction or individual; and generating analysis data based on the scored document data.
US11842388B1
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and mobile computing device apparatus for detecting the physical presence of a bank customer at a bank branch, and delivering an enhanced customer service experience by anticipating the bank customer's needs. Detection of the bank customer through visual data such as facial recognition, or electronic data such as medium range electronic communication networks to the customer's mobile computing device, allow a bank to retrieve relevant customer profile and customer transaction history data and use that data to deliver communications to the customer even before the customer speaks to a bank teller.
US11842379B2
The computing device obtains a training data set related to a plurality of historic user inputs associated with preferences of one or more services or items from an entity. For each of the one or more services or items, the computing device executes operations to train a plurality of models using the training data set to generate a plurality of recommended models, apply a validation data set to generate a plurality of predictions from the plurality of recommended models, obtain a weight of each metric of a plurality of metrics from the entity, obtain user inputs associated with user preferences, and determine a relevancy score for each metric. The computing device selects a recommended model based on the relevancy score of the selected metric or a combination of selected metrics, generates one or more recommendations for the users, and outputs the one or more generated recommendations to the users.
US11842376B2
The present disclosure provides techniques for curating search results. A first request to look up an identifier for an item is received from a first user, and first tracking information corresponding to movements of the first user in a physical space is retrieved. At least one item associated with the first user while moving in the physical space is identified from the first tracking information. A first identifier of the at least one item is determined, and the first identifier is provide to the first user.
US11842339B2
There may be provided a computer-implemented method. It may be implemented using a blockchain network such as, for example, the Bitcoin network. The computer-implemented method includes: i) attaching a digital asset of a first party to an exchange platform by: a) computing a first shared key associated with the digital asset using a key of the first party and a first key of the exchange platform; and b) depositing the digital asset to a blockchain network by: 1) generating a funding transaction payable to any party from the digital asset using the first shared key; and 2) broadcasting the funding transaction to the blockchain network; and ii) reassociating the digital asset from the first party to the second party by: a) computing a second key of the exchange platform using a key of the second party such that: 1) the key of the first party becomes invalid; and 2) a second shared key associated with the digital asset that is computed from the key of the second party and the second key of the exchange platform is equal to the first shared key associated with the digital asset; and b) replacing the first key of the exchange platform with a second key of the exchange platform.
US11842338B2
A payment method and apparatus wherein a customer sends a transaction message from a customer account for a current transaction to a payment processor and to a supplier including a hash of transaction information from a previous transaction of the customer with the payment processor, a hash of transaction information from the current transaction and an encryption of transaction information for the current transaction including a state of the transaction. The transaction information from the current transaction along with the hash of the transaction information from the previous transaction is stored in a stream of transaction data in the customer account by the customer. The payment processor compares the hash of the transaction information from the previous transaction with a stored hash of the transaction information from the previous transaction to authenticate the customer.
US11842337B1
Systems and methods for providing analytics data to payment facilitators and sub-merchants via a dynamic dashboard, in response to receiving transaction data from one or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In one implementation, a method includes receiving transaction data and a unique identifier of a sub-merchant, analyzing that data, and transmitting an unrequested analytics report to a dashboard.
US11842335B2
The present disclosure provides a computer implemented method for maintaining a record of an order of messages appearing on one or more blockchains, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of messages, wherein each of the messages in the plurality of transactions is included on any of the one or more blockchains; and storing a record of the plurality of messages in a data store, wherein the record is indicative of the relative order of the plurality of transactions.
US11842329B2
A computer-implemented method for cloud-based management of payment devices includes connecting a point of interaction device (POI) to a terminal management engine (TME) through a computer network, downloading operating software for the POI and configuration files for the POI from the TME to the POI, initializing the POI using the operating software, and configuring the POI using the configuration files. An alternative computer-implemented includes connecting to a POI through a computer network, receiving a transaction request from a TMC through the computer network, confirming access to the POI, transmitting a request for consumer information to the POI, receiving requested consumer information from the POI, transmitting the requested consumer information to the TMC, receiving a transaction approval message or a transaction decline message from the TMC, and transmitting the transaction approval message or the transaction decline message to the POI.
US11842327B2
A method and an invoice analytics system (IAS) for analyzing an entity's business service transactional invoice data (BSTID) and performing invoice analytics (IA) in real time and/or at weekly, monthly intervals are provided. The IAS extracts contract line item (CLI) data from contracts and stores the CLI data in a CLI database. The IAS transforms the CLI data into a quick view format and generates a contract quick view interface that displays the CLI data. The IAS extracts and segments invoice line item (ILI) data from aggregated BSTID, stores the ILI data in an ILI database, and reconciles the invoices in accordance with the contracts by identifying and rectifying errors and off-contract business service items. The IAS performs IA on the ILI data for computing cost savings and generates an interactive, dynamic, and searchable IA report including graphical data representations of purchase patterns, outliers, variations, and predictive analytics.
US11842321B1
This disclosure describes techniques for determining product volumes associated with products in a facility. These product volumes may be used to update planogram data associated with a facility, with the planogram data indicating inventory locations within the facility for various types of items supported by product fixtures. The planogram data may be used, in some instances, to update virtual carts of users interacting with the items in the facility.
US11842320B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful in retail store inventory storage and retrieval. Some embodiments provide systems, comprising: a rack system positioned above a dropdown ceiling and extending over the sales floor, and comprising: a plurality of racks, a rail system and the plurality of access passages; a plurality of unmanned vehicles; a plurality of access stations, wherein the access stations physically cooperate with one of the access passages; each rack comprises storage cells to receive a reusable tote; and wherein the central control circuit is configured to receive a request for a first product, identify a first access station, access the inventory tracking system to identify a first storage cell in which the first product is stored, identify an available unmanned vehicle, and communicate to the unmanned vehicle directing the unmanned vehicle to retrieve the tote and transport the tote to the first access station.
US11842317B2
The disclosed technologies include receiving a request from a second computing device to verify ownership of a blockchain address. A challenge content is generated and sent to the requestor. A signature is received comprising a hash of the challenge content generated using a private key. A public key corresponding to the private key is obtained, and the signature is validated using the public key. In response to validating the signature, a characteristic is associated with a user associated with the blockchain address.
US11842310B2
A risk assessment system is provided and includes a transceiver, an output device, and activity, localization, tracking, and risk assessment modules. The activity module: receives signals from sensors or electrical devices of a supporting structure; and tracks activities in or within a set distance of the supporting structure to generate an activity history log. The localization module relates the activities to aspects of the supporting structure and generates corresponding localization data. The transceiver receives a notification key identifying a network device used by a user exposed to a contaminant. The tracking module, in response to the notification key, tracks contamination states of the aspects of the supporting structure contacted directly or indirectly by the user. The risk assessment module determines and reports an exposure risk level of an occupant of the supporting structure based on the contamination states, the localization data and the activity history log.
US11842301B1
The present disclosure discloses a method for monitoring distributed energy storage safety and an Internet of Things system. The method includes utilizing a data acquiring unit to monitor operating data on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage device and transmitting the operating data to an LNG distributed energy management platform; the management platform determining abnormal data in the perception information according to an anomaly judgment condition and performing a pseudo data verification and labeling on the abnormal perception information; performing an anomaly prediction analysis according to an early warning mechanism; sending an alarm prompt to field maintenance personnel according to the abnormal data; and the field maintenance personnel performing a two-way confirmation with the management platform after processing. The present disclosure can determine abnormal data and verify and screen out pseudo data, send an alarm prompt to maintenance personnel, maintain an abnormal storage device, henceforth improving the efficiency of safety supervision of energy storage.
US11842298B2
Expedited transaction processing using a database of integrated in-store and online transactions is described. First transaction information associated with a first transaction conducted in a physical store of a merchant and second transaction information associated with a second transaction conducted via an online store of the merchant can be received. The first transaction can be processed based at least partly on the first transaction information and a record of the first transaction can be stored in the database. Based at least partly on the record, the second transaction can be processed using at least a portion of the second transaction information by (i) sending, to a card authorization service, the second payment information and (ii) generating an indication that the first payment information was authorized for the first transaction at the physical store. A computing device of the online store can be notified that the second transaction is allowed.
US11842273B2
To perform neural network processing to modify an input data array to generate a corresponding output data array using a filter comprising an array of weight data, at least one of the input data array and the filter are subdivided into a plurality of portions, a plurality of neural network processing passes using the portions are performed, and the output generated by each processing pass is combined to provide the output data array.
US11842268B2
The invention provides a method for evaluating a set of input data, the input data comprising at least one of: clinical data of a subject; genomic data of a subject; clinical data of a plurality of subjects; and genomic data of a plurality of subjects, using a deep learning algorithm. The method includes obtaining a set of input data, wherein the set of input data comprises raw data arranged into a plurality of data clusters and tuning the deep learning algorithm based on the plurality of data clusters. The deep learning algorithm comprises: an input layer; an output layer; and a plurality of hidden layers. The method further includes performing statistical clustering on the raw data using the deep learning algorithm, thereby generating statistical clusters and obtaining a marker from each statistical cluster. Finally, the set of input data is evaluated based on the markers to derive data of medical relevance in respect of the subject or subjects.
US11842265B2
Disclosed in a processor chip configured to perform neural network processing. The processor chip includes a memory, a first processor configured to perform neural network processing on a data stored in the memory, a second processor and a third processor, and the second processor is configured to transmit a control signal to the first processor and the third processor to cause the first processor and the third processor to perform an operation.
US11842262B2
A design application is configured to generate a latent space representation of a fleet of pre-existing vehicles. The design application encodes vehicle designs associated with the fleet of pre-existing vehicles into the latent space representation to generate a first latent space location. The first latent space location represents the characteristic style associated with the fleet of pre-existing vehicles. The design application encodes a sample design provided by a user into the latent space representation to produce a second latent space location. The design application then determines a distance between the first latent space location and the second latent space location. Based on the distance, the design application generates a style metric that indicates the aesthetic similarity between the sample design and the vehicle designs associated with the fleet of pre-existing vehicles. The design application can also generate new vehicle designs based on the latent space representation and the sample design.
US11842256B2
Embodiments for ensemble training in a distributed marketplace in a computing environment. One or more ensemble machine learning models may be provided from a plurality of machine learning models competing within the distributed marketplace that achieve a performance on ensemble training data equal to or greater than a selected performance threshold, wherein the distributed marketplace is a blockchain.
US11842242B2
Provided is a mounting member with an IC tag, the mounting member being easily manufactured and configured so as to not have constraints in terms of attachment orientation. The mounting member with an IC tag is provided with: a shaft-shaped section 1 having a shaft-shaped insert part 11 and a base part 12 which is formed by one end section of the insert part 11 protruding in the width direction; an IC tag 2 fixed to a surface 123 of the base part 12; and a resin head part 3 which is molded to at least the surface 123 side of the base part 12 so as to seal the IC tag 2. Male threads are preferably formed on the insert part 11.
US11842231B2
A cloud-based API metadata management method and system. The cloud-based API metadata management method includes the step of installing an API tool by loading the API tool stored in a database by an API tool installation unit of a cloud server, the step of defining a standard API by the API tool installation unit of the cloud server, and creating an API for each hospital server by an API creation unit, and the step of testing the created API for each hospital server by a test unit of the cloud server, correcting data if there is error data, and storing and distributing the data and API for each hospital server if there is no error data.
US11842226B2
A power evaluation tool for a system on a chip is disclosed. The tool includes a power profiling plug-in module executed by a processor on the chip to collect a snapshot of register data of components on the chip associated with power consumption by the system during a certain time. The collected register data is streamed to an external computing device. A data parser module receives the streamed collected register data on the external computing device. A spreadsheet generator module creates a spreadsheet of the collected register data. An interface module displays a graphic representation of the collected register data on a display.
US11842221B2
Techniques are disclosed for utilizing directed acyclic graphs for deployment instructions. A computer-implemented method can include various operations. Instructions may be executed by a computing device to perform parses of configuration data associated with deploying one or more services to various execution targets. The computing device may cause a first graph to be generated that indicates dependencies between tasks associated with deploying the service(s). A second graph may be generated that specifies dependencies between different deployments of the service(s) to the execution target(s). Services may be deployed based on traversing the first and second graph.
US11842219B2
Computer agents can be throttled individually. In an example, when a computer agent completes a work item, the computer agent reports this to a central component that maintains a vote value for that agent and that increases the respective vote value based on the completed work item. When the central component determines that system performance is sufficiently diminished, central component can throttle the performance of those computer agents having respective vote values above a predetermined threshold value.
US11842216B2
A new processing architecture is described that utilizes a data processing unit (DPU). Unlike conventional compute models that are centered around a central processing unit (CPU), the DPU that is designed for a data-centric computing model in which the data processing tasks are centered around the DPU. The DPU may be viewed as a highly programmable, high-performance I/O and data-processing hub designed to aggregate and process network and storage I/O to and from other devices. The DPU comprises a network interface to connect to a network, one or more host interfaces to connect to one or more application processors or storage devices, and a multi-core processor with two or more processing cores executing a run-to-completion data plane operating system and one or more processing cores executing a multi-tasking control plane operating system. The data plane operating system is configured to support software functions for performing the data processing tasks.
US11842201B2
A portable electronic device includes a main system circuit, a storage, a power button, a power-off trigger circuit, a system power-off circuit, a power supply circuit, and a configuration power-off circuit. The power-off trigger circuit is coupled to the power button and provides a system power-off signal and a configuration power-off signal when the power button is detected to be continuously pressed and a pressing time is greater than a predetermined time. The system power-off circuit is coupled to the power-off trigger circuit and the power supply circuit and stops providing the main system circuit with a system power supply voltage provided by the power supply voltage according to the system power-off signal. The configuration power-off circuit is coupled to the power-off trigger circuit and the storage and drives the configuration power supply voltage provided to the storage down to a ground voltage according to the configuration power-off signal.
US11842200B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of load buses and a load store unit that includes a plurality of load ports to access the plurality of load buses. The load store unit performs a gather operation to concurrently gather a plurality of subsets of data from a memory via the plurality of load buses in a first mode. The apparatus also includes a register that is partitioned into a plurality of portions to hold the plurality of subsets of data provided by the load store unit. The load store unit ignores exceptions or faults while performing the gather operation in the first mode and transitions to a second mode in response to an exception or fault. Two lanes are dispatched to concurrently perform the gather operation per clock cycle in the first mode and a single lane is dispatched to perform the gather operation per clock cycle in the second mode.
US11842199B2
An asynchronous pipeline includes a first stage and one or more second stages. A controller provides control signals to the first stage to indicate a modification to an operating speed of the first stage. The modification is determined based on a comparison of a completion status of the first stage to one or more completion statuses of the one or more second stages. In some cases, the controller provides control signals indicating modifications to an operating voltage applied to the first stage and a drive strength of a buffer in the first stage. Modules can be used to determine the completion statuses of the first stage and the one or more second stages based on the monitored output signals generated by the stages, output signals from replica critical paths associated with the stages, or a lookup table that indicates estimated completion times.
US11842196B2
Obsoleting values stored in registers in a processor based on processing obsolescent register-encoded instructions is disclosed. The processor is configured to support execution of read and/or write instructions that include obsolescence encoding indicating that one or more of its source and/or target register operands are to be obsoleted by the processor. A register encoded as obsolescent means the data value stored in such register will not be used by subsequent instructions in an instruction stream, and thus does not need to be retained. Thus, such register can be set as being in an obsolescent state so that the data value stored in such register can be ignored to improve performance. As one example, data values for registers having an obsolescent state can be ignored and thus not stored in a saved context for a process being switched out, thus conserving memory and improving processing time for a process switch.
US11842193B2
An arithmetic device includes an arithmetic circuit configured to perform an arithmetic operation to output arithmetic result data and a data output unit configured to feedback bias data to the arithmetic circuit prior to the arithmetic operation.
US11842189B2
A method, including accessing a corpus or infrastructure as code modules including respective resource definitions for provisioning and deploying a plurality of computing resources configured to execute one or more software applications. A repository of validation rules are accessed that define respective acceptable configuration parameters for the resource definitions, and the validation rules are applied to the resource definitions so as to identify a first set of the resource definitions not in compliance with the validation rules and a second set of the resource definitions in compliance with the validation rules. A first resource definition not in compliance with a given validation rule is selected from the first set, and one or more second resource definitions are identified in the second set that are compliant with the given validation rule. Finally, the first and the second resource definitions are output together to invoke a revision of the first resource definition.
US11842181B2
An example method of creating a software image from software executing on a host in a virtualized computing system includes: obtaining, by an image generator executing in the virtualized computing system, an image metadata from the host, the image metadata describing a running image of a hypervisor executing on the host; identifying, from the image metadata, a plurality of software installation bundles (SIBs) used to install the running image on the host; obtaining, from the image metadata, SIB descriptors and SIB signatures for the plurality of SIBs; obtaining, from storage on the host, payloads referenced in the image metadata for the SIBs; and recreating the plurality of SIBs from the SIB descriptors, the SIB signatures, and the payloads.
US11842177B2
Computer systems and methods are provided for compiling a computer program to run on a quantum processor comprising a plurality of qubits, qudits or quantum continuous variables. A compiler obtains the program in a unified language, that is effectively a classical language, as opposed to a quantum language, and performs code refactoring on all or a portion of the program to form a refactored code and converts the refactored code into a first code. The compiler compiles the first code into a second code comprising a plurality of data elements in one or more quantum data structures. The compiler converts the second code to a third code expressed in a quantum gate-level language in accordance with an instruction set and gate locality constraints of the target quantum processor.
US11842163B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for generating prediction information, and an electronic device and a medium. One embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring at least one input word; generating a word vector of each input word of the at least one input word to obtain a word vector set, wherein the at least one input word is obtained by performing word segmentation on target input text; generating an input text vector on the basis of the word vector set; and on the basis of the input text vector and a user vector, generating prediction information for predicting a user intention, wherein the user vector is obtained on the basis of user historical record information. In this embodiment, prediction information for predicting a user intention is generated, such that the popping up of unnecessary information is reduced. A user can be prevented from being disturbed, thereby improving the user experience.
US11842162B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient natural language processing (NLP) solutions. This need can be addressed by, for example, solutions for performing NLP-based document prioritization by utilizing joint sentiment-topic (JST) modeling. In one example, a method comprises identifying a JST latent distribution of the digital document that describes topic designation probabilities and sentiment designation probabilities for the digital document; determining, by processing the topic designation probabilities, a document-topic entropy measure for the digital document; determining, by processing the sentiment designation probabilities, a sentiment-topic entropy measure for the digital document; determining, by processing per-word inverse domain frequency measures for the digital, a document popularity measure for the digital document; generating the predicted document priority score based on the document-topic entropy measure, the sentiment-topic entropy measure, and the document popularity measure; and performing one or more prediction-based actions based on the predicted document priority score.
US11842151B2
A method of and system of for compressing and decompressing a localized software resource is disclosed. The method may include receiving a software resource, the software resource being in a first language, receiving a localized software resource for compression, where the software resource in the first language is a counterpart of the localized software resource in the second language. Upon receiving the software resources creating a first local dictionary for the localized software resource based at least in part on one or more first language words in the software resource and on data from a global dictionary, and compressing the localized software resource based on the local dictionary.
US11842149B2
A method for maintenance of a machine among a fleet of machines includes receiving a service request corresponding to the machine. The method also includes obtaining a service architecture corresponding to the fleet of machines. The service architecture includes a service dictionary and a plurality of classification schemes organized in a tree data structure. The method also includes processing the service request based on the service dictionary and a text parsing technique to generate a list of descriptive words. The method includes generating a recommendation based on the list of descriptive words and the service architecture. The recommendation includes at least one of an on-line repair activity, an on-site repair activity and a part replacement activity. The method also includes servicing the fault condition of the machine based on the recommendation.
US11842115B2
A printer may include a controller configured to: in a case where a predetermined instruction is obtained from a user under a situation where a service state of the printer for receiving a print job providing service from a server is a disabled state, shift the service state from the disabled state to an enabled state; in a case where a registration instruction to register printer information related to the printer in the server is obtained, send the printer information to the server; in a case where the registration instruction is obtained under the situation where the service state is the disabled state, shift the service state from the disabled state to the enabled state without obtaining the predetermined instruction from the user.
US11842112B2
A system includes a first print service connected to a client terminal, a second print service connected to an image forming apparatus, and a third print service. The first print service receives a print job from the client terminal and transmits the received print job to the third print service by using first authorization information for accessing the third print service. The second printing service receives identification information for identifying the print job from the image forming apparatus, acquires the print job identified by the identification information from the third print service by using the second authorization information for accessing the third print service, and transmits the acquired print job to the image forming apparatus.
US11842111B2
An image forming apparatus capable of transmitting paper attribute information set during job interruption. The image forming apparatus, which has an image forming device and a paper feeding part storing paper and is communicable with a management server, holds paper attribute information in association with the paper feeding part, executes an image forming job that causes the image forming device to perform a series of image forming using the paper stored in the paper feeding part, generates an execution log of the image forming job based on the attribute information, and when the attribute information corresponding to the paper feeding part is changed during the execution of the image forming job, generates an execution log including the attribute information before/after the change and transmits the generated execution log to the management server.
US11842105B2
A print system communicable with an image forming apparatus to be installed in a store via a network includes one or more memories storing a set of instructions and one or more processors that execute the set of instructions to receive user identification information from the image forming apparatus, permit, in a case where a user indicated by the received user identification information is in the store, the user to use the image forming apparatus, and not permit, in a case where the user indicated by the received user identification information is not in the store, the user to use the image forming apparatus.
US11842103B2
In a case where both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address are available in a printing apparatus, a Bluetooth low energy advertising packet including the available IPv4 address but not the available IPv6 address is generated and periodically transmitted.
US11842101B2
Techniques and mechanisms are provided for causing a first terminal apparatus connected to a first network to: determine whether the first terminal apparatus is being used in a form in which a second terminal apparatus connected to a second network is remotely controlled, perform control, in a case where the first terminal apparatus is not being used in the form, so that a first driver is installed on the first terminal apparatus, the first driver being used by the first terminal apparatus to transmit a print job to a first image forming apparatus connected to the first network, and perform control, in a case where the first terminal apparatus is being used in the form, so that a second driver is installed on the second terminal apparatus, the second driver being used by the second terminal apparatus to transmit the print job to the first image forming apparatus.
US11842091B2
A method of controlling an information processing apparatus configured to execute an extension application associated with printing data generation software operatable in the information processing apparatus to extend a function includes: adding information on an extended function to printing function information used in the printing data generation software; switching in accordance with a setting value stored in common information shared with the extension application whether to perform skip processing in which conversion processing of intermediate data performed by the printing data generation software is skipped; and editing the intermediate data in which the conversion processing is skipped in the printing data generation software in the switching and converting the edited intermediate data into printing data.
US11842090B2
An image forming apparatus manages whether or not job information is displayed for each stored print job, displays notification information for notifying a user that the print job is stored if there is a print job of which the job information has not been displayed, and does not display the notification information if there is no print job of which the job information has not been displayed.
US11842087B2
An image printing apparatus, which displays a two-dimensional code, includes: a display device; a two-dimensional code key configured to receive an operation from a user; and an LED equipped separately from the display device and configured to provide a predetermined notification separately from a screen displayed by the display device. A CPU is configured to control the display device to display a predetermined screen and the LED is configured to provide the predetermined notification based on a case where a predetermined condition for changing a screen displayed by the display unit is satisfied, and the CPU is configured to control the display unit to display the predetermined code in a case where the operation is received by the two-dimensional code key from the user while the predetermined screen is being displayed by the display device and the predetermined notification is being provided by the LED.
US11842079B2
A memory controller that is formed to be able to issue a first write command for writing data of a predetermined length into a DRAM and a second write command for writing data which is less than the predetermined length in the DRAM is provided. The memory controller comprises a deciding unit configured to decide an issuance order of a request stored in the storage unit. In a period from the issuance of a preceding DRAM command until a second write command targeting the same bank as the preceding DRAM command is issued, if another DRAM command targeting a bank different from the bank targeted by the preceding DRAM command can be issued, the deciding unit will decide the issuance order so that the other DRAM command that can be issued will be issued before the second write command.
US11842076B2
A storage system includes a storage device and an overlap checker. The overlap checker receives I/O commands of the storage device, extracts characteristics of the received I/O commands, issues a first merge command including N first I/O commands among the I/O commands in response to the extracted characteristics, wherein ‘N’ is a natural number greater than 1. And each of the first I/O commands instructs operation on a position corresponding to an offset in a region of the storage device corresponding to a logical address, wherein the characteristics of the I/O commands include the logical address and the offset.
US11842073B2
The present disclosure relates to a memory controller and a method of operating the memory controller. The memory controller controlling a memory device including a plurality of planes includes a central processing unit (CPU) generating a command corresponding to a request from a host, a command queue storing the command, counter logic assigning to the command, number information corresponding to an order in which the command is generated and flag information indicating a level at which an operation corresponding to the command is performed, and a command queue controller controlling the command queue to transfer the command stored in the command queue to one of the plurality of planes corresponding to the command on the basis of the number information and the flag information.
US11842070B2
The application discloses a device and a method for picking up top k values from N values. The method comprises: A) controlling a buffer to receive values into a data pool until the number of values in the data pool reaches the predetermined memory size; B) dividing the values in the data pool into a first portion and a second portion; C) discarding the values in the second portion and controlling the buffer to continue to receive values into the data pool; D) repeating steps B to C until the buffer has received all the N values; E) dividing the values in the data pool into the first portion and the second portion until the number of values in the first portion reaches k; and F) controlling the buffer to output the k values in the first portion as the top k values.
US11842068B2
Systems and methods are described for using a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent to automatically tune Quality of Service (QoS) settings of a distributed storage system (DSS). According to one embodiment, a DRL agent is trained in a simulated environment to select QoS settings (e.g., a value of one or more of a minimum IOPS parameter, a maximum IOPS parameter, and a burst IOPS parameter). The training may involve placing the DRL agent into every feasible state representing combinations of QoS settings, workload conditions, and system metrics for a period of time for multiple iterations, and rewarding the DRL agent for selecting QoS settings that minimize an objective function based on a selected measure of system load. The trained DRL agent may then be deployed to one or more DSSs to constantly update QoS settings so as to minimize the selected measure of system load.
US11842067B2
A memory controller includes a read operation controller, an error correction circuit, and a read voltage controller. The read operation controller controls a memory device to read pieces of data from a selected page of the memory device by read voltages having different levels. The error correction circuit determines fail bit numbers of the pieces of data. The read voltage controller selects a reference voltage variation from among voltage variations included in a first read voltage table, based on an erase write cycle count of the memory device, and a reference fail bit number indicating a largest fail bit number of the fail bit numbers, and adjusts a level of each of the read voltages based on the reference voltage variation and a ratio value of a corresponding one of the fail bit numbers to the reference fail bit number.
US11842046B2
A storage fragment management method and a terminal. The method may be applied to a file system of the terminal, and the file system includes at least one segment. The method includes: first determining, by the terminal, a source segment from the file system based on an aging degree of the segment and a valid block ratio of the segment; then determining, by the terminal from the file system based on an aging degree of the source segment, a target segment whose aging degree is consistent with the aging degree of the source segment; and finally migrating, by the terminal, data of a valid block in the source segment to an idle block in the target segment. This method is used to resolve a problem that power consumption is high when data migration is performed on a storage fragment in an existing log-structured file system.
US11842041B2
A system including an electronic processor, a transceiver communicatively coupled to the electronic processor, a display communicatively coupled to the electronic processor and a non-transient memory medium communicatively coupled to the electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to generate a graphical representation based on at least one configuration file, the graphical representation including a button, present the graphical representation on the display, receive, via the display, a user input indicative of selecting the button, and transmit, via the transceiver, a lighting system control command based selection of the button.
US11842021B2
An electronic apparatus includes an electronic panel including a plurality of sensing groups spaced apart from each other, and an electronic module overlapping with the electronic panel in a plan view. Each of the sensing groups includes a first sensing electrode extending in a second direction, and second sensing electrodes spaced apart from each other in the second direction, located on the same layer as the first sensing electrode, and face the first sensing electrode in a first direction. An opening overlapping with the electronic module and penetrating a first sensing group of the sensing groups is defined in the electronic panel, and at least one selected from the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrodes of the first sensing group extends along an edge of the opening.
US11842013B2
A touch screen driving circuit for driving a touch screen which includes a display layer and a touch sensor layer on the display layer is provided. The touch screen driving circuit includes: a touch controller configured to provide a plurality of drive signals respectively to a plurality of first electrodes of the touch sensor layer, in a driving period, wherein the plurality of drive signals are phase synchronized during a first sub-period of the driving period; and a display driving circuit configured to provide a compensation signal to at least some of a plurality of source lines of the display layer in the first sub-period of the driving period, wherein the plurality of compensation signals are phase synchronized opposite to the plurality of drive signals in the first sub-period.
US11842008B2
A self-capacitance touch screen, a method of detecting thereof, and a device for detecting thereof are provided. The method of detecting the self-capacitance touch screen includes following steps: outputting same driving signals to a to-be-scanned sensor pad group and an adjacent sensor pad group and correspondingly recognizing coordinates of touch points according to changes in received driving signals.
US11841999B2
Provided are a pen state detection circuit, a pen state detection system, and a pen state detection method that can improve estimation accuracy for a pen state in an electronic pen including at least one electrode. A pen state detection circuit acquires, from a touch sensor, a first signal distribution indicating a change in capacitance associated with approach of a first electrode and uses a machine learning estimator to estimate an instruction position or an inclination angle of an electronic pen from first feature values related to the first signal distribution. The first feature values include first local feature values related to a first local distribution corresponding to sensor electrodes in a number fewer than the number of arranged sensor electrodes exhibiting the first signal distribution.
US11841989B2
A method for generating a haptic feedback can be applied to a terminal, and include: in response to an interface element on a display interface of the terminal being touched, determining a first interface element type corresponding to the interface element, and determining a first haptic effect corresponding to the first interface element type based on a matchup between interface element types and haptic effects, where different interface element types correspond to different haptic effects; generating a haptic feedback of the first haptic effect.
US11841982B2
An example system includes a processor that can obtain a circuit describing operations of sequential secure computation code. The processor can modify the circuit based on a cost function. The processor can partition the circuit into a number of sub-circuits. The processor can assign the number of the sub-circuits to different processors for execution.
US11841981B2
A low-cost cryptographic accelerator is disclosed that accelerates inner loops of a cryptographic process. The cryptographic accelerator performs operations on cryptographic data provided by a central processing unit (CPU) running a software cryptographic process to create a combined hardware and software cryptographic process, resulting in a lower cost secure communication solution than software-only or hardware-only cryptographic processes. In an embodiment, a cryptographic accelerator comprises: an interface configured to receive cryptographic data, the cryptographic data indicating a particular cryptographic process to be performed on the cryptographic data; transformation logic configured to perform a cryptographic operation on the cryptographic data according to the cryptographic process, the transformation logic including logic for performing cryptographic operations for a plurality of different cryptographic processes; and a state register configured for storing a result of the cryptographic operation.
US11841975B2
A method, system and product including: obtaining a graphical user interface (GUI) element of a GUI of the end device, wherein the GUI element is associated with a text string that is included in the GUI; transforming at least a portion of the text string according to a transformation function, thereby obtaining a fully or semi-transformed text string, wherein the semi-transformed text string comprises a transformed portion and a plaintext portion; providing to a server the fully or semi-transformed text string, whereby the server is enabled to perform string-based analysis without being exposed to a content of the text string.
US11841973B2
A method disclosed herein may include receiving, at a first computing system, encrypted identifiers and encrypted values, performing, by the first computing system, a concealing operation on the encrypted identifiers to produce concealed encrypted identifiers, wherein the concealing operation conceals the encrypted identifiers from the first computing system and a second computing system but enables matching between the concealed encrypted identifiers, decrypting, by the second computing system, the concealed encrypted identifiers to produce concealed identifiers, and performing, by the second computing system, an aggregation operation using the concealed identifiers and the encrypted values to produce an encrypted aggregate value without accessing personally identifiable information associated with the encrypted values.
US11841967B2
System and methods of the disclosed subject matter provide segregating, at a memory storage coupled to a multitenant database system, first tenant data of a first tenant from at least second tenant data of a second tenant, based on a first tenant identifier. A first encryption key associated with the first tenant may be retrieved from a key cache memory based on the first tenant identifier, to encrypt one or more fragments of the first tenant data. The fragments of the first tenant data may be encrypted based on the retrieved encryption key. Non-encrypted header information may be generated for each of the encrypted fragments of the first tenant data, where the header information may have metadata including the first tenant identifier. The encrypted fragments of the first tenant data and the corresponding non-encrypted header information may be stored in the immutable storage.
US11841965B2
Embodiments for a system and method of selecting data protection policies for a new system, by collecting user, policy, and asset metadata for a plurality of other users storing data dictated by one or more protection policies. The collected metadata is anonymized with respect to personal identifying information, and is stored in an anonymized analytics database. The system receives specific user, policy and asset metadata for the new system from a specific user, and matches the received specific user metadata to the collected metadata to identify an optimum protection policy of the one or more protection policies based on the assets and protection requirements of the new system. The new system is then configured with the identified optimum protection policy as an initial configuration.
US11841963B2
Examples described herein relate to a data aggregation system for enabling query operations on restricted data that originates from multiple independent sources.
US11841960B1
In various embodiments, once the client registers onto the system, a third party (a “requestor”) may transmit a request to the client for the client to provide the requestor with access to the client data. In at least one embodiment, a requestor may be an entity or person that desires to utilize client data for the requestor's business purposes. In one embodiment, upon registration with the application, the system generates and assigns the requestor a requestor key. In one or more embodiments, the system transmits the requestor key along with each requestor request. In some embodiments, the client may accept or reject the requestor's request. In many embodiments, if the client accepts the requestor's request, the system grants the requestor access to the client data.
US11841951B2
Systems and methods are provided for remotely supporting managed hardware components of an IHS (Information Handling System). Prior to booting an operating system of the IHS, the managed hardware components are enumerated as supporting remote management and a network stack is created in a secured IHS memory, where the network stack is for transfer of remote device management communications directed at the managed hardware components. Still prior to booting the operating system, the IHS chipset is configured to route device management messages received from remote management tools to the network stack. After booting the operating system, a secure remote management session is established between a remote management tool and an IHS device management agent. During operation of the device management agent in the booted operating system, device management messages are retrieved from the network stack and decoded device management messages are delivered to a managed hardware component.
US11841947B1
Apparatus and methods describe herein, for example, a process that can include receiving a potentially malicious file, and dividing the potentially malicious file into a set of byte windows. The process can include calculating at least one attribute associated with each byte window from the set of byte windows for the potentially malicious file. In such an instance, the at least one attribute is not dependent on an order of bytes in the potentially malicious file. The process can further include identifying a probability that the potentially malicious file is malicious, based at least in part on the at least one attribute and a trained threat model.
US11841942B2
An anomaly detection device is a device for detecting an anomaly in a mobile body and includes: a type determiner that determines a type of an anomaly detected; a type change determiner that determines whether or not a change has occurred between a type of an anomaly detected last time and a type of an anomaly detected this time; and an anomaly detection log transmitter that transmits an anomaly detection log related to the anomaly detected this time when the change has occurred, and does not transmit the anomaly detection log related to the anomaly detected this time when the change has not occurred.
US11841932B2
A system and method may adjust the threshold or other settings in a biometric comparison system, or provide a report or display of parameters. Over a series of comparisons of authentication biometric samples (e.g. authentication VPs) to enrollment biometric samples (e.g. enrollment VPs), the authentication samples may be stored, and scores resulting from the biometric comparisons may be stored in a first set of scores. A second set of biometric comparisons may be created, each using a pairing of a stored authentication biometric sample and an enrollment biometric sample, each biometric comparison resulting in a score, the scores forming a second set of scores. The first and second sets of scores may be combined to produce a third set of scores, and an iterative process may be performed over the third set of scores to update the parameters of the Gaussian distribution of the third set of scores.
US11841930B1
A technique for verifying an origin of a digital object in a digital object architecture is described. The technique includes the steps of receiving, from a handle registry, handle information for a digital object that includes an attestation that references the handle identification value for the handle and origin identification information; verifying the authenticity of the attestation; after verifying the authenticity of the attestation, using the origin information in determining authorizations applicable to the digital object.
US11841920B1
The technology disclosed introduces two types of neural networks: “master” or “generalists” networks and “expert” or “specialists” networks. Both, master networks and expert networks, are fully connected neural networks that take a feature vector of an input hand image and produce a prediction of the hand pose. Master networks and expert networks differ from each other based on the data on which they are trained. In particular, master networks are trained on the entire data set. In contrast, expert networks are trained only on a subset of the entire dataset. In regards to the hand poses, master networks are trained on the input image data representing all available hand poses comprising the training data (including both real and simulated hand images).
US11841918B1
A method for preventing spam comments from populating a web site is provided. The method includes intercepting a HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) response, which includes a web page with a form for enabling a client's general comments to be published on the web site. The method also includes modifying the web page with the form to create a modified web page with a randomized form. The modifying includes randomly adding a set of randomized variable names to the web page with the form. The set of randomized variable names is a set of randomly generated character strings. The method further includes forwarding the modified web page with the randomized form to the client. The method yet also includes adding the set of randomized variable name to a form database, which is configured for storing data about the modified web page with the randomized form.
US11841916B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for providing updated and new document links to documents of a website is described. An indication is received that a user device has bookmarked a document link on the website. Determination is performed when the user device visits/revisits the website with the document link. An assessment is performed as to the validity of the document link. If the document link is not valid, the user device is informed that an updated or new document link is available, and the updated or new document link is provided.
US11841915B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for displaying contextually relevant links by a browser extension. For instance, the method may include: comparing terms of a set of terms with a content of a user interface to identify matching terms; in response to identifying matching terms, transmitting a query to a server, the query indicating the matching terms; receiving a response from the server, the response including one or more information cards for each of the matching terms; annotating instances of the identified matching terms on the user interface; in response to a user interaction with an annotated instance of an identified matching term, causing an information card to be displayed that corresponds to the identified matching term, the information card including a link element; determining whether a user input selects the link element; and in response to determining the user input selecting the link element, executing a link process.
US11841914B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for aggregating media (and commentary on that media) into a topology. To do so, the system receives first content (and associated metadata) as well as second content (and associated metadata). The system then generates a topology based on a relationship between the first content and the second content, where the topology has a number of dimensions based on the metadata of the different pieces of content. The system then compares the topology and the metadata to previously stored topologies and/or metadata and, based on that comparison, executes a machine learning algorithm. The output of that machine learning algorithm includes predicted future changes to the topology, which the system uses to reduce the number of dimensions within the topology.
US11841907B2
The present disclosure provides an information processing system and an information processing method that, in a material analyzing service that is provided via a network, can appropriately manage data of a high degree of confidentiality. The system and method involve a user terminal that provides a data ID to a combination of first data that relates to a material, and second data that is data obtained by measuring the material and is data whose degree of confidentiality is lower than the first data. The user terminal stores the first data and data ID and transmits the second data and data ID to an information processing device. The information processing device carries out material analysis corresponding to the second data and transmits analysis results data to the user terminal. Accordingly, data having a high degree of confidentiality can be managed appropriately in a material analyzing service over a network.
US11841899B2
A device with microphones can generate microphone signals during an audio recording. The device can store, in an electronic audio data file, the microphone signals, and metadata that includes impulse responses of the microphones. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11841895B2
A response to a first query related to a geographic area, and search results responsive to a second query related to the geographic area, are received from a server system. A digital map of the geographic is provided via a user interface. A focus is provided to the first query to illustrate the response on the digital map, where the response defines a geographic context. A subset of the search results is identified based on a relationship to the geographic context. The search results in the identified subset are visually emphasized on the digital map relative to the rest of the search results.
US11841894B2
Systems and methods data structures queries to manage loading time of multimedia content are provided. A system receives an input audio signal from a computing device and identifies a request. The system identifies a quantized day value and a quantized time value. The system retrieves, via a lookup in a multi-dimensional matrix data structure with the quantized day value and quantized time value, signals for the quantized day value and the quantized time value. The system generates a query with the signals, and applies the query to a multimedia content data structure to identify a plurality of multimedia content items that match the plurality of signals. The system provides an indication of the plurality of multimedia content items that match the signals for the quantized day value and the quantized time value retrieved from the multi-dimensional matrix data structure.
US11841887B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting contextually relevant information are provided. In some implementations, the method includes: receiving information associated with a user of a user device from multiple data sources, where the user device comprises a display; identifying, without user intervention, a relevant document based on the received information associated with the user of the user device; determining that a new browser window or a new browser tab has been opened by a browser application being executed by the user device; and causing, without user intervention, the relevant document to be presented using the new browser window or new browser tab.
US11841876B2
Techniques are described with regard to managing transaction size during a database replication process. An associated computer-implemented method includes identifying each of at least one transaction associated with at least one source database stored in a replication capture memory, identifying at least one potential excessive memory transaction by applying, via at least one machine learning pattern detection model, pattern detection to each of the at least one transaction stored in the replication capture memory, and constructing at least one compact data unit associated with each of the at least one potential excessive memory transaction. The computer-implemented method further includes facilitating compact data unit transmission to a replication apply server system in order to replicate the at least one compact data unit associated with each of the at least one potential excessive memory transaction to at least one target database via a replication apply server application.
US11841875B2
A network device communication system can configure network devices, such as a first database in a multi-tenant deployment and a second database in a private deployment, to send and receive sequence messages, such as replication data, over a channel comprising a plurality of private network nodes. The first database can create a link specifying the data share and the second database. The second database selects the link and a secure area in the private deployment is created into which data is replicated and shared with further accounts in a computationally secure and efficient manner.
US11841869B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for cognitive information processing. The cognitive information processing includes receiving data from a plurality of data sources; processing the data from the plurality of data sources to provide cognitively processed insights via an augmented intelligence system, the augmented intelligence system executing on a hardware processor of an information processing system, the augmented intelligence system and the information processing system providing a cognitive computing function; performing an augmented intelligence governance and assurance operation, the augmented intelligence governance and assurance operation ensuring augmented intelligence performance of the cognitive computing function; and, providing the cognitively processed insights to a destination, the destination comprising a cognitive application, the cognitive application enabling a user to interact with the cognitive insights.
US11841868B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for cognitive information processing. The cognitive information processing includes receiving data from a plurality of data sources; processing the data from the plurality of data sources via an augmented intelligence system, the augmented intelligence system executing on a hardware processor of an information processing system, the augmented intelligence system and the information processing system providing a cognitive computing function, the cognitive computing function comprising a cognitive agent, the cognitive agent being composed via a cognitive agent composition platform, the cognitive agent performing a task, the cognitive agent performing the task with non-specific guidance from a user, the cognitive agent learning from each interaction with the data and the user; and, using the cognitive agent to generate a cognitive insight, the cognitive agent comprising a deployable module, the deployable module comprising logic, data and models for implementing an augmented intelligence operation.
US11841864B2
An active layer of the index includes a first shard group, and shards in the first shard group are configured to store indexes of a part of data objects in a streaming storage system. In response to determining that the state of the first shard group meets a predetermined expansion condition, a second shard group is created in the index, and shards in the second shard group are configured to store indexes of data objects that will enter the storage system. The storage system is managed based on the shards in an active layer (where the second shard group is located) and frozen layers (where the second shard group) in the index. The number of shards in the storage system can be dynamically set to process streaming data at a relatively high speed, and it is suitable for processing streaming data that continuously enters the storage system.
US11841863B1
An algorithm releases answers to very large numbers of statistical queries, e.g., k-way marginals, subject to differential privacy. The algorithm answers queries on a private dataset using simple perturbation, and then attempts to find a synthetic dataset that most closely matches the noisy answers. The algorithm uses a continuous relaxation of the synthetic dataset domain which makes the projection loss differentiable, and allows the use of efficient machine learning optimization techniques and tooling. Rather than answering all queries up front, the algorithm makes judicious use of a privacy budget by iteratively and adaptively finding queries for which relaxed synthetic data has high error, and then repeating the projection. The algorithm is effective across a range of parameters and datasets, especially when a privacy budget is small or a query class is large.
US11841859B1
A method for operating a database includes receiving, from a user, data and an instruction to store the data in a key-value based database, determining a context of the data, selecting, according to the determined context, a data write routine, writing the data and its context to the database using the selected data write routine, and writing the data to a cache associated with the database. In addition, indexes may be created in the database and cache separate from the native indexes of the database and cache.
US11841853B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to identifying related data, in particular, data associated with different source types. In embodiments, a first source type related to a second source type associated with a search query is identified. Field set pairs are identified from a first data set associated with the first source type and a second data set associated with the second source type. Each field set pair can include one field set associated with the first source type and another field set associated with the second source type. For each field set pair, an extent of similarity is determined between the corresponding field sets. Based on the extent of similarities between the corresponding field sets, at least one pair of related field sets is identified. An indication of the at least one pair of related field sets is provided, for example, for presentation to a user.
US11841847B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the implementation of declarative transaction control. A database transaction control configuration associated with an element of a process flow can be obtained via a graphical user interface (GUI) and stored in association the element. The database transaction control configuration indicates whether a pending database transaction is to be committed to a database prior to executing a set of computer-readable instructions corresponding to the element. During execution of the process flow, the database transaction control configuration is accessed and it is determined whether a currently pending database transaction is to be committed to a database prior to executing a set of computer-readable instructions corresponding to the element. The currently pending database transaction is committed to a database prior to executing the set of computer-readable instructions according to a result of the determination.
US11841846B1
Generating object morphisms during object search includes obtaining object-search request data, wherein the object-search request data includes object-search terms, obtaining resolved-request data representing the object-search terms, determining that a first analytical object partially consistent with the resolved-request data is available, wherein the first analytical object is consistent with a first portion of the resolved-request data, generating candidate object-morphism data with respect to the first analytical object in accordance with a second portion of the resolved-request data, outputting object-search response data including the candidate object-morphism data for presentation to a user, obtaining data indicating a selected object morphism from the candidate object-morphism data, generating a second analytical object in accordance with the first analytical object and the selected object morphism, wherein the second analytical object differs from the first analytical object, and outputting response data including the second analytical object for presentation to the user.
US11841843B2
In some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein useful for managing a plurality of concurrent and nearly concurrent data requests within a computer system. The systems have a main data storage for storing source data, and a high speed, and/or remote data storage for storing computed data. In some embodiments, a combination of data filters and distributed mutex processes are used to eliminate or limit duplicate reads and writes into the high speed data storage units by ensuring only a single service module gets a lock to do the read and update of the cache; and makes it possible for keys to expire and be removed from the data filter. The systems and methods herein have various applications including retail sales environments where the requested data is related to product sales, product availability and the like.
US11841842B2
In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method and system for implementing external content type (ECT) object types in a content management system (CMS). More specifically, embodiments of the technology relate to augmenting the object model with a new class of object type—an external content type (ECT) object type. The ECT object types are a class of object types that are used to manage object (referred to as managed external objects) that are located in external data systems.
US11841837B2
Computer-based systems and methods for risk/reward detection, visualization, and resolution using modular chainable algorithms are provided. The system allows for computer-based modeling of large data sets with improving processing speed and utilizing fewer computational resources. The modular chainable algorithms included embedded program code executable by a processor for performing a data modeling or analytic function on source data, visualization code for visualizing output of the program code, and workflow code for automatically performing one or more actions relating to the data modeling or analytic function.
US11841830B2
A method to dynamically switch between catalog sharing protocols includes monitoring, over a period of time, access to a catalog used to index data sets. Using information gathered during this monitoring period, the method divides the period of time into intervals based on which of a plurality of sharing protocols, used to access the catalog, would provide the best performance during the respective interval. The method schedules the sharing protocols to operate during their respective intervals going forward, and switches between the sharing protocols in accordance with the schedule. In certain embodiments, switching between the sharing protocols includes temporarily operating in a hybrid mode in which multiple sharing protocols operate simultaneously. When using this hybrid mode, the switch may occur when one sharing protocol begins to perform better than the other. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11841828B2
Systems and methods for improved data conversion and distribution are provided. A data subscription unit is configured to receive data and information from a plurality of data source devices. The data subscription unit is in communication with a virtual machine that includes backtesting utility configured to generate backtesting data using one or more statistical models and one or more non-statistical models. The backtesting utility may translate the backtesting results into one or more interactive visuals, and generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying the backtesting results and the one or more interactive visuals on a user device. The backtesting utility may update one or more of the displayed backtesting results and the one or more interactive visuals without re-running the modeling steps.
US11841825B2
A system can determine that a first destination inode number of a first destination inode of destination inodes is equal to a first source inode number of a file. The system can create a second file on the source file system, wherein the second file is stored in a second source inode of the source inodes having a second source inode number of the source inode numbers. The system can determine that the destination file system lacks an inode that has the second source inode number. The system can move a third file stored in the first destination inode to a second destination inode of the destination inodes that has a second destination inode number of the destination inode numbers. The system can migrate the first file to the destination file system, wherein the destination file system stores the first file with the first destination inode number.
US11841815B1
Semiconductor devices, packaging architectures and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-chip module (MCM) is disclosed. The MCM includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip including a first interface defining a first number of interface contacts. Conversion circuitry receives a first full set of signals associated with the first interface and to omit a subset of the full set of signals to generate a reduced set of signals. Serialization circuitry serializes the reduced set of signals to generate a serialized set of signals. A second interface transmits the serialized set of signals with a second number of interface contacts that is less than the first number of interface contacts. A logic IC chip includes a third interface coupled to the second interface via a set of links and configured to match the second interface. Deserialization circuitry deserializes the serialized set of signals. Reconversion circuitry recreates signals corresponding to the omitted subset of the full set of signals and aggregates the recreated signals with the deserialized signals to form a second full set of signals that correspond to the first full set of signals.
US11841811B2
A reconfigurable processor comprises an array of processing units and an instrumentation network. The array of processing units is configured to execute runtime events to execute an application. The instrumentation network is operatively coupled to the array of processing units. The instrumentation network comprises a control bus configured to form control signal routes in the instrumentation network. The instrumentation network further comprises a plurality of instrumentation counters having inputs and outputs connected to the control bus and to the processing units. Instrumentation counters in the plurality instrumentation units are configurable to consume control signals on the inputs and produce counts of the runtime events on the outputs.
US11841807B2
Method, apparatus for managing peripheral device for electronic device, electronic device and medium
Disclosed are a method, an apparatus for managing a peripheral device for an electronic device, an electronic device and a computer-readable medium. The electronic device includes a device management module and a routing module, the device management module includes a plurality of device node services for a plurality of peripheral devices. The method includes: receiving, by the routing module, first data from any one of the plurality of device node services, determining a first peripheral device for the first data of the peripheral device, and sending, by the routing module, the first data to the first peripheral device. Additionally, second data is received by the routing module from any one of the peripheral devices, a first device node service for the second data of the plurality of device node services is determined, and the second data is sent by the routing module to the first device node service.
US11841805B2
Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the same. The memory system may include a host configured to generate and output a host command and a host address and to receive and store host map data, a controller configured to store map data, generate an internal command in response to the host command, and map the host address to an internal address based on the map data, and a memory device configured to perform an operation in response to the internal command and the internal address, wherein the controller is configured to load, when the map data corresponding to the host address is not stored in the controller, new map data into a map data storage area storing map data that is identical to the host map data.
US11841802B2
A microprocessor prevents same address load-load ordering violations. Each load queue entry holds a load physical memory line address (PMLA) and an indication of whether a load instruction has completed execution. The microprocessor fills a line specified by a fill PMLA into a cache entry and snoops the load queue with the fill PMLA, either before the fill or in an atomic manner with the fill with respect to ability of the filled entry to be hit upon by any load instruction, to determine whether the fill PMLA matches load PMLAs in load queue entries associated with load instructions that have completed execution and there are other load instructions in the load queue that have not completed execution. The microprocessor, if the condition is true, flushes at least the other load instructions in the load queue that have not completed execution.
US11841801B2
Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for managing metadata for an atomic write operation, including determining metadata for data, queuing the metadata in an atomic list, in response to determining that atomic commit has occurred, moving the metadata from the atomic list to write lookup lists based on logical information of the data, and determining one of metadata pages of a non-volatile memory for each of the write lookup lists based on the logical information.
US11841798B2
Circuitry comprises processing circuitry to access a hierarchy of at least two levels of cache memory storage; memory circuitry comprising plural storage elements, at least some of the storage elements being selectively operable as cache memory storage in respective different cache functions; and control circuitry to allocate storage elements of the memory circuitry for operation according to a given cache function.
US11841797B2
The disclosure provides an approach for content based read cache (CBRC) digest file creation. Embodiments include determining a mapping between entries in a CBRC and physical block addresses (PBAs) associated with a source virtual machine (VM). Embodiments include creating a clone VM based on the source VM. Embodiments include, for each data block associated with the clone VM: determining a PBA associated with a logical block address (LBA) of the data block, determining, based on the mapping, whether data associated with the PBA is cached in the CBRC, and, if the data associated with the PBA is cached in the CBRC, copying a hash of the data from a first digest file of the source VM to a second digest file of the clone VM and associating the hash with the LBA in the second digest file.
US11841793B2
Computing devices, methods, and systems for switch-based free memory tracking in data center environments are disclosed. An exemplary switch integrated circuit (IC), which is used in a switched fabric or a network, can include a processing device and a tracking structure that is distributed with at least a second switch IC. The tracking structure tracks free memory units that are accessible in a first set of nodes by the second switch IC. The processing device receives a request for a number of free memory units. The processing device forwards the request to a node in the first set of nodes that has at least the number of free memory units or forwards the request to the second switch IC that has at least the number of free memory units or responds to the request with a response that indicates that the request could not be fulfilled.
US11841786B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to techniques for detecting anomalous values in data streams using forecasting models. In some embodiments, a computer can receive a value of a data stream comprising a plurality of data values, where the received value corresponds to a time interval and previously received values each correspond to a previous time interval. Models can be selected based on the time interval, where each of the models has a different periodicity. For each of the selected models, the computer may generate a score by generating a prediction value based on the model and generating the score based on the prediction value and the received value. A final score can then be generated based on the scores. Next, a score threshold can be generated. If the final score exceeds the score threshold, the computer may generate a notification that indicates that the data value is an anomaly.
US11841784B2
In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions. The instructions are executed by the processor to monitor user interaction with the apparatus, detect an abnormal user interaction with the apparatus, and activate a digital assistant in response to the abnormal user interaction that is detected. The digital assistant can collect user information related to the abnormal user interaction.
US11841783B2
A method includes monitoring a job being executed at the source mainframe. A job comprises multiple tasks. A method includes monitoring a particular task of the multiple tasks being executed at a source mainframe and determining an application required to execute the particular task. In response to determining that the particular task requires an application to execute, determining a target mainframe where the application is installed. A method further includes validating the environment of the target mainframe to confirm that the particular task can be executed using the target mainframe, and upon validating the target mainframe, redirecting the particular task to the target mainframe for execution. A method also includes monitoring the particular task being executed at the target mainframe and returning the results of the particular task from the target mainframe to the source mainframe.
US11841782B2
A semiconductor device includes a data bus, a data memory, a selector, a processor, and a debug controller. The selector is configured to be controlled by the debug controller to be in either a first selecting state in which the processor transmits a first signal to the data bus and a second selecting state in which the debug controller transmits a second signal to the data bus. The debug controller is configured to control the state of the selector based on the reception state of a predetermined command from an external device as well as the states of a read enable signal and a write enable signal from the processor such that, when the selector is in the second selecting state, the debug controller accesses the data bus via the selector.
US11841774B2
Techniques are described for determining whether a backup chain is within a recoverable range. The recoverable range defines a time interval in which data from a database system is recoverable to a point in time within the time interval. The backup chain is preserved while the backup chain is within the recoverable range. Upon determining that the backup chain is not within the recoverable range, operations are described for checking a retention policy for the backup chain, determining whether to preserve or expire the backup chain based on the retention policy, and preserving the backup chain based on that determination.
US11841767B2
An operating method of a storage device is provided. The operating method includes: receiving a host read command from a host device; identifying whether a read path corresponding to the host read command corresponds to a first direct memory access (DMA) read path; and directly outputting, by a host DMA manager, read data stored in an output buffer of an error correction circuit to the host device based on the read path corresponding to the first DMA read path.
US11841766B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory operations are described. A codeword may be associated with a set of data and stored in a memory device may be detected as having a plurality of bit errors. Based on detecting the plurality of bit errors in the codeword, an address of the codeword may be stored and an indication that at least one codeword stored in the memory device has a plurality of bit errors may be indicated. Based on indicating that at least one codeword in the memory device has a plurality of bit errors, a write command for writing, to the memory device, a second codeword associated with the set of data may be received. Additionally, or alternatively, a command that triggers an error correction operation at an address range of the memory device may be received at a memory device.
US11841761B2
A method for tracing an error of a logic system design includes obtaining an assertion failure of a combinational cone of the logic system design, the combinational cone including a plurality of sub-cones; and obtaining machine learning models of the sub-cones. Each sub-cone represents a sub-circuitry of the logic system design and has one or more input signals and an output signal. The assertion failure indicates an actual signal value of the combinational cone at a current clock cycle being different from an expected output value at the current clock cycle. The method also includes: performing backtracing on the sub-cones according to the assertion failure, the machine learning models of the sub-cones, and dynamic backtracing sensitivities corresponding to the sub-cones, to obtain a backtracing result; and outputting one or more target sub-cones as candidate root causes of the assertion failure according to the backtracing result.
US11841744B2
An electronic device includes a first housing including a first housing comprising a first side surface, a second side surface positioned on an opposite side of the first side surface, a first plate disposed between the first side surface and the second side surface, and a first display; a second housing comprising a third side surface capable of facing at least a part of the second side surface, a fourth side surface positioned on an opposite side of the third side surface, a second plate disposed between the third side surface and the fourth side surface, and a second display, the second housing having a recess disposed on a rear surface of the second plate; and a third housing comprising a keyboard having multiple movable keycaps, the third housing being coupled so as to rotate with at least a part of the fourth side surface or to slide through at least a part of the fourth side surface such that the third housing is configured to be received in the recess.
US11841742B2
The present invention provides an external module including a housing and an electronic component. One surface of the housing is provided with a through hole. The electronic component is disposed in the housing and includes a first connector, wherein the first connector is floatingly arranged in the housing and is exposed in the through hole.
US11841737B1
Disclosed is a method for error detection, performed by one or more processors of a computing device according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure. The method includes evaluating an error rate for a sentence to be evaluated, in a first language unit. the method includes evaluating an error rate in a second language unit which is smaller than the first language unit, based on the first language unit error.
US11841736B2
Provided is a process including: receiving one or more write requests; selecting a first subset of the values as corresponding to higher-security fields; segmenting a first value in the first subset; instructing a first computing device to store a first subset of segments among the plurality of segments in memory; and instructing a second computing device to store a second subset of segments among the plurality of segments in memory.
US11841733B2
A method and system for realizing a FPGA server, wherein centralized monitoring and managing all SoC FPGA compute nodes within the server by a motherboard, the motherboard comprising: a plurality of self-defined management interfaces for connecting the SoC FPGA compute nodes to supply power and data switch to the SoC FPGA compute nodes; a management network switch module for interconnecting the SoC FPGA compute nodes and supplying management; and a core control unit for managing the SoC FPGA compute nodes through the self-defined management interfaces and a self-defined management interface protocol, and acquiring operating parameters of the SoC FPGA compute nodes to manage and monitor the SoC FPGA compute nodes based on the management interface protocol.
US11841730B2
A tactile stimulation providing system includes: an apparatus for generating first actuator strength values corresponding to representative values of frequency bands of first audio data and second actuator strength values corresponding to representative values of frequency bands of second audio data; and an apparatus for driving actuators, based on the first actuator strength values and the second actuator strength values, wherein a number of the actuators is smaller than a number of the first and second actuator strength values, the first audio data includes information on a first direction, the second audio data includes information on a second direction, an actuator corresponding to first position information is driven based on only at least one of the first actuator strength values, and an actuator corresponding to second position information is driven based on only at least one of the second actuator strength values.
US11841704B2
To operate an autonomous vehicle, a rail agent is detected in a vicinity of the autonomous vehicle using a detection system. One or more tracks are determined on which the detected rail agent is possibly traveling, and possible paths for the rail agent are predicted based on the determined one or more tracks. One or more motion paths are determined for one or more probable paths from the possible paths, and a likelihood for each of the one or more probable paths is determined based on each motion plan. A path for the autonomous vehicle is then determined based on a most probable path associated with a highest likelihood for the rail agent, and the autonomous vehicle is operated using the determined path.
US11841700B2
A system is configured to receive a first selection of a first object corresponding to a first portion of computer code that defines a first operation of a first industrial automation device from a library, receive a second selection of a second object corresponding to a second portion of computer code that defines a second operation of a second industrial automation device from the library, and generate an industrial automation project code file. Generating the industrial automation project code file includes modifying the first portion of computer code to enable the first industrial automation device to operate in conjunction with the second industrial automation device, modifying the second portion of computer code to enable the second industrial automation device to operate in conjunction with the first industrial automation device, and combining the modified first portion of computer code and the modified second portion of computer code.
US11841693B2
A computerized method of machining a workpiece including, prior to machining the workpiece, establishing, based on empirical data obtained from machining activity at an earlier time, an historical mapping indicating pairings of depth of cut and rpm at which undesirable chatter (UDC) did not occur during machining activity at an earlier time using at least one given type of milling machine, at least one given type of cutting tool and at least one given type of workpiece material, prior to commencing machining of the workpiece, programming a machine tool to machine the workpiece using a given type of milling machine, a given type of cutting tool and a given type of workpiece material at at least one depth of cut and rpm, which, based on the historical mapping, avoid UDC and operating the machine tool in accordance with the programming to machine the workpiece.
US11841690B2
A processing method for automatically generating machining features is provided. A workpiece CAD file is obtained to perform a CAD numerical analysis on a blank body. With the workpiece CAD file being used as a target, a workpiece CAD appearance is compared with the blank body to obtain a feature identification result of a first to-be-processed blank body, which includes identifying data of a to-be-removed blank body and a feature of a first processing surface. A geometric analysis is performed on the first processing surface feature and a tool selection range is determined. A virtual cutting simulation is performed on the first processing surface to generate a processed area data and an unprocessed area data. A spatial coordinate mapping comparison between the unprocessed area data and a surface data of the workpiece CAD file is performed to obtain a feature identification result of a second to-be-processed blank body.
US11841686B2
Energy-collecting display modules are disclosed. The modules include a base substrate with a plurality of sub-pixels, which are laid out in a substantially regular sub-pixel pattern. The sub-pixels are dispersed along the base substrate with sub-pixel spacing regions between individual sub-pixels. The modules also include a photovoltaic region disposed within the sub-pixel spacing regions such that the photovoltaic region minimally obscures a subpixel viewing cone region.
US11841680B2
A toner comprising: a toner particle containing a resin component and a wax; and an inorganic fine particle on the surface of the toner particle, wherein, in a cross section of the toner particle, domains containing the wax are observed, and when among the domains, domains having a major diameter of 10-300 nm are defined as domains S, an occupation area percentage of which a ratio of a total sum of areas occupied by the domains S in a region from a surface of the toner particle to a depth of 600 nm in the cross section with respect to an area of the region, is 3.0-15.0%, and wherein the inorganic fine particle contains a fine particle A having a volume resistivity of 1.0×103 to 3.0×105 Ω·cm, and having a relative permittivity εr of 100 or more.
US11841679B2
A cyan toner is provided. The cyan toner comprises toner particles each comprising a binder resin and a colorant. From 1.0% to 20.0% by number of the toner particles have a CH rate of 7.0% or more in absolute value. The CH rate is calculated from the following formula (1): CH rate (%)=[(In−Iave)/Iave]×100 Formula (1) where, in a Raman spectrum of each toner particle, In represents an integrated intensity within a wavenumber region of from 2,600 to 3,180 cm−1 when an intensity at a wavenumber λ within a wavenumber region of from 2,600 to 2,800 cm−1 is s normalized to 1, where a total intensity of all the toner particles is maximum at the wavenumber λ; and Iave represents an average of the In.
US11841675B2
Disclosed is a cartridge attachable to an image forming apparatus body, the cartridge including: a memory member storing information relating to the cartridge; and a supporting body having a memory mounting portion on which the memory member is mounted, the memory member having a first surface, a second surface, and a lateral surface, the first surface is provided with a contact portion connected to a body electrode portion of the body of the image forming apparatus when the cartridge is installed in the body of the image forming apparatus, the memory mounting portion has a first opposing portion opposing the second surface and a second opposing portion opposing the lateral surface when the memory member is mounted, the memory member is mounted by adhesive between the second surface and the first opposing portion and between the lateral surface and the second opposing portion.
US11841656B2
In a heater including a plurality of first temperature detection elements that are arranged at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction of a substrate and respectively output temperature signals individually, and a plurality of second temperature detection elements that are arranged at predetermined intervals in positions that differ from the positions of the first temperature detection elements in a lateral direction that is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction but correspond to the positions of at least some of the plurality of first temperature detection elements in the longitudinal direction, and that output a single temperature signal obtained by adding individual temperature signals together, the individual temperature signals included in the single temperature signal are acquired on the basis of the plurality of temperature signals output by the plurality of first temperature detection elements and the single temperature signal.
US11841653B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member that carries a developer image; a transfer member that forms a transfer nip portion with the image bearing member and transfers the developer image in the transfer nip portion from the image bearing member to a recording material; a fixing portion that includes a heater and fixes the developer image to the recording material using heat of the heater; a temperature detection portion that detects a temperature of the fixing portion; a control portion that controls power supplied to the heater such that the temperature detected by the temperature detection portion becomes a predetermined control target temperature; and an acquisition portion that acquires a temperature of the image bearing member or the transfer member. The control target temperature is changed based on the temperature acquired by the acquisition portion.
US11841652B2
A contact-separation device brings a contact-separation member into contact with a contacted member separably and includes a biasing member that generates a biasing force. A presser presses the contact-separation member against the contacted member in a pressing direction with the biasing force from the biasing member. A cam presses the presser in an opposite direction being opposite to the pressing direction. The cam is rotatable and has a cam face. A cam follower has a cam contact face that contacts the cam face of the cam. The cam contact face is curved to project toward the cam. The cam contact face has a curvature that is smaller than a greatest curvature of the cam face of the cam and is greater than a smallest curvature of the cam face of the cam.
US11841648B2
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member, first and second transfer members, and a control unit. The control unit includes a first state where both the first and second transfer members are separated from the intermediate transfer member, a second state where the first transfer member contacts the intermediate transfer member and the second transfer member is separated from the intermediate transfer member, and a third state where both the first and second transfer members contact the intermediate transfer member. The control unit controls the driving member to move the moving unit, controls switch the first state to the second state and thereafter switch the second state to the third state. A rotation speed of the driving member when the second state is switched to the third state is lower than a rotation speed of the driving member when the first state is switched to the second state.
US11841645B2
A toner conveying device includes a container, a rotating member having a protruding portion inside the container, and a stirring member of toner. A first region and a second region on the opposite side are provided inside the rotation trajectory of the rotating member in a state without contact with the inner surface of the container. The protruding portion is provided between a first position in which a second straight line that is perpendicular to a first straight line that divides the rotation trajectory and passes through the center of the rotating member and is in the second region, and a second position in which a third straight line that is perpendicular to a contact line passing through a contact point between the container and the stirring member, passes through the center at the time of deformation of the stirring member and is in the second region.
US11841644B2
A cartridge includes a casing including a toner storage chamber storing toner and a toner discharge chamber having an outlet, a conveyance member conveying the toner from the toner storage chamber to the toner discharge chamber, an action member attached to the conveyance member and repeating an action of shifting between an entering state of entering the outlet and a retraction state of retracting from the outlet, and a pump expanding and contracting to be shifted between a first state and a second state in which the internal space is smaller in volume than in the first state, the pump putting air into the toner discharge chamber by being shifted from the first state to the second state, thereby discharging the toner from the toner discharge chamber through the outlet, and the pump taking in air by being shifted from the second state to the first state.
US11841637B1
A developing device includes: a storage part in which a developer is stored; a transport body that includes a spiral blade and transports the developer via a rotation thereof; a developing body to which the developer is supplied from the transport body; an attachment part which is disposed between the transport body and the developing body and includes an opening allowing the developer supplied from the transport body to the developing body to pass and to which a sealing member sealing the opening is detachably attached; and a connection portion which extends to cross the opening at a spiral angle of the blade as viewed from the developing body toward the transport body and of which one end portion and the other end portion are connected to the attachment part.
US11841630B2
A fixing member includes a substrate having an endless shape; and an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate, the elastic layer containing a silicone rubber and fillers dispersed in the silicone rubber, a content of the fillers with respect to the elastic layer being 35 vol % or more and 50 vol % or less. The fillers includes at least a first filler and a second filler. The first filler is at least one selected from the group consisting of: magnesium oxide; and zinc oxide. The second filler is at least one selected from the group consisting of metal silicon and silicon carbide. A proportion of a sum of the first filler and the second filler to a total amount of the fillers in the elastic layer is 90 vol % or more. Further, the average of 6 sets of representative coefficient A is 1.4 or more.
US11841629B2
A developing roller comprising an electroconductive substrate and an electroconductive elastic layer constituted by a single layer on an outer periphery of the substrate. The elastic layer contains a diene-based rubber, has a thickness of 0.30 mm or more, and the elastic layer has a crown shape in which an outer diameter of a center portion in a longitudinal direction along an axis of the substrate is larger than an outer diameter of each of both end portions in the longitudinal direction. Elastic moduli E11, E12 and E13 in a first region of the elastic layer in cross-sections at positions P1, P2 and P3 of the elastic layer are each 500 MPa or more.
US11841616B2
An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a plurality of shot regions in a substrate by using a mold, the imprint apparatus comprising: a discharger configured to discharge the imprint material onto the plurality of shot regions in the substrate; a viscosity adjuster configured to adjust a viscosity of the imprint material discharged from the discharger; and a controller configured to form the pattern of the imprint material in the plurality of shot regions, by repeatedly bringing the imprint material into contact with the mold in a state where a viscosity of at least a portion of the imprint material discharged onto the plurality of shot regions is adjusted by the viscosity adjuster, and curing of the imprint material, for each of the plurality of shot regions.
