US11839222B2
A vegan, potato emulsion includes heat treated potato in an amount of 0.5-20% by weight. The emulsion further comprises at least one sugar in an amount of 0-5% by weight; at least one vegetable emulsifier in an amount of 0.09-1.0 by weight; at least one oil in an amount of 0.50-6% by weight; at least one added vegetable protein in an amount of 0.20-3% by weight; and water adding up to 100% by weight. The emulsion has an oil droplet size D[3,2] of 0.1-10 μm. The potato emulsion is whitish, and is whippable providing a foam.
US11839218B2
A method for preventing or combating a fungal infection on a stone fruit tree or a part thereof includes applying Trichoderma atroviride strain SC1 to the tree, the part thereof, or a locus of the tree. The Trichoderma atroviride strain SC1 is useful in the prevention or combat of a fungal infection on a stone fruit tree or a part thereof.
US11839213B2
The present invention relates to antimicrobial, disinfecting, and wound healing compositions and methods for producing and using the same. The compositions may comprise one or more of a peracid, a hydroperoxide, a bis(hydroperoxide), or an epoxide.
US11839211B2
The present invention is directed to clethodim compositions comprising crop oil concentrates and an acidifier. The present invention is further directed to methods of controlling weeds comprising mixing clethodim compositions comprising crop oil concentrates and an acidifier with acetochlor to create a tank mix and applying the tank mix to the weeds or an area in need of weed control.
US11839200B2
A hog or swine feeder includes one or more stations for serving a single hog at a time. Each station includes a bowl, with a feed dispenser above the bowl, and a water dispenser below the feed dispenser. The feed and the water dispensers are actuated by the hog on demand. A hopper in the feeder supplies dry feed to the feed dispenser. The hog can select dry feed, wet feed, or drinking water, as needed.
US11839199B2
A wind shield supported by a beehive bottom board prevents directly impinging wind from creating high-pressure differences across the beehive such as promote excessive ventilation. By providing an entry path that opens upward and follows a twisted path, proper ventilation and access to the beehive by the bees may be maintained. The wind shield may be quickly installed on a variety of beehive designs and easily removed during warm weather.
US11839195B2
A tomato plant exhibiting a facultative parthenocarpy is provided. The plant comprises a loss-of-function mutation in a SlAGL6 gene and alternatively or additionally characterized by an average fruit weight/plant at least about the same as that of a non-parthenocarpic tomato of the same genetic background under fertilization permissive conditions of the non-parthenocarpic tomato. Also provided are methods of producing such plants and processed products produced from same.
US11839189B2
A seed of hybrid cucumber designated as ‘E23S.16382’ is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucumber ‘E23S.16382’, to the plants of hybrid cucumber ‘E23S.16382’, to methods for producing a hybrid plant, and to methods for producing other cucumber lines, cultivars or hybrids derived from the hybrid cucumber ‘E23S.16382’.
US11839186B2
A container for growing plants includes a bottom wall, a first side wall extending perpendicular to the bottom wall, and a second side wall extending perpendicular to the bottom wall and parallel to the first side wall such that the bottom wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall at least partially define a plant growing chamber. Furthermore, the container includes a lid configured to selectively occlude access to the plant growing chamber. Additionally, the container includes a carrier assembly positioned with the plant growing chamber and movably coupled to the first side wall and the second side wall. Moreover, the container includes a tool coupled to the carrier assembly such that movement of the carrier assembly relative to the first side wall and the second side wall moves the tool within the plant growing chamber.
US11839181B2
A grain handling system having an air system is presented that is capable of automatically detecting and clearing a plug in a tube of an air system using a central controller, an air pressure sensor, a dynamic pressure relief valve and a variable frequency drive connected to and controlling a blower motor. When a plug is detected, the central controller stops the flow of grain into the tube and ramps up the output of the blower motor to full capacity. Thereafter, the central controller performs an unplugging routine by opening and closing the dynamic pressure relief valve causing surges of air to impact the plug either breaking up the plug or bumping the plug along the tube until it clears. Once the plug clears, the central controller resumes normal operation.
US11839180B1
There is disclosed a power-assisted corn kernel remover comprising a rigid frame supporting an annular corn kernel cutter. A powered mechanism mounted above the cutter activates a piston downward to push shucked ears of fresh corn onto the cutter. The cutter is sized and has a sharp cutting edge that severs the corn kernels from the cob as the ear descends. The cob is pushed downward through a passage to a disposal bin, while the kernels are captured by a basket surrounding the cutter. The cutter is formed of spring steel and is loosely held within the frame to allow for some expansion due to different sizes of corncobs. The powered mechanism may be a pneumatic piston and cylinder assembly supplied with compressed air and having a control mechanism that permits partial activation.
US11839179B1
The rake comprises a rake head, a handle, and a mini rake attachment. A pair of wheels may be adapted to support the weight of the rake head and to establish a travel height for the rake head. The handle may detachably couple to the rake head and may be adapted to be held by a user such that the user may push or pull the rake head over leaves. A plurality of tines located on the underside of the rake head may force the leaves to move along with the rake head. A handle length and an incidence angle of the handle may be adjustable. The mini rake attachment may couple to the handle in place of the rake head. The mini rake attachment may be operable to move the leaves away from an obstruction where the rake head does not fit.
US11839175B2
Devices and systems for seed capture, transport and distribution for planting fields. Seed capture devices for a seed meter may include a movable element configured to capture seeds from a seed disk of a seed meter and a power transmission element operably coupled to the movable element to drive the movable element when the seed meter is in operation and operably coupled to a mechanical contact element of the seed disk of the seed meter to drive the power transmission element when the seed meter is in operation.
US11844292B2
The disclosed subject matter relates generally to structures, memory devices and a method of forming the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to resistive random-access (ReRAM) memory devices with an electrode having tapered sides. The present disclosure provides a memory device including a first electrode having a tapered shape and including a tapered side, a top surface, and a bottom surface, in which the bottom surface has a larger surface area than the top surface, a resistive layer on and conforming to at least the tapered side of the first electrode, and a second electrode laterally adjacent to the tapered side of the first electrode, the second electrode including a top surface and a side surface abutting the resistive layer, in which the side surface forms an acute angle with the top surface.
US11844289B2
A method for fabricating a second generation high-temperature superconductor (2G-HTS) tape, including: (S1) depositing a superconducting thin film on a surface of a ductile metal substrate with a buffer layer; (S2) forming a micro-holes array pattern on a surface of the superconducting thin film by etching using a reel-to-reel dynamic femtosecond infrared laser etching system, where the micro-holes array pattern covers the superconducting thin film; (S3) depositing a superconducting thick film on the surface of the superconducting thin film; and (S4) depositing a silver protective layer and a copper stabilization layer on a surface of the superconducting thick film.
US11844283B2
Methods of forming magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) memory cells used in a magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) array are provided. A pre-clean process is performed to remove a metal oxide layer that may form on the top surface of the bottom electrodes of MTJ memory cells during the time the bottom electrode can be exposed to air prior to depositing MTJ layers. The pre-clean processes may include a remote plasma process wherein the metal oxide reacts with hydrogen radicals generated in the remote plasma.
US11844265B2
A display device includes a display panel including a front surface and a second surface which is opposite to the front surface; a front laminated structure attached to the front surface of the display panel; and a rear laminated structure attached to the second surface of the display panel. Each of the front laminated structure and the rear laminated structure includes a bonding member, and an average modulus of the bonding member of the front laminated structure is smaller than an average modulus of the bonding member of the rear laminated structure.
US11844255B2
A display panel includes a substrate, a pad, an auxiliary electrode layer, a data line layer, a first electrode layer, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode layer. The substrate has a display area and a peripheral area. The pad is disposed on a side of the substrate and located in the peripheral area. The auxiliary electrode layer is disposed on the same side of the substrate as the pad; the data line layer is disposed on a same layer as the auxiliary electrode layer; the first electrode layer is disposed on a side of the auxiliary electrode layer facing away from the substrate; the light emitting layer is disposed on a side of the first electrode layer facing away from the substrate; and the second electrode layer is disposed on a side of the light emitting layer facing away from the substrate and connected to the auxiliary electrode layer.
US11844252B2
This application discloses a current-driven display device able to suppress degradation in display quality due to a luminance gradient or the like caused by a voltage drop across a power supply line while avoiding an increase in size of the circuit as much as possible. In an organic EL display device, a high-level power supply line includes a main wiring line, trunk wiring lines branching off from the main wiring line and extending in a column direction, and branch wiring lines extending in a row direction along scanning signal lines, respectively. The trunk wiring lines and the branch wiring lines are formed in different layers from each other with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, where each branch wiring line is electrically connected conductively to at least one trunk wiring line through a contact hole, and each trunk wiring line is electrically connected conductively to only one branch wiring line through a contact hole. Each of pixel circuits is configured such that no current flows in a data write period thereof, so that no voltage drop is generated in the data write period across the corresponding branch wiring line and the trunk wiring line connected to the corresponding branch wiring line.
US11844251B2
A display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels on the base substrate. Each sub-pixels includes a pixel circuit. The plurality of sub-pixels include a first sub-pixel. The compensation sub-circuit of the first sub-pixel includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a connection portion between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first drive electrode of the light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel includes a first main body portion including a first side parallel to a certain direction, and a first protruding portion protruding from the first side of the first main body portion. The first protruding portion at least partially overlaps with the connection portion of the compensation sub-circuit of the first sub-pixel in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate. The light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel is configured to emit green light.
US11844249B2
A display device includes a base substrate including a rigid material, a plurality of pixels disposed on a display area of the base substrate, a vertical conductive member disposed through the display area of the base substrate, a first transfer wiring electrically contacting the vertical conductive member and extending in a horizontal direction, and an under-panel driver disposed under the base substrate and electrically connected to the vertical conductive member.
US11844247B2
An electronic panel including a display panel and an input sensor which includes a base layer, a first sensing electrode, a first signal line electrically connected to the first sensing electrode, a first insulating layer overlapping the first sensing electrode, a second sensing electrode, a second signal line electrically connected to the second sensing electrode, and a second insulating layer overlapping the second sensing electrode, in which the first insulating layer includes an open edge that defines an open area, the open area exposes a portion of a first surface of the base layer and a portion of the first signal line in a plan view, and the first insulating layer has a first thickness at a first point spaced apart from the open edge and a second thickness greater than the first thickness at a second point disposed farther away from the open edge than the first point.
US11844244B2
A display device includes: a substrate; first banks spaced apart from each other on the substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode covering the first banks and spaced apart from each other; a light-emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first contact electrode connected to the first electrode and contacting one end of the light-emitting element; and a second contact electrode connected to the second electrode and contacting another end of the light-emitting element. The first contact electrode includes a first material, the second contact electrode includes a second material, and physical properties of the first material and the second material are different from each other.
US11844229B2
An organic electroluminescent element which has a substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on this substrate and composed of an anode and a cathode, and at least one organic layer disposed between these electrodes and including a light-emitting layer, and in which a compound expressed by General Formula 1-1 is contained in at least one layer of the aforementioned light-emitting layer(s) exhibits high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and little change in chromaticity accompanying drive deterioration. (R1 to R10 [each] represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and at least one of R1 to R10 is a substituent expressed by General Formula 1-2; however, a pyrene skeleton is never contained in R1 to R10; the asterisk indicates the bonding position with a pyrene ring; X1 to X5 [each] represent a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, and at least one of X1 to X5 is a nitrogen atom; R11 to R15 [each] represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and at least one of R11 to R15 is an alkyl group or a silyl group; however, if X1 to X5 represent nitrogen atoms, there is no R11 to R15 bonded on these nitrogen atoms.)
US11844219B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer containing metal atoms, a charge storage layer provided on a surface of the semiconductor layer via a first insulating film, and an electrode layer provided on a surface of the charge storage layer via a second insulating film. The thickness of the first insulating film is 5 nm or more and 10 nm or less. The concentration of the metal atoms in the semiconductor layer is 5.0×1017 [EA/cm3] or higher and 1.3×1020 [EA/cm3] or lower.
US11844202B2
A method used in forming integrated circuitry comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers. The first tiers comprise doped silicon dioxide and the second tiers comprise undoped silicon dioxide. Horizontally-elongated trenches are formed into the stack. Through the trenches, the doped silicon dioxide that is in the first tiers is etched selectively relative to the undoped silicon dioxide that is in the second tiers. Conducting material is formed in the void space in the first tiers that is left by the etching. Structure independent of method is disclosed.
US11844197B2
An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include an electronic device package having a first surface, a heat conductive structure having a second surface, a reservoir structure positioned between the first surface of the electronic device package and the second surface of the heat conductive structure, and a thermal interface material disposed within the reservoir structure between the first surface of the electronic device package and the second surface of the heat conductive structure to place the first surface in thermal communication with the second surface. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11844193B2
A fluid delivery module that produces direct fluid-contact cooling of a computer processor, while mating with common processor accessory mounting specifications. Computer processors are commonly packaged and installed on printed circuit boards. The fluid module delivers cooling fluid directly to at least a surface of the processor package. The fluid module forms a fluid-tight seal against the surface of the processor package. By delivering fluid to the surface of the processor package, the module cools the computer processor. The module does not mechanically fasten to the processor. Instead, the module fastens to a variety of processor accessory mounting patterns commonly found on printed circuit boards. The printed circuit board typically carries the processor. This minimizes stress on the processor package, and allows greater modularity between different processors. In one embodiment, the fluid delivery is done with integral microjets, producing very high heat transfer cooling of the computer processor.
US11844192B2
A number of slots in a chassis of an information handling system and a number of a plurality of sleds to be housed in the chassis may be determined. An airflow for each of the plurality of sleds in each of the plurality of placement configurations may be determined based, at least in part, on the number of slots in the chassis and the number of the plurality of sleds to be housed in the chassis. A recommended placement for each of the sleds may be determined based at least in part on the airflow for each of the plurality of sleds for the plurality of placement configurations. A notification may be generated comprising the recommended placements for each of the plurality of sleds.
US11844187B2
A cable management device in a server chassis able to hold and safeguard a greatly extended range of cable lengths, and server chassis including same, comprises connecting assembly, sliding rail assembly, and cable management assembly. The sliding rail assembly includes parallel first and second sliding rails, the first sliding rail including outer, middle, and inner rails, and the second sliding rail including similar outer, middle, and inner rails. The assembly includes first to fourth sliding arms, together with a supporting bar. The first sliding arm is movably connected to the outer rail of the second sliding rail, and the fourth sliding arm is movably connected to the inner rail of the first sliding rail. One end of the supporting bar is connected to the middle rail of the first sliding rail, the other end is connected to the middle rail of the second sliding rail.
US11844176B2
A printed circuit board includes: a base substrate; a pad region having a plurality of pad patterns disposed on one surface of the base substrate; and a dummy region having a plurality of conductive dummy patterns separated from the plurality of pad patterns to be disposed on the one surface of the base substrate. The pad region includes a first edge region, and a second edge region disposed in a diagonal direction of the first edge region on the one surface of the base substrate. The dummy region includes a third edge region, and a fourth edge region disposed in a diagonal direction of the third edge region on the one surface of the base substrate.
US11844174B2
An electronic board includes: a board including an upper surface ground on an upper surface; at least one first land formed on the upper surface and connected to a first signal line; at least one second land formed on the upper surface and connected to a second signal line; at least one third land disposed on the upper surface between the first land and the second land and connected to the upper surface ground; and at least one fourth land disposed on the upper surface on a side opposite to the third land and connected to the upper surface ground, the first land being interposed between the third land and the fourth land.
US11844170B2
The present invention is a heater or heating device that uses microwave energy to generate heat quickly. The heater generates heat quickly by forcing air over microwave-heated oil or non-freeze liquid. As a non-limiting embodiment, the heater preferably includes most or all of the following components: an outer casing or housing, at least one air intake vent, a magnetron, a microwave emitter, a wave scatterer, at least one fluid holder, fluid, a capacitor, a transformer, a microwave containment casing, and a perforated microwave guard. As another non-limiting embodiment, the heater preferably includes most or all of following components: an outer casing or housing, a cooling fan, a magnetron, a microwave emitter, a wave scatterer, at least one non-freeze liquid holder, non-freeze liquid, a capacitor, a transformer, a microwave containment casing, a glass tube, a metal tube, a fan coil, a pump, a reservoir and expansion tank, and a fill plug.
US11844164B2
Disclosed are edge-based methods and systems for providing a user control over interactive lighting installations. An edge server may be co-located with a lighting installation, and the edge server may receive a message from a cloud layer. The message may contain user-issued commands regarding lighting behaviors that are to be performed by the lighting installation. The edge server may interpret each command, translate it into instructions that can be understood by the lighting installation, and send those instructions to the lighting installation to direct the lighting installation to execute the lighting behavior specified by the command. The edge server may utilize a buffer to organize these generated instructions and enable the instructions to be continuously streamed to the lighting installation.
US11844162B2
In an initialization method of human-factor lamps capable of intelligently adjusting ambient light, the human-factor lamps are installed in a factory, and Beacon host systems are set up in the factory, and the light emitting devices have the Bluetooth function. A specialist can perform an initialization of the human-factor lamps by a mobile phone with a Bluetooth transmission function, and the mobile phone is loaded with pre-set factory lighting chart information, and the factory lighting chart information includes the pre-set identity codes corresponding to the light emitting devices, and the factory lighting chart information can be corrected through the mobile phone and matched with the factory. The specialist can use the indoor positioning function of the Beacon host systems to move to the corresponding positions of the light emitting devices sequentially and write the identity codes of the light emitting devices automatically and sequentially to complete the initialization.
US11844151B2
A small cell access node is configured for mounting in an elevated or aerial location, such as on a streetlight. In one exemplary embodiment, the small cell access node includes a housing, at least one electrical module, and an electrical interface connector. The housing includes an electrically conductive lower housing member having a floor portion and an electrically non-conductive sidewall housing member secured along a first edge thereof around at least part of a periphery of the floor portion. The at least one electrical module is positioned in a volume defined by at least the lower housing member and the sidewall housing member. The at least one electrical module includes a shielded enclosure, which is electrically coupled to the lower housing member. The electrical interface connector passes through the lower housing member and supplies electrical power received from an external power source to the at least one electrical module.
US11844146B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide positioning enhancements on unlicensed spectrum.
US11844139B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein provide a method implemented in a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving, from a Mobility Management Entity (MME), a bearer resource modification reject message with a cause value, in response to a bearer resource modification request message sent to the MME. Further, the method includes deactivating an Evolved Packet System (EPS) bearer context information.
US11844132B2
Technology is disclosed for an evolved node B (eNB) operable for early data transmission (EDT) in a user plane (UP) in a cellular internet of things (CIoT) evolved 5 packet system (EPS) network. The eNB can be configured to encode, at the eNB for transmission to a user equipment (UE), a message 4 (Msg4) including a resume identifier (ID) and a next-hop chaining count (NCC). The eNB can be configured to determine, at the eNB, a delivery status of the Msg4 to the UE. The eNB can be configured to encode, at the eNB for transmission to a previous eNB of the UE, one or more of an EDT failure 10 indicator or the resume ID.
US11844127B2
Apparatus and methods for testing a cable connection in order to determine whether the cable connection can adequately support delivery of one or more services delivered from a service provider infrastructure. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus are adapted to detect RF signals on a coaxial cable connection or outlet within a premises, evaluate the signals, and determine the readiness status thereof based on the evaluation. In one variant, an algorithm is used for the evaluation of the RF signals, and is dependent on at least a geographical location of the cable outlet being tested. The algorithm evaluates a list of prospective RF channels for signal strength so as to correlate or exclude any signals present from one or more types of sources (e.g., OTA broadcasts, satellite service providers, etc.).
US11844124B2
A communication method for a wireless device, a wireless device and a computer readable storage medium are provided to reduce power consumption of a master device in the wireless device and balance power consumptions of the master device and a slave device. The communication method for a wireless device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: alternately serving, by the master device and the slave device of the wireless device, as a responder, and sending, by the responder, a response message to the terminal via the first Bluetooth link. The response message indicates a result of receiving the Bluetooth data by the wireless device.
US11844122B2
A method of wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE) includes receiving a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message from a second UE. The method also includes periodically transmitting and receiving a radar signal to sense an environment of the first UE. The method includes estimating joint communication and radar side information based on the V2X message and the radar signal. The method further includes predicting a communication state between the first UE and the second UE based on the joint communication and radar side information. The method still further includes updating communication transmit parameters based on the communication state.
US11844120B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving a layer 1 signaling or a layer 2 signaling indicating a subset of a plurality of physical cell identifications (PCIs) associated with a plurality of serving cells in the network, establishing a plurality of communication channels with one or more of transmission-reception points (TRPs), wherein each TRP of the one or more TRPs comprises a corresponding PCI of the plurality of PCIs, and determining one or more PCIs of the plurality of PCIs used as one or more default input cell identifications (IDs) associated with a plurality of physical processings, when no explicit configured input ID is signaled to the UE associated with the plurality of physical processings.
US11844117B2
A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages including configuration parameters, of a cell, indicating: a bundle of a configured uplink grant, and one or more uplink grants for transmission of a message A (MsgA) payload of a two-step random access procedure. A first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) duration of a first uplink grant of the bundle is determined to overlap with a second PUSCH duration of a second uplink grant of the one or more uplink grants for the transmission of the MsgA payload. In response to the determining, the first uplink grant is ignored by not transmitting via a first PUSCH resource of the first uplink grant.
US11844115B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble. At least one property associated with the PRACH preamble corresponds to a request for repetition of Msg3. Accordingly, the UE may transmit, to the base station and based at least in part on the random access preamble, two or more repetitions of a Msg3. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11844109B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for restricting autonomous uplink transmissions by a wireless device in a wireless communication system such that wireless devices performing autonomous uplink transmissions can coexist with wireless devices performing scheduled uplink transmissions in a cell requiring Listen-Before-Talk (LBT). In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a radio access node, an indication of which subframes belong to a same channel occupancy within a cell that requires LBT and restricting performance of autonomous uplink transmissions by the wireless device based on the indication of which subframes belong to the same channel occupancy. By restricting autonomous uplink transmissions in this manner, the wireless device can coexist with scheduled wireless devices in the same cell.
US11844105B2
Methods, systems, and devices for addressing collisions of possible random access channel (RACH) occasions. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may receive an indication of semi-static UL/DL information including configuration of RACH occasions in a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) and an indication of one or more actually transmitted synchronization signal (SS) blocks. The WTRU may then assess whether there are RACH occasions based on the configuration information and determine whether any of the RACH occasions are valid, wherein the RACH occasion may be valid based on Based on the RACH occasion is after all actually transmitted SS blocks indicated and/or whether an SS block override is disabled or enabled. The WTRU may transmit a RACH in one or more of the RACH occasions that have been determined to be valid.
US11844104B2
This disclosure relates to collision resolution for overlapping uplink transmissions, and includes a method and apparatus for identifying a plurality of scheduled uplink transmissions that overlap in at least a first slot and a second slot, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions comprises a high priority uplink transmission scheduled for repetitive transmission across at least a first slot and a second slot and further comprises one or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the first slot and two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot, wherein the two or more uplink transmissions scheduled in the second slot comprise at least a first low priority uplink transmission and a second high priority uplink transmission; and performing a first collision resolution procedure in the first slot and performing a second collision resolution procedure in the second slot, the second collision resolution procedure being independent of the first collision resolution procedure.
US11844100B2
A radio access network includes a processing system and one or more radio access points configured to broadcast over a radio band including one or more radio channels. Contextual data is acquired which is representative of at least one of: (i) a quality of the radio band and (ii) a quantity of data demanded by user equipment in communication with the one or more radio access points over the radio band. A compute policy and a radio policy are generated based on the acquired contextual data. Data transmissions for processing are assigned to computing resources of the processing system based on the compute policy. Data are scheduled for transmission over the radio band based on the radio policy. A modulation and coding scheme for the scheduled data transmissions is selected based on the radio policy.
US11844099B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE in a sidelink communication with the first UE, an indication to switch from utilizing a first sidelink bandwidth part (SL-BWP) to utilizing a second SL-BWP. The UE may selectively switch from utilizing the first SL-BWP to utilizing the second SL-BWP based at least in part on receiving a positive acknowledgment message from the second UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11844096B2
A method and apparatus for Sidelink (SL) Discontinuous Reception (DRX) operation based on resource allocation is provided. A first wireless device, e.g., receiving user equipment (RX UE), monitors first Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) transmissions from a second wireless device, e.g., transmitting UE (TX UE), in a Sidelink (SL) active time for SL Discontinuous Reception (DRX). The first wireless device receives, from the second wireless device, an indication to reselection of sidelink resources, and adjusts the SL active time based on the indication. The first wireless device monitors second PSCCH transmissions from the second wireless device in the adjusted SL active time.
US11844084B2
The present disclosure proposes various methods for improving coverage. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, when an unavailable resource exists in a resource set configured for repeated transmission of a physical uplink channel, the UE may determine a resource capable of actually performing repeated transmission of a physical uplink channel within the resource set. According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, when the terminal receives the TPC command within the resource corresponding to the DMRS bundle, the terminal may, perform power control based on the TPC command after the resource.
US11844069B2
A method for transmitting physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a user equipment (UE) are provided. In the method, a configuration of a first PUSCH with a number of PUSCH repetitions is received. Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) which includes a Transmit Power Control (TPC) command is received. Whether the PDCCH is received within a number of symbols before a first symbol of a slot bundle is determined. In response to determining the PDCCH is received within the number of symbols before the first symbol of the slot bundle, the TPC command is applied for a first PUSCH transmission occasion within the slot bundle. In response to determining the PDCCH is not received within the number of symbols before the first symbol of the slot bundle, the TPC command is applied for a second PUSCH transmission occasion within a second slot bundle after the slot bundle.
US11844068B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) indicating a configuration for one or more of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) bundling that is to be used for channel estimation by the base station for a first group of physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) or frequency hopping for a second group of PUCCHs. The apparatus may transmit, to the base station, one or more PUCCHs based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11844048B2
A method of operating a terminal device and a plurality of network access nodes, wherein the method comprises: establishing first wake-up signalling configuration information for a first network access node; establishing second wake-up signalling configuration information for a second network access node; and monitoring for signalling transmitted by the first network access node in accordance with the first wake-up signalling format and monitoring for signalling transmitted by the second network access node in accordance with the second wake-up signalling format, and seeking to decode a subsequent paging message in response to detecting wake-up signalling in accordance with either the first wake-up signalling format or the second wake-up signalling format.
US11844023B2
Disclosed herein are related to dynamically adjusting a wake time and a sleep time for wireless communication between two or more devices to reduce power consumption. In one aspect, a first device enters a wake up state to wirelessly communicate with a second device for a service period with a determined duration scheduled according to a target wake time (TWT) protocol. In one aspect, the first device monitors for one or more indicators from the second device indicating that additional data is available for communication. In one aspect, the first device extends the service period beyond the determined duration, in response to receiving a first indicator of the one or more indicators. In one aspect, the first device communicates with the second device the additional data during the service period extended beyond the determined duration.
US11844021B2
According to a first embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment, at least one indication that the user equipment is allowed to skip paging monitoring after a paging message is successfully decoded. The method may further include determining, by the user equipment, that the user equipment can end paging monitoring based upon received wake-up signaling configuration data. The method may further include entering, by the user equipment, an extended discontinuous reception sleep mode.
US11844018B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for replacement of a DNN and/or S-NSSAI in a wireless communication system is provided.
US11844013B1
A mobile device determines the radio access technology (RAT) to use to connect to a wireless network at a geographic location based on determining the highest priority RAT that the mobile device is compatible with in the geographic location. The highest priority RAT in the geographic location is, for example, the RAT with the largest aggregate bandwidth or the RAT with the best user quality of experience in the geographic location. The mobile device can determine the highest priority RAT based on band and bandwidth information at the geographic location or the wireless network can determine the highest priority RAT based on band and bandwidth or measurement reports received from mobile devices in the geographic location.
US11844007B2
Various arrangements for configuring wireless network access for a first wireless device using a previously-configured second wireless device are presented. The first wireless device may output a temporary wireless network hotspot and advertise an identifier. A second wireless device may search for and identify the first wireless device based on the advertised identifier. The second wireless device may connect with the temporary wireless network hotspot and provide wireless network credentials for a wireless network for which the second wireless device has previously been granted access. The first wireless device may then establish a network connection with the wireless network based on the wireless network credentials transmitted by the second wireless device.
US11844006B2
A method of twinning a primary wireless communication device with an in-vehicle wireless communication device. The method comprises inputting a plurality of phone numbers into the in-vehicle wireless communication device that comprises an eSIM storing an eSIM profile provisioned for wireless communication service in a wireless communication network, wherein each phone number is associated with a primary wireless communication device of a different user; sending a first bundle of twinning credentials by the in-vehicle wireless communication device to the wireless communication network, wherein the first bundle of twinning credentials comprises a VIN, an ICCID identifying the eSIM, an EID identifying the eSIM profile, and a first phone number of the plurality of phone numbers input into the in-vehicle communication device associated with a primary wireless communication device of a first user; and providing wireless communication service by the in-vehicle communication device based on the first phone number.
US11844004B2
A method, a computer program, an apparatus, a transportation vehicle, and a network component for controlling a communication link used for tele-operating a transportation vehicle. The method includes obtaining information related to a predicted quality of service (pQoS) for the communication link between the transportation vehicle and a tele-operator of the transportation vehicle and selecting an operating mode for tele-operating the transportation vehicle from a group of operating modes based on the information related to the pQoS, the group of operating modes having two or more operating modes differing at least in a speed limit for the transportation vehicle.
US11843995B2
Various example embodiments are described in which a network node transmits to a user device preconfiguration information for a plurality of on-demand positioning signal (ODPS) preconfigurations. An ODPS preconfiguration may be selected and communicated. The transmitted ODPS preconfiguration may be a request for transmission, or a notice of transmission, of the selected ODPS. An ODPS, which is associated with or based on the selected ODPS preconfiguration, may be transmitted. The ODPS may include any positioning signal (e.g., any signal that may be used for positioning) that may be transmitted upon request or as needed, and, e.g., may include downlink on-demand positioning reference signals (ODPRS), uplink on-demand sounding reference signals (ODSRS), or other positioning or reference signal.
US11843982B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine to switch from a first cell of a first distributed unit (DU) to a second cell of a second DU, wherein the first DU and the second DU are included in a set of DUs of a central unit (CU). The UE may communicate, using layer 1 (L1) or layer 2 (L2) signaling to change an activation status of at least one cell of the first DU or the second DU. The UE may switch from the first cell to the second cell in connection with the change to the activation status of the at least one cell of the first DU or the second DU. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11843974B2
A method of processing an emergency incident reported to a PSAP by a plurality of callers can include checking, at the PSAP, if video calls have been received from the same specified location within a predetermined time period, and if it is determined that there are such further video calls, feeding at least a part of the video call and the further video calls to a ML classifier unit. The ML Classifier unit can identify if there are similarities between the video call and the further video calls. If there exists similarity between the video call and at least one further video call, a determination about which one of the video calls t uses less resources (e.g. less bandwidth). That video call can then be utilized and other similar calls can be adjusted to reduce the bandwidth further (e.g. converted to audio calls, etc.).
US11843965B2
Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for managing user equipment (UE) communications in a converged network by causing such UE to automatically select a “best” wireless network (cellular RAN/WiFi) without any user notification/interaction to the user of the UE, such as via the device user interface (UI). The best wireless network may be determined using contemporaneous QoS related measurements, or predicted QoS measurements such as provided by a RAN node or channel QoS model generated via machine learning techniques, which may also be used to determine a type of QoS needed for each application or service commonly invoked at the UE so as to automatically provide the best possible user experience without any user intervention.
US11843960B2
A test system (1) serves to test a broadband cellular network. The test system (1) includes at least one user interface (2, 3) and at least one central test module (7) capable to run a predetermined or user-defined test method. A smartphone test probe interface module (13) of the test system (1) is connected to the central test module (7). Such smartphone test probe interface module (13) is capable to establish a data/signal connection between at least one smartphone test probe (14) and a network component of the broadband cellular network. The test system (1) further includes a radio test probe interface module (15) and a core network test probe interface module (17) capable to establish in a similar manner a data/signal connection between at least one radio/core test probe (16, 18) and a respective network component of the broadband cellular network. During a test method using such test system, a group of test probes is assigned to network components of the network to be tested via the respective interface modules (13, 15, 17). After that, at least one test sequence within the network is performed and data and results from the test probes (14, 16, 18) and the test sequences are aggregated to monitor the performance of the network. A test system results having enhanced capabilities to enable the testing of the broadband cellular network.
US11843949B2
Methods and systems are described for generating and utilizing a pattern of association. The pattern of association can comprise information that indicates to which of a plurality of network devices one or more mobile devices are likely to connect. The pattern of association can comprise information that indicates an order of association. The pattern of association can be associated with one or more factors which can be any information that provides insight into the pattern of association. The pattern of association can be used to identify a next network device that a mobile device will transition to, based on which network device the mobile device is currently connected to. Data, such as authentication information, can be pushed to the identified next network device to reduce network connectivity issues that may occur by transitioning between network devices.
US11843948B2
A method of a wearable device displaying icons is provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of circular icons comprising a first circular icon located in a center area of a touch display in a first size and a second circular icon located outside of the center area of the touch display in a second size smaller than the first size, and based on a direction of a touch input received on the touch display, moving the plurality of circular icons such that the first circular icon is moved to a first position located outside of the center area of the touch display and the second circular icon is moved from a second position located outside the center area of the touch display to the center area of the touch display and enlarged in size from the second size to the first size.
US11843928B2
An acoustic block manufacturing method includes: mixing zeolite powder with water to form a mixed liquid; making the mixed liquid into an ice cube; providing a vacuum environment to make the ice cube undergo gas phase sublimation; and feeding parylene into the vacuum environment in a manner of chemical vapor deposition to form an acoustic block having a porous structure. The acoustic block can effectively reduce resonance frequency. An acoustic device with acoustic blocks is also provided and has the same effect.
US11843927B2
An acoustic control system includes a peripheral wall provided so as to surround a seat, and an upper portion of the peripheral wall being opened, a speaker provided inside the peripheral wall and capable of outputting a reproduced sound from a sound source, a microphone provided toward an outside of the peripheral wall and configured to collect an environmental sound around the peripheral wall, and a processor. The processor configured to suppresse a level of the reproduced sound in a predetermined frequency band from the speaker based on the environmental sound collected by the microphone.
US11843923B2
The present disclosure relates to microphones and electronic devices having the same. The microphone may include a housing for receiving sound signals, at least two transducers for vibrating to generate electrical signals in response to the sound signals, and a processing circuit for processing the electrical signals. Each of the at least two transducers may provide a distinctive resonance peak to the microphone.
US11843914B2
A sound-generating apparatus and a vehicle including the same are provided. A sound-generating apparatus includes: a plurality of first portions at each of first to third regions, and a plurality of second portions between the plurality of first portions, at each of the first to third regions, wherein two or more second portions, at any one region, among the first to third regions, have a cross-sectional shape that differs from a cross-sectional shape of a second portion disposed at each of the other regions, among the first to third regions.
US11843912B2
An actuator module includes a baseplate extending in a plane, a voice coil connected to the baseplate, and a magnet assembly. The actuator module also includes a rigid frame attached to the baseplate, the rigid frame comprising four stubs. The actuator module further includes a pair of springs suspending the magnet assembly relative to the frame and baseplate so that the voice coil extends into the air gap, the pair of springs including a first and second spring each shaped as a loop defining an aperture sized to accommodate motion of the magnet assembly along a direction of the coil axis, the first spring being attached to the frame at a first pair of the four stubs, the second spring being attached to the frame at a second pair of the four stubs, and both being attached to separate portions of the magnet assembly.
US11843908B2
A remote speaker microphone (RSM) unit enables a user to use either a headset or an in-ear speaker with the RSM unit. The RSM unit includes a first RSM connection for communicating and connectable with the first connection of the headset; and a second RSM connection for communicating and connectable with the second connection of the in-ear speaker. Connecting either the headset or the in-ear speaker to the RSM unit disables the speaker and microphone of the RSM unit. At least one of the first and second connections are wireless, e.g., Bluetooth or NFC, and at least one of the first and second RSM connections are wireless connections communicable with the first and second connections, respectively. In addition or the alternative, at least one of said first connection and said second connection are electrical plugs and at least one of said first and second RSM connections are corresponding electrical jacks.
US11843906B2
An integrated audio-visual system is disclosed for delivering an event to one or more spectators. The integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators. The one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators. Moreover, the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.
US11843904B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium for automatically generating a combined display of measurement data representing a combined measurement, such as a multiphase parameter, includes establishing, by a mobile computing device, communication connections with a plurality of measurement devices configured to generate measurement data. The mobile computing device receives the measurement data generated by the plurality of measurement devices, and in response to information indicative of the measurement data representing related parts of a combined measurement, the mobile computing device automatically groups the measurement data received from the measurement devices and automatically displays the grouped measurement data in a combined display that shares at least one axis of measurement. In at least one embodiment, the combined measurement is a multiphase parameter, such as a three-phase electrical parameter, and the combined display is a graph in which the measurement data shares at least one axis of measurement, such as time.
US11843899B1
Presented herein are systems and methods for obtaining an audio stream from a microphone of a first participant of an audio and video conference between at least the first participant and a second participant; detecting, in the audio stream, a sound trigger that is noise generated by the first participant and filtered from the audio stream by a noise cancellation filter; in response to detecting the sound trigger, muting a transmission of the audio stream to the second participant; and while muting the transmission of the audio stream to the second participant, receiving a verbal command from the first participant that is used to control a digital or virtual assistant.
US11843895B2
Multi-link transportation of media, video and other data of the type having multiple layers, streams and/or encodings is contemplated. The multi-link transportation may be facilitated with a scheduler configured to schedule the various layers, streams, encodings, etc. for transportation over selectable communication links, such as based on reliability, capacity and/or other operating characteristics.
US11843889B2
An image sensor may include an image sensor pixel array, row control circuitry, and column readout circuitry. The column readout circuitry may include analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry. The ADC circuitry may have a first portion that selectively converts pixel signals associated with a low light or high conversion gain operating environment and a second portion that converts any pixel signals. As an example, the first portion may be a ramp ADC and the second portion may be a successive approximation register (SAR) ADC.
US11843883B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device that makes it possible to suppress deterioration of phase difference information, and an electronic device. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arrayed. The plurality of pixels includes a phase difference pixel for phase difference detection, the pixel array unit has an array pattern in which pixel units including neighboring pixels of a same color are regularly arrayed, and the phase difference pixel is partially not added when horizontal/vertical addition is performed on a pixel signal of a predetermined pixel in a horizontal direction and a pixel signal of a predetermined pixel in a vertical direction, in reading the plurality of pixels. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor having a phase difference pixel.
US11843881B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method, a camera module, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of detecting a failure in an imaging device having a structure in which a plurality of substrates are stacked. The timing at which a row drive unit provided in a second substrate outputs a control signal for controlling accumulation and reading of pixel signals in a pixel array provided in a first substrate is compared with the timing at which the control signal output from the row drive unit is detected after passing through the pixel array. Depending on whether or not the timings coincides with each other, a failure is detected. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle.
US11843878B2
A sensor device is provided. The sensor device includes an image sensor having a plurality of photo-sensitive pixels configured to measure light received from a scene. The image sensor is configured to output image data indicative of measurement values of at least part of the plurality of photo-sensitive pixels. Additionally, the sensor device includes processing circuitry configured to determine a histogram based on the image data. The histogram represents a distribution of the measurement values. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine whether an object is present in the scene based on the histogram. In addition, the sensor device includes interface circuitry configured to output presence data indicating whether the object is present in the scene.
US11843863B2
There are provided an apparatus and a method for generating a panorama image. The apparatus includes: a Region Of Interest (ROI) selecting block for receiving a plurality of images, and outputting ROI images by selecting an ROI of each of the plurality of images; a High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing block for performing HDR processing on the ROI images; and a panorama image generating block for generating a panorama image by stitching the plurality of images using a matching coordinate of the ROI images on which the HDR processing is performed. The HDR processing block performs the HDR processing on the panorama image.
US11843861B2
An apparatus includes one or more processors and/or circuitry which function as: an object detection unit configured to detect a main object, a first motion detection unit configured to detect a motion vector of the main object, a second motion detection unit configured to detect a movement of an image capturing apparatus, a control unit configured to control a correction unit, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the main object is changed between a first timing when a first image is captured and a second timing when a second image is captured. In a case where the determination unit determines that the main object is changed, the control unit changes a control from image blur correction based on the motion vector of the main object to image blur correction based on the movement of the image capturing apparatus.
US11843857B2
An accessory capable of promptly notifying an electronic apparatus of its state change. The accessory is detachably connected to an electronic apparatus. A first transmission unit transmits first information among information stored in the accessory to the electronic apparatus in response to periodic first communication from a first communication unit of the electronic apparatus. A second transmission unit responds to inquiry by second communication from a second communication unit of the electronic apparatus. A notification unit notifies the electronic apparatus of state change of the accessory when the electronic apparatus is in a first state or a second state and the state of the accessory is changed. In the first state, the first communication is stopped and the second communication unit is in a standby mode. In the second state, power supply to the first communication unit is stopped and the second communication unit is in the standby mode.
US11843856B2
There is provided with an image capturing control apparatus. A first storing unit configured to store, in advance, first signal information that is obtained by processing a captured first image. A first processing unit configured to send the first image to a second storing unit that is different from the first storing unit. A second processing unit configured to process the first image stored in the second storing unit. A determination unit configured to determine whether or not at least one of the second processing unit and the second storing unit is anomalous based on whether the first signal information matches second signal information obtained by the second processing unit processing the first image.
US11843843B2
The present disclosure provides techniques for presenting information associated with bullet screens. The techniques comprise receiving trigger information comprising information of identifying a bullet screen and information of identifying a user who performed a trigger event for the bullet screen; determining a list of jump links associated with the bullet screen based on the information of identifying the bullet screen; determining a tag associated with the user based on the information of identifying the user; selecting a target jump link from the list of jump links based on the tag associated with the user; and transmitting information associated with the bullet screen and comprising the target jump link for display of at least one part of the information in a preset area associated with the bullet screen.
US11843842B2
Methods and systems for generating segmented media asset identifiers are described herein. The method includes retrieving a first media guidance data segment of a plurality of media guidance data segments. Each segment of the plurality of media guidance data segments includes a plurality of media asset identifiers and is navigationally linked to at least one other media guidance data segment. The method further involves generating for display the media asset identifiers of the first media guidance data segment. While generating for display the media asset identifiers of the first media guidance data segment, a first user input corresponding to navigating to the media asset identifiers of a linked media guidance data segment is received. In response to receiving the first user input, the linked media guidance data segment is retrieved, and the media asset identifiers of the linked media guidance data segment are generated for display.
US11843839B2
A streaming service updates a manifest to include a location of an encoded version of a program that is available for streaming and a restriction marker indicating that the program is restricted. A request for the manifest is received from a client device. Subsequent to providing the manifest to the client device, a request for authorization to stream the program is received from the client device, the request for authorization including client device metadata. Based on the client device metadata and blackout metadata associated with the program, it is determined that the client device is not authorized to stream the program. The streaming service sends, to the client device, slate information that identifies a slate image to be presented by the client device in lieu of the program.
US11843819B2
An image capture device may capture multiple audio content during capture of visual content. A viewing window for the visual content and rotational position of the image capture device during capture of the visual content may be used to generate modified audio content from the multiple audio content. The modified audio content may provide sound for playback of a punchout of the visual content using the viewing window.
US11843818B2
An example electronic device according to various embodiments of this document may include: at least one auxiliary processor; and a main processor operably connected to the at least one auxiliary processor, wherein the main processor may be configured to: obtain moving image data; separate the moving image data into image data including plural consecutive image frames, first audio data including plural consecutive audio frames, and plural timestamps corresponding respectively to the plural consecutive audio frames; generate second audio data using the first audio data by adding header data to each of the plural audio frames; transmit the second audio data to the at least one auxiliary processor; generate, based on first time information successively received from the at least one auxiliary processor, second time information; and play back the image data based on the second time information, and wherein the at least one auxiliary processor may be configured to: play back an audio signal based on the received second audio data; and generate the first time information about a playback time of the audio signal based on the header data.
US11843817B2
Systems and methods for mapping keys on a remote control device to digital content items are disclosed. An algorithm is trained, based on user's consumption pattern, to determine whether a digital content item would be relevant to the user. If the digital content item matches the consumption pattern, then a key is automatically mapped, and if it does not, then a notification that includes a mapping suggestion is generated and mapped upon approval. A mapping table is updated to store only valid mappings. An input of a key results in quick display of the mapped digital content item from where it was previously exited. A key can be mapped to a single or multiple digital content items. If similarities are detected between multiple digital content items, then they may both be mapped to the same key.
US11843811B2
One variation of a method for serving interactive ad content includes, in response to a pause event that pauses playback of a digital video, viewed on a display of a streaming device accessed by a user: overlaying the digital video with a home screen including an image player and a set of icons linked to a set of video advertisements; in response to a first user input proximal an icon, in the set of icons, corresponding to a video advertisement, in the set of video advertisements, reconfiguring the image player and initiating playback of the video advertisement within the image player; during playback of the video advertisement, in response to a second user input proximal the icon, expanding the image player and activating an audio stream of the video advertisement; and, in response to a user input that resumes playback of the digital video, pausing playback of the video advertisement.
US11843810B2
In one aspect, a method includes determining that a content-presentation device is scheduled to receive a content segment on a channel to which the content-presentation device is tuned. The method also includes receiving linear content campaign data associated with the content segment, where the linear content campaign data specifies a frequency cap that defines a minimum number of times the content-presentation device is to present the content segment before the content-presentation device is permitted to perform a content-modification operation relative to the content segment. The method also includes determining that the content-presentation device has met or exceeded the frequency cap, and responsively (i) storing in memory an indication that the content segment is a modifiable content-segment relative to which the content-presentation device is permitted to perform a content-modification operation, and (ii) performing an action to facilitate the content-presentation device performing a content-modification operation relative to the content segment.
US11843803B2
Provided by the implementations of the present disclosure are a transform method, a coder, a decoder and a computer readable storage medium. The transform method includes: determining normal vectors of encoding points in an encoding point cloud; analyzing the sum total of all coordinates of the normal vectors on the basis of the normal vectors of the encoding points; and determining a transform sequence on the basis of the sum total of all coordinates of the normal vectors.
US11843802B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data including a reference view and a current view is received. A co-located block in the reference view is identified for a current block in the current view. A predicted block vector is calculated based on an offset vector between the current block and the co-located block, and a disparity vector between the co-located block and the reference block in the reference view. The video data is encoded/decoded based on the calculated predicted block vector.
US11843800B2
An encoder comprising a processor configured to obtain candidate motion vectors (MVs) corresponding to neighboring blocks of a current block, the neighboring blocks neighboring the current block; obtain precisions of the candidate MVs; round the precisions to a target precision based on a rounding scheme; round the candidate MVs based on the target precision; perform pruning of the candidate MVs; generate a candidate list based on the rounding of the candidate MVs and the pruning; select one of the candidate MVs from the candidate list for encoding the current block; and encode an MV candidate index corresponding to the one of the candidate MVs that was selected in a bitstream.
US11843799B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: derives a motion vector of a current block by referring to at least one reference picture different from a picture to which the current block belongs; performs a mode for estimating, for each sub-block unit of sub-blocks obtained by splitting the current block, a surrounding region of the motion vector to correct the motion vector; determines whether to apply deblocking filtering to each of boundaries between neighboring ones of the sub-blocks; and applies the deblocking filtering to the boundary, based on a result of the determination.
US11843796B2
With an image coding method which allows reduction of processing loads, when pictures included in a video signal are classified into layers so as to belong to their respective layers, a picture that belongs to the second layer that is located in a range restricted according to the first layer to which a current picture to be coded that is one of the pictures belongs, is referred to as a reference picture for the current picture, and the current picture is coded based on the reference picture.
US11843788B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to data compression. In some embodiments, compression circuitry determines, at least partially in parallel for multiple different lossless compression techniques, amounts of data needed to represent, using a given lossless compression technique of the multiple lossless compression techniques, individual pixels in a set of pixels being compressed. The compression techniques may include neighbor, origin, and gradient techniques, for example. The compression circuitry may select one of the compression techniques based on comparison, among the compression techniques, of sums of: the determined amount of data for an individual pixel for a given lossless compression technique and compression metadata size for a given lossless compression technique. The compression circuitry may generate and store information that encodes values for the set of pixels using the selected compression technique.
US11843778B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises a step of receiving a bitstream containing residual information, and a step of deriving a quantized transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of the residual information contained in the bitstream, wherein the residual information includes a context syntax element coded on the basis of the context, and if the size of a transformation block is changed as much as a sub-block region having a predetermined size and the current block is the last sub-block in the sub-block region and the last quantized transform coefficient is in the current block, then the step of deriving a quantized transform coefficient includes context-based decoding of the context syntax element on the basis of a predetermined maximum value for the context syntax element, wherein the maximum value is determined on the basis of the size of the sub-block region.
US11843775B2
A digital media encoder/decoder uses a flexible quantization technique that provides the ability to vary quantization along various dimensions of the encoded digital media data, including spatial, frequency sub bands and color channels. The codec utilizes a signaling scheme to signal various permutations of flexible quantization combinations efficiently for primary usage scenarios. When a choice of quantizer is available, the codec efficiently encodes the current quantizer by defining a subset of quantizers and indexes the current quantizer from the set.
US11843774B2
The present invention concerns an apparatus configured to partition a picture into leaf blocks using recursive multi-tree partitioning, block-based encode the picture into a data stream using the partitioning of the picture into the leaf blocks, wherein the apparatus is configured to, in partitioning the picture into the leaf blocks, for a predetermined block which extends beyond a boundary of the picture, reduce an available set of split modes depending on a position at which the boundary of the picture crosses the predetermined block in order to obtain a reduced set of one or more split modes, wherein the apparatus is configured to signal a selected split mode in the data stream.
US11843769B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced.
US11843768B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced.
US11843767B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Video data comprising a reference frame and residual blocks is received. Transform coefficients associated with the residual blocks are identified. The video data corresponding to the one or more residual blocks is encoded based on an extended dynamic range associated with the transform coefficients.
US11843763B2
Provided is a display method that prevents degradation of image quality due to ghosting. The display method performed with a display apparatus includes a viewpoint position detection step (S1) for detecting a viewpoint position d that is an interval between a reflection screen and a viewer α, a diffusion property control step (S2) for controlling a diffusion property of the reflection screen 40 in accordance with the viewpoint position d, and a projection step for projecting multiple viewpoint video images having disparity from multiple projectors to the reflection screen. The diffusion property control step (S2) includes controlling the diffusion property of the reflection screen 40 by varying a voltage or a duty cycle of an ac signal that is applied to a diffuser layer included in the reflection screen.
US11843762B2
A switchable floating image display device, including a light-emitting stack layer, a light-emitting pattern stack layer, a transparent barrier layer, an optical imaging module, and a power supply module, is provided. The light-emitting stack layer is configured to generate a first pattern beam. The light-emitting pattern stack layer is configured to generate a second pattern beam. The transparent barrier layer is disposed between the light-emitting stack layer and the light-emitting pattern stack layer. The optical imaging module is configured to enable the first pattern beam to form a first floating image, and enable the second pattern beam to form a second floating image. The power supply module is electrically connected to the light-emitting stack layer and the light-emitting pattern stack layer, and configured determine whether to generate the first or second floating image by switching between the light-emitting stack layer and the light-emitting pattern stack layer to emit light.
US11843753B2
A supporting program is executable by a controller of an information processing apparatus and corresponds to a printer connected to the information processing apparatus. The supporting program causes the information processing apparatus to perform processing intermediate image data in accordance with a print parameter received in a print parameter editing process, displaying an image indicated by the processed inter mediate image data on a print preview screen. The information processing apparatus does not restrict printing when print continuation is instructed, while restricting the printing when re-edit or print cancel is instructed.
US11843752B2
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image forming apparatus, includes one or more memories, and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to accept a designation of a document to be registered in the image forming apparatus, determine whether the designated document is allowed to be registered, and in a case where it is determined that the designated document is not allowed to be registered, issue a notification regarding the registration of the designated document.
US11843745B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus that enables readout of data compressed in a mount format. An information processing apparatus includes a mount unit configured to mount compressed data, a decompression unit configured to decompress a compressed file having access information to access the data mounted by the mount unit, and a readout unit configured to read out the mounted data by reading out the file decompressed by the decompression unit.
US11843742B2
An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.
US11843737B2
If a new web engine is installed on an information processing apparatus to introduce the information processing apparatus to new web technology, display compatibility between the new web engine and a conventional web engine that has been used cannot be maintained, which leads to a degradation in usability. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an information processing apparatus includes a plurality of web engines and the web engines to be used are dynamically changed based on a content of a request.
US11843729B2
An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure acquires feature information on communication performed by the information processing apparatus, estimates a usage environment of the information processing apparatus based on a trained model, which is generated through machine learning performed based on feature information on communication performed by a plurality of devices different from the information processing apparatus and setting information on usage environments set for the plurality of devices, and on the acquired feature information on the communication related to the information processing apparatus, and notifies the estimated usage environment of the information processing apparatus.
US11843701B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a generation program for causing a computer to execute a process including: dividing a target content into a plurality of blocks so that head information of the target content is distributed to the blocks different from each other, according to a predetermined rule; generating a hash value corresponding to each of the plurality of divided blocks; generating an aggregation hash value by aggregating the generated hash values; and outputting the generated aggregation hash value.
US11843696B2
A system including: a storage; and a processor configured to: receive a data packet; and process the data packet without an instruction input to perform a definite task. The data packet may be encrypted. The processor may be configured to process the data packet based on a decryption mechanism required to decrypt the data packet.
US11843693B2
The invention relates to a secure entity, a trusted execution hardware environment (TEE) comprising a secure processing circuit and suitable for implementing a contract-execution architecture, such as a Wallet Node for executing a contract-type program, wherein said program can be loaded into an execution memory in response to a program identifier contained in a message that reaches the entity via a channel for communication with other entities, and a secure device for interaction with the physical environment of the entity, such as a sensor and/or actuator module, which can supply input data for the execution of the contract and/or receive data generated by the execution of the contract, the secure device containing its own secret key for securing exchanges within the framework of the execution of the program.
US11843686B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for performing cryptographic operations in connection with the management of electronic content using multiple license services. In some circumstances, a content service may not wish to share unencrypted content keys with a single license service for a variety of security reasons. Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods may use multi-party cryptographic methods in connection with the management of protected content keys and/or associated licenses and/or the distribution of content keys and/or licenses to authorized users and/or devices. In various embodiments, a content service may split a content key into a plurality of key shares and may transmit the key shares to a plurality of different license services. The license services may coordinate operations to generate a protected content key without revealing unencrypted content key to any of the participating license services.
US11843685B1
A vehicular communication controller includes a microcontroller (MCU) located within a vehicle to publish a newly defined protocol data unit (PDU) including a header and a payload portion to a destination device. The destination device may utilize a first protocol or a second protocol. If the destination device utilizes the first protocol that includes an automotive/embedded communication protocol then the MCU serializes the payload portion of the PDU and binds the PDU to the first protocol. The destination device may then receive the PDU using the first protocol, deserialize the payload portion, and remove the header leaving the payload portion unchanged and recreate, based on the deserialized payload portion, the PDU.
US11843682B1
Edge server cache techniques are described to prepopulate an edge server cache. The edge servers are configurable to maintain a first set of digital content that is currently made available via content requests to client devices. The edge servers are also configured to maintain a second set of digital content, separately, that is to be launched. The second set of digital content is not made publicly available until launch, but rather is “pre-warmed” in the caches of the respective edge servers. In an implementation, prelaunch access is provided using respective credentials, e.g., to verify operation of the second set of digital content using software and hardware resources at actual edge servers that implement the caches.
US11843681B2
Systems and methods that provide for the pre-fetching of data, including receiving user input data from a user device, and in response, identifying a first set of objects for enabling an application operating on the user device to render a first interface in a sequence of interfaces, and determining a second set of objects for enabling the application to render a second interface in the sequence of interfaces. The first set of objects are transmitted to the user device, as well as instructions for directing the user device to render the first interface in the application using the first set of objects, and receive and store the second set of objects in an information repository associated with the user device. In response to a user input, the second interface is rendered in the application using the second set of objects.
US11843677B2
A method is provided for the capture of biometric or multi-biometric information using: a standard Internet of Things (IoT) data broker in an efficient and distributed IoT architecture. The MQTT information protocol is used in combination with mobile or fixed devices that manage one or more peripherals for capturing biometric information. An IoT platform is provided that allows information to be viewed in real time along with historical information and statistics regarding the use and operation of the devices to be obtained. The invention provides a method based on standard integration protocols and tools for M2M communication in IoT architectures, which acts as an information bridge, facilitating implementation to capture any type of biometric or multibiometric information, which information can be in any format (biometric templates or images in standard or proprietary formats), so that the captured information can be used in any type of biometric process.
US11843674B2
A computer system to track and enhance performance of a virtual workspace system is provided. The computer system receives requests to profile phases of a distributed process executed by hosts coupled to one another via a network. Each of phase includes operations executed by processes hosted by the hosts. Each of phase either starts with receipt of a request via a user interface of a virtualization client or ends with provision of a response to the request via the user interface. The computer system identifies event log entries that each include an identifier of an event marking a start or an end of one of the operations, constructs a performance profile based on the event log entries, and transmits the performance profile to the user interface.
US11843667B2
An example operation includes one or more of powering, by a transport, one or more critical components, running, by the transport, a first set of applications on the one or more critical components, responsive to a dependency of one or more noncritical components on the one or more critical components, powering, by the transport, the one or more noncritical components, and running, by the transport, a second set of applications on the one or more noncritical components.
US11843666B2
A method, apparatus and product for sub-networks based cyber security. One method comprises detecting a device connecting to a local network which is divided into subnets; determining a usage profile of the device; automatically selecting a subnet to connect the device based on the usage profile; and connecting the device to the selected subnet in the local network. Another method comprises monitoring communication traffic of devices in each of the subnets of a local network; performing anomaly detection to detect an abnormal communication of a device connected to a subnet; blocking the abnormal communication of the device; and removing the device from the subnet and connecting the device to a quarantine subnet of the local network, whereby reducing connectivity of the device with other devices connected to the local network.
US11843662B2
A method for replicating a set of parent resources from an administrator namespace to a set of tenant namespaces is described. The method includes receiving, by the administrator namespace, a global object that includes a set of object fields that reference (1) a set of parent resources and (2) the set of tenant namespaces; monitoring, by an operator controller of the administrator namespace, the global object to determine whether a change has been made to the global object; and replicating, by the operator controller, the set of parent resources to the set of tenant namespaces as child resources based on the global object in response to detecting a change to the global object.
US11843655B2
Automatically determining, with reduced (or no) input from the users of a group, a set of activity instances that the group of users has interest in performing. A representation of the set of activity instances can be rendered for consideration by a group, and the set of activity instances can be determined even when only limited criteria are specified. Optionally, in response to affirmative user interface input(s) directed to a rendered representation of the set of activity instances, one or more of the activity instances of the set can be confirmed through limited input(s) of one or more users of the group. Further, the automatic determination of the set of activity instances is optionally performed using one or more trained machine learning models that are trained to optimize a likelihood that the users of the group will find the set satisfactory.
US11843654B2
A network-connected access point is disclosed having a network access transceiver configured to provide access to a network for computing devices in communication therewith. The network access point also comprises one or more environmental sensors each configured to determine at least one environmental characteristic value that quantifies an environmental characteristic at a location distant from the network access point. Without limitation, environmental characteristics include temperature, humidity, sound, light, motion, and air quality, The network access point further comprises a sensor controller in communication with the at least one environmental sensor. The sensor controller may be separate from the network access transceiver, or may be part of the same component. The sensor controller is configured to receive the at least one environmental characteristic value from the at least one environmental sensor, and transmit information based on the at least one environmental characteristic value to a network.
US11843651B2
A personalized recommendation method and system, and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: The terminal device sends service content request information to a service system; the terminal device receives service content response information sent by the service system, where the service content response information includes a service content candidate set, the service content candidate set includes a plurality of pieces of service content, and the service content candidate set is obtained by the service system based on a user behavior event reported by the terminal device; the terminal device determines one or more pieces of service content from the service content candidate set based on user-authorized data; and the terminal device displays the one or more pieces of service content to a user.
US11843648B2
A method for identifying insertion points for inserting live content into a continuous content stream is disclosed. The method includes identifying a first particular live content item included in a continuous content stream. The method determines a first live content item for presentation based on one or more interesting portions of the first live content item, wherein the one or more interesting portions are identified based one or more selection criteria, and wherein a first interesting portion comprises a start time. The method further causes the first live content item to be presented by the client device at the start time of the first interesting portion during playback of the first particular item.
US11843643B2
One or more computer processors include (i) a distribution portion that distributes, to a viewing user terminal, information about a video including an animation of a character object of a distribution user, (ii) a receiver that receives a display request for a specified gift transmitted from the viewing user terminal, (iii) an object display device that displays a specified gift object corresponding to the specified gift in the video, based on the display request received by the receiver, (iv) a determination portion that determines whether behavior information of the distribution user or another gift object satisfies a predetermined condition associated with the specified gift object, and (v) an expression portion that changes at least one of a movement and a shape of the specified gift object when the determination portion determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11843641B2
Methods and apparatus for providing a messaging server within a premises device e.g., a home or enterprise gateway device. In one embodiment, a system is described that includes a premises device that acts as a centralized client messaging platform providing messaging services between a content provider and client devices, and also between client devices within a premises network. The premises device enables client-to-client communication that bypasses the long trip and propagation delay over the Internet by connecting the message across the premises network within the home or building. The premises device enables messages to be communicated between a content provider outside the premises network and the client devices via a single connection to minimize the number of Internet connections that need to be opened, and the number of messages communicated with servers outside of the premises network via both upstream aggregation and downstream dis-aggregation, which collectively save both network bandwidth and device reaction time.
US11843629B2
In an approach, a processor receives a report of a push notification identified as spam. A processor determines that a threshold number of push notifications identified as spam has been exceeded. A processor, responsive to determining that the threshold number of push notifications identified as spam has been exceeded, performs an action with respect to a sender of the push notification.
US11843628B2
A cyber security appliance has one or more modules to interact with entities in an operational technology network and potentially in an informational technology network. The operational technology module can reference various machine-learning models trained on a normal pattern of life of users, devices, and/or controllers of the operational technology network. A comparator module cooperates with the operational technology module to compare the received data on the operational technology network to the normal pattern of life of any of the users, devices, and controllers to detect anomalies in the normal pattern of life for these entities in order to detect a cyber threat. An autonomous response module can be programmed to respond to counter the detected cyber threat.
US11843626B2
A system to determine an intrusion risk and take action is described. The system collaboratively filters a combination based on a user access and a network item in a computer network to determine an associated recommendation score. The system determines connected components of a model of the computer network and separately collaboratively filters the connected components to determine the recommendation score as a measure of intrusion risk. An action is taken on the user access based on the intrusion risk.
US11843611B2
The present disclosure relates generally to access control, and more particularly, to techniques (e.g., systems, methods, computer program products storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) for providing for inline enrollment in multi-level and multi-factor authentication of a user allowing login on a restricted website, or on an enterprise network with single sign-on, or on various other service systems with security restrictions.
US11843609B2
Disclosed is a computing cloud for monitoring physical environments. The computing cloud comprises at least one data storage unit that is configured to store project data, diagnostic data or environmental metric data. The computing cloud also comprises a system project application module that is configured to allow a user to graphically explore at least the project data, and to control graphical access to one or more application modules based on a user's credentials. The one or more application modules comprise a module that is configured to graphically facilitate the user's creation and manipulation of a virtual model of a physical environment.
US11843604B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: exchanging an entity token for a proxy access token and a device access token via a communication management system authorization service; using the proxy access token to authenticate the data center service to a mesh service proxy; establishing connectivity between the data center service and the mesh service proxy based upon the proxy access token; establishing a secure communication channel between the data center service and a data center asset based upon the device access token; providing the device access token to the data center asset from the data center service; validating the data center asset using the device access token; establishing an end-to-end secure connection between the data center service and the data center asset when the device access token has been validated; and, exchanging information between the data center service and the data center asset via the secure communication channel.
US11843597B2
A process of confirming an originator of an electronic mail (email) includes receiving a request for verification of the identity of an alleged originator of the email, which may be sent from the actual originator of the email or a recipient of the email. The alleged originator of the email may be determined, e.g., by parsing the email to determine the name of the sender in the email. Verification is obtained from a biometric-enabled client that is associated with the send whether the email was in fact sent by the sender as well as confirmation of the identity of the sender based on a previously stored identity-proofed biometric.
US11843595B2
An information processing apparatus configured to manage information regarding a user includes a reception unit configured to receive an execution request for executing first processing involving authentication of the user from a server configured to provide a service to the user, a verification unit configured to verify whether the execution request is valid, a message transmission unit configured to transmit, to a terminal operated by the user, a message including a link for accessing the server on a basis of a result of verification. The message is a message to provide the terminal with a screen that allows the server to execute second processing depending on a result of the first processing.
US11843589B2
A computing resource service provider receives a request from a customer to establish a physical connection between a provider network device and a customer network device in a colocation center. Once the connection has been established, the customer may transmit cryptographic authentication information, through the physical connection, to the provider network device. The provider network device transmits this information to an authentication service operated by the computing resource service provider to verify the authenticity of the information. If the information is authentic, the authentication service may re-configure the provider network device to allow the customer to access one or more services provided by the computing resource service provider. The authentication service may transmit cryptographic authentication information to the customer to verify the identity of the computing resource service provider.
US11843572B2
In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques can include, by a computing device, responsive to a request for information regarding messages associated with a user and another user, a message associated with the user and the another user, the message sent or received via an application from a plurality of applications. The method can also include, by the computing device, identifying one or more other messages associated with the user and the another user based on metadata of the message, at least one of the one or more other messages sent or received via another application of the plurality of applications, the another application being different than the application. The method can further include, by the computing device, outputting information regarding the one or more other messages.
US11843568B1
Technologies are disclosed for performing personalized communications management. Data can be identified, collected, and/or generated to manage communications between a communications management system and user devices. The data can include individualized data associated with devices and/or users of the devices. The communications management system can identify and/or select recipients of subsequent communications based on results collected from analysis of messages transmitted using the individualized data. Recipients for transmissions of subsequent communications can be continuously redefined.
US11843565B2
Techniques that facilitate a dialogue system based on contextual information are provided. In one example, a system includes a contextual information component and a dialogue routing component. The contextual information component determines contextual information associated with a user identity based on a statement related to communication information received by a computing device associated with the user identity. The dialogue routing component generates a path traversal for a dialogue system based on the contextual information to facilitate generation of a response to the statement by the dialogue system.
US11843562B2
Provided are an eNB, a UE and wireless communication methods. A UE according to an embodiment of the present disclosure can comprise circuitry operative to determine valid transmission time interval(s) (TTI(s)) for a physical channel in a subframe based on the resource element (RE) number of each TTI in the subframe; and a receiver operative to receive the physical channel in one or more of the valid TTI(s) by blindly decoding part or all of the valid TTI(s), wherein each TTI comprises 1-7 orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.
US11843558B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for transmitting multiplexed sounding reference signal (SRS) ports in communications systems operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. An exemplary method includes obtaining an indication of a technique to use in transmitting sounding reference signals (SRS) via five or more antenna ports in one slot and transmitting the SRS via the five or more antenna ports according to the indicated technique.
US11843550B2
Generally, this disclosure provides devices, methods, and computer readable media for packet processing with reduced latency. The device may include a data queue to store data descriptors associated with data packets, the data packets to be transferred between a network and a driver circuit. The device may also include an interrupt generation circuit to generate an interrupt to the driver circuit. The interrupt may be generated in response to a combination of an expiration of a delay timer and a non-empty condition of the data queue. The device may further include an interrupt delay register to enable the driver circuit to reset the delay timer, the reset postponing the interrupt generation.
US11843545B1
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a containerized network function (CNF) management service is provided. The service may provide for allocating discrete sets of CNF resources deployed as pods to provide application services to end devices; identifying at least one threshold resource value associated with a first number of the deployed pods which are activated to provide the application services; determining an anticipated nonsatisfaction of the at least one threshold resource value associated with the first number of the deployed pods; and invoking, for a period of time, horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) via an application programming interface to activate a second number of the deployed pods to provide the application services, wherein the HPA is performed non-incrementally until at least one of the period of time has elapsed or each of the deployed pods has been activated to provide the application services.
US11843530B2
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for unobtrusive propagation of solutions for detected incidents in computer applications. A plurality of incidents detected in association with execution of at least one application are identified, the plurality of incidents being detected for the purpose of being addressed with a solution. The plurality of incidents are aggregated to identify one or more unique incidents. For each unique incident of the one or more unique incidents, at least one of machine learning or natural language processing is used to generate a plurality of ranked solutions for the unique incident, a selection of one solution of the plurality of ranked solutions is received, and the selected solution is deployed to one or more environments on which the unique incident was detected, utilizing a blockchain.
US11843527B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for providing insights or metrics in connection with provisioning applications and/or desktop sessions to end-users. Network devices (e.g., appliances, intermediary devices, gateways, proxy devices or middle-boxes) can gather insights such as network-level statistics. Additional insights (e.g., metadata and metrics) associated with virtual applications and virtual desktops can be gathered to provide administrators with comprehensive end-to-end real-time and/or historical reports of performance and end-user experience (UX) insights. Insights relating to an application or desktop session can be used to determine and/or improve the overall health of the infrastructure of the session, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, the applications (e.g., remote desktop application) being delivered using the infrastructure, and/or the corresponding user experience.
US11843526B2
At least service task data and application utilization data are collected. The collected data is analyzed to determine a utilization pattern. Based on the determined utilization pattern, a computer automation opportunity is automatically identified. An automatically generated recommendation of an automation solution among a plurality of automation solution candidates is provided for the identified computer automation opportunity.
US11843524B2
Systems and methods described herein direct an end device to a multi-access edge computing (MEC) service instance among MEC instances with different service levels for different geographic areas. A network device stores a map of a geographic area with unique identifiable regions (UIRs) that each include cells for different wireless stations of a transport network. The network device receives application parameters, for a designated coverage area, for an application to be serviced using MEC resources. The network device associates the designated coverage area with one or more target UIRs from the map and deploys, when the MEC resources are available to support the application parameters, an instance of the application at a MEC cluster. The deployed instance of the application meets the application parameters for the target UIRs. The network device updates a MEC-domain name service (DNS) for the deployed instance of the application at the MEC cluster.
US11843517B1
Satellite virtual private clouds (VPCs) are described. A primary VPC is executed having one or more core services hosted therein that are required by one or more satellite VPCs. A satellite VPC is executed that is logically independent of the primary VPC networked environment. A peered connection between the primary VPC and the satellite VPC is established. The peered connection permits the satellite VPC networked environment to access the at least one core service hosted in the primary VPC. A customer account may be associated with a suitable permission to perform isolated development in the satellite VPC networked environment without impacting any service hosted by the primary VPC networked environment.
US11843513B2
Systems and methods of enforcing policies in a computer environment for content distribution using pointwise mutual information (PMI) based clustering are provided. The system can maintain a network of nodes representing a plurality of assets. Upon detecting that an asset is associated with a policy label, the system can identify attributes of the asset and compute a PMI score indicating whether nodes of the network sharing the attributes belong to a single content source. Upon determining that the PMI score exceeds a predefined threshold value, the system can identify a cluster of nodes including the nodes sharing the attributes. The system can tag the cluster, for example, as being associated with a content source that is associated with the policy label.
US11843509B2
Systems and methods for modernizing workspace and hardware lifecycle management in an enterprise productivity ecosystem are described. In some embodiments, a client Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory, the memory having program instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the client IHS to: receive, from a workspace orchestration service, one or more files or policies configured to enable the client IHS to instantiate a first workspace based upon a first workspace definition; allow a user to execute a non-vetted application in the first workspace; determine that the first workspace is compromised; and receive, in response to the determination, from the workspace orchestration service, one or more other files or policies configured to enable the client IHS to instantiate a second workspace based upon a second workspace definition, where the second workspace definition allows execution of a vetted application corresponding to the non-vetted application.
US11843508B2
A disclosed example includes configuring a virtual network and a physical network for at least twenty-four hosts and a top-of-rack switch in less than one minute by: generating, by executing an instruction with one or more processors, network topologies of the hosts based on physical network connection information indicative of physical network connections between the hosts and the top-of-rack switch; determining, by executing an instruction with the one or more processors, whether implementing the network topologies of the hosts concurrently is valid based on an evaluation of the network topologies relative to a network topology validation rule; and configuring, by executing an instruction with the one or more processors, the top-of-rack switch based on one or more of the network topologies.
US11843507B1
Approaches presented herein relate to the management of compatibility and support issues in a networked resource environment. An analyzer service can be used to attempt to identify potential or existing compatibility and other such issues in the environment, as may occur when updating to a new communication protocol or data standard. Such a service can analyze an environment at multiple levels, such as at an infrastructure, services, operating system, and/or code level. For any identified issue, the service can provide information about the issue, as well as one or more recommendations for remediation where available. For at least certain types of issues where permitted, the service can perform a remediation, such as to remove hard-coded dependencies or perform pending software updates. Compatibility monitoring can also be performed over time to ensure continued compatibility, including for additions or modifications in the environment.
US11843505B1
A computerized method is disclosed that includes operations of receiving one or more records, wherein each of the one or more records indicates a successful search query evaluation by at least one of a plurality edge devices, building a predictive analytics model based on the one or more records, wherein the predicative analytics model is configured to perform operations configured to predict enrichment data that is to be needed by one or more edge devices in the future during evaluation of a future search query, performing predictive analytics using the predictive analytics model to determine predictive enrichment data, and transmitting a first response packet to a first edge device, wherein the first response packet includes the predictive enrichment data. The records may include one or more of a data stream identifier, a search query, enrichment data that was required at a time the search query was evaluated.
US11843502B2
Certain aspects provide enhancements to enable per transmission reception point (per-TRP) based beam failure recovery (BFR), and more particularly, techniques for configuring physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) BFR for TRP specific BFR. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes communicating with at least two TRPs using beams associated with at least two beam groups, each of the beams groups associated with one of the TRPs, detecting a beam failure in a beam group of the at least two beam groups, transmitting a beam group specific BFR scheduling request (SR), in accordance with one or more rules, for an uplink (UL) grant to transmit a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) specific to the beam group in which the beam failure was detected, receiving the UL grant in response to the SR, and transmitting the BFRQ specific to the beam group based on the UL grant.
US11843494B2
An orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA)-based backscatter system is provided, including an analog portion and a digital logic portion. The analog portion includes an antenna, radio frequency switches, an envelope detection circuit, and a transmission line. The digital logic portion includes an inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT)-based digital frequency synthesis module. Two outputs of the digital logic portion control all of the radio frequency switches, and the envelope detection circuit provides an input of the digital logic portion. OFDMA backscatter tags designed can operate on any given subchannel without hardware being re-powered and modified, and can operate at a specified symbol rate. The system provides a networking physical layer foundation for a large amount of OFDMA backscatter tags, and satisfies the growing Internet of Things capacity requirements.
US11843490B2
Provided is a method of transmitting a tracking reference signal (TRS) in a next-generation/5G radio access network, and for transmitting the TRS by a base station to a user equipment. The method may include configuring a resource element shift value K for mapping a frequency domain resource of a TRS to a user equipment, transmitting the K value to the user equipment, and transmitting the TRS mapped to the frequency domain resource based on the K value to the user equipment.
US11843481B2
This application discloses a channel estimation method and apparatus. When time-domain channel estimation is performed on a first slot, the first slot and at least one second slot are first determined. The first slot and each second slot form continuous slots. Then, a first signal corresponding to the first slot and a second signal corresponding to each second slot are obtained, and a time-domain channel estimate for the first slot is determined based on the first signal and each second signal. In embodiments of this application, when a time-domain channel estimate for a specific slot is determined, time-domain channel estimation is performed by using time-domain correlation of channels in combination with signals of a plurality of slots, so as to obtain a more accurate channel estimation result, thereby improving baseband demodulation performance.
US11843478B2
A communication system for a vehicle, for example a motor vehicle. The communication system includes: multiple computing devices, which are connected to each other with the aid of a first communication network including a ring topology, and multiple function units, which are each associated with different functions of the vehicle and are assigned to different second communication networks, at least one function unit of the multiple function units including a data link to at least two different computing devices of the multiple computing devices.
US11843475B2
Rule-based modeling for building control systems is described herein. One device includes a memory, a user, interface, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to display, in a single view on the user interface, a listing of all components of a facility controlled by a building control system, display, in an additional view on the user interface, a number of rules for mapping the components of the facility to a common model of the building control system, map the components of the facility to the common model by applying the number of rules to the components of the facility, and display, in the additional view on the user interface, the components of the facility that have been mapped to the common model.
US11843471B2
A method and apparatus for providing an online meeting, capable of detecting an online meeting and blocking disruption factors are provided. The method includes: detecting execution of a conferencing program for an online meeting on a user terminal; upon detecting execution of the conferencing program, generating a monitoring event to enable a disruption factor blocking function; monitoring packets transmitted and received by the user terminal and an internal process running on the same, in response to the monitoring event; determining whether to allow the transmitted and received packets and the internal process based on a preset blocklist; and blocking the transmitted and received packets or terminating the internal process, based on the determination.
US11843460B2
A Bluetooth receiver is provided. The Bluetooth receiver comprises interface circuitry configured to receive a receive packet. Further, the Bluetooth receiver comprises physical layer processing circuitry configured to demodulate the receive packet into a bit stream representing a sequence of data symbols. Further, the physical layer configured to determine a number of bits in the bit stream having a highest likelihood of being erroneous as weak-bits and determine locations of the identified weak-bits in the bit stream. The Bluetooth receiver further comprises medium access control layer processing circuitry configured to receive the bit stream and information about the determined locations of the identified weak-bits from the physical layer processing circuitry. Further, the medium access control layer is configured to flip one of the weak-bits and a sequential bit in the bit stream in order to generate a modified bit stream, run a respective cyclic redundancy check on the bit stream and the modified bit stream and compare results of the cyclic redundancy checks on the bit stream and on the modified bit stream.
US11843449B2
Disclosed are a measurement synchronization method, a network device and a terminal device. The method includes: determining delay-related parameters, wherein the delay-related parameters are used to represent a delay between a satellite service link corresponding to a serving cell and a satellite service link corresponding to a neighboring cell; adjusting a measurement window according to the delay-related parameters, wherein the measurement window is acquired from measurement interval parameters configured for a network device; and measuring a synchronization signal block corresponding to the neighboring cell according to the adjusted measurement window.
US11843447B2
Systems and methods are provided for achieving interference coordination for 5G flight communication. That is, systems and methods are disclosed that improve QoS by implementing interference coordination between nodes, wherein one of the nodes is optimized for flight communication.
US11843441B2
An information transmission method includes: A terminal device sends first information to a network device, where the first information includes information indicating that a radio link failure occurs between the terminal device and a first cell, or the first information includes information indicating that beam failure recovery occurs between the terminal device and the first cell; and the first information further includes information about a resource; and the network device performs mobility robustness optimization based on the first information.
US11843430B2
A signal generation method is used in a transmission device that transmits a plurality of transmission signals from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, in the case where larger power change is performed on a first transmission signal than on a second transmission signal during generation process of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal, the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal are mapped before the power change such that a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the first signal is longer than a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the second signal.
US11843426B2
An apparatus including: a MIMO antenna for transmitting beamformed signals on a plurality of beams using a common frequency- and time-limited physical channel resource; circuitry for computing a beamforming gain of each beam in each sub-sector in a coverage area of said plurality of beams; circuitry for determining a beam dominance region of each beam within the coverage area of said plurality of beams; circuitry for determining, within the dominance region of each beam, an average of the beamforming gain of each of the other beams at least partially co-locating within said beam dominance region; circuitry for determining inter-beam interference estimations as an average interference of each beam from each of said other beams; and circuitry for scheduling transmissions of the beams by said MIMO antenna on said common frequency- and time-limited physical channel resource based on said inter-beam interference estimations.
US11843423B2
A broadband measurement system and a measurement method for broadband property are provided. The signal measurement apparatus is used to transmit a measuring signal belonging to a first frequency domain from its measuring port. Two ports of the signal converter are used to connect with two measuring ports of the signal measurement apparatus. The first passive mixer of the signal converter is configured as bidirectional, and the second passive mixer of the signal converter is configured as bidirectional. Two mixers are used to convert the signals from the first frequency domain into a second frequency domain, and convert the signals from the second frequency domain into the first frequency domain.
US11843421B1
A communication system utilizes acoustic helical waves to transmit and receive information. The acoustic communication system can communicate securely underwater or in fluids and may be used to communicate with underwater vehicles or in medical settings.
US11843418B2
A method and apparatus that cancels or reduces DC offset in a fully-differential optical receiver. The method includes receiving differential optical signals, converting, with photodetectors, the differential optical signals to differential current signals representative of the differential optical signals, converting, using a transimpedance amplifier, the differential current signals to differential intermediate voltage signals, amplifying, using a main amplifier, the differential intermediate voltage signals to generate differential output voltage signals, and cancelling a DC component of the differential output voltage signals using a fully differential DC cancellation circuit. Output offset may also be cancelled or reduced using digital control.
US11843411B2
Disclosed herein are related to a co-existence of wireless communications over different protocols. In one aspect, two devices may communicate with each other through a wireless link. The two devices may communicate latency sensitive data (e.g., artificial reality data) through one or more frequency bands, according to a first wireless communication protocol. Meanwhile, another device in the vicinity may communicate or attempt to communicate through a portion of the one or more frequency bands, according to a second wireless communication protocol. In one aspect, a frequency band, transmission power, and/or duty cycle of transmission of the another device for communication over the second communication protocol and can set or controlled, to avoid interfering with the communication over the first communication protocol.
US11843405B2
This document discloses a solution for reducing a frequency offset. According to an aspect, a method comprises: acquiring a signal distorted by the frequency offset; estimating a frequency offset estimate describing the frequency offset; computing coefficients for a frequency-domain filter on the basis of a relation between the frequency offset estimate and a combination of the frequency offset estimate and an index of the frequency-domain filter; and performing frequency-domain filtering of the signal by using the computed coefficients.
US11843398B2
Voltage protection circuit to prevent power amplifier burnout, and electronic device having the same
Disclosed is a voltage protection circuit for preventing power amplifier burnout in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a power amplifier (PA) configured to amplify a transmission signal, a switch configured to set a path of a signal outputted from the PA, a bias control circuit configured to control the supply of a bias current driving the PA, and a voltage protection circuit configured to provide a main control signal for turning off the PA earlier than turning off the switch based on a battery voltage providing a driving power of the electronic device, and forward the main control signal to the bias control circuit, wherein, in response to receiving the main control signal instructing to turn off the PA from the voltage protection circuit, the bias control unit stops the supply of the bias current driving the PA.
US11843393B2
A method and apparatus for decoding in which a first failed decode operation is performed on raw bit values of a FEC block by a LDPC decoder. When the FEC block is determined to be a trapped block an updated LLR map is generated; the updated LLR map and either the raw bit values of the FEC block or a failed-decode-output-block from a previous failed decode operation on the trapped block are provided to the LDPC decoder; a decode operation of the LDPC decoder is performed using the updated LLR map on the bit values of the FEC block or the failed-decode-output-block from the previous failed decode operation; and the generating, the providing and the performing are repeated until the decode operation is successful or until a predetermined number of trapped-block-decoding iterations have been performed. When the decode operation is successful in decoding the FEC block the codeword is output.
US11843389B1
An apparatus comprises a first circuit and a second circuit The first circuit may be configured to generate a control current signal in response to a supply voltage and a first input signal. The first circuit generally provides supply noise rejection to variations in the supply voltage. The second circuit is generally connected to the first circuit and comprises a programmable ring oscillator configured to generate an output signal having a frequency based on the control current signal and a value of a second input signal.
US11843388B2
A Controller Area Network (CAN) transmitter, in which transitions between output levels are smoothed through use of multiple Digital to Analog Converters (DACs) switched by a multi-phase clock signal. Example embodiments include a CAN transmitter (100) comprising: an oscillator (101) configured to generate a clock signal having n equally spaced phases (clk_0, clk_120, clk_240), where n is an integer greater than 1; n Digital to Analog Converters, DACs (1021-3), each DAC having an input connected to one of the n phases of the clock signal and to a common data input line, each DAC being configured to provide an output signal that transitions between first and second output levels in M discrete steps upon being triggered by a transition of a signal on the data input line synchronized with the one of the n phases of the clock signal; and an output amplifier stage (103) configured to provide a differential CAN output signal from a combination of output signals from each of the n DACs (1021-3).
US11843387B1
An optoelectronic system includes a transmit side and a receive side. The transmit side and the receive side each include an oversampled phase locked loop configured to receive a decimated system clock signal. Each phase-locked loop is configured to output a high frequency sampling clock signal that, in the case of the transmit side, may be leveraged to generate an arbitrary current waveform that, in turn, can be delayed by a delay-locked loop before being applied to a current-controlled light emitting element. The receive side can generate a clock signal at the same high frequency as the transmit side and can be configured to trigger a reset of the transmit side so that the high frequency clock signals between the transmit and receive sides are synchronized.
US11843371B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes: a P-type output transistor configured to have a source to which a power supply voltage is applied, and a drain connected to an external connection pad; a gate wiring configured to be connected to a gate of the output transistor; a signal transmitting portion configured to transmit an input signal to the gate wiring; and a voltage-breakdown protecting portion configured to apply the power supply voltage to a back gate of the output transistor if a voltage on the external connection pad is equal to or lower than the power supply voltage, or the voltage-breakdown protecting portion bringing the signal transmitting portion into a disconnection state and applies the voltage on the external connection pad to the gate and the back gate of the output transistor if the voltage applied on the external connection pad is higher than the power supply voltage.
US11843369B2
An integrated device includes at least one MOS transistor having a plurality of cells. In each of one or more of the cells a disabling structure is provided. The disabling structure is configured to be in a non-conductive condition when the MOS transistor is switched on in response to a control voltage comprised between a threshold voltage of the MOS transistor and an intervention voltage of the disabling structure, or to be in a conductive condition otherwise. A system comprising at least one integrated device as above is also proposed. Moreover, a corresponding process for manufacturing this integrated device is proposed.
US11843364B2
An acoustic resonator includes a piezoelectric stack including a piezoelectric layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, a top electrode layer disposed above the top surface, and a bottom electrode layer disposed below the bottom surface. A number of acoustic wave reflectors are disposed on a side of the bottom electrode layer opposite the piezoelectric layer. Each acoustic wave reflector includes a high acoustic impedance layer and may include a low acoustic impedance layer. The acoustic resonator may include a tether that extends laterally to a stacking direction of the layers of the piezoelectric stack. A supporting structure may be coupled to the tether opposite the acoustic resonator for anchoring the acoustic resonator. A mirror, one or more phononic crystals, or both may be positioned on proximate the tether opposite the acoustic resonator to avoid resonant waves from exiting the acoustic resonator in use.
US11843356B2
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. A power amplifier may include an amplitude modulation distortion compensation circuit coupled to the input of the power amplifier. The compensation circuit may include adaptive biasing transistors each having a first source-drain terminal coupled to the input of the power amplifier, a second source-drain terminal coupled to a supply voltage, and a gate terminal configured to receive a control voltage via a big resistor. The control voltage can be set to a voltage level so that the adaptive biasing transistors are only turned on when the voltage swing at the input of the power amplifier is relatively large.
US11843345B2
A method for monitoring a motor unit is provided. The method includes: detecting a starting rotor position: ascertaining a non-safety-critical position tolerance range; ascertaining a position offset for the rotor as a function of the ascertained position tolerance range; ascertaining a target rotor position for the rotor based on the starting rotor position and the position offset; specifying a target control pattern based on the ascertained target rotor position; generating and applying a motor control pattern to the motor unit to rotate the rotor to the specified target rotor position using the target control pattern; detecting an actual control pattern controlling the motor unit at an interface between the motor controller and the motor unit; detecting an actual rotor position resulting from the rotation of the rotor using the motor control pattern; and feeding back both the detected actual control pattern and the detected actual rotor position for verification thereof.
US11843341B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, an intermediate transfer member, a moving member, a driving motor, a stepper motor, a detector, a phase determiner, and a controller. The stepper motor drives the moving member to move between a first position at which the photosensitive member contacts the intermediate transfer member and a second position at which the photosensitive member contacts the intermediate transfer member are separated. The controller includes a first control mode to control a motor based on a predetermined current magnitude and a second control mode to control a motor by vector control. The controller starts driving the driving motor in the first control mode, and then switches from the first control mode to the second control mode. The controller controls the stepper motor in the first control mode during a period from when the stepper motor is activated to when the stepper motor is stopped.
US11843340B2
A power tool includes a brushless motor including several windings, a drive circuit for driving the brushless motor, a detection device for detecting the brushless motor so as to obtain a load parameter corresponding to a load of the brushless motor, and a controller for outputting a first control signal to reduce current of the brushless motor in a first slope when the load parameter exceeds a first preset range.
US11843336B2
Disclosed is a circuit for shifting a fixed ground level to a floating ground level in a motor drive system, including a floating ground high level line, a floating ground output level line, a floating ground low level line, a normal input level line, and a normal ground line that are used for characterizing an application detail. The circuit includes a controlled switching current source, a first upper current rectifier, a second upper current rectifier, a lower current rectifier, and an amplifying and shaping circuit that are integrated on a same substrate.
US11843334B2
A rotating electrical machine includes a magnetic field-producing unit, an armature with a multi-phase armature winding, and a rotor. The magnetic field-producing unit includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is located closer to a d-axis in a d-q axis coordinate system than the second position is. The second position is located closer to a q-axis in the d-q axis coordinate system than the first position is. The magnetic field-producing unit is magnetically oriented to meet a condition where an angle which an easy axis of magnetization of the first portion makes with the d-axis is smaller than an angle which an easy axis of magnetization of the second portion makes with the q-axis. The magnetic field-producing unit is configured to have an intrinsic coercive force of 400 kA/m and also have a remanent flux density of 1.0 T or more.
US11843331B2
A system for determining an initial angular position of a rotor of a synchronous machine includes a motor driver module configured to provide a motor driver voltage signal to the synchronous machine, the motor driver voltage signal being sufficient to induce an electrical current in the synchronous machine; and a rotor position determination module configured to receive an indication of the current generated in the machine and to determine the initial position of the rotor based on the indication of the current generated in the machine.
US11843328B2
Triboelectric nanogenerators are provided that are textile-based, combine embroidery, silanizing agents, highly networked conductive nanoparticles, and a conformable electronegative layer, and can produce a stable energy source with high power density. Electronic textiles are also provided that utilize such triboelectric nanogenerators to convert the biomechanical energy of a wearer into electrostatic energy that can power electronic devices coupled with the triboelectric nanogenerator. Methods of manufacturing the triboelectric nanogenerators and related electronic textiles are also provided.
US11843325B2
A method for operating a multi-level bridge power converter of an electrical power system connected to a power grid includes receiving, via a controller of the power converter, an indication of a transient event occurring in the power grid or the electrical power system. The power converter has a plurality of switching devices arranged in an active neutral point clamped topology. Accordingly, upon receiving the indication, the method includes activating a crowbar algorithm programmed in the controller of the power converter to bifurcate a current received by the power converter into a plurality of different current paths defined by the plurality of switching devices.
US11843316B2
According to one aspect, an apparatus comprising a two stage DC-DC converter is provided. The converter consists of a multilevel DC-DC converter stage cascaded with a fixed voltage ratio DC-DC converter stage. The converter is controlled so that a first stage of the converter provides an optimized output (a regulated bus voltage) which serves as the input to the second stage. The multilevel DC-DC converter may be the first stage and the fixed voltage ratio, unregulated DC-DC converter may be the second stage converter. Alternatively, the fixed voltage ratio, unregulated DC-DC converter may be the first stage and the multilevel DC-DC converter may be the second stage.
US11843309B2
An oil recovery structure for cooling a motor includes a rotor connected to a rotary shaft, a stator disposed on the rotor, a housing surrounding the rotor and the stator, and an oil housing disposed on the housing, in which the oil housing includes a first inlet through which the oil is introduced from a space defined on one side of the rotor, a second inlet through which the oil is introduced from a reducer connected to the rotary shaft, and a discharging port discharging the oil inside the oil housing to an oil filter.
US11843304B2
An electric assembly includes: a box assembly, a motor, and a transmission. A mounting plate is disposed in the box assembly and divides a space within the box assembly into a motor holding cavity and a transmission holding cavity arranged along an axial direction of a motor shaft. The mounting plate has a shaft via-hole making the motor holding cavity and the transmission holding cavity be in communication. The motor is disposed in the motor holding cavity. The transmission is disposed in the transmission holding cavity. The motor is power-coupled to the transmission. At least one of a surface of the mounting plate facing the motor and a surface of the mounting plate facing the transmission is provided with ribs including strip-shaped ribs extending along a radial direction of the motor. Heights of the strip-shaped ribs decrease from a center portion of the mounting plate to a periphery portion of the mounting plate.
US11843296B2
A motor includes a stator, and includes a first substrate and a second substrate mounted on the stator. The stator has a stator core in a ring shape and a first coil of a first phase and a second coil of a second phase wound around the stator core. The first substrate includes a first power supply wiring to supply electric power to the first coil. The second substrate has a second power supply wiring to supply electric power to the second coil.
US11843294B2
According to an aspect there is provided a motor (1) for a personal care device (10). The motor (1) comprises: a stator (2) comprising a stator surface; a rotor (3) comprising a rotor surface disposed opposite the stator surface; and a spacer (4) projecting between the stator surface and the rotor surface so as to define a minimum airgap between the stator (2) and the rotor (3). The spacer (4) is disposed on or at one of the rotor surface and the stator surface, and has a contact surface configured to engage with the other one of the rotor surface and the stator surface.
US11843285B2
Systems and methods for constructing a motor having a stator, and a plurality of rotor sections secured to a shaft which is positioned to rotate within a bore of the stator. Each rotor section has permanent magnets forming corresponding magnetic poles. Each rotor section has first and second inwardly facing keyways which are identically positioned in each rotor section and are configured to enable each rotor section to be alternately positioned in at least three distinct circumferential orientations with respect to a key of the shaft. A first subset of the rotor sections is secured to the shaft in a first one of the circumferential orientations, a second subset of the rotor sections is secured to the shaft in a second one of the circumferential orientations, and a third subset of the rotor sections is secured to the shaft in a third one of the circumferential orientations.
US11843283B2
A rotor sheet includes a sheet body. The sheet body includes a plurality of magnetic poles symmetrically distributed in a circumferential direction of the sheet body. Each magnetic pole includes one first magnet groove symmetrical about a D-axis center line, two second magnet grooves symmetrically distributed in an approximate V shape about the D-axis center line, two first air grooves symmetrically distributed on the outer sides of two ends of the first magnet groove, and one second air groove positioned between the ends of the two second magnet grooves near the side of the center of the sheet body. First magnetic bridges are formed between the first air grooves and an excircle of the sheet body, and second magnetic bridges are formed between the first magnet groove and the first air grooves; and third magnetic bridges are formed between the excircle of the sheet body.
US11843276B2
The disclosure generally relates to wireless sensing nodes, energy harvesting, and energy charging. The disclosure also generally relates to reporting data gathered by the wireless sensing nodes to one or more network services.
US11843270B2
Present invention concerns charging of a power source of a device. A power usage pattern collector is configured to: collect data on power usage in a device, power source of which is chargeable, with regard to at least one particular criterion having influence on power usage in the device; and determine at least one power usage pattern by use of the collected data, said power usage pattern specifying power usage in the device with regard to at least one particular reoccurring criterion. A charging controller is configured to: acquire at least one power usage pattern; and control charging of a power source of a device by use of the at least one acquired power usage pattern. Present invention relates also to corresponding methods, correspondingly arranged computer program products, correspondingly arranged computer-readable recording media, and a system comprising the power usage pattern collector and the charging controller.
US11843265B2
A wireless power system may include power transmitting devices, power receiving devices, and power transmitting and receiving devices. Control circuitry in the power transmitting and receiving device may determine whether to operate in a power receiving mode or a power transmitting mode. The preferred mode for the power transmitting and receiving device may depend on the types of devices within the system, the state of charge of the batteries of the devices in the system, whether or not one or more devices in the system are connected to a wired power source, etc. Each power transmitting and receiving device may have a default mode. Upon detection of an adjacent device, the wireless power transmitting and receiving device enters a configuration phase in its default mode. Before or during a power transfer phase, the power transmitting and receiving device may swap roles from its default mode to another mode.
US11843255B2
A wireless power transmission system includes a wireless power transmitter, a wireless power transfer circuit electrically connectable to the at least one wireless power transmitter, and a transmitter controller. The transmitter controller is configured to determine presence of a wireless power receiver system, encode or decode a communications signal communicated over a magnetic field, the magnetic field produced by coupling of the wireless power transmitter and the one or more wireless power receiver systems. The transmitter controller is further configured to determine presence of one or more of unwanted noise, unwanted data, or combinations thereof, within a proximity communications frequency band, the proximity communications frequency band substantially similar to the communications frequency band. The transmitter controller is further configured to filter the one or more of unwanted noise, unwanted data, or combinations thereof to determine a filtered communications signal.
US11843254B2
Gaps between transmitters and receivers in wireless power systems and related systems, methods, and devices are disclosed. A housing includes an internal surface configured to face a receive power coil and an external surface configured to face a wireless power transmitter. The external surface is shaped to define one or more gaps between the external surface and a surface of the wireless power transmitter responsive to placement of the external surface into engagement with the surface of the wireless power transmitter. An electronic device includes a receive power coil and a barrier including an internal surface facing the receive power coil and an external surface configured to face a transmit power coil. The external surface defines a gap between the external surface and a surface of the wireless power transmitter responsive to placement of the external surface in engagement with the surface of the wireless power transmitter.
US11843251B2
A controller circuit for a PV sub-module includes a power harvest controller circuit, a voltage limit controller circuit, a power mode control circuit, a multiplexer circuit, and a switching converter circuit. The power harvest controller circuit, including a first PV voltage input, a ceiling reference input, a floor reference input, and a first gate control output. The voltage limit controller circuit, including a first output voltage feedback input, a pulse width reference input, and a second gate control output. The power mode control circuit, including a second output voltage feedback input, a mode reference input, and a mode selection output. The multiplexer circuit, including a first gate control input, a second gate control input, a mode selection input, and a third gate control output. The switching converter circuit, including a second PV voltage input, a third gate control input, and a DC voltage output.
US11843245B2
A wireless power transfer apparatus for capacitive-inductive power transfer has a primary and a secondary device separated by the conductive member. The primary device has at least two transmitter plates configured to be capacitively coupled with the conductive member to induce a current flow and generate a magnetic field in the conductive member. The secondary device is connectable to a load and provided with a receiving coil configured to be inductively coupled with the conductive member.
US11843240B2
A power device fault detection circuit includes a first fault detector configured to measure an output signal of at least one power device and output a first fault signal when a voltage of the output signal of the at least one power device exceeds a first voltage reference level after a first time period; and a second fault detector configured to measure an output signal of the at least one power device and output a second fault signal when a voltage of the output signal of the at least one power device exceeds a second voltage reference level after a second time period, where the first time period implemented by the first fault detector is shorter than the second time period implemented by the second fault detector.
US11843235B2
In order both to accommodate instantaneous current as well as overcurrent protection in accordance with the load, an overcurrent protection circuit has: a threshold value generation unit that, in accordance with a threshold value control signal, switches between setting an overcurrent detection threshold value to a first set value (∝ Iref) and a second set value (∝ Iset) lower than the first set value; an overcurrent detection unit that compares a sense signal in accordance with the current being monitored and the overcurrent detection value and generates an overcurrent protection signal; a reference value generation unit that generates a reference value (∝ Iset) in accordance with the seconds set value; a comparison unit that compares the sense signal and the reference value, and generates a comparison signal; and a threshold value control unit that monitors the comparison signal, and generates a threshold value control signal.
US11843234B2
The present invention relates to a retention device for holding one or more cables, comprising: a support bracket having at least one end piece with a recess, a back piece, a locking device configured to run through the recess of the support bracket for cooperation with the back piece, and at least one compressible module having a through opening configured to receive one or more cables, wherein the at least one compressible module is arranged between the support bracket and the back piece, and wherein the locking device is configured to lock the end piece of the support bracket to the back piece and compress the at least one compressible module around the one or more cables. Disclosed is also a retention system comprising such a device, a method for holding one or more cables and use of said system.
US11843231B2
A conduit outlet assembly for a rigid metal conduit raceway of an electrical system is provided. A conduit outlet assembly includes a gasket, a gripping ring, and a condulet assembly. The gasket is sized to circumscribe an outer surface of a rigid metal conduit of the rigid metal conduit raceway. The gripping ring is sized to circumscribe the outer surface of the rigid metal conduit. The condulet assembly is sized to receive the rigid metal conduit, and includes an adapter and a condulet. The adapter includes a compression section and a coupling section, wherein the compression section is sized to receive the rigid metal conduit with the gasket and the gripping ring disposed thereon. The condulet is sized to receive the coupling section of the adapter.
US11843228B2
Provided is an electrical connection box 10 that includes a box main body 12 having a surface 14 provided with a component mounting portion 22 in which an electrical component 30 is mounted; and a cover member 16 covering the surface 14 of the box main body 12, in which an inner surface 48 of a top wall portion 42 of the cover member 16 is provided with a heat dissipation member holding portion 52 that protrudes toward the electrical component 30, and a plastic heat dissipation member 64 held by the heat dissipation member holding portion 52 is made to come into contact with a surface 66 of the electrical component 30.
US11843224B2
A quantum cascade laser includes a substrate having a group III-V compound semiconductor and a core region that is provided on the substrate and that includes a group III-V compound semiconductor. The core region includes a plurality of unit structures that are stacked on top of one another. Each of the plurality of unit structures includes an active layer and an injection layer. The injection layer includes at least one strain-compensated layer including a first well layer and a first barrier layer and at least one lattice-matched layer including a second well layer and a second barrier layer. The first well layer has a lattice constant larger than a lattice constant of the substrate. The first barrier layer has a lattice constant smaller than the lattice constant of the substrate. The second well layer and the second barrier layer each have a lattice constant that is lattice-matched to the substrate.
US11843223B2
Semiconductor light-emitting device and method for manufacturing semiconductor light-emitting device
According to one embodiment, the first process of forming a first light-reflecting structure including forming a patterned dielectric layer on a substrate, forming a first high refractive index layer on the substrate and the dielectric layer, planarizing the first high refractive index layer, forming a mask layer on the first high refractive index layer, forming a periodic structure in the mask layer and the first high refractive index layer, the periodic structure having openings separated at a constant period, forming a low refractive index layer on the mask layer and filling the periodic structure with the low refractive index layer, and performing chemical mechanical polishing to cause the mask layer and the low refractive index layer to form substantially the same plane.
US11843209B2
A rotary connector device includes a stator and a rotation body. The stator includes a first stator main body and a second stator main body. The rotation body is provided rotatably about a rotational axis with respect to the stator. The stator and the rotation body define a cable housing space between the stator and the rotation body. The second stator main body includes a first wall and a second wall. The first wall extends along an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis. The second wall extends along the axial direction and is spaced apart from the first wall in a radial direction perpendicular to the rotational axis. The first wall is disposed between the cable housing space and the second wall in the radial direction. The first stator main body includes an intermediate wall extending along the axial direction and disposed between the first wall and the second wall in the radial direction.
US11843206B2
Connector carriers (e.g., connector carousels) for use with electronic device processing kiosks, such as mobile phone recycling kiosks, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a connector carrier includes a chassis and a plurality of electrical connectors fixedly positioned around a periphery of the chassis. In operation, the connector carrier is configured to rotate about a central axis to position a selected one of the electrical connectors in a first position adjacent to an inspection area of the kiosk, and then move toward the inspection area to move the selected electrical connector from the first position to a second position in which a user can connect a mobile phone to the electrical connector.
US11843200B2
A connector includes a connector position assurance element having a contact receptacle for receiving an electrical contact element, and a connector housing having a contact receptacle for receiving another electrical contact element and a receptacle for receiving the connector position assurance element.
US11843186B2
An antenna module includes first, second, third antenna radiators, and first, second, third ground radiators. The first antenna radiator includes a first feeding terminal. The second antenna radiator extends from the first antenna radiator. The third antenna radiator extends from the first feeding terminal. The first ground radiator is disposed beside the first and second antenna radiators. A first coupling gap exists between the first ground radiator and the first and second antenna radiators. The second ground radiator is disposed beside the second antenna radiator. A second coupling gap exists between the second ground radiator and the second antenna radiator. The third ground radiator is disposed beside the first and second antenna radiators. A third coupling gap exists between the third ground radiator and the first antenna radiator. A fourth coupling gap exists between the third ground radiator and the second antenna radiator.
US11843184B1
The dual frequency antenna element has electromagnetically resonant structure with plural attached current conductors each communicating on a different frequency band and producing a circularly polarized radiation pattern with respect to a propagation direction. A pattern shaper element fashioned using first and second conductive discs is positioned within the radiation pattern in alignment with the propagation direction. The discs are secured in a first spaced relation to each other and in a second spaced relation to the dual frequency antenna element. The respective disc surface areas, and the first and second spaced relations are cooperatively configured to passively modify the radiation pattern of the dual frequency antenna element to produce dual frequency band coverage of approximately 60 degrees centered about the longitudinal axis while substantially blocking coverage at 90 degrees to the longitudinal axis.
US11843183B2
A multi-band antenna structure, including a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a reflection panel, and a first parasitic structure of the first antenna element. A distance between the reflection panel and an antenna element with a higher operating frequency band is less than a distance between the reflection panel and an antenna element with a lower operating frequency band. A distance between the first antenna element and the second antenna element is less than 0.5 times a vacuum wavelength corresponding to a lower frequency bands. A distance between the first antenna element and the first parasitic structure is less than 0.5 times a vacuum wavelength corresponding to an operating frequency band of the first antenna element. A distance between the second antenna element and the first parasitic structure is less than 0.5 times a vacuum wavelength corresponding to an operating frequency band of the second antenna element.
US11843180B2
A mobile radar system for visualizing forward looking topography is configured with at least two phased-array antennas to form a forwarding looking phased-array interferometer.
US11843178B1
An antenna assembly of PCB layers and waveguide layers includes a driven PCB layer with an array of unit cells. Each cell includes a central first element (e.g., a receive patch) and four second elements (e.g., transmit patches) evenly spaced around the first element in a square configuration. Distances between adjacent aligned first elements are equal, and less than the first elements' operating frequency. Distances between adjacent aligned second elements are equal, and less than the second elements' operating frequency. First and second combiner layer conductively couple first elements and second elements, respectively, to one or more first or second combiner pads to facilitate interfacing the elements with waveguides. First and second waveguides formed into separate plates communicatively coupled to their corresponding combiner layer.
US11843175B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses that include a three-dimensional (3D) antenna module for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic millimeter waves (mmWaves). In general, a user equipment (UE) may include the 3D antenna module in a corner of a housing of the UE. The 3D antenna module may include three antenna panels that are generally planar and generally orthogonal to three respective axes of a Cartesian-coordinate system. The 3D antenna module may transmit and receive the electromagnetic mmWaves as part of a wireless link between the UE and another device, such as a satellite that is part of a wireless-communication network. In general, the 3D antenna module may mitigate propagation losses and allow the UE to maintain a link-budget for the wireless link.
US11843168B2
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an antenna assembly includes a patch antenna array including an upper patch antenna layer, a lower patch antenna layer, and a spacer therebetween, wherein the spacer includes a plurality of apertures defined by cell walls, wherein the each aperture aligns with an upper patch antenna element and a lower patent antenna element from the patch antenna array.
US11843164B2
An elongate antenna assembly (1) for an aircraft including a structural section (3) and an antenna element (5), wherein the structural section (3) includes an elongate leading edge section (7) extending in a longitudinal direction (13) of the antenna assembly, a first lateral section (9), and a second lateral section (11), wherein the leading edge section (7) is curved such that the leading edge section (7) comprises a convex outer surface (15) extending in the longitudinal direction (13) of the antenna assembly (1) on a convex side (19) of the antenna assembly.
US11843159B2
A split ring resonator includes a first conductive member having a split ring shape, a second conductive member, and a third conductive member. The second and third conductive members have a split therebetween and are electrically connected with different ends of the first conductive member. The second conductive member includes a first portion belonging to a first layer substantially parallel to a plane to which the first conductive member belongs, a second portion belonging to a second layer substantially parallel to the plane and facing the first layer, and a third portion electrically connecting the first and second portions. The third conductive member includes fourth and fifth portion respectively belonging to the first and second layers, and a sixth portion electrically connecting the fourth and fifth portions. At least parts of the first and fifth portions face each other in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane.
US11843153B2
The present invention relates to use of an enhanced performance ultraconductive copper composite cylindrical conduit. The ultraconductive copper composite cylindrical conduit has enhanced RF conductivity.
US11843145B2
An apparatus and method for reducing an exhaust hydrogen concentration in a fuel cell system includes a first air cut-off valve (ACV) blocking ambient air supplied to a cathode, a second ACV blocking exhaust hydrogen discharged from the cathode, and an air suction valve (ASV) operating in a first mode connecting the cathode and an intake port of an air compressor and in a second mode blocking connection between the cathode and the intake port of the air compressor. The apparatus also includes a controller for operating the ASV in the first mode to store air of the cathode while the first ACV is opened and the second ACV is closed when hydrogen is supplied to an anode, and for operating the ASV in the second mode to discharge ambient air through an exhaust line while the first ACV is opened and the second ACV is opened when ambient air is supplied to the cathode.
US11843139B2
A fuel cell apparatus includes a fuel cell module including a housing and a fuel cell housed in the housing, the fuel cell generating electric power with use of a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas; and a heat exchanger which carries out heat exchange between a medium and exhaust gas from the fuel cell module, the heat exchanger being arranged laterally to the housing.
US11843137B2
A gas-diffusing device, including a superposition of a layer of composite material including electrically conductive fibres and a polymerized resin coating said conductive fibres; a first electrically conductive layer having an open porosity between first and second faces and including a first void in the second face, the first face making electrical contact with the conductive fibres of the layer of composite material, the polymerized resin coating one portion of the first conductive layer on the first face.
US11843135B2
Provided is a technique capable of improving impregnation efficiency of a nonaqueous electrolyte into an electrode body. A manufacturing method herein disclosed includes producing a negative pressure in an inside of a battery case; introducing a nonaqueous electrolyte into the inside of the battery case; establishing communication between the inside of the battery case and external atmosphere; temporarily sealing a solution introduction port using a first sealing member, impregnating the electrode body with a nonaqueous electrolyte; opening the solution introduction port; and, sealing the solution introduction port using a second sealing member. Herein, the first sealing member includes an air permeable film. Air permeation is enabled between the inside of the battery case after the temporary sealing and external atmosphere. The permeability of a vapor derived from the nonaqueous electrolyte with respect to the film is smaller than the permeability of water vapor.
US11843127B2
A battery, method and battery operated portable communication device are provided with protection from excessive current and thermal conditions. A plurality of protection circuits are coupled in series within a common charge/discharge path of the battery. The first protection circuit is configured to block current by opening a switch in response to a voltage drop across the switch and a current sense resistor in the common charge/discharge path. The second protection circuit provides redundancy under conditions where the first switch might fail, where the second switch will block current through the current sense resistor.
US11843126B2
A battery separator has performance enhancing additives or coatings, fillers with increased friability, increased ionic diffusion, decreased tortuosity, increased wettability, reduced oil content, reduced thickness, decreased electrical resistance, and/or increased porosity. The separator in a battery reduces the water loss, lowers acid stratification, lowers the voltage drop, and/or increases the CCA. The separators include or exhibit performance enhancing additives or coatings, increased porosity, increased void volume, amorphous silica, higher oil absorption silica, higher silanol group silica, reduced electrical resistance, a shish-kebab structure or morphology, a polyolefin microporous membrane containing particle-like filler in an amount of 40% or more by weight of the membrane and ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene having shish-kebab formations and the average repetition periodicity of the kebab formation from 1 nm to 150 nm, decreased sheet thickness, decreased tortuosity, separators especially well-suited for enhanced flooded batteries.
US11843125B2
The present invention relates to: a porous composite separator for a secondary battery including a porous substrate, and a coating layer formed on the porous substrate, wherein the coating layer has a plurality of inorganic particles, which are connected and fixed by a composite binder including a particulate polymer binder and an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN)-type binder having no melting point and having a thermal decomposition temperature of 300° C. or higher; and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
US11843117B2
An anode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: an anode current collector; and an anode mixture layer formed on the anode current collector, containing an anode active material, a conductor, a rubber-based binder, and a water-soluble polymer-based binder. The anode mixture layer comprises, relative to a total weight thereof, 1.0-2.5 wt % of the rubber-based binder and 0.5-1.5 wt % of the water-soluble polymer based binder. When the anode mixture layer is divided into ten equal parts in the thickness direction based on the current collector, a ratio (CA/CB) at an interval of 0 to 3 of a content ratio (CA) of the rubber-based binder to a total content of the rubber-based binder to a content ratio (CB) of the water-soluble polymer-based binder to a total content of the water-soluble polymer-based binder is larger than 1.0, and a ratio (CA/CB) at an interval of 7 to 10 is smaller than 1.0.
US11843108B2
The present disclosure provides an electrode structure including a metal thin film and a patterned graphene-graphitic carbon composite layer disposed on the metal thin film, a method for fabricating the electrode structure using laser printing, and an electrochemical device including the same.
US11843102B2
A heat exchanger for thermal management of battery units made-up of a plurality of battery cells or battery cell containers housing one or more battery cells. The heat exchanger has a main body portion defining at least one primary heat transfer surface for surface-to-surface contact with a corresponding surface of at least one of the battery cells or containers. A plurality of alternating first and second fluid flow passages are formed within the main body portion each defining a flow direction, the flow direction through the first fluid flow passages being generally opposite to the flow direction through the second fluid flow passages. In some embodiments the heat exchanger has two pairs of inlet and outlet manifolds, providing a single-pass, counter-flow arrangement. In other embodiments the first and second fluid flow passages are interconnected by turn portions forming a U-flow, counter-flow heat exchanger.
US11843101B2
Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.
US11843098B2
A system and method for optimizing electrochemical cells including electrodes employing coordination compounds by mediating water content within a desired water content profile that includes sufficient coordinated water and reduces non-coordinated water below a desired target and with electrochemical cells including a coordination compound electrochemically active in one or more electrodes, with an improvement in electrochemical cell manufacture that relaxes standards for water content of electrochemical cells having one or more electrodes including one or more such transition metal cyanide coordination compounds.
US11843096B2
Provided is a configuration that can detect the internal resistance of a power storage unit. An internal resistance detection device includes a DC-DC converter that is configured to raise the output voltage to a target voltage by performing constant current operation in which the charging current is output at a target charging current, and, when the output voltage reaches the target voltage, to control power such that the charging current is lowered by performing constant voltage operation in which the output voltage is fixed at the target voltage. A control unit detects the internal resistance of a power storage unit based on a target charging current Ichg during constant current operation by the DC-DC converter, a drop time, which is the time that passes from when constant voltage operation starts to when the charging current drops to a predetermined current value, and a capacity of the power storage unit.
US11843092B2
The present disclosure provides a nonaqueous electrolyte solution which contains: a nonaqueous solvent containing acetonitrile and vinylene carbonate; and a compound represented by general formula (1) R1-A-R2 (wherein A represents a divalent group that has a structure represented by one of formulae (1-2) to (1-5); and each of R1 and R2 independently represents an aryl group, an alkyl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom, while having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkyl group, a vinylidene group which may be substituted by a halogen atom, or an aryl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom; or alternatively, R1 and R2 may combine with each other and form, together with A, a ring structure that may have an unsaturated bond).
US11843075B2
A nitride semiconductor element includes: a first light emission part that includes a first n-side semiconductor layer, a first active layer, and a first p-side semiconductor layer; a first layer that contains an n-type impurity of a first concentration, located on the first light emission part, and in contact with the first p-side semiconductor layer; a second layer that contains an n-type impurity of a second concentration, located on the first layer; and a second light emission part that includes a second n-side semiconductor layer located on the second layer, a second active layer, and a second p-side semiconductor layer. The second n-side semiconductor layer contains an n-type impurity of a third concentration. The first and second concentrations are higher than the third concentration. The first concentration is higher than the second concentration. A thickness of the second layer is larger than a thickness of the first layer.
US11843074B2
A selectable-repairing micro light emitting diode display is provided. A backplane includes a plurality of transistor units. A plurality of pixel units are disposed on the backplane, and each of the pixel units includes a plurality of original sub-pixel units and at least one selectable-repairing sub-pixel unit. Each of the original sub-pixel units includes a set of original pad. The set of original pad is disposed on the backplane and connected to one of the transistor units. The at least one selectable-repairing sub-pixel unit is arranged between two of the original sub-pixel units next to each other and having different colors, and includes a set of repairing pad. The set of repairing pad is not connected to the transistor units. A plurality of micro light emitting elements are electrically connected to the sets of original pad and controlled to emit light through the corresponding transistor units, respectively.
US11843070B2
A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer.
US11843069B2
The present disclosure describes a detector used in critical dimension scanning electron microscopes (CD-SEM) and review SEM systems. In one embodiment, the detector includes a semiconductor structure having a p-n junction and a hole through which a scanning beam is passed to a target. The detector also includes a top electrode for the p-n junction (e.g., anode or cathode) that provides an active area for detecting electrons or electromagnetic radiation (e.g., backscattering from the target). The top electrode has a doped layer and can also have a buried portion beneath the doped layer to reduce a series resistance of the top electrode without changing the active area. In another embodiment, an isolation structure can be formed in the semiconductor structure near sidewalls of the hole to electrically isolate the active area from the sidewalls. A method for forming the buried portion of the top electrode is also described.
US11843067B2
A system includes a photovoltaic module including at least one solar cell with electrical bussing, an encapsulant encapsulating the at least one solar cell and having a first surface with a first opening, and a frontsheet juxtaposed with the first surface of the encapsulant. The frontsheet includes a second opening extending from a first surface to a second surface thereof. The second opening of the frontsheet is in fluid communication with the first opening of the encapsulant. The electrical bussing is positioned in the first opening. An electrical wire is connected to the electrical bussing through the first and second openings. A cover is attached to the frontsheet and covers one end of the electrical wire and the first and second openings.
US11843064B2
A Mie photo sensor is described. A Mie photo sensor is configured to leverage Mie scattering to implement a photo sensor having a resonance. The resonance is based on various physical and material properties of the Mie photo sensor. In an example, a Mie photo sensor includes a layer of semiconductor material with one or more mesas. Each mesa of semiconductor material may include a scattering center. The scattering center is formed by the semiconductor material of the mesa being at least partially surround by a material with a different refractive index than the semiconductor material. The abutting refractive index materials create an interface that forms a scattering center and localizes the generation of free carriers during Mie resonance. One or more electrical contacts may be made to the mesa to measure the electrical properties of the mesa.
US11843061B2
A power semiconductor device has a semiconductor layer structure that includes a silicon carbide drift region having a first conductivity type, first and second wells in the silicon carbide drift region that are doped with dopants having a second conductivity type, and a JFET region between the first and second wells. The first and second wells each include a main well and a side well that is between the main well and the JFET region, and each side well includes a respective channel region. A doping concentration of the JFET region exceeds a doping concentration of the silicon carbide drift region, and a minimum width of an upper portion of the JFET region is greater than a minimum width of a lower portion of the JFET region.
US11843058B2
Transistor structures may include a metal oxide contact buffer between a portion of a channel material and source or drain contact metallization. The contact buffer may improve control of transistor channel length by limiting reaction between contact metallization and the channel material. The channel material may be of a first composition and the contact buffer may be of a second composition.
US11843054B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a transistor. The transistor includes a first metal contact as a source electrode, a second metal contact as a drain electrode, a channel area between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a third metal contact aligned with the channel area as a gate electrode. The first metal contact may be located in a first metal layer along a first direction. The second metal contact may be located in a second metal layer along the first direction, in parallel with the first metal contact. The third metal contact may be located in a third metal layer along a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction. The third metal layer is between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11843051B2
The present disclosure relates to a field-effect transistor and a method of fabricating the same. A field-effect transistor includes a semiconductor substrate including a first semiconductor material having a first lattice constant, and a fin structure on the semiconductor substrate. The fin structure includes a second semiconductor material having a second lattice constant that is different from the first lattice constant. The fin structure further includes a lower portion that is elongated in a first direction, a plurality of upper portions protruding from the lower portion and elongated in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and a gate structure crossing the plurality of upper portions.
US11843049B2
A lateral diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device includes a first fin-shaped structure on a substrate, a second fin-shaped structure adjacent to the first fin-shaped structure, a shallow trench isolation (STI) between the first fin-shaped structure and the second fin-shaped structure, a first gate structure on the first fin-shaped structure, a second gate structure on the second fin-shaped structure, and an air gap between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
US11843042B2
Structures and methods for controlling dopant diffusion and activation are disclosed. In one example, a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a channel layer; a barrier layer over the channel layer; a gate electrode over the barrier layer; and a doped layer formed between the barrier layer and the gate electrode. The doped layer includes (a) an interface layer in contact with the barrier layer and (b) a main layer between the interface layer and the gate electrode. The doped layer comprises a dopant whose doping concentration in the interface layer is lower than that in the main layer.
US11843040B2
An electrical contact structure (an MIS contact) includes one or more conductors (M-Layer), a semiconductor (S-Layer), and an interfacial dielectric layer (I-Layer) of less than 4 nm thickness disposed between and in contact with both the M-Layer and the S-Layer. The I-Layer is an oxide of a metal or a semiconductor. The conductor of the M-Layer that is adjacent to and in direct contact with the I-Layer is a metal oxide that is electrically conductive, chemically stable and unreactive at its interface with the I-Layer at temperatures up to 450° C. The electrical contact structure has a specific contact resistivity of less than or equal to approximately 10−5-10−7 Ω-cm2 when the doping in the semiconductor adjacent the MIS contact is greater than approximately 2×1019 cm−3 and less than approximately 10−8 Ω-cm2 when the doping in the semiconductor adjacent the MIS contact is greater than approximately 1020 cm−3.
US11843036B2
Provided is a highly reliable semiconductor device in which an influence on device characteristics can be reduced while improving a high temperature and high humidity bias resistance of a termination structure (termination region) of a chip by a relatively simple method. The semiconductor device includes an active region disposed on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a termination region disposed on the main surface so as to surround the active region. The termination region includes an interlayer insulating film formed on the main surface of the semiconductor substrate, and an organic protective film formed so as to cover the interlayer insulating film. An insulating film having a thickness of 100 nm or less and containing nitrogen is provided between the interlayer insulating film and the organic protective film.
US11843034B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a lateral bipolar transistor and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a lateral bipolar junction transistor including an extrinsic base region and a bilayer dielectric spacer on sidewalls of the extrinsic base region, and a p-n junction positioned under the bilayer dielectric spacer between the extrinsic base region and at least an emitter region.
US11843033B2
A method for the selective formation of epitaxial layers is described herein. In the method, epitaxial layers are deposited to form source and drain regions around a horizontal gate all around (hGAA structure). The method includes co-flowing a combination of chlorinated silicon containing precursors, antimony containing precursors, and n-type dopant precursors. The resulting source and drain regions are selectively grown from crystalline nanosheets or nanowires of the hGAA structure over the non-crystalline gate structure and dielectric layers. The source and drain regions are predominantly grown in a <110> direction.
US11843024B2
A micro LED display device includes a micro light emitting unit, a conductive structure and a substrate. The micro light emitting unit includes a plurality of micro light emitting elements, and each of the micro light emitting elements includes a semiconductor structure and an electrode structure. The semiconductor structure includes a first type semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer and a second type semiconductor layer. The electrode structure includes a first type electrode and a second type electrode. The conductive structure includes a first type conductive layer and a second type conductive layer. The first type conductive layer is electrically connected to the first type electrode, and the second type conductive layer is electrically connected to the second type electrode. The micro light emitting unit is disposed on the substrate, and the electrode structure is disposed toward the substrate and includes a gap therebetween.
US11843019B2
A pixel includes a semiconductor substrate, a low-κ dielectric, and a photodiode region in the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate has a substrate top surface that forms a trench. The trench extends into the semiconductor substrate and has a trench depth relative to a planar region of the substrate top surface surrounding the trench. The low-κ dielectric is in the trench between the trench depth and a low-κ depth with respect to the planar region. The low-κ depth is less than the trench depth. The photodiode region is in the semiconductor substrate and includes (i) a bottom photodiode section beneath the trench and (ii) a top photodiode section adjacent to the trench. The top photodiode section begins at a photodiode depth, with respect to the planar region, that is less than the low-κ depth, and extends toward and adjoining the bottom photodiode section.
US11843016B2
An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate of first conductivity type having first and second surfaces and including pixel regions, photoelectric conversion regions of second conductivity type respectively provided in the pixel regions, and a pixel isolation structure disposed in the semiconductor substrate to define the pixel regions and surrounding each of the photoelectric conversion regions. The pixel isolation structure includes a semiconductor pattern extending from the first surface to the second surface of the semiconductor substrate, a sidewall insulating pattern between a sidewall of the semiconductor pattern and the semiconductor substrate, and a dopant region in at least a portion of the semiconductor pattern.
US11843010B2
An imaging apparatus performs a global electronic shutter operation. During an exposure period for acquiring one frame, the imaging apparatus transfers electric charges accumulated in a first period from a photoelectric conversion portion to a holding portion. When a second period has elapsed since an end time of the first period, the holding portion holds both electric charges generated in the first period and electric charges generated in the second period. A plurality of pixels included in the imaging apparatus includes a first pixel and a second pixel each having a different saturation charge quantity of the photoelectric conversion portion included in each pixel.
US11843008B2
An electronic device includes a stack of a first level having a SPAD, a second level having a quench circuit for said SPAD, and a third level having a circuit for processing data generated by said SPAD. A method for making the device includes: a) forming of the first level; b) bonding, on the first level, by molecular bonding, of a stack of layers including a semiconductor layer; and c) forming the quench circuit of the second level in the semiconductor layer.
US11843007B2
The present disclosure relates to a CMOS image sensor, and an associated method of formation. In some embodiments, the CMOS image sensor comprises a substrate and a transfer gate disposed from a front-side surface of the substrate. The CMOS image sensor further comprises a photo detecting column disposed at one side of the transfer gate within the substrate. The photo detecting column comprises a doped sensing layer comprising one or more recessed portions along a circumference of the doped sensing layer in parallel to the front-side surface of the substrate. By forming the photo detecting column with recessed portions, a junction interface is enlarged compared to a previous p-n junction interface without recessed portions, and thus a full well capacity of the photodiode structure is improved.
US11843006B2
Provided are an image sensor with one or more image receivers for image switching, and an imaging system and method therefor. The image sensor includes an image sensor array to generate first image data for a first image; a receiver to receive, into the image sensor, second image data for a second image; an image selection circuit coupled to the image sensor array and the receiver to receive the first image data and the second image data and select one of the first image data and the second image data according to one or more image selection criteria and at least one of the first image data and the second image data; and a transmitter coupled to the image selection circuit to transmit the selected one of the first image data and the second image data from the image sensor.
US11843005B2
A half via hole structure, a method for manufacturing the same, an array substrate, and a display panel are provided. The half via hole structure includes: a spacer layer arranged on an underlaying substrate; a passivation layer arranged on the spacer layer and provided with a first via hole, an orthographic projection of the first via hole on the underlaying substrate being within that of the spacer layer on the underlaying substrate; a first conductive layer arranged on the spacer layer and having a width smaller than a diameter of the first via hole; an insulating layer arranged between the spacer layer and the passivation layer and provided with a second via hole; and a second conductive layer arranged on the passivation layer and overlapped with the first conductive layer through the first via hole.
US11843000B2
A semiconductor device that reduces the occurrence of a leakage current by forming a doped layer in each of an NMOS region and a PMOS region on an SOI substrate, and completely separating the doped layer of the NMOS region from the doped layer of the PMOS region using the element isolation layer is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region, a substrate including a first layer, an insulating layer on the first layer, and a second layer on the insulating layer, a first doped layer on the second layer in the first region and including a first impurity, a second doped layer on the second layer in the second region and including a second impurity different from the first impurity, and an element isolation layer configured to separate the first doped layer from the second doped layer, and in contact with the insulating layer.
US11842994B2
A method generating the layout diagram includes: selecting gate patterns for which a first distance from a corresponding VG pattern to a corresponding cut-gate section is equal to or greater than a first reference value; and for each of the selected gate patterns, increasing a size of the corresponding cut-gate section from a first value to a second value; the second value resulting in a first type of overhang of a corresponding remnant portion of the corresponding gate pattern; and the first type of overhang being a minimal permissible amount of overhang of the corresponding remnant portion beyond the corresponding first or second nearest active area pattern. A result is that gaps between corresponding ends of remnant portion of gate patterns are expanded.
US11842991B2
A semiconductor device has a first substrate and a second substrate. An opening is formed through the second substrate. A first semiconductor component and second semiconductor component are disposed between the first substrate and second substrate. The second substrate is electrically coupled to the first substrate through the first semiconductor component. A first terminal of the first semiconductor component is electrically coupled to the first substrate. A second terminal of the first semiconductor component is electrically coupled to the second substrate. The second semiconductor component extends into the opening. An encapsulant is deposited over the first substrate and second substrate.
US11842989B2
In some examples, an article comprises a semiconductor including at least one integrated circuit and an inorganic semiconductor layer bonded to a first surface of the semiconductor. The inorganic semiconductor layer comprises a μLED array, and the first surface of the semiconductor extends beyond a first edge of the inorganic semiconductor layer. The first edge of the inorganic semiconductor layer is oriented substantially perpendicular to the first surface of the semiconductor.
US11842988B2
A display device includes: a pixel circuit layer including a plurality of transistors; first partition wall and a second partition wall on the pixel circuit layer, each of the first and second partition walls having a shape protruding in a thickness direction; a first electrode and a second electrode on the same layer and respectively on the first partition wall and the second partition wall; a light emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a semiconductor pattern directly on the first electrode.
US11842983B2
The semiconductor structure includes a plurality of first dies, a plurality of second dies disposed over each of the first dies, and a dielectric material surrounding the plurality of first dies and the plurality of second die. Each of the second dies overlaps a portion of each first die.
US11842982B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower semiconductor chip having a lower semiconductor substrate and upper pads on a top surface of the lower semiconductor substrate, an upper semiconductor chip stacked on the lower semiconductor chip, the upper semiconductor chip including an upper semiconductor substrate and solder bumps on a bottom surface of the upper semiconductor substrate, and a curing layer between the lower semiconductor chip and the upper semiconductor chip, the curing layer including a first curing layer adjacent to the upper semiconductor chip, the first curing layer including a first photo-curing agent, and a second curing layer between the first curing layer and the top surface of the lower semiconductor substrate, the second curing layer including a first thermo-curing agent.
US11842968B2
A power semiconductor device includes a substrate and a semiconductor element bonded onto a first surface of the substrate through use of a sintered metal bonding material. The substrate has a plurality of dimples formed in the first surface and located outside a location immediately below a heat generation unit of the semiconductor element. The sintered metal bonding material is supplied onto the substrate after the formation of the dimples, and the semiconductor element is bonded to the substrate through application of heat and a pressure thereto.
US11842967B2
The present disclosure describes a semiconductor structure having a power distribution network including first and second conductive lines. A substrate includes a first surface that is in contact with the power distribution network. A plurality of backside vias are in the substrate and electrically coupled to the first conductive line. A via rail is on a second surface of the substrate that opposes the first surface. A first interlayer dielectric is on the via rail and on the substrate. A second interlayer dielectric is on the first interlayer dielectric. A third interlayer dielectric is on the second interlayer dielectric. First and top interconnect layers are in the second and third interlayer dielectrics, respectively. Deep vias are in the interlayer dielectric and electrically coupled to the via rail. The deep vias are also connected to the first and top interconnect layers. A power supply in/out layer is on the third interlayer dielectric and in contact with the top interconnect layer.
US11842966B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip comprising a substrate. A first conductive wire is over the substrate. A second conductive wire is over the substrate and is adjacent to the first conductive wire. A first dielectric cap is laterally between the first conductive wire and the second conductive wire. The first dielectric cap laterally separates the first conductive wire from the second conductive wire. The first dielectric cap includes a first dielectric material. A first cavity is directly below the first dielectric cap and is laterally between the first conductive wire and the second conductive wire. The first cavity is defined by one or more surfaces of the first dielectric cap.
US11842964B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region, a first group of standard cells arranged in a first row on the active region of the substrate and having a first height defined in a column direction, a second group of standard cells arranged in a second row on the active region of the substrate, and having a second height, and a plurality of power lines extending in a row direction and respectively extending along boundaries of the first and the second groups of standard cells. The first and second groups of standard cells each further include a plurality of wiring lines extending in the row direction and arranged in the column direction, and at least some of wiring lines in at least one standard cell of the first and second groups of standard cells are arranged at different spacings and/or pitches.
US11842959B2
Semiconductor devices, integrated circuits and methods of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a metal-insulator-metal structure which includes a bottom conductor plate layer including a first opening and a second opening, a first dielectric layer over the bottom conductor plate layer, a middle conductor plate layer over the first dielectric layer and including a third opening, a first dummy plate disposed within the third opening, and a fourth opening, a second dielectric layer over the middle conductor plate layer, and a top conductor plate layer over the second dielectric layer and including a fifth opening, a second dummy plate disposed within the fifth opening, a sixth opening, and a third dummy plate disposed within the sixth opening. The first opening, the first dummy plate, and the second dummy plate are vertically aligned.
US11842956B2
A method includes forming a first package structure including a first connection member including a first redistribution layer, a first frame having a first through-portion, a first semiconductor chip having a connection pad electrically connected to the first redistribution layer, and a first encapsulant covering a portion of each of the first frame and the first semiconductor chip, forming a second package structure including a second connection member including a second redistribution layer, a second semiconductor chip having a second connection pad, and a second encapsulant covering a portion of the second semiconductor chip, forming a first through-via, the first through-via electrically connecting to the second redistribution layer, and laminating the first package structure on the second package structure. After the laminating, the first through-via penetrates through the first frame, the first encapsulant, and a portion of the first connection member, and is electrically connected to the first redistribution layer.
US11842955B2
An integrated circuit package and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes forming a first redistribution layer over a carrier, the first redistribution layer including a contact pad and a bond pad. A conductive pillar is formed over the contact pad. A backside surface of an integrated circuit die is attached to the bond pad using a solder joint. An encapsulant is formed along a sidewall of the conductive pillar and a sidewall of the integrated circuit die, a front-side surface of the integrated circuit die being substantially level with a topmost surface of the encapsulant and a topmost surface of the conductive pillar. A second redistribution layer is formed over the front-side surface of the integrated circuit die, the topmost surface of the encapsulant and the topmost surface of the conductive pillar.
US11842954B2
A plastic material substrate has a die mounting location for a semiconductor die. Metallic traces are formed on selected areas of the plastic material substrate, wherein the metallic traces provide electrically-conductive paths for coupling to the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die is attached onto the die mounting location. The semiconductor die attached onto the die mounting location is electrically bonded to selected ones of the metallic traces formed on the plastic material substrate. A package material is molded onto the semiconductor die attached onto the die mounting location.
US11842947B2
The fabrication of field-effect transistor (FET) devices is described herein where the FET devices include one or more body contacts implemented between source, gate, drain (S/G/D) assemblies to improve the influence of a voltage applied at the body contact on the S/G/D assemblies. The FET devices can include source fingers and drain fingers interleaved with gate fingers. The source and drain fingers of a first S/G/D assembly can be electrically connected to the source and drain fingers of a second S/G/D assembly. The source fingers and the drain fingers can be arranged in alternating rows.
US11842943B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes an electronic system. The electronic system includes a chassis. The electronic system includes a semiconductor chip cooling component that is rigidly fixed to the chassis. The electronic system includes a packaged semiconductor chip having a lid that is contact with the semiconductor chip cooling component. The electronic system includes an electronic circuit board. The packaged semiconductor chip is electro-mechanically attached to the electronic circuit board.
US11842938B2
A semiconductor device includes a contact metallization layer that includes aluminum and is arranged on a semiconductor substrate, an inorganic passivation structure arranged on the semiconductor substrate, an organic passivation layer comprising a first part that is arranged on the contact metallization layer, and a second part that is arranged on the inorganic passivation structure, a first layer structure including a first part that is in contact with the contact metallization layer, a second part that is contact with the inorganic passivation structure, and a third part that is disposed on the semiconductor substrate laterally between the inorganic passivation structure and the organic passivation layer.
US11842934B2
A mechanism is provided to secure integrated circuit devices that combines a high degree of security with a low overhead, both in area and cost, thereby making it appropriate for smaller, cheaper integrated circuits. A determination is made whether a device die is on a wafer or if the device die is incorporated into a package. Only if the device die is incorporated in a package can the functional logic of device die be activated, and then only if a challenge-response query is satisfied. In some embodiments, a random number generator is used during wafer testing to form a pair of numbers, along with a die identifier, that is unique for each device die. A final test is then performed in which the device die can be activated if the device die is incorporated in a package, and the die identifier—random number pair is authenticated.
US11842932B2
A method includes providing a substrate having a channel region, forming a gate stack layer over the channel region, forming a patterned hard mask over the gate stack layer, etching a top portion of the gate stack layer through openings in the patterned hard mask with a first etchant, etching a middle portion and a bottom portion of the gate stack layer with a second etchant that includes a passivating gas. A gate stack is formed with a passivation layer deposited on sidewalls of the gate stack. The method also includes etching the gate stack with a third etchant, thereby removing a bottom portion of the passivation layer and recessing a bottom portion of the gate stack.
US11842923B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor processing approach wherein a wafer twist is employed to increase etch rate, at select locations, along a hole or space end arc. By doing so, a finished hole may more closely resemble the shape of the incoming hole end. In some embodiments, a method may include providing an elongated contact hole formed in a semiconductor device, and etching the elongated contact hole while rotating the semiconductor device, wherein the etching is performed by an ion beam delivered at a non-zero angle relative to a plane defined by the semiconductor device. The elongated contact hole may be defined by a set of sidewalls opposite one another, and a first end and a second end connected to the set of sidewalls, wherein etching the elongated contact hole causes the elongated contact hole to change from an oval shape to a rectangular shape.
US11842912B2
A wafer transport box according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a lower housing including a bottom plate and at least one lower rib which is formed vertically on an upper surface of the bottom plate and which forms a wall formed in an arc shape so that wafers are stacked in an inner space, an upper housing including an upper plate and an upper rib which is formed vertically on a lower surface of the upper plate and which forms a wall formed in an arc shape, and a sidewall member coupled inside the lower rib. Further, when the upper housing and the lower housing are coupled to each other, the sidewall member fixes the wafers stacked in the inner space.
US11842909B2
The invention relates to a press for encapsulating electronic components mounted on a carrier, comprising: at least two press parts displaceable relative to each other, a drive system for the displacement of the press parts, and an intelligent control adapted to control the drive system of the press parts wherein the drive system comprises at least two individual controllable actuators, the intelligent control further connects to plural displacement sensors for detecting the relative displacement of the press parts, and wherein the intelligent control is adapted to control the actuators of the drive system dynamically over time based on the measured values detected with the displacement sensors. The invention also relates to an actuator set to convert a prior art press into a press according to the present invention as well as to a method for encapsulating electronic components mounted on a carrier.
US11842903B2
An apparatus for treating a substrate is provided. The apparatus for treating the substrate includes a high pressure chamber to provide a treatment space to perform a process of treating the substrate using a process fluid, a fluid supply source to provide the process fluid to the high pressure chamber, a fluid supply unit to supply the process fluid to the treatment space of the high pressure chamber, an exhaust unit to exhaust the process fluid in the high pressure chamber, and a pre-vent unit to vent a process fluid remaining inside a supply line.
US11842901B2
The field-effect mobility and reliability of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film are improved. Provided is a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating film, an oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film, a second insulating film and a third insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, and a gate electrode over the second insulating film. The second insulating film comprises a silicon oxynitride film. When excess oxygen is added to the second insulating film by oxygen plasma treatment, oxygen can be efficiently supplied to the oxide semiconductor film.
US11842896B2
A single layer process is utilized to reduce swing effect interference and reflection during imaging of a photoresist. An anti-reflective additive is added to a photoresist, wherein the anti-reflective additive has a dye portion and a reactive portion. Upon dispensing the reactive portion will react with underlying structures to form an anti-reflective coating between the underlying structure and a remainder of the photoresist. During imaging, the anti-reflective coating will either absorb the energy, preventing it from being reflected, or else modify the optical path of reflection, thereby helping to reduce interference caused by the reflected energy.
US11842894B2
An element that is configured to bond to another element is disclosed. A first element that can include a first plurality of contact pads on a first surface. The first plurality of contact pads includes a first contact pad and a second contact pad that are spaced apart from one another. The first and second contact pads are electrically connected to one another for redundancy. The first element can be prepared for direct bonding. The first element can be bonded to a second element to form a bonded structure. The second element has a second plurality of contact pads on a second surface. At least one of the second plurality of contact pads is bonded and electrically connected to at least one of the first plurality of contact pads.
US11842890B2
Methods and apparatus for reducing burn-in time of a physical vapor deposition shield, including: sputtering a dielectric target having a first dielectric constant to form a dielectric layer upon an inner surface of a shield, wherein the shield includes an aluminum oxide coating having a second dielectric constant in an amount sufficient to reduce the burn-in time, and wherein the first dielectric constant and second dielectric constant are substantially similar.
US11842887B2
A film formation apparatus of the present invention is a film formation apparatus which performs deposition on a substrate to be processed, and includes a supply device that is disposed in an evacuable vacuum chamber and supplies a deposition material, and a holding device that holds the substrate to be processed during deposition. The holding device includes a deposition preventing plate that covers a region to which the deposition material is adhered in the holding device, a holder that holds the substrate to be processed, and a position setter that sets a position of the substrate to be processed when the deposition preventing plate and the holder sandwich and hold the substrate to be processed. The position setter includes a roller that comes into contact with a peripheral edge end surface portion of the substrate to be processed.
US11842884B2
Systems and methods for plasma processing are disclosed. An exemplary system may include a plasma processing chamber including a source to produce a plasma in the processing chamber and at least two bias electrodes arranged within the plasma processing chamber to control plasma sheaths proximate to the bias electrodes. A chuck is disposed to support a substrate, and a source generator is coupled to the plasma electrode. At least one bias supply is coupled to the at least two bias electrodes, and a controller is included to control the at least one bias supply to control the plasma sheaths proximate to the bias electrodes.
US11842883B2
A chemical vapor deposition apparatus includes a chamber, a susceptor supporting a substrate, a backing plate to which power is applied, a diffuser providing a deposition gas, and a first insulator. The first insulator may include a first portion covering a top surface of the backing plate, and a second portion assembled with the first portion and covering a sidewall of the backing plate.
US11842880B2
An aberration value estimator has a learned estimation model for estimating an aberration value set based on a Ronchigram. In a machine learning sub-system, a simulation is repeatedly executed while changing a simulation condition, and calculated Ronchigrams are generated in a wide variety and in a large number. By machine learning using the calculated Ronchigrams, the learned estimation model is generated.
US11842879B2
Provided are an electron gun, an electron gun component, an electron beam applicator, and an alignment method that can align the emission axis of an electron beam with the optical axis of the electron optical system of the counterpart device even when misalignment of a mounted position of the electron gun being mounted to the counterpart device is larger. The electron gun includes: a light source; a vacuum chamber; a photocathode that emits an electron beam in response to receiving light from the light source; an electrode kit; and an electrode kit drive device, the electrode kit includes a photocathode supporting part, and an anode arranged spaced apart from the photocathode supporting part, the photocathode is placed on the photocathode supporting part, and the electrode kit drive device moves the electrode kit in an X-Y plane, where one direction is defined as an X direction, a direction orthogonal to the X direction is defined as a Y direction, and a plane including the X direction and the Y direction is defined as the X-Y plane.
US11842878B2
An injection locked magnetron system based on filament injection is provided, which includes a magnetron, an excitation cavity, and a load. The magnetron is installed on the excitation cavity and connected to the excitation cavity, the excitation cavity is detachably connected to the load, the magnetron is provided with an injection antenna, and the injection antenna is used to receive an injected external signal and couple the injected external signal into the magnetron for realizing injection locking. The injected external signal is injected by a monopole antenna, and coupled into the magnetron resonant cavity through a magnetron filament, and the output microwave of the magnetron is output through the excitation cavity, and passes through the waveguide directional coupler, and is finally absorbed by the load, such that the output microwave of the magnetron can be locked by the injected external signal.
US11842877B2
A system and method for an electric pole part apparatus, includes an electric interruption unit; a heat sink; and a heat pipe arrangement; wherein the heat pipe arrangement comprises a plurality of heat pipes enclosed at least partially by an outer housing; wherein a first end of the heat pipe arrangement is connected to the heat sink; and wherein a second end of the heat pipe arrangement is connected to the electric interruption unit.
US11842875B2
Provided are approaches for integrating solenoids and fuses within a compact housing. In one approach, a fuse apparatus (100) may include a housing (102) including a main body (104), a cover (106) coupled to a first side (110) of the main body (104), and a base (112) coupled to a second side (116) of the main body (104), wherein the cover (106) and the main body (104) define a fuse cavity (120), and wherein the base (112) and the main body (104) define a main cavity. (122) The fuse apparatus (100) may further include a plurality of fuses (124) disposed within the fuse cavity (120), and a plurality of solenoids (130) electrically connected to a printed circuit board (PCB) (132), wherein the plurality of fuses (124) is disposed above the PCB (132), and wherein the PCB (132) is positioned within the main cavity (122).
US11842874B2
A miniature circuit breaker, which includes a circuit breaker housing, a button mechanism, and an indicating apparatus. The circuit breaker housing includes an indicating hole arranged in one side thereof, the button mechanism is in sliding fit with the circuit breaker housing, the indicating apparatus is in driving fit with the button mechanism, and when the button mechanism is pressed to switch on the miniature circuit breaker, the button mechanism drives the indicating apparatus to shield the indicating hole. The indicating apparatus thereof may indicate a switching-on state of the circuit breaker when the circuit breaker is switched on, thus improving a safety of electricity consumption.
US11842868B2
An electric power system such as, for example, a circuit, an electric appliance, an electric generator, and/or an energy storage system, can be coupled with a negative thermal expansion component. The negative thermal expansion component can be formed from a material having negative thermal expansion properties such that the negative thermal expansion component contracts in response to an increase in temperature. The contraction of the negative thermal expansion component can form a nonconductive gap that disrupts current flow through the electric power system. The disruption of the current flow can eliminate hazards associated with the electric power system overcharging, overheating, and/or developing an internal short circuit.
US11842863B2
An improved mechanical interlock including one or more features to facilitate a more robust design, easier assembly, and/or enhanced capabilities. For example, the mechanical interlock may include an interlock latch operatively associated with an external handle assembly and an internal connector. The interlock latch being directly coupled to a shaft coupled to the handle assembly, thus providing an improved and more robust latching mechanism. The mechanical interlock may also include one or more keys (e.g., a Poke-Yoke feature) to facilitate easier assembly and/or to prevent human errors caused by improper assembly. The mechanical interlock may also include an integrated magnetic switch and monitoring system to ensure that accurate location of the handle assembly is known.
US11842857B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a body, including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains, and at least one of the plurality of dielectric grains has a core-dual shell structure having a core and a dual shell. The dual shell includes a first shell, surrounding at least a portion of the core, and a second shell, surrounding at least a portion of the first shell. The dual shell includes different types of rare earth elements R1 and R2, and R2S1/R1S1 is 0.01 or less and R2S2/R1S1 is 0.5 to 3.0, where R1S1 and R1S2 denote concentrations of R1 included in the first shell and the second shell, respectively, and R2S1 and R2S2 denote concentrations of R2 included in the first shell and the second shell, respectively.
US11842855B2
To provide a multilayer electronic component of which a reliability is not compromised and also a crack is suppressed from forming even when the multilayer electronic component is made thinner. A multilayer electronic component including an element body in which at least one dielectric layer and at least one internal electrode layer are stacked in an alternating manner, wherein a thickness variation of the at least one internal electrode layer is larger than a thickness variation of the at least one dielectric layer.
US11842848B1
A decorative magnetic cover for use in attachment to a non-metallic surface such as window or screen is provided. The decorative magnetic cover includes a magnetized first half and a magnetized second half shaped substantially identical to the magnetized first half. Imprints are formed on outer surfaces of the first and second halves. There is also disclosed a method of forming a magnetic cover such that an inner surface of a first half of the magnetic cover has a first polarity and an inner surface of a second half of the magnetic cover has a second polarity opposite the first polarity to hold the magnetized first and second halve together about a surface.
US11842845B2
A transformer comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding has N2 number turns and having a first terminal and a second terminal. The secondary winding has having N1 fractional portions, which together form a full turn, are in close proximity to the primary winding to establish coupling between the primary winding and the N1 fractional coil portions, the transformer turn ratio from the primary winding to the secondary winding is N2:(N3/N1) where N2 is an integer equal to or greater than 1, N1 is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and N3 is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Also disclosed is a stacked integrated transformer having a primary winding and secondary winding of which one or both have a waterfall structure and a portion of which functions as a ground connected shield between the secondary winding and the primary winding.
US11842841B2
A coil component includes a body having a coil portion embedded therein; and external electrodes connected to the coil portion, wherein the body includes a plurality of magnetic metal particles, and a plurality of indentations are formed in surfaces of at least some of the plurality of magnetic metal particles, and the surfaces of the magnetic metal particles connecting the plurality of indentations to each other are spherical.
US11842835B2
A magnetic assembly formed by a custom magnetic core and its bobbin with interconnection pins is presented. This magnetic assembly leads to a higher power density of magnetic assembly and a better utilization of the volume inside a power converter, allowing a higher power density of the power converter and a higher efficiency through the minimization of the parasitic inductances.
US11842833B2
A coil component includes a magnetic portion that includes metal particles and a resin material, a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic portion, and outer electrodes electrically connected to the coil conductor. The average particle diameter of the metal particles in the magnetic portion is 1 μm or more and 5 μm or less, and the CV value of the metal particles is 50% or more and 90% or less.
US11842831B2
An inductor according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first magnetic body having a toroidal shape, and including a ferrite; and a second magnetic body disposed on an outer circumferential surface or an inner circumferential surface of the first magnetic body, wherein the second magnetic body includes: resin material and a plurality of layers of metal ribbons wound along the circumferential direction of the first magnetic body, wherein the resin material comprises a first resin material disposed to cover an outer surface of the plurality of layers of metal ribbons, and a second resin material disposed in at least a part of a plurality of layers of interlayer spaces.
US11842827B2
Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a material containing nylon or thermosetting resin. A silicone based pulling lubricant for said cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small cable gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the resin material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force between the formed cable and a conduit during installation.
US11842823B2
A reactor irradiation method is provided that can include irradiating Np or Am spheres within a target assembly of a nuclear reactor to form reacted spheres comprising Pu. The target assembly can define a solid core within an exterior housing, and a void between the exterior housing and the solid core, wherein the spheres occupy at least a portion of the void. The irradiating can include exposing the spheres to a neutron energy spectrum while the spheres are in the void of the target assembly to form irradiated spheres.
US11842817B2
A method, system and computer readable medium for tracking changes in average glycemia in diabetes is based on a conceptually new approach to the retrieval of SMBG data. Using the understanding of HbA1c fluctuation as the measurable effect of the action of an underlying dynamical system, SMBG provides occasional glimpses at the state of this system and, using these measurements, the hidden underlying system trajectory can be reconstructed for individual diabetes patients. Using compartmental modeling a new two-step algorithm is provided that includes: (i) real-time estimate of HbA1c from fasting glucose readings, updated with any new incoming fasting SMBG data point(s), and (ii) initialization and calibration of the estimated HbA1c trace with daily SMBG profiles obtained periodically. The estimation of these profiles includes a factorial model capturing daily BG variability within two latent factors.
US11842816B1
Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision support and managing patient population health by health-related entities including caregivers, health care administrators, insurance providers, and patients. Embodiments of the invention provide decision support services including providing timely contextual patient information including condition risks, risk factors and relevant clinical information that are dynamically updatable; imputing missing patient information; dynamically generating assessments for obtaining additional patient information based on context; data-mining and information discovery services including discovering new knowledge; identifying or evaluating treatments or sequences of patient care actions and behaviors, and providing recommendations based on this; intelligent, adaptive decision support services including identifying critical junctures in patient care processes, such as points in time that warrant close attention by caregivers; near-real time querying across diverse health records data sources, which may use diverse clinical nomenclatures and ontologies; improved natural language processing services; and other decision support services.
US11842803B2
In various embodiments, authentication stations are distributed within a facility, particularly in spaces where mobile devices are predominantly used—e.g., a hospital's emergency department. Each such station includes a series of authentication devices. Mobile device may run applications for locating the nearest such station and, in some embodiments, pair wirelessly with the station so that authentication thereon will accord a user access to the desired resource via a mobile device.
US11842791B2
Multilevel command and address (CA) signals are used to provide commands and memory addresses from a controller to a memory system. Using multilevel signals CA signals may allow for using fewer signals compared to binary signals to represent a same number of commands and/or address space, or using a same number of multilevel CA signals to represent a larger number of commands and/or address space. A number of external command/address terminals may be reduced without reducing a set of commands and/or address space. Alternatively, a number of external terminals may be maintained, but provide for an expanded set of commands and/or address space.
US11842785B2
A temperature-accelerated solid-state storage testing method includes writing data to a storage system and subjecting the storage system to a first temperature range for a first time period that is equivalent to operation at a lower/second temperature for a greater/second time period. Subsequently, the data from the storage system is read within a third time period at a third temperature range to generate first test data. The storage system is then subjected to the first temperature range for a fourth time period that was reduced relative to the first time period based on the reading of the data to generate the first test data causing the operation of storage system to be equivalent to operating at the second temperature range for a fifth time period. Subsequently the data from the storage system is read within the third time period at the third temperature range to generate second test data.
US11842784B2
A semiconductor device includes a test command generation circuit that generates a test write command and a test read command when entering a test mode, and an input/output control circuit that controls a memory block, the memory block including a plurality of banks such that write operations are simultaneously performed on the plurality of banks based on the test write command and read operations are simultaneously performed on the plurality of banks based on the test read command.
US11842771B2
Programmable memory devices having a cross-point array of polymer junctions with individually-programmed conductances are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a memory device includes: forming first metal lines on an insulating substrate; forming polymeric resistance elements on the first metal lines; and forming second metal lines over the polymeric resistance elements with a single one of the polymeric resistance elements present at each intersection of the first/second metal lines forming a cross-point array. A memory device and a method of operating a memory device are also provided.
US11842767B2
A memory device and an operation method for the memory device are provided. The memory device includes a memory block, a row decoder and a control circuit. The memory block includes a plurality of memory cells, wherein a row of memory cells in the memory block are coupled to at least one word line, and a column of memory cells in the memory block are coupled to a bit line and a multiplexer. The row decoder is coupled to the memory block and configured for the row of memory cells. The control circuit is coupled to the row decoder and indicates which word line, bit line and multiplexer is enabled.
US11842762B2
Disclosed is a memory system that has a memory controller and may have a memory component. The memory component may be a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The memory controller is connectable to the memory component. The memory component has at least one data row and at least one tag row different from and associated with the at least one data row. The memory system is to implement a cache having multiple ways to hold a data group. The memory controller is operable in each of a plurality of operating modes. The operating modes include a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The first operating mode and the second operating mode have differing addressing and timing for accessing the data group. The memory controller has cache read logic that sends a cache read command, cache results logic that receives a response from the memory component, and cache fetch logic.
US11842752B2
The magnetic tape container includes a core around which a magnetic tape is wound. The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder, and the roundness of the trajectory of one rotation drawn by the magnetic tape in a case where the wound magnetic tape is pulled out from the core is 100 μm or less as the arithmetic mean of the measured values at three points in the width direction of the magnetic tape.
US11842743B2
Embodiments relate to audio processing unit(s) and methods for decoding an encoded audio bitstream, that includes a fill element with an identifier indicating a start of the fill element and fill data which includes a flag identifying whether to perform a base form of spectral band replication or an enhanced form of spectral band replication, wherein the base form of spectral band replication includes spectral patching, the enhanced form of spectral band replication includes harmonic transposition, one value of the flag indicates that said enhanced form of spectral band replication should be performed on the audio content, and another indicates that said base form of spectral band replication but not said harmonic transposition should be performed on the audio content, wherein the fill data further includes a parameter indicating whether pre-flattening is to be performed after spectral patching for avoiding spectral discontinuities.
US11842741B2
A feature vector having high class identification capability is generated. A signal processing system provided with: a first generation unit for generating a first feature vector on the basis of one of time-series voice data, meteorological data, sensor data, and text data, or on the basis of a feature quantity of one of these; a weight calculation unit for calculating a weight for the first feature vector; a statistical amount calculation unit for calculating a weighted average vector and a weighted high-order statistical vector of second or higher order using the first feature vector and the weight; and a second generation unit for generating a second feature vector using the weighted high-order statistical vector.
US11842733B2
An indication associated with an AI mode enabled by an AI system is received from a user with an affirmative opt-in status. A first task request associated with the user is identified. One or more instructions associated with the first task request are contextually recognized. The first task request is completed based on the contextually recognized one or more instructions.
US11842725B2
A method of own voice detection is provided for a user of a device. A first signal is detected, representing air-conducted speech using a first microphone of the device. A second signal is detected, representing bone-conducted speech using a bone-conduction sensor of the device. The first signal is filtered to obtain a component of the first signal at a speech articulation rate, and the second signal is filtered to obtain a component of the second signal at the speech articulation rate. The component of the first signal at the speech articulation rate and the component of the second signal at the speech articulation rate are compared, and it is determined that the speech has not been generated by the user of the device, if a difference between the component of the first signal at the speech articulation rate and the component of the second signal at the speech articulation rate exceeds a threshold value.
US11842722B2
Disclosed is a speech synthesis method including: acquiring fundamental frequency information and acoustic feature information from original speech; generating an impulse train from the fundamental frequency information, and inputting it to a harmonic time-varying filter; inputting the acoustic feature information into a neural network filter estimator to obtain corresponding impulse response information; generating noise signal by a noise generator; determining, by the harmonic time-varying filter, harmonic component information through filtering processing on the impulse train and the impulse response information; determining, by a noise time-varying filter, noise component information based on the impulse response information and the noise; and generating a synthesized speech from the harmonic component information and the noise component information. Acoustic features are processed to obtain corresponding impulse response information, and harmonic component information and noise component information are modeled respectively, thereby reducing computation of speech synthesis and improving the quality of the synthesized speech.
US11842719B2
A sound processing method obtains note data representative of a note; obtains an audio signal to be processed; specifies, in accordance with the note, an expression sample representative of a sound expression to be imparted to the note and an expression period, of the audio signal, to which the sound expression is to be imparted to the note; and specifies, in accordance with the expression sample and the expression period, a processing parameter relating to an expression imparting processing for imparting the sound expression to a portion corresponding to the expression period in the audio signal. The method then generates a processed audio signal by performing the expression imparting processing in accordance with the expression sample, the expression period, and the processing parameter to the audio signal.
US11842710B2
A processor-based method of producing a generative musical composition is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of receiving a briefing narrative which describes a musical journey by referencing a plurality of emotional descriptions related to a plurality of musical sections. The generative musical composition is assembled with regard to the briefing narrative through the selection and concatenation of Form Atoms with tags that align with the emotional descriptions related to the musical sections. The Form Atoms, which have compositional nature aligned with the emotional descriptions and self-contained constructional properties representative of the historical corpus of music, are then selected and substituted into the generative composition. The method further involves the step of generating the musical composition by mapping musical transition between selectively chosen Form Atoms to reflect pre-established transitions between Form Atoms and groups Form Atoms that have been identified to have similar tags but different constructional properties.
US11842708B2
An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.
US11842686B2
A light emitting display device and driving method are disclosed. A light emitting display device includes a display panel including RGBW sub-pixels; a driver configured to drive the display panel; and a timing controller configured to control the driver, wherein W peak luminance derived by the W sub-pixels is higher than a sum of RGB peak luminances derived by the RGB sub-pixels when the display panel displays an image.
US11842683B2
A display apparatus, a display panel, and a driving method thereof, and a method of detecting a pixel circuit are described. The display panel includes a pixel unit and a detection apparatus, and the pixel unit includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a driving transistor, and a storage capacitor. The detection device is configured to: turn off the first transistor and the second transistor, and detect an amount of current leakage of the driving transistor leaked through the sensing line to obtain a first current leakage parameter; detect a first characteristic parameter of the driving transistor to obtain a first reference characteristic parameter; and determine a first target characteristic parameter according to the first current leakage parameter and the first reference characteristic parameter.
US11842682B2
The light emitting device comprises: a plurality of pixels, each having a light-emitting element, a driving transistor configured to drive the light-emitting element, a capacitor configured to hold a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, a signal line, a first switch configured to connect the signal line and a control electrode of the driving transistor, and a second switch configured to connect a first main electrode of the driving transistor and a predetermined node; and a driving circuit configured to drive the signal line. In a preparation period in which the threshold voltage is held in the capacitor, the first switch is controlled to be on and the second switch is controlled to be off, and the driving circuit drives the signal line at a voltage level selected from a plurality of different voltage levels.
US11842664B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for outputting optically-input texts and a method controlling thereof. The apparatus includes: a light source array, including a plurality of light-emitting diodes disposed in an array; a driver, connected to all the light-emitting diodes in the light array, and configured to detect whether each of the light-emitting diodes has detected a drive optical signal from the outside, and drives the corresponding light-emitting diode to be turned on in response to detecting that the drive optical signal has been detected from the outside; a processor, connected to the light source array and the driver, and configured to recognize a target pattern formed by all the light-emitting diodes that have been turned on; and a controller, including a display screen, and configured to determine a text matching the target pattern as an output text, and displays the output text on the display screen.
US11842663B2
The present application relates to a display device and a method of providing the same. A display device includes a display panel which is bendable, the display panel including a bending area and a pad area which is adjacent to the bending area, and a lower layer extending along the pad area of the display panel. The lower layer includes a lower film layer defining an opening at the pad area, the opening exposing a portion of the pad area to outside the lower film layer, and a step compensation member which is in the opening of the lower film layer and on the portion of the pad area which is exposed to outside the lower film layer.
US11842661B2
A control method is performed by an information display system displaying information on one or more display units included in a vehicle. The information display system executes guidance processing for guiding a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle toward a display unit which is not in the line of sight. The control method including: obtaining vicinity information indicating a state of vicinity of the vehicle from a device outside the vehicle; determining whether or not the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity indicated in the vicinity information than the information displayed on the one or more display units; and executing control for suppressing the guidance processing when it is determined that the driver should pay more attention to the state of the vicinity than the information displayed on the one or more display units.
US11842654B2
An airway resistance device providing reliable and constant airway resistance for a given position of an occlusion mechanism that may be used in a lung simulator device in order to allow the simulation of a number of medical conditions which impacts the airflow in the airways. The airway resistance device includes one or more laminar flow channels and a variable occlusion mechanism that retains the laminar flow characteristics, such that resistance is constant for a given occlusion configuration.
US11842642B2
The invention provides designs and methods for a heavy vehicle operations and control system for heavy automated vehicles, which facilitates heavy vehicle operation and control for connected automated vehicle highway (CAVH) systems. The heavy vehicle management system provides heavy vehicles with individually customized information and real-time vehicle control instructions to fulfill the driving tasks such as car following, lane changing, route guidance. The heavy vehicle management system also realizes heavy vehicle related lane design, transportation operations, and management services for both dedicated and non-dedicated lanes. The heavy vehicle management system consists of one or more of the following physical subsystems: (1) Roadside unit (RSU) network, (2) Traffic Control Unit (TCU) and Traffic Control Center (TCC) network, (3) vehicles and onboard units (OBU), (4) traffic operations centers (TOCs), and (5) cloud platform. The heavy vehicle management system realizes one or more of the following function categories: sensing, transportation behavior prediction and management, planning and decision making, and vehicle control. The heavy vehicle management system is supported by road infrastructure design, real-time wired and/or wireless communication, power supply networks, and cyber safety and security services.
US11842639B2
Systems and methods for power and thermal management of autonomous vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system includes processor(s) and one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer readable media that collectively store instructions that when executed by the processor(s) cause the computing system to perform operations. The operations include obtaining data associated with an autonomous vehicle. The operations include identifying one or more vehicle parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the data associated with the autonomous vehicle. The operations include determining a modification to one or more operating characteristics of one or more systems onboard the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the one or more vehicle parameters. The operations include controlling a heat generation of at least a portion of the autonomous vehicle via implementation of the modification of the operating characteristic(s) of the system(s) onboard the autonomous vehicle.
US11842637B2
A technique is directed to methods and systems for managing multiple traffic light devices. In some implementations, the method includes (1) receiving a request for route planning for a vehicle; (2) determining a location of the vehicle; (3) planning a route for the vehicle at least based on the request and a set of rules; and (4) implementing the route for the vehicle by communicating with one or more of multiple traffic light devices along the route. In some implementations, the set of rules includes a subscription plan associated with the vehicle, and the subscription plan is indicative of an assigned priority of the vehicle.
US11842636B2
Systems and methods that allow use of simple priority VCUs (those that can only request an increased priority) to operate in a manner that simulates much more sophisticated schedule-adherence or ETA-type traffic control systems without the need to upgrade vehicle hardware. Instead, tracking of the vehicle, whether provided by other systems or by the VCU operating in conjunction with certain prepared points or zones is used to determine if the VCU equipped vehicle is ahead or behind schedule and operation of the VCU itself is altered to modify the expected arrival time of the vehicle.
US11842635B2
A traffic light control assembly includes a plurality of mounting poles each attached to a cross beam of a respective traffic signal at a roadway intersection. A plurality of light detection and ranging sensors is each mounted to a respective mounting pole to be elevated over traffic on the roadway. Each of the light detection and ranging sensors is positioned to sense the number of vehicles that are stopped at an opposing traffic signal. Each of the light detection and ranging sensors is in electrical communication with a remote data unit thereby facilitating the remote data unit to analyze data gathered by each of the light detection and ranging sensors with respect to the number of vehicles. Moreover, the remote data unit adjusts timing of the traffic signals to most efficiently direct traffic through the intersection with respect to the number of vehicles that are approaching the intersection.
US11842628B2
A remote control device for remotely controlling a target device to be controlled is provided. The remote control device includes a communication module configured to transmit a request a license activation to an external server via a gateway along with first remote control device information for identifying the remote control device and first infrared (IR) library information for identifying the IR library DB, receive, from the gateway via the gateway, license activation information encrypted by an encryption algorithm, the encrypted license activation information including second remote control device information, second IR library information, and a license activation key code for the IR library DB, an input module configured to receive a user input for remotely controlling a target electronic device to be controlled, and a controller module configured to decrypt the encrypted license activation information by a decryption algorithm to extract the second remote control device information, the second IR library information and a license activation key code, and activate the IR library DB with the license activation key code, and generate remote control signals corresponding to the user input, utilizing the activated IR library database.
US11842627B1
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a storage configured to store control code sets corresponding to each of a display apparatus and one or more external electronic apparatuses providing contents to the display apparatus; a communicator comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate with the display apparatus and a remote control apparatus; and a processor configured to determine a source apparatus, providing a content that is currently displayed on the display apparatus, of the display apparatus and the one or more external electronic apparatuses, and controlling the communication circuitry of the communicator to transmit a control code set corresponding to the determined source apparatus to the remote control apparatus.
US11842623B1
A vehicle includes determines that a vehicle alarm system has been engaged and determines a local context applicable to the vehicle alarm system. The vehicle obtains an alarm system configuration mapping applicable in light of the local context. The vehicle changes sensitivity of one or more sensors associated with the alarm system based on the configuration mapping.
US11842620B2
A system including at least one detector and a central station in two-way communication with the detector is provided. The detector can include an ambient condition sensing element, a motion sensor, control circuitry, and two-way communications hardware. The control circuitry can determine an alarm event based on a first signal received from the ambient condition sensing element and can transmit an alarm signal to the communications hardware during the alarm event. The control circuitry can also determine a man-down event based on a second signal received from the motion sensor and transmit a man-down alarm signal to the communications hardware during the man-down event. The two-way communications hardware can transmit at least one of the gas alarm signal and the man-down alarm signal to a remote location, and the two-way communications hardware can receive a status inquiry from the remote location.
US11842616B2
A method of patient management including receiving therapy data associated with a plurality of durable medical devices and a first set of patients, and displaying an overview of patient compliance and a plurality of customizable tiles. The overview of patient compliance includes at least the number of patients in the first set of patients, current compliance data, compliance history data, and follow-up data. The plurality of aligned tiles includes at least a title and a plurality of selectable subtitles, each of the plurality of selected subtitles associated with one or more rules. Upon selection of a first selectable subtitle, displaying at least an indication of patients in a second set of patients, wherein the second set of patients is a subset of the first set of patients; upon selection of a first patient, displaying at least all of the rules triggered by the first patient.
US11842615B2
In an example method, a mobile device obtains a signal indicating an acceleration measured by a sensor over a time period. The mobile device determines an impact experienced by the user based on the signal. The mobile device also determines, based on the signal, one or more first motion characteristics of the user during a time prior to the impact, and one or more second motion characteristics of the user during a time after the impact. The mobile device determines that the user has fallen based on the impact, the one or more first motion characteristics of the user, and the one or more second motion characteristics of the user, and in response, generates a notification indicating that the user has fallen.
US11842614B2
Techniques are described for distributing, to a distributed network of central stations, alarm events detected in monitoring system data collected by sensors included in monitoring systems located at monitored properties. A system receives monitoring system data collected by sensors included in monitoring systems located at monitored properties, tracks alarm events detected within the monitoring system data, and generates, for central station servers in a distributed network of central stations, load profiles that reflect a volume of alarm events being handled at each of the central station servers at a particular period of time. The system determines capacities to handle additional alarm events for the central station servers, determines relative priorities for the central station remote servers based on the determined capacities, and directs subsequent alarm events to the central station servers based on the relative priorities.
US11842612B2
A battery-powered camera includes a system processor configured to operate in a standby mode or a full-power mode. While operating the system processor in the standby mode, the camera detects an event in a field of view of the camera; records, using an image sensor of the camera, a plurality of image frames corresponding to the field of view in which the event was detected; stores in a frame buffer the plurality of image frames; and wakes the system processor from the standby mode. While operating the system processor in the full-power mode, the camera processes the plurality of image frames stored in the frame buffer using the system processor; and provides the processed image frames for streaming.
US11842594B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a chip processing self-service kiosk comprising: a chip slot; a chip sensor; and a mechanical arrangement disposed downstream of the chip slot, the mechanical arrangement configured to allow received chips from the chip slot to be stacked in an orientation where the received chips are countable by the chip sensor.
US11842586B1
Systems and methods for mutual authentication of a user and a container administrator computer system. A container administrator computer system receives a request from a mobile computing device for a user to access a secure container. The request includes a user identifier. The administrator system receives a first authentication factor corresponding to the user. The administrator system authenticates the user by verifying that the first authentication factor matches a first reference authentication factor associated with the user identifier. The administrator system sends a second authentication factor associated with the administrator system to a human-machine interface associated with the secure container or the mobile computing device. The administrator system receives a notification of authentication of the administrator system using the authentication factor. The administrator system transmits an unlock signal to unlock the secure container.
US11842585B2
A path providing system for a vehicle includes: a communication unit configured to receive, from a server, map information including a plurality of layers of data from a server, a path providing device configured to provide a path information to a vehicle. The path providing device includes an interface unit configured to receive sensing information from one or more sensors disposed at the vehicle, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine an optimal path for guiding the vehicle from an identified lane, generate autonomous driving visibility information based on the sensing information and the determined optimal path, and update the optimal path based on dynamic information related to a movable object located on the optimal path and the autonomous driving visibility information. The path providing system includes an event data recorder configured to store vehicle status information.
US11842580B2
Techniques for monitoring and predicting vehicle health are disclosed. In some examples, sensor data (e.g., audio data) may be used to create a sensor signature associated with a vehicle component. The sensor signature may be compared with one or more second sensor signatures associated with the vehicle component over the life of the vehicle component to determine changes in an operating status associated with the vehicle component. In some examples, a machine learned model may be trained to identify a vehicle component and/or and operating status of a vehicle component based on sensor data that is inputted into the machine learned model. In this way, sensor data may be input into the machine learned model and the machine learned model may output a corresponding vehicle component and/or operating status associated with the component.
US11842578B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle safety component diagnosis apparatus that includes: a vehicle state summarizer summarizing a vehicle state on the basis of sensing values collected from a plurality of sensors for a specific period; a vehicle state distribution calculator calculating distribution about summary of a vehicle state for a plurality of specific periods; an abnormal safety component detector detecting an abnormal safety component by determining an abnormal situation about a specific sensing value through the distribution of the summary of the vehicle state; and a precise diagnosis performer performing precise diagnosis about the abnormal safety component. Therefore, according to the present disclosure, it is possible to diagnose defects of safety components using sensing values collected from a plurality of sensors.
US11842572B2
Device, system, and method of computer vision, object tracking, and image analysis; particularly suitable or configured for analysis of images or videos of tennis. A device includes two adjacent and co-located cameras, oriented at an angle of 20 to 120 degrees relative to each other, capturing a combined field-of-view that covers at least 75 percent of an entirety of a tennis court. A processor analyzes the captured images or video using computer-vision algorithms, and detects a ball bounce event and its properties. Insights are generated with regard to the performance of one or more of the participating players.
US11842570B2
An image processing apparatus includes a separation unit configured to separate luminance information of each pixel in a processing area of an input image into an intrusion component and an object component, a determination unit configured to determine whether each of intrusion components is a first component or a second component, a processing unit configured to generate first information based on the first component, and an image generating unit configured to generate an output image based on the first information, the second component, and the object component.
US11842543B1
A camera system can provide an in-store experience to a remote user according to some aspects described herein. In one example, a system can receive images from a camera that is oriented toward a display case at a physical location. The system can analyze the images to identify different types of objects in the display case. The system can then provide information about the different types of objects identified in the display case to a user device of a user that is remote from the physical location. The user device can receive the information and generate a graphical user interface that displays the information to the user.
US11842537B1
Example systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are directed to determining a geographic location to be assessed; obtaining information associated with the geographic location, the information including at least one data point of the geographic location; classifying one or more habitats within the geographic location based on at least one machine learning model that processes the at least one data point of the geographic location; determining at least one respective metric for the one or more classified habitats based at least in part on the at least one data point of the geographic location; and providing an interface that includes at least a map of the geographic location and the at least one respective metric for the one or more classified habitats, the one or more classified habitats are visually segmented in the map by habitat type.
US11842536B2
An electronic apparatus, comprising: an optical sensor, comprising a kind determining region and an element analyzing region, wherein the optical sensor acquires first optical data via the kind determining region, and acquires second optical data via the element analyzing region, wherein the kind determining region and the element analyzing region are different regions of the optical sensor; a kind determining component, configured to determine an object kind of the object according to the first optical data; and an element analyzing component, configured to analyze element of the object according to the second optical data.
US11842531B2
This application relates to a method and a system for compressing a captured image of an item such as a mailpiece or parcel. The system may include a memory configured to store images of a plurality of items captured while the items are being transported and a processor in data communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to receive or retrieve one or more of the captured images, perform a wavelet scattering transform on the one or more captured images, perform deep learning on the wavelet scattering transformed images to classify the wavelet scattering transformed images and compress the classified wavelet scattering transformed images. Various embodiments can significantly improve a compression efficiency, a communication efficiency of compressed data and save a memory space so that the functionality of computing devices is significantly improved.
US11842530B2
A computer-implemented method for determining scene-consistent motion forecasts from sensor data can include obtaining scene data including one or more actor features. The computer-implemented method can include providing the scene data to a latent prior model, the latent prior model configured to generate scene latent data in response to receipt of scene data, the scene latent data including one or more latent variables. The computer-implemented method can include obtaining the scene latent data from the latent prior model. The computer-implemented method can include sampling latent sample data from the scene latent data. The computer-implemented method can include providing the latent sample data to a decoder model, the decoder model configured to decode the latent sample data into a motion forecast including one or more predicted trajectories of the one or more actor features. The computer-implemented method can include receiving the motion forecast including one or more predicted trajectories of the one or more actor features from the decoder model.
US11842525B2
The present application relates to a method for measuring the similarity of images/image blocks, which comprises: S1: acquiring two three-dimensional airspace images V and W; S2: decomposing the images V and W to obtain a plurality of sub-bands; S3: calculating a Laplacian probability corresponding to each high-frequency sub-band of V and W, weighting the high-frequency sub-hand; S4: marking two image blocks as X and Y, taking out data blocks corresponding to the image blocks X and Y, and calculating the statistics of the data blocks; S5: calculating the similarities of X and Y in each channel of each sub-band according to the statistics of the data blocks; S6: calculating an average value of the similarities of X and Y in each channel of each sub-band, and taking the average value as the similarity between X and Y.
US11842523B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for auto-configuring a region of interest (ROI) associated with a camera. In one implementation, a method comprises receiving image frames from a camera installed in the environment, wherein the ROI is located within the view of the image frames. The method includes tracking a plurality of persons in the image frames and determining a respective trajectory of movement for each person of the plurality of persons. The method further includes comparing each of the respective trajectories to one another and identifying, based on the comparing, a common trajectory shared by more than one person of the plurality of persons, wherein the common trajectory is not fully encompassed in the ROI. The method additionally includes updating the ROI to encompass the common trajectory, and includes configuring the updated ROI to be associated with new image frames from the camera.
US11842522B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user query inputted on a head-mounted device from the head-mounted device, wherein the user query corresponds to multiple dialog-intents, executing multiple tasks corresponding to the multiple dialog-intents, generating a multi-perspective response by a stitching model based on two or more of execution results of the multiple tasks, wherein the stitching model combines the two or more of the execution results based on natural language processing, and wherein the multi-perspective response comprises a natural-language response combining the two or more execution results, and sending instructions to the head-mounted device for presenting the multi-perspective response on the head-mounted device.
US11842516B2
A system includes an imaging device configured to capture image data of a monitored area and a computing device having at least one processor. The computing device processor is configured to receive first image data from the imaging device and second image data from a satellite imagery system, where the second image data relates to the monitored area. The processor is also configured to determine a first set of points of interest in the first image data and a second set of points of interest in the second image data, wherein members of each set of points of interest are represented by a respective vector. The processor is further configured to generate a homography matrix based on the two vectors and determine, using the homography matrix, latitude and longitude coordinates of at least one object represented in the first image data but not the second image data.
US11842514B1
A system and method for detecting a pose of an object is described. An augmented reality display device accesses first sensor data from an image sensor and a depth sensor of the augmented reality display device. The first sensor data includes a first plurality of images of an object and corresponding depth data relative to the augmented reality display device and the object. The augmented reality display device detects first features corresponding to the object by applying a convolutional neural network to the first sensor data, forms a plurality of training clusters based on the first features, and stores the plurality of training clusters in a training database.
US11842506B2
An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first image data obtained by capturing an image of an object, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a three-dimensional shape of the object based on second image data obtained by irradiating the object with pattern light and capturing an image of the object, a determination unit configured to determine a flat area on the object based on the three-dimensional shape of the object, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a surface characteristic of the flat area on the object based on the first image data.
US11842504B2
Systems and methods for image processing for determining a registration map between a first image of a scene with a second image of the scene, include solving an optimal transport (OT) problem to produce the registration map by optimizing a cost function that determines a minimum of a ground cost distance between the first and the second images modified with an epipolar geometry-based regularizer including a distance that quantifies the violation of an epipolar geometry constraint between corresponding points defined by the registration map. The ground cost compares a ground cost distance of features extracted within the first image with a ground cost distance of features extracted from the second image.
US11842502B2
In a data synchronization device (20), a first estimation unit (51) estimates as a first data range, a data range in which a vehicle is turning right or left, in moving image data (33). A second estimation unit (52) estimates as a second data range, a data range in which the vehicle is turning right or left, in acceleration data (34). A synchronization unit (53) performs a time-synchronization between the moving image data (33) and the acceleration data (34) based on a time range corresponding to the first data range estimated by the first estimation unit (51) and a time range corresponding to the second data range estimated by the second estimation unit (52).
US11842501B2
Systems and methods for determining a velocity of a fluid or an object are described. Systems and methods include receiving image data of the fluid or the object, the image data comprising a plurality of frames. Each frame comprises an array of pixel values. Systems and methods include creating a frame difference by subtracting an array of pixel values for a first frame of the image data from an array of pixel values for a second frame of the image data. Systems and methods include measuring a difference between a location of the object in the first frame of the image data and the second frame of the image data. Systems and methods include creating a correlation matrix based on the measured difference. Systems and methods include using the frame difference and the correlation matrix to automatically determine the velocity of the fluid or the object.
US11842497B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing automatic contour adaptation. The systems and methods receive first and second images depicting an anatomy of a subject and obtain a segmentation associated with the first image. The systems and methods apply a trained neural network to estimate the adapted segmentation corresponding to the anatomy depicted in the second image, the trained network consisting of two sub-networks: a registration sub-network, generating an initial segmentation estimate representing a deformation of the segmentation associated with the first image to fit the anatomy depicted in the second image, and a segmentation refinement sub-network, predicting a refined segmentation for the second image given the initial segmentation estimate.
US11842488B2
Pathologists are adopting digital pathology for diagnosis, using whole slide images (WSIs). Explainable AI (xAI) is a new approach to AI that can reveal underlying reasons for its results. As such, xAI can promote safety, reliability, and accountability of machine learning for critical tasks such as pathology diagnosis. HistoMapr provides intelligent xAI guides for pathologists to improve the efficiency and accuracy of pathological diagnoses. HistoMapr can previews entire pathology cases' WSIs, identifies key diagnostic regions of interest (ROIs), determines one or more conditions associated with each ROI, provisionally labels each ROI with the identified conditions, and can triages them. The ROIs are presented to the pathologist in an interactive, explainable fashion for rapid interpretation. The pathologist can be in control and can access xAI analysis via a “why?” interface. HistoMapr can track the pathologist's decisions and assemble a pathology report using suggested, standardized terminology.
US11842471B2
Systems and methods herein describe a metadata verification system that is configured to access a digital satellite image, generate a first discrete Fourier transform (DFT) pattern based on an ortho-rectified digital satellite image, generate a second DFT pattern based on rational polynomial coefficient (RPC) data of the digital satellite image, compare the first DFT pattern to the second DFT pattern, generate a score based on the comparison, and generate a determination of whether the digital satellite image has been manipulated based on the score.
US11842470B2
An image processing apparatus includes display control means for displaying, on display means, a blend image obtained by performing blend processing at a variable transmissivity in accordance with an instruction of an operator using an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image and an OCT angiography (OCTA) image of mutually corresponding regions in a subject that are acquired by an OCT, setting means for setting a region of interest in the displayed blend image, and execution means for executing processing on the set region of interest in at least one image of the OCT image and the OCTA image.
US11842466B2
Provided is an information processing device configured to generate a learning model for performing image recognition on a first image acquired by a first imaging device including an optical system having a first optical characteristic, including: a conversion unit configured to convert a second image for learning to generate a third image having a distortion characteristic based on the first optical characteristic; and a generation unit configured to generate the learning model based on the third image. The second image is an image acquired by a second imaging device including an optical system having a second optical characteristic different from the first optical characteristic.
US11842463B2
Embodiments are disclosed for deblurring motion in video. A method of deblurring motion in video can include receiving an input frame from a digital video, extracting a plurality of features of the input frame using an encoder network, determining, using a neural network, a plurality of spatial alignment kernels and a plurality of deblur kernels each corresponding to a feature of the input frame, wherein the plurality of spatial alignment kernels include different sizes of spatial alignment kernels and wherein the plurality of deblur kernels include different sizes of deblur kernels, generating, by the neural network, a plurality of output features for the input frame using the plurality of spatial alignment kernels and the plurality of deblur kernels, and generating a deblurred output frame from the plurality of output features using a decoder network.
US11842456B2
Methods for creation and use (e.g., for navigation) of displays of flattened (e.g., curvature-straightened) 3-D reconstructions of tissue surfaces, optionally including reconstructions of the interior surfaces of hollow organs. In some embodiments, data comprising a 3-D representation of a tissue surface (for example an interior heart chamber surface) are subject to a geometrical transformation allowing the tissue surface to be presented substantially within a single view of a flattened reconstruction. In some embodiments, a catheter probe in use near the tissue surface is shown in positions that correspond to positions in 3-D space sufficiently to permit navigation; e.g., the probe is shown in flattened reconstruction views nearby view regions corresponding to regions it actually approaches. In some embodiments, automatic and/or easily triggered manual view switching between flattened reconstruction and source reconstruction views is implemented.
US11842454B1
The present disclosure describes systems and methods that apply artificial intelligence to augmented reality for enhanced user experience. A sensor, such as a camera, on a mobile phone can capture output data of a laptop computer or other computing device, such as a user interface. The captured image can be assessed by the mobile phone to determine an intent of a user and to display a three dimensional rendering, such as an avatar, on the mobile phone overlaid on top of the user interface of the laptop. The avatar can help navigate the user, such as pointing to areas of a webpage of interest, or inviting the user to scroll down on a webpage to a portion of the webpage that may not be in current view.
US11842453B2
A subject feature detection unit (53) (detection unit) of a mobile terminal (80) (information processing device) detects a line-of-sight direction (E) (feature) of a subject (92) displayed simultaneously with a 3D model (90M) in a captured image (I). Then, the display control unit (54) (control unit) changes a line-of-sight direction (F) (display mode) of the 3D model (90M) so that the 3D model (90M) faces the camera (84) in accordance with the line-of-sight direction (E) of the subject (92) detected by the subject feature detection unit (53).
US11842440B2
In various examples, locations of directional landmarks, such as vertical landmarks, may be identified using 3D reconstruction. A set of observations of directional landmarks (e.g., images captured from a moving vehicle) may be reduced to 1D lookups by rectifying the observations to align directional landmarks along a particular direction of the observations. Object detection may be applied, and corresponding 1D lookups may be generated to represent the presence of a detected vertical landmark in an image.
US11842436B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to arbitration for computer memory resources. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes queue circuitry that implements multiple queues configured to queue requests to access a memory bus. Control circuitry may, in response to detecting a first threshold condition associated with the queue circuitry, generate a first snapshot that indicates numbers of requests in respective queues of the multiple queues at a first time. The control circuitry may generate a second snapshot that indicates numbers of requests in respective queues of the multiple queues at a second time that is subsequent to the first time. The control circuitry may arbitrate between requests from the multiple queues to select requests to access the memory bus, where the arbitration is based on snapshots to which requests from the multiple queues belong. Disclosed techniques may approximate age-based scheduling while reducing area and power consumption.
US11842432B2
A controller device is provided, including: a main housing configured to be held by a user's hand; a band extending from a first end of the main housing to a second end of the main housing; a plurality of proximity sensors disposed along the band, said proximity sensors being positioned by the band so as to be proximate to fingertips of the user's hand when corresponding fingers of the user's hand are substantially extended.
US11842430B2
Systems and methods for segmenting scan data are disclosed. The methods include creating a graph from scan data representing a plurality of points in an environment associated with a ground and one or more objects, where the graph includes a plurality of vertices corresponding to the plurality of points in the environment, a first terminal vertex associated with the ground label, and a second terminal vertex associated with the non-ground label. A unary potential being the cost of assigning a vertex to a ground label or a non-ground label is assigned to each vertex, and a pairwise potential is assigned to each pair of neighboring vertices in the graph as a measure of a cost of assigning different labels. The methods include using the unary the pairwise potentials to identify labels for each point and segmenting the scan data to identify points associated with the ground.
US11842429B2
A method is disclosed. The method may include receiving chart data; converting the received chart data into one or more sets of hardware directives and one or more subroutines, the one or more sets of one or more hardware directives including at least a first set hardware directives and a second set of hardware directives, the first set of hardware directives including one or more relative offsets needing address modification, the second set of hardware directives not needing address modification; generating a display list including the set of hardware directives and one or more rules, the one or more relative offsets needing address modification arranged at a beginning position in the generated display list; providing the generated display list to an on-board aircraft controller; and updating, via the on-board aircraft controller, the one or more absolute addresses of the relative offsets of the first set of hardware directives during run-time.
US11842417B2
A system and method are provided for searching and monitoring assets available for acquisition. The method includes receiving a first signal including data associated with an acquiring entity, receiving a second signal including search data generated by the acquiring entity when interacting with at least one electronic listing service comprising searchable data associated with a plurality of assets available for acquisition, storing user profile data for the acquiring entity, the user profile data comprising at least a portion of the data associated with the acquiring entity, and at least a portion of the search data. The method also includes using the user profile data to search or monitor assets listed in the at least one electronic listing service to generate a result list of matched assets and sending a third signal including an electronic notification related to the result list, to a device associated with the acquiring entity.
US11842414B2
A dynamic vending system includes a vending manager and a delivery vehicle. The vending manager is configured to receive and evaluate a plurality of dynamic conditions from the delivery vehicle and to provide instructions including a planned route to the delivery vehicle based on the dynamic conditions. The delivery vehicle includes a plurality of products available for sale, and is configured to execute the instructions including the planned route. The delivery vehicle is further configured to receive requests from consumers to stop along the planned route and to execute a transaction with the consumer for one of the products available for sale. The transaction includes the selection of one of the products available for sale, receipt of payment for the product, and dispensing the selected product to the consumer.
US11842411B2
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by determining the current activities of users based on location sensor information from the users' computing devices and generating customized media content items based on their activities. The media content can be generated for a variety of topics and shared with other users. For example, media content (e.g., images or video) can be generated and displayed on a user's computing device, as well as transmitted to other users via electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails.
US11842410B2
A scalable system provides automated conversation review that can identify potential miscommunications. The system may provide suggested actions to fix errors in intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) understanding, may prioritize areas of language model repair, and may automate the review of conversations. By the use of an automated system for conversation review, problematic interactions can be surfaced without exposing the entire set of conversation logs to human reviewers, thereby minimizing privacy invasion. A scalable system processes conversations and autonomously marks the interactions where the IVA is misunderstanding the user.
US11842406B2
In one aspect, a system for automatically processing a medical claim includes a billing automation platform, a navigation device with a global positioning system for collecting patient transport information including a location of a medical encounter, and a computing device for receiving the patient transport information and patient charting information and transmitting the information for use by the billing automation platform. The billing automation platform may access fee schedule(s) based on a location of the medical encounter, automatically populate the medical claim based on the patient charting information, the patient transport information, and the fee schedule(s), and automatically route the medical claim through workflow paths of a claim processing workflow.
US11842405B1
A central claims adjuster control unit associated with an entity may oversee the assignment of claims cases to claims adjusters. The control unit may designate that a threshold number of cases may be assigned to certain claims adjusters. When new claims cases arrive, the control unit may monitor the workload of each of the claims adjusters and the threshold value assigned to any of the claims adjusters before assigning the case to one of the adjusters. If no adjuster is available, the control unit may store the case(s) in a memory until one of the adjusters becomes available. An additional feature of the control unit includes a user interface for modifying information about claims adjusters, including whether or not a threshold value is associated with them, the value of any associated threshold, and the reassignment of cases from one adjuster to another.
US11842401B2
Certain embodiments reduce the risks of traditionally programmed algorithms such as syntax errors, unclear logic, and the need for a non-trader programmer to develop the algorithm as specified by a trader by reducing or eliminating the writing of programming code by a user. Certain embodiments provide building block buttons and an algorithm area to define an algorithm. Certain embodiments provide live evaluation of an expression as the algorithm is being defined. Certain embodiments provide a design canvas area and blocks for designing an algorithm. Certain embodiments provide live feedback for blocks as the algorithm is being designed. Certain embodiments provide for initiating placement of an order to be managed by a selected user-defined trading algorithm from a value axis and for displaying working orders being managed by different user-defined trading algorithms on the value axis. Certain embodiments provide a ranking tool.
US11842390B1
An apparatus and computerized method for automated loan origination processing via a computer system with communications devices for receiving loan application data and user provided information. Logic mechanisms programmed to automatically generate a loan origination compliance task workflow having an organized sequence of a plurality of compliance tasks in response to the loan application data received from a user. Receiving at a central computer server a loan application having information provided by the user via the user computer terminal and acquiring at the central computer server electronic data relating to the user from one or more databases responsive to receiving the user loan application information. Initiate a review process for the loan application utilizing the user provided information and data acquired from the one or more databases and render an approval decision for the electronic loan application based upon the review process.
US11842386B2
Described herein are a method and a system to monitor one or more items offered for sale by sellers in a network-based market place. In addition to the information provided by the sellers to describe the items, interested buyers may also provide their own information to further describe the items for the benefit of the buyers.
US11842385B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for augmenting a customer image with at least one virtual object. One or more customer images depicting a customer environment are received from a customer computing device and 3D feature data for the customer images is determined. A virtual object is determined which corresponds to a desired merchant item. A positioning signal is received which corresponds to a desired location of virtual object in the customer environment, and a corresponding first location in each customer image at which to overlay the virtual object using the positioning signal is determined. An appropriate size and orientation of the virtual object is determined for each customer image based on corresponding 3D feature data, causing an overlay of an appropriately sized and oriented virtual object at the corresponding first location in customer images.
US11842383B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically generating user interface elements and associated values are presented. An item listing and profile data are accessed. A set of user interface elements are dynamically generated based on the item listing and the profile data, with each user interface element configured to perform an action on the item listing. A set of values are dynamically determined, with each value being associated with a user interface element of the set of user interface elements. The set of user interface elements are then caused to be presented within the item listing.
US11842369B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture for mobile advertisement systems are disclosed. A mobile advertising system in accordance with the present disclosure comprises a device capable of determining a geolocation of the device, at least one sensor, coupled to the device, for determining at least a motion of the device, a display, coupled to the device in which the display faces in a direction; and a camera, coupled to the device, in which the camera captures an scene in the direction, in which the device sends at least one image to the display based at least in part on the geolocation of the device, the determined motion of the device, and the scene in the direction, and the display shows the at least one image in the direction.
US11842365B1
The technology described herein relates to using predictions about patients' future health care utilization and/or outcomes (e.g., patients' expected future adherence to medication regimens) and the expected economic benefits of targeted improvements in the same utilization and/or outcomes (e.g., reduced likelihood of hospitalization attributable to more consistent medication use) to implement more effective and efficient health care improvement programs. The technology described here computes which subset of patients should be included in a value-based health care provider payment scheme and what the specific bonus payment amounts should be such that expected benefits from better patient outcomes, once realized, are greater than the expected costs of the payment scheme itself.
US11842362B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement calibration of convenience panel data to reduce behavioral bias are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a distribution estimator to determine a first behavioral distribution for first convenience panel data associated with a first market and a measurement period, determine a second behavioral distribution for second convenience panel data associated with a second market and the measurement period, and determine a third behavioral distribution for probabilistic panel data associated with the second market and the measurement period. Disclosed example apparatus also include a distribution calibrator to calibrate the first behavioral distribution determined for the first convenience panel data associated with the first market based on (i) the second behavioral distribution determined for the second convenience panel data associated with the second market and (ii) the third behavioral distribution determined for the probabilistic panel data associated with the second market.
US11842359B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating consumer analytics for products placed in online shopping carts. A profiler computing system generates a unique tacking profile for associating purchase events by a purchaser. Payment vehicle data and a tracking element are associated with the identified purchaser profile. The purchaser profile may be generated based on purchase information associated with an initial purchase event by the purchaser. The profiler computing system determines whether products abandoned in online shopping carts are purchased at brick-and-mortar affiliates or other merchant forums. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11842356B2
Methods, systems and apparatus to improve the efficiency of calculating a customer retention rate are disclosed herein. An example apparatus described herein that may be implemented to calculate a customer retention rate includes a retention rate model generator to generate a baseline retention rate model based on survivability data associated with an observed duration of interest, a shifted-beta-geometric distribution generator to generate a shifted-beta-geometric distribution model based on the survivability data, a model modifier to modify the baseline retention rate model based on the shifted-beta-geometric distribution model to create a modified retention rate model, and a model comparator to reduce a computational burden of calculating the customer retention rate by merging the modified retention rate model with the baseline retention rate model to generate a merged shifted-beta-geometric model, the merged shifted-beta-geometric model including first and second shifted-beta-geometric model parameters to determine the customer retention rate.
US11842354B1
A computing system includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable storage media communicatively connected to the one or more processors. The one or more computer-readable storage media have instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request from a user device to process an electronic transaction, identify an anomaly, transmit data corresponding to the anomaly to an interactive dashboard, receive a first response from the interactive dashboard, transmit an indication of one or more rule violations and instructions, receive a second response from the interactive dashboard, update the profile of a user.
US11842353B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing accurate images of cards. An application executing on a mobile device may receive authentication credentials for an account, determine a card associated with the account, and determine a card manufacturer identifier (CMID) of the card. The application may receive, from a digital asset management system based on the CMID, a plurality of metadata attributes of the card and one or more images of the card. The application may determine, based on the metadata attributes and attributes of the mobile device, a first orientation of the card to enable near-field communication (NFC) data transfer between the card and the mobile device. The application may select a first image of the card. The application may generate a graphical user interface (GUI) including the first image and an indication specifying to tap the card to the mobile device according to the first orientation.
US11842349B1
Multifactor authentication systems and methods employ an online payment server processor that authenticates a user in an online session with a merchant website server processor based on data representing one or more predefined authentication factors received from a user device processor over a communication network and sends data representing a secure user login cookie to the user device processor over the communication network based on the authentication of the user in the online session with the merchant website server processor. Thereafter, the online payment server processor authenticates the user in a subsequent online session with the merchant website server processor based in part on identifying the data representing the secure user login cookie on the user device and in part on data representing a second predefined authentication factor received from the user device processor over the communication network.
US11842348B2
To provide an application in which security settings for verifying that input content and operation content are correct are set not only when opening an application file but also when terminating and closing the application file, thereby effectively reducing erroneous input unauthorized input. A data management system of the present invention includes: a data access unit open program module in which an open secret code for opening each data access unit by the application program and a close secret code for closing each data access unit that is opened by the application program are set for each data access unit. When the authentication of the open secret code is established, corresponding data access unit are downloaded in an encrypted state, decrypted and opened. When the authentication of the close secret code is established, the data access unit in the open state is terminated, re-encrypted and closed.
US11842347B2
An age and/or identity verification system for reduced-risk devices (RRD) may include a RRD, the RRD initially in an inoperable state, an identity verification server configured to perform identity verification related to an adult consumer, and a computing device. The computing device may receive adult consumer identity information corresponding to the adult consumer from the adult consumer, receive the UID of the RRD, transmit the adult consumer identity information and the UID of the RRD to the identity verification server to perform identity verification of the adult consumer, receive results of the performed identity verification from the identity verification server, receive an encrypted key corresponding to the RRD based on the results of the performed identity verification of the adult consumer, and transmit the encrypted key to the RRD. The RRD may change the state of the RRD to an operable state based on the encrypted key.
US11842343B2
An authentication and payment system for paying a supplier via a network may include a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program logic stored thereon having a code for an authentication and payment application executable by a processor of a computing device. The code may be programmed to perform a step of receiving a first set of specific data elements from a payer regarding an authorized purchase by the payer from the supplier. The code may be further programmed to receive a second set of specific data elements from the supplier. If the first set of specific data elements matches at least a portion of second set of specific data elements, the code may be programmed to generate and send a single-use number to the supplier. The single-use number may be usable as a credit card number for only one purchase.
US11842334B2
The present invention relates to a smart card for generating a virtual card number, and smart card-based virtual card number providing method and program. A smart card-based virtual card number providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step for a virtual card number generation module receiving a virtual card number provision request; a step for the virtual card number generation module synchronizing the time of an encryption algorithm and the smart card; a virtual card number generating step for the virtual card number generation module generating a virtual card number; a step for the virtual card number generation module generating the virtual card number as an encryption code on the basis of the synchronized encryption algorithm; and a step for the virtual card number generation module transmitting the encryption code to the smart card.
US11842324B2
A method for extracting a dam emergency event based on a dual attention mechanism is provided. The method includes: performing data preprocessing, building a dependency graph, building a dual attention network, and filling a document-level argument. The performing data preprocessing includes labeling a dam emergency corpus and encoding sentences. Building a dependency graph includes assisting a model to mine a syntactic relation based on a dependency. Building a dual attention network includes weighing and fusing an attention network based on a graph transformer network (GTN) and capturing key semantic information in the sentence. Filling a document-level argument includes filling a document-level argument by detecting a key sentence and ordering a semantic similarity. The method introduces a dependency and overcomes the long-range dependency problem based on the dual attention mechanism, thus achieving high identification accuracy and reducing a lot of labor costs.
US11842319B2
A method for recipient-initiated shipping includes receiving, at an internet connected server, recipient data (including a first shipping address) from a shipping recipient; providing delivery options to the shipping recipient based on a set of delivery option criteria and the recipient data; receiving a delivery choice from the shipping recipient; and notifying at least one of a shipping sender and a shipping carrier of the delivery choice.
US11842318B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities for tracking an item delivery are provided. In one embodiment, an item is associated with a vehicle (e.g., manned or unmanned terrestrial vehicle, nautical vehicle, and/or aerial vehicle) by updating item data in a database. An item tracking session is then generated based on the item data. Upon the determination that session availability trigger has occurred, access to the item tracking session is provided to a user. Data representing an updated location of the delivery vehicle is then used to update the item data to indicate the current location of the item as the updated location of the vehicle.
US11842306B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for predicting building energy consumption based on a Holt-Winters and an extreme learning machine, the method including: constructing a building simulation model based on actual operation parameters of a building to obtain an original energy consumption data set of the building; decomposing the original energy consumption data set to obtain a linear energy consumption data set and a nonlinear energy consumption data set; performing prediction on the linear energy consumption data set by using a trained Holt-Winters model to obtain a linear energy consumption prediction result; and inputting the nonlinear energy consumption data set, the original energy consumption data set, and the linear energy consumption prediction result into a trained extreme learning machine model to output a building energy consumption prediction value of the building simulation model.
US11842297B2
In one embodiment, a system comprises a database configured to store at least one record, at least one network communication device, a storage device comprising instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method. The method may comprise receiving a fraud communication associated with a first primary account number, calculating one or more limitations associated with the first primary account number based on an account associated with the first primary account number, and storing a database record including the first primary account number, a new primary account number, and the limitation(s). The method may further comprise receiving a transaction request including a second primary account number, and comparing the second primary account number to the at least one record. The method may also comprise, based on the comparing, enabling the transaction request to proceed, declining the transaction, or disabling the first primary account number.
US11842296B2
A method includes receiving a communication identifying a remote database and a first value stored in the remote database that is being transferred to a first entity by a second entity. That first value is capable of being modified by the second entity. Modification of the first value stored in the remote database by the second entity is prevented by identifying an application programming interface allowing operations to be performed on the remote database, and using that API to transfer the first value so as to be associated with one or more other identifiers unknown to the second entity. After modification of the first value stored by the second entity is prevented, a transfer of a second value to a database record associated with the second entity is triggered. Related systems and applications of the method and those systems are also disclosed.
US11842295B2
Implementations of the present specification disclose mobile payment methods, apparatuses, and devices. In one aspect, the method includes: monitoring, by a terminal device that is in lock screen mode, outputs of one or more sensors of the terminal device; determining that the outputs of the one or more sensors satisfy first specified criteria indicative of one or more particular body movements; in response to determining that the outputs of the one or more sensors satisfy the first specified criteria, displaying, on the terminal device, a payment processing interface; receiving an input through the payment processing interface; and executing a payment service based on the input.
US11842291B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that creates a machine learning model with k-means clustering. In some implementations, an instruction to create a model is obtained. A data set including geographic data and non-geographic data is received. The data set includes multiple data entries. Geographic centroids are determined from the geographic data. The data set is analyzed to obtain statistics of the data set. Transformed data is generated from the data set, the statistics, and the geographic centroids. A model is generated with the transformed data, the model indicating multiple data groupings.
US11842284B2
A model generation method includes updating, by at least one processor, a weight matrix of a first neural network model at least based on a first inference result obtained by inputting, to the first neural network model which discriminates between first data and second data generated by using a second neural network model, the first data, a second inference result obtained by inputting the second data to the first neural network model, and a singular value based on the weight matrix of the first neural network model. The model generation method also includes at least based on the second inference result, updating a parameter of the second neural network model.
US11842282B2
Aspects of the subject matter disclosed herein include methods, systems, and other techniques for training, in a first phase, an object classifier neural network with a first set of training data, the first set of training data including a first plurality of training examples, each training example in the first set of training data being labeled with a coarse-object classification; and training, in a second phase after completion of the first phase, the object classifier neural network with a second set of training data, the second set of training data including a second plurality of training examples, each training example in the second set of training data being labeled with a fine-object classification.
US11842277B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling an agent. One of the methods includes receiving a current observation characterizing a current state of the environment as of the time step; generating an embedding of the current observation; processing scene memory data comprising embeddings of prior observations received at prior time steps using an encoder neural network, wherein the encoder neural network is configured to apply an encoder self-attention mechanism to the scene memory data to generate an encoded representation of the scene memory data; processing the encoded representation of the scene memory data and the embedding of the current observation using a decoder neural network to generate an action selection output; and causing the agent to perform the selected action.
US11842272B2
A computer-implemented method for training a software infrastructure based on machine-learning techniques to analyse data obtained from a instrumental examination of objects of a predetermined type, where each of the objects has been obtained by splitting a product into smaller pieces, wherein the software infrastructure receives, for each object in a training set, training input data comprising the data obtained from the instrumental examination and training output data comprising information on the characteristics of interest of the training object, wherein the information on the characteristics of interest is, at least in part, information that has been obtained from the results of a tomographic examination of the product from which the training object was obtained, and wherein the software infrastructure processes, through its own training unit, the training input data and the training output data for each training object in order to set internal processing parameters for the software infrastructure which correlate the training input data to the training output data.
US11842271B2
Methods and systems for allocating network resources responsive to network traffic include modeling spatial correlations between fine spatial granularity traffic and coarse spatial granularity traffic for different sites and regions to determine spatial feature vectors for one or more sites in a network. Temporal correlations at a fine spatial granularity are modeled across multiple temporal scales, based on the spatial feature vectors. Temporal correlations at a coarse spatial granularity are modeled across multiple temporal scales, based on the spatial feature vectors. A traffic flow prediction is determined for the one or more sites in the network, based on the temporal correlations at the fine spatial granularity and the temporal correlations at the coarse spatial granularity. Network resources are provisioned at the one or more sites in accordance with the traffic flow prediction.
US11842266B2
A processing-in-memory (PIM) device includes a plurality of multiplication/accumulation (MAC) operators and a plurality of memory banks. The MAC operators are included in each of a plurality of channels. Each of the plurality of MAC operators performs a MAC arithmetic operation using weight data of a weight matrix. The memory banks are included in each of the plurality of channels and are configured to transmit the weight data of the weight matrix to the plurality of MAC operators. The weight data arrayed in one row of the weight matrix are stored into one row of each of the plurality of memory banks.
US11842261B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reinforcement learning. One of the methods includes selecting an action to be performed by the agent using both a slow updating recurrent neural network and a fast updating recurrent neural network that receives a fast updating input that includes the hidden state of the slow updating recurrent neural network.
US11842253B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media related to: training an encoder model that can be utilized to determine semantic similarity of a natural language textual string to each of one or more additional natural language textual strings (directly and/or indirectly); and/or using a trained encoder model to determine one or more responsive actions to perform in response to a natural language query. The encoder model is a machine learning model, such as a neural network model. In some implementations of training the encoder model, the encoder model is trained as part of a larger network architecture trained based on one or more tasks that are distinct from a “semantic textual similarity” task for which the encoder model can be used.
US11842247B2
A wireless tag for sensor control is connected to a sensor and configured to control execution of measurements using the sensor. The wireless tag for sensor control includes: an antenna for receiving a radio wave or a magnetic field transmitted from an external wireless device; a power generation unit configured to generate electric power based on the radio wave or the magnetic field received by the antenna; and a control unit configured to control the sensor using generated power, which is the electric power supplied from the power generation unit, wherein the control unit includes: a power supply control unit configured to use a portion of the generated power to execute power supply to the sensor; an acquisition unit configured to receive a detection result from the sensor operated by the execution of the power supply; and a transmission processing unit configured to transmit communication information including the detection result to the outside.
US11842246B2
This invention relates to a method for detecting chipless radio frequency identification devices (RFID), in particular chip detection, also referred to as chipless RFID tags. This invention also relates to the devices and tags which may be used in the claimed method.
US11842241B1
In some implementations, a transaction card includes a first card body portion, a second card body portion, at least one of an integrated circuit chip or a magnetic stripe accessible from at least one of the first card body portion or the second card body portion, and a third card body portion that includes a series of accordion pleats. The series of accordion pleats may be between the first card body portion and the second card body portion. The series of accordion pleats may be configured to contract the third card body portion into a contracted configuration, and to expand the third card body portion into an expanded configuration. The first card body portion may be nearer to the second card body portion with the third card body portion in the contracted configuration than with the third card body portion in the expanded configuration.
US11842236B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that select colors for visual markers that include colored markings encoding data. In some implementations, the colors are automatically or semi-automatically selected. In some implementations, the colors are selected to remain sufficiently detectable despite changes in lighting conditions or printing/display conditions. In some implementations, a set of colors selectable for use in a visual marker is obtained. Then, measures of distance between a plurality of colors of the set of colors is determined, and a subset of the set of colors for the visual marker is selected based on the measure of distance between colors of the subset of colors. In some implementations, the visual marker appearance includes graphical elements encoding data using the subset of colors. In some implementations, input is received using a GUI on a display to determine multiple colors based on a source image.
US11842223B2
Disclosed herein is the integration into edge nodes of a telecommunications network system of client computer system and server computer system where the server computer system includes a pool of shareable accelerators and the client computer runs an application program that is assisted by the pool of accelerators. The edge nodes connect to user equipment, and some of the user equipment can themselves act as one of the client computer systems. In some embodiments, the accelerators are GPUs, and in other embodiments, the accelerators are artificial intelligence accelerators.
US11842218B2
A virtual machine management service obtains a request to instantiate a virtual machine image (VMI) to implement a virtual network function (VNF). The request specifies a set of processor requirements corresponding to instantiation of the VMI. In response to the request, the service identifies, from a server comprising a set of processor cores, available processor capacity. The service determines, based on the available processor capacity and the set of processor requirements, whether to instantiate the VMI on to a subset of processor cores of the server. Based on this determination, the service instantiates the VMI on to the subset of processor cores to implement the VNF.
US11842214B2
A computer-implemented method for scheduling and scaling a cloud system for microservice applications is provided including identifying a plurality of nodes within one or more clusters associated with a plurality of containers, generating a model for predicting resource usage among the plurality of nodes, automatically deciding on a number of replicated containers, node bindings, and weight for each replicated container according to application requests and current usage status of a cluster of the one or more clusters that reduce resource usages and microservice cohesion, and determining at least node redistribution of the plurality of nodes within the plurality of containers and workload partitioning to reconfigure scaling, scheduling, and balance deployment requirements of the microservice applications.
US11842202B2
An apparatus and method are provided which take advantage of heterogeneous compute capability to dynamically pick the best operating core for BIOS power-up flows and sleep exit flows (e.g., S3, S4, and/or S5). The selection of the BSP is moved to an early power-up time instead of a fixed hardware selection at any time. For maximum boot performance, the system selects the fastest capable core as the BSP at an early power-up time. In addition, for maximum power saving, the system selects the most power efficient core as the BSP. Processor or switching for selecting the BSP happens during the boot-up as well as power-up flows (e.g., S3, S4, and/or S5 flows).
US11842195B2
An apparatus comprises processing circuitry which has a hypervisor execution mode for execution of a hypervisor for managing one or more virtual processors executing on the processing circuitry, and at least one less privileged execution mode than the hypervisor execution mode. In response to a conditional yield to hypervisor instruction executed in the at least one less privileged execution mode, an instruction decoder controls the processing circuitry to determine whether at least one trap condition is satisfied, and when the at least one trap condition is determined to be satisfied, to switch the processing circuitry to the hypervisor execution mode; and store, in at least one storage element accessible to instructions executed in the hypervisor execution mode, at least one item of scheduling hint information for estimating whether the at least one trap condition is still satisfied.
US11842188B2
For each continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) pipeline of a plurality of CI/CD pipelines created for a project, a data structure reflecting an execution configuration of the respective CI/CD pipeline is created. A request to submit a code change to the project is received. Among the plurality of CI/CD pipelines, at least one CI/CD pipeline having the data structure that matches the code change to the project is identified. The code change to the project on the at least one identified CI/CD pipelines is executed.
US11842187B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for configuration-driven application deployments. An example method can include obtaining a platform-agnostic application configuration including a plurality of application components that can be interpreted by a plurality of system-specific application platforms to dynamically render different applications; based on the platform-agnostic application configuration, generating, by a computing device using a system-specific application platform, an application including a platform-specific interpretation of the platform-agnostic application configuration; and executing the application at the computing device.
US11842185B2
A gateway device is connected via network(s) to electronic controllers on-board a vehicle, where at least one of the electronic controllers is implemented in a virtual machine. The gateway device includes one or more memories, and circuitry that acquires firmware update information. The circuitry determines whether a first electronic controller satisfies a second condition based on second information, which is whether the first electronic controller includes a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation. The circuitry also causes, when the second condition is not satisfied, the gateway device to execute a proxy process, where the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, creates updated boot ROM data with the updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.
US11842182B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes extracting an optimization method and an optimization non-applicable condition indicating a reason why the optimization method is not applicable, from an optimization report created at a time of compiling software, determining an index value of optimization application easiness for each of a plurality of processing blocks included in the software, based on the optimization method and the optimization non-applicable condition, and determining an optimization target processing block to be optimized among the plurality of processing blocks included in the software, based on the index value.
US11842175B2
According to some embodiments, systems and methods are provided, comprising receiving a code fragment exhibiting a static code issue; determining, via a trained exemption neural network, whether the received code fragment is exempt or not exempt from resolution; in a case it is not exempt, inputting the code fragment to a trained classification neural network; determining whether the static code issue is a syntactical static code issue or a non-syntactical static code issue; in a case it is a syntactical static code issue, inputting the code fragment to a first trained network to generate a first resolution; and in a case the static code issue is a non-syntactical static code issue, inputting the code fragment to a second trained network to generate a second resolution of the non-syntactical static code issue. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11842174B2
Techniques are described herein for translating source code in one programming language to source code in another programming language using machine learning. In various implementations, one or more components of one or more generative adversarial networks, such as a generator machine learning model, may be trained to generate “synthetically-naturalistic” source code that can be used as a translation of source code in an unfamiliar language. In some implementations, a discriminator machine learning model may be employed to aid in training the generator machine learning model, e.g., by being trained to discriminate between human-generated (“genuine”) and machine-generated (“synthetic”) source code.
US11842167B2
Methods and apparatuses enable a general-purpose low power analog vector-matrix multiplier. A switched capacitor matrix multiplier may comprise a plurality of successive approximate registers (SAR) operating in parallel, each SAR having a SAR digital output; and a plurality of Analog Multiply-and-Accumulate (MAC) units for multiplying and accumulating and scaling bit-wise products of a digital weight matrix with a digital input vector, wherein each MAC unit is connected in series to a SAR of the plurality of SARs.
US11842159B1
Techniques for interpreting a text classifier model are described. An exemplary method includes receiving a request to interpret the text classifier; receiving input text to be used to interpret the text classifier; interpreting the text classifier using the input text and masked input text to determine two or more of a counterfactual score for the received input text or an aspect thereof, an importance score for the received input text or an aspect thereof, and a bias score for the received input text or an aspect thereof as requested by the request, and providing the determined one or more scores is provided to a requester.
US11842155B1
Systems and methods for matching entities to target objects using an ensemble model are disclosed. The ensemble model includes a general trained machine learning (ML) model (which is trained using the entirety of a training dataset) and a subarea trained ML model (which is trained using a subset of the training dataset corresponding to a specific, defined subarea) that provides potential matches to a meta-model of the ensemble model to generate a final match. The ensemble model may also include a general trained natural language processing (NLP) model and a subarea trained NLP model that provides potential matches to the meta-model. The meta-model of a quad-ensemble ML model combines the four potential matches (such as probabilities and similarities of matching specific pairs of targets objects and entities) to generate a final match (such as a final probability used to identify the final match).
US11842153B2
A computing system obtains a first article about a first topic, where the first article references a plurality of entities including a person. The computing system identifies the person as a dominant entity of the first article. The computing system determines whether the first article expresses negative sentiment based upon content of the first article. In accordance with a determination that the first article does not express negative sentiment, the computing system retrieves a uniform resource locator (URL) of a webpage about a second topic that is of interest to the first person. Upon receiving a request for the first article from a computing device, the computing system causes the first article and a link to be concurrently displayed on a display, where the URL of the webpage is embedded in the link.
US11842152B2
A sentence structure vectorization device includes processing circuitry to generate a plurality of morphemes by performing morphological analysis on an input sentence; to generate a dependence structure graph regarding the plurality of morphemes by performing dependency parsing on the plurality of morphemes; and to generate a sentence structure vector by extracting a plurality of pieces of partial structure information from the dependence structure graph and converting a morpheme string corresponding to the plurality of pieces of partial structure information into a numerical sequence.
US11842147B1
A method and apparatus comprising generating a dynamic personalized webpage is disclosed. At least two webpages are loaded in a fashion that is hidden from the user. Content from the at least two webpages is extracted based on classification “of interest” by an artificial intelligence algorithm. A dynamic personalized webpage comprising extracted content is then generated and displayed to the user. In the preferred embodiment, the user's dynamic personalized webpage will be filled with advertisements tailored to the user and the user would receive 100% of the payment from the advertisers.
US11842143B1
A method, computer system, and a computer program product is provided for generating a detailed thumbnail and/or preview of a content. In one embodiment the technique comprises analyzing data obtained from a content and classifying it according to a plurality of specific types. A plurality of key information may be then extracted from the data according to the classification. A plurality of key-values are correlated to the plurality of key information so as to provide a plurality of key-value pairs. These pairs are consolidated accordingly to generate a thumbnail and/or a preview that at least renders the key information provided by the consolidated key-value pairs as a rendering.
US11842137B2
An integrated circuit includes a set of gates, a first, second and third conductive structure, and a first, second and third via. The set of gates includes a first, second and third gate. The first, second and third conductive structure extend in the first direction and are located on a second level. The first via couples the first conductive structure and the first gate. The second via couples the second conductive structure and the second gate. The third via couples the third conductive structure and the third gate. The first, second and third via are in a right angle configuration. The first and second gate are separated from each other by a first pitch. The first and third gate are separated from each other by a removed gate portion. The first and second conductive structure are separated from each other in the first direction.
US11842135B2
A method of generating an integrated circuit (IC) layout diagram of an IC device includes receiving the IC layout diagram of the IC device, the IC layout diagram including a gate region having a width across an active region. The width is divided into a plurality of width segments based on a location of a gate via, and a simulation is performed based on the IC layout diagram and including an effective resistance calculated using at least one width segment of the plurality of width segments.
US11842129B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for correcting finite floating-point numerical simulation and optimization. Defining a loss function within a simulation space composed of a plurality of voxels each having an initial degree of freedom, the simulation space encompassing one or more interfaces of the component; defining an initial structure for the one or more interfaces in the simulation space; calculating, using a computer system with a finite floating-point precision, values for an electromagnetic field at each voxel using a finite-difference time domain solver to solve Maxwell's equations; and determining, for each voxel, whether to increase a respective numerical precision of respective values representing behavior of the electromagnetic field at the voxel above a threshold precision by the computer system and, in response, assigning one or more additional degrees of freedom to the voxel.
US11842128B2
Certain aspects and features provide generation or simulation of sensory data that would otherwise come from Internet-of-things (IoT) sensors in reproducible and controllable way. Thus, the response of a system to very large numbers of sensors can be tested without acquiring and deploying a very large number of sensors for test and development purposes. In some examples, a processing device coupled to a network interface identifies a stored function of time describing a locally sensed property for a simulated sensor. The locally sensed property corresponds to at least one event taking place in a virtual environment. The processing device can determine values of an input variable produced by the stored function of time. The values can be wrapped in a communication protocol to produce messages that are transmitted over the network interface.
US11842125B2
A method for a space profile interpreter framework is described. The method includes a data interpreter module receiving a first data file having a data section that includes data representing real-world entities for a layer of a digital geographic structure. The data interpreter module communicates with a computing system for managing a location hierarchy. The module extracts location information included in multiple entity records for the layer. Each entity record corresponds to a respective space profile feature for a real-world entity of the digital geographic structure. A mapping module of a computing system associates the data item of the extracted location information with entity information of the location hierarchy managed by the computing system.
US11842118B1
Various embodiments of the present application set forth a computer-implemented method that includes transmitting, by a wearable device, a first request that includes a first set of parameters, receiving, by the wearable device, a first set of values based on the first set of parameters, wherein the first set of values are provided by a first data source, displaying, by the wearable device, a first dashboard that includes a first visualization associated with the first set of values, determining that a first physical interaction with a first physical input device associated with the wearable device occurred, and in response to the first physical interaction, causing the first visualization to display a first data value included in the first set of values.
US11842113B2
An image forming apparatus transmits job histories that satisfy monitoring conditions to a storage service and stores job histories that do not satisfy the conditions in an information processing apparatus. When a job execution user is added to the monitoring conditions, the job history information corresponding to the added job execution user among the job histories stored in the information processing apparatus is transmitted to the storage service. The storage service manages the job history that satisfies the monitoring condition received from the image forming apparatus and notifies the administrator. When the job history information that does not meet the monitoring conditions is received, the information is notified to the administrator.
US11842110B2
A non-volatile computer-readable storage medium stores a prescribed program that causes a computer to execute a method including displaying a content to be printed based on print data, and executing, in a case where the print data does not include an object corresponding to first RGB values, a prescribed notification based on the print data not including the object corresponding to first RGB values even though a first setting is being activated, with the first setting being to print a first print region corresponding to the first RGB values in a print target image by using a first color represented by use of at least a specific color ink being an ink of a color other than a process color, and not executing, in a case where the first setting is being activated and the print data includes the object corresponding to the first RGB values, the prescribed notification.
US11842093B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a second system cooperating with a first system communicating with a client apparatus. User information registered in the second system is managed in association with corresponding user information registered in the first system. In a case where an error is detected in the received print job, and the print job is received from the first system, an error notification to user information registered in the first system, corresponding to user information on a user as an owner of the print job is requested from the first system.
US11842086B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing mechanisms, devices, systems, and methods for registering information about services of a management system and a print system in the management system and the print system based on a registration request for the management system from a client terminal.
US11842078B2
A memory device includes a memory array configured with a plurality of memory planes, and control logic, operatively coupled with the memory array. The control logic performs a plurality of asynchronous memory access operations on the plurality of memory planes, detects an occurrence of an asynchronous interrupt event, and initiates a termination procedure for each of the plurality of asynchronous memory access operations to permit each of the plurality of asynchronous memory access operations to end at different times. In response to a first memory access operation of the plurality of asynchronous memory access operations ending, the control logic asserts a command result signal, wherein the command result signal is de-asserted automatically in response to receipt of a subsequent memory access command directed to any of the plurality of memory planes, and asserts a persistent event register signal, wherein the command result signal is de-asserted in response to receipt of a clear event register command.
US11842065B2
A data storage device stores data in non-volatile memory. In one approach, a method includes: storing software in a compressed format in a first mode (e.g., an SLC mode) in a non-volatile memory; exposing, while the software is stored in the first mode, the non-volatile memory to a temperature greater than a predetermined threshold; determining that the temperature of the non-volatile memory has fallen below the predetermined threshold; and in response to determining that the temperature of the non-volatile memory has fallen below the predetermined threshold: decompressing the stored software, and storing the decompressed software in a second mode (e.g., TLC mode) in the non-volatile memory. The second mode has a storage density higher than the first mode.
US11842061B2
A system comprising a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to perform operations including initializing a block family associated with the memory device and measuring an opening temperature of the memory device at initialization of the block family. Responsive to programming a page residing on the memory device, the operations further include associating the page with the block family. The operations further include determining a temperature metric value by integrating, over time, an absolute temperature difference between the opening temperature and an immediate temperature of the memory device. The operations further include closing the block family in response to the temperature metric value being greater than or equal to a specified threshold temperature value.
US11842060B2
A specification of content to be stored in a cloud storage is received at a client-side component. A portion of the content is divided into a plurality of data chunks. One or more data chunks of the plurality of data chunks that are to be sent via a network to be stored in the cloud storage are identified. It is determined whether a batch size of the one or more identified data chunks meets a threshold size. Based on the determination of whether the batch size meets the threshold size, a cloud storage destination among a plurality of different cloud storage destinations associated with different performance tiers is selected.
US11842056B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for allocating a first number of tokens from a plurality of tokens for processing read IO requests from a read IO queue, thus defining a number of allocated read tokens. A second number of tokens may be allocated from the plurality of tokens for processing write IO requests from a write IO queue, thus defining a number of allocated write tokens. It may be determined that the processing of the write IO requests is throttled. In response to determining that the processing of the write IO requests from the write IO queue is throttled, a maximum allowable number of write tokens may be defined. Additional tokens may be allocated for processing the read IO requests from the read IO queue based upon, at least in part, the maximum allowable number of write tokens and the number of allocated write tokens.
US11842053B2
A list of a available zones across respective SSD storage portions of a plurality of zoned storage devices of a storage system is maintained. Data is received from multiple sources, wherein the data is associated with processing a dataset, the dataset including multiple volumes and associated metadata. Shards of the data are determined such that each shard is capable of being written in parallel with the remaining shards. The shards are mapped to a subset of the available zones, respectively. The shards are written to the subset of the available zones in parallel.
US11842048B2
An apparatus includes a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, an acceleration framework circuit communicatively coupled to the memory and the processor, and a device driver. The device driver is configured to receive a request for data manipulation by a software defined storage (SDS) application. The device driver is configured to determine whether the request for data manipulation can be offloaded from the processor to the acceleration framework circuit. The device driver is configured to, based upon the determination of whether the request for data manipulation can be offloaded from the processor to the acceleration framework circuit, selectively cause the request to be executed by the acceleration framework circuit or the SDS application through execution on the processor.
US11842044B2
The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for receiving handwriting input, accessing predictive text candidates, and accessing keyboards.
US11842043B1
An information handling system touchpad includes an application area with a display to present control icons of an application executing on the information handling system, such as camera and microphone icons to control camera and microphone functions of a videoconference application. A cursor touch rejection logic is applied at the touchpad to interpret touches as inputs to the information handling system based upon a presented cursor position. A separate application touch rejection logic is applied to the application area with the control icons are presented.
US11842024B2
Embodiments may be associated with a user interface design for an application. An intelligent user interface platform may collect user experience data associated with a user's interactions with the application over time (e.g., user actions, touchscreen interactions, computer mouse clicks, attention information, context information, etc.). The intelligent user interface platform may then analyze the user experience data (e.g., looking for most visited interface locations, most used actions, infrequently accessed functions, common user mistakes, etc.). The intelligent user interface platform may also automatically create a user interface design adjustment based on the analysis. For example, the user interface design adjustment might be associated with a menu item, a sub-menu item, an application action, an icon location, adding a display element, removing a display element, etc.
US11842023B2
A touch panel include a cover member, a drive electrode, a pressure detecting electrode, and a position detecting electrode. The pressure detecting electrode and the position detecting electrode are alternately arranged in a first direction. The pressure detecting electrode includes a plurality of pressure detecting sections, arranged side by side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, that each independently detect a pressure. The position detecting electrode includes a plurality of position detecting sections, arranged side by side in the second direction, that each independently detect a touched position. The area of a pressure detecting section is larger than the area of a position detecting section.
US11842020B2
The present disclosure relates to a technology to sense a touch panel on which vertical pattern electrodes and horizontal pattern electrodes are disposed and provides a technology to identify touch coordinates based on sensing values of the vertical pattern electrodes and the horizontal pattern electrodes.
US11842004B2
The present application provides a method of signal transmission, which can improve transmission performance of an uplink signal between a touch screen and a stylus. The method is performed by a touch control chip in an electronic device, a touch screen of the electronic device includes a transmission channel for sending an uplink signal to a stylus, and the method includes: detecting whether a user's hand and/or the stylus approaches or touches the touch screen; determining a sending mode of the uplink signal according to a detection result, where the transmission channel for sending the uplink signal in the touch screen is different in different sending modes.
US11842003B1
A touch panel device includes a face plate, a bracket, and a PCB. The face plate receives a contact. The bracket includes a permanent magnet affixed to a surface of the bracket. The PCB is positioned proximate to the bracket such that a surface of the PCB is adjacent to the bracket. The PCB includes a Hall sensor collocated proximate to the permanent magnet. The touch panel circuit is coupled to the Hall sensor. When the contact is received at the face plate, the PCB moves closer to the bracket. In response, the touch panel circuit receives a voltage from the Hall sensor, determines a force associated with the contact based upon the voltage, and triggers a haptic feedback response in the bracket.
US11842002B2
To provide an inexpensive display device. The display device includes a pixel and an IC chip. The pixel includes a first pixel circuit including a display element and a second pixel circuit including a light-receiving device. The one IC chip includes a control circuit, a data driver circuit, and a read circuit. The first and second pixel circuits are electrically connected to the read circuit. The control circuit has a function of controlling driving of the data driver circuit and the read circuit. The data driver circuit has a function of supplying image data to the first pixel circuit. The read circuit has a function of outputting a monitor signal corresponding to a monitor current when the monitor current flows through the first pixel circuit. The read circuit also has a function of outputting an imaging signal corresponding to imaging data acquired by the second pixel circuit.
US11842000B2
A sensor system, which detects a stylus and is provided in an electronic apparatus, includes a first integrated circuit, a second integrated circuit, and an integrated circuit connection line that couples the first integrated circuit and the second integrated circuit to each other. The first integrated circuit is connected to a first sensor electrode group, and detects a position of the stylus on a panel face of a first housing. The second integrated circuit is connected to a second sensor electrode group, and detects a position of the stylus on a panel face of a second housing. When the first integrated circuit detects a presence of the stylus, a notification indicative of the detection is issued to the second integrated circuit through the integrated circuit connection line such that transmission of an uplink signal through the second sensor electrode group by the second integrated circuit is stopped.
US11841995B2
A display device is provided, which includes a jog switch which performs a moving operation in a plurality of directions and a push operation, a display unit which displays a first user interface (UI) for adjusting a channel or a volume of the display device or a second UI for adjusting other functions of the display device in accordance with a first operation of the jog switch, and a control unit which adjusts a selected function of the display device in accordance with a second operation of the jog switch in which is performed in a state where the first UI or the second UI is displayed. The jog switch is formed to project for a predetermine height from a surface of the display device, and thus a user can find the jog switch easily and promptly even is the jog switch is obstructed from view.
US11841994B1
An optical navigation system comprising: a control circuit; and an optical sensor, comprising a plurality of pins, wherein the optical sensor is configured to sense optical data and configured to compute motions according to the optical data. The optical sensor outputs the motions to the control circuit via a complex pin among the pins in a first mode. The optical sensor outputs data other than the motions to the control circuit via the complex pin in a second mode. The present invention also discloses an optical navigation system which shares a pin for receiving different types of data.
US11841992B2
An image forming apparatus controls a general-purpose numerical key unit so as to maintain a state in which a NumLock LED is turned on in the case where a connecting cable of the general-purpose numerical key unit including a NumLock key capable of selectively switching, in a case that the general-purpose numerical key unit is connected to an information processing device including a display screen, a condition when the information processing devices processes an inputted key signal, between a first processing condition in which the key signal is processed as information on a numerical value and a second processing condition in which the key signal is processed as information for moving a cursor displayed on the display screen, and the NumLock LED capable of notifying a user of that the first processing condition is set for the information processing device by being turned on is connected to a connecting portion (step S15).
US11841988B2
Described are various embodiments of a light field testing device, adjusted pixel rendering method and computer-readable medium therefor, and testing system and method using same. In one embodiment, a light field device, system or computer-implemented method is provided to dynamically adjust user perception, via a light field display, of at least one testing optotype in accordance with a vision-based test, while also providing test administrative guidance via the light field display.
US11841987B2
Machine learning systems and methods that learn glare, and thus determine gaze direction in a manner more resilient to the effects of glare on input images. The machine learning systems have an isolated representation of glare, e.g., information on the locations of glare points in an image, as an explicit input, in addition to the image itself. In this manner, the machine learning systems explicitly consider glare while making a determination of gaze direction, thus producing more accurate results for images containing glare.
US11841986B2
A device in an automated environment can detect patterns in the user's interactions with accessories in the automated environment and can provide feedback to the user based on the patterns. Examples include: suggesting automation of particular actions based on the patterns; suggesting actions that conform to the pattern when the user performs part of the pattern; or suggesting changes to a pattern to conform to a preferred pattern. A state of the group of accessory devices can be changed together based on the pattern of accessory state changes for the group of accessory devices.
US11841976B1
A computer-implemented method comprising: storing, using a server computer executing within a protected environment, a plurality of media items, each of the media items corresponding to one of a plurality of different status values; receiving, from a requesting computing device that is outside the protected environment, a request to send certain media items outside the protected environment to a client computing device; computing, using a plurality of machine learning systems executed by the server computer, each of the machine learning systems having been trained with one of the plurality of status values as an output, a plurality of likelihood values associated with a particular status value for the client computing device, each of the machine learning systems having been trained at least in part using attribute values associated with health data records as inputs, and an existence or a non-existence of a one of the plurality of different status values as outputs, the server computer storing first data comprising a plurality of attribute values for a plurality of the health data records and second data indicating, for each health data record of the plurality of health data records, whether the health data record has the status value, the server computer being configured to train the particular machine learning system in the protected environment only if the first data and the second data satisfy a first criterion and being configured to send the particular machine learning system to the requesting computing device only if the particular machine learning system satisfies a second criterion; identifying a particular status value, among the plurality of status values, having a highest likelihood value; selecting a specific set of media items at least partly based on the identified particular status value having the highest likelihood value, in a number indicated by the request to send certain media items outside the protected environment to the client computing device; and sending, from the server computer to the client computing device, the specific set of media items that have been selected.
US11841972B2
Co-browsing sessions allow an agent to see inputs of a user and assist the user in completing a task associated with the inputs, such as completing a form on an application or website. Agents may see the information provided by the user, unless that information is sensitive (e.g., social security number, account number, password, etc.), in which case the information is blocked. However, humans will make mistakes for any number of reasons. When that mistake is the providing of sensitive information in a non-sensitive field, systems and methods are provided to block such information, even when provided into a field not designated for sensitive information (e.g., city of residence). As a result, sensitive information may be entered during a co-browsing session, into a field by mistake, and not expose the information to the agent.
US11841971B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for secure customer data handling. More specifically, some embodiments relate to handling of derivative data as a provider in a manner that supports security and provides a stronger level of control over the data. The solution supports four core principles of customer data handling: no export of customer data, unless authorized; remote operations only via shell access or equivalent; temporary and task-based privileges; and diagnostic data to be ephemeral. The customer data handling system herein includes a central repository for the storage of diagnostic data, an upload tool for uploading to the central repository and automated staging on containers, a diagnostic virtual machine that enables task-based access to diagnostic data and analysis tools hosted on a dedicated container, and an application for handling requests, provisioning and staging containers, and purging.
US11841968B2
A system and method for reassignment of tickets in a live event via network communications for scheduling data transfers between systems. One or more data requesting systems may request access to particular data for one or more tickets to a venue for the live event causing a task to be performed to exchange the particular data between a data accessing system having access to the particular data and a data requesting system requesting access to the particular data. In some embodiments, the communication exchange may be initiated based on a parameter included in the request that the task be performed.
US11841966B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes determining whether an operation to access a memory location containing executable code comprises a general-purpose memory access operation, and changing content of the memory location in response to a determination that the operation to access the memory location containing the executable code comprises the general-purpose memory access operation to the memory location.
US11841957B2
Disclosed is a system and method to create an encrypted file system on a block chain. The system creates the block chain controlling an access to the encrypted file system. The block chain defines a user permission to access at least a portion of the encrypted file system. The system creates the encrypted file system by recording a unique file ID in the block chain, where the unique file ID stores a chunk index including memory locations of multiple chunks storing portions of a file in the encrypted file system. The system encrypts the file using a channel session key and a file encryption key. The channel session key includes a cryptographic key computed based on information known to users granted at least a temporary access to the file, and the file encryption key includes a cryptographic key used to encrypt each file in the encrypted file system.
US11841956B2
Systems and methods for metadata processing. The method comprises acts of associating, in a first system, metadata with application data processed by a host processor, wherein the application data is protected within the first system by one or more first policies using the metadata, and transferring the application data and its associated metadata to a second system in which the application data is unprotected using metadata processing or is protected by one or more second policies different from the one or more first policies.
US11841950B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are operable to protect against malicious objects, such as JavaScript code, which may be encountered, downloaded, or otherwise accessed from a content source by a computing system. In an example, antivirus software implementing aspects disclosed herein may be capable of detecting malicious objects in real-time. Aspects of the present disclosure aim to reduce the amount of time used to detect malicious code while maintaining detection accuracy, as detection delays and/or a high false positive rate may result in a negative user experience. Among other benefits, the systems and methods disclosed herein are operable to identify malicious objects encountered by a computing system while maintaining a high detection rate, a low false positive rate, and a high scanning speed.
US11841943B2
Various implementations described herein refer to a method for tracking abnormal incidents while monitoring activity of logic circuitry. The method may include detecting a tamper event related to the abnormal incidents and storing an attack signature related to the tamper event. The attack signature may be stored in non-volatile memory (NVM), such as, e.g., correlated electron random access memory (CeRAM).
US11841937B2
Techniques for providing a data confidence index are presented herein. In one embodiment, a method includes setting a default confidence index for a remote computing device, the confidence index indicating trustworthiness of data provided by the remote computing device, the remote computing device operating as part of a network of cooperating devices; applying a plurality of ordered rules for the remote computing device, respective rules comprising a rule pre-condition and a confidence index adjustment, respective rules considering one of a behavior of the remote computing device and a property of the remote computing device; and adjusting the confidence index for the remote computing device responsive to results of applying the plurality of ordered rules. A system and apparatus substantially perform steps of the disclosed method.
US11841931B2
Embodiments described include systems and methods for incorporating tags in content of network applications. An embedded browser, which is executable on one or more processors of a client device, may detect content from a network application accessed via the embedded browser. A DRM engine of the embedded browser identifies a DRM scheme for the network application from the plurality of DRM schemes and according to the network application. The DRM engine generates a DRM tag for the content according to the DRM scheme identified for the network application. The DRM tag includes a classification of the content. The DRM engine incorporates the DRM tag into the content for managing usage of the content according to the classification.
US11841928B2
Techniques are disclosed for secure collaboration messaging. An example methodology implementing the techniques includes, by a computing device of a first user, receiving a notification of arrival of a message addressed to the first user from a second user and determining that the message is a secure message. The method also includes, by the computing device of the first user, associating a security tag icon to the message, the security tag icon providing an indication that the message is a secure message, and causing a display of the associated security tag icon with a displayed indication of the arrival of the message.
US11841926B2
Embodiments relate to an image processing circuit able to perform image fusion on received images in a first mode for fusing demosaiced and downscaled image data, and a second mode for fusing raw image data. In the first mode, raw image data received from an image sensor is demosaiced and resampled prior to undergoing image fusion. On the other hand, in the second raw image mode, the image processing circuit performs image fusion on the raw image data, and demosaics and resamples the generated fused raw image. The image processing circuit comprises an image fusion circuit that processes images of received image pyramids differently, based on whether the first or second mode is being run. The image fusion circuit further comprises an additional alpha-blending circuit allowing for the image fusion circuit to perform a fusion and an alpha-blending in a single pass through image fusion circuit.
US11841925B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for content classification. In some examples, first item data representing a first item may be received. The first item data may include a plurality of prediction scores output by a machine learning model. Each prediction score of the plurality of prediction scores may be associated with a respective label of a plurality of labels. In some examples, a set of one or more labels among the plurality of labels may be predicted. The set of labels may be predicted as being applicable to the first item for classification of the first item. A determination may be made that the set of one or more labels represents a complete set of labels applicable to the first item. In some examples, the first item may be classified based on the set of one or more labels.
US11841917B2
Embodiments of the inventive concept enable a user to define exactly what and/or where they would like to set a digital pinpoint bookmark, and at a later time, engage the use of the pinpoint bookmark so that they can jump back to the very spot where they left off. In an augmented reality environment, the pinpoint bookmark may point to a real object or a virtual object. In a virtual reality environment, the pinpoint bookmark may point to a virtual object. The pinpoint bookmark is a visual mark that overlays the digital content and that points directly to the spot (i.e., directly to a punctuation mark, letter, word, paragraph, image, video clip, audio clip, real object, virtual object, or the like) so that it is easy and quick for the user to get back to the exact position. The pinpoint bookmark can be cleared using a button. Multiple pinpoint bookmarks across various different personal computing devices associated with a single user can be centrally stored and managed using a remote pinpoint bookmark database.
US11841912B2
In accordance with some embodiments, processes and interfaces provide for refining a list of search results output by a search tool. In accordance with some embodiments, Natural Language Processing models are utilized to process an initial list of search results and the system is operable to identify additional search results that may be considered unwanted by the user based on input from the user for a sub-set of the search results and a word feature characteristic that the search results reviewed by the user have in common with search results not yet reviewed by the user. In one embodiment, a group search feature provides for facilitating a search involving a plurality of users that resorts a list of search results based on inputs from the plurality of users.
US11841911B2
A data processing system implements receiving query text for a search query for textual content recommendation. The query text includes one or more words indicating a type of textual content items being sought. The system implements analyzing the query text using a first machine learning (ML) model to obtain encoded query text, where the first ML model is trained to identify features within the query text and to generate the encoded query text by mapping the features to a hyper-dimensional latent space (HDLS). The system implements identifying one or more content items in a database of encoded content items mapped to the HDLS that satisfy the search query by comparing attributes of the encoded query text with attributes of the encoded content items to identify content items that are closest to the encoded query text within the HDLS, and causing the one or more content items to be displayed.
US11841909B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program for analyzing a webpage content is provided. The present invention may include receiving a plurality of terms, including a plurality of structural information, derived from one or more responses to a faceted search query. The present invention may also include extracting a plurality of facet values from the plurality of terms. The present invention may then include generating an analysis of each facet value of the plurality of facet values. The present invention may further include determining a type of each facet value of the plurality of facet values based on the analysis. The present invention may also include generating an optimized web site mode interface including the analysis and displaying the optimized web site mode interface to a user.
US11841896B2
Example embodiments described herein relate to an icon based tagging system to associate a graphical icon (e.g., an emoji) with a data category, receive media content that includes a data object and the graphical icon, assign the media content to the data category based on the presence of the graphical icon within the media content, receive a search request that comprises search criteria that includes at least the graphical icon, and present a set of search results that include the media content in response to the search request.
