US11849655B2
Semiconductor memory devices with electrically isolated stacked bit lines and methods of manufacture
A semiconductor device includes a memory structure over a substrate, wherein the memory structure includes a first word line; a first bit line over the first word line; a second bit line over the first bit line; a memory material over sidewalls of the first bit line and the second bit line; a first control word line along a first side of the memory material, wherein the first control word line is electrically connected to the first word line; a second control word line along a second side of the memory material that is opposite the first side; and a second word line over the second bit line, the first control word line, and the second control word line, wherein the second word line is electrically connected to the second control word line.
US11849646B2
A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is disclosed wherein first and second interfaces of a free layer (FL) with a first metal oxide (Hk enhancing layer) and second metal oxide (tunnel barrier), respectively, produce perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) to increase thermal stability. In some embodiments, a capping layer that is a conductive metal nitride such as MoN contacts an opposite surface of the Hk enhancing layer with respect to the first interface to reduce interdiffusion of oxygen and nitrogen compared with a TiN capping layer and maintain an acceptable resistance×area (RA) product. In other embodiments, the capping layer may comprise an insulating nitride such as AlN that is alloyed with a conductive metal to minimize RA. Furthermore, a metallic buffer layer may be inserted between the capping layer and Hk enhancing layer. As a result, electrical shorts are reduced and the magnetoresistive ratio is increased.
US11849645B2
An integrated circuit includes a substrate, a bottom electrode, a dielectric layer, a metal-containing compound layer, a resistance switching element, and a top electrode. The bottom electrode is over the substrate, the bottom electrode having a bottom portion and a top portion over the bottom portion. The bottom portion of the bottom electrode has a sidewall slanted with respect to a sidewall of the top portion of the bottom electrode. The dielectric layer surrounds the bottom portion of the bottom electrode. The metal-containing compound layer surrounds the top portion of the bottom electrode. A top end of the sidewall of the bottom portion of the bottom electrode is higher than a bottom surface of the metal-containing compound layer. The resistance switching element is over the bottom electrode. The top electrode is over the resistance switching element.
US11849633B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport region, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region, wherein the hole transport region includes a monoamine compound represented by Formula 1, thereby providing high emission efficiency:
US11849629B2
A method of reacting with to produce In this method Y1 and Y2 are independently selected from the group consisting of: H, Cl, Br, I, and combinations thereof. Additionally in this method M is selected from the group consisting of H, trialkylstannane, boronate, or ZnX, wherein X is Cl, Br, or I. Furthermore in this method Z is a divalent linking group selected from the group consisting of: Lastly, in this method R1 is selected from: H, unsubstituted or substituted branched alkyls with 1 to 60 carbon atoms or unsubstituted or substituted linear alkyls with 1 to 60 carbon atoms.
US11849628B2
A display panel including a penetrating portion includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, which are spaced apart from each other with the penetrating portion provided therebetween, and a display element arranged on the substrate and including a first display element overlapping the first region and a second display element overlapping the second region, wherein a first side surface of the substrate that corresponds to an edge of the first region, and a second side surface of the substrate that corresponds to an edge of the second region, define at least portions of the penetrating portion, and an interval between the first side surface and the second side surface from an upper surface of the substrate, the upper surface facing the display element, is less than an interval between the first side surface and the second side surface from a lower surface of the substrate that does not face the display element.
US11849621B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate including pixel areas and a pixel separating area; a plurality of pixels; a plurality of spacers in the pixel separating area and spaced apart from each other; and a touch electrode unit disposed over the plurality of pixels and spacers. The touch electrode unit includes first touch electrodes arranged in a first direction and second touch electrodes arranged in a second direction. The touch electrode unit includes a plurality of touch pattern unit blocks repeatedly arranged. Each touch pattern unit block includes portions of each of neighboring first touch electrodes and portions of each of neighboring second touch electrodes. The spacers of each touch pattern unit block corresponds to a plurality of spacer pattern unit blocks repeatedly arranged. Each spacer pattern unit includes at least one spacer and is smaller than the touch pattern unit block.
US11849618B2
An electronic device is provided and includes a first voltage trace, a second voltage trace, a first region electrode, a second region electrode, and a voltage source module. The second voltage trace is electrically insulated from the first voltage trace, the first region electrode is electrically connected to the first voltage trace, and the second region electrode is electrically connected to the second voltage trace. The voltage source module provides a first driving voltage to the first voltage trace and provides a second driving voltage to the second voltage trace, in which the first driving voltage is different from the second driving voltage. In a top-view direction of the electronic device, the first voltage trace is separated from the second voltage trace, and the first voltage trace and the second voltage trace are formed of a conductive layer.
US11849616B2
A display device includes first and second signal lines, first and second signal pads, and a pad insulating layer overlapping with the first and second signal lines. The first signal pad includes an intermediate conductive pattern overlapping with and connected to an end portion of the first signal line, and an upper conductive pattern on the intermediate conductive pattern, the upper conductive pattern being exposed through the pad insulating layer. The intermediate conductive pattern includes a first portion overlapping with the end portion of the first signal line, and a second portion between the end portion of the first signal line and an end portion of the second signal line and extending from the first portion. The upper conductive pattern is connected to the second portion of the intermediate conductive pattern.
US11849607B2
A display apparatus includes: a first substrate on which a plurality of light-emitting devices are arranged; a plurality of light controllers arranged above the first substrate and corresponding to the plurality of light-emitting devices; and a plurality of banks between the plurality of light controllers, wherein each bank of the plurality of banks includes a black pigment and a scattering agent. Because the display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a bank including a black pigment and a scattering agent, color mixing between pixels is prevented or reduced, and light efficiency is increased.
US11849603B2
A display module includes a display panel on which a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area are defined and a functional layer disposed on the display panel. Here, the functional layer includes a color filter layer including a plurality of color filters and a plurality of first light shielding layers each disposed between the plurality of color filters, a light control layer including a plurality of light control parts overlapping the plurality of color filter layers, respectively, wherein at least one of the plurality of light control parts includes a quantum dot, and a heat conductive layer. The heat conductive layer includes at least one of metal, graphite, and silicon carbide.
US11849600B2
A display module includes a display panel for displaying an image, and a protective film adhered to a back surface of the display panel. The protective film includes a compensation layer being in contact with the back surface of the display panel, a first release layer disposed under the compensation layer, a cushion layer disposed under the first release layer, and a second release layer disposed under the cushion layer. An adhesive strength of the first release layer is less than an adhesive strength of the second release layer.
US11849586B2
A semiconductor device is provided, including: a substrate; a first stacked portion including a plurality of first electrode layers stacked in a first direction via a first insulator; a second stacked portion provided above the first stacked portion and including a plurality of second electrode layers stacked in the first direction via a second insulator; a connection portion provided between the first stacked portion and the second stacked portion, and including a third insulator; a column-shaped portion extending in the first stacked portion, the second stacked portion, and the connection portion in the first direction, and including a semiconductor body and a charge storage portion; and a semiconductor pillar provided between the substrate and the column-shaped portion, and in contact with the substrate and the semiconductor body of the column-shaped portion.
US11849576B2
A memory device includes a first semiconductor structure and a second semiconductor structure. The memory device further includes a bonding structure between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure, the bonding structure comprising a first bonding pattern and a second bonding pattern in contact with each other, the first semiconductor structure being electrically connected with the second semiconductor structure through the bonding structure. The memory device further includes a shielding structure between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure and surrounding the bonding structure, the shielding structure comprising a third bonding pattern and a fourth bonding pattern in contact with each other, the shielding structure being electrically connected with a biased voltage.
US11849567B2
According to one embodiment, a server chassis for immersion cooling includes a chassis frame having a chassis base and an adjustable server panel coupled to the chassis base to receive a server blade to be mounted on the adjustable server panel. The server blade includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first set of electronic components and the second portion has a second set of electronic components. The adjustable server panel is adjustably mounted along the chassis base, such that when the server chassis is deposited into a container having two-phase coolant therein, the first set of electronic components is at least partially submerged into a liquid region filled with the two-phase coolant, and the second set of electronic components is positioned within a vapor region above an immersion line defining the liquid region and the vapor region.
US11849566B2
A joint structure includes a first member, a second member and a metal joint layer. The first member has including a first surface and is made of material having one of copper, copper alloy, aluminum, or aluminum alloy. The second member includes a second surface that faces the first surface of the first material. The metal joint layer includes a gold joint layer made of material having gold or gold alloy and is disposed between the first surface of the first material and the second surface of the second material. A thickness of the metal joint layer is smaller than flatness of the first surface of the first material and flatness of the second surface of the second material. Fluorine is dispersed inside at least the gold joint layer included in the metal joint layer.
US11849558B2
A server chassis includes a housing, a support frame, and a back plate. The housing includes a substrate. A fixing portion is vertically disposed on the substrate and is fixedly connected with the back plate. The support frame is fixedly connected with the substrate. A first protrusion is disposed on the support frame and is inserted into the back plate. The interior of the server chassis is rendered more compact, and the server chassis can accommodate eight hard disks. A server including the server chassis is also disclosed.
US11849556B2
A functional module (200) for an electrical connection enclosure comprises one or more monitoring-and-control units (138), a protection unit (140) common to all the monitoring-and-control units (138), supplying electrical power to all the monitoring-and-control units and electrically protecting all the monitoring-and-control units, a segment of computer bus (204) connecting all of the monitoring-and-control units to an industrial computer, just as many external connection modules (208) and input-output modules (206) as monitoring-and-control units, and a support structure. The height of the monitoring-and-control units can be equal to 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U, 5U or 6U, “U” designating a unit height corresponding to a base height of a monitoring-and-control units, and the functional module has a main height (H4) equal to 6U and can accommodate any technically permissible combination of monitoring-and-control units, depending on the height of these control units.
US11849551B2
A rollable display device including: a support module; a display module disposed on the support module and including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area; and a resin layer disposed between the support module and the display module, the display module including a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the support module including: a plurality of support bars extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein the support bars are spaced apart from each other; and a plurality of hinges disposed between the support bars and coupled with the support bars disposed adjacent thereto, and wherein each of the support bars is rotatably coupled with the hinges with respect to a driving axis extending in the first direction and the driving axis penetrates the display panel when viewed in a cross-section.
US11849550B2
A key retention device and a portable dock for the key retention device are disclosed. The key retention device includes a key holder and a base. The key holder is rotatably coupled to the base. The base includes pins that extend into a cavity of the key holder when the key holder is in a closed position and do not extend into the cavity when the key holder is in an open position. The base includes a finger that prevents users from inserting an electronic key into the key holder when the key holder is in the closed position. The key retention device can receive the portable dock and lock the key holder in the locked position when a user input is received. The user input can be provided to the key retention device to remove an electronic key from the portable dock or to remove the portable dock altogether.
US11849546B2
A printed circuit board which improves the peel strength of a wiring pattern formed at a cavity bottom portion while enabling connection between an electronic component inside a cavity and a circuit outside the cavity to be performed at the cavity bottom portion, includes a cavity in a partial region of a multilayer substrate laminated with an insulating resin layer and an electrical conductor layer on a bottom layer of an insulating resin substrate. The cavity opens on a side of the insulating resin substrate, penetrates the insulating resin substrate, and includes a surface of the insulating resin layer as a bottom surface. The electrical conductor layer has a surface, the surface having a height equivalent to a height of the surface of the insulating resin layer and being embedded in the insulating resin layer in a manner to form a portion of the bottom surface.
US11849537B2
A filter module for reducing differential and common mode electrical noise may include at least a first electrically conductive busbar and a second electrically conductive busbar spaced apart from the first busbar, an at least partially electrically conductive housing at least partially enclosing the first busbar and the second busbar, at least a first common mode choke and a second common mode choke arranged in the housing and spaced apart from each other, at least a first bypass capacitor electrically connected to the first busbar and the second bus bar, at least a second bypass capacitor electrically connected to the first busbar and a midpoint, and at least a third bypass capacitor electrically connected to the second busbar and the midpoint.
US11849534B2
The disclosure provides a system, for designing and developing immersion cooling in data centers. The system includes an internet technology (IT) tank that houses a computing device immersed in a two phase coolant; an aisle, in which the immersion tank is disposed, that captures a first vaporized portion of the two phase coolant escaped from the immersion tank; a condenser that transforms the first vaporized portion of the two phase coolant that escaped from the immersion tank into a first liquid portion of the two phase coolant; a second condenser captures and condenses a second portion of vapor; and a liquid distributor manages the cooling fluid and coolant fluid for the IT tank and two condensers.
US11849524B2
An induction heating type cooktop includes a case, a cover plate that is connected to an upper end of the case and that has an upper surface configured to support an object to be heated, a working coil disposed inside the case, a thin layer disposed at the cover plate, a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of the thin layer, and a heat insulator that is configured to block heat transfer from the thin layer to the working coil and that defines at least one sensing hole that receives the temperature sensor.
US11849522B2
An induction cooker has a temperature sensor mount that includes a reciprocating sensor holder and a flexible diaphragm.
US11849518B2
A load control device is configured to generate a control signal having a desired magnitude for controlling a load regulation device adapted to control the power delivered to an electrical load. The load control device may comprise a control terminal arranged to provide the control signal to the load regulation device, a communication circuit for generating the control signal, and a control circuit configured to generate an output signal that is provided to the communication circuit. The communication circuit may be characterized by non-linear operation. The control circuit may adjust the magnitude of the output signal in response to the difference between the magnitude of the control signal and the desired magnitude to adjust the magnitude of the control signal towards the desired magnitude. The control circuit may also be configured to determine if an incompatible load regulation device is coupled to the load control device.
US11849507B2
A method comprising receiving, from a network node, a temporary terminal device identity that identifies a type of a terminal device; transitioning to a radio resource control inactive state or to a radio resource control idle state; and transmitting a radio resource control request message comprising the temporary terminal device identity that identifies a type of a terminal device, wherein the radio resource control request message comprises: a radio resource control connection resume request message, if the transition was to the radio resource control inactive state; or a radio resource control setup request message if the transition was to the radio resource control idle state.
US11849501B2
The present disclosure provides a method for obtaining a UE counting result. The method includes: establishing, by the UE, a RRC connection; sending a UE counting response via the RRC connection; or, sending, by the UE, a RRC establishing message, and configuring a reason of establishing the RRC as MBMS UE counting. The present disclosure also provides a method for obtaining a UE counting result, a method and apparatus for suspending data transmission. By using the present disclosure, when the UE needs to receive the GCSE service, the MCE may obtain a correct counting result and not make wrong decision no matter whether the UE is in the RRC connected mode or in the idle mode. Therefore, the UE does not need to establish the point-to-point channel, and interruption of the data transmission and unnecessary power consumption are avoided.
US11849496B1
A method and system for controlling configuration of dual-connectivity service for a user equipment device (UE), where the dual-connectivity service would involve the UE being served concurrently by a first access node over a first connection according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and by a second access node over a second connection according to a second RAT. An example method includes selecting the second access node to be used in the dual-connectivity service of the UE, with the selecting being based cooperatively on (i) a power class of the UE and (ii) a quantity of receive antennas of the second access node. And the example method further includes, based on the selecting, configuring the dual-connectivity service for the UE.
US11849491B2
Example communication methods, apparatus, and systems are described. One example system includes a centralized unit control plane (CU-CP) and at least one distributed unit (DU). The CU-CP includes at least one first entity and a second entity, where the second entity is configured to perform a function of a radio resource management (RRM) algorithm in a base station, and the at least one first entity is configured to perform functions of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer and a radio resource control (RRC) layer in the base station.
US11849490B2
A communication device that performs a random access procedure, the communication device includes a transmitter and a controller. The transmitter configured to transmit a first signal in the random access procedure and a second signal which is not a signal of the random access procedure. The controller configured to perform control so that first information included in a first subheader corresponding to the first signal is included in a second subheader corresponding to the second signal and is transmitted.
US11849483B2
A dynamic configuration of crest factor reduction in a licensed assisted access radio system. A processing device comprises a detecting block, a clipping pulse generator, a first storage block, a selecting block, a full clipping block and a simplified clipping block. The detecting block performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure on a plurality of carriers in parallel and generates a trigger signal in response to LBT success on one or more carriers. The clipping pulse generator generates, for the carrier(s) with LBT success, a clipping pulse within a time period from the receipt of the trigger signal to the start of user traffic transmission. The first storage block stores the clipping pulse for use by the full clipping block. The selecting block selects the full clipping block when there is user traffic on the carrier(s) and selects the simplified clipping block when there is no user traffic on the carrier(s).
US11849477B2
A method and device for beam reporting are provided. The method includes: using, by a terminal device, reference signal resources in a configured first set for channel measurement for a beam and reference signal resources in a configured second set for interference measurement for the beam; wherein the reference signal resources in the first set are associated by ordering with the reference signal resources in the second set; and calculating and reporting, by the terminal device, SINR, based on results of the channel measurement and the interference measurement.
US11849471B2
A communication device includes a control unit that switches whether or not to transmit a first reference signal using a scheduled resource scheduled to be used to transmit a reference signal. The control unit switches between the transmission and the non-transmission of the first reference signal based on the acquired channel information, and an elapsed time from the reception of a second reference signal from a communication partner.
US11849470B2
A communication system includes a terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus by carrier aggregation using a plurality of serving cells, where each of the plurality of serving cells has a different frequency. In addition, the terminal apparatus removes a measurement identity relevant to a serving cell of the plurality of serving cells based on that the serving cell was removed.
US11849466B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring downlink control information (DCI) in a wireless communication system, especially in a new radio access technology (NR) is provided. A user equipment (UE) monitors first DCI having a first size in a UE specific search space (USS). The the first size is determined based on an active bandwidth part (BWP). The UE further monitors second DCI having a second size in a common search space (CSS). The second size is determined based on a default BWP.
US11849460B2
A terminal for managing a bandwidth part in a wireless communication system is provided. The terminal includes a transceiver and at least one processor configured to receive, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) message including a bandwidth part (BWP) configuration, receive, from the base station, downlink control information including a bitmap indicating whether each of at least one downlink (DL) BWP is activated as a first BWP or a second BWP, wherein the first BWP is configured with a non-dormant BWP in the first RRC message, and the second BWP is configured with a dormant BWP in the first RRC message, when a first bit of the bitmap is 0, determine an active DL BWP corresponding to the first bit as the second BWP, and when the first bit of the bitmap is 1, determine whether a current active DL BWP corresponding to the first bit is the second BWP, when the current active DL BWP is the second BWP, set the current active DL BWP to the first BWP, and when the current active DL BWP is not the second BWP, determine to maintain the current active DL BWP.
US11849449B2
A terminal apparatus receives a higher layer parameter and a PDSCH, and generates a HARQ-ACK codebook and transmits the generated HARQ-ACK codebook on a PUCCH. In a case that a first parameter is configured, a first HARQ-ACK codebook and a second HARQ-ACK codebook are generated, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH A, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH B. In a case that the first parameter is not configured, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is generated, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit the HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to the PDSCH B.
US11849447B2
A generation-Node B (gNB) configured for unlicensed spectrum operation above 52.6 GHz in a fifth-generation new-radio (NR) system (5GS) may encode a parameter (e.g., ssb-PositionsInBurst) for transmission to a UE (e.g., in the SIM or UE specific RRC signalling). The parameter may indicate candidate positions of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) within a discovery reference signal (DRS) measurement timing configuration (DMTC) transmission window within slots of a system frame (SFN). During the DMTC window, the gNB may perform a LBT procedure on an unlicensed carrier of the unlicensed spectrum to determine if the unlicensed carrier is available. When the LBT is successful (i.e., the unlicensed carrier is available), the gNB may encode a discovery reference signal (DRS) for transmission on the unlicensed carrier. The DRS may include one or more of the SSBs transmitted during the candidate positions that fall within the DRS. The gNB may perform rate matching around the SSBs for a scheduled PDSCH based on the indicated parameter and transmit the rate-matched PDSCH.
US11849445B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to 5G communication and IoT related technology-based intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related services, etc.). Disclosed is a technology for adding uplink data to a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message corresponding to an RA response message and transmitting the same to a base station when the terminal is in an RRC deactivated state in a method for transmitting, by a terminal, uplink data in a wireless communication system.
US11849429B2
The embodiments of the present invention relate to apparatuses and methods for resource management in a multi-carrier system wherein a plurality of component carriers (CCs) is defined per cell. According to a method in an apparatus corresponding to a radio base station, a message is assembled comprising information on the structure of the cell served by the radio base station; the information including one or more CCs used in the cell that is/are available for a user equipment for performing initial access in the cell. The method also comprises, transmitting the assembled message to the user equipment and indicating to the user equipment to what resources to use for random access in the cell. The exemplary embodiments of the present invention also relates to a method in the user equipment, to a radio base station and to a user equipment.
US11849428B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting information about capabilities of a user equipment (UE) device operating on a radio communication network, collecting information about requirements and status of the UE device, collecting information about the radio communication network, selecting a carrier aggregation arrangement for the UE device based on at least the information about capabilities and the information about requirements and status, forming a selected carrier aggregation arrangement, and configuring network nodes of the radio communication network according to the selected carrier aggregation arrangement. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11849425B2
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. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a method and an apparatus for preventing loss of data existing in Msg3 buffer and a method and an apparatus for determining a paging frame and/or a paging occasion are provided.
US11849423B2
Methods, systems, and devices including transmitting, by a server, a first signal to a set of user equipment; receiving, by a user equipment, the transmitted first signal; transmitting a response indicating whether the user equipment is located within a first specified distance from the provider; determining a subset of user equipment that are within the first specified distance; transmitting a second signal to the determined subset of user equipment; transmitting a third signal to the subset of user equipment; receiving the transmitted third signal while a received countdown timer is still running; transmitting a response indicating whether the user equipment is located within a second specified distance from the provider; determining a second subset of user equipment that are within the second specified distance; and transmitting a fourth signal comprising a second specified amount of time to be added to the previously running countdown timer.
US11849422B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support security techniques for ranging in wireless networks. A first device may transmit an indication to initiate a ranging procedure with a second device, and in response to the indication, the second device may transmit signaling to the first device and to one or more third devices. The first device and the one or more third devices may each determine a respective location metric associated with the second device based on the signaling. The one or more third devices may each transmit, to the first device, the respective location metric. Based on the communicated location metric(s), the first device may determine whether an eavesdropper is present and may communicate with the second device based on the determination.
US11849420B2
According to certain embodiments, a method for synchronous control of timing configurations includes operating a wireless device according to a first timing configuration associated with a first delay duration for transmitting feedback to a network node. A second timing configuration associated with a second delay duration for transmitting feedback to the network node is received from the network node. The second delay duration is different from the first delay duration. In response to a first downlink transmission from the network node, a first feedback is scheduled for transmission at a transmission time determined based on the second delay duration associated with the second timing configuration.
US11849414B2
Implementations of the present disclosure provide an indication method, a detection method, and a related device. In the present disclosure, a network device indicates to user equipment, within what frequency domain ranges there is no SSB transmission, thereby preventing the user equipment from performing useless searches in the frequency domain ranges in which there is no SSB.
US11849402B2
A method for uplink closed loop power control in advanced wireless systems which adaptively adjusts target signal-to-interference noise ratio (SINRtarget) in order to achieve the best uplink throughput of data services is disclosed. To derive the desired target SINR, the system collects and evaluates various uplink parameters as inputs: real-time signal-to-interference noise ratio of data physical channel, terminal power headroom, and terminal buffer data status and data service requirements.
US11849401B2
The minimization of the amount of power consumed by an electronic device in acquiring or maintaining network connectivity with a network may extend the battery life of the electronic device. When the electronic device has established a communication connection with a wireless access point, the electronic device cycles a network interface controller of the electronic device between a power on state and a power off state without terminating the communication connection. Accordingly, the electronic device powers on a main processor of the electronic device when the network interface controller detects a beacon during the power on state that indicates the wireless access point has a buffered data frame for the electronic device.
US11849399B2
This application discloses a method for reducing power consumption of a terminal, and a terminal, and relates to the field of terminal technologies, to resolve a problem of relatively high power consumption of a terminal caused by a background application program. The method includes: when a background power consumption current value of the terminal is greater than a preset current value, controlling, by the terminal, a target application program, to reduce the background power consumption current value, where the background power consumption current value is a sum of power consumption current values of all background application programs on the terminal. The target application program includes at least one or more of the following application programs: a background application program whose use frequency is lower than a preset frequency threshold, a background application program whose power consumption is greater than a preset power consumption threshold, and a background application program with abnormal power consumption. The method is applicable to a process of controlling a background application program.
US11849398B2
The present invention provides a communication method in a wireless communication network comprising at least one network cell (BSS), each cell comprising at least one station (non-AP) managed by an access point (AP), the method comprising, at the access point: transmitting a Wake-Up radio (WUR) frame to at least one station of the network cell of the access point; transmitting a primary channel radio (PCR) frame including update information, the PCR frame being transmitted to said at least one station of the network cell of the access point.
US11849397B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communications device may transmit, to a second communications, a request to update a phase shifter configuration. The first communications device may receive, from the second communications device and in response to the request, a response accepting the request to update the phase shifter configuration. The first communications device may then transmit, to the second communications device, an uplink transmission in accordance with the updated phase shifter configuration based on receiving the response. The first communications device may include a first user equipment (UE) and the second communications device may include a second UE or a base station.
US11849385B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a cell access method and a device, to provide a network slice service area identifier and network slice configuration information for a terminal device, so that the terminal device accesses a target cell. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, a network slice service area identifier from a serving access network device corresponding to a serving cell in which the terminal device is located, where the network slice service area identifier is used to indicate an area served by a network slice; determining, by the terminal device, a target cell based on network slice configuration information and the network slice service area identifier, where the network slice configuration information includes a correspondence among a network slice, an area, and a service; and accessing, by the terminal device, the target cell.
US11849371B2
During a positioning session, a user equipment (UE) is provided with an early uplink grant to respond to a request for location service information from a location server. The location service information, for example, may be a request for positioning capabilities, a request for positioning measurements or a position estimate, and may be a request for a single, periodic or triggered location information. The early uplink grant may be requested by the UE prior to needing the uplink grant, e.g., before the positioning measurements have been completed. The location server may instigate the early uplink grant, e.g., at or near the same time that the location server sends the request for information to the UE. The early uplink grant may be used, e.g., during high priority or emergency related positioning sessions, in order to reduce delay in the UE providing a response to the request for location information.
US11849367B2
A method for pooling resources in a mobile network includes allocating baseband resources between a plurality of virtual baseband engines supporting the mobile network, determining a change in a usage of the mobile network, and re-allocating, in response to the change in the usage of the mobile network, the baseband resources between the plurality of virtual baseband engines.
US11849351B2
A method for operating a user plane entity configured to handle a user plane of data packet sessions exchanged in a cellular network, each data packet session comprising data packet flows of a plurality of applications, the data packet flows of each application being identified by an application identifier, the method includes: determining that a tracking of data packet flows identified by an application identifier should be stopped, determining one or more application detection filters configured to detect data packet flows identified by the application identifier, removing the one or more application detection filters and the application identifier from the user plane entity, and requesting a session control entity configured to control the data packet sessions to remove packet detection rules usable to detect the data packet flows identified by the application identifier, wherein the request includes the application identifier.
US11849345B2
Provided is a technology related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a method, and an integrated circuit capable of reducing complexity of protocol processing, reducing deterioration of phone call quality, and efficiently performing communication. A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an RRC message from the base station apparatus; and a processing unit configured to configure a packet loss prohibit timer according to a packet loss rate report prohibit timer field included in the RRC message and configured to, based on reception of a report of a packet loss rate from a higher layer and a fact that a packet loss rate report prohibit timer is not running, create a packet loss rate report content, start the packet loss rate report prohibit timer, and perform transmission to the base station apparatus. The packet loss rate report content includes information of a direction for indicating whether the direction is an uplink direction or a downlink direction, and information of the packet loss rate.
US11849326B2
Method and system for authenticating a user comprising: transmitting a network authentication of a user, which is provided by an authentication medium, from a mobile terminal belonging to the user to a back-end server of a wireless network to carry out authentication, connecting the mobile terminal to the wireless network, starting a software application to carry out authentication with respect to an application server accessible via the wireless network, on the mobile terminal by the user, and transmitting an application authentication of the user, which is assigned to the started software application, to the application server.
US11849323B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for resuming connections. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at a user equipment, a radio resource control connection resume message; verifying, at the user equipment, an integrity of the received radio resource control connection resume message, wherein the user equipment verifies the integrity based on a predetermined value of a packet data convergence protocol hyper frame number; and resuming, by the user equipment, use of a suspended radio resource control connection, when the integrity verification of the received radio resource connection resume message is passed successfully. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US11849322B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for supporting delegated data connections. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that receives an access request indicating that a remote unit requires to access a first access network. The processor determines to establish a delegated data connection in a mobile communication network for the remote unit, the delegated data connection connecting the apparatus with an external data network. The processor enables the authentication of the remote unit by converting a first authentication signaling used by the mobile communication network to a second authentication signaling used by the first access network. The processor controls the transceiver to forward data traffic between the remote unit and the external data network over the delegated data connection, wherein the delegated data connection is reserved for use by the remote unit.
US11849320B2
A method of attaching to a wireless communication network to receive wireless communication service. The method comprises calculating a checksum by a monitor application over at least a portion of an operating system stored in a wireless communication device, wherein the monitor application is stored in a trusted portion of memory of the device and executes in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the device and wherein the operating system is authorized by a wireless communication network, comparing the calculated checksum value by the monitor application to a checksum value stored in the TEE, based on determining that the calculated checksum value matches the stored checksum value, rebooting the device to execute the operating system, and transmitting radio access credentials to the wireless communication network by the device, whereby the device authenticates into the wireless coverage of the wireless communication network based on the radio access credentials.
US11849313B2
When an EBI needs to be assigned to an EPS bearer to which a QoS flow is mapped in an EPS, whether user plane security enforcement information of a PDU session matches user plane encryption protection information of the EPS is determined, that is, whether a user plane capability of the EPS can meet a user plane security requirement of the PDU session is determined. The EBI is assigned to the EPS bearer only when the requirement is met. Otherwise, the EBI is not assigned to the EPS bearer or the EBI is released if the EBI has been assigned. In this way, when UE moves from a 5GS to the EPS, the EPS bearer is prevented from using an EBI that does not meet the user plane security requirement for data transmission.
US11849311B2
Apparatuses and methods for enhancement to standalone operation for higher frequency range in a wireless communication system. A method includes receiving a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block and determining a set of configurations for a control resource set (CORESET #0) to receive a Type0 physical downlink control channel (Type0-PDCCH). The set of configurations includes a multiplexing pattern between the CORESET #0 and the SS/PBCH block; a number NRBCORESET #0 of resource blocks (RBs) for the CORESET #0; a number NsymbolCORESET #0 of symbols for the CORESET #0; and a frequency offset between the CORESET #0 and the SS/PBCH block. For a first multiplexing pattern between the CORESET #0 and the SS/PBCH block, the frequency offset between the CORESET #0 and the SS/PBCH block is determined as one of 0, NRBCORESET #0−NRBSSB, or (NRBCORESET #0−NRBSSB)/2. The method further includes receiving the Type0-PDCCH based on the set of configurations for the CORESET #0 over a downlink channel.
US11849309B2
A method of controlling transmission power of a wireless communication device includes obtaining first electromagnetic wave information from the wireless communication device, the first electromagnetic wave information being obtained during a target duration, obtaining electromagnetic wave tendency information in the target duration based on the first electromagnetic wave information and second electromagnetic wave information, the second electromagnetic wave information being obtained during at least one previous duration, and controlling the transmission power based on the electromagnetic wave tendency information.
US11849295B2
The flat loudspeaker including an enclosure in the form of a support frame, a sound-emitting rectangular membrane attached to the frame, and an electrodynamic vibration exciter located opposite the membrane. Besides, the vibration exciter is attached with one of its ends to the membrane within a special line passing along the plane of the rectangular membrane, emerging from any vertex of the rectangular membrane, and ending at a point on the opposite vertex of the membrane's horizontal side located at a distance of ⅔ of the membrane's opposite side from the top horizontally.
US11849293B2
A method for automated setting of digital processing parameters intended to be applied to digital signals before broadcast by at least one loudspeaker placed in an environment. The method includes a step of determining a set of frequency responses of the environment, an equalization step applied for each subset of at least one loudspeaker and a second equalization step applied to at least one subset of at least one loudspeaker. A device for the implementation of the method is also provided.
US11849290B2
The present invention provides a signal processing device that allows a user, who adjusts a signal level to match a reference level, to adjust the signal level while checking a degree of difference between the signal level and the reference level. A signal processing device according to the present invention comprises: an input part 20 to which an input signal is input; a storage 40 that stores therein one or more setting values of a parameter to be used for amplifying the input signal and a reference value of the setting value; an amplification part 30 that generates an output signal by amplifying a level of the input signal based on the setting value; an output part 70 that outputs the output signal; an adjustment part 50 that adjusts the setting value; and a display 60 that displays a display result determined based on the setting value adjusted by the adjustment part and the reference value. The display result displayed on the display 60 includes: a specific display result displayed when a relation between the setting value and the reference value is a specific relation; and a non-specific display result displayed when the relation between the setting value and the reference value is different from the specific relation.
US11849271B2
An audio device with a body configured to be worn on or abutting an outer ear of a user, wherein the body is configured to contact at least one of the outer ear and the portion of the head that abuts the outer ear, at two separate spaced contact locations, and wherein the body is compliant at a body portion that defines one of the contact locations. The device also has an acoustic module carried by the body and configured to locate a sound-emitting opening anteriorly of and proximate the user's ear canal opening when the body is worn on or abutting the ear of the user.
US11849269B2
A loudspeaker unit includes a frame that supports a diaphragm and a magnetic circuit. The frame includes: a first support supporting a perimeter of the diaphragm; a pedestal extending outwardly from a perimeter of the first support; fastening portions provided in positions on the pedestal that surround the perimeter of the first support; and reinforcements disposed in regions of the pedestal between the fastening portions, and fixed to the first support and the pedestal. The reinforcements include: a first plate portion that is a plate-shaped portion disposed in front of the pedestal to face the pedestal, and has a bent shape that protrudes in the forward direction; and a second plate portion that is a plate-shaped portion disposed in front of the pedestal to face the pedestal and the first plate portion, and has a bent shape that protrudes in a rearward direction.
US11849265B2
An intelligent subsystem coupled with a Super System on Chip (SSoC)/microprocessor, a radio transceiver, a voice processing module/voice processing algorithm, a display component, one or more camera sensors/computational cameras for three-dimensional (3-D) sensing of the surroundings, a near-field communication device, a biometric sensor, an artificial eye, a biological lab-on-chip (LOC)/DNA sequencing biomodule, an intelligent learning algorithm and an algorithm for three-dimensional (3-D) perception is disclosed. The Super System on Chip (SSoC) includes memristors. The intelligent subsystem can respond to a user's interests and/or preferences, provide telepresence and perceive the surroundings. Furthermore, the intelligent subsystem is sensor-aware or context-aware.
US11849262B2
An image projector includes an illumination arrangement with a number of illumination sources and a tilt-mirror assembly, all operating under control of a controller. An optical arrangement directs illumination from the illumination sources towards the mirror and on to an image plane. A collimating arrangement collimates the illumination from the image plane to generate a collimated image directed to an exit stop. The controller (830) modulates an intensity of each of the illumination sources (808) synchronously with tilt motion of the mirror (814) according to the content of the digital image. In certain implementations, the illumination sources (808) are spaced apart. Although the tilt motion brings each illumination source to scans across only part of a dimension of the field of view, all of the illumination sources together scans across the entirety of the one dimension.
US11849260B2
A work management apparatus, a work management method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program for managing a plurality of soldering works to be manually performed on a board, include: storing, in association with identification information of the board acquired by an identification information acquisition device connected to the work management apparatus, captured images of an entirety of the board and monitor information being chronologically continuous and respectively acquired by an image-capturing device and a soldering monitor device each connected to the work management apparatus in the soldering works; and chronologically displaying each of the captured images and monitor information stored in association with one piece of identification information selected from among the stored identification information of the board in a state where a capturing date and time of the captured image and an acquisition date and time of the monitor information match.
US11849259B1
Examples described herein include systems and methods for managing user interaction within a virtual space. An example method can include installing management software on one or more user devices and requesting a digital ID that represents a combination of a user and at least one user device. The method can further include configuring a virtual reality (“VR”) space including virtual meeting rooms and a notification service. An administrator can set the number of rooms, place virtual objects within each room, and set requirements for entering each room based on the digital IDs. The administrator can also configure a notification service to provide guided notifications to users during their VR experiences. For example, the notification service can utilize the digital ID to identify the appropriate instructions to provide to the user as they are navigating the VR space.
US11849256B2
Systems and methods for dynamically concealing sensitive information in a shared screen session of a video conference are disclosed. The system may establish communication with one or more computing devices active in a video conference in which each computing device may switch between a screen share mode and a video mode. The system may determine that one or more articles of sensitive information are visible in a graphical user interface associated with a first computing device of the plurality of computing devices. The system may receive a first signal from the first computing device that indicates a first intent of a host associated with the first computing device to switch the screen share mode which includes sharing the first graphical user interface with the one or more computing devices during the video conference. In response to the first signal, the system may execute one or more privacy actions.
US11849249B2
The present technology relates to a file generation device, a file generation method, a file reproduction device, a file reproduction method, and a program capable of associating an image stored is a file with external data outside the file. A file control unit generates an association-type high efficiency image file format (HEIF) file in which an image in an HEIF file compliant with HEIF and specific information that specifies external data outside the HEIF file, the external data to be associated with the image, are stored in association with each other. Furthermore, the file control unit reproduces the association-type HEIF file. The present technology can be applied to a case where an HEIF file is generated or a case where the HEIF file is reproduced.
US11849245B2
A method may include receiving a videoconference stream from a client device of a plurality of client devices participating in a videoconference, the videoconference stream comprising video content of a user of the client device and audio content of the user of the client device. The method may also include generating, during the videoconference and based at least in part on at least one of the video content and the audio content, a participation metric for the user of the client device, displaying, to the user and during the videoconference, first information based on the participation metric, updating the participation metric during the videoconference to produce an updated participation metric, and displaying, to the user and during the videoconference, second information based on the updated participation metric.
US11849234B2
An imaging device with a novel structure is provided. The imaging device includes an imaging region provided with a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels included in the imaging region include a first pixel and a second pixel. The imaging device has a function of selecting a first region or a second region. The first region includes the same number of pixels as the second region. The first region includes at least the first and second pixels. The second region includes at least the second pixel. The pixels included in the first region or the second region have a function of outputting imaging signals obtained by the pixels. The imaging device generates first image data by concurrently reading the imaging signals output from the pixels included in the first region and performing arithmetic operation on the signals. The imaging device generates second image data by concurrently reading the imaging signals output from the pixels included in the second region and performing arithmetic operation on the signals. A first conceptual image can be generated with the use of the first image data and the second image data.
US11849228B2
An image sensing device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, each of pixels configured to generate a pixel signal corresponding to intensity of incident light, and a plurality of grid structures, each grid structure disposed to overlap with a boundary between adjacent pixels among the plurality of pixels and configured to include an air layer so as to optically isolate the adjacent pixels. Each of the grid structures includes regions that form a cross shape.
US11849225B2
Throughput reduction in autonomous vehicle camera sensors, including: generating, by a camera sensor, a frame; selecting an area of focus for the frame; and generating, by the camera sensor from the frame, a downsampled frame and a cropped frame, wherein the cropped frame is based on the area of focus.
US11849212B2
Image Signal Processing (ISP) optimization framework for computer vision applications is disclosed. The tuning of the ISP is performed automatically and presented as a nonlinear multi-objective optimization problem, followed by solving the problem using an evolutionary stochastic solver. An improved ISP of the embodiments of the invention includes at least features of search space reduction for reducing a number of ISP configurations, remapping the generated population to the reduced search space via mirroring, and global optimization function processing, which allow tuning all the blocks of the ISP at the same time instead of the prior art tuning of each ISP block separately. Also shown that an ISP tuned for image quality performs inferior compared with an ISP trained for a specific downstream image recognition task.
US11849208B2
An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to capture a subject image to generate image data; a plurality of operation members each operable to input a user operation; a selector configured to select one pattern from among a plurality of patterns each indicating a combination whether or not each operation member is to be set to a lock state for disabling the user operation; and a controller configured to control a lock function based on the pattern selected by the selector, the lock function causing the plurality of operation members to disable the user operation in an operation member which is in the lock state and to enable the user operation in another operation member which is not in the lock state.
US11849201B2
Disclosed are a foldable electronic device and a method for displaying a preview image of a camera in the foldable electronic device. The electronic device includes a first display, at least a portion of which is foldable, a second display, a camera, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to: identify a folding state of the first display, based on the identified folding state being a first specific state, display a first preview image generated based on image information acquired through the camera through the first display, and display a second preview image generated based on the image information through the second display, and based on the identified folding state being a second specific state, display a third preview image generated based on the image information through the second display.
US11849200B2
A light-receiving device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pixel array including light-receiving elements provided in respective pixels. The light-receiving elements each include a high electric field region and a photoelectric conversion region. A plurality of the light-receiving elements provided in the respective pixels includes a plurality of types of elements that have temperature regions having high photon detection efficiency (PDE). The temperature regions are different from each other and partially overlap each other.
US11849185B2
A computing system detects that a media presentation device such as a television is in a content-selection mode in which a user is likely to select video content to be presented by the media presentation device, at a time when the media presentation device is not using a video-on-demand service. In response, the computing system causes the media presentation device to present a prompt for user approval to have the media presentation device present video content of the video-on-demand service. By presenting this prompt at a time when the media presentation device is in a content-selection mode and is not using the video-on-demand service, the disclosed mechanism can thereby help foster use of the video-on-demand service.
US11849182B2
Methods and systems are described for enhancing the viewing experiences of users consuming a content item. The system identifies identifying portions for playback and allows a user to select a playback rate to display the selected portions at. This creates a highlight reel for the user to watch at their selected playback rate.
US11849172B1
A new configuration associated with a plurality of sources and/or a plurality of sinks is detected. Data associated with a plurality of sources is transmitted to the plurality of sinks via a plurality of networks including at least one external network. A latency adjustment value associated with the plurality of sinks is determined. The latency adjustment value is transmitted to a latency agent that adjusts latency introduced by the external network.
US11849171B2
Devices, systems and process for facilitating a Deepfake content watch party (DFWP) are disclosed. A system includes server, Deepfake presenter user device (DFPUD), Deepfake user device (DFUD), and content provider. The DFPUD instructs a content capture device (CCD) to capture a Deepfake Reaction (DFR) by a DFPUD user; receives the DFR from the CCD; and communicates the DFR to the server. The content provider provides Deepfake Content (DFC) segments, which include a Deepfake Target (DFT), and Deepfake Augmented Content (DFAC), which identifies a Deepfake model for the DFT. The server, based on the DFR, generates a Deepfake Subject (DFS), identifying a DFPUD user characteristic, generates Deepfake secondary content (DFSC), and communicates DFSC to the DFUD. The DFUD integrates the DFSC with the DFC to facilitate presentation of DFRs in a DFWP.
US11849170B2
Methods for a soft universal remote (SUR) controller are performed by systems and apparatuses. Audio/visual (A/V) devices may be controlled by hardware remote controllers that are not configured to control other devices of an audio/visual system. A SUR controller implemented by an A/V device provides consumable control signals to such other devices based on control signals from the A/V device remote controller. A SUR controller determines another device for which a received control function is directed, and transmits a generated consumable control signal for the control function of the received control signal to the other device. User interfaces are provided by SUR controllers for the configuration of SUR controllers and remote controllers, and for control of other A/V devices via the user interfaces.
US11849166B2
A transmitting method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes transmitting a first stream, the first stream including: timing update identification information id1 indicating whether or not a correspondence relationship between a first reference clock and a second reference clock has been updated, the first reference clock being used to transmit and receive the first stream, and the second reference clock being used to transmit and receive a second stream related to another content to be reproduced in synchronization with the content related to the first stream; a first time according to the first reference clock; and a second time according to the second reference clock, the second time being associated with the first time based on the updated correspondence relationship.
US11849163B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include discovering, by a computer processor and based on user information, that an identity of a user generating a live broadcast is enabled for dual streaming. The method may also include determining, by the computer processor and based at least in part on available network bandwidth, that the live broadcast is authorized for dual streaming. The method may further include transmitting separately, by the computer processor at least partly in response to the discovery and the determination, streams of the live broadcast to a plurality of different network nodes of a streaming platform. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11849159B2
A video streaming device that divides a video in which a plurality of viewing directions are defined into divided data pieces and distributes each of the divided data pieces in a chronological order. The video streaming device includes: a prediction unit that refers to information indicating the viewing direction of a viewer for each of the divided data pieces with respect to multiple views of the video in the past, and predicts, for a terminal playing the video, the viewing direction of a user of the terminal in a first divided data piece that is undistributed; and a streaming unit that distributes the first divided data piece to the terminal by setting an area corresponding to the viewing direction predicted by the prediction unit to be in a relatively high image quality among selectable image qualities. Thereby, probability of viewing the video of a low image quality is decreased.
US11849151B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: decoding, on the basis of a bitstream, an affine flag that indicates whether affine prediction is applicable to a current block and a sub-block TMVP flag that indicates whether a temporal motion vector predictor based on a sub-block of the current block is usable; determining whether to decode a predetermined merge mode flag that indicates whether to apply a predetermined merge mode to the current block, on the basis of the decoded affine flag and the decoded sub-block TMVP flag; deriving prediction samples of the current block on the basis of the determining of whether to decode the predetermined merge mode flag; and generating reconstructed samples of the current block based on the prediction samples of the current block.
US11849147B2
An encoder determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split along a partitioning line defined by a distance and an angle and then prediction is performed; and encodes the block with the prediction mode disabled or not disabled according to a result of the determination on whether or not to disable the prediction mode. Here, the distance is the shortest distance between the center of the block and the partitioning line, and the angle is an angle representing a direction from the center of the block toward the partitioning line in the shortest distance. The encoder determines to disable the prediction mode when (i) a width-to-height ratio is at least 8 or (ii) a height-to-width ratio is at least 8.
US11849143B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document includes constituting a candidate list for deriving motion information of a sub-block unit for a current block, wherein the merge candidate list includes constructed candidates; deriving control point motion vectors (CPMVs) for control points (CPs) of the current block based on the merge candidate list; deriving prediction samples for the current block based on the CPMVs; and generating a reconstructed picture for the current block based on the derived prediction samples, wherein the constructed candidates are derived based on combination of at least two of a first neighboring block in a first group, a second neighboring block in a second group, a third neighboring block in a third group and a fourth neighboring block, and the first neighboring block, the second neighboring block and the third neighboring block and the fourth neighboring block constituting the combination have the same reference picture index.
US11849142B2
A method and a device for encoding or decoding video data. It concerns more particularly the encoding according to a particular encoding mode using a decoder side motion vector derivation mode referenced as frame-rate up conversion mode or FRUC mode. In FRUC merge mode, the derivation process comprises a refinement step to increase the accuracy of the obtained motion vector at the sub-pixel level. This process involves the evaluation of different sub-pixel position around the obtained motion vector according to different patterns. The present invention has been devised to improve the known refinement step. It aims at improving the coding efficiency by considering the characteristics of the matching type and/or the signal inside the templates.
US11849133B2
Techniques are described herein for processing video data using a history-based rice parameter derivation. For instance, a process can include obtaining a transform block including a plurality of samples. One or more parameters (e.g., rice parameters) can be determined for the plurality of samples by analyzing a local neighborhood of a current sample of the plurality of samples and determining that a number of neighboring transform coefficients of the current sample is less than a threshold amount. A historic parameter value (e.g., a historic rice parameter value) determined from one or more previously decoded transform blocks can be obtained and, based at least in part on the historic parameter value, a parameter (e.g., a rice parameter) can be determined for the current sample. The current sample can be decoded based on the determined parameter for the current sample.
US11849126B2
A method for video processing is provided to include: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of current video block, wherein the conversion uses a coding mode in which the current video block is constructed based on a first domain and a second domain and/or chroma residue is scaled in a luma-dependent manner, and wherein information used for the coding mode is signaled in a parameter set that is different from a sequence parameter set (SPS), a video parameter set (VPS), a picture parameter set (PPS), or an adaptation parameter set (APS) used for carrying adaptive loop filtering (ALF) parameters.
US11849125B2
A method of video data processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream comprises multiple layers comprising one or more subpictures according to a rule which specifies that, during a subpicture sub-bitstream extraction process by which an output bitstream is extracted from the bitstream, a supplemental enhancement information network abstraction layer unit, SEI NAL unit, that includes a scalable nested SEI message that is not applicable to the output bitstream is omitted in the output bitstream.
US11849120B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a context model for a sign flag of a current residual coefficient of a current block; and decoding the sign flag on the basis of the context model, wherein the context model for the sign flag is derived on the basis of a sign flag of a residual coefficient decoded before the current residual coefficient in the current block.
US11849110B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an image by skip encoding. The image-encoding method by skip encoding, which performs intra-prediction, comprises: performing a filtering operation on the signal which is reconstructed prior to an encoding object signal in an encoding object image; using the filtered reconstructed signal to generate a prediction signal for the encoding object signal; setting the generated prediction signal as a reconstruction signal for the encoding object signal; and not encoding the residual signal which can be generated on the basis of the difference between the encoding object signal and the prediction signal, thereby performing skip encoding on the encoding object signal.
US11849101B2
A stereoscopic imaging platform includes a stereoscopic camera configured to record left and right images of a target site. A robotic arm is operatively connected to the stereoscopic camera, the robotic arm being adapted to selectively move the stereoscopic camera relative to the target. The stereoscopic camera includes a lens assembly having at least one lens and defining a working distance. The lens assembly has at least one focus motor adapted to move the at least one lens to selectively vary the working distance. A controller is adapted to selectively execute one or more automatic focusing modes for the stereoscopic camera. The controller has a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The automatic focusing modes include a disparity mode and/or a sharpness control mode which are adapted to at least partially rely on disparity feedback to change the working distance in order to achieve focus.
US11849095B2
A profile creation device that causes a display section to display a display screen displaying an input color space image and an output color space image, the profile creation device includes an acquisition section that acquires first color gamut data indicating a color space related to the input device and second color gamut data indicating a color space related to the output device, an image generating section configured to generate an input color space image of a three dimensional image based on the first color gamut data and an output color space image of a three dimensional image based on the second color gamut data, a display control section configured to generate screen data for displaying the display screen having an image display area for displaying the input color space image and the output color space image generated by the image generating section, and an input and output section for transmitting the screen data generated by the display control section to the display section.
US11849087B2
In the case where a voice control device can communicate with a printing apparatus and a display apparatus, a user is provided with visual presentations of notifications on the display apparatus where print processing instructions are provided to the printing apparatus based on user instructions issued to the voice control device by voice.
US11849075B2
The disclosure discloses a method for processing video signals and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method of processing video signals based on inter prediction, comprising: configuring a merge candidate list based on a spatial neighboring block and a temporal neighboring block to a current block; adding a history-based merge candidate of the current block to the merge candidate list; obtaining a merge index indicating a merge candidate used for an inter prediction of the current block within the merge candidate list; generating a prediction sample of the current block based on motion information of the merge candidate indicated by the merge index; and updating a history-based merge candidate list based on the motion information.
US11849064B1
Methods identifying inbound call traffic anomalies in a telecommunications system are provided. The method includes receiving expected values for data related to the telecommunications system, the data being associated with call detail records; for each metric in the received data, determining if an observed value is outside defined upper and lower thresholds; selecting a set of residuals based on an aggregation of data in the call detail records if the observed value is outside the defined upper and lower thresholds; computing an anomaly score based the selected set of residuals; determining if multiple, serial anomalous alerting windows are needed to create an alert if the computed anomaly score is greater than a minimum anomaly score; and declaring that the data supports an anomaly in the inbound call traffic if it is determined that multiple, serial anomalous alerting windows are not needed to create an alert.
US11849058B2
A display device includes a first display part, a second display part, and a third display part provided between the first display part and the second display part. One of the first display part and the second display part is transparent, and the other of the first display part and the second display part is opaque. The third display part comprises a transparent part and an opaque part, which are mixed therein, and an area ratio of the transparent part and the opaque part in the third display part is gradually changed.
US11849057B1
In various examples, data communications are routed as calls by a set for servers, and the calls are processed in various ways including generating a set of data metrics including communications summary metrics which may related to communications event messages. At least one processing circuit is communicatively coupled to the server set which route incoming calls (e.g., for a plurality of agents in a communications/call center). The processing circuit is configured to receive communications event messages from the server set for communications routed by the server set, generate, during a communication to a first agent of the plurality of agents, a set of data metrics including communications summary metrics based on the communications event messages; and redirect, during the communication to the first agent, the communication to a second agent of the plurality of agents in response to the set of data metrics satisfying a set of criteria indicated in a policy.
US11849052B2
A method for replacing an identity certificate in a blockchain network includes a service subnet, a consensus subnet, and a routing layer used for isolating the service subnet from the consensus subnet. The method includes: receiving a root certificate replacement notification transmitted by a certificate authentication center; obtaining a public key corresponding to the certificate authentication center; verifying the root certificate replacement notification by using the obtained public key; forwarding the root certificate replacement notification to a consensus node in the consensus subnet after the validation succeeds, so that the consensus node records the root certificate replacement notification into a latest data block after a consensus on the root certificate replacement notification is reached; and requesting, when the data block is received, the certificate authentication center to replace an identity certificate. A new identity certificate obtained through requesting is authenticated with a new root certificate of the certificate authentication center.
US11849039B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reporting transactions in a blockchain. The method generally includes instantiating a plurality of worker processes for processing blocks from a blockchain in parallel, Each worker process is generally associated with an offset into a buffer of blocks from the blockchain to be reported to one or more computing resources. A subject block to be reported to the one or more computing resources is selected from the buffer. The subject block is generally a block inserted into the buffer by a worker process. The subject block is validated based on a block number associated with the subject block and a block number of a next block to be reported Based on validating the subject block, the subject block is reported to the one or more computing resources, and the subject block, is marked in the buffer as a reported block.
US11849038B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for providing access to a recovery key of a managed device and rotating the recovery key after it has been accessed. In one example, among others, a system includes a computing device and program instructions. The program instructions can cause the computing device to authenticate a user on the computing device in order to unlock an operating system based on a first recovery key. A key rotation command can be received from the management service. The key rotation command can include an instruction to rotate the first recovery key. The computing device can generate a second recovery key and transmit the second recovery key to the management service.
US11849031B2
A system for data encryption includes any or all of: a set of items, a set of keys, and a server. A method for data encryption includes any or all of: encrypting items, sharing items, and reading items. The method can optionally additionally or alternatively include any or all of: performing a registration process, creating items, restricting access of users and/or supplementary systems to items, and/or any other suitable processes.
US11849027B2
A method including determining, by a device, an assigned key pair including an assigned public key and an assigned private key; determining, by the device for a folder including encrypted content, a folder access key pair including a folder access public key and a folder access private key; encrypting, by the device, the folder access private key by utilizing the assigned public key; and accessing, by the device, the encrypted content based at least in part on decrypting the folder access private key. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11849024B2
A device is suggested for processing input data including a hardware accelerator generating a first hash value based on a first portion of the input data and a second hash value based on a second portion of the input data, wherein the first hash value is generated based on a first configuration of the hardware accelerator and wherein the second hash value is generated based on a second configuration of the hardware accelerator. Also, a method for operating such device is provided.
US11849021B1
A method comprises one or more of measuring metrics of a node during boot up, storing the metrics, generating a signature record from the stored metrics, and broadcasting the signature record when said node initializes a network connection.
US11849019B2
An encryption system comprises a key generation apparatus that generates an encryption key relating to the authority to generate a ciphertext from a plaintext, a homomorphic operation key relating to the authority to execute a homomorphic operation on a ciphertext that remains encrypted and whose authority is weaker than that of the encryption key, and a decryption key relating to the authority to decrypt ciphertext; an encryption apparatus that generates a ciphertext from a plaintext using the encryption key; a homomorphic operation apparatus that executes a homomorphic operation on the ciphertext using the homomorphic operation key; and a decryption apparatus that decrypts ciphertext using the decryption key.
US11849014B2
A first communication device is configured to process packets that conform to a first physical layer (PHY) protocol for wireless vehicular communications and packets that conform to a second PHY protocol for wireless vehicular communications. The first communication device determines that one or more second communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets that conform to the second PHY protocol. The first communication device transmits a first packet to a third communication device that is configured to process packets that conform to the first PHY protocol and packets that conform to the second PHY protocol. The first packet indicates that the one or more second communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets that conform to the second PHY protocol to inform the third communication device of the one or more second communication devices.
US11849009B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station and wireless device may communicate capability information associated with a wireless device. The capability information may include information indicating support for an Ethernet type packet data unit session or header parameter compression. An Ethernet type packet data unit session may be instantiated based on the capability information.
US11849008B2
Disclosed are various examples for providing network content filtering to client devices on a per-application basis. A client device is identified. Then the client device is authenticated by the device management service. If the client device is not authenticated, a user interface will facilitate the enrollment process on the client device to authenticate the client device with the management service. Then, an authentication token is received. The management application receives a request from an application to initiate a network connection. Based at least in part on the identity of the application and the client device, the management application routes network traffic associated with the application and the network connection using or without using a managed network tunnel.
US11849002B1
Assigning privacy ratings to tracking domains in order to increase user awareness of online privacy violations. A list of known tracking domains and raw data from a set of host websites may be received. A prevalence, frequency, and role for each tracking domain may be determined from the raw data. Each tracking domain may be assigned to a prevalence cluster, a frequency cluster, and a role cluster. A rank may be determined for each prevalence cluster, frequency cluster, and role cluster. A domain privacy rating may be assigned to each tracking domain that is based on the ranks of the clusters to which each tracking domain is assigned. A privacy action may be performed based on the domain privacy rating assigned to each tracking domain.
US11848999B2
A request to activate a service may be received from a user device and a determination may be made as to whether the request is authorized or fraudulent. In particular, a geographical location of the user device may be determined. Whether to activate the service may be determined based on the geographical location of the user device.
US11848995B2
In some embodiments, a method detects a state of a first session between a first workload and a second workload. The first workload and the second workload send packets in the first session via a first path to maintain a state of the first session. When the state of the first session indicates the first workload is down, the method receives information for network metrics of network traffic being sent in the first path. The method determines when the second workload should transition from a standby mode to an active mode to take over as an active workload in an active/standby configuration between the first workload and the second workload based on the information for the network metrics.
US11848988B2
A self-describing data format capable of carrying payload information, such as Tuxedo payload information, as well as filter information. The data format can allow for expression of some or all of Tuxedo Typed Buffers, including STRING, CARRAY, MBSTRING, VIEW, VIEW32, FML, and FML32. The data format is also capable of supporting nesting and error-checking. The proposal of user payload collection can allow customers to siphon off user/payload data to be used in applications, such as Business Intelligence applications, without the need for additional information to be passed with the payload data.
US11848974B1
A split streaming system and method are provided in which a stream of data (that can be video, audio or textual data) is split and sent over a plurality of stream reflectors to a stream recipient. Each stream reflector performs time gradient replacement to manage the split streaming.
US11848965B2
Methods and apparatus for secure software defined storage are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory and a processor to access a read request for data written to a software defined storage location, obtain the requested data from the software defined storage location, perform a classification operation on the requested data to obtain classification data corresponding to the requested data, the classification data to represent whether the requested data includes personally identifiable information, in response to determining that the requested data includes personally identifiable information, apply data loss prevention to the requested data to create response data, determine whether a client requesting the data from the software defined storage location is authorized to access the requested data, and in response to determining that the client requesting data is authorized to access the requested data, transmit the response data to the client.
US11848961B2
This disclosure provides for a network element (in the middle) to inject enrichments into SSL connections, and for taking them out. This network element is sometimes referred to herein as a “middle box.” In the context of layered software architecture, this solution preferably is implemented by a library that operates below the SSL layer and above the TCP sockets layer at the two endpoints of the SSL connection. Preferably, the SSL enrichments are implemented as SSL/TLS records.
US11848959B2
The disclosure provides a method for detecting and defending a Distributed Denial of Service attack in an SDN environment. The method includes: building data messages acquired as feature messages by a proxy module; sending the feature messages to a pre-built detection model to obtain a detection result; making a decision instruction based on the detection result; and performing control operations by the proxy module based on the decision instruction.
US11848953B1
A network compromise activity monitoring system includes a network connector, a compromise activity analyzer, and a compromise defender. The network connector has a public network port, at least one private network port, and an associated network connector traffic log concerning data packet traffic of the network connector. The compromise activity analyzer has access to suspect destination metadata, egress traffic metadata, and network device metadata, and is operative to determine a compromise activity level of one or more devices coupled to the at least one private network port. The compromise defender is responsive to the determined compromise activity level of the one or more devices and is operative to at least one of block, alert and notify in accordance with at least one rule.
US11848938B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, aspects of the disclosure provide efficient, effective, and convenient ways of uploading and authenticating content. In particular, a user device may receive validating information from a wireless networking device. The user or client device may record a content item, and may insert a validation tag based on the validating information. The user or client device may then send the content item to the wireless networking device. The wireless networking device may receive the content item at a first location and may determine the validity of the content item based on the validating information. The user device may continually interact with wireless networking devices as it travels to continually upload content items while establishing the validity of the time and location of the content items.
US11848935B2
Disclosed are various examples for dynamically generating restriction profiles for updated software platforms. A management system can determine that updated restrictions and/or settings are included in an updated or new version of a definition file. The updated settings identified and categorized according to risk for a given enterprise group without administrator input. An updated restriction profile can be generated according to the updated settings and distributed to managed devices.
US11848931B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for delegating authentication to certificate authorities. A connector service identifies a certificate request from a messenger service. The certificate request includes a credential identifier for a certificate authority. An authentication credential is retrieved using the credential identifier. A certificate request and the certificate authority authentication credential are transmitted to the certificate authority. A certificate is retrieved and provided as a response to the certificate request.
US11848928B2
An anonymous authentication service for an invulnerable secret key authentication and encryption token distribution service. Applications place a small code segment within their communications protocol, thereby allowing network participants the full benefit of perfectly secure authenticated and encrypted message traffic without concern for third party key management. This is the world's first participant-managed, independent-trust secure messaging key distribution capability.
US11848926B2
A method for determining an access right of a user terminal to a first network, wherein the user terminal (110) includes a subscription of a second network (150). The method includes: receiving (310) an access request message (240) including a data record for a user name and a data record for a password; determining (320) that the records are in a pre-determined format and that at least one of them includes data from which a subscriber identity for the second network is derivable; generating (330) an authentication request message from the access server (140) to a server (160) configured to perform authentication related tasks in the second network; receiving (340) information on the outcome of the authentication of the subscriber in the second network, generating (350) an acknowledgement to the user terminal (110) indicating right to access to the first network.
US11848924B2
Systems and methods for implementing multi-factor system-to-system authentication using secure execution environments. An example method comprises: determining, by a first computing system, using a secure execution environment, a measure of one or more computing processes running on the first computing system; presenting, to a second computing system, a first authentication factor derived from the measure; computing, using the secure execution environment, a second authentication factor derived from at least one of: one or more first data items received from the second computing system, one or more confidential second data items received from one or more third computing systems, or one or more public data items received from one or more fourth computing systems; and presenting the second authentication factor to the second computing system.
US11848923B2
Secure peer-to-peer connection network and/or protocols for a group-based communication system, in which, a peer-to-peer connection request associated with a first identifier for a first client device and a second identifier for a second client device are received. The first identifier and the second identifier are compared to a group-based communication system validation registry associated with the group-based communication system and, based at least in part on a determination that the peer-to-peer connection request is authorized per the group-based communication system validation registry, a peer-to-peer connection between the second client device and the first client device is established.
US11848916B2
A secure electronic messaging system includes processors coupled to a network, and constituent applications, services, and processes configured to securely exchange messages between participants such as hosts and recipients, and to protect personally identifying information (PII). The system and processor(s) are configured to generate a deanonymization probability (DP) for an anonymized dataset (ADS) responsive to a query received from the network, and to generate the ADS with pseudoidentities of recipients, when the DP does not exceed a predetermined DP threshold (DPT). The system thereby reduces the probability that the ADS and or pseudoidentities can be deanonymized, and thereby enables secure message exchanges between the participants, while protecting and without sharing the PII of participant identities. When DPs exceed the DPT, the system generates error messages, and or alternative queries that generate ADSs with DPs that do not exceed the DPT.
US11848911B2
Systems and methods are provided for distributing a domain name service (DNS) response cache in a DNS resolving system on a network. The systems and methods described herein may improve response times for client queries and also protect the DNS resolving system from DNS related cyber attacks.
US11848909B2
Techniques for providing more efficient onboarding traffic protocols in a standalone non-public network architecture are provided. A network entity includes processing circuitry and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processing circuitry, cause the network entity at least to generate one or more traffic filter rules for a traffic filter set. The one or more traffic filter rules or traffic detection rules are generated based at least in part on domain name service query response information related to one or more user device originated domain name service queries. The network entity may further be configured to cause a user plane function to be provided with the one or more traffic filter rules.
US11848897B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for configuring at least one subband comprising subband full-duplex (SB-FD) resource for an uplink transmission associated with a user equipment (UE), wherein the SB-FD resource overlap at least partially with a downlink data in a time domain and transmitting a configuration message for the subband full-duplex resource for the uplink transmission.
US11848893B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for cell group configuration and backhaul coordination for remote interference management. Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for communications by a base station (BS). The BS receives a first configuration configuring a cell in at least one group of cells and configuring the cell with a group identification (ID). The BS receives a second configuration configuring the cell for at least one of: remote interference management reference signal (RIM-RS) transmission or RIM-RS detection. The BS performs a remote interference management procedure based on at least the first configuration and the second configuration.
US11848892B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in wireless transmission. A User Equipment (UE) receives a first radio signal, then detects a low-latency signaling in L1 time intervals respectively, and transmits first HARQ-ACK information. The low-latency signaling includes a first field, and the first field is used for determining a relationship between a low-latency HARQ-ACK bit group and a first HARQ-ACK bit group. The first HARQ-ACK information includes part or all of HARQ-ACK bits in the first HARQ-ACK bit group. Through the design of the first field, the information in the first HARQ-ACK bit group can be put into the low-latency HARQ-ACK bit group to transmit, thereby optimizing the transmission of the Uplink Control Information (UCI) for HARQ-ACK, reducing the resource overhead and power overhead for the transmission of the UCI, and improving the overall system performance and spectrum efficiency.
US11848874B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may identify time and frequency resources for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to be transmitted to a user equipment (UE) in a first transmission time interval (TTI). The base station may transmit configuration information for a control channel search space set in a second TTI. The second TTI may precede the first TTI. The configuration information may include an indication of an absence of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission to send in the control channel search space set indicating the identified time and frequency resources for the PDSCH, and a set of time and frequency resources for the control channel search space set. The UE may receive the configuration information and identify the time and frequency resources allocated for the PDSCH in the second TTI, and receive the PDSCH transmission in the second TTI.
US11848873B2
A router fabric for switching real time broadcast video signals in a media processing network includes a logic device configured to route multiple channels of packetized video signals to another network device, a crossbar switch configured to be coupled to a plurality of input/output components and to switch video data of the multiple channels between the logic device and the plurality of input/output components in response to a control instruction, and a controller configured to map routing addresses for each video signal relative to the system clock, and to send the control instruction with the mapping to the crossbar switch and the logic device.
US11848866B2
Systems and methods are described for effectively managing and maintaining a communication network by monitoring communications to detect a loop condition, and effectively route the communication to one or more destinations known to reduce or eliminate the occurrence of a looping condition.
US11848860B2
Devices, systems, methods, and techniques for multicast failover handling in a computer communication network are disclosed. The methods herein described are particularly suited to software-defined networks (SDNs), and comply with requirements for assuring delivery of network traffic to each destination from a source engaged in multicast network traffic dissemination, assured delivery of each data packet as introduced into the network by the source device and avoidance of duplicate delivery of data. The methods herein are agile and respond rapidly to changes in a network while traffic is on the network.
US11848846B2
Jitter buffer size management is performed by receiving, by a network device, a stream of media content packets. Each packet characterized by a timestamp applied at a source. The device determines, for each of at least one consecutive timestamped packet pair of the stream, a difference between the timestamps of packets in the pair. The device estimates a packetization time (ptime) of the stream as a function of each determined difference. The device adjusts size of the jitter buffer as a function of the estimated ptime.
US11848845B2
Described herein is a system and method for testing a computing device, such as a server, to minimize network impact. A computing device that is new or needs to be evaluated, such as an edge server, in a content delivery network may be determined and a sibling edge server which shares a common characteristic with the edge server may be selected. Requests received on the sibling edge server may be collected and filtered to determine a subset of the requests. The subset of the requests are transmitted to the edge server for processing and evaluation.
US11848841B2
A metrics collecting method includes: obtaining metrics configuration information, the metrics configuration information including information of a metrics reporting time segment; generating metrics reporting configuration information of a media streaming service; and transmitting the metrics reporting configuration information to a user equipment to cause the user equipment to perform metrics reporting of the media streaming service. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure may control the metrics reporting of the user equipment with enhanced flexibity.
US11848834B2
A monitoring system for mapping and monitoring inter-application communications in a computing ecosystem is described. The monitoring system provides consolidated visibility to computing ecosystems by providing end-to-end mapping and monitoring of inter-application communications and events, changes, incidents, and status information of applications, services, and systems. As described, the monitoring system is configured to (a) identify communication paths linking the host devices, (b) generate an ecosystem map based on the communication paths, (c) transmit a monitoring signal to the network, (d) receive a monitoring response from the host devices in response to the monitoring signal including at least a first status, (e) process the monitoring response with the ecosystem map to generate an active ecosystem map, and (f) display the active ecosystem map including the host devices and at least one status associated with the host devices. As such, the monitoring system provides consolidated visibility to the ecosystem.
US11848829B2
Computing systems, for example, multi-tenant systems create data centers in a cloud platform using a cloud platform infrastructure language that is cloud platform independent. The system receives a cloud platform independent declarative specification describing a new datacenter to be created or modifications to an existing datacenter deployed on a cloud platform. The system compiles the cloud platform independent declarative specification to generate a metadata representation of the data center. If the datacenter is existing, the system generates a metadata representation representing modifications to the datacenter to obtain a desired datacenter. The system sends the metadata representation and a set of instructions for execution on a target cloud platform. The target cloud platform executes the instructions to configure the data center. The system provides users with access to the computing resources of the data center configured by the target cloud platform.
US11848820B1
Techniques, methods, and systems for managing a set of data network nodes in a Network Management System (NMS). In some examples, a method may include receiving, at the network orchestrator, a service invocation for a service transaction associated with a transaction object; storing, by the network orchestrator, service metadata as part of the transaction object; determining whether there is a service metadata conflict associated with the transaction object; and in response to determining that there is the service metadata conflict associated with the transaction object, retrying the service transaction; or in response to determining that there is no service metadata conflict associated with the transaction object, applying the service metadata to one or more nodes of the set of data nodes.
US11848816B2
The present disclosure provides techniques for optimizing power consumption of Massive-Internet of Things (IoT) devices comprising a plurality of IoT devices. According to some examples, a power optimizer system may obtain one or more operational parameters of a plurality of IoT devices. The power optimizer system may estimate a Power Cost Function (PCF) based on one or more operational parameters to determine power consumption of each IoT device. The power optimizer system may determine a variation in the PCF of one or more IoT devices out of the plurality of IoT devices due to variations in uplink and downlink operations of each IoT device. The power optimizer system may identify one or more optimal operational parameters and then, configure the one or more IoT devices of the plurality of IoT devices with the one or more optimal operational parameters.
US11848814B2
In various examples, description data may be used by an engine to correlate a subset of alarms representing a network incident. A machine learning model may then be used to predict a likelihood that one or more of the alarms within the subset is a root cause of the network incident. This root cause may then be displayed on a graphical user interface. As a result, alarm fatigue experienced by network administrators may be reduced.
US11848813B2
A radio transmission device for the radio transmission of an interrogation signal based on a signal to be amplified is provided. This method comprises a generator for generating a signal to be amplified, and a selection block for selecting a type of interrogation signal to be transmitted from among at least two different types of signals. The generator for generating a signal to be amplified is configured so as to allow transmission of the signal to be amplified so as to generate the interrogation signal corresponding to the selected type of interrogation signal.
US11848806B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit to receive and downconvert a RF signal to a second frequency signal, the RF signal comprising an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission; a digitizer coupled to the RF front end circuit to digitize the second frequency signal to a digital signal; and a baseband processor coupled to the digitizer to process the digital signal. The baseband circuit comprises a first circuit having a first plurality of correlators having an irregular comb structure, each of the first plurality of correlators associated with a carrier frequency offset and to calculate a first correlation on a first portion of a preamble of the OFDM transmission.
US11848805B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support guard interval (GI) configurations for multiple links. For example, a user equipment (UE) may determine a first GI duration for a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second GI duration for a second TRP, when the UE is operating in a multi-TRP mode. The UE may determine the GI durations based on a difference in timing between signal reception from the first and second TRPs and may transmit a signal to one or both of the TRPs to indicate the GI durations. Based on the indicated GI durations, the first and second TRPs may transmit signaling to the UE that includes or implements the corresponding GI duration for each TRP. For example, the signaling may include a GI appended at the end of each symbol period that has a GI duration corresponding to the respective TRP.
US11848793B2
Techniques and devices for expressing multicast groups using Weave traits are described for generating a multicast address in which a wireless network device receives an application group identifier and hashes the application group identifier to generate a group identifier. The wireless network device concatenates a global identifier and a Weave fabric identifier, inserts the concatenated global identifier and the Weave fabric identifier into a network prefix field of a destination address and inserts the group identifier into a group identifier field of the destination address. The wireless network device sets the value of a plen field of the destination address to a value that indicates a length of the Weave fabric identifier and inserts the destination address into an Internet Protocol version 6 data packet.
US11848788B1
AI-based fault detection, localization, and correction can improve message reliability in 5G and 6G communications by enabling the rapid recovery of faulted messages without wasting precious time and power on an unnecessary retransmission. The waveform of a received message is rich with information implicating the faulted message elements and, in many cases, suggesting the corrected value. In examples, message recovery can be based on the amplitude of the received waveform, its phase, any pathological variations in noise or in frequency or in polarization, and on inter-symbol transition regions, to list just a few waveform fault indicators revealing the fault locations. In addition, the AI model, or an algorithm derived from it, can discern the intent or meaning of a message, as well as its form and format, the bitwise content, the sequence of characters, and other error flags indicating which parts of the message are faulted.
US11848786B2
A method and a status manager for controlling status reporting from a data receiving node in a wireless communication of data with a data sending node. When detecting that the data receiving node should transmit a status report to the data sending node before a prescribed time limit expires, the data receiving node is triggered to transmit the status report either together with data if the data is pending for transmission from the data receiving node when the time left before the prescribed time limit is greater than a minimum duration, or alone if no data is pending when the time left before the time limit becomes shorter than the minimum duration.
US11848778B2
A polar code may be initially divided into multiple polar component codes where the features of these component codes, such as the number of component codes and the size of the component codes, are determined based on parameters such as the number of available timing units within a transmission interval, interleaving depth, and decoder capability. For each selected component code, the order of code bit generation and their indexes may be determined. The determined indexes may be assigned into different, unique groups according to the order of code bit generation. An interleaving operation may be configured and then executed according to the determined index grouping. In the transmission phase, the code bits may be transmitted based on the identified order of the bit generation in the component polar codes, such as the determined index grouping.
US11848772B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a rate-matching pattern associated with shortened transmission lengths for a plurality of sidelink component carriers in a sidelink carrier aggregation. The UE may perform a sidelink transmission to a second UE with a shortened transmission length on a sidelink component carrier of the plurality of sidelink component carriers based at least in part on the rate-matching pattern. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11848771B2
An encoding method, a decoding method, an encoding device and a decoding device are provided. The encoding method includes: obtaining a first bit stream of an original encoded data; determining whether a number of the successive bits is greater than a predetermined number; if the number of the successive bits is greater than the predetermined number, then selecting at least one target bit from the successive bits; performing a logic NOT operation on the target bit to obtain a symbol bit; and inserting the symbol bit to the successive bits to obtain an encoded bit stream. The present disclosure could raise the encoding speed and reliability.
US11848768B2
Systems and methods for enabling various devices to remotely interact with cloud-based client applications are provided. A method comprises receiving a first request from a first client device of a user to initiate an interactive session with a cloud-based client application, reserving an application engine for executing the cloud-based client application remotely from the first client device, receiving interaction data from the first client device as the user engages with a first media data associated with the cloud-based client application, modifying the cloud-based client application executing within the application engine that is reserved based on the interaction data received from the first client device, receiving a second request from the first client device to end the interactive session with the cloud-based client application that is modified, and deallocating the application engine that is reserved, wherein the application engine that is reserved is delinked from the first client device.
US11848766B2
Sessions are core components of communication between communicating systems, which may include, for example, a client device and a server. A network device can be used to monitor and analyze session information that is transmitted in a client-server communication. Visibility into the session information and the traffic flow of a network device is critical to improve the performance and security of the network device and the transmission of information in the client-server communication. A lack of visibility into the session information can reduce security, leading to viruses, malware, and malfunctions.
US11848763B2
A secure executable container executed by a network device establishes a two-way trusted relationship in a secure peer-to-peer data network with a network entity, generates a secure key for the network device in the secure peer-to-peer data network, and associates the endpoint device with a federation identifier identifying the user entity in the secure peer-to-peer data network. The secure executable container also: establishes a two-way trusted relationship between the network device and a target network device; obtains, based on the two-way trusted relationship, cohort interface element definition describing commands executable by the target network device; and generates a data object identifying a selected command from the commands and identifying an identifier for the target network device as a subscriber to the data object, causing the target network device to securely retrieve and execute the selected command.
US11848761B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computer program products for providing a virtual network within an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access via an IETM viewer to technical documentation for an item. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: receiving data from a graphical code as a result of a user scanning the code; and responsive to receiving the data: identifying virtual networks supported within the IETM that are available for the user to join and are associated with a specific object of the item; providing an identifier for each of the virtual networks; receiving selection of an identifier for a particular virtual network; and responsive to receiving the selection, joining the user to the virtual network so that content that is specific to the object associated with the virtual network is available to the user via the IETM.
US11848756B1
Techniques and apparatus for optimizing communications between computing devices are described. An example technique includes determining one or more parameters of a communication between a first computing device and a second computing device. At least one of a networking stack or a communication protocol that will meet a target set of criteria for the communication is predicted, based on evaluating the one or more parameters with at least one machine learning model. An indication of at least one of the networking stack or the communication protocol is transmitted.
US11848754B1
The disclosed technology teaches a method for delegating user access to one of a set of decentralized networked nodes that share a private permissioned blockchain data structure or a decentralized personal ledger. The method also includes a credentialing logic configured to receive from one of a set of decentralized networked nodes, authority to access a network node to invoke services that conduct operations using a private permissioned blockchain data structure or decentralized personal ledger to which access has been limited to users authorized by one of the set of decentralized networked nodes; and an access delegation logic configured to create a delegation of at least some of the authority to access the network node for a limited duration of time and to send the delegation to a recipient identified to receive delegated authority.
US11848749B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include systems for optimizing a network environment that is synchronized with a precise time source. For example, a disclosed system can increase the accuracy and efficiency of the network environment with a method for smoothly handing off synchronization control within a group of time servers, each projecting a precise time. Additionally, another disclosed system can further increase the accuracy and efficiency of the network environment with a method for optimizing the latencies of the network environment when scheduling and routing tasks among the network environment members. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11848748B2
An apparatus and method for enhancing broadcast radio includes a DNN trained on data sets of audio created from a synthesized broadcasting process and original source audio. Broadcast radio signals are received at a radio module and processed through the DNN to produce enhanced audio.
US11848744B2
A wireless device receives, from a base station, access network information. The wireless device determines, based on the access network information, an access network type. The wireless device selects, based on the access network type, a non-access stratum (NAS) period value from between a first NAS period value associated with a terrestrial network (TN) access network type; and a second NAS period value associated with a geostationary earth orbit (GEO) access network type. The wireless device sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a first NAS request message. The wireless device starts, based on the sending the first NAS request message, a NAS period using the NAS period value.
US11848736B2
Herein described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for measurement and reporting of channel state information within wireless network systems. In embodiments, an apparatus for a user equipment (UE) may include memory to store a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI) of channel state information (CSI) for the UE. The apparatus may further include circuitry to concatenate the RI, the PMI, and the CQI to produce a concatenated CSI element, generate a CSI report that includes the concatenated CSI element, and cause the CSI report to be transmitted to a base station within a single slot. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11848725B2
Near field communication (NFC) methods, systems, and devices are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, the method includes providing a first NFC device including a NFC antenna, and transmitting a radio frequency (RF) signal including a RF carrier signal by way of the NFC antenna. Also, the method includes receiving a first resonant signal after the transmitting has ceased, and processing the first resonant signal to generate a first portion of transformed signal information. Further, the method includes identifying one or both of a first state and a first event based at least in part upon or associated with the first portion of the transformed signal information.
US11848724B2
A network-enabled smart apparatus has a data processing system, at least one operational system, wide area and local network communication interfaces, and a memory. The memory has stored therein apparatus identification information, at least one service application, and an activation application. The activation application causes the data processing system to establish an internet connection and create an NFC-enabled web page. The data processing system transmits, to the user device instructions to navigate to the NFC-enabled web page and instructions for the user to tap an NFC-enabled smart card to the user device. The apparatus data processing system reads, via the NFC-enabled web page, NFC information transmitted to the user device by the smart transaction card. The application causes the apparatus to transmit the NFC information to a service administration server, and receive, from the service administration server, a service activation command. The application responsively activates at least one service application.
US11848711B2
Embodiments are disclosed for facilitating quantum computing over classical and quantum communication channels. An example system includes a network interface card (NIC) apparatus. The NIC apparatus includes an optical receiver, an embedded processor, and a network switch. The optical receiver is configured to receive qubit data via a first communication channel associated with quantum communication. The embedded processor is configured to convert the qubit data into binary bit data. The network switch is configured to output the binary bit data via a second communication channel associated with classical network communication.
US11848701B2
A station-side telescope included in a station-side optical antenna unit is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a guide light source is configured to emit guide light in a direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, a node-side telescope is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a node-side control unit included in a node-side optical antenna unit is configured to generate and output a control signal for moving a node-side base based on a position of the guide light included in an image obtained by a camera capturing the guide light emitted by the guide light source so that a direction of orientation of the node-side telescope faces the direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, an antenna drive unit is configured to receive the control signal and generate and output a drive signal based on the control signal, and the node-side base included in the node-side optical antenna unit is configured to support the node-side telescope and receive the drive signal to change a direction of orientation of the node-side telescope.
US11848683B2
Disclosed are an encoder, a transmission device, and an encoding method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block encoding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit (620) searches for a puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of a sub block matrix that forms a check matrix (H) of a QC-LDPC code, and a puncture unit (data reduction unit) (630) switches the puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of the sub block matrix that forms the check matrix of the QC-LDPC code.
US11848681B2
Disclosed successive approximation register analog-to-digital converters (SAR ADCs) and conversion methods detect a statistical effect of meta-stability induced errors and limit the level of such errors. One illustrative integrated circuit chip includes: a SAR ADC that employs asynchronous bit cycles to convert a sequence of analog signal samples into a sequence of digital signal samples; and a detector that accelerates the asynchronous bit cycles when a meta-stability error bias exceeds a predetermined threshold. An illustrative analog-to-digital conversion method includes: converting a sequence of analog signal samples to a sequence of digital signal samples using a successive approximation register analog to digital converter (SAR ADC) with asynchronous bit cycles; deriving a meta-stability error bias from the sequence of digital signal samples; and accelerating the asynchronous bit cycles when the meta-stability error bias exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11848679B2
The present application discloses a circuit for generating spread-spectrum synchronous clock signal. The circuit includes a frequency detector comprising a fraction controller configured to compare an input signal of a first frequency with a feedback signal of a second frequency in a loop of feedback to generate a first control signal and a second control signal alternately for determining a control word to track the first frequency and a phase-shift controller configured to register n levels for the first control signal and the second control signal to introduce n phase delays for changing a fraction part of the control word randomly to provide a broadened boundary. The circuit also includes a digitally controlled oscillator configured to generate a synthesized periodic signal based on a base time unit, the first frequency, and the control word, with the second frequency being locked within the broadened boundary of the first frequency.
US11848678B2
In described examples, an amplifier can be arranged to generate a first stage output signal in response to an input signal. The input signal can be coupled to control a first current coupled from a first current source through a common node to generate the first stage output signal. A replica circuit can be arranged to generate a replica load signal in response to the input signal and in response to current received from the common node. A current switch can be arranged to selectively couple a second current from a second current source to the common node in response to the replica load signal.
US11848672B2
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes: a voting circuit including N scan flip-flops, where N is an odd number greater than or equal to 3, and where the N scan flip-flops includes a first scan flip-flop and a second scan flip-flop, where an output of the first scan flip-flop is coupled to a scan input of the second scan flip-flop; a scan chain including the N scan flip-flops of the voting circuit, and third and fourth scan flip-flops, the scan chain configured to receive a scan enable signal; and a scan enable control circuit configured to control a scan enable input of the first or second scan flip-flops based on the scan enable signal and based on a scan input of the third scan flip-flop or an output of the fourth scan flip-flop.
US11848653B2
A system to control convergence of a loop to a reference value. A device, under control of the control loop, generates an output signal. A comparator compares the output signal to a reference value. Responsive to the output signal being less than the reference value, outputting an up signal and, responsive to the output signal being greater than the reference value, outputting a down signal. A counter is configured to maintain a counter value which is incremented in response to an up signal and decremented in response to a down signal. The counter outputs a gain control value. An up/down signal tracker is configured to track a pattern of up signals and down signals and compare the tracked pattern to one or more predetermined patterns such that, responsive to the up signals and down signals matching one of the one or more predetermined patterns, the counter size is decreased.
US11848644B2
A resistor-capacitor oscillation circuit includes a first group of inverters, a second group of inverters, a latch, a delay circuit, and a third group of inverters. The first group of the inverters is connected to the delay circuit and is configured to generate a first signal A and a second signal B. An input end of the second group of the inverters is connected to an enable signal EN. An output end of the second group of the inverters is connected to the latch. An output end of the delay circuit is connected to the latch. The latch is connected to the third group of the inverters and includes a first output end and a second output end. After a first clock signal FB is driven by the third group of the inverters, an output signal CLK is output by an output end of the third group.
US11848639B1
Surface mount assembly for mounting to a solar panel frame to an installation surface is disclosed. In some embodiments, a surface mount assembly includes a base and an enclosure. The base includes a lower member and an upper member. The lower member could include a brace, a center aperture extending through the lower and upper members for receiving a fastener to facilitate the mounting to a solar panel frame; the upper member could include a hub from which a plurality of arms may extend. The mount enclosure could include a chamber with a chamber aperture for receiving a fastener from the surface mount, a post support extending upward from the chamber and forming a post aperture for receiving a post, and a horizontal member with one or more sealant grooves extending horizontal outward from the chamber.
US11848636B2
A multi-rail system for mounting solar modules to a surface, such as a roof, uses two rails to support a first row of solar modules, and a single rail to support each subsequent row of solar modules. Splices connect edges of solar modules between rows, providing support along one edge of the solar modules for the subsequent rows.
US11848631B2
A motor-integrated inverter is provided. The inverter includes a motor with a shaft disposed in a horizontal direction, and a power module configured to generate driving power for driving the motor and coupled to the motor in a direction in which the shaft is disposed.
US11848627B2
This MEMS beam structure that elastically supports a movable section displaced in a first direction includes: a first beam section and a second beam section extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a linking section that connects the tip of the first beam section and the tip of the second beam section that is connected to the movable section, wherein the first beam section and the second beam section each have a shape as a beam of uniform strength, and the beam section root of the second beam section is displaced relatively in the first direction with respect to the beam section root of the first beam section according to the displacement of the movable section in the first direction.
US11848625B2
The present invention is directed to providing an electrostatic actuator that can generate a large electrostatic force even if composed of a ribbon-shaped electrode film. In an electrostatic actuator 10, 20 including a ribbon-shaped first electrode film 11 and a ribbon-shaped second electrode film 12, a plurality of first electrodes 1 formed of the first electrode film 11 and a plurality of second electrodes 2 formed of the second electrode film 12 are folded and laminated between one end 13 and the other end 14 of the electrostatic actuator 10, 20, and the plurality of first electrodes 1 include a pair of end electrodes 1a that are adjacent to each other in a direction in which the first electrode film 11 extends in a ribbon shape and are respectively positioned at the one end 13 and the other end 14 when laminated and at least one intermediate electrode 1b that is positioned between the end electrodes 1a when laminated.
US11848622B2
An electronic device has a primary loop circuit that includes a main circuit causing a current to flow in a loop shape; and a secondary loop circuit that is disposed to face the primary loop circuit at a predetermined distance, and causes an induced current generated by a magnetic field generated in the primary loop circuit to flow in a loop shape.
US11848615B2
This power supply IC is a semiconductor integrated circuit device serving as a main part for controlling a switching power supply and is formed by integrating a feedback resistor and an output feedback control unit on a single semiconductor substrate, said feedback resistor generating a feedback voltage by dividing the output voltage of the switching power supply (or the induced voltage appearing across an auxiliary winding provided on the primary side of a transformer included in an insulation-type switching power supply), said output feedback control unit performing output feedback control of the switching power supply in accordance with the feedback voltage. The feedback resistor is a polysilicon resistor having a withstand voltage of 100 V or more. A high-voltage region having higher withstand voltage in the substrate thickness direction than the other region is formed in the semiconductor substrate, and the feedback resistor is formed on the high-voltage region.
US11848612B2
A power converter is presented. The power converter may be configured to receive an input voltage at an input node of the power converter and to generate an output voltage at an output node of the power converter. The power converter may comprise an inductor coupled between an inductor node and the output node. The power converter may comprise a flying capacitor coupled between a first capacitor node and a second capacitor node. The power converter may comprise a first switching element coupled between the input node and the first capacitor node. The power converter may comprise a second switching element coupled between the second capacitor node and the inductor node. The power converter may be configured to, during a first phase of a buck operation mode, open the second switching element such that the second capacitor node is isolated from the inductor node.
US11848603B2
An apparatus includes a controller configured to generate a PWM signal for controlling a power switch of a forward converter, a bias switch and a bias capacitor connected in series and coupled to a bias winding of the forward converter, and a comparator having a first input connected to the bias capacitor, a second input connected to a predetermined reference and an output configured to generate a signal for controlling the bias switch to allow a magnetizing current from the bias winding to charge the bias capacitor when a voltage across the bias capacitor is less than the predetermined reference.
US11848601B1
A ripple reduction circuit for use with an AC/DC power supply providing an output voltage to a load is presented. The ripple reduction circuit includes an input terminal for receiving the output voltage and a low pass filter. The low pass filter is used to filter an AC component of the output voltage to obtain a filtered DC voltage. The ripple reduction circuit generates a reference current based on the filtered DC voltage and a control voltage having an AC component in phase with the AC component of the output voltage.
US11848597B2
An electric motor with a deep-drawn motor housing including a flange adjoining an opening, the flange being polygonal or substantially polygonal in cross section with flange corners each including a screw-on point, each of the flange corners includes two embossments which define a bending edge of the motor housing between the screw-on point and an opening of the motor housing.
US11848596B2
An actuator assembly includes one or more conductive coils each positioned in a movable supporting frame configured to be coupled to a load. A pair of permanent magnets are located on each side of each of the coils to provide opposite polarity magnetic fields to each of the coils. A drive circuit is coupled to the each of coils and configured to supply a drive current to each of the conductive coils. A controller is coupled to each of the coils through the drive circuit and is configured to independently control the drive current supplied to each of the coils to provide movement of the supporting frame to provide a force to the load, based on the opposite polarity fields and the drive current, wherein the movement of the supporting frame is in proportion to an amplitude and polarity of the drive current.
US11848588B2
A motor integrated with a control unit having an efficiency in cooling by allowing the heat generated by the motor to be radiated away from the motor. Heat generated from the control unit is separately radiated away from the control unit. The motor integrated with the control unit can be utilized in water pumps.
US11848587B2
The present invention relates to a rotary micromotor (10) designed for actuating an abrasive blade (4) of a surgical or dental tool, the motor comprising a rotor (11) co-operating with a stator (12), and being characterized in that the rotor (11) has a hollow central tubular portion, and comprises an outwardly polarized Halbach array.
US11848586B2
This vibration actuator has: a stationary body having a coil; a movable body having a magnet disposed radially inside the coil; and an elastic support part for supporting the movable body so that the movable body can move relative to the stationary body. The stationary body has a coil holding part. The coil holding part has, on the inner diameter side of the coil, a coil protection wall part. The elastic support part has at least two or more plate springs bridged between the coil holding part and the movable body so as to sandwich the movable body in a vibration direction. In order that the movable body does not come into contact with the coil holding part when not vibrating and when vibrating, the plate springs support the movable body so that the movable body is movable in the vibration direction.
US11848580B2
Systems and methods are described for managing charging and discharging of battery packs. In one or more aspects, a system and method are provided to minimize overcharging of battery cells of specific battery chemistries while still enabling fast charging cycles. In other aspects, a buck converter may be used to reduce a voltage of power used to charge the cells. In further aspects, a fast overcurrent protection circuit is described to address situations involving internal short circuits of a battery cell or battery pack. In yet further aspects, a bypass circuit is provided in series-connected battery packs to improve the charging of undercharged battery packs while also increasing the efficiency of the overall charging process. In other aspects, a circuit is provided that permits a controller to determine a configuration of battery packs. In yet further aspects, a system may determine a discharge current for a collection of battery packs based on each battery pack's state of health (SOH) and forward that determination to an external device.
US11848571B2
A convenient electronic circuit in which a switch is able to be switched through electric power obtained by weak radio waves is provided. An electronic circuit includes: a power supply configured to output direct current (DC) electric power; a switch connected between the power supply and a load driven by DC electric power supplied from the power supply and configured to switch a connection state between the power supply and the load from a non-conduction state to a conduction state; an power input terminal to which electric power obtained by radio waves received by an antenna capable of receiving the radio waves is input; a DC power output terminal configured to output DC electric power, a power conversion circuit configured to convert electric power input to the power input terminal into DC electric power and output the converted electric power from the DC power output terminal; an input terminal connected to the DC power output terminal of the power conversion circuit; an output terminal connected to the switch and configured to control a connection state of the switch; and a control circuit configured to control a connection state of the switch to be in a conduction state when the power conversion circuit outputs DC electric power due to the reception of radio waves by the antenna.
US11848570B1
A Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system may transfer power, without mechanical contact, underwater between a transmitter device and a receiver device or multiple receiver devices in long ranges (>1 meters). An exemplary embodiment may employ focused acoustic sound wave to transfer wireless power underwater over long distances. An embodiment may include a transmitter and receiving device with onboard electronics that effectively power a target electronic system or battery storage device with minimal power losses during transmission.
US11848567B2
An apparatus, system and method for wirelessly powering a device. The apparatus, system and method may include a primary coil housing that houses a primary coil; a secondary coil housed within the device and suitable for having power induced therein responsive to the primary coil; an isolator that at least partially mechanically and electrically isolates the primary coil from the secondary coil; and a plurality of paired feedback sensors respectively communicatively and physically associated with, and paired as between, the primary coil housing and the device, wherein the plurality of paired feedback sensors exchanges indications regarding performance of the secondary coil, and wherein performance of the primary coil is modified responsively to the indications.
US11848566B2
Dual communications demodulation of a wireless power transmission system having an internal repeater
A wireless power transmission system includes a transmission antenna that has a source antenna coil and an internal repeater coil. The system further includes two demodulation circuits, for demodulating incoming communications from a power receiver. One demodulation circuit receives sensed signals at the source coil and the other receives sensed signals at the internal repeater coil. The pair of sensed signals are then summed at a summing amplifier to generate a communications signal for input to a controller of the wireless power transmission system.
US11848563B2
An electronic device of an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a first structure comprising a first plate including a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface; a second structure comprising a second plate facing the second surface of the first plate, a first sidewall perpendicular to the second plate, a second sidewall perpendicular to the first sidewall and the second plate, and a third sidewall perpendicular to the first sidewall and the second plate and parallel to the second sidewall, wherein the first sidewall includes a conductive portion, and the second plate, the first sidewall, the second sidewall, and the third sidewall together form a trough with one side open to receive at least a portion of the first structure, and the first structure is movable between an open state and a closed state with respect to the second structure in a first direction parallel to the second plate and the second sidewall such that the first structure is located at a first distance from the first sidewall in the closed state and is located at a second distance greater than the first distance from the first sidewall in the open state; a flexible touch screen display layer comprising: a planar portion extending across at least a portion of the first surface and mounted to the first surface; and a bendable portion extending, during the closed state, from the planar portion into a space between the first sidewall and the first structure, wherein when the first structure is moved from the closed state to the open state, at least a portion of the bendable portion forms a substantially planar surface between the planar portion and the first sidewall as viewed from the top of the first plate; a conductive pattern mounted on the second plate between the second surface and the second plate; a first conductive path extending between the conductive portion of the first sidewall and the conductive pattern; a printed circuit board mounted on the first structure; a wireless charging circuit mounted on the printed circuit board; a wireless communication circuit mounted on the printed circuit board; and a flexible conductive path connected between the printed circuit board and the conductive pattern, wherein the flexible conductive path includes a second conductive path electrically connected between the wireless charging circuit and the conductive pattern, and a third conductive path electrically connected between the communication circuit and the first conductive path.
US11848552B2
A USB Type-C/Power Delivery controller chip includes a first pin for receiving a first voltage, a second pin for receiving a second voltage, and a third pin for coupling to the CC pin of a USB connector. The USB controller chip includes a VCONN power supply circuit having a blocking field effect transistor (BFET) coupled in series with a hot-swap field FET (HSFET) between the first and third pins, and first and second Zener diodes coupled anode-to-anode between the HSFET's source and gate. A cable detection circuit includes a BFET coupled between the second and third pins, and a Zener diode coupled between the BFET's gate and a lower rail. A power delivery physical layer circuit includes a receiver and a transmitter, each coupled to the third pin through a respective BFET, the respective BFETs each having a Zener diode coupled between respective gates and the lower rail.
US11848545B2
Proposed are a device which is used as both a taping device and a stripping device and is used for stripping or taping a coating of an extra-high-voltage wire in a live wire state and, more particularly, an automatic opening and closing stripping device for an indirect live wire having wire stripping and taping functions, and methods for stripping and taping an indirect live wire using the automatic opening and closing device. The automatic opening and closing stripping device for an indirect live wire having wire stripping and taping functions allows an insulation stripping or taping operation to be performed on a wire in a live wire state while not being close to the wire, thus securing safety, allows a stripping operation and various taping operations to be performed by using one equipment.
US11848543B2
The present invention relates to a power transmission underground cable winding device and a power transmission underground cable spreading system comprising same and, more specifically, to: a power transmission underground cable winding device for installing a power transmission three-phase underground cable in an underground power tunnel or conduit; and a power transmission underground cable spreading system comprising same.
US11848541B2
A spectral beam combiner is based upon a specialized diffraction grating that is intentionally configured to create output signals along two separate paths, each path supporting a spectrally-combined beam. One path supports the propagation of a majority of the spectrally-combined beam (e.g., 80-95%) and is defined as the output path from the beam combiner. The remainder of the spectrally-combined beam is directed along a separate path and into an external cavity arrangement used to perform wavelength stabilization. Either reflective or transmissive diffraction gratings may be used, with different diffraction orders and/or polarization states of the spectrally-combined optical beam used to create the output beam and the separate wavelength stabilization feedback beam.
US11848539B2
A novel narrow linewidth laser device is disclosed that includes a gain element, such as a quantum well, quantum dot or bulk waveguide laser chip and a fiber Bragg grating formed in an optical fiber positioned to receive the output from a first end of the gain element and return a portion of said output back into the gain element. The fiber Bragg grating is constructed so that its power reflectivity profile has a ratio of reflectivity slope over reflectivity at the 3 dB point below the reflectivity peak on the red side (longer wavelength side) of the grating larger than a value of 2/nm. The operating wavelength of the device may be tuned thermally, electrically, or thermo-electrically to be on the red side of the fiber Bragg grating reflectivity profile, preferably, but not necessarily, at the 3 dB point below the reflectivity peak or lower. In another embodiment, a second grating is optically coupled to a second end of the gain element and has a reflectivity profile that overlaps at least a portion of the reflectivity profile of the front end fiber Bragg grating.
US11848534B2
A laser assembly for use with an additive manufacturing system, which includes a base block configured to be moved along a scan direction axis in the additive manufacturing system, a plurality of laser emitters preferably arranged in an array of at least two rows of two or more laser emitters. At least a portion of a heat sink assembly is configured to draw heat away from the base block and/or the laser emitters. The assembly includes a controller assembly a controller assembly configured to control a movement of the base block along the first axis and to independently control at least timing and duration of energy emitted from each laser emitter of the plurality of laser emitters as the base block moves along the first axis.
US11848532B2
An acousto-optic Q switch, a resonant cavity, and a pulse laser device for improving laser device power. The acousto-optic Q switch includes: a transparent optical element configured to form a phase grating that diffracts laser; a piezoelectric transducer arranged at one end of the transparent optical element and configured to convert electrical energy into ultrasonic energy to form the phase grating in the transparent optical element; and an absorber arranged at the other end of the transparent optical element to absorb the ultrasonic energy.
US11848531B2
Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument. The mode-locked laser can produce sub-50-ps optical pulses at a repetition rates between 200 MHz and 50 MHz, rates suitable for massively parallel data-acquisition. The optical pulses can be used to generate a reference clock signal for synchronizing data-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the portable instrument.
US11848518B2
A header power connector includes a header housing assembly including an inner housing received in a cavity of an outer housing. The inner housing has upper and lower openings open to a terminal channel configured to receive busbars. The inner housing is movable relative to the outer housing to accommodate misalignment of the busbars in the terminal channel. A terminal is received in the terminal channel having a terminal base, an upper mating end and a lower mating end. The upper mating end includes an upper socket flanked by upper spring beams that receives the first busbar and the lower mating end includes a lower socket flanked by lower spring beams that receives the second busbar. The terminal is movable in the terminal channel to accommodate misalignment of the first busbar and the second busbar in the terminal channel.
US11848516B2
A plug connector pluggable with a mating connector in a connecting direction has a locking spring. The locking spring exerts a force on a pressure chamfer of the mating connector acting in the connecting direction when the plug connector is fully plugged together with the mating connector.
US11848510B2
A process for producing a contact plug includes: providing a blank made of a lead-free brass alloy; semihot forming a first section of the blank to form a crimping region, the crimping region having an opening for insertion of a conductor end and the first section of the blank being heated to a semihot forming temperature before and/or during the semihot forming; and cold forming a second section of the blank to form a plugging region, the plugging region having a plurality of lamellae.
US11848503B2
A scanning antenna includes a transmission and/or reception region including a plurality of antenna units and a non-transmission and/or reception region other than the transmission and/or reception region. The scanning antenna includes a TFT substrate, a slot substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate, a seal portion provided in the non-transmission and/or reception region and surrounding the liquid crystal layer, a reflective conductive plate disposed opposing a second main surface of a second dielectric substrate with a dielectric layer interposed between the reflective conductive plate and the second main surface, a first spacer structure defining a first gap between a first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate in the transmission and/or reception region, and a second spacer structure defining a second gap between the first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate in the non-transmission and/or reception region, the second gap being wider than the first gap. The second spacer structure is disposed within the seal portion or within a region surrounded by the seal portion.
US11848492B2
A low band dipole and a multi-band multi-port antenna arrangement are disclosed. The low band dipole has four dipole arms. The four dipole arms are horizontally and mutually perpendicularly placed in a “+” shape and adjacent two mutually perpendicular dipole arms are fed therebetween. The antenna arrangement includes a main reflector, at least one column of low band dipole array disposed on the main reflector, and at least one column of high band dipole array adjacent to the at least one column of the low band dipole array. At least one low band dipole in each column of the at least one column of low band dipole array satisfies the following condition: the low band dipole has four dipole arms, the four dipole arms are horizontally and mutually perpendicularly placed in a “+” shape, and adjacent two mutually perpendicular dipole arms are fed therebetween to form a +/−45 degree polarization.
US11848491B2
A low dielectric, low loss radome comprising microspheres integrated into a matrix. The microspheres reduce overall dielectric constant, whereby the radome has a dielectric constant less than 2.5 through a thickness of the radome.
US11848489B2
An antenna module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an antenna implemented by an LDS method. The antenna module may be used in a wireless communication terminal. The thickness of the antenna module may be reduced, and the radiation performance of the antenna may be improved by effectively shielding against electromagnetic waves by providing a shielding layer for shielding against electromagnetic waves on the opposite side of a carrier where the LDS antenna is formed.
US11848488B2
An antenna element according to an exemplary embodiment includes a dielectric layer; and an antenna pattern formed in a mesh structure on the dielectric layer and including an irregularly-shaped edge. The antenna element according to the example is excellent in terms of the pattern visibility, while maintaining the antenna performance.
US11848487B2
Example embodiments described herein relate to a modular telematics control unit (TCU) with directional Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and techniques for using the modular TCU with directional BLE. A modular TCU may include a housing configured to couple to a vehicle and a set of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radios. Each BLE radio is coupled to a corresponding BLE antenna configured for omnidirectional operation. The set of BLE radios and BLE antennas are located within the housing. The modular TCU also includes a heat sink located within the housing and positioned proximate the BLE antennas such that the heat sink limits operation for each BLE antenna to a particular direction extending away from the housing. In some instances, a vehicle computing system may use BLE to detect a device and perform operations based on the location of the device relative to the vehicle.
US11848480B2
An electronic device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The electronic device includes a carrier, an antenna element and a cladding element. The carrier defines a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area. The antenna element is in the first area. The cladding element covers the antenna element and is configured for enhancing antenna gain of the antenna element. The second area is exposed from the cladding element and is distant from the antenna element.
US11848476B2
A power divider includes an input capacitor, and first and second transmission lines (TLs). The first TL includes an input portion (IP), a transmission portion (TP) and an output portion (OP). The second TL includes a TP and an OP. The IP is for receiving an input signal, and is connected to the TPs of the first and second TLs. For each of the first and second TLs, the TP has a length that is one-twelfth of a target wavelength, and is connected to the OP. The OPs of the first and second TLs are for cooperatively outputting a pair of output signals which are in-phase and each of which has a frequency equal to that of the input signal. The input capacitor is connected between ground and the IP.
US11848473B2
A cavity device is disclosed comprising a plurality of flat boards stacked one on lop of the other to form a multilayered structure. At least some of the flat boards comprise at least one opening or perforations having one or more layers of electrically conducting materials configured to establish electrical conduction with one or more layers of electrically conducting materials of another one of the flat boards, to thereby form electrically conducting patterns in the multilayered structure for interacting with electromagnetic radiation introduced into the cavity device.
US11848466B2
A fuel cell system has a fuel cell stack including a plurality of fuel cells and an anode injector system, and a controller programmed. The controller, responsive to an amplitude of cyclic changes in voltage of at least some of the fuel cells exceeding a threshold, a frequency of the cyclic changes being within a predetermined range of a frequency associated with the anode injector system, and the voltage being less than a predetermined value, disables the fuel cell stack.
US11848461B2
An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells such that long side surfaces of adjacent ones of the battery cells face one another; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being between adjacent battery cells, each of the insulation spacers including a heat-insulating first sheet and a plurality of flame-retardant second sheets respectively adhered to opposite surfaces of the first sheet by an adhesion member; a cover member including an internal receiving space configured to accommodate the battery cells and the insulation spacers; a top plate coupled to the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to vents of the battery cells and having fire extinguishing agent openings respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to the top plate and having discharge openings respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate.
US11848460B2
A battery for a vehicle includes a battery case; and a battery module disposed therein, wherein the battery case includes a side wall and a bottom wall, the battery module is disposed on the bottom wall and apart away from the side wall, a force transmission assembly including a fixation member fixed and connected to the side wall and a transmission member fixed and connected to the fixation member is provided between the battery module and the side wall, a distance between the transmission member and the battery module is smaller than a distance between the fixation member and the battery module, and when a collision occurs to the side wall, the transmission member is displaced toward the battery module accompanied with a deformation of the side wall due to the collision so as to transmit a collision force to the battery module.
US11848459B2
This disclosure details exemplary barrier seal assemblies for sealing vehicle electrical housings. The vehicle electrical housings may include any electrical housing utilized within a vehicle, including but not limited to battery pack housings and electrical connector assemblies. An exemplary barrier seal assembly may include a primary seal, a barrier seal, and a carrier that extends between the primary seal and the barrier seal. The barrier seal assembly is configured to reduce the ingress of corrosion inducing substances into an interior of vehicle electrical housings.
US11848456B2
This application discloses a battery pack and a vehicle, including: a case assembly, including an accommodating cavity; a battery module, disposed in the accommodating cavity, wherein the battery module includes a battery cell assembly, where the battery cell assembly includes an output current collector and a plurality of battery cells arranged side by side along a first direction of the battery pack, and the output current collector is configured to output electric energy of the battery cell assembly; and an end plate assembly, including a body plate and a protective cover, where the body plate is located at an end of the battery cell assembly along the first direction, the protective cover is rotatably connected to the body plate, and at least a part of the output current collector is located between the body plate and the protective cover.
US11848449B2
An electrode active layer is disclosed that includes a network of high aspect ratio carbon elements (e.g., carbon nanotubes, carbon nanotube bundles, graphene flakes, or the like) that provides a highly electrically conductive scaffold that entangles or enmeshes the active material, thereby supporting the layer. A surface treatment can be applied to the high aspect ratio carbon elements to promote adhesion to the active material and any underlying electrode layers improving the overall cohesion and mechanical stability of the active layer. This surface treatment forms only a thin (in some cases even monomolecular) layer on the network, leaving the large void spaces that are free of any bulk binder material and so may instead be filled with active material. The resulting active layer may be formed with excellent mechanical stability even at large thickness and high active material mass loading.
US11848445B2
A rechargeable transition metal battery includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode and an electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode material which is a transition metal or an alloy of the transition metal. The positive electrode is electrically connected to the negative electrode and includes a host material and a positive electrode material. The host material includes a carbon. The positive electrode material is connected to the host material, and the positive electrode material is a compound of a metal, an elemental chalcogen or an elemental halogen. The electrolyte is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
US11848442B2
A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode formed of a cathode active material including a lithium metal oxide particle having a concentration gradient, and a coating formed on the lithium metal oxide particle, the coating including aluminum, titanium and zirconium, an anode, and a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode. The cathode active material includes 2,000 ppm to 4,000 ppm of aluminum, 4,000 ppm to 9,000 ppm of titanium and 400 ppm to 700 ppm of zirconium, based on the total weight of the cathode active material. The performance of the secondary battery may be maintained under a high temperature condition.
US11848441B2
A zinc foil is provided that can be used as a negative electrode active material, and in a battery including the zinc foil as a negative electrode active material, the amount of gas generated during long term storage of the battery is reduced as compared with that in a battery including a conventional zinc foil. The zinc foil contains zinc as a main material and bismuth. The bismuth content is 100 ppm or more and 10000 ppm or less on a mass basis. The zinc crystal grain size is 0.2 μm or more and 8 μm or less. The bismuth crystal grain size is less than 1000 nm, as measured in a backscattered electron image obtained using a scanning electron microscope. The zinc foil is free of aluminum and/or lead, or even if the zinc foil contains aluminum and/or lead, the aluminum content is 1% or less on a mass basis and/or the lead content is 200 ppm or less on a mass basis.
US11848437B2
A negative electrode including: a negative electrode current collector; and a negative electrode active material layer on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode is pre-lithiated and the negative electrode active material layer includes a silicon-based material and a carbonaceous material. In addition, a graphene sheet having 2 layers to 15 layers is on the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode is advantageous in terms of storage and safety. A lithium secondary battery using the negative electrode shows reduced initial irreversibility, and thus provides increased efficiency.
US11848428B2
A lithium ion battery is provided that includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator comprising a material having a melt temperature of greater than 150° C.; and an electrolyte including an organic solvent and a lithium salt. A method for sterilizing a lithium ion battery is also provided that includes: providing a lithium ion battery (particularly one as described herein); either charging or discharging the battery to a state of charge (SOC) of 20% to 100%; and steam sterilizing the battery to form a sterilized lithium ion battery.
US11848425B2
An energy storage system includes a DC bus; a plurality of battery strings, each battery string comprising batteries coupled electrically together; a plurality of DC/DC converters electrically coupling respective battery strings to the DC bus; an enclosure housing the battery strings and the DC/DC converters; and a temperature control system. The temperature control system includes at least one heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, and a controller. The controller is programmed to execute a method of predicting heat loads for respective battery strings within the enclosure, wherein the heat loads comprise external heat loads and internal heat loads; determining one or both of DC/DC converter operating commands and HVAC operating commands based on the respective predicted heat loads to control the actual heat loads of the respective battery strings; and operating one or both of the DC/DC converter and the HVAC system in response to at least one of the DC/DC converter operating commands and the HVAC operating commands.
US11848423B2
The invention concerns a battery (1) comprising at least a first electrode (11) and a second electrode (12), placed at a suitable distance from each other, wherein said battery comprise an active material is between said electrodes (11, 12), said active material comprising: at least one oxygen-containing compound selected from the group consisting of MgO, ZnO, ZrOCl2, ZrO2, SiO2, Bi2O3, Al2O3, Fe3O4, Fe2O3 and TiO2; at least one salt selected from a chloride-containing salt and a sulphate-containing salt; at least one thickener additive selected from the group consisting of agar-agar, xanthan gum, methylcellulose, and gum arabic, and at least one plasticizer additive, wherein the particle size of the at least one oxygen-based compound has an average diameter in the range from 10 nm to 40 μm.
US11848419B2
Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising metal amide bases are disclosed. The energy storage device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a Si-based electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode and an electrolyte composition comprising at least one electrolyte additive comprising a metal amide base compound.
US11848413B2
Provided herein are various battery cell embodiments. A battery cell can have a solid electrolyte. The electrolyte can be arranged within the cavity. The battery cell can have a cathode disposed within the cavity along a first side of the electrolyte. The battery cell can have a functional layer disposed within the cavity along a second side of the electrolyte. A first side of the functional layer can be in contact with a second side of the electrolyte. The functional layer can form an alloy with lithium material received via the electrolyte. The battery cell can have a scaffold layer disposed within the cavity along a second side of the functional layer.
US11848410B2
Disclosed is a battery cell, which includes an electrode assembly, a pair of electrode leads electrically connected to the electrode assembly, a battery case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly and expose a portion of the pair of electrode leads to the outside, an electrolyte injection hole formed in the battery case and connectable to an electrolyte injecting device that injects an electrolyte in a vacuum state so that the electrolyte is injected into the battery case, and an injection hole cap configured to cover the electrolyte injection hole and mounted to the electrolyte injection hole so as to be detachable from the electrolyte injection hole by user manipulation.
US11848408B2
A drive circuit substrate, an LED display panel and a method of forming the same and a display device are provided, relates to the field of display technologies. The drive circuit substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of drive electrodes arranged in an array on a surface of the base substrate. The driving electrodes include a first driving electrode and a second driving electrode, a horizontal height of the first driving electrode is greater than a horizontal height of the second driving electrode. The conductive structure includes a first conductive structure on a surface of the first driving electrode away from the base substrate and a second conductive structure on a surface of the second driving electrode away from the base substrate, a height of the second conductive structure is greater than a height of the first conductive structure.
US11848406B2
A radiation-emitting semiconductor device (1) is specified, comprising a semiconductor body (2) having an active region (20) provided for generating radiation, a carrier (3) on which the semiconductor body is arranged and an optical element (4), wherein the optical element is attached to the semiconductor body by a direct bonding connection. Furthermore, a method for producing of radiation-emitting semiconductor devices is specified.
US11848391B1
An infrared detector and a method for manufacturing it are disclosed. The infrared detector contains an absorber layer responsive to infrared light, a barrier layer disposed on the absorber layer, a plurality of contact structures disposed on the barrier layer; and an oxide layer disposed above the barrier layer and between the plurality of the contact structures, wherein the oxide layer reduces the dark current in the infrared detector. The method disclosed teaches how to manufacture the infrared detector.
US11848389B2
A hybrid Schottky diode is described herein where the forward characteristics are determined by the metal-semiconductor junction, and the reverse characteristics and breakdown are determined by the metal/dielectric/semiconductor junction. Experimental demonstration of such hybrid Schottky diodes shows significant improvement in the breakdown performance with average breakdown field up to 2.22 MV/cm with reduced turn on of 0.47 V and enable state-of-art power switching figure of merit for GaN lateral Schottky diodes.
US11848385B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming source/drain contact openings extending through at least one dielectric layer to expose source/drain contact regions of source/drain structures. The method further includes depositing a light blocking layer along sidewalls and bottom surfaces of the source/drain contact openings and a topmost surface of the at least one dielectric layer. The method further includes performing a laser annealing process to activate dopants in the source/drain contact region. The method further includes forming source/drain contact structures within source/drain contact openings.
US11848384B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a field effect transistor disposed on the substrate. The field effect transistor includes a vertical fin, source and drain regions separated by a gate region, a gate structure disposed over the gate region and a gate airgap spacer at least partially disposed about the gate structure.
US11848382B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes a first active region and a second active region, a device isolation layer between the first active region and the second active region, a gate structure that extends in a first direction and runs across the first active region and the second active region, a first active contact pattern on the first active region on one side of the gate structure, a second active contact pattern on the second active region on another side of the gate structure, and a connection pattern that is on the device isolation layer and connects the first active contact pattern and the second active contact pattern to each other. The connection pattern extends in a second direction and runs across the gate structure. Portions of the first active contact pattern and the second active contact pattern extend in the first direction and overlap the device isolation layer.
US11848380B2
A semiconductor component including: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor device provided thereon, the device being a field-effect transistor that includes: a gate insulating film provided on the substrate; a gate electrode provided via the film; and a pair of source-drain regions provided to sandwich the electrode, the substrate including a patterned surface in a portion where the electrode is provided, the patterned surface of the substrate including a raised portion where the film is formed to cover a surface that lies on the same plane as a surface of the pair of source-drain regions, and the electrode is formed on a top surface of the film, and the patterned surface of the substrate including a recessed portion where the film is formed to cover surfaces of a groove formed toward the interior than the surface of the pair of source-drain regions, and the electrode is formed so as to fill the groove provided with the film.
US11848377B2
A semiconductor component includes a semiconductor body having opposing first surface and second surfaces, and a side surface surrounding the semiconductor body. The semiconductor component also includes an active region including a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, which is electrically contacted via the first surface, and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, which is electrically contacted via the second surface. The semiconductor component further includes an edge termination region arranged in a lateral direction between the first semiconductor region of the active region and the side surface, and includes a first edge termination structure and a second edge termination structure. The second edge termination structure is arranged in the lateral direction between the first edge termination structure and the side surface and extends from the first surface in a vertical direction more deeply into the semiconductor body than the first edge termination structure.
US11848376B1
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a GaN epi-layer, a first passivation layer, a source electrode metal, a drain electrode metal, a gate electrode metal, and a field plate. The first passivation layer is deposited on the GaN epi-layer. The source electrode metal, the drain electrode metal, and the gate electrode are recessed into the first passivation layer and deposited on the GaN epi-layer. The source electrode metal has a source field plate with a source field plate length Lsf. The drain electrode metal has a drain field plate with a drain field plate length Ldf, wherein Ldf>Lsf. The gate electrode is situated between the source electrode metal and the drain electrode metal. The field plate is situated between the gate electrode and the drain electrode metal.
US11848374B2
Structures for a bipolar junction transistor and methods of forming a structure for a bipolar junction transistor. The structure includes a dielectric layer having a cavity, a first semiconductor layer on the dielectric layer, a collector including a portion on the first semiconductor layer, an emitter including a portion on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer that includes a first section in the cavity and a second section. The second section of the second semiconductor layer is laterally positioned between the portion of the collector and the portion of the emitter.
US11848367B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes etching a dummy gate to form a gate trench to expose a channel portion of a first fin and a first isolation structure; depositing a gate dielectric layer and first and second work function layers, wherein the second work function layer has a first portion directly over the channel portion of the first fin and a second portion directly over the first isolation structure; etching the second portion of the second work function layer, wherein the first portion of the second work function layer remains; depositing a third work function layer over and in contact with the first portion of the second work function layer and the first work function layer; and filling the gate trench with a gate metal.
US11848359B2
Methods are provided of selectively obtaining n-type and p-type regions from the same III-Nitride layer deposited on a substrate without using diffusion or ion-implantation techniques. The III-Nitride layer is co-doped simultaneously with n-type and p-type dopants, with p-type dopant concentration higher than n-type dopant to generate p-n junctions. The methods rely on obtaining activated p-type dopants only in selected regions to generate p-type layers, whereas the rest of the regions effectively behave as an n-type layer by having deactivated p-type dopant atoms.
US11848353B2
A method includes forming a semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor layer is patterned to form a semiconductive structure. Each of widths of two ends of the semiconductive structure is wider than a width of a middle of the semiconductive structure. The semiconductive structure is doped to form a doped semiconductor structure. An isolation structure is formed to surround the doped semiconductor structure. A recessing process is performed such that two trenches are formed on the doped semiconductor structure, and first, second and third portions of an active region are formed on the semiconductor substrate. A first gate structure and a second gate structure are formed in the trenches such that the first portion and the third portion are partially spaced apart by the first gate structure, and the second portion and the third portion are partially spaced apart by the second gate structure.
US11848348B2
Device and method of forming the device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate prepared with a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) region and a sensor region. A substrate cavity is formed in the substrate in the sensor region, the substrate cavity including cavity sidewalls and cavity bottom surface and a membrane which serves as a substrate cavity top surface. The cavity bottom surface includes a reflector. The method also includes forming CMOS devices in the CMOS region, forming a micro-electrical mechanical system (MEMS) component on the membrane, and forming a back-end-of-line (BEOL) dielectric disposed on the substrate having a plurality of interlayer dielectric (ILD) layers. The BEOL dielectric includes an opening to expose the MEMS component. The opening forms a BEOL cavity above the MEMS component.
US11848346B2
An imaging device includes a first semiconductor element including at least one bump pad that has a concave shape. The at least one bump pad includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer on the first metal layer. The imaging device includes a second semiconductor element including at least one electrode. The imaging device includes a microbump electrically connecting the at least one bump pad to the at least one electrode. The microbump includes a diffused portion of the second metal layer, and first semiconductor element or the second semiconductor element includes a pixel unit.
US11848339B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, an image sensor, and an isolation structure. The isolation structure is adjacent to the image sensor and disposed in the semiconductor substrate. The isolation structure includes a first oxide layer, a second oxide layer over the first oxide layer, and a charge-trapping layer disposed between the first oxide layer and the second oxide layer. The charge-trapping layer includes a material different from those of the first oxide layer and the second oxide layer.
US11848336B2
An array substrate, a display panel, and a display apparatus are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate and a first thin-film transistor located on the substrate. In an embodiment, the first thin-film transistor includes a channel and a gate electrode. In an embodiment, an orthographic projection of the gate electrode on the substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of the channel on the substrate. In an embodiment, the gate electrode comprises a first zone and a second zone that are arranged in a first direction. In an embodiment, the channel overlapping with the first zone in a direction perpendicular to the substrate has a total width W1 in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the channel overlapping with the second zone in a direction perpendicular to the substrate has a total width W2 in the second direction, and W1/W2≤3.
US11848334B2
This disclosure proposes a display panel, a manufacturing method, an electronic device and a display device. The display panel includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The display panel includes a display substrate, a plurality of signal lines located on the display substrate, and the plurality of signal lines all extending from the peripheral area on one side of the display area to the peripheral area on the other side of the display area across the display area, at least one first compensation capacitor located in the peripheral area on the one side of the display area and corresponding to at least one of the plurality of signal lines, and at least one second compensation capacitor located in the peripheral area on the other side of the display area and corresponding to at least one of the plurality of signal lines.
US11848330B2
A display device is provided. The display device comprises a substrate, a first buffer layer on the substrate, a first semiconductor layer on the first buffer layer and including a first active layer, a first gate insulating layer on the first semiconductor layer and the first buffer layer and covering the first active layer, a first conductive layer on the first gate insulating layer and including a first gate electrode, a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer and including a first source/drain electrode, a first interlayer insulating layer on the first conductive layer, a second semiconductor layer on the first interlayer insulating layer and including a second active layer, a second gate insulating layer on the second semiconductor layer and covering the second active layer, and a third conductive layer on the second gate insulating layer and including a second gate electrode and a second source/drain electrode, wherein the first gate insulating layer and the second gate insulating layer include different insulating materials.
US11848327B2
A device includes a first semiconductor strip and a second semiconductor strip extending longitudinally in a first direction, where the first semiconductor strip and the second semiconductor strip are spaced apart from each other in a second direction. The device also includes a power supply line located between the first semiconductor strip and the second semiconductor strip. A top surface of the power supply line is recessed in comparison to a top surface of the first semiconductor strip. A source feature is disposed on a source region of the first semiconductor strip, and a source contact electrically couples the source feature to the power supply line. The source contact includes a lateral portion contacting a top surface of the source feature, and a vertical portion extending along a sidewall of the source feature towards the power supply line to physically contact the power supply line.
US11848319B2
A semiconductor package includes a first die; a first redistribution structure over the first die, the first redistribution structure being conterminous with the first die; a second die over the first die, a first portion of the first die extending beyond a lateral extent of the second die; a conductive pillar over the first portion of the first die and laterally adjacent to the second die, the conductive pillar electrically coupled to first die; a molding material around the first die, the second die, and the conductive pillar; and a second redistribution structure over the molding material, the second redistribution structure electrically coupled to the conductive pillar and the second die.
US11848311B2
A microelectronic package may be fabricated having a microelectronic die stack attached to a microelectronic substrate and at least one microelectronic device, which is separate from the microelectronic die stack, attached to the microelectronic substrate within the footprint of one of the microelectronic dice within the microelectronic die stack. In one embodiment, the microelectronic die stack may have a plurality of stacked microelectronic dice, wherein one microelectronic die of the plurality of microelectronic dice has a footprint greater than the other microelectronic die of the plurality of microelectronic dice, and wherein the at least one microelectronic device is attached to the one microelectronic die of the plurality of microelectronic dice having the greater footprint.
US11848306B2
The present invention relates to a tiled image sensor. The tiled image sensor includes: a substrate on which conductive wiring is formed; and a plurality of image sensor dies arranged on the substrate to be spaced apart from each other by a first distance and electrically connected to the conductive wiring. The image sensor die includes: a plurality of light receiving sub-regions formed to be spaced apart from each other by a second distance; a peripheral circuit that is formed between the plurality of light receiving sub-regions, converts pixel current generated for each pixel included in the plurality of light receiving sub-regions into image data, and outputs the image data in block units; and a contact pad, the contact pad formed on a surface of the image sensor die to electrically connect the image sensor die to the substrate.
US11848304B2
A semiconductor device includes a first Chip-On-Wafer (CoW) device having a first interposer and a first die attached to a first side of the first interposer; a second CoW device having a second interposer and a second die attached to a first side of the second interposer, the second interposer being laterally spaced apart from the first interposer; and a redistribution structure extending along a second side of the first interposer opposing the first side of the first interposer and extending along a second side of the second interposer opposing the first side of the second interposer, the redistribution structure extending continuously from the first CoW device to the second CoW device.
US11848297B2
In a described example, an apparatus includes: a package substrate having a die mount portion and lead portions spaced from the die mount portion; a semiconductor die over the die mount portion having bond pads on an active surface facing away from the package substrate; non-gold bond wires forming electrical connections between at least one of the bond pads and one of the lead portions of the package substrate; a bond stitch on bump connection formed between one of the non-gold bond wires and a bond pad of the semiconductor die, comprising a stitch bond formed on a flex stud bump; and dielectric material covering a portion of the package substrate, the semiconductor die, the non-gold bond wires, the stitch bond and the flex stud bump, forming a packaged semiconductor device.
US11848294B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor chip having a first conduction element; a substrate having second and third conduction elements; and external connection elements configured to form an electrical path between the second and third conduction elements via the first conduction element.
US11848292B2
Embodiments described herein provide techniques for forming an interconnect structure that includes micro features formed therein. Such embodiments can assist with improving interconnect joint reliability when compared to conventional pads that have a flat surface. An interconnect structure may comprise: a metal pad over a substrate (e.g., a semiconductor package, a PCB, an interposer, etc.). Micro features may be formed in an edge of the metal pad or away from the edge of the metal pad. The micro features can assist with: (i) increasing the contact area between solder used to form an interconnect joint and the metal pad; and (ii) improving adherence of solder used to form an interconnect joint to the metal pad. These benefits can improve interconnect joint reliability by, among others, improving the interconnect joint's ability to absorb stress from substrates having differing coefficients of thermal expansion.
US11848286B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a metallization layer. The substrate has an active region that includes opposite first and second edges. The metallization layer is disposed above the substrate, and includes a pair of metal lines and a metal plate. The metal lines extend from an outer periphery of the active region into the active region and toward the second edge of the active region. The metal plate interconnects the metal lines and at least a portion of which is disposed at the outer periphery of the active region.
US11848285B2
A semiconductor chip, a semiconductor package including the same, and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor chip including a substrate that includes a device region and an edge region; a device layer and a wiring layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate; a subsidiary pattern on the wiring layer on the edge region; a first capping layer that covers a sidewall of the subsidiary pattern, a top surface of the wiring layer, and a sidewall of the wiring layer, the first capping layer including an upper outer sidewall and a lower outer sidewall, the lower outer sidewall being offset from the upper outer sidewall; and a buried dielectric pattern in contact with the lower outer sidewall of the first capping layer and spaced apart from the upper outer sidewall of the first capping layer.
US11848281B2
A microelectronic device can include a polymer, a semiconductor, and a matching layer. The polymer can include a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The semiconductor can be coupled to the polymer layer. The matching layer can be adjacent the semiconductor, and the matching layer can include a second coefficient of thermal expansion that is about the same as the first coefficient of thermal expansion.
US11848279B2
Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device including a substrate having a shielding structure. The electronic device may include a first substrate, a second substrate, and a third substrate. The second substrate may include a first metal pattern connected to ground and including multiple first slits formed by removing a portion of the first metal pattern, each of the first slits having a cross shape, a second metal pattern connected to the ground and including multiple second slits formed by removing a portion of the second metal pattern, each of the second slits having the cross shape, and multiple ground vias extending through at least a portion of the second substrate so as to connect the first metal pattern of the first metal layer to the second metal pattern of the second metal layer. Various other embodiments are also disclosed.
US11848271B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) package with improved performance and reliability is disclosed. The method includes forming a singulated IC die, coupling the singulated IC die to a carrier substrate, and forming a routing structure. The singulated IC die has a conductive via and the conductive via has a peripheral edge. The routing structure has a conductive structure coupled to the conductive via. The routing structure further includes a cap region overlapping an area of the conductive via, a routing region having a first width from a top-down view, and an intermediate region having a second width from the top-down view along the peripheral edge of the conductive via. The intermediate region is arranged to couple the cap region to the routing region and the second width is greater than the first width.
US11848269B2
A system and method for creating layout for standard cells are described. In various implementations, a floating metal net in the metal zero layer of a standard cell is selected for conversion to a power rail. The metal zero layer is a lowest metal layer above the gate region of a transistor. A semiconductor process (or process) forms a power rail in a metal zero track reserved for power rails. The process forms another power rail in a metal zero track reserved for floating metal nets, and electrically shorts the two power rails using a local interconnect layer between the two power rails. The charging and discharging times of a source region physically connected to the two power rails decreases.
US11848268B2
A device including a thin film resistor (TFR) structure. The TFR structure is accessible by one or more conductive vias that extend vertically from an upper metal layer to completely penetrate a TFR layer positioned thereunder. The conductive vias are coupled to one or more sidewalls of the TFR layer at or near the sites of penetration. The TFR structure can be manufactured by a method that includes etching a via trench completely through the TFR layer and a dielectric layer above the TFR layer, and filling the via trench with a conductor coupled to a sidewall of the TFR layer.
US11848265B2
A semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package includes an encapsulating layer, a semiconductor die formed in the encapsulating layer, and an interposer structure covering the encapsulating layer. The interposer structure includes an insulating base having a first surface facing the encapsulating layer, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The interposer structure also includes insulting features formed on the first surface of the insulating base and extending into the encapsulating layer. The insulting features are arranged in a matrix and face a top surface of the semiconductor die. The interposer structure further includes first conductive features formed on the first surface of the insulating base and extending into the encapsulating layer. The first conductive features surround the matrix of the plurality of insulting features.
US11848264B2
A semiconductor structure may include a metal line, a via above and in electrical contact with the metal lines, and a dielectric layer positioned along a top surface of the metal lines. A top surface of the dielectric layer may be below the dome shaped tip of the via. A top portion of the via may include a dome shaped tip. The semiconductor structure may include a liner positioned along the top surface of the dielectric layer and a top surface of the dome shaped tip of the via. The liner may be made of tantalum nitride or titanium nitride. The dielectric layer may be made of a low-k material. The metal line and the via may be made of ruthenium. The metal line may be made of molybdenum.
US11848247B2
A die includes a semiconductor substrate, a through-via penetrating through the semiconductor substrate, a seal ring overlying and connected to the through-via, and an electrical connector underlying the semiconductor substrate and electrically coupled to the seal ring through the through-via.
US11848238B2
The present disclosure describes a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure that includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a polysilicon gate structure on a first portion of the fin structure, forming an opening in a second portion of the fin structure, wherein the first and second portions of the fin structure is adjacent to each other, forming a recess laterally on a sidewall of the first portion of the fin structure underlying the polysilicon gate structure, and forming an inner spacer structure within the recess. The inner spacer structure comprises an inner air spacer enclosed by a first dielectric spacer layer and a second dielectric spacer layer.
US11848234B2
In an embodiment, a structure includes a core substrate, a redistribution structure coupled to a first side of the core substrate, the redistribution structure including a plurality of redistribution layers, each of the plurality of redistribution layers comprising a dielectric layer and a metallization layer, and a first local interconnect component embedded in a first redistribution layer of the plurality of redistribution layers, the first local interconnect component including a substrate, an interconnect structure on the substrate, and bond pads on the interconnect structure, the bond pads of the first local interconnect component physically contacting a metallization layer of a second redistribution layer, the second redistribution layer being adjacent the first redistribution layer, the metallization layer of the second redistribution layer comprising first conductive vias, the dielectric layer of the first redistribution layer encapsulating the first local interconnect component.
US11848231B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes successively forming a first multi-layer etch stop structure and an insulating layer over a first conductive feature. The insulating layer and the first multi-layer etch stop structure are successively etched to form an opening substantially aligned to the first conductive feature. A second conductive feature is formed in the opening. The formation of the first multi-layer etch stop structure and the second multi-layer etch stop structure includes forming a first metal-containing dielectric layer, forming a silicon-containing dielectric layer over the first metal-containing dielectric layer, and forming a second metal-containing dielectric layer over the silicon-containing dielectric layer. The second metal-containing dielectric layer has a material that is different from the material of the first metal-containing dielectric layer.
US11848229B2
Methods for selectively depositing on metallic surfaces are disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosure utilize a hydrocarbon having at least two functional groups, at least one functional group selected from amino groups, hydroxyl groups, ether linkages or combinations thereof to form a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on metallic surfaces.
US11848222B2
A system for a semiconductor fabrication facility (FAB) includes an orientation tool and a transporting tool configured to transport at least one customized part. The orientation tool includes a port configured to receive the workpiece, a sensor configured to detect an orientation of the workpiece received in the port and a rotation mechanism configured to turn the workpiece received in the port.
US11848219B2
A mounting apparatus (10) serves to place a film between an electronic component and a bottom surface of a mounting head and mount the electronic component. The mounting apparatus includes: a film winding mechanism (18) that rotates a winding reel (26) to wind in a film spanning from a dispensing reel to the winding reel (26), the film winding mechanism (18) executing the winding so that a new film is disposed on the bottom surface of the mounting head each time when an electronic component is mounted; a tension detecting part (38) that detects the tension of the film after the same is wound by the film winding mechanism (18); and a control part (20) that rotates the winding reel (26) by a winding motor (30) to adjust the tension on the basis of the tension detected by the tension detecting part (38). A film supply apparatus is also provided.
US11848218B2
Exemplary semiconductor chamber component cleaning systems may include a receptacle. The receptacle may include a bottom lid that may be an annulus. The annulus may be characterized by an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall. A plurality of recessed annular ledges may be defined between the inner annular wall and the outer annular wall. Each recessed annular ledge of the plurality of recessed annular ledges may be formed at a different radial position along the bottom lid. The cleaning systems may include a top lid removably coupled with the bottom lid about an exterior region of the top lid. The cleaning systems may include a tank defining a volume to receive the receptacle.
US11848213B2
A power semiconductor module arrangement includes: a substrate arranged within a housing; at least one semiconductor body arranged on a top surface of the substrate; and a first layer arranged on a first surface within the housing. The first layer includes inorganic filler which is impermeable to corrosive gases and a casting material which fills spaces present in the inorganic filler.
US11848210B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a plurality of calibration reference features disposed on a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction; and a plurality of columns of first active features and a plurality of columns of second active features respectively disposed on opposite sides of the calibration reference features, wherein each of the columns of first active features is spaced apart from each other in a second direction, each of the columns of second active features is spaced apart from each other in the second direction, and the calibration reference features, the first active features, and the second active features are disposed on the same layer and are a portion of the substrate.
US11848196B2
A light-emitting diode package having a controlled beam angle is proposed. The diode package can include at least one first lead frame; at least one second lead frame formed to correspond to and be spaced apart from the at least one first lead frame; light-emitting diode chips mounted on the at least one first lead frame; a first package main body which is fixed on the partial surfaces of the at least one first lead frame and the at least one second lead frame and formed so as to have a first inclined side at a portion of the circumference around the light-emitting diode chips; and a second package main body formed so as to have a second inclined side at the remaining portion of the circumference around the light-emitting diode chips other than the portion.
US11848195B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer; an active region between the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer; an electron blocking structure between the active region and the second semiconductor layer; a first nitride semiconductor layer between the active region and the electron blocking structure, and including indium and aluminum elements; and a second nitride semiconductor layer between the electron blocking structure and the second semiconductor layer, including indium element and devoid of gallium element; wherein the first nitride semiconductor layer has a first indium content, the second nitride semiconductor layer has a second indium content, and the first indium content is greater than the second indium content.
US11848194B2
A lateral micro-light emitting diode includes a first semiconductor layer, an active region on the first semiconductor layer and including one or more quantum well layers configured to emit light, a p-type semiconductor region on a first lateral region (e.g., a central region) of the active region, and an n-type semiconductor region on a second lateral region (e.g., peripheral regions) of the active region, where the n-type semiconductor region and the p-type semiconductor region are on a same side of the active region.
US11848187B2
A drive unit for driving an acceleration electrode of a mass spectrometer is disclosed. The drive unit includes a power converter comprising a switching element and pulsing circuitry that can form output pulses suitable for driving an acceleration electrode of a mass spectrometer. The drive unit also includes a controller that is configured to synchronise operation of the switching element with the pulsing circuitry.
US11848185B2
An electrode assembly, such as for an ion mirror, comprising: a first layer having a plurality of electrodes that are separated by one or more gaps; a second layer arranged to cover said one or more gaps and prevent electric fields passing through said one or more gaps, said second layer having electrically conductive material located to be coincident with said one or more gaps in the first layer.
US11848182B2
In a device for processing imaging-analysis data, two kinds of imaging-analysis data are stored in a storage section 21: (a) first imaging-analysis data, in which measurement data of a target substance, acquired by performing a first predetermined analysis at each of a plurality of measurement points within an analysis target area of a sample S, is associated with spatial position information of the measurement point, and (b) second imaging-analysis data, in which measurement data of a reference substance, acquired by performing a second predetermined analysis at each of the measurement points, is associated with spatial position information of the measurement point. A normalization executer 28 normalizes the measurement data of the target substance at each measurement point, based on the measurement data of the reference substance acquired at the same measurement point.
US11848180B2
Components of scientific analytical equipment. More particularly, ion detectors of the type which incorporate electron multipliers and modifications thereto for extending the operational lifetime or otherwise improving performance. The ion detector may be embodied in the form of a particle detector having one or more electron emissive surfaces and/or an electron collector surface therein, the particle detector being configured such that in operation the environment about the electron emissive surface(s) and/or the electron collector surface is/are different to the environment immediately external to the detector.
US11848176B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein include an apparatus and method for the plasma processing of a substrate in a processing chamber. More specifically, embodiments of this disclosure describe a biasing scheme that is configured to provide a radio frequency (RF) generated RF waveform from an RF generator to one or more electrodes within a processing chamber and a pulsed-voltage (PV) waveform delivered from one or more pulsed-voltage (PV) generators to the one or more electrodes within the processing chamber. The plasma process(es) disclosed herein can be used to control the shape of an ion energy distribution function (IEDF) and the interaction of the plasma with a surface of a substrate during plasma processing.
US11848171B2
Provided is a charged particle beam device and a charged particle beam device calibration method capable of correcting an influence of characteristic variation and noise with high accuracy. Control units execute a first calibration of correcting a characteristic variation between a plurality of channels in detectors and signal processing circuits by using a setting value of a control parameter for each of the plurality of channels in a state in which a primary electron beam is not emitted. The control units further execute a second calibration of correcting a characteristic variation between the plurality of channels in scintillators or the like by using the setting value of the control parameter for each of the plurality of channels in a state in which the primary electron beam is emitted.
US11848169B1
A field-emission type electron source includes (i) a single-crystal tungsten rod having a sharpened terminus and (ii) a mass of ZrO formed only on a portion of the surface, or the entire surface, of the sharpened terminus. In preferred design, the single-crystal tungsten rod is placed in a gaseous medium that consists of oxygen and a non-oxygen gas. The molar ratio between oxygen and the non-oxygen gas is greater than 1:1.
US11848166B2
Keyboards, input devices, and related systems include key mechanisms with keycaps and actuators that provide adjustable feedback in response to user input. The actuators are controllable to provide variable tactile force or audible feedback that is dependent upon the user input. Encoders are able to transduce a location or relative position of a keycap as it is being pressed over time, and a signal is provided to actuators to cause them to provide feedback corresponding to the position of the keycap as it moves. The feedback can change the feel or sound of the keycap based on the keycap positions, time of operation, velocity, user identity, and other factors. Thus, the feel or sound of a keyboard or related input device can be adjusted electronically for efficient testing and increased user customization and feedback modes.
US11848164B2
This application provides a multilayer solid aluminum electrolytic capacitor and a method for preparing the same. The multilayer solid aluminum electrolytic capacitor includes a plurality of cores, a rivet, a case, and a cover plate. The cores are stacked in sequence and fastened in the case through the rivet to form a semi-finished capacitor. The semi-finished capacitor is covered by the cover plate and then sealed to form the solid aluminum electrolytic capacitor.
US11848163B2
Electrode foil for electrolytic capacitor, electrolytic capacitor, and method for manufacturing same
An electrode foil for an electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body foil having a porous part, and a dielectric layer covering a surface of a metal framework constituting the porous part. The dielectric layer includes a first layer containing an oxide of a second metal, the second metal being different from a first metal contained in the metal framework. An underlayer that is continuous with the first layer is provided between the metal framework and the first layer. The underlayer contains phosphorus and carbon.
US11848160B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrode layers. A difference of about 3 μm or less exists between a maximum thickness of a center portion of the external electrode and a thickness of a peripheral portion of the external electrode, and in a range of a field of view of about 50 μm square centered at a point located farther inward by about 15% than a peripheral end portion of the external electrode, an angle θ of about 4 degrees or less is defined by a straight line connecting two points of intersection of a surface of the external electrode and a sectional line defining the range of the field of view of about 50 μm square and a perpendicular line to a vertical line passing through one of the two points of intersection.
US11848158B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component may include: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and internal electrodes disposed to be stacked with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; a first and a second external electrode disposed on the ceramic body. The first and the second external electrodes may include a first and a second base electrode layers disposed in contact with the ceramic body and a first and a second resin electrode layers disposed on the first and the second base electrode layer respectively, a width of the ceramic body in the second direction may be less than 1.0 mm, and 0.4×ta≤tb≤0.5×ta in which ta is an average thickness of the first base electrode layer and tb is an average thickness of the first resin electrode layer.
US11848148B2
A system and method for an isolation transformer boost system. The system includes an isolation transformer, a sensor, and an electronic processor coupled to the sensor. The electronic processor configured to receive an electrical characteristic measurement from the sensor, compare the electrical characteristic measurement to a predetermined threshold, and activate an electrical characteristic boost when the electrical characteristic measurement is below the predetermined threshold.
US11848136B2
A coil component includes a body having one end and the other end opposing each other, a support substrate disposed inside the body, a coil portion, disposed on at least one surface of the support substrate, in which an end portion of an outermost turn is disposed closer to the one surface of the body than to the other surface of the body, a lead-out portion connected to the outermost turn of the coil portion and exposed to the one surface of the body, and an anchor portion connected to the lead-out portions and including a via pad disposed between the lead-out portion and the coil portion inside the body.
US11848134B2
A wire-wound core includes a wound core portion and a first flange and a second flange provided on a first end portion and a second end portion, respectively. The first flange has a bottom surface facing a mounting substrate during mounting, a top surface facing away from the bottom surface, an inner end surface coupling the bottom surface with the top surface and facing the wound core portion, an outer end surface facing away from the inner end surface, and a first side surface and a second side surface that face away from each other and each couple the bottom surface with the top surface and the inner end surface with the outer end surface. In a region of the outer end surface close to the bottom surface, a first inclined surface inclined toward the inner end surface as the first inclined surface approaches the bottom surface is provided.
US11848130B1
A magnetic nanoparticle, and composites thereof, comprising a ternary host compound comprising a transition metal oxide of size 2-30 nm having two transition metal dopants atom incorporated therein, such that the nanoparticle is converted from superparamagnetic or weak ferromagnetic to strong ferromagnetic material. The strong permanent magnets are formed from non-rare earth materials. The composite material can also include undoped nanoparticles.
US11848126B2
A cable stopper structure and an image forming apparatus includes a cable disposed throughout a first passage and a second passage, the second passage having a ceiling height higher than a ceiling height of the first passage, a first component disposed in the first passage and connected to one end portion of the cable, and a second component disposed near an exit of the first passage and connected to the other end portion of the cable, the second component being removable in a direction away from the first component. The cable includes a folded-back portion folded back in the second passage and a rigid portion disposed between the folded-back portion and the first component. The rigid portion has a rigidity greater than that of the cable and has a length in a pulling-out direction of the cable longer than the ceiling height of the first passage.
US11848118B2
An aluminium based conductor made of an alloy has at least 98 wt % aluminium, from 0.25 to 0.45 wt % iron, from 0.07 to 0.25 wt % copper and from 0.001 to 0.10 wt % boron, having high strength and conductivity. The present arrangement also includes a method for obtaining such conductors.
US11848117B2
Highly uniform and thin silver nanowires are described having average diameters below 20 nm and a small standard deviation of the diameters. The silver nanowires have a high aspect ratio. The silver nanowires can be characterized by a small number of nanowires having a diameter greater than 18 nm as well as with a blue shifted narrow absorption spectrum in a dilute solution. Methods are described to allow for the synthesis of the narrow uniform silver nanowires. Transparent conductive films formed from the thin, uniform silver nanowires can have very low levels of haze and low values of ΔL*, the diffusive luminosity, such that the transparent conductive films can provide little alteration of the appearance of a black background.
US11848115B2
A radioactive structure dismantling method of a heavy water reactor facility that includes a calandria including a main shell and a sub shell, a calandria vault that receives the calandria therein, and a cover assembly that covers the calandria according to an embodiment, includes: preparing dismantling of the calandria; dismantling a reactor pipe installed in the calandria; dismantling the cover assembly that covers the calandria; dismantling the calandria; and dismantling the calandria vault.
US11848111B2
A nuclear power reactor which includes passive cooling and radiation scrubbing. The reactor includes a first containment member which is buried in the ground. A second containment member is positioned in the first containment member and has a reactor vessel therein. The discharge side of the reactor vessel is connected to a heat exchanger which drives a turbine which drives a device such as a generator. A source of water is provided which gravity feeds cooling water to the interior of the first containment member in the event of reactor overheating or over-pressurization. A radiation scrubber is provided for scrubbing radiation which may be in the first containment member or the second containment member.
US11848090B2
A training system for a neurostimulation system that may be used to simulate a neurostimulator programming session and/or lead placement. The system may include a training device that may be coupled to a neurostimulator programmer and may include an interface to allow user interaction and/or display information relevant to the stimulation. The trainer device may include circuitry for simulating a neurostimulator such as an IPG or EPG, and may include circuitry for simulating impedance associated with lead placement.
US11848089B2
An apparatus comprising a controller. The controller includes an input/output (I/O) module and a rule module. The I/O module is configured to present a question for a patient when communicatively coupled to a user interface and receive patient information in response to the question via the user interface. The rule module is configured to apply a rule to the patient information and generate a suggested insulin pump setting from application of the rule. Other devices, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11848080B2
Embodiments facilitate interoperability and secure patient selection for clinical trials and drug/device deployments. An entity may obtain a first set of health parameters and collective demographic information associated with one or more population segments and receive Electronic Health Record (EHR) sub-blocks with patient profile information and corresponding patient medical histories for patients. The entity may determine a subset of eligible candidate patients for a treatment based on information in the EHR sub-blocks and eligibility criteria for the treatment, which may be based the first set of health parameters, and/or the collective demographic information. The entity may transmit sub-blocks comprising eligible candidate patient profiles and medical information associated with the at least one treatment, and, in response to a received transaction block with a transaction confirmation, the entity may augment a multi-dimensional blockchain by linking: the transaction block, with a drug device information block and an EHR block.
US11848072B2
Methods, systems, and devices for edgeless memory clusters are described. Systems, devices, and techniques are described for eliminating gaps between clusters by creating groups (e.g., domains) of clusters that are active at a given time, and using drivers within inactive clusters to perform array termination functions for abutting active clusters. Tiles on the edges of a cluster may have drivers that operate both for the cluster, and for a neighboring cluster, with circuits (e.g., a multiplexers) on the drivers to enable operations for both clusters.
US11848068B2
A method for testing a memory chip including: performing an electrical die sorting (EDS) test on the memory chip; performing a package test when the EDS test is passed; performing a module test when the package test is passed; performing a mounting test when the module test is passed; and setting the memory chip to a mirroring mode through a fusing operation when the EDS test, the package test, the module test or the mounting test is failed.
US11848058B2
A method for operating a memory is disclosed. The memory includes a first group of word lines, a second group of word lines, a first dummy word line, and a second dummy word line. The first dummy word line and the second dummy word line are between the first group of word lines and the second group of word lines. A first pass voltage is applied to the first dummy word line and applying a second pass voltage to the second dummy word line. A program voltage is applied to a selected word line, wherein a condition is met: a first voltage difference between the first pass voltage and a first threshold voltage of a first dummy cell corresponding to the first dummy word line is different from a second voltage difference between the second pass voltage and a second threshold voltage of a second dummy cell corresponding to the second dummy word line.
US11848053B2
Transistors, and memories including such transistors, might include an active area having a first conductivity type, first and second source/drain regions in the active area and having a second conductivity type, and a plurality of control gates between the first and second source/drain regions and the second source/drain region, wherein each control gate of the plurality of control gates includes a respective first control gate portion overlying a first side of the active area, and a respective second control gate portion connected to its respective first control gate portion that is either adjacent to a second side of the active area orthogonal to the first side of the active area, or underlying a second side of the active area opposite the first side of the active area.
US11848045B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a semiconductor integrated circuit of a memory. The semiconductor integrated circuit can comprise a column selection module, a local read-write conversion module, and an amplifier module. The column selection module can be configured to couple a first data line to a bit line and couple a complementary data line to a complementary bit line. The local read-write conversion module can be configured to perform data transmission from at least one of the first data line or the first complementary data line to a second data line. The data transmission can occur during a memory read-write operation and in response to the local read-write conversion module receiving a read write control signal. The amplifier module can be configured to amplify data of the second data line based on a reference signal of a reference data line. The reference signal can serve as a reference for amplifying the data of the second data line.
US11848044B2
Methods, systems, and devices for controlled and mode-dependent heating of a memory device are described. In various examples, a memory device or an apparatus that includes a memory device may have circuitry configured to heat the memory device. The circuitry configured to heat the memory device may be activated, deactivated, or otherwise operated based on an indication of a temperature (e.g., of the memory device). In some examples, activating or otherwise operating the circuitry configured to heat the memory device may be based on an operating mode (e.g., of the memory device), which may be associated with certain access operations or operational states (e.g., of the memory device). Various operations or operating modes (e.g., of the memory device) may also be based on indications of a temperature (e.g., of the memory device).
US11848019B2
In some examples, an electronic device comprises an image sensor to detect a user action, an audio input device to receive an audio signal, and a processor coupled to the audio input device and the image sensor. The processor is to determine that the audio signal includes private speech based on the user action, remove the private speech from the audio signal to produce a filtered audio signal, and transmit the filtered audio signal.
US11848018B2
A method includes receiving a spoken utterance that includes a plurality of words, and generating, using a neural network-based utterance classifier comprising a stack of multiple Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) layers, a respective textual representation for each word of the of the plurality of words of the spoken utterance. The neural network-based utterance classifier trained on negative training examples of spoken utterances not directed toward an automated assistant server. The method further including determining, using the respective textual representation generated for each word of the plurality of words of the spoken utterance, that the spoken utterance is one of directed toward the automated assistant server or not directed toward the automated assistant server, and when the spoken utterance is directed toward the automated assistant server, generating instructions that cause the automated assistant server to generate a response to the spoken utterance.
US11848000B2
Methods, systems, computer program products and data structures are described which allow for efficient correction of a transcription output of an automatic speech recognition system by a human proofreader. A method comprises receiving a voice input from a user; determining a transcription of the voice input; providing the transcription of the voice input; receiving a text input from the user indicating a revision to the transcription; determining how to revise the transcription in accordance with the text input; and revising the transcription of the voice input in accordance with the text input. A general or specialized language model, an acoustical language model, a character language model, a gaze tracker, and/or a stylus may be used to determine how to revise the transcription in accordance with the text input.
US11847996B2
A display device including a controller and a display panel. The controller receives original image data and output a display image signal. The display panel receives the display image signal and displays a display image corresponding to the display image signal. The controller includes an image shift controller and a memory. The image shift controller generates shifted image data by modulating the original image data to shift the display image sequentially along a preset shift path on the display panel. The memory stores a shift path value indicating a distance by which the display image has been shifted on the preset shift path. The image shift controller generates the display image signal by processing the shifted image data. When the display device is powered on, the image shift controller generates shifted image data corresponding to a shift path value stored in the memory.
US11847995B2
In general, aspects disclosed herein provide techniques for processing video data. Certain aspects provide a method for processing video data comprising a plurality of frames for display on a display as discussed herein. The method includes determining a sampling rate (N) based on a frame rate used for displaying the video data on the display. The sampling rate N is greater than 1. The method further includes, for every N frames of the plurality of frames, processing one or more statistics associated with a frame determine one or more display settings. The method further includes outputting to the display the corresponding N frames of the plurality of frames using the one or more display settings.
US11847992B2
Embodiments of this application provide a control method based on a vertical synchronization signal and an electronic device, to shorten a response delay of the electronic device and improve fluency of the electronic device without increasing load of the electronic device. The method may include: drawing, by an electronic device including a display screen, one or more layers in response to a first vertical synchronization signal; refreshing and displaying an image frame in response to a second vertical synchronization signal; adjusting the first vertical synchronization signal, so that the adjusted first vertical synchronization signal is delayed by first delay time relative to the second vertical synchronization signal; and drawing one or more layers in response to the adjusted first vertical synchronization signal.
US11847990B2
A display device can include a left ripple transistor provided in a left stage to remove ripple occurring in a Q node of the left stage, and a right ripple transistor provided in a right stage to remove ripple occurring in a Q node of the right stage. These ripple transistors perform an on operation and an off operation repeatedly and simultaneously.
US11847989B2
The present application provides a pixel driving circuit and a liquid crystal display panel. The pixel driving circuit comprises a main pixel electrode driving module, a sub-pixel electrode driving module, a first potential regulation module, and a second potential regulation module.
US11847988B2
The present invention relates to a driving method for flicker suppression of a display panel and a driving circuit thereof. The driving circuit includes a source driving circuit and a common voltage generating circuit. The driving method includes driving the source driving circuit to generate at least one first source signal and at least one second source signal, the first source signal corresponds to at least one first pixel on a first scanning line; the second source signal corresponds to at least one second pixel on a second scanning line. The common voltage generating circuit generates at least one common voltage. While driving the first pixel and the second pixel to display the same gray scale image, the first source signal is not equal to the second source signal, or a first common voltage and a second common voltage generated by the common voltage generating circuit are different.
US11847986B2
The present disclosure discloses a backlight apparatus for a display and a current control integrated circuit thereof. The backlight apparatus includes a backlight panel including light-emitting diode (LED) channels having a matrix structure and divided into a plurality of control units, a column driver configured to provide, in a horizontal period unit, column signals corresponding to columns of the LED channels, a row driver configured to provide, in a frame unit, row signals corresponding to rows of the LED channels and to sequentially provide the row signals in the horizontal period included in the frame, and current control integrated circuits disposed in the backlight panel in a way to correspond to the control units, respectively, and each configured to receive the column signal and the row signals corresponding to LED channels of the control unit and to control emission of the LED channels of the control unit.
US11847975B2
A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a gate driver connected to gate lines of the display panel, and a data driver connected to data lines of the display panel, and the data driver provides duplicates of red, green and blue data signals, except for a white data signal, in a digital data signal having a 4:2:0 format externally input thereto, and converts the white data signal, the red, green and blue data signals, and the duplicated red, green and blue data signals, thereby outputting an analog data voltage having a 4:4:4 format.
US11847971B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device, comprising: a display panel in which a plurality of driving voltage feedback lines branched from a driving voltage line for supplying a driving voltage to a plurality of subpixels are disposed; a driving circuit for supplying a data voltage to the plurality of subpixels and determining a deviation of a feedback driving voltage detected through the plurality of driving voltage feedback lines; and a timing controller for compensating for image data depending on positions at which the plurality of driving voltage feedback lines are branched in the display panel based on the deviation of the feedback driving voltage, and supplying a compensated image data to the driving circuit.
US11847967B2
A display substrate, including: a display region and a peripheral region located on the periphery of the display region. A scan driver circuit is disposed in the peripheral region. A plurality of sub-pixels, and a plurality of first signal lines that are connected to the scan driver circuit and extend in a first direction, are disposed in the display region. The display region includes: a substrate, and a semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and a third conductive layer that are sequentially disposed on the substrate. The third conductive layer comprises: a plurality of first signal lines, and first electrodes and second electrodes of a plurality of transistors. An insulating layer between the third conductive layer and the first conductive layer is provided with first via holes.
US11847966B2
A shift register (SR) includes a voltage control circuit (110) and a bias compensation circuit (120). The voltage control circuit (110) is configured to control a voltage at a first node (Output) to be a first voltage or a second voltage. The bias compensation circuit (120) is configured to: when the voltage at the first node (Output) is the first voltage, transmit a first signal received by a first signal terminal (VDD-A) to a first signal output terminal (EM1), and transmit a second signal received by a second signal terminal (VDD-B) to a second signal output terminal (EM2); and in response to the voltage at the first node (Output) being the second voltage, transmit a signal received by a first voltage terminal (LVGL1) to the first signal output terminal (EM1) and the second signal output terminal (EM2).
US11847951B2
A gamma voltage generator within a display device includes a plurality of gamma generation circuits that respectively generate a plurality of gamma voltages. At least one gamma generation circuit includes an input circuit configured to receive a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, a reference voltage select circuit configured to select a reference voltage among the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage by comparing a gamma voltage generated by the at least one gamma generation circuit with the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage, a digital-to-analog conversion circuit configured to generate an analog voltage corresponding to a gamma code based on the reference voltage selected by the reference voltage select circuit, and an output circuit configured to output the gamma voltage based on the analog voltage.
US11847946B2
A display device includes a pixel array including touch blocks; a plurality of test pads in a bezel area outside the pixel array for performing a pixel test and a touch block test; a plurality of pixel test lines and a plurality of touch block test lines connected to the test pads within the pixel array; a switching unit between the test pads and the pixel test lines and the touch block test lines and applying a test signal to any one of the pixel test lines and the touch block test lines; a pixel test switching pad in the bezel area and providing a control signal for testing pixel operation in the pixel array to the switching unit; and a touch block test switching pad in the bezel area and providing a control signal for testing the touch blocks within the pixel array to the switching unit.
US11847942B2
A semiconductor device using a pass transistor is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a plurality of input terminals, and an output terminal. The first circuit includes a plurality of first transistors functioning as pass transistors, and the second circuit includes a plurality of second transistors functioning as pass transistors. Note that the number of the first transistors is larger than the number of the second transistors, a gate of the first transistor is supplied with a first signal, and a gate of the second transistor is supplied with a second signal. The first circuit is supplied with grayscale signals through x input terminals, and the first circuit selects y grayscale signals of the grayscale signals with the first signal. The second circuit is supplied with y (y
US11847940B2
A bolt seal including a pin and a barrel where the barrel has a storage position on the pin and a lock position on the pin, the bolt seal optionally including a restrainer and optionally being packaged in a container in a common orientation with other bolt seals.
US11847936B2
A system includes a sensor to sense a change in a position of an input control component and a tool; a storage medium embodies a collection of respective motion pictures, which show tool movement imparted by the control component in response to manual input provided by users, indexed based upon a metric; a storage medium embodies a set of instructions that cause a processor to perform operations comprising: determining a user's performance; recording a motion picture of the tool movement imparted by the master control component by the individual user; indexing the recorded motion picture to the collection of motion pictures; generating a user interface providing an interactive visual index; and displaying a selected motion picture on the display screen in response to user input at the interactive visual index.
US11847933B2
A system including a simulated respiratory sub-system and a simulated airway subsystem. The simulated respiratory sub-system comprises simulated lung(s) and, optionally, a lung compliance assembly and a compliance motor. The lung compliance assembly has a backing plate and a pressure plate between which the simulated lungs are positioned. The compliance motor is configured to adjust a clamping force exerted by the pressure plate on the simulated lungs to simulate clinical presentation of lung compliance. The simulated airway subsystem comprises an airway unit and, optionally, a trachea tube and a trachea tubing depth sensor. The airway unit has a mouth cavity and an internal airway via which the mouth cavity communicates with the simulated lung(s). The trachea tube is in communication with the internal airway and operably coupled to the airway unit. The trachea tubing depth sensor ensures proper execution of an intratracheal training procedure.
US11847932B2
Modified animal tissues, organs, and organ systems for use in simulated surgical procedures are disclosed. The tissues, organs, and/or organ systems can be modified by enhancing their electrical conductivity, by including simulated contents mimicking what would normally be present in live animals, and by having fake blood perfusing through them. Portions of different tissues, organs, or organ systems, which can be from the same or different animals, can be adhered to provide hybrid/chimeric tissues, organs, or organ systems, and also used for simulated surgical procedures. These modifications can provide surgeons with a more realistic experience during a simulated surgical procedure.
US11847926B2
A method for attention-based neurofeedback training. The method includes deriving a brain activity parameter value from a subject by providing neurofeedback training to the subject based on a training protocol, assessing an attention level of the subject simultaneously with providing the neurofeedback training, and updating the training protocol based on the attention level and the brain activity parameter value.
US11847917B2
The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and apparatuses for automated fixation generation and more particularly relates to generation of synthetic saliency maps. A method for generating saliency information includes receiving a first image and an indication of one or more sub-regions within the first image corresponding to one or more objects of interest. The method includes generating and storing a label image by creating an intermediate image having one or more random points. The random points have a first color in regions corresponding to the sub-regions and a remainder of the intermediate image having a second color. Generating and storing the label image further includes applying a Gaussian blur to the intermediate image.
US11847906B2
A system may include an electromagnetic load capable of generating a haptic event and a haptic processor configured to receive at least one first parameter indicative of a desired perception of the haptic event to a user of a device comprising the electromagnetic load, receive at least one second parameter indicative of one or more characteristics of the device, and process the at least one first parameter and the at least one second parameter to generate a driving signal to the electromagnetic load in order to produce the desired perception to the user despite variances in the device that cause an actual perception of the haptic event to vary from the desired perception.
US11847899B1
A system includes a depression, a liquid, a gas inlet, an aspiration system, an aspirator, and a gas detector. The depression is formed into a floor. The liquid is disposed within the depression. An unoccupied space is delineated by a surface level of the liquid and a depth of the depression in the floor. The gas inlet is located within the unoccupied space in the depression. the aspiration system is connected to the gas inlet by a tube and located outside of the depression. The aspirator is located within the aspiration system and configured to create a vacuum to draw a gas mixture from the unoccupied space into the aspiration system using the gas inlet and the tube. The gas detector is located within the aspiration system and is configured to detect a specific gas.
US11847897B2
A method for presence detection in an environment to be monitored, includes generating an electric charge signal in a condition of absence of presence in the environment to be monitored. An electric charge signal is generated in an operating condition in which a person may be present in the environment. The two generated signals are processed and the results of the processing are compared. Processing the signals includes representing in a biaxial reference system the value of the charge signal considered and its derivative with respect to time, and identifying a plurality of points in the reference system. By comparing the position of the points acquired during the possible human presence with those of the base shape, a variation indicating the actual human presence may be detected. In this case an alarm signal is generated.
US11847882B2
Systems and/or methods for use in connection with digital downloading jukeboxes are provided. Such systems and/or methods may be used to provide enhanced communications capabilities, e.g., to registered users of jukeboxes. In certain exemplary embodiments, users may become registered users directly at a jukebox. Registered users also may, in certain exemplary embodiments, receive coupons for free plays, import playlists from hardware devices and/or software applications, receive special pricing when playing certain instances of media, play playlists in whole or in part, create and/or manage playlists directly at a jukebox, establish and manage connections with other registered users, etc. Still further, in certain exemplary embodiments, one or more channels may be predefined and/or set up for a jukebox.
US11847881B2
A vending machine system adapted to open and prepare a contained food item. The system includes a cabinet, a rack frame supported relative to the cabinet, a shelf coupled to the rack frame and configured to support a contained food item, a lid removal apparatus supported relative to the rack frame, and a food item actuator supported relative to the rack frame. The cabinet includes a refrigerated compartment housing the rack frame and a partition separating and selectively allowing access between the refrigerated compartment and a preparation compartment. The lid removal apparatus is configured to selectively retain a lid of the contained food item. The food item actuator is configured to move a container of the contained food item to the preparation compartment of the cabinet while the lid of the contained food item is retained by the lid removal apparatus subsequent to translation of the container.
US11847878B2
A banknote handling apparatus includes a distinguishing unit that distinguishes respective paper sheets input, a first storage mechanism that temporarily stores the respective paper sheets distinguished, a plurality of second storage mechanisms that are provided for each type of paper sheet and store the corresponding paper sheet, a determination unit that determines a conveyance order of conveying the respective paper sheets from the first storage mechanism to any of the second storage mechanisms on a basis of a result of distinguishing, and a drive control unit that controls activation and stop of respective drive apparatuses that, on a basis of the conveyance order, drive each of the plurality of second storage mechanisms to store the respective paper sheets in the corresponding second storage mechanism.
US11847876B2
An access control apparatus includes a sensor and an authentication circuit coupled to the sensor. The sensor detects eye movement of a user. The authentication circuit stores predetermined access code data corresponding to the user. The authentication circuit compares the detected eye movement of the user to the predetermined access code data. Based on the comparison indicating that the detected eye movement matches the predetermined access code data, the authentication circuit permits access beyond an access control point.
US11847868B2
A system and method for monitoring vehicle performance and updating engine control parameters, which provides a solution to the problem of tuning engine control parameters for a vehicle. The core components of the invention are an engine controller coupled to an interface device which communicates with a remote device. Generally speaking, the components are configured as follows: the engine controller receives signals from various sensors in a vehicle and the engine controller controls the engine based on engine control parameters and the signals from the sensors. The interface device monitors the engine control and sensor signals and transmits information to the remote device. The remote device receives the information and sends back updated engine control parameters. The interface device receives the updated engine control parameters and communicates with the engine controller to update the engine control parameters using the updated engine control parameters.
US11847867B2
An apparatus of optimizing an alarm offset for an AUTomotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR) operating system, may include a start module configured to input an offset value of a predetermined offset table to an offset variable value for each alarm information related to an alarm setting test file; and an execution module configured to execute the alarm setting test file based on the input offset value and output an execution result for optimizing the alarm offset.
US11847865B2
Systems and methods relate generally to app assisted voting. In an example method thereof, a voting app is installed in a mobile device. The mobile device has a memory configured to store program code for the voting app. The mobile device has a processor coupled to the memory. The processor, in response to executing the program code, is configured to initiate operations for implementing the voting app. The operations of the voting app include: taking in by the voting app personal information and a pre-assigned code; validating the personal information for the pre-assigned code by the voting app; registering a user associated with the personal information and the pre-assigned code by the voting app with a cloud-based voting authority server; authenticating the user by the voting authority server; and authorizing, by the voting authority server, the user to use the voting app during voting.
US11847851B2
Microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices and associated methods are disclosed. Piezoelectric MEMS transducers (PMUTs) suitable for integration with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit (IC), as well as PMUT arrays having high fill factor for fingerprint sensing, are described.
US11847849B2
Embodiments relate to a companion animal identification method including acquiring a preview image for capturing a face of a target companion animal, checking if the face of the target companion animal is aligned according to a preset criterion, capturing the face of the target companion animal when it is determined that the face of the target companion animal is aligned, and identifying the target companion animal by extracting features from a face image of the target companion animal having an aligned face view, and an identification system for performing the same.
US11847847B2
A method for fine-tuning a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a sensor system based on a CNN are disclosed. The sensor system may be deployed at a deployment location. The CNN may be fine-tuned for the deployment location using sensor data, e.g., images, captured by a sensor device of the sensor system at the deployment location. The sensor data may include objects that are not present in an initial data set used for training the CNN. The sensor data and the initial data set may be input to the CNN to train the CNN and obtain fine-tuned parameters of the CNN. The CNN can thus be fine-tuned to the deployment location of the sensor system, with an increased chance of recognizing objects when using the sensor system and the CNN to recognize objects in captured sensor data.
US11847844B2
Techniques are described for determining the quality of a nerve graft by assessing quantitative structural characteristics of the nerve graft. Aspects of the techniques include obtaining an image identifying laminin-containing tissue in the nerve graft; creating a transformed image using a transformation function of an image processing application on the image; using an analysis function of the image processing application, analyzing the transformed image to identify one or more structures in accordance with one or more recognition criteria; and determining one or more structural characteristics of the nerve graft derived from a measurement of the one or more structures.
US11847830B2
When a main power from a main battery of a vehicle is interrupted (or cut off), an auxiliary power supplied from an auxiliary battery may be used to drive electrical components of the vehicle. The vehicle includes: a main battery to supply the main power; the auxiliary battery to supply an auxiliary power; and an image recording controller to operate with the main power, capture and record an image of surroundings of the vehicle. In particular, when the supply of the main power is interrupted, the image recording controller performs capturing and recording the image by receiving the auxiliary power, controls a supply path of the auxiliary power so that the auxiliary power is supplied to a predetermined electrical component of the vehicle to continuously operate the predetermined electrical component using the auxiliary power.
US11847822B2
An information processing device is provided that includes an operation control unit which controls the operations of an autonomous mobile object that performs an action according to a recognition operation. Based on the detection of the start of teaching related to pattern recognition learning, the operation control unit instructs the autonomous mobile object to obtain information regarding the learning target that is to be learnt in a corresponding manner to a taught label. Moreover, an information processing method is provided that is implemented in a processor and that includes controlling the operations of an autonomous mobile object which performs an action according to a recognition operation. Based on the detection of the start of teaching related to pattern recognition learning, the controlling of the operations includes instructing the autonomous mobile object to obtain information regarding the learning target that is to be learnt in a corresponding manner to a taught label.
US11847818B2
A method for extracting a video clip includes obtaining a video and splitting the video into multiple clips. The multiple clips are input into a pre-trained scoring model, to obtain a score of each of the multiple clips. The scoring model is obtained by training based on data pairs including first clips and second clips, the data pairs including first clips and second clips are obtained based on labeled clips labeled with target attributes, and the target attributes include attributes that characterize clips as target clips or non-target clips. A target clip is extracted from the multiple clips based on the score of each of the multiple clips. An apparatus for extracting a video clip and a computer readable storage medium are also disclosed.
US11847809B2
Systems, devices, and methods for identifying a region of interest are provided. A plurality of skeletal landmarks may be identified from an image received from an imaging device. A pose of a patient may be determined based on the plurality of skeletal landmarks. A region of interest may be identified on the patient based on the determined pose. Instructions may be automatically provided to the controller to adjust a pose of a surgical instrument relative to the region of interest. The plurality of skeletal landmarks may be tracked for movement. The region of interest may be updated when movement of the plurality of skeletal landmarks is detected.
US11847804B1
System and method for voice-face matching, including: obtaining a voice sample, a first facial image of a first person, and a second facial image of a second person; calculating a distance between the first facial image and the second facial image; using a voice-face matching model, calculating a latent space vector for each of the voice sample and the first and second facial images; and training the voice-face matching model using a loss function that decreases a distance between the latent space vector of the voice sample of the first person and the latent space vector of the first facial image, and increases a distance between the latent space vector of the voice sample of the first person and the latent space vector of the second facial image, wherein the loss function is adjusted based on the distance between the first facial image and the second facial image.
US11847800B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for color and pattern analysis of images including wearable items. For example, a method may include receiving an image depicting a wearable item, identifying the wearable item within the image by identifying a face of an individual wearing the wearable item or segmenting a foreground silhouette of the wearable item from background image portions of the image, determining a portion of the wearable item identified within the image as being a patch portion representative of the wearable item depicted within the image, deriving one or more patterns of the wearable item based on image analysis of the determined patch portion of the image, deriving one or more colors of the wearable item based on image analysis of the determined patch portion of the image, and transmitting information regarding the derived one or more colors and information regarding the derived one or more patterns.
US11847796B2
Examples are disclosed herein that relate to automatically calibrating cameras based on human detection. One example provides a computing system comprising instructions executable to receive image data comprising depth image data and two-dimensional image data of a space from a camera, detect a person in the space via the image data, determine a skeletal representation for the person via the image data, determine over a period of time a plurality of locations at which a reference point of the skeletal representation is on a ground area in the image data, determine a ground plane of the three-dimensional representation based upon the plurality of locations at which the reference point of the skeletal representation is on the ground area in the image data, and track a location of an object within the space relative to the ground plane.
US11847787B2
An image registration apparatus including at least one processor and configured to project, to a first model, a first image generated based on an image obtained from a first camera to generate a first intermediate image, to map the first intermediate image to a first output model to generate a first output image, to project, to a second model, a second image generated based on an image obtained from a second camera to generate a second intermediate image, to map the second intermediate image to a second output model to generate a second output image, and to determine a match rate between the first output image and the second output image and transform at least one of the first model and the second model based on a determined match rate and a preset reference match rate.
US11847784B2
In an image processing apparatus, an image acquisition section acquires captured images from a stereo camera of a head-mounted display. An image correction section performs correction on a partial image-wise basis, a partial image being smaller than one frame, while referring to a displacement vector map representing displacement vectors of pixels required for the correction. A feature point extraction section extracts feature points from partial images, and supplies the feature points sequentially to a feature point comparison section. The feature point comparison section associates feature points in a plurality of images with one another. A space information acquisition section acquires information as to a real space on the basis of correspondence information as to the feature points.
US11847774B2
A drill hole inspection method for using a drill hole inspection system to inspect a drill hole of a printed circuit board (PCB) is provided. The drill hole inspection method includes: scanning the PCB to obtain 3-dimensional (3D) image voxel data of the PCB; determining a first-dimension interval corresponding to the PCB along one direction of the 3D image voxel data; determining, in a plane of the 3D image voxel data which is orthogonal to the direction, a 2-dimensional (2D) position corresponding to the drill hole; extracting a portion of the 3D image voxel data as drill hole voxel data according to the first-dimension interval and the 2D position; analyzing the drill hole voxel data to obtain an inspection result of the drill hole; and outputting the inspection result through an output component. In addition, a drill hole inspection system and an inspection device using the same are also provided.
US11847773B1
A mobile device that includes a camera and an extended reality software application program is employed by a user in an operating environment, such as an industrial environment. One or more objects within a geofence may be identified. A device crosses within the geofence and acquires sensor data associated with an object within the geofence. The sensor data may include image data and/or audio data. The device or a server system may then determine an object identifier associated with the object based on a comparison of the sensor data with data associated with object identifiers corresponding to objects within the geofence. Based on the object identifier, data associated with the object are obtained. The data associated with the object may be presented via the device, such as an extended reality overlay over a view of the object in the device.
US11847761B2
A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a memory and processing circuitry. The memory is configured to store a plurality of neural networks corresponding to a plurality of imaging target sites, respectively, the neural networks each including an input layer, an output layer, and an intermediate layer between the input layer and the output layer, and each generated through learning processing with multiple data sets acquired for the corresponding imaging target site. The processing circuitry is configured to process first data into second data using, among the neural networks, the neural network corresponding to the imaging target site for the first data, wherein the first data is input to the input layer and the second data is output from the output layer.
US11847758B2
Provided are a material presentation method and apparatus, a terminal and a storage medium. The material presentation method includes steps described below. A to-be-presented splash presentation material is received. A splash presentation image of the to-be-presented splash presentation material is magnified, and the magnified splash presentation image is presented. In response to the presented magnified splash presentation image satisfying a minifying condition, the presented magnified splash presentation image is minified.
US11847756B2
A messaging system processes three-dimensional (3D) models to generate ground truths for training machine learning models for applications of the messaging system. A method of generating ground truths for machine learning includes generating a plurality of first rendered images from a first 3D base model where each first rendered image includes the 3D base model modified by first augmentations of a plurality of augmentations. The method further includes determining for a second 3D base model incompatible augmentations of the first plurality of augmentations, where the incompatible augmentations indicate changes to fixed features of the second 3D base model, and generating a plurality of second rendered images from a second 3D base model, each second rendered image comprising the second 3D base model modified by second augmentations, the second augmentations corresponding to the first augmentations of a corresponding first rendered image, where the second augmentations comprises augmentations of the first augmentations that are not incompatible augmentations.
US11847750B2
An augmented reality (“AR”) device applies smooth correction methods to correct the location of the virtual objects presented to a user. The AR device may apply an angular threshold to determine whether a virtual object can be moved from an original location to a target location. An angular threshold is a maximum angle by which a line from the AR device to the virtual object can change within a timestep. Similarly, the AR device may apply a motion threshold, which is a maximum on the distance that a virtual object's location can be corrected based on the motion of the virtual object. Furthermore, the AR device may apply a pixel threshold to the correction of the virtual object's location. A pixel threshold is a maximum on the distance that a pixel projection of the virtual object can change based on the virtual object's change in location.
US11847748B2
Systems and methods enable users to engage in meaningful, authentic, online interactions by extracting objects (virtual or real) from an image or video and transferring the extracted objects into a real-world environment of another user in three-dimensional augmented reality. An object to be sent from the first user to the second user is generated using a drawing application, extracted from an image or a video, or an AR object is captured. A video is recorded showing the object responding to an action of the first user and metadata is generated relating to the response of the object to the action of the first user. The video and metadata are sent to the second user. Upon receipt, the video is watched by the second user and the object is selected for presentation in a display environment of the second user. The state of the object is preserved by the metadata.
US11847740B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or unmanned surface vessels (USV) collect electro-optical images, LiDAR or sonar to create a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud referenced to a geodetic datum. The resulting point cloud is a digital surface representation of the earth's surface. The process of the geospatial cleaning and point cloud compression entails cleaning of the point-cloud surface and to the automated extraction of a set of 3D vector polylines and mass points. The resultant electronic file retains the details of the bare-earth point-cloud with an approximate 10× compression in file size or more.
US11847723B1
This application is directed to matching edges of polygons representing neighboring regions in a map user application. A computer system obtains a first polygon and a second polygon, and the second polygon is connected to the first polygon via polygon edges that are at least partially mismatched. Automatically and without user intervention, the computer system combines the first polygon and the second polygon to form a joined polygon defined by an outline of the first polygon and the second polygon. A region defined by the second polygon is subtracted from a region defined by the joined polygon to form a new region. The computer system defines an updated first polygon as an outline of the new region and renders, on a screen, the updated first polygon and the second polygon with matching edges.
US11847713B2
After determining a trip order has a high risk, verification information unavailable in a passenger information database system can be requested and provided for a passenger of the account. Validity of the verification information can be determined using a verification service and stored in a passenger information database. A decision for the trip order can be determined based on the validity of the verification information stored in the passenger information database.
US11847704B2
Management of a position concentration risk of an account includes the establishment of a threshold level for an aggregate trader position. The aggregate trader position may be associated with one or more customer accounts that are managed by one or more clearing firms. An actual parameter value associated with each of the customer accounts is aggregated to determine an aggregate parameter value, which is compared against the established threshold value. If, based on the comparison between the aggregate parameter value and the established threshold value, it is determined that the aggregate parameter value meets or exceeds the established threshold value, an advisory alert is generated, which may be automatic. The advisory alert is then communicated or otherwise provided to one or more authorized entities.
US11847701B2
Systems and methods of trading items on an electronic trading system according to the invention are provided. The embodiments of the invention are based at least in part on a new order type. The new order type is a modification of a conventional good-until-bettered order type. A good-until-bettered bid/offer is received along with instructions that specify a good-until-bettered increment value and/or duration. The good-until-bettered order is maintained in the electronic trading system until a bid/offer that is better by the specified plurality of standard trading increments is received by the electronic trading system and/or remains in the system for the good-until-bettered duration.
US11847694B2
Described herein is an identity network for authenticating a user for a relying party and providing access to the user's credit report. The identity network may receive an unlock request for the digital identity and credit report of a user from a relying party. In response, the identity network may provide an identity provider link for accessing the identity provider application. The user may login to the identity provider application and provide consent for obtaining the user's credit report. The identity provider provides the identity network with verification of the digital identity of the user and the consent response from the user. The identity network can request access from a credit reporting agency and receive a credit report key in response. The identity network can provide the credit report key to the relying party, which can use the key to access the user's credit report from the credit reporting agency.
US11847692B2
A method for offering at least one credit product by at least one credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale between a merchant and the consumer. The method includes the steps of: providing a credit issuer data set including a plurality of data fields to a central database; initiating a transaction between the consumer and the merchant at the point-of-sale; offering, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, the at least one credit product; and presenting, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, at least one data field in the credit issuer data set. The at least one data field presented to the consumer is populated with data directed to the credit product, the credit issuer, or any combination thereof. An apparatus and system are also disclosed.
US11847691B2
A user's credit score is determined based at least in part upon collected telematics data and user data associated with the user. A credit score prediction model is created using training datasets of historical data including demographics data, driver profile data, and established credit scores. The credit score prediction model is then used to predict credit scores for users without formal credit scores. A user's credit score is predicted based at least in part upon a driver profile built using telematics data, among other factors.
US11847689B2
A system and method for a dynamic customer checkout experience within an automated shopping environment that includes generating a virtual cart for the customer through an automatic checkout system; tracking location of the customer; generating an assessment of the virtual cart; and selecting a processing mode for the customer based in part on the assessment and executing the processing mode within at least one computing device in coordination with the location of the entity.
US11847688B2
An object tracking system that includes a sensor and a tracking system. The sensor is configured to capture a frame of at least a portion of a rack within a global plane for a space. The tracking system is further configured to receive the frame, to determine a pixel location for the first person, and to determine a person is within the predefined zone associated with the rack. The tracking system is further configured to identify the plurality of items in a digital cart associated with the person, to identify an item from the digital cart associated with the first person, and to remove the identified item from the digital cart associated with the person.
US11847678B2
Receiving, from a customer, an indication at least one healthcare service has been redeemed from a bundled set of a plurality of healthcare services listed in a selectively redeemable bundled services purchase data record; updating the individual redemption status of the at least one healthcare service in the selectively redeemable bundled services purchase data record to indicate the at least one healthcare service has been redeemed; sending, to the customer, an electronic message comprising a request for payment for the at least one healthcare service; and upon receiving the payment in combination with the indication at least one healthcare service has been redeemed, disbursing compensation allocated from the payment to at least one provider, using the processor. One implementation may create and send X12 837 claims to payers on behalf of participant providers of the bundled services and receive response X12 835 remittance with the payments requested from the payers.
US11847676B2
An online concierge system uses a domain-adaptive suggestion module to score products that may be presented to a user as suggestions in response to a user's search query. The domain-adaptive suggestion module receives data that is relevant to scoring products as suggestions in response to a search query. The domain-adaptive suggestion module uses one or more domain-neutral representation models to generate a domain-neutral representation of the received data. The domain-neutral representation is a featurized representation of the received data that can be used by machine-learning models in the search domain or the suggestion domain. The domain-adaptive suggestion module then scores products by applying one or more machine-learning models to domain-neutral representations generated based on those products. By using domain-neutral representations, the domain-adaptive suggestion module can be trained based on training examples from a similar prediction task in a different domain.
US11847673B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, dynamic bundling mechanisms are provided. The dynamic bundling mechanisms may enable dynamic reconfiguration of a subscription bundle. The dynamic bundling mechanisms may include receiving a user request for generating a subscription bundle, identifying one or more first subscription services in view of the user request, generating the subscription bundle based on the one or more first subscription services, detecting interactions with the one or more first subscription service by the first user, receiving a user request for reconfiguring the subscription bundle, and reconfiguring the subscription bundle in view of at least first user's interaction with the first subscription services or the user request for reconfiguring the subscription bundle.
US11847672B2
The present invention teaches a system, method and computer program for enabling local or regional merchants to participate in an automated cause marketing (ACM) program using mobile devices. The ACM program that may provide benefits to several parties involved in fundraising for one or more supported organizations, including one or more supported organizations, advertising providers, merchants, and individuals. Merchants are able to access enhanced analytics regarding their transactions with members and non-members of the ACM program and can use these enhanced analytics to realize an increased number of or revenue from transactions with members. The present invention also teaches a system and method for enabling advertising providers to acquire and analyze data associated with consumers-merchant transactions. The present invention provides the above features optimally using mobile devices. Furthermore, the present invention, may enable a member to disseminate its charitable preferences and contribution notifications to members of its electronic social networks.
US11847659B2
Methods and system for a unique coding framework used to create, manage and track instructions for documentation and dissemination of instructions, indicate a particular association or activate a given process. In one example, the present disclosure relates to the online publishing of documentation to demonstrate relationships of parties and compliance with regulatory and other requirements. The present disclosure uses URL hyperlinks, badges, watermarks, icons and visual displays that are representative of a given function and that may be identified by reference of unique coding structure. The present disclosure relates to the publishing and display of relevant visual codes or images for viewing by members of the public, (human readable) as well as machines. The present disclosure enables the tracking and measurement of uses of coded representations in public or private channels. Structured hyperlink codes allow brief messages to be sent in shortened form to instruct or deliver messages or processes.
US11847657B2
Batch-processing of open tabs associated with one or more customers of a merchant is described. An identifier and/or payment instrument associated with the customer may be determined and a tab data structure associated with a customer may be created. The tab data structure may be configured to store interactions between the customer and the merchant. Details of transactions between the customer and the merchant may be stored while the tab remains open. In response to determining that an event has occurred, the open tab(s) may be closed and the stored transactions may be processed via a batch-processing technique. In this way, the open tabs associated with the customer and/or the merchant may be processed in batch, thereby reducing the level of interaction and resources required of the merchant and customer to process tabs individually and reducing the amount of delayed and/or lost funds.
US11847655B1
The disclosure includes a system and method for receiving, using one or more processors, monitoring data; preprocessing, using one or more processors, the monitoring data based on a plurality of vectors, the plurality of vectors including a first vector; applying, using the one or more processors, a first rule associated with the first vector; and triggering, using the one or more processors, a first action based on the first rule.
US11847654B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for learning continuous embedding space of real time payment (RTP) transactions are provided. A method may include receiving RTP data including a plurality of attributes, including a sender and a receiver. One attribute is selected as a target attribute. The remaining attributes are input into a first machine learning model (e.g., NLP model), comprising at least one embedding layer and one hidden layer, which is trained to predict the target attribute. After the model is trained, each of the remaining attributes are converted to a first vector using the at least one embedding layer of the machine learning model to form a first set of vectors. The first set of vectors are stored and subsequently input into a second machine learning model to perform at least one second task different than the first task.
US11847650B2
Embodiments for managing personal device security by one or more processors are described. Information associated with activity of a personal device is received. The information is detected utilizing a sensor coupled to the personal device. A signal representative of the received information is generated. An operational state of the personal device is caused to be changed after the generating of the signal.
US11847647B2
A system, method and computer-readable storage medium that add at least one transaction block to a chained sequence of one or more blocks, including receiving a request message having data of an electronic transaction, broadcasting, to nodes in a blockchain network, a consensus request message for generating at least one transaction block including creating a block header that contains a hash pointer to a previous block, and concurrently with updating transaction block data, comparing and performing an action based on the comparing, performing periodic valuation and transmission of an item having a value that is tied to the transaction data, including establishing transmission links with the external entities, determining a value of the item, and establishing movement of the item between the external entities based on the determined value of the item and predetermined thresholds.
US11847629B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for resilient workflows dependent on external computing systems. In one embodiment, one or more steps in a workflow are determined to invoke a request to an external computing system. Availability information for the external computing system is determined. The external computing system is detected to be potentially unavailable before a request within a workflow is submitted via an application programming interface (API) for processing by the external computing system. An indication is provided that an integration with the external computing system is unavailable in response to detecting that the external computing system is potentially unavailable.
US11847628B2
User devices are disclosed for managing a plurality of supplemental payment sources of a user. One method includes: generating and displaying a user interface prompting a user to input: an identifier of a primary payment source account for applying resources to transactions originating at one or more merchants, the primary payment source account being accounted for in a first data structure of a shared ledger and having its identifier linked with one or more supplemental payment source accounts; identifiers of one or more supplemental payment source accounts for applying resources to transactions originating at one or more merchants, the supplemental payment source accounts being accounted for in second and subsequent data structures of the shared ledger; and preference settings for applying resources of the primary payment source account and the supplemental payment source accounts to transactions, based on identities or categories of merchants involved in the transactions.
US11847625B2
A computer server for a network-based transaction system is coupled to a kiosk via a data communications network. The kiosk includes a computer processor, an input device, an electronic display unit, a plurality of compartments, and a data communications port. The computer server receives input from a seller of an item. The input includes a listing of the item for sale on the network-based transaction system. The server identifies an available compartment from the plurality of compartments based on the size of the item for sale. The available compartment is configured to receive the item for sale from the seller. The server transmits an identification of the available compartment to the seller via the electronic display unit, and enables access to the available compartment by the seller.
US11847623B1
A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US11847618B2
A kiosk robot includes a propulsion system configured to allow the kiosk robot to move within an operations venue, a wireless interface configured to allow wireless networked communication between the kiosk robot and a wireless network, a touchscreen display device, a memory device, and a processor. The robot is configured to receive, from a robot management system (RMS) and via the wireless interface, a relocation request identifying a service location within the operations venue and at which the kiosk robot is to provide kiosk functionality, in response to receiving the relocation request, control the propulsion system to navigate the kiosk robot to the service location, and provide a kiosk graphical user interface (GUI) using the touchscreen display device, the kiosk GUI provides kiosk functionality to a user at the service location.
US11847617B2
A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment. The system includes one or more processing circuits including one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include performing an optimization of an objective function that defines a present value of a total cost of operating the building equipment and performing maintenance on the building equipment as a function of operating decisions and maintenance decisions for the building equipment for time steps within a time period. The total cost includes one or more costs incurred during one or more future time steps of the time period. The operations include operating the building equipment and performing maintenance on the building equipment in accordance with decisions defined by the result of the optimization.
US11847608B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for call deflection, comprising receiving, via a telephone communication from a mobile device of a user, a request for return or exchange, accessing a purchase history of the user to identify at least one order satisfying a predetermined return criteria, generating a unique hyperlink for the user, sending the unique hyperlink to the mobile device of the user, receiving, from the mobile device of the user, a selection of at least one product in the at least one order for return or exchange, and modifying a database to register the at least one product for return or exchange. The unique hyperlink may be assigned to the at least one order that satisfies the predetermined return criteria such that, when activated by the user, the mobile device is configured to display the at least one order.
US11847602B2
There is thus provided a computerized-method for calculating a Repeated-Information-Request (RIR) score of an interaction in a contact center, by which a related interaction-recording is filtered for evaluation. The computerized-method is operating in a computerized-system which includes a processor, a data-storage and a memory to store the data-storage. The processor is operating a RIR score calculation module. The operating of the RIR score calculation module includes: (i) retrieving from the data-storage an interaction-recording and an interaction-recording-length thereof; (ii) operating a module on the retrieved interaction-recording to count a number of requests to repeat information; (iii) calculating a RIR score according to the number of requests to repeat information and the interaction-recording-length; and (iv) storing the RIR score of the retrieved interaction-recording in the data-storage. The RIR score is sent to a platform by which the platform is preconfigured to distribute the interaction-recording for evaluation, based on the RIR score.
US11847601B2
A strategic decision support system is disclosed. The system can filter content received from a remote database coupled to a network to provide a graphical user interface to enable strategic decision making to expand utilization of a product. The system can include a local client computer to generate access to content stored in the remote database, at least one filtering scheme, a set of selectable filters configured to filter the content stored in the remote database according to the at least one filtering scheme, and a remote server coupled to the local client computer via the network to analyze access restrictions to the product based on a selected filter and the at least one filtering scheme to generate a graphical user interface displayed on the local client computer.
US11847596B1
A computer-implemented method for optimizing control of a process includes a computer receiving a process definition and a collection of elements to be arranged in a way that optimizes the utility of the process; initializing the process using a collection of discrete elements (stops, events, work orders, tasks, locations, etc.), and producing a solution for said collection by inserting the elements into the solution using the Minimum Insertion Heuristic; modifying the order of the elements to be inserted and continuing the process to produce solutions with better scores; and continuing to produce solutions based on improving the order of insertion until the process is determined to be sufficiently optimized.
US11847595B2
Methods and systems determine at least one production constraint for a material loading system and a material processing system; estimate an effect of entropy on a cycle time of a material conveying system to produce a future cycle time estimate; estimate an effect of entropy on a material processing time to produce a future material processing time estimate; predict whether a delay will occur during the operation of the material loading, material conveying, and material processing systems; estimate a duration of the predicted delay; determine a loading system capacity and a conveying system capacity required to meet the defined production target based on the production constraint and estimates of the future cycle time, the future material processing time, and the duration of the predicted delay; and deploy one or more material loading and conveying systems to meet the determined loading and conveying system capacities.
US11847590B2
Communications over short-range connections are used to facilitate whether access to resources is to be granted. For example, upon device discovery of one of an electronic user device and an electronic client device by the other device over a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, an access-enabling code associated with a user device or account can be evaluated for validity and applicability with respect to one or more particular resource specifications. User identity can be verified by comparing the user against previously obtained biometric information.
US11847586B2
A method and apparatus for determining a distance travelled by a vehicle for the purpose of assessing and settling a road usage charge allows for determining a distance travelled with a vehicle. A mobile device can acquire odometer values which are subsequently reported to a system that confirms the distance drive and determines a road usage charge. Once the actual distance travelled by the vehicle is determined by the system, a road usage charge can be determined. Fuel excise taxes paid by the vehicle operator for fuel used by the vehicle and tolls can be subtracted from the road usage charge to determine a road usage settlement amount that can be paid from, or refunded to a financial account associated with the vehicle.
US11847568B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for training a quantized machine-trained network. Some embodiments provide a method of scaling a feature map of a pre-trained floating-point neural network in order to match the range of output values provided by quantized activations in a quantized neural network. A quantization function is modified, in some embodiments, to be differentiable to fix the mismatch between the loss function computed in forward propagation and the loss gradient used in backward propagation. Variational information bottleneck, in some embodiments, is incorporated to train the network to be insensitive to multiplicative noise applied to each channel. In some embodiments, channels that finish training with large noise, for example, exceeding 100%, are pruned.
US11847567B1
Some embodiments provide a method that receives a network with trained floating-point weight values. The network includes layers of nodes, each of which computes an output value based on input values and trained weight values. To replace a first layer of the trained network in a modified network with quantized weight values, the method defines multiple replica layers. Each replica layer includes nodes that correspond to nodes of the first layer, has a different set of allowed quantized weight values, and receives the same input values from a previous layer of the modified network such that groups of corresponding nodes from the replica layers operate correspondingly to the first layer. The method trains the quantized weight values of the modified network using a loss function with terms that account for effect on the loss function due to the quantization and for interactions between corresponding weight values of the replica layers.
US11847561B2
Computer-implemented techniques can include obtaining, by a client computing device, a digital media item and a request for a processing task on the digital item and determining a set of operating parameters based on (i) available computing resources at the client computing device and (ii) a condition of a network. Based on the set of operating parameters, the client computing device or a server computing device can select one of a plurality of artificial neural networks (ANNs), each ANN defining which portions of the processing task are to be performed by the client and server computing devices. The client and server computing devices can coordinate processing of the processing task according to the selected ANN. The client computing device can also obtain final processing results corresponding to a final evaluation of the processing task and generate an output based on the final processing results.
US11847555B2
A neural network is augmented to enhance robustness against adversarial attack. In this approach, a fully-connected additional layer is associated with a last layer of the neural network. The additional layer has a lower dimensionality than at least one or more intermediate layers. After sizing the additional layer appropriately, a vector bit encoding is applied. The encoding comprises an encoding vector for each output class. Preferably, the encoding is an n-hot encoding, wherein n represents a hyperparameter. The resulting neural network is then trained to encourage the network to associated features with each of the hot positions. In this manner, the network learns a reduced feature set representing those features that contain a high amount of information with respect to each output class, and/or to learn constraints between those features and the output classes. The trained neural network is used to perform a classification that is robust against adversarial examples.
US11847549B2
Provided are an optical device which is capable of optically implementing an activation function of an artificial neural network and an optical neural network apparatus which includes the optical device. The optical device may include: a beam splitter splitting incident light into first light and second light; an image sensor disposed to sense the first light; an optical shutter configured to transmit or block the second light; and a controller controlling operations of the optical shutter, based on an intensity of the first light measured by the image sensor.
US11847544B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for preventing data leakage in automated machine learning. The mechanism receives a data set comprising a label for a target variable for a classifier machine learning model and a set of features. For each given feature in the set of features, the mechanism trains a subprime classifier model using the given feature as a target variable and remaining features as independent input features, tests the subprime classifier model, and records results of the subprime classifier model. The mechanism performs statistical analysis on the recorded results to identify an outlier result corresponding to an outlier subprime classifier model. The mechanism identifies a outlier feature within the set of features corresponding to the subprime classifier model, removes the identified outlier feature from the set of features to form a modified set of features, and trains the classifier machine learning model using the label for the target variable and the modified set of features.
US11847541B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a machine learning model. One of the methods includes obtaining a training data set for training a machine learning model, the training data set comprising a plurality of training inputs; determining a plurality of data augmentation policies, wherein each data augmentation policy defines a procedure for processing a training input to generate a transformed training input; for each data augmentation policy, training the machine learning model using the data augmentation policy; determining, for each data augmentation policy, a quality measure of the machine learning model that has been trained using the data augmentation policy; and selecting a final data augmentation policy based using the quality measures of the machine learning models.
US11847540B2
Embodiments are directed to a method for accelerating machine learning using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs), involving receiving data for a graph to generate a plurality of random samples, and distributing the random samples across a plurality of GPUs. The method may comprise determining a plurality of communities from the random samples using unsupervised learning performed by each GPU. A plurality of sample groups may be generated from the communities and may be distributed across the GPUs, wherein each GPU merges communities in each sample group by converging to an optimal degree of similarity. In addition, the method may also comprise generating from the merged communities a plurality of subgraphs, dividing each sub-graph into a plurality of overlapping clusters, distributing the plurality of overlapping clusters across the plurality of GPUs, and scoring each cluster in the plurality of overlapping clusters to train an AI model.
US11847536B2
A method, system and computer readable medium for performing a cognitive browse operation comprising: receiving training data, the training data comprising information based upon user interaction with cognitive attributes; performing a machine learning operation on the training data; generating a cognitive profile based upon the information generated by performing the machine learning operation; and, performing a cognitive browse operation on a corpus of content based upon the cognitive profile, the cognitive browse operation returning cognitive browse results specific to the cognitive profile of the user.
US11847534B2
A superconducting readout system employing a microwave transmission line, and a microwave superconducting resonator communicatively coupled to the microwave transmission line, and including a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), may be advantageously calibrated at least in part by measuring a resonant frequency of the microwave superconducting resonator in response to a flux bias applied to the SQUID, measuring a sensitivity of the resonant frequency in response to the flux bias, and selecting an operating frequency and a sensitivity of the microwave superconducting resonator based at least in part on a variation of the resonant frequency as a function of the flux bias. The flux bias may be applied to the SQUID by an interface inductively coupled to the SQUID. Calibration of the superconducting readout system may also include determining at least one of a propagation delay, a microwave transmission line delay, and a microwave transmission line phase offset.
US11847531B1
In one aspect, computer-implemented method may include receiving, from computing devices, fleet data pertaining to battery packs each including first cells. The fleet data includes false positive images of lithium plating affecting at least a first cell, true positive images of the lithium plating affecting at least a second cell, or both. The method may include training, using at least the fleet data, machine learning models to predict occurrences of the lithium plating, receiving, from sensors associated with second cells, measurements pertaining to current, voltage, temperature, or some combination thereof, and inputting the measurements into the machine learning models to predict the occurrences of the lithium plating for the second cells.
US11847527B2
The invention allows using a commodity hardware (e.g. a smartphone, a tablet, a computer . . . ) to automatically establish a high level of assurance authentication and identification of any government-issued identity document of a user (e.g. identity card, driving license, passport . . . ) and link that to digital identity counterpart. Moreover, the invention allows personalizing a material-based security feature provided of said government-issued identity document to create a link between the identity document and its data content that can be read by such a commodity hardware and serves as reliable credential for accessing a service once the material-based security feature has been authenticated via the commodity hardware and a signature of the identity data of the user has been authenticated by a server of an authority.
US11847526B2
A method and a corresponding system are disclosed for recording multimodal user interaction with an item in a networked system. The networked system includes a server device network-connected to one or more client user device(s). A data record is generated for the item, comprising data representative thereof and including at least image data depicting the item. A unique identifier code is associated with the data record, wherein the association of the unique identifier code with the image data in the record defines an avatar of the item in the system. Copies of the avatar are distributed to client user devices in the network, and the unique identifier code is encoded into a machine-readable tag secured to each physical embodiment of the item outside the network. At each client user device, each digital user interaction with an avatar and each analogue user interaction with a physical item is logged. At the server, each logged user interaction is matched against the item data record and recorded.
US11847519B2
There is described a system and method for tracking a tag. The system and method includes a concentrator for receiving, via a one-way Bluetooth low energy (BLE) communication, at least one data packet broadcasted by a tag during a time slot assigned to the tag and identifying the tag based on the at least one data packet. The system and method also includes a gateway in communication with the concentrator for receiving the identification of the tag from the concentrator and outputting the identification of the tag.
US11847511B1
In variants, the system can include a set of blockchain modules and a set of interaction mechanism handlers configured to convert a unified set of system commands into blockchain-specific commands for each of a set of blockchains and/or blockchain nodes.
US11847502B2
A device, that provides serverless computing, receives a request to execute multiple jobs, and determines criteria for each of the plurality of jobs, wherein the criteria for each of the multiple jobs includes at least one of job posting criteria, job validation criteria, job retry criteria, or a disaster recovery criteria. The device stores information associated with the multiple jobs in a repository, wherein the information associated with the multiple jobs includes the criteria for each of the multiple jobs. The device provides a particular job, of the multiple jobs, to a cluster computing framework for execution, determines modified criteria for the particular job, and provides the modified criteria for the particular job to the cluster computing framework. The device receives, from the cluster computing framework, information indicating that execution of the particular job is complete, and validates a success of completion of the execution of the particular job.
US11847494B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for allocating computing resources. In one aspect, a method includes receiving intent data specifying one or more computing services to be hosted by a computing network, requested characteristics of computing resources for use in hosting the computing service, and a priority value for each requested characteristic. A budget constraint is identified for each computing service. Available resources data is identified that specifies a set of available computing resources. A resource allocation problem for allocating computing resources for the one or more computing resources is generated based on the intent data, each budget constraint, and the available resources data. At least a portion of the set of computing resources is allocated for the one or more computing services based on results of evaluating the resource allocation problem to meet a particular resource allocation objective.
US11847489B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to a shared control bus for communicating between primary control circuitry and multiple distributed graphics processor units. In some embodiments, a set of multiple processor units includes first and second graphics processors, where the first and second graphics processors are coupled to access graphics data via respective memory interfaces. A shared workload distribution bus is used to transmit control data that specifies graphics work distribution to the multiple graphics processing units. The shared workload distribution bus may be arranged in a chain topology, e.g., to connect the workload distribution circuitry to the first graphics processor and connect the first graphics processor to the second graphics processor such that the workload distribution circuitry communicates with the second graphics processor via the shared workload distribution bus connection to the first graphics processor. Disclosed techniques may facilitate graphics work distribution for a scalable number of processors.
US11847486B1
A capacity resolver system for provisioning and management of nodes at point of presence (POP) in a cloud-based multi-tenant system. The capacity resolver system includes a plurality of POPs and a cloud orchestration server. The POPs include hypervisors that include a plurality of nodes. The cloud orchestration receives a request for provisioning a node. The request is provisioned at the POP based on parameters from the hypervisors of the POP. The parameters include Central Processing Unit (CPU) Core utilization, memory utilization, disk utilization and Virtual File System (VFS) availability of the node. A triggering of one or more parameters above their respective threshold values is determined at the POP. Nodes are identified for downsizing or migration based on the triggering of the one or more parameters. The node is provisioned at the hypervisor of the POP in accordance with a priority for the downsizing or the migration of the nodes.
US11847472B2
Techniques are disclosed for linearizing interfaces within computing applications. In some embodiments, the techniques include defining a sequence of user interface elements, where at least a subset of user interface elements in the sequence of user interface elements correspond to controls for affecting a session state. Responsive to receiving an input value through a user interface element, a linearization process adds the input value to at least one dataset for evaluating a current state for each respective user interface element subsequent to the user interface element in the sequence of user interface elements. The process further evaluates the current state for each respective user interface element subsequent to the user interface element in the sequence of user interface elements based on values within the at least one data set. The process may disable and/or enable one or more user interface elements based on the evaluation.
US11847468B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data defragmentation for a system boot procedure are described. The memory system may determine a write random index associated with a boot procedure. The write random index may indicate a relationship between a first quantity of sequential logical addresses accessed as part of the boot procedure and a second quantity of random logical addresses accessed as part of the boot procedure. The memory system may determine whether the write random index satisfies a threshold based on determining the write random index. In some cases, the memory system may transfer, to a second portion of the memory system, data stored in a first portion of the memory system based on determining that the write random index satisfies the threshold. The memory system may receive a request to perform the boot procedure after transferring the data and output, to the host system, the data transferred.
US11847467B2
A boot method for an embedded system is provided. The embedded system includes two mainboards each provided with a baseboard management controller (BMC), a non-volatile memory unit and a network adapter. When the embedded system is turned on, each of the BMCs performs a boot procedure, and then loads an operating system (OS) image file from a corresponding non-volatile memory unit to execute an operating system. When one BMC fails to load the OS image file or to execute the operating system, the BMC causes the corresponding network adapter to communicate with the other network adapter to acquire the OS image file from the non-volatile memory unit on the other mainboard, so as to replace the OS image file in the corresponding non-volatile memory unit, and directly loads the OS image thus acquired to execute the operating system.
US11847462B2
A software-based instruction scoreboard indicates dependencies between closely-issued instructions issued to an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) pipeline. The software-based instruction scoreboard inserts one or more control words into the command stream between the dependent instructions, which is then executed by the ALU pipeline. The control words identify the instruction(s) upon which the dependent instructions depend (parent instructions) so that the GPU hardware can ensure that the ALU pipeline does not stall while the dependent instruction waits for results from the parent instruction.
US11847460B2
Apparatuses and methods for handling load requests are disclosed. In response to a load request specifying a data item to retrieve from memory, a series of data items comprising the data item identified by the load request are retrieved. Load requests are buffered prior to the load requests being carried out. Coalescing circuitry determines for the load request and a set of one or more other load requests buffered in the pending load buffer circuitry whether an address proximity condition is true. The address proximity condition is true when all data items identified by the set of one or more other load requests are comprised within the series of data items. When the address proximity condition is true, the set of one or more other load requests are suppressed. Coalescing prediction circuitry generates a coalescing prediction for each load request based on previous handling of load requests by the coalescing circuitry.
US11847457B1
A master processor is configured to execute a first thread and a second thread designated to run a program in sequence. A slave processor is configured to execute a third thread to run the program in sequence. An instruction fetch compare engine is provided. The first thread initiates a first thread instruction fetch for the program and stored in an instruction fetch storage. Retrieved data associated with the fetched first thread instruction is stored in a retrieved data storage. The second thread initiates a second thread instruction fetch for the program. The instruction fetch compare logic compares the second thread instruction fetch for the program with the first thread instruction fetch stored in the instruction fetch storage for a match. When there is a match, the retrieved data associated with the fetched first thread instruction is presented from the retrieved data storage, in response to the second thread instruction fetch.
US11847450B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to instructions to multiply values of zero are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a decoder to decode a single instruction into a decoded single instruction, the single instruction having a first field that identifies a first number, a second field that identifies a second number, and a third field that indicates a number format for the first number and the second number; and an execution circuit to execute the decoded single instruction to: cause a first comparison of the first number to a zero value in the number format of the first number, cause a second comparison of the second number to a zero value in the number format of the second number, provide as a resultant of the single instruction a value of zero when the second comparison indicates the second number equals the zero value in the number format of the second number, provide as the resultant of the single instruction the value of zero when the first comparison indicates the first number equals the zero value in the number format of the first number, and provide as the resultant of the single instruction a product of a multiplication of the first number and the second number when the first comparison indicates the first number does not equal the zero value in the number format of the first number and the second comparison indicates the second number does not equal the zero value in the number format of the second number.
US11847448B2
Systems and methods for implementing a build-time, automatic, exporter configuration rule generator that removes the need for manual definition of exporter configurations are described. A processing device may perform a scan of source code of an application to identify one or more classes of the application, each of the one or more classes enabling an exporter to access metrics generated by the class. For each of the one or more classes, the processing device may analyze source code of the class with a set of templates and heuristics to generate a set of configuration rules for the class. The processing device may then generate an exporter configuration for the exporter based on the set of configuration rules for each of the one or more classes.
US11847434B2
One or more computer processors receive a pattern string comprising a pointer to a pattern search point and a string comprising a pointer to a search point; determine a plausible search point within the string for the pattern character; execute a search string (SRST) instruction with the determined search point and the pattern character; compute a pattern offset comprising a difference between a first occurrence of the determined pattern character located within the pattern string but not in the correct position and a current pattern character position; execute a subsequent SRST instruction with the current pattern character position and the computed offset set as a new search point; and responsive to identifying all pattern characters in the correct position within the string based on the executed subsequent SRST instruction, transmit memory address associated with a substring comprised of the string and corresponding pattern characters in the correct position.
US11847431B2
Embodiments for providing an enhanced codebase in a computing environment by a processor. One or more container specification files may be automatically generated for a codebase based on one or more extracted attribute names and values.
US11847429B2
Adder circuits and associated methods for processing a set of at least three floating-point numbers to be added together include identifying, from among the at least three numbers, at least two numbers that have the same sign—that is, at least two numbers that are both positive or both negative. The identified at least two numbers are added together using one or more same-sign floating-point adders. A same-sign floating-point adder comprises circuitry configured to add together floating-point numbers having the same sign and does not include circuitry configured to add together numbers having different signs.
US11847426B2
A system and method for translating sign language utterances into a target language, including: receiving motion capture data; producing phonemes/sign fragments from the received motion capture data; producing a plurality of sign sequences from the phonemes/sign fragments; parsing these sign sequences to produce grammatically parsed sign utterances; translating the grammatically parsed sign utterances into grammatical representations in the target language; and generating output utterances in the target language based upon the grammatical representations.
US11847422B2
A system and method implemented on a computing device for analyzing a digital corpus of unstructured interlocutor conversations to discover intents, goals, or both intents and goals of one or more parties to the conversations, by grouping the conversation utterances according to semantic similarity clusters; selecting the best utterance(s) that mostly likely embody a party's stated goal or intent; creates a set of candidate intent names for each cluster based upon each intent utterance in each conversation in each cluster; rates each candidate intent (or goal) for each intent name; and selects the most likely candidate intent (or goal) name for the purposes of subsequent automation of future conversations such as, but not limited to, automated electronic responses using Artificial Intelligence and machine learning.
US11847410B2
Upon closing and/or saving a file, a user may view changes made to the file.
US11847407B2
A method for removing text noise according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes inspecting quality of the text, correcting the text based on a result of inspection; selecting a noise candidate based on each type of sentences included in the corrected text, wherein the noise candidate is selected for each sentence included in the text and removing at least some of the sentences included in the noise candidate based on the purpose of the text.
US11847406B1
Techniques for performing natural language processing (NLP) on semi-structured data are described. An exemplary method includes receiving a semi-structured document to perform NLP on using a trained NLP model; converting the semi-structured document into a secondary format, wherein the secondary format includes spatial information for tokens of the semi-structured document; flattening the converted, secondary formatted semi-structured document into a Unicode Transformation Format text file; performing NLP on the Unicode Transformation Format text file using the trained NLP model; and providing a result of the NLP to a requester.
US11847405B1
A method may include receiving a request from a software application to print an electronic document; in response to the request, parsing the electronic document; based on the parsing, detecting a text element in a portion of the electronic document that is associated in a structure of the electronic document with a network link, the network link being different than the text element; modifying the portion of the electronic document with the text element to include a printable element encoded with the network link; and transmitting the electronic document as modified to a printer driver.
US11847404B2
A service control system controls access to secured online testing services, such as accredited or standardized tests, examinations in educational courses, tutoring services, and continuing professional development courses or seminars. The secured services may be published by an educational publishing platform and made available to users through online configured browser applications executing on the users' devices. Based on access conditions associated with a secured testing service and the capturing and processing of one or more images, the service control system determines how users are authorized to access the services. When users have been authorized to access a service or a subset of the service, the service may be distributed through the browser applications executing on the users' devices.
US11847403B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for rendering document changes. A first document is rendered in a client user interface (UI) based at least on a first intermediate format representation obtained from a server. A change initiator receives a request for a change to the first document and transmits information indicative of the change to the server. A client renderer selectively modifies a portion of the first intermediate format representation at the client based on the change and renders a modified first document in the UI based at least on the modified first intermediate format representation. The client renderer obtains a second intermediate format representation from the server, where the second intermediate format representation comprises an intermediate format representation generated through processing an updated document definition. The client renderer renders the second document in the UI based at least on the second intermediate format representation.
US11847400B2
Methods for generation of shape data for a set of electronic designs include inputting a set of shape data, where the set of shape data represents a set of shapes for a device fabrication process. A convolutional neural network is used on the set of shape data to determine a set of generated shape data, where the convolutional neural network comprises a generator trained with a pre-determined set of discriminators. The set of generated shape data comprises a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image.
US11847393B2
A computing device, method and computer program product are provided in order to develop a system model. In a method, a simulation model is designed that is configured to digitally simulate a corresponding portion of a system. The method also includes associating a simulation assessment module with the simulation model. The simulation assessment module is configured to verify one or more signals propagating within the simulation model. In an instance in which the simulation assessment module has verified the one or more signals, the method includes performing a unit test upon the simulation model to confirm proper operation of the simulation model. In an instance in which the unit test is successful, the method includes integrating a plurality of simulation models to form the system model.
US11847390B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for generating factual and/or counterfactual data are described. This may have the effect of improving the complexity of data available for training machine learning models. The models may include, but not limited to, a probabilistic graphical model (PGM) and/or an agent-based model (ABM). Further aspects may provide for scrubbing actual data to create a data model that does not reveal the content of the underlying source data. Yet further aspects may provide for validating a data model.
US11847387B1
The present invention discloses a method and system for predicting a creep-fatigue life of a structural part of a thermal power unit. The method includes: constructing a life prediction model; acquiring a stress relaxation curve in a strain control creep-fatigue test through pure creep data to calculate an initial creep damage; acquiring a cyclic hardening coefficient, an elasticity modulus and other related material constants through the pure fatigue data to calculate an initial fatigue damage; and acquiring a difference between strain energy densities in upper and lower parts of creep-fatigue mean stress, making the difference between strain energy densities less than a set threshold through dichotomy iteration to acquire a final creep damage, a final fatigue damage and an oxidative damage under such a circumstance, and predicting the creep-fatigue life of the high-temperature structural part based on the life prediction model.
US11847380B2
Systems and methods for providing supplemental information with a response to a command are provided herein. In some embodiments, audio data representing a spoken command may be received by a cloud-based information system. A response to the command may be retrieved from a category related to the context of the command. A supplemental information database may also be provided that is pre-populated with supplemental information related to an individual having a registered account on the cloud-based information system. In response to retrieving the response to the command, supplemental information may be selected from the supplemental information database to be appended to the response to the command. A message may then be generated including the response and the supplemental information appended thereto, which in turn may be converted into audio data representing the message, which may be sent to a voice-controlled electronic device of the individual.
US11847378B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interface for audio routing. In some examples, a computer system detects an audio device and displays a selectable option in accordance with a determination that a set of criteria is met. The selectable option, when selected, enables the computer system to connect to the audio device and transmit audio data to the audio device.
US11847372B2
A system according to exemplary embodiments includes an information processing apparatus and a cloud print service (CPS) associated with a company tenant. The information processing apparatus determines whether a client terminal having received a print request performs remote connection, and transmits a result of determination and print job data corresponding to the print request to the CPS. The CPS causes another CPS that is associated with a public tenant and connected to the CPS via a network to hold the print job data transmitted from the information processing apparatus based on the result of the determination transmitted from the information processing apparatus.
US11847371B2
An image processing apparatus that performs print processing based on a job includes a reception unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user, a change unit configured to, in response to the reception unit receiving a predetermined operation, change a job on which the print processing is not yet completed to a suspended state, and a job control unit configured to, when detecting a logout event that causes a user who is logged into the image processing apparatus to log out of the image processing apparatus, resume at least one job and cancel a job or jobs that are not resumed by the job control unit selected from jobs changed by the change unit to be in the suspended state.
US11847369B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, printing system, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus generates a code for identifying images in imposition image data representing an image print region, determines candidate regions so that codes in print regions in pages represented by the imposition image data will not be printed at a same position, generates print data based on the imposition image data so that the code will be placed in at least one of the determined candidate regions. For the print data, up to a predetermined number of pages represented by pieces of the imposition image data, a print position of the code is same in a first page and a following second page. When a predetermined number of pages represented by the pieces of the imposition image data is reached, the print position of the code is different in the first page and the second page. The generated print data is output to a printing apparatus.
US11847357B2
A print bot service analyzes a character string received from a message application service and input from a user by using a keyword for each language associated with printing, determines a language used in the character string, and in accordance with the determined language, switches a language used in a message transmitted to the message application service.
US11847341B2
According to one embodiment, a memory card includes a nonvolatile memory including a data storage region and storing a table in which a logical address received from a host device is mapped to a physical address in the data storage region, and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The controller exchanges a first logical address with a second logical address based on a first command and data received from the host device.
US11847336B1
A system and method for performing replication using mediums. A snapshot ‘S’ is selected for replication, and the anchor medium ‘M’ of S is identified. The replica storage array ‘R’ to which M is being replicated determines a list of medium extents which are available. R sends this list to an original storage array ‘O’ and O generates a list of medium extents which need to be sent to R. Only those medium extents corresponding to M which R does not already have will be sent from O to R. Also, R can obtain medium extents from other source storage arrays during the replication process.
US11847334B2
Methods and systems for managing data in a distributed system are disclosed. The distributed system may include devices used by users (e.g., clients) and devices in which data is stored for future accessibility (e.g., storage providers). A data storage system may manage the data for the clients. To manage the data efficiently, the data storage system may perform an integrated process of both verifying that segments of files believed to be stored are actually stored and segments of files that no longer need to be stored are removed. The process may not be performed in real-time as files that no longer need to be stored are identified (e.g., as deletion requests are received). Rather, the integrated process may employ a garbage collection process where deletion conditions for segments are checked intermittently over time, and files are verified.
US11847328B1
A logical table is configured with a first set of memory banks, where each logical row in the logical table comprises a corresponding memory row from each of the memory banks. Lookup instructions to access a logical row includes a bank set that lists the memory banks associated with that logical row. In response to a range of memory rows of one of the memory banks being reallocated to another logical table, a new memory bank is identified to store the data in the reallocated memory rows. Logical rows associated with the reallocated memory rows are mapped to the new memory bank. Bank sets in the lookup instructions that refer to the remapped logical rows are updated to list the new memory bank in place of the “old” memory bank.
US11847326B2
A storage operation suspend system includes a chassis having a storage operation suspend subsystem coupled to a communication system and a storage subsystem in the chassis. The storage operation suspend subsystem performs a first storage operation on a storage die in the storage subsystem, receives a second storage operation instruction via the communication system to perform a second storage operation on the storage die, determines that the second storage operation is a higher priority operation than the first storage operation, determines that a first power amount available in a power budget and a second power amount allocated from the power budget to the first storage operation is sufficient to perform the second storage operation when the first storage operation is suspended and, in response, suspends the first storage operation and performs the second storage operation and, following completion of the second storage operation, resumes performance of the first storage operation.
US11847325B2
A semiconductor integrated apparatus includes a plurality of functional blocks configured by electronic devices; and a processor configured to control the plurality of functional blocks, select voltage trim values of the respective functional blocks based on a level of input power supplied during a power-on operation, and provide the voltage trim values to the plurality of functional blocks, respectively.
US11847321B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for adjusting storage volume size of an application instance. A method may include: identifying a first application instance running on a computing device, wherein the first application instance has an assigned first storage volume on a device storage of the computing device; collecting, over a period of time, usage data of the device storage; determining, based on the collected usage data, whether a usage capacity of the first storage volume of the first application instance is reaching a maximum capacity of the first storage volume; in response to determining that the usage capacity of the first storage volume is reaching the maximum capacity of the first storage volume, adjusting a size of the first storage volume by a first amount to accommodate usage of the first application instance.
US11847320B2
A method of operating a storage system is disclosed. The method includes determining a storage cluster among storage arrays of the storage system. Each storage array includes at least two controllers and at least one storage shelf. The at least two controllers are configured to function as both a primary controller for a first storage array and a secondary controller for a second storage array.
US11847310B2
A method of configuring a building management system for operation, the building management system including a plurality of building system components, the method comprising: accessing a widget library, the widget library comprising a plurality of individual images that each represent operation of one or more building system components; dragging and dropping one or more individual images from the widget library onto an editor page; dragging and dropping one or more points of the one or more building system components onto each of one or more of the individual images on the editor page; in response to dragging and dropping the one or more points onto each of one or more of the individual images on the editor page, automatically binding the one or more points with the respective individual image; and saving the individual images along with the binding with their respective one or more points.
US11847303B1
A computing device (e.g., a server, a cloud-based device, a network device, an item analysis device, etc.) may receive location information indicating a geographic location of a user device and image data captured by the user device of a listing (e.g., a menu, an event ticket, a content source, etc.) for a selectable item. The computing device may determine an entity offering the selectable item based on the location information. An intent indicator for the selectable item may be determined based on the entity and the information for the selectable item. An instruction to the user device may cause modification of the image data to indicate the intent indicator based on the intent indicator satisfying an intent threshold that defines a level at which an intent is classified as a positive intent.
US11847298B2
Provided is an electric arc generation system comprising a robot, an electric arc torch attached to the robot, a power supply configured to provide an electrical power output to the torch, and a user interface for adjusting a plurality of power supply parameters. The user interface comprises a display. The system includes a processor configured to receive respective settings of the plurality of power supply parameters, and configured to analyze the settings of the plurality of power supply parameters and control the display to display a pictograph warning associated with a current parameter setting, based on a result of analyzing the settings of the plurality of power supply parameters. Said pictograph warning graphically indicates an adjustment direction for the current parameter setting. The processor is configured to automatically adjust one or more of the settings of the plurality of power supply parameters based on a predetermined operating angle of the torch.
US11847295B2
In a computer-implemented method for configuring an appliance in a virtualization infrastructure via a graphical user-interface a list of hosts and a centralized management tool of the virtualization infrastructure is displayed via the graphical user-interface. The hosts are for hosting one or more virtual machines. The centralized management tool is for centrally managing the virtualization infrastructure. In response to selecting one of the hosts, displaying host configuration properties associated with the selected hosts via the graphical user-interface. The host configuration properties are associated with a displayed user input field.
US11847284B2
A transparent electrode member includes a translucent base, and first transparent electrodes that are arranged side by side in a first direction on a first surface of the base. An insulating layer does not overlap partial regions PR when viewed in the direction of the normal to the first surface. A rectangular region in which a part other than the conductive portion is composed of the partial regions over the entire part is defined as a first rectangular region, a rectangular region in which at least the insulating layer is contained is defined as a second rectangular region, and a relationship between an area Sa of the part other than the conductive portion in the first rectangular region and an area Sb of a part other than the conductive portion in the second rectangular region satisfies Sa/Sb=1±0.3.
US11847282B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing comprising a conductive part, and a first nonconductive part connected to the conductive part, an antenna structure positioned inside the housing, and a pen input device attachable/detachable to/from the housing, wherein the pen input device comprises a second nonconductive part having at least a portion thereof overlapping the first nonconductive part when viewed in a direction in which a main beam of the antenna structure is radiated while the pen input device is attached to the housing, and at least a portion of the at least one antenna element overlaps the first nonconductive part and the second nonconductive part.
US11847276B2
The present disclosure provides a touch substrate and a touch display device. The touch substrate includes a base substrate, and a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer laminated one on another on the base substrate. The first electrode layer includes first channel patterns and first dummy electrode patterns, the second electrode layer includes second channel patterns and second dummy electrode patterns, the first channel pattern and the second channel pattern are insulated from each other and arranged in such a manner as to cross each other, and the second channel pattern is insulated from the second dummy electrode pattern. Each first dummy electrode pattern includes a first dummy electrode sub-pattern, each second dummy electrode pattern includes a second dummy electrode sub-pattern, and the first dummy electrode sub-pattern is electrically coupled to the first channel pattern and the second dummy electrode sub-pattern.
US11847274B2
A touch display device includes a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of touch lines electrically connected to at least some of the plurality of touch electrodes arranged on a touch panel and an outermost peripheral touch electrode located at an outermost peripheral region of the touch panel has an extension part; a touch circuit driving the touch panel and sensing a touch or a touch position; a capacity compensation pattern disposed at the touch panel and vertically overlapping the extension part of the outermost peripheral touch electrode, wherein the plurality of touch lines is located at an outside area of the capacity compensation pattern.
US11847266B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for a gesture-based augmented reality and/or extended reality (AR/XR) user interface. Conventional image processing scales quadratically based on image resolution. Processing complexity directly corresponds to memory size, power consumption, and heat dissipation. As a result, existing smart glasses solutions have short run-times (<1 hr) and may have battery weight and heat dissipation issues that are uncomfortable for continuous wear. The disclosed solution provides a system and method for low-power image processing via the use of scalable processing. In one specific implementation, gesture detection is divided into multiple stages. Each stage conditionally enables subsequent stages for more complex processing. By scaling processing complexity at each stage, high complexity processing can be performed on an “as-needed” basis.
US11847265B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling an onboard system includes determining, using a sensor mounted in a steering wheel, a track of a current gesture of a driver in a process of holding, by the driver, the steering wheel; determining a type of the current gesture from preset gesture types based on the track of the current gesture; and controlling the onboard system to perform an operation corresponding to the type of the current gesture.
US11847264B2
Methods and systems are described for improved techniques for consuming and interacting with media content. Specifically, a media guidance application may present a holographic structure using a holographic interface. Moreover, the media guidance application may monitor the user and/or area about the holographic interface for user interactions that may cause the media guidance application to alter the holographic structure based on a user interaction. The media guidance application may also after altering the holographic structure, generate for display a media asset associated with the holographic structure.
US11847260B2
An embodiment of a method for enabling content personalization for a user based on a cognitive state of the user includes providing an interface configured to enable a third party to request cognitive state data of the user as the user interacts with a content-providing source; establishing bioelectrical contact between a biosignal detector and the user; automatically collecting a dataset from the user; generating a cognitive state metric; receiving a request from the third party for cognitive state data; transmitting the cognitive state data to the third party device; and automatically collecting a dataset from the user as the user engaged tailored content.
US11847239B2
Methods and systems for a document-level attribute-based access control service are provided. The document-level attribute-based access control service may be positioned between a directory service and a search engine service. The directory service can manage information and permissions for users. The document-level attribute-based access control service can map security attributes to the user based on the information and permissions. Based on the mapping, it can be determined whether to permit the user making a query to the search engine service to access documents based on the query. Information and permissions attributes can be injected into queries dynamically via a template. Attributes may be combined with role query templates to create document-level attribute-based access control on top of role-based access control. The present technology can enable enforcement of security policies requiring all of a combination of attributes to be satisfied before permitting certain access.
US11847237B1
A system for secure data protection and encryption for computing devices. The present invention includes a fast encryption technique for quickly ensuring that the correct binding parameters are used for an encrypted data file. The encrypted file is used in two ways. Because unsecure data could pass through a peripheral device to gain access to a secure computing environment, a dongle housing encryption and decryption subsystems is placed in between the unsecure sources and the peripheral that can encrypt and decrypt data intended for the secure computing environment. The firmware of the computing device can be updated by dividing the update file into encrypted segments that are verified on the device and placed into non-volatile memory. When all parts have been received, decrypted, and written into memory, the device reboots using the updated firmware.
US11847233B2
Techniques for managing an application token may include providing, by a first service provider application on a communication device to a first service provider computer, a first request for a first application token, receiving, by an account management application on the communication device from a token service computer in communication with the first service provider computer, the first application token, and storing the first application token in a token container in the account management application.
US11847232B2
Methods and systems are provided for performing operations comprising: generating, on a publicly accessible server, a secure enclave, the secure enclave having isolated memory and processing resources of the server; installing, on the secure enclave, a virtual machine comprising a guest operating system of a first entity; installing, by the virtual machine, one or more cryptographic processes associated with the first entity; and encrypting and decrypting cryptographic keys associated with the first entity using the one or more cryptographic processes.
US11847231B2
A method for detecting an injection vulnerability of a client-side templating system includes receiving a web page, determining that the web page implements an interpreted programming language framework with client-side templating, and extracting a version of the interpreted programming language framework and an interpolation sign from the web page. The method also includes generating an attack payload for at least one injection vulnerability context of the web page based on the version of the interpreted programming language framework and the interpolation sign, instrumenting the web page to inject the attack payload into the at least one injection vulnerability context of the web page, and executing the instrumented web page.
US11847229B1
A device includes processing circuitry configured to receive node data including attributes from at least one computing device, organize the node data into one or more node groupings, wherein each node grouping includes nodes of the node data having one or more shared attributes, determine a node grouping processing scheme based on one or more transient event detection priorities, and detect, in response to executing the node grouping processing scheme for each of the one or more node groupings, one or more transient event occurrences within the one or more node groupings.
US11847218B2
A virus scanning router may manages a local network, including routing network traffic between devices on the network and routing network traffic being sent to and from such devices via an external communication system. The virus scanning router remotely scans for viruses the files stored on one or more such devices on the network. The virus scanning router may be a device trusted by the other devices on local network to facilitate the virus scanning router reading and scanning one or more files stored on such devices for viruses. The virus scanning router also takes corrective actions such as isolating the infected device or isolating an affected network zone to which the remote device belongs.
US11847203B2
A method for managing a first application program comprises: executing, by a first processor, a first control flow; executing, by a second processor, in synchronization with the first control flow execution, a second application, comprising a variable and an expected value that the variable has to have or a condition that the variable has to satisfy to authorize an execution of the correct first control flow; verifying, by the second processor, by executing each of the at least one second application, whether the variable has the expected value or the variable satisfies the condition; and inferring, by the second processor, if, for the second application, the variable has (not) the expected value or does (not) satisfy the condition, that the first processor is (not) executing the correct first control flow.
US11847199B2
A method for biometric authentication is disclosed. Reference biometric data established at a first device can be stored at a backend server computer. The server computer can then provide the reference biometric data with a second device when needed for biometric authentication at the second device.
US11847183B2
Methods and apparatus for using characterized devices such as memories. In one embodiment, characterized memories are associated with a range of performances over a range of operational parameters. The characterized memories can be used in conjunction with a solution density function to optimize memory searching. In one exemplary embodiment, a cryptocurrency miner can utilize characterized memories to generate memory hard proof-of-work (POW). The results may be further validated against general compute memories; such that only valid solutions are broadcasted to the mining community. In one embodiment, the validation mechanism is implemented for a plurality of searching apparatus in parallel to provide a more distributed and efficient approach. Various other applications for characterized memories are also described in greater detail herein (e.g., blockchain, social media, machine learning, probabilistic applications and other error-tolerant applications).
US11847166B2
Performing collaborative search engine searching. The method includes receiving user input at a user interface for performing a plurality searches on a first search engine. The method further includes receiving user input at the user interface applying one or more augmentation AI models to searches in the plurality of searches. The method further includes creating a shareable, executable package executable by one or more search engines based on the plurality of searches and the applied AI models that when executed by the search engines causes the search engines to apply the AI models to searches performed at the search engines.
US11847163B2
A method of searching for videos includes receiving, by a computer device, a search query from a user computer device. The method also includes determining, by the computer device, a set of videos that satisfy the search query. The method further includes determining, by the computer device, a subset of related videos from the set using metadata to determine a relationship based on date, time, and location. The method additionally includes generating, by the computer device, a consolidated video from the subset of related videos by merging a first portion of a first one of the subset of related videos with a second portion of a second one of the subset of related videos.
US11847160B2
Disclosed is a system for tracking user activities with a user identification tag stored at the user's Internet-capable device. For example, the system can store a pixel having a color scheme that identifies the user but that is hidden to the user and identifiable by an external computer. The pixel can be stored in the user device's cache for later identification of the user.
US11847152B2
A patent evaluation method and system thereof are provided. The method includes collecting patent documents, and further includes the following steps: generating technical points and patent-affiliated technical points; generating technical clusters and patent-affiliated cluster; performing a patent evaluation in each of the technical clusters. The patent evaluation method and system proposed in the present invention aggregates the patents in a technical cluster mode through natural language processing and complex network algorithms, gives patents scientific and technological attributes, and places the patents in a global same industry for evaluation.
US11847147B2
The present application discloses a method for building a ranking model, a query auto-completion method and corresponding apparatuses, which relates to the technical field of intelligent search. An implementation includes: acquiring from a POI query log a query prefix input when a user selects a POI from query completion suggestions, POIs in the query completion suggestions corresponding to the query prefix and the POI selected by the user in the query completion suggestions; constructing positive and negative example pairs using the POI selected by the user and the POIs not selected by the user in the query completion suggestions corresponding to the same query prefix; and performing a training operation using the query prefix and the positive and negative example pairs corresponding to the query prefix to obtain the ranking model.
US11847144B2
A system includes instructions for execution by at least one processor, including, in response to an event, obtaining a first set of alerts stored in the alert database corresponding to a first scenario of a set of scenarios and selecting a first model of a set of models corresponding to the first scenario and identifying a first set of features stored in the features database corresponding to the first scenario. The instructions include, for each alert of the first set of alerts, identifying a first identifier included in the alert, retrieving the first set of features of the first identifier from the parameter database, determining a score using the first model based on the retrieved first set of features, and adding the alert and the score to a result list. The instructions include displaying, on a user device, the result list including the first set of alerts and corresponding scores.
US11847142B2
There is provided a system configured to appropriately determine a topic count in accordance with LDA to estimate latent meanings of a document. For a plurality of documents d, a perplexity PPL of each document d is evaluated in accordance with a document generation probability in which the document d is generated when topic counts N for defining a topic model based on the LDA as a document generation model are hypothetically specified as different values and word groups are specified by different random numbers. The topic model is defined by a reference topic count No determined by combining a first topic count N1 (the number of topics indicating a highest cumulative frequency at which the perplexity PPL first indicates a minimum value) and a second topic count N2 (the number of topics indicating a highest cumulative frequency at which the perplexity PPL indicates a smallest value).
US11847139B1
Methods, computer program products, computer systems, and the like are disclosed that provide for scalable deduplication in an efficient and effective manner. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include determining, at a source site, whether metadata has been received from a target site, and, in response to a determination that the metadata has been received at the source site, retrieving the at least one unit of the source data from the source data store using the metadata and sending, from the source site, the at least one unit of source data to the target site.
US11847134B2
An apparatus includes processing circuitry and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus to identify a plurality of components and a data flow that interconnects the plurality of components. The instructions cause the apparatus to determine a lineage of a record generated by the plurality of components based on the data flow. The lineage indicates the data flow from a first component to a second component of the plurality of components to generate the record. The instructions cause the apparatus to present, to a user, a visual depiction of the lineage of the record. The visual depiction indicates the data flow of a query through at least the first component and the second component of the plurality of the components to generate the record.
US11847128B2
A system includes one or more processors and a non-transitory machine-readable storage device comprising processor executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform a set of operations comprising receiving a search request for one or more database records of a network based publication system, and identifying a first database record corresponding to at least a portion of the search request, where the database record having a first element. The set of operations also include selecting a second element of a second database record based on the first database record and adjusting the first element of the database record based on the second element. The set of operations then includes generating a formatted user interface comprising a representation of the database record and the adjusted first element, and causing, in response to the search request, presentation of the formatted user interface on the remote computing device.
US11847122B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a set of structured query language (SQL) queries from one or more software applications, generating a set of SQL syntax trees that correspond to the set of SQL queries, identifying a unique subset of SQL syntax trees among the generated set of SQL syntax trees based on previously obtained SQL syntax trees, and transmitting the unique subset of SQL syntax trees to a computing system.
US11847120B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for improving performance of a SQL execution sequence of SQL statements. The SQL execution sequence is recorded in an event log. Original results of executing the SQL statements and an original CPU cost of executing the SQL statements in accordance with the original access path are recorded in a logical log. A new access path is generated from analysis of the event log and the logical log. The SQL statements are executed in accordance with the new access path resulting in new results of executing the SQL statements including a new CPU cost of executing the SQL statements in accordance with the new access path. In response to a determination that the new results replicate the original results and that the new CPU cost is less than the original CPU cost, the original access path is replaced with the new access path.
US11847118B1
In a set of data analytics queries, at least a one of the queries comprising more than one operator, and each query being at least one of i) a producer of data for an other query in the set, and ii) a consumer of data from an other query in the set. In such examples, one or more computing devices identify each producer/consumer relationship between the queries. The one or more computing devices identify one or more optimizations among the queries based on the identified relationships. The one or more computing devices then apply at least one identified optimization to at least one of the queries.
US11847113B2
A system, apparatus, and a method for training with multi-modal data in a relational database, including generating a first database including a multi-view of the multi-modal data, retrieving a second set of data from an external source via a network, and training a first model according the first database and the second set of data. The first model outputs relationships of the first database with the multi-view and the second set of data.
US11847106B2
The disclosure is directed to various ways of improving the functioning of computer systems, information networks, data stores, search engine systems and methods, and other advantages. Among other things, provided herein are methods, systems, components, processes, modules, blocks, circuits, sub-systems, articles, and other elements (collectively referred to in some cases as the “platform” or the “system”) that collectively enable, in one or more datastores (e.g., where each datastore may include one or more databases) and systems, the creation, development, maintenance, and use of a set of custom objects for use in a wide range of activities, including sales activities, marketing activities, service activities, content development activities, and others, as well as improved methods and systems for sales, marketing and services that make use of such entity resolution systems and methods as well as custom objects.
US11847092B2
An apparatus, a method and a non-transitory computer readable medium are described herein related to extracting SAP archive data on a non-original system. In this way a user may extract business data from any ADK-format archive file in isolation, independent of the original system and without any accompanying metadata. A cloud-based on-demand distributed architecture with a plurality of virtualized SAP Netweaver Application Servers ABAP may speed up the extraction process from ADK-format files by an arbitrary order of magnitude.
US11847091B2
The present disclosure provides a data transmission method and device for a network on chip and an electronic apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a second network node, a first data packet sent by a first network node, the first data packet including first identification information and a data packet payload; determining, by the second network node, valid transmission information and second identification information corresponding to the valid transmission information according to the first identification information; determining, by the second network node, a second data packet according to the second identification information and the data packet payload; and sending, by the second network node, the second data packet according to the valid transmission information.
